Visions and Voices From God?
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I have gotten to see something that I think is huge, and I'll also suggest to you
I am not the only one. And tonight I'm going to do my absolute best to illustrate to you something that God showed me sitting out on that back porch.
He put a picture, I've explained to you before, I'm a very visual person. So he speaks to me very often and putting a picture in my head.
And it was as if I was raised up looking down on a community as I saw the church as Jesus sees it in a particular dimension.
There are plenty of teachers who want you to believe that they heard some kind of voice or received some kind of vision from God.
How can we know whether or not what they're hearing or seeing is truly from the Lord? Well, there's a very simple test you can apply.
Does their personal revelation agree with the Bible? If the answer is no, they're either making stuff up or the voice they're hearing isn't from God.
If the answer is yes, then you don't need their word or vision. It's in the Bible. Many will say, but I hear
God speak to me in a still small voice, just like he spoke to Elijah. Well, Hebrews 1 .1
says, long ago at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.
But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his son. In the Old Testament, God spoke through burning bushes and talking donkeys and still small voices.
But today he speaks loud and clear through the word of Christ. Everything we could ever want to hear