God Speaks

Life each day is full of decisions.

We try to choose the right way and do the right thing. How can we as humans know what is right?

In the Old Testament, we learn that there was a king who did what was right. King Hezekiah trusted in the Lord. He waited for direction from God. That takes patience, quietness, time, and an ear to hear and to obey. It takes supernatural faith to believe what we see as impossible. 

We started visiting Haiti in 1977. After many trips, in 1981, our founder Pastor George was still waiting for direction. Finally, one day as he was walking on the shoreline of the property in Bord-Mer, he heard from God. “George! Go with it!” That night at a restaurant, I reached over to him and asked if he knew what our future was in Haiti. He said, “We’re coming to Haiti.” In 1982, we purchased the land, and in 1983 we arrived. From that decision came countless other decisions which always involved waiting on God, hearing from Him, taking a step, and experiencing the blessing of seeing God at work. God speaks!

In the Old Testament, kings often inquired of the Lord before going to battle. They would call upon a prophet of God to tell them what to do—go to battle or stay home. Many examples of their victories in battle came because they sought the Lord.

There are important decisions to make in our daily lives: marriage, career, moving, purchases, and endless life decisions that mold us now and in the future. 

But there is one decision that affects us for eternity. Joshua said, “...choose for yourselves today whom you will serve;” ( Joshua 24:15). We, too, must choose today whom we will serve. There is only one road. There is only one God. In the Old Testament, kings and peoples failed and died because they worshipped other gods.

In John 14:6, Jesus says, “I am the way!” Once we make the decision to follow Jesus as Lord of our life, we strive to seek His will and do His will. This will take spiritual exercise, struggle, time, and a quiet soul to sit and meditate to receive what God is saying. How can we pray, “Thy will be done?” How can we be pure and obey? Where is our strength? I like the words an angel spoke to Gideon in Judges 6:14 when God called him to rescue his people, “Go in your strength.” His power clothes us with strength for the direction He gives. We can walk the right way when we hear God speak.

Jesus inquired of His father in the Garden of Gethsemane. God did not give Jesus the direction he asked for in His flesh. But Jesus submitted; He sacrificed and He obeyed. Jesus said, “Thy will be done.” Luke 22:42

The story is told of a man walking when he came to a fork in the road. To the left was a dead man representing the religions of the world; to the right was Jesus—the only living man of all religions. Jesus is the Way; and He knows the way, and we are safe when we follow Him. ~Jeanne DeTellis Loudon