laura6946:
Most people don't make recordings of what God tells them. First of all, they usually think they've "got it" so it's not necessary, and second of all, it's technologically impossible.
Also, extra-biblical revelation is, necessarily, extra-biblical. If God tells you what church to join, you can see how Biblical its teachings are. But if God tells you whom to marry, or what job to take, or what car to buy, it's much harder, since the Bible doesn't talk much about cars or modern jobs (nor, for that matter, do many of the people in the Bible find ideal spouses). Look at Hosea - God told him to marry a prostitute. By Biblical norms, he would have said "prostitutes are bad, no way God make me marry one". |
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---StrongAxe on 11/6/09 |
Number 23:19 says that "God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?"
Do some research and see where you went wrong? i also believe that While God was preparing you to meet your man, He must have been preparing your man for you -
Go back and check if it was really God who had spoken to you: How did He confirm to you the message. Remember there are always two voices in our life: Was it really God. Refer to His Word in the Bible as you research. Remain blessed |
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---laura6946 on 11/6/09 |
Numbers 22:20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them, but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
Then God sent an Angel to kill Balaam, Why? because like Jesus said if you are persistant in asking, God will eventually give you what you want. He gives people over to their reprobate minds, If you wanted this person and wouild not listen to what God was really telling you, then you Got what you wanted. If this person was not a christian God would no way tell you to marry them. |
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---exzucuh on 11/5/09 |
hello,
do not take word for word out of contest
What i think Cathrine is trying to emphasize is that she doesn't believe in it.... the 20yrs she mentioned is just a way of emphasising.... a little bit of literature work i think.
Catherine it is OK not to agree
I agree that it is possible for God to tell us how to run every aspect of our lives if only we are ready to go along with Him....It is possible but we could also be in error thinking we have heard from God....
So for me it is kind of 70-30 .....it is definitely highly possible |
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---patie3447 on 11/2/09 |
catherine:
If all Christians took your advice, then by the time they met someone they wanted to fall in love with and marry, and then waited another 20 years just to be sure it was God's will, all Christian married couples would be past the age of childbearing on their wedding day, and there would never be any Christian children at all. |
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---StrongAxe on 11/1/09 |
Well, befire taking such an important, life taking step, one should pray for 20 years before doing it. God usually do not work....like that. |
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---catherine on 10/31/09 |
A wild wild story!!!
When my mother was a 12 year-old girl she was told by a gypsy fortune teller that she would meet the man who was to become her husband wearing a raincoat, barefooted, and riding on a mule, all of which came true seven years later.
While my mother was a strong Christian and was very reluctant to tell the story us kids used to get her to tell us the story on my parents wedding anniversary.
The Gypsies made a habit of camping in the wintertime in the woods on by my mother's father. This whole episode came about because of the gypsy woman asking my mother if she could have some eggs from their barn. And so the deal was struck that mother would bring her some eggs and in turn she told my mother fortune!!! |
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---mima on 10/29/09 |
hello Mary,
thank God you are sure of what you heard
Keep trusting God, pray and let Him lead you.
Allow your man to listen to God for himself.... encourage him to hear from God and decide what to do next
There is very good advice in most of the replies here....especially the fact that all hope is not lost
But be also open and ready to move on
Because your guy also has to hear for himself... (do not try to manipulate him...he may feel you are, especially if you are more in e with the Lord....do not make yourself his personal Holy Spirit trying to hear on his behalf...no, don't)
Also make room for the fact that you may be in error.... our Father in heaven knows best...cheers!!! |
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---patie3447 on 10/29/09 |
Leslie:
It's true that we need to listen to what God says, and the notion that God has created one perfect match for everyone is a very nice romantic ideal. However, the idea that one must wait to marry until God reveals ones "perfect other", or that if one marries someone other than that "perfect other" that God has chosen it is adultery, is nowhere taught in the bible, so teaching this is a commandment of men.
Saying "Be careful whom you marry" is wise advice. Saying "If you marry the wrong person, it's adultery" is pharisaism. |
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---StrongAxe on 10/29/09 |
God told me who I was going to marry. I'm still in the process of it, but whenever I've doubted, I've gotten something reassuring that told me it wasn't just me. Let the Holy Spirit guide your thoughts and emotions. We all have a soul and sometimes it's hard to differentiate between that and our spirit. Let your husband pray about it, too. It's best if you're on the same page. Also, you are separated, not a divorce? There is still time to come to an agreement. Let God back into the marriage. |
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---triptych on 10/29/09 |
Abraham was a great man and very close to God and his ways, which ways he also taught his people (Genesis 18:19). He sent his servant to fetch a wife for his son from amongst his people that he knew. God did not send that girl signed, sealed delivered. Should we expect any different? |
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---Nana on 9/2/09 |
God does share with you who you will marry, if you ask Him to bring the person He has for you to you. Other wise we are in adultery, because we are with someone elses wife or husband. This is why it ends in separation or divorse. When we hear things, we can hear from 4 different sourses (God, ourselves, the world, and Satan). If you heard from God, it will line up with the Bible ALL the time. Other wise you have heard from one of the other three sourses. |
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---Leslie on 9/1/09 |
You are seeking God and His will and you are right to do so. Don't get confused, If God told you it is a for sure thing and if you are seperated now, it is still a for sure thing. Remember my brother, we do not walk by sight. Right now it looks like God did not speak to you cause you are seperated but that may not be the case at all. The Devil want s us to move, lose our position because things look bad but once again go back to what God told you. Pray and Fast and ask God to confirm His words to you. |
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---Dee on 8/31/09 |
I don't believe God would tell you that you would marry a certain person and not tell the certain person the same thing. This is spiritual manipulation. |
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---Shirley on 4/23/09 |
Personally I think you did not get a message from God to marry anyone. To many people when they want something really bad convince themselves that God wants them to do this or that or be with this person or with that person etc. And it is only their own minds trying to justify their wants needs or desires at the time...If God had truly ordained this relationship you would still be together! But your post leaves out alot of information such as are you both grounded in Christ and going to services regularly? God would never place two people together if they were un-equally yoked. Remember before you jump at something because YOU THINK God wants it to be...Make sure it lines up with scripture! God Bless! |
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---Rev._Daniel on 4/2/09 |
God told about a year and 3 months ago that I was going to marry this guy. But I immediately objected the idea cause were completely different. Then I thought I was weird or something so I asked my mom how she knew that my dad was the one for her and she told me that God had told her she was going to marry my dad, then two minutes after I got threw talking with her I saw an Adrian Rogers commercial saying when he first saw his wife that God told him that he was to marry her. So I don't think your crazy. Just make sure that God is your number one focus and he will give you His desires for you. |
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---Lauren on 3/27/09 |
I too questioned if i got the sign right and i keep going over what i asked for and there was no doubt he gave me the go ahead but we still have problems and both of us have thought about getting divorced but neither of us can do it cos God put us together. get a pastor to help you with your problems. |
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---Mandy on 3/18/08 |
God spoke to my husband in January that he was going to marry me, I laughed since he is 23 years senior, and I thought God was going to bless me with someone younger, November that year I finally asked God if this was his will. And he made it clear to me this is what he wanted, yet I cried, I asked God each step to close the doors, than 6 doors open immediately, I remember being at the alter, I said I'm dedicated to God if this is your will, were still married, I am still trying to do our fathers will. |
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---sheila on 2/28/08 |
Did he receive the same message? If he did, maybe he is scared and in denial. |
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---TT on 10/24/07 |
If you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God told you who you would marry, and I believe that he can, and will show a person. You take what God showed or told you which was conformed and you stand on his word. Others will question it, and will get you to question it as well. Don't let them. Stand firm on God's word, what he told you. |
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---Rebecca_D on 10/24/07 |
God could possibly be wanting you or your partner to learn something while separated or maybe He wants you both to see the whole relationship from a new perspective. Something that could be difficult to do while still in an active relationship. |
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---TT on 10/24/07 |
Just because youre separated now doesnt mean that God cant bring you back together. But I have to ask--If you heard God and He confirmed it, then why are you asking if God can speak to you? Questions: Have you kept the relationship pure? Have you been encouraging and pointing each other towards the Lord? |
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---Bish on 10/23/07 |
If God wants two people together, he will tell both of them, not just one. That way there is no hesitation on the part of either the man or the woman. I know several young ladies right now who are saying that God told them to marry a certain minister. He can't marry them all! |
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---Susie on 10/23/07 |
Like prophesy, test what you heard. Is what you heard biblically sound? Do the both of you have the same spirit? Is God the head of your family? Is Jesus the head of the Man as the man the head of you? Are you convinsed that he would lead the family the way Christ leads the church? Did he have a solid foundation in God's word? While conflict in a relationship is inevitable, do the both of you have the Biblical attitude to resouve it? (not letting the sun go down before you resove it) |
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---Steveng on 10/23/07 |
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Or, did you greatly desire him that you thought (or planned it that way) to get him any way you can to get what you desired? |
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---Steveng on 10/23/07 |
Once I discovered a woman who showed me all the main things I wanted my wife to have and she said God told her we would marry...how convenient. But more and more it was sinking in to me that God was not personally satisfying me that He wanted us to marry. But she pushed me on, anyway, NOT encouraging me to make sure with God. It was my fault I went along with her without making sure God was personally leading and satisfying me to stay with her. |
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---Bill_bila5659 on 10/23/07 |
Being told who to marry is one thing, Mary. Learning how to relate to make it work is something you can't just be told how to do. It's a beautiful adventure of discovering God together and evangelizing each other to better love all people as yourselves. If you isolate together, this can inbreed you (Matthew 5:46). You need to grow with other Jesus Family people. Maybe you have gotten too involved only with each other? |
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---Bill_bila5659 on 10/23/07 |
# 1 I think that God gives us brains and emotions. And He expects us to use them.
That's how we get on with some very good people but sometimes find other very good people quite intolerableons, |
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---alan_of_UK on 10/23/07 |
# 2 .How did you hear from God ... how was it confirmed?
I suspect that either
You were wanting to get married and were influenced by what someone said that this man must be the right one
Or you wanted to get married, and wishful thinking made you think he was the right guy.
Did you ever feel madly in love with him? That I think is how God lets us know the person MAY be the right one, but even then H e expects us to thinks carefully about it, and challenge and query the strong emotion |
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---alan_of_UK on 10/23/07 |
The REAL question is whether you heard from God to start with. If you had, wouldn't He have told the man as well?
HMMMMMMMMM??????
I know a lady who was widowed 30 years ago. Every man she met afterwards she just KNEW that this was the man God wanted her to marry. As you can guess, she's been miserable for 30 years. |
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---Jack on 10/23/07 |
I'm sure God would be glad to tell a person who that person should marry, but I'm not so sure I myself would hear Him right(o: If he was going mainly by you telling him what God told you, I understand a man is his lady's head and so he can make sure for himself. So, if after two years he's questioning YOUR ability to hear God, and has not really made sure with God, himself . . . he needs to do this and not put it all on you, I'd consider (o: God bless you. |
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---Bill_bila5659 on 10/23/07 |
I don't believe that God would tell one person and not prepare the other one in some way. If only one heard then I doubt it was from God. |
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---RitaH on 10/23/07 |
Yes, God can tell you and show u who you will marry, and so can the devil. Most likely if u too are seperated most likely it was the devil that put u together, because once God put you together nobody can seperate your marriage not even the devil. |
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---ANN on 10/23/07 |
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