Miracles Don't Just Happen by Lester Sumrall

Author:Lester Sumrall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Miracles, Signs & Wonders
ISBN: 9780882703695
Publisher: Sumrall Publishing
Published: 1979-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Miracles and Divine Guidance

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.

Psalm 37:23

One of the most prevalent questions on the minds of Christians today, clergy and laity alike, is "How can I know the will of God?"

The devil provokes men and women to fret over this question. The will of God is as simple as breathing. Every child of God is in the will of God unless he has intentionally violated what he knows to be God's will.

It is impossible to be out of the will of God if one truly loves God and does whatever God has asked him to do. If God has never asked a person to do anything, then that person can safely assume he is already doing God's will.

For example, at this moment my three sons, wherever they are and whatever they might be doing, are in my will. This is true because I love them and trust them and believe they are capable of doing whatever they should be doing. If I should want my sons to come to me, I would telephone and ask them to catch an airplane and fly to wherever I am. Then if they refuse to come they would be out of my will, even though they were in my will doing the very same thing a few minutes earlier.

This was true of Elijah. The prophet was in the will of God while he was alone in the wilderness by the brook Cherith. Then when God spoke and said it was time to get up and go, if Elijah had refused to move he would have been out of the will of God. The same place that was God's will for Elijah on one day was out of God's will the following day.

As far as I know, from the time I was seventeen I have never been out of the will of God simply because whenever God said to do something, I didn't hesitate. I just did it. Whether the task was difficult or easy made no difference. Whether it would take a moment or years to accomplish did not matter. Even if God's instructions did not make sense to me I would immediately say to myself, "God knows more than my mind knows." So I have done whatever God said to do without trying to decide if it seemed the sensible thing to do.

Almost everything I have ever done for God seemed wrong from the natural standpoint. When I started out to preach at the age of seventeen, people said that it was wrong because they thought I needed a Bible school education. I began preaching anyway and from the very beginning started raising up churches which to this day stand as memorials to the wisdom and power of our allwise God.

At the age of twenty when I started around the world with only twelve dollars in my pocket that seemed like anything but the smart thing to do. The minister in San Francisco who took me to the ship tried to discourage me from going up to the very moment of my departure.

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