The vision I saw combined with a friends dream gave me the details of a future event . My friend dismissed his dream and laughed it off even when I understood it was from God within the first sentence of his retelling the dream . His denomination does not believe in the signs Gifts are for today .
So, how were God's priorities for the Church and His children, individually, served by your vision?
Why do you think an event has to be similar to what has happened already in scripture ?
Constraints or boundaries seem particularly vital in this business of claims of divine action/communication. False prophets abound. From where do we derive limits on what we can expect from God if not from His own word?
So was my event similar as you say , God has communicated with letters on a wall before .
Are you a wicked king under divine judgment? No. And everyone saw the hand and the writing on the wall. Not really like your story, is it?
The power that was present in the first century church is still with us today and the event I had shows that to me but maybe no one else .
God is with us, yes. His Spirit is with us, yes. But we aren't the first century Church, just getting established in a powerfully antagonistic, multi-religious culture.
In any case, what you wrote above doesn't address the question to which it was responding.
I don't see how...
I am not sure where your requirements are coming from , are they your requirements or God's requirements ?
Holiness is something I am working on , are you not working on holiness too ?
We will never be perfect in this world .
Psalm 66:18
18 If I regard wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear me;
Isaiah 59:2
2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
1 Peter 3:12
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
I have very serious doubt that God is giving visions, or any divine communication, to the believer who is not holy. The above verses make it clear that one's sin cuts one off from fellowship with God, as it did in the case of the Prodigal Son. And when that fellowship (not
relationship) is broken, communication from God ceases. He goes deaf to the believer who regards wickedness in their heart; He stands apart from the believer who lives in iniquity and sin; His face is against those believers who do evil.
Somehow, though, Christians think all of this is undone or dissolved by the statement, "No one's perfect." God does not yield
at all, to our sin, however. In satisfaction of God's unyielding holy justice, every single sin we have committed, or will commit, was paid for by Christ, with his shed blood and his broken body on the cross. God never says, "Well, none of you are perfect, so some sin is okay." When we sin - especially willfully - as a child of God, knowing the terrible price paid in atonement for our sin, we "trample under foot the Son of God" and "despise the Spirit of grace," and "count the blood of the covenant an unholy thing" (
Hebrews 10:26-29). Those who live like this have this promise from God:
Hebrews 10:30-31
30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
For such a believer there aren't divine visions but only divine discipline! (
Hebrews 12:5-11; Romans 1:18-32) And God doesn't distinguish between what we think are lesser and greater sins, winking at the the sin we think is "not so bad."
James 2:10
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
Proverbs 6:16-19
16 There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:
17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,
18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil,
19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.
God puts in the same list of
abominations both a proud look (haughty eyes) and murder (shed innocent blood)! But, too often, I hear Christians making room for sin that doesn't bother them, sin that seems trivial to them. These same Christians are trying to tell fellow believers that God has given them a special "word," or "dream," or "vision" though their marriage is a terrible mess, or they're addicted to their cell phone, or food, or porn, or they fall into mad tempers, swearing like a sailor when they do, and so on.
I'm not saying that any of this is true of you
hawkman, however. I couldn't, knowing nothing, really, about you.
. I was unaware too but my understanding came later , I saw letters on a painting where there had never been any letters before , I was not praying . Three of my relatives in the room with me did not see any letters on the painting . I just thought I was seeing something I had never been able to see before on the painting but the letters were there only for me to see . I did not understand it was a vision till later . My relatives were taken aback by my seeing the letters on the painting that they did not see .
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