"Without A Trace"

"Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places." (Psalms 109:10)

  I think what did it for me was the word "their," as in, "their desolate places." Don't even ask me where this came from, except that I felt I heard God speak the title into my heart and out of the blue. There is something that happens in the life of a child of God when he gives himself completely over to God: he gets completely turned inside out! It is hard to describe what that is like, except that you no longer recognize who you are or why you do the things that you do. To be perfectly honest, it has been quite some time since I have experienced that kind of feeling, but the memory of it never fades. When you live your life being subject to what God wants you to do, things don't always make sense, but they always do work out, and for the better. Paul was a good example of that, in that he went where he felt God was leading him; one day at a time and moment by moment, he did what he felt God was telling him to do. There really is no way to explain how that feels, because it is not based upon feelings or even determination, it is based upon a person giving themselves over to the Spirit and letting God teach you how to listen. Don't try to analyze what is happening, just move in the direction that the Spirit is leading and watch what He does. I remember the very first teaching that I gave to the high school group at our church, while we were still in Palo Cedro; it was based on one simple word from John 4:4, the word "must." We do not have the same kind of vision that Jesus had, but we do have the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit does. The Word says, "And he must needs go through Samaria." What a strange thing for a Jew to do, but Jesus was God in a Jewish body; the things that mattered to a Jews were not the things that mattered to Jesus; His will was to do that which the Father wanted, and in doing so, His own will was fed. There is something that happens to our own personal desires and wants when we allow God to have His way in us...

"The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the LORD holds them by the hand. Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread." 

(Psalms 37:23-25) NLT