What do you want me to do today? Pastor Rajiv

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How often have we asked God, Lord, what do you want me to do today? 

We need to remember God created each one of us as an individual. He did not create another like any of us; our fingerprints are unique; our DNA is unique, and we are made in a specific and tailor-made design and just as He made us unique, God has a specific and tailor-made design for each one of our lives.

Paul first asked the question ‘who are you, lord? Why? Because the 'who' is important and because it is not about us, it is about Him. It is not what we want to do but what God wants us to do. The important thing is that God did not just simply know us before we were born, He had an ordained and designated job for us to do that no one else could do. Just as God ‘ordained’ Jeremiah to be a prophet to the nations and Paul to be the missionary that he was, he has a unique assignment for each one of us too. And knowing this truth makes the question Lord, what do you want me to do? even more important. 

We are not here by accident; he has a designated job for each one of us to do. What that job is will be revealed to us when we ask him in fervent prayer, Lord, what do you want me to do? But just knowing what is that job is not enough. We need to carry out that job because He has assigned it to us.

You know, Paul asked Jesus, Lord, what do you want me to do and he made that his driving force and his life was changed forever. We too can find that same life-changing transformation if we make Paul’s prayer our prayer every day.

Pray Paul’s prayer each morning friends and God will not just show us direction; He will guide us with his eye just as he has promised in Psalm 32 verse 8: I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with my eye.