Chapter 2

The Wedding at Cana

 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.

 

Instruction 

A direction or order.

A detailed information about how something should be done or operated.

 

“The one who obey's God's instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.”

Lysa TerKeurst. 

 

“A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.”

Solomon.

 

 

Psalms 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will guide you with My eye.

 

Proverbs 4:13

Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go;

Keep her, for she is your life.

 

Question:

• When was the last time you explicitly heard or received instructions from the Lord?

• What is your number one response or process you follow once you receive the instructions?

 

Instruction requires an action, response and obedience to the latter. 

 

• The instruction you choose to obey is the instruction that will ultimately be a blessing.

• Simply obeying instruction will bring rewards or result. 

• The opposite is true (Disobedience will result into stagnation or even death.

 

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing and obedient,

you shall eat the good of the land;

 

 How to respond to Instructions. 

 

1. Everything God created contains an invisible seed of instruction ,an assignment, to solve a specific problem. Within an individual is an invisible calling  purpose or destiny.

 

Luke 1:31-33

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”

 

Luke 1:38

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

 

Lord help us identify the seeds of instruction to complete our assignments. 

 

 

2. Instructions may be ignored, disregarded, distorted or completed out of sequence. This will result into delays, stagnating in one season or even spiritual or physical death. 

 

An example is Jonah 1:3 

But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. 

 

Prayer point:

Lord help us to distinguish you voice from other voices, to understand your instruction in every season and to obediently run with the instructions we receive.

 

3. Instruction can be so simple makes no sense or what we don’t want to follow.

 

2 Kings 5:10-11

And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’

 

Prayer point:

Lord help us to have child like faith to follow the instructions no matter how simple it sounds. Let us not complicate the instructions or dismiss it because it’s too simple. 

 

4. Take the first simple step in following instructions. Your obedience to the simple instructions will open doors to further instructions. 

 

1 Kings 17:10-11

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.” And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

 

Prayer point.

Lord help us to take the first simple step of obedience and to have the courage/tenaciously to run with further instructions. Let us always have a yes attitude towards the things of God.

 

5. Always go over and above to deliver on the instructions.

 

2 Kings 13:18-19

Then he said, “Take the arrows”; so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped. And the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! But now you will strike Syria only three times.”

 

Prayer point:

 

Lord help us to go over and above the instructions. Let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we will reap the rewards.