A Prayer to Assist Direct Our Steps within the New 12 months
By Lynette Kittle
Bible Studying:
“He got here to the sheep pens alongside the best way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to alleviate himself. David and his males have been far again within the cave” – 1 Samuel 24:3
Hear or Learn Beneath:
Have you ever ever entered a state of affairs and thought, “Oh, no, what did I simply stroll into?” Though normally not a harmful life-or-death state of affairs, many people most definitely have, at one time or one other, maybe walked into a clumsy, uncomfortable, or embarrassing setting that catches us off guard and unprepared to take care of on the time.
Counting Our Steps
As we’re out and about our each day lives, can we contemplate the steps we take critically? Can we ask God to direct them? Or are we fairly assured in our personal potential to decide on the path we take, not likely asking God to guide or information us via our day? It is simple to get overly assured in pondering we’re selecting our personal pathways, making our personal selections, and ruling out that God is directing our steps even after we aren’t conscious of it.
When Our Steps Appear Off Observe
Until God reveals to us, we could by no means understand how, when, and the place God protected us in conditions we unknowingly walked into or averted, not ever being wiser about what might have occurred to us. But, this present day, if one thing does go awry, it is simple to wish to retrace our steps in attempting to determine the place we went improper. However as Christians, we do not have to marvel however somewhat belief God is main and guiding our steps even when it looks as if we have walked into an disagreeable state of affairs. Trusting Him for our steps retains us from wallowing in remorse, having to backtrack, and second-guessing the steps we have taken.
Moving into What Appears Just like the Improper Place
Within the story the place King Saul is chasing after and searching down David to kill him, it appeared like he, Saul, walked into the improper place, a setting the place David was better off to take his life. If it appeared like God set Saul and David as much as be on this state of affairs, He did. Unknowing to Saul, God divinely led him to that seemingly improper place the place his life might finish. Likewise, God divinely directed David’s steps to cover within the cave on the proper time, giving him the chance to take care of Saul as he noticed match.
1 Samuel 24:4 describes, “The lads stated, ‘That is the day the Lord spoke of when he stated to you, ‘I’ll give your enemy into your fingers so that you can take care of as you would like.’ Then David crept up unnoticed and minimize off a nook of Saul’s gown.”
That day, every step was directed by God; it was no coincidence however somewhat Him fulfilling His phrase to David together with giving him a chance to show whom He really served, God or himself. Like Saul and David, we will take consolation in understanding that even after we is likely to be hiding out, attempting to remain out of the best way of our enemies, or seemingly stopping in someplace randomly to make use of the services, God is directing our steps.
Honoring God in Our Steps
Though David and Saul most definitely thought they’d chosen their very own steps that day, God set them up. As Proverbs 16:9 offers perception, “Of their hearts people plan their course, however the Lord establishes their steps.” Because the story goes, David spared Saul’s life that day, honoring God by doing so. Nonetheless, he grieved over his vanity and pleasure in his actions. “Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having minimize off a nook of his gown. He stated to his males, ‘The Lord forbid that I ought to do such a factor to my grasp, the Lord’s anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he’s the anointed of the Lord'” (1 Samuel 24:5-6).
Like David and Saul, we wish to bear in mind that God is directing our steps and that even once they lead us to what looks as if the improper or proper place for us to be, we wish to honor God in our responses and actions, realizing that He could have a divine objective for us being there.
Let’s Pray:
Expensive Father,
This coming New 12 months, we ask You to assist direct our steps and lead us on the paths You’ve purposed and deliberate for us. Assist us to look to You for steering within the steps we take, trusting You with each, even once they appear to guide us to unlikely and undesirable locations. Strengthen us to do what honors You in each state of affairs our steps could take us, believing what You say in Isaiah 55:8. “‘ For My ideas will not be your ideas, neither are your methods My methods,’ declares the Lord.”
In Jesus’ title, Amen.
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Lynette Kittle is married with 4 daughters. She enjoys writing about religion, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been printed by Give attention to the Household, Determination, Right this moment’s Christian Girl, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and extra. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent College and serves as affiliate producer for Soul Test TV.
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