Listening to God!

"Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.” -John 8:47

Listening to God is SO important, because when you listen to God he can reveal His will that He has for you. I was feeling really down in the dumps for a couple of weeks and was wondering why God wasn't running to my rescue and solving all of my problems because I was praying really HARD! But somehow I had forgotten that earlier in the month I had prayed for God to show me what he wanted me to major in. I was sitting in my economics class, zoned out, as usual; and I heard a small voice in my head say "nurse, be a nurse". I immediatly thought, 'No, I can't be a nurse! I am scared of needles and I cannot stand the sight of blood! I  am not even smart enough to be a nurse, much less go through all the hard courses! That can't be God telling me to do that.' Soon enough, I found out that it was the devil putting these thoughts in my head. But at the time I immediatly pushed this idea of being a nurse away. So far away that I forgot all about it! So, the next two weeks were miserable. I didn't know why and I was feeling like problems were all around me. I am such a joyful person and I was depressed!!!! I kept praying and praying, going to church, and praising God through all of this asking him to 'get me out of here!' Last Sunday night, I went to Elevation (a college ministry at New Life Church), and the preacher spoke about how you can push God away and that we should all take a minuite and pray that God will show us anything that He has tried to tell us and we just ignored. I prayed and all of a sudden NURSING flooded back into my mind. Right then I gave it all to the Lord & I figured He knows what is best for me, I sure don't! I came back to my dorm and started getting SUPER excited about this whole nursing thing! I have decided that I want to be a nurse practitioner, did some research and I changed my major! The very next day blessings poured my way! Everything that I had been praying about God started acting on! I had not been so happy in a while!!!!

When you listen to His voice, and let Him tell you His will for you, He will work wonders!