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Friends, greetings in Jesus Name. Today I will be sharing with you what I title, “What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do”. Many years ago, as an undergraduate student at Wits University in Johannesburg, I decided during one of my summer holidays to embark on a spiritual journey to a Missionary Camp called “Kwasizabantu” in the Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa. I heard so much of what the Lord was doing in that place at that time. Moreso, my Pastor at that time encouraged me to go. So, I took off to have a one-week experience with God in that place. I remembered entering a vehicle one early morning from a little town called Mbalenhle in Mpumalanga Province. It was a long journey. I had many stops on the way. When I got to a town called Ladysmith, I was directed to take another vehicle to a town that will lead me to my final destination. By the time I got there, it was past 7pm, and everywhere was dark. All effort to get a cab to my final destination proved abortive. I was left in the middle of nowhere – a small village – not knowing what to do.

Then I cried out to God, and said: Lord, what would you have me do now? Then He replied and said to me: Ask for a police station in this place. Immediately, I asked someone who directed me to a nearby police station. When I got there, I met a white man with two black colleagues sitting at the front-desk. Then I narrated my situation to them. They were nice and kind to me, and immediately they took me to their lodge within the station, and I spent a night there. They warned that the vehicle that goes to Kwasizabantu leaves by 6am, so I must be up before then. By early morning I was up, and they directed me to where to get a vehicle. In no time, I got a free ride by a good Samaritan who was heading to the same place, and I arrived safely at “Kwasizabantu”. Time will not permit me to share what happened for the next one-week. Yes, it was a daily encounter upon encounter; an experience of a lifetime in that Camp that was founded by a German-South African Evangelist, Dr. Erlo Stegen, of blessed memory. He passed on last year. What a joy meeting him in person.

Now, one powerful attribute of great leaders is usually their ability to stay calm and think straight in the midst of a storm. Usually, you hear people going through trials say things like, “I am losing my mind”, “I am confused”, “I doubt if I could make it out of this situation”, “I am finished”. and so on. Listen, if you can think or confess negatively, you can as well direct your thoughts and confessions positively. It is a matter of choice! Man is one being that God created with the capacity to withstand whatsoever circumstances that come his way. The bible declares in Proverbs 24:10, “If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small”. Our capacity to withstand the heat of life comes from God. Therefore, man is created to depend on God as his source for everything. Jesus declares in John 15:5, “For without Me you can do nothing.” The issue of “confusion” or “I don’t know what to do” ends in your life when you realize who you are in Christ Jesus. The bible declares in 1 John 4:4, “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.” Therefore, “You are more than a conqueror” (Romans 8:37). No situation or problem of life is strong enough to cage you or shut you down. Victoria Orenze sang a song titled, “I Get Backing”. Yes, you have God backing you up. “For he that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty God” (Psalm 91:1). Hallelujah!

When you abide under the covering of the Almighty God, you cannot lose direction or miss your way in life. Above all, you will become untouchable by your adversaries no matter how hard they try to frustrate or humiliate you. Yes, you will still stand on top. No shaking! Therefore, when you don’t know what to do in any given situation, call on God who knows what to do. And He will give you an answer of peace. The Lord said in Jeremiah 33:3, “Call upon Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” You know what? When you call on the Lord, He will show you the way, because “He is the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). When I found myself in the middle of nowhere, I called on Him, He didn’t abandon me, He showed up, and gave me an answer of peace. In fact, I rested so well that night at the police station – not as a criminal – but as the favoured one of the Lord.

I heard of a man who arrived in a country very late at night. He left the airport with a taxi but decided to take shelter at the police station that night for safety. He instructed the taxi driver to come pick him up early in the morning. Unfortunately, he was brutally murdered by the police officers on duty. They stole the money on him, and threw his lifeless body into the gutter along the street. It was the taxi driver who came in the morning, saw what happened, and raised an alarm to the public. The matter was investigated, and the officers got arrested. You see, our God is a dependable God. You can always count on Him when He gives you a direction to take shelter at that same police station. Why? “If God be for you who can be against you” (Romans 8:31). Nobody! The Lord said to Joshua, “I will not leave you nor forsake you” (Joshua 1:5). That’s how dependable God is when you put your hope and trust in Him.

Beloved, I don’t know where you are at the moment. You may be at your lowest or valley of “baca” right now (Psalm 84:5-7; Psalm 23). Just look up to God. David said, “I will lift up my eyes to the hills – from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:1). The bible tells us in 2 Chronicles 20, that a great multitude came against King Jehoshaphat to war against him. The only thing he knew to do at that hour was to call on God. Then he said, “O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You” (2 Chron 20:12). You know what? God answered him, and set an ambush against his enemies. Hallelujah! I pray as you go this week, may your eyes be set on God, not elsewhere (Jeremiah 17:5-8). Remember, when you don’t know what to do, call upon the Lord who knows what to do, and he will save you (Romans 10:13; Joel 2:32). Have a Blessed and Fantastic Week. With love, Elvis!