Trust God's Timing

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Thanks so much 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.239 for tuning in, and thank you again for coming out. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.800 And I like to start with something funny. And I 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.839 heard about this elderly woman. She came to church one 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.560 Sunday morning and a friendly usher met her at the 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.040 back and said, ma'am, where would you like to sit? 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.119 She said, I'd like to sit on the very front row. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.960 He said, oh, no, ma'am, you don't want to do that. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.800 Our pastor is very boring. He'll put you to sleep. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.200 Let me seet you somewhere else. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.959 She looked appalled. She says, sir, do you know who 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.919 I am? He said no, ma'am. She said, I am 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.040 the pastor's mother. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.560 He hung his head in embarrassment and finally looked up 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.359 and said, ma'am, do you know who I am? 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.840 She said no. He said, thank God, Hold up your Bible. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.800 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.040 I am what it says. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:58.359 I am. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:02:59.760 I have what it says. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:02:59.960 I am. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.200 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.480 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.400 My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.160 I will never be the same in Jesus' name, God 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.560 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:21.480 trusting God's timing in life. We're always waiting for something, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.800 waiting for a dream to come to pass, waiting to 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.160 meet the right person, waiting for a problem to turn around, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.200 and when it's not happening as fast as we would like, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.360 it's easy to get frustrated. But you have to realize 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:40.760 the moment you prayed, God established a set time to 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.640 bring the promise to pass. God has a set time 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.440 for you to meet the right person. There is a 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:52.080 set time for the problem to turn around, a set time. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.720 For your healing, your promotion, your breakthrough. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.240 It may be tomorrow, or next week, or five years 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.119 from now, but when you understand the time has already 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.920 been set, it takes all the pressure off. You won't 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.880 live worried wondering when this is ever going to happen. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.200 You'll relax and enjoy your life knowing that the promise 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.000 has already been scheduled by the creator of the universe. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.080 And some of you have been praying about a situation 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.960 for a long time and you don't see anything happening, 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.360 and you could easily be discouraged, but What if God 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.159 were to pull back the curtain and allow you to 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.960 see into the future, and you knew that on February twelfth, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.360 at two thirty three in the afternoon, you were going 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.760 to meet the person of your dreams. You wouldn't be discouraged, 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.920 you'd be excited, you'd start working out, you'd go buy 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:45.680 some new clothes. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.680 Why you know the big day is coming. Here's where 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:51.560 it takes faith. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.080 God promises that there are set times in our future, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.080 but he doesn't tell us when they will be. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.120 Your set time. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.760 Maybe tomorrow morning at nine p forty seven you'll get 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.160 the phone call you've been waiting for. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:07.919 You're set time. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.200 Maybe October twenty fifth, two years from now. You'll get 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.719 a good break and that will thrust you to a 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:19.680 new level. My question is, do you trust God enough 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.479 to believe that your set times are coming? Are you 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.560 willing to wait with a good attitude knowing that they're 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.520 on their way, or will you get discouraged and think, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.039 I don't know, Joel, I've been trying to break this 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.160 addiction since high school. Now you've got to get a 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.039 new perspective. God has a set time for you to 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.920 break that addiction. It's already in your future. Don't let 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.839 the negative thoughts talk you out of it. There is 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.560 a set time for you to be completely well, a 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.320 set time for God to turn the legal situation around. Now, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.120 quit worrying about it. Quit living stressed out. What if 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.600 I don't meet the right person, but if I don't 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.680 ever get well, No, it says in Hebrews, those who 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:09.279 have believed enter in to the rest of God. The 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.440 way you know you're really believing is you have a rest, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:13.880 you're at peace. 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:15.920 You know the answers on the way. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.120 You know the right people, the right opportunities have already 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:25.760 been set in your future. On January eighth, nineteen eighty six, 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.160 at four o'clock in the afternoon, I walked into a 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.720 jewelry store to buy a battery for my watch. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.320 Outwalked the most beautiful. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.640 Girl I'd ever seen. It was Victoria. I didn't tell her, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:42.000 but I thought, this is my set time. It took 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.000 me a year to convince her that it was her 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:44.560 set time. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:45.160 Today. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.839 On December third, two thousand and three, at one thirty 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:55.359 in the afternoon, when Mayor Brown handed us the keys 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:56.880 to the Compact Center. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:58.839 That was not an ordinary time. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:04.920 That was a set time ordained by the most high God. Friends, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.960 there are set times in your future. You prayed, believe, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.040 stood in faith. Let me assure you you're going to 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.960 come in to set times of favor, a set time 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.120 where a problem suddenly turns around, a set time where 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.240 you meet the right person, a set time where a 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.640 good break thrust you years ahead. That's what Habakuk said. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.400 The vision is for an appointed time. It may seem 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:38.760 slow in coming, but wait patiently for it will surely come. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.800 No thise not may be come, not I hope so no. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.080 God has already set the date. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.000 The appointed time. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.840 Has already been put on your calendar. One translation says, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.920 it won't be one second late. Sometimes we think, well, 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.080 everybody's getting ahead of me. My friends are all married 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.160 and I'm still single. Coworkers are being promoted, but I'm 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:06.200 still stuck here. Now, don't get discouraged. Your set time 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.840 is coming. It is not going to be one second late. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.320 The good news is God knows how to make up 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:18.280 for what seems like lost time. God doesn't always take 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:22.280 us logically from A to B to C. Sometimes God 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.440 will take you from A to B to C and 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.280 then thrust you all the way down to STUV. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:29.520 What happened. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.040 You hit a set time that pushed you fifty years ahead. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.800 Now quit worrying about who's getting ahead of you and 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:37.880 just run your race. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:39.680 Be the best that you can be. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.400 Keep honoring God with your life, Keep treating people right, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:44.599 and God. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.480 Will get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.400 That promotion, that healing, that breakthrough, that right person, they 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.840 won't be one second late. Our God is not a 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.760 random god. He's a precise God. He has lined up 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.720 solutions for you down to the very second. I know 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.840 a young lady that was believing to meet the right man, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.040 and she was in her early thirties and never really 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.440 had a serious relationship with anyone, and she was starting 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.080 to wonder if it was going to happen. One day, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.880 she was driving home from work and she had a 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.000 flat tire and pulled over on the side of the freeway. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.440 In a few seconds, another car pulled over. Outstepped This 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.160 young man, as handsome as can be, went up to 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:30.920 her window and said, can I help you. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.480 She took one look at him and said, I think 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:33.960 you can. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.920 He not only changed her tire, but he invited her 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.640 out to dinner. Long story short, they ended up falling 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.400 in love. A year and a half later, they got married. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.120 Today they're as happy as can be. I see them 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.880 at Lakewood all the time. That wasn't a coincidence. It 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.120 wasn't a lucky break. That was a set time ordained 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.959 by the creator of the universe. Think about how precise 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.959 God's timing is. The tire had to go flat at 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.200 just the right time an hour later, and it wouldn't 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:07.720 have happened. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.640 There had to be just the right amount of traffic. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.880 Too many cars he had been late, too few cars 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:14.679 he'd have been early. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.040 He had to leave his work at just the right time. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.839 One extra fifteen minute phone call, and that would have 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.880 never worked out. The timing was down to the split 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.480 second for it to all fall into place. What am 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.240 I saying? You can trust God's timing. God has it 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.640 all figured out. What you're praying about, what you're believing for. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.880 It's not going to be one second late. If it 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:46.200 hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean something's wrong, doesn't mean God's 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.040 mad at you, doesn't mean it's never gonna work out. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:54.000 God has already established the time down to the split second. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:55.720 You don't have to worry. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:00.439 You don't have to live frustrated, Stay in peace, enter 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:01.600 into this rest. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.800 God has you in the palm of his hand. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.000 Your steps are being directed by the creator of the universe, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.920 not randomly, not vaguely, No, down to the millisecond, down 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.600 to the most finite, small detail. When you understand this, 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.000 it takes all the pressure off. You won't go around 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.320 wondering when something's gonna happen. God, When are you gonna 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.160 change my husband? God, When are you gonna answer my prayer? No, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.719 when you know the time has been set. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:32.920 You'll have a peace. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.760 Whether it's twenty minutes or twenty years. You know what 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.559 God promised he will bring to pass. Here's a great 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.679 prayer we should pray every day. God, give me the 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:49.000 grace to accept your timing. So I'd love to tell 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.280 you that if you stay in faith, if you believe, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.480 then God will always answer your prayer within twenty four 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.920 hours or at least within the first week. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.959 But we know that's not realction. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.120 God promises he will be true to his word, but 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:06.360 he never puts. 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.199 A time frame on it. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.280 Be a lot easier if God told us when we 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.640 were going to get well when we would meet the 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.199 right person, when our child would straighten up. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.520 But the truth is that wouldn't take any faith. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.840 It takes faith to say, God, I don't know when 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.200 you're going to do it, but God, I trust you 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.000 enough to believe that you will do it, that the 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.280 answer is already in my future. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.800 The scripture says, the vision is for. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.320 An appointed time. The appointed time is the best time. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.440 God can see the big picture for our lives. He 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.600 knows what's up ahead. He knows what we're. 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.320 Going to need, who we're going to need when they 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:49.160 need to show up. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.640 If God did everything we ask on our timetable, it 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:58.080 would limit us because sometimes what we're asking for is 0:12:58.120 --> 0:12:58.800 too small. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:00.719 Some times the. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.600 Person we think we can't live without. God knows in 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.199 ten years they're not going to be good for us, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.160 so he's closing the door right now. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.600 Sometimes the promotion we want so. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.400 Badly, if God gave it to us right now, he 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.880 knows that would keep us from a much bigger promotion 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.120 that he has three years down the road. God has 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.920 the advantage of seeing it all. The longer I live, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.600 the more I trust him. How many times have I 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.840 looked back and said, God, thank you for not answering 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.960 that prayer. God, thank you for not letting that person 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.600 end of my life. God knows what he's doing, and 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.840 what you're praying about may be good, may be a 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.600 part of your destiny, but it's not the appointed time. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.400 If there's a right time, that means there's a wrong time, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:58.959 if it hasn't happened yet. Instead of being frustrated worried, God, 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.000 win is my business. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.040 It's gonna grow. God, I'm so lonely. When am I 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.560 gonna meet somebody? No, have a new approach. God, you 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:07.760 know what's best for me. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.800 You can see the big picture. I'm not gonna live frustrated. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.240 God. I trust your timing. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.800 See, we're in a society that wants everything right now. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.520 We're being programmed for immediacy. Don't make me wait. But 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:28.280 the scripture says it's through faith and patience that we 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.479 inherit the promises. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:31.520 It's easy to have faith. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.920 God, I believe I'm going to accomplish my dreams. God, 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.920 I believe I'm going to overcome this obstacle. We've got 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.360 the faith part down. Let's make sure we get the 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.720 patience part down. God, I not only believe for big things, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.840 But I trust your timing God. I'm not gonna get 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.280 discouraged if it doesn't happen immediately. I'm not going to 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.720 give up because it's taken a week, a month, or 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.400 five years. I know the set time is all already 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.360 in my future. So I'm going to wait with faith 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.400 and patience because i know that it's on the way. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.760 When Victoria was pregnant with our first son, Jonathan, the 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.520 first few months were very exciting, not a problem at all. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.720 But about six months in, Victoria started getting uncomfortable. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:21.560 Her feet started swelling. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.400 By the seventh month, her back was hurting, she couldn't 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.680 sleep good at night. By the eighth month, she was saying, God, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.240 I want to have this baby right now. I am 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:35.800 tired of waiting. But we know God has an appointed time. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.800 The child is not ready, still growing, developing. If God 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.760 let her have the baby early, the child may not 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:48.440 be healthy. Sometimes we pray, God, give me this promise 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.640 right now. God, I'm uncomfortable. These people aren't treating me right. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.520 God. Business is slow. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.440 What we can't see is that something is not ready. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.120 Maybe it's another person that's going to be involved. God's 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.760 still working on them. Maybe it's another situation that's going 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.880 to be a part of your destiny. It's not in 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.280 place yet, or maybe God's doing a work in you, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.480 developing your character, growing you stronger in that process. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:17.480 It's interesting the. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.960 Scripture says God didn't take the children of Israel the 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:26.160 shortest route to the Promised Land because he knew they 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:27.760 were not prepared for war. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.400 God could see the big picture. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.720 He knew if he took them the shortest way, their 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.040 enemies would be too. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.960 Powerful and they would be defeated. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.920 So on purpose, God took them a longer route to 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.360 protect them, to strengthen them so that they could fulfill 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.400 their destiny. And if something is not happening on your timetable, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.000 remind yourself God knows what he's doing. He has my 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.680 best interest at heart. I wouldn't be having this delay 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.960 unless God had a very good reason for it. And 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.360 while you're waiting, don't make the mistake of trying to 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.000 figure everything out. God, I've been praying for my child 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.120 for three years. Why won't he change. No, if you're 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.080 constantly trying to figure things out, that's only going to 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:14.879 frustrate you. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.159 Turn it over to God. Say, like David, God my 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.199 times are in your hands. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.399 I'm not gonna worry about why something hasn't happened, or 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.760 worry about why it's taken so long. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.280 God, I trust you. I know at the set. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:36.280 Times, everything you promise me will come to pass. Sometimes 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.600 when we get in a hurry, we make the mistake 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.840 of taking matters into our own hands, and we try 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.800 to force things to happen. Many times we miss God's best. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.600 This is what happened with Abraham and Sarah. God gave 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.840 them the promise that they were going to have a baby, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.159 but year after year went byden nothing was happening, So 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.440 they decided to try to help God out. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.840 Sarah came up with a plan. She told Abraham to 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.760 sleep with one of her maids. That way they could 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:06.560 have that baby. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:12.040 Abraham, instead of being patient waiting for God's timing, he 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.879 went along with the plan, and sure enough they had 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:15.720 a baby boy. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.359 They were very excited. They named him Ishmael. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.480 They said, look, this is the child God promised us. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.480 But God said, Abraham, Sarah, that is not the child 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:28.480 I promised you. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.919 That's something that you did on your own. Do you know. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:36.280 Ishmael was a struggle to raise. They were constantly having 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:40.240 problems conflict. There was no grace for him. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:45.400 But understand what God orders, God will pay for what 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.600 God gives birth to. God will always give you the 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.520 grace to take care of it. But when we birth 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.840 things in our own strength, out of God's timing, then 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:59.720 God's not obligated. Fourteen years later, at the set time, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.080 Sarah gave birth to Isaac, the child that God promised them. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.440 Like Sarah, there will be times in life where it's 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:09.760 not happening as fast as. 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:10.240 You would like. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.760 You'll be tempted to try to force things to happen. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.159 Maybe in a relationship. The person you're thinking about dating 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.200 you know down deep they're not good for you. They 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.359 don't treat you with respect, but you're afraid that you 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.840 might not meet anyone else. Now, if you'll let go 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:32.440 of Ishmael, Isaac will show up. The one God promise 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:37.399 you is in your future. The time has already been set. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.040 Now be patient and trust God to do it his way. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.800 I learned a long time ago. God doesn't need my help. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.040 He's got it all figured out. He knows the end 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:52.200 from the beginning. All we have to do is trust him. 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.000 You don't have to try to force doors to open. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.720 You don't have to try to make people like you, 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.160 manipulate your way in into a friendship, into a position. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:03.920 No, you just keep. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:08.240 Honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust his timing, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.400 and God will open doors that no man can shut. 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:16.360 God will bring amazing people across your path. God will 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.520 defeat your enemies and get you to where you're supposed 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.720 to be. Now, don't go around birthing ishmaels. When God 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.040 wants to give you isaacs. That's what it says in Psalms. 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.560 When you delight yourself and the Lord God will give 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.879 you the desires of your heart. There's a big difference 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.400 between God giving you something and you having to work 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.720 to make it happen. When we try to force things, 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:42.960 we don't wait for God's timing. 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:44.600 It's a constant struggle. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.919 It's a burden. We can't seem to ever get it 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:48.680 off the ground. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:50.280 But if you'll let. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.679 God do it his way in his timing, there'll be 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:55.480 a supernatural grace. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:56.919 There'll be at ease. 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.920 Yes, you'll have opposition, but you'll feel a strength, a peace, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:07.919 God's favor supernaturally pushing you forward. Remember a couple of 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.119 years after my father died. I really wanted to write 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.560 a book, had a strong desire, but I didn't know 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.879 any publishers or anything about the book industry. And several 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.199 times I started to call a friend that didn't know 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.399 a publisher. Didn't feel good about it. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:24.920 I just knew it wasn't right. 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:28.720 Over the next couple of years, I was approached by 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.640 different publishers and even offered a contract. 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.159 On the surface, it looked good. They were fine people. 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.639 But down here I could hear a still small voice 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:43.000 telling me, Joel, be patient, this is not the right one. 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.399 Trust my timing. Something better is coming. I put it 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.040 on hold. Month after month. I didn't worry about it. 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:56.040 I wasn't frustrated. My attitude was God, my times are 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.719 in your hands. When you want me to write a book, 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:00.640 I know you will open up the doors. 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:01.920 See you can do. 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.439 The right thing at the wrong time and miss God's 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:10.920 best timing is everything. Be patient and let God open 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.480 the doors. Yes, you may have to knock, you'll have 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:17.400 to put forth the effort. I'm a believer in being 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:21.560 aggressive and pursuing dreams. But you don't have to force 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.240 doors to open. You don't have to try to make 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:26.640 people to like you. You don't have to talk yourself 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:31.280 into it. If you'll be patient and wait for God's timing, 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:32.800 he will give you. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.080 The desires of your heart. 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:39.040 One day, through a series of unusual events, I met 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:39.840 this publisher. 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:42.800 I knew they were the right people. I felt good 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:43.320 about it. 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:47.320 Everything fell into place, and that book, Your Best Life 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:50.240 Now went on to become a huge success, published in 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.960 over forty languages. That's what happens when you wait for 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:57.880 God's timing. You won't have to settle for Ishmael. God 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:00.879 will give you Isaac's. He'll give you, but he promised. 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:06.199 This principle is especially important when we're facing challenges. If 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:09.879 you get a negative medical report, you lost your biggest client. 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:13.560 At the office or at work, somebody's talking behind your 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:16.359 back trying to make you look bad. It's easy to 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.840 get all wrought up and think, I got to get 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.040 in there and straighten things out. I'm gonna fix that person. 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:24.360 I got to get a second job. I'll never make 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.119 it without that client. So often we think we have 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:31.280 to do it only in our own strength. This is 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:35.159 when many people make quick decisions that end up only 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:40.080 making matters worse. The scripture says, be still and know 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.880 that I am God. When you feel overwhelmed and you're 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:47.199 tempted to take everything into your own hands, you have 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:51.800 to make yourself be still. The battle is not yours. 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:55.160 The battle is the Lord's. But as long as you're 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:58.520 fighting it, trying to make it happen your way, trying 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:02.399 to pay somebody back, upset, worried, then God's going to 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:04.960 step back and let you do it on your own. 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.359 But when you take it out of your hands and 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:12.480 say God, I trust you, I know you've already set 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.520 the time to bring me out. You've already set the 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:19.080 time to vindicate me. You've set the time to bring healing. 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:22.679 So I'm going to be still and know that you 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:26.360 are God. This is what the Israelites did. They were 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:31.200 surrounded by a huge army, greatly outnumbered. They were so worried, 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:35.320 so stressed out. They were getting their equipment on, trying 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.880 to come up with some type of strategy to fight 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:41.560 off the enemy. Just before they went to battle, they 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:46.919 decided to pray. God said to them, stand still and 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:48.960 you will see the deliverance of the Lord. 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.800 For the Lord will fight for you if you remain 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:57.280 at rest. Notice the condition God will turn it around. 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:01.359 God will restore you. God will indicate you. If you 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:04.080 will be still and remain at rest. 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:07.679 In other words, if you will wait for the set time, 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:11.960 if you'll be patient and not give birth to ishmaels, 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:15.560 then God has Isaac's in your future. And some of 0:25:15.600 --> 0:25:18.720 you today are facing a big challenge. You can't sleep 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:22.679 well at night, You're upset, you're frustrated. God is saying 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:26.000 to you what he said to them. Be still, I've 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:29.320 got it all figured out. I control the whole universe. 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:33.640 I've already set the time to deliver you. I've already 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:36.399 set the time to not only bring you out, but 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:38.840 to bring you out better off than you were before. 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:43.720 Now do your part and rest trust God's timing. 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:45.600 God knows what he's doing. 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:49.920 We may not always understand why something is taken so long, 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:55.240 but sometimes God will delay and answer on purpose, simply 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:58.240 so he can show his power in a greater way. 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:03.440 When wouldn't let the Israelites go, God had Moses tell 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:06.639 him that if Pharaoh didn't change his mind, God was 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:10.080 going to send plague after plague on Pharaoh and his people. 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:15.800 The scripture says that God caused Pharaoh to harden his heart, 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:19.760 not the enemy. God caused him to be stubborn and 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:23.639 not give in. Moses said, Pharaoh, if you don't let 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.399 us go, God's gonna send locusts that are going to 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:30.600 need all your crops and destroy the food supply. Pharaoh said, 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:32.439 I don't care let him do it. I'm not changing 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:36.840 my mind. One bad plague after another, and he wouldn't 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:40.159 give in. Why God wanted to show his power in 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:44.080 a greater way When all those plagues were harming Pharaoh 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:47.800 and his people, The Israelites living in that same area, 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:52.879 not one plague affected them. Your situation may be taken 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:56.840 longer than you thought. Maybe it's something more difficult than 0:26:56.880 --> 0:27:00.680 you've ever experienced. That doesn't mean that the enemies getting 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:03.199 the best of you. Doesn't mean that God went on 0:27:03.280 --> 0:27:08.160 vacation and is not concerned anymore. No, just like with Paiah, 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:11.879 God has not turned it around yet because he wants 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:12.520 to show his. 0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:15.320 Favor in your life in an amazing way. 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:19.959 God is going to show his strength, his healing, his goodness, 0:27:20.200 --> 0:27:23.680 his power like you've never seen before. You guys will 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:27.840 get ready when God brings you out. Everybody around you 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:29.639 is going to have no doubt. 0:27:29.840 --> 0:27:32.399 The God you serve is an awesome God. 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:39.840 Now my challenge trust God's timely. Stand still and you'll 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:43.480 see God deliver you. When you remain at rest, Almighty 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:47.560 God will fight your battles. Friends, there are set times 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:50.520 in your future. Now quit worrying about when it's going 0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:54.399 to happen. God can see the big picture. He knows 0:27:54.480 --> 0:27:58.080 what's best for you. Dare to say, like David, God, 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:01.320 my times are in your hand. When you do this, 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:04.119 it takes all the pressure off. You don't have to 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:07.359 struggle try to force things to happen. You know God 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:10.399 has it all figured out so you can relax and 0:28:10.680 --> 0:28:13.760 enjoy your life while you're waiting for the promises to 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:16.159 come to pass. And if you will enter into this 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:19.200 rest trust in God's timing, you. 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:20.800 Won't give birth to Ishmaels. 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:25.920 You'll give birth to Isaac's because you have faith and patience. 0:28:26.280 --> 0:28:29.040 I believe and declare you're going to come in to 0:28:29.240 --> 0:28:33.040 set times of favor, set times of healing, set times 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:36.919 of promotion, set times of breakthrough. God is going to 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:40.960 give you the desires of your heart. Everything He's promised 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:44.000 you will come to pass in Jesus' name. 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:46.760 If you receive it. 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