What is God telling you to do?  Most of the time when I am listening to someone tell their story they claim that they do not know God’s Will for their lives.  They are generally surprised when I challenge this idea and remind them that the Bible says that everyone knows the truth that is God.  I often say that I am willing to bet that they know what the Lord wants them to do they just were holding out for another answer.  Are the voices of your own intention or the world, or perhaps even more nefarious ideas winning over through whispering alternate ideas in your ear?  Are you digging deeper into the relationship with God?  Searching the Bible for indications of his command for your life?  Are you praying and then listening for the answers from the Mouth of God?  Remember prayer is a two way line of communication, sometimes we may be guilty of throwing requests at God and never patiently waiting for His Small Quiet Voice in reply.

Okay, now that you have heard or established that the Lord has spoken to you about what He wants from you, what are you going to do about it?  Ignore the direction, reply with enthusiasm then do nothing or simply comply and take the steps forward necessary to receiving God’s provision for your ministry?  Yes, there are other options some involve begrudgingly doing what he wanted you to do. Or perhaps you are going about your own plan hoping that somehow God will overlook that fact or simply justify your unwillingness to follow directions?  Which one correctly characterizes your walk?

What then of the implications of your choice regarding God’s direction?  If you are going to demonstrate an unwillingness to follow His commands should there be consequence, even to the dissolution of two way communications with the Lord?  You know that often occurs, when you won’t hear the thing God is telling he will stop telling you.  That idea frightens me worse than anything else because then I am left to my own inadequate understanding and power within this world and the spiritual battlefield.  The Lord disciplines those whom he loves.  Do you expect that your name might be in this category for not listening to His direction?  Are you playing the victim in your own plan because God wants something else from you entirely?  The truth cleanses so it’s meant to hurt.

I pray that you continue to reach out to the Lord without doubt without limitation.  I pray that you are inclined to listen and desire that small quiet voice in your heart.  I pray that you immediately respond and demonstrate your enormous love for God by actively participating in His plan for your life by doing what He told you to do.  I pray that this brings you into a new place in your sanctified life where everything begins to take shape and converge.  I pray for you a new and fresh understanding of the authority and sovereignty of Almighty God and the potency of the free will choices He gives us.  I pray that the Lord protect your heart, mind and health this and everyday of this lifetime.  I pray that you are taking advantage to prepare for your coming life in eternity.  In Jesus’ Name.