Hearing from God Each Morning (June 19)

This blog is about today's devotion from the book Hearing from God Each Morning by Joyce Meyer.

We must surrender our lives to God daily. He gave us free will, but He wants us to follow Him by making choices that please Him. Simply praying, "Your will, not mine," is powerful, when you mean it.

And this doesn't mean just don't sin. God calls us to do things, and we may think that by doing another good thing we can replace the thing God wanted us to do, but we can't. For example: Since the time I was seven years old, I have felt God calling me to be a missionary and to do mission work in Africa. However, I thought that if I was a pastor, that I was okay and doing what God wanted me to do. After many months of prayer, talking with friends, and reading my Bible, I knew I had to surrender my other dream to God and go do missions in Africa. Although being a pastor is a good thing, it wasn't a God thing. And by not surrendering my life to God, I wasn't pleasing Him and doing His will.