Jeremiah 38: 17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the Babylonian officers, you and your family will live, and the city will not be burned down. 18 But if you refuse to surrender, you will not escape! This city will be handed over to the Babylonians, and they will burn it to the ground.’”

19 “But I am afraid to surrender,” the king said, “for the Babylonians may hand me over to the Judeans who have defected to them. And who knows what they will do to me!”

20 Jeremiah replied, “You won’t be handed over to them if you choose to obey the Lord. Your life will be spared, and all will go well for you. 21 But if you refuse to surrender, this is what the Lord has revealed to me: 22 All the women left in your palace will be brought out and given to the officers of the Babylonian army. Then the women will taunt you, saying, ‘What fine friends you have! They have betrayed and misled you. When your feet sank in the mud, they left you to your fate!’

23 All your wives and children will be led out to the Babylonians, and you will not escape. You will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”

24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Don’t tell anyone you told me this, or you will die!

what Jeremiah tells the king God is saying does not sound like what we expect God to be saying... I expect God to be saying He will rescue me.. not that I am to surrender... I expect God to save His city and His people.. not turn them over to the enemy... 

so this shows that sometimes what God said isn't what we would expect or imagine... so how do we know that it really is God speaking? how do we know it isn't something the enemy has planted in our head... 

I don't know the answer to this question... I once heard something that I didn't think sounded much like God.. yet I was quite sure it was Him speaking.. but things got worse in the situation instead of better... so I don't really know even now if I did the right thing or the wrong thing.. I don't know if I heard God or the enemy... I would have thought that if I were doing what God told me to do that things would have gotten better, not worse.. but during this season since that time.. I have learned A LOT... probably more than I would have learned any other way... so even if I did the wrong thing, because my heart was right.. God has turned it for my good... 

all we really can do is what we believe God desires from us.. that is the best we can do...