I have found that not every open door is from the Lord. We must be cautious that we pray it through. Restless we become when the Word tarries. Much of the time we act….intervening the plans of the Almighty…in which much mess is left in the wake. How many times we hear of this in the Word. Truly only that which is born of God will have any affect at all. I want to see Him do as He did in the Word. I want to see Him in full effect..nothing less. For this reason I pray He riddles me and that which we call ministry…that only that which is born of the Spirit will remain.

Riddle Me

Is there anywhere that I toil where you do not?
A place just of a man trying to leave a mark?

Did I wait until thy door hath clearly opened wide?
Or did I rashly choose to work instead of abide?

Is my battle long because I am fighting without you?
Because I desired to go where you did not tell me to?

Do I strive for that which I set my own mere glance?
Or did you truly breathe it’s sweet existence?

Oh, riddle me God of all that births of human flesh!
For only by YOUR Spirit does life raise from the dead.

Oh let me not lag behind or even run ahead.
May I wait and rest in stillness.. in Your divine peace instead.

For that which you have called has fruit that bears so much

Anything less could weigh so heavy and merely crush

Thy work that  You’ve appointed is precious to my heart

My feet shall only walketh where You have made Your mark.

–Shelly Wilson

John 6:63

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Acts 16:6-7

They passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; 7 and after they came to Mysia, they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;…