How did your wife present her concern? You could have been more insistent.
We watch her kids. She told us God told her to pay us, but she never has in a year. That is fine, we just sow that as seed and my Daughter gets someone to play with.
3 months ago she told me she wanted to walk more in faith and get off food stamps. Her Husband works very hard but they still have some expenses. She is a great christian women, and my wife and I love their family.
I took a bold step, knowing she hears God and said, I don't think the Lord wants you to do that and cancel food stamps. I told her to let the outcome of her faith take her off the food stamps. (As in the money would be there) We don't take our glasses off and say the Lord healed my eyes and run into the building either. Faith believes God and God does his part, we can't do God's part.
She shut me down, saying we have faith and bla, bla, bla........... Now they are hurting and she has to wait 2 weeks for food stamps to kick in again with no food.
Here is how God speaks to us most the time. It's not a booming voice with Dolby surround sound and HDTV. (Though that would be nice) When she asked if she could take her kids out with my daughter just out front, my wife got alerted by the Lord. Not fear, just a check and she knew it was about one of her kids.
That is it. A stop in the heart and about her kid. Not fear, just a don't do it.
God leads us like that, it's not some prophet or anything crazy, just the small left, right and as in Acts things "Seem" we don't violate what is in our heart to do or not do. It don't even have to make sense to us.
Not one time I have gotten that "STOP" to where the Lord felt He had to go into detail for me or even tell me. Stop, means Stop. I find the Lord does not have to explain himself, he just expects us to be led and obey what is there. If he always explained we would reason it out or be walking by sight.
So, that is all the Wife got........... "Don't go out now, just stop, stay in. Her son" I got the same thing so my Wife said let's stay in and talk. My wife wanted her to take her kids home, she had her kids all day and 2 hours extra.
She said, NO, it will be fun, lets Go. My wife already said no, and she just wanted to take over. So, they went out front to play.
The wife came back in briefly and said again, something is off, and I said I know, but whatever happens, God can fix it.
Sure enough, We end up with lots of blood and a broken wrist. I looked at the wrist, the bone was still in there and in place really swollen and blue but I knew it was just a fracture.
Then she says she will Go home and wrap it. God will heal it she says. I am thinking he needed x-ray's at least and Wrapped but I did not say a word. Not my kid.
People have to receive and she goes to the same church we do, but is not as mature in the Word. We can't tell people how to do things if they don't want to hear it. My wife told her to get her kids at 12 and she shows up at 2pm. I am not sure what else we could do, without being disrespectful.
It's like the time I told my boys to stop wrestling. I told them someone is going to get there head busted open and just stop. Wrestle later, but not now. I Told them, the Lord said Stop, not me. You listen to me and the Lord.
Well, me telling them did not mean I did not end up in the emergency room to get my youngest son 5 stitches in his head. I made my Oldest son sit in there with his brother and watch them sow up his head.
be blessed.