WHEN GOD NUDGES

1 Samuel 12:16 Now stand here and see the great thing the Lord is about to do.

Sometimes we hear a phrase that resonates in our spirit and I heard this the other - ‘Somebody in need, is waiting on the other side of your obedience.’ You see God gives all of us assignments to fulfil and we know the feeling when we’re aware God is giving us a nudge to do something, to go somewhere, to contact somebody. At that moment we have a choice, we can obey God or we can do nothing, or find twenty excuses why we can’t do it right now!😊

I’ve discovered that when God nudges us there is a time element involved that comes with the nudge. When God wants us to contact someone it’s because they are in need at that moment. If we wait till it’s more convenient, it might be too late. God wants immediate obedience.

Perhaps you have been on the receiving end of someone else’s obedience and you’ve been so blessed, so encouraged just when you needed it. What if that person hadn’t obeyed God’s nudge? We all want God’s plan to be unfolded in our lives but what if you are part of someone else’s plan, and their plan won’t unfold until you have been obedient to God?

Can I encourage us all today to obey the smallest nudge, and do what He is asking us to do, straight away? 

For instance, we heard someone needed a single bed urgently. God knew we had one we weren’t using just then, so He nudged us to pack it in the car and off we went to take it to them. Someone was in need, on the other side of our obedience, and we were glad to help. 

Four years ago God nudged me to start writing this Blog in the middle of Co-vid and it’s still going thanks to you lovely readers who God nudges to read it.😊 

Is God nudging you to do something? To start a business, a house group, a work with kids, to write a book or a song, to visit or phone someone, to pray for your locality, to provide what someone needs? 

Don’t delay any longer, just do it, answer the nudge, and like our verse says ‘see the great thing the Lord is about to do’ - through you!😊

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