THE BLIND SIDE OF THE GIFT

Why God Speaks Around the People Who Hear Him the Best.

von Q. Wolfgang Watkins

188 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Elijah called fire out of a clear sky. Days later he sat under a tree in the wilderness and told God something that was not true.I, even I only, am left.He was off by seven thousand people. And he was not lying. He believed it.This is a book about people who hear from God and are usually right -- not the ones who doubt the voice, the ones who have built a life on it.Because a gift that works, exercised long enough in a room where nobody has standing to say no, quietly becomes something else. God speaks to me turns into if it were God, He would have told me, and nobody is ever present for the moment it changes.The problem is not arrogance. It is structure.A channel cannot audit itself. Whatever is invisible to the way you hear will never arrive by the way you hear. Which is why God so often comes around the side: through a person you discount, a delay you resent, a limit you refuse, a passage you did not choose.Moses took a complete restructuring of the nation from a Midianite priest who had no revelation to offer. David could not reach repentance for a year without a story about a sheep. Peter received the vision and still needed three strangers at his gate to learn what it meant.And a prophet in 1 Kings 13 died because he did receive an outside word. Which is why this is finally not a book about being more open. It is a book about learning to test.Inside you will find- Four tests to run on any word that reaches you from outside- A four-part audit of who actually has standing to tell you no- Eight rules for bringing a hard word to someone who will not want it- What the research on self-assessment, conformity and expert blind spots confirms about all of itWritten for the believer with a devotional life and a sense of direction, and for the leader who has to build a room where he can still be corrected.With one question underneath all of it: What would God have to do to get a word to you that you do not want?From the author of Do We Really Want God to Speak?

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176544466
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published