Summary of "How to Find, Follow, and Fulfill God's Will: Episode 12"

Overview

The speaker, Andrew Wommack, uses Moses’ encounter with the burning bush and the rod-turned-serpent (Exodus 4; Hebrews 11:27) as a model for finding, following, and fulfilling God’s will. The central theme is that spiritual and practical breakthrough requires coming to the end of self, surrendering personal control, and allowing God to operate through you. Surrender may appear risky or costly in the short term, but it results in God-infused power, greater long-term blessing, and deeper contentment.

Andrew shares personal testimony (quitting school, being drafted, declining a stable job) and anecdotes to illustrate trusting God’s guidance even when it seems dangerous or disadvantageous.

The breakthrough begins when you come to the end of yourself — stop depending on your own strength and allow God to operate through you.

Key wellness, self-care, and productivity strategies

Recognize your limits
- Admit you cannot accomplish God’s purposes in your own strength. This humility is the starting point for spiritual growth and effective action.
Move from self-reliance to surrendered dependence
- “Lay your life down” — stop trying to make your own plans and ask God to bless them. Give God control and allow Him to direct decisions.
Accept the “final exam” of surrender
- Embrace tests that require risk (symbolized by picking up the serpent by the tail). Surrender often looks dangerous but is a test of trust.
Sign a “blank sheet” approach to plans
- Instead of handing God a list of expectations, surrender a blank plan and say, “Do whatever You want.” Let God fill in details rather than you controlling outcomes.
Obedience over comfort
- Be willing to give up income, security, family expectations, or status if God’s call requires it—short-term loss can lead to far greater long-term fruit and fulfillment.
Persevere in faith
- Endure and keep seeking God even when you feel inadequate; perseverance demonstrates trust and invites God’s power.
Evaluate risk through conviction and wisdom
- If you are certain God has called you, trust and proceed even if it seems dangerous. If you are uncertain, seek wisdom. (Illustrated by a missionary anecdote and a cautionary story of a woman prevented from going who later died in an accident.)
Experience-based confidence
- Testimonies and scripture (e.g., Galatians 2:20; Romans 12:1; Jeremiah 29:11) reassure that surrender leads to God’s empowerment and plans of peace.

Practical application (ordered steps)

Acknowledge inability and stop relying solely on personal strength.
Cry out to God and ask for His power and direction.
Make an unconditional surrender — commit to do whatever God asks.
Obey specific promptings even when they cost you or look risky.
Continue to persevere and follow God’s leading; expect supernatural enablement and long-term blessing.

Other takeaways

Surrendering doesn’t always change outward appearance, but it changes whose power operates through you — your life may look the same outwardly but functions by God’s power.
Being “religious” or morally upright isn’t the same as being yielded; true spiritual productivity comes from being a living sacrifice, not merely moral effort.
Resources (books, CDs, DVDs, free teaching) are available at awmi.net for further study.

Presenters and sources

Andrew Wommack (speaker/host)
AWMI (Andrew Wommack Ministries; awmi.net)
Carrie Pickett (vice president of the ministry; anecdote source)
Biblical references cited: Exodus 4; Hebrews 11:27; Romans 12:1; Galatians 2:20; Jeremiah 29 (context: Jeremiah 29:11)
Anecdotal contributors: unnamed announcer (program logistics), unnamed missionary daughter and others referenced in stories
Biblical figures referenced as sources of the lesson: Moses, Paul