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God Told Me To
1 Kings 13:18 He said to him, "I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.
Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
BARTOW, Fla. -- A 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her Florida home after telling her husband not to disturb her during a lengthy religious fast, authorities said. Evelyn Boyd locked herself in a room to pray and fast on Feb. 7. Boyd, the wife of a local preacher, had only water to drink and didn't emerge from the room for weeks. Her body was discovered March 5 when family members forced open the bedroom door. Boyd's husband, John, said both he and his wife had fasted before. John Boyd is the pastor at Higher Praise Full Gospel Ministries, a Pentecostal church in Bartow. John Boyd said he didn't check on his wife during the fast because he was trying to respect her request for privacy. "This is our way of just spending time with God," he said. "People don't understand it if you don't do it. She was doing what she loved to do and what she felt God had called her to do." Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/13/1527762/fla-woman-55-dies-during-lengthy.html#ixzz0iLVdMR3zNow let me say before anyone gets upset with me, that I am not demeaning or accusing this woman who died during her fast. We don't know why she died and if it was even related to the fast. There is also no way to say that she wasn't called by God to do it. After all, who can speak for God? That being said. Throughout the centuries, people have claimed God's instructions led them to do things that really didn't seem to be from God. It is true that there are accounts in Scripture where God asked some of His prophets to do some strange things. Read Jeremiah or Ezekiel to see some of those. However, it is also very easy to be deceived and to do things that are not God's will in the name of God. A few things to consider. God doesn't contradict Himself. In the Chronicles passage above, God had told His prophet not to stay or eat in the land, then the lying prophet told Him that God said the opposite. If it goes against God's revealed Word, it is NOT from God. God tells us to test the spirits. Before being convinced that God told us to do something, let's check with other mature members of the body, let's check God's word, let's make sure that God really said it and not some other source.
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