Premonition?

[Strider1002]

Tonight, I was in the middle of doing something, and I got a strong feeling out of nowhere that I can't explain. I have to be somewhat vague, because it's personal. But I was doing something that I believed I needed to do, and suddenly there was a voice in my head saying that task was just a formality and I won't really need it. I was filled with a certainty that a particular event is going to happen in my life at some point in the future. There's no way that I could know that, and yet I felt confident, for a few moments, that it will happen.

This week, I started setting aside time to be alone, pray and meditate on God. Each day I've realized something new, as I've written in my blog. I've been asking God to speak to me as directly as possible, so that I can be sure I'm doing what He wants me to do.

The message I received tonight is something that greatly relieves me - if it's true. If it's from God, then I believe it. But how can I know that it's from God? Does He give people premonitions like this?

 

[Aibrean]

Yes, he does. I think sometimes they are a way to prepare us. Mine seem to circle mostly around death. I get visual thoughts, but mostly they come in dreams. It's hard to tell what is a dream and what is from God so I typically keep it to myself.

 

[LilLamb219]

I have premonitions as well. When I was little, I was afraid of seeing things, so I prayed for God to take them away. He did...until I was old enough to be able to face seeing them again.

 

[green wolverine]

The thing you want to make sure of is that your premonition is in line with what God allows. By this I mean that if your premonition is something along the lines of running off with someone else's spouse type thing, that's not of God as the Holy Spirit doesn't lead us into sin. If it's something like God's going to give you something, use you in something that's in accordance with His will, then that's a different thing. When I met my first husband, I had a premonition that I was going to marry him.

 

[Strider1002]

It was something similar to yours, Wolverine

 

[Aibrean]

When I met my first husband, I had a premonition that I was going to marry him.

Me too! In fact..they DAY I met him I knew he was different. On our first date I knew I was going to marry him.

 

[GrayAngel]

God has given premonitions in the past. I believe the Christian term for it is "prophecy." In the first century church, there was one man who received a prophecy that some of their Christian brothers would go through a drought, and so they immediately made preparations to bring them aid.

Paul also was told that he would be imprisoned, for God's purpose that Paul could more efficiently spread the gospel wherever he would go. Soon later, he was arrested.

I've experienced something before called "sympathetic pain." But it's like prophecy in nature. If there is someone in pain, and God wants you to know about it, sometimes He will give you a pain in the same area to bring it to your attention.

 

[Strider1002]

We could call it a prophecy; all I know is that I heard a voice in my head that wasn't from me - and I do have a dialogue going on in there sometimes, but this was definitely not from me. And it wasn't just what the voice said, it was the overwhelming certainty that it was true - I knew it just as well as I knew that I was sitting in a chair using my laptop at that moment. It took me completely by surprise and I was just stunned for a minute or two.

I don't think it's coincidental that I had just started meditating on God a few days before. Someone here suggested that I "create space" to allow myself to hear God, and I think that's important. Setting aside time daily just to be with God... He's omnipresent, but I believe He still wants us to make time for Him.

And what He told me about is something that I've been seeking for all of my adult life, so much that it's often interfered with my relationship with God. But now, I don't have to worry about it, because if He says it will happen, it will happen. Not only does it make me very happy, but it also liberates me quite a bit.

Praise God!

 

[GrayAngel]

We should be careful, though. Demons have some measure of power as well, including the ability to tell us the unknowable. Everything that is good comes in a perverted form, and it's important that we do not seek prophecy as an end. It's a tool we use for God's glory, not our own.

I believe there was a king in the Old Testament who visited a witch who could tell the future. She told him that he would die in battle. Her prediction came true.

In Acts, there are two examples of people trying to obtain the power of God for the wrong reasons. The first was a magician, who saw Christians laying hands on one another to grant each other the Holy Spirit. He asked God for this power, so that he could amaze people with it. He was sent away empty handed.

The second was a group of unbelievers who attempted to use Jesus' name to cast out demons, as if it were a magic word to command God's power. The demon attacked them, knowing they lacked authority.

 

[Strider1002]

I don't seek prophecy, just a little bit of direction from God. And I'm looking forward to seeing this come to pass, so that I can tell people what God has done in my life.

Also, it's much better to leave this... area of my life... up to God. That way I know it's right.

 

[LilLamb219]

Premonitions are different from true Christian prophesy. Biblical prophesy isn't about predicting the future.

 

[briareos]

Tonight, I was in the middle of doing something, and I got a strong feeling out of nowhere that I can't explain. I have to be somewhat vague, because it's personal. But I was doing something that I believed I needed to do, and suddenly there was a voice in my head saying that task was just a formality and I won't really need it. I was filled with a certainty that a particular event is going to happen in my life at some point in the future. There's no way that I could know that, and yet I felt confident, for a few moments, that it will happen.

This week, I started setting aside time to be alone, pray and meditate on God. Each day I've realized something new, as I've written in my blog. I've been asking God to speak to me as directly as possible, so that I can be sure I'm doing what He wants me to do.

The message I received tonight is something that greatly relieves me - if it's true. If it's from God, then I believe it. But how can I know that it's from God? Does He give people premonitions like this?

In times like these I ask the Lord to reveal the truth of it to me, spending time in prayer over it and just waiting for God to speak to me about it. Sometimes its God and sometimes I realize it's the devil, it can be distinguished by the peace or the conflict or confusion that remains in my heart over it. If it's Jesus I am filled with peace concerning it and I simply "realize" that it's him and I know it, then it's just faith that does not doubt. If it's the devil, this sense of peace never comes and God does not permit my spirit to be at rest concerning that message.

Give it to prayer and time, do not be hasty for an answer, spend time waiting on the Lord to confirm it, give up the rush and just decide to wait on him and if peace never comes I discount it, usually, eventually I will feel the peace from God fill my heart. If that never happens I either consider it a lie from the messenger of lies or I just dismiss it and move on.

That and comparison to scripture, the voice of God won't contradict the teaching of his word.

 

[briareos]

Paul prayed that the Ephesians be given a spirit of wisdom and revelation and that the eyes of their hearts would be enlightened. Pray this prayer for yourself with humility and sincerity and faith and God will give you ability to hear him, have wisdom and revelation to be able to discern his will.

 

[Strider1002]

Funny thing is, I wasn't asking for a specific answer to that particular issue, just asking Him to make my path clear to me. I don't trust my own judgment, but if I know my direction is coming from Him, then I'll be satisfied with it.

The issue He addressed was the one that was bugging me the most, which I'm sure He knew.

 

[heron]

Look at it as a very direct answer to prayer. You asked to hear from Him, and He made that happen.

The Spirit of God dwells within us. What does that look and sound like? It's different for everyone, but a large percentage of Christians speak of "the still, small voice."

If it is God speaking to you directly, then the term "premonition" is sort of moot -- you didn't need to foreknow on your own, because God told you. See what I mean? More conversational, less eerie.

I get wise moves often this way, and sometimes battle them. Like you said, we get busy doing something worthwhile, and it is hard to trust that we don't need to do it. But God knows the timing and the plans other people have, that will overlap and work into our plans.

I was doing something that I believed I needed to do, and suddenly there was a voice in my head saying that task was just a formality and I won't really need it.

The thing you want to make sure of is that your premonition is in line with what God allows.

 

[Doc Safari]

Tonight, I was in the middle of doing something, and I got a strong feeling out of nowhere that I can't explain. I have to be somewhat vague, because it's personal. But I was doing something that I believed I needed to do, and suddenly there was a voice in my head saying that task was just a formality and I won't really need it. I was filled with a certainty that a particular event is going to happen in my life at some point in the future. There's no way that I could know that, and yet I felt confident, for a few moments, that it will happen.

I realize I'm resurrecting an old thread, but I found this by accident through a Google search of "Premonitions" and your description hits my situation EXACTLY.

Here ya go. This is a DOOZY:

35 years ago I rejected a woman who was interested in me and I did not like. A few weeks ago, out of the blue, I felt a word of knowledge or something powerful apparently from the Lord that something was going to happen to her current husband in a few months, and I need to be ready because she will want to try to win me again and I should accept her this time. I emphasize I do NOT want to have an affair, commit adultery, or otherwise interrupt their marriage. This "word" was somewhat of an unpleasant shock to me and I've been baffled ever since. Was it God who brought this "prophecy" to me? All I seek is God's will in this and an end to my not knowing for sure if this was from Him or not. Whatever the truth is, I want to do His will. I ask for the wisdom and courage to do His will in this matter.

During a long prayer session a few weeks ago, I began to think about this in-depth.

This "premonition" has happened before, but not to the degree of intensity or detail as this most recent event. Previous "premonitions" about this were simply to predict I would be with that woman one day. I scoffed at it on those occasions because I knew she was married and had no interest in seeking her out for any reason at all.

Here's the interesting part: it took me hours of prayer and meditation to think about other times this has happened, and it occurred to me that every time this "premonition" I would someday be with this woman has occurred, it has been a few months before I met someone else I could go out with.

To keep it short, I'll just discuss one: in 2012 I had a premonition I would be with that woman someday, and a few months later in 2013 I met and started dating a Christian woman who is still my girlfriend 5 years later. My relationship with her, however, has remained platonic and we kind of both know it isn't going anywhere toward marriage any time soon.

My point is, I think I've narrowed this situation down to two possibilities:

1. The Holy Spirit is using this to comfort and reassure me that I have a destiny to be with this woman I rejected 35 years ago, and it's the Father's will for us to get together no matter how many other women I date.

OR

2. Satan is using this to "spam" me and potentially steer me away from another Godly woman that I should meet in a few months.

Once again, I want to do God's will and I earnestly desire to know if it's the Holy Spirit or the Devil sending me these premonitions. I have heard the voice of God in the past, but this particular situation is somewhat different. It's like a burst of knowing comes over me and I just know something, not like an audible "still small voice" instructing me. It's more like a vision without a picture to go with it.

I only want to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and do God's will in this because I know he would never lead me into an evil situation. Please keep praying for the truth of this to be clear to me. Based on my two bullet points above, I believe that I know now that whatever the outcome of this, it is occurring because God wants me to meet another Christian woman in a few months, and I think she will turn out to be the love of my life.

The only remaining question is whether it is the woman I rejected 35 years ago, or someone else. The answer to that question is critical to my making the right choice.

One could say that if I don't have peace about it, it may not be from God, but the other side of that is: if the foreknowledge was such a shock to me that I can't accept it, then maybe the "peace" hasn't caught up to me yet. Maybe deep down inside I don't want to be with this woman even if she becomes a widow and I'm not letting the "peace" rest on me?

What say you?

 

[Albion]

Taking your account at face value, I think that unless her husband does die within a few months and she then contacts you with romance on her mind...there is nothing to this.

If all of that comes true, THEN worry about it.

 

[Doc Safari]

Taking your account at face value, I think that unless her husband does die within a few months and she then contacts you with romance on her mind...there is nothing to this.

If all of that comes true, THEN worry about it.

I concur with all of this. I'm concerned that if this is false and I start to believe it then I might make wrong decisions based on it. If this is false I don't want it to influence any decision I might make or potentially cause me to miss meeting someone else. In a nutshell, it's either a true prophecy or meant to steer me away from someone else.

I was listening to Joel Osteen the other day and he was saying the closer you get to realizing the destiny God has for you the more Satan attacks you. Could this be an attack designed to distract me from someone I'm going to meet in the near future? Or is the woman I met 35 years ago--let's face it--kind of a sore spot with me and it takes God's intervention to wake me up and realize I should be with her if she becomes a widow?