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请允许我用自己为例来讲述被圣灵带领，因为主会对我这样的人说话，就使我完全敬畏祂。

有一次在灵里与主沟通改变了我的生命，这发生在一次大学校园礼拜之后，当时我正和一位年轻女子一起祷告。主开始以一种非常具体的方式对我说话。“这就是你将来要娶的女人。”我几乎不认识这个女人，对她的第一印象也相当负面。但主为我预备了这样一个特别的伴侣，年复一年，我发现她显然是神完美的礼物。

在俄亥俄州担任牧师的时候，我接到了明尼苏达州普林斯堡一个教会的电话。我从来没有想像过自己会生活在一个离商店有15英里远的位于郊外的农业社区，所以我拒绝了这个电话。但这间教会确信我将成为他们的牧师。在这期间，我带着孩子们去看电影，透过电影情节，主对我的灵说话，指出普林斯堡对祂来说是美丽的。我们在普林斯堡生活的时间是我们生命中最美好的一段岁月。

几年后，在亚特兰大的一个“守约者”机构的聚会上，主向我发出了另一个呼召。在一天晚上的圣餐中，主对我说：“准备好，你要去加尔文神学院教书了。”两年后，这就真的发生了。

我很感谢这些特殊时刻，它们提醒我与圣灵保持步调一致。

Permit me to use myself as an example of being led by the Spirit, since I am totally in awe that the Lord would speak to a person like me.

One spiritual communication with God that changed my life occurred after a college chapel service while I was praying with a young woman. The Lord began to speak to me in a very concrete way: "This is the woman you will marry someday." I hardly knew this woman, and my first impressions were rather negative. But the Lord had a special companion in mind for me, and year after year she has proven to be his perfect gift.

While serving as a pastor in Ohio, I received a call from a church in Prinsburg, Minnesota. I had never pictured myself living in a rural farming community where the stores are 15 miles away, so I declined the call. But the church was convinced that I was going to be their pastor. During this time I took my kids to a movie, and in the middle of the story, the Lord spoke to my spirit, pointing out that Prinsburg is beautiful to him. Our time in Prinsburg proved to be among the best years of our life.

Some years later during a Promise Keepers meeting in Atlanta, the Lord spoke to me about another calling. During the Lord's Supper one evening, the Lord said to me, "Get ready, you are going to teach at Calvin Seminary." And two years later that happened.

I'm thankful for these opportunities, and they remind me to keep in step with the Spirit.