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I heard God
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RE: I heard God
Something to bear in mind with predictions or prophesies is our tendancies to take any match that is slightly close as a "hit".

For example, the voice said "how would you like to be stabbed..." So for me, the ideal fit would have been YOU being stabbed, not the other guy, but you took this other guy's experience to be the fulfillment.

What if you had not met the guy that day. How many days could pass before you met someone who had been stabbed and still take it to be a fulfillment of what the voice said?

What if the guy you met had been cut on the hand by a crazy man years ago, would you still have taken that as a positive hit?

See what I'm getting at is there is a vast, vast array of circumstances, combined with broad timeframes that could make a hit and you'd accept any one of them.

We remember the hits and forget the misses. If your voice tells you something, like this word "wolton" for example, and nothing ever comes of it, would you take that as a sign that the voice is just random thoughts that bear no relation to anything, or will you forget the "miss" and continue to remember the hits, that could be fulfilled from any of these vast array of possibilities.
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
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I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 4:10 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 4:15 am
RE: I heard God - by StewartP - September 7, 2008 at 4:16 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 5:15 am
RE: I heard God - by birdmanislord - September 8, 2008 at 7:33 pm
RE: I heard God - by Jason Jarred - September 8, 2008 at 7:43 pm
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 5:30 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 5:41 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 5:44 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 5:51 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 5:53 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 5:56 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 6:17 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 6:20 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 6:35 am
RE: I heard God - by Brick-top - September 7, 2008 at 6:37 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 6:42 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 6:45 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 6:58 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 6:42 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 7:04 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 7:10 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 7:12 am
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 7, 2008 at 7:17 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 7, 2008 at 7:21 am
RE: I heard God - by StewartP - September 7, 2008 at 8:20 am
RE: I heard God - by Tiberius - September 7, 2008 at 10:06 am
RE: I heard God - by StewartP - September 7, 2008 at 1:03 pm
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 7, 2008 at 4:11 pm
RE: I heard God - by Tiberius - September 7, 2008 at 6:11 pm
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 8, 2008 at 4:43 am
RE: I heard God - by StewartP - September 8, 2008 at 7:26 am
RE: I heard God - by Tiberius - September 8, 2008 at 6:03 am
RE: I heard God - by Jason Jarred - September 8, 2008 at 7:33 pm
RE: I heard God - by Eilonnwy - September 8, 2008 at 10:15 pm
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 9, 2008 at 5:10 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 9, 2008 at 7:48 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 9, 2008 at 9:04 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 10, 2008 at 3:50 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 10, 2008 at 5:40 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 10, 2008 at 5:42 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 10, 2008 at 6:47 am
RE: I heard God - by birdmanislord - September 10, 2008 at 10:59 pm
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 10, 2008 at 7:16 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 10, 2008 at 7:28 am
RE: I heard God - by Jason Jarred - September 10, 2008 at 10:36 pm
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 11, 2008 at 5:18 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 11, 2008 at 6:19 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 11, 2008 at 7:57 am
RE: I heard God - by birdmanislord - September 11, 2008 at 11:23 am
RE: I heard God - by Jason Jarred - September 11, 2008 at 8:57 pm
RE: I heard God - by Tiberius - September 12, 2008 at 6:10 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 16, 2008 at 8:24 am
RE: I heard God - by Jason Jarred - September 16, 2008 at 11:52 pm
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 17, 2008 at 1:21 pm
RE: I heard God - by Darwinian - September 16, 2008 at 8:40 am
RE: I heard God - by Edwardo Piet - September 23, 2008 at 10:52 am
RE: I heard God - by FutureAndAHope - September 24, 2008 at 5:36 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 24, 2008 at 6:39 am
RE: I heard God - by Spashie - September 24, 2008 at 7:54 pm
RE: I heard God - by Jason Jarred - September 25, 2008 at 12:00 am
RE: I heard God - by Spashie - September 25, 2008 at 12:45 am
RE: I heard God - by starbucks - September 25, 2008 at 11:36 am
RE: I heard God - by Ace Otana - September 25, 2008 at 5:27 pm
RE: I heard God - by Alan - September 25, 2008 at 11:25 am
RE: I heard God - by Jason Jarred - September 25, 2008 at 7:52 pm

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