Prayer & Guidance
Within the Delve Blog Prayer and Guidance category we attempt to clear away some of the confusion and wrong beliefs behind these topics and help equip you to hear from God.
Monday, 06 July 2009 01:00 | and posted in Prayer & Guidance
The book of Acts in the New Testament contains a couple of fascinating stories about God guiding the early church that give us insight into how we too can receive guidance from God for our lives today. The story I want to look at with you is from Acts 15: 1-35. Here the apostles and elders of the early church meet together to discuss whether Gentile converts to Jesus needed to be circumcised.
So what can we learn from how they made this decision?
Monday, 22 June 2009 01:00 | and posted in Prayer & Guidance
What if, when we are asking God what decision we should make he is responding with a question of his own: What would you like to do?
There's a danger when we talk about guidance that we treat God as something akin to satnav. A friend recently said to me in an email, "if God has a plan for me, it's up to him to point me to it." We want God to say next left, or second right!! However, God reveals himself to us as a father and this has huge implications for how we should view his guidance.
Monday, 08 June 2009 01:00 | and posted in Prayer & Guidance
A friend of mine recently wrote in his blog, "Before I was a Christian I was very decisive. Now I struggle with making decisions."
I know many Christians who share this same indecisiveness and there's probably a good chance you do too. It comes from an honest desire to hear from God when making a big decision. However, if this guidance doesn't clearly come, then indecisiveness creeps in and takes over.