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Heard from God? This is What You Need to Do

This week I have been writing a book God first told me to write fifteen years ago. It’s a memoir showing how God has spoken and how his words have come to pass.

Journalling [1]

There are two things that have astounded me as I go back in time re-reading my journals and re-visiting all those experiences. The first thing was how profoundly real those moments hearing from God were. The times when it felt like God tapped you on the shoulder and zoomed in from the heavens to answer your very thoughts and hopes. I remember the tears welling and the shivers around my shoulders and the feeling that I could never doubt his plan for my life again.

The second thing I noticed is how quickly those experiences faded into a haze of doubt and anxiety. How a time lag or a sudden reversal in circumstances quickly erased them from my memory.

How is it possible to take a spiritual conversation and turn it into something tangible that you can hold onto; something you can live by?

Write it down.

It’s the one thing that inscribes the moment, the black and white marker that stays with you when your memory fails, when the doubt starts to obscure your vision and you wonder if in truth you made it all up.

It’s more like a divine instruction than a word of advice. Do a search on the word ‘write’ in your Bible and you’ll see what I mean. See how many times God told tells those he had a conversation with to write it down. He knew they would forget. Write it down so you can run with it, he says (Habakkuk 2:2). Write it down so that you could remember it and hope for it to come to fruition. Write it down so that you experience the full joy of faith rewarded when those unchanging words of your heavenly father finally burst into reality.