When You Don’t Know What to Build
- Cristina Fischer
- May 30
- 5 min read
Updated: Jun 21
How I Stopped Waiting for the Whole Map and Followed the Last Word God Gave Me
There was a season where I didn’t feel lost, but I didn’t feel found either.
I wasn’t running from God. I just didn’t know where to go. Everyone around me seemed to have a direction—launching businesses, stepping into ministry, mapping out five-year goals.
And there I was… obedient, surrendered, still.
Still praying. Still waiting. Still asking: “God, what do You want me to build?”
But all I heard was silence. Or worse—noise from everyone else’s life.Every time I opened my phone or walked into a conversation, someone had a breakthrough. A brand. A plan. A next step.
And I started asking myself the quiet question no one says out loud:“Is something wrong with me?”
But then, in the middle of that fog, God didn’t give me a brand-new blueprint.He gave me a memory.
He whispered, “Go back to the last thing I said.”
That changed everything.
It’s one thing to not have clarity.
It’s another thing to be surrounded by people who do.
During that season, it felt like everyone I knew had a vision board, a brand strategy, or a breakthrough.
Some were launching ministries.
Others were announcing speaking engagements.
And me?I was still circling the same question:“God, what do You want me to build?”
I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t resistant.
I was ready.
I just didn’t know what I was ready for.
I journaled. I prayed. I fasted. I worked on little pieces of ideas, but nothing had traction.
And the more I tried to force clarity, the more anxious I became.
It didn’t feel like dreaming—it felt like striving in the dark.
Comparison crept in quietly.
I didn’t resent their progress—I just questioned my position.
Was I missing something? Was I disqualified? Did I somehow “delay” my destiny?
I started thinking things like:
“Maybe I’m not strategic enough.”
“Maybe I’m too scattered.”
“Maybe God’s done using me in this season.”
But then one day, I remembered something.
It wasn’t a new word.
It wasn’t a prophetic download or a sermon clip or a dream in the night.
It was a whisper from an old moment of obedience.
Something God had already said—months before I started panicking about what to do next.
And I heard it again, clear and calm:
“Go back to the last thing I told you to do.”
That sentence shifted everything in me.
Because the truth was—I hadn’t disobeyed.
I had just moved past His instruction, assuming it was finished.
But it wasn’t finished.
I just got uncomfortable in the stillness… so I started reaching for noise.
When I went back to the last word—what God had already spoken—I realized He had given me direction.I was just so focused on forward motion that I overlooked what was still active from that last assignment.
Maybe I didn’t need a new revelation.Maybe I needed to be faithful with what I already had.
I started asking:
Did I finish what He asked?
Did I embrace the posture or just the project?
Was I treating obedience like a task list instead of a journey?
And as I settled back into what He had said, things started unlocking—not fast, but steady.
Opportunities I didn’t chase found me.Ideas I had shelved came back with new clarity.
My confidence grew—not because I had a five-year plan, but because I finally felt aligned.
And that’s when I learned one of the most powerful truths I now coach women through:
You don’t need a full map to move forward. You just need to obey the last thing God said.
Abraham Went Without Knowing
God didn’t always hand out maps.More often, He handed out a direction… and waited for obedience.
One of the most profound examples is Abraham, the father of faith.
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went—even though he did not know where he was going.” — Hebrews 11:8 (NIV)
That verse wrecked me the first time I really paid attention to it.
Abraham obeyed without details.
No address. No roadmap. No timeline.
Just a direction from God and a willingness to move.
Back in Genesis 12, God says:
“Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” (v. 1)
That’s present tense: “will show you.”
Meaning—you won’t see it until you start walking.
God could have laid out the journey. He could have drawn the borders of Canaan on a map.But He didn’t.
Because obedience, for Abraham, wasn’t about destination.It was about dependence.
He packed up his entire life and followed a God who promised to show the way—as they walked together.
That’s the pattern we see again and again in Scripture:
Manna came daily in the wilderness—not monthly.
The Red Sea parted as they stepped in.
Jesus told the disciples, “Take nothing for the journey”—trust would provide what planning could not.
So if you’re in a season where the details are fuzzy and the next steps feel unclear, you’re not outside of God’s will.
You’re walking in Abraham’s footsteps.
God doesn’t give us the whole plan because we’d either:
Try to control it,
Disqualify ourselves from it,
Or shortcut the process He designed to form us along the way.
So He gives us enough light for the next step.
Not the next ten.
This doesn’t mean we don’t plan or prepare—but it does mean we don’t place our peace in having it all figured out.
God isn’t asking for perfection.He’s asking for proximity.
And when we’re close to Him, the pressure to “build something big” fades into the invitation to simply walk with Him.
That’s what Abraham did.
And thousands of years later, we still call him blessed.
Reflection and Key Takeaways
If you’re in that foggy space right now—the one where nothing feels clear—I want you to hear this:
You’re not behind. You’re being built.
Clarity is a gift, but it often comes after obedience.
So if you’re waiting for God to hand you a blueprint before you move, ask yourself:
What’s the last thing God clearly told me to do?
Did I finish it—or just move past it?
Am I searching for direction, or am I resisting stillness?
Here’s what helped me realign:
1. Return to the last word.
God isn’t obligated to give us a new instruction if we haven’t walked out the last one. Often, peace flows when we go back—not forward.
2. Stop scrolling, start listening.
Sometimes clarity isn’t blocked—it’s just being drowned out. The loudest voices aren’t always the truest ones.
3. Take the next small step.
You don’t need to launch a platform. Maybe you just need to write the post, make the call, finish the page, or rest intentionally.
A prayer to pray in the meantime:
Father, I want Your will more than I want clarity.I trust that what You’ve spoken still carries power. Give me the courage to move, even when I can’t see the full path. Speak again if You will—but if not, I’ll obey what You already said.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
There’s a kind of peace that only comes after you stop trying to figure everything out and just obey what God already said.
If you’re in a season where the vision feels blurry and the future feels stuck, I want to remind you:
You don’t have to chase clarity. You just need to follow the voice you already heard.
God isn’t frustrated with you.
He’s not disappointed.
He’s drawing you closer—not to a platform, but to a posture.
Not to performance, but to presence.
Sometimes, the breakthrough is hidden in obedience to the last word—not the next one.
If this blog stirred something in you, I invite you to go deeper.
You can explore devotionals, join a clarity session, or start with a routine with our devotionals.
You’re not lost.
You’re just learning to walk by faith.
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