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The Highway of Heeding
In the past I have not understood the Lord’s direction for me so I refused to heed it. There is a great need for me to understand why I am going into a directions I cannot see the need to go.
You see, I am a bit of a freak when it comes to knowing something. Mystery belongs in a one hour show not a lifetime of serving. I want to know where I am going and how I am getting there.
The Holy Unknown
As I was chasing my Upward Call of God my biggest frustration was the Holy Unknown. The mystery that loomed before me was not something I could accept. The Lord’s lack of future revelation for my ministry was a hindrance to me chasing it.
I eventually learned that if I was obedient to the Lord today, my future followers will benefit from it and so would I. The Holy Unknown, that made me uncomfortable, began to make me comfortable.
Me Following Helped my Following
When I started to heed the Lord’s direction, for this minute, it began to lead me into the Holy Unknown. The place where I follow Jesus and begin to understand the why.
Why am I going this way?
For you and your followers.
Why am I climbing this hill?
For you and your followers.
Why am I parked here?
For you and your followers.
Why is this wall here?
For you and your followers.
Why do I keep falling in this same pit?
For you and your followers.
Every time I asked a question about my Divine Direction the answer was vague but got clearer as I obeyed. For 10 years now I have devoted my life to following the Lord’s direction for me and my ministry. It has finally been revealed to me who my followers are and what they are following me to accomplish.
Years is the more common time frame for obedience and understanding so don’t get discouraged about how long it is taking you.
Time is not the answer to all of your why’s. “Follow Me” is the answer to all of your why’s.
Just as I have learned to heed the Lord’s direction by heeding His direction so must all women called to make a ministry heed the Lord’s direction. In doing that your Upward Call will meet His people where they are and do what it is meant to do.
Meet me in Midlife Ministry Makers this week to dive deep for diving direction into how to heed the Lord’s direction so you can meet your followers where they are.
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Reasonable Service
It is ironic that our reasonable service to God is to present our bodies as a living sacrifice when we cannot even find the strength to sacrifice a cookie. Jesus wants us to see, we are worth far more than that cookie. Our eyes long for stuff we shouldn’t have yet we let our eye have what it longs for. Salvation doesn’t come from a cookie or whatever our eye longs for. It comes by the grace of God as a gift. Given to us before we are born. We are marked out for salvation. This is something the devil prowls around stealing. What he steals most is the helmet of salvation we are supposed to wear every day, so your mind can wander freely into the world. He wants us to get our minds off of the things of heaven and put them into the things of the world. BUT God will give your eyes understanding and enlighten you with the hope of His calling for your life.
You are chosen by God to be who you are right now and do what you should do right now. The more you understand the more you will praise God and the more you will discover all of those who belong in your nation, the Kingdom of God. You will have people reigning over you appointed by God but the Lord reigns over all of them including you. Peace will come knowing He is in complete control even over the government. The government has what they need. We have what we need because the all sufficient God reigns. His sufficiency gives us life and we are to give life to others by allowing our God to reign.
Your Biblical Direction: Look around you to see all the people that God is moving into place, so you will have what you need and understand what you will understand. God will open the eyes of your understanding when you ask. He wants that you understand everything He is doing. Look and see Him in everything, good and bad, lovely and sorrowful, it all is from God just for you.
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