God’s Initiatives

Now the Lord had said to Abram, “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.” Genesis 12:1

The most dramatic changes in your life will come from God’s initiative, not yours. The people God used mightily in Scripture were all ordinary people to whom He gave divine assignments that they never could have initiated.

The Lord often took them by surprise, for they were not seeking significant mandates from God. Even so, He saw their hearts, and He knew they were trustworthy. The Lord spoke to Abram when He was beginning to build a nation dedicated to His purposes.

Through this nation would come the Savior. God appeared to Moses at the very time He had purposed to deliver Israel out of slavery in Egypt. God found in Jesse’s youngest son David a godly man who could lead His people. God surprised Mary when He told her she would be the mother of the Messiah. God’s Son selected the twelve disciples, all ordinary, uneducated men, when He was ready to take the good news of His salvation to the world.

Through the ages God has taken the initiative in the everyday lives of people to accomplish things through them that they never could have imagined. The Lord may be initiating some new things in your life. When He tells you what His plans are, trust Him and walk closely with Him.

Don’t let the busyness of your present activity keep you from experiencing all that God has in store for you. You will see Him accomplish things through your life that you never dreamed were possible (Eph. 3:20).

Dr. Richard Blackaby will be speaking at America’s Keswick, July 29-August 3. Check it out: http://www.americaskeswick.org

Blackaby, Richard (2006-12-01). Experiencing God Day By Day (Kindle Locations 3520-3526). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Team YOU: Psalm 40-42; Proverbs 26; Acts 27:1-26

Motivations: When your burden becomes too heavy, when life’s ways become too dark, when the heart is too sore, when you are ready to perish, it is not amiss to pray to God to open the heavens, and through a rift in the sky to shine down into your heart some of the light of the Glory World. Benajah Harvey B. H. Carroll

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Philippians 2:14-15; Level 2: Philippians 2:12-18

Powered Up:  Did not God sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request. Hannah More