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When God Talks
by
Christine Taylor
My best friend has the spiritual gift of prophecy. I may
need to explain that a bit: Christian prophecy doesn’t have much to do
with foretelling the future, although God can grant that if He wishes. It
has much more to do with seeing the power of God at work in the world,
envisioning the spiritual battles that rage all around us, and with
communicating the miraculous power and message of God to His people.
One of the lessons that I teach around Christian goal setting centers
around Psalm 37:4: “Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you
the desires of your heart.” I believe that our desires are our deepest
values, the holy touchstones that God created in each one of us. One
person’s values and deepest desires may be service, compassion, family;
another’s may be beauty, leadership, security; still another’s may be
freedom, growth, meaning. We all have them, although in our sin we can try
to live them out badly! But God created the values within each
individual, and He firmly tied the fulfillment of our values to our
relationship with Him. (You can read more about this in my article on “The Deep
Desires of Your Heart.”)
My friend’s spiritual gift and my teaching were brought together the
other day. I was having lunch with my friend and she mentioned that she
had been given a word from God. It had to do with hope in a financial
situation, but it didn’t seem to apply to her. Maybe it was for me? She
told me the message: “Be obedient and I will give you the desires of
your heart."
The miraculous part? I had never mentioned my teaching on desires of
the heart to her before, and she didn’t know the verse from Psalms. She
did not know the term in her own wisdom.
God did.
About the Author::
Christine knows first-hand the incredible power of
faith-driven goals. Would you like to learn more about goal setting for
Christians? Go to http://www.christian-goal-setting.com and find out about
the incredible power of faith-driven goals!
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