Shalom,

Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers reveals to us a new way of seeing God's instructions to us and His desire for us to  know Him!

Something More About His Ways

When Jesus had made an end of commanding his disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. — Matthew 11:1

He comes where He commands us to leave. If when God said “Go,” you stayed, because you were so concerned about your people at home, you robbed them of the teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left all consequences to God, the Lord went into your city to teach; as long as you would not obey, you were in the way. Watch where you begin to debate and to put what you call duty in competition with your Lord’s commands. “I know He told me to go, but then my duty was here;” that means you do not believe that Jesus means what He says.

He teaches where He instructs us not to. “Master,…let us make three tabernacles.”Are we playing the spiritual amateur providence in other lives? Are we so noisy in our instruction of others that God cannot get anywhere near them? We have to keep our mouths shut and our spirits alert. God wants to instruct us in regard to His Son, He wants to turn our times of prayer into mounts of transfiguration, and we will not let Him. When we are certain of the way God is going to work, He will never work in that way any more.

He works where He sends us to wait. “Tarry ye…until…” Wait on God and He will work, but don’t wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our own spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

These are phases of His ways we rarely recognize

I know what it is like to be believing in faith for a family member or friend to come to Jesus, but MANY times WE are NOT the laborers that God will send! Sometimes we are too close and know them too well. If we can pray for the God chosen laborers, and then step back and simply pray and praise HIM for the answer, then HE is released to use the right people at the right time to reach them! Let's get rid of the boxes that religion has caused us to put people AND God in, and allow the God of all creation to MOVE as only HE can! AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "Echoes (Til We See The Other Side)":

Shalom in Him!