God is beckoning

'Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward-to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back.
So let's keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision-you'll see it yet! Now that we're on the right track, let's stay on it.'
Philippians 3:13-16 MSG

Where is 'God beckoning [you] onward-to Jesus' in your 'one thing' this week?

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'We don't seek out a signpost in order to remain stuck beside it. Instead, we move on in the direction the sign is pointing. Where is God's Word pointing you today?' ~ WordLive 2011/08/24

A sign

When Joshua and the Israelites cross the Jordan River into Canaan, they are given a phenomenal sign:

Joshua 3:14-17
The Israelites packed up and left camp. The priests carrying the chest walked in front,  until they came to the Jordan River. The water in the river had risen over its banks, as it often does in springtime. But as soon as the feet of the priests touched the water,  the river stopped flowing, and the water started piling up at the town of Adam near Zarethan. No water flowed toward the Dead Sea, and the priests stood in the middle of the dry riverbed near Jericho while everyone else crossed over.  

There are times when God provides a clear sign to His people. Perhaps this has happened in your life. Perhaps it has happened as you have considered what it would mean for you to 'emerge'.

Sometimes, He doesn't. Even though we long for pink writing in the sky.

But if we are still, and we listen, if we invite His Holy Spirit to speak and mull over His Word and the things His people have said as we've shared our hearts with them; if we consider the things we are passionate about and the things we love to do, and those deep barely-whispered dreams of our hearts that God has planted there...watching as God connects the dots...we may find, after all, that sign.

Time

Have you given yourself enough time to think through it all and to listen to what God has to say about it?

A plan

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?
~ Mary Oliver

Come away with Me, come away.
It's never too late, it's never too late,
it's not too late for you.
I have a plan for you, I have a plan.
It's going to be wild,
it's going to be great,
it's going to be full of Me

Open up your heart and let Me in
~ Jesus Culture

I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out - plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. ~ Jer 29:11

 Is your plan His plan?

Journey into the unknown

God told Abram: "Leave your country, your family, and your father's home for a land that I will show you. Gen 12:1

Abram heads into the unknown in obedience to God. He speaks to Abram loud and clear, but He doesn't give him all the details.

Where?

How?

Abram's faithful obedience despite the unknown is a constant challenge to me, a person who likes to have all those sweet little yellow ducks nice and fluffy and lined up all in their straight row.

Why does he do it? He loves and trusts God. He is a friend of God.

In what area of your dreaming has God spoken loud and clear? Are you able to step out into that...because you love and trust Him?

'Letting God lead us where He wants us to go is daunting, but it changes the world. How ready would you be to answer God's radical call if it came now? Is anything holding you back?' www.wordlive.org

I'm giving You my dreams, laying down my rights
I'm giving up my pride, for the promise of new life
~ Surrender, Vineyard
I'd give it all up for you / Yes, I would
~ God

Road hump

'God's purpose may be clear to us. His plans, though, sometimes don't make a lot of sense.'

www.wordlive.org

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. "And My ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts. Isa 55:8-9

As I explored my dream and my list with God, I realised that there was at least one possible bump in this road. The physical 'bump' of another dream - starting a family. I wasn't sure how this would work with the dream or whether it would delay the dream.

Is there a potential bump in your road? Bring that to God now. Ask Him to show you that, no matter what happens, He is in complete control.