Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

The faith walk means that there is nothing in the way of your responding to the call of the Lord.

The Lord doesn't tease us, and He will use all that He is allowed to. If you think your age or your marriage or your disfigurement is keeping you back, you are wrong!

The Lord specialized in taking what is offered, and making the thing He wants out of it - that is what the loaves and fishes are all about. Our sovereign God has not called you to a service that He won't allow.

 

Over the years, I have heard numerous women say that they knew that God was calling them, but they could not do the thing they so wanted - usually the mission field, or building an orphanage, etc.

 

In each case, it was not the call of God at all, but the woman, desperately wanting to do a particular thing that they were clearly prevented from doing.

 

The Lord can certainly do anything He wants to, and I have strongly suspected a number of times that I would end up doing the very thing that seemed so impossible.

 

But God does not trap us, and then stand outside the situation, calling us to do something else, just to see how much we can bear. If you think you are in that situation, tell the Lord outloud that according to His Word this plan is the best, and then go to work - whatever (or whoever) the thing in the way is, serve the Lord to the enth degree in the very thing that chaffs you.

 

If you have a husband ridiculing your believing walk, ask the Lord to break you up and pass you out right in your own home, so that the angels will marvel.

 

If the door is not open for you to go, it is HE who doesn't want you to go.

 

Sit down and figure out how many days you have left if the Lord lets you live another ten years. Instead of living them in resentment and "grass is greener" ness, serve Him by ministering to and through the one you think is holding you back.