When someone tells me that God told them that I should do something, I respond that God told me that they are full of sh*t and that they should mind their own business. (Just joking)
RE: When someone tells me that God told them that I should do something, I respond that God told me that they are full of sh*t and that they should mind their own business. (Just joking)
Well, you both can’t be right about this... (Unless you believe in a God who contradicts Himself :)
I grew up in the ‘faith message’.
The ‘logical extreme’ of the prosperity part relies on cherry picking and even twisting certain scriptures. It does not mesh with the totality of the new covenant. It does not mesh with the lives of the apostles.
It also doesn’t work. God is not a cosmic piggy bank who you can push around by quoting ‘promises’.
Does God care about your finances? I think so. But I also think it is about at the bottom of his priority list. What God does care about is what decisions you will make in the midst of difficult circumstances and obscured understanding.
Our Pastor was just telling a story last Sunday.
He was working out at the gym on the bike, but his mind was thinking of other things. He didn’t go into details, but he felt down, feeling like a failure, wondering if he was doing things right, etc.
Some stranger walked up to him and said “You’re probably going to think I’m crazy, but God told me to tell you that you are a good man, you’re on the right track, and that He loves you.”
Later he said something like “So if God gives you a little nudge, go and do it. Yeah - you might look foolish, but we all look pretty foolish sometimes anyways!”
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