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Do It God’s Way

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5
Devotional Series: Where is My Fear?
Teaching: Where Is My Fear pt. 3 (WED 2024-05-22) by Pastor Star R Scott

The Lord is good; amen?  His mercies endure forever.  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the beginning of knowledge.  We can say it another way:  an encounter with God.  The fear of the Lord is what caused us to really come into a true knowing of who He is.  We’ve heard about Him, but our fear of God brings about an intimacy where He comes to us and dwells in us, praise God!  He truly becomes the Lord of our lives in every aspect.

Many of us, tragically, as time goes on, and we have this indwelling Spirit that lives within us.  We experience re-creation and we’re so excited about that, the new heart and the new mind.  As time goes on, we have that tendency to go back and think that, now, we know how to be Christians.  "Now, I know the ways of God, and so I can make decisions based upon my knowledge rather than a visitation;" a word from God.  Many of us begin to live by the logos and not the rhēma.  We think we’ve assimilated the wisdom of God and the knowledge of God in our minds.  It can’t be experienced in our minds.  It’s only in our hearts (amen?) that we know Him, that we’re able to truly walk in obedience to Him in every aspect of our lives.

We started the study in Proverbs and we saw that we’re not to lean to our own understanding, but in all of our ways acknowledge Him and He will direct our paths; amen?  Oh, that very damnable seduction that causes us to lean to our own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge God and He will direct your path.  We want to allow that to begin to dictate, to become so natural and common in us.

I was just fellowshipping with the Lord the other day and just talking, you know, like we do, so it’s just visiting some.  It’s like, “Lord, help me to be conscious at every point of decision that I wouldn’t just do what I’ve been trained to do, what I’ve done for many years, but train me, help me to just stop and hear from you.”  Amen?  Oh, I know how to do this, but wait a minute.  He’s omniscient.  He’s also sovereign.  He has a way He wants this done.  It’s not enough for us to just do the will of God, we need to do the will of God the way He wants us to do the will of God.  That’s sovereignty.  That’s lordship.  “Well, I got it done for you.”  “I didn’t want it done that way; I had a specific way I wanted to do this.  Now, we won’t get into all the mysteries, but the reason I wanted you to do it this way is because I wanted you to encounter this person during this endeavor to share the gospel with them.”  Do you believe that He intricately guides our lives?  So, let’s just be careful that we don’t just start doing things because we know what to do and what we think God would do in this situation.

I want to hear Your voice.  The reason I was having that talk with the Lord and just fellowshipping with Him was because, as we’re coming into these days, for every decision we make, we may not have a lot of time to fix if it doesn’t go right, because the Lord’s coming back real soon.  Let’s fix what we know needs fixing today; amen?  Let’s not leave anything, of the obedience that God has called us to, undone.  Let’s not have anything in the spiritual realm that I’m going to get to tomorrow, that I know He told me six months ago to do.  To change things, so little as this, possibly just to change our prayer times, to change our quiet times—when’s the last time we asked Him about things such as that?  Am I on Your time schedule?  “Well, my job dictates that I get up at this time.”  Are we on God’s time schedule?  I really hope the Lord never calls me to that four o’ clock time that you hear so many people talking about that the Lord wakes them up for prayer.  I would much rather go to bed four hours later than to get up four hours earlier, in my own personal life–the intricacy of the knowledge of God.

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