Stirred Up (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you once again for the opportunity to be able to come your way and spend time with you and share things with you that will bless your heart, strengthen you in your walk with God. This week, I've just been sharing a few stories from my life, from the early days and trust that each of these will be a blessing to you. One of the things that when I look back and try to look at those early years of my life, four years in school and then off into another four years in engineering college, that there were many things that I stepped out to do. So, in Bangalore in my school days, I was leading work in three different schools, plus another Bible study ministering to people, doing different things. I started writing letters that I started sending out to people to minister the word of God to them, which I believe led to what we were able to do today, which is write books and send them out, but it had a beginning in those days, just writing letters and notes to people. I went to engineering college, I was able to establish fellowship for students that impacted the lives of many students who came on in the years thereafter and seeing the work of God right from those early days and one of the things that really led me to do these things when people ask, did you have a dream, did you have a vision, did an angel appear? Did you have any special visitations from God? None of that! But in all of those things, there was just a simple stirring in my heart to do that particular work for God and I just stepped out into that. So, what I want to share with you today is that many times God leads us through a simple stirring in our hearts and we follow that stirring, a mighty work of God takes place. So, this is what Nehemiah says, Nehemiah chapter 2, verses 11 and 12, he says, ‘So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days. Then I rose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; Nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.’ Notice what Jeremiah is saying, God had put it in my heart to do this work in Jerusalem. How did Nehemiah know what he had to do? No angel came, nobody prophesied, no vision, it was simply something God had put in his heart and he stepped out to do it. That's how God leads us very often. We do believe in prophecies, we do believe in dreams, we do believe in supernatural visitations, but many times God leads us by just dropping something simple in our hearts to do. And then when we step out, a work of God takes place that blesses the lives, maybe about 10, maybe of hundreds, maybe of thousands of people. So don't miss what God puts in your heart. Take it, step out on it and the work of God will take place. Let's pray, Father, we ask that you will help us recognize things that you drop in our hearts, to do for your kingdom, whether it's a small thing like calling somebody or starting a new work, help us to recognize and respond, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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