experiencing God

God is faithful. If I haven't learned anything else in the past three weeks, that should be enough. It's been a crazy month. My life turn a completely unexpected corner, one that only God could have led me around. Just thought I would start off sharing a bit of my devotional today:

When God purposes to do something, He guarantees that it will come to pass. He is the One who will accomplish what He purposes to do. If you depend on anything other than God, you will be asking for failure in Kingdom terms. If you follow someone else's plan, use a method, or emphasize a program, you will have a tendency to forget about your dependence on God. You leave the relationship with God and go after a method or a program.
While you wait on Him, you will be praying with a passion to know Him, His purposes, and His ways. You will be watching circumstances and asking God to interpret them by revealing to you His perspective. You will be sharing with other believers to find out what God is saying to them. While you wait, continue doing the last thing God told you to do. In waiting you are shifting the responsibility of the outcome to God- where it belongs.
Then, when God gives you specific guidance, he will do through you more in days and weeks than you could ever accomplish in years of labor. Waiting on Him is always worth the wait. His timing and His ways are always right. You must depend on Him to guide you in His way and in His timing to accomplish His purpose.
If you walk in a consistent relationship with God's provision for you- the provision of His Son, His Holy Spirit, and His own presence in your life- then you should never come to a time that you do not know the will of God.
He gives you the desire to do His will. His Holy Spirit guides you to pray according to God's will. Believe that what He has led you to pray, He Himself will bring to pass. When God encounters you, you face a crisis of belief that may require major adjustments in your life. You may need to let God wake you up in the middle of the night to pray...

I cannot tell you how much I have learned in the past few weeks. I can tell you that I have never felt God's arms closer to me, His Word closer to my heart.
There is a heart aching moment, and then- His comfort surrounds me and I am overwhelmed with joy. I hope you can experience God like I have.