Perry Noble is a great man and is the awesome pastor of New Spring Church in South Carolina. He is one of my role models for ministry and I am always proud to hear about the accomplishments of New Spring. Right when I needed to hear it, Perry Noble wrote this blog entry about how to know when you are hearing from God. Here is what he says,
- If you feel confident that you can accomplish what is in front of you with no problem at all…then you didn’t hear from God.
- If no one is angry at you…then you didn’t hear from God.
- If you don’t have to ask anyone to sacrifice to make the vision come true…then you didn’t hear from God.
- If religious people are not steaming at you, blogging about you and/or leaving your church…then you didn’t hear from God.
- If you have the money in the bank to do what God has asked you church to do…then you didn’t hear from God.
- If every step is perfectly designed and nothing happens to totally throw you off along the way…then you didn’t hear from God.
- If someone doesn’t try to talk you out of what you are about to attempt…then you didn’t hear from God.
- If you don’t stay up at night thinking about the vision…then you didn’t hear from God.
- If
your vision is in contradiction to God’s Word…then you didn’t hear from
God. (And no, you didn’t get a “special revelation” that gave you
permission to trump His Word!) - If you know all of the answers…then you didn’t hear from God.
Perry wrote an awesome list, do you have any to add to this?