Every Christian would have prayed these words at least once. Lord, “let me hear from you”. Most of us would have prayed many times and some are praying daily. Without a doubt God wants to answer. Yet believers remain frustrated unable to hear specific instructions from the Lord, they end up wandering around in a spiritual dilemma, incapable of seeing God’s path He has planned for them.
The first step is to obey the general instructions that He has given us before we can go into any of those specific instructions. Every Soldier in the Army has to learn the general orders first. General orders are the overall military requirements that everyone in uniform must obey. Once that was in place the cadet learn the direct orders from their superior officer. Finally there are orders of the day, which is a detailed format that gave a road map for the day.
As soldiers in the kingdom of God, we’ve been given general orders by the Commander in Chief. Those commands are mandatory and important—so important that everything in life hinges upon our obedience to them.
Matthew 22 is one of the many places in the New Testament we find those general commands. There we read about a young lawyer asking Jesus a crucial question: “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (verses 36-40).
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