1559 Go and Doubt Nothing

Where do you turn for daily guidance on what decisions to make? Are you checking your horoscope? Are you listening to your favorite influencer on the TikTok? Are you asking all your Facebook friends for input? Are you waiting to see if you feel like doing anything before you make any decisions?

Scripture tells us the only Guide worth trusting is the Holy Spirit. He is the One who knows our pasts and our future. He knows God’s plan and purpose for us today and every day for eternity. He also knows what is good and right for us. He knows which way we should go, what we should do next, and where this is all leading.

We don’t know. Neither does any influencer you’re following, stars you’re waiting to align, or horoscope written in the paper. There’s one guide, and that guide is God’s Holy Spirit. This is why we have an undeniable need for the guidance of God’s spirit.

Jesus repeatedly referred to the Spirit as the “Spirit of Truth.” John 16:13, “He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.” So, think of the Holy Spirit like this … it is like our inner compass – always pointing us toward God’s good plans for our lives.

God desires to make His will known to you. He wants you to know what to do and when to do it. Therefore, you can trust the Holy Spirit to be your daily Guide.

After the Lord poured out the Holy Spirit on the disciples, they found themselves led in profound ways by the Spirit. What He did for them then, He desires to do for you today.

One example is in Acts 11:12. Peter says, “The Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing.”

Wouldn’t you love to have this type of direction in your life? An undeniable and clear prompting that leaves no doubt.

Well, you do. As a daughter of God and a follower of Jesus, you are offered the Holy Spirit for guidance. How God spoke to his disciples is how he wants to speak to you. And he is … the problem is, you’ve been dismissing it.

As long as you dismiss his promptings, you never realize the divine direction God has been offering. You never see how God was leading you. He was strengthening you. He was answering you.

Look back on your own life. Do you see how you were in the right place at the right time for the right thing to happen? What took you there? A prompting. You were prompted to go. Prompted to show up. Don’t dismiss that. You were guided by God to be there for that unfolding. It’s not odd, it’s God!

That’s how you ended up in this career. That’s how you met your love. That’s how you stumbled into your neighborhood. A loving, all-knowing and all-powerful God was prompting through his Holy Spirit, and you didn’t even know it! But look back on it and see it now. WOW, thank you God!!!!

Even think about this … how did you come to find this podcast? How did that happen? Was it a Spotify search and those red boots just jumped out at you? Was it a friend who shared an episode forever ago? Was it a random encounter that caused you to listen? That was it a prompting of the Holy Spirit who divinely guided you right here to receive what you needed! None of this is random. NOTHING. God is in every detail.

Here’s the thing, once you start recognizing God is in every detail, you start worrying and stressing a whole lot less. God is taking you on a journey, showing you that you can trust him. He’s leading you to a place where you can confidently say just like Peter, “The Spirit told me to go, doubting nothing.