Mensa Otabil - Lead Me Lord (10/27/2025)
Welcome to a brand new week, and today is number five of our 40 days of power. You know we are committed to the Lord during this season. We want to seek His face, we want to seek His guidance, and we want Him to lead us. So, throughout this week, our prayer is going to be focused on God’s guidance and God’s leading. Many times, we are desirous to receive something from God, and it’s good to receive something from Him, but it’s better for us to know what He wants us to do, and that’s what guidance is all about. So, that’s where our prayer will be focused this week, and I trust that God will give you guidance in every area of your life.
Exodus chapter 33, verse 13: «Now therefore I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You, that I might find grace in Your sight, and consider that this nation is Your people.» This is a prayer of Moses; he has been given the opportunity to lead God’s people, and he needs to know God’s way if he’s going to lead the people along the way. For all of us who lead people, it’s always important for us to know where we are going; otherwise, people will follow us in the wrong direction. So, Moses is praying for guidance, and each one of us during this time of consecration wants guidance. There are choices to be made, decisions to be made, and we need to know what is right to be done.
So, how does Moses pray? He says, «Lord, show me Your way.» It’s a very important prayer. He didn’t say, «Lord, show me the way» or «show me a way,» but «Your way.» Moses believes that God has a path already designed for him. There is something God wants to do, and so he says, «God, show me what You have in Your mind, what You are thinking about; what is Your plan for me?» As we pray and as we seek God’s guidance, it’s not so much about us having our way, but about having God’s way-God showing us the way, God guiding us. In every important decision, the most important thing is the will of God: what does God want for me at this point in my life?
Then he says, «Lord, show me the way.» Why does he say that? «That I may know You.» So, Moses is not just praying, «God, I just want to know the way and get on with it,» but he says, «In showing me the way, I want to know You. I want to have a relationship with You. I want to have an encounter with You.» You know, many times we are so interested in what we need that we never think about having a deeper relationship with God. In knowing His way, we will get to know Him, because as we get to know Him, we get to know what He wants, what He doesn’t want, and what He wants for us and what He doesn’t want for us. There are many things we want for ourselves that God doesn’t really want for us. To us, it seems like the best plan; to God, who knows the end from the beginning, it could be the worst decision we can ever make for ourselves.
So, he says, «That I may know You,» and then he says, «That I may find grace in Your sight.» In other words, «Lord, I need Your way. I want to know You, and I want You to look at me in the right way, that I will be favorable in Your sight.» He then concludes by saying, «And the reason I’m asking for all of this is because these people I’m leading are Your people.» If you want to personalize it, you might say, «Lord, I want to know Your way because I’m Your child. I need to do what You want me to do and not what I want to do for myself.»
So, this week, as we start our prayer on guidance, direction, and leading, I pray that your motives will be right, that you will seek God’s way, and get to know Him better. Let us pray:
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your continuous guidance. Lead me into Your perfect will for my life. In Jesus' name, Amen, and Amen.