Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God has moving in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 3: I am continuing in a series that I am thoroughly enjoying,
Speaker 3: preaching to.
Speaker 1: Myself and then letting you listen. The Lord has been working.
Speaker 1: I have been hearing from you.
Speaker 3: I have gotten so many good reports from this series.
Speaker 3: And it's only part five today. It's only part five today,
Speaker 3: so you're not too late. The Lord has a word
Speaker 3: for you today, and I want to share with you
Speaker 3: a word from his word. Stay standing for just a
Speaker 3: moment at all of our locations and watching online all
Speaker 3: over the world. And if you can find a Bible
Speaker 3: or if you have one on your app turn to
Speaker 3: First Chronicles, chapter twenty.
Speaker 1: Eight, verse nineteen.
Speaker 3: Therein is the instruction that the Lord has for us today.
Speaker 3: You don't have a Bible with you, or you prefer
Speaker 3: not to pull out your phone because you don't want
Speaker 3: to be distracted, because you know somebody might be trying
Speaker 3: to reach you, but you want to ignore them while
Speaker 3: you're in church.
Speaker 1: We'll put it on the screen for you. First Chronicles,
Speaker 1: chapter twenty.
Speaker 3: Eight, Verse nineteen. King David has come a long way.
Speaker 3: He is an old man and he's sharing the plan
Speaker 3: that God gave him for the Temple of the Lord
Speaker 3: to be built. And after sharing several of those specific
Speaker 3: instructions that the Lord gave him in verse Chronicles twenty eight,
Speaker 3: he says something really cool, and I really want you
Speaker 3: to hear it today.
Speaker 1: He says, all this, David said.
Speaker 3: Remember, he's just listed all of the different materials that
Speaker 3: are going to be used to build the temple, all
Speaker 3: of the dimensions of each room. He gets so specific
Speaker 3: that he tells the people down to the dishes what
Speaker 3: they need to make for the Temple of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Down to the dishes. Now they say the devil is
Speaker 1: in the details. So is God. And he says all this.
Speaker 3: Somebody say all this, if you're watching online, just put
Speaker 3: all with a bunch of l's after it in the comments.
Speaker 3: All this, David said, I have in writing as a
Speaker 3: result of the Lord's hand on me, and he enabled
Speaker 3: me to understand all the details of the plan and
Speaker 3: that a good verse.
Speaker 1: Let's read it again.
Speaker 3: All this, somebody say, all this, God's not going to
Speaker 3: leave one single thing out.
Speaker 1: God's got it all accounted for, he said.
Speaker 3: All this, David said, I have in writing as a
Speaker 3: result of the Lord's hand on me, and he enabled
Speaker 3: me to understand all the details of the plan. The
Speaker 3: word of the Lord today is this, God said, to
Speaker 3: tell you, hand him the plan, Hand him the plan.
Speaker 3: I was praying as I prepared about the thoughts that
Speaker 3: we think.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the.
Speaker 3: Thoughts that we think, and how we get stressed out, overwhelmed, confused, bitter,
Speaker 3: insecure in our minds. And I thought about all of
Speaker 3: you who are making decisions in your life right now
Speaker 3: and trying to figure out which way. And I thought
Speaker 3: about all of you who are trying to recover from
Speaker 3: things that have happened to you, and you hadn't got
Speaker 3: your balance back yet.
Speaker 1: And I thought about all of you who feel a
Speaker 1: little long at this moment. And the Lord said, to
Speaker 1: tell you hand him the plan. Father.
Speaker 3: I lift up every person that will hear this message
Speaker 3: in the future or is hearing it right now before you,
Speaker 3: And I thank you that you know the plans you
Speaker 3: have for them, plans to prosper them, not to harm them,
Speaker 3: Plans to give them a hope and the future. We
Speaker 3: trust you with the future because we know you're here
Speaker 3: right now. Speak now, God, we're listening. In Jesus' name, Amen,
Speaker 3: tell three people on your way to your seat, hand
Speaker 3: him the plan. Put that in the comments. If you're
Speaker 3: watching on YouTube, hand him the plan. Come on, put
Speaker 3: it right there. I need you to see it in
Speaker 3: all caps. There you go, put it in the chat.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Speaker 1: Though? If the Lord did that for you what he
Speaker 1: did for David. All this David said.
Speaker 3: I have in writing as a result of the Lord's
Speaker 3: hand on me. He enabled me to understand all the
Speaker 3: details of the stock market, all the details of cryptocurrency,
Speaker 3: all the details of child development, all the details of
Speaker 3: college selection, all the details of pre cal all the details.
Speaker 1: It would be awesome.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do something Graham that I never did
Speaker 3: before in twenty plus years of preaching, twenty years of pastoring, twenty.
Speaker 1: Nine years of preaching since I was a little boy.
Speaker 3: I've been teaching Graham about preaching lately, sharing with him
Speaker 3: lessons that I've learned and I never did this before,
Speaker 3: but the Lord led me to give you this message
Speaker 3: in a very peculiar way.
Speaker 1: That I think you will enjoy.
Speaker 3: I'm going to take a proverb from proverb number nineteen,
Speaker 3: verse twenty one, Proverbs nineteen twenty one. I'm going to
Speaker 3: lay it over what I read you from David's life
Speaker 3: in for Samuel twenty eight or First Chronicles twenty eight.
Speaker 3: And the proverb that I'm going to use is going
Speaker 3: to be the points of my message, so.
Speaker 1: You'll have all the points when I read you this proverb.
Speaker 3: And then I'm going to break it down for a
Speaker 3: few moments so that we can talk about your mind,
Speaker 3: your heart, your thoughts, and what God is building in
Speaker 3: your life. And here's what Proverbs nineteen, verse twenty one says.
Speaker 3: Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it
Speaker 3: is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Now, I see that
Speaker 3: ought to give you some peace just when I read that,
Speaker 3: because everything you're fighting against, it's the Lord's purpose that prevails.
Speaker 3: Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it
Speaker 3: is the Lord's purpose that prevails.
Speaker 1: Isn't that great verse?
Speaker 3: The first point I'm going to talk to you about
Speaker 3: today and justin if you want to circle these as
Speaker 3: we go. I'm my first point. I want to talk
Speaker 3: to you about many are the plans. So that's point
Speaker 3: number one. Many are plans. Yeah, write it down. That's
Speaker 3: point number one. Write it down many of the plans.
Speaker 3: Put it in the comments, many of the plans, and
Speaker 3: put a one by it, justin. That's kind of a one,
Speaker 3: I think. So I want to talk about many of
Speaker 3: the plans. And then my second point, I want to
Speaker 3: talk to you about in a person's heart. Put that
Speaker 3: in the comments as well, and put it in your notes,
Speaker 3: in a person's heart.
Speaker 1: And then for my third point, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about but it is the Lord's. But it is the Lord's.
Speaker 3: And point number three, I want to talk to you
Speaker 3: about purpose that prevails.
Speaker 1: Okay, purpose that prevails.
Speaker 3: So now if you need to leave early, you got
Speaker 3: all four points, and you can pretend like you said
Speaker 3: through the whole sermon, many are the plans, somebody say
Speaker 3: many are the plans. In my experience as a leader
Speaker 3: and as a child of God, God has not given
Speaker 3: me all of the details on the front end of
Speaker 3: whatever he has asked me to do. By faith, and
Speaker 3: I called this series That's what I thought, because it
Speaker 3: helped me to reflect on how dumb I was at times.
Speaker 1: In the past.
Speaker 3: Not anymore now I'm at a place of knowledge in
Speaker 3: God and wisdom and instruction and revelation. Well, I mean,
Speaker 3: of course, five years from now, I'll be looking back
Speaker 3: saying how dumb I was. And I know this because
Speaker 3: at every point along the way in my journey as
Speaker 3: a leader, God did not give me details until I
Speaker 3: gave him obedience.
Speaker 1: And as much as we think.
Speaker 3: That we would like for God to come down and
Speaker 3: give us all the details for what we need to
Speaker 3: do about this relationship in our life, this business decision
Speaker 3: in our life, this custody situation in our life, this
Speaker 3: legal issue in our life, this financial trouble in our life,
Speaker 3: this loan offer, this.
Speaker 1: Crossroads in our life.
Speaker 3: As much as we think we would love God to
Speaker 3: give us the details, what good would the details of
Speaker 3: what God wants you to do next be if you
Speaker 3: were not obedient to the last thing he told you
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: And I found so many.
Speaker 3: Times in my life as a principle that details follow obedience,
Speaker 3: and we want it just the other way, exactly the
Speaker 3: other way. Obedience follows details. So show me the entire
Speaker 3: path God, and then I'll take the first step. But
Speaker 3: watch this Graham come up on the stage. That was
Speaker 3: pretty quick, right, did all that with no details, obedience,
Speaker 3: with no details. He didn't sit out there and ask
Speaker 3: for what?
Speaker 1: Come out there?
Speaker 3: For what?
Speaker 1: Nice? For what? To this preacher?
Speaker 3: For what?
Speaker 1: He didn't ask any of that. He didn't say how
Speaker 1: long you need me up there?
Speaker 3: He did say, what do you intend to do with
Speaker 3: the footage archivally sneaking after this live illustration has ended?
Speaker 1: And now that he did it, he knows. Now go
Speaker 1: sit back down.
Speaker 3: I needed you to illustrate that details follow obedience.
Speaker 1: Now you know how long I wanted you up here,
Speaker 1: because he came.
Speaker 3: I wanted you up here that long for that reason,
Speaker 3: to prove this point that details follow obedience. Say it,
Speaker 3: details follow obedience. That's right, detail else follow obedience. I
Speaker 3: know you want God to show you seven weeks from now,
Speaker 3: but details follow forgiveness get a little too specific.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: The lesson of my life that I wish I didn't
Speaker 3: have to learn through doing it the wrong way is
Speaker 3: that usually what I thought and what God saw are
Speaker 3: two totally different things. Somebody say many are the plans.
Speaker 3: Many are the plans. There have been so many plans
Speaker 3: that I have had in my heart, in my mind
Speaker 3: and in my life that looking back on them, I.
Speaker 1: Thought too small.
Speaker 3: I didn't think big enough because I didn't pray big enough.
Speaker 3: I thought too small. Have you ever thought too small?
Speaker 3: Many are the thoughts? Everybody say many are the thoughts,
Speaker 3: And y'all know I love wordplays, so I mean many
Speaker 3: are the thoughts, and I mean many are the thoughts.
Speaker 1: My thoughts have been so many through the years.
Speaker 3: Do you remember LB when we were meeting at the
Speaker 3: Senior Center, and this was when the church was very young.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't know nothing about the Senior Center days.
Speaker 3: When we pulled up for the grand opening, and I
Speaker 3: looked around at that room that would seat two hundred
Speaker 3: people and we were just getting started, and I said
Speaker 3: the chunks at the grand opening, this will be an
Speaker 3: amazing place for us to meet.
Speaker 1: It will last us five years.
Speaker 3: And then we'll probably have to go to two services
Speaker 3: five years.
Speaker 1: Everybody say, many are the thoughts. That's what I thought.
Speaker 3: Five years and we would go to two services in
Speaker 3: five months. We had outgrown the building. Because my thoughts
Speaker 3: were many thoughts you follow me. I thought too small
Speaker 3: because I started with me. I thought too small because
Speaker 3: I started with where I was from. I thought too
Speaker 3: small because I started with what I had seen. Is
Speaker 3: a lot of times in your life you make plans
Speaker 3: based on the pictures that you've seen. But the pictures
Speaker 3: that you've seen is not all that there is to
Speaker 3: the purpose of the God who has saved you and
Speaker 3: made a plan for your life. So what if you
Speaker 3: are making plans off of the wrong picture?
Speaker 1: Many are the thoughts. Many are the thoughts.
Speaker 3: Now you're organizing your life to look just like your parents'
Speaker 3: life looked. But what if God has something different for
Speaker 3: you than he did for the generation before you? What
Speaker 3: if their ceiling is going to be your floor? Many
Speaker 3: are the plans. Some of us are spending too much
Speaker 3: money because we are basing our spending habits on the
Speaker 3: pictures that we see on Instagram of people who left
Speaker 3: the tags on the stuff that they posted, took it
Speaker 3: back to the store. But you made a payment and
Speaker 3: another payment and another payment because you made a plan
Speaker 3: off of a picture that had nothing to do with
Speaker 3: your purpose. And how many times have I thought too small?
Speaker 3: How many times have I thought too slow, trying to
Speaker 3: catch up with God. I knew I was going to
Speaker 3: start a church from a young age, or I thought
Speaker 3: I was going to start a church, and I did,
Speaker 3: but I always thought I.
Speaker 1: Would start it.
Speaker 3: I remember telling Holly when we got married, we're going
Speaker 3: to start at church one day when we're about forty
Speaker 3: five years old. So if God did what I thought,
Speaker 3: this would be my first sermon of the first Sunday.
Speaker 3: Aren't you glad God didn't do what you thought he
Speaker 3: was going to do? And that She turned to me
Speaker 3: one day and she was like, your thoughts are too many.
Speaker 1: God wants to do it. Now let's step out.
Speaker 3: Now, Well, what about the children's ministry, and what about
Speaker 3: the business side, and what about the people we need?
Speaker 3: And where are we going to do it? And the
Speaker 3: details didn't come before the obedience. Come here, Graham, details
Speaker 3: follow obedience.
Speaker 1: Now sit back down. That's all I needed.
Speaker 3: But you will know what I needed you for unless
Speaker 3: you come when I call, and you will know how
Speaker 3: long I need you for. Unless you come when I call.
Speaker 3: And I hear God saying to somebody, take the first step,
Speaker 3: Take the first step. When David says all this, everybody
Speaker 3: say all this, it is a comprehensive knowledge that he
Speaker 3: has at the plan of God unfolding in his life,
Speaker 3: at a developmental stage where he has walked with God
Speaker 3: in relationship long enough that when God calls him, he
Speaker 3: trusts God's intention.
Speaker 1: Many are the thoughts.
Speaker 3: Now in the case of David, we might understand that
Speaker 3: it has taken him his entire life to get to
Speaker 3: this point. Last week we talked about how he wrestled
Speaker 3: with his thoughts. Y'all, remember that wrestled with a lion,
Speaker 3: wrestled with a bear, wrestled with his mind, wrestled with anxiety.
Speaker 3: By the way, that's how we got the Book of
Speaker 3: Psalms through what David wrestled with. I wonder what you're
Speaker 3: gonna leave behind out of what you wrestle with. David
Speaker 3: was a man of many thoughts. He was a man
Speaker 3: of many songs. Don't go through the Book of Psalms
Speaker 3: in your Bible and think that the psalms that were
Speaker 3: recorded were the only ones he wrote. We just got
Speaker 3: the best of the best of the best. That's just
Speaker 3: David's greatest hits. And there's one hundred and fifty psalms,
Speaker 3: and he wrote most of them. A man of many songs.
Speaker 3: He was also a man of many sons. He had
Speaker 3: at least nineteen that we know their names, So he
Speaker 3: was dealing with a lot. And now we know why
Speaker 3: he was depressed in those psalms. At least nineteen children
Speaker 3: belong to David. Many are the thoughts, Many are the thoughts.
Speaker 3: An interesting that David, who God called and chose to
Speaker 3: be the king of Israel, the second king that they
Speaker 3: ever knew, right behind the one that they called that
Speaker 3: they thought was the one that God wanted. How the
Speaker 3: prophet Samuel showed up at Jesse's house, and I want
Speaker 3: to layer this for you.
Speaker 1: It was so beautiful to me when I saw it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to rush through it today because I
Speaker 3: only get to preach it once, and I studied it
Speaker 3: so long, and y'all are not going to rush me
Speaker 3: to finish it today. It is too good to rush
Speaker 3: through this Thanksgiving meal. When Samuel went to annoint the
Speaker 3: king that would replace Saul after Saul had become disobedient,
Speaker 3: the Lord did not give him all of the details
Speaker 3: of which of Jesse's sons he was To Annoin, he said,
Speaker 3: I want you to go with your horn full of oil,
Speaker 3: and I'll show you who to pour it on when
Speaker 3: you get there.
Speaker 1: Jesse, who was David's father, lined up seven of.
Speaker 3: His sons, and I want to show you something that's
Speaker 3: pertinent to our series. All of you who are tracking
Speaker 3: with our series will really get a lot out of this.
Speaker 1: Verse.
Speaker 3: In for Samuel sixteen, verse six, the Bible says, when
Speaker 3: they arrived Samuel the prophet, which means seer, Samuel the
Speaker 3: seer saw Eliab, which was David's oldest, tallest brother, and thought,
Speaker 3: justin you might as well circle that too, and thought,
Speaker 3: surely the Lord's anointed stands here.
Speaker 1: Before the Lord.
Speaker 3: But the Lord said to Samuel, keep that phrase right
Speaker 3: there in front of you for a moment. But the
Speaker 3: Lord said to Samuel, do not consider his appearance or
Speaker 3: his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does
Speaker 3: not look at the things people look at. People look
Speaker 3: at the outward appearance, But the Lord looks at the heart.
Speaker 3: Now I'm ready to move to my second point. Many
Speaker 3: are the thoughts in a person's heart. My second point
Speaker 3: is in a person's heart. And if you'd put Proverbs nineteen,
Speaker 3: verse twenty one back up again, he says, many are
Speaker 3: the plans in a person's heart. Now, the problem with David,
Speaker 3: and the problem with you, and the problem with me,
Speaker 3: if I'm gonna be honest about it, is at the
Speaker 3: same place where God speaks to us is the place
Speaker 3: where the enemy does.
Speaker 1: Our heart.
Speaker 3: The same place where God speaks to us is the
Speaker 3: same place that we have to store the opinions of
Speaker 3: others our heart.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: In the Hebrew language, the word heart and mind are
Speaker 3: often used interchangeably, so that if you read some translations
Speaker 3: of Proverbs nineteen twenty one, it says many of the
Speaker 3: plan in a man's mind. There was no distinction in
Speaker 3: the Bible. They didn't say, don't think this one through
Speaker 3: with your head, think it through.
Speaker 1: With your heart.
Speaker 3: They understood that it is at the level of thought
Speaker 3: that you produce feeling.
Speaker 1: If you think.
Speaker 3: About something long enough, you will start to feel what
Speaker 3: you think about, even if it's not happening. If you
Speaker 3: start to think about betrayal long enough, you will start
Speaker 3: to hate the person.
Speaker 1: And they're still right there holding your hand. If you
Speaker 1: start to think.
Speaker 3: About the bad outcome long enough, you will experience it
Speaker 3: in your central nervous system as if it were happening
Speaker 3: in your everyday life, because there is no distinction. So
Speaker 3: it says, many are the plans in a man's heart.
Speaker 3: When God found David, Samuel thought it was the tallest one,
Speaker 3: but God picked the smallest one. By the time they
Speaker 3: went through all of Jesse's sons, all of Jesse's sons,
Speaker 3: remember all these things, David said. The Lord showed me
Speaker 3: all of Jesse's sons one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker 3: Samuel said, is that all you've got? And Jesse said,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't want to see David. David's out there with
Speaker 3: the sheep. David's out there smelling like a barnyard. David
Speaker 3: is no kind of king. He's just a kid.
Speaker 1: Samuel said, we will not sit down till he arrives.
Speaker 3: And God said he's the one, not because of his height,
Speaker 3: but because of his heart. Ooh, dating seminar, ladies, don't
Speaker 3: look at his height, look at his heart. He might
Speaker 3: be tall, and he might be broke, and he might
Speaker 3: be abusive, and he might be lazy, and he might
Speaker 3: be addicted to weed. So don't look at his height. Oh,
Speaker 3: he's cute, he's tall, Look at his heart. How does
Speaker 3: he talk to his mom? How does he keep his car.
Speaker 3: Does he come to church? Does he sit in the
Speaker 3: back and leave early when Pastor Stephen is giving the
Speaker 3: invitation Because he didn't come to church for a hookup
Speaker 3: with God.
Speaker 1: He came for something else.
Speaker 3: And I can only tell if I'm looking at the
Speaker 3: heart me or the thoughts. I mean, you got a
Speaker 3: lot of thoughts, I got a lot of motives. I
Speaker 3: got a lot of conflicting things happening in my heart.
Speaker 3: And my heart is the place where I can dream
Speaker 3: up a big church for God. In my heart is
Speaker 3: the place where I can imagine terrible scenarios. In my
Speaker 3: heart is the place where I can holler for you
Speaker 3: that God has a plan. In my heart is the
Speaker 3: place where I can get road rage and holler at
Speaker 3: somebody else that I have a plan for you, and
Speaker 3: it is to get out of this car and fight
Speaker 3: you on the side of the street, because I've been
Speaker 3: saving up for this for a long time in a
Speaker 3: person's heart. And that's the problem, isn't it When we
Speaker 3: say God has a plan and I want God's plan,
Speaker 3: and I just want God's plan for my life. Notice
Speaker 3: the Bible didn't talk about one plan. It talked about
Speaker 3: many plans. Plans plural purpose, singular plans, plural purpose sing
Speaker 3: one purpose, many plans. It has taken David all of
Speaker 3: his life to get to this point. It has taken
Speaker 3: your entire life, all of the experiences, the good ones,
Speaker 3: the bad ones, the blah ones, the epic ones, the
Speaker 3: painful ones, the exhilarating ones. It has taken all that
Speaker 3: to bring you to this point in your life. So
Speaker 3: that when he stands before the people and talks about
Speaker 3: the Temple, he says, all this I have been writing
Speaker 3: as a result of watch this the Lord's hand on me.
Speaker 3: You've been in your head, but the answer is not
Speaker 3: in your head. It's in the Lord's hand. I feel
Speaker 3: like I could go home on that, and I'm only.
Speaker 1: On point too.
Speaker 3: That's the problem with you. I figured it out. I
Speaker 3: figured out your problem. You've been praying about it. I
Speaker 3: figured it out. You're a person in a person's heart.
Speaker 3: I mean, David was amazing, Don't get me wrong. He
Speaker 3: was the kind of guy that God knew when I
Speaker 3: want to get something done, I can hand him the plan.
Speaker 3: Somebody say, my title, hand him the plan, like if
Speaker 3: God had a committee meeting with angels and he's like,
Speaker 3: we need somebody to fight Goliath.
Speaker 1: Who's going to do it.
Speaker 3: We got a whole army out there standing there not
Speaker 3: doing anything.
Speaker 1: But God would say to the angels, hey, there's David.
Speaker 3: If I hand him the plan, he'll do it without
Speaker 3: needing to know the details. He'll encourage, he'll bless, he'll go,
Speaker 3: he'll obey, he'll embrace.
Speaker 1: He'll do it without the details.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, when David was sent to
Speaker 3: fight Goliath, he was not sent as a fighter. He
Speaker 3: was sent as a servant caring food. Many are the
Speaker 3: plans in a person's heart. David's heart was so after
Speaker 3: God that he had a kind of courage that we
Speaker 3: rarely see today, a kind of courage I rarely see
Speaker 3: in my own life, A kind of courage that would
Speaker 3: stand before a giant with a shepherd's tool.
Speaker 1: In his hand and say I got something for you.
Speaker 3: The kind of courage that will stand before the devil
Speaker 3: of spiritual oppression in your life with nothing but a
Speaker 3: prayer and a faith and a belief, and say I
Speaker 3: got something for you. That kind of faith is rare.
Speaker 3: It's in a person's heart. And I taught you last
Speaker 3: week that the place where God gives you the blueprint
Speaker 3: will always be the place where the enemy brings the battle.
Speaker 1: So give me my camera.
Speaker 3: If you are fighting hell right now in your mind,
Speaker 3: there is something Heaven is trying to download that Hell
Speaker 3: is trying to interfere with.
Speaker 1: I'll say it again.
Speaker 3: If you are fighting panic attacks, anxiety, temptations, if you
Speaker 3: are fighting hell in your mind, there is something that
Speaker 3: God is trying to download into your mind that Hell
Speaker 3: is trying to interfere with.
Speaker 1: It is in a.
Speaker 3: Person's heart that you can receive a word from God.
Speaker 3: It is in your heart that God can speak to
Speaker 3: you the details of his plan. It is in your
Speaker 3: heart that God can speak to you the assurance of
Speaker 3: his love. It is in your heart that God can
Speaker 3: speak to you how to have that conversation. It is
Speaker 3: in your heart that God can speak to you who
Speaker 3: you need to reach out, that has been through what
Speaker 3: you're going through, that can show you a few things
Speaker 3: so that you don't have to be dealing with this
Speaker 3: next time, this time, next year. It is in your
Speaker 3: heart that the enemy will also tell you if you
Speaker 3: reach out to them, you can't trust them. It is
Speaker 3: also in your heart that the enemy will remind you
Speaker 3: so much of your past that you can't even hear
Speaker 3: what God is speaking in your presence. It is in
Speaker 3: your heart that God gives plans. It is in your
Speaker 3: heart that you harbor pain. Pain in God's plans are
Speaker 3: in the same heart. Just like there are multiple apps
Speaker 3: on your phone right now and you choose which one
Speaker 3: to open. There is a plan that God has for you.
Speaker 3: It is in your heart. There is a plan that
Speaker 3: the enemy is speaking over you. It is hatching in
Speaker 3: your heart. The plan that the enemy wants to hatch
Speaker 3: in your heart has to bow its need to the
Speaker 3: purpose that God speaks into your life.
Speaker 1: Many are the plans, you know.
Speaker 3: When David got up to tell the people about the
Speaker 3: temple and how God gave him all the details, it
Speaker 3: was a magnificent announcement. Man, This temple is not going
Speaker 3: to be a storefront temple. This temple is not going
Speaker 3: to be a garage bend temple. We've had the ark
Speaker 3: of God in a tent for too long, David said,
Speaker 3: And we are going to build a temple for the Lord.
Speaker 3: But I want to take you back to something very
Speaker 3: powerful in verse two and three, because.
Speaker 1: I think there's something that God is.
Speaker 3: Trying to download into your mind and your heart, but
Speaker 3: you can't receive it because of your disappointments. And David
Speaker 3: had a disappointment, a disappointment that, had he chosen to
Speaker 3: allow it, would have interrupted the download. Remember, the battle
Speaker 3: always happens in the place of a blueprint, Pastor Stephen,
Speaker 3: this is a lot of alliteration.
Speaker 1: Can you break it down for me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when God is trying to do something, the devil
Speaker 3: starts saying something, and you hear from both of them,
Speaker 3: not out loud, but in your mind, in your heart. Why,
Speaker 3: that's why it's a battle. Maybe you're not going crazy,
Speaker 3: maybe you're called. That's all y'all want to say about
Speaker 3: what I just said is I said, maybe you're not crazy,
Speaker 3: maybe you're called. Tell your neighbor I might be called.
Speaker 3: Got him with real big eyes and say I thought
Speaker 3: I was crazy, but.
Speaker 1: I might be.
Speaker 3: Called I might be golf and I might be crazy.
Speaker 1: But I got a deal with my crazy. So I
Speaker 1: can hear God calling me?
Speaker 4: Does I do not intend to let him just continue
Speaker 4: to disrupt my destiny with doubt, dysfunction, and despair.
Speaker 3: I five your neighbors say I might be called, So
Speaker 3: I'm just teaching boys calm down. David gets up. Imagine
Speaker 3: the occasion rights he's getting ready to tell them, and.
Speaker 1: This is how big that the Holy of Holies is
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 3: And this is the kind of wood that you need
Speaker 3: to put in the doorway, and this is the kind
Speaker 3: of gold. And he's not just talking about it. He
Speaker 3: stored it up.
Speaker 1: I mean, this man spent his whole life building up
Speaker 1: for this moment.
Speaker 3: And he's giving the plans for the temple where God
Speaker 3: is going to live, where God is going to dwell,
Speaker 3: and God gave him the plan. Watch what he says
Speaker 3: before this, just seventeen verses earlier in First Chronicles, chapter
Speaker 3: twenty eight, verse two, he started this way. King David
Speaker 3: rose to his feet and said, listen to me, my
Speaker 3: fellow Israelites, my people, I had it in my heart
Speaker 3: to build a house as a place of rest for
Speaker 3: the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Now that
Speaker 3: represents God's presence. So he said, I had it in
Speaker 3: my heart to do something I had. I had it
Speaker 3: in my heart to build a place for God's presence.
Speaker 3: Let me just stop and take a quiz. Is that
Speaker 3: a good desire or a bad desire?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, you could argue about, well, Jesus is ultimately
Speaker 3: the temple, but Jesus isn't here yet.
Speaker 1: We got a couple hundred years, so let's build a
Speaker 1: temple right now.
Speaker 3: That temple was eventually destroyed, as all human things are.
Speaker 3: But at this point, David wants to do a good thing.
Speaker 3: I came to speak to somebody. Dream is a good thing.
Speaker 3: It's a good thing. What you want is a good thing.
Speaker 3: I had it in my heart to build a house
Speaker 3: as a place of rest, for the ark of the
Speaker 3: covenant of the Lord, for the footstool of our God.
Speaker 3: Circle this next part justin and I made plans to
Speaker 3: build it.
Speaker 1: Now pause for a moment. You're gonna hate verse three.
Speaker 1: I made plans to build it. Watch this, and here
Speaker 1: they are.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, not
Speaker 3: that quick, not that quick. See David was sitting around
Speaker 3: years earlier, and he turned to the prophet, who was
Speaker 3: Nathan at the time, and said, I want to build
Speaker 3: the Lord a house.
Speaker 1: And Nathan said, all right, go ahead and do it.
Speaker 1: The Lord's with you. Do whatever you have in your mind.
Speaker 3: But then the Lord stopped Nathan, and Nathan turned around
Speaker 3: and the Lord said, not David, somebody else is.
Speaker 1: Going to do it.
Speaker 3: What he wants to do is good, but it's not
Speaker 3: in my purpose for him to do it. When you
Speaker 3: start making your plans off of a picture that is
Speaker 3: not specific to your purpose.
Speaker 1: Is that why you're so worn out? Is that why
Speaker 1: you're so tired?
Speaker 3: Are you building something for a blueprint that does not
Speaker 3: pertain to your purpose?
Speaker 1: All right, I'll give you an example.
Speaker 3: Why is my Instagram or my YouTube short speed so
Speaker 3: full of so many people who are so much fitter
Speaker 3: than me.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3: I searched a bunch of videos on YouTube talking about
Speaker 3: how to do.
Speaker 1: The perfect pull up, how to.
Speaker 3: Do the perfect tricep workout, how to do the perfect
Speaker 3: chest workout, And so my YouTube said, oh you want perfect,
Speaker 3: we'll give you perfect. Now, everybody in my YouTube short
Speaker 3: Speed looks perfect, and I look the same as I did,
Speaker 3: and now.
Speaker 1: I get a picture of perfect.
Speaker 3: But I'm living with me, and now all I'm seeing
Speaker 3: is people who look so much different. Why because they're
Speaker 3: on steroids and they're nineteen.
Speaker 1: So I'm not supposed to be either of those things.
Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to be nineteen and I'm not supposed
Speaker 3: to be juicing, so I'm not gonna look like you
Speaker 3: if I don't have your juice.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at a picture.
Speaker 3: Of your temple, and I fail to realize that I
Speaker 3: am a temple that God is building. I am a
Speaker 3: masterpiece that God has.
Speaker 1: In his mind.
Speaker 3: I am a poem that God is speaking in the
Speaker 3: earth today. I am the one who is supposed to
Speaker 3: be preaching this word to you today. I can't preach
Speaker 3: it like Billy Graham. I can't preach it like Charles
Speaker 3: Hadden Spurgeon. I can preach it like Larry Stevens Fredick Junior.
Speaker 3: I can preach it like I'm meant to preach it.
Speaker 3: And you can do it like you're built to do it,
Speaker 3: and you can build it like you're built to build it,
Speaker 3: and you can say it like your grace to say it,
Speaker 3: and you can move it like you know to move it,
Speaker 3: and you can lead it like you know to lead it.
Speaker 3: And you can win it if you use the weapon
Speaker 3: God gave you.
Speaker 1: Point number three.
Speaker 3: Say it out loud, but it is the Lord's Say
Speaker 3: it again, but it is the Lords. Many are the
Speaker 3: plans in a person's heart, David's just a person. He's
Speaker 3: a good person, but he's a person. He's an anointed person,
Speaker 3: but he's a person. He's a strong person, but he's
Speaker 3: a person. He's a faithful person, but he's a person.
Speaker 3: And he gets it wrong, just like Samuel got it
Speaker 3: wrong and he thought God wanted him to do something.
Speaker 3: And now he has the disappointment. Watch this in First
Speaker 3: Chronicles twenty eight, verse three, he said, I had it
Speaker 3: in my heart and I made plans. But God said,
Speaker 3: now let's put those two verses together. I made plans
Speaker 3: verse two, but God said, that's where some of y'all
Speaker 3: are today. I made plans verse three, and God butted
Speaker 3: in Oh, we love to shout about but God in church, Yes,
Speaker 3: we were dead and dresfastess and sins. But God, you
Speaker 3: don't even have to try. If you just say but
Speaker 3: God in church, it is an instant reaction.
Speaker 1: I mean this one.
Speaker 3: I had plans, but God said to me, you are
Speaker 3: not to build a house for my name because you're
Speaker 3: a warrior in the shed blood. And in this moment
Speaker 3: of disappointment, David has a DISI decision. Many are the
Speaker 3: plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's,
Speaker 3: can we just minister to our hearts for a moment,
Speaker 3: But it is the Lord's just that, just that will
Speaker 3: get you set free from anxiety. But it is the Lord's.
Speaker 3: Come on, say it to the thing that you're stressed about.
Speaker 3: But it is the Lord's. Say it over the battle
Speaker 3: that you're fighting in your life right now.
Speaker 1: Say but it is the Lord's.
Speaker 3: Say it over the plans that you're making right now,
Speaker 3: the plan that you're making for your life, that you're
Speaker 3: asking God to bless, the plan that you're making for
Speaker 3: your life, that you're asking God to bless. That you
Speaker 3: just want him to kick in a little funding, as
Speaker 3: if God is a venture capitalist and not the sovereign
Speaker 3: God of heaven and earth, as if he as if
Speaker 3: God just.
Speaker 1: Wants a percentage back over your life.
Speaker 3: Any parents in the room wave at me, say this,
Speaker 3: Say this over your family, But it is the Lord's.
Speaker 3: I'm worried about my family. I'm trying to take care
Speaker 3: of my family. I'm doing the best I can for
Speaker 3: my family. But you know one thing about this family,
Speaker 3: I'm giving it back because it is the lords.
Speaker 1: He gave it to me.
Speaker 3: He knew I would need the wisdom that I need
Speaker 3: right now, so I might as well ask him for it.
Speaker 3: And he said, if I ask him of wisdom, I
Speaker 3: can ask it from God, and he give it to
Speaker 3: all men liberally, and upbraide it not. But he that
Speaker 3: asks must not doubt in his heart. For he that doubt,
Speaker 3: if there's like a wave of the sea tossed and
Speaker 3: driven with the man. When he is an unstable man,
Speaker 3: he is a double minded man, and he will be
Speaker 3: unstable in all he does. But when you believe that
Speaker 3: wisdom belongs to God, power belongs to God, answers belong
Speaker 3: to God, solutions and strategies belong to God. Peace belongs
Speaker 3: to God. And I just want to ask a question.
Speaker 3: Are you trying to ask God to give you peace
Speaker 3: but you will not give him your plans? It is
Speaker 3: the lords. It is the lords. Get in your car
Speaker 3: today and when you sit down in it, just make
Speaker 3: a confession over your car.
Speaker 1: It is the lords. And you're like, well, the Lord
Speaker 1: is not picking up the car.
Speaker 3: Note Apparently he didn't get the memo that we have
Speaker 3: joint ownership over this vehicle. That is not the point.
Speaker 3: The point is you wouldn't have it if it weren't
Speaker 3: for him, so get grateful. And it's junkie. But it's
Speaker 3: not a bicycle, it is the Lords. And if it's
Speaker 3: a bicycle, it is the Lords. And if it's cheese
Speaker 3: and bread that God put in David's hand, it is
Speaker 3: the Lords. And if it's an assignment that He gave
Speaker 3: you in a season, it is the Lords. It is
Speaker 3: the Lords. David is disappointed. He wanted to build a temple,
Speaker 3: but God said, not you. This is not the job
Speaker 3: for you. It does not align with your background, it
Speaker 3: does not align with your identity, it does not align
Speaker 3: with your timing. I know it is you plan, David,
Speaker 3: but you are a person, and not every plan that
Speaker 3: is in a person's heart comes from the Lord. Many
Speaker 3: are the plans, Some come from him, some come from others.
Speaker 1: And I'm tired of you being in.
Speaker 3: Needless pain because you are holding so tightly to your plan.
Speaker 1: Your life is blessed.
Speaker 3: You don't feel blessed because you're looking at a blueprint
Speaker 3: that has nothing to do.
Speaker 1: With your life.
Speaker 3: But stop comparing, stop complaining about it.
Speaker 1: It is the laws.
Speaker 3: The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Bless it
Speaker 3: be the name.
Speaker 1: Of the Lord. It is the laws.
Speaker 3: But it is the Lord's David said, I wanted to
Speaker 3: I had it in my heart too. I bought the
Speaker 3: software to design the temple. I was drawing up plans.
Speaker 3: But God said to me, no, not this, David. I've
Speaker 3: done a lot in your life and I'm not done
Speaker 3: with you. And there is going to be a temple,
Speaker 3: but you are not the one to build it. And
Speaker 3: David continues to explain to the people on that how
Speaker 3: God spoke to him, how what he thought was not
Speaker 3: what God had in mind, what was in his heart
Speaker 3: was not what God had in his plan.
Speaker 1: For I know the plans I have for you.
Speaker 3: And he rose to his feet and said, I made plans,
Speaker 3: but God said you are not to build it.
Speaker 1: Verse four.
Speaker 3: Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me, chose me,
Speaker 3: shows me.
Speaker 1: Now here's what I think is happening.
Speaker 3: I think David is dealing with the disappointment that I'm
Speaker 3: not going to get to build this what I want
Speaker 3: to build. I'm not going to get it exactly like
Speaker 3: I want to get it. I'm not going to be
Speaker 3: able to do the thing I thought I was able
Speaker 3: to do. And he deals with that disappointment by getting
Speaker 3: a bigger picture of his entire life. Yet the Lord,
Speaker 3: the God of Israel, chows me from all my family
Speaker 3: to be the king over Israel. There were seven brothers
Speaker 3: bigger than me, and God chose little old me.
Speaker 1: He chose Judah as leader.
Speaker 3: That it's the tribe that was least expected for the
Speaker 3: king to come from.
Speaker 1: Benjamin was the kingly tribe, not Judah.
Speaker 3: This is not the right tribe, This is not the
Speaker 3: right son, this is not the right anything.
Speaker 1: But it's still God's plan.
Speaker 3: This is not the human anything, but it's still Heaven's strategy.
Speaker 1: He chose me. I was small. He chrove Judah. We
Speaker 1: were the wrong tribe.
Speaker 3: He chose from the tribe of Judah my family out
Speaker 3: of four hundred thousand. He picked Jesse's family and from
Speaker 3: my father's sons. He was pleased to make me king
Speaker 3: all Israel. And he is my king over all my life.
Speaker 3: And God has given me this opportunity, and God has
Speaker 3: given me this breath, and God has given me this stewardship.
Speaker 1: God has given me this influence. And I wanted to do.
Speaker 3: It, and I really still want to do it, and
Speaker 3: I don't like it, but it is the Lord it's
Speaker 3: not mine, it's the lord. Say it, it's not mine,
Speaker 3: it's the lords. Tell your neighbor it's not yours. Come on,
Speaker 3: tell them convincing. You got to say that with some offs.
Speaker 3: Say it's not yours, it's the lords. It's not yours,
Speaker 3: it's the lords.
Speaker 1: Where have we heard this before?
Speaker 3: In the valley of Elah, when a shepherd boy showed
Speaker 3: up with the lunch and there was a giant named
Speaker 3: Goliath that he did not plan for, but God did.
Speaker 3: He planned to bring lunch. God plan to bring freedom.
Speaker 3: He showed up on the battle lines. Some of the
Speaker 3: best stuff that happens is not in your plan. Start
Speaker 3: looking around for God to do purposes that don't fit
Speaker 3: in your plan. And when he got to the battle lines,
Speaker 3: can I preach about when he got to the battle lines?
Speaker 3: Can I preach about the first significant moment that made
Speaker 3: David recognize by Saul and that elevated him to the
Speaker 3: position that God had for him. And I'm not saying
Speaker 3: that God wants to make you a king or the president.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if God wants to make you
Speaker 3: the principle of a middle school.
Speaker 1: He may, he may not. But the principle applies.
Speaker 3: David got to the valley of Elah, and one Samuel seventeen,
Speaker 3: verse forty seven says, Thus, all those gathered here, this
Speaker 3: is what David said as a young man.
Speaker 1: All those gathered here.
Speaker 3: Will know that it is not by sword, it is
Speaker 3: not by spear. Everything you brought to this fight is
Speaker 3: not what God is going to use. Everything you thought
Speaker 3: it was going to take is not what is going
Speaker 3: to take. It is not by sword. It is not
Speaker 3: by spear that the Lord saves for the battle is
Speaker 3: not mine, but it is the laws. I need to
Speaker 3: find a Pentecostal church I.
Speaker 1: Can preach this in tonight.
Speaker 3: I sold up at the Episcopalian Baptist First Church of
Speaker 3: the Frozen Chosen.
Speaker 1: But I came to tell somebody.
Speaker 4: This battle, this battle, it's not yours.
Speaker 3: Stop stressing, stop stressing, stop freaking out. Tell your neighbor
Speaker 3: it's not yours.
Speaker 1: But it is floors. But it is the lows.
Speaker 4: And if it is this battle, it's got biped back
Speaker 4: in this battle. If it is.
Speaker 3: Now, I want to high five my neighbor. It is
Speaker 3: the lords, It is the lords. It is this breath
Speaker 3: in my lungs. So I ought to praise m But
Speaker 3: it is the Lord. Stop trying to do it alone.
Speaker 3: It is the lords tack your partner. It is the
Speaker 3: Lors call on heaven. It is the lords praying the spirits.
Speaker 3: It is the Lords. It's his house, it's his plan,
Speaker 3: it's his hand. Many are the plans in a person's heart,
Speaker 3: but it is the Lord's. David said, I got to
Speaker 3: thinking about my life and I realized that I didn't
Speaker 3: get this far by planning.
Speaker 1: I didn't get this far on my plans.
Speaker 3: They didn't even plan to have me in the house
Speaker 3: when they came through for.
Speaker 1: The king auditions. I didn't get this far on my plans.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna hand him the plan right right, the
Speaker 3: word of the Lord, and.
Speaker 1: Him the plan.
Speaker 3: Oh you're going to sleep so good, like you had
Speaker 3: three glasses of warm cookies and cold milk with the
Speaker 3: ice all around the rim of the glass.
Speaker 1: Just drink that down like a big sweat. Many are
Speaker 1: the plans. I know.
Speaker 3: I know you got some plans that aren't working out,
Speaker 3: and I know you feel behind, and I know you
Speaker 3: feel frustrated, and I know there's some things that God
Speaker 3: is allowing others to do. Feel an experience that you're
Speaker 3: not getting to feel doo in experience. Many of the
Speaker 3: plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's
Speaker 3: point four and I close. I want to tell you
Speaker 3: about a purpose that prevails. Prevails is just fancy way
Speaker 3: to say wins. So maybe we could say God's will wins.
Speaker 3: Maybe we could say God will win if God is
Speaker 3: for me. You think I'm trying to be Rick Flair.
Speaker 3: I'm calling the Bible who can be against me? But
Speaker 3: it is the Lord's It's too big for me, but
Speaker 3: it is the lords. He said that about Goliath, and
Speaker 3: he said that about the Temple. It is the Lord's
Speaker 3: purpose that prevails. So I got up on my feet
Speaker 3: today to tell you something that David wanted you to
Speaker 3: know that even if you feel like you're in your
Speaker 3: Plan B of your life, let me keep preaching Plan C,
Speaker 3: Plan D, E F G, Plan Element OP. His purpose prevails.
Speaker 3: Even if you thought we'll be in here five years.
Speaker 3: You know what God likes to do for entertainment. God
Speaker 3: likes stand up comedy, so he listens to you make
Speaker 3: your plans. He likes that. That's a good night for
Speaker 3: the Lord. The Lord pop's popcorn and says back in
Speaker 3: last Ah, I like a good comedy. Listen to where
Speaker 3: they think they're going to be in three years. I
Speaker 3: got stuff for them along the way that they don't
Speaker 3: even know about. I want to talk to you about
Speaker 3: purpose that prevails, and I need to give you one
Speaker 3: more detail.
Speaker 1: Can I give you one more detail?
Speaker 3: I know technically you have reached the satiation point where
Speaker 3: you probably have had enough of this word, but I
Speaker 3: will not sleep good if I don't tell you this
Speaker 3: last point. The Lord told David, I'm going to use
Speaker 3: one of your sons to build the temple, not you.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use you, but I'm not going to
Speaker 3: do it through you. I'm gonna do it through Solomon
Speaker 3: Solomon verse five, of all my sons, who he had
Speaker 3: many sons, of all my sons, and the Lord has
Speaker 3: given me many. He has chosen my son Solomon to
Speaker 3: sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord
Speaker 3: over Israel. Verse six. He said to me, Solomon, your
Speaker 3: son is the one who will build my house and
Speaker 3: my course. For I've chosen him to be my son,
Speaker 3: I'll be his father. And you say, well, of course
Speaker 3: he chose Solomon. Solomon was the wisest man who ever
Speaker 3: lived right.
Speaker 1: By the way.
Speaker 3: In our family Bible club right now, we're reading the
Speaker 3: Song of Solomon. Let me tell you, you don't know
Speaker 3: awkward unless you've been in a Bible club with your
Speaker 3: fourteen year old daughter trying to text about the Song
Speaker 3: of Solomon in a group chat with your wife. It's
Speaker 3: a whole situation. But the Song of Solomon is not
Speaker 3: the only book that Solomon wrote. He also wrote a
Speaker 3: book called Proverbs, and one of those proverbs, of all
Speaker 3: the many that he wrote was Proverbs nineteen twenty one,
Speaker 3: and Proverbs nineteen twenty one says, many are the plants
Speaker 3: in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose
Speaker 3: that prevails. I wonder when he wrote that, did he
Speaker 3: think back to the moment where his father di Dad
Speaker 3: said I had it in my heart to do it.
Speaker 3: And I wonder was it even more powerful for Solomon
Speaker 3: considering the circumstances of his birth. Solomon was born in
Speaker 3: a very strange circumstance, in a very sorrowful time. You see,
Speaker 3: David's brilliant mind that conceived the temple was a mind
Speaker 3: that was also very tempted. He built the temple, but
Speaker 3: he was tempted a person's heart.
Speaker 1: Let me stop. That's what's going on in you right now.
Speaker 3: You are a temple that God is building, but you
Speaker 3: are tempted, not because there's something wrong with you, but
Speaker 3: because there's something God is going to release through you.
Speaker 3: And David, in all of his creativity, could cause himself
Speaker 3: real problems because many are the plans. He had plans
Speaker 3: to do good, he had plans to do bad. Many
Speaker 3: are the plans. Don't look at me like the only
Speaker 3: word you said this week was Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 3: Many are the plants. And David won the springtime, decided
Speaker 3: not to go fight the battle. And he walked around
Speaker 3: his rooftop and he saw a beautiful woman bathing, and
Speaker 3: her name is Bethsheba, and he said, go and get her.
Speaker 1: I want her.
Speaker 3: And the same mind that was able to conceive something
Speaker 3: as beautiful as a temple conceived a sin that he
Speaker 3: committed that was very grievous in the sight.
Speaker 1: Of the Lord.
Speaker 3: In fact, in fact, the Lord never even calls Bathsheba
Speaker 3: David's wife. It calls him the wife of your Riyah,
Speaker 3: the Hittite that was the man that David stole her
Speaker 3: from and the Lord didn't like it. The Lord didn't
Speaker 3: like it one bit. Many are the plants in a
Speaker 3: person's heart. The same mind that built the temple was tempted.
Speaker 3: It's a struggle of flesh and spirit in your life
Speaker 3: right now. You understand that. In this student section, it
Speaker 3: is a struggle in the spirit for your life right now.
Speaker 3: And in one season David was very courageous, and in
Speaker 3: one season he was the kind of coward that slept
Speaker 3: with another man's wife and had that man killed on
Speaker 3: the front lines of battle. And the Lord didn't like it,
Speaker 3: and he sent Nathan, the same prophet who turned around
Speaker 3: and said, hey, you don't get to build the temple.
Speaker 3: Years earlier, he turned around and said, you shouldn't have
Speaker 3: done that, and there's going to be a consequence. In fact,
Speaker 3: the child that was the child that was conceived from.
Speaker 1: That act died.
Speaker 3: And David fasted and wept and prayed and wouldn't eat,
Speaker 3: and that still didn't change the consequence. So now in
Speaker 3: this moment, David is very depressed, disappointed, and guilty. He
Speaker 3: probably wrote Psalm fifty one. He was a man of
Speaker 3: many songs. He was also a man of many sins
Speaker 3: and many sons. Many are the plans in a person's heart,
Speaker 3: but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. And that
Speaker 3: child was given no name because that child never lived.
Speaker 3: And after David wept, he got up and washed his face,
Speaker 3: and they said, have you lost your mind? The child
Speaker 3: died and you're getting up and eating. When the child
Speaker 3: was still alive, you were fasting and praying. And David said, well,
Speaker 3: I thought the Lord was going to heal him, but
Speaker 3: now that he didn't, I have to move on.
Speaker 1: David goes into Bathsheba and he.
Speaker 3: Takes his wife and he comforts her and he makes
Speaker 3: love to her, and they conceive a child, and they
Speaker 3: named him Solomon. Now decades later, David had it in
Speaker 3: his heart to build a temple for the Lord. And
Speaker 3: he has a plan that God gave him for the temple,
Speaker 3: and he has a son that God gave him named Solomon,
Speaker 3: after the worst failure of his life. And First Chronicles
Speaker 3: twenty eight, verse eleven says that he made a decision.
Speaker 3: Then David gave his son Solomon the plans. And isn't
Speaker 3: it just like God and just like Grace that the
Speaker 3: son that was born after his worst sin was the
Speaker 3: one that God chose to build the temple that he
Speaker 3: would live in. And I want you to begin to
Speaker 3: clap your hands today because it doesn't matter what mistakes
Speaker 3: you've made, because it doesn't matter how much time you've lost,
Speaker 3: because it doesn't matter how bleak it has looked. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what weapon has been formed against you. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what the enemy is sowing in your heart
Speaker 3: to try to discourage you. Hand him the plans, Hand
Speaker 3: him the plans. Same son that was born of the
Speaker 3: wife that David never should have even had.
Speaker 1: God said, I will.
Speaker 3: Redeem that too, and I will use the mistake that
Speaker 3: you made.
Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody, and I don't know who it
Speaker 1: is yet.
Speaker 3: I will use the thing that you thought I couldn't use.
Speaker 1: I will take the plans that I gave you.
Speaker 3: I will take the purpose that I put in you,
Speaker 3: if you will hand him the plans.
Speaker 1: I picture Solomon.
Speaker 3: Years later, sitting down with this pen and writing Proverbs
Speaker 3: nineteen twenty one.
Speaker 1: Many are the plans.
Speaker 3: In a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose
Speaker 3: that prevailed. Solomon new I wasn't even supposed to be here.
Speaker 3: Solomon new I wasn't even supposed to be born. Solomon
Speaker 3: new I wasn't born in the best circumstance. But Romans
Speaker 3: eight twenty eight says.
Speaker 1: All things, all things.
Speaker 3: Mistakes and major successes, all things failures, and they all
Speaker 3: things work together for the good of them that love.
Speaker 1: God and are called according to his purpose.
Speaker 3: So I am preaching to somebody today that is not
Speaker 3: living in your plan, but you're still in his purpose.
Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody today who didn't even follow his plan.
Speaker 3: But the Lord is so good that if you hand
Speaker 3: him the plan, God said, hand me the plan. If
Speaker 3: you got ten years left, hand me ten years. If
Speaker 3: you don't have many brain cells left, hand me the
Speaker 3: ones you got left. If you got nothing left to
Speaker 3: offer me but a broken heart, lift your hands with
Speaker 3: a broken heart and bless the name of the Lord,
Speaker 3: and hand him the plan.
Speaker 1: Stand to your feet and do just like this, and
Speaker 1: hand him the plan. Hand him the plan.
Speaker 3: Where you thought you'd be by now, you're thinking too
Speaker 3: small what you thought you were supposed to be. You're
Speaker 3: looking at the wrong blueprint. Hand him the plan. You
Speaker 3: are his temple. Hand him the plan. Let him build
Speaker 3: it how he knows to build it. Let him bring
Speaker 3: who he wants to bring, let him remove who he
Speaker 3: wants to remove, Let him do what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: Many are the plants in a person's heart, but it
Speaker 1: is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Now.
Speaker 3: If you take your hands and just put them like this,
Speaker 3: just like that, I think what the Lord wants us
Speaker 3: to take away from this message that Holly can cover
Speaker 3: in highlights. Hand him my tight shot, please, is you
Speaker 3: need to be open handed with the plan. Open handed
Speaker 3: with the plan, but keep a firm grip on the purpose.
Speaker 1: Open handed with the plan. But I'm certain about the purpose.
Speaker 3: I know God wants to get glory out of my life.
Speaker 3: I know he wants to get glory out of my life.
Speaker 3: I know God wants to fill this temple with glory.
Speaker 3: I know God wants to work all things together for good.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna ask you one more thing. Was Bathsheba
Speaker 3: part of the blueprint too? If he works all things together,
Speaker 3: do you really think there's anything about you that would
Speaker 3: stop him from building? Stop letting the enemy cut you
Speaker 3: off at the place of your last mistake, Fast, pray, repent.
Speaker 1: Do better, and move on.
Speaker 3: Because it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. And this
Speaker 3: is a strong word. It is a strong word. It
Speaker 3: is hard to hand him the plan. It's hard to say, Okay, God,
Speaker 3: you know, my kids aren't turning out like I think
Speaker 3: they should. Wait, stop and think about that for a minute.
Speaker 3: My kids aren't turning out how I think they should.
Speaker 1: I can't get them to do what I want them
Speaker 1: to do. You can't even get you to do what
Speaker 1: you want you to do. And him the plan.
Speaker 3: Clap those hands real quick, or I'm gonna keep prophesying.
Speaker 1: Open handed.
Speaker 3: So when you go to lunch today, realize that you
Speaker 3: not only heard four points, but you learned a proverb.
Speaker 1: You learn that many are the plans, and watch this plans.
Speaker 3: If the first one didn't work, God's already got another
Speaker 3: one cooking. Many are the plans in a person's heart.
Speaker 3: That's where the battleground is. That's where the fight is.
Speaker 3: God's looking for a person after his own heart. But
Speaker 3: it is the Lord's open your hands one more time.
Speaker 1: It is the Lord's whatever you need to give him today.
Speaker 1: You know what it is. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: I don't live with you. You know what it is.
Speaker 1: Say it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.
Speaker 3: God, I thank you that, in spite of everything that
Speaker 3: I've gone through, all things are working together for the
Speaker 3: good of those who love you and are called according
Speaker 3: to your purpose.
Speaker 1: And now, Lord, we hand you the plan.
Speaker 3: We hand you the plan for what it looks like
Speaker 3: to be us in this season of our life. We
Speaker 3: hand you the plan for the space we think we're
Speaker 3: supposed to occupy.
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