A Divine Interruption

Isaiah 55:8-9 NASB
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

“Although there are exceptions, usually when God requires something of you, it will clash with what you consider to be the natural, reasonable course of action.  Jesus said that if a fellow strikes you on the cheek, you should turn the other.  Now that is not reasonable.  Neither is going two miles when only required to go one.  There are many occasions God’s voice will ask us to accomplish something that seems quite Illogical and Irrational to our minds.”
–Charles Stanley: How to Listen to God.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

“God will not tell us some things instantaneously.  We will hear some things only after having waited a season of time.  One reason for this is because we are not ready for what is next.  We must be willing to listen to Him patiently.  When we do our faith may be stretched.  We like to say, “Lord, here is my order today, please answer this before I get off my knees.”  But what God will often do, is change and prepare our hearts to be able to hear and respond when he does speak.”

Psalm 115:1 ESV
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

1 Timothy 2:3-4
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Peter 4:10-11
As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the multifaceted grace of God. 11 Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking actual words of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 4:3a
For this is the will of God, your sanctification.

Isaiah 43:7
Everyone who is called by My name, and whom I have created for My glory, whom I have formed, even whom I have made.

Deuteronomy 31:7-8
Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance. 8 And the Lord is the one who is going ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not desert you or abandon you. Do not fear and do not be dismayed.”

Proverbs 16:9 NASB
The mind of a person plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

February 2027