Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
-Proverbs 3:5-6
Some times we try to know the will of God but are clouded by the desires of our own flesh, and we hear our own voices and think it is Him.
Then, when what was presumed doesn't come to pass, we think that the Lord has broken His promises.
At least, that's what I have done at times, but God has been so gentle and patient with my tantrums and guided me back towards the mind of Christ in those matters.
There are other times, when I have heard God speak long ago, and the words seemed significantly irrelevant to my life at the time to the point where I could have easily written these thoughts off as nonsense.
But when I was driving to my interview last summer, God told me I would be there, and it came to pass.
Additionally, a couple years ago, I had lost my job in Austin, and I did not want to leave that city because I enjoyed my friends and the activities. I loved my apartment next to the hills and trails and so forth. But one morning, God distinctly said, "Go home." This doesn't usually happen to me, but there have been times when I've known without any shadow of a doubt that God is speaking to me. I knew the "go home" was God because it was so clear and powerful but it was almost as though the words were glowing with radiant white light. That evening there were more confirmations and I decided to obey God and go against my fleshly desires to stay.
I trudged home to my small hometown feeling like a failure who lost her job and who was heading no where in life. But all the while, the next month or so, I kept thinking about Albuquerque. It was so strange that I decided to Google the place because I wasn't even sure where it was, and I'm pretty sure I spelled it something like "Alberkerki" in the search bar that first time. Yet I determined that this must have been some strange thing my head was doing at the time; and after years pass, I forget about this.
Now, I have been having a stressful semester, and so I missed the career fairs and most of the company talks or presentations about internship programs after the career fair. One day, I just happen upon a talk and decide to go, and it was a company in Albuquerque. A few days later, I had applied online to their internship program and heard very quick response for me to fill out another questionnaire. A couple days later, today, a phone interview.
For some reason, last night I couldn't sleep, and I remembered wondering if I would be okay for today's interview. I prayed to the Lord, and I told Him, Lord, if this is Your will for me to go there then You can direct my steps and my speech, if not then it's fine if I muck it up. The interviewer said that he would have to compare my answers with other interviewers to give everyone a fair chance, and so after the interview finished I expected to have to wait a few days instead of only 1 hour! Guess who is going to Albuquerque?!
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? - Numbers 23:13
Thus, I find it completely brilliant of the Lord to have done this for me because I know He is with me and arranging the way for me to go. I observe that there were times where my own will had been in the way and that I had missed God. However, now I also see moments in which I had thought that some of the promptings of God were too preposterous, so I automatically assumed it was my own head only to find out that God works miracles in our lives. I'm excited because as surely as Jesus lives, Mark J. D. will be saved according to the rich and wonderful promises of our Father and Lord. Praise Jesus!
Don't give up on the dreams that God has given you, because everything that is truly of God is definitely already coming to pass even if it does not look like it at the moment. God bless you!
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
-Proverbs 3:5-6
Some times we try to know the will of God but are clouded by the desires of our own flesh, and we hear our own voices and think it is Him.
Then, when what was presumed doesn't come to pass, we think that the Lord has broken His promises.
At least, that's what I have done at times, but God has been so gentle and patient with my tantrums and guided me back towards the mind of Christ in those matters.
There are other times, when I have heard God speak long ago, and the words seemed significantly irrelevant to my life at the time to the point where I could have easily written these thoughts off as nonsense.
But when I was driving to my interview last summer, God told me I would be there, and it came to pass.
Additionally, a couple years ago, I had lost my job in Austin, and I did not want to leave that city because I enjoyed my friends and the activities. I loved my apartment next to the hills and trails and so forth. But one morning, God distinctly said, "Go home." This doesn't usually happen to me, but there have been times when I've known without any shadow of a doubt that God is speaking to me. I knew the "go home" was God because it was so clear and powerful but it was almost as though the words were glowing with radiant white light. That evening there were more confirmations and I decided to obey God and go against my fleshly desires to stay.
I trudged home to my small hometown feeling like a failure who lost her job and who was heading no where in life. But all the while, the next month or so, I kept thinking about Albuquerque. It was so strange that I decided to Google the place because I wasn't even sure where it was, and I'm pretty sure I spelled it something like "Alberkerki" in the search bar that first time. Yet I determined that this must have been some strange thing my head was doing at the time; and after years pass, I forget about this.
Now, I have been having a stressful semester, and so I missed the career fairs and most of the company talks or presentations about internship programs after the career fair. One day, I just happen upon a talk and decide to go, and it was a company in Albuquerque. A few days later, I had applied online to their internship program and heard very quick response for me to fill out another questionnaire. A couple days later, today, a phone interview.
For some reason, last night I couldn't sleep, and I remembered wondering if I would be okay for today's interview. I prayed to the Lord, and I told Him, Lord, if this is Your will for me to go there then You can direct my steps and my speech, if not then it's fine if I muck it up. The interviewer said that he would have to compare my answers with other interviewers to give everyone a fair chance, and so after the interview finished I expected to have to wait a few days instead of only 1 hour! Guess who is going to Albuquerque?!
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? - Numbers 23:13
Thus, I find it completely brilliant of the Lord to have done this for me because I know He is with me and arranging the way for me to go. I observe that there were times where my own will had been in the way and that I had missed God. However, now I also see moments in which I had thought that some of the promptings of God were too preposterous, so I automatically assumed it was my own head only to find out that God works miracles in our lives. I'm excited because as surely as Jesus lives, Mark J. D. will be saved according to the rich and wonderful promises of our Father and Lord. Praise Jesus!
Don't give up on the dreams that God has given you, because everything that is truly of God is definitely already coming to pass even if it does not look like it at the moment. God bless you!
