Have you ever felt prompted by God?

I mean really prompted. To the point that there is no doubt you need to follow through. A prompting so strong, that you simply cannot ignore.

In January of this year, I experienced such a prompting.

I believe when you are fortunate enough to sense God’s prompting, it will most certainly be challenging and take you out of your comfort zone.

And you will learn something profound about yourself along the way.   

The Experience

The day started early like any other day. I let the dog out and made myself a decaf Latte. But this morning, before sitting at my favorite spot at the kitchen table to look at email, I found my bible and journal instead.

It had been a while since I’d last opened my bible, and not sure where to begin, so I decided to start with a prayer asking the Holy Spirit to guide me.

In the middle of praying, I felt an urge to refocus my life. To come back to Him. To seek His face.

 I searched the concordance in the back of my bible for scriptures referring to seeking the face of God. I found the following.

• Psalm 27:8 – “My heart says of you – “Seek his face! Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
• Psalm 105:4 – “Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.”
• Isaiah 26: The entire chapter spoke to me.

Feeling energized, I began journaling. Soon, I sat my pen down and went back to prayer. Studying scripture has always given me strength. I love to study His Word. I have no idea why I let a business get in the way.

I went from prayer, to journaling, to searching for more scriptures and I continued to feel the Holy Spirit guiding me towards something.  

Prompted by God

As a result, after about forty-five minutes, I felt an urge, a pull to grow closer to Him. Now! Not in a few months, but now! It was urgent! And He gave me a way to do it.

I couldn’t write what was in my heart fast enough. His urging was loud in my soul.

He prompted me to dig deeper by beginning a seven-day spiritual journey and to write about it. I felt him telling me to tell others about my experience. Like the movie Julie and Julia where Julie sets out to make all of Julia Childs recipes and blogs about her experience. I felt Him prompting me to do the same.

For a long time, I’ve wanted to reconnect with God. To seek His face with all my heart. But I don’t do it. I focus too often on petty tasks and let other things clutter my mind. I was up for the challenge.

Decision

So, I decided to set aside seven days and concentrate on my spiritual walk by digging deeper into scripture and letting the Holy Spirit direct my learning.

I will blog about my day-to-day journey and what I learn. I’ll be honest. I have no idea what I will discover about myself, but for positive or negative, I’ll write about it. Writing what I learn about God will be easy, but not so much about what I learn about myself. But I want to seek His face and I’m willing to learn things about my character that needs to change.

And there is more.

During my time with God that morning. The Gifts of the Spirit came to mind. I’ve decided to choose one of the gifts and incorporate it into my journey.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians, 5:22.

I’ve chosen the hardest one for me to work on. Self-control. I’m going to concentrate on developing more Self-Control.

It’s only seven days out of my life. Surly I can do it. Right? Developing self-control will be a good life change for me. It won’t be easy, but as I seek His face – He will give me the strength I’ll need.

I will pray a lot!

Once I finished journaling and talking to God that morning, I looked over my notes one more time and chose a week to begin my seven-day journey.  

Encouragement

A few days later, I went to my church’s website to find a sermon I wanted to listen to, and you’ll never believe what popped up on the site.   

“Join us for 7-Days of Prayer and Fasting.” I couldn’t believe it.

It was confirmation to my heart that I was headed down the right path.

Preparation

I’m a strong believer that to be successful at anything you must prepare.

• First – I need to tell my husband my plan. I want him to support me. And to let him know that for seven days, things will be a bit different around the house.
• Second – Decide where in the house I want to have my quiet and study time. It’s winter so outside isn’t an option.

Whenever making a lifestyle change it feels uncomfortable at first. Stopping a habit, changing your diet, finding time to meditate, etc. isn’t easy. But I’m determined to give it a try.

Yikes! I’m really doing this.

Conclusion

I want to remember my main goal. To seek the face of God. Second, to develop greater self-control. Please pray that I learn what God wants me to learn and that I’ll strengthen my relationship with Him in a mighty way.

You are invited to follow me on this journey by reading my weekly posts. Feel free to comment if you like by contacting me. https://angelamillercurtis.com/contact/

In the meantime, you may enjoy another blog I wrote. https://angelamillercurtis.com/what-is-my-purpose-in-life/

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So, that was January – it is now June. I followed through with what God put on my heart that morning and did a seven-day Spiritual walk, but I’m only now blogging about my experience. Again, I let petty tasks and other things clutter my mind. But God isn’t letting me get by with not finishing what He wanted prompted me to do. Please come along and read what I discovered during those seven days. The blogs will be under “Day ___ in Seven-Day Journey.”