Without Objection

In the 10th chapter of ACTs  Peter has a vision. While Peter is still pondering the vision the Lord speaks to him and tells him to get up and go downstairs that there are three men that He has sent  looking for him. The Lord instructs Peter not to hesitate in going with them. He goes with the men to meet Cornelius the centurion. Upon meeting Peter, Cornelius falls at Peter's feet and Peter says to him, "stand up, I am only a man." There is so much in this passage but I want to really focus on what Peter says to the large crowd gathered there.

" You are well aware that it is against our Law for a Jew to associate himself with a gentile or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean. So when I was sent for, I came WITHOUT OBJECTION..."

When the Lord calls us to get up and go, we are to go without objection. In our human minds it may not make sense at the time but you can rest assured that God knows exactly what He is doing and if you follow his lead you will see the path He is blazing.

Peter had a vision that made no sense at all to him.  While still pondering the vision, the Lord speaks to him and says get up and go. The Lord had already set things in motion with Cornelius the day before. The circumstances and timing are  perfectly arranged by the Lord. Peter's eyes and heart are completely set on the Lord. He knows that whether things make sense to him or not when the Lord says Go he goes without objection.

Have there been times when the Lord has laid something on your heart  or has come to you in a dream or vision and it made absolutely no sense at all to you at the time, but later by following the Lord's promptings you find that it made perfect sense?
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The following is a scaled down version of a journal entry of mine from December 20th 2007 Titled

YOU WILL KNOW

Back in November of 2007, I had been selling jewelry and the Lord prompted me to hold a jewelry show for a specific reason which I did not fully understand. He had laid it on my heart to save the profits from the show that he was going to use me to help a stranger at Christmas time. So after the show I made a mental note of a $65 profit. For a month and a half I would occasionally ask the Lord , "who is the stranger?" The answer was always the same, " you will know." I will never forget it as long as I live... on December 20th I was awakened with this impression, "today is the day." We were at our cabin  located just outside of a small river town. My 5 year old son and I got up and headed into town to purchase items for my husband's office party. We made three stops. At each stop, every person I saw, I would ask, " is that the One Lord?" over and over the reply was, "you will know." Our last stop was the town grocery store. Going down each isle, I watched everyone closely. As I continued to ask the Lord the same question, I could feel that I was being like a child in the back seat of the car on a long trip constantly asking, "Are we there yet?" The Lord never wavered He answered patiently with the same three words, "you will know." He was right of course. As I was coming down the last isle and stepping into the checkout lane there they were and just as the Lord had said, " I knew right away." An older couple in front of me. The clerk was scanning their items when all of a sudden the gentleman realized he had forgotten his wallet. They were very distressed. The Clerk was explaining to them that she could  suspend their order. The Lord prompted me to ACT now, so I said to her, " God told me he was going to use me to  help a stranger today, I will pay for it, how much is it." The clerks response was, " you just gave me chills." The clerk finished scanning and the total was $69. The couple just starred at me and then the female squeezed between the cart, introduced herself and hugged me saying, " you are an angel, you do not know what you have done." I replied, "Yes maam I do, I obeyed God." The lady behind me piped up, "Thank God for people who listen to Him." The female started to tell me their circumstances and I said to her that she owes me no explanation, Merry Christmas from God. I watched the couple walk out the door looking bewildered. I looked back at the clerk who was trying to ring up my items but was crying so hard that she could not see through the tears. She called out for someone to come complete my order then she looked at me and said, " Before you stepped into line the couple you just helped was discussing between themselves how they were struggling and going out on a limb spending this amount of money on food." As I exited the store I saw the couple driving away, the female blew me a kiss and the gentleman waved with a smile. The presence of God was hovering so strongly over that store that day that as I left the store, I realized that my body was trembling from His presence.  He is the Orchestrator of perfect timing and circumstance, we just have to be willing to get up and go without objection and let Him handle the rest...

Lord I thank you for your patient, gentle, sweet nudgings...