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From my perspective, life is a 3-D adventure tale filled with twists, turns, subplots, intrigue, joy, frustration, fear, assurance and an inevitable and triumphant happy ending.

Gary Gygax, the guy who invented Dungeons and Dragons, became a believer in God, and perhaps even a Christian, during the last part of his life, for just this reason. He came to see that life, itself, is an epic quest, one bearing the evident marks of design, the fingerprints of a Designer.

The fortune-tellers try to keep God at arm's length by looking for His patterns in their imaginary maps of hideous futures.
Those who truly love their Designer and Redeemer rejoice to see the patterns of His will in their own lives and families.

If I can but seek to know, and energetically pursue, His will for my life, I can let Him worry about the details of the big picture.

The Turkish verb seyretmek applies to spectator events, things you passively sit back and watch.

For the fortune-tellers, the epic is Out There, and is something we watch.
For the godly, those who, in obedience to His Word, eschew fortune-telling, the epic tale of the Kingdom -- at least, my part of it, the one part I'm responsible for -- is right here, right now.

Minding my own business well takes all the wisdom zest, zeal, and passion I can bring to the task.

But, I still pray Psalm 2:8, and sing "O for a thousand Turks to sing, my Great Redeemer's praise." I believe God has opportunities for those who look to Him in faith, with glad expectation. The one thing I do know about the future -- God will give those who love Him "the desires of their heart" -- through creative and ingenious paths we never could have predicted.

How are you distinguishing between fortune telling and what Jesus said in John 16:13: “He [the Spirit of truth] will show you things to come”?

Legitimate Christian anointed Biblical prophecy is

FAR from fortune telling and

hazardously insults Holy Spirit to assert otherwise.