The Daily Guide
Before you set off
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 27:6 - NKJV
Jotham prepared his ways before the Lord. What a difference that made to his life. It's one thing preparing your ways. It's totally something else to prepare them before the Lord. Preparing them before the Lord calls for you to leave the work space and enter the worship place. The scripture clearly suggests that Jotham took his ways to the Lord in order to prepare them before the Lord.
If you are to prepare your ways before the Lord you will have to do as Jotham did. You will have to "enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise" and by faith "go boldly to the throne of grace." In His presence you will need to lay out your proposed ways before Him and see what He has to say about them. Many believers are practiced at presenting petitions to the Lord for Him to fulfil. How many Christians are well practiced at presenting their ways to Him so that He may have a say in them? How delighted the Heavenly Father must be when one of His children come to Him for His counsel. What a refreshing change from the way so many only call upon Him for His hand in making work what they have already decided to do. Psa.100:5, Heb.4:16.
Start your day in God's presence preparing your ways before Him. The Holy Spirit - by the apostles and prophets - persistently tells you to do this. I am so glad that this is a habit I have developed over the years. It has made such a difference to our lives. My wife and I start our day in the Lord's presence. We follow the scriptural admonitions about committing our ways and works to the Lord. We wait on the Lord for His comments and counsel. We get excited that in one of those admonitions it is declared, "Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed." Prov.16:3 - Amplified Bible.
Let the Lord give direction to your ways
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