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Re: God Promised, God showed me, God Told me.....
Do I believe God can speak to someone about their future? Of course. Do I believe every time someone says God spoke to them that they heard correctly? No.
However, if someone told me "God said ______." I would wait and let them find out on their own whether or not it was of God. It isn't my place to plant seeds of doubt.
Specifically regarding your post, I don't think it's about God "promising the affections of another" in the sense of thwarting the free will of a third party. It's more about God revealing someone's future to them. Of course He knows whether or not that *third* someone eventually will have affection for a person, so if He wanted to reveal that then of course He could.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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