next step

So all yesterday I spent in prayer (minus about 3 hours I managed to get sidetracked…) seeking God’s desire for my wife and I and where we should go once our lease is up here. Should we go to Redding for the school of ministry there or should we remain here and allow God to continue moving as He has? He didn’t really give me a response… and I was beginning to think it may be one of those things He really doesn’t care about. Not that He doesn’t care as much as He is going to do what He’s going to with us regardless of where we are. I kept thinking about Paul also and how he spoke of his training from Christ directly and how he didn’t need to confer with the other apostles. I really get the feeling that God is just going to let me make the choice (giving me responsibility… ha!) I tell you it is a lot easier when He just tells you what to do.

My wife was praying today asking God about a country to have a burden for that we can begin some missionary trips to and join with a group that is there on a permanent basis so we can come alongside them. God told her “Didn’t I tell you I’d send you to the NATIONS?” lol just wanted to brag on my wife a bit. She is being taught right now to think bigger than she currently does. It’s exciting to watch her growth process also.

So in my reading yesterday I was reminded that we often think of great things we wish to do for God. And that if we focus on those at the cost of the small things we are able to do right now we will only be losing out on what God truly wants from us. Instead we should “set out hand to the work which lies nearest to us,” and that we make the mistake of not serving our Lord in the ways within our power and “rest content with having desired the impossible.” This is a hard revelation to take in especially with work and those who I should be showing love to but instead I neglect and ignore… that being said it is only in starting with this foundation that we will be considered worthy to do those more grand things which are in our hearts.