I used to try to prepare beforehand something to say until I realized that God seldom allowed me to use that preparation. Now, when I study and pray in the A.M. I just ask God to help me move always according to His will rather than my own. It works better when I really do place it in His hands.
From traditional teaching has come a lot of truth, God's Truth, that people possess. The difficulty is when we allow traditions get in God's Way.
Sister, if you know anything at all correctly with regard to God and the things of God all of that which is correct came from the Holy Spirit, even if you did not realize it.
People want to ride the fence to obtain their desires in this world as well as entrance into the next one with God. God may allow some of that for a while but eventually He will do what with them?
"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." Rev 3:15-16
And what did the Apostle Paul about us?
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." Rom 12:1
This is certainly the place it all begins. If we work so hard for ourselves with only occasional thoughts about Him, why should we expect to ever get to a better place? What again was our "reasonable service"?