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lostANDfound:
Hello!   :)
I just read Proverbs 18:18 and I don't remember having read it before. 
In the Concordant version:
"Casting the lot causes quarrels to cease,
And keeps staunch foes apart."
It struck me because when I first came across the BT site I read for awhile and then stopped short, half afraid and half excited.  I knew this was DIFFERENT and it answered so many of my nagging questions but it flew in the face of what I had always been taught.  So I prayed and I thought, and I wondered... and I just NEEDED a straightforward answer about whether I should continue looking at the site so I wrote out a bunch of possibilities multiple times on little scraps of paper and prayed some more and picked one.  And it was "read it and believe it" or something like that.  I can't really remember it was so long ago but it was affirming that I continue to read Ray's writings. I haven't done that again since, and I hadn't ever done it before, but I've always wondered if that was a little sketchy, the way I did that.  So I'm wondering if anyone knows of any spiritual matches?  I'm pretty sure they cast lots to pick a disciple after Judas died?  And of course they cast lots of Jesus clothes after he died.  Do any of you cast lots for major decisions?

indianabob:
When faithful people cast lots in scripture it is to let God decide the outcome.
It is not a gamble or chance to see who will be lucky.
I don't cast lots because God answers my prayers personally in my mind and heart.

Indiana Bob

rick:
Hi lost & found,

I had to laugh after reading ur thread as it brought back memory's from long ago, I remember doing similar things also.

I would say to God if you want me to do this or whatever it was at the time I would toss a coin in the air and say if it's heads or if it's tails , or I would throw something and say if it lands there then that is your will.

I don't believe I would do those things today with the understanding I have but in my life I will rule nothing out.


God bless.

lostANDfound:
Like I said, hadn't done it before and haven't done it since. 

rick:

--- Quote from: lostANDfound on June 26, 2016, 04:24:02 PM ---Like I said, hadn't done it before and haven't done it since.

--- End quote ---

Hi LostAndfound,

Have you ever thought that it might of been God causing you to do that ? I believe in my case it was. Did you ever buy a scratch ticket ?

Once in a blue moon I'll buy a scratch ticket hoping not to work anymore, lol but on those  occasions I do ,I always seem to lose .

God bless.

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