1 Peter 5:6

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time.”

There are times in our lives we feel that God is asking us to do something but we see ourselves not progressing in whatever we do. The reason for this situation is, the voice that we heard is not from God. Many a times I hear people say God told me this, God told me that but I see no progress in whatever they are engaging in. The decisions that you make concerning your life matters to God the most. He will not ask you to do something only to see you fail.

In Romans 3:4 the Apostle Paul said that let all men be a liar but God is the truth.

Prior to that, in verse 3 he said, for what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

Certainty not, was a stern reply from him, let every man be a liar but God is the truth!

Beloved I want you to meditate on this verse and see where have you lost your trust in God. Paul was justifying that the judgment of God cannot be wrong.

The cause of your stagnation in the affairs of your life can be due to many reasons but there is one reason that God Himself will oppose and that is pride as the Apostles Peter and James said in their letters;

God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Pride has to do with the ego that will always make you think highly of yourself and it will block God's blessings from flowing freely in your life.

Before you make a decision to do something think carefully if you really heard God's voice. In order to understand if it is God's voice, it is to good check on your relationship with God. Have you been in fellowship with Him so that you can hear His voice and obey Him?

I am not telling that God will not speak to you randomly, yes at times He will. But every time when God did that in the bible the life of the people was transformed.

Are your lives transformed?

A very good example is the Apostle Paul himself. When Jesus appeared to him on the way to Damascus His presence was so glorious that Paul was blinded because He met Jesus at the highest point of his egoism.

For 3 days he was blind and this made him fast with no food and drink for 3 days. The encounter with Jesus, when he heard His voice;

“Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” 5 He asked, “Who are you, Lord?”* The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. (Acts 9) must have been echoing in his whole being.

The encounter with Jesus transformed Paul's life dramatically that from being the Pharisees of the Pharisees who was so rooted and driven with the madness of the law and religious order he became the man who brought the greatest revelation of the grace of God ever by the powerful leading of the Holy Spirit. The grace revelation that Paul imparted to the church caused a huge impact and transformation to the church of Jesus Christ today.

Therefore to know if it is the voice of God that you heard check out these points:

1. Look at the fruits of that decision that you made? Are you bearing good fruit or bad fruit?

2. Seek the counsel of the Godly people around you.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.

3. Do not compromise with your relationship with God. Spend time with God daily, feed on the Word of God!

4. Humble yourselves before the Lord and His grace will flow freely and you will see great progress in your life.

Prepared by the prophetic grace of God,

Pastor Susannah Edward

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