"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will
guide you with My eye." Psalm 32:8
Dr. Charles Stanley shares some practical advice about God's leading and
guiding in our lives:
"In seeking the Lord's guidance, we must be careful to watch for
pitfalls along our paths. Strong fleshly desires, wrong counsel,
impatience, doubt, and pressures are all snares that will leave us with
less than God's best if we cave in to their temptation. These reasons
are why there are certain essentials to seeking God's guidance:
* Cleansing: Sin inhibits not your relationship with God, but your
fellowship. If you are a believer, your relationship is secure. But
constant sin will impede your fellowship with God, and He will not act
until you walk away from the sin.
* Surrendering: God loves you and wants your best. So why not
believe Him, let go of the worldly trappings you may hold so dear, and
step out in faith?
* Asking: James said that we don't have because we don't ask or
because our requests are made with wrong motives. Our heavenly Father is
often just waiting for us to simply ask with a pure heart.
* Meditating: How often do you make decisions intentionally
seeking God's promises in His Word and meditating over them?
* Believing: To believe is to trust and obey. His Word says that
whoever has His commands and obeys them is the one who loves Him.
* Waiting: This is difficult. But it is also when the Lord does
His best work as the sculptor of our souls.
>From PATHWAYS TO HIS PRESENCE by Dr. Charles F. Stanley and published by
Nelson Books
Seeking God's guidance for your life? Then hopefully these practical
insights will help you do so victoriously.
Great Quote: Afraid? Of what? To feel the spirit's glad release? To pass
from pain to perfect peace, the strife and strain of life to cease?
Afraid of what? --- Afraid? Of what? Afraid to see the Savior's face, to
hear His welcome, and to trace the Glory - Gleam from wounds of Grace?
Afraid of that?? Afraid? Of what? A flash - a crash - a pierced heart;
darkness - light - O Heaven's art! A wound of His counterpart! Afraid of
that? --- Afraid? Of what? To enter Heaven's Rest, and yet to serve the
Master blest, from service good to service best? Afraid of that??
Afraid? Of what? To do by death what life could not -- Baptize with
death a stony plot, till souls shall blossom from that spot? Afraid of
that??
E. H. Hamilton
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