and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Because of something she heard in school, Corrie asked her father what "sex sin" was while the two of them were riding on a train together. The father asked the little girl to carry his bag off the train. When she admitted that she could not do so, he said he would not be much of a father to expect this of her. The load was too heavy. This was the case, he said, with some knowledge. She needed to trust her father to give her knowledge at the right time.

My job was simply to follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to Him in prayer.

We didn't know, of course, the political views of all these people. But—and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart—God did! My job was simply to follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to Him in prayer. I knew I was not clever or subtle or sophisticated; if the Beje was becoming a meeting place for need and supply, it was through some strategy far higher than mine. A

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.

You are one choice away from your best decision ever.

Your choices create the course and contours of your life. Your decisions determine your destiny.

God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.

Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases—through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.