Laissez-Faire

Many of you are trying to figure out every detail of your life, wracking your brain with questions and scenarios.  

In this hour God is asking you to stop trying to figure it out! 

“The Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?” Proverbs 20:24

Suddenly in the spirit I heard, “laissez-faire.” Having taken French through college I understood the exact translation, “Let it do,” or “allow it to do.” Essentially it is “let be,” or “let it happen.”  In political or economical terms, it is an ideology or philosophy of, “letting things take their own course,” especially without interfering.

How many times do we think we know best and try to help God out? When in all reality, He doesn’t need our help because He knows what He is doing. And usually, when we try to help Him, we are actually getting in the way.

There is a constant “trying to control,” the outcomes. Trying to get your way and not necessarily letting go and letting God.

We think we know what we want, but He knows what we need! 

Recently God had me live somewhere I didn’t want to live, I was trying to go elsewhere, I thought I knew what I wanted. In that, God met some innermost needs I did not know I needed. Even met the most genuine people with no hidden motives. 

God is asking for complete trust! He is doing more than we can imagine.

“Laissez-faire. Let go of control and watch what I can and will do! It is beyond your wildest imagination and what I want to do is not possible in your own strength or knowledge. I will confound the wise, watch me do what I do best,” He says.

We cannot control the Spirit, but we can let Him take us through the course He wants us on, with those He wants us to be with. Don’t try to hold on to the old life, or even some friendships God is asking you to let you because they are no longer bringing fruit or are not going where you are going. 

It is time to stop containing Him and let Him do what He needs to do. 

“Then he said to me, “This is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.” Zechariah 4:6

So, sit back, relax and enjoy the show.