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Thursday... Yes, we just need to listen.


Exodus 18:19a, "Now listen to me, and let me give you a word of advice, and may God be with you."

Thursday... Yes, we just need to listen.

God uses different means to teach us, to direct us, to lead us.

Here in Exodus 18, God used Moses' father-in-law, Jethro. In verses 17-19a (NLT) it says, "'This is not good!' Moses father -in-law exclaimed. 'You're going to wear yourself out - and the people too. This job is too heavy a burden for you to handle all by yourself. Now listen to me, and let me give you a word of advice, and may God be with you.'" And he gave the advice and Moses listened. Verse 24 says, "Moses listened to his father-in-law's advice and followed his suggestions." Listening can be a very good and profitable thing to do.


Here is another way that God leads. Matthew 2:9b-10 (MSG) says, "Then the star appeared again, the same star they had seen in the eastern skies. It lead them on until it hovered over the place of the child. They could hardly contain themselves: They were in the right place! They had arrived at the right time."

There aren't too many stars out there for us to follow but there always will be something that God will use to lead us if we are looking and listening. And I love this and have found it true in my life, "They could hardly contain themselves: They were in the right place! They had arrived at the right time." 

It goes on, verses 11-12 says, "They entered the house and saw the child in the arms of Mary, his mother. Overcome, they kneeled and worshiped him. Then they opened their luggage and presented gifts: gold, frankincense, myrrh. In a dream, they were warned not to report back to Herod. So they worked out another route, left the territory without being seen, and returned to their own country." God used another way to communicate to them. 

And then Psalm 96:11-13 (NLT) says, "Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise! Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy! Let the trees of the forrest sing for joy before the Lord, for he is coming! He is coming to judge the world with justice, and the nations with his truth." Just look around and see what he is saying.

God uses so many ways to lead us, to speak to us and we just need to be sensitive to what he is saying and listen and do. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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