God sometimes does influence us with a simple touch or feeling, but not so we would act on the feeling. If the touch is from Him, He will then provide sufficient evidence to confirm it beyond the slightest doubt.

Consider the beautiful story of Jeremiah, when he felt God leading him to purchase the field at Anathoth. He did not act on his initial feeling but waited for God to completely fulfill His words to him before taking action.

Then once his cousin came to him, bringing the external evidence of God’s direction by making a proposal for the purchase, he responded and said, “I knew that this was the word of the LORD” (Jeremiah 32:8).

Jeremiah waited until God confirmed his feeling through a providential act, and then he worked with a clear view of the facts, which God could also use to bring conviction to others. God wants us to act only once we have His mind on a certain situation. We are not to ignore the Shepherd’s personal voice to us, but like “Paul and his companions” (Acts 16:6) at Troas, we are to listen and also examine His providential work in our circumstances, in order to glean the full mind of the Lord. A. B. SIMPSON

Wherever God’s finger points, His hand will clear a way.

Never say in your heart what you will or will not do but wait until God reveals His way to you. As long as that way is hidden, it is clear that there is no need of action and that He holds Himself accountable for all the results of keeping you exactly where you are. SELECTED

For God through ways we have not known, Will lead His own.

A dying judge said to his pastor, “Do you know enough about law to understand what is meant by joint tenancy?”

“No,” was the reply; “I know nothing about law; I know a little about grace, and that satisfies me.”

“Well,” he said, “if you and I were joint tenants on a farm, I could not say to you, ‘That is your field of corn, and this is mine; that is your blade of grass, and this is mine,’ but we would share alike in everything on the place. I have just been lying here and thinking with unspeakable joy that Christ Jesus has nothing apart from me, that everything He has is mine, and that we will share alike through all eternity.”

God wants you to have all that He has—His Son, His life, His love, His Spirit, His glory. “All [things] are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God” (1 Corinthians 3:22–23). “My son . . . you are always with me, and everything I have is yours” (Luke 15:31). What a privilege! What a life for a child of God! Only unbelief can blind us to the Father’s love. Only with a false humility, the children of the King set limitations about their lives that He never appointed. The full table is set for us, and we eat so sparingly, forgetful of the voice that cries, “Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved” (Song of Songs 5:1 KJV).

“The resources of the Christian life,” says Dr. Robert F. Horton, “are just Jesus Christ.” He is our regal provision for the way. He is the way. Let us draw upon these Divine resources. Whom should He bless, even on earth, if not His own?

Supply yourself from Him!

God is to be adored, but He is also to be used. Merely to worship Him in the awe of His greatness and holiness is not to please Him fully. He wants us to draw upon Him as an asset of our practical life and as a priceless possession. We live in Him, but He also lives in us to bring to our souls the power of His own infinite life. To possess him is to possess all things and to have power to attain our noblest purposes.

He is always at our service. Use Him, then, for He is there and waits for you to use Him. All the unclaimed wealth of the forty thousand checks in the bankbook of the Bible is ours! And “He satisfieth [satiates] the longing soul” (Psalm 107:9 KJV). God is our God to be used for things we need Him for.

My need and Thy great fullness meet, and I have all in Thee.

God has a separate inheritance for each one. Do not fail to enter upon yours. “It is your right to redeem it and possess it” (Jeremiah 32:8).