One day I said, “God, I pray for an hour and a half every morning. Lisa prays for ten minutes in the shower. Yet she’s right on more than half of these things.”

The Lord told me, “Draw a circle.” So I drew a circle on a piece of paper. God said, “Put x’s all over the circle.” I started drawing x’s inside the circle. He said, “Now draw a line right down the middle.” I drew a line right down the middle.

He said, “Do you notice about half of the x’s are on one side and about half of the x’s are on the other side? John, when you were single, you were complete in Me and in yourself. But you became one flesh with Lisa, so that circle represents you and Lisa. You’re the left half. She’s the right half.”

Then God said, “Do you know what the x’s are? They represent information that you need from Me so you can make wise decisions. The problem is that you’re making all your decisions based on half of the information. You need to learn how to draw out of your wife what I show her so that you, as the head of the home, can make decisions with all of the information.”

With that insight regarding intuition, I will say, yes, it’s come back to bite me when I felt an initial check and ignored it. But there have also been times when Lisa said things that I ignored, even though I knew deep down her words were of the Spirit—because what does He do? He bears witness.

Lisa has also said things—and this happens only once every few years—that I know, That’s not faith-motivated. That’s fear speaking. I’m not going with that. But most of the time when Lisa speaks, deep in my spirit I know, She’s right. If I ignore that witness, I am the one who pays the price.

Lisa: I think John’s being very generous, but I want people to understand that when God speaks something to them, they can trust it. Researchers are saying that the spirit is way more precognitive than we actually understand. When we jump in with our own understanding and begin to second-guess things, we’re not doubting ourselves. We are doubting God. When God begins to say something to us, we need to go with it.

I recently had an experience with a group of people on a bus—and I have to say, I hate buses. Our group was on a bus at an airport for a really long time, and one person in the group just couldn’t seem to find her way to where all of us had been picked up. We kept calling her, but we couldn’t find her.