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Speaker 4: to you today about pulled strings. It's easy to go
Speaker 4: through life wondering how things are going to work out,
Speaker 4: hoping we make right decisions. Stressed over our finances, concerned
Speaker 4: about a child. But you don't have to worry about
Speaker 4: your future. Your life has been divinely orchestrated. God has
Speaker 4: determined the end from the beginning. He's already laid out
Speaker 4: your plan, drawn up your blueprint. He knows everything that's
Speaker 4: going to happen. And the scripture says God works all
Speaker 4: things according to his will. It's not according to who
Speaker 4: likes you, according to what family you come from, according
Speaker 4: to even how many mistakes you've made. It's according to
Speaker 4: his will. He is working behind the scenes, not only
Speaker 4: directing your steps, but he's directing the steps of the
Speaker 4: people you need. He's just in control of you. He's
Speaker 4: in control of your circumstances. Nothing randomly happens. You're not
Speaker 4: at the mercy of bad breaks. You don't have to
Speaker 4: get upset because a door closed, give up on a
Speaker 4: dream because you went through a loss. God knew about it.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't have allowed it if it wasn't on your blueprint.
Speaker 4: We may not like it, we don't understand it, but
Speaker 4: God knows what he's doing. It's not keeping you from
Speaker 4: your purpose. It's leading you to your purpose. And sometimes
Speaker 4: the reason God closes, a door is because he's about
Speaker 4: to open a bigger door. Where we were was too small.
Speaker 4: We couldn't see it. We were happy. But God loves
Speaker 4: you too much to let you miss your destiny. His
Speaker 4: dream for your life is bigger than your own. That
Speaker 4: friend that left you, if they didn't walk away on
Speaker 4: their own accord, God directed their steps. He moved them
Speaker 4: away because they were limiting your growth. They would have
Speaker 4: kept you from becoming who you were created to be.
Speaker 4: When you know your life is divinely orchestrated, that nothing
Speaker 4: happens without God's permission, then you don't get discouraged when
Speaker 4: things don't go your way. You know God is at work, controlling, manipulating,
Speaker 4: arranging things according to his will. Now this takes faith
Speaker 4: because we can't see the blueprint. We don't know what
Speaker 4: God is up to. His ways are not our ways.
Speaker 4: All we know is the door closed. It wasn't fair.
Speaker 4: It set us back. What we can't see is really
Speaker 4: it's setting us up for something better. Or we were
Speaker 4: going along being our best, honoring God. Out of nowhere,
Speaker 4: a promotion, a good break, a contract that catapults us ahead.
Speaker 4: We didn't see it coming, but God did it was
Speaker 4: on the blueprint. You have no idea what God has
Speaker 4: in your future, the doors he's going to open, the
Speaker 4: people he's going to bring, the places he's going to
Speaker 4: take you. It may seem like you've reached your limits.
Speaker 4: You could never accomplish a dream, never get out of debt,
Speaker 4: never meet the right person. You don't know what God
Speaker 4: is up to. If he showed you the blueprint, if
Speaker 4: you could see into your future, it would amaze you.
Speaker 4: The good news is God is working it out. You
Speaker 4: don't have to do this just in your own strength.
Speaker 4: Try to manipulate people, manipulate circumstances. You have someone manipulating
Speaker 4: things for you. It just so happens. He controls the universe.
Speaker 4: Why are you worry him? Why are you live in stress?
Speaker 4: The most tighed God is directing your sepps, moving the
Speaker 4: wrong people out of the way, lining up the breaks
Speaker 4: you need, turning negative situations around. You don't have to worry.
Speaker 4: It's on the blueprint. Jeremiah said. God's plans for you
Speaker 4: are for good, to bring you to an expected end.
Speaker 4: You are not going to come to a random end.
Speaker 4: God is not up in the heavens thinking I wonder
Speaker 4: what's going to happen in their life. God has already
Speaker 4: established your end. Your steps are being ordered. You are
Speaker 4: at the right place at the right time. Everything is
Speaker 4: on schedule. All the details are coming together. And things
Speaker 4: may have happened that you don't understand. Stay in faith.
Speaker 4: It's on the plans. It may not make sense now,
Speaker 4: but when it comes together, it will make sense. His
Speaker 4: plan is in process. You don't have to be frustrated
Speaker 4: because it's not happening fast enough, get upset because somebody
Speaker 4: did you wrong. The God who breathed life into you
Speaker 4: has not only established your end, but he is working
Speaker 4: all things according to his will. When I was a
Speaker 4: little boy, my father would travel overseas for a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks at a time to minister. When he returned home,
Speaker 4: my siblings and I were always so excited to see him,
Speaker 4: not just because we missed him, but because he always
Speaker 4: brought us a gift, something from that country. One trip,
Speaker 4: he opened his suitcase and he handed me a puppet.
Speaker 4: It was a cowboy made out of wood, had two
Speaker 4: gloves where you could put your fingers. All these strings
Speaker 4: were attached to different parts of the puppet. I could
Speaker 4: move my little finger make the puppet wave. Move another
Speaker 4: finger and cause him to shake his head, move them
Speaker 4: all together, make him run, make him dance, make him
Speaker 4: lie down. This puppet. I would put on puppet shows
Speaker 4: for my little sister. I was behind the curtain, hidden.
Speaker 4: All she could see was the puppet. She would laugh
Speaker 4: when the puppet danced, wave when the puppet waved. She
Speaker 4: was so engrossed in the show she would forget. I
Speaker 4: was pulling the strings. I was the one orchestrating his
Speaker 4: every move in the same way you're not doing life
Speaker 4: on your own. God is behind the scenes, pulling the strings,
Speaker 4: orchestrating your steps. Sometimes we think we got to where
Speaker 4: we are by ourselves, our talent, our strength, our determination.
Speaker 4: We don't realize God has been pulling strings our whole life,
Speaker 4: bringing talent out, giving us ability, causing us to shine.
Speaker 4: When we were tired, he pulled a string and lifted us.
Speaker 4: When we felt like quitting, he pulled a string and
Speaker 4: caused us to try again. When we didn't have the training.
Speaker 4: He pulled us, gave us the position. And when we're
Speaker 4: tempted to take the credit, think we did it on
Speaker 4: our own. It's good to look up and say, Father,
Speaker 4: thank you for pulling strings. I realize you're giving me strength,
Speaker 4: You're making me dance, You're causing me to shine. The
Speaker 4: great thing about God is he doesn't just have a
Speaker 4: string on you. He has a string on all of
Speaker 4: your circumstances. Like in a puppet show, there's a string
Speaker 4: on the curtain, a string on the door, a string
Speaker 4: on the table. The person running the show can control
Speaker 4: everything on the stage. That's the way it is with God.
Speaker 4: He has a string on all your props, a string
Speaker 4: on everything you need. When it's your time to shine,
Speaker 4: God has a string on the curtain. He'll open that
Speaker 4: door and there you are. When he's ready for you
Speaker 4: to be promoted, he has a string on that promotion.
Speaker 4: He'll bring it to you. You're not feeling well, don't worry.
Speaker 4: God has a string on your healing. You've heard that
Speaker 4: phrase no strings attached. With God is just the opposite.
Speaker 4: He has a string on everything on your stage. How
Speaker 4: did you get to where you are? It's very simple.
Speaker 4: God pulled the strings. How did my father rise out
Speaker 4: of poverty, no future to speak of, very little education,
Speaker 4: Yet he was able to leave that limited environment, go
Speaker 4: on to pastor great churches and live an abundant life.
Speaker 4: God pulled the strings. There was no way in the natural.
Speaker 4: All the odds were against him. But the one who
Speaker 4: controls your strings is not limited by the natural. He's supernatural.
Speaker 4: You can't see him. He's behind the scenes, but he's
Speaker 4: working all things according to his will. When God is
Speaker 4: ready to promote you, he doesn't check with your boss.
Speaker 4: He doesn't get approval from your family. He doesn't take
Speaker 4: a vote from your critics. He simply pulls the strings.
Speaker 4: He controls what doors open, He controls what breaks come
Speaker 4: your way. Don't be discouraged by your boss. God has
Speaker 4: a string on your boss. Don't lose sleep over those
Speaker 4: people who are against you. God has a string on
Speaker 4: who's trying to stop you. When it's time, he'll pull
Speaker 4: that string, move them out of the way. You don't
Speaker 4: have to live stressed out because you have opposition and
Speaker 4: things haven't worked out. You're still connected. God has a
Speaker 4: string on you and everything that's affecting you. The Psalmist said,
Speaker 4: God's hand is outstretched towards you. When you're tempted to
Speaker 4: get discouraged. I think it's never going to work out.
Speaker 4: Just imagine God's hand outstretched above you, pulling strings, directing
Speaker 4: your steps, orchestrating your life. He not only has a
Speaker 4: string on you, he has a string on your finances.
Speaker 4: He has a string on your opportunities, on your house,
Speaker 4: on your health, on your family, on your promotion. Get ready,
Speaker 4: God is about to pull some strings. He's about to
Speaker 4: make things happen that you couldn't make happen. You didn't
Speaker 4: see it coming. The opposition was bigger. But God pulled
Speaker 4: a stream and you came out with the victory. The
Speaker 4: medical report didn't look good. God pulled a string. Now
Speaker 4: you're healthy in whome. The school said they had no
Speaker 4: more funds. God pulled a string and you received a scholarship.
Speaker 4: You'd been lonely a long time. God pulled a string,
Speaker 4: brought a divine connection. The string puller is about to
Speaker 4: show out in your life. You're going to look back
Speaker 4: and say, like me, how did I get up here?
Speaker 4: I didn't have the training, the experience. I wasn't next
Speaker 4: in line. God pulled my strings. He brought ability out
Speaker 4: of me that I didn't know I had. You see
Speaker 4: me up here speaking, moving my hands. I know it's
Speaker 4: the stream puller, God working out his purpose. How did
Speaker 4: I meet Victoria. God pulled some streams. When I needed
Speaker 4: a battery for my watch. I could have chosen any
Speaker 4: jewelry store, there are hundreds in Houston, but I just
Speaker 4: so happened to walk into her mother's jewelry store and
Speaker 4: there was Victoria waiting for me with open arms. God
Speaker 4: pulled my string that I had to help God pull
Speaker 4: her stream. What am I saying? Nothing randomly happens. Your
Speaker 4: steps are being ordered. I talked to a lady. Her
Speaker 4: son was in a special program in high school that
Speaker 4: was a part of a very prestigious university. If he
Speaker 4: did well, there was a chance he would receive a scholarship.
Speaker 4: But his father came down with an illness. He was
Speaker 4: so distracted that his grades dropped. He was normally an
Speaker 4: ex student at the top of his class, but now
Speaker 4: he was in danger of failing and having to leave
Speaker 4: the program. His mother knew it was because of the
Speaker 4: situation with his father, so she went to the school
Speaker 4: to explain what was going on. She was very concerned
Speaker 4: about how they would respond. They could have said, we
Speaker 4: have rules if he doesn't make the grades too bad,
Speaker 4: but the man in charge was as kind as can be.
Speaker 4: He said we'll give your son free tutoring to help
Speaker 4: him get back on course. Should have cost thousands of dollars,
Speaker 4: but God pulled a stream caused that man to be
Speaker 4: good to them. The young men's grades came back up.
Speaker 4: He applied for college and was accepted into six universities.
Speaker 4: These were partial scholarships. He had not heard back from
Speaker 4: the school he really wanted to attend, been so long
Speaker 4: they thought that door had closed. But while he was
Speaker 4: making plans to attend another university, the main one emailed
Speaker 4: back and said that they were not only accepting him
Speaker 4: into their engineering school that was his dream, but they
Speaker 4: were giving him a full scholarship. God knows how to
Speaker 4: pull the strings. You may not see how it can happen.
Speaker 4: Don't get discouraged. The string puller is at work. He
Speaker 4: has a string on all the doors you need to
Speaker 4: be opened, a string on all the people that need
Speaker 4: to be good to you. He's working out his purpose.
Speaker 4: Live from a place of peace, a place of rest.
Speaker 4: You don't have to manipulate things. God is manipulating them
Speaker 4: for you. Our job is to trust him. God, you're
Speaker 4: in control of my life. I know you're pulling the strings.
Speaker 4: You're opening doors no man can shut. You're bringing the
Speaker 4: right people, taking me to where I'm supposed to be. Well, Joel,
Speaker 4: I've had a lot of bad breaks, a lot of
Speaker 4: unfair situations. Haven't seen God pulling any strings from me.
Speaker 4: This is what happened with Job. He was doing the
Speaker 4: right thing, honoring God. When the bottom fell out. He
Speaker 4: lost his health, lost his business, lost his family. Everything
Speaker 4: that could go wrong did But life is not always fair,
Speaker 4: and on the way to our destiny there will be
Speaker 4: twist and turns, things we don't understand. God doesn't send
Speaker 4: the trouble, but he allows things. You may get thrown
Speaker 4: into the fiery furnace, but God controls the thermostaff He
Speaker 4: won't let it take your life before your time. He
Speaker 4: has a string on the trouble, a string on the opposition.
Speaker 4: The scripture says Satan had to ask God for permission
Speaker 4: to test Joe. God told him yes, but he could
Speaker 4: only take it so far. This tells me God is
Speaker 4: not just in control of your life. He's in control
Speaker 4: of your enemies. Everything on your stage is on a stream.
Speaker 4: Not just the good things, the promotion, the blessings, the favor,
Speaker 4: but even the sickness the betrayal, the bad breaks. They
Speaker 4: don't have total access in your life. They can't do
Speaker 4: whatever they want. They couldn't even be on your stage
Speaker 4: without permission. In difficult times, you have to remind yourself
Speaker 4: God is still working all things according to his will.
Speaker 4: The enemy didn't come in and somehow get a hold
Speaker 4: of your strings. He didn't wrestle away control. And now
Speaker 4: God is on the sidelines watching what's happening. Know your
Speaker 4: steps are still being ordered. And in the middle of
Speaker 4: this difficulty, Job said, I know my Redeemer lives. He
Speaker 4: could have been complaining. Instead, he was saying, God, I
Speaker 4: know you're still on the throne. I know your hand
Speaker 4: is still outstressed toward me. I don't understand this, but
Speaker 4: I know you're still working all things according to your will.
Speaker 4: It's easy to give God thanks for pulling strings when
Speaker 4: things are going our way. It's easy to have a
Speaker 4: good attitude. But the real test comes in these tough times,
Speaker 4: when it feels like God has forgotten about you. That's
Speaker 4: when you have to dig your heels in and do
Speaker 4: like Job, I know my Redeemer lives. I know this
Speaker 4: didn't come to stay. It came to pass when you
Speaker 4: stay in faith, God will not only pull your strings,
Speaker 4: but he'll pull the strings of that sickness, the strings
Speaker 4: of the opposition. He'll pull back what's hindering you. Nine
Speaker 4: months later, Job came out of that difficulty, not beat
Speaker 4: up and bedraggled. He didn't even come out the same.
Speaker 4: He came out with twice what he had before. When
Speaker 4: it was all over, Job said, I am convinced that
Speaker 4: nothing and no one can stop God's plan. You may
Speaker 4: be in a difficult time, but if Job were here now,
Speaker 4: he would tell you stay in peace. Nothing can stop
Speaker 4: God's plan. He has a string on you, a string
Speaker 4: on the sickness, a string on the opposition. Like with Job,
Speaker 4: You're about to see God pull some strings. That sickness
Speaker 4: is about to turn around. That trouble at work is
Speaker 4: about to resolve in your favor. Those forces that are
Speaker 4: trying to stop you. I can see by faith God
Speaker 4: pulling them back and pulling healing to you, promotion to you,
Speaker 4: favor to you. Get ready for some pulled strings, things
Speaker 4: that you couldn't make happen. It's the outstretched hand of
Speaker 4: God working all things, not according to your circumstances, but
Speaker 4: according to his will. His will is that you be healthy.
Speaker 4: His will is that you break the addiction. His will
Speaker 4: as you be free from the depression, His will as
Speaker 4: you rise higher, come out of debt, accomplish your dreams.
Speaker 4: What can stop our God? Do you think the trouble
Speaker 4: at work is bigger, the sickness is stronger. Those people
Speaker 4: are more powerful. They are palms in the hands of God.
Speaker 4: He has a string on them. That car that almost
Speaker 4: hits you, they swerved at the last moment. You don't
Speaker 4: know how they missed you. God pulled a string. He
Speaker 4: controls the universe. Moses asked God his name. He said,
Speaker 4: my name is I Am. He was saying, I am
Speaker 4: anything you need. I am protection, I am provision, I
Speaker 4: am healing, I am strength, I am favor, I am deliverance.
Speaker 4: Nothing can stand against our God, the most powerful force
Speaker 4: in the universe has a string on you. You are connected
Speaker 4: to the Creator. He's working out his purpose for your life.
Speaker 4: Quit worrying, think it is not going to happen, talking
Speaker 4: about how big the problem is. Start talking about how
Speaker 4: big your God is. When the thoughts say it's never
Speaker 4: going to work out, turn it around. Father. I want
Speaker 4: to thank you that you're about to pull some strings
Speaker 4: in my life. Thank you that you're taking me where
Speaker 4: I could not go on my own, Jode, I don't
Speaker 4: think it's going to happen for me. I've made too
Speaker 4: many mistakes. I've gotten way off course. Do you think
Speaker 4: your mistakes can override God's will, that what you've done
Speaker 4: can cancel your blueprint, that somehow you can disconnect from
Speaker 4: this stream? I say this respectfully. You're not that powerful.
Speaker 4: Just ask Jonah. God told him to go to the
Speaker 4: city of Nineveh and minister. He didn't want to go there.
Speaker 4: He got on a boat going the other direction. A
Speaker 4: huge storm arose. He told the crew it was his fault.
Speaker 4: They threw him overboard. Should have been the end. But
Speaker 4: God had a string on a big fish. So what happened.
Speaker 4: The fish was waiting swallowed Jonah. He spent three days
Speaker 4: in the belly of the fish, the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 4: Third day, the fish came up, spit Jonah on dry ground.
Speaker 4: First thing, God said, Jonah go to Nineveh. Gave him
Speaker 4: another chance. But I love that God not only had
Speaker 4: a string on Jonah, not only wouldn't let him go
Speaker 4: too far, but he had a string on the fish.
Speaker 4: God has a string on everything you need to fulfill
Speaker 4: your purpose. You may run, but you'll never get away
Speaker 4: from the string. It'll always pull you back. God'll have
Speaker 4: somebody or someone to keep you from missing your destiny.
Speaker 4: Years later, Jesus said, as Jonah was in the belly
Speaker 4: of the fish for three days, so I will be
Speaker 4: in the heart of the earth for three days. Jonah
Speaker 4: was a foreshadow of Christ. He didn't stay in the
Speaker 4: fish two days or four days, but on the third
Speaker 4: day he went down right on schedule. He came up
Speaker 4: right on schedule. What am I saying? Even when we
Speaker 4: make mistakes, God is still working all things according to
Speaker 4: his will. Maybe you have loved ones that are off course,
Speaker 4: children that aren't making good decisions. Don't worry. God has
Speaker 4: a string on them. He's not going to let them
Speaker 4: go too far. The scripture says God can turn the
Speaker 4: heart of a king. That means God knows how to
Speaker 4: change people's minds. He knows how to get their attention.
Speaker 4: I talked to a man. He and his wife weren't
Speaker 4: getting along. They had separated. He was living in an
Speaker 4: apartment by himself. Months had gone by and he'd hit
Speaker 4: rock bottom. Didn't think he could go on. He just
Speaker 4: dropped his children off at school. He had a long
Speaker 4: drive to work. Normally he would listen to country music
Speaker 4: on Sirius XM satellite radio, but that reminded him so
Speaker 4: much of what he and his wife did together, maybe
Speaker 4: more depressed. So this day he tuned off the country
Speaker 4: station and was turning up to the channels in the
Speaker 4: one seventies to listen to a ballgame, just take his
Speaker 4: mind off of it. But when his radio came across
Speaker 4: Channel one twenty eight, our channel that plays our messages
Speaker 4: all day long, the radio got stuck. He pushed button
Speaker 4: after button after button, nothing would let it change, turned
Speaker 4: the radio off back on, tried everything. No matter what
Speaker 4: he did, he couldn't get it off of one twenty eight.
Speaker 4: He was so frustrated he thought, who is this guy?
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear some minister he started listening.
Speaker 4: I was talking about how God can restore things, how
Speaker 4: he has us in the palm of his hand, how
Speaker 4: our best days are still in front of us. He
Speaker 4: couldn't turn it off for the next hour. Those words
Speaker 4: of faith breathed new life back into his spirit. At
Speaker 4: the end, he gave his life to Christ was a
Speaker 4: new beginning. He went back home, God began to restore
Speaker 4: his marriage. Today he and his wife are back together.
Speaker 4: But that wasn't a coincidence, wasn't a lucky break. It
Speaker 4: was God pulling streams. God had a string on his radio,
Speaker 4: wouldn't let it change the channel, a string on him
Speaker 4: pulling him back. He said, Joel, I guess God was
Speaker 4: telling me, since you won't go to me, I'm going
Speaker 4: to come to you. Maybe you're hearing this because God
Speaker 4: has a string on you. He's pulling you back. It's
Speaker 4: not a coincidence. He's saying, I have a plan for
Speaker 4: your life. I'm bigger than what you're facing. You've tried
Speaker 4: it on your own. Come to me. I'll help you.
Speaker 4: I'll work it out. All you have to do is
Speaker 4: say God, my life is in your hands. I'm turning
Speaker 4: it over to you. When you trust God with your future,
Speaker 4: he'll take you where you couldn't go on your own.
Speaker 4: Like this, man, God is about to pull some streams.
Speaker 4: Things you've been trying to make happen, a loved oning off. Course,
Speaker 4: they won't listen to you. Don't worry. God has a
Speaker 4: string on them. He's about to pull them back. As
Speaker 4: for you and your house, you will serve the Lord.
Speaker 4: Doors you couldn't open, you tried, you did your best.
Speaker 4: Don't worry. God has a string on those doors, a
Speaker 4: string on your finances. He's about to bring promotion, opportunity,
Speaker 4: increase you didn't see coming. You're going to know. It's
Speaker 4: the outstretched hand of God pulling streams. Quit worrying, Quit
Speaker 4: living stressed. God has a string on everything on your
Speaker 4: stage right now. He is working out his purpose for
Speaker 4: your life. Live from a place of rest, knowing that
Speaker 4: your life has been divinely orchestrated. If you'll do this,
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