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I hope you'll 35 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 4: leave Inspire. 36 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 5: Make sure you subscribe to get new messages every week. 37 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 4: We appreciate your support. It helps keep the ministry going. 38 00:01:45,680 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 6: Enjoy the message. 39 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 4: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your 40 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,639 Speaker 4: homes and if you're ever in our area, please stop 41 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 4: by be a part of one of our services. I 42 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 4: promise you we'll make you feel right at home. I 43 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 4: like to start with something funny, and I heard about 44 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 4: this lady. She just got out of choir practice and 45 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 4: she was so fired up. She put a honk if 46 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 4: you love Jesus bumper sticker on her car. At the intersection, 47 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 4: she was digging in her purse and didn't notice that 48 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 4: the light changed. She said, I was so excited to 49 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 4: find out the God behind me loved Jesus. He started honking, 50 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 4: so I rolled my window down, wave real big and 51 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 4: told him I loved Jesus too. She said, I found 52 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 4: out a whole lot of people loved Jesus. Everyone started honking. 53 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 4: One man even screamed Jesus Christ. She said. After we 54 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 4: shared all that love together, I was the only one 55 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 4: that made it through the intersection. Here we go. This 56 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 4: is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 57 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do 58 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be 59 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 60 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 61 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 62 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 4: to talk to you today about be comfortable not knowing. 63 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 4: We all face situations where we don't see how they're 64 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 4: going to work out. We look at the facts, the figures, 65 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 4: the reports, the odds are against us. We do our 66 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 4: best to come up with a plan to find some 67 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 4: kind of solution. We think we have to have the 68 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 4: answer or it's not going to happen. But there are 69 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 4: some things God doesn't want us to know. He has 70 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 4: the solution. But if he showed you right now, it 71 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 4: wouldn't take any faith. If you could see how your 72 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 4: child is going to turn out, the doors God's going 73 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 4: to open for you, the favor, the provision, the heat, 74 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 4: it would be easy to believe. The test comes when 75 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: we don't know the answer, when we don't see how 76 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 4: it's going to happen. Thoughts tell us, how are you 77 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 4: going to make it after you retire? What if you 78 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 4: don't get that scholarship, What if your health doesn't improve. 79 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 4: The problem is sometimes there is no logical solution. The 80 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 4: more we try to reason it out, the more discourage 81 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 4: we get, thinking what am I going to do? But 82 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 4: this is what faith is all about. You have to 83 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 4: be comfortable not knowing. You don't have to figure it out, 84 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 4: you don't have to come up with the plan. It's 85 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 4: okay not to know. When Moses led the two million 86 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 4: Israelites out of slavery into the desert, they were headed 87 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,119 Speaker 4: toward the Promised Land, very excited God had just brought 88 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 4: them out of years of captivity. I can imagine someone 89 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 4: asking Moses, where are we going to camp in the desert? 90 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 4: Moses said, I don't know. Where are we going to 91 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 4: get food? I don't know where is the water supply? 92 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 4: I don't know, Moses, what route are we going to take? 93 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 4: I don't know. They could have thought, Moses, what kind 94 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 4: of leader are you? But just because you don't know 95 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 4: doesn't mean God doesn't have a plan. Moses was comfortable 96 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 4: not knowing. He had such a trust in God. He 97 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 4: didn't have to understand how everything was going to work out. 98 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 4: He didn't have to have all the details. He took 99 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 4: it one step at a time. And sometimes we think 100 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 4: it's a lack of faith to say I don't know. 101 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 4: We think we have to have it all figured out. 102 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,239 Speaker 4: Take the pressure off. You don't have to know. God 103 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,119 Speaker 4: knows He has you in the palm of his hand. 104 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 4: He's directing your steps. The scripture says God has planned 105 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 4: out all of your days. He has a blueprint for 106 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 4: your life. Here's the catch. God doesn't give us the details. 107 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 4: If he showed you all he has in store, you'd 108 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 4: not only be amazed, it would not only excite you, 109 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 4: but when you saw what it would take to get there, 110 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 4: the giants you're going to face, the closed doors, the 111 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 4: times you have to stretch, you might say, that's okay, God, 112 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 4: I'll stay where I am. One reason God doesn't show 113 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 4: us is he knows we would talk ourselves out of it. 114 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 4: When you can't figure out how something is going to 115 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 4: work out, you start worrying, losing sleep. That's a sign 116 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 4: God doesn't want you to know. You have to be 117 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 4: comfortable not knowing. When you say, God, I don't see 118 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 4: how my business is going to make it. I don't 119 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 4: see how my family is going to be restored. I 120 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 4: don't know how I'm going to raise these children. But 121 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 4: I'm not going to live stressed, worried. God. I trust 122 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 4: you when I don't see a way. I trust you. 123 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 4: When I don't have the answer, I realize I don't 124 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 4: have to know because you know, and you control the universe. 125 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 4: That attitude of faith is what allows God to do 126 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 4: amazing things. See. The truth is God had the solution 127 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 4: before you had the problem. He could show you the details. 128 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 4: He could show you how it's going to resolve. If 129 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 4: he's not, then it's a test. He doesn't want you 130 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 4: to know right now. Will you trust him even when 131 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 4: you don't see how it could happen. I'm the type 132 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 4: of person that wants to know. I like to have 133 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 4: a plan. I'm detailed organized. I'm always trying to figure 134 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 4: things out when I don't see a way. I used 135 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 4: to get stressed. I was tempted to live up tight 136 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 4: and on edge. It's very free when you learn this 137 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 4: principle that there are some things we're not supposed to know. 138 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 4: It's okay to say, like Moses, i don't know how 139 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 4: it's going to work out, but I'm at peace. That's 140 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 4: not a lack of faith, it's just the opposite. You're 141 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 4: taking yourself off the throne and putting God back on 142 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 4: the throne. But when we're trying to figure everything out, 143 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 4: come up with our plan. If I can make this 144 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 4: happen and manipulate this situation, convince this person to like me. Really, 145 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 4: we're being God. As long as you're on the throne, 146 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 4: God will step back. But when you say, God, I 147 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 4: don't know how this is going to work out, but 148 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 4: I'm not going to worry. I'm not going to keep 149 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 4: trying to figure it out. God, I trust you. I 150 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 4: know your plans for me are for good. When you're 151 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 4: comfortable not knowing, God will make things happen that you 152 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 4: couldn't make happen. When we acquired this building, the former 153 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 4: Compact Center, it was going to cost one hundred million 154 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 4: dollars to renovate. We had to put in our own 155 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 4: power plant and air conditioning system. And when I looked 156 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 4: at the numbers on paper, there was no way we 157 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 4: could raise those funds in that amount of time. We 158 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 4: ran the projections, analyzed it. Even in the best case scenarios, 159 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 4: we were still millions short. Every day I was tempted 160 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 4: to worry. Every day thought said, what are you going 161 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 4: to do? It's not going to work out. We had 162 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 4: already signed the loan, construction had already started on a 163 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 4: certain date right before we moved in. We had to 164 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 4: make this large lump sum payment. We didn't have it. 165 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 4: There wasn't any sign we would get it. The closer 166 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 4: we came to that date, the more pressureed I felt. 167 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 4: But when I was tempted to be stressed, I would 168 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 4: always come back to this fact. God, I know you 169 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 4: gave us this building. I saw you change council members 170 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 4: mind to vote for us that had been against. I 171 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 4: know it was your favor that opened the door, and 172 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 4: I know you didn't bring us this far to leave 173 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 4: us now. I don't know how it's going to happen, 174 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 4: but I'm okay not knowing how, because I know you 175 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 4: are still on the throne. Two weeks before the big 176 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 4: payment was due, we unexpectedly sold a piece of property. 177 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 4: We were told it would sell for a certain price. 178 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 4: It sold for almost twice that amount. It was the 179 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 4: hand of God stepping in at just the right time, 180 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 4: making a way. Well, we didn't see away. You may 181 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 4: have some things you don't understand, you can't figure out. 182 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 4: You don't see the answer. That's okay, you don't have 183 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 4: to see it. Don't get discouraged. Don't start complaining. God 184 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 4: is working behind the scens He's about to make things 185 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 4: happen that you didn't see coming. It's going to be unusual, 186 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 4: out of the ordinary. You're going to know it's the 187 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 4: goodness of God. Didn't have all the answers. He didn't 188 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 4: know how the Israelites would make it through the desert. 189 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 4: But God gave them manna to eat each morning, something 190 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 4: like bread that formed on the ground. God brought water 191 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 4: out of a rock, unusual, uncommon. God brought the walls 192 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 4: of Jericho down, not by them fighting, but by them 193 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 4: simply marching around them. Supernatural provision, supernatural protection. What am 194 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 4: I saying just because you don't have the answers doesn't 195 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 4: mean God is not going to show up and do 196 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 4: something amazing in your life. Now. My challenge is trust 197 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 4: him when you don't understand. Be comfortable not knowing. The 198 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 4: scripture says lean not to your own understanding. Take this 199 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 4: in the right sense, but sometimes you have to turn 200 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 4: your mind off. Don't try to figure everything out. Yes, 201 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 4: use wisdom, use common sense. But when you start getting 202 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 4: frustrated you can't find a solution, you attempted to live worried. 203 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 4: That's a sign God doesn't want you to know. My 204 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 4: father pastored Lakewood for forty years. He never raised up 205 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 4: a successor like most churches do. He didn't have a 206 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 4: committee go out and find the next pastor. Deep down, 207 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 4: I believe he knew what was going to happen. He 208 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,959 Speaker 4: always wanted his family to take over, but there wasn't 209 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 4: anything formally put in place. When he was in his seventies, 210 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 4: people would ask him who's going to take Lakewood. What's 211 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 4: going to happen when you're gone? My father would always 212 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 4: tell them, I don't know what's going to happen, but 213 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 4: I know this God is not going to let it 214 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 4: go down. He would tell people, it's not my church, 215 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 4: it's God's church. And I'm all for having structure, having 216 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 4: a plan, but God's ways are not our ways. He 217 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 4: doesn't do it the same way every time. Sometimes he 218 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 4: doesn't want you to know. It's a test of your faith. 219 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 4: Will you trust him? Or will you live worried, upset, 220 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 4: wondering if it's ever going to work out. When my 221 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 4: father died, I had only ministered one time the week 222 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 4: before he passed. But when he went to be with 223 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 4: the Lord, I knew I was supposed to step up 224 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 4: and pastor the church. I never had the desire before, 225 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 4: but suddenly God put that desire in me. Had my 226 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 4: father tried to make me the pastor before he died, 227 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 4: I wouldn't have done it. What may be the normal 228 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 4: way may not be the way God does it for you. 229 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 4: God didn't show my father who the next pastor was. 230 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 4: He could have lived, frustrated, tried to make things happen 231 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 4: but my father was comfortable not knowing. He knew God 232 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 4: was in control. He trusted his plan may not be 233 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 4: showing you the future, but that doesn't mean it's not 234 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 4: going to turn out better than you've imagined. I'm sure 235 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 4: my father is looking down from heaven now with a 236 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 4: big smile, saying, look what the Lord has done. It's 237 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 4: more than he ever dreamed. When you're comfortable not knowing, 238 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 4: it saves you so much stress. When you understand, if 239 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 4: you can't figure something out, it's because God doesn't want 240 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 4: you to figure it out. Right now, you can analyze 241 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 4: the situation, reason it out. Worry for six months nothing's 242 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 4: going to change. It's much better to say I don't 243 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 4: have the answer, but I'm okay because God, I know 244 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 4: you have the answer. Paul said in Romans eight twenty six, 245 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 4: we know not what to pray. Here's a man that 246 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 4: wrote almost half of the New Testament, one of the 247 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 4: most brilliant minds of his day. Yet he said we 248 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 4: know not. He was comfortable with what he didn't know. 249 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 4: He didn't see it as a lack of faith to 250 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 4: admit I don't have all the answers. I don't know 251 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 4: what to pray. I have uncertainty things. I don't understand things. 252 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 4: I don't know how they're going to work out. The 253 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 4: reason Paul could say this and not be worried, bitter God, 254 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 4: why isn't it happening? When is it going to work out? 255 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 4: Is found two verses later. He said in verse twenty six, 256 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 4: we know not, But in verse twenty eight he said, 257 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 4: we know all things work together for good to them 258 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 4: that love the Lord. The way you can say we 259 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 4: know not and not be worried is if you know 260 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 4: all things are working for your good. I know not 261 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 4: how this is going to work out, but I do 262 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 4: know who's on the throne. I do know who's directing 263 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 4: our steps. I do know who's planned out our days. 264 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 4: Are you frustrated over what you don't know, by what 265 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 4: you can't figure out? Have a new perspective. Even Paul 266 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 4: said I know not. It's okay to not have the answers. 267 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 4: One time Paul and his friend Silas were in prison. 268 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 4: They had been out sharing the good news, hadn't done 269 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 4: anything wrong, but people stirred up opposition had them arrested. 270 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 4: They were put in the deepest part of the dungeon 271 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 4: with shackles on their feet. They didn't know if they'd 272 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 4: ever get out, if they'd have a fair trial, or 273 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 4: if they'd be put to death like the disciple James. 274 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 4: They had all these questions that they didn't have answers 275 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 4: to things that were out of their control. I'm sure 276 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 4: thoughts told them, it's not going to turn out good. 277 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 4: You've seen your best days. They could have lived worried, bitter, frustrated. 278 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 4: But at midnight, instead of complaining, they were singing praises 279 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 4: and giving thanks to God. Their attitude was, we know 280 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 4: not how this is going to work out, but we 281 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 4: know this God is in control. People can't stop our destiny. 282 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 4: Him being for us is more than the world being 283 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 4: against us. While where they were singing praises in the 284 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 4: middle of the night, suddenly there was a great earthquake. 285 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 4: Prison doors flung open, chains fell off their feet. They 286 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 4: walked out as free men. You may not see how 287 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 4: your situation can work out. The odds are against you. 288 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 4: You come up with the different options. Nothing looks good 289 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 4: to you. You too could live frustrated, worried. No, be 290 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 4: still and know that he is God. You don't have 291 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 4: to be God. You don't have to figure it out 292 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 4: he's on the throne. He has the solution. The reason 293 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 4: we can't see it is because we think natural. But 294 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 4: God is supernatural. He's going to make things happen out 295 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 4: of the ordinary, things that you can't see. It's very 296 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,719 Speaker 4: powerful when you can say I know not where the 297 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 4: finances are coming from, I know not how my child 298 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 4: is going to get on course. I know not what 299 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 4: the future holds, But I do know. God is on 300 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 4: the throne. He's fighting my battles. His plans for me 301 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 4: are for good. What he started in my life he 302 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 4: will finish. You don't have to know how. As long 303 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 4: as you know who is in control, that's when the 304 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 4: creator of the universe will open doors you couldn't open, 305 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 4: break chains that have held you back, bring dreams to 306 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 4: pass that seem impossible when you know not. Do like 307 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 4: Paul and Silas. Don't sit around depressed. Keep thanking God 308 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 4: that he's working, Keep talking like it's on the way, 309 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 4: keep that song of praise in your heart, keep being 310 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 4: good to people, keep doing the right thing. Don't let 311 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 4: what you don't know and what you can't see keep 312 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 4: your faith from being released. But when we face these difficulties, 313 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 4: when we don't see an answer. Many times there's a 314 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 4: voice constantly whispering, what are you gonna do? What are 315 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 4: you gonna do? Trying to pressure us, get us to 316 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 4: live up tight, stressed out. But when you understand that 317 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 4: you don't have to have the answer, that it's not 318 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 4: your job to figure it out. When you're comfortable not knowing, 319 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 4: it takes the pressure off. Someone says to you, I 320 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 4: heard about your problem. What are you going to do? 321 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 4: Our answer should be I don't know, but I know 322 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 4: the one who does. It's okay not to know. You 323 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 4: have to be at peace with what you know, not 324 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 4: if there's something you don't have an answer to in 325 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 4: your health, your finances, your relationships. You'd normally been worried 326 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 4: trying to figure it out, take that same time and 327 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 4: start thanking God that he's working. Thank him that he's 328 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 4: making your crooked places strength, thinking that what's meant for 329 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 4: harm he's turning to your advantage. Thank him that all 330 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 4: things are working for your good. You weren't created to 331 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 4: live up tight, worried, pressured. Sometimes we're bringing this on 332 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 4: ourselves trying to figure something out that God doesn't want 333 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 4: us to figure out. Right now, I met a man 334 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 4: that had been in a legal battle for over ten years. 335 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:32,400 Speaker 4: It involved several different parties. Things were moving so slowly. 336 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 4: If it didn't turn out in his favor, he was 337 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 4: going to lose his freedom. He went through every possible 338 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 4: scenario for years. If he wasn't at the office, he 339 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 4: was at home working on his case with his legal team. 340 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 4: They didn't see how it could resolve in his favor. 341 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 4: After about five years of living stressed, worried, not enjoying 342 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 4: his family having this hanging over his head, he did 343 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,120 Speaker 4: what I'm meant asking us to do. He said, God, 344 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 4: I don't see a solution. I don't see a logical answer. 345 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 4: So I'm going to quit trying to figure it out. 346 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 4: I'm going to stop worrying. God. I'm turning this over 347 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 4: to you. He took himself off the throne and put 348 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 4: God back on the throne. Instead of worrying, he started 349 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 4: thanking God that he was fighting his battles and thanking 350 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 4: him that no weapon formed against him would prosper. About 351 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 4: eight months ago, he received word out of the blue 352 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 4: that the other parties dropped the lawsuit. All the complaints 353 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 4: against him were dismissed. He said, Jeel I never even 354 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 4: fathomed this. It wasn't even one of my options. I 355 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 4: was just praying that God would help me win the trial, 356 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 4: that i'd have favor with the authorities. God's ways are 357 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 4: better than your ways. What God has in mind is 358 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 4: much better than what you have in mind. Now, don't 359 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 4: be discouraged by what you don't know, by what you 360 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 4: can't figure out. You don't know what God is up to. 361 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 4: It's going to surprise you. Like this man, problems suddenly 362 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 4: resolve in your favor. The medical report says no way, 363 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 4: but God makes a way. You don't see how you 364 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 4: could get out of debt, an explosive blessing, a contract, 365 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 4: a promotion, something that thrust you ahead. It's going to 366 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 4: happen out of the ordinary. That's why you can't see 367 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 4: it now, That's why you can't find the answer. God's 368 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 4: going to do it a supernatural way. You're going to 369 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 4: see the exceeding greatness of his favor, something that you 370 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 4: weren't expecting. God told Abraham to leave his country and 371 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 4: go to a land that he would show him. It's 372 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 4: interesting that God didn't tell him where. I can imagine 373 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 4: Abraham told his wife Sarah that they were moving. Sarah said, great, 374 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 4: that's exciting. Where are we going? Abraham said, I don't know. 375 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 4: Well what should I wear? I don't know what's the 376 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 4: weather going to be like? I don't know. Abraham would 377 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 4: have never become the father of our faith if he 378 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 4: had not been comfortable not knowing. When you study the 379 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 4: other heroes of faith, you'll see how many times they 380 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 4: had to say, we know not. David, I know not 381 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 4: how I'm going to defeat this giant. He's twice my size, 382 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 4: but I know the Lord is on my side. Joseph 383 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 4: sitting in a pit, betrayed by his family. I know 384 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 4: not how I'm going to lead a nation like the 385 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 4: dream God gave me. But God, I trust your plan. 386 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 4: The way they stayed in faith is they knew verse 387 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 4: twenty eight, so to speak, that all things were working 388 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 4: for their good. When they didn't have the answers, they 389 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 4: believed that God was still in control. God gave Abraham 390 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 4: the promise that he and his wife Sarah were going 391 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 4: to have a baby when they were way too old. 392 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 4: Years passed with no sign of a child. Every circumstance 393 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 4: said it was impossible, but Abraham understood this principle he said, 394 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 4: in effect, we know not how it can happen. There's 395 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 4: no way in the natural. But God, we trust you. 396 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 4: We believe what you promised will come to pass. Sarah 397 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 4: gave birth at ninety years of age. God did more 398 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,120 Speaker 4: than they dreamed. That little baby. They named him Isaac. 399 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 4: He grew to a young man, and God told Abraham 400 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 4: to take him on top of a mountain and sacrifice him. 401 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 4: They traveled three days finally arrived at the location. Isaac said, Dad, 402 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 4: we have the fire, we have the wood, but where 403 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 4: is the sacrifice. Abraham said, the Lord will provide. It 404 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 4: didn't make sense that God would give Abraham a son, 405 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 4: this child he waited so long for, and then tell 406 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 4: him to take his life. Don't you know Abraham didn't understand, 407 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 4: no doubt, he was confused, he had uncertainty. But his 408 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 4: attitude was God, I don't know what you're doing, but 409 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 4: I trust you. This is a key to faith. Trusting 410 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 4: when you don't understand, Trusting when you don't have the answers, 411 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 4: Trusting when it seems like just the opposite of what 412 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 4: you were hoping for. This is when it's easy to 413 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 4: get negative critical God. Wire, isn't it working out. Not 414 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 4: knowing is a test. What you do when you don't 415 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 4: know when it seems impossible, that determines what God does. 416 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 4: Abraham was about to sacrifice his son when an angel 417 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 4: suddenly stopped him. He looked over and saw a ram 418 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 4: caught in the bush. Rams don't normally go that high 419 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 4: up in the mountain. Abraham sacrificed the ram instead of 420 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 4: his son. He named that place Jehovah Jihrah. That means 421 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 4: the Lord, our provider, God is showing us. When you 422 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 4: pass the test of not knowing, supernatural provision is coming. 423 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 4: You may be where Abraham was. God's promised you something, 424 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 4: but it's been a long time. Seems like it's too late. 425 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 4: You don't see how you could have the baby, or 426 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 4: how you could get well, or see how you could 427 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 4: accomplish the dream. You don't have to see it for 428 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 4: God to do it. You don't have to have all 429 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 4: the answers. What God has spoken over your life is 430 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 4: still on the way, just like that ram was way 431 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 4: up in the mountain. God has provision coming for you, 432 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 4: something that wouldn't normally happen, something out of the ordinary, favor, 433 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:05,160 Speaker 4: promotion behind connections. Because you trusted when you didn't understand 434 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 4: God's going to do things for you that you can't explain. 435 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,719 Speaker 4: Promotion that you didn't work for it, having a baby 436 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 4: when you were told is too late, getting well when 437 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 4: the medical report says you were done, seeing your business 438 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 4: take off, seeing your family restored. What is that the 439 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 4: ram in the thicket? When you obey without the details, 440 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 4: When you stay in faith, when you don't see any 441 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 4: sign of the answer, when you believe, when every thought 442 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 4: tells you there's no way life with Abraham, God will 443 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 4: show out in your life. He'll cause you to defy 444 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 4: the odds, to go places you couldn't go on your own. 445 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 4: Now I'm asking you to be comfortable not knowing. Quit 446 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 4: worrying about those things you can't figure out. God has 447 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 4: you in the palm of his hand. There may be 448 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 4: some things you have to say, I know not, but 449 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 4: don't stop. There go two more verses and say with Paul, 450 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 4: I know all things are working for my good. If 451 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 4: you'll do this, I believe and declare you're about to 452 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 4: see this supernatural provision, supernatural protection, favor, healing, divine connections. 453 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,719 Speaker 4: God is not going to just bring promises to pass. 454 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 4: But like that man I talked about, it's going to 455 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 4: turn out better than you imagined in Jesus' name. If 456 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,199 Speaker 4: you receive it, Can you say amen? 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