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Speaker 2: with something funny, and I heard about this mother.
Speaker 1: One Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: She went to her son's bedroom and said, son, wake up,
Speaker 2: it's time to go to church.
Speaker 1: He said, no, Mom, I'm not going to church today.
Speaker 1: She said why not? He said, I'll give you two
Speaker 1: good reasons.
Speaker 2: Number one, I don't like the people and number two,
Speaker 2: they don't like me. She said, all right, I'll give
Speaker 2: you two better reasons why you should go. Number one,
Speaker 2: you're forty nine years old, and number two, pastor say
Speaker 2: it like you mean it.
Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says, I am.
Speaker 2: I have what it says I have, I can do
Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about travel steadily.
Speaker 2: We all have things that we're waiting on. Waiting for
Speaker 2: a dream to come to pass, waiting for our health
Speaker 2: to improve, waiting to meet the right person.
Speaker 1: When it's taken longer than we thought, we don't see
Speaker 1: anything changing.
Speaker 2: It's easy to get discouraged and think that it's not
Speaker 2: meant to be. But David said in Psalm thirty seven,
Speaker 2: don't be impatient for the Lord to act. Travel steadily
Speaker 2: along his path. He will honor you and give you
Speaker 2: the land. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: What God promised.
Speaker 2: You is still en route. The waiting period is simply
Speaker 2: a test. Are you going to get discouraged and quit believing?
Speaker 2: Or are you going to keep traveling steadily, keep praying,
Speaker 2: keep thanking God, keep being your best at work, keep
Speaker 2: being good to other people. There's power in doing the
Speaker 2: right thing consistently. You're not moved by what's not changing.
Speaker 2: You consistently have a good attitude. You're not up one
Speaker 2: day and down two days. You're consistently in a good mood.
Speaker 2: You don't work hard for a month and then slack
Speaker 2: off the next month. You consistently excellent. Everything may not
Speaker 2: be perfect. You're dealing with challenges, but you're not complaining.
Speaker 2: You're consistently thanking God, consistently declaring his promises, consistently expecting
Speaker 2: his favor.
Speaker 1: That's what it means to travel steadily.
Speaker 2: God never promised things would turn around instantly, had promises
Speaker 2: would come to pass in two weeks, there will be
Speaker 2: a waiting period.
Speaker 1: Don't be impatient.
Speaker 2: God rewards faithful people, people that keep doing the right thing,
Speaker 2: And the only thing that's holding some people back is
Speaker 2: the consistency.
Speaker 1: What would happen.
Speaker 2: If you would consistently get to work on time, consistently
Speaker 2: treat your spouse with respect, consistently exercise, or consistently put
Speaker 2: God first place. When you're consistent, you're not ruled by
Speaker 2: your feelings. Feelings will be up one day and down
Speaker 2: the next. Feelings want to tell people off feelings want
Speaker 2: to eat the whole gallon of ice cream. Feelings want
Speaker 2: to sit around in self pity. Don't let those feelings
Speaker 2: run your life. You have a destiny to fulfill, an assignment.
Speaker 2: For you to accomplish, you have to put your foot
Speaker 2: down and say, feelings, you are not going to control me.
Speaker 2: I'm in control. I'm going to make deceis that honor God.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do the right thing when it's hard.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to work when I don't feel
Speaker 2: like it. I'm going to treat these people with respect
Speaker 2: even though they don't deserve it. If you will keep traveling, steadily,
Speaker 2: being consistent, you're going to see God show out in
Speaker 2: your life. Paul said in First Corinthians, we should always
Speaker 2: be abounding in.
Speaker 1: The work of the Lord.
Speaker 2: What can you say about yourself that's always? Are you
Speaker 2: always worried, always late, always hot tempered?
Speaker 1: Why don't you change those always?
Speaker 2: If you're consistent in the wrong areas, it will keep
Speaker 2: you from your destiny.
Speaker 1: I know people.
Speaker 2: Their circumstances aren't perfect, they have challenges, but they're always joyful,
Speaker 2: always encouraging, always at church, always helping others. They've made
Speaker 2: this choice that they're going to travel steadily.
Speaker 1: God has awesome.
Speaker 2: Things in your future, but the the only way you'll
Speaker 2: see them is if you keep being consistent, not moved
Speaker 2: by what's not happening, not discouraged because it's taking longer,
Speaker 2: not slacking off because you don't see any sign of it.
Speaker 2: When you travel steadily, you're going to come into blessings
Speaker 2: and favor because of your faithfulness. Not because you have
Speaker 2: great talent, great courage, great faith, but because you keep
Speaker 2: doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: Many of you have been doing this.
Speaker 2: You've consistently made decisions that honor God, sacrificing to raise
Speaker 2: those children, putting your own dream on hold. You've stayed
Speaker 2: faithful in that marriage that's difficult. You've been your best
Speaker 2: at that job, going the extra mile. You've done the
Speaker 2: right thing, but you haven't seen what's in your heart.
Speaker 1: Your time is coming.
Speaker 2: God is about to do something unusual, promotion that thrusts
Speaker 2: you to a new level. That problem you've struggled with
Speaker 2: for years is about to suddenly turn around. It's going
Speaker 2: to happen sooner than you think because you stayed faithful, consistent.
Speaker 2: The scripture says God is going to give you the land.
Speaker 2: You're not going to have to make it happen. Blessings
Speaker 2: are going to find you. The right people are going
Speaker 2: to track you down. Healing is going to come knocking
Speaker 2: at your door. Don't be impatient for God to act.
Speaker 2: Those dreams he's placed in your heart are still on
Speaker 2: the schedule. Those promises he's whispered to you in the night,
Speaker 2: they're still in your future. And sometimes the reason it's
Speaker 2: taking so long is what God has for you is
Speaker 2: bigger than you've imagined. He's getting you prepared to carry
Speaker 2: the weight of the blessing, the weight of the influence.
Speaker 2: As you keep traveling steadily, you're getting stronger. Your faith
Speaker 2: is growing, your character is being developed. This is what
Speaker 2: David did. At seventeen years old. He was out in
Speaker 2: the shepherd's fields, taking care of his father's sheep, just
Speaker 2: minding his own business. When he was called in to
Speaker 2: his father's house, the prophet Samuel chose him out of
Speaker 2: his seven other brothers to become the next king of Israel.
Speaker 2: What's interesting is David didn't go to the palace that day.
Speaker 2: He didn't step into leadership. They didn't put a royal
Speaker 2: robe on him. He went back to the Shepherd's Fields.
Speaker 2: When God gives you a promise, there will always be
Speaker 2: a waiting period. What we do while we're waiting will
Speaker 2: determine whether the promise will come.
Speaker 1: To pass if we wait.
Speaker 2: Discouraged, upset, why is this taking so long? We're going
Speaker 2: to get stuck where we are. David was anointed, but
Speaker 2: he wasn't appointed. He had to go through this season
Speaker 2: of proving, a season of testing. Will you do the
Speaker 2: right thing when you're not getting your way? Will you
Speaker 2: keep serving others when you know you have more in you.
Speaker 2: They could have slacked off, taken the easy way out.
Speaker 1: Nobody was watching him in the Shepherd's Fields, but David
Speaker 1: understood this principle.
Speaker 2: To see promises come to pass, you have to keep
Speaker 2: traveling steadily. You have to do the right thing when
Speaker 2: nobody is watching. You have to be your best when
Speaker 2: you're not getting the credit. You have to thank God
Speaker 2: even though doors are not opening. Month after month, David
Speaker 2: kept taking care of those sheep, fighting off wild animals,
Speaker 2: making sure they were fed and protected. His father didn't
Speaker 2: invite him into the house when Samuel first came. David
Speaker 2: didn't get bitter. He didn't have a chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 2: He shook it off and kept traveling forward. His brothers
Speaker 2: made fun of him when he took him their lunch.
Speaker 2: They tried to make him feel small. David didn't take
Speaker 2: the bait. He walked away. After David defeated Goliath, King
Speaker 2: Saul was jealous and tried to kill David. Chased him
Speaker 2: through the desert. Was unfair, but David didn't try to
Speaker 2: get revenge. He could have killed Saul, but he wouldn't
Speaker 2: do it. He wasn't impatient for God to act. He
Speaker 2: knew if he would keep traveling steadily, doing the right thing,
Speaker 2: God would give him the throne. Thirteen years after David
Speaker 2: was anointed, King Saul was killed in a battle and
Speaker 2: David became king. When God puts a promise in your heart,
Speaker 2: no matter who tries to stop you, no matter how
Speaker 2: big the giants are, no matter how unfair it is
Speaker 2: or how long it's been, if you'll just keep traveling
Speaker 2: steadily passing the test, not bitter because people did you wrong,
Speaker 2: not giving up because it's taken a long time, not
Speaker 2: slacking all because things aren't improving, then, like David, God
Speaker 2: is going to give you the land. He's going to
Speaker 2: move the wrong people out of the way. He'll give
Speaker 2: you favor to defeat giants. He'll make ways where you
Speaker 2: don't see away. The key is don't be impatient. It
Speaker 2: may not happen as fast as you would like while
Speaker 2: you're waiting.
Speaker 1: That's a test.
Speaker 2: David had to prove to God that he would be
Speaker 2: faithful taking care of sheep before God would trust him
Speaker 2: to take care of his people. And those times where
Speaker 2: you're doing the right thing but nothing is improving, that's
Speaker 2: a proving season. You have to show God that you're
Speaker 2: not going to get discouraged. You're not going to give
Speaker 2: up on your dream. You're not going to let what
Speaker 2: didn't work out cause you to lose your passion. Like David,
Speaker 2: you may know you're anointed. God has put promises in
Speaker 2: your heart. He's spoken things to you, but you're not
Speaker 2: appointed yet. You're in that season where you're in the
Speaker 2: shepherd's field. Nothing is happening.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 2: You said you would restore health unto me, but I'm
Speaker 2: still struggling with this sickness. You said I would lend
Speaker 2: and not borrow, but I can barely get ahead. You
Speaker 2: said you'd give me for these ashes, but.
Speaker 1: No new doors are opening.
Speaker 2: It's easy to get discouraged, But if you're going to
Speaker 2: go from anointed to appointed, you have to keep thanking
Speaker 2: God when you don't see anything happening, praising when you
Speaker 2: could be complaining, coming to church when you feel like
Speaker 2: staying home, being.
Speaker 1: Good to people that are not being good to you.
Speaker 2: If you'll not be moved by what's not working out,
Speaker 2: but you keep doing the right thing, then you're going
Speaker 2: to go from anointed to appointed. You're going to come
Speaker 2: out of the shepherd's fields into the fullness of what.
Speaker 1: God has in store.
Speaker 2: My father started Lakewood in nineteen fifty nine with ninety people.
Speaker 1: He had traveled.
Speaker 2: Overseas and held meetings with thousands of people, seeing great favor,
Speaker 2: but he knew he was supposed to come back and
Speaker 2: past through these ninety people.
Speaker 1: God put a big dream in his heart.
Speaker 2: He believed one day Lakewood would have thousands and impact
Speaker 2: the world. My father was a great minister, a great leader.
Speaker 2: But what's interesting is Lakewood didn't grow. Year after year
Speaker 2: went by still ninety people. My father could have been discouraged. God,
Speaker 2: you put bigger things in my heart. Why am I
Speaker 2: not seeing increase? Instead, he preached to those ninety people
Speaker 2: like he was preaching to thousands, not just once a
Speaker 2: week Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: He was faithful.
Speaker 2: He wasn't moved by what wasn't changing. He didn't get
Speaker 2: sour because he wasn't seeing increase. He just kept traveling, steadily, consistently,
Speaker 2: doing the right thing. In nineteen seventy three, it.
Speaker 1: Was like God opened up a fawcet.
Speaker 2: People started coming to Lakewood from all over the city.
Speaker 2: It grew to a church of many thousands. But those
Speaker 2: thirteen years my father didn't see any growth. They were
Speaker 2: very important years. They were years of testing, years of
Speaker 2: proving God was seeing what my father was made of.
Speaker 2: What was he going to do when things weren't going
Speaker 2: his way? What kind of attitude would he have when
Speaker 2: he wasn't seeing increase? Would he get discouraged, give up,
Speaker 2: try something else? If you're not faithful in the wilderness,
Speaker 2: how can God trust you to be faithful.
Speaker 1: In the promised land.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're doing the right thing but not seeing any growth.
Speaker 2: You're praying, believing, working hard, but things aren't improving. If
Speaker 2: my father was here, he would tell you don't get
Speaker 2: discouraged by what's not changing. Don't slack off because it
Speaker 2: hasn't happened yet. Keep doing the right thing consistently. God
Speaker 2: has not forgotten about you. What He's promised is still
Speaker 2: in your future. Past the faithfulness test. Prove to him
Speaker 2: that you're not going to quit, You're not going to
Speaker 2: get sour, You're not going to get talked out of it.
Speaker 2: If you'll keep traveling steadily, God will give you you
Speaker 2: the land.
Speaker 1: It's going to be easier than you thought.
Speaker 2: Yes, the waiting can be difficult, but when you come
Speaker 2: into favor, things are going to fall into place. Promotion, healing, increase.
Speaker 2: That will thrust you to a new level. A while back,
Speaker 2: there was this challenge I was dealing with. It had
Speaker 2: to do with our ministry and what we were going
Speaker 2: to do in the future. I couldn't figure out how
Speaker 2: it was going to work out. I studied it and
Speaker 2: made phone calls, got other people's advice, but there was
Speaker 2: still no solution. Every time it came to my mind,
Speaker 2: it kind of bothered me. I thought, what are we
Speaker 2: going to do? I was tempted to live, stressed and worried. Finally,
Speaker 2: I said, God, I'm turning this over to you. I
Speaker 2: can't make this work out my way, but I know
Speaker 2: you already have a solution.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to live uptight.
Speaker 2: I'm going to just keep being my best, honoring you
Speaker 2: every time I was tempted to worry. Father, Thank you
Speaker 2: that my life is in your hand. Thank you that
Speaker 2: you're making my crooked places straight. Sometimes we're frustrated because
Speaker 2: we're trying to control things that only God can control.
Speaker 2: We're trying to figure something out that there is no
Speaker 2: answer to right now.
Speaker 1: That's when we get frustrated, can't sleep at night.
Speaker 2: The good news is God doesn't ask us to figure
Speaker 2: everything out. You have to know what's your job and
Speaker 2: what's God's job. Our job is to believe. Our job
Speaker 2: is to thank God. Our job is to walk in obedience.
Speaker 2: The scripture says God will work out his plan for
Speaker 2: our lives. God's job is to work things out that
Speaker 2: we can't work out.
Speaker 1: You're not on your own.
Speaker 2: The creator of the universe is working out his plan
Speaker 2: for your life. His job is to open doors we
Speaker 2: can't open. His job is to part red seas. His
Speaker 2: job is to heal sick body. His job is to
Speaker 2: make things happen that we can't make happen. Are you
Speaker 2: frustrated because you're trying to do God's job? Take the
Speaker 2: pressure off. You don't have to make everything happen. You
Speaker 2: just have to keep traveling steadily, staying faithful, being good
Speaker 2: to people, keeping God first place. About two months ago,
Speaker 2: I was at the church and a staff member was
Speaker 2: passing by. He said, I meant to tell you that
Speaker 2: thing that we were working on, we figured it out.
Speaker 1: I said, what do you mean.
Speaker 2: He said, I'll show you. I went in and looked
Speaker 2: at it. It was perfect. Couldn't have been any better.
Speaker 2: I thought this was going to be an ongoing challenge
Speaker 2: where it would take all this extra effort and energy
Speaker 2: on my part. But then without me even working on it,
Speaker 2: things fell into place. I never dreamed it would be
Speaker 2: that easy. That's what the scripture says. If you'll keep
Speaker 2: traveling steadily, God.
Speaker 1: Will give you the land.
Speaker 2: That means you don't have to struggle, strive, manipulate things,
Speaker 2: try to force it to work out. It's going to
Speaker 2: be easier than you think. Things are going to fall
Speaker 2: into place. The right doors open, the right people show up,
Speaker 2: the school calls you with the scholarship. The medical report
Speaker 2: suddenly turns around. In the scripture, Joseph was engaged to
Speaker 2: a young lady named Mary. An angel appeared to her
Speaker 2: and said she was going to have a baby without
Speaker 2: knowing a man, and they were to name him Jesus.
Speaker 1: You can imagine how Joseph.
Speaker 2: Must have felt when Mary told him she was pregnant,
Speaker 2: not with his baby, but with the Messiah. I'm sure
Speaker 2: he thought, yeah, right. He was going to quietly call
Speaker 2: off the engagement. But that night an angel appeared to
Speaker 2: him in a dream. He told Joseph that what Mary
Speaker 2: said was true, that he was to go ahead with
Speaker 2: the marriage. Joseph could have backed out. God, I didn't
Speaker 2: sign up for this. I don't want my reputation ruined.
Speaker 2: Find somebody else, But Joseph did what the angel said.
Speaker 2: It was prophesied that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem.
Speaker 2: The Roman emperor decided to take a census. Everyone had
Speaker 2: to go to their hometown. Joseph was from Bethlehem. He
Speaker 2: loaded up Mary on a donkey. She was nine months pregnant.
Speaker 2: They traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Would be one thing
Speaker 2: if this was across town, but this was a ninety
Speaker 2: mile journey. It would take about ten days. I've seen
Speaker 2: what it's like for Victoria to be pregnant, how uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Especially toward the end, her back was hurting, feet swelling.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine telling her, at nine months pregnant, honey,
Speaker 2: to fulfill prophecy, we have to get on a donkey and.
Speaker 1: Go ninety miles.
Speaker 2: I think I would be hearing Welcome to Heaven. Sometimes
Speaker 2: God asked us to do things that are difficult. Could
Speaker 2: have said, not getting on that donkey, it's too bumpy,
Speaker 2: my feed hurt. You can go by yourself. But you
Speaker 2: never read where Mary complained. You never read where Joseph
Speaker 2: was sour. They just kept traveling, steadily, doing what God
Speaker 2: asked them to do, day after day, getting on the donkey,
Speaker 2: dealing with the heat, finding the place to sleep at night.
Speaker 2: God only spoke to them one time this whole trip
Speaker 2: ninety miles.
Speaker 1: God never said anything.
Speaker 2: It would have been much easier if the angel would
Speaker 2: have come back and said, you're doing great. Keep going
Speaker 2: to Bethlehem. You're right on track. It's easy to follow God.
Speaker 2: When you hear him speaking, you have clear direction. Things
Speaker 2: are going your way. But the real test is how
Speaker 2: do you respond when God is silent, you don't hear anything.
Speaker 2: You're doing the right thing, but it's not improving. You're
Speaker 2: being your best, but doors aren't opening. Months have gone by,
Speaker 2: maybe years, and you don't hear anything. Here's the key.
Speaker 2: Keep doing the last thing God told you to do.
Speaker 2: Keep being consistent, keep being faithful. Joseph and Mary finally
Speaker 2: arrived at Bethlahem. I can imagine it was late at night.
Speaker 2: Mary was getting close to having the baby. Joseph walked
Speaker 2: up to the end the hotel. He said, Mary, wait here,
Speaker 2: I'll go arrange a room. The innkeeper said, I'm sorry, sir,
Speaker 2: we're full.
Speaker 1: We'd have no more room.
Speaker 2: Joseph could have thought, God, you said come to Bethlahem,
Speaker 2: You said this was your baby. Why is nothing working out? Instead,
Speaker 2: Joseph went back out told Mary to get back on
Speaker 2: the donkey. They were tired, disappointed, uncomfortable, but they just
Speaker 2: kept traveling steadily.
Speaker 1: God rewards faithful.
Speaker 2: People, people that don't give up, people that don't let
Speaker 2: a disappointment cause them to be sour, people that don't
Speaker 2: let us sat back a loss, a delay to stop
Speaker 2: their destiny. When things happen that we don't understand our
Speaker 2: attitude should be. Father, Thank you that you are working
Speaker 2: out your plan for my life. You are ordering my steps.
Speaker 2: You are opening doors that no man can shut. Thank
Speaker 2: you that you'll get me to where I'm.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Don't let a bad break, a delay, a pandemic, a
Speaker 2: person that did you wrong cause you to quit believing
Speaker 2: for your dreams and quit pursuing what God put in
Speaker 2: your heart.
Speaker 1: You are full of can do power.
Speaker 2: The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives
Speaker 2: in you. You are not weak. You are a warrior.
Speaker 2: Now dig your heels in and be consistent. Not just
Speaker 2: when everything is going your way, not just when there's
Speaker 2: room at the end.
Speaker 1: Business is flourishing.
Speaker 2: But when the door closes, when the contract doesn't go through,
Speaker 2: when the journey is law than you thought. God is
Speaker 2: looking for people that are determined, people that have staminaut.
Speaker 2: You can't be weak and reach your destiny. You can't
Speaker 2: be half hearted and become who you were created to be.
Speaker 2: God will be silent at times you don't hear anything.
Speaker 2: Things are not improving. You're on that donkey, so to speak.
Speaker 2: Doors aren't opening. What are you to do? Keep being faithful,
Speaker 2: keep getting to work on time, keep singing in the choir,
Speaker 2: keep being good to those neighbors, Keep thanking God when
Speaker 2: you feel like complaining. If it was going to happen instantly,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't need any faith. Don't be impatient for God
Speaker 2: to act. Just because the end is full doesn't mean there's.
Speaker 1: Not a place for your baby to be born.
Speaker 2: Just because you've had a setback, somebody walked away, the
Speaker 2: medical report isn't good, doesn't mean that your dream is
Speaker 2: not going to come to pass what God promised. You
Speaker 2: cannot be stopped by people, by circumstances, by bad breaks.
Speaker 2: God wouldn't have allowed the end to be full if
Speaker 2: he didn't have something better. My question is are you
Speaker 2: going to keep traveling steadily? Are you going to keep believing,
Speaker 2: keep praying, keep doing the right thing. Joseph and Mary
Speaker 2: packed up, got back on the donkeys, disappointed, but still
Speaker 2: moving forward, Tired, hungry, back, hurting, but still traveling steadily.
Speaker 2: Joseph looked up and saw this old barn where they
Speaker 2: kept animals. Wasn't a nice hotel, didn't have a bellman
Speaker 2: out front, no room service, just a manger where the
Speaker 2: sheep rest. It wasn't what they had in mind. But
Speaker 2: God doesn't always do things the way we have planned.
Speaker 2: His ways are not our ways. If you don't stay open,
Speaker 2: you'll be frustrated because they wouldn't let you in, upset
Speaker 2: because the door didn't open.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you God knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: When it's time to birth your baby, all the forces
Speaker 2: of darkness cannot keep you out.
Speaker 1: There will be a place for you to.
Speaker 2: Shine, for you to flourish, for you to show this
Speaker 2: world what God put in you. Now, quit worrying about
Speaker 2: who wouldn't let you in, why this didn't work out.
Speaker 2: It wasn't fair. You weren't supposed to be in the end.
Speaker 2: They weren't supposed to have room for you. Your blessing is
Speaker 2: not in the end. It's in the manger. Your increase,
Speaker 2: your favor, your abundance, is not in where you've been.
Speaker 2: It's in where God is taking you. It's not in
Speaker 2: where you were left out. It's in where you're going.
Speaker 2: Now do your part and start moving forward in faith.
Speaker 2: Not bitter over disappointments, not discourage over what didn't work out.
Speaker 2: Not upset because it's taken longer. There were delays and detours.
Speaker 2: God is saying, if you'll keep traveling, steadily, being faithful
Speaker 2: when nobody is noticing, doing the right thing when it's uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: not complaining because you don't see things changing, then you're
Speaker 2: going to give birth to dreams.
Speaker 1: Bigger than you've imagined.
Speaker 2: God's going to do uncommon, unusual, extraordinary things. The night
Speaker 2: Mary gave birth, there were shepherds out in a field.
Speaker 2: An angel appeared to them and said, I have good news.
Speaker 2: The Messiah has been born in Bethlehem. This is how
Speaker 2: you will recognize him. You will find him lying in
Speaker 2: a manger. If the innkeeper had not turned Jesus away,
Speaker 2: he wouldn't have been in the manger. The shepherds wouldn't
Speaker 2: have found him. The inn was supposed to be full.
Speaker 2: The innkeeper was supposed to not let them in. Nothing
Speaker 2: that happens to you is a surprise to God. He's
Speaker 2: ordering your steps. If the door closed, it was supposed
Speaker 2: to close. If the person walked away, they were supposed.
Speaker 1: To walk away.
Speaker 2: Don't get bitter, Keep traveling steadily, keep doing the right thing,
Speaker 2: keep being good to people, keep expecting, keep believing. When
Speaker 2: you get to your manger, so to speak, the shepherds
Speaker 2: are going to find you. The blessings, the healing, the
Speaker 2: promotion will come to you now. My challenge stay consistent,
Speaker 2: don't be ruled by your feelings. Make up your mind.
Speaker 2: You're not going to be moved by what's not changing.
Speaker 2: Not discourage over how long it's taking. You're going to
Speaker 2: keep doing the right thing. Prove to God that you're
Speaker 2: going to be faithful if you'll keep traveling, steadily, honoring God,
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