Prov. 3:5-6 ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths’.

DAILY READING • Matthew 5:21-48; Exodus 30-32; Proverbs 14

The American government has announced that Harriet Tubman will be honored as the first African-American to be featured on United State paper currency.
Harriet Tubman who is being recognized for her Anti-slavery crusade will appear on the $20 bill replacing former President Andrew Jackson who owned slaves and forcibly relocated Native Americans.
The honor of appearing on the country’s currency is inherently limited to a small group of America’s national heroes, especially an array of White male leaders: This includes George Washington on the $1, Thomas Jefferson on the $2, Abraham Lincoln on the $5, Alexander Hamilton on the $10, Jackson on the $20, Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 and Benjamin Franklin on the $100.
Harriet Tubman has made this prestigious list because of her courageous efforts to free black people from slavery.

However, the outstanding secret of Harriet Tubman’s success was because she strived to always follow God’s voice
She received salvation early in her life, and while growing up as a slave, she often gave herself to prayer and learned to listen to the voice of God.
In 1849, when Tubman was in her late twenties, she felt she heard the Lord’s voice urging her to flee northward. She was able to escape by making a journey of about 90 miles on foot for about a week, hiding during daylight hours and following the North Star for direction.
When she arrived to freedom, with God’s help she found odd jobs and then began to work to help other slaves escape to freedom. In the following years, Tubman helped to liberate as many as 300 slaves.
Tubman’s faith was a major resource on these dangerous missions. She often spoke of ‘consulting with God’ and would only go where she felt He was leading her to. As a result of this, many times she narrowly escaped danger. In one instance God warned her to turn aside from the path she was on and cross a rushing river immediately. After she obeyed, she was able to escape a group of desperate men who had been waiting on the former path to capture her.
She always gave God all the glory for her miraculous deliverances. When people seemed to wonder at the courageous and amazing accomplishments of this small black woman, she would always reply, ‘It wasn’t me. It was the Lord!’

Indeed through God’s guidance, we can become signs and wonders to our world. To successfully navigate through this life and avoid pitfalls, we need to follow strictly the instructions of the Spirit.

Prov. 3:5 tells us to trust in the Lord with all our heart, and not to lean on our own understanding.

God guides the steps of His children who seek Him in prayer.
When we commit our lives to the Lord and daily seek His divine direction, then we can be sure He will lead us on the right paths where things will work together for our good
There will be many times we may not know what to do or what directions to take in life. But God always knows what is best for us. This is why we must seek Him for guidance. When we commit ourselves to diligently seeking God and calling upon Him, He will answer us and show us greater and mighty thighs.

In Jeremiah 33:3, God said: “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”.

It can be tempting to follow the easy way of guiding ourselves and relying on our physical senses. But there is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
When we pay the price through prayers and diligent study of the Word to seek God’s voice and follow His guidance, He will be our shepherd, leading us away from dangers to our green pastures in life.
However, to clearly hear what the Lord is saying to us, we need to be correctly positioned in our walk with Him.
The correct platform for divine connectivity is coming up spiritually until we are attuned to the Spirit of God.
In Revelation 4:1, God told apostle John “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”.

Indeed to see the things that God is showing to us we must come up to a higher spiritual level because a carnal mind cannot receive the things of God. This means we must be revived and walking in line with God’s Word.
As we commit to living a life of spirituality and total dependence upon God, surely, He will guide us into becoming trans-generational signs and wonders, just as He did for Harriet Tubman.

PRAYER Lord Please enable me to clearly hear Your voice and closely follow Your divine instructions. By Your grace, I shall continue to walk by faith until I arrive at Your promise of wonders for my life in Jesus Name.

QUOTE
When you apply The Word of God, it will work for you, anywhere and anytime- WORDBITE 222.