that may be very significant.
Prior to the summer of ’03, a very close friend warned me about the person Satan used to draw me into the gossip ring. She was not very specific. She only said, “I know her. Keep your distance. She is trouble.” That is all she said. Being that the warning came from a godly woman I had known and grown to trust over the years, I should have heeded her words. However, I thought the right thing to do would be to make friends.
I don’t know if God often sends a warning to His children before they are about to fall into a pit, but I know I have received at least one warning each time before I fell into a mess of sin. For example, not too long ago, I received a message in a sermon that I needed to get some physical rest. That blurb during a sermon resonated with me and I knew I needed to cut back. I was getting too tired, doing too much, and physical rest is imperative in a fight against our enemy. I did not heed the warning (or command) to go to bed early. That next week, I had too much to do, not enough sleep, and, as usual, the first thing to go is prayer and Bible reading. I can remember being in such a bad mood, angry at the world, impatient, and saying lots of things I shouldn’t have. Picture your two year old throwing a fit, and you’ll get the picture. Spend some time looking up verses about fits and anger and rage. You’ll learn a lot. I did.
Jesus warned Peter before he was sifted.
Has any one else received a warning or “heads up” of some kind just before a temptation or bout with the enemy?
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Leslie Wiggins 
3 responses to “I just remembered something…”
What a blessing to have a godly woman like that in your life.
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Yes, I wish I had more like her.
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Wow, just recently (about six months ago) Casting Crowns’ song “I will Praise You in the Storm”, was a warning to me. The lyrics go “I will praise you int his storm, and I will lift my hands, You are who You are, no matter where I am, and every tear I cried You hold in Your hand, You never left my side, and though my heart is torn, I will praise you in this storm” Well, I was so moved by that song. (And nothing was going wrong in my life.) And I began to think about how right it is to praise Him in the midst of the storm. And I realized that God was telling me that a storm was coming in which I was to praise Him. I mentioned my trepidation to my husband who thought it was nothing! But not two months later my three year old son was molested by someone we trusted at the church we previously attended. Boy that was a SERIOUS storm. But God did uphold me, and He never left my side, and I managed to praise Him through it. ANd now I look back and I am so amazed at His awsome Grace which He poured out on me, by giving me a song of encouragement right before a huge trial.I can say with honesty, I was able to love Jesus and worship him and praise Him throughout the ordeal, and that I really learned what it means to love those who harm you, to love your enemy. I have forgiven those who did my son harm, and I have no bitter feelings towards them. I feel they did not follow Christ’s requirements to reconcile with fellow believers (we attempted to meet with them time and time again, but they refused), and that makes me very sad. Because the Lord could have used our forgiveness to bring them to repentance and perhaps to change them. I still pray that the Lord will bring them into repentance that they might have a true relationship with Him.But God has delivered us into a new church, with very deep verse by verse teaching, for which we are utterly grateful. He has used a bad thing for good. And I praise Him still.
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