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Visions or Imagination or What? Questions I Need Answers To.
Visions or Imagination or What? Questions I Need Answers To.
I have worked with kids for a number of years. Anything from after school mentoring/tutoring to Behavior management and teaching coping skills to work (currently) in a Residential Treatment center with boys ranging in age from 13-18. I keep getting these inner visions as I list below, but I want to know if these come from God or my own imagination.
Why do I keep getting these visions (?) of working with these kids at my job and like just now as I open up the Word, a vision, pulling a group together to travel to several places to point out slums, or life without light, and also places of historic interest in the south, (plantations, Washington D.C., New York, and Philadelphia).
Are these visions just my imagination or are these things from God?
Is this like with the prophets of old, when as it states in some of the passages, “the word of the Lord came to…” And then, as written in 1 Samuel 3:21; “ The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.” Is this “word” the OT scriptures or, was this “the living word” of God, Jesus, as in a vision or visitation to Samuel and Abraham for instance?
Matthew 7: 7; “ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
So, as I am reading the above part of Matthew 7, I have this inner vision of being at my job working with kids at a Chapel service and singing/playing my guitar(s) in my own style and asking kids to have fun, to do what is their passion to do, with their lives, singing, poetry, basketball, whatever it is! Then I get out of that mindset/vision and return to look at this verse(s). So, I have to follow this direction and ask you O God; IS THIS VISION I HAVE HAD AND CONTINUE TO SEE, WHAT YOU DESIRE FOR ME? THE QUESTION I HAVE IS, “SHOULD I” walk out into this seeing if any door opens for me?
I have worked with kids for a number of years. Anything from after school mentoring/tutoring to Behavior management and teaching coping skills to work (currently) in a Residential Treatment center with boys ranging in age from 13-18. I keep getting these inner visions as I list below, but I want to know if these come from God or my own imagination.
Why do I keep getting these visions (?) of working with these kids at my job and like just now as I open up the Word, a vision, pulling a group together to travel to several places to point out slums, or life without light, and also places of historic interest in the south, (plantations, Washington D.C., New York, and Philadelphia).
Are these visions just my imagination or are these things from God?
Is this like with the prophets of old, when as it states in some of the passages, “the word of the Lord came to…” And then, as written in 1 Samuel 3:21; “ The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.” Is this “word” the OT scriptures or, was this “the living word” of God, Jesus, as in a vision or visitation to Samuel and Abraham for instance?
Matthew 7: 7; “ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
So, as I am reading the above part of Matthew 7, I have this inner vision of being at my job working with kids at a Chapel service and singing/playing my guitar(s) in my own style and asking kids to have fun, to do what is their passion to do, with their lives, singing, poetry, basketball, whatever it is! Then I get out of that mindset/vision and return to look at this verse(s). So, I have to follow this direction and ask you O God; IS THIS VISION I HAVE HAD AND CONTINUE TO SEE, WHAT YOU DESIRE FOR ME? THE QUESTION I HAVE IS, “SHOULD I” walk out into this seeing if any door opens for me?
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Thanks for you response Jim;
In Acts 8-10, are you first referring to Phillip being told by an angel to "go south to the road- the desert road..." where he met the Ethiopian eunuch? (9) Saul's conversion and being told by the spirit to go into the city to be told what he must do?, and (10) The vision of Cornelius and what followed?
Obvious from reading these passages that there was some direct results of these men following the directions given by (angel), direct intervention & another angel.
It seems in ch 8 that Phillip after having made contact with the angel acted quickly, without further details. I wonder about the particular circumstances of all these incidents. Did they seek out help from those other followers for their advice, etc. Saul was traveling with some others, so what was their influence with him after they all witnessed what happened to Saul. Did Cornelius act instantly after the visit from the angel?
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