Let's say we are going to exegetically test a call for you to be a Missionary.
First, we would examine Scripture, asking the question: "are people called by God to become missionaries or is this something the Bible calls wrong?"
So after exegetical examination we see yes, God does give people specific callings...
Then, we may want a confirmation of this calling. So you go to your church elders and tell them you feel called to Missionary work in Africa...
In Presbyterian churches there is a basic process they put potential candidates through examining a person in relation to this calling and confirming it,
or deciding it's not from God at all (perhaps mental illness talking or a role that doesn't fit the person, for instance.)
There are many many missionaries who would completely disagree with you. In fact, if it was up to the church, many of the most famous missionaries would never have gone out.
I am talking about Gladys Aylward, Jackie Pullinger and all the others who were called by God, but rejected by the church.
If a calling is confirmed through the process, they help you get into seminary and do the various things you need to prepare. (Normally a 3 year process or more total).
Good job the disciples never heard this nonsense, otherwise the gospel would never have got started.
Certainly, that's one denomination but all have some kind of process I think, I find it doubtful they take just anyone off the street and run them through seminary and throw them to the wolves...
"I think", that's the operative word isn't it.
Your problem is that you have replaced the Holy Spirit with human intellect, the Tree of Life with the tree of Knowledge, which of course just brings death.
There should be Biblical support, and outside confirmation, then depending on what it is, some kind of process of preparation unless it's yes, you should make a large meal tonight in preparation for unexpected company.
Again, just more fleshly intervention usurping what should be a work of the Holy Spirit.
We all rely on the Bible though, we know Scripture well enough to know the kind of God we serve, and the kinds of things He may ask us to do.
I have felt overwhelming need to pray for people I don't know before etc. I don't need confirmation, because I know God well enough, and know Scripture well enough to know this isn't an unscriptural thing.
But when God speaks to me He really does use Scripture to do so nearly regardless of circumstance. All answers to any questions I have, even personal, or anything God feels like relaying nearly always comes in the form of Scripture. He's never been divorced from it for me.
Sadly, instead of growing in the area of hearing God, you are trying to put your own straight jacket on everyone else. In reality, there are many other ways of hearing God than your own narrow experience.
In my case, the Lord uses scripture only on rare occasions, as the circumstances often have nothing whatsoever to do with doctrine.
As I said previously, his words of knowledge, prophetic words, and visions, encompass everything around my life, whether by business or home life.
I have had thousands of words from the Lord regarding business direction, finances, buying and selling things.
On one occasion, I was standing in a factory looking at a piece of complex machinery over 70ft long. It was an investment bigger than anything I'd done before and I knew next to nothing about the process involved because we had always sub contracted the work out.
As I stood there, I felt a breath down the back of my collar, and heard the whisper of the Holy Spirit,
"You are standing in the way of my business again!"
I nearly leapt out of my skin, then immediately turned to the man selling it, "Yes, I'll take it," and wrote the cheque out there and then.
The words God spoke were based on the fact that my business was dedicated to the Lord, and he obviously took it seriously!
My hearing God is about a personal relationship between me and the Lord, and the bible wouldn't be of much use in such events.
