When you go to G-d to seek direction, which of the following requests is most like what you ask?

___ Lord, what do you want me to do? When do you want me to do it? How should I do it? Where shall I do it? Who do you want me to involve along the way? 

___ Lord, just tell me what to do one step at a time, and I will do it.

We are always asking G-d for a detailed “road map.” In effect what we are really saying is “Lord, if You would just tell me where I am heading, then I will be able to get started and use my talents to help You along the way.”  But G-d says, “What you need to do is follow Me one day at a time.” When you get to the place where you trust G-d to guide you one step at a time, you experience a new freedom. 

What would make it hard for you to start a job for G-d if you didn’t know what the outcome was supposed to be?

Read about the call on Abram’s life and underline where he was to go and what he was to do. Notice how much detail he was given before he was asked to go.

Gen.12:1-5 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you." I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."  So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran .  He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot , all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran , and they set out for the land of Canaan , and they arrived there.

What did G-d say? “Leave” and “Go.”  Go where? “To a land I will show you.” Abram, who was later renamed Abraham was called a “friend” by G-d. What an honor!

It is really simple, but not always easy. Just do what G-d tells you and your life becomes VERY much easier, with far less stress. Why? The G-d who sees all and knows all, loves you and wants to use your life for His glory. You no longer need to figure out what you are supposed to do! 

Will you let Him direct your life by just saying one simple Hebrew word, “Heneni”? (Here am I).

Does the prospect of this scare you? If it does, why?

Since I personally learned to really trust Him and release the way to Him, I can now take care of everything He gives me to do, one day at a time. And believe me, every day is full. But when I am in the center of His will everything just seems to work out great!  Let’s see how Moses did before he learned to fully trust G-d.

Exodus 3:10-13 Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh . You will lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt . "  "But who am I to appear before Pharaoh?" Moses asked G-d . "How can you expect me to lead the Israelites out of Egypt ?" Then G-d told him, "I will be with you . And this will serve as proof that I have sent you: When you have brought the Israelites out of Egypt , you will return here to worship G-d at this very mountain . " But Moses protested, "If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, 'The G-d of your ancestors has sent me to you,' they won't believe me . They will ask, 'Which god are you talking about? What is his name?' 

Exodus 4:1 But Moses protested again, "Look, they won't believe me! They won't do what I tell them. They'll just say, 'The LORD never appeared to you.'" 

Exodus 4:10-13 But Moses pleaded with the LORD, "O Lord, I'm just not a good speaker. I never have been, and I'm not now, even after you have spoken to me. I'm clumsy with words."  "Who makes mouths?" the LORD asked him. "Who makes people so they can speak or not speak, hear or not hear, see or not see? Is it not I, the LORD? 

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