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God
didn’t design you to go through life on your own ingenuity and power - you
don’t have to just hope you can figure things out - God wants to lead you on
the right path, and He will when you surrender to Him and His guidance
BY RICK
WARREN
“Your road led through the sea,
your pathway through the mighty waters — a pathway no one knew was there!” (Psalm 77:19 NLT).
God can use impressions to speak to you.
He can use circumstances.
He can even use pain.
He can use whatever he wants to use.
Oswald Chambers said, “God is the
Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of
divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.”
The Bible says God actively works through our circumstances. And
so, we cannot judge our situation apart from God’s wisdom.
In other words, we must leave it up to God to interpret our
circumstances.
Only he is capable of understanding all the facts, and only he
sees the significance of every detail.
That’s why it is so important that we test it all by his Word.
If you feel overwhelmed or confused about a decision, you might
be caught up in yourself and not God’s voice.
The Bible says, “God is not a God of disorder
but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33 NIV).
He is not the author of confusion.
So many times we come up against enormous financial, spiritual,
or physical barriers.
That’s when we need to confess, “God,
there are mountains on either side and an impassable barrier in front of me.”
And then we wait for God to respond: “I’ve
got you exactly where I want you to be. Watch this.”
God will make a pathway where there seems to be no way.
Psalm 77:19 says, “Your road led through the sea,
your pathway through the mighty waters — a pathway no one knew was
there!” (NLT).
When you don’t know what to do, God will guide you.
God wants to lead you on the right path, and he will when you
surrender to him and his guidance.
· When you’re frustrated because God doesn’t seem to be answering
your prayer for guidance, what do you think he wants you to do? What have you
learned through those kinds of experiences in the past?
· How has God used your pain to show you his purpose for your
life?
· Why do you think God lets us get to the point where there seems
to be no way out of a difficult circumstance?
Richard
Duane Warren
is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and
senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch affiliated with
the Southern Baptist Convention in Lake Forest, California, that is the
sixth-largest megachurch in the United States.
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