God Has The Right People In Your Future

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Thanks so much for tuning in. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.120 Thanks again for coming out today as well. I like 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.400 to start with something funny, and I heard about this 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.880 kindergarten teacher. She was wanting to explain to her students 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.639 about self esteem. She said to her class, anyone who 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.280 feels like you're dumb, please stand up. She knew nobody 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.079 would stand up. She'd make the case how nobody is dumb. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.680 But about that time little Johnny stood up. She thought, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.399 oh no, Now what am I going to say? And 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.160 she looked at him and said, now, Johnny, do you 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.960 really feel like you're dumb? He said no, ma'am, I 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.280 just hate to see you standing there all by yourself. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.680 All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.880 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.760 I am. I have what it says I have. I 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.360 can do what it says I can do. Today I 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.600 will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.560 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.400 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.200 I want to talk to you today about how God 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.080 has the right people in your future. God is a 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.799 strategic God, and he has laid out an exact plan 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.880 for our lives, down to the smallest details. God knows 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.560 the people you're going to need to fulfill your destiny. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.800 He knows who's going to need to give you a 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.040 good break, and who's going to need to put in 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.080 a good word for you, when someone is going to 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:34.640 need to be there to help you out of a 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.400 difficult time. God has it all figured out. He's not 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:43.560 vague and approximate. God is orchestrating our lives down to 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.480 the very second, causing us to be at the right 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.960 place at the right time, so we can meet the 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.800 right people that He's ordained before the foundation of the world. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.200 I can look back over my life and see time 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.840 and time again where God directed my step down to 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.400 the exact moment. If I had been ten seconds earlier 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.040 or ten seconds later, I would have missed an opportunity. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.360 One Sunday morning years ago, I was in the front 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.560 lobby of the old church, running up the stairs to 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.760 the television department. The service was about to start and 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.520 I was in a big hurry. The stairs had a 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.120 railing that overlooked the front lobby, and just as I 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.920 was about to turn and go into this closed off area, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.599 a man walked through the lobby that I had not 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.839 seen in many years. He hollered up to me. Joel, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.040 my cousin has a construction permit for a full power 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.160 television station. He'd like to talk to you. Our paths 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.279 crossed for maybe ten seconds. But when he said that, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.120 something leaped on the inside, I knew it was for me. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.000 Long story short, the ministry put the station on the air. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.039 We ended up selling the station for a significant profit. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:01.080 That was very instrumental in us renovating this facility. But 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.839 if I had been five seconds earlier, I'd already been 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.799 up the stairs. If he'd have been five seconds later, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.080 if he had stopped by the water fountain to get 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.040 a drink or pass, would not have crossed. What am 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.480 I saying? God knows where you need to be to 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.760 see your dreams come to pass. God knows the people 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.720 that have information that will propel you to your destiny. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.599 As long as you stay in faith, God will have 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.800 you at the right place at the right time, and 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.920 he'll bring the right people across your path. Victoria and 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.760 I were on a certain national talk show quite a 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.680 few times over the years. Recently that man retired from 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.400 the show and another gentleman took over. I was walking 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.720 downtown in New York and I saw this big billboard 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.800 advertising the new show with this man's picture on it, 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.360 and just in passing, I said to Victoria, I wonder 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.680 if this new man will ever invite us to the 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.440 on his program like the other man did. Didn't think 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:04.679 much about it. Fifteen second conversation moved on. Four hours later, 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:09.000 Victoria came running into the hotel room. She was so excited. 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.480 She had been downstairs in the lobby. She said, Joel, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.560 you'll never believe who I just met. It was this 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.240 man from the new program, and this is not like Victoria. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.560 But she ran over to him, shook his hand and said, Hi, 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.920 I'm Victoria Ostein. My husband Joel and I were just 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.320 talking about you earlier today. He said, Wow, that's great 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.280 because I'd love to have you guys on my new program. Friends, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.320 God has it all lined up. There are six billion 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.359 people on the planet. What are the chances of he 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.360 and Victoria meeting up like that? That's God directing our 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.919 steps down to the very second. God knows how to 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.279 get you to the people that have opportunity. He knows 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.000 how to connect you with people that will show you favor, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.640 people that will use their influence to open new doors. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.160 And in the scripture, there was a lady that had 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.080 a son that got sick and he died. She was 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:07.080 a friend of the prophet Elishasen. Elisha came to her home, 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.840 prayed for the little boy, and he came back to life. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.200 It's one of the great miracles in the Bible. Later 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.800 there was a famine in the land and the lady 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.720 had to leave her home, leave her property, and move 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.880 to the land of the Philistines. Years went by and 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.120 the famine was over. This lady decided to go back 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.600 to her home there in Israel. But when she got there, 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:33.280 somebody was living in her house, farming her property. Wasn't right. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.480 She went to see the king. He had the power 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.040 to correct things. She didn't know what the king would think, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.640 after all, she had been gone for a long time. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.480 He could have said, too bad, you lost your rights 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.320 when you left. Don't bother me. It's not my problem, 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:52.400 it's yours. He could have been uninterested, but it just 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.920 so happened. There was a man there with the king 0:07:55.320 --> 0:08:00.720 by the name of Gehazi. Gehesi was Elisha's main assistant, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.400 his right hand man, and the king asked Gehesi to 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.440 tell him some stories about the miracles that Elisha had performed. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.040 Gehesi started telling this story about the woman that had 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.000 a son that was sick. He died and Elisha Praydeny 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.080 came back to life. And in Second King's Chapter eight, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.360 verse five, it says, at that very moment, as he 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.320 was telling the story, the mother walked in to talk 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.400 to the king about her property. If she had have 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.080 walked in a day earlier, wouldn't have done any good. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.000 She'd have walked in an hour earlier, still nothing. She 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.120 walked in right on cue, just like a director was 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.880 watching the play that knew the script and was saying, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.960 don't go just yet. Wait another moment, let him tell 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.160 the climax, let him tell the miracle. Now go. She 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.400 walked in at the most impactful time. When Gahesi saw 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.800 her coming through the doors, he nearly passed out. He said, King, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.160 that's the woman I'm talking talking about right there. It 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.240 was her sons. The King looked at her and said, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.760 are you the one? She said, yes, i am. She 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.600 went on to tell about her dilemma of her home 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.560 and her property. The King looked at his assistant and said, 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.440 you make sure she gets her home back, her property back, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.640 plus all the funds that were made off that land 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.680 while she was gone. Friends, when God puts in a 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.840 good word for you, it's going to be exceedingly abundantly 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:31.640 above and beyond. Think about it. Elisha performed a lot 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.160 of miracles. Gehese I could have told about the time 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.880 Elisha prayed and contamidated water was made pure, or the 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.160 time God blinded the enemies and they didn't recognize Elisha. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.000 There were plenty of other choices, but it just so happened. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.080 He told about this mother that was on her way 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.960 to see the King. That's the hand of God orchestrating 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.000 it all. When you go out this week, you need 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.040 to have this confidence that you are not alone. The 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.520 creator of the universe is directing your steps. When you 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.000 go into that business meeting, when you go into the classroom, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.840 when you go for the job interview, don't be intimidated. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.160 God has already lined up the right people to put 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.800 in a good word for you. I had a man 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.080 tell me a few weeks ago how he was really 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.000 hoping to get this big contract. He worked in heavy 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.880 equipment sales, and he went to meet the owner of 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.520 this very large company he walked into the meeting, very nervous, 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.280 very uptight. The owner smiled and said, my wife said 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.800 to tell you hello. You and her went to high 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.160 school together. She said she always liked you, and she 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.360 told me before I left the house, you make sure 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.319 you're good to him, and he was. He gave him 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.160 that contract. Now I want you to have this same 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.520 assurance that God has it all lined up for you. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.720 You don't have to worry about your future. You don't 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.000 have to try to make things happen in your own strength. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.240 You can go through the day in peace. God knows 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:02.720 exactly what you need in your future. He's already lined 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.520 up the right people, the right breaks, the good words 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.040 you're going to need, down to the second, down to 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.160 the exact moment, like that woman, God will cause you 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.840 to come in on queue. And if for some reason 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.920 it doesn't work out, you didn't get the contract, the 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.040 door didn't open up, don't get all the scurts, don't 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.280 get depressed. That just means God has something better in store. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.160 It means he's got a bigger opportunity in your future. Listen, 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.600 if God wants you to have the contract, you're gonna 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.800 have the contract. If God wants you to be promoted. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.120 All the forces of darkness cannot stop you. You will 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.640 be promoted. Well, how as you say, Joey, if I 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.280 could just get this one person to like me, if 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.480 I could convince them to put in a good word 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.280 for me, then maybe I'd get promoted. No, listen, you 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.720 don't have to make this happen in your own strength, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.720 playing up to people, letting them control and manipulate you. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:55.439 No. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.720 Just stay true to who you are, be your best 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.280 each day and God, God will take care of the rest. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.520 God will get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.319 When we were trying to acquire this facility, the former 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.840 Compact Center, there was one man that I really wanted 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.160 to get on our team. We had to have the 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.080 Houston City Council members to vote for us. This was 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.640 a city owned facility. This one man knew all the 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.040 people in the city. He was very influential. I thought, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.680 if we could just get him on board, then surely 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.360 we would get the votes that we needed. I called 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.120 and called, but for some reason, he wouldn't call me back. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.040 I knew friends that knew him, and they put in 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.880 a good word for me. Still nothing. One point we 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.320 got word back that this man was not only not 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.640 for us, but he was actively against us. He wasn't 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.560 in neutral, he was on the opposing team. At that point, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.040 I realized I can't make this happen in my own strength. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.040 I quit trying to manipulate things and trying to convince everybody, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.880 and I said, God is in your hands. You've already 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.560 got the right people lined up. I know you've already 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.480 got it figured out, So God, I'm just going to 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.480 stay in that place of peace. We needed ten votes 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.760 from the city council members, and two days before the 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.520 main vote, we only had nine. But a young Jewish 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.880 council member that had been against us for two years 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.840 suddenly changed his mind and voted for us, and it 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.080 was his vote that gave us the victory. He told 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.439 me later, Joe, you were very persuasive, but you were 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.719 not the reason that I changed my mind. He went 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.120 on to tell about this elderly Jewish lady that called 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.679 him out of the blue. He hadn't spoken to her 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.079 in over twenty years, but he had great respect for her. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.920 He grew up with her, and she told him, in 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:51.040 no uncertain terms he was to vote for Lakewood having 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.960 the compact center. He said, it was her phone call 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.920 that changed my mind. I couldn't have made that happen 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.760 in my own stream, but God already had somebody lined 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.920 up that could make it happen. The amazing thing is 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.240 I didn't know the woman. Still don't never talk to her, 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.320 never ask her to call. That's the hand of God 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.800 orchestrating it all. God has it all figured out. Now. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.640 I'm asking you to quit worrying about your future, Quit 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.320 worrying about who you're going to meet. Quit being frustrated 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.440 because somebody's not on your team. Don't do like I 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.040 did and think you have to have one person or 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.000 you can't accomplish what God's put in your heart. No, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.280 the scripture tells us it's not by our might, not 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.000 by our power, but it's by the spirit of the 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.960 Living God. Let me tell you, God's already lined up 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.240 the right people to call when you need it. He's 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.600 already lined up the gahese eyes to put in a 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.600 good word for you. He's already got your high school 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.960 classmate married to the right person. God's God every page 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.240 of your life written in his book. In other words, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.960 God doesn't say just go down there on planet Earth 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.640 Earth and live for eighty ninety one hundred years and 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.680 then come up to be in heaven with me. No, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.840 God has already planned out every detail of your life 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.680 down to the very second. Think about our solar system, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.800 the way that it rotates. Scientists tell us that every 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:23.160 year it's exactly on time, down to the millisecond day, 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.080 year after year, hundreds of years from now, if the 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:31.160 Lord terrries, it will still be precise. That's because our 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:35.280 God is not an approximate God. He's an exact God, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.800 a detailed God, a precise God. He has planned out 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.680 your life, not by the years, or the months or 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.640 the days, but down to the very second. In your future, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.440 He has marked moments where time and eternity are going 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.600 to come together and you'll meet the person of your dreams. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.360 You'll be at the right place and you'll get the 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.320 break you need. A lady out of the blue will 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.880 make a phone call and a dream will come together. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.440 You'll meet somebody on the streets like Victoria, and a 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:10.680 new door of opportunity opens. Those are marked moments that 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.880 God has already ordained in your future. I believe some 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.920 of you, even this week, you're gonna step into one 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.520 of those marked moments. You're going to see the hand 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.920 of God connecting you with someone that could not have 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.960 happened in your own strength. Maybe it's a breakthrough and 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.960 something that you've been praying about, but somebody, for no reason, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.640 decided to put in a good word for you. When 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.240 the city council voted for us to have this facility, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.120 a company filed a lawsuit to try to keep us 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.840 from moving in. They said that we violated the deed restrictions. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.320 They owned most of the property around the facility, and 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.880 we fought that battle for a year and a half. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.480 But they weren't about to budge. Our attorneys told us 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.480 it could be tied up in the court systems easily 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.600 for ten years. I had already presented the vision to 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.840 the church, already raised funds for thought, Wow, this doesn't 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.880 work out, I'm gonna look like a fool. I'm gonna 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.200 have to give those funds back. One day, the other 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.720 side called and said that their CEO wanted to fly 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.280 in from another city and meet with us. Our attorney's 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.080 told us, now that's just a ploy. It's a distraction 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.159 to try to get us off course. But I said no, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.600 I'd like to meet with the man. I walked in 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.359 the meeting. The CEO looked at me and said, Joel, 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.359 my wife and I watch you on television each week. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.720 We really enjoy you. And we have a son in 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.800 law that's a youth pastor. I didn't say anything, but 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.639 on the inside I was jumping up and down. I 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.560 knew everything was going to be all right. Sure enough, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.600 twenty four hours later, we had an agreement and the 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:48.080 building was ours. Friends. God has the right people lined 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.960 up for you. I couldn't have made that happen in 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.119 my own strength. But the good news is we're not 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:59.040 on our own. We have a strategic God, a detailed God. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.600 He knows what you need and who you need, and 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.880 where they need to show up and when they need 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.080 to be there, down to the very second. It's very 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.480 freeing when you realize God is in control. You don't 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.760 have to worry, you don't have to try to make 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.720 things happen. If you will just honor God with your life, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.960 his divine plan will unfold. The right people will show up, 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.840 the right breaks will be there. You will walk in 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.840 to your moments of favor. That's what happened to a 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.480 young lady in the scripture by the name of Ruth. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.720 Ruth had just gone through a great disappointment. Her husband 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.119 was killed in a battle. Future didn't look very bright 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.040 for her. She moved to another city with her mother 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:47.240 in law, Naomi. But instead of sitting around saying poor 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.760 O me in self pity, Ruth reached out and helped 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.840 to take care of Naomi. Not only that, she got 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.800 up every morning very early and went out into the 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.159 fields and gathered up the leftover wheat the reapers had missed. 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.840 One day, the owner of that field noticed Ruth. His 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.960 name was Boas. He noticed how beautiful she was and 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.879 what a hard worker she was. What's interesting is Ruth 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.840 didn't know anybody was watching her. She didn't even know 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.959 who Boas was. Many of you today, you don't realize it, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:25.040 but somebody has their eyes on you. A supervisor is 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.680 noticing your excellence, a manager is noticing your character. A 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:34.040 friend is noticing your faithfulness. You single people, you may 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.840 think there's nobody to meet, but you don't know who 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.560 God's about to bring into your life. You don't know 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.680 who has their eyes on you. Long story short, Ruth 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.800 and Boaz fell in love and ended up getting married. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.840 Now Ruth didn't work in the field anymore. She owned 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.520 the field. And like Ruth, you may have gone through 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.600 a difficult time, but let me tell you God has 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:00.879 another boas out there. God is already lined up somebody 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.120 to notice you, somebody to befriend you, somebody to promote you, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.840 somebody to make your life more fulfilled. That disappointment was 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.760 not the end. It's a new beginning. It may have 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.560 been a setback, but God's already lined up the right 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.160 people to help you come back. The mother of Moses 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:23.719 understood this principle. When Moses was born, the king ordered 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.320 all the male babies to be killed. You can imagine 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.600 how devastated this mother must have been. She could have 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.439 easily given up, but instead she chose to believe that 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.879 God was still in control. She put Moses into a 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.439 little basket and sent him down the Nile River. And 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.879 it just so happened that Faro's daughter was out taken 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.240 a bath at the right place at the right time. 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.720 She heard the cries coming from the basket. She opened 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.320 it up and saw baby Moses and fell in love 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.800 with the boy. She was so excited she said, I'm 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.439 going to take him as my own. She looked at 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.199 her maids and said, we need to find somebody that 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.280 can nurse the baby. One of the maids said, I 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:07.680 know just who to gain. She went and found who 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:12.080 Moses's mother. Moses's mother was not only able to raise 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.679 her son, but she got paid for doing it. On 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.159 top of that, only God could orchestrate all of that. 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:25.159 What am I saying, even in laws in heartach in disappointment, 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:28.679 God still has the right people lined up. God's not 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:33.280 only directing your steps, but he has strategically placed other 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.119 people to be there for you in your time of need. 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.400 I think about David. One time, he and his men 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.320 were out protecting the borders of Israel. When they came home, 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.040 they discovered their city of Ziglag had been attacked by 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.840 the Amalekites. The homes were burned down, their wives and 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.280 children were kidnapped. David prayed and asked God what to do, 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.480 and God said, you go attack and you will recover all. 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:00.800 David and his men they set out, but they didn't 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.320 really know where the Amalekites were. But at one point 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:08.359 they came across a foreigner laying in the fields. He 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.600 had been sick. They gave him some food and nursed 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.879 him back to health, and David asked, who are you. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:18.000 He said, I'm a slave of the Amalekites. They just 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.119 attacked the city of Ziglag, but I was too sick 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:25.640 and couldn't travel, so my master left me behind. David said, 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.159 that's good, so you can lead us to the Amalekites. 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.080 He said, I will if you'll protect me. That young 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.640 man led David to the Amalekites and he defeated them, 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.480 got their wives and children back, recovered everything that was stolen. 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.879 But if that young man had not been there, David 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:45.679 might not have ever found the Amalekites. It wasn't a 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:49.200 coincidence that he got sick and had to be left behind. 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:53.000 That was the hand of Almighty God. In your times 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:57.119 of difficulty, God will always have the right people there 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:59.840 to help you make it through. When you don't know 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.120 what to do, God will have somebody there to give 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:07.280 you inside information. See here's the key. God's not just 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:10.840 in control of your life. He's even in control of 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.560 your enemies. He can cause them to be at the 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:17.480 right place at the right time to work for your advantage. 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.119 The other day, I was in another city in the 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:24.080 airport in line for security, and it was a couple 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:26.720 hundred people long, and we'd been waiting in the line 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:30.080 for fifteen minutes, and we were about halfway through when 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:33.320 I realized I left my cell phone in the car 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.720 that dropped us off. My friend Johnny called the driver 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:39.360 and he said he would come right back. But we'd 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.880 already gone through part of security, and I knew Johnny 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:45.159 was willing to go get my phone, but he couldn't 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:47.280 just leave. You'd have to get permission. Plus if he 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:49.600 went out there and had to come way through the line, 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:51.840 he would never make the flight. So I said, Johnny, 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.440 just hang on, let's see if somebody might help us. 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:58.360 There were all these security agents around in their blue uniforms, 0:23:58.400 --> 0:24:01.679 but they were very busy. Over the next few minutes, 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:04.320 from time to time one would walk by, and I 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:07.320 was looking for the right opportunity, but it just seemed 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:10.960 like they were preoccupied. Several times Johnny started to get 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:13.679 out of the line and explain our situation, but the 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:16.720 security agent would walk away, just like it wasn't meant 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:19.280 to be. We were getting very close to the front 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:21.200 of the line where you go through the metal detectors, 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:22.760 and so if we're going to do something, we had 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:25.320 to do it quickly. And there were three main lines. 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:28.840 We were in this inside line. At one point a 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:32.120 security agent walked through the door and I thought, well, 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:33.800 go Johnny, there's a good one to talk to. But 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:36.520 Johnny got caught behind me, and all of a sudden, 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.800 there was a break in those two lines, just like 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.960 the Red Sea was opening up. And I wasn't even 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.760 planning on doing this, but I found myself walking through 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:48.720 that break right up to the security agent. His eyes 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:51.280 got this big. I thought he either likes me or 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:54.920 I'm in trouble. He said, I can't believe you're standing here. 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:57.000 I still didn't know if his good or bad. And 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.800 he said, my wife and I love you. We watch 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:04.560 you every week. I said, I love you too, and 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:07.960 I said, I need your help. Friends. God has the 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:10.600 right people lined up for you. He knows how to 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:16.919 move things out of the way. He has divine connections people, 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:20.320 He's already lined up before the foundation of the world 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:23.000 to be there in your time of need. Wasn't a 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:26.720 coincidence that those two lines opened up. Wasn't a lucky 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:28.960 break that the men knew me and liked me. That 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:31.680 was the hand of God. He told Johnny, you come 0:25:31.720 --> 0:25:33.879 with me. He escorted him all the way to the 0:25:33.920 --> 0:25:36.760 front of the airport, got the phone, brought him back, 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.200 didn't just put him in line where he was, took 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:42.000 him to the very front, moved people out of the way, 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:45.680 took him through like he was a world leader. Johnny 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:47.760 told me later I could get used to this. And 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:51.159 I asked Johnny if he got his name so we 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:52.760 could send him a thank you know, send him a 0:25:52.760 --> 0:25:54.639 book or something like that. He said no. It's the 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:58.359 strangest thing. When I got my bags from the security machine, 0:25:58.480 --> 0:26:01.240 I looked up to thank him, but he wasn't anywhere around. 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:04.080 It was like he came into our life on Q, 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:07.520 did his business, then went on his way. That's the 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:11.520 creator of the universe, orchestrating it all, directing our step 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:15.960 down to the very second, so you can fulfill your destiny. 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.840 We have a friend named Arthur Blessed. He's the man 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:22.639 that's walked around the world carrying the cross on his 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.520 back for over forty years. And Arthur has a great 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:29.680 way of sharing his faith in very unusual places. In fact, 0:26:29.760 --> 0:26:32.760 most of his time has been spent on the streets. 0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:37.440 In nineteen seventy two, during the conflict in Northern Ireland, 0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:40.640 Billy Graham asked Arthur to take him to the streets 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:43.520 so he could visit with the people one on one. 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:46.720 Mister Graham's security team was concerned for his safety and 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:49.480 wanted to come along, but Arthur said no, that would 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:53.040 be a distraction. He talked Billy Graham into just putting 0:26:53.040 --> 0:26:55.800 on some sunglasses, putting on a hat so nobody could 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:59.920 recognize him. They went to the war torn streets of Belfast. 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:03.639 At one point, Billy Graham started sharing his faith with 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:05.960 the man down in the bunkers. He was one of 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:08.959 the fighters. Mister Graham, you know, is very passionate and 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:11.520 was doing his best to win him over. But this 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:14.240 man got tired of listening. He says, Sir, I don't 0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:17.199 mean to be rude, but I'm just not interested. The 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:20.959 only minister that ever gets to me is Billy Graham. 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:24.000 If I ever talked to him, then I might change 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:26.600 my mind. Billy Graham took his hat off, took his 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:30.120 sunglasses off, said hello, I'm Billy Graham. Today is your 0:27:30.200 --> 0:27:37.000 day of salvation. Friends. God is in control. He is 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:40.040 already lined up, not only the right people for you, 0:27:40.320 --> 0:27:42.359 but for your loved ones that don't know. The Lord 0:27:43.080 --> 0:27:46.640 God is orchestrating our steps down to the very second. 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:49.960 Quit worrying about your future. Quit worrying about who you're 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:52.960 gonna meet and how you're gonna accomplish your dreams. God 0:27:53.000 --> 0:27:56.000 has already laid out the right people, people that will 0:27:56.000 --> 0:28:00.399 come into your life on que people to promote you, friends, 0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:02.800 you to be there in a time of need. God 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:06.000 has the boazes, people you don't even know that are 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:08.640 watching you. You need to get ready. You're gonna start 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:11.560 seeing more of these divine connections. You're going to be 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:14.479 at the right place at the right time. Like that 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:17.720 mother that walked in when Gahesa was telling her story, 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:21.000 things are going to fall into place for you. You 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:23.399 couldn't have made it happen in your own strength. It 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:26.359 was the hand of Almighty God. Now get ready for 0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:29.200 his favor, Get ready for increase. Let me declare it. 0:28:29.320 --> 0:28:33.919 Supernatural opportunities are coming your way. Supernatural breakthroughs are in 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:38.880 your future, Supernatural connections that will thrust you to your destiny, 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:42.000 and you will become everything God's created you to be. 0:28:42.320 --> 0:28:45.120 I declare it and believe it in Jesus' name. If 0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:48.760 you receive it, can you say amen? Amen? I know 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:52.680 you do. We never like to close our broadcast without 0:28:52.680 --> 0:28:55.280 giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of 0:28:55.320 --> 0:28:59.160 your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 0:29:00.240 --> 0:29:04.760 I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:08.480 make you my Lord and savior. 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