It Was Never Done This Way Before!
An advisor is there to guide you,
Informing you of an actions consequences,
Suggesting safe paths, acceptable risks
Drawing from past experience, history and others
Vast resources of knowledge, theories and practice
Pointing you to smooth roads and gentle inclines
However
If Moses had an advisor would he have ever gone down to Egypt?
Would he have ever smitten the red sea?
Would he ever have spoken water from the rock?
"It was never done this way before!"
If Joshua had measured the strength
of Jericho's walls?
Had he used another's historical based logic
Would he ever have marched around the thick walls?
"It was never done this way before!"
If Gideon ever had a military advisor
Would he have calculated only three hundred men?
Would he have thought covered lamps were a strategy?
"It was never down this way before!"
If David had considered his own personal
safety
Running toward goliath with small stones in his hand
Would Saul's armour or sharp sword not have been better?
"It was never done this way before!"
If the widow had valued her life and
her son
Would she have fed Elijah a cake first?
Did a hand full of meal look sufficient for many months?
"It was never done this way before!"
If the prophets had valued their popularity
Would they have ever prophesied God's word
Angry crowds, beatings, prison and death
"It was never said that way before!"
If the three hebrew men had used a consultant
Would they have submitted to the furnaces flames
Would not bowing have been a far simpler solution
"It was never done this way before!"
If Jesus had taken Peter's stern rebuke
Would the cross have been a viable option
What advice would you have given your best friend ever?
"It was never done this way before!"
If Paul had heeded Agabus's prophesy,
the others calls not to go.
Would he have had the opportunity reach those on his journey
The Centurion, the prisoners, the Governor, Publius and Caesar
"It was never done this way before!"
Whose direction do you take? whose words
do you heed?
Whose instructions, consultations and guidance?
The voice from the cloud that said "Hear ye Him"
“This Son in whom I am well pleased.”
The Comforter sent in Christ's name, shall teach you
Bringing all things to your remembrance,
Showing you things from the Father, to come
Guiding you into all truth, A Father son relationship
Until you can say "Never the less not my will but your's be done"
Speaking His will, Breathing His will, Doing His will,
Being His will on earth.
"It was never done this way before!"
3 August 2008
References:
Exo 3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that
I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel
out of Egypt?
Exo 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused
the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry
land, and the waters were divided.
Num 20:8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron
thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give
forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so
thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
Jos 6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho,
and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
Jdg 7:7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped
will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the
other people go every man unto his place.
Jdg 7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put
a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
1Sa 17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew
nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
1Ki 17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but
make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for
thee and for thy son.
Heb 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain
with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute,
afflicted, tormented;
Dan 3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning
fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
Mat 16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from
thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
Act 21:11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his
own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at
Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the
hands of the Gentiles.
Joh 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes
of one that was born blind.
Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey
God rather than men.
Mat 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall
speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and
ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of
all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye
shall abide in him.
Act 21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart?
for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name
of the Lord Jesus.
Mar 11:2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you:
and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never
man sat; loose him, and bring him.
Mat 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold
a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased; hear ye him.
Luk 8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be
given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth
to have.
Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send
in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you.
Gal 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen;
immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem
to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned
again unto Damascus.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth
the will of God abideth for ever.
1Jn 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any
thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing
of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
will of God.
Let
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14
© Stephen Share 2008
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