"Go...I will bless you...Abram went..." (Genesis 12:1,2,4)
There have been times in my life when I have felt the call of God. Sometimes a call to go...and sometimes the call was to act. But whatever the call, I learned I needed to put my trust to the test. First, do I trust it is God calling. Do I know God well enough to recognize his voice, His call?
When God called upon Abram to "Go", to leave his country and his people and travel to a new and different land, a place he had never been before - Abram obeyed. He did it, he packed up everything and everyone he loved and set out on a journey of a lifetime.
Imagine the adventure he would have missed out on had he ignored the call. Think of the different life he would have experienced if he had stayed put, remained in the comfortable place God found him.
Now think about you, your life. Has God ever placed a call on your life to move across county or even the just the state. Did you recognize God's voice when you first felt the winds of change blowing? Did you pray and ask God to confirm his plans for you; to repeat what He wanted you to do? That's okay you know. God will tell you again, or He will use someone else to confirm what you are hearing.
Are you sensing a change right now? Is there something God is whispering in your spirit? Is there something new and challenging and life-changing on the horizon. Pray, read God's Word, and talk it out with a trusted friend. God will make himself known to you when you put your trust in Him.
I might still be living in the north woods of WI if I had not listened to God when he told me my time in seclusion was at an end. This was a process, and if you were to peek at my journal entries during the month of March 2012, you could follow me right back to Ohio. The rest is history.
Genesis 12:1-5
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