WEBVTT 00:00:09.750 --> 00:00:13.620 I am asked to speak to you especially in how to 00:00:13.620 --> 00:00:16.680 get through difficult situations, how to keep 00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:20.010 your faith and your focus, as God has led me 00:00:20.010 --> 00:00:22.920 personally through very deep waters in my life, 00:00:23.130 --> 00:00:26.580 through severe sickness through opposition. And 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.880 er facing situations, that's not that easy. 00:00:29.940 --> 00:00:32.280 True, God has not promised us that 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.340 everything would be easy. But God has promised us 00:00:35.490 --> 00:00:38.790 that we will come out the other side yard, like 00:00:38.820 --> 00:00:41.670 those Hebrew men, with a fourth man walking 00:00:41.670 --> 00:00:45.060 through the fire with us. But now how to get there, 00:00:45.090 --> 00:00:47.430 it's not it's very easy to preach it, it's not so 00:00:47.430 --> 00:00:50.520 easy to live it. And so I would like to talk to you 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.330 today about your calling, and your destiny, and how 00:00:54.330 --> 00:00:57.150 Satan about it. Because that way, we will 00:00:57.150 --> 00:00:59.850 actually understand in many different ways, 00:00:59.850 --> 00:01:02.070 what's happening to us. And that's the foundation 00:01:02.070 --> 00:01:04.740 of it all. Once we understand what's 00:01:04.740 --> 00:01:08.520 happening to us, then we can actually manage to do 00:01:08.520 --> 00:01:12.450 to do to pray against it, or how to handle it. And 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.510 I like to take you there with me. Now, my name is 00:01:15.510 --> 00:01:18.840 Susie Totten, a voice in the city. And I'm talking 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.480 to you today. First of all, out of Jeremiah 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:25.050 chapter 29. And verse 13. And 11, is a way to say, 00:01:25.230 --> 00:01:27.540 I know that very well. And yet, that's the 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:30.930 foundation that my friends, if we understand 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.650 that the calling of God, and the plants of God in 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:38.460 our life, in the midst of what ever is happening is 00:01:38.460 --> 00:01:42.540 for our good, and that it's actually there for 00:01:42.540 --> 00:01:45.600 the answer of prayer and for a future and a hope. 00:01:46.110 --> 00:01:48.810 Because the first thing Satan would want to bring 00:01:48.810 --> 00:01:52.110 to you is that God's plans for you is not 00:01:52.110 --> 00:01:55.260 good. And God allow these things. And why are you 00:01:55.260 --> 00:01:57.750 going through all of this? And that's the plan 00:01:57.750 --> 00:02:00.600 of the enemy to take your eyes away from a good 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:03.840 God, and the plans of future and hope for you. 00:02:03.990 --> 00:02:05.970 And God said, actually, right there in the 00:02:05.970 --> 00:02:08.940 Scripture, she said four times, I will answer I 00:02:08.940 --> 00:02:11.670 will help you if we seek Him with all our 00:02:11.670 --> 00:02:13.980 hearts. And I believe I'm speaking to people who 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:16.260 seek God with all their hearts. So that's not the 00:02:16.260 --> 00:02:19.920 point. So let's go then on to learn from a man 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:23.220 who taught me more about a position, and how to 00:02:23.220 --> 00:02:26.070 hold on and how to see that through than anybody 00:02:26.100 --> 00:02:28.350 else in the Bible. It's actually Apostle Paul. 00:02:29.580 --> 00:02:32.340 And I want to take you to destiny, because you need 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:37.710 to understand that if you got from God, a calling a 00:02:37.710 --> 00:02:41.310 destiny, or something you need to do for the Lord. 00:02:42.330 --> 00:02:47.790 All hell will oppose it. Why? Because if you 00:02:47.790 --> 00:02:51.930 fulfill that destiny, you will bring such damage to 00:02:51.930 --> 00:02:54.900 the kingdom of Satan, and you will be such a 00:02:54.900 --> 00:02:57.600 testimony for the kingdom of God. And that's 00:02:57.630 --> 00:03:01.050 exactly the good and the future plans God has for 00:03:01.050 --> 00:03:05.400 you. Now let's first of all, look at poor be 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.520 called as a chosen vessel, he was called by 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.160 God, and even in that calling, they were 00:03:11.160 --> 00:03:13.830 suffering. Now here we see that actually in Acts 00:03:13.830 --> 00:03:16.830 chapter nine, and verse 15, but the Lord said to 00:03:16.830 --> 00:03:20.010 him, go for me, and for he is a chosen vessel of 00:03:20.010 --> 00:03:22.800 mine, to bear my name before the Gentiles, 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:25.680 kings and children of Israel. For four, I will 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:27.870 show him how many things he must suffer for my 00:03:27.870 --> 00:03:30.840 namesake. Everything we do, and everything we go 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:33.480 through is for the sake of God. And that is the 00:03:33.480 --> 00:03:35.940 foundation of it all. Now, you know, today, 00:03:35.970 --> 00:03:38.550 even if you go to Israel, and you go to a pottery, 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:41.220 and you ask the potter, show me your chosen 00:03:41.220 --> 00:03:44.760 vessel, he would actually go to the back, bring out 00:03:44.760 --> 00:03:47.880 his choice vessel, and at the bottom actually would 00:03:47.880 --> 00:03:51.030 be his signature. And that is as it were his 00:03:51.030 --> 00:03:54.990 trademark. And God has put his trademark on 00:03:54.990 --> 00:03:58.680 Paul, and God has put his trademark the blood of 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:02.460 Jesus on you, and the call of God on you. I 00:04:02.460 --> 00:04:06.240 mean, so when we see the now we see Paul getting a 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:09.090 destiny, and it's go quickly with me as it 00:04:09.090 --> 00:04:14.790 will actually two Acts chapter 23. And we need 00:04:14.790 --> 00:04:18.180 to understand that our opposition that really 00:04:18.180 --> 00:04:21.300 tried to stop us it's not necessarily the enemy is 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:23.700 not necessarily people. It's not even 00:04:23.700 --> 00:04:28.260 circumstances. It's not even a virus or no virus 00:04:28.500 --> 00:04:31.680 or anything like that. Let's understand what 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:33.690 happens and I'm going to use the language Forgive 00:04:33.690 --> 00:04:37.500 me for for comparing it to a cannon, how Satan is 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:41.010 using different cannons in different situations 00:04:41.010 --> 00:04:44.400 to get us out of the call of God or to get us out 00:04:44.400 --> 00:04:47.130 of that destiny. So Alright, let's quickly go 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:51.990 quickly with me to accept the 23 and verse 12. Now 00:04:51.990 --> 00:04:54.510 we see that God is speaking to Paul. And 00:04:54.510 --> 00:04:55.980 Paul is now going through a very difficult 00:04:55.980 --> 00:04:59.550 situation. And in verse 11, it says, but the 00:04:59.550 --> 00:05:02.040 following Night The Lord stood by him and said, Be 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.850 of good cheer Paul, for as you have testified for 00:05:05.850 --> 00:05:10.080 me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at 00:05:10.110 --> 00:05:14.970 Rome. Wow. So here we see the destiny of God for 00:05:14.970 --> 00:05:18.480 Paul. Rome is the goal. Rome is the destiny. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:20.850 That's where you are going, Paul. And so we 00:05:20.850 --> 00:05:23.910 see this incredible task that God gave him. Now 00:05:23.910 --> 00:05:27.300 imagine, if Paul preached the gospel of Jesus 00:05:27.300 --> 00:05:31.230 Christ in Rome, what a stronghold of the enemy 00:05:31.230 --> 00:05:35.730 and false teaching and false gods would fall 00:05:35.850 --> 00:05:37.950 because of the gospel of Jesus Christ, of course, 00:05:37.950 --> 00:05:40.530 sadness to oppose it. And your calling is as 00:05:40.530 --> 00:05:44.460 important as pause. And where God has put you is 00:05:44.490 --> 00:05:48.390 as important for God trusted you to bring that 00:05:48.390 --> 00:05:51.630 light into those darkness and into that situation, 00:05:51.630 --> 00:05:55.050 and you are facing what Paul is facing. Now the 00:05:55.050 --> 00:05:57.810 first thing let me use the language of a cannon, 00:05:57.810 --> 00:05:59.910 please, if you allow me, although it sounds 00:05:59.910 --> 00:06:03.030 militant, let me use that, please. Just for 00:06:03.030 --> 00:06:05.430 clarification, clarification sake. And 00:06:05.430 --> 00:06:09.180 the first cannon that Satan use and is normally 00:06:09.180 --> 00:06:14.280 so successful, that it gets so many people out 00:06:14.340 --> 00:06:17.940 of the call of God is first of all, your own 00:06:17.940 --> 00:06:23.130 people. And this we see right here, we see. And, 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.590 and, and when it was day, the very next verse, 00:06:25.590 --> 00:06:28.410 verse 12, some of the Jews banded together and 00:06:28.410 --> 00:06:31.020 bound himself under an oath saying that they 00:06:31.020 --> 00:06:33.540 would neither eat nor drink till they had 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:36.480 killed Paul, or people just just a minute here. 00:06:36.630 --> 00:06:42.330 This is this is 40 men, under the Jewish orthodox 00:06:42.420 --> 00:06:47.790 law, who understand the importance of an oath. 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:50.910 And it's not just like you and me saying, oh, 00:06:50.910 --> 00:06:53.460 Lord, we will pray every morning at five o'clock, 00:06:53.460 --> 00:06:55.500 and that lasts for three weeks, and then we 00:06:55.530 --> 00:06:58.230 oversleep. And we forget about it again, or no, 00:06:58.230 --> 00:07:00.240 no, we must understand what it was like for 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:05.250 these people, it is truly he die, or we die, he 00:07:05.250 --> 00:07:06.450 dies, or we commit 00:07:06.510 --> 00:07:09.510 suicide, because they understand that if they 00:07:09.510 --> 00:07:13.800 would break that law, they would bring a curse 00:07:13.860 --> 00:07:16.440 upon them, and their homes and their families. 00:07:16.590 --> 00:07:21.390 So that's the seriousness of this cannon that Satan 00:07:21.420 --> 00:07:24.960 is using to stop the destiny of porn. And many 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:27.210 of you that might watch me even as pastors and 00:07:27.210 --> 00:07:29.340 leaders might be exactly at the spot at the 00:07:29.340 --> 00:07:33.150 moment, you might have a team member or a church 00:07:33.150 --> 00:07:36.330 member, or somebody in your community, or 00:07:36.330 --> 00:07:40.200 somebody in your immediate circle of 00:07:40.200 --> 00:07:43.020 leadership that is opposing you. First of 00:07:43.020 --> 00:07:45.480 all, it's of course, coming to humility, to 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.150 see, could it be that God is trying to tell you 00:07:48.150 --> 00:07:50.820 something. But if you are sure that you have heard 00:07:50.820 --> 00:07:53.280 from God, and you stand in humility of God, and 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:55.890 you stand in worship and impurity before the Lord, 00:07:56.070 --> 00:07:58.200 and none of us are perfect, of course not. 00:07:58.320 --> 00:08:00.630 But if you walk with a light, you have to the 00:08:00.630 --> 00:08:02.640 best of what you know, before the Holy Spirit 00:08:02.640 --> 00:08:06.480 and before God, then I would say, then it's time 00:08:06.510 --> 00:08:09.090 to stand up for your call, and stand up for 00:08:09.090 --> 00:08:13.470 your vision. And so balls first came from his own 00:08:13.500 --> 00:08:16.470 people. That's kind of number one. And I would 00:08:16.470 --> 00:08:19.740 say that this is so successful, that so many 00:08:19.740 --> 00:08:23.250 people get out of the ministry out of the call 00:08:23.250 --> 00:08:26.400 of God, out of that difficulty, because of 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:29.700 the opinion of those close to them. Now, you 00:08:29.700 --> 00:08:31.980 know, you and I could just agree with this, if 00:08:31.980 --> 00:08:33.660 it's somebody from out there, you don't even 00:08:33.660 --> 00:08:36.000 know you think, doesn't matter what they think, 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.250 who cares what they think. But if it is your 00:08:38.250 --> 00:08:40.530 own husband, or your wife, or your family, or 00:08:40.530 --> 00:08:43.320 your brothers and your sisters, wow, that hurts. 00:08:43.650 --> 00:08:45.750 And that's a different story. And for Paul here, 00:08:45.780 --> 00:08:47.940 it was those that he trust and that he 00:08:47.940 --> 00:08:50.430 believed with, and that maybe he even tried 00:08:50.430 --> 00:08:53.820 before, who knows. And that's the first thing we 00:08:53.820 --> 00:08:57.870 see here. And now we see that it's not a small 00:08:57.870 --> 00:09:03.030 matter, and people will die. Now, Paul did not 00:09:03.090 --> 00:09:06.210 die because God revealed the plan, which means 00:09:06.210 --> 00:09:09.690 that 40 men died. It meant that 40 men 00:09:09.690 --> 00:09:12.660 committed suicide, it meant that 40 might have 00:09:12.660 --> 00:09:15.540 been fathers might have been grandfather's we 00:09:15.540 --> 00:09:20.370 don't know. It's 40 lives and families that's 00:09:20.400 --> 00:09:24.570 affected by an oath. And that's how serious this 00:09:24.570 --> 00:09:27.780 cannon is. And that's how serious it also might be 00:09:27.780 --> 00:09:31.680 for you, or for me when things go wrong. And you 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:34.380 really struggle. And there's great difficulty, 00:09:34.410 --> 00:09:37.920 especially in your own immediate circle to you 00:09:37.920 --> 00:09:43.140 to keep focus now. Let's see. And when Paul stood 00:09:43.140 --> 00:09:47.130 that test, and he did not go into compromise, but 00:09:47.130 --> 00:09:50.850 he kept focused, and this is the key. How did you 00:09:50.850 --> 00:09:54.420 keep focus is that people asking me many times, I 00:09:54.420 --> 00:09:57.000 think the main thing is for me to remember what I 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.970 was called for. The main thing is for me to 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.150 Understand what it is the purpose is of God. And I 00:10:03.150 --> 00:10:06.450 hold to that and I pray it and I worship it, even 00:10:06.450 --> 00:10:09.480 if I feel nothing, even if it feels to me heaven 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:12.000 is like brass, I keep going. The next thing we 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:17.040 see here is in Acts chapter 24 and verse 25. 00:10:17.730 --> 00:10:19.800 And we see that now. 00:10:23.220 --> 00:10:26.820 We see polls before Felix and Paul actually could 00:10:26.820 --> 00:10:30.360 have been free. And now now as he reasoned about 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:32.640 righteousness, self control and the judgment 00:10:32.640 --> 00:10:35.910 to come, Felix was afraid and answered go away for 00:10:35.910 --> 00:10:38.400 now, when I have a convenient time, I will 00:10:38.400 --> 00:10:42.180 go for you. Paul is now in prison. Paul is taken 00:10:42.180 --> 00:10:44.760 captive he is. And people, please the 00:10:44.760 --> 00:10:48.000 presence of pause days, those dungeons didn't 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.840 look like the presence today. It is it the sewer 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:55.170 was going through their prison cells. It was it 00:10:55.170 --> 00:10:57.780 was stuffy It was horrible. Some of them if 00:10:57.780 --> 00:10:59.730 you read a search history, you see that 00:10:59.730 --> 00:11:03.600 some of them were chained onto the walls. And, and 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.790 so that is the price Polish taking. And now 00:11:05.790 --> 00:11:08.940 it's in front of Felix, if Paul has just given 00:11:08.940 --> 00:11:12.240 him a little bit of a bribe, a little bit of 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:15.960 money, just a little bit, just, you know, let me 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.240 get out there. I'm called to be at the churches. 00:11:18.390 --> 00:11:20.550 And now I'm sitting in nevermind, glitches, 00:11:20.580 --> 00:11:23.010 glitches give him something. And then, and 00:11:23.010 --> 00:11:25.710 then licious compromise a little bit. It's okay so 00:11:25.710 --> 00:11:27.780 that I can do the call of God because this was the 00:11:27.780 --> 00:11:30.450 man who raised the debt. And who was the one that 00:11:30.450 --> 00:11:32.370 God used to start the churches. Let's not 00:11:32.370 --> 00:11:36.060 forget that. And now he's in prison, but go never 00:11:36.060 --> 00:11:39.000 compromised. And that is the next cannon Satan 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:42.300 will use. He will try for you to compromise your 00:11:42.330 --> 00:11:46.290 goal, your situation for money for need for 00:11:46.290 --> 00:11:51.480 acceptance for revelation for, for making things 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:55.050 work, especially for money. How many ministers 00:11:55.050 --> 00:11:57.570 have I seen in my life who compromise for the 00:11:57.570 --> 00:12:00.750 sake of money, or the sake of acceptance of the 00:12:00.750 --> 00:12:05.520 sake of, of the reputation being seen as 00:12:05.520 --> 00:12:07.860 being good here, listen to what Paul did. He 00:12:07.860 --> 00:12:10.230 continued preaching straight about 00:12:11.010 --> 00:12:13.950 righteousness, self control the judgment to 00:12:13.950 --> 00:12:17.820 come, Paul never change this message. And that is 00:12:17.820 --> 00:12:20.190 what Satan would want to bring to you to change 00:12:20.220 --> 00:12:24.150 your message. I remember one time I was actually 00:12:24.300 --> 00:12:27.270 in a certain nation, and we were doing our big 00:12:27.300 --> 00:12:29.850 outreaches. And while we didn't have the money for 00:12:29.850 --> 00:12:32.610 it, and a very rich businessman came to me 00:12:32.610 --> 00:12:35.700 and he said to me, I like your preaching. He says 00:12:35.700 --> 00:12:37.680 you are just too fiery and speak too much about 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:40.830 the Holy Spirit. And he says if you would change 00:12:40.830 --> 00:12:43.020 that a little bit intemperate down, and not 00:12:43.020 --> 00:12:46.320 speak as much about the Holy Spirit. And he says, 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.810 Then Then I will pay all your evangelistic 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.230 outreaches. And you know what we really needed 00:12:52.230 --> 00:12:55.710 that money desperately. We were absolutely at the 00:12:55.710 --> 00:12:59.100 time of praying for every cent just to do the work 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:02.280 of God. And I stood up and I say thank you so 00:13:02.280 --> 00:13:05.940 much for your kind offer. But the anointing cannot 00:13:05.940 --> 00:13:09.030 be bought with money. Neither can I say that 00:13:09.030 --> 00:13:11.490 can be bought with money. And you know, it turned 00:13:11.490 --> 00:13:14.190 away he was furious. He never gave us another 00:13:14.190 --> 00:13:17.580 cent and God faded. Oh, don't ask me how he did. 00:13:17.790 --> 00:13:19.200 And that's the wonderful thing you need to 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.600 understand that canon number one is your own 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.120 people can number two is compromise canon number 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:27.090 three, if Satan can get you to compromise, he 00:13:27.090 --> 00:13:30.810 will use circumstances. And especially now in 00:13:30.810 --> 00:13:34.050 COVID-19 time and in this difficult pandemic time 00:13:34.260 --> 00:13:36.600 where things are just seeming to drag out in 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:38.700 the beginning everybody was excited. And yeah, 00:13:38.700 --> 00:13:40.950 and we do zoom meetings and we pray and we and 00:13:40.950 --> 00:13:43.920 then suddenly that that that fire, that zeal 00:13:43.920 --> 00:13:46.980 seems to go away and pass the see that their own 00:13:46.980 --> 00:13:49.290 church members is not attending the zoom 00:13:49.290 --> 00:13:51.240 meetings as much and it looked like everything is 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.850 falling apart. Let me have the word from the 00:13:53.850 --> 00:13:56.910 Lord for you. Listen to what happened with Paul 00:13:57.030 --> 00:13:58.800 in Acts chapter 25. 00:14:00.210 --> 00:14:05.190 And again, we see actually, from verse 11, 00:14:05.850 --> 00:14:09.270 for I am an offender or have committed I am not 00:14:09.270 --> 00:14:10.920 an offender I have committed anything 00:14:10.920 --> 00:14:15.090 deserving of this death to do and I do not object 00:14:15.090 --> 00:14:17.340 to dying but if there is nothing in these things 00:14:17.370 --> 00:14:19.530 of which these men accused me No one can 00:14:19.530 --> 00:14:22.560 deliver me to them. I appealed to Caesar why to 00:14:22.560 --> 00:14:26.430 Caesar Paul could have been out of that 00:14:26.430 --> 00:14:29.310 circumstances you must understand now Paul sat 00:14:29.310 --> 00:14:32.760 in that prison for two years. We are worried 00:14:32.760 --> 00:14:35.970 about some months in that we are in lockdown and 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:38.040 and it's extremely difficult than I have the 00:14:38.040 --> 00:14:41.490 greatest sympathy and it's people are at a 00:14:41.490 --> 00:14:45.120 place of even sometimes hopelessness but for sit 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.060 in that dungeon for two years now Don't tell me 00:14:48.180 --> 00:14:51.300 that's the time he actually just wrote those 00:14:51.330 --> 00:14:54.300 those letters. Paul didn't know that his 00:14:54.300 --> 00:14:56.820 letters and that his story was will one day be 00:14:56.820 --> 00:14:59.670 your my teaching ball left through it he only 00:14:59.670 --> 00:15:02.160 know about That day and tomorrow, he has to he 00:15:02.160 --> 00:15:04.710 only know that he's around and he's changed. 00:15:04.710 --> 00:15:06.750 And he's not at the schooling, and it's not 00:15:06.750 --> 00:15:09.510 doing what he should do and circumstances become 00:15:09.660 --> 00:15:13.140 the next cannon Satan is using against you. But 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:16.140 Paul knew that the calling of God was 00:15:16.140 --> 00:15:18.810 Caesar, and that God has not changed his calling. 00:15:18.810 --> 00:15:21.330 And I say to you, that God has not changed his 00:15:21.330 --> 00:15:23.910 calling. And if you can allow circumstances to 00:15:23.910 --> 00:15:25.890 get you out of the corner, how do I stay 00:15:25.890 --> 00:15:28.590 with it to say, go back, read your scriptures, 00:15:28.590 --> 00:15:31.080 read the promises God has given to you start 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:34.320 praying the word, start coming back before God in 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:37.020 fasting and prayer and worship and say, This is 00:15:37.020 --> 00:15:40.080 what you have said, I don't understand. I don't 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.020 see it. It makes no sense to me, but you cannot 00:15:43.020 --> 00:15:45.360 change and you cannot lie. So that's the 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.880 situation we have. Now we go to the next one 00:15:47.880 --> 00:15:51.810 quickly. And we see frustration, Paul was an 00:15:51.810 --> 00:15:55.590 absolute frustration. And then God came and he gave 00:15:55.590 --> 00:15:59.070 him a revelation, frustration will get you 00:15:59.070 --> 00:16:01.260 out of the coal, I remember how one man of 00:16:01.260 --> 00:16:03.270 God said, he said, You know what, he says, I 00:16:03.270 --> 00:16:05.700 didn't mind working for God, but the delaying of 00:16:05.700 --> 00:16:07.740 the fulfillment of the promise. That's what 00:16:07.740 --> 00:16:10.110 really got me on the mission field. And I 00:16:10.110 --> 00:16:12.450 fully understand that. And so let's quickly go 00:16:12.450 --> 00:16:14.700 to God give Paul revelation in Acts, 00:16:14.700 --> 00:16:18.420 chapter 27, verse 10. And we see, 00:16:19.680 --> 00:16:23.970 Paul is now seeing, and he is why the prison 00:16:23.970 --> 00:16:26.550 doors open. And Paul is taken out of prison, and 00:16:26.550 --> 00:16:29.430 now he's on the ship. I'm on my way to Rome, and 00:16:29.430 --> 00:16:32.520 everything looked great and marvelous. And that 00:16:32.880 --> 00:16:35.940 promotion, was actually God giving him a 00:16:35.940 --> 00:16:39.330 revelation that that ship is going to sink. Whoa, 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.780 what promotion is that? Is that really holding 00:16:42.780 --> 00:16:45.630 on? Is it really worth it. And now he sees that, 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.260 and he comes. And Paul says in verse 10, that 00:16:49.260 --> 00:16:52.740 that ship is out for disaster. So from the 00:16:52.740 --> 00:16:55.800 prison, and all that difficulty onto a ship 00:16:55.800 --> 00:16:59.610 that is set for disaster by noon, that the promise 00:16:59.640 --> 00:17:02.460 of God cannot fail. And I want to encourage you 00:17:02.460 --> 00:17:05.670 today that no matter what cannon, Satan is throwing 00:17:05.670 --> 00:17:08.370 at you, the promise that God gave you for your 00:17:08.370 --> 00:17:11.070 life is what you need to pray, is what you need to 00:17:11.070 --> 00:17:14.040 force is what you need to hold before God is what 00:17:14.040 --> 00:17:16.500 you need to speak out. It's what that is the 00:17:16.530 --> 00:17:19.320 only thing that will keep direction for you in the 00:17:19.320 --> 00:17:22.950 sea of life, with your ship holding direction, 00:17:23.100 --> 00:17:26.670 that red rudder is actually what you hold is 00:17:26.670 --> 00:17:29.250 that original promise. And the original calling 00:17:29.250 --> 00:17:31.170 God gave you now let me move on quickly because 00:17:31.170 --> 00:17:34.860 of time. And so Paul is now on the ship. And it's 00:17:34.860 --> 00:17:37.290 an uncomfortable place. It's a shipwreck, it's a 00:17:37.290 --> 00:17:40.560 storm. It's fear, death. It looks like everything 00:17:40.560 --> 00:17:44.940 is lost. But Paul knew that God will keep his 00:17:44.940 --> 00:17:48.840 promise. And so I want to take you. And I need to 00:17:48.840 --> 00:17:52.590 hurry how Paul is holding on because God has said 00:17:52.590 --> 00:17:56.490 Caesar and Caesar it will be. And so now we come to 00:17:56.490 --> 00:18:00.900 the final one that actually in in Acts 00:18:00.900 --> 00:18:04.380 chapter 27, verse 24. And that's the last scripture 00:18:04.380 --> 00:18:08.940 I want to use. saying, Do not be afraid, Paul, you 00:18:08.940 --> 00:18:11.280 must be brought before Caesar. And indeed God 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:16.470 has granted you all those who sail with you. Now 00:18:16.470 --> 00:18:19.500 this was after a time of struggle and fasting and 00:18:19.500 --> 00:18:22.110 hunger and storm and shipwreck and I don't 00:18:22.110 --> 00:18:24.630 think it was nice and easy. And you might be 00:18:24.630 --> 00:18:26.940 right at that place at the moment where you are 00:18:26.940 --> 00:18:29.250 fasting at this time. But you see no breakthrough, 00:18:29.250 --> 00:18:31.140 and you don't see the change, and you don't see 00:18:31.140 --> 00:18:33.630 what God is doing. And it just looks like all 00:18:33.630 --> 00:18:36.300 cloudy and difficult and a storm. And it seems 00:18:36.300 --> 00:18:38.460 like your ship is sinking. And especially 00:18:38.460 --> 00:18:40.770 if you are a law, a leader and a pastor. And 00:18:40.770 --> 00:18:42.840 it seems to you that that original place that God 00:18:42.840 --> 00:18:45.810 has given to you is just not having space anymore. 00:18:45.840 --> 00:18:48.240 Hear the Word of the Lord. God hasn't changed 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:50.700 his plan. And just as much as God hasn't 00:18:50.700 --> 00:18:53.250 changed his plan with Paul Paul gave him God 00:18:53.250 --> 00:18:56.400 gave him all those unsaved people that was 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.400 on that ship, and he landed on Malta. And 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:03.360 Satan says if I can get your own people to kill 00:19:03.360 --> 00:19:06.000 you, and I can't get you to compromise, and I 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.670 can't get you through frustration, and I can't 00:19:08.670 --> 00:19:10.830 get you through circumstances and I can't 00:19:10.830 --> 00:19:14.190 get you by sinking the ship. I will get you and 00:19:14.250 --> 00:19:17.550 I will kill you. And uncle the let me say to 00:19:17.550 --> 00:19:19.290 you, How many times should you have been 00:19:19.290 --> 00:19:21.630 dead? How many times you How many of you are still 00:19:21.630 --> 00:19:24.390 alive by the grace of God because God has a plan 00:19:24.390 --> 00:19:27.150 and a destiny and forgotten to Malta and a 00:19:27.150 --> 00:19:30.480 snake but him and God put that man of God through 00:19:30.510 --> 00:19:36.420 all of that. For a revival in Mata. Maybe 00:19:36.420 --> 00:19:40.290 you are going through through all of this for 00:19:40.290 --> 00:19:44.340 the plan and the harvest that God has ahead of 00:19:44.340 --> 00:19:48.900 you. Almighty God has not forgotten what He has 00:19:48.900 --> 00:19:51.900 promised you. Get out your promises. start 00:19:51.900 --> 00:19:54.480 calling the Word of God. start learning to pray 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:57.690 the word and you will see that God hasn't changed 00:19:57.690 --> 00:19:59.910 his mind. We'll see you in the next session.