Praying With A Purpose

Today I was looking at a number of e-mails I'd received from companies who had seen my resume and showed an interest in sitting down with me to discuss a job opportunity.  One key thing you have to know here is that the job opportunity they all want to discuss is in my background but not what I had in mind of pursuing after my transitional period from a company merger.  While I was deciding how to respond to these e-mails God began to enlighten me regarding some things about myself that I had not realized.  Though I wanted and truly need to pursue this other path I've had in mind for quite some time, why was I considering totally closing the door on these possible opportunities before me?  Part of it is fear of failure, a greater part of it is fear of this role consuming more of my life than I want to give it.  While being honest with myself about how to respond to these opportunities God spoke to me something so simple: Say YES and PRAY.  Now that might seem a little backwards to some of us because we're use to praying about a situation first and then re-acting.  However, God told me to just say "yes" to these opportunities and pray while you wait for the outcome, whether it's the outcome from a sit down with these prospects or outcome from my response to these e-mails.  So, basically I prayed, "God if not one of these jobs is for me...if you know I would be horrible at performing any of these jobs, then don't let any of them come through for me."  My prayer is that the one job I'm suppoe to have will be the one to come through and save me the headache and stress of interviewing for anything God knows is not mine.

How often do we go through life with the attitude or mentality that we have to do a bunch of things aimlessly and just hope for the best?  How often do people knowingly date a bunch of the wrong people just hoping they turn out to be the right person?  I haven't done that a bunch of times but I can say I've done it more than once; waste of time and resources.  When we know God is telling us "yes" in any area in our lives we can have confidence in moving forward in that area with the right prayer.  And with the right prayer we never have to worry about moving beyond what is right for us in life.  Afterall, if we are truly children of the God we say KNOWS ALL, shouldn't there come a point when we stop throwing darts JUST HOPING to land in the right spot?