When it comes to doing things for God we waste a lot of time
trying to figure things out. I’m currently attending a bible college and recently
we had a guest speaker and his wife speaking on prophecy and on letting God
work through you in order to further His kingdom during our lecture hour. One
day they asked us to get with a partner and pray over them then ask God to
reveal something about them to us that He needed/wanted our partner to hear.
When I did this exercise I spent most of the prayer time worrying about what
God wanted me to tell my partner. When it came time for me to tell my partner
what God had spoken into me I froze up, I had no idea what He wanted me to say.
It was terrifying, thankfully once I got started talking God began to move and
I was able to tell my partner what God wanted me to say in the first place. I
had wasted so much time worrying that I almost missed what God wanted me to
say.
This is a problem Christians face every day. We are asked by
God to do something for Him and we blow it by trying to figure out what He
wants us to do. It’s not just when we are telling someone what God wants them
to hear but when God prompts us to speak to someone about Him or when we feel
like we should give money to a visiting missionary or even when we feel like
the person sitting in front of us needs a friend. We waste time wondering things like, well
what if they don’t want to listen? What if they cuss me out? Will I have enough
money for the week if I give to that person? Will they turn me away? Sometimes
we worry that we won’t know what to say when the time comes. We think that we
need to know exactly what to say and because we don’t then its not going to
work. But that’s not how God wants us to follow Him. Sometimes its just best to
act now think later when it comes to listening to God. In Matthew 6:30-33
(NKJV) Jesus tells us,
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so
clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the
oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore
do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What
shall we wear?’ 32 For after all
these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need
all these things. 33 But seek first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added
to you.
He is telling us here not to worry about the little things,
as in what were going to wear and where our money is going to come from. As
long as we are doing what the Lord asks us to do then He will provide for us.
Not only does the bible tell us not to worry about our finances and daily needs
but it also tells us in 2 Corinthians 3:12 “Therefore,
since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech” Here we are told to
be bold for Christ because of our faith in Him.
The next day of classes the guest speaker finished they
asked us to find another partner and we were going to put into practice what
he’d just spoken on. This time we weren’t going to pray over the person first
but we were going to declare what God wanted to tell them. The guest speaker
asked us to think of one thing that we needed breakthrough for in our lives and
to tell it to our partner. You can imagine how I felt faced with this new task,
I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do this exercise but I had faith that God could
and would give me the word He wanted my partner to hear. I was partnered with a
person that I’d never met before, she was a wonderful young lady who was bright
and outspoken, but she was having problems giving her testimony to someone God
had told her to share it with and wanted breakthrough in that area. The
preacher asked us not to pray over the person but to say “I command that in the
name of Jesus you will have breakthrough over…” and to let God’s word flow
through us after that. When it came my turn to speak over my partner I took a
deep breath and said the words, as I said them I felt the Spirit of God moving
through me and before I knew it I was speaking words over her life that I’d
never even thought to say. I didn’t waste time trying to figure out what God wanted
me to say I just said the words we’d been told to say and then everything came
naturally.
I almost lost my chance to do what God wanted me to do by
worrying about not saying the right thing and worrying about what I was suppose
to say. But the second time I didn’t worry, I simply trusted God and my partner was
blessed for it. How much more would we get done for God if we simply trusted
Him when He asked us to do something? How many people would be touched and
changed for Christ if we would just open up our mouths and tell them about the
love of Jesus? God is not asking you to talk to that person because He wants to
see you fail, He wants to see them changed and He knows that you are the person
who can help them. The bible says that God will never give you more than you
can bear and He will never send you some place your not ready for. Romans 8:31
(NKJV) says, “What then shall we say against these things? If God is for us who
can be against us?” So why worry about failure when God is with you?
If you are stuck by fear or even doubt then even after
reading this then I challenge you to think about how much that person NEEDS the
love of Jesus in their life before you let the opportunity slip away. Go out
and talk to someone about God without worrying about it. I dare you.
More Verses to consider:
Luke 12:31
2 Timothy 41:5
Psalm 111: 5
2 Timothy 41:5
Psalm 111: 5
2 Corinthians 9: 10
Luke 12: 24
