Hallelujah Devotion – 5. The GUIDANCE of God
WE need the guidance of God every day, but do we truly focus to ASK for it?
As we experience the different obstacles, situations & challenges we often just go ahead without humbling ourselves in true dependency upon His lead. We often just do the next logic thing.
What if He had something to say, but we didn’t made the effort to ask intentionally?
We will sometimes just assume He will be there in any case. And yes, the Holy Spirit is with us all the way. But when we stop, right there in our tracks and pray specifically, the testimony of an answered prayer brings much glory to God & a great testimony to share with our fellow man.
Our walk with God & His walk with us implicate much needed SEEKING of Him in our daily lives. Our metaphoric ‘standing’ before Him in reverence & in kneeling before Him in utter dependence moves us to receive His wisdom. But He wants us to ask for it.
As we draw near in prayer at the feet of God, the preparation of our heart takes place. Our heart is here positioned & equipped in the strength & power of the Holy Spirit. He leads us with His Truth to instruct us & tell us about the things that is to come. Those things that He knows we will face tomorrow.
BUT, we have to make an effort not to only “just pray” as usual.
BUT to ASK with intention for His intervention & guidance. To pray with expectation.
And THEN..
As we acknowledge our need of Christ’s righteousness to position us aright before a Holy God the whole picture comes together. Our “footsteps become ordered by the Lord” and “He delights in our way”. (Ps37:23) At the feet of God we come to bow in an attitude of submission. And when we ask of Him to lead us on… It brings Him honour. For He truly delight in our seeking of HIm.
As we follow after Him, His footsteps will become the path on which we can walk to know that
He is leading us every step of the way. (Ps85:13)
SCRIPTURES:
Psa119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
Joh16:13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
Isa45:11 Thus says the LORD, The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.
Isa58:2 Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God.
Mat7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Last thought for ENCOURAGEMENT:
HE want us to ask intentionally & with expectancy that the Father may be glorified. It is not always about us. It is about His glory through our dependency, our need for guidance that it can realize for His glory.
Joh14:13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
PRAYER:
Father, we come to seek You; to encounter YOU & Your glory in the process.
We come to ask You for guidance and specific direction for each situation. We thank you that as we draw near Your Spirit will make a way in the wilderness,… guiding as we ask.
We ask that You will remind us continuously that Your guidance, wisdom and involvement is intentional to also bring You the glory & honour that You deserve.
Amen & amen