Don't Get Ahead of God
Once we are saved and we are children of God, He is there to guide us and to go ahead of us to prepare the way for us. I believe this is primarily done by the Person of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit resides in every believer. However, we have to be sensitive to Him and what He is saying to us, or else we can get out of step with Him. It is at those times that we have our greatest problems and defeats in life. King David usually asked the Lord for guidance before he acted, which is what all of us should do. The second time the Philistines came to attack him after his appointment as king over all Israel, the Lord directed him in an unusual way. (I Chronicles 14:15) He told him to circle around behind them with his army and wait until he heard a sound of marching feet in the tops of the poplar trees. That would be the signal that God was moving ahead of them to strike down the Philistine army. It would have been a defeat, if David had not waited on the Lord. We can all be impatie...