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RE: Has God REALLY promised for us a spouse? - 10/7/2008 2:47:51 PM
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iwillfearnoevil
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ORIGINAL: Prairiehiker
The question is how authoritative are our own experiences, our feelings, intuitions, the little voices that we claim to hear as revelation from God?
how do we know who's on the other end of the telephone [without callerid helping us]? we might not know right after meeting someone or for the first few times, but as we get to know that person, we pick up on the tone, pitch, color of their voice, particular sayings, etc eventually we get to know that person more and can distinguish that voice from among the others. in post 27, i included scripture. those particular verses made mention of gifts of the Holy Spirit such as word of widson and word of knowledge. These gifts reflect God's plan, purposes, and ways of accomplishing things.
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RE: Has God REALLY promised for us a spouse? - 10/7/2008 3:34:39 PM
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joy2give2u
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Very true Ed..........the more we hear his voice the easier it becomes to hear.
The first step in hearing the Lord is believing he wishes to speak personally and intimately to you. If I do not believe he speaks to me I will not hear Him when he does.
It does not just require listening though........it is when we step out in faith, believing what we heard was from him, we begin to distinguish His voice from our emotions/thoughts/desires and any other voices added to the mix.............each time we hear his voice, act in obedience as rgod did, we find it easier and easier to recognize his voice.
How do I know God really promised me a spouse because the same voice which told me to send a stranger a letter, a seemly crazy suggestion, told me I would marry.
The stranger to whom I sent the letter was the first time I decided I was going to step out in faith and trust the voice I was hearing was God and not my own.......and the result impacted me so profoundly when I begin to doubt I remember what God did through the letter.
Probably 10 or 11 years ago I was seeking God in a way I never had in my life previously..........I had come to the conclusion I was not willing to settle for the relationship I had with the Lord and wanted more.........I asked him to reveal Himself to me.......I wanted to see His face, hear His voice and see what He was doing so I could join Him.
I was driving down the road when the radio announced a woman had been riding her bike and was attacked.......folks at a house had seen her taken and called the police.........a bulletin was out for people to watch for the car..............God said........it is the girl from the gym you work out at Dawn and I want you to send her a letter telling her I love her and will be with her through this.........I was like WHAT!!!!!..........then chalked it up to being my own mind and thoughts though why I would think of her I have no clue.
A few hours later they reported the woman had been found but her identity was not being released and they gave a very brief summery of her condition which was not good.
God said Dawn I want you to write her a letter letting her know I am with her and have been with her and that I love her so much.
As you can imagine the whole thought of doing so was crazy..........first the woman at the gym and I were not friends just barely knowing who each other were.........and if it was her and I sent a letter saying God was with her and loved her, knowing she was not a christian, how would she feel......would I add pain to what had already happened..........and if it was not her I would look like a fool.
I wrote the letter.........in it I said
Hi ********
I don't know if you know who I am but I work out at the same gym as you do.........I know this sounds strange but today as I was listening to the radio and heard of the lady who was attacked on her bike I felt God saying it was you and that he wanted me to write a letter to you letting you know that he was there with you and that you were on his heart even before the police rescued you and that he loves you very much.
If you are not her then I am very happy it was not you and please dis-regard this letter.
Sincerely
Dawn
I looked her name and address up in the phone book, put a stamp on the envelope and stuck it in the mailbox before I could chicken out.........oh there had been other times I had heard what I thought was God's voice but only about my own things and the few things he did say which directed me to action I did not do because I did not want to look foolish....
A few months later it came out she was the one who was attacked, and though I had not seen her since she stopped going to the gym, I was wowed that God had told me to do what I did....... a few weeks past and that little lier came along and claimed.......no it was not God.........look at the result........you have heard nothing back........your letter probably turned her off of God ....think about it if he was there why didn't he help her?.......on and on went his lies.........
Finally I said enough satan.........I know God's voice and no matter how much you try to make me think otherwise I know God told me to send the letter and what to write........so I will no longer be listening to your lies.........he shut up.
One year later I received a letter from her.........out of the blue.......and in the five page letter she shared how much my simple little letter had meant to her.......how comforted she was by what it said and how reading the words........God loves you very much........spoke to her in a way she had never experienced before........for the first time in her life she knew what his love felt like............I still have the letter.......I want to keep it .........to remind me how Love, though it does not remove evil from this world, covers it in such a way it no longer has power to destroy.......and I keep it as a reminder, when the doubts come, that the voice I heard that day is the same voice I hear today.......he is speaking just as clearly today as he did on that long ago day.........
So yes God has really promised me a spouse and I know because His voice, which is like non other, told me so.......and what he says comes true.
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RE: Has God REALLY promised for us a spouse? - 10/14/2008 8:30:28 PM
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derryderrydown
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(Psa 37:4-6) Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. {5} Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.
I believe this verse means that if we delight ourselves in the Lord, what we want is the Lord. Then He will draw close to us. It doesn't mean that a faithful follower of God will get everything he or she wants in life. I don't feel that God has promised me a spouse, but having a spouse is a natural thing in life. In the Bible we see that getting a spouse is a result of family and friends networking for you. That is something we can't count on today. When Paul advised young widows to marry again, he was not thinking of today's random meeting and dating situation.
I always assumed I would remarry after my divorce, but 20 years later, I still haven't. I can't look back and say I know now that I wasn't ready or needed to change myself. It just didn't happen. But I do know that God is always there to give me my heart's delight - Him.
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