TAS said:

Most people have got this fleece business out in the wrong realm.

I agree. In the New Testament we are charged to walk by the Spirit and do everything by and with the Spirit who is with our spirit. Many believers are still in the flesh and therefore practically still in the Old Testament, looking for God to do outward things to confirm His will. Neither Jesus nor the apostle Paul lived like this, nor should we.

Galatians 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

   To be emboldened with His family is the perspective desiring personal confirmations from our Father through His Son IMO.  

   Acts 4:29-31 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,  By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.  And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Amen Paul.