God Often Leads, Where There is Need!

In most cases people live from day to day, not knowing where life will lead them. But there are others who have become aware of patterns in their life, and have since become content with its direction. God often leads us where there is need. If you have chosen to partner with your Creator, who by the way had an original and intended purpose for your existence, He will lead you to the best place in which you can be used to satisfy a need. If you listen and pay attention closely; or even just look back over your lives, you will discover that when you were attuned to God, your transitions have been directly connected to the need in someone’s life. It’s not that where you were headed was bad, and you very well could have chosen that route. But somewhere in the course of your efforts in obedience to righteousness, you heeded the call from within, that there is another way I can go and the need for me there is greater. Wow, what a charge, what a call, to actually be needed. Many of us desire to be needed. But if we look at our lives, and our lives are in agreement with God, we will discover that where we are right now is directly related to need. You are on that job because there is a need. You are in that marriage because there is a need. God gave you that child because you were best suited for that need. Don’t let anyone tell you that you are not needed. The poster of old used to say Uncle Sam Wants You! But the poster I’m posting today is that God NEEDS You! In the truest sense God doesn’t need anything, but He wills to use what He has created, for His purposes can not fail. God can not create something for which it does not work. This is why we know it is true that God is at work in all things for the good of those who love the Lord and are THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. It has to work out for good. His purposes never fail. So my word to encourage you today is to fear not! Heed the leading and prompting of the Holy Spirit. Don’t fight the change; God is leading you to another need. Once you adequately supply a need, then you must move on to the next assignment. Hallelujah, someone ought to recognize their “Next Assignment”. Full steam ahead and adjust the rudders; hoist the main…God is calling me to another need, for which only I am best equipped. Pray this prayer with me right now. “Lead me Father to the place you desire for my life. I submit today, in Jesus Name!”

And everyone said…AMEN!

Why be encouraged?

Because you are alive! You could be in a hospital bed facing death. You have a computer with internet access, hundreds, even thousands don’t have computers. You can read. Many are illiterate and struggle just to understand their mail. Ultimately things will work out for good to those who love the Lord. Oh yea, baby, He is going to put it all in perspective. Justice will be served. But for now, just knowing that, doesn’t always feel as comforting. Well let me let you in on a little secret. The God of the entire universe cares about you. He is thinking about you every minute of each day (how many times a day do we think of Him???). He has not come to destroy us, but to heal us, of this dreadful existence with sin. Even I at times grow weary. Just last night I cried out to God saying Lord, if you care about me at all, just say something, send a sign or something. Within minutes I got a text from a person I call my personal angel, and the text said “Just thinking of you, (God Is With Us)”. I replied saying, “Are you my sign, did God tell you to think of me?” The reply was, “Know it! Believe It! You see my friend, I believe this was God’s way of saying I care, even though He didn’t have to respond, sometimes He does, simply because He cares. So be encouraged beloved, the day of our King is coming. The day of our salvation is upon us. Walk in His grace and know that no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper!

C

Truth is eternal movement forward, not a circle…

There are so many thoughts and ideas circulating, one could find themselves changing their mind and direction constantly. Though there are many suggestive proclamations and promises, there is only one truth. We as Believers, citizens and humans, must make a commitment to developing an eye, ear and heart for the truth. Some believe there are no absolutes. However, there must be one thing that remains constant; otherwise, we are all doomed to a cyclical pattern that amounts to meaningless actions. In other words, things just repeat themselves until they find their beginning again. I will be the first to admit that I enjoy starting things from the beginning, but not the same things again and again and again. But as I live, I continue to discover, that truth, once truly discovered is meaningfull, and stable and substantive. It seems to point toward a place far beyond a cyclical repetitive motion. It leads us somewhere. It takes us to a place within ourselves, and outside of ourselves that ebbs us toward things like patience, kindness, love, forgiveness, activism, change, etc. There are semblances of truth, and at times it seems easier to follow the semblances rather than being committed to the task of discovering the whole truth. The great deception of life is not often found in the outright lies or falsities of life, but rather in the things that have just enough truth to get you to believe it. It is when we believe it, that we begin to go astray. The quest for truth however, can be costly. It doesn’t hide, nor is it intentionally being evasive, but rather it is right upon us. To discover truth, one has to become vulnerable, make sacrifices, take risks to see if it pans out to be what it says it is. Who wants life with all that risk? Many would rather let others write about truth and just take their word for it and live life on the safe side. This is why many church goers simply accept what the teacher says, without confirming it as truth through further personal study and research. Consequently, when things go wrong in life, who do they blame??? The person they committed to follow! We must not be accepters only; we must be diligent searchers and doers of truth as well. While there is no guarantee, that once you begin to discover and develop discernment for truth, that life gets increasingly better for you; there is a guarantee that truth will lead you to freedom. Freedom is a place to live with your choices without regret. Truth takes you places you may not want to go before you get to the place it intends for us all. It lets you see pain so you can respect it, not fear it. It lets you experience losses so you can appreciate life not sorrow in it. It lets you see poverty so you’ll be moved to add to society, not take from it. Truth can be a temporary immobilizer. It will cause you to pause and ask the meaning of yours and other’s existence. Does life really matter anyway? Of course it does, but it matters because of a truth spoken years and years ago. That God created man in His image. God is Truth, hence we must conclude that life matters as we embrace the truth. I encourage you to develop your senses toward the truth, not the half lies, and hopefully as many of us as possible will arrive to that place of unity, respect, love, honor, significance and peace.

Love every man…