Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Sometimes a family member will tell you their plans and you will feel something is wrong. You feel uncomfortable when you think of the plan.
If you commit the plan to God and continue to feel uncomfortable, you likely need to speak up, sharing such with the person who made that plan.
You might not know at the time exactly why you feel this way but when you have the Holy Spirit in you and this happens, it is likely God showing you there is a problem.
By warning the other person, you give that person an opportunity to reexamine their plan. And you also free yourself so their blood is not on your hands if the plan goes badly.
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It takes courage to warn them. You often think you might be wrong.
But if you have faith in God then you should have faith to pray asking God to show you if you are wrong.
And if you are still troubled about the plan after praying, you probably need to speak.
But it takes faith in God and courage to do this.
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We who belong to God have the Spirit of God in us to teach us all things, remind us of everything Jesus has said, guide us into all truth, and to show us things to come. John 14:26 & John 16:13
To me, this is grounds to speak.
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In 2018, Pam Padgett revealed to our church group that she was planning to remodel some of her downstairs rooms: changing TV room into a bedroom and adding a full bath, changing her kitchen, and moving her TV/sound equipment into her fireplace area.
I was disturbed immediately with the kitchen plan. I told her this.
She postponed the project and continued praying.
She had purchased a software program which allowed her to put design plans on her computer and see the actual amount of space for each room with the new design.
When she did this, she saw that it would not work for her to remodel the kitchen as she had planned for she needed the area for laundry room. Therefore she gave up plans that were in her mind for kitchen and no longer wanted to remodel kitchen.
I knew something was wrong when she first told me the plan about the kitchen. I didn't know what was wrong. But when it was revealed to Pam that her plan could not work if she moved the laundry room which she has to do in order to add a bath to the bedroom, I remembered that "the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth."
(It turns out the plan has changed even from that and now she finds she can greatly simply the project by just adding a shower to the existing 1/2 bath and leaving laundry where it is now.)
We may not know why we are troubled. Later it may be clear.
But the Holy Spirit in us knows and will not allow us or the church to go into destruction. But it is up to us to speak when we are troubled.
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About 10 years ago, Pam was engaged.
I was troubled about this. Another of our church group was also troubled.
Neither of us knew why we were troubled. Neither of us had met the man Pam was planning to marry. Each of us live in different states within USA.
But both of us told Pam we were troubled over this marriage.
Pam postponed the wedding so she could consult God.
During the postponement, the man she was planning to marry told her his adult aged son was planning to marry a divorced woman.
Pam told him that this would be adultery according to the Bible. "The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery." (Matthew 5:32)
Though Chuck said he was a Christian, after Pam told him what the Bible says, Chuck did not want to marry Pam and he broke the engagement with her.
Certainly Pam went through grief over this but today she sees how bad her life would have been had she married Chuck.
God warns us by HIS Spirit. We must have courage speak to save others.
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