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KEYING INTO GOD’S DIVINE DIRECTION

The BUD Family International

JUICY JULY 2023

 

DAY 23

 

THEME: KEYING INTO GOD’S DIVINE DIRECTION

 

TEXT: ISAIAH 42:16; ISAIAH 48:17; ISAIAH 49:10-11

 

BIBLE STUDY: 1 Kings 13:1-33

 

Welcome to Day 24! 

 

The end of the Juicy July 2023 is nearing. 

 

In exactly a week to go, we shall be rounding off! 

 

Oh how great our God has been towards us! 

 

Oh how much rewards our prayers have brought to us. 

 

Oh how much investments Heaven has accorded to our spiritual banks!

 

Oh how much treasures we have all garnered! 

 

It is wonderful to pray! 

 

We have had loads of testimonies already from this programme. Some we have uploaded on the website (Click here) and many others we are yet to upload. You can read them up and be encouraged in your spirits that our God is faithful and that He answers prayers. And as many people have testified, may you also testify even in a greater dimension in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ! 

 

Before we look at what the Lord has for us today, can you just close your eyes and tell the Lord how much you really really really really need Him if you really really really really do?

 

Do you have some confusions around your life? 

 

Are you trying to make some decisions and you don’t know what He’d love you to do? 

 

Are you planning to relocate but you don’t know if that would be His Will? 

 

Have you been in a tremendous dark tunnel not knowing if there’s any light at the end at all? 

 

Wondering when God would speak? 

 

Wondering if He’d answer you at all? 

 

Just close your eyes and tell Him that You really need Him. 

 

Tell Him about those areas where confusion is having a field day in your life. 

 

Tell Him you cannot do without Him. 

 

Tell Him you are tired if you really are. 

 

Express the way you feel exactly to Him.

 

When you are done, you can continue. 

 

Keying into God’s divine direction! 

 

What is Divine Direction?

 

Isaiah 30:21 says: Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.

 

This is divine guidance! 

 

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭32‬:‭8‬ says: “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”

 

This is divine guidance! 

 

It isn’t the President of the US or the Prime Minister of UK that is talking to you, sis.

 

You know, if these people promise you something, you would be so happy that the greatest leaders of two of the most successful countries of the world have spoken. 

 

But hey, the Person we are talking about here is greater than all the presidents, kings, governors of the whole world!!!

 

It is the God of Heaven making this promise to you, sis! 

 

Divine guidance is being directed by God into what to do, when to do it and how to do it. 

 

It is being able to know by the Spirit’s guidance what to say, when to say it and how to say it. 

 

It is understanding the times and the seasons of the Lord and being able to know what our own part is in realizing God’s divine plan in each time and season. 

 

Divine Direction is a choice. It doesn’t happen to all men! 

 

It is intentionally choosing God’s Path! 

 

Intentionally waiting on the Lord to know His path and to follow in it all the way! 

 

To be divinely directed is to follow where God leads.

 

God’s direction is God’s roadmap for an individual or a group of persons. 

 

It is the way of God revealed to men.

 

Psalms 103:7 says: He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel.

 

Being led or guided by God is a necessary key for Christians. 

 

It is the only way to fulfill God’s will in every of our decision-making processes.

 

Without having a concise direction as to where one is going, the probability of getting lost is very high. 

 

Like a proverb or quote will say, “Someone that asks questions cannot get lost”.

 

Even in our day to day activities, we are limited in knowledge. We make use of the internet to find out information and direction. 

 

We check recipes online. 

 

How can I do this? 

 

How do I do that? 

 

We Google it every now and then. 

 

No matter how learned one might be, there is a limit to what one knows! 

 

In the world today, there is a GPS for knowing a location. That is what an Uber driver that you order uses to take you wherever you are going. Even if you need to drive somewhere you do not know, just get the address and input in your phone. The GPS would guide you there! 

 

What of the weather forecast for predicting weather? Oh yes! We make use of it to know what the weather would look like that day so we can be well prepared in our dressing or the ways we prepare our children for the day. 

 

These things are very important and useful to us. But we know that they fail sometimes. 

 

But no matter how useful they are, they can never guide us into joy and peace and peace of mind.

 

God hasn’t given them that liberty! 

 

Those are only found in God alone! 

 

And this is why the most learned person on earth would definitely still be thrown into confusion at some critical points of their lives. 

 

This is why we hear that many intelligent, rich and popular people end their lives. Because they reached a point where the voids in their heart couldn’t be fixed by an man, amorous relationships, alcohol, knowledge, fame and so on. 

 

Only God! 

 

Only God gives the desired peace! 

 

He is the only One that we need! 

 

Sisters, it is important to rely on God who formed you. 

 

Everyday of our life we make decisions on various aspects of our lives. 

 

Who to marry. 

 

Where to school.

 

What course to study. 

 

What to wear.

 

Who needs to be our friend etc. 

 

How beautiful would it be to have God be in total charge of all these areas and more ! 

 

As humans, we lack precise knowledge of where to go, and this therefore makes God’s guidance essential.

 

Following God’s leading prevents frustration in life and helps us to fulfil our destiny.

 

Without divine direction, people tend to rely on their senses, which may lead them astray.

 

Our text, in Isaiah 42:16 says: 

 

And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 

 

We are all blind! 

 

We are in darkness! 

 

The paths before us are crooked! 

 

We need the eyes of God! 

 

We need His voice to tell us where to pass and where not to pass. 

 

We need His divine torch to light our path. 

 

We need him to clear the paths for us. 

 

Oh how great such a life would be! 

 

A life of total reliance on the Lord. 

 

A life that says ‘Ah, Father, I need your eyes today. I don’t even know if this thing is real. Should I commit?’

 

A life that says ‘Ah, Daddy, what road should I pass? Would this still lead me home?’

 

Oh how glorious it is to be totally dependent on God! 

 

How many of you have ever received bad directions?

 

You have asked someone for directions to a particular location and their bad directions have led you astray because their instructions were not clear and concise.

 

Or because they explained as if they were so sure, whereas they were not! 

 

Imagine how you’d feel when you get to where they had described to you and you couldn’t find what they spoke about. 

 

Now imagine you getting to the place and the people say ‘Ah, the place you are going to is just behind the fence of the Police Headquarters at Yaba’

 

And there you were at Police Headquarters, Yaba some hours before you were told that you needed to go to Ibadan because the location had changed! 

 

You would be so confused, frustrated, angry at yourself, right? 

 

Exactly! 

 

This is how terrible relying on ourselves and others is! 

 

Proverbs 16:25 says There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

 

When it comes to your walk with Christ and fulfilling His purposes here on earth, lousy instructions are not good for you!

 

They won’t do you any eternal good! 

 

Only God’s leading and guidance would be earthly and eternal value to you in the long run!

 

We trust the abilities of whoever came up with these apps we use from day to day and trust their abilities! 

 

We trust the data that Google provides us with when we ask it some questions.

 

When people argue with us, we bring our Googled facts and they shush it! 

 

And that brings a finality to the argument! 

 

What about God? 

 

The God that cannot fail! 

 

The God that knows yesterday and today and forever?

 

Shouldn’t we trust and rely on Him more than all these apps and gadgets? 

 

God wants us to completely rely on Him. It doesn’t change anything in God if we don’t but it would do us a whole lot of good if we do. 

 

I am sure you have heard people say they wish to be children because being an adult is stressful.

 

A baby or a toddler does not think on their own. They don’t worry about anything. All they need to do is sleep and wake up and their needs are sorted based on the “limiting” ability of their parents.

 

Regardless of how “adult” we look to the world, we are still children of God. Let us be children indeed!

 

Let’s rest! 

 

Let’s cease being adults before our father!

 

Let’s stop the independence shenanigans before our God!!!!

 

If God has really become a Father to you, you should become a child indeed!

 

Become a baby!

 

A child uses cries to communicate her needs at every given time. 

 

Do the same!

 

You want to change your diapers, cry!

 

You are feeling hot, cry!

 

You need to get married, cry! 

 

You don’t know if you should accept that job or the other, cry!

 

And babies cry till they are carried! 

 

Cry till you are carried! 

 

Babies cry till something happens. 

 

You do the same! 

 

They keep crying till they sight the parent close. 

 

In fact, if the parent only comes, smiles and tries to start going back, they’d intensify the cries. 

 

That is being a child!

 

A totally dependent baby!

 

Quit being a big, eloquent, independent lady before God!

 

God needs you to be needy!

 

You are no bother to Him!

 

He wants to take over all you do!

 

He wants to be responsible for you!

 

I remember that day that I was crying before God and asked:

 

‘Erm God, it feels as though you don’t want me to be married. I keep praying, you keep leading but no man is coming forth. And time keeps going’

 

He told me something that has stayed with me since that time till now and forever. 

 

He called my name 😭 😭 😭 😭 and said:

 

‘Even more than you desire to be married, I want you to be married’

 

‘More than you desire to be led, I want to lead you!’

 

‘More than you want to be given, I want to give you’

 

I just needed to be reassured that He was on my case and just relax!

 

We need to relax and be taken care off, indeed!

 

We have a Father that is not limitless in His love, resources, time etc. 

 

Be the child you want to be in the arms of your Father. 

 

A baby doesn’t argue with his or her parents on what they want.

 

Their parents are their everything. 

 

Their body parts are there (legs, brain etc) but their parents determine where they go and think on their behalf etc.

 

It’s easy to sing and say “I am child of God” but are we living like we are His children?

 

Why do we struggle to listen?

 

Why do we struggle to obey?

 

Why do we struggle to hear His input in every area of our lives?  

 

Why even after hearing from Him, we go our own way? 

 

I believe it’s because we doubt His love for us. 

 

God loves you sister! 

 

You are loved by God!

 

No one can ever love you like He does.

 

No one ever!

 

How would Someone that sent His Son to die in your place even before you were born lead you astray?

 

Trust Him! 

 

He would not only lead you but he would guide you. 

 

Using the story of the children of Israel when they were leaving Egypt. God told them to go through the Red Sea. 

 

Oh Father?

 

Red sea? 

 

Even with that route being impossible to go through with the human mind, He made a way!!

 

Oh may the Lord open your eyes to the greatness of God’s fatherhood!

 

Let’s take our first song for today:

 

GOOD GOOD FATHER by Chris Tomlin

 

(Download here)

Oh, I’ve heard a thousand stories of what they think You’re like

But I’ve heard the tender whisper of love in the dead of night

And You tell me that You’re pleased and that I’m never alone

 

You’re a good, good Father

It’s who You are, it’s who You are, it’s who You are

And I’m loved by You

It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

 

Oh, and I’ve seen many searching for answers far and wide

But I know we’re all searching for answers only You provide

‘Cause You know just what we need before we say a word

 

You’re a good, good Father

It’s who You are, it’s who You are, it’s who You are

And I’m loved by You

It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

 

Because You are perfect in all of Your ways

You are perfect in all of Your ways

You are perfect in all of Your ways to us

You are perfect in all of Your ways

Oh, You’re perfect in all of Your ways

You are perfect in all of Your ways to us

 

Oh, it’s love so undeniable

I, I can hardly speak

Peace so unexplainable

I, I can hardly think

As You call me deeper still

As You call me deeper still

As You call me deeper still into love, love, love

 

You’re a good, good Father

It’s who You are, it’s who You are, it’s who You are

And I’m loved by You

It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

 

And You’re a good, good Father

It’s who You are, it’s who You are, it’s who You are

And I’m loved by You

It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

 

You’re a good, good Father

It’s who You are, it’s who You are, it’s who You are

And I’m loved by You

It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am

(You’re a good, good Father)

 

You are perfect in all of Your ways (it’s who You are, it’s who You are, it’s who You are)

(And I’m loved by You)

You are perfect in all of Your ways (it’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am)

 

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Oh our God is good! 

 

When my service year was coming to an end, I became really confused. I didn’t know what the Lord would have me do.

 

I didn’t know where He would have me go. 

 

I had a few job offers in Lagos but I didn’t know which one to go for. 

 

Should I get a job, go for Masters or intensify my prayers for marriage and get married? 

 

Oh, I was so troubled. I prayed and fasted, yet I was so troubled. The kind of trouble that was so all encompassing. The confusion hugged me so tightly, that I knew I needed where to weep out my heart.

 

As I was on my way, one of my aunties called me. She wanted me to come ‘serve’ her after my service year. But I told her I might be going for my Master’s degree. 

 

‘Master’s? Who will sponsor you? What Master’s is that? Don’t bring another stress on my sister o. Let her breathe. Haba!’

 

As she dropped the call, the confusion hugged me tighter. 

 

As I journeyed to the church where I was going to pour out my heart to God, on the bike, the tears had started strolling down. 

 

‘What would You have me do indeed, Lord? How would You prove, Lord, that I am your child if I am in such a dark tunnel with no light in view?’

 

I carried myself to the church, it was locked. There was another church nearby with a large tree beside it, so I went underneath it and wept to my fill. 

 

After weeping, He gave me the stress to pray. So, I started to tell Him how I wanted to do His Will. I told Him how much I loved Him. And how much I wanted my life to simply please Him.

 

He unwrapped the arms of confusion around my soul and gave me peace, before He released me to go. 

 

Even though He still didn’t give me the precise step by step information, He whispered His peace to my soul and told me to rest!

 

And I rested! 

 

And how many years after, sisters, I can tell You that God is faithful!!!!

 

At every road cross, I never played with crying to my Father! 

 

I told and tell Him everything! 

 

When I am struggling with forgiving someone, I tell Him! 

 

When I am sad and troubled, I tell Him!

 

Before I started working on this bulletin, I told Him! 

 

When I want to do my hair, I tell Him! 

 

Even in the minutest things, I tell Him! 

 

How? 

 

Just open your mouth and say it. That’s all. 

 

Yeah, people might think you are crazy 🤣 but you know you aren’t. Find a quiet place and go talk to Him about everything! 

 

If there’s no place to do the talking, write to Him. Ask for His comfort, His teaching, His help, His direction! 

 

And be sincere about it! 

 

He’d love you! 

 

He’d be glad to see you initiating a relationship between you and Him. 

 

When a woman makes sensual moves at her husband, ask them, he feels so sweet and on top of the world. That his wife needs him. 

 

That’s a little, tiny bit of how the Lord feels when we should that we need Him! 

 

Are you in the same condition I have just described above?

 

Confused? 

 

Frustrated? 

 

In the dark? 

 

No clarity? 

 

Heartbreaks here and there? 

 

Different voices, yet not knowing the way?

 

Well, I can assure you that the problem is not with God! 

 

Oh yes! I can be sure! 

 

It must definitely be with you! 

 

WHY WON’T GOD LEAD ME? 

 

BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT HIS CHILD. He only leads His children! 

 

John 10:3-5 says: 

 

3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him; the sheep hear his voice as he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out. 

 

4 When he has brought them out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 

 

5 They will not follow someone else; instead, they will run away from such a person, because they do not know his voice.”

 

BECAUSE YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD!

When you begin to doubt what God is telling you, He stops talking to you! 

 

Walking with God is a thing of faith. A double-minded man cannot receive from God. 

 

James 1:6-8 says:

 

6 But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind. 

 

7-8 If you are like that, unable to make up your mind and undecided in all you do, you must not think that you will receive anything from the Lord

 

Wow!!!!

 

BECAUSE YOU WORRY AND ARE ANXIOUS TOO MUCH! 

 

The moment you’re worrying and are anxious, you’ve come out of faith.

 

And when you have come out of faith, you can’t receive His guidance! 

 

Hebrews 11:6 says: 

 

No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him!!!!

 

BECAUSE YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR GOD! 

 

Busyness pushes the voice of God away!

 

Create time for God. When you stay with God for long – you begin to look like Him. 

 

That is the blessing of intimacy!

 

To be deficient of His presence is to be bankrupt of His voice!

 

Matthew 6:33 says: But seek FIRST the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” 

 

Put God first! Never be too busy for the Lord!!!!

 

And practise quietness when you finally find time for God! 

 

You must have a quiet spirit. 

 

To hear God, you must practice quietness. To access God, you need a quiet spirit.

 

You cannot hear a still small voice in the midst of noise.

 

BECAUSE YOU ARE PROUD. Pride is an iniquity that must not be found in you if you want to hear and see God. This one sin was what brought Lucifer down. 

 

When you are proud, you see no need to pray! Even if you pray, you do it the wrong way! 

 

Prayerlessness is one of the very clear symptoms of pride in any man! 

 

If you can’t pray, how can you then read the Bible? 

 

How can you then hear God’s voice???

 

When you are proud, you can’t even do the ‘foolish’ things of God, like passing through the red sea or fetching water in a basket. 

 

When you are proud, you listen to no man’s counsel. Even if God is trying to reach out to you through His people, Godly books etc, you’d be too big to learn from those ‘ones’. 

 

James 4:6-10 says:

 

6……God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

 

7 So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

 

8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.

 

9 Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy. 

 

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.

 

These are a few of the things that can make the leading of the Lord elude you. 

 

He is speaking, but you can’t hear! 

 

He is leading, but you aren’t laying a hold on His hand!

 

The fault is never God’s! 

 

There are many other reasons why you cannot be led but we won’t be able to go deep into them. One of them that is a whole topic on its own is LACK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BAPTISM. 

 

If you are not yet baptized in the Holy Spirit, it doesn’t mean that the Lord wouldn’t lead you but you won’t even be able to have a clue about His voice or anything. It is too dangerous to live a blind and deaf life. This is what living without the Holy Spirit is. So, make sure you tarry until you receive! Until you are baptized.

 

A German physicist invented the Geiger counter in 1945. It is an instrument used for detecting the presence and intensity of radiation.

 

When radiation is detected, the device makes a distinct clicking sound. The closer you get to the substance and the greater intensity of its matter, the louder and faster the clicking noise becomes.

 

We can as well look at this Geiger Counter to understand what divine leading is about. 

 

As you process what you are hearing and apply important checks and balances, there is an inner witness that you learn to pay attention to. 

 

You check in with the Holy Spirit; you listen to your “knower”

 

You weigh what you have heard against the Word of God.

 

You evaluate the content and fruit of the message. 

 

And you bear witness or you don’t!

 

It either clicks or it doesn’t.

 

When you are filled with the Holy Spirit there is a divine guidance system that comes with the package. 

 

Make sure you wait on the Lord till Your promised Personal Guide comes! 

 

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF DIVINE DIRECTION?

 

  1. The Lord goes before you! 

 

Imagine finishing a long, boring lecture or work and being terribly famished. Not having money to buy chilled Coke or anything to cook at home, you get to your room hopelessly and suddenly, the aroma of Egusi soup and all greets your nostrils. 

 

Your mum had suddenly paid you a surprise visit and gone ahead of you into your house to prepare a big table before you! 

 

When you have God’s direction, He’d be there before you even get there! 

 

 

 

He’d have cleared all the obstacles from your path and created a way forward.

 

He’d have removed even long-standing barriers and defeated demonic forces.

 

Halleluyah!!!

 

Read these: John 10:4, Psalm 24:7-8, Isaiah 45:2

 

  1. You enjoy His Presence. 

 

Oh when God leads or directs you, it means He is with you!!!!

 

You have no need to fear! 

 

He brought you into it! 

 

He’d be there down every road! 

 

Being aware of God’s presence brings comfort and strength.

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Read these: Psalm 23:4, John 8:29, Romans 8:31, Exodus 13:21

 

  1. You’d be empowered for Accomplishment. 

 

When God directs you, He empowers you to fulfill your purpose and assignments.

 

Read: Judges 6:14

 

  1. You’d have divine Backing   

 

Anyone who battles with you, battles with God! 

 

Anyone who asks you questions collides with God! Ayayayyayayaya! 

 

With God’s support, you achieve extraordinary feats.

 

Read these: Philippians 2:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:24, Mark 16:20, Acts 10:38, Matthew 10:20

 

  1. You’d enjoy Divine Preservation & Protection 

 

God fights against your enemies when you walk in His path.

 

Read: Exodus 23:20, 22-23

 

  1. You enjoy Rest

 

Limitless rest and peace and bliss that money cannot buy would be waiting down the road of you walking down the road that God leads you through!

 

Read these:Psalm 25:8, Isaiah 48:18

 

  1. You enjoy Divine Provision 

 

Being where God wants you and obeying His commands brings divine provision.

 

Favor and honor come from honoring God’s word and direction.

 

If it is His Will, He’d foot the bill!!

 

Read these: Psalm 23:1-2, Luke 22:35, Luke 5:4-6

 

Let’s take our song before we pray:

 

SHEPHERD by Bethel Music

(Download here)

 

In the process, in the waiting

You’re making melodies over me

And Your presence is the promise

For I am a pilgrim on a journey

 

You will lift my head above the mighty waves

You are able to keep me from stumbling

And in my weakness

You are the strength that comes from within

Good Shepherd of my soul

Take my hand and lead me on

 

You make my footsteps and my path secure

So walking on water is just the beginning

Cause my faith to arise, stand at attention

For You are calling me to greater things

 

Oh how I love You, how I love You

You have not forsaken me

Oh how I love You, how I love You

With You is where I want to be

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As an individual, I sometimes check the weather forecast before going out and if it isn’t connecting due to network issues, I make sure my network is working well because I need to know how the weather is going to be and I won’t leave the house until I know what the weather is like in order to prepare for what’s outside or I ask someone that is already outside to know how it is in order to dress appropriately for the weather.

 

 

From this illustration above, I want us to deduce some things.

 

– Asking

– Persistence 

– Complete trust 

 

It’s easy to just up and go when we are not hearing God about a particular issue but that’s not how it should be. 

 

Pray until you receive clear and concise leading!

 

Even after hearing and being led by God, stay in His presence because He knows how best to guide you even after giving you a go-ahead. 

 

There is a peace that comes with hearing God. 

Knowing that wherever you find yourself, whatever decision you take, you didn’t do it on your own. 

 

Regardless of how stormy it might be, you know God is in your boat. 

 

This is what God wants for us and please make sure that after today and this program, you are sure of God’s backing in everything that concerns you. 

 

I pray that we won’t leave this program without establishing a direct connection with God and we would arise from a place of stumbling and guess work in our walk with God and be clear and concise in hearing the voice of our Father in Jesus name. Amen.

 

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LET’S PRAY 

 

– Thank God for the privilege of being part of the fast this year. 

 

– Thank Him for making it possible for you to witness another Juicy July program 

 

– Appreciate Him for His love for you. For being mindful of you in all areas of your life.

 

– It’s God’s desire to guide us, tell God with all humility that you want Him to guide you because you sincerely cannot go through life on your own. 

 

Sing this song from your heart- 

If you don’t help me, where else can I go? no where no where

If you don’t lead me, where else can I go? no where no where

If you don’t guide me, where else can I go? no where no where

 

– Tell God: Father by your mercy, please help me.

 

I am a finished lady without your guidance 

 

I would definitely go into error without your leading 

 

Father guide me.

 

– A song writer says, Hold my hand precious Lord, lead me on let me stand.

 

Tell Him to hold your hands. 

 

It’s tiring journeying through life on my own, Father, hold my hands. 

 

(Please be vulnerable and sincere with God. A broken and a contrite heart will he not despise) (Psalms 51:17)

 

– We have seen from the study above that we can only be guided by someone we have a relationship with. 

 

Tell God that you want a relationship with Him if you don’t have one. Sin pushes God away from us. 

 

Confess areas you have fallen short and ask for mercy. 

 

Areas where you have done things contrary to His word. He knows but He still wants to hear it from you.

 

– From John 15:4, we saw the importance of abiding in God and God abiding in us. Tell God that you want to constantly abide in Him. You don’t want to be ever outside Him. 

 

Look inward and reflect on areas that have edged God out of you and confess them to God. 

 

Those weaknesses, habits, priorities that have been placed above Him. 

 

Those worries that have consumed your mind so much that you no longer have time for Him. Confess all to Him. 

 

Speak over your Body:  “Body, no desire to please you would affect my abiding in God” 

 

Speak over your Spirit, “My Spirit you will constantly cling to the Savior” 

 

Every attachment that is not of God, I sever you in the name of Jesus.

 

Speak over your Soul, “My Soul, you would constantly pant after God” 

 

You would not find satisfaction anywhere else, except in God in the Mighty Name of Jesus. 

 

 – In John 10:27, the Bible says My sheep hears my voice, and I know them and they follow me.

 

Tell God that you would only hear His voice in the midst of various voices. 

 

Tell Him to help you discern His voice in the midst of look alike voices and even when you hear His voice, you will obey His leading and follow.

 

 – Tell God to help you always desire His presence because we cannot know His voice until we are familiar with His presence. 

 

Tell Him to help you to subject your flesh to loving His presence. 

 

I hear only the voice of God, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

I obey only the voice of God, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

I walk only in God’s perfect will for my life, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Every error or mistakes I have made due to lack of direction, have mercy and rescue me from the consequences of my mistakes oh God, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Every scale that is upon my eyes that is making me not see clearly, take it out oh Lord, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

I need a touch from you, oh Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Touch every part of me and let light shine in every area of my life, oh Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

From today, I understand times and seasons. I am not ignorant as to what the will of God is for my life, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Deliver from spiritual blindness and deafness oh God, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Heighten my spiritual sensitivity by your mercy, oh Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Help me to submit completely to your will. Help me to do what you want, oh Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Let your words be the only authority in my life, oh Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Help me to continually bask in your love for me. Knowing I am loved and cherished by you, oh Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

I will not marry wrongly in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ!!

 

I will be one of the few people who will wait upon the Lord in marriage and get it right in the Mighty Name of Jesus. 

 

Help me to trust your plans for me oh Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

 

I will not be in the wrong place for my life oh Lord in the Mighty Name of Jesus. 

 

Remove from me every self will, oh Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ. 

 

From today, I am no longer a slave to my will but I live as a child of God that I am in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ. 

 

Continue to pray as God leads. 

 

Thank God for answers to prayers. 

 

God bless us sisters. Continue to bask in the goodness of God.

 

Let’s sing this last song when we are done:

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I’M LISTENING by Chris McClarney Feat Hollyn.

(Download here)

When You speak, confusion fades

Just a word and suddenly I’m not afraid

‘Cause You speak and freedom reigns

There is hope in every single word You say

 

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

‘Cause everything You say is life to me

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

Quiet my heart, I’m listening

 

When sorrows roar and troubles rage

You whisper peace when I don’t have the words to say

I won’t lose hope when storms won’t break

You keep Your word, oh and Your promises will keep me safe

 

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

‘Cause everything You say is life to me

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

So quiet my heart, I’m listening

 

Your ways are higher

You know just what I need

I trust You, Jesus

You see what I cannot see

 

Your ways are higher

You know just what I need

I trust You, Jesus

You see what I cannot see

 

Your ways are higher

You know just what I need

I trust You, Jesus

You see what I cannot see

 

Your ways are higher

You know just what I need

I trust You, Jesus

You see what I cannot see

 

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

‘Cause everything You say is life to me

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

So quiet my heart, I’m listening

 

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

‘Cause everything You say is life to me

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

So quiet my heart, I’m listening

 

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

‘Cause everything You say is life to me

I don’t wanna miss one word You speak

So quiet my heart, I’m listening

 

See you in the house at 9pm for our Bible Study. God bless you, sisters. 

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One response to “KEYING INTO GOD’S DIVINE DIRECTION”

  1. I stay in God’s presence to obey His leading per time.
    I’m not confused, I hear and see what He has in store for me because I have the Holy spirit dwelling in me. Glorrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!🙌
    Thank you Jesus.

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