God spoke to me today. You probably hear that phrase as often as I do. But not everyone means the same thing when they say it. So I thought I would explain what I mean when I say it. The Bible is the way that God speaks to me. 99.9% of the time this is true. It happens either while I am reading the Bible or during the course of the day as I am thinking about a decision, a passage or verse of Scripture comes to my mind. I hear the voice of God in the words of the Bible and when I hear them I try to orient my life and my decisions based on those words. Here is how it happened on Monday. I am reading through my Bible this year using the Discipleship Journal Plan that our church passed out in late December. I think I was several days behind on Monday and I was using the morning to catch up. So I was reading from Numbers when I came to the story of Balaam. You know the story of Balaam and his donkey, I do too. At least I thought I did. But on Monday I heard my o...
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