Internal Information
My husband and I with our three little children traveled back East for a year’s sabbatical. I was pregnant and huge and tired the whole way. In West Virginia our new doctor discovered that I wasn’t just having one—I was having twins! Ah, that’s why this ‘child’ never slept—there were two! I swear they took turns sleeping, so one was always awake! After I knew that there were two entities inside me, I could differentiate between them. One was pow-pow-pow! and one was stretchy and mellifluous. Later, one loved football and soccer and the other loved gymnastics and violin. Hm, what interesting internal information.
In the Bible, Isaac’s wife Rebekah also noticed a “struggle” within her. She went to the Lord with a question, “Why am I thus?” Genesis 25:23 reports, “And the Lord said unto her, ‘Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people. . . and the elder shall serve the younger.’ ” In Rebekah’s case, her information came in response to prayer. (No wonder when the sons later needed to be blessed, she devised a way to have Jacob, the younger, receive the main blessing).
Sometimes—during prayer, during meditation, standing at the bathroom sink, or just driving in the middle of the day—information from the Lord will come wrapped in a feeling or in a picture or in words. That happened when I was talking to my daughter-in-law on the phone just after my husband went to the emergency room and they had found a mass on his liver. In the middle of our conversation, the Lord’s Spirit said to my mind, “Scott will make a choice; once chosen, it will be irrevocable.” That information from the Lord charted the course Scott and I took, with me finding choices of treatment, and with him choosing which to do.
From Scott’s Choice pg 8