Fishing Preacher

How do I prepare the way for the LORD in my life?

Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling:  "In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.

I used to constantly live in defeat, which is not the will of God for his children, no matter how you slice the pie.  This is no life at all, in fact, you’re like a walking dead person, and you end up turning more people away from Jesus than leading them to him.  But there’s no excuse to continue in this lifestyle, because God is an ever-constant and ever-consistent God. There’s nothing wrong or defective about him, and his power to deliver, heal, and restore better than before.  His promises are always true, but we have to appropriate (Make our own) the blessing.  So how do we do that?  We prepare the way for the LORD in our life.

How can I prepare the way for God in my life if I’m seeking first my kingdom?  I can’t, it’s impossible.  How can I prepare the way for God in my life if I’m immersing my brain in whatever comes over the air-waves, satellite, or broadband connection?  It can’t be done.  How can I prepare the way for the LORD if my attitude is not formed and founded by the Word of God…I can’t.  The believer’s responsibility is to prepare the way for God’s presence in their life.  So many times we do the opposite, by preparing the way for the world, the flesh, and the Devil, and wonder why we don’t experience the blessings of God.

You naturally prepare the way for the master you serve.  This can be the flesh, the world, and/or the Devil without even knowing it.  Take any struggle, and ask the question:  “How am I preparing the way for the LORD in this?”  Then you will hear the flesh say, “Yes, I would prepare the way for the LORD but, but, but, (fill in with an excuse or two or three)…” Any person living in defeat will have this syndrome.

When I accepted Christ, I accepted him to save my soul, but for many years I did not take hold of the other blessings that come with salvation by faith.  The Bible says (1 Thess. 5:23-24), “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.”  That means that God not only saved my soul, when he saved me, he saved my spirit, soul, and body.  That means God has everything it takes for me to live in victory of spirit, soul, and body.  What is my responsibility according to the Bible?  To prepare the way for God to do his work in my life.

So how do you prepare the way for the LORD in your life?  Humility paves the road.  Isaiah 57:14-15 says, “And it will be said: ‘Build up, build up, prepare the road!  Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.’  For this is what the high and lofty One says--he who lives forever, whose name is holy:  ‘I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite…’”  And also Matthew 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”  

It starts with the attitude of, “God is God, and I’m not.”  Humility does not mean belittling yourself.  It simply means recognizing your place.  In preparing the way of the LORD in your life, humility teaches you how to hear, how to see, and what the will of God is, because you recognize that life is not about you, it’s about God and his glory.  It’s one thing to hear and see, but to truly have eyes and ears that know how to hear and see God, and what he is doing, now that is where life is found.

In humility, prepare the way for the LORD by evaluating what you are feeding your mind, body, and soul with.  Are you the master of what you listen to and see, or are the world, flesh, and the Devil mastering you through your senses?  Let humility prepare the way in your attitude by always being positive, because as a child of God we have a Father God who provides everything we need through his promises found in the Word, and who he is.  Prepare the way by the people you choose to let influence you.  Yes, there will always be times you will have to be around negative people, but you choose who has power of influence in your life.  Prepare the way making it as easy as possible for your body, mind, heart, and soul to be influenced by Christ through the infilling of the Holy Spirit.  Prepare the way, and let God do his work in your life, and you will experience life to the fullest…guaranteed.