I woke this morning with this idea in my head of what I was going to write today, and at the threat of being flamed or even losing all my readers I feel like I need to write this.
I am a born again Christian, which means I fully believe that Jesus is Gods son, and came to earth, died on the cross for me, and rose again to forgive me and you if we just believe it and accept it. I also firmly believe that God talks to us, even we listen closely. Sometimes it is just a gut feeling, or something, but sometimes its a voice in my head telling me to do this or that. I can get more into this at another time.
Why I am writing today is I know that many of my readers are not Christians, and I do not use this blog to write alot about my beliefs. Although they are who I am, I write about it when it relates, but not just to inform you.
Many times I read about or watch on tv about these someone who says God is talking to them, or telling them about something someone did. Well and they come off as crazy, and its hard to know if they are truthful or not. This annoys me to no end! It makes all Christians look crazy, and like we are not grounded in any sort of truth. I can get into a whole rant about this, but again its not why I am writing.
I want you, dear reader, to decide for yourself if they are true or not. The bible says you can know them by their fruit. The word fruit is used like a tree, you can tell if it is a fruit tree, by looking at it. You can easily tell what kind of fruit tree by looking at the fruit. A Cherry tree will have cherries on it not another kind of fruit.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
So if the person is going off on everyone all the time (keep in mind Christians are humans and we do mess up so it does happen too, and speaking slander and swearing while claiming God is telling them these things. They are not hearing God.
When God speaks to someone he may tell them bad things this person has done, but will generally tell good things too. I believe we are all Gods children whether we choose to accept that or not. So when your kids are naughty you may be angry with them, you may need to confront them on something but you still see them as your child and will defend and protect them. God is the same with us. He wants to build us up. Yes he is the judge of us, and sometimes when he needs to get our attention he will use others, but I also believe that the person will have the gift of prophesy.
This means that they will be told things about you that are true, you will know they are true, and others listening will know they are true. Not everything will be known of course since sometimes we hide things we do that are negative. However, there will always be truth that others will know as well, so it can be proven this is right.
If you hear someone claiming bad things about someone else, and saying God told them. I would say know the person, and know the character of them. If this does not sound like the person you know or have dealt with then count this revelations as not true and go about your business.
I know this is a long and very religious post but I had a friend tell me recently not to be afraid of my beliefs and no one should feel they cant share their beliefs. Which made me happy since, I know she doesnt share all my beliefs.
I do want to share a story about how I was prophesied over when I was younger, so you can see how it can be very real.
I was staying with my friends and we live in Canada. We went to stay with their Uncle for a weekend, and he lives in the US. On the Sunday, us teens wanted to go to church, so we went and found a little pentecostal church near by.
At that time I was not on speaking terms with my Mom and a lot of things seemed completely irreparable.
We went into the church late, snuck in and sat at the back. The were all deep in prayer, no one even looked up when we came in. All of a sudden, the pastor looked up and directly at me. He called over a lady, whispered in her ears and she turned looked at me and nodded.
Being a horribly shy, and nervous person by nature, I clung to my friend for dear life and said they are coming for me! She told me I would be fine, and go with them. So when she came over and got me, I went with this lady. She told me the pastor had a prophesy for me.
Having been raised in the church, I knew to be sceptical, and listen closely to see what was said. If it didnt sit well with me then I would disregard him completely.
He said a lot of things, but here are some that still stand out to me today. He told me that God told him to call me up the instant I came in the room. That God knows things with my Mom are not good now, and that just that morning I had been crying and asking him for help about it. All of this was bang on.
He then told me that it would take a while but I had to step back and not try anymore, let her choose if she wanted to be in my life still. That was very hard for me as I am a people pleaser and kept trying to earn her love and forgiveness. But we both had to forgive each other, and she wasnt ready to seek mine yet. He told me there would be a time that we would reconcile and be close again. Having him know so much of the bad, I took hope in that. But was concerned that maybe I was reading too much into it, and asked my friends, and they felt the same. It was very hopeful, and we just needed to hang on and let her come around.
He also said that when it comes to witnessing to people and telling them about him, I was a seed planter. Which means I just let them see Jesus in me, and they will remember that for later, and remember what conversations we had about him. He said someone else is the reaper and they would lead the people to God, but I would eventually see many of the people I had talked to over the years come to become Christians. That was a big thing for me, as I have felt for years that my role was like that. I know some Christians can go and tell everyone they know about God, and see them come to him, I have had many doors open to talk naturally about it. That to me is they way I need to go about it. I have had many discussions and even arguments with my sister over the years about God, and now she is a Christian too, and believes in him.
I hope you have read all of this, and will take what you know of me and judge it against your heart and see that what I am writing here is true. But if not that is cool with me! I appreciate you reading this!
