FOLLOWING GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS

Genesis 12: 1 – 5


1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

Boy howdy!
Abram sure must have had faith in what God told him to do so that he just packed his bags and left his family, friends, and town where he grew up, and headed out for places unknown.
I'm sure that those same family and friends tried to talk him out of leaving as he did. After all not only did they lose Abram and Sarai, but Lot and all their servants, as well as their possessions. It had to be traumatic for all concerned.
I pray that I would have faith like that. Heck, I pray that we all would have that kind of faith that gets us off our butts immediately and without question to do what God has asked us to do.
I recently read about two churches, in the same town, where the Pastors felt that there should be an all night prayer vigil. In one church the community was, on average, a church of elderly people, the other church was predominantly younger, with a larger income. Both churches set about the task of the vigil. One church set up a schedule where nobody would have to spend more than a couple of hours that night, where the other church decided that at their age, they didn't sleep all that much anyway, and the entire body of the church filled the pews and prayed all night.
Both churches showed faith in following what they felt they were called to do, but one church followed the vision provided by their Pastor without question.
They had faith in what God had told them to do, and they did it.

Through prayer, we can hear the voice of God. At times like that, we are able to listen to what He is saying to us.
The question is; “Are we hearing Him, and obeying His word”?

Pray. Listen. Obey.

It's just that simple.