Everybody
wants to hear from God. But that's just the first step. What do you
do after you get the revelation? There are 4 phases to hearing from
God: Revelation, Interpretation, Application/Wisdom, and Timing.
The
Big Error many of us make is throwing out the whole process because
of a mistake in one phase.
Suppose
your friend says they have a God experience or supernatural
revelation that makes you really uncomfortable. Suppose it's way
outside your box that God would talk to somebody that way. But your
friend is convinced that it's God.
Then,
based on their experience, they go off an do something that really is
stupid. It's very easy to use their obvious mistake to throw out
their whole experience: “See, I told you God doesn't talk to people
that way.”
Well,
maybe He does, but they just messed up the interpretation or the
application and did something stupid. That's not God's fault, and it
doesn't mean their initial experience/revelation wasn't God.
That
unique revelation, that spiritual baby, is precious. We need to be
uber-careful not to throw it out with the spiritual bathwater.
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