Assuming you sleep about eight hours a day, you can estimate that your brain has more than six thousand thoughts per day. If you are like me, that number is higher. Some of my most important thoughts occur in the wee hours of the morning before I fall back to sleep. I often say that 3 a.m. is a prime time for the “God thoughts.”

When is God most likely to interrupt your thoughts with his ideas? 

Being aware that the Holy Spirit is God’s voice of leadership in our lives is necessary.. Our thoughts will be filled with good ideas, but, when God speaks, it’s never a suggestion—which is the difference between our thoughts and his. God’s ideas have a higher purpose in our lives and are authored for the sake of those we will influence or minister to as well.

God’s ideas will always be consistent with who he is and what our Bibles reveal to be his priorities. Henry Blackaby’s Bible study entitled Experiencing God taught me that I needed to be open to God’s ideas in my life. Blackaby taught that when we made Jesus our Lord, we gave him permission to interrupt our thoughts with his. 

James said, when God speaks his will into our lives, we “ought to say we will live and do this or that.” In other words, when we know God’s will, we know what to do.

We have thousands of ideas each day. Some ideas are good and others are not. The ideas that should become our highest priorities are those thoughts authored by the Holy Spirit. God’s priorities are wisdom. Those thoughts are God’s ideas and will always be God’s wise priorities for the “this or that” of our lives.