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Firstfruit Fundamentals
 

Subject: Relationships

Question 8:   

I might counter here with the question, how do you know a true minister from a false one?  How do you know what the will of God is in every situation?  You know by means of two very important factors:

1] The fruit borne out of the situation.
2] Unction of the Holy Spirit [1 John 2:20].

If the relationship is approved of God, then the relationship is according to sanctification or His will.  His will in any relationship, especially those He has decreed will end in marriage, is that the two individuals bond and become one flesh.  The first step to this is communication.  As the relationship grows, the levels of communications will deepen.  There are, according to one major source, five levels of communication.  See them here.  If you ever attain level 4 or 5, as you see them described there, then you can conclude that the relationship is approved of by God.  Those levels of communication are definite fruits.

Another factor that will give you the knowledge that the relationship is approved of by God is Time.  It was Dear Abby [Abigail Van Buren] who encouraged readers in potential marital relationships to "summer and winter" with the individual before there is talk of marriage.  That is, give time for the relationship to grow and the levels of communication to deepen.

All of this will lead to unction in the heart and mind of the firstfruit.  God would clearly give direct information to the mind of the firstfruit on this highly important relationship.  The closer you are to God through immersion in His Word, prayer and meditation coupled with the time in the Salvation Process, the better this unction will be.
 

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