eddiebrown
Out Sourcing in BPO & Call Centre Solution.

Hugh and I had briefly worked together in San Francisco on a four month project. He liked my work and asked me to fly in from Dallas, where I was living at the time, to do some more work for him in London for a week or two. I eagerly accepted, who wouldn’t want a trip to London, England?

In the office in London I was quietly sitting next to a Hugh, minding my own business, when that small internal voice from God impressed upon my mind that Hugh was sick.

So I started reasoning with God in my mind: “So what if he is sick?”
But then I asked the question that was to set in motion a whole chain of events, “God if you are telling me that Hugh is sick then why did you tell me and what should I do about it?”
God responded instantly, “Tell him”.
“I can’t do that”, I replied.
“Yes you can”, replied God.
“I can’t do that”, I replied.
“Yes you can”, replied God.
So in the end I gave in and called Hugh aside into a deserted hallway to ask him if he was sick. I had no idea what the response would be and didn’t want anyone else around to hear what I had to say.

“Are you sick?” I asked Hugh.
“No” he calmly replied.
“Are you sure?” I responded.
By this time my heart had sunk and I was trying to redeem the situation.
“Do you have a cold?” I asked him.
“No” he replied quizzically.
“Are you sure?” I responded.
“Yes, why?” he replied.
I then proceeded to tell him outright that God had told me that he was sick. He gave me this “you must be crazy” look and told me that he didn’t believe in God.

I asked him if he would go with me to the cafeteria and there we had an open talk about Christianity for about 30 minutes. He left stating that he still didn’t believe in God. I flew home thinking that I had now gone crazy for sure, was hearing voices, and I certainly couldn’t expect any more work from that company.

Unsurprisingly I heard nothing more from Hugh for the next nine months. Suddenly and unexpectedly I got a phone call from a secretary of his in California. Hugh was dead – he had died suddenly from pancreatic cancer. They had found my name and phone number in his diary and were calling me to let me know just in case I was close to him.

I hope that as his last days approached Hugh remembered what I had told him in London and that he had come to believe in Jesus and to gain eternal life through that. But as much as I hope that, I must confess that I just don’t know what happened in the final days of Hugh’s life. What I do know now is that this is no game – the consequences are eternal.

For more see http://www.godandemail.com

http://earnestlydesire.blogspot.com
“Is it Okay to say, “God told me”?”

I’m more disturbed by the Mark Virkler school of thought that makes it normal to hear God away from the Bible.

As an interesting aside I was one of those. I was sitting at the chapel at a meeting being addressed by R.T.Kendall. He announced his forthcoming retirement and his desire to find a suitable replacement before he goes. I happened to be sitting next to Greg or his wife (I cant remember which) and immediately turned and said “I really feel that might be for you” a really odd thing to say and something I wouldnt have said without a ‘prophetic impulse’, anyway oddly the person sitting next to the other Haslem at the same moment turned to them and said the same thing! I was also aware of someone who went to the trouble of printing out a photograph of the inside of an American chapel and giving it to Greg. He said, I don’t know why but I feel this picture has something to do with your future. Totally unbeknown to this guy, the photo was so close to what Westminster Chapel looked like inside, it could easily have been the chapel itself! Those were just two of the examples I am aware of…

In short, we need to continue to teach people the importance of discerning and distinguishing between the human and the divine.