God doesn’t leave us alone and without direction. Dr. Charles Stanley shares biblical insights into seeking the will of God. In Touch Ministries, 2012.
who is the man or the woman naturally
when the Bible speaks that’s men and
women who is the man a woman who fears
the Lord he will instruct him listen
that he will instruct him in the way he
should choose who is the man who fears
the Lord he will instruct him that his
God will give direction for our life he
will instruct him he says the way he
should choose now if you think about for
example let’s go back to the Old
Testament how did God answer the
question of direction in the Old
Testament sometime is my angel sometimes
by God’s speaking to them personally as
sometimes for example God would give
them some silence and and so visions
dreams at all different kind of ways to
speak to people now you and I live in
the New Testament day and we have the
awesome Word of God that settles a lot
of these questions automatically but
when somebody says well does God still
speak to people personally today and the
answer is absolutely now I could give
you a number of examples but I’ll just
give you one for example to indicate it
I was in the process of making a
decision that would affect me and
multitudes and multitudes of other
people and I didn’t want to do it
because I felt very inadequate secondly
I was just afraid to do it and so I saw
the pawned it off on another pastor
friend of mine and we’d been in the
prayer meeting and praying about it and
and I didn’t want to do it and so I
thought he would be a good one to do it
and so I just suggested that he be the
man well he said no I’m not going to do
it so I thought no one of my friends
might do it and so when I left that
night I went back to the motel hotel and
I woke up feeling fantastic that that
was off my shoulders and I didn’t have
to do it I got dressed and I walked to
the door and reached for the doorknob
loudly not vocally loudly God said to me
don’t put your hand on that door knob
until you’re willing to do what I ask
you to do it was so loud I fell on my
face at the bed into the bed weeping
before God and I stayed that till
finally I said Lord I still don’t want
to and I’m still afraid but if that’s
what you want that’s what I’m willing to
do it became a very very momentous time
in my life that’s not the only time I’m
just giving you that one example to say
this are you listening carefully say
Amen God will speak to you just this
audibly I don’t mean sound listen when
he speaks it’s so audible to your heart
and to your spirit there’s absolutely no
doubt in your mind God has spoken he is
just as willing to speak to you about
critical issues in your life
that he knows is the right decision for
you to make decision he desires that you
make decision he’ll help you make
decisions that he will enable you to do
whatever that decision requires of you
he’s just is willing to speak to you but
you have to be ready for that you have
to be willing for him too and so I’m
saying all that the preface everything
else for simply saying God wants you to
make the right decision in every
circumstance of life God is not up to
tripping you up he doesn’t have a bunch
of secrets he’s keeping from you he
knows his will if you think about this
he created you for his purpose with his
plan in mind the best plan possible and
therefore why would he keep something
from you which he knows you need to know
God is willing to reveal himself he’s
willing to speak to you very very
clearly as clearly as is necessary if he
knows your heart is right and he will
know whether it is or not and that you
willing to do what he says do so with
that in mind let’s think about this
whole issue and think about how God
speaks and how he wants to speak to you
and when I think about that I think
about so clearly and so often God has
spoken to people and they refused to
listen to him there’s a reason now once
you notice in this this verse I want you
to notice the first part of this he says
he asked this question who is the man
who fears the Lord now watch this
carefully then he says listen then he
says following that God will instruct
him the manifest Lord in the way should
choose what does it mean to fear the
Lord because he says God will instruct
that person in the way he should choose
when the Bible speaks of fearing God
that that two words several words for
fear but primarily we have two different
counter fears there is fear which is a
fear of being afraid
being afraid of something you saw a fear
fire fear swimming or and then there’s
the fear which means which this verse
means reverence to fear the Lord is to
acknowledge the standing all before him
the fear the Lord means you reverence
him as the sovereign of the universe
they create of all things that he’s the
Lord God he’s omnipotent omniscient
omnipresent he’s the master he’s
merciful and holy that is when you and I
come to God we’re coming to this awesome
God who is our Father but he’s still up
and above and beyond anything that you
and I can describe holy holy holy is the
Lord God Almighty so we talked about
fearing God we’re talking about
acknowledging who he is acknowledging
his authority and his right to dictate
to us and to show us what we should do
in every single situation all of us
should have a fear of the Lord the Bible
says the fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom when somebody says
to you and so-and-so is a wise man then
and then find out what they believe
about God he said the Wiz he said
fearing the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom so we’re talking about this
awesome
sense of authority recognition worship
and adoration of Almighty God in light
of who he is he says the person who
fears the Lord God will give him
instruction and direction for his life