Billy Joe Daugherty - What to Do When You Dont Know What to Do

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What To Do When You Dont Know What To Do!

Have you ever experienced a situation where you didn't know what to do? Most people encounter situations on a daily basis which , in their natural knowledge and ability, they do not know what to do.

I want to share four guidelines with you that will strengthen you and provide godly wisdom in the situations you are facing where you don't know what to do. These guidelines are:

1. Keep your eyes on Jesus.

2. Commune with the Holy Spirit.

3. Hold fast to the confession of your faith.

4. Rejoice!

Let's examine each of these areas individually.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus

Where is your focus? Some people focus on their circumstances and difficulties. If you will make a decision to keep your focus on Jesusthe One Who created the universe, Who hung the stars, and Who set the sun and moon in place there will be no limitation to the altitude you will achieve in your flight to fulfill God's call upon your life.

Hebrews 12:1 ,2 kjv says: "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us..." ( v .

1). In other words, it's time to get rid of sin and anything else that is slowing your progress in the Lord. Lay it aside so you can "run with patience the race that is set before [you]" (v. 1).

Every believer has a God-given, God-ordained assignment, purpose, and destiny for his or her life. The author of the book of Hebrews calls it a "race." To complete your race, you must be steadfast and persevering. You must stay with it and refuse to give up.

So how do you stay on course? Verse 2 of Hebrews, chapter 12, kjv , gives us the answer:

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Jesus had a race to run. He had a cross to carry and suffering to go through, but He saw the end result the provision of the free gifts for you and me of salvation, healing, deliverance, and prosperity of spirit, soul, body, relationships, and resources. He kept His eyes on the prize, which enabled Him to achieve the fulfillment of the vision set before Him.

Jesus is our greatest example of how to stay on target and fulfill the course (the race) set before us. He is the Alpha and the Omega and everything in between. Apart from Him we are nothing and we can do nothing. It is in Jesus that we are complete (Colossians 2:10). It is in Him that we become new creations ( Corinthians 5:17). Our salvation, healing, deliverance, and our very breath come through Him. If you turn your eyes away from Jesus, you will miss what God has prepared for you.

Think about the operation of a small airplane. If you set the heading of the plane on north, you don't change it or check your instruments, and you are heading straight north for your destination, you could miss it by forty miles or more because you have made no allowance for the wind factor. What am I talking about ? Every day you have to make a course adjustment in your life and say, "Jesus, You are my aim, my goal, and my target."

Maybe you started out as a Christian, loving God and going to church, but five years down the road, you wake up and you are miles off course spiritually. It takes daily effort to keep your focus on Jesusthe One Who put you in the race and the One Who will help you complete it.

Do it today! Declare, "I set my focus on Jesus. I will believe Him and obey Him. Jesus is my goal in life."

Commune with the Holy Spirit

When Jesus was crucified, buried, and resurrected, He paid for the forgiveness and cleansing of our sins; for the healing of our bodies; for redemption from spiritual and natural poverty; and for eternal life for those who would believe on Him and receive Him as Lord and Savior. Jesus gave up His life to make a way for the Holy Spirit to come and make His home in every born-again believer. In the Old Testament God dwelt in the tabernacle and in the temple, but today the body of every born-again believer has become "the temple of the Holy Spirit."

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are Gods.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ,20

If you are going to commune with God, you have to commune with Him through His Spirit Who abides within you. Many people do not talk to God. They do not recognize Him or commune with Him and allow Him to speak into their lives. Yet Proverbs 3:5 ,6 says:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding ;

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Praying in the Spirit

What do you do when you don't know what to do? One of the things you can do is pray in the Holy Spirit. I am talking about communing with the Lord. " Communing " means fellowship, talking and listening, and praying in the Holy Spirit.

When you pray in the Spirit, Romans 8:26 says the Holy Spirit will help you:

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Two things are evident: 1) We don't know what to pray for as we ought, and 2) We don't know how to pray. The Holy Spirit will help us in both of these areas.

Romans 8:26 in The Amplified Bible says:

So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.

This verse in The Living Bible says:

And in the same wayby our faith the Holy Spirit helps us with our daily problems and in our praying. For we dont know what we should pray for, nor how to pray as we should; but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot be expressed in words.

Verse 27 in the New King James Version says:

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

The Holy Spirit knows the heart of the Father and He knows the will of God for your life. He also knows the needs, the problems, and the difficulties that you are facing. When the Holy Spirit prays through you, He prays according to the will of the Father about the needs in your life. He brings God's will and His provision together with your need. It is what we would call "perfect praying." When we don't know how to pray or what to pray for, the Holy Spirit will help us.

If you are asking, "What does it mean to pray in the Spirit?" we should let the man who used this term define it. In Ephesians, chapter 6, where Paul describes the armor of God, one of the pieces of the believer's armor is, "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit... " ( v. 18).

Then in Corinthians, chapter 14, Paul talks about the gifts of the Spirit. "Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy" (v. 1). Paul is saying that we need both love and the spiritual gifts.

Verse 2 says, "For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries." When a person prays in other tongues, he is speaking mysteries to Godthings that are not known to the natural mind.

Remember, Romans 8:26 said that when you don't know what to pray for as you ought, the Spirit would pray. Why? Because He knows the mysteries and the secret things that you and I do not know about the problems and difficulties we are facing.