Job 36:11 “If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.”

DAILY READING; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:16; 2 Kings 19; Nahum 1

Dr. Lester Sumrall is considered one of the greatest 20th century ministers of the Gospel.
However, when he first started preaching as a teenage evangelist, he was so impoverished that to earn money, he had to resort to feeding the hogs on a pig farm.
It was soul-destroying work and one day in desperation he lay in the middle of the field and cried out, ‘Oh, Lord, maybe I should go home and die!’ But the Lord calmed him by telling him to be faithful and He would give him much greater things.
Soon after that Lester had a vision of people from all over the world on a road to hell and heard God telling him to go to foreign nations and preach to them or else their blood will forever be on his hands.
One day, while holding a meeting in a small Church, God told him to close the meeting and go to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to the Tri-State Campmeeting. When Lester told the pastor of the Church where he had been preaching that God had asked him to close the meetings, the pastor was angry and called Lester “unstable” and refused to give him any honorarium.
But Lester was determined to obey God and travelled to Tri-State Campmeeting in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, as directed by God.
One of the speakers at the meeting was a well known British evangelist named Howard Carter. After the meeting, Lester was standing on the sidewalk outside the auditorium, when Howard Carter walked by him to go to his hotel. Hardly knowing what he was doing, Lester suddenly grabbed his hand and said “Sir, I will go with you over the highest mountains, I will go with you over the broad plains, I will go with you through every desert…..’
When Lester realized what he had said, he profusely apologized for saying those words.
But Howard smiled, and said, “Come to my room.”
In his hotel room, Howard told Lester that about two years earlier in London, God told him to go to the nations of the world and preach and that He had prepared a companion for him. He said God told him that person would say identically the same words that Lester had just told him on the sidewalk.
Miraculously, God had separately prepared these two men to preach to the nations
Their dramatic meeting led to a relationship likened to that of Paul and Timothy in the Bible. Howard was 41 years and Lester was 19 years and together, they traveled to many different countries, spreading the Gospel and establishing Churches.

What if Lester Sumrall had not heard God’s instruction to go to Arkansas, or perhaps, he heard it but failed to obey, he probably would have continued in a life of frustration and obscurity.
Truly, hearing God’s voice is our greatest asset in life and ministry. It is what brings us out of obscurity to the limelight.
God has a wonderful plan for each of His children but many are still languishing in irrelevance due to lack of hearing and following God’s voice.
God has positioned people who are destined to take us to the next levels of our assignment. But it will take our obedience to connect the dots in God’s plan.
This is why it is important that we spend time in prayer and study of the Word so as to know what God is saying to us per time. To successfully follow His leading, we must take time each day to devote ourselves to seek His will.
As God leads us, though we may not initially see the whole picture, we need to trust Him and move in obedience to the much He shows us. As we abide faithful in the little things, soon the bigger pictures will begin to unfold.
The determination to obey God, will sometimes put us in conflict with other plans or people’s expectations, but we must always elevate God’s will above all else.
We are not to lean on our understanding, but rather to trust in the Lord with all our heart.
When we yield ourselves in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He will lead us inch by inch into the grand plan He has for us.
Therefore, from this moment, let us determine to persistently follow God’s guidance and walk in obedience to His instructions. As we do, it is only a matter of time before we begin to see the manifestation of His great and wonderful purpose for our lives.

PRAYER: Lord, I ask for the grace to always follow Your vision and not my own ambitions. As I do, I thank You for connecting me to my next level and unfolding the good and grand plan You have ordained for me in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
There is something that God has placed within you that the world is eagerly awaiting to see.– WORDBITE 222.