A Word from God is all YOU need.

Matthew 28: 16-17  Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.  And when they saw him, they worshiped him: but some doubted. 

That is the same that we are seeing in  the church today and in the world.  Some are believing, and some are doubting.  Someone reading this may not realize that their doubt is sin, but, the Bible calls it sin.  We tend to look at a drunkard or a rapist and think, "now that is sin."  God looks upon doubting with the same measure of contempt. 

James 1:6-8

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

 

We make excuses for our doubts, but until you get an understanding that you are sinning against God  you will continue to walk in doubt.  In James we see some of the qualities of a doubtful person.

 

A doubtful person wavers.  They are torn between two opinions.  I have counseled many young people that we making plans for their lives.  Tossed back and forth are many of them unsure of what they are going to do with their life.  I have had many of them ask me, "What is God's will for my life?"  I tell them to stop being afraid and worried, live you life one day at a time and God shapes your destiny as he opens the right doors.  Sometimes we get so worried because we get a certain age and God hasn't done anything yet.  Maybe 18 isn't God's time for you to be out of your home...Maybe 50 isn't God's time for your calling to manifest.  Maybe age 30 isn't the year that God intended  you to buy a home.  

 

When we get worried about what others will think if we delay, and we move ahead without clear direction from God we are going to always doubt and waver.  Without a vision for your life, you will perish along the way, and your dreams will grow dim.  Following God's leadership is more important than living up to man's expectations.  That was a word for someone.  There is someone reading this that is feeling pressure to move into something that you haven't heard God on the matter.  You better stand still until you hear God! 

 

If God is SILENT...the answer for that moment is NO.

Someone needs to hear this.  I have been following the leadership of the Holy Ghost for nearly three decades.  If you ask God should I do this, or can I go there, or should I move here, and he doesn't say yes or no, the answer is NO.  The answer is ALWAYS no unless the Word of God says YES to your question, or the Spirit of God speaks to your Spirit and says yes.

 

I saw a man once who asked God if he should marry a certain woman.  He got NO answer from God.  Heaven was silent.  So, after a while of seeking God, he looked into his plate of spaghetti one day and the noodles were intersected in what looked like  a Y to him.  He thinks, Y, for the word yes, and on a plate of spaghetti he decided that he knew the will of God.  God was saying YES marry the woman.  How many reading this know that God hadn't spoke yes to him.  He SAW, what he WANTED to see.  

 

The doubting man always wavers.  He doubted that he should marry, and he kept wavering back and forth.  Faith comes by what?  By hearing.  And hearing by what?  The Word of God.  Hey, you don't make any major decisions in life unless you get a WORD from God spoken directly to  your Spirit.  When you hear God say, "yes, marry this woman."  Your doubting days are over.  Faith springs up because you HEARD GOD.l

 

A doubter is driven with the wind, tossed back and forth.   Faith leads  you, but doubt will drive you.   Faith anchors you, but doubt tosses you back and forth.   I cannot express how much you need to hear God speak to you.  Everything depends on that!  God spoke to Abraham...and  by faith Abraham did what God spoke.  God spoke to Moses...and by faith Moses did what God spoke.  God spoke to Joshua...and by faith Joshua did what God spoke.  Faith comes by hearing.  You need to hear from God! 

 

If you are driven by doubt and tossed around, your prayers are ALL in VAIN!  The Scripture plainly says, "Let not that man think he will receive anything from God!"  Wow.  What removes doubt?  We need to hear from God, that is what brings faith and anchors us so that we are not driven and tossed about by doubt.  

 

Last a double-minded man is unstable.  When a table is unstable, it is not reliable.  How many of us does God look at us and he KNOWS that he CANNOT count on us because we are unstable.  Lord, I don't want to be unstable, but, if I don't hear the voice of God, I have nothing to anchor me when the storms of adversity comes my way.

 

We were ministering one time and God gave me a promise that he was going to do a work.  I heard his voice, he spoke it plainly to me.  This place had a lot of problems and strongholds.  For God to do a work, it would have to be God, that is for sure.  Difficult times came from time to time, and it would seem discouraging.  But, in those times I took those problems to the Lord, and I said this to God...All though this looks impossible, I STILL BELIEVE the Word you spoke to my heart.  I chose to believe even when it doesn't feel like it could ever come to pass.  And God has honored his Word. 

 

What do you do in your darkest moments?  You need to hear a promise from God to be your anchor to hold you during the storms.  Without it you are like a ship, lost out at sea.