How do you know if “a Word from God” is really from God? part 2

A Word from God Will Guide You and Not Confuse You.

Some believers when God gives them a word they ask, “What does this mean?” If God actually said something to you, it’s unlikely you will need someone else to tell you what it means. God knows how to communicate his truth to us in a way that we understand. If you think you got a word from God but you don’t know what that word means, you probably didn’t get a word from God.

1 Corinthians 14:33 (NKJV)

 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

A word from God will bring you peace, not more confusion.

Philippians 3:15 (NKVJ)

Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.

Hearing God properly is not solely dependent on us. God himself knows how to make us hear him correctly.

Psalm 119:105 (NKJV)

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

A word from God will bring more light, not darkness.

Many people get confused because they are only looking to themselves as the evidence for what God may have said or may not have said. But we need to remember that God is sovereign over everything; therefore, if he says something to you personally, He has the power to confirm that word to you through things in the world that are completely outside of your control.

Jeremiah 32:6-8 (NKJV)

⁶ And Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁷ ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.” ’ ⁸ Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. 

The word spoken to Jeremiah occurred like God said it would. Thus Jeremiah knew this was truly a word from God because things outside of his control occurred that confirmed this word was true. We can control our thoughts, our feelings, and even things like our dreams can be influenced by our thoughts throughout the day. But when it comes to other people, places, and things, God alone will have to move the proper pieces to confirm his word. God will never speak something and then not accomplish it. If what you heard does not happen, God did not say it because God never lies.

Hebrews 6:18 (NKJV)

¹⁷ Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, ¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

Therefore, you will know a word was really from God when the things outside of your control happen that would need to happen to make this word come true. The clearest way to know if a personal word from God was really from God is to compare this word to “THE” word of God. The Bible is infallible. Our personal communication with God does not have more authority than the actual word of God given in Scripture. While God does speak to us personally, God will never contradict what He has already said in His word.

Isaiah 40:8 (NKJV) 

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

When the Lord gives a word, He gives peace with it. No, it's not the peace that means an absence of trouble or chaos. Rather, it's a peace that you can sense even in the midst of troubles. It's the peace that passes all understanding.

God Bless, Israel