"What's Next?" (pt.2)

How can I know I am making the right decision?

Now that you are certain that God has a plan and a purpose for you, how do you get to finding it out?

I tell God all the time, “God, you have the plan in front of you, I do not know anything, so I’m going to need you to literally SHOW ME the way to go”. I have no way of guessing what program God wants me into or what job offer he wants me to take… but thank God I can ask Him!  

First off, it’s important you have that time with God where you ask Him what His purpose for your life is. You cannot make a move without asking God that question! It’s like being a trumpet player in an orchestra trying to play a note without having the leader telling you which one to play and then showing you how to play it. It’s like dude, what are you doing? You are not the lead nor the boss here. Ask God, it is very simple! Secondly, we must also be ready to listen!!! A lot of us probably will not like what we hear, especially if you’ve been going the WRONG WAY this whole time. You may have taken all the prerequisites to become a doctor but then God goes and tells you to go into marketing… You need to go before God with humility and ready to trust what it is He will reveal.

It is one thing to ask but a WHOLE DIFFERENT THING to LISTEN.

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me” John 10:27.

Those who know God will follow Him. Where He leads, they will follow. And by ‘knowing’ I mean, they know Him. If you know God, you essentially know without a doubt that He is first of all, faithful and true and knows all things and most importantly, that He has a plan for you just as He has promised in Jeremiah 29:11 and that it is a good plan. 

But if you do not seek God to find out which way to go, you will experience a lot of failures and oppositions and you will lose everything! Because we all know, nothing is secure if it is not in the hands of God. One thing that is important to remember though, that even though you know you are following the will of God, it does not mean things will not go bad… in fact things will go very bad I promise you that!… BUT… because you followed Christ there and He led you to where you are, you can ALWAYS call on Him and use it as leverage and say “God, you brought me here… I did not bring myself here, but you did, and that is why I know that you will bring me through it!” So the only difference between following your own path vs. following God’s is that there isn’t much God can do for you when you put yourself in a situation… what YOU will need to do though is, retrace your steps back to Him.

For others like me, who have asked God what their purpose is, and who know they are on the right path but can see the road coming to a dead end ahead, and who still do not know whether they will have to make a right turn or a left turn in order to continue the journey … keep praying. You won’t find your answers on the web or by staying away from God…

To get to know someone you need to spend time with them correct? The same works with God. It’s communication that will make the relationship stronger and you will start finding out things about Him you did not know before. If you do not communicate with God, how do you expect to know Him and hear Him when He speaks? In order to hear God’s voice, you sometimes need to move in real, real, real close to him and be very still and quiet in order to hear your next instructions. So brother and sister, if that's you right now I encourage you to move in closer, run faster, dive deeper, seek harder… do anything you need to do to be close to Him and once you do get your next instructions ACT ON THEM.

Don’t look at your circumstance. Whatever God tells you, it may seem impossible but it's not your job to figure out how things will work out, you need to just keep walking by faith and not by sight. Even when you do not see any other path ahead, you must always remember the kind of God we serve? Is He not the one who makes a way out of no way!!!???

Whenever I’m driving and someone is shooting me instructions, I like it when they tell me ahead of time when I need to make a right or a left turn… you know, just so I can prepare and make sure the path is clear… but do you know, God does not need to let you know ahead of time when to steer left or right, because whenever He does tell you to make that right or left turn, it DOES NOT MATTER WHOEVER IS IN YOUR BLIDSPOT, He will remove them to make room for you, because when God says it is time to move… you can move!

“Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life”.

Isaiah 43:4 (NKJV)

“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 1:6 (NIV)

By: Vicky (Vessel Speaker)