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Speaker 4: like to start with something funny, and I heard about
Speaker 4: this lady. She just got out of choir practice and
Speaker 4: she was so fired up. She put a honk if
Speaker 4: you love Jesus bumper sticker on her car. At the intersection,
Speaker 4: she was digging in her purse and didn't notice that
Speaker 4: the light changed. She said, I was so excited to
Speaker 4: find out the God behind me loved Jesus. He started honking,
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Speaker 4: told him I loved Jesus too. She said, I found
Speaker 4: out a whole lot of people loved Jesus. Everyone started honking.
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Speaker 4: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 4: to talk to you today about be comfortable not knowing.
Speaker 4: We all face situations where we don't see how they're
Speaker 4: going to work out. We look at the facts, the figures,
Speaker 4: the reports, the odds are against us. We do our
Speaker 4: best to come up with a plan to find some
Speaker 4: kind of solution. We think we have to have the
Speaker 4: answer or it's not going to happen. But there are
Speaker 4: some things God doesn't want us to know. He has
Speaker 4: the solution. But if he showed you right now, it
Speaker 4: wouldn't take any faith. If you could see how your
Speaker 4: child is going to turn out, the doors God's going
Speaker 4: to open for you, the favor, the provision, the heat,
Speaker 4: it would be easy to believe. The test comes when
Speaker 4: we don't know the answer, when we don't see how
Speaker 4: it's going to happen. Thoughts tell us, how are you
Speaker 4: going to make it after you retire? What if you
Speaker 4: don't get that scholarship, What if your health doesn't improve.
Speaker 4: The problem is sometimes there is no logical solution. The
Speaker 4: more we try to reason it out, the more discourage
Speaker 4: we get, thinking what am I going to do? But
Speaker 4: this is what faith is all about. You have to
Speaker 4: be comfortable not knowing. You don't have to figure it out,
Speaker 4: you don't have to come up with the plan. It's
Speaker 4: okay not to know. When Moses led the two million
Speaker 4: Israelites out of slavery into the desert, they were headed
Speaker 4: toward the Promised Land, very excited God had just brought
Speaker 4: them out of years of captivity. I can imagine someone
Speaker 4: asking Moses, where are we going to camp in the desert?
Speaker 4: Moses said, I don't know. Where are we going to
Speaker 4: get food? I don't know where is the water supply?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Moses, what route are we going to take?
Speaker 4: I don't know. They could have thought, Moses, what kind
Speaker 4: of leader are you? But just because you don't know
Speaker 4: doesn't mean God doesn't have a plan. Moses was comfortable
Speaker 4: not knowing. He had such a trust in God. He
Speaker 4: didn't have to understand how everything was going to work out.
Speaker 4: He didn't have to have all the details. He took
Speaker 4: it one step at a time. And sometimes we think
Speaker 4: it's a lack of faith to say I don't know.
Speaker 4: We think we have to have it all figured out.
Speaker 4: Take the pressure off. You don't have to know. God
Speaker 4: knows He has you in the palm of his hand.
Speaker 4: He's directing your steps. The scripture says God has planned
Speaker 4: out all of your days. He has a blueprint for
Speaker 4: your life. Here's the catch. God doesn't give us the details.
Speaker 4: If he showed you all he has in store, you'd
Speaker 4: not only be amazed, it would not only excite you,
Speaker 4: but when you saw what it would take to get there,
Speaker 4: the giants you're going to face, the closed doors, the
Speaker 4: times you have to stretch, you might say, that's okay, God,
Speaker 4: I'll stay where I am. One reason God doesn't show
Speaker 4: us is he knows we would talk ourselves out of it.
Speaker 4: When you can't figure out how something is going to
Speaker 4: work out, you start worrying, losing sleep. That's a sign
Speaker 4: God doesn't want you to know. You have to be
Speaker 4: comfortable not knowing. When you say, God, I don't see
Speaker 4: how my business is going to make it. I don't
Speaker 4: see how my family is going to be restored. I
Speaker 4: don't know how I'm going to raise these children. But
Speaker 4: I'm not going to live stressed, worried. God. I trust
Speaker 4: you when I don't see a way. I trust you.
Speaker 4: When I don't have the answer, I realize I don't
Speaker 4: have to know because you know, and you control the universe.
Speaker 4: That attitude of faith is what allows God to do
Speaker 4: amazing things. See. The truth is God had the solution
Speaker 4: before you had the problem. He could show you the details.
Speaker 4: He could show you how it's going to resolve. If
Speaker 4: he's not, then it's a test. He doesn't want you
Speaker 4: to know right now. Will you trust him even when
Speaker 4: you don't see how it could happen. I'm the type
Speaker 4: of person that wants to know. I like to have
Speaker 4: a plan. I'm detailed organized. I'm always trying to figure
Speaker 4: things out when I don't see a way. I used
Speaker 4: to get stressed. I was tempted to live up tight
Speaker 4: and on edge. It's very free when you learn this
Speaker 4: principle that there are some things we're not supposed to know.
Speaker 4: It's okay to say, like Moses, i don't know how
Speaker 4: it's going to work out, but I'm at peace. That's
Speaker 4: not a lack of faith, it's just the opposite. You're
Speaker 4: taking yourself off the throne and putting God back on
Speaker 4: the throne. But when we're trying to figure everything out,
Speaker 4: come up with our plan. If I can make this
Speaker 4: happen and manipulate this situation, convince this person to like me. Really,
Speaker 4: we're being God. As long as you're on the throne,
Speaker 4: God will step back. But when you say, God, I
Speaker 4: don't know how this is going to work out, but
Speaker 4: I'm not going to worry. I'm not going to keep
Speaker 4: trying to figure it out. God, I trust you. I
Speaker 4: know your plans for me are for good. When you're
Speaker 4: comfortable not knowing, God will make things happen that you
Speaker 4: couldn't make happen. When we acquired this building, the former
Speaker 4: Compact Center, it was going to cost one hundred million
Speaker 4: dollars to renovate. We had to put in our own
Speaker 4: power plant and air conditioning system. And when I looked
Speaker 4: at the numbers on paper, there was no way we
Speaker 4: could raise those funds in that amount of time. We
Speaker 4: ran the projections, analyzed it. Even in the best case scenarios,
Speaker 4: we were still millions short. Every day I was tempted
Speaker 4: to worry. Every day thought said, what are you going
Speaker 4: to do? It's not going to work out. We had
Speaker 4: already signed the loan, construction had already started on a
Speaker 4: certain date right before we moved in. We had to
Speaker 4: make this large lump sum payment. We didn't have it.
Speaker 4: There wasn't any sign we would get it. The closer
Speaker 4: we came to that date, the more pressureed I felt.
Speaker 4: But when I was tempted to be stressed, I would
Speaker 4: always come back to this fact. God, I know you
Speaker 4: gave us this building. I saw you change council members
Speaker 4: mind to vote for us that had been against. I
Speaker 4: know it was your favor that opened the door, and
Speaker 4: I know you didn't bring us this far to leave
Speaker 4: us now. I don't know how it's going to happen,
Speaker 4: but I'm okay not knowing how, because I know you
Speaker 4: are still on the throne. Two weeks before the big
Speaker 4: payment was due, we unexpectedly sold a piece of property.
Speaker 4: We were told it would sell for a certain price.
Speaker 4: It sold for almost twice that amount. It was the
Speaker 4: hand of God stepping in at just the right time,
Speaker 4: making a way. Well, we didn't see away. You may
Speaker 4: have some things you don't understand, you can't figure out.
Speaker 4: You don't see the answer. That's okay, you don't have
Speaker 4: to see it. Don't get discouraged. Don't start complaining. God
Speaker 4: is working behind the scens He's about to make things
Speaker 4: happen that you didn't see coming. It's going to be unusual,
Speaker 4: out of the ordinary. You're going to know it's the
Speaker 4: goodness of God. Didn't have all the answers. He didn't
Speaker 4: know how the Israelites would make it through the desert.
Speaker 4: But God gave them manna to eat each morning, something
Speaker 4: like bread that formed on the ground. God brought water
Speaker 4: out of a rock, unusual, uncommon. God brought the walls
Speaker 4: of Jericho down, not by them fighting, but by them
Speaker 4: simply marching around them. Supernatural provision, supernatural protection. What am
Speaker 4: I saying just because you don't have the answers doesn't
Speaker 4: mean God is not going to show up and do
Speaker 4: something amazing in your life. Now. My challenge is trust
Speaker 4: him when you don't understand. Be comfortable not knowing. The
Speaker 4: scripture says lean not to your own understanding. Take this
Speaker 4: in the right sense, but sometimes you have to turn
Speaker 4: your mind off. Don't try to figure everything out. Yes,
Speaker 4: use wisdom, use common sense. But when you start getting
Speaker 4: frustrated you can't find a solution, you attempted to live worried.
Speaker 4: That's a sign God doesn't want you to know. My
Speaker 4: father pastored Lakewood for forty years. He never raised up
Speaker 4: a successor like most churches do. He didn't have a
Speaker 4: committee go out and find the next pastor. Deep down,
Speaker 4: I believe he knew what was going to happen. He
Speaker 4: always wanted his family to take over, but there wasn't
Speaker 4: anything formally put in place. When he was in his seventies,
Speaker 4: people would ask him who's going to take Lakewood. What's
Speaker 4: going to happen when you're gone? My father would always
Speaker 4: tell them, I don't know what's going to happen, but
Speaker 4: I know this God is not going to let it
Speaker 4: go down. He would tell people, it's not my church,
Speaker 4: it's God's church. And I'm all for having structure, having
Speaker 4: a plan, but God's ways are not our ways. He
Speaker 4: doesn't do it the same way every time. Sometimes he
Speaker 4: doesn't want you to know. It's a test of your faith.
Speaker 4: Will you trust him? Or will you live worried, upset,
Speaker 4: wondering if it's ever going to work out. When my
Speaker 4: father died, I had only ministered one time the week
Speaker 4: before he passed. But when he went to be with
Speaker 4: the Lord, I knew I was supposed to step up
Speaker 4: and pastor the church. I never had the desire before,
Speaker 4: but suddenly God put that desire in me. Had my
Speaker 4: father tried to make me the pastor before he died,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have done it. What may be the normal
Speaker 4: way may not be the way God does it for you.
Speaker 4: God didn't show my father who the next pastor was.
Speaker 4: He could have lived, frustrated, tried to make things happen
Speaker 4: but my father was comfortable not knowing. He knew God
Speaker 4: was in control. He trusted his plan may not be
Speaker 4: showing you the future, but that doesn't mean it's not
Speaker 4: going to turn out better than you've imagined. I'm sure
Speaker 4: my father is looking down from heaven now with a
Speaker 4: big smile, saying, look what the Lord has done. It's
Speaker 4: more than he ever dreamed. When you're comfortable not knowing,
Speaker 4: it saves you so much stress. When you understand, if
Speaker 4: you can't figure something out, it's because God doesn't want
Speaker 4: you to figure it out. Right now, you can analyze
Speaker 4: the situation, reason it out. Worry for six months nothing's
Speaker 4: going to change. It's much better to say I don't
Speaker 4: have the answer, but I'm okay because God, I know
Speaker 4: you have the answer. Paul said in Romans eight twenty six,
Speaker 4: we know not what to pray. Here's a man that
Speaker 4: wrote almost half of the New Testament, one of the
Speaker 4: most brilliant minds of his day. Yet he said we
Speaker 4: know not. He was comfortable with what he didn't know.
Speaker 4: He didn't see it as a lack of faith to
Speaker 4: admit I don't have all the answers. I don't know
Speaker 4: what to pray. I have uncertainty things. I don't understand things.
Speaker 4: I don't know how they're going to work out. The
Speaker 4: reason Paul could say this and not be worried, bitter God,
Speaker 4: why isn't it happening? When is it going to work out?
Speaker 4: Is found two verses later. He said in verse twenty six,
Speaker 4: we know not, But in verse twenty eight he said,
Speaker 4: we know all things work together for good to them
Speaker 4: that love the Lord. The way you can say we
Speaker 4: know not and not be worried is if you know
Speaker 4: all things are working for your good. I know not
Speaker 4: how this is going to work out, but I do
Speaker 4: know who's on the throne. I do know who's directing
Speaker 4: our steps. I do know who's planned out our days.
Speaker 4: Are you frustrated over what you don't know, by what
Speaker 4: you can't figure out? Have a new perspective. Even Paul
Speaker 4: said I know not. It's okay to not have the answers.
Speaker 4: One time Paul and his friend Silas were in prison.
Speaker 4: They had been out sharing the good news, hadn't done
Speaker 4: anything wrong, but people stirred up opposition had them arrested.
Speaker 4: They were put in the deepest part of the dungeon
Speaker 4: with shackles on their feet. They didn't know if they'd
Speaker 4: ever get out, if they'd have a fair trial, or
Speaker 4: if they'd be put to death like the disciple James.
Speaker 4: They had all these questions that they didn't have answers
Speaker 4: to things that were out of their control. I'm sure
Speaker 4: thoughts told them, it's not going to turn out good.
Speaker 4: You've seen your best days. They could have lived worried, bitter, frustrated.
Speaker 4: But at midnight, instead of complaining, they were singing praises
Speaker 4: and giving thanks to God. Their attitude was, we know
Speaker 4: not how this is going to work out, but we
Speaker 4: know this God is in control. People can't stop our destiny.
Speaker 4: Him being for us is more than the world being
Speaker 4: against us. While where they were singing praises in the
Speaker 4: middle of the night, suddenly there was a great earthquake.
Speaker 4: Prison doors flung open, chains fell off their feet. They
Speaker 4: walked out as free men. You may not see how
Speaker 4: your situation can work out. The odds are against you.
Speaker 4: You come up with the different options. Nothing looks good
Speaker 4: to you. You too could live frustrated, worried. No, be
Speaker 4: still and know that he is God. You don't have
Speaker 4: to be God. You don't have to figure it out
Speaker 4: he's on the throne. He has the solution. The reason
Speaker 4: we can't see it is because we think natural. But
Speaker 4: God is supernatural. He's going to make things happen out
Speaker 4: of the ordinary, things that you can't see. It's very
Speaker 4: powerful when you can say I know not where the
Speaker 4: finances are coming from, I know not how my child
Speaker 4: is going to get on course. I know not what
Speaker 4: the future holds, But I do know. God is on
Speaker 4: the throne. He's fighting my battles. His plans for me
Speaker 4: are for good. What he started in my life he
Speaker 4: will finish. You don't have to know how. As long
Speaker 4: as you know who is in control, that's when the
Speaker 4: creator of the universe will open doors you couldn't open,
Speaker 4: break chains that have held you back, bring dreams to
Speaker 4: pass that seem impossible when you know not. Do like
Speaker 4: Paul and Silas. Don't sit around depressed. Keep thanking God
Speaker 4: that he's working, Keep talking like it's on the way,
Speaker 4: keep that song of praise in your heart, keep being
Speaker 4: good to people, keep doing the right thing. Don't let
Speaker 4: what you don't know and what you can't see keep
Speaker 4: your faith from being released. But when we face these difficulties,
Speaker 4: when we don't see an answer. Many times there's a
Speaker 4: voice constantly whispering, what are you gonna do? What are
Speaker 4: you gonna do? Trying to pressure us, get us to
Speaker 4: live up tight, stressed out. But when you understand that
Speaker 4: you don't have to have the answer, that it's not
Speaker 4: your job to figure it out. When you're comfortable not knowing,
Speaker 4: it takes the pressure off. Someone says to you, I
Speaker 4: heard about your problem. What are you going to do?
Speaker 4: Our answer should be I don't know, but I know
Speaker 4: the one who does. It's okay not to know. You
Speaker 4: have to be at peace with what you know, not
Speaker 4: if there's something you don't have an answer to in
Speaker 4: your health, your finances, your relationships. You'd normally been worried
Speaker 4: trying to figure it out, take that same time and
Speaker 4: start thanking God that he's working. Thank him that he's
Speaker 4: making your crooked places strength, thinking that what's meant for
Speaker 4: harm he's turning to your advantage. Thank him that all
Speaker 4: things are working for your good. You weren't created to
Speaker 4: live up tight, worried, pressured. Sometimes we're bringing this on
Speaker 4: ourselves trying to figure something out that God doesn't want
Speaker 4: us to figure out. Right now, I met a man
Speaker 4: that had been in a legal battle for over ten years.
Speaker 4: It involved several different parties. Things were moving so slowly.
Speaker 4: If it didn't turn out in his favor, he was
Speaker 4: going to lose his freedom. He went through every possible
Speaker 4: scenario for years. If he wasn't at the office, he
Speaker 4: was at home working on his case with his legal team.
Speaker 4: They didn't see how it could resolve in his favor.
Speaker 4: After about five years of living stressed, worried, not enjoying
Speaker 4: his family having this hanging over his head, he did
Speaker 4: what I'm meant asking us to do. He said, God,
Speaker 4: I don't see a solution. I don't see a logical answer.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to quit trying to figure it out.
Speaker 4: I'm going to stop worrying. God. I'm turning this over
Speaker 4: to you. He took himself off the throne and put
Speaker 4: God back on the throne. Instead of worrying, he started
Speaker 4: thanking God that he was fighting his battles and thanking
Speaker 4: him that no weapon formed against him would prosper. About
Speaker 4: eight months ago, he received word out of the blue
Speaker 4: that the other parties dropped the lawsuit. All the complaints
Speaker 4: against him were dismissed. He said, Jeel I never even
Speaker 4: fathomed this. It wasn't even one of my options. I
Speaker 4: was just praying that God would help me win the trial,
Speaker 4: that i'd have favor with the authorities. God's ways are
Speaker 4: better than your ways. What God has in mind is
Speaker 4: much better than what you have in mind. Now, don't
Speaker 4: be discouraged by what you don't know, by what you
Speaker 4: can't figure out. You don't know what God is up to.
Speaker 4: It's going to surprise you. Like this man, problems suddenly
Speaker 4: resolve in your favor. The medical report says no way,
Speaker 4: but God makes a way. You don't see how you
Speaker 4: could get out of debt, an explosive blessing, a contract,
Speaker 4: a promotion, something that thrust you ahead. It's going to
Speaker 4: happen out of the ordinary. That's why you can't see
Speaker 4: it now, That's why you can't find the answer. God's
Speaker 4: going to do it a supernatural way. You're going to
Speaker 4: see the exceeding greatness of his favor, something that you
Speaker 4: weren't expecting. God told Abraham to leave his country and
Speaker 4: go to a land that he would show him. It's
Speaker 4: interesting that God didn't tell him where. I can imagine
Speaker 4: Abraham told his wife Sarah that they were moving. Sarah said, great,
Speaker 4: that's exciting. Where are we going? Abraham said, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well what should I wear? I don't know what's the
Speaker 4: weather going to be like? I don't know. Abraham would
Speaker 4: have never become the father of our faith if he
Speaker 4: had not been comfortable not knowing. When you study the
Speaker 4: other heroes of faith, you'll see how many times they
Speaker 4: had to say, we know not. David, I know not
Speaker 4: how I'm going to defeat this giant. He's twice my size,
Speaker 4: but I know the Lord is on my side. Joseph
Speaker 4: sitting in a pit, betrayed by his family. I know
Speaker 4: not how I'm going to lead a nation like the
Speaker 4: dream God gave me. But God, I trust your plan.
Speaker 4: The way they stayed in faith is they knew verse
Speaker 4: twenty eight, so to speak, that all things were working
Speaker 4: for their good. When they didn't have the answers, they
Speaker 4: believed that God was still in control. God gave Abraham
Speaker 4: the promise that he and his wife Sarah were going
Speaker 4: to have a baby when they were way too old.
Speaker 4: Years passed with no sign of a child. Every circumstance
Speaker 4: said it was impossible, but Abraham understood this principle he said,
Speaker 4: in effect, we know not how it can happen. There's
Speaker 4: no way in the natural. But God, we trust you.
Speaker 4: We believe what you promised will come to pass. Sarah
Speaker 4: gave birth at ninety years of age. God did more
Speaker 4: than they dreamed. That little baby. They named him Isaac.
Speaker 4: He grew to a young man, and God told Abraham
Speaker 4: to take him on top of a mountain and sacrifice him.
Speaker 4: They traveled three days finally arrived at the location. Isaac said, Dad,
Speaker 4: we have the fire, we have the wood, but where
Speaker 4: is the sacrifice. Abraham said, the Lord will provide. It
Speaker 4: didn't make sense that God would give Abraham a son,
Speaker 4: this child he waited so long for, and then tell
Speaker 4: him to take his life. Don't you know Abraham didn't understand,
Speaker 4: no doubt, he was confused, he had uncertainty. But his
Speaker 4: attitude was God, I don't know what you're doing, but
Speaker 4: I trust you. This is a key to faith. Trusting
Speaker 4: when you don't understand, Trusting when you don't have the answers,
Speaker 4: Trusting when it seems like just the opposite of what
Speaker 4: you were hoping for. This is when it's easy to
Speaker 4: get negative critical God. Wire, isn't it working out. Not
Speaker 4: knowing is a test. What you do when you don't
Speaker 4: know when it seems impossible, that determines what God does.
Speaker 4: Abraham was about to sacrifice his son when an angel
Speaker 4: suddenly stopped him. He looked over and saw a ram
Speaker 4: caught in the bush. Rams don't normally go that high
Speaker 4: up in the mountain. Abraham sacrificed the ram instead of
Speaker 4: his son. He named that place Jehovah Jihrah. That means
Speaker 4: the Lord, our provider, God is showing us. When you
Speaker 4: pass the test of not knowing, supernatural provision is coming.
Speaker 4: You may be where Abraham was. God's promised you something,
Speaker 4: but it's been a long time. Seems like it's too late.
Speaker 4: You don't see how you could have the baby, or
Speaker 4: how you could get well, or see how you could
Speaker 4: accomplish the dream. You don't have to see it for
Speaker 4: God to do it. You don't have to have all
Speaker 4: the answers. What God has spoken over your life is
Speaker 4: still on the way, just like that ram was way
Speaker 4: up in the mountain. God has provision coming for you,
Speaker 4: something that wouldn't normally happen, something out of the ordinary, favor,
Speaker 4: promotion behind connections. Because you trusted when you didn't understand
Speaker 4: God's going to do things for you that you can't explain.
Speaker 4: Promotion that you didn't work for it, having a baby
Speaker 4: when you were told is too late, getting well when
Speaker 4: the medical report says you were done, seeing your business
Speaker 4: take off, seeing your family restored. What is that the
Speaker 4: ram in the thicket? When you obey without the details,
Speaker 4: When you stay in faith, when you don't see any
Speaker 4: sign of the answer, when you believe, when every thought
Speaker 4: tells you there's no way life with Abraham, God will
Speaker 4: show out in your life. He'll cause you to defy
Speaker 4: the odds, to go places you couldn't go on your own.
Speaker 4: Now I'm asking you to be comfortable not knowing. Quit
Speaker 4: worrying about those things you can't figure out. God has
Speaker 4: you in the palm of his hand. There may be
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