As I read this passage and mediated on some of the comments in this posting, I could not help but compare the Journey that God has put me on in the past twelve months.

God certaintly has away of humbling you when your open to the leading of his spirit. I certaintly have found this out the hard way with recently having moved to a new area away from family and friends to persue a new Career.

Upon moving I experienced a real unsettling in my spirit. I initially put this down to moving into a new environment and I therefore ignored it. At the time I had no doubt that God wanted me here as it was something we had prayed about. Never the less this feeling did not go away.

I went to church to hear the local minister speaking on acts 7, specifically where God had said to “Abraham to leave is native land and family and go to the new land I will show them”. He then went on to talk about how Abraham didn’t fully listen to God as he brought Lot with him. The Crux of the sermon was about “what aren’t we letting go of to recieve gods promiseses in full.”

Although I was encouraged by this message I still felt unsettled in my spirit. 1: That this church wasn’t to be my new home, 2: about new Job.

That night I had an incredible personal encounter with God within my prayer time. He had opened my eyes to the meaning behind the message that day. Before moving, I had prayed to God that i was prepared to move if needed, but with conditions. (Don’t we all) God had given me the desires of my heart, but in doing so was showing me that my desires wern’t his desires and I needed to let go of what I new regarding my career path. There is a little more to this, but that’s it in a nut shell.

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).”

These words have true meaning to me