25. August 2008 by GBS.

It now looks as if being here is a monthly affair. Please bear with me for now cos that is not the case.
It has been a wao period for me. For a while now I have been struggling with a decision and I have been wondering………..Why is this not right? What exactly is the way to go? Why is the direction I want to head not the will of God for me for the now?
I had all the signals the time was not right but I was bent on doing what I wanted to do because I thought I was doing it for the right reasons……….Let me be a bit more specific so we can all gain from the experience.
Like you all know I work in KPMG and it has been a big struggle combining my work with any other aspects of my life that I care about e.g. my walk with God, my family comprising of my hubby, son and siblings, serving in the household of God in the unit I felt led to join, etc. My health was also affected up to the extent that I had to undergo some medical procedures to regain my normal health. This is because I have had to work extremely long hours. For me I thought the right thing for me to do was to just leave and then trust that God will make a way for me even though I was yet to get another job so I can continue to support my husband financially. I had applied consistently and vigorously for about a year but nothing was forthcoming which I eventually took to be the hand of God at work to keep me in the right track.
Each time I thought about my decision, I lost my peace and I knew there was something wrong but I could not place it. I still decided to leave but after I did notify my employer of my intention God started to minister to me that He does not define our righteousness by our works, but by our faith in Jesus. He taught me that we can only feel inner peace when we obey the voice of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, our utmost goal should always be to work our schedule around God and see Him make everything fall in place. A decision may seem to be the right one at the moment because we see only the now but God knows the future and He keeps preparing us for the best that is to come and that is why our now is the way it is. I also learnt that God will rather require that we trust our ways unto His hands by prayers and see Him work it out instead of being desperate to help Him achieve His purpose. It has not been an easy decision for me but I have decided to give God the final say about every step I have to take. Joseph was a slave in Potiphar’s house and then in the prison for a time before God took him to the palace. Even his scheme of talking to the Pharaoh’s chief cupbearer to talk to Pharaoh about him did not hasten the hand of God to perform his deliverance as the cupbearer forgot about him the moment he left the prison.
What has God been saying to you? What is His priority or will for you for the now? Are you walking in it? It may not seem like the right thing to do but if it is His will then that is THE WAY. Fall in line with His will today and I can assure you that your life will never remain the same again.
You are blessed as you walk this walk along with Him!

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26. July 2008 by GBS.

Hi there!

It’s been such a long while. I have been away because I had been battling with a decision that I was not sure whether it was time for or not……………..Hmn it has been a very revealing time for me learning that God’s ways are not our ways. Our God is faithful. I think I will save that for my next post.

How has your walk with God been? Do you hear from him? As children of God we sometimes find it difficult to hear God. Not because he is not speaking but because we decide to be far from him by ignoring his communication.

We are able to understand our friend’s, hubby’s, kid’s, etc communication with us because we have taken the time to understand them, their feelings and methods of communing with us. The same way we learn to hear our husbands, kids, friends and family so also we need to develop our communication with God. Like we were taught in Sunday school those days, prayer is meant to be a communication i.e. a 2 way thing. I also confirmed from the dictionary that other words with the same meaning as communication are interaction and exchange of ideas. Therefore prayer is you talking to God and God also talking back to you. You discussing and consulting Him and He filling you back with divine ideas, comfort, love and every message you need for your every day living. Isn’t that great?

My question then is: How do you pray?

Do you give God the chance to talk to and with you or do you just rattle out your concerns to him since He just has to fix them as His word says?

Do you know what his plans are for you?

Do you care to find out what makes him tick on a day to day basis?

Do you care to find out how you can be of help to him?

Do you care to know if you have hurt him?

Do you care to know if he needs you badly to help fix something?

Do you care to ask Him to know what will make Him happy so you can do it?

God has his needs that can only be met by you……………………….He created you for that purpose and He is waiting on you to get the line by line directional map of what to do and how to do it. He needs you to make His Kingdom come here on earth so give him a chance to talk to you.

Like a friend you can see, he misses you when you have been away for a while and it hurts that even when you are back all you want to do is ask and then leave without hearing from Him.

Give the Father a chance to speak and I’m sure your life will never remain the same again.

You are blessed.

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