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Speaker 6: I like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 6: about this pastor. He was raising funds for a new auditorium.
Speaker 6: He said to the congregation, anyone that will give one
Speaker 6: thousand dollars can pick out.
Speaker 4: The next three hymns.
Speaker 6: A little old lady in the back raised her hand said, Pastor,
Speaker 6: I'll do it.
Speaker 4: He was so excited.
Speaker 6: He said, thank you so much. Now, which three hymns
Speaker 6: would you like? She looked over the congregation and said,
Speaker 6: I'll take him and him and him say it like
Speaker 6: you've mean it. This is my Bible. I am what
Speaker 6: it says I am. I have what it says I have.
Speaker 6: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 6: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly
Speaker 6: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
Speaker 4: bless you.
Speaker 6: I want to talk to you today about trusting when
Speaker 6: you don't understand. We all go through things in life
Speaker 6: that don't make sense. A friend walked out of a relationship,
Speaker 6: the company's downsizing, they don't need us anymore, or we
Speaker 6: were being our best.
Speaker 4: Then the pandemic hit. Business went down.
Speaker 6: Children can't go to school, Dreams are put on hold.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it feels like we're going backwards. It's easy to
Speaker 6: live frustrated and thank God, why.
Speaker 4: Is this happening?
Speaker 6: But we're not going to understand everything that happens. God's
Speaker 6: ways are not our ways. He can see things that
Speaker 6: we can't see. And just because it's not fair doesn't
Speaker 6: mean that God is not in control. Your steps are
Speaker 6: being ordered by the Lord. If he allowed it to happen,
Speaker 6: he's going to bring good out of it. He promises
Speaker 6: all things worked together for your good. On its own,
Speaker 6: it may not be good, it wasn't fair. You're uncomfortable,
Speaker 6: but when it all comes together, you're going to see
Speaker 6: how it works to your advantage. The difficulty, the delayed,
Speaker 6: the betrayal was all instrumental in.
Speaker 4: You reaching your destiny. But none of us like.
Speaker 6: Bad breaks, loss, delay, But without that difficulty, you couldn't
Speaker 6: become who you were created to be. It may look
Speaker 6: like a dead end, but really it's setting you up
Speaker 6: for promotion.
Speaker 4: That door closed so a bigger door could open.
Speaker 6: That person that left you, it was hurtful, but it
Speaker 6: wasn't just their choice. God moved them out of the
Speaker 6: way so he could bring someone better. That struggle was difficult.
Speaker 6: You didn't do anything wrong, but you had opposition at work.
Speaker 6: Your child wouldn't do what's right. It wasn't fair. But
Speaker 6: what you couldn't see is it was growing you up,
Speaker 6: developing your character, getting you stronger, more confident, more determined.
Speaker 6: Without it, you wouldn't be prepared for the blessing, the increase,
Speaker 6: the new levels that are coming your way. And you
Speaker 6: may not understand what you're going through. You could live worried, discourage,
Speaker 6: try a new approach.
Speaker 4: God.
Speaker 6: I don't understand it, but I trust you. I know
Speaker 6: you're in control. You're working all things for my good.
Speaker 6: So I'm not going to live upset. I'm going to
Speaker 6: stay in peace, knowing that you will get me to
Speaker 6: where I'm supposed to be. In John thirteen, Jesus was
Speaker 6: about to be crucified. He and his disciples were eating
Speaker 6: dinner together at what we now know as the Last Supper.
Speaker 4: These disciples had spent.
Speaker 6: The last few years with Jesus, seeing incredible miracles. Healed
Speaker 6: the sick, raise Lazarus from the dead, feed thousands with
Speaker 6: a little boy's lunch. They were with Jesus when he
Speaker 6: made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, with people lining the
Speaker 6: streets shouting Hosanna. It was an experience greater than they
Speaker 6: ever imagine. But that evening, as they gathered for dinner,
Speaker 6: the mood quickly changed. Jesus told them how his hour
Speaker 6: had come, how he was going to be betrayed and crucified.
Speaker 4: Instead of people celebrating, they would mock him.
Speaker 6: After dinner, Jesus took a bowl of water and a
Speaker 6: towel and he washed the disciples feet. He said in
Speaker 6: verse seven, you don't realize now what I'm doing, but
Speaker 6: one day you will understand. Jesus was telling the disciples,
Speaker 6: in effect, You're going to walk through some things in
Speaker 6: the days to come that you don't understand.
Speaker 4: Up to this point, there's.
Speaker 6: Been people cheering me on, But now I'm about to
Speaker 6: be betrayed. There's going to be opposition, persecution, I said,
Speaker 6: I would never leave you, but I'm about to be
Speaker 6: taken away. He knew they were going to feel lonely, confused, afraid,
Speaker 6: so he told them right up front, You're not going
Speaker 6: to understand it now, but one day you will. Like
Speaker 6: these disciples, there will be times in life that you
Speaker 6: don't understand what God is doing.
Speaker 4: Things don't make sense, trouble.
Speaker 6: Delays, closed doors, people that betrayed you, prayers that haven't
Speaker 6: been answered. It doesn't make sense now, but don't worry.
Speaker 6: One day you're going to understand. God is going to
Speaker 6: connect all the dots. He doesn't allow things that he
Speaker 6: doesn't have a purpose for.
Speaker 4: That trouble is not a surprise to God. The sickness
Speaker 4: didn't catch him off guard.
Speaker 6: The child getting off course is not going to stop
Speaker 6: his destiny. God is still on the throne. He's still
Speaker 6: ordering your steps. I can't see it right now, but
Speaker 6: behind the scenes, God is lining up things in your favor.
Speaker 6: When it's the right time, when it all comes together,
Speaker 6: it's going to work for your good.
Speaker 4: You're going to see the hand of God.
Speaker 6: You'll look back and say, if that hadn't have happened,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have this position. If that door hadn't have closed,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have met this person. If I hadn't have
Speaker 6: gone through that difficulty, I wouldn't have stepped in to
Speaker 6: this new level. Now, don't waste your time trying.
Speaker 4: To figure everything out.
Speaker 6: There are some things you're not supposed to understand right now.
Speaker 4: We can't see the plan of God.
Speaker 6: We can't fathom how he does things we think natural.
Speaker 6: He's supernatural, and if you're always trying to figure it out,
Speaker 6: it's going to frustrate you. Instead of using that energy
Speaker 6: trying to understand what's happening, use it to thank God
Speaker 6: that he's working. Thank him that he's fighting your battles.
Speaker 6: Think him that he's making your crooked places straight. Thank
Speaker 6: him that you're surrounded with his favor. The scripture says
Speaker 6: God will work out his plan for your life. You
Speaker 6: don't have to work it out. You don't have to
Speaker 6: live frustrated over what's not happening, discouraged over disappointments. You're
Speaker 6: not doing life by yourself. The creator of the universe
Speaker 6: is breathing in your direction. You keep honoring him and
Speaker 6: he'll open the right doors.
Speaker 4: He'll bring the right.
Speaker 6: People, he'll turn negative situations around. He'll make things happen
Speaker 6: that you couldn't make happen. His plan for your life
Speaker 6: is much bigger than your own. If you're going to
Speaker 6: stay in faith, you have to learn to trust when
Speaker 6: you don't understand. After Jesus was crucified, I'm sure the
Speaker 6: disciples thought, was he really the son of God? Did
Speaker 6: we waste our time with him? I thought he said
Speaker 6: he would never leave us. There was a time of
Speaker 6: doubt confusion where it looked like Jesus abandoned then, But
Speaker 6: as time went on they begin to realize the crucifixion
Speaker 6: was a part of God's plan. Judas betrayal was a
Speaker 6: part of the plan. The opposition, the mocking, the ridicule.
Speaker 6: It all had to happen. It was leading to redemption,
Speaker 6: to salvation. Are you frustrated because you don't understand what
Speaker 6: God is doing? Upset because that friend betrayed, you discouraged
Speaker 6: over the contract you lost?
Speaker 4: How do you know that's not leading you to your destiny?
Speaker 6: Without the betrayal, we wouldn't have salvation without that situation.
Speaker 6: You don't understand, You couldn't see the fullness of what
Speaker 6: God has in store. And sometimes we're trying to pray
Speaker 6: away what God is going to use to take us
Speaker 6: to the next level. I know it's uncomfortable, but the
Speaker 6: betrayals are necessary. The lonely nights are necessary, the delays,
Speaker 6: the struggles, it's all necessary.
Speaker 4: If Jesus could reach his destiny.
Speaker 6: Without these things that don't make sense, that weren't fair,
Speaker 6: people that did him wrong, how can we reach our
Speaker 6: destiny without them? But the way to stay in faith
Speaker 6: is to recognize that it's all a part of God's plan.
Speaker 4: It's not happening by accident.
Speaker 6: The enemy didn't somehow get the controls of your life.
Speaker 6: Wrestle them away from God. Now God is standing by
Speaker 6: hoping things work out. God has you in the palm
Speaker 6: of his hand. Nothing can snatch you away. Him being
Speaker 6: for you is more than the world being against you.
Speaker 6: It's very freeing when you can say God, I don't
Speaker 6: understand it, but I trust you.
Speaker 4: Doesn't seem fair, but I'm not going to live better.
Speaker 6: Had some bad breaks, disappointments, but I'm not going to
Speaker 6: go around sour. I know you're still in control and
Speaker 6: you will work out your plan for my life. Friend
Speaker 6: of mine is in commercial real estate. He specializes in hotels.
Speaker 6: He'll buy them, run them for a few years, then
Speaker 6: turn around and sell them. At one point, he owned
Speaker 6: over two hundred hotels, most of them were small.
Speaker 4: In rural areas. His dream was to.
Speaker 6: Own a large hotel in a major city. A couple
Speaker 6: of years ago, he had a rare opportunity to purchase
Speaker 6: this prestigious hotel in New York City. It was in
Speaker 6: a premier location overlooking Central Park. He was so excited.
Speaker 6: He worked for months and months arranging the funding. He
Speaker 6: found a partner that would go in with him financially.
Speaker 4: This was a huge undertaking.
Speaker 6: He was going to have to stretch and leverage everything
Speaker 6: he had, including his house.
Speaker 4: For it to work.
Speaker 6: Occupancy had to be strong, business had to be good.
Speaker 6: This was the only way he could make this huge payment.
Speaker 6: After over two years of putting it together. This January,
Speaker 6: he was supposed to finally close on the property, but
Speaker 6: at the last minute, his business partner backed out. He
Speaker 6: couldn't believe it. He scrambled to find another loan. Stretched
Speaker 6: even further now, he was way over his head. The
Speaker 6: day he went to closing, his bank called and said
Speaker 6: they had changed their mind and wouldn't lend him the funds.
Speaker 4: He was so disappointed.
Speaker 6: This was his dream, a prestigious hotel, two years worth
Speaker 6: of work, all for not. He couldn't understand why it
Speaker 6: didn't work out. What he couldn't see was three months later,
Speaker 6: this pandemic would hit in New York City would be
Speaker 6: the epicenter. All the hotels had to close, no income,
Speaker 6: no business, no customers. He would have this huge payment
Speaker 6: and no way to make it. He told me, if
Speaker 6: that deal would have gone through, he would be bankrupt.
Speaker 6: He would have lost all his other hotels, his personal
Speaker 6: finances would be gone. Sometimes what we think is a
Speaker 6: bad break is really God protecting us. You may not
Speaker 6: understand what God is doing now, but one day you
Speaker 6: will understand.
Speaker 4: One day you'll say.
Speaker 6: I'm glad that door didn't open, I'm glad that prayer
Speaker 6: didn't get answered, I'm glad that relationship didn't get started.
Speaker 6: I'm asking you to trust when you don't understand. God
Speaker 6: can see the big picture for our lives. All we
Speaker 6: can see is a little down the road. God knows
Speaker 6: where the dead ends are, he knows where the shortcuts are.
Speaker 4: He's ordering your steps.
Speaker 6: I used to just thank him for the open doors,
Speaker 6: but now I thank him just as much for the
Speaker 6: closed doors, because if it's not supposed to be mine,
Speaker 6: I don't want it.
Speaker 4: If God is closing a door, don't fight it.
Speaker 6: If you tried your best and it didn't work out, yes,
Speaker 6: be persistent, but at some point you have to accept
Speaker 6: it as God's plan and move on. That's a sign
Speaker 6: that God has something better, something more fulfilling, more re ward.
Speaker 4: Does it mean that it's never going to happen.
Speaker 6: It may just mean that it's not the right time.
Speaker 6: But too often we get discouraged, bitter.
Speaker 4: It's not fair.
Speaker 6: But if you believe that God is ordering your steps,
Speaker 6: then you'll trust him with the open doors and.
Speaker 4: Trust him with the closed doors.
Speaker 6: You'll trust him with the good breaks and trust him
Speaker 6: with the bad breaks. How we respond to these tests
Speaker 6: has a great impact on whether new doors are going
Speaker 6: to open, whether we see things turn around. If we
Speaker 6: go through difficulties discouraged God, Why did this happen? Why
Speaker 6: did they do me wrong? Why did my business partner
Speaker 6: back out? Why did my health go down? That's going
Speaker 6: to keep us where we are. It's significant that Jesus
Speaker 6: washed the disciples feet. The scripture tells us to put
Speaker 6: on the armor of God. Part of the armor is
Speaker 6: our shoes of peace. When he washed their feet, he
Speaker 6: was saying, as you go out and walk, walk through
Speaker 6: things you don't understand, stay in peace.
Speaker 4: He didn't wash their eyes. He knew they wouldn't be
Speaker 4: able to see what he was doing. He didn't wash
Speaker 4: their ears.
Speaker 6: He knew they wouldn't understand what was happening, so he
Speaker 6: washed their feet and sent them out into something they
Speaker 6: didn't understand.
Speaker 4: It's like us today. Who would have ever thought this
Speaker 4: year would have turned out like it?
Speaker 5: Has?
Speaker 6: A pandemic, the economy shutting down, not able to go
Speaker 6: to work, People's lives put on hold, so much uncertainty, unrest, tension.
Speaker 6: There are a lot of things we don't understand, troubled
Speaker 6: that we've never seen. Like Jesus washed the disciple's feet.
Speaker 6: You're his disciple. If you would have been there, he
Speaker 6: would have washed your feet. I could imagine him doing
Speaker 6: that today. He's saying, you're going to walk through things
Speaker 6: you don't understand, see difficulties that.
Speaker 4: You've never seen.
Speaker 6: There's going to be plenty of opportunities to live. I've
Speaker 6: upset and afraid, but don't worry. I've washed your feet,
Speaker 6: I've prepared you for what you're going to face. I've
Speaker 6: armed you with strength for the battle. It may not
Speaker 6: make sense, but it's all a part of my plan.
Speaker 4: God is getting you ready for.
Speaker 6: New levels of influence, new levels of favor, new levels
Speaker 6: of leadership, new levels of resources. Now, make sure you
Speaker 6: keep your shoes of peace on. Don't panic over the pandemic,
Speaker 6: don't fear the unknown, don't lose sleep over what doesn't
Speaker 6: make sense. God has equipped you, empowered you, and anointed you.
Speaker 6: You've been raised up for such a time as this.
Speaker 6: No weapon formed against you will prosper You. Keep walking
Speaker 6: in faith, trusting when you don't understand, and you're going
Speaker 6: to walk into blessings, favor, healing, freedom, abundance, victory like
Speaker 6: you've never seen.
Speaker 4: I've learned.
Speaker 6: When you stay in faith when you don't understand, you're
Speaker 6: going to.
Speaker 4: Come into blessings that you don't understand.
Speaker 6: When you trust God when it doesn't make sense, you're
Speaker 6: going to come into favor that doesn't make sense. Could
Speaker 6: it be that the disappointment you're so upset about is
Speaker 6: really a blessing in disguise. You can't see it, but
Speaker 6: It's a part of a divine plan, a critical peace
Speaker 6: that God is going to use years down the road
Speaker 6: to take you where you've never dreamed. But right now,
Speaker 6: that situation by itself doesn't make sense. It seems random,
Speaker 6: just a bad break, when in fact it's the hand
Speaker 6: of God setting you up for increase. Without that challenge,
Speaker 6: you want see the far and beyond favor that belongs
Speaker 6: to you. Trust Him when it doesn't make sense. I
Speaker 6: know this is not easy. We don't like closed doors,
Speaker 6: unfair situations, being uncomfortable. But God uses these things to
Speaker 6: move us into our purpose. It's not just the good
Speaker 6: breaks that will take you into your destiny. The closed
Speaker 6: doors are as important as the open doors. The betrayals
Speaker 6: are just as important as the divine connections. God uses
Speaker 6: them all. When you understand this, you won't live upset
Speaker 6: when your plans don't work out. You won't go around
Speaker 6: sour because somebody did you wrong. You'll stay in peace
Speaker 6: knowing that God wouldn't have allowed it if he wasn't
Speaker 6: going to use it for your good. It may not
Speaker 6: feel good, but this is where you have to show
Speaker 6: God what you're made of. Anyone can be happy when
Speaker 6: things are going their way. Anyone can thank God when
Speaker 6: doors are opening, but if you want to pass this
Speaker 6: test and see God's favor in new ways, you have
Speaker 6: to thank him when it doesn't work out. You have
Speaker 6: to have a smile when you could be complaining. Be
Speaker 6: good to others when someone is not being good to you.
Speaker 4: This is what faith is all about. Not God. I'll
Speaker 4: trust you as long as you keep me happy.
Speaker 6: Answer my prayers, change my husband, move my boss, keep
Speaker 6: me in the ac it's hot outside. The problem with
Speaker 6: that thinking is God uses difficulties to get us to
Speaker 6: our destiny. If you're not willing to be uncomfortable and
Speaker 6: keep a good attitude when things don't work out, it.
Speaker 4: Will keep you from rising higher.
Speaker 6: When I was in my late twenties, I received a
Speaker 6: certified letter in the mail saying that we hadn't filed
Speaker 6: our tax returns properly, and now we owe thousands of dollars.
Speaker 6: The men that did our taxes lived in another state.
Speaker 6: He wasn't familiar with a certain law in Texas. Now
Speaker 6: we had this unexpected bill to make matters worse. About
Speaker 6: half of what we owed was in penalties. We were
Speaker 6: a young couple saving up for a down payment for
Speaker 6: a house, and this was going to take all of
Speaker 6: our funds. I thought, God, this is not fair. Professional
Speaker 6: he messed up. Now I'm having to pay for his mistake.
Speaker 6: Nothing about that situation seemed good. I thought, it's just
Speaker 6: a bad break. Let's pay it and move on. We
Speaker 6: ended up finding a man that helped us get that
Speaker 6: straightened out. He's a tax attorney. He came over to
Speaker 6: our house every night for several weeks. We filed the forms,
Speaker 6: did the paperwork. We became good friends. We'd go out
Speaker 6: to eat and run errands together. Ten years later, when
Speaker 6: I was working for my father in the television department
Speaker 6: at Lakewood, someone offered us a construction permit for the
Speaker 6: last full power television station in Houston. TV's stations in
Speaker 6: major cities are very valuable, but I didn't know where
Speaker 6: to start.
Speaker 4: I was young.
Speaker 6: I didn't know anything about buying a permit for a
Speaker 6: television station. Then I thought, I'll call my friend, the
Speaker 6: one I met during the tax issue. Three months later,
Speaker 6: we had a signed contract. We put the station on
Speaker 6: the air. My father went to be with the lord
Speaker 6: and I became the pastor. A few years later, we
Speaker 6: acquired the compact center. It was going to cost one
Speaker 6: hundred million dollars to renovate. We decided to sell the station.
Speaker 6: We were told by an expert, a man that sells
Speaker 6: more stations in the US than anyone else, that.
Speaker 4: We would get a certain amount.
Speaker 6: We believed it was worth much more, but he was
Speaker 6: very vocal about how it would never sell for that amount,
Speaker 6: how we were wasting our time trying to get that much.
Speaker 6: He gave us all the reasons why it wasn't going
Speaker 6: to happen. The market was down too much, supply, too
Speaker 6: many stations for sale. He had all the facts as
Speaker 6: to why it wasn't as valuable and why it wasn't
Speaker 6: going to attract a buyer. We let that go in
Speaker 6: one ear and out the other. Don't let people talk
Speaker 6: you out of what God put in your heart. Sometimes
Speaker 6: people have too many facts, they have too much information.
Speaker 6: Don't let their doubt get off on you. God is
Speaker 6: not limited by what the experts say. His favor on
Speaker 6: your property, your business, your gifts, your talents will cause
Speaker 6: things to happen that shouldn't happen. We had a buyer
Speaker 6: come to us and offer almost twice what he said
Speaker 6: we would never get When he heard the figure, he
Speaker 6: nearly passed out. We sold the station and used those
Speaker 6: funds to help renovate the Compact Center. What's interesting is
Speaker 6: none of this would have happened if I had not
Speaker 6: had the tax problem some twenty years earlier. I was
Speaker 6: discouraged by it. It was a bad break. It wasn't
Speaker 6: my fault. I didn't realize God was ordering my steps.
Speaker 6: That was a critical piece for me to fulfill my destiny.
Speaker 6: I thought back then it would only be the good breaks,
Speaker 6: open doors, things falling into place.
Speaker 4: I didn't know God would.
Speaker 6: Use disappointments, breaks, things that weren't fair. Like Jesus told
Speaker 6: the disciples, You're not going to understand what I'm doing now,
Speaker 6: but one day you will understand. Now, looking back, I
Speaker 6: can see it so clearly. If I had not had
Speaker 6: the tax problem, I would have never met the attorney.
Speaker 6: Without my attorney friend, I would have never pursued the station.
Speaker 6: Without the station, we wouldn't have the funds to renovate
Speaker 6: the Compact Center. I wonder, if you're upset about something
Speaker 6: now that later on you're going to realize it had
Speaker 6: to happen to get you to your destiny.
Speaker 4: You didn't like it.
Speaker 6: It wasn't fair, but God used it to connect the dots.
Speaker 4: It was instrumental.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't have met the person, you wouldn't have been
Speaker 6: at the right place. You wouldn't have sold the property,
Speaker 6: you wouldn't have started the business. Maybe, like with me,
Speaker 6: what you're discouraged over now is really a blessing. You
Speaker 6: can't see what God is up to, But later on
Speaker 6: you're going to understand.
Speaker 4: God knows what you're going to need twenty years from now.
Speaker 6: A disappointment today, a setback, a betrayal. You may not
Speaker 6: see how that works out for your good until years
Speaker 6: down the road. When our daughter Alexandra was a little girl,
Speaker 6: she loved to put puzzles together. Every couple of weeks
Speaker 6: we'd get a new puzzle and work on it, and
Speaker 6: sometimes it'd take two or three days to complete.
Speaker 4: Invariably we'd find a piece that wouldn't fit anywhere.
Speaker 6: We would try every option, put it here, there still nothing.
Speaker 6: I was convinced that the manufacturer made a mistake. They
Speaker 6: did something wrong, left something out. They put this piece
Speaker 6: in from another puzzle because it does not fit.
Speaker 4: It was so frustrating.
Speaker 6: What's interesting is every time we got close to the
Speaker 6: end and more of the pieces came together. All of
Speaker 6: a sudden, that piece that I was so sure it
Speaker 6: was a mistake would fit perfectly into place didn't make
Speaker 6: sense on its own. I had to wait for the
Speaker 6: pieces to come together. You may have some pieces in
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