Did I Hear Right?

But it turned out terrible!

This is nothing like I thought would happen!

How could this be right if it was God's will?

I must have misunderstood what God asked me to do!

Have you ever followed what you knew in your spirit was God's direction, and the results were nothing like you expected?

Did it make you question God? Yourself? Your ability to hear God?

The Bible is filled with commands to obey God. It is also filled with examples of people who did or didn't obey. And most of the the time, when someone listened to God and obeyed His voice, things didn't go as they expected them to. God doesn't work within our time frame or necessarily agree with our definition of success.

• God promised Abraham a son in his old age. But it was 25 years before that promise was fulfilled.



• God promised to deliver the Israelites from their Egyptian tormentors, but suddenly they stood on the banks of the Red Sea.



• God promised to send a Messiah to deliver his people. Instead, a Jewish baby was born to a poverty-stricken couple, who had to run for their lives to protect him.



• God told Noah to build a boat because a great flood was coming. But he had to endure the ridicule of the neighbors for another century before he saw a drop of rain. How he must have wondered: Did I hear right? Am I sure this is what God said?

What has God promised to do in your life if you submit to His will? Are you doubting that promise? Are you second-guessing every decision you made, trying to figure out why it isn't working out like you thought it would? You're in good company.

Remember this: Obedience is not measured in results. The outcome is not yours to predict. The battle is the Lord's.

So, get to it!

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