I want to clarify something about my experience of asking God for a sign as to whether or not I should speak. That was a real “Gideon” experience for me. The thing is – I’m not Gideon! This is how the Lord would have us to be: that we would flow with His Spirit and not be concrete in our thinking and bound to the letter of law…we are now in the law of the Spirit. We just do not know what God will have us to do, especially if we think it should be like the experiences of the people that we read about in the Bible. If we stay grounded in truth we will be able to commune with God and be abstract in our thinking.
I believe that where we are soon going is a place of truly being led by God’s Holy Spirit - and it will scare a lot of people because things will happen that no body has experienced before. This will happen to those that are really denying self and believing whole heartedly that God Himself is all I can depend on. This mindset will put us in a place of obedience and we will not need a sign. We will just obey. On top of that, Jesus says that there will be no sign given but Jonah - so what in the world am I doing asking for a sign?!?. If we are not at the place of being spit out and rejected by the world then I don’t know where we are.