"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ." Colossians 2:8

(Also see Acts 5:1-11 ~ Story of Ananias and Sapphira, Joshua 6 ~ Israel's march and defeat of Jericho, 1 Sam. 16:11 ~ God choosing a shepherd boy to be king (but a man after God's own heart)

All of these examples are of God doing things HIS way, when it seems that they don't make sense, are not efficient or will not produce the results WE would expect. We like to put things in a cookie cutter system, and watch the same results come out. We like things to be predictable, controlled, reproducible...

My question is: if God has called you to do something, is planning it and processing it the way the world wants you to process it the way to do it? If it is, then I would challenge you that you need to look at if the calling is from God. If you don't need every step from God to make the outcome for God, then is the calling from God? God calls us to do things for Him by Him, not for Him, by the world.

How can we do this? The ONLY way we can be doing things for HIM by HIM, is to know what he wants from us. Can you hear him? Is your relationship with Him in a place where you trust his voice over the worlds voices? Be sure you are in a place where you can hear HIM. If your relationship is in a place of complete confidence in Him, not even the sky will be your limit. You will know when he has asked you do something when you can't do it yourself, but need Him to do it. THEN it will last to eternity...