Psalm 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.

     November 2008 when my eldest child got engaged to the devil incarnate who we thought was Prince Charming, I had no idea that the next nine months would be the worst nine months of my life.  In August 2009, I heard in my spirit, GOD directly telling me that my daughter would not be back in my house or life for seven years. Of course I doubted I heard correctly; I absolutely refused to believe that the worst case scenario would happen. I thought, there was no way I could survive seven years being completely cut off from my first born.

     For the next seven years, I continued to doubt what I heard was correct. Each passing month proved it to be true, however. Graduations, stroke, dual cancers, none of those brought her home. The closer I got to the seven year mark, the more that feeling in my gut convicted me that what I heard was right.  When I found out she was divorcing the devil incarnate seven years to the month from when she got engaged to him, then I really started to believe that my gut feeling was the Holy Spirit saying, "What did I tell you?"

      August of 2016 I had all eight of my children sitting down at a wonderful family dinner for the first time since Thanksgiving 2008. When I started to get all weepy, like I always do, I went out to my deck swing where I have the best talks with GOD, and where He told me that she would not be home for seven years, it hit me like  ton of bricks. It was SEVEN years to the month exactly from when I perceived He told me and when it truly happened.

     I have had other instances, like my husband's cancer and my own that GOD gave me a heads up on years before it happened. His cancer took 18 years to manifest as the exact same cancer He told me it would be. Mine took 2 but I had no idea what kind it would be. When it turned out to be an extremely rare one, even MORE rare in women, and even more rare in women my age, then I knew I had heard from GOD two years prior.

    I've learned to really rely on that gut instinct, that voice in the back of my head, which I now know to be the Holy Spirit. What GOD puts in my head that He intends to do, He in fact does it, regardless of how many years past before He does it.