CWC SDA featuring Dr. Abraham J. Jules - "It's Just Inexplicable"

[Music] [Music] you stand to your feet everybody for the reading of scripture and for the word of God Genesis chapter 45 and verse 8 it says so now it was not you that sent me hither but God and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh and Lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt go to chapter 50 go to chapter 50 and verse 20 but as for you you thought evil against me but God but God in chapter 45 but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive want to breach you of message entitled today it's just in explicable Lord prepare me everybody say [Music] the second one won't have everybody's singing beautifully [Music] [Music] [Music] precious Lord in these moments as we open your word to your people we pray for your spirits guidance we ask God that you may talk to us as we study your word and to teach us give us the ability to trust you even when we can't understand you may this day bring with it much blessings to your people grant that we may all have a closer walk with you to be endeavor to make it to your eternal Kingdom walk with us and be beside us I pray in Jesus name we ask it amen I neglected to make probably a very important announcement and that is on this coming Tuesday at 10:30 right here our banquet hall downstairs we will be opening our brand-new Senior Citizens Center a man right now only the seniors are applauding the leader sister Hamilton will be here with her team and we anticipate that we'll have a fantastic beginning because every Tuesday all seniors we are calling upon you to come and join with the retirees here we're gonna go with the AARP standard for seniors 50 years old amen all right so be here on our opening day it promises to be a fantastic day and a wonderful beginning during our meetings every Tuesday we will have time for exercise study eat greet fellowship and have a wonderful time together at least once a week from 10:30 in the morning until you're ready to leave amen amen amen [Music] it's just inexplicable for most of us understanding how God gets us to where he wants us to be is sometimes very baffling in the first chapter of Genesis and in the last chapter of Genesis chapter 50 we are told two things about God that's vital in the first chapter of Genesis we are told this about God in the beginning God created this verse is telling us that God is the creator in last chapter of Genesis we are told this 50 and verse 20 so it was not really you who sent me here but God and this verse is telling us that God is the controller it is as if these two chapters are two bookends God as creator God as controller they not only hold the book of Genesis together but they hold our lives together there is nothing encouraging about knowing God not only there's something rather encouraging about knowing that God not only creates but God controls our focus today is on God as the controller Joseph is speaking and he said in chapter 50 and verse 20 you plotted evil against me but God turned it into good now who in the world is Joseph speaking to in this text Joseph the son of the great Pharaoh at patriarch ratha Jacob who had twelve sons and Joseph was his favorite son Joseph is speaking to his ten brothers too many years earlier did everything they could to destroy Joseph's life but Joseph looks at them with a smile and says you did you plotted evil against me but God turned your plots around and turned it into good you plotted my destruction but God used what you plotted plotted for my development Amen somebody now let me say something about Joseph he was the favorite son of his father Jacob and if you remember Jacob had 12 sons and Joseph along with his younger brother Benjamin were his favorites in fact in order to demonstrate his favorite son status Joseph's father Jacob we're told gave him a coat of full sleeves which was a status symbol is it hot in here I'm always the land only one hot in here I'm about asked him to turn on the AC now Joseph's brothers were much older than him we are told that in Genesis 37 in verse 2 it says Joseph a young man of 17 and even though he was just 17 we are told in verse 3 Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons because he had been born to him when he was old he made a long robe of full sleeves for Joseph I think I'm good tell him I said don't touch it anymore I'm good thank you all usually most Bedouin shepherds wore a wool vest without sleeves but Joseph's father had big sleeves attached to his vest so that he would stand out among his many brothers as being the favorite now those sleeves meant something they were symbolic of responsibility at the age of 17 his father Jacob was saying to him Joseph although your brothers are much older than you I am giving you responsibility and bestowing upon you responsibility the thing that is unique and characteristic of Joseph is that Joseph also was not only his father's favorite son but Joseph had the capacity to dream chapter 37 verses 5 to 8 we are told about his dreams and his dreams reflect a God planted ambition in his heart and we should all have a heart have a God planted ambition in our heart first five tells us about his dream it says one time Joseph had a dream and when he told his brothers they hated him even more they already hated him because he was given the code of full sleeves now they hate him because of his ambitious dreams verse six he said listen to the dream I had we were all in the field tying up sheaves of wheat my sheaf got up and stood up straight yours formed a circle around mine and bowed down to it now this was a symbolic dream it was symbolic of something the coat of full sleeves was symbolic of the fact that Joseph would be given responsibilities that his other brothers would not be given these sheaves bowing down to his sheep sheaf meant that Joseph was predicting he would have resources that they would not have and one day they would bow down to him in need of his resources he would have responsibilities they would not have any would have resources they would not have but he had another dream in verse 9 and says I had another dream in which I saw the Sun the moon and the Eleven stars bowing down to me now they understood what those eleven stars meant because they knew there were more than 11 stars those he level stars were his eleven brothers and he said one day you stars are going to bow down to me which means the sleeves met responsibility and deceives meant resources and the stars meant rule that one day Joseph would rule over his brothers and all of this is happening when Joseph is 17 years old he's a senior at Springfield High School it's just school called Springfield lot I didn't want to be off base too much here today God has a way of making ambitions and dreams come to pass but notice when it happened it said Joseph was 30 years old when he began to serve the king of Egypt he left the king's court and traveled all over the land which means if he first had the dream when he was 17 and the dream came to pass when he was thirty that means it took 13 years for Joseph to see and realize his dream 13 years before the fulfillment of his dream now my purpose today in this message is not simply to share with you that God is a God who controls the events of history and that God is a God who answers prayers and God is a God who allows great dreams to come to pass but my intent is to have us understand the avenues and methods that God sometimes employs to take us where he wants us to be because what misses us up is when we pray a prayer for God to take us somewhere and then God uses some strange and unconventional methods to get us there notice Joseph wanted to go up but he would have objected to the way God was about to do it he did not want God to take him the way God chose to do it because after Joseph had his sleeves and his sheaves and his stars his responsibilities his resources and his rule at the age of 17 his brothers could not take it anymore his ambitions his dreams his favorite sons status bothered them so much that they said we've got to get rid of him we've got to eliminate him this is the befoe nowhere in the bible that I read that when Joseph had those dreams that God told him go tell your brothers some things when God lays azan lays it on your heart you've got to learn how to keep it to yourself you can't share every dream that God plants in your heart because there are people who will become haters and not dream us with you Amen somebody I know and have I read that the way Jacob treated Joseph was right when he had 12 sons and not one but my children asked me who do you love more and say I love you more now when the other one comes there who do you love more as I love you more I love all of them to save a man's man now you may love and show your love for your children differently and that's based on their temperament not yours and that's based on their personality not yours but most of us who are parents we love our children to say now some of them might be a little more loving and the more touchy and they hug you more and you hug them back more amen somebody and the others so standoffish and you stand off - but nowhere in the Bible the survivor condone the preferential treatment that Jacob gave Joseph it's unwise and it's unhealthy for the fabric of the home so one day these boys in a clandestine and unexpected way accosted Joseph jumped him ganged up on him beat him up stripped him of his coat and lured him into a pit when some traveling Midianites were passing by they sold Joseph into slavery and Joseph was taken down to Egypt where a man named Potiphar purchased him and he was placed in charge of Potiphar's house but when Joseph a man of integrity refused to respond to the advances of part of his wife that was a me-too movement and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned as long as you're treated right she'll keep your secret and so Potiphar's wife accused Joseph of rape which resulted in Joseph ending up means ending up in jail and while in jail he befriends an employee of the king who had been put in jail because he had offended the king and he befriended this employee of the king by interpreting his dream and after interpreting his dream which was a favorable into favorable interpretation the employee said when I get out of here I'm gonna remember you but when he got out he forgot Joseph and Joseph languished many more years in prison with no hope of ever getting out well years later the king himself had a dream and no one could interpret it but then is this employee who had been in jail with Joseph and remembered Joseph's propensity to interpret dreams said King when I was in prison there was a Jewish fella who I befriended who accurately interpreted Niger interpreted my dream maybe you should bring him up and let him hear your dream and maybe he can give you an interpretation and when the King heard about Joseph the Bible says he sent for Joseph the Bible says those have shaved and he put on some new clothes that they had provided him and he was brought into the very presence of the king listen to me fault and we gotta learn here in our culture that you're still a place for us when you're going before Kings to look a certain way same in somebody you forgive me there's a new movement in our trash where everybody comes to trash looking like they're going to a party looking like they're going to Walmart when I'm coming to the king I'll say Amen somebody when I'm coming to see the king I'm a saved put on my best clothes saving somebody I'm gonna put on my best face Amen somebody I'm gonna make up this space listen I got a bunch of young preachers who they go to church I'm not condemning them they claim that's what they need to do they dress in your jeans and your sneakers and they stand up and preach I'm not dressing in any jeans and sneakers when I stand before you ever look like I'm somebody same and somatic I don't want to look like you I'm not condemning them because they turn around and they listen to my sermons so I'm talking to them right now do what you must but as for me and my house Amen somebody we come to us looking like we going before the king I listen to in terms of the wider community if you're going for an interview please prepare yourself Amen somebody I tell my children when you're leaving home every morning look in the mirror make sure you don't have stuff in your eye that's far and somebody yeah fix your hair I need your clothes polish your shoe if your sass got some holes so it up he say because he was going before the king he put on some new clothes because he was going before the king the last part was for all the preachers who listen to me so the king told Joseph his dream he had seven thin cows and he had seven full cows in the seventh in cows eight to seven full cows and Joseph with divine illumination said I could interpret your dream because God has given me the ability to interpret now remember he didn't take credit for himself or to himself he says the Lord and when God blesses you with gifts stopped acting as though you're responsible Amen somebody if you can sing it wasn't you who made your vocal cords saving somebody if you've got a good mind and godless bless you it's a gift from God saving somebody and you got talents and gifts and money and houses and cause God gave it we take unto ourselves and all this my and me and I I was about to say something but I've been warned to stop talking about the president but I'm tempted and I feel like yielding right now they said don't yield to temptation but I want so Joseph told akiza's listen King I will recommend to you that during the next 70 years of plenty there's your set-aside grain to sustain Egypt during the seven years of famine and the king looks at him with a Glee in his eye and said I can tell God is with you let me tell you something if God is with you you don't have to walk around tell people they'll see it Amen somebody you don't ever have to prank impress people that I'm a godly man it's either [Applause] by the way you live by the way you talk by the way you treat people by your attitude when you're under pressure same as somebody he said listen since since God is with you that's the king talking now I want you with me do you know the people I love to be around I love to be around spiritual people I love to be around people who can get a prayer through savings about I'm not interested in your PhD or your money or your status or your job god bless you if you're doing well I'm happy for you but I don't need to suck up to you [Applause] Amen somebody but I'm gonna tell you the people are suck up to i suck up to people who may not be able to put a sentence together but who can get a prayer through amen somebody because I want the power you got [Applause] and so the king said you got god I want you says I'm a place you all over Egypt I want you to be my Secretary of Agriculture and I want you to be in control of the administration of operation grain safe and Joseph was given my medallion declared by the King to be second-in-command and for seven years while there were seven years of plenty seven years of grain Joseph went from city to city puttin grain aside and when the seven years of plenty was over and the seven years of famine kicked in the only nation that had adequate resources to sustain its people was the nation of Egypt all because of Joseph's ability to interpret dreams and says the only nation in the region that had resources and green was Egypt all of the other nations in the region poured into Egypt in order to procure food including the people who lived in Canaan they traveled 90 miles in order to get grain and that included the Brothers of Joseph who many years earlier had put Joseph in a pits and took his coats and had hated him and sold him into Egypt not knowing that Joseph had been elevated to second command over all of Egypt they came to Egypt and it so happened in the Providence of God because God has a sense of humor that God arranged it so as they were coming in the gates Joseph saw them which lets me know that every good buy in gone Joseph recognized them but they did not recognize him he looks better they look better listen to me he can recognize them but they because they had not changed and they could not recognize him cuz he changed he got better come on a segment somebody listen to me for when you're living right and when you're in God's will the folk who hurt you will look horrible saving somebody but if God be fire who in this world can be against you sometimes when folk do mean and evil things physically they may bear the scars outwardly Joseph looked better and they did not he says they meant it for evil but God weaved it for good that's what the original Hebrew text means that God weaved it I've ever seen somebody weaving I've seen a good weave and a good weave takes time same answer but seems a bad weaves do now in my day all y'all were with me all along until I touched your weed you say why did he have to say that come back here come back here come right back Reverend this is me the original Hebrew text means that God have weaved the plan together in other words God took some time and he crisscrossed some intersecting activities to cross each other's paths in order to bring about his will it just didn't happen like that when God weaved it God was intentional salmon's about there's some things that happen in our lives it's not accidental it's providential so God was weaving it behind the scenes Joseph saw them and he did not reveal who he was but after a while he revealed in a private meeting he said Do You Know Who I am they said no sir no sir no sir we don't know who you are he looked at them and said I'm Joseph I'm Joseph I'm your brother I'm the one you're sold into slavery I wish I could have been there to see the trickle that I ran down their legs try to be sophisticated right now I'm Joseph I'm the one you put in a pit notice they had come to Joseph for resources now they're bowing down to him he told them at 17 this was going to happen and now they are in his presence the man they hurt and wounded the man they have separated themselves all these years from and from their father the man who now has all the authority of the Pharaoh himself to kill them and to exact retribution and revenge and they are afraid they're thinking now this is it they are saying things like what Joseph what will he do to us maybe he'll do what we did to him Craig payback notice what Joseph says to them in Genesis 45 and verse 8 so it was not really you who sent me here but he has made me the Kings highest official I'm in charge of the whole country I'm ruler over all of Egypt say Amen Samadhi and I really couldn't believe he could do this be this forgiving that he could be this magnanimous in fact the only reason they thought that Joseph was allowing him to stay alive was because their father Jacob was still living and they thought when Jacob dies that's when he will do to us what he really believes we deserve but I have - Jacob died and they were worried that he was now going to kill them he tells them what I read for you as my opening text Genesis 50:20 you planted evil against me but God weaved it into good y'all come on say Amen somebody in other words God in His Providence knew there was gonna be a famine and God knows every famine you will experience because he's God and since he already knew the famine was coming he controlled and orchestrated the events of history in such a way by putting Joseph in a position so that he would one day be able to preserve the Egyptians but that he would even preserve his own family those who did him wrong sometimes God has a way of using us to bless the very folk who have done us wrong he said God put me here to preserve lives he is saying you sold me but you didn't send me God sent me but you sold me now what we have here is the operation of human freedom intersecting with divine sovereignty or divine sovereignty cancelling out human freedom that's why you as a believer must never believe that your life is in the hands of men I had a preacher called me the other day and he's saying complaining about all kinds of stuff going on in his life and all kinds of stuff that people are doing to him and I said to him after a while listening and trying to be very sensitive I said listen to me boy you should never preach another sermon in your life until you get your theology straight said what are you talking about I said until you start believing that you're not in men's hands but God's you should never preach another sermon men might be powerful but the god I serve is all-powerful men might hurt you but God can always hylia men might take from you but God can always give you in abundance come on the same in somebody men might talk about you but God will talk to you [Applause] in other words you thought you were doing one thing but because God is in control he even took the bad stuff you did and he used it to send me to where God wanted me to be same in somebody I travel a lot and I just need my phone with me I was in Europe pulled out my phone put on the GPS the hotel I was staying in so to the hotel drove all around the country went back to the airport got him my flight headed back to New York one phone what I've learned from my phone and my navigation is that I could mess up anytime I want to miss a turn I don't have to back up saving somebody but miss a turn keep on driving somehow is gonna get me back where I need to be when you think about how God that's how God works amen somebody if I miss it if I mess up God will fix up your mess up and mess up your fix up you can't understand divine sovereignty until you understand what's in the middle of that word sovereignty sovereignty means that God has complete control complete nobody is bigger than God nobody is greater than God nobody can outfox God nobody can get beyond God's will nobody what He wills for you will come to pass [Applause] middle of that word sovereignty is the word rain our God reigns he's not some impotent God he's not an anemic God but he's an omnipotent God who's in control of all of the events in this world nothing could happen in your life unless God permits it and if God permits it he has a purpose for allowing it to happen he said you plotted evil against me but God in other words it wasn't you who allowed me to experience the divorce but God it wasn't you fired me but God allowed it it wasn't you who brought the cancer out it had a bigger plan it has a bigger purpose and I believe this is here to remind us that behind every thing that happens in our lives there is an unseen hand and there's an unknown purpose we live life moving forward don't we but we interpret life looking backwards that's what kirkegaard the great Danish philosopher said which is to say when you're going through something you don't always get an accurate interpretation it's only when you come through it on the other side and look back over it in retrospect and with reflection that you can say no I know why this door was shut now I know why this heartache came my way now I know why I cried this stair now I know why I was so frustrated because I didn't see what was happening behind the scenes I don't know if I told you this story but it's my stories I can tell it anytime I want to Amen somebody yeah you can't tell the story oh I'm the only one who can tell it it's mine stating the young lady now all the folk who were sleeping just a little while ago okay everybody cuz y'all a bunch of nosy focal dating this young lady she went and cheated she cheated on me cried snot went to the bed covered up put my covers over my head and cried myself to sleep don't feel sorry for me just wait to the end of the story cry sad heartbroken feel like the end of the world I had nothing to live for she didn't have good sense all she had to do was tears could look she was blind I went to the preach of the camp-meeting stood up to preach at the camp-meeting it's a young lady sitting in front of me I stood up being I'm looking here when i sat there waiting to preach looked up and I said she looks familiar caught up to preach and while I'm making remarks I'm looking at her I'm saying I know her when I'm through preaching and I'm shaking hands and the president is introducing me to people and she's standing off to the side finally I realized I know who this was this was her came to me she introduced me did I miss something what was that what was that what was that what did I miss so listen to me folk she brought had three beautiful kids introduced them to me and I was happy to meet them beautiful children I got in the car after I ate cut in the car I'm driving back to the airport to turn in the car to get on a flight back to New York and as I'm driving I'm having a Holy Ghost thank you Jesus service in the car all by myself I said thank you Lord I'm driving make a left turn the GPS says thank you Jesus for the left I said Lord you're a great God all that crying all has snot in my nose all that sadness and heartbreak you did it for a reason because when I remember what she looked like and what I was going home to the Lord knew in advance that I couldn't take it [Applause] Amen somebody the Lord said Jules you couldn't live with that until you die so i'ma break your heart now so I can fix it for the rest of your life Amen somebody [Applause] listen to me I didn't understand it at the time when I was going through it I didn't understand it but in the sweet by and by now we want God to elevate us so that we've got responsibilities resources and rule all of us want to be second-in-command all of us want to be up on top with Joseph but our problem is the way God gets us up there cuz God never promised he was gonna get us there on easy street sometimes you've got to climb the rough side of the mountain now many of us love to typecast God put God in a box and think that the way that God is going to take us to where we are supposed to be is through nice things and pleasant things and sweet things things that make us smile but if this story is true then I believe it's trying to tell us that sometimes the way God takes us there doesn't always make a shouting hallelujah' or shout Amen and praise the Lord sometimes while God is taking us where we need to be we may be crying lord have mercy lord help me Lord when will this be over nod I'm tired Lord take this cup from me Lord why me Lord this is unfair now you're gonna get there God answers but not without pain not without crying some tears because sometimes God uses some painful means to place us where he wants us to be please explain this to me why are all the vitamins in the spinach and all the calories are in the ice cream it seems to me God should have put the calories in the spinach and in the broccoli and he should have put the nutrients and the vitamins and the weight-reducing qualities in dunkin doughnuts and Mickey D's I can't explain why God put the VAT y'all closed that back door Russians closed the back doors please you got folk out here talking I can't explain why God put the vitamins in the stuff that doesn't taste good but I discovered and somebody in here after reflecting on their lives that in many instances the nutrients and the vitamins were not in the sweet stuff sometimes the nutrients and the vitamins and the painful stuff and the stuff that didn't always taste good and if you look over your life and people want to know how did you grow how did you become the man or the woman that you are today it wasn't because everything was sweet it wasn't because you always had ice cream but sometimes God put some stuff on your plate that just didn't taste good and somebody today needs to hear that because you've got something on your plate right now God just stuck some spinach on your plate and it doesn't taste good but the vitamins are in the spinach can I name some spinach the first spinach you should look for some vitamins in is failure nobody likes to fail everybody wants to succeed but for thirty thirteen years Joseph was nothing but an ignominious failure now when he was 17 years old he had a dream of going up but instead of going up he went down he went down to a pretty he went down to the prison he became a slave in a registered sex offender sex offender and from his perspective it seemed like nothing was going well please remember you can't determine the outcome of a game in the middle of the game and some of you already saying I lost this one I lost this time I'm never gonna get past this one I will always be defined by failures and it's not even halftime yet you've got to wait to see how God is gonna use some of your failures to set you up to the next level can I give you some examples it was a young employee who did everything he could to work on the trains but he spilled some acid on one of the baggage caused and the car caught and fired and the train caught on fire so he lost his job so instead of working on trains where he was a failure he went on from failure to do research in acid and because he did research he became one of the greatest inventors in American history and his name is Thomas Edison the only reason why Edison found the phonograph and the electric light was because he had a major failure in his life you never would have left the trains and become Thomas Edison the great scientists if he hadn't failed there was a basketball player who got cut his JV year they said he was too awkward he was too thin so his junior year in high school he just worked under farm and he lifted boxes and he lifted bales of hay and for a whole year he was growing and his muscles were developing he came out of next year a more developed man a more develop layer and because he got cut his JV year and because he lifted the bundles the boxes Michael Jordan made the team as a senior and if you had asked Jordan what was the pivotal even that kind of ultd you into the basketball stratosphere he will tell you it was when I got cut my JV year he didn't know it at the time that he was being developed and made ready for greatness because you never know that while you're being prepared those mundane pedestrian activities are just what you need to get you where God wants to take you you never know when God is using a setback and a failure in order to develop you and take you to the next level there was a young kid who had a bike stolen the police officer said to the kid anybody could take your bike as thin as you are why don't you go go he went to the gym because his bike got stolen he developed his skills because his back got stolen he learned how to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee because his bike got stolen he became a gold medalist because his bike got stolen three-time heavyweight heavyweight champion of the world because his bike got stolen he's got a sensor named after him because his bike got stolen he's gonna street that bears his name because this bag got stolen you really never know if it's bad or good until God gets you through everything Quincy Jones told his backup singer that's all you ever gonna be is a backup singer don't try to go solo he had dreams of going solo but Quincy said you're not gonna make it but in spite of what Quincy said Luther says [Music] [Applause] we all never knew I had that gift I don't tell you everything let me to finish the song now got to pay for this thing I don't show off my talents that easily somebody in here today is in the middle of a failure and I've come to tell you the devil is a liar because you never know what God is up to you never know I've got a shut-in one gone because he's getting ready to open up another door for you sometimes the vitamin isn't a failure not only that sometimes the vitamin is in the famine uh-huh suppose there had not been a famine suppose they had not been hard times then you never would have had a Joseph you never would have had an administrator you never would have had his brothers coming back to Egypt and sometimes when you're broke and you're down to nothing God may just be up to something sometimes he uses famines shut doors in order to cultivate in you preparedness for your next assignment to develop you to give you new ideas and to make you a resourceful person and that is the reason why you need to stop crying because God may be up to something in your life I heard about two tears let's not hurry but I can't let not finish this y'all are the same people who watched two and three hour movies listen to the Word of God I could guarantee you've got nothing better all week there's nothing like the Word of God it fills you up makes you laugh when no jokes are being told amen Samadhi I heard about two chairs that were flowing down the river one chair looked at the other day and said tear where did you come from and that tear said I came from the face of a woman who was crying because her husband left her for another woman and then that chair said now tell me where did you come from and then that tear said I came from the face of the other woman that got your husband sometimes when God takes something you don't know what he's taking from your life and sometimes when you think you are being blessed you really don't know what you're getting into sometimes the vitamin is in the failure sometimes the vitamins is in the famine and then sometimes expect vitamins to be even in your foes as many of us think that only our friends can bless us but my Bible says God will use your enemies to bless you amen somebody he says I'll make your enemies your footstool do you know what a footstool is a footstool is something you climb on to get a little bit higher so your enemies are really pushing yeah come on the same and somebody that's why Joseph said what you're meant for evil God weaved it into good what's your planet for evil God weaved it and you will never understand what that really means until you look at the word evil when we look at that word evil we look at it from our perspective but there's always another perspective on evil because if you turn that word evil around it smells live which is to say if you didn't do your evil I wouldn't be living the life I live [Applause] Joseph said the only reason why I'm living this life in a palace is because you put me in a pit you're not getting it you know if you are getting it you'll be shouting right now you're not getting it the reason why I'm in a palace is because you put me in a pit [Applause] I live where I live what your intended for my destruction God used it for my construction what you meant for my defeat God use for my development what you meant for my blasting God uses my blessing what you expected would harm me God used to help me what you thought was gonna bring me down God use it to take me up what you thought would break me God used it to make me this is just like that mule by the name of Gus a faithful mule but Gus got old and the farmer who owned Gus said I've got to get rid of Gus so he dug a big hole got a pulley and crane Lord Gus in the hole took the dirt that was out of the hole and began to throw the dirt on Gus's back Gus wasn't a hole and when all the dirt was back in the hole the farmer turned around and Gus who should have been buried was standing on top of the dark see every time the farmer threw some dirt on his back Gus just shook it off and stood on top of it and when he threw some more dirt on his back Gus just shook it off and stood on top of the dirt when folk do dirty things don't let it get you down shake it off and stand on top of it and what they may mean for evil God will weave into good save and somebody do you know why you can do it because God is in control [Applause] every Wednesday a truck comes by my house it picks up my recyclables and they take all that garbage that was discarded they take it to a refinery gets them recycle then in your home there cans and Cotton's that were once dirty discarded but got recycled and got reused the same God is able to recycle stuff if you take your pain and take your heartache and put it in God's recycle bin and they say Lord I don't like it but I believe you can take it and recycle it and bring it back to me in a different form God will do it I believe there's a Joseph or Josephine in here somebody did you're wrong but God will use that dirty stuff to take you to the next level God will use some mean stuff the experience the elevation so the next time they come to you tell them what you intended for Eva God weave that God God will turn it around God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform thank God for my mountains thank God for my valleys thank God for every storm I've ever come through but God if I'd never had a problem I would never know God could solve them god I should have been buried but God I should have died but God I should have been lost but God I should have gone under but God I should have been taken over Oh God I should have gone to hell but God I should have given up but God my god oh what a mighty God we serve the road is rough the going gets tough the hills are hard let's move quickly quickly quickly hard to fly but I've decided to make Jesus my choice let's go quickly let's go quickly quickly but God sigit if you know it everyone let's go quickly stand to your feet everybody [Music] everybody road is rough [Music] and they're going and the heels [Music] this for Dad long time ago [Music] [Music] [Music] started at [Music] [Music] listen folk I'm about to pray for somebody if Joseph is in here or Josephine and you want for God's blessings to reign upon your life I want to pray a prayer blessing upon you get out of your seat come close to the oil to leave room for those who are coming behind as we sing and sing the original way for me I've decided get out of your seat cup yes I've come from around the century close to the altar leave Kenosha [Music] [Music] sing that chorus again thank you [Music] [Applause] started out there's no doubt in my mind I've decided to make Jesus sing the chorus again listen across the swimming [Music] [Music] you'll sing at me one more time one more time one more time one more time sing it again [Music] [Music] down [Music] to make Jesus [Music] listen folk listen folk we don't pray but let's be fully aware while we're praying we're praying for this Lord I know you want to take me somewhere but I'm gonna give you permission Lord to put the vitamins in the spinach for me you could use famine you can use foes you can use whichever way you want to do it but get me there you may take me to prison before you put me in the palace you may take me down to the print before you lift me up but whichever where you want to do it Lord get me there by any means necessary so we praying today to give God permission to be reckless with you he said Lord you can be reckless with me you can do whatever you want to do but get me where you want me to be Father it's inexplicable we can't explain why you put the vitamins in the spinach and the calories in the ice cream we can't explain why you must first take us to a pit and a prison before you take us to the palace can't explain why we cry ourselves to sleep at night can't explain why things happen the way they do in our lives but God what we know is that you've got a plan what it is how you gonna get us there we don't know so god somebody right now is in the pit somebody else is in the prison and they praying to get to the palace somebody it's crying don't understand why but today we pray that somebody will recognize that you are in control you are in control when we are in the pit you're in control when we into prison and you're still in control when we are in the palace so father somebody today needs their surance needs to have his faith strengthened somebody needs a helping hand somebody is about to give up in the prison somebody's about to call it quits and it's not even half time somebody is about to turn it over throw in the towel but today God I pray that you'll remind us that you've got a plan for us and you'll work that plan our journey may have detours but God you will get us to the place where you want to have us so bless every man woman boy and girl in this congregation bless those listening by the internet bless us as we make today another commitment to you to trust you when it's darkest to trust you when what you are doing doesn't make sense to trust you when we have nobody else to turn to so bless us today with your spirits presence in our lives have none of us to give in or to give up but to keep our eyes on the prize looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith bless us today thank you for the service thank you for your people may your spirit abide with us now and evermore in the name of the Father and of this and of the Holy Spirit amen [Music]

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Length: 71min 59sec (4319 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 17 2018