If you need help discerning God’s voice, this is for you. Let’s talk about what’s coming next in your life. Listen, we all have decisions to make. Who to marry, where to live, which job to take, which school to go to. And these decisions that we have to make sometimes leave us wondering, God, what’s next? What do you have for my life? Or maybe it causes us to worry, did I miss a turn somewhere back there? And what’s true is that we want to walk in God’s will.

We want to please the Lord. We want to fulfill his calling for our lives. So this of course leaves us frustrated because here on one hand we want to do what God says. We want to go where God wants us to go. But then on the other hand, we’re saying, “Lord, what do you want me to do? And where do you want me to go?” So let me give you the first tip here.

Instead of waiting for a definite yes, go until God says no. Believers waste so much time waiting around fearful, wondering if they’re going to make God mad. Listen, as long as you’re not committing a violation of the commands that are given to us plainly in the word of God, then I believe that there’s grace for the mistakes that we make in terms of timing and planning and the specific details of how we carry out our calling.

I don’t think God is looking over the balconies of heaven waiting for us to mess up by even the smallest detail in order to punish us. And while I understand that we of course should wait on the Lord, we of course should pray, we also have to acknowledge that God isn’t always going to split the sky and speak with an audible voice.

Sometimes you’re just going to have to say, “I think this is God, so I’m going to step out in faith.” Now, of course, this is all while balancing wisdom, but make sure that you’re not confusing fear for wisdom or wisdom for fear. In other words, God gives us tools, a blueprint, a general idea of what he wants us to do. And it’s our job to use our specific giftings to fulfill God’s general commands and callings.

God designed you to build, to create, to achieve, to advance, to go after what you believe is right. He says, “Here are the tools. Now go build the kingdom.” And we say, “Lord, what part of the wall should I get started on?” And he’s saying, “Just go build something.” In Acts chapter 16, beginning at verse 6, we read, “Next, Paul and Silas traveled through the area for Jia and Galatia because the Holy Spirit had prevented them from preaching the word in the province of Asia at that time.

Then coming to the borders of Mya, they headed north for the province of Bethnia. But again, the spirit of Jesus did not allow them to go there. So instead, they went on through my to the seapport of Trrowaz. Notice here that they went before they got a specific instruction. They actually got moving in faith to the point where the Holy Spirit had to say, “Actually, not right now.

” And then they went after that. And then again, the Holy Spirit had to prevent them. So this tells me that a they weren’t necessarily praying about every little detail. Now, I know this is going to sound um rebellious to some Christians, especially if we’ve been programmed to think that every day, every little decision requires a specific instruction from the heavens.

What I’m saying is that far too many Christians use that as an excuse to do nothing at all. And so, I’m not saying go fast. I’m not saying be presumptuous. I’m saying use wisdom. Use the skills God has given to you. Use the passions God has placed within your heart. Look at the landscape. Look at the need.