{"id":3531,"date":"2015-05-06T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2015-05-06T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:33:15","slug":"learning-and-making-mistakes-and-learning-to-recognise-gods-communication-more-clearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/lernen-und-fehler-machen-und-gottes-kommunikation-klarer-erkennen-lernen\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning, making mistakes and learning to recognise God's communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2013-01-10<\/a>I want to learn, learn, learn. When I leave here, I want to be more confident in many areas than I was when I started here. And I'm (almost) not afraid of making mistakes. Mistakes are part of it. I'm not just saying that as head knowledge. A few years ago, a true story helped me realise how important mistakes are for learning.<\/p>\n

A few years ago I once heard about \u00a0Robert Kiyosaki read<\/a>, who was a very unsuccessful Xerox copier salesman. When he told his mentor about this, he said: \u201eYou're currently only making a few sales calls a day. How on earth are you going to learn what works and what doesn't? You need to find a way to increase your error rate to learn faster!\u201c\u00a0<\/em>
\nIn order to deliberately increase his error rate, the man sought out a second job as a telemarketer in addition to his job at Xerox. There he had to spend four hours every evening on the phone selling people something. In the beginning, he made one mistake after another. But because he had so many conversations, he learnt fast<\/em>, what works and what doesn't. And he got better and better - as a telemarketer and then also as a Xerox salesman. In the end, he was honoured as the best salesman in his state, but then left Xerox to set up his own business.<\/p>\n

Even if spiritual things cannot be compared to selling photocopiers, the fact is that we have a lot to learn. For example, I still have no idea how to actually pray for the sick. Or even how I can tell whether someone has a \u201enormal\u201c illness or something that has been caused by demonic influence. A normal illness is healed. If there is demonic influence, it makes sense to first look at how it came in (often through trauma, pain or disobedience to God). Once this has been cleared up, you can pray for deliverance in the authority of Jesus. So much for the theory. I still want to learn how to do this in practice. But today I asked Aliss about her experiences.<\/p>\n

The task for today was to practise words of knowledge. As far as I know, it is not 100% theologically clear how this is defined. But many people in ministry understand it to mean that you get knowledge about a situation in someone's life that you can't naturally know about a person unless God has revealed it.<\/p>\n

Often God reveals through a word of knowledge something that is important to another person, or a difficulty in their job or relationship that God wants to help them with. Or God reveals an illness or other need that He wants to meet.<\/p>\n

The way in which you receive a word of knowledge can be very different. Sometimes you have an inner feeling, sometimes you see a picture or have a certain word in your head, sometimes you feel pain yourself in the place that God wants to heal in another person.<\/p>\n

As I prayed and asked God for such a word, I remembered that a man here had told me that he was not doing a certain thing. I felt that there was something behind it that God wanted to meet. I asked him about it. He scratched his chin: \u201eHmm, that could be it!\u201c Not exactly a direct hit.<\/p>\n

Then I realised that a woman's aunt had taken something away from her as a child that was personally valuable to her. I told her about it. And she said: \u201eI only have one aunt - she made life difficult for all of us. But I don't know if she took anything away from me. I can't remember that.\u201c\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmm...bull's eye sounds different. But I'm learning. And make mistakes.<\/p>\n

Later, during an encounter with another woman, the word \u201ebrother\u201c came to mind. I asked her if she had a brother. She told me some details from her family history and that she had been thinking a lot about her brother in the last few days. Since I didn't have anything else clear from God, I asked her if I could pray for the relationship between the siblings. And I simply prayed for a blessing. She was touched and encouraged. I was too. I think it's great that you are introduced to new things here step by step. And I want to learn, learn, learn.<\/p>\n

The man I asked if he had recently cut his finger answered in the negative. Clearly a mistake. Also ok. Not the end of the world.<\/p>\n

On the subject of \u201eHearing God's voice\u201c, we have selected the book by Steve Thompson \u201eEveryone can speak prophetically!\u201c<\/em><\/a> recommended to me. I've seen Steve live before - he's a brilliant trainer. The very first section of the chapter on the way God speaks was really something: \u201eIf we want to learn to hear God's voice, it's important to realise that God's voice is rarely just a voice!\u201c<\/p>\n

There are, of course, the dramatic forms of communication from God. Angels, visions, being caught up to heaven. You get them when you experience them. But we often miss God speaking because it comes across so inconspicuously. He then describes different ways in which God communicates:<\/p>\n