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What do you do when……………………..
By admin | June 11, 2009
you have no specific message from God and you need to send out your post or blog?. Writing is my vocation and I am very passionate about sharing God’s word with His people, so that they can also grow up in Him. I look forward to sending you a post as often as I can. Getting emails from readers’ week in, week out, about how my posts encourage you, also encourages me. By the way, the last mail – Coping with the crisis of life, had a huge response. Thank you both to those who wrote and those who thought of, did not get round to writing.
Getting posts out therefore brings a ‘pressure’ to write or ‘perform’, especially as I intend to make these posts as regular as they can be. If you have been a reader of my posts, you would know that I like to write by revelation only. The messages always have to be fresh and specific.
So what do you do when you have no specific word to share? When you feel God is silent? Aaaargh!
It’s easy to try and go into the archives of articles and ‘bring out’ something to write. I feel the temptation to conjure something up something to send out. The process of waiting almost becomes frustrating.
I learnt something though this and this is what I want to share with you this week– you have to let God be God. I learnt that if God does not speak, then neither do. That does not mean that I would not communicate with you, which is what I am doing now, but simply that I don’t conjure up a message for the sake of it. My aim is to be relevant and useful to my generation and I can only do this, when I have God’s word.
What do you do when God is silent? Do you feel under pressure to ‘keep on performing’? It might be that you had prayed about something that has not come as quickly as you expect. Do you what seems best, rather than delaying the decision till you hear God? We see this so many times in the marketplace and in our Christian business. Decisions have to be made today, as if the world will fall apart if we don’t make that decision. Let God be God. Remember the story of Saul who did not wait for Samuel.
I had a funny but serious thought when I was writing this – can you imagine our pastors coming to church one day and saying I tried all week but have no word from God. Think for a minute about how you would feel? Well, I don’t think I would be too happy (sorry, confession time) but it could be that God wants to do something great instead. , that would only be revealed at the ‘last minute accordingly to our timetable’ – let God be God. Perhaps, this silent move could be the beginning of something great in our lives, when we have to pause for a minute and focus all on Him.
Therefore this week, I am letting God be God. Let God be God in your life and not fall into the pressure to perform.
The interesting thing is that God has now given me a message to share on the glory of God in the marketplace, so don’t miss the next post. But for now, perhaps the message that God wants us to hear is that we should ‘Let God be God’.
Remember that the site www.purposeforchrist.com is the platform where you can leave your comments and submit your articles. As I have been blessing you, why not bless others by writing about what God is doing in your lives?
So until I appear again in your inbox, stay blessed and Let God be God in your life.
Ola
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June 13th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I really like your post. Does it copyright protected?