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"I'm called to the mission field," said the
beautiful young woman. It was my first real encounter with the
woman. As she spoke the words to me I heard these words, "She's
called to the mission field, but it's not what she thinks."
I quietly kept this to myself until the following week when I felt
compelled to share these words with her.
She was taken back as I conveyed what I felt the Lord was saying
to her. She questioned my motives, thinking I might simply be
trying to gain her heart.
Sometimes God speaks through others to move His purposes forward
in an individual's life. He will speak through those willing to
listen and speak. It is exciting to know God speaks to us and
through us at times.
Henry Blackaby, author of "Experiencing God",
believes God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer,
circumstances, and the church (his body), to reveal himself, His
purposes, and His ways.
Three days passed before the woman called me on the telephone, "I
have sold all that I have to go to the mission field but have not
been accepted as yet. I believe what you said is true. I've had a
history of thinking the Lord was doing one thing in my life only
to end up as another."
As the days progressed God made it known these words were, in
fact, true. She was called to the mission field of marriage and
the marketplace with her husband.
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