Remember that each time God spoke to
an individual they;
·
Knew
it was God
·
Knew
what God said
With that
said they knew they had an encounter with God.
God will
tell you up front what He wants you to know so that you can make the necessary
adjustments in your life.
Please do
not be one that lives this way saying ”Lord, I really want to know your
will. Stop me if I am wrong and bless me
if I am right.” Or “Lord. I will proceed in this direction. Close the door if it is not your will.”
If you want to hear from God you have to be
willing to spend the time getting to know Him.
You need to, as we discussed last week, and that is to Love Him. To be
totally satisfied with having Nothing but God. That means your car, house, spouse and on and
on….
God has not
set your life in motion and then sits back to watch, leaving it up to you to try
and figure out the best direction according to your God-given mind. For this thought would mean that Christians
always think correctly. This thought
forgets that our old nature is constantly at battle with our new spiritual
nature. Our ways are not the same as God’s.
You see only God can give you the kind of direction needed to accomplish
His will. Look at Noah, Abraham, Moses,
David, Isiah, Gideon, Peter, John, Paul, and Mary. They all knew exactly what they were to do at
that appropriate time and as they needed more direction He would give it to them. It is His timing and not ours. He knows best.
We can think
“Well, why doesn’t He tell me everything at once so I could stop the
wondering?” Just think about this; If He
told you that your child was going to die in 6 years in a car accident and
after that He was going to use you as an advocate against texting while driving
how do you think that would work out for you.
I think it would make you a basket case.
We are not mentally capable and emotionally able to know all God has
planned for us. We need to mature
spiritually to understand His plans. We
are just babes.
But jsut because we are babes in our faith in
no way means you should not be hearing from God. In fact if you are not getting clear
instruction from God then you need to pray and wait. It is not always about the doing, for God
is more interested in a relationship with you than what you can do for
Him. He maybe holding back so you will
seek Him more? Are you finding time in
your day to pray, read scripture, spend time with your church family?
God is working right where you are. The fact that you are not seeing it is
because you are not spending enough time with Him.
Amos 3:7
“Surely the
Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the
prophets.”
Is Your
relationship with Him as close as He would like it to be? Maybe the situation is you do not
want it to be to close. Maybe you feel
un-worthy, You tell yourself I cannot get close to God because HE does not want
to get close to me.
But “His Goal is
to reveal Himself to people so as to draw them into this relationship. He does not wait around to help us achieve
our goals for Him. He comes to
accomplish His own goals through us – in His own ways.”
Our ways
may seem good and we can accomplish things we think God wants for us to do. BUT in doing so, God’s mighty power will not
be revealed. So that means He will not be revealed. To which we can conclude that since God was
not revealed to others then it must not have been His plan!
So how do you know if God is speaking to you?
You will
know if it is God who is speaking to you when;
·
He
reveals Himself
·
He
reveals His purpose and what He is about to do.
·
He
reveals his ways and he wants me to have faith to believe He can do what he
says.
But the reality of ever being in a very real and personal relationship with God and know without a doubt He has spoken to you will not happen until you can honestly say;
“ If all I have is God I will be totally
satisfied. I do not need anything else
in this world except Him.”
The first and greatest commandment “Love the Lord with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
God knows that it takes time to mature to such a level of
obedience but the desire to have this type of relationship should never. God sees your heart. He knows you make mistakes and have to
continue to grow spiritually, so do not let that get you down. Spend time with Him. He will reveal himself to you because that is
what He wants to do. HE wants a loving
relationship with you.
Join Him today. Spend
time alone with Him today. Have faith
that whatever He shows you He is about to do that He will accomplish it. Then be obey and make adjustments in your
life so you can be apart of this great plan he has for you.
