Walking through open doors...

6 months ago I began having conversations with people about a calling I felt from God. These conversations, turned to enquiring about how I could go about fulfilling the call. Fast-forward to last week, where I was faced with the big decision. I was asked to pray and think one more time before beginning the application process. They wanted me to be 100% sure that this was a call from God and that I was certain I was ready to start this journey. As soon as I was asked to think about it, I got stuck! I felt like I couldn't hear from God, I wasn't experiencing a huge wave of peace or any miraculous intervention showing me that this was the way.

Have you ever been in this place? Feeling a persistent call from God, but when it comes to making a decision about it, you don't experience some dramatic or obvious thing that makes you want say "yes!". It can be so frustrating and off-putting. Something that I have become aware of that has been a game changer in my faith is this. As we take steps to serve God more and more, Satan does his best to try and knock us off that path. So, in once sense, I knew that the reason I was now suddenly experiencing radio silence from God, was because Satan wanted to me to doubt myself and God. God had been calling me for a long time, so why would he stop now, right at the point of me entering into that calling!? Well he didn't, but, this is one of Satan's weapons, he makes it harder for us to see God and hear him, in the hope that we will give up and not enter into the calling. So, when we don't experience God's great confirmation when we are presented with the big decision to step into our calling. Let's remember that there is a real spiritual battle around. If you have been hearing from God, and he has been leading you all along; perhaps you need to just take a step out in faith, knowing that the silence is just Satan trying to get in the way.

I recognised Satan's attempt to undermine God and my relationship with him. I held onto the fact that God had been calling me and that others had also confirmed that along the way. I kept calling out to God to show me if should do this now or not. This is when I heard something really profound on a podcast! I was listening to the Women Worth Knowing Podcast, they had a guest on called Sarah Yardley. They were discussing her journey into ministry and Cheryl Brodersen one of the hosts, started talking about walking through 'open doors'. She said "When God opens a door, you walk through it. I think that it's disobedience, not to walk through it. I mean if God opened it, let's walk through it.". Hearing those words woke me up! God had got me to this place, where I was given the opportunity to step into ministry and who was I to not walk through this door?! I was overthinking and worrying about hearing God again, but he had been telling me for years that this was happening. God had already spoken and was just waiting for me to walk through the door.

If you have felt led or called to do something for the Lord. If you have been hearing from him and now the opportunity is in front of you; don't let Satan trick you and don't miss that door! Walk through the door that God has provided for you and trust that he will continue to do so, all the days of your life. I made the decision to step into the call, to walk through the door and I pray that you too will see the door and walk through it too.

Let's step out in faith and walk through open doors today.

Faithfully,

Becky