If you’ve ever prayed for direction in your life, you have most likely been in a place where you didn’t know what to do. You prayed for discernment. You prayed for wisdom. You prayed for direction. If your anything like me and many of my friends, you got discouraged or frustrated because you weren’t getting an answer on where, when, or how to go.
Although what I write may frustrate you more, it is all I have to offer.
1 – Wait. This is more a change of attitude than anything. While you are waiting, ask yourself if you are pushing your own agenda with the where, when, or how that you are asking. Check out Kent Chevalier’s sermon on the second part of The Lord’s Prayer for more on this (October 11, 2009). While you are waiting, you have to be willing to honestly say from your heart “whatever, whenever, however You want, Lord. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done.”
2 – Act. Yes, there are times to wait. There are also times to act even when you don’t know where/what you are doing. If you are in Christ, and He is in you, your decision is not going to be the wrong one. Sometimes it might feel like the wrong decision for a season, but God might be trying to teach you something. Other times, He will “close a door” that He does not want you to go through, just to open up another. Sometimes you just need the “Good Old-Fashioned Guts” as Mark Batterson puts it in his book, Wild Goose Chase
So… If you are answering your prayers for yourself, wait and change your attitude. If you have been waiting, look at the answers that God has put in front of you and make a decision.