FAITH CAPSULE: Listen to the direction of God first and foremost to avoid failure.

1 Samuel 16

God is not a careless God to send or call with accuracy.
When God calls you for His assignment, no one shall be able to offset one that listens to gain unfailing understanding.
Have you looked ahead before listening to move for God?
Know to listen before looking outside of the direction of God.
Samuel, a prophet of God, wrongly looked before listening for the direction of God.  
God sent Samuel 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 looked for David instead of listening to look for David.
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.
1 Samuel 16:6 records, “So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before Him!”  
When God sends you, listen 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 in sight. 
1 Samuel 16:7 states 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 moving by your look (by what you see). 
When God sends you, allow Him to be in charge because He is the God that calls you, and you do not give a call to yourself. 
After the error of Samuel, by looking at their physical appearance, he responded to God to move by listening for the direction of God. 
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.
Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.” (1 Samuel 16:11b) 
David was called, not on location, but none of his brothers could replace him 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 wait to manifest.
The direction of God for you shall not fail.
Where ever you are or whatever the situation on the ground is, the calling of God shall always wait for you. 
The calling over for David waited for 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.