In every word God has been speaking to us, how many have we obeyed? God has been speaking to us but we are not ready to obey His voice. When God spoke to Noah and said ''The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood, make rooms in the ark and cover it inside and outside with pitch'' - Genesis 6 : 13 - 14.
Noah did not look at the physical circumstances surrounding him where it seldom rain but instead he started the great project of the ark construction. Imagine the laugh and critics he might have received from his close friends. When God speaks, the physical circumstances does not matter because the key of life is in His hand. When God speaks, what people are saying is not important. Noah did not doubt God because when you work with God, He will give you the courage you need to stand firm with Him so that you cannot listen to the noise which is being emitted from your environment.
When God spoke to Abram, ''Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation, I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed'' - Genesis 12 : 1 - 3.
''So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him and Lot went with him and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son and all their possessions that they had gathered and the people whom they had acquired in Haran and they departed to go to the land of Cannan. So they came to the land of Cannan''- Genesis 12 : 4 - 5.
Brethren, let's be realistic, how many people today God will speak to that he should leave his father's house at seventy-five years old that will not fast and pray to see if what God has said is real or false? It is not bad to fast and pray over anything but what I am saying is that instead of obeying the voice of God, we are thinking about our physical confortability and thereby using doubt as an instrument of disobedience. If Noah did not obey God when He spoke to him, will he and his family have been saved from the flood? The answer is NO same with Abram. The power of God from the begining is the same today. The problem we are having today is that many of us believe on what we see physically more than the word of God. The problem is not God but rather man.
If the government can use ''Global positioning system'' to locate anywhere one make a call with his mobile telephone, what do we think about God. The Almighty God does not need the worldly Global positioning system to locate us before He can speak to us because He has already created us in His own image so that He can use us whenever He want to. Why do we doubt God when He speak to us? Yes we need to confirm if He is the One that is speaking or if our conscience or even the devil. But at times after the confirmation, we are still in doubt because we fill that God is the author of confussion. ''For God is not the author of confussion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints'' - 1 Corinthians 14 : 33. Because He did not speak to me with the way He spoke to the other brother, He is not the one that has spoken to me. Let us be obedient and stop confusing ourselves.
If we write a book and we come accross those words we use in our book, can't we recognise it that it is our words? Also anywhere we go, God will always know where we are without the worldly Global positioning system.
Father Lord, I thank You for the wisdom You gave me to write this and I pray that whenever You speak to us, give us the courage we need to obey Your word, overcome the spirit of doubt and give us a listening ear to hear Your voice when You speak in Jesus name.
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