STOP!

Recently (just in the last couple of weeks) I was seeking direction from God about several pressing issues.  I was pleading for an answer from Him and was getting desperate that I was not hearing His voice.  In my pleading and crying out to Him, I finally fell silent to wait again for His Word to me........and it came!  One Word!  That word was "Stop."  Now I had a real dilema.  What was "Stop" supposed to mean anyway?  How did this apply to the questions I was asking?

Over the next few days, the fullness of what He was saying to me began to unfold.  Every so often I would get (and am still getting) a second word to go with "Stop."  Words like "complaining" and "begging" and "worrying."  Other words came too like "forgetting", "disobeying" and "wasting."

As I meditated on what He was (and wasn't!) saying to me it began to be clear that He isn't willing to do for me what He expects me to do for myself.  If I spend my time arguing with Him and others, that is time that I am not spending in simple faith.  If I am complaining to Him or to others, it's more of the same.  In fact complaining and worrying are opposites of trusting and believing!

He has ALREADY told me what to do in His Word so why does He need to tell me in some special way what He has already said?  My job...and your's...is to know His Word and thus to know His Will.  So....what is the conclusion here?  Don't stop asking, don't stop believing, don't stop expecting, but do so in the confidence of His revealed Word for YOU.  Trusting God means there are no shortcuts, only suddenlies!

More on this topic later.  Let me know if these messages are a help to you.