Suppose
you sense the call of God to do a task. You set
about to do it and then everything just goes terribly
wrong. Often people will tell you, “Well,
I guess that just was not God’s will.”
Remember that God calls you to a relationship
with Himself as an important part of the assignment.
It is too easy for us to just focus on the task,
and not on the relationship. Then we start following
our own reasoning...to start doing the task
the way we think it should be done...only to
find that nothing is working right...there are
road-blocks everywhere! This is a warning to
us that we have left the relationship and have
taken the task into our own hands. This is a
big mistake!
When this happens to you...when you begin to
follow in the best way you know how, and then
the door of opportunity seems to close, go back
to the Lord and clarify what God said to you.
When you seem to be going down a dead-end road,
do not totally stop doing what you think God
has said to you....do not give up...but review
very carefully what God has said. How do you
do this?
Carefully review what God said and identify
what you may have “added”
to what He said. Pray about it. 
