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Suppose
you sense the call of God to do a task. You set
about to do it and then everything just goes terribly
wrong. Often people will tell you, “Well,
I guess that just was not God’s will.”
Remember that God calls you to a relationship
with Himself as an important part of the assignment.
It is too easy for us to just focus on the task,
and not on the relationship. Then we start following
our own reasoning...to start doing the task
the way we think it should be done...only to
find that nothing is working right...there are
road-blocks everywhere! This is a warning to
us that we have left the relationship and have
taken the task into our own hands. This is a
big mistake!
When this happens to you...when you begin to
follow in the best way you know how, and then
the door of opportunity seems to close, go back
to the Lord and clarify what God said to you.
When you seem to be going down a dead-end road,
do not totally stop doing what you think God
has said to you....do not give up...but review
very carefully what God has said. How do you
do this?
 Carefully review what God said and identify
what you may have “added”
to what He said. Pray about it.
Keep the part that God gave you and
remove the part that you added.
Let God work out the details in His
timing.
Do all that you know how to do.
Then wait on the Lord until He tells
you what to do next. Abide in your relationship
with Him.
You
may be saying, “God, hurry up and give me
a big assignment”. If God does not seem
to be giving you a new big assignment, you may
want to ask yourself these questions:
Am I doing all that God already is leading
me to do? Even the little things?
Have I obeyed those things that I already
know are God’s will?
Do I really believe God will always
do what is best and right?
Am I willing to wait patiently on His
timing and obey everything I know to
do in the meantime?
Grass
that is here today and gone tomorrow does not
require much time to mature. A big oak tree that
lasts for generations requires much more time
to grow and mature. God is concerned about your
life through eternity. Allow Him to take all the
time He needs to shape you for His purposes. Larger
assignments will require longer periods of preparation.
God will take all the time He needs to prepare
you for His assignments.
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