Whatever He tells you to do, do it!!

I've taken a Sabbatical from blogging while our friends Harrison and Josephine were here. It has been so busy and enjoyable. It has been fascinating to watch Harrison minister in such a wide variety of situations. The Lord told him that he, Harrison didn't know God's people but God did so he would tell him what to say in each different situation.

After all that he said, in the 20 or so messages I heard, I keep hearing the message he gave about Jesus at the wedding of Cana in John 2 and the instructions of Mary to the servants. Whatever he tells you to do, DO IT!!! It was the key to the miracle then and it is the key to our miracles now. Absolute obedience to what God is saying to us right now. That is what puts God at work in our lives.

It seems it is often easier to just do our favorite Christian activity when the Lord speaks. He says give everything that you have to that person, so we close our eyes tighter and lift our hands higher and try to look even more spiritual than we did a second earlier, but none of that is really worship if He just told us to do something else. If we truly worship Him we will do what he says when He says it. So if He says go apologize to your brother, giving a bigger offering is not obedience or worship. It's more like putting on a fig leaf to cover yourself, but the covering is insufficient because it is not born in obedience, but instead it is trying to cover our disobedience.

I have seen what happens a few times in my life when we step out in obedience and say or do something that is out of our comfort zone. When I went to Mt. Carmel last year with the strong impression of the word "epicenter", I said it not having any idea of what would happen about 6 weeks later. I was thinking spiritual epicenter in my mind which I still believe is true. But God emphasized the reality by a physical earthquake whose epicenter was very close to Jacob's Well in Mt. Carmel. I felt a little out on a breaking limb when I said it, but it became a powerful word when the earthquake came.

Mary had such wisdom just to tell the headwaiter, Whatever he tells you to do, do it! Blessings to you all as you follow Him!!