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Luna25

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Hello, I have been dating this guy for over a yr. Things are now very complicated. I will not get into details just yet put we are struggling with a questions. We both ask God the same question and received different answers from God. Is this possible??? We are now in a situation where we dont know if to stay together or separate. Which one of us listens to what we think God told us to do? I am so comfused. Please help
 

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Sometimes as christians we think our views are always correct. Or that God truly gave us an answer. So when a couple is split on what they heard from God, they will argue that there is no right they can be wrong over the other person.

I don't know if theres a magical answer to help really. Maybe take some more time praying and fast. Just to be sure of the answers. If nothing changes then maybe post more details as to why things are complicated. THere may be more to the story that could help us.
 
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Luna,
Interesting experience you two are having.

Christians have always differed on what God is saying. You might be familiar with the weak brother/ strong brother that Paul talks about in Romans and 1 Cor. 1 Cor. also talks about how some like Paul or Apollos or Peter or Christ. We as Christians have different theology and so we have different churches. The two of you are just experiencing what the church as a whole has always experienced.

You might want to evaluate how serious these differences. Will you fight of there them? Would you say my kids can't listen to you talk about God because they will not know God if they believe what you say! Or would you think, this is minor stuff in the overall scheme of the important events in our life.
 
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How can two walk together except they be agreed. If you can't settle the matter, one of you do what is right by his conscience and the other does what is right by her conscience-- which would mean doing whatever the one who thought the break up was right though I suppose.

How experienced are both of you at hearing God? How do you know it's not your feelings or imagination? If you aren't confident in what you heard, then keep praying for clarity.

For my wife and I, getting direction from God to get married was very important to both of us. We had lots of clues. I was reading my diary, and I wrote down I believed the Lord had told me I'd meet my wife that month and that she'd be 23 years old. My wife was 23 when I met her that month. There were lots of little clues. I'd forgotten that my wife said that she felt like the Lord was speaking about the verse about cord the cord of three strands not being easily broken. Other people mentioned that verse to us during that time and I remembered that, but I forgot my wife saying the Lord had spoken to her through that verse. At our wedding party at my parent's house in the US, the pastor who prayed for us prayed a prayer that had a prophetic feel to it about a cord of three strands not being easily broken, where the third strand was Christ. So it's cool to look back at what happened and relearn all those details.

I actually had someone almost prophesying against me and my wife being together, not a prophecy, exactly, but her memory and interpretation of a vision. Because of that, I was in a bit of confusion over the whole thing, but it sure seemed like the Lord was telling me to marry my wife, and later, as I continued to pray and ask if it was His will, it sure seemed like He was saying, "Yes, why don't you believe Me?" which is a pretty serious rebuke, and thankfully He was merciful in helping me overcome my unbelief.

I would have loved to have gotten 'confirmation' of what I thought the Lord was telling me during the time I was making my decision. Eventually, I just decided based on all that it seemed like the Lord was doing and speaking to me, and I decided to get married, and then I was 100% sure and committed to it. My decision making process was over and I had plans to propose within less than a week. The next day after my decision, I went to a church meeting where the woman who had made the comment about our relationship was present, and someone prophesied over my wife and I about the Lord doing a work in us that would continue for many years, about going to many places and ministering to many people. It sure seemed like a confirmation of our marriage, and some of it has been fulfilled already.

If one of you is hearing marry and the other is hearing break up, fast and pray about it. Are the two messages necessarily contradictory? If one is 'marry' and the other is 'break up' both could logically be true, but it would require more time before getting married. If one thinks he hears "I want you to be married" and the other thinks she hears, "I don't want you two to be married" there is a problem.

I think fasting and praying is a good idea, as someone suggested, to get clarity. Has anyone else given you confirmation on it? What about less supernatural-sounding things like what each of your parents says of your potential choice for a partner?
 
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First, this is YOUR decision to make--using your experience, emotions, intelligence, and godly counsel to inform you. If it is over whether to marry then it IS anxiety-producing to make and we want to dodge by placing it on "I can't help it, it's what God told me to do!". Sometimes God wants us to walk on faith and not be presumptuous.

"I am so comfused."

A prof of counseling at my seminary said the solution to being lost is to ask this simple question--What do I want. Good luck.
 
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We both ask God the same question and received different answers from God.

You have different desires.

Your desires are your gods, because you call your desires 'god'.

Therefore, you receive different answers from your god than his.
 
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Because you are both seeking a direct revelation from God, which is not something he has promised in scripture.

Most likely you where both getting answers from your own minds and not from God.

God's answers come from scripture. Direct revelation isn't reliable.
 
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Hello, I have been dating this guy for over a yr. Things are now very complicated. I will not get into details just yet put we are struggling with a questions. We both ask God the same question and received different answers from God. Is this possible??? We are now in a situation where we dont know if to stay together or separate. Which one of us listens to what we think God told us to do? I am so comfused. Please help

[bible]We may need to know what answers exactly received from the god,you may have translated incorrectly.[/bible]

:bow:
 
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