Receiving God’s Best

Call to Prayer

Topic: Receiving God’s Best

By: Daniel Peter

Date: 12.05.2026

“And the LORD told him: ‘Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.’”  — 1 Samuel 8:7 NIV

 

It is God’s desire that we receive and remain in His best for us. Sadly, many believers do not receive God’s best for them, and some even walk away from it without realising it. In today’s Call to Prayer, I will be revealing what we need to do to receive His best for us.

God has many things on His shelf, but not everything is His best for us. There is a heart posture we need in order to receive His best. One group of people who walked away from God’s best for them was the children of Israel. When God delivered them from Egypt and placed them in the Promised Land, He did not give them kings, but judges who ruled them as God enabled them. These judges were representatives of God on earth and rose to leadership through special abilities given to them.

However, because the Israelites saw that other nations had kings and not judges, they felt inferior and demanded a king (1 Samuel 8:5). This became a great mistake. Though they did not have a human king, God Himself was their King. By asking for a human king, they rejected God as their King (1 Samuel 8:7 NIV). When God was their King, even the least among them was considered like the son of a king (Judges 6:15; Judges 8:18). But when they received what they requested, they became servants to human kings (1 Samuel 8:11–17; 1 Samuel 17:8).

The Israelites rejected God’s best for them because they focused on what others had. Though we were all created by one God, we are destined for different purposes, even if some similarities exist. For this reason, what God deems best for you may be different from what is best for another person. When we refuse to be content and become swayed by comparison, we may lose sight of God’s best for us, just as the Israelites did.

God’s best for you may not come in the best-looking circumstances. But through humility expressed in surrender to God’s will, we receive and remain in His best. Some years ago, I learned of a lady whom God promised the best in marriage. When the man eventually came, she received insight that he was the one God had promised her. However, because the man could not afford the kind of wedding she desired, her family pressured her to leave him.

The lady in the story above lost out on God’s best not because God failed to fulfil His promise to her, but because she could not surrender to the will of God. Humility, expressed in surrender to the will of God, is the means by which we receive and remain in God’s best for us.

Prayer Points

• Let us thank God for His word today.
• Let us ask Him to help us receive and remain in His best for us.

The books The Process the Blood Went Through, Subjecting the Flesh and Angels: How to Attract Angelic Assistance by Daniel Peter are available for purchase on

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3OoXchD

Selar: https://selar.com/m/daniel-peter1060560