A second questionable way in which God allegedly speaks is when a person randomly selects a Bible verse and takes it as God’s specific guidance. A man prays for God’s direction for overseas missionary service and, while reading the book of Isaiah, lands on Isaiah 18:2—“Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.” This must be God’s guidance, he concludes, but he may or may not