FAITH CAPSULE: In every direction of God, it is an error to look before listening.

1 Samuel 16

When God calls you for His assignment, no one shall be able to offset you from answering the calling of God. 
When David was about to receive the calling of God, to be separated for God, he was not on location, but none of his brothers could take the position of the calling of God for David. 
It was Samuel that God sent to anoint David as a king of the Israelites after King Saul disobeyed the word of God. 
At the arrival of Samuel at Jesse, the Bethlehemite, he wanted to look for David instead of listening to God before calling out David out of the brothers.
Just like Samuel, are you on the assignment of God?
In your assignment of God, are you looking before listening to deliver as directed by God?
In every direction of God, it is an error to look before listening.
Samuel, a prophet of God, looked before listening instead of listening in the direction of God before looking. The Bible records, “So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before Him!” (1 Samuel 16:6) When God sends you, listen first, allow Him for His specific direction before looking. Samuel did not wait when he attempted to make a wrong selection for God, he looked, but David was not on sight. 1 Samuel 16:7, records the response of God to Samuel when he looked before listening, “But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
Always listen to God before you look to move as directed. 
When He sends you, allow Him to be in charge because He is the one that calls you, and you do not give a call for yourself. 
After the error of Samuel, by looking at the physical appearance, he responded to God to move by listening before looking. Samuel saw all the children of Jesse but could not complete the assignment because David, the king after Saul, was absent. Samuel knew that God did not make any selection among the children of Jesse that was on location, he said to Jesse, “Send and bring him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.” (1 Samuel 16:11b) Even though David was not on location, none of his brothers could replace David from the calling of God.
Your calling in life shall not elude you. 
In the absence of David, at the waiting of others for his arrival, all remained standing. 
Today, all that belongs to you by the appointment of God shall not elude you in the name of Jesus. 
Where ever you are or whatever the situation on the ground is, the calling of God shall always wait for you. 
The calling of God over the life of David waited for him until his arrival. Regardless of your surrounding struggle, you shall settle in the calling of God over your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that you shall live life to the glory of God.