I didn’t have to be a Bible scholar;
I just had to have a willing heart,
and what is in your heart makes the
difference.
God has a divine plan for your
life. You may not always understand
it, but understanding can wait while
obedience cannot. Your attitude
should always be, “I will do anything
for you, Lord.” When I accepted God’s
divine plan, He provided me with two
wonderful teachers—the Holy Spirit
and Rev. Angley.
Do Things God’s Way
Other things that can hinder
you from doing God’s will are ego,
stubbornness and selfishness. You
can never think you are above any
job God calls you to do. When you
think you are overqualified for the
Lord’s work, you are on the road to
becoming underqualified to make it
into Heaven.
Many people start off letting
God use them, but they allow
lukewarmness to set in; and that
allows the devil to start feeding
their ego. Then their attitude begins
to change, and obeying God is no
longer the most important thing to
them.
That is what happened to King
Saul. He was from the smallest tribe
of Israel, and his family was the
least of all the families in that tribe;
but the Bible says, There was not
among the children of Israel a
goodlier person than he (I Samuel
9:2). Saul was God’s choice to be
the first king of Israel. He was very
humble at first, and God used him to
bring about great victories.
When Saul grew overconfident, he
started doing things his way instead
of God’s way. At one time, God told
him, Now go and smite Amalek,
and utterly destroy all that
they have, and spare them not;
but slay both man and woman,
infant and suckling, ox and
sheep, camel and ass (I Samuel
15:3). God clearly told Saul that he
was to kill every person and animal,
but Saul didn’t listen. He spared
the king and saved the best of the
animals.
Saul knew the commandment
of the Lord, but he still did things
his own way; and his disobedience
affected the Lord so much that God
told Samuel, It repenteth me that
I have set up Saul to be king: for
he is turned back from following
me, and hath not performed my
commandments (I Samuel 15:11).
Saul Wanted His Way
When you want to do things your
way instead of God’s way, you are
in trouble. There are people who
have been greatly blessed by God
and then stopped going to church
because things were not done the
way they thought they should be.
It’s very sad to see people fail God,
especially when it is one of your own
family members.
At first, you grieve over the
person’s soul; but over time, God will
lift that burden if you look to Him.
You have to put your loved ones into
the hands of the Holy Spirit because
He can convict them day and night,
and that is something you cannot do.
When God told Samuel about
Saul’s failure, Samuel was so grieved
that he cried all night. When Samuel
went to Saul, Saul told him the Lord’s
commandments had been performed;
but Samuel could hear the sheep
making noise in the background,
so he asked, What meaneth then
this bleating of the sheep in mine
ears, and the lowing of the oxen
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