"You go... I'll show you"

Abram heard from God. God said, "Go to a land that I will show you." (Genesis 12:1) Test one. Abram was tested with the command to "just start going." There was no place yet revealed. No plan provided. No time table... just a command to go. As he went he heard the Lord speaking to him telling him of his plans. He built an altar to remind himself, and his descendants that God had spoken there. Then he continued the journey. As he went, listening and expecting God to speak, God guided Him to the land where He sent him.

Prayer is like that journey. We begin with a call, an inner awareness of the need, maybe a feeling of emergency to come to God and find deeper things. As we continue that journey, we will find times that deserve a spiritual "altar" to be erected to remind us of something God said. We don't want to forget that moment. That is a good thing for us to do.

Are you willing to go where He will show you? When you follow God in prayer, you will suddenly find yourself where you didn't realize you were going. The growth that led to that place was gradual, but the realization comes suddenly. A thought, a word, a prayer is suddenly more God-like, more spiritually mature. You hear something in your thought or word that is different than what you would have expressed months ago. That is evidence of God's direction in your journey. You are at a place where He has led you. But the journey is intended to continue. It will be filled with questions and doubt, with trials and struggles. It will sometimes be a lonely journey. But that is part of it. It is those things that will grow us and shape us until we reach His throne. There we are to make our home.

God is calling for His pray-ers to surface and travel with Him to new places. It is needed for His plan to come together. Our future will have a need for the mighty work of God to flow into this world through the prayers of His children. The "host of the faithful" are falling in line. "Call to Him..."