Divine Guidance | Pastor Stephen Smith | Thursday 23 January 2020 | AMI LIVE

not just 2020 this is a new decade and in this decade we know that we have to plan ten years advance but how are we going to plan ten years of bonds in advance if we don't know for sure that the Holy Spirit is guiding and leading us I don't want to make my own plans at this time right now I don't know about you I've messed up some of them but thank God for great grace thank God for His mercy thank God that he's guiding and leading us our scripture reading we find in Isaiah 58 verse 11 and I'm healed because I forgot my glove I my glasses so everything is blurring your idea but it's by the anointing the Lord say with me the Lord not the economy not the government not my neighbor not my parents not my friends not my past not my circumstances the Lord somebody has a shot the Lord the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your soul in droughts and strengthen your bones you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail what a promise family what I promise you can keep the scripture I'm gonna keep it up there we're just gonna come back to that continuously but there are things that just that's not just going to happen automatic in your life we know that God plays a vital part in our lives and then we play a vital part in our lives they our thoughts are the things that God will do now behalf but there are also things that we have to do cooperating with God in the season the challenge of coming out of everything in our lives coming out of poverty coming out of lack coming out of offset nation coming out of depression coming out of of circles that the circumstances in our life God is calling us out to break out of the culture that we built around us to come out and break out to the things that have bounded us in this time right now God wants to guide us into victory if you don't die this time you ought to know that God is guiding us into victory God's plans for us is abundance is overflow is great grace it is a destiny I hope a future but there's a scripture passage in John chapter 20 verse 1 and you can keep the original scripture up there you just keep that up John 20 verse 1 we find you where Mary Magdalene was running through the night to go Jesus crucified Jesus buried and she's running to the to the grave and it says you now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early say with me she came to the tomb only while it was still dark she was running through the dark an expectancy to meet the Christ even though she knew he was dead but she went for a different assignment different purpose but there is an expectancy they say there's a surprise there's something else there's victory on the other side if we're gonna continue to run through the dark we will know that we were even though you don't know that you you that there will be an empty tomb even though you know that they will not be resurrected Christ I'm just you know referring to the scripture that we know that God will come through for us and it says you whilst you were still it was still dark and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb it is those family who run who run through the darkness who find the dawn first those who continue when they fast when they pray will come together we say Lord we're gonna fast we call it fast with them father has called the fast we continue we join with him with the family we United together and we will fast we will pray we will study the scriptures we will be diligent in our faith because we know that there's a rewarder of those who diligently seek the Lord while others are sleeping while others are on the end day and there in the comfort zone where others are complacent while others are satisfied the ones who run through the darkness will find daybreak and I'm here to prophesy over you as we continue through this and running even though your circumstances might be dark there is a daybreak coming there is dawn coming because there's a promise the scripture continued to say this divine guidance he will continually guide us divine guidance Sun 37 verse 23 says the steps of a good man are pre-ordered by the Lord the steps of a good man are pre-ordered by the Lord and he takes delight in his way if God is or Denis your steps if God is ordering our steps that means that wherever you are right now is exactly the place where you have to be at least I'm getting a clap agreement out of that it's not a clap for me it's an agreement because sometimes it feels like you know I would go into my mile to my altar and I would just lay down there for hours and I was just I will not pray I would just lie there and meditate so meditate and say Lord I don't understand but I'm running I will get up here and I will run because I know that the steps of Steven Smith are pre-ordered by God Almighty there's a divine connection behind me they said divine force behind me God is guiding me and I'm here to tell you this evening but I know for sure because of the scriptures we have to trust God that God is on our case there's a divine guidance so if God is ordering your step that means we are right there exactly where God wants you to be God has you there for a reason you might not understand it you may be trying to teach you to push you to stretch you just to bring you to the next level of your life right now in understand but we are fasting we are praying we're coming together we are pushing through we are we are you know there's something about pushing there was this man God said to him is go to the mountains and yes to you God said just go to the mountain so I went up to the mountain and he found a cabin there God laid by the Holy Spirit and as he came to the cabin you know the next morning he said to the Lord Lord what does I do right now yeah I was obedient I'm here at the cabin down and out so the cabin was a huge big rock and the Lord said team I want you to push the rock so he started the first day the second day the third day after seven days after forty days nothing happened that rock didn't move and eventually came back to God he said Lord I've been faithful I've been pushing and pushing every day faithful against this rock but I cannot movement and the Lord said to him I don't ask you to move the rock the rock is there just strengthen you to built you have a look at how you look right now you're much stronger than when you came you're much much more really for what I've called you for for the assignment that I prepared for you now you can go out for the assignment that I've called you because you have been diligently in just pressing just pushing against the rock we need to push against the rock Christ Jesus we need to push against it because we know we will become strong we will become we will become the Warriors that God has called us for all the other reason might be why God is here in this place he is ordering your steps might be to be to be like a watered garden as the scripture is saying God might put you in that situation to be part of a work in somebody else's life to water them to be a garden to those people but who have whatever it is you might as well choose to be happy somebody because you're right they regard wants you knowing that God is directing your steps and it's and it has you there for a reason you're there for a reason and then the scripture continues to say he will satisfy your soul in prayer going fast with us now because you are spiritually very very fit you will satisfy your soul in drought sometimes God will close the door which we don't like and which we don't understand but God has closed that door but later on he'll open a bigger door I said later on he will open a bigger door he'll take us to the new level of our destiny God is not so concerned about our emotions and and our comfort as much as he's been the concern about if I can use the word guards are concerned but you know in our [Music] understanding is more concerned about our purpose God has a plan for your life family God has a plan where he's taking you and it's a big plan it's a marvelous plan there are times when he will shake things up in your life the God will use persecution God will use rejection to cause us to change in this hour we have the praise but God is causing us to change his goal or his will is not to make things difficult for us no God has a bigger plan God is guiding us to victory he's pushing us into a purpose he will satisfy the scripture says your soul in drought so even though you feel like you're going to jail even though things doesn't make sense for you you know that there's a higher force behind you you know that God is behind you God is guiding you just have to trust him in this hour yes Lord I'm fasting I'm not fasting for the breakthrough I'm fasting to draw closer to you because I know that you are guiding me I know that your purpose is leading me in a pair that I should go there are times when you will shake things up so the opportunity lies and a great shift the Bible says between yesterday and tomorrow between darkness and dawn right between that is a shift and I honestly believe that we are right in between that that yesterday and tomorrow when we're gonna meet our yesterday's going to meet our tomorrow our darkness is going to meet our dawn because like Mary she was running keep on running this night I want to say to you again keep on running wherever you're watching keep on running he will strengthen your bones the scripture says he also eats your bones please don't forget the darkness in the dawn that connects yesterday and tomorrow hallelujah for that I want to be there at the crack of growth I want to be there at the crack of growth I don't want to miss my season I don't want to miss my time I don't want to miss opportunity I don't want to miss my calling I want to I don't want to miss what God has in store for me I have to trust him I want to be there with the capacity and the withdrawal and with away with all to be the first one to say goodbye to our yesterday and hello to my tomorrow I want to be there first of all not somebody else to preach it to me I want to be the first one as I'm running into my daughter saying hello this is my hour this is my day this is what God has called before if I run through the darkness and I don't give up and I don't ask God to change my circumstances but instead I just give myself for God's purpose asked you to make it better me so that I can go out and make my world better God is calling us family to make us better to be better to be more effective to be better Saints out there and this time right now God knows we won't move forward without a push sometimes we just need a push because we're not going to do it all by ourselves I guarantee you that most of the time what God is calling us for we will not do it all by ourselves not every closed door is a bad thing I've experienced that so many times in my life where I when I find myself in front of a closed door and you feel depressed you feel disappointed you say Lord I've been fasting up and praying when everything is going well then we are comfortable when we say then we say we aren't gods well no we know what we don't want to be stretched we don't want to learn or to be developed or to to develop a new skills but God is forming us God is making us he's molding us for the assignment that he has called us for now I want to say this two nights with everything that's in me every bit of love that's in me is that I don't just want my mother and my father to press in I want to press in with him it's not about me it's not about them it's about the kingdom purpose what God has called us together for let's push through in this hour to step out into the unknown the unprecedented is scary what if it doesn't work no it will work out we may not like it but God has not shut the door so that we will find ourselves in the place of this spirit now God has something else for us in store so your the scripture we see when we read the scripture all together that God loves you too much to let you miss your destiny he will guide you you you have too much potential you have too much talent you have too much in you to just get stuck with you all right now my urge in this night my my preaching to you tonight is keep on running because God is guiding you into your destiny God is guiding you into your victory this is the hour that God has called us for you should be like a watered garden the scripture says like a spring of water hallelujah receive none of the difficulties that you going through none of the bad breaks you experience none of the times that you've been hurt by somebody else which were made to stop you notice actually to give you a momentum the terms will you felt that praise the times were you felt hopeless it was actually to appreciate you the dead listening they were made you diet you to push you the stretch the Megerian to make you stronger somebody just touch your neighbor and say stronger they deposit something inside of you instead of being discouraged instead of a complaining have a new perspective tonight the King of Kings the Lord of lords the Supreme God is guiding you he's guiding us a closed door means a new door will open the scripture continued to say I shall be like a spring of water whose waters do not fail GABA Subaru Shakya by Libra and I will be like a spring of water out of my belly shall flow rivers streams of living waters and it shall not fail it shall not fail it shall not fail it shall not fail I said it shall not fail it shall not fail when I look back over my life I can see the pivotal moments in my life I'm speaking of Stephen Smith where I really grew the thymus where I stepped out to a new level the common denominator denominator was that I was continually guided through all those times I can look back at my Christian life I can look back over my ministry and there were times where I thought Lord this really doesn't make sense but in all of that God was guiding me God was bringing me to a higher level God was pushing me to my next level to the purpose that he has in store for me I'm saying this to somebody here tonight that God is Fisher doesn't think things doesn't make lineup for you right now but in God's book is lining up perfectly just be there regardless called you so that you can greet dawn in the morning at the time I didn't like it I was very uncomfortable and then you caused delay you know because we have really come to where we are and then we start to wrestle with God we say Lord you know this this is the devil and we start to fight the devil that's got nothing to do with the devil God is a spirit a rock in front of you and you have to brush against that rock you have to you have to develop yourself in Christ you have to prepare yourself because he's guiding you through all of this because he has a much bigger assignment in store for you sometimes we are prey against the very thing that God has ordained against what he has SiC into motion into our lives the enemy doesn't close every door sometimes God closes that door and yes when God closes the door you know just make peace with it because there's some way there's something else quit being sad about the past step into the new season tonight we are in offense we are preparing we are drawing closer to God and God is setting us up for something great so I want to say this to you tonight don't die in your nest get out of your comfort zone and the Old Testament job said I thought I would die in my nest I don't know if y'all do but many times we just feel like we're gonna die in our nest you know which is gonna die you know this isn't this is this is it no I don't I cannot see how God's gonna come through for me in this but he will and he always does he was saying that he had his nest all fixed up this his job now he had his nest all fixed up eat her his house was an order his business was an order he had this great family and he was very complacent with his nest with his house bet stay with him but God doesn't bring the trouble but he will allow difficulties depreciate your destiny I want to say the student do you I must bring up into the morning hours this morning and there was something else that Stephen wanted to share tonight but God said encourage my people tell our people tonight that I'm guiding them although things doesn't make sense right now I am the supreme guide in their life I am the divine guide in their lives I'm guiding in him into victory they will not be disappointed in this hour so God doesn't bring the trouble but he will allow difficulties to push us into our destiny family joke with through all kinds of challenges almost overnight he lost his family lost his children he lost his business he lost everything in his life if the story stopped there would have been a sad ending but that's not really stopped hallelujah job understood the principle this principle of you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail you have to trust in night what is within you you have to trust the process of God in your life you have to trust what God has started in you he will finish it but God has started in you if it doesn't make sense he has a bit of picture in mind God knows where he's taking you God knows what he has in store for you somebody shout great things thank you so much you could say you see spite of all the difficulties oak said I know my redeemer lives he was saying I know God he stood on the 3rd he has the final say in my life when you get comfortable and think you have your life figured out as joked it don't be Cintron surprised if God just comes along and stood things up I wish I could tell you tonight that through all my saved life and ministry life that everything just went a for okay but it didn't but looking back you know as always yeah you always have perspective when you look back not when you look forward and looking back I can clearly see how God was forming me developing me for a higher call and higher purpose in my life it's not your harm you it's to guide you God has new levels in your destiny new levels new levels in your destiny you cannot stay stagnant we are right now more influence more resources for you these three field life is greater than that you can imagine tonight he's guiding you I wish I could tell you tonight that if you count one two three it's going to happen it's not gonna happen that way God needs your cooperation God needs your faith God needs your persistence God needs you to to yield to his divine guidance in your life there was a ton of my life and ministry like Joe I thought I would die in my nest I only pushed me pushed me out of my comfort zone pushed me into discovering new talents pushed me to greater influences in my life if you stay in faith God will bring you into your increase God will bring you into your promotion God will bring you into a stronger wiser and better than where you were before God will bring you into it because I want to save the nest will be stood up it's not a negative message the nest will be stood up Moses said in digitorum III 2 verse 11 as an English turns up its nest so God will stir up his children I believe in this hour in this day God is stirring this household God is stirring this family God is preparing us just give yourself for God's intentions with things I've stood in your life when things uncomfortable you don't get your way turn around and say this is God's intention this is God's purpose for my life god I know that you are in control God I know that you have their end in mind for my life every single journey that you go through you will ask your walk out richer that's the promise of the Bible it's divine guidance and the reward will always be exceedingly above what we can ask pray or think of the road will always be exceedingly above what we above what we can imagine the scripture says that's the reward according to the power that such work within us the scripture says so God has so much his law for us he's guiding us God is always taking us forward leading and guiding us into the unknown territory faith is the unknown territory faith is an adventure somebody says faith is an adventure you see when you when you walk in faith it's an adventure it's the unprecedented you don't really know what's what's going to happen there although in the business world you know and out there they say you gotta have a plan if you plan to fail you fail to plan and all that stuff and so on but listen when you're guided by the Holy Spirit and God is hitting you integrate the things then those things doesn't make sense do you have your plans but I do know that probably 16 says that there's a way that seems right unto a man but the end of it only leads to destruction but when I gave ourselves to the guidance of the Holy Spirit when I give myself a reason teach it I know that I will come out on top I know that I will come out the better than I was before ever in my life my marriage my relationship my health my business my spiritual life my relationship with God my relationship with my children everything will get better and come out better on the other side when I allow him to lead me in this hour God is always taking us forward leading us guiding us so God required us to seize the moment by by taking a step of faith let me leave you with just one for tonight never allow the pursuit of a new thing deny you the pleasure of knowing from where God brought you and where he is taking you there's a familiar phrase that says in order to go where you've never been we have to do something we've never done I'm challenging you tonight by the Spirit of God that in this time and in this scripture yet 2:9 given by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit through our spiritual father their pastor their boss of this house I believe that God is setting us up for greater things but tear it and territories in our lives we want to grow into an ever-increasing closer walk with Him we're going to have to do some things that we have never done before when was the last time that you did something for the first time danai guys challenging us in this if you want to grow too close to walk with him we're going to have to do some things that we've never done before we're going to have to do a 40 day fast we're going to have to do the unprecedented we need to take a spiritual commitments to another level family allow the Lord to guide you into your destiny and now the Lord tonight by yielding to him and say Lord not my will be done but your will be done because he will lead you into victory we're going to go into the chameleon right now and as you receive your chameleon please stand wherever you are we're going to pray together we're going to participate together in the communion but as you receive it tonight I want you to pray from your heart and say Lord I'm ready for the next thing in my life I'm ready for what you have called me [Music] there was something that that really just I mean it stirred faith in me so much and past offset the other day The Guardian assaulter really said that maybe you are praying for promotion but God has closed that door because he has some shares for you and now God just to broaden your vision tonight to open up your spirit tonight so that you can see what he's saying to you tonight did you hear me I said not hear what he's saying to see what he is saying to you tonight you're watching as wherever you are you can join in in this communion what does it by joining in Union and pray this with everyone praising you tonight hallelujah [Music] Cabo's otra cosa Masika Toros aqui robando Libre so to Roche ababa rare a risotto pasaba Rakesh akamaru Brendo rosso table array is Jacques Barroso Trojan a creme de soto russia kappa rabbit red rain Reza go to Russia Kia dream hallelujah I just want everyone just before we're gonna partake in the communion just close your eyes wherever you are I want to release this prayer over you tonight I want to prophesy this prayer of your life tonight father God let there be in me the same spirit and boldness that was in the Apostle Paul let us have a heart of courage to encourage others to care for them to open spiritual our eyes in this hour as we partake of Christ tonight let us have his spirit father give me the courage you gave Paul who even though you're stoned attacked and slandered he kept moving forward give me the courage to push forward this is the former and the latter rain the waters that comes from the hand of God our Lord begins to give us your rain water our seeds that he can begin to grow and bear fruit for this generation fruits for everyone who waits on you thus a prayer today we push forward into our destiny we take up God's rain award to the seed we have sown in this household of faith so he can produce fruits in our marriages that I can produce fruit in our children in our finances in our ministries so that we can become a tree of justice and our harvest can be great upon the earth every day of our lives in Jesus name we pray amen and amen the night that Jesus was betrayed he he broke and he said this is my body for you do it as often as you come together [Music] this is my body for you and you also took the cup and will escape he said this is my blood this is the seal this is my life source in you drink it in my remembrance [Music] Kazuko time Ishika trading if you have your offering here tonight to make contact with the altar to your faith through your seed I invite you to come even though you your watching whatever platform you're watching from wherever you are in this world you can join it right now it's spirit sow a seed just to seal this word to seal and know that God is guiding you tomorrow morning when you get up you know that he is guiding you into fullness into fullness [Music] father I bless this company of people as we depart you tonight as a family as we depart tonight in general directions are different directions I bless this company of people I've released him and they will go out and do the exploits give himself in this hour for the intentions for the purpose of God in their lives god bless you as you bring your offering I will place so [Music] your friend his head to me [Music]

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Length: 32min 14sec (1934 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 23 2020