Saturday 21 May 2022

May 21: Acts 16:6-10

Key Verse: Acts 16:10
After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Devotion:
Sometimes we do have some rather strange dreams and visions; how we take them and how we react to them is going to be different for each of us. I know I had some pretty strange dreams the other night, but I also know they were entirely related to a strange film I watched earlier on TV. Sometimes God is going to try to get through to you in different ways, maybe it will be an intense feeling you should be doing something, or maybe it will be a dream, or, failing everything else He may send someone directly to you to tell you about it!

We don’t always listen to what God has to say to us because we are not always totally in tune with Him. I know I have had very deep feelings and prompts when I have been away at camps or festivals, but I have also had very deep feelings being at home by myself… when I was thinking of God, praying or just having a quiet moment with Him. If we are tuned in to the world around us we may miss out on what God is saying because the world is shouting louder!

Paul and his companions were going through Phrygia and Galatia and had not done a lot of preaching because God was not giving them the chance to. When they came to the border of Mysia and tried to enter Bithynia, God once again stopped them from going further. Instead, God gave Paul a dream where he had a man of Macedonia standing and begging him to come and help them. For that sort of dream to come out of the blue, Paul knew God was reaching out to him…

If you have dreams or thoughts which are unrelated to anything else which is going on, stop and think about them; maybe God is trying to reach out to you. But how do we understand what God is asking… we stop and allow God to explain things to us through spending time with Him. Speak to God in prayer and wait for an answer. Wait. Wait a bit longer, He will answer...

Points to Ponder:
Do you spend enough time with God?

Will you stop and allow God to answer?