IF YOU THINK you’ve blown God’s plan for your life, you’re mistaken because you are not strong enough to do so.
HIS PLAN extends beyond you and puts you where you belong. It transcends your reasoning.
His ways are not your ways neither his thoughts are your thoughts. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are his thoughts higher than yours (Isaiah 55:8-9).
WHEN GOD has you, he redirects your walk to ensure you fulfil his purpose.
He incorporates your mistakes into his plan and reorders your steps to do His Will.
You need to understand God.
PAUL of TARSUS misunderstood God when he went around persecuting Christians thinking he was doing the work of God (Acts 8).
So it's possible to think that you're doing the work of God. Meanwhile, you're doing the work of the devil.
But one day on his way to Damascus, he saw a bright light shining from heaven. He heard a voice saying: Why are you persecuting Me? ( Acts 9:1-22)
God in his mercy interrupted his life and redirected his movement to walk in His Will.
That pain you’re having may be God calling your attention to something. The situation you are facing can be God shifting your focus.
Do not help God.
AT DIFFERENT TIMES in Abraham and Sarah’s lives, God called their attention to something.
After Abraham and Lot parted ways, God told him: Walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you (Gen. 13:17)
Abraham and Sarah had walked in God’s Will for some time until they acted out of character. They opted to have a child through Hagar (Gen. 16:1-13).
When the child was born, there arose a contention between Sarah and her maid, Hagar.
God also added pain to the promise when he told him to circumcise every male in his house (Gen. 17:1 & 9).
He taught Abraham how to walk in submission and not desperation. He taught him how to wait.
If you are going to walk with God, you must make no pact with the Enemy.
WHEN DAVID left his camp unguarded and went to make a pact with the enemy, he bungled everything (1 Sam. 29 & 30).
He returned to see Ziklag plundered and the women and children taken as prisoners. And his men thought of stoning him.
Then he cried out, and God told David to pursue, overtake, and recover all (1 Sam. 30:8).
God will tell you what to do when you retrace your steps. He will make a way of escape when you turn to Him.
The fact that God allows you to have something does not mean you are walking in His Will
Seek the counsel of God.
ELIMELEK and NAOMI missed it when they left Bethlehem during a famine. They lost Elimelek and his two sons (Ruth 1:3-21).
They got to the end of themselves.
However, when Naomi and Ruth returned, God gave them a second chance at life.
God knows all things, and he sees all things.
GOD KNEW that Samuel would be old. He knew a day would come when Israel asked for a king.
So when they asked for one, God said: "They hadn't rejected Samuel; they had rejected Him."
They are doing what they've done since they left Egypt—leaving me and serving other gods (1 Sam. 8:7-8).
But God gave them Saul to rule over them.
Seek God’s Will
THE FACT that God allows you to have something does not mean you’re walking in his Will.
Some people believe that God has two Wills — perfect Will and permissive Will.
But that is not true. God has only one Will and that will is perfect.
Ephesians 5:17 says, Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s Will is.
GOD’s WILL for your life is first the posture of your heart — and this is how to get it right.
Do not allow this world to mold you in its image. Instead, be transformed from the inside out by renewing your mind.
As a result, you will be able to discern what God wills and whatever God finds good, pleasing, and complete (Romans 12:2).
Final Thoughts
THE SHORTEST ROUTE to fear is disobedience to God. Obedience is the route to joy.
Choose obedience today!
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