Lord… Is This You?

Have you ever felt something stirring — but couldn’t quite name it?

Maybe it’s a direction that keeps returning no matter how many times you set it aside.

Maybe it’s a desire you’ve been carrying quietly, unsure whether to trust it.

Maybe life is so full right now that you’ve barely had space to acknowledge it.

Or maybe what you have is stable and good — and moving toward something new feels like more than you’re ready to risk.

Wherever you are, you’ve likely asked some version of this question:

“God… is this You?”

There’s a real tension in that question. You don’t want to move and be wrong. But you also don’t want to dismiss something that might genuinely be Him.

So you wait. You think. You try to figure it out before you take a step.

But what if discernment doesn’t begin with certainty? What if it begins with attention?

“For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.” Philippians 2:13 (NIV)

Notice the word will. To will something is to want it — to feel drawn toward it. And Paul is saying clearly: God is the one working in you to want. The desire itself can be part of how He moves in you.

Not every desire is from Him. But not every desire is separate from Him either. The pull you’ve been questioning may not be something to silence. It may be something to bring into the light.

Sit with these quietly — just one or two that feel most like yours:

• Is there something you’ve been waiting for permission to want?

• Have you been dismissing a pull because the timing feels wrong or the cost feels high?

• Is this desire connected to how God has already wired and used you?

• What would it look like to simply bring this to God — not to act on it yet, but to stop carrying it alone?

Write down the thing you’ve been carrying.

Not to figure it all out. Not to make a decision today.

Just to bring it out of your head and into an honest conversation with God.

Then ask Him this:

“Lord, if this is You — teach me how to recognize it. And if it isn’t, give me the grace to release it.”

You don’t have to rush clarity.

But you also don’t have to keep holding this alone. God is not just speaking to you from the outside.

He is working within you — and that changes everything about how you listen.

Blessings!

Tereciah