A student can sit in a lecture hall, take detailed notes, understand every concept the professor teaches, and even discuss the subject brilliantly with classmates. But if that same student refuses to apply what they’ve learned during the exam or in practical life scenarios, all that knowledge becomes useless. The difference between success and failure is not in the knowing, but in the doing.

The same principle applies to your spiritual life. You can recognise God’s voice, understand His instructions, receive graces, and even get excited about His plans for your life. But if you don’t act on what He has told you, if you don’t obey when He calls, then all that revelation remains powerless in your life.

In the past days, we have spoken about being aware of God’s work in seasons. Today, we continue to align ourselves with God’s move, but now we shift from recognition to response.

Some of us leave camp meetings with a heart full of instructions from God, only to return home and postpone obedience. Do you know what God has told you to do, but you’re still waiting for a more convenient time? Or is your heart open in obedience, not just recognizing what God says, but also when He wants you to act?

Timing in obedience makes all the difference. It is the difference between walking in God’s perfect will and settling for less. Knowing what God is doing in a season is only the beginning, you have to open your heart in obedience.

Let’s take a look at Mary’s response to divine instruction in Luke 1.

Luke 1:30-31, 38 
New King James Version
30 Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. 

31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.”

38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

Mary was a young woman with her whole life planned out. An angel appears with an instruction that will completely disrupt her plans, potentially expose her to shame, and change her destiny forever. She could have asked for time to think about it, or suggested waiting until after her wedding. But Mary understood something profound about obedience to God’s will.

Mary’s response is what immediate obedience looks like. She didn’t just recognise what God was doing; she opened her heart in obedience at the exact moment God required it. She understood that God’s timing was not negotiable.

Now, you have received instructions from God during camp meeting, in prayer, through His word, and prophecy. But beyond hearing and understanding, are you obeying Him? 

We have experienced the first edition of the Shekinah camp meeting and your intention is probably to wait till after Shekinah Lagos before you begin acting on all God has told you to do but no! You can and should start acting on all God has given you now! This is what total obedience and surrender mean— that immediately God says jump, you jump the highest that you can. 

Many times, God gives further instructions when you start obeying the little He has given in the first place. So, maybe that clarity you are looking for in Shekinah Lagos is in the GO. Maybe the capital you need and you are praying for will be divinely orchestrated when you start. 

Many of God’s servants in the scriptures understood the importance of timely obedience. An example of such a man is Elijah.

1 Kings 17:8-10 
New King James Version
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.”

In this text, God told Elijah to go to Zarephath during a famine. Elijah didn’t question the logic, didn’t wait for better circumstances, and didn’t delay until the famine was over. He arose and went immediately. His timely obedience positioned him for supernatural provision and positioned the widow for a miracle. 

James‬ ‭1‬:‭22‬-‭25‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
22 “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 

24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 

25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”

You must decide in your heart that you will not just be a hearer of God’s instructions, but a doer also. Camp meeting isn’t over but obedience to God’s instructions and leading can and should begin now! 

Let your obedience be immediate and your heart be open to His perfect schedule, even when it doesn’t align with your plans.

Do it!

You might be scared, but do it scared! Do it uncertainly! Follow God’s instructions even when you can’t seem to make sense of it because our God uses seemingly foolish things to confuse the wise and He sees the big picture. So, trust Him and do His will.

Don’t sit and wait until Shekinah Lagos comes, God has already begun equipping you for more, so step out with boldness and begin to do. 

Prayer point
Lord, I open my heart in complete obedience to Your instructions. Give me the grace to act immediately when You speak and help me to discern Your perfect timing. Let my obedience be swift and my heart be yielded to Your plans for my life.