Effective Direction

Tonight as I was preparing for worship and praying for our morning services at New Life Church God spoke to my heart of expecting and preparation for Kingdom work.

I don't have a pastoral degree nor am I a theologian, not even confident I spelled that word correctly. However I believe that God can teach us more than a professor could if we just pray and listen to what He (our teacher) has to say.

I believe that as humans we can get caught up in our own life routine. We fill our schedule up with busyness and appointments, with dates and activities that we can sometimes forget who the driver is suppose to be. Instead we allow these things to drive us.

How many times have I done things without consulting God? We really don't stop to think about it. But how many times have I really stopped and really prayed about it?. Honestly. Not many.

It becomes 2nd nature to us to think, "maybe this is what God wants" or Is "doing" but we really haven't taken the time out of our self driven lives to hear God out. We allow ourselves to do it on our own.

Perhaps if we stopped for a few minutes we may hear the heart of God. Perhaps if we let God in the front seat he can give us more effective direction.

I want to be a man of prayer, a man that goes after God's heart. I want to be a person that will allow God to be the center of it all, in every aspect of my life. I want to pray and seek after the things I do more so that it can be fully effective and backed up by God.

I have seen what God can do if we just allow Him to go first. I want more of that. In fact, I want all of it to be that way.
I'm tired of doing it on my own.

I can't do things glass half full anymore. I must allow God to fill me up so that I can work out of the overflow. We can not work out of emptiness any more. We must constantly pray, seek and listen so that our vessels can overflow and the Kingdom work can be truly effective.