WEBVTT - Hand Him The Plan 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.280 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.040 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.560 gives your perspective to see God has moving in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.160 I am continuing in a series that I am thoroughly enjoying, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:23.360 preaching to. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:29.479 Myself and then letting you listen. The Lord has been working. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:30.840 I have been hearing from you. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.839 I have gotten so many good reports from this series. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.560 And it's only part five today. It's only part five today, 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.000 so you're not too late. The Lord has a word 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.960 for you today, and I want to share with you 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.960 a word from his word. Stay standing for just a 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.479 moment at all of our locations and watching online all 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.080 over the world. And if you can find a Bible 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.480 or if you have one on your app turn to 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.160 First Chronicles, chapter twenty. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.639 Eight, verse nineteen. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.319 Therein is the instruction that the Lord has for us today. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.600 You don't have a Bible with you, or you prefer 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.679 not to pull out your phone because you don't want 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.600 to be distracted, because you know somebody might be trying 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.160 to reach you, but you want to ignore them while 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:15.800 you're in church. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.840 We'll put it on the screen for you. First Chronicles, 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:21.800 chapter twenty. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:29.839 Eight, Verse nineteen. King David has come a long way. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.119 He is an old man and he's sharing the plan 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.840 that God gave him for the Temple of the Lord 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:44.479 to be built. And after sharing several of those specific 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.960 instructions that the Lord gave him in verse Chronicles twenty eight, 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.560 he says something really cool, and I really want you 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.040 to hear it today. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.080 He says, all this, David said. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.160 Remember, he's just listed all of the different materials that 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.600 are going to be used to build the temple, all 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.799 of the dimensions of each room. He gets so specific 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:16.200 that he tells the people down to the dishes what 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.560 they need to make for the Temple of the Lord. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.600 Down to the dishes. Now they say the devil is 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:27.880 in the details. So is God. And he says all this. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.160 Somebody say all this, if you're watching online, just put 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.440 all with a bunch of l's after it in the comments. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:40.120 All this, David said, I have in writing as a 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:45.240 result of the Lord's hand on me, and he enabled 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:51.040 me to understand all the details of the plan and 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:51.919 that a good verse. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:53.720 Let's read it again. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.280 All this, somebody say, all this, God's not going to 0:02:58.400 --> 0:02:59.680 leave one single thing out. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:01.640 God's got it all accounted for, he said. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.840 All this, David said, I have in writing as a 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:11.120 result of the Lord's hand on me, and he enabled 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:17.760 me to understand all the details of the plan. The 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.200 word of the Lord today is this, God said, to 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:26.560 tell you, hand him the plan, Hand him the plan. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.680 I was praying as I prepared about the thoughts that 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:33.160 we think. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.120 We're talking about the. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:42.000 Thoughts that we think, and how we get stressed out, overwhelmed, confused, bitter, 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.560 insecure in our minds. And I thought about all of 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.960 you who are making decisions in your life right now 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.440 and trying to figure out which way. And I thought 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.360 about all of you who are trying to recover from 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.800 things that have happened to you, and you hadn't got 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.960 your balance back yet. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.480 And I thought about all of you who feel a 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.280 little long at this moment. And the Lord said, to 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:07.920 tell you hand him the plan. Father. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.360 I lift up every person that will hear this message 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.480 in the future or is hearing it right now before you, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.480 And I thank you that you know the plans you 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.160 have for them, plans to prosper them, not to harm them, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.240 Plans to give them a hope and the future. We 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.240 trust you with the future because we know you're here 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:34.640 right now. Speak now, God, we're listening. In Jesus' name, Amen, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:36.839 tell three people on your way to your seat, hand 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.640 him the plan. Put that in the comments. If you're 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.320 watching on YouTube, hand him the plan. Come on, put 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.800 it right there. I need you to see it in 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:51.200 all caps. There you go, put it in the chat. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:53.560 Wouldn't that be wonderful? 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.400 Though? If the Lord did that for you what he 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.120 did for David. All this David said. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.320 I have in writing as a result of the Lord's 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.400 hand on me. He enabled me to understand all the 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:10.440 details of the stock market, all the details of cryptocurrency, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.760 all the details of child development, all the details of 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.760 college selection, all the details of pre cal all the details. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:19.640 It would be awesome. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.240 I'm going to do something Graham that I never did 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:28.839 before in twenty plus years of preaching, twenty years of pastoring, twenty. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.200 Nine years of preaching since I was a little boy. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.720 I've been teaching Graham about preaching lately, sharing with him 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.560 lessons that I've learned and I never did this before, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.359 but the Lord led me to give you this message 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.799 in a very peculiar way. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:44.800 That I think you will enjoy. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.280 I'm going to take a proverb from proverb number nineteen, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.840 verse twenty one, Proverbs nineteen twenty one. I'm going to 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.680 lay it over what I read you from David's life 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:00.240 in for Samuel twenty eight or First Chronicles twenty eight. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.120 And the proverb that I'm going to use is going 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.720 to be the points of my message, so. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.320 You'll have all the points when I read you this proverb. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:10.800 And then I'm going to break it down for a 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.600 few moments so that we can talk about your mind, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.680 your heart, your thoughts, and what God is building in 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.880 your life. And here's what Proverbs nineteen, verse twenty one says. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:27.520 Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:33.159 is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Now, I see that 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.320 ought to give you some peace just when I read that, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.880 because everything you're fighting against, it's the Lord's purpose that prevails. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:46.320 Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.400 is the Lord's purpose that prevails. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:49.320 Isn't that great verse? 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.240 The first point I'm going to talk to you about 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.200 today and justin if you want to circle these as 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.280 we go. I'm my first point. I want to talk 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.159 to you about many are the plans. So that's point 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:06.080 number one. Many are plans. Yeah, write it down. That's 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.520 point number one. Write it down many of the plans. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.680 Put it in the comments, many of the plans, and 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:15.080 put a one by it, justin. That's kind of a one, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.240 I think. So I want to talk about many of 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:23.960 the plans. And then my second point, I want to 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.200 talk to you about in a person's heart. Put that 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.080 in the comments as well, and put it in your notes, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.080 in a person's heart. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.880 And then for my third point, I want to talk 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:41.240 about but it is the Lord's. But it is the Lord's. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.640 And point number three, I want to talk to you 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.280 about purpose that prevails. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.200 Okay, purpose that prevails. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.120 So now if you need to leave early, you got 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.920 all four points, and you can pretend like you said 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.520 through the whole sermon, many are the plans, somebody say 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:08.920 many are the plans. In my experience as a leader 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.760 and as a child of God, God has not given 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.360 me all of the details on the front end of 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.440 whatever he has asked me to do. By faith, and 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.720 I called this series That's what I thought, because it 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:27.320 helped me to reflect on how dumb I was at times. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:27.640 In the past. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.120 Not anymore now I'm at a place of knowledge in 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.920 God and wisdom and instruction and revelation. Well, I mean, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.880 of course, five years from now, I'll be looking back 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.320 saying how dumb I was. And I know this because 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.959 at every point along the way in my journey as 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.280 a leader, God did not give me details until I 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:49.520 gave him obedience. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.079 And as much as we think. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:55.880 That we would like for God to come down and 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.320 give us all the details for what we need to 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.560 do about this relationship in our life, this business decision 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:06.000 in our life, this custody situation in our life, this 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.800 legal issue in our life, this financial trouble in our life, 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.800 this loan offer, this. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:14.520 Crossroads in our life. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.040 As much as we think we would love God to 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.040 give us the details, what good would the details of 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.480 what God wants you to do next be if you 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.760 were not obedient to the last thing he told you 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:25.120 to do. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.360 And I found so many. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:34.240 Times in my life as a principle that details follow obedience, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:41.120 and we want it just the other way, exactly the 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:47.520 other way. Obedience follows details. So show me the entire 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.920 path God, and then I'll take the first step. But 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:57.920 watch this Graham come up on the stage. That was 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:05.600 pretty quick, right, did all that with no details, obedience, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.680 with no details. He didn't sit out there and ask 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:10.240 for what? 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:12.959 Come out there? 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:13.360 For what? 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.319 Nice? For what? To this preacher? 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:17.000 For what? 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.200 He didn't ask any of that. He didn't say how 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:22.320 long you need me up there? 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.920 He did say, what do you intend to do with 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.120 the footage archivally sneaking after this live illustration has ended? 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:34.960 And now that he did it, he knows. Now go 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:35.520 sit back down. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:42.760 I needed you to illustrate that details follow obedience. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.520 Now you know how long I wanted you up here, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:47.320 because he came. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.200 I wanted you up here that long for that reason, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:55.120 to prove this point that details follow obedience. Say it, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:02.640 details follow obedience. That's right, detail else follow obedience. I 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.920 know you want God to show you seven weeks from now, 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:10.640 but details follow forgiveness get a little too specific. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:10.920 Now. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.440 The lesson of my life that I wish I didn't 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.200 have to learn through doing it the wrong way is 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:24.079 that usually what I thought and what God saw are 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.800 two totally different things. Somebody say many are the plans. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.920 Many are the plans. There have been so many plans 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.640 that I have had in my heart, in my mind 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.400 and in my life that looking back on them, I. 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:39.200 Thought too small. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.839 I didn't think big enough because I didn't pray big enough. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.960 I thought too small. Have you ever thought too small? 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.800 Many are the thoughts? Everybody say many are the thoughts, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.480 And y'all know I love wordplays, so I mean many 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.199 are the thoughts, and I mean many are the thoughts. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.840 My thoughts have been so many through the years. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.960 Do you remember LB when we were meeting at the 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.200 Senior Center, and this was when the church was very young. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.320 Y'all don't know nothing about the Senior Center days. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.360 When we pulled up for the grand opening, and I 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.559 looked around at that room that would seat two hundred 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.960 people and we were just getting started, and I said 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.520 the chunks at the grand opening, this will be an 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.200 amazing place for us to meet. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.839 It will last us five years. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.120 And then we'll probably have to go to two services 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:30.920 five years. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.120 Everybody say, many are the thoughts. That's what I thought. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.240 Five years and we would go to two services in 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:44.080 five months. We had outgrown the building. Because my thoughts 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:49.360 were many thoughts you follow me. I thought too small 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.480 because I started with me. I thought too small because 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.440 I started with where I was from. I thought too 0:12:56.480 --> 0:13:00.400 small because I started with what I had seen. Is 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.640 a lot of times in your life you make plans 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.280 based on the pictures that you've seen. But the pictures 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.320 that you've seen is not all that there is to 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.640 the purpose of the God who has saved you and 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.520 made a plan for your life. So what if you 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.040 are making plans off of the wrong picture? 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.199 Many are the thoughts. Many are the thoughts. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.720 Now you're organizing your life to look just like your parents' 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.360 life looked. But what if God has something different for 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.319 you than he did for the generation before you? What 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.360 if their ceiling is going to be your floor? Many 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.320 are the plans. Some of us are spending too much 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.200 money because we are basing our spending habits on the 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.520 pictures that we see on Instagram of people who left 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.960 the tags on the stuff that they posted, took it 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.280 back to the store. But you made a payment and 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.439 another payment and another payment because you made a plan 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.360 off of a picture that had nothing to do with 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:01.040 your purpose. And how many times have I thought too small? 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.360 How many times have I thought too slow, trying to 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.840 catch up with God. I knew I was going to 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.560 start a church from a young age, or I thought 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.080 I was going to start a church, and I did, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:16.040 but I always thought I. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:16.680 Would start it. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.160 I remember telling Holly when we got married, we're going 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.600 to start at church one day when we're about forty 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:26.360 five years old. So if God did what I thought, 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.800 this would be my first sermon of the first Sunday. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.320 Aren't you glad God didn't do what you thought he 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.720 was going to do? And that She turned to me 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.560 one day and she was like, your thoughts are too many. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.440 God wants to do it. Now let's step out. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.560 Now, Well, what about the children's ministry, and what about 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.880 the business side, and what about the people we need? 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:51.640 And where are we going to do it? And the 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:58.040 details didn't come before the obedience. Come here, Graham, details 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.000 follow obedience. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.600 Now sit back down. That's all I needed. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.080 But you will know what I needed you for unless 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.720 you come when I call, and you will know how 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.720 long I need you for. Unless you come when I call. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.000 And I hear God saying to somebody, take the first step, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:21.440 Take the first step. When David says all this, everybody 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.360 say all this, it is a comprehensive knowledge that he 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.960 has at the plan of God unfolding in his life, 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.200 at a developmental stage where he has walked with God 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.000 in relationship long enough that when God calls him, he 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:36.960 trusts God's intention. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.640 Many are the thoughts. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:47.080 Now in the case of David, we might understand that 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.800 it has taken him his entire life to get to 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.840 this point. Last week we talked about how he wrestled 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.800 with his thoughts. Y'all, remember that wrestled with a lion, 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.520 wrestled with a bear, wrestled with his mind, wrestled with anxiety. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.160 By the way, that's how we got the Book of 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.920 Psalms through what David wrestled with. I wonder what you're 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:15.040 gonna leave behind out of what you wrestle with. David 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.840 was a man of many thoughts. He was a man 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.080 of many songs. Don't go through the Book of Psalms 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.480 in your Bible and think that the psalms that were 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.320 recorded were the only ones he wrote. We just got 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.240 the best of the best of the best. That's just 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.720 David's greatest hits. And there's one hundred and fifty psalms, 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:37.080 and he wrote most of them. A man of many songs. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.080 He was also a man of many sons. He had 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:47.400 at least nineteen that we know their names, So he 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.800 was dealing with a lot. And now we know why 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:54.720 he was depressed in those psalms. At least nineteen children 0:16:54.920 --> 0:17:05.680 belong to David. Many are the thoughts, Many are the thoughts. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.960 An interesting that David, who God called and chose to 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.840 be the king of Israel, the second king that they 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.840 ever knew, right behind the one that they called that 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.080 they thought was the one that God wanted. How the 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.280 prophet Samuel showed up at Jesse's house, and I want 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:23.160 to layer this for you. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.000 It was so beautiful to me when I saw it. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.159 I don't want to rush through it today because I 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.719 only get to preach it once, and I studied it 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.879 so long, and y'all are not going to rush me 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.440 to finish it today. It is too good to rush 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.520 through this Thanksgiving meal. When Samuel went to annoint the 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.720 king that would replace Saul after Saul had become disobedient, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.440 the Lord did not give him all of the details 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.880 of which of Jesse's sons he was To Annoin, he said, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.480 I want you to go with your horn full of oil, 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.400 and I'll show you who to pour it on when 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:56.960 you get there. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.600 Jesse, who was David's father, lined up seven of. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.440 His sons, and I want to show you something that's 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.880 pertinent to our series. All of you who are tracking 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.359 with our series will really get a lot out of this. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:09.720 Verse. 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:14.000 In for Samuel sixteen, verse six, the Bible says, when 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.280 they arrived Samuel the prophet, which means seer, Samuel the 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:26.199 seer saw Eliab, which was David's oldest, tallest brother, and thought, 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.560 justin you might as well circle that too, and thought, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.920 surely the Lord's anointed stands here. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:36.560 Before the Lord. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.760 But the Lord said to Samuel, keep that phrase right 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.119 there in front of you for a moment. But the 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:50.399 Lord said to Samuel, do not consider his appearance or 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.800 his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.440 not look at the things people look at. People look 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:03.920 at the outward appearance, But the Lord looks at the heart. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.320 Now I'm ready to move to my second point. Many 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:13.520 are the thoughts in a person's heart. My second point 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.960 is in a person's heart. And if you'd put Proverbs nineteen, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.080 verse twenty one back up again, he says, many are 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:27.159 the plans in a person's heart. Now, the problem with David, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.359 and the problem with you, and the problem with me, 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.600 if I'm gonna be honest about it, is at the 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.960 same place where God speaks to us is the place 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:38.240 where the enemy does. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:40.800 Our heart. 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:46.000 The same place where God speaks to us is the 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.359 same place that we have to store the opinions of 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:49.480 others our heart. 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:51.159 Now. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.720 In the Hebrew language, the word heart and mind are 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.040 often used interchangeably, so that if you read some translations 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.720 of Proverbs nineteen twenty one, it says many of the 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.320 plan in a man's mind. There was no distinction in 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.800 the Bible. They didn't say, don't think this one through 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.000 with your head, think it through. 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:07.359 With your heart. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.280 They understood that it is at the level of thought 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:11.879 that you produce feeling. 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:13.880 If you think. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:15.879 About something long enough, you will start to feel what 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.840 you think about, even if it's not happening. If you 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.680 start to think about betrayal long enough, you will start 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:23.159 to hate the person. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.879 And they're still right there holding your hand. If you 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:26.920 start to think. 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.880 About the bad outcome long enough, you will experience it 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.080 in your central nervous system as if it were happening 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.840 in your everyday life, because there is no distinction. So 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:41.399 it says, many are the plans in a man's heart. 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.600 When God found David, Samuel thought it was the tallest one, 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:51.639 but God picked the smallest one. By the time they 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:56.280 went through all of Jesse's sons, all of Jesse's sons, 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.840 remember all these things, David said. The Lord showed me 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.640 all of Jesse's sons one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.560 Samuel said, is that all you've got? And Jesse said, 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.520 you wouldn't want to see David. David's out there with 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.480 the sheep. David's out there smelling like a barnyard. David 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:14.680 is no kind of king. He's just a kid. 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.800 Samuel said, we will not sit down till he arrives. 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.919 And God said he's the one, not because of his height, 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:26.720 but because of his heart. Ooh, dating seminar, ladies, don't 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:31.240 look at his height, look at his heart. He might 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.120 be tall, and he might be broke, and he might 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.880 be abusive, and he might be lazy, and he might 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.840 be addicted to weed. So don't look at his height. Oh, 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.200 he's cute, he's tall, Look at his heart. How does 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.600 he talk to his mom? How does he keep his car. 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.040 Does he come to church? Does he sit in the 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:54.120 back and leave early when Pastor Stephen is giving the 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:56.960 invitation Because he didn't come to church for a hookup 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:57.480 with God. 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.040 He came for something else. 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.920 And I can only tell if I'm looking at the 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.879 heart me or the thoughts. I mean, you got a 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.600 lot of thoughts, I got a lot of motives. I 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:11.280 got a lot of conflicting things happening in my heart. 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.640 And my heart is the place where I can dream 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.119 up a big church for God. In my heart is 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.679 the place where I can imagine terrible scenarios. In my 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:21.880 heart is the place where I can holler for you 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:24.600 that God has a plan. In my heart is the 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.760 place where I can get road rage and holler at 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.800 somebody else that I have a plan for you, and 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.000 it is to get out of this car and fight 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.240 you on the side of the street, because I've been 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:37.840 saving up for this for a long time in a 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:40.639 person's heart. And that's the problem, isn't it When we 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.600 say God has a plan and I want God's plan, 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:47.840 and I just want God's plan for my life. Notice 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.280 the Bible didn't talk about one plan. It talked about 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:59.840 many plans. Plans plural purpose, singular plans, plural purpose sing 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.359 one purpose, many plans. It has taken David all of 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:07.040 his life to get to this point. It has taken 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:11.040 your entire life, all of the experiences, the good ones, 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.440 the bad ones, the blah ones, the epic ones, the 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:19.639 painful ones, the exhilarating ones. It has taken all that 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:22.600 to bring you to this point in your life. So 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.560 that when he stands before the people and talks about 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.360 the Temple, he says, all this I have been writing 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:33.760 as a result of watch this the Lord's hand on me. 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:41.960 You've been in your head, but the answer is not 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:49.960 in your head. It's in the Lord's hand. I feel 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:52.240 like I could go home on that, and I'm only. 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:52.720 On point too. 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:57.320 That's the problem with you. I figured it out. I 0:23:57.359 --> 0:23:59.159 figured out your problem. You've been praying about it. I 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:06.880 figured it out. You're a person in a person's heart. 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:11.840 I mean, David was amazing, Don't get me wrong. He 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:15.000 was the kind of guy that God knew when I 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.359 want to get something done, I can hand him the plan. 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:23.479 Somebody say, my title, hand him the plan, like if 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:25.840 God had a committee meeting with angels and he's like, 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:28.119 we need somebody to fight Goliath. 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:29.000 Who's going to do it. 0:24:29.880 --> 0:24:32.639 We got a whole army out there standing there not 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:33.400 doing anything. 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.760 But God would say to the angels, hey, there's David. 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:41.959 If I hand him the plan, he'll do it without 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:47.080 needing to know the details. He'll encourage, he'll bless, he'll go, 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:48.560 he'll obey, he'll embrace. 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:50.480 He'll do it without the details. 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:53.040 As a matter of fact, when David was sent to 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:56.280 fight Goliath, he was not sent as a fighter. He 0:24:56.320 --> 0:25:00.720 was sent as a servant caring food. Many are the 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:05.920 plans in a person's heart. David's heart was so after 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:08.639 God that he had a kind of courage that we 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:11.320 rarely see today, a kind of courage I rarely see 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:14.440 in my own life, A kind of courage that would 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:18.520 stand before a giant with a shepherd's tool. 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:21.119 In his hand and say I got something for you. 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:25.600 The kind of courage that will stand before the devil 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:30.000 of spiritual oppression in your life with nothing but a 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:33.439 prayer and a faith and a belief, and say I 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:37.080 got something for you. That kind of faith is rare. 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:40.840 It's in a person's heart. And I taught you last 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:45.280 week that the place where God gives you the blueprint 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:48.359 will always be the place where the enemy brings the battle. 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:51.199 So give me my camera. 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:54.840 If you are fighting hell right now in your mind, 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:58.840 there is something Heaven is trying to download that Hell 0:25:58.960 --> 0:25:59.960 is trying to interfere with. 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:01.600 I'll say it again. 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:06.439 If you are fighting panic attacks, anxiety, temptations, if you 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:10.080 are fighting hell in your mind, there is something that 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:14.000 God is trying to download into your mind that Hell 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:15.880 is trying to interfere with. 0:26:16.520 --> 0:26:17.240 It is in a. 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:20.399 Person's heart that you can receive a word from God. 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:22.840 It is in your heart that God can speak to 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:25.920 you the details of his plan. It is in your 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:28.679 heart that God can speak to you the assurance of 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:30.880 his love. It is in your heart that God can 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:33.639 speak to you how to have that conversation. It is 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:35.360 in your heart that God can speak to you who 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:37.119 you need to reach out, that has been through what 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:39.080 you're going through, that can show you a few things 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:40.520 so that you don't have to be dealing with this 0:26:40.640 --> 0:26:42.640 next time, this time, next year. It is in your 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:44.879 heart that the enemy will also tell you if you 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:47.080 reach out to them, you can't trust them. It is 0:26:47.119 --> 0:26:49.320 also in your heart that the enemy will remind you 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:51.920 so much of your past that you can't even hear 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:54.639 what God is speaking in your presence. It is in 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.800 your heart that God gives plans. It is in your 0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:01.600 heart that you harbor pain. Pain in God's plans are 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:04.720 in the same heart. Just like there are multiple apps 0:27:04.760 --> 0:27:07.520 on your phone right now and you choose which one 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:10.480 to open. There is a plan that God has for you. 0:27:10.840 --> 0:27:13.119 It is in your heart. There is a plan that 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:15.960 the enemy is speaking over you. It is hatching in 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:18.640 your heart. The plan that the enemy wants to hatch 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:20.960 in your heart has to bow its need to the 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:26.880 purpose that God speaks into your life. 0:27:29.000 --> 0:27:31.679 Many are the plans, you know. 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:35.000 When David got up to tell the people about the 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:38.760 temple and how God gave him all the details, it 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:42.720 was a magnificent announcement. Man, This temple is not going 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:45.320 to be a storefront temple. This temple is not going 0:27:45.359 --> 0:27:47.880 to be a garage bend temple. We've had the ark 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:50.800 of God in a tent for too long, David said, 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:53.280 And we are going to build a temple for the Lord. 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:56.240 But I want to take you back to something very 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:58.240 powerful in verse two and three, because. 0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:01.720 I think there's something that God is. 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:05.240 Trying to download into your mind and your heart, but 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:11.520 you can't receive it because of your disappointments. And David 0:28:11.560 --> 0:28:15.720 had a disappointment, a disappointment that, had he chosen to 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:19.400 allow it, would have interrupted the download. Remember, the battle 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:23.359 always happens in the place of a blueprint, Pastor Stephen, 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:24.560 this is a lot of alliteration. 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:25.520 Can you break it down for me? 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:28.200 Yeah, when God is trying to do something, the devil 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:31.879 starts saying something, and you hear from both of them, 0:28:31.920 --> 0:28:35.720 not out loud, but in your mind, in your heart. Why, 0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:40.400 that's why it's a battle. Maybe you're not going crazy, 0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:47.760 maybe you're called. That's all y'all want to say about 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:52.360 what I just said is I said, maybe you're not crazy, 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:58.240 maybe you're called. Tell your neighbor I might be called. 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:01.640 Got him with real big eyes and say I thought 0:29:01.680 --> 0:29:04.120 I was crazy, but. 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:04.680 I might be. 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:08.480 Called I might be golf and I might be crazy. 0:29:08.680 --> 0:29:10.960 But I got a deal with my crazy. So I 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:12.320 can hear God calling me? 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:18.080 Does I do not intend to let him just continue 0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:23.480 to disrupt my destiny with doubt, dysfunction, and despair. 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:29.080 I five your neighbors say I might be called, So 0:29:30.160 --> 0:29:36.320 I'm just teaching boys calm down. David gets up. Imagine 0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:39.720 the occasion rights he's getting ready to tell them, and. 0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:42.040 This is how big that the Holy of Holies is 0:29:42.080 --> 0:29:42.520 going to be. 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:44.320 And this is the kind of wood that you need 0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:46.160 to put in the doorway, and this is the kind 0:29:46.200 --> 0:29:48.320 of gold. And he's not just talking about it. He 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:49.080 stored it up. 0:29:49.280 --> 0:29:52.000 I mean, this man spent his whole life building up 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:52.680 for this moment. 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:55.360 And he's giving the plans for the temple where God 0:29:55.440 --> 0:29:57.840 is going to live, where God is going to dwell, 0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:01.200 and God gave him the plan. Watch what he says 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:06.240 before this, just seventeen verses earlier in First Chronicles, chapter 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:10.120 twenty eight, verse two, he started this way. King David 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:13.320 rose to his feet and said, listen to me, my 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:20.800 fellow Israelites, my people, I had it in my heart 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:24.080 to build a house as a place of rest for 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:26.400 the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Now that 0:30:26.440 --> 0:30:30.200 represents God's presence. So he said, I had it in 0:30:30.240 --> 0:30:33.160 my heart to do something I had. I had it 0:30:33.160 --> 0:30:36.240 in my heart to build a place for God's presence. 0:30:37.760 --> 0:30:39.920 Let me just stop and take a quiz. Is that 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:41.440 a good desire or a bad desire? 0:30:42.640 --> 0:30:42.880 Yeah? 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:45.640 I mean, you could argue about, well, Jesus is ultimately 0:30:45.720 --> 0:30:47.960 the temple, but Jesus isn't here yet. 0:30:47.960 --> 0:30:50.320 We got a couple hundred years, so let's build a 0:30:50.320 --> 0:30:51.320 temple right now. 0:30:51.360 --> 0:30:54.160 That temple was eventually destroyed, as all human things are. 0:30:54.280 --> 0:30:56.480 But at this point, David wants to do a good thing. 0:30:57.960 --> 0:31:00.920 I came to speak to somebody. Dream is a good thing. 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:05.560 It's a good thing. What you want is a good thing. 0:31:07.280 --> 0:31:11.880 I had it in my heart to build a house 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:14.200 as a place of rest, for the ark of the 0:31:14.200 --> 0:31:15.960 covenant of the Lord, for the footstool of our God. 0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:21.960 Circle this next part justin and I made plans to 0:31:22.080 --> 0:31:22.560 build it. 0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:31.480 Now pause for a moment. You're gonna hate verse three. 0:31:32.480 --> 0:31:35.040 I made plans to build it. Watch this, and here 0:31:35.080 --> 0:31:35.440 they are. 0:31:36.560 --> 0:31:39.640 No no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, not 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:43.680 that quick, not that quick. See David was sitting around 0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:46.320 years earlier, and he turned to the prophet, who was 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:48.160 Nathan at the time, and said, I want to build 0:31:48.160 --> 0:31:48.720 the Lord a house. 0:31:48.760 --> 0:31:50.240 And Nathan said, all right, go ahead and do it. 0:31:50.240 --> 0:31:52.120 The Lord's with you. Do whatever you have in your mind. 0:31:53.320 --> 0:31:55.600 But then the Lord stopped Nathan, and Nathan turned around 0:31:55.600 --> 0:32:00.360 and the Lord said, not David, somebody else is. 0:32:00.280 --> 0:32:00.800 Going to do it. 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:04.800 What he wants to do is good, but it's not 0:32:04.920 --> 0:32:08.920 in my purpose for him to do it. When you 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:13.320 start making your plans off of a picture that is 0:32:13.360 --> 0:32:15.480 not specific to your purpose. 0:32:16.040 --> 0:32:19.440 Is that why you're so worn out? Is that why 0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:20.280 you're so tired? 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:25.400 Are you building something for a blueprint that does not 0:32:25.560 --> 0:32:28.080 pertain to your purpose? 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:35.120 All right, I'll give you an example. 0:32:35.800 --> 0:32:39.200 Why is my Instagram or my YouTube short speed so 0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:42.920 full of so many people who are so much fitter 0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:43.400 than me. 0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:46.840 I'll tell you why. 0:32:47.200 --> 0:32:50.160 I searched a bunch of videos on YouTube talking about 0:32:50.280 --> 0:32:50.920 how to do. 0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:52.640 The perfect pull up, how to. 0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:56.360 Do the perfect tricep workout, how to do the perfect 0:32:56.440 --> 0:32:59.840 chest workout, And so my YouTube said, oh you want perfect, 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:04.600 we'll give you perfect. Now, everybody in my YouTube short 0:33:04.640 --> 0:33:09.960 Speed looks perfect, and I look the same as I did, 0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:11.120 and now. 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:13.440 I get a picture of perfect. 0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:17.920 But I'm living with me, and now all I'm seeing 0:33:18.040 --> 0:33:21.880 is people who look so much different. Why because they're 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:24.200 on steroids and they're nineteen. 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:28.160 So I'm not supposed to be either of those things. 0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:31.680 I'm not supposed to be nineteen and I'm not supposed 0:33:31.720 --> 0:33:34.480 to be juicing, so I'm not gonna look like you 0:33:34.800 --> 0:33:36.280 if I don't have your juice. 0:33:36.280 --> 0:33:38.000 But I'm looking at a picture. 0:33:40.280 --> 0:33:46.480 Of your temple, and I fail to realize that I 0:33:46.560 --> 0:33:49.800 am a temple that God is building. I am a 0:33:49.880 --> 0:33:51.640 masterpiece that God has. 0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:52.480 In his mind. 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:55.120 I am a poem that God is speaking in the 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:58.240 earth today. I am the one who is supposed to 0:33:58.240 --> 0:34:01.000 be preaching this word to you today. I can't preach 0:34:01.040 --> 0:34:03.840 it like Billy Graham. I can't preach it like Charles 0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:07.520 Hadden Spurgeon. I can preach it like Larry Stevens Fredick Junior. 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:09.600 I can preach it like I'm meant to preach it. 0:34:09.760 --> 0:34:11.640 And you can do it like you're built to do it, 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:13.839 and you can build it like you're built to build it, 0:34:14.000 --> 0:34:16.279 and you can say it like your grace to say it, 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:18.359 and you can move it like you know to move it, 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:20.600 and you can lead it like you know to lead it. 0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:23.640 And you can win it if you use the weapon 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:26.879 God gave you. 0:34:28.520 --> 0:34:29.359 Point number three. 0:34:29.440 --> 0:34:33.520 Say it out loud, but it is the Lord's Say 0:34:33.520 --> 0:34:37.080 it again, but it is the Lords. Many are the 0:34:37.160 --> 0:34:41.319 plans in a person's heart, David's just a person. He's 0:34:41.360 --> 0:34:44.320 a good person, but he's a person. He's an anointed person, 0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:46.799 but he's a person. He's a strong person, but he's 0:34:46.840 --> 0:34:49.840 a person. He's a faithful person, but he's a person. 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:53.759 And he gets it wrong, just like Samuel got it 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:56.600 wrong and he thought God wanted him to do something. 0:34:56.880 --> 0:35:00.479 And now he has the disappointment. Watch this in First 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:04.200 Chronicles twenty eight, verse three, he said, I had it 0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:07.160 in my heart and I made plans. But God said, 0:35:08.520 --> 0:35:12.799 now let's put those two verses together. I made plans 0:35:13.120 --> 0:35:20.480 verse two, but God said, that's where some of y'all 0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:26.800 are today. I made plans verse three, and God butted 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:34.480 in Oh, we love to shout about but God in church, Yes, 0:35:35.719 --> 0:35:39.080 we were dead and dresfastess and sins. But God, you 0:35:39.120 --> 0:35:40.759 don't even have to try. If you just say but 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:43.560 God in church, it is an instant reaction. 0:35:44.200 --> 0:35:48.240 I mean this one. 0:35:48.440 --> 0:35:51.560 I had plans, but God said to me, you are 0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:53.239 not to build a house for my name because you're 0:35:53.239 --> 0:35:58.360 a warrior in the shed blood. And in this moment 0:35:58.360 --> 0:36:02.680 of disappointment, David has a DISI decision. Many are the 0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:07.600 plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's, 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:12.400 can we just minister to our hearts for a moment, 0:36:13.520 --> 0:36:19.160 But it is the Lord's just that, just that will 0:36:19.160 --> 0:36:22.080 get you set free from anxiety. But it is the Lord's. 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:25.920 Come on, say it to the thing that you're stressed about. 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:30.920 But it is the Lord's. Say it over the battle 0:36:30.960 --> 0:36:32.560 that you're fighting in your life right now. 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:33.960 Say but it is the Lord's. 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:38.279 Say it over the plans that you're making right now, 0:36:38.320 --> 0:36:40.239 the plan that you're making for your life, that you're 0:36:40.280 --> 0:36:44.400 asking God to bless, the plan that you're making for 0:36:44.480 --> 0:36:47.440 your life, that you're asking God to bless. That you 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:50.680 just want him to kick in a little funding, as 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:52.880 if God is a venture capitalist and not the sovereign 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:55.719 God of heaven and earth, as if he as if 0:36:55.800 --> 0:36:56.359 God just. 0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:59.680 Wants a percentage back over your life. 0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:02.759 Any parents in the room wave at me, say this, 0:37:03.560 --> 0:37:05.880 Say this over your family, But it is the Lord's. 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:09.279 I'm worried about my family. I'm trying to take care 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:10.880 of my family. I'm doing the best I can for 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:12.960 my family. But you know one thing about this family, 0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:16.120 I'm giving it back because it is the lords. 0:37:17.080 --> 0:37:17.920 He gave it to me. 0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:19.879 He knew I would need the wisdom that I need 0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:22.080 right now, so I might as well ask him for it. 0:37:22.120 --> 0:37:23.920 And he said, if I ask him of wisdom, I 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:25.520 can ask it from God, and he give it to 0:37:25.520 --> 0:37:27.640 all men liberally, and upbraide it not. But he that 0:37:27.920 --> 0:37:29.919 asks must not doubt in his heart. For he that doubt, 0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:31.400 if there's like a wave of the sea tossed and 0:37:31.480 --> 0:37:34.080 driven with the man. When he is an unstable man, 0:37:34.239 --> 0:37:36.239 he is a double minded man, and he will be 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:38.719 unstable in all he does. But when you believe that 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:43.840 wisdom belongs to God, power belongs to God, answers belong 0:37:43.920 --> 0:37:48.640 to God, solutions and strategies belong to God. Peace belongs 0:37:48.640 --> 0:37:51.000 to God. And I just want to ask a question. 0:37:51.320 --> 0:37:54.360 Are you trying to ask God to give you peace 0:37:54.520 --> 0:38:02.160 but you will not give him your plans? It is 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:07.560 the lords. It is the lords. Get in your car 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:11.200 today and when you sit down in it, just make 0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:12.439 a confession over your car. 0:38:12.680 --> 0:38:15.680 It is the lords. And you're like, well, the Lord 0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:16.560 is not picking up the car. 0:38:16.600 --> 0:38:18.200 Note Apparently he didn't get the memo that we have 0:38:18.280 --> 0:38:21.520 joint ownership over this vehicle. That is not the point. 0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:23.600 The point is you wouldn't have it if it weren't 0:38:23.600 --> 0:38:28.920 for him, so get grateful. And it's junkie. But it's 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:32.160 not a bicycle, it is the Lords. And if it's 0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:35.840 a bicycle, it is the Lords. And if it's cheese 0:38:35.880 --> 0:38:38.560 and bread that God put in David's hand, it is 0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:41.359 the Lords. And if it's an assignment that He gave 0:38:41.400 --> 0:38:44.480 you in a season, it is the Lords. It is 0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:49.000 the Lords. David is disappointed. He wanted to build a temple, 0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:52.279 but God said, not you. This is not the job 0:38:52.360 --> 0:38:55.080 for you. It does not align with your background, it 0:38:55.120 --> 0:38:58.080 does not align with your identity, it does not align 0:38:58.160 --> 0:39:01.120 with your timing. I know it is you plan, David, 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:04.000 but you are a person, and not every plan that 0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:07.120 is in a person's heart comes from the Lord. Many 0:39:07.160 --> 0:39:10.640 are the plans, Some come from him, some come from others. 0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:12.560 And I'm tired of you being in. 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:16.560 Needless pain because you are holding so tightly to your plan. 0:39:17.080 --> 0:39:18.240 Your life is blessed. 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:21.400 You don't feel blessed because you're looking at a blueprint 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:22.480 that has nothing to do. 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:23.200 With your life. 0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:27.320 But stop comparing, stop complaining about it. 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:28.400 It is the laws. 0:39:28.880 --> 0:39:32.520 The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Bless it 0:39:32.600 --> 0:39:33.360 be the name. 0:39:33.200 --> 0:39:36.920 Of the Lord. It is the laws. 0:39:38.400 --> 0:39:41.719 But it is the Lord's David said, I wanted to 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:44.719 I had it in my heart too. I bought the 0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:48.520 software to design the temple. I was drawing up plans. 0:39:48.600 --> 0:39:51.359 But God said to me, no, not this, David. I've 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:53.319 done a lot in your life and I'm not done 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:55.160 with you. And there is going to be a temple, 0:39:55.320 --> 0:39:57.040 but you are not the one to build it. And 0:39:57.120 --> 0:40:00.799 David continues to explain to the people on that how 0:40:00.840 --> 0:40:03.680 God spoke to him, how what he thought was not 0:40:03.719 --> 0:40:06.720 what God had in mind, what was in his heart 0:40:06.800 --> 0:40:09.120 was not what God had in his plan. 0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:10.920 For I know the plans I have for you. 0:40:11.120 --> 0:40:13.520 And he rose to his feet and said, I made plans, 0:40:13.560 --> 0:40:15.520 but God said you are not to build it. 0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:16.480 Verse four. 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:22.279 Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me, chose me, 0:40:23.320 --> 0:40:23.799 shows me. 0:40:23.880 --> 0:40:25.240 Now here's what I think is happening. 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:28.719 I think David is dealing with the disappointment that I'm 0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:30.520 not going to get to build this what I want 0:40:30.520 --> 0:40:32.880 to build. I'm not going to get it exactly like 0:40:32.920 --> 0:40:34.640 I want to get it. I'm not going to be 0:40:34.680 --> 0:40:36.720 able to do the thing I thought I was able 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:40.160 to do. And he deals with that disappointment by getting 0:40:40.200 --> 0:40:43.760 a bigger picture of his entire life. Yet the Lord, 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:49.800 the God of Israel, chows me from all my family 0:40:50.640 --> 0:40:53.400 to be the king over Israel. There were seven brothers 0:40:53.440 --> 0:40:56.960 bigger than me, and God chose little old me. 0:40:57.520 --> 0:40:59.400 He chose Judah as leader. 0:40:59.600 --> 0:41:02.600 That it's the tribe that was least expected for the 0:41:02.680 --> 0:41:03.720 king to come from. 0:41:04.000 --> 0:41:06.840 Benjamin was the kingly tribe, not Judah. 0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:09.520 This is not the right tribe, This is not the 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:12.240 right son, this is not the right anything. 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:13.680 But it's still God's plan. 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:17.960 This is not the human anything, but it's still Heaven's strategy. 0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:21.600 He chose me. I was small. He chrove Judah. We 0:41:21.600 --> 0:41:22.839 were the wrong tribe. 0:41:22.960 --> 0:41:25.960 He chose from the tribe of Judah my family out 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:30.160 of four hundred thousand. He picked Jesse's family and from 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:33.799 my father's sons. He was pleased to make me king 0:41:35.239 --> 0:41:41.200 all Israel. And he is my king over all my life. 0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:44.319 And God has given me this opportunity, and God has 0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:47.320 given me this breath, and God has given me this stewardship. 0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:50.479 God has given me this influence. And I wanted to do. 0:41:50.440 --> 0:41:52.560 It, and I really still want to do it, and 0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:57.040 I don't like it, but it is the Lord it's 0:41:57.080 --> 0:42:01.720 not mine, it's the lord. Say it, it's not mine, 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:06.680 it's the lords. Tell your neighbor it's not yours. Come on, 0:42:06.760 --> 0:42:08.839 tell them convincing. You got to say that with some offs. 0:42:08.880 --> 0:42:13.600 Say it's not yours, it's the lords. It's not yours, 0:42:14.560 --> 0:42:15.360 it's the lords. 0:42:16.160 --> 0:42:17.640 Where have we heard this before? 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:20.719 In the valley of Elah, when a shepherd boy showed 0:42:20.800 --> 0:42:23.279 up with the lunch and there was a giant named 0:42:23.320 --> 0:42:26.879 Goliath that he did not plan for, but God did. 0:42:27.640 --> 0:42:31.360 He planned to bring lunch. God plan to bring freedom. 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:34.520 He showed up on the battle lines. Some of the 0:42:34.520 --> 0:42:38.440 best stuff that happens is not in your plan. Start 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:41.359 looking around for God to do purposes that don't fit 0:42:41.480 --> 0:42:44.640 in your plan. And when he got to the battle lines, 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:47.200 can I preach about when he got to the battle lines? 0:42:47.719 --> 0:42:50.839 Can I preach about the first significant moment that made 0:42:50.920 --> 0:42:54.480 David recognize by Saul and that elevated him to the 0:42:54.480 --> 0:42:57.040 position that God had for him. And I'm not saying 0:42:57.040 --> 0:42:59.680 that God wants to make you a king or the president. 0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:01.279 I don't even know if God wants to make you 0:43:01.280 --> 0:43:02.600 the principle of a middle school. 0:43:02.760 --> 0:43:05.440 He may, he may not. But the principle applies. 0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:09.160 David got to the valley of Elah, and one Samuel seventeen, 0:43:09.280 --> 0:43:13.480 verse forty seven says, Thus, all those gathered here, this 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:15.040 is what David said as a young man. 0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:17.560 All those gathered here. 0:43:17.480 --> 0:43:22.239 Will know that it is not by sword, it is 0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:26.080 not by spear. Everything you brought to this fight is 0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:29.360 not what God is going to use. Everything you thought 0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:31.680 it was going to take is not what is going 0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:34.840 to take. It is not by sword. It is not 0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:39.839 by spear that the Lord saves for the battle is 0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:46.160 not mine, but it is the laws. I need to 0:43:46.160 --> 0:43:48.239 find a Pentecostal church I. 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:49.360 Can preach this in tonight. 0:43:50.080 --> 0:43:53.040 I sold up at the Episcopalian Baptist First Church of 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:54.240 the Frozen Chosen. 0:43:54.920 --> 0:43:57.160 But I came to tell somebody. 0:43:57.120 --> 0:44:03.120 This battle, this battle, it's not yours. 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:12.720 Stop stressing, stop stressing, stop freaking out. Tell your neighbor 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:14.000 it's not yours. 0:44:15.640 --> 0:44:21.800 But it is floors. But it is the lows. 0:44:22.800 --> 0:44:26.279 And if it is this battle, it's got biped back 0:44:26.719 --> 0:44:29.120 in this battle. If it is. 0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:35.040 Now, I want to high five my neighbor. It is 0:44:35.080 --> 0:44:39.360 the lords, It is the lords. It is this breath 0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:42.680 in my lungs. So I ought to praise m But 0:44:42.840 --> 0:44:46.800 it is the Lord. Stop trying to do it alone. 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:51.000 It is the lords tack your partner. It is the 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:56.480 Lors call on heaven. It is the lords praying the spirits. 0:44:56.880 --> 0:45:00.560 It is the Lords. It's his house, it's his plan, 0:45:00.960 --> 0:45:09.520 it's his hand. Many are the plans in a person's heart, 0:45:10.800 --> 0:45:14.160 but it is the Lord's. David said, I got to 0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:17.080 thinking about my life and I realized that I didn't 0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:18.800 get this far by planning. 0:45:19.960 --> 0:45:21.880 I didn't get this far on my plans. 0:45:22.440 --> 0:45:24.200 They didn't even plan to have me in the house 0:45:24.239 --> 0:45:25.080 when they came through for. 0:45:25.040 --> 0:45:28.920 The king auditions. I didn't get this far on my plans. 0:45:29.960 --> 0:45:37.640 So I'm gonna hand him the plan right right, the 0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:39.719 word of the Lord, and. 0:45:41.400 --> 0:45:43.200 Him the plan. 0:45:43.440 --> 0:45:45.600 Oh you're going to sleep so good, like you had 0:45:45.640 --> 0:45:48.560 three glasses of warm cookies and cold milk with the 0:45:48.600 --> 0:45:50.360 ice all around the rim of the glass. 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:53.520 Just drink that down like a big sweat. Many are 0:45:53.520 --> 0:45:54.279 the plans. I know. 0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:56.439 I know you got some plans that aren't working out, 0:45:56.560 --> 0:45:58.480 and I know you feel behind, and I know you 0:45:58.520 --> 0:46:00.719 feel frustrated, and I know there's some things that God 0:46:00.760 --> 0:46:02.560 is allowing others to do. Feel an experience that you're 0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:04.319 not getting to feel doo in experience. Many of the 0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:07.200 plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's 0:46:07.239 --> 0:46:09.880 point four and I close. I want to tell you 0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:15.160 about a purpose that prevails. Prevails is just fancy way 0:46:15.200 --> 0:46:19.640 to say wins. So maybe we could say God's will wins. 0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:26.319 Maybe we could say God will win if God is 0:46:26.360 --> 0:46:33.640 for me. You think I'm trying to be Rick Flair. 0:46:33.640 --> 0:46:41.400 I'm calling the Bible who can be against me? But 0:46:41.560 --> 0:46:43.120 it is the Lord's It's too big for me, but 0:46:43.200 --> 0:46:46.600 it is the lords. He said that about Goliath, and 0:46:46.640 --> 0:46:49.000 he said that about the Temple. It is the Lord's 0:46:49.680 --> 0:46:54.239 purpose that prevails. So I got up on my feet 0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:57.000 today to tell you something that David wanted you to 0:46:57.080 --> 0:47:01.640 know that even if you feel like you're in your 0:47:01.719 --> 0:47:06.480 Plan B of your life, let me keep preaching Plan C, 0:47:08.800 --> 0:47:20.920 Plan D, E F G, Plan Element OP. His purpose prevails. 0:47:22.360 --> 0:47:24.600 Even if you thought we'll be in here five years. 0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:28.839 You know what God likes to do for entertainment. God 0:47:28.920 --> 0:47:31.000 likes stand up comedy, so he listens to you make 0:47:31.040 --> 0:47:38.120 your plans. He likes that. That's a good night for 0:47:38.480 --> 0:47:40.640 the Lord. The Lord pop's popcorn and says back in 0:47:40.719 --> 0:47:43.319 last Ah, I like a good comedy. Listen to where 0:47:43.320 --> 0:47:45.759 they think they're going to be in three years. I 0:47:45.800 --> 0:47:47.799 got stuff for them along the way that they don't 0:47:47.800 --> 0:47:52.799 even know about. I want to talk to you about 0:47:52.840 --> 0:47:55.799 purpose that prevails, and I need to give you one 0:47:55.840 --> 0:47:56.320 more detail. 0:47:56.400 --> 0:47:58.040 Can I give you one more detail? 0:47:58.680 --> 0:48:01.799 I know technically you have reached the satiation point where 0:48:01.800 --> 0:48:04.520 you probably have had enough of this word, but I 0:48:04.600 --> 0:48:06.719 will not sleep good if I don't tell you this 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:11.279 last point. The Lord told David, I'm going to use 0:48:11.320 --> 0:48:15.680 one of your sons to build the temple, not you. 0:48:16.920 --> 0:48:18.360 I'm going to use you, but I'm not going to 0:48:18.440 --> 0:48:22.160 do it through you. I'm gonna do it through Solomon 0:48:23.560 --> 0:48:31.600 Solomon verse five, of all my sons, who he had 0:48:32.040 --> 0:48:36.160 many sons, of all my sons, and the Lord has 0:48:36.200 --> 0:48:41.840 given me many. He has chosen my son Solomon to 0:48:41.880 --> 0:48:43.280 sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord 0:48:43.360 --> 0:48:46.239 over Israel. Verse six. He said to me, Solomon, your 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:48.400 son is the one who will build my house and 0:48:48.480 --> 0:48:53.720 my course. For I've chosen him to be my son, 0:48:55.800 --> 0:48:57.359 I'll be his father. And you say, well, of course 0:48:57.400 --> 0:48:59.560 he chose Solomon. Solomon was the wisest man who ever 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:00.160 lived right. 0:49:01.680 --> 0:49:02.160 By the way. 0:49:03.080 --> 0:49:06.000 In our family Bible club right now, we're reading the 0:49:06.040 --> 0:49:11.200 Song of Solomon. Let me tell you, you don't know 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:12.960 awkward unless you've been in a Bible club with your 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:14.879 fourteen year old daughter trying to text about the Song 0:49:14.920 --> 0:49:17.759 of Solomon in a group chat with your wife. It's 0:49:17.840 --> 0:49:27.279 a whole situation. But the Song of Solomon is not 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:32.279 the only book that Solomon wrote. He also wrote a 0:49:32.280 --> 0:49:39.080 book called Proverbs, and one of those proverbs, of all 0:49:39.160 --> 0:49:43.040 the many that he wrote was Proverbs nineteen twenty one, 0:49:44.360 --> 0:49:47.560 and Proverbs nineteen twenty one says, many are the plants 0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:53.520 in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:57.000 that prevails. I wonder when he wrote that, did he 0:49:57.080 --> 0:50:00.279 think back to the moment where his father di Dad 0:50:00.360 --> 0:50:03.759 said I had it in my heart to do it. 0:50:07.040 --> 0:50:10.080 And I wonder was it even more powerful for Solomon 0:50:11.080 --> 0:50:17.640 considering the circumstances of his birth. Solomon was born in 0:50:17.680 --> 0:50:22.600 a very strange circumstance, in a very sorrowful time. You see, 0:50:22.680 --> 0:50:26.640 David's brilliant mind that conceived the temple was a mind 0:50:26.640 --> 0:50:30.920 that was also very tempted. He built the temple, but 0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:33.520 he was tempted a person's heart. 0:50:34.640 --> 0:50:37.720 Let me stop. That's what's going on in you right now. 0:50:37.760 --> 0:50:39.759 You are a temple that God is building, but you 0:50:39.800 --> 0:50:43.879 are tempted, not because there's something wrong with you, but 0:50:43.920 --> 0:50:47.759 because there's something God is going to release through you. 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:52.760 And David, in all of his creativity, could cause himself 0:50:53.160 --> 0:50:56.960 real problems because many are the plans. He had plans 0:50:56.960 --> 0:50:58.759 to do good, he had plans to do bad. Many 0:50:58.760 --> 0:51:01.879 are the plans. Don't look at me like the only 0:51:02.320 --> 0:51:04.640 word you said this week was Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. 0:51:05.600 --> 0:51:11.080 Many are the plants. And David won the springtime, decided 0:51:11.120 --> 0:51:12.920 not to go fight the battle. And he walked around 0:51:12.920 --> 0:51:15.000 his rooftop and he saw a beautiful woman bathing, and 0:51:15.000 --> 0:51:19.200 her name is Bethsheba, and he said, go and get her. 0:51:19.239 --> 0:51:20.400 I want her. 0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:22.879 And the same mind that was able to conceive something 0:51:22.920 --> 0:51:26.440 as beautiful as a temple conceived a sin that he 0:51:26.480 --> 0:51:29.280 committed that was very grievous in the sight. 0:51:29.160 --> 0:51:29.640 Of the Lord. 0:51:30.200 --> 0:51:35.000 In fact, in fact, the Lord never even calls Bathsheba 0:51:35.440 --> 0:51:39.080 David's wife. It calls him the wife of your Riyah, 0:51:39.160 --> 0:51:42.319 the Hittite that was the man that David stole her 0:51:42.360 --> 0:51:46.319 from and the Lord didn't like it. The Lord didn't 0:51:46.360 --> 0:51:50.120 like it one bit. Many are the plants in a 0:51:50.160 --> 0:51:54.560 person's heart. The same mind that built the temple was tempted. 0:51:55.200 --> 0:51:57.239 It's a struggle of flesh and spirit in your life 0:51:57.320 --> 0:52:00.799 right now. You understand that. In this student section, it 0:52:00.920 --> 0:52:03.719 is a struggle in the spirit for your life right now. 0:52:04.320 --> 0:52:07.120 And in one season David was very courageous, and in 0:52:07.120 --> 0:52:10.040 one season he was the kind of coward that slept 0:52:10.040 --> 0:52:12.319 with another man's wife and had that man killed on 0:52:12.360 --> 0:52:16.239 the front lines of battle. And the Lord didn't like it, 0:52:16.400 --> 0:52:18.879 and he sent Nathan, the same prophet who turned around 0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:20.560 and said, hey, you don't get to build the temple. 0:52:20.640 --> 0:52:22.880 Years earlier, he turned around and said, you shouldn't have 0:52:22.920 --> 0:52:26.000 done that, and there's going to be a consequence. In fact, 0:52:26.200 --> 0:52:30.000 the child that was the child that was conceived from. 0:52:29.840 --> 0:52:31.280 That act died. 0:52:32.640 --> 0:52:35.120 And David fasted and wept and prayed and wouldn't eat, 0:52:36.600 --> 0:52:40.640 and that still didn't change the consequence. So now in 0:52:40.680 --> 0:52:46.640 this moment, David is very depressed, disappointed, and guilty. He 0:52:46.719 --> 0:52:49.120 probably wrote Psalm fifty one. He was a man of 0:52:49.160 --> 0:52:52.440 many songs. He was also a man of many sins 0:52:53.840 --> 0:52:57.359 and many sons. Many are the plans in a person's heart, 0:52:58.239 --> 0:53:02.480 but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. And that 0:53:02.600 --> 0:53:05.280 child was given no name because that child never lived. 0:53:06.440 --> 0:53:09.920 And after David wept, he got up and washed his face, 0:53:10.080 --> 0:53:13.440 and they said, have you lost your mind? The child 0:53:13.480 --> 0:53:17.280 died and you're getting up and eating. When the child 0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:21.359 was still alive, you were fasting and praying. And David said, well, 0:53:21.400 --> 0:53:22.960 I thought the Lord was going to heal him, but 0:53:23.000 --> 0:53:24.360 now that he didn't, I have to move on. 0:53:26.239 --> 0:53:29.799 David goes into Bathsheba and he. 0:53:29.760 --> 0:53:32.879 Takes his wife and he comforts her and he makes 0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:37.680 love to her, and they conceive a child, and they 0:53:37.760 --> 0:53:46.759 named him Solomon. Now decades later, David had it in 0:53:46.800 --> 0:53:51.200 his heart to build a temple for the Lord. And 0:53:51.280 --> 0:53:54.120 he has a plan that God gave him for the temple, 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:57.760 and he has a son that God gave him named Solomon, 0:53:58.440 --> 0:54:03.000 after the worst failure of his life. And First Chronicles 0:54:03.000 --> 0:54:07.320 twenty eight, verse eleven says that he made a decision. 0:54:08.560 --> 0:54:15.879 Then David gave his son Solomon the plans. And isn't 0:54:15.880 --> 0:54:21.080 it just like God and just like Grace that the 0:54:21.120 --> 0:54:24.879 son that was born after his worst sin was the 0:54:24.880 --> 0:54:27.640 one that God chose to build the temple that he 0:54:27.680 --> 0:54:30.880 would live in. And I want you to begin to 0:54:30.880 --> 0:54:35.640 clap your hands today because it doesn't matter what mistakes 0:54:35.680 --> 0:54:41.080 you've made, because it doesn't matter how much time you've lost, 0:54:42.880 --> 0:54:45.480 because it doesn't matter how bleak it has looked. It 0:54:45.520 --> 0:54:48.680 doesn't matter what weapon has been formed against you. It 0:54:48.719 --> 0:54:51.600 doesn't matter what the enemy is sowing in your heart 0:54:51.680 --> 0:54:57.520 to try to discourage you. Hand him the plans, Hand 0:54:57.560 --> 0:55:02.160 him the plans. Same son that was born of the 0:55:02.200 --> 0:55:04.759 wife that David never should have even had. 0:55:05.000 --> 0:55:06.480 God said, I will. 0:55:06.280 --> 0:55:10.440 Redeem that too, and I will use the mistake that 0:55:10.520 --> 0:55:11.040 you made. 0:55:11.160 --> 0:55:12.920 I'm preaching to somebody, and I don't know who it 0:55:12.960 --> 0:55:13.359 is yet. 0:55:14.040 --> 0:55:17.080 I will use the thing that you thought I couldn't use. 0:55:17.760 --> 0:55:19.839 I will take the plans that I gave you. 0:55:20.120 --> 0:55:22.359 I will take the purpose that I put in you, 0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:25.240 if you will hand him the plans. 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:27.200 I picture Solomon. 0:55:26.800 --> 0:55:30.440 Years later, sitting down with this pen and writing Proverbs 0:55:30.560 --> 0:55:31.680 nineteen twenty one. 0:55:32.120 --> 0:55:35.280 Many are the plans. 0:55:34.080 --> 0:55:38.320 In a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose 0:55:39.000 --> 0:55:43.120 that prevailed. Solomon new I wasn't even supposed to be here. 0:55:43.560 --> 0:55:47.360 Solomon new I wasn't even supposed to be born. Solomon 0:55:47.440 --> 0:55:51.640 new I wasn't born in the best circumstance. But Romans 0:55:51.640 --> 0:55:52.960 eight twenty eight says. 0:55:52.960 --> 0:55:56.760 All things, all things. 0:55:57.400 --> 0:56:03.879 Mistakes and major successes, all things failures, and they all 0:56:04.000 --> 0:56:10.040 things work together for the good of them that love. 0:56:09.920 --> 0:56:13.360 God and are called according to his purpose. 0:56:13.880 --> 0:56:16.960 So I am preaching to somebody today that is not 0:56:17.200 --> 0:56:20.440 living in your plan, but you're still in his purpose. 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:24.600 I'm preaching to somebody today who didn't even follow his plan. 0:56:25.040 --> 0:56:28.360 But the Lord is so good that if you hand 0:56:28.520 --> 0:56:32.640 him the plan, God said, hand me the plan. If 0:56:32.640 --> 0:56:36.160 you got ten years left, hand me ten years. If 0:56:36.200 --> 0:56:39.319 you don't have many brain cells left, hand me the 0:56:39.360 --> 0:56:42.160 ones you got left. If you got nothing left to 0:56:42.239 --> 0:56:44.920 offer me but a broken heart, lift your hands with 0:56:45.000 --> 0:56:47.960 a broken heart and bless the name of the Lord, 0:56:48.360 --> 0:56:52.040 and hand him the plan. 0:56:56.280 --> 0:57:00.319 Stand to your feet and do just like this, and 0:57:00.440 --> 0:57:08.080 hand him the plan. Hand him the plan. 0:57:10.040 --> 0:57:13.600 Where you thought you'd be by now, you're thinking too 0:57:13.600 --> 0:57:17.200 small what you thought you were supposed to be. You're 0:57:17.200 --> 0:57:21.480 looking at the wrong blueprint. Hand him the plan. You 0:57:22.360 --> 0:57:27.920 are his temple. Hand him the plan. Let him build 0:57:27.960 --> 0:57:30.600 it how he knows to build it. Let him bring 0:57:30.640 --> 0:57:32.800 who he wants to bring, let him remove who he 0:57:32.840 --> 0:57:35.320 wants to remove, Let him do what he wants to do. 0:57:35.520 --> 0:57:38.800 Many are the plants in a person's heart, but it 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:43.920 is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Now. 0:57:43.960 --> 0:57:45.920 If you take your hands and just put them like this, 0:57:46.840 --> 0:57:51.720 just like that, I think what the Lord wants us 0:57:51.720 --> 0:57:53.840 to take away from this message that Holly can cover 0:57:53.920 --> 0:57:58.840 in highlights. Hand him my tight shot, please, is you 0:57:58.880 --> 0:58:03.880 need to be open handed with the plan. Open handed 0:58:03.920 --> 0:58:08.440 with the plan, but keep a firm grip on the purpose. 0:58:11.600 --> 0:58:16.640 Open handed with the plan. But I'm certain about the purpose. 0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:20.960 I know God wants to get glory out of my life. 0:58:21.040 --> 0:58:23.400 I know he wants to get glory out of my life. 0:58:23.560 --> 0:58:26.080 I know God wants to fill this temple with glory. 0:58:26.320 --> 0:58:29.040 I know God wants to work all things together for good. 0:58:30.680 --> 0:58:35.280 So I'm gonna ask you one more thing. Was Bathsheba 0:58:35.400 --> 0:58:40.720 part of the blueprint too? If he works all things together, 0:58:42.320 --> 0:58:44.840 do you really think there's anything about you that would 0:58:44.840 --> 0:58:48.800 stop him from building? Stop letting the enemy cut you 0:58:48.880 --> 0:58:56.040 off at the place of your last mistake, Fast, pray, repent. 0:58:56.080 --> 0:58:57.600 Do better, and move on. 0:58:58.440 --> 0:59:03.720 Because it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. And this 0:59:03.880 --> 0:59:07.520 is a strong word. It is a strong word. It 0:59:07.640 --> 0:59:12.320 is hard to hand him the plan. It's hard to say, Okay, God, 0:59:13.680 --> 0:59:16.800 you know, my kids aren't turning out like I think 0:59:16.840 --> 0:59:19.440 they should. Wait, stop and think about that for a minute. 0:59:19.840 --> 0:59:21.840 My kids aren't turning out how I think they should. 0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:25.800 I can't get them to do what I want them 0:59:25.840 --> 0:59:28.240 to do. You can't even get you to do what 0:59:28.280 --> 0:59:32.400 you want you to do. And him the plan. 0:59:33.160 --> 0:59:36.440 Clap those hands real quick, or I'm gonna keep prophesying. 0:59:39.000 --> 0:59:39.640 Open handed. 0:59:45.800 --> 0:59:49.200 So when you go to lunch today, realize that you 0:59:49.280 --> 0:59:51.640 not only heard four points, but you learned a proverb. 0:59:52.480 --> 0:59:56.400 You learn that many are the plans, and watch this plans. 0:59:56.720 --> 0:59:58.680 If the first one didn't work, God's already got another 0:59:58.720 --> 1:00:06.600 one cooking. Many are the plans in a person's heart. 1:00:06.720 --> 1:00:08.960 That's where the battleground is. That's where the fight is. 1:00:09.800 --> 1:00:14.320 God's looking for a person after his own heart. But 1:00:14.400 --> 1:00:16.560 it is the Lord's open your hands one more time. 1:00:17.800 --> 1:00:21.080 It is the Lord's whatever you need to give him today. 1:00:21.280 --> 1:00:22.800 You know what it is. I don't know what it is. 1:00:22.840 --> 1:00:26.280 I don't live with you. You know what it is. 1:00:27.240 --> 1:00:32.520 Say it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. 1:00:33.200 --> 1:00:35.280 God, I thank you that, in spite of everything that 1:00:35.320 --> 1:00:39.760 I've gone through, all things are working together for the 1:00:39.760 --> 1:00:41.560 good of those who love you and are called according 1:00:41.560 --> 1:00:42.200 to your purpose. 1:00:43.400 --> 1:00:45.919 And now, Lord, we hand you the plan. 1:00:47.800 --> 1:00:50.200 We hand you the plan for what it looks like 1:00:50.320 --> 1:00:52.000 to be us in this season of our life. We 1:00:52.080 --> 1:00:53.920 hand you the plan for the space we think we're 1:00:53.920 --> 1:00:54.880 supposed to occupy. 1:00:55.120 --> 1:01:00.000 We offer ourselves to you. Thank you for joining us. 1:01:00.320 --> 1:01:02.760 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 1:01:02.840 --> 1:01:06.320 this ministry. 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