Hi Ladies,
Per last week’s post, Prophecy/Prediction Syndrome escalates when a Believer seeks a sign from The LORD. The syndrome can occur for many reasons, such as wanting a particular job, a baby, or a new house, but it is especially common when a potential husband has been spotted. When we’ve prayed hard, and have finally glimpsed what appears to be our answer, we then expect immediate results. But often things aren’t moving as swiftly or in exactly the way we’d hoped. Or nothing seems to be happening at all. Now what?
If a Believing Lady is searching for confirmation that a certain fellow is “The One”, in the context of the female heart, that sign could be just about anything. Maybe it’s a shy smile from him or a vivid dream in which he stars. Whatever it is, something occurs that confirms our lady’s fondest hope. She’s now convinced that God has spoken to her…Yes, he is indeed the one she is destined to marry. She is joyful and excited, and full of anticipation. But time passes, and nothing seems to be changing between them. She then enters into a period of intense prayers, from which she emerges with the conviction that it’s finally time to share God’s exciting revelation with the man.
PHASE 2 – The Fateful Move
One way or another, she finds a way to talk to him alone, and announces the wonderful news, “God has shown me that you are going to be my husband.” Filled with both joy and apprehension, she finds herself confronting a dismayed man whose urge is not to sweep her into his arms, as she would have thought, but to run as fast as he can. He usually proceeds to promptly disengage her from his life.
This sequence normally unfolds over months. It takes time to work up a fully developed belief that you have actually heard from the very mouth of God, when in reality, you have heard yourself putting words into His mouth.
“Well” you might ask, ”What’s wrong with what she did? Who are you to say she didn’t hear from God? How do you know that?”
I know based upon the Word of God.
What Went Wrong?
Let’s consider the errors our friend made in her assumptions and actions. They could not have occurred if she’d truly listened to The LORD and not acted from her own emotional desires.
Not every word of knowledge we receive from Our Father is meant to be shared. Most are for our edification alone, private communications between us and God. David, in Psalm 141: 3 prays, “Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.” Proverbs 29: 11 says, “A fool vents all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back.” Sharing an intimate revelation of this sort is almost always a major mistake.
All men, Christians included, prefer to make their own choice of a woman. They like to think it’s their decision, even when it’s been the woman’s goal all along. This need to feel that he’s the leader is part of his nature, but by verbalizing her prophecy, our friend has taken away his option. He’ll seem to himself to be a pawn in a plan concocted between her and God, and he will almost always automatically reject it because his input seems to have been disregarded.
If her Vision is truly from God, it would not take the guy totally by surprise. The LORD will never tell one person without notifying the other, since the wills of both are involved. Just as He revealed His plan to her, He will also open the man’s eyes. It is not her place to try to open up his eyes. He will have already received some indication that marriage to this woman was possibly in God’s plan for him, and she would have felt no need to prod him into action by making her announcement. The fellow’s own choice is an unavoidable factor, and her lack of patience may be her downfall.
Consequences continue next week…Joy and Shalom!
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