How do you know which step God wants you to take?

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How do you know which step God wants you to take? This last year our bank account was slowly going towards zero and I prayed, "God, please get us out of this." And then one day a friend of mine offered to rent us their home at a lower price than what I was paying my mortgage. But to do it, we'd have to move in quickly. Meaning, there's almost a guarantee we would have to pay two house payments for an unknown period of time while our bank account is almost at zero. So it makes the answer pretty clear, right? Don't do it. But remember, I had been praying, "God, please get us out of this." But it didn't make that fear of not having enough money for food and clothes any less real. But then I remembered this verse, "Do not worry saying, 'What shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear?' For the pagans, non-Christians, run after all these things. And your heavenly Father knows that you need them." Now, I know God. I'm a Christian. I go to church. I say that I trust him. But it's true, I was worrying about all those things. So what am I supposed to do? The next verse says, "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well." So if I'm prioritizing God, it'll all work out? Well, even though it didn't make sense to my wife and I as we're taking care of our 5-year-old daughter, we decided to do it. Listing our house for sale, moving into the new home, taking on two house payments. How did we know if that was a step God wanted us to take? Well, the Bible said God would take care of us if we put him first. And we chose to believe that instead of believing that we can take care of it ourselves. We did know that this step would require us to rely on God even more. And is getting closer to God a bad step? Fast forward a couple of months. Our old house did not sell. So it was about time for us to make two house payments and we did not have enough money. Well, kind of. Because every time my wife and I get paid from our jobs, we make the decision to tithe, give a portion of our money to the church first before anything else. Meaning, we did have the money, but we would have to make the decision to not give that percentage to the church. Is that the step that God wanted us to take? Now, if we kept that money, we would have enough for one house payment, but we'd still have nothing for the other. And the Bible does say to tithe. God says, "Test me in this and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be enough room to store it." So withholding that money honestly felt wrong even though it would kind of half save us. So we decided to give it. And that week, our job gave us a surprise bonus just enough to cover both house payments and our groceries until the next paycheck. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Initially, I thought it meant just prioritize God, but there are two parts to this. One, seek first his kingdom. In a kingdom, there's one ruler and here it's God. Are we choosing to seek the kingdom, release all control to God? Well, if we release all control to God, does that mean I do nothing? Part two, seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. What does that mean? Living God's way. So first, we release control to God and we choose to live God's way. And when we did that, every time we had to pay two house payments, God came through with some financial miracle to give us just enough every time for almost five months. And yesterday, our house officially sold. What step is God asking you to take? I'm praying for you today, friends. God bless.