Thats a lot of great stuff there. At the same time, I think it only really applies to a situation where the person in question already knows what it is your going to tell them. If a person has heard it before, then telling them again wont do much unless its at the right time. But if they have never heard, then the sooner the better, so that seed can be planted and take root and when the season comes it will be ripe to sprout.
As for listening to the Lord... well, I have far too many voices in my head anf my evil heart in order to trust them. So I just use reasonable judgement, perception of other peoples emotions, and biblical principles in order to guide my behavior. Along with prayer of course. But if I tried listening to every voice I thought was God, I would be living as a transient evangelist preaching a watered down gospel that accepts homosexuality and all manner of filth and I would be swaying in the wind with every doctrine. If you can hear God, thats very blessed. I can sometimes, but mostly I just hear myself.
That is exactly how it works. At the right time and season we speak, it would have been something they knew. They have a conscience God deals with, God puts things in them and they have an idea, but direction is not clear, they are fighting wanting to do this, when they think they should do that. They are weighing the good and the bad, and it's confusing for them. Then you come along, have heard the Lord and the Lord prompts you, go talk to them. What you tell them is what the Lord put in them and it becomes clear, they get direction and can with confidence know what direction to take.
While they are sorting it all out, and out of season, we can still be there and say I support you, it's going to work out, God is helping us.
So only God could have revealed to you that they did have to know something first, because that is exactly how a Word in Season works. I did not mention it to you.
As for voices...............................??
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
(1Co 14:10)
It's true, there are lots of voices in this Word. Paul is speaking about tongues, but it's a true statement that we have so many voices from others, in our head, in our dreams, that want to pull on us, and send us off in different directions.
So even if we have a mind, a flesh body that wants to pull us in all kinds of direction, the good news is we have a born again spirit, and the Holy Spirit. That is something the rest of the World does not have. We have a different voice available to us, and a connection to the Father of lights who's wisdom is full of peace.
We are led by the peace of God, the peace in our heart. What direction, left or right do we have peace about? What "SEEMS" right? In scriptures it says it seemed good to them, it seemed this to them. It's not always a voice, it's a peace, a knowing. Even Paul said I perceive this voyage will be with much hurt. Not a voice, and a burning bush with HDTV, but it was a perception, and knowing, it just seemed to Paul things were going to get shaky.
Anything we question before doing is not peace, it's not in faith. it's time to stop, until we get direction. How many times did you go through with something, not having peace about it and it ended up messed up, then later you thought........ I knew....... I knew.........Why did I do that?
You asked if you should bust your Brother out based on a scripture............ Why you asking? it's not faith, your unsure, it's time to stop. There is a reason your having to ask.
Let me tell you, once you get that peace, that direction saying go left, not right. You can walk that out with confidence, it may not look like the best choice naturally, but your have developed your senses to filter out what is God and his peace and what is the rest of the World.
I know you will make the right choice. Be blessed Brother, you got this.
