God's moving in our lives - it's such a phenomenal thing. Yet, Holy Scripture reports of it and reports promises of it's availability to all; promises on which so few of us act.

Compare your own conclusions with mine. Do we know how to seek God. If not, how then?

First conclusion: God is not predictable, God answers prayer in ways unexpected, God's design or plan for you is only for you and takes into account your ways, your talents, your value system, and your interests, and God is the great communicator. As God, the Great Communicator, God looks into your heart, your mind, your soul, and your body. Then, God communicates by either a voice in your mind, with a prophecy, with a suggestion or with an info story, or by a vision, or, more often, by impulse, idea, feeling etc that makes you feel impelled to call or to do something.

Second conclusion: The most important, long-range, life-changing communications from God are by a voice in the mind, a vision, a body of knowledge imparted in a moment, a healing, or a confirmation in some way of the validity of a thought, of a word that you hear, of something that you read, or of the applicability of a Scripture to a problem in your life.

Third conclusion: Although Saul of Tarsus was not seeking the Lord on the road to Damascus, he met the Lord and received a rather forceful suggestion to change his conclusions regarding Jesus. So God may have an agenda on rare occasions requiring a meeting with one who is not seeking(Moses, Saul, etc.). However, more generally, God is very polite and intrudes only minimally unless we seek God.

Fourth conclusion: God appears to wait until we reach a "critical mass" of sincerity. Sincerity that places God as number one in our life with no conditions or qualifications seems to be what God deems appropriate before giving us "life changing" communiques.

Fifth conclusion: God seems to have designed us to reach the required "critical mass" of sincerity by praying early especially, by praying on and off all day long, by spontaneously singing to the Lord and praising God, by reading the Scriptures out loud, by acknowledging God, and by focusing on pleasing God by our actions and how we treat and think about those we encounter. By maintaining a constant flow of praise and requests. By daily, indeed hourly, confessing our faithfulness and desire to be God's slave no matter what. By desiring what God wants rather than what we would want.

Sixth conclusion: We fall down. After we receive so much from God, we start working on our assignments and, over time, no longer feel the need to spend all of that time before God. Little do we realize that our time with God is our life. Truly, it is a choice of life or death. I am constantly encouraging people to cease from TV and other useless distractions so that they can have all of that time before their God.

Seventh conclusion: Regarding the rich and camels and the eye of a needle. People are not in control. There are death, taxes, adultery, children on drugs, Enron, Worldcom, war, accident, HIV/aids, Sars, crime, cancer, ad infinitum. But, people not suffering sufficiently in some way, believe that they are in control. And, if they are in control, then there must not be a God because a God would definitely be in control, not them. Hence, comfortable people sitting in church may only believe in being good, ethical, moral, and going to church. I am so glad that I was upset and troubled enough to decide that I was not, after all, in control. I was of the church group just mentioned. So now I appreciate my trouble because it caused me to seek God.

Eighth conclusion: God knows the desires of your heart. God knows what will satisfy you and fulfill you. We truly do not know these things. I learned only after pursuing God's course for me that God's calling on my life addressed all of the above. God will cause me to feel useful, not useless, to feel worthwhile, not worthless. God is so good!

Ninth conclusion: Regarding God's "suggestions" for our life, we should accept them without reservation, without evaluation, without using our reasoning powers, without the thought that God clearly does not know what's up. Our job is to trust and obey.

Tenth conclusion: Regarding our reasoning power, knowledge, wisdom, analytical ability, common sense, business acumen, sensitivity, all of this should be brought to bear on carrying out the Word of God. Successfully carrying out God's plan for our life requires the most mature, thoughtful, shrewd, cunning, wise, planned approach that we can devise. We are not to leave it to God. God does not do for us what we can do for ourselves. I am so disappointed with Believers who want to do whatever and have God make it right. God loves discipline and planning. God is a God of love but also of reason.

Eleventh conclusion: When we have carried out God's plan with all of our ability and hard work and are blocked, God springs us free with a miracle.

Twelvth conclusion: Your vision is yours. Do not ask another human about it. It is your vision, not his. Just pursue.

Thirteenth conclusion: Success in the details of carrying out your vision will receive help from God and man. Success comes from a multitude of wise counselors.

Fourteenth conclusion: Do not make major commitments without several confirming happenings. Also, in all that you do, there should always be peace about your decisions. If you do not have peace about a decision, re-evaluate. As an aside, only after a decision is made do I get the benefit of the "peace test."

Fifteenth conclusion: When there is no way, seek God.