It's not uncommon for me to meet a truck driver who says, "Yeah, as I travel across the country I know what station you're on and we listen to that program. I listen to Christian radio across the country." Well, that's nice to hear. And so I've learned from truckers, of course, that CB radio is very important to them. Actually, a few years ago, there was a national craze of CB radio. And we actually picked up some words in our vocabulary from that time. The CB invasion left us with words like a policeman is called a "Smokey." Your name is your "handle." When everything's OK, you're supposed to say, "10/4 good buddy." I like the phrase that CB'ers use when they want to see if you're tuned in. They say something like this, "You got your ears on?"

I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and I want to have A Word With You today about "When You Need To Know God's Will."

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from 1 Samuel 9. In this chapter, God wants to introduce a young man named Saul to his destiny. He's about to become, by God's choosing, the first king of Israel. Now, God needs to get him to His representative, Samuel, so Saul can find out what his assignment's going to be. And we see what made Saul a man that God would turn to - to be Israel's king. It's a trait that will serve you well if you need to know God's will right now, and I'll bet you do.

First Samuel chapter 9, some excerpts, "Now the donkeys belonging to Saul's father, Kish, were lost. And Kish said to his son, Saul, 'Take one of the servants with you and go out and look for the donkeys.'" Well, they went out and looked, and looked, and looked. And it says, "When they reach the district of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, 'Come, let's go back or my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and start worrying about us.' But the servant replied, 'Look, in this town there's a man of God. He's highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let's go there now. Perhaps he will tell us the way to take.'"
Well, they begin to do that. Saul says, "'Let's go.'

So they set out for the town where the man of God was. And as they were going up the hill to the town, they meet some girls coming out to draw water. And they asked them, 'Is the prophet here?'" And the story goes on to say that they asked the advice of these girls in finding where Samuel was.

Now, let's stop. There's a valuable trait here. Maybe you saw it in Saul. He's got his ears on "good buddy." Everywhere he goes he's listening for the advice that will lead him to God's will. He listens to his servant's advice. He's not too proud to seek the advice of a man of God. In fact, he'll even seek information from some little girls. A person is leadable by God when his ears are always open to a word from the Lord; when He's always tuned to the Lord's channel.

You never know where God's direction's going to come from. It might come from someone who works for you or with you. It might come from a Christian, or maybe through an unbeliever. Maybe it'll come from a godly stranger. It could come from a child, as part of it did here for Saul. Maybe from a radio program you just happened to pick up, an article you read, or a family member.

Maybe you're wondering, as it says in this passage, what way to take. You say, "Well, I'm just not sure what God wants right now." Well, get your spiritual ears on and listen for His voice everywhere you go, with everyone you're meeting.

You know, Jesus said several times in John 10, "My sheep listen to My voice and they follow Me." And He said, "They know my voice." You've got to be able to recognize the voice of God speaking to you throughout the day. You know how you do that? You recognize voices you listen to a lot don't you; the people you hear all the time? They don't even have to tell you who it is. You need to be spending time in God's Word on a regular basis so you know how to recognize the voice of God.

Look, it's not the whole answer to finding God's will. But it is the next step. I mean, each of these people had something to say from God - the people that were in Saul's pathway. They gave him the clue as to the next step in God's plan. That's how God leads you. Take a step, see a step. Take a step, see a step.
You never know who God's going to use to show you that next step. So, always stay tuned to His channel, waiting for the message He wants to give you. Got your ears on?

When I was a much younger man, I had been tutored in the things of God by a much older and wiser man. One of the things he taught me was to be still and listen to the still small voice of God inside.

Being sensitive to the leading of God in our lives by staying in close fellowship through prayer and meditating upon HIM and HIS goodness during a day....
God may use someone else to move us, as a missionary moved me the other night.

This world is not our home. It is a temporary dwelling place for us in our mortal bodies which will eventually wear out because they are corrupted by sin.

We will leave this world one day by what we refer to as death, the leaving or departing of the SPIRIT from this worn out body, and we will immediately be in one fo two places. Either we will be with GOD in Heaven and given a new, incorruptible, eternal body, or we will be in hell, in all it's darkness and torment in another eternal body that never will die, but will be in torment and torture for all eternity. So black you cannot see your hand in front of your face yet being burned and tormented day and night forever.

THAT is why we must reach those who have never heard the Good news of SALVATION in JESUS CHRIST. We should never want anyone to go to hell. That was reserved for Satan and His angelic followers until Adam sinned and passed sin down to each and every one of us throughout all the generations.

Sin cannot enter into the presence of a HOLY GOD, so we must be WASHED AND CLEANSED in the BLOOD of Jesus CHRIST and wear HIS ROBE of PURITY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH HE GIVES to ALL who believe on HIM!

WHERE will YOU spend eternity? In heaven with Jesus, praising HIM, singing, and visiting loved ones who are there and never ever being tired of praising HIM who loved me and gave Himself for me? Or, will you choose to go to an eternal torment of a black, lightless pit called HELL which was not MADE for you, but was designed for the Devil and his angels.

The CHOICE is YOURS.

Jesus said 'Come unto me all you that labor and are heavy ladened, and I WILL give you Rest"

"Look unto me all ye lands and people, and be ye saved. For I am GOD, and there is none else".

"I stand at your heart's door and knock. If any man will open I will enter in and give you rest"

"I am the WAY, The TRUTH and The LIFE. NO MAN cometh unto the FATHER BUT BY ME".

"Ye MUST be born again".

Won't you trust HIM as your Savior today? Have your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life and be sealed by the Holy Spirit of God the moment you have become a child of the KING...

He is calling you, knocking on your heart's door to ask HIM to be your savior. He wants to save you from your sins.

"For the wages of SIN is deah... But the GIFT of GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Heaven is forever. Hell is forever. WHERE will YOU choose to spend your eternity...?????

Choose Christ! Trust HIM with your eternal soul today!