Consider this: the vey thing that God wants to do is the very thing He does not do and perhaps will not do until the very second that we obey.

Are you enslaved by something? Are you in captivity to a lifestyle, state of mind, etc…?

Is there anything God has told you to do that you have not done?

Know this: If you/we are His, He has given us victory over that thing and over our flesh.  All we need to do and what is up to us to do is to OBEY!! Run to Abba! Confess! Repent! And then OBEY!

Are you bitter? Forgive.
Are you lazy and slothful? Get moving!
One step, one moment, one day at a time!

When God’s chosen people were in captivity He sent His servant Moses to tell Pharaoh to set His people free. In spite of his insecurities and his stutter, Moses did as he was told.
He obeyed God. Unfortunately for him, Pharaoh was a knucklehead. It wasn’t until God showed this enemy a thing or two…seven to be exact (along with taking his first-born son) did Pharaoh release what did not belong to him in the first place. But, within a very short period of time he wanted to take back what he had been forced to release.

Fast forward – Moses is standing on the edge of the Red Sea, on the edge of certain doom. Moses and all his people were hedged in, behind and before. What does He do? He obeyed God! In spite of his fear, his doubt, his confusion or his unbelief-he obeyed God!! 
And then God did what only He could have done-He parted the Red Sea!! Yep!! Our God who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above anything we could even think to ask, did and continues to do the impossible. And, dear sisters, He does it right on time! He doesn’t do it on our terms. He doesn’t do it our way. He moves according to the good pleasure of His own Holy and perfect will.

Is there something God is asking you to do? What is your response?

Selah
Stephanie Paul

Stephanie Paul serves as part of the Addiction Recovery Team at America’s Keswick as Director of Women’s Addiction Ministry. She has been married for almost 30 years to Sesky Paul who is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy. Stephanie serves alongside him as Care Group leaders in their church. They have two grown children.
Her single focus in ministry at Keswick is to image Christ in grace and truth to wounded and hurting women, encouraging them to make Jesus the truest Lover of their soul and the One in whom all hope lies.