• Bumping foreheads with a handshake is the traditional greeting Tibet.
• In Detroit, Michigan, it is illegal to sleep in a bathtub.
• Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don’t.
• Over the course of a lifetime, a shark will loose as many as 50,000 teeth.
• 2/3 of Canadians live in Quebec and Ontario.
• New Mexico is known as the Land of Enchantment.
• An ant’s sense of smell is just as good as a dog’s sense of smell.
• The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure foot-size is called the Brannock device.
• In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
• Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
• Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world.
• On this day in 1996 our daughter was born at 1:26 p.m. Central Time.  Happy Birthday!

Yesterday, we explored several ideas to consider when making a big decision.  Today, let’s revisit one of those principles – God speaks through His Spirit within us. The Psalmist declares of the Lord, I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Psalm 32:8

What a powerful verse!  What makes it even more powerful is to consider it in light of Psalm 32:7.  You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance.

Facing a big decision and feel overwhelmed or perhaps as if the enemy is closing in all around you?

Consider a lesson from 2 Chronicles 20.  Jehoshaphat learns that three different people groups are preparing to attack Judah in battle.  Jehoshaphat’s first response is normal.  Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord… (v 3).  Ever been there?  Lord, this does not look good… if you will get me out of this… Ever make a deal with God in the midst of a crisis?  God is not looking for our deals.  He is looking for our devotion.

Jehoshaphat stands before the people and communicates the gravity of the situation and leads the assembly in a prayer meeting.  God convicted me this morning in 2 Chronicles 20:12b.  Jehoshaphat at the end of this great prayer says, For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us.  We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.

If I am going to be in a position for God to counsel me with His eye upon me, like Jehoshaphat I must be seeking His face!  I’m guilty far too often in the midst of a crisis crying out to God and then looking within myself… my ability… my intuition… my past experience to make decisions.  In the mist of any decision, Lord, help me to walk in humility.  Help me to be quick to admit Lord, we do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you!