Day 23 of the #31dbc!

“Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.” Psalms 119:133-135.

When I go out to eat with The Sweetheart, we will walk into a restaurant and say, “Table for two, please.” Then inevitably, one of us will head to the restroom to wash our hands. That leaves the other one at the table, alone, when the server comes to ask what we would like to drink.

I trust him to order for me when it comes to a Dr. Pepper or a Strawberry Lemonade.

But if I am not back when she comes asking about the main course….hold on Big Boy!

I don’t want him to order what I am going to eat. I might not feel like spaghetti that night. I might have preferred a steak and baked potato!

“Order my steps in your word…” Guide me, direct me, and put me on the right path.

Lord, you can go ahead and order for me!

You can order whatever you think is best for my life. I will take it and accept it and run with it God as your will for my life. 

Do we trust Him enough to truly let Him have full control? To really let Him ORDER our steps? To say, “Okay, Lord, it’s in Your hands, do with it as you wish. I am just the clay, You are the Potter.” Then step back and let Him do the work. Wow.

Just imagine if we actually LIVED that way!

But to do that, a change will have to take place.

He isn’t going to order and guide our footsteps if we refuse to move our feet! WE have to be willing to get up off of our seat of do-nothing-and-do-little!

If you ask Him to order your steps, to truly place the “menu” of your life in His hands and let Him decide what is best for you, then you had better be prepared to MOVE!

“Guide my path, Lord…but I will just sit right here and hope everything turns out alright. Let me know when You’re done.”

It doesn’t work that way. You have to be a vital part of the equation. He wants you to be involved in the process. You have to be out in the trenches! He does the choosing, but you are the recipient, so once He hands those items off the menu to you, then you must get up on your feet and run with it!

What has He given you? What has He chosen for you? Every one of us has a mission, every one of us has a chosen path, and our steps have been “ordered” by God. But we have to get up off of our FEET.

He doesn’t want us to just sit there when the order comes through.

You have to be ready to move your feet!

As we enter this season of thankfulness, I thought it would be good to hear from you, from your corner of the globe and right here close by too. Some of you I hear from regularly, some read but have never commented. What I would love to know is three things:

1. Something God has done for you in 2013, what you are most thankful for.

2. What you want to see accomplished in your spiritual walk in 2014.

3. How you and your family will be celebrating the Thanksgiving Holiday if at all.

Mention what state or country you are from. You can email me your response to ynannette@gmail.com . I would like to use the information in my Thanksgiving post and show what God has been doing around the world! I will only use first names so you don’t have to worry about confidentiality. But if you do not even want me to use your name at all, please say so in your post and I will respect your wishes.

This will be a great blessing! I hope you will take a couple of minutes and answer the questions for me. I love and appreciate every one of you. These last eight months have been some of the most rewarding of my life and I thank you for being a part of the journey.