If I am praying about understanding what I read, sometimes the understanding comes to me, I receive answers in my head while praying. Or I might receive what someone else needs to hear specifically, like "she needs to hear that she is already forgiven". I already know the scriptures that teach this, but do not know what that person needs to hear out of multiple choices. When these answers come to me while praying, it is very much like Christ is talking to me. Other times I get the answer while sleeping.
You may wonder how I know that the Lord is the one communing with me. I know that the spirit talking to me is not a demon because of the fruit of the spirit. Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Goodness, Kindness, Mildness, Faith, Self-Control. I have received these things from my baptism with Spirit. I have been more loving, less judgmental and more forgiving.
I am just trying to share my experience.
Love,
Shades