Donna Linville The Beauty of Being Obedient

has she nodded has she done it let's stand and give her honor I just got to do that she's tremendous she's got a great team but it takes someone to guide it and directly you just want to squeeze her I could just break her in half she's so tired you may be seated sister Turner is tremendous and her great staff and everybody has been tremendous and I've had a great time and this musics been wonderful and they haven't asked me to play and I'm trying to not have an offense but I always tell Janice I taught her everything she knows and that as I said yesterday is a joke between us and we flew together in somewhere and she was speaking Spanish I said como esta like I'm trying to speak Spanish too and my little humor bone gets a little weird sometimes but it has been a great great honor great great honor to be with you all and you're wonderful and my hostess they've been great been kind to me and I love the family of the Lord I love my sisters I love I'm a slumber party diet coke M&M gal you know mean I love popcorn and I love family and the greatest thing in the world about the family of the Lord is is the fact that there's a link of our spirit together in and so as a toad sister schumacher the the greatest thing in the world for me is to see people I love laughs it is it's sort of like well not sort of I know it's been in ministry God just put in my life because I love my father went blind when I was young and I remember hymns coping he was a design engineering went blind and and I remember sitting in getting him to laugh til his red hair just blazed and and what veins would pop out on his neck as he was trying to figure out how to get salt on his food and and and then my sweet sister and so I want to just give you so people I love I like to make laughs so if you don't mind I'm gonna give you a little Mary Hart a little medicine right now before we go home and I won't keep you all day I know several of you have to drive many many hours to get home but let's have a fun time before I speak my final statements of what I feel like the Lord gave me this morning but the talk about funny of family having a good time the teenagers do not do what I'm fixing to tell you to do what I did okay any young people here please understand this moment here but my my brother and I the last Christmas before my dad passed away is something I will never forget because it was a beautiful beautiful Christmas and we were all sitting around we're adults now we're all older and my dad's this is one of our family favorite stories my dad said we were just finished opening gifts were sitting around he said tell us something that you all did as teenagers you never told us now even though I'm married we're pastoring but I still felt like that my mom and dad could grab me you don't mean and say my goodness well Nancy and I and my brother looked at each other and we're all I went you know a lot have been repented over I mean we'd already pretended to God over a long time ago you know but one story came up and Nancy 19 looks at each other and I'm talking about this precious retreat I heard y'all giggling late last night down the hall did you hear it they were giggling having a blast about three and so and I sort of was trying to have a blast with you you know trying to sleep blast but you know but I was grinning in my bed hearing you but I've got to tell you these retreats are this type of family camaraderie this warmth of y'all wheezing and choking on your food and popcorn and going to Walmart and all of these late now what time do we get out of here normally on Saturday 11:30 so let me hurry get through this but this is these conferences are important just for this memory and family is important and memories are important and so this moment that was like that so we law looked each other and Nancy my older sister said Donna I know which one it is I looked to Dana I said okay Dan will tell you mom well they were gleefully waiting and looking at is hoping that we would really get going so this is the story my brother had just got his driver's permit and if you know anything about the man of the home my dad had just bought a brand new Buick brand-new had been saving up for it and it was one of those big Buicks and he so proud of that Buick he was just and you know you they they don't let you drive in it they don't let you drive it you can't eat in it and and forbid the first one that scratches it or spills anything in it well that's what happened my dad we my brother kept on saying daddy daddy let us let us please let's do it drive the car I've got my driver's permit so my finally finally on a Sunday after Sunday school my dad's okay let Donna take you to Tombigbee State Park and you drive in those little band and roads over there that's what we did we drove on a Sunday after it's a new school dinner we're driving around we're fixing to go home it's church time so we back up Danny backs up and when he does bow I mean death came over our bodies because my dad used to be a Marine Sergeant and he his whole stoic attitude was Marines you know he was like they don't like up go now you don't know everything so up we go in now we did it you know so when we come out and I go Danny you're dead you're dead it was vide the whole back was V and it was a tree trunk had been cut down he didn't see it I said let's go to Nancy my oldest sister she's married daddy loves her more than us cuz she thought we thought she'd be the mediator you know so we drive real quick to Nancy's house and on a Sunday afternoon she'd been rest let's get out of here look she walks behind this two week old car she goes I said Nancy daddy loves you more than us cause daddy she said no I don't know who you are so Nancy said no that's on you not she stopped just tell you I'm praying while you're gone that song will do so we're driving home with a death emotion when we get home my dad's in bed and it was a filler well and so my mom said you know we've got to get ready for church and so I said okay and I told Danny said with talent I would get home from church okay we'll do it tonight after church so we can leave in mom's car and so at church that night mother thought revival had happened to me and Danny my brother was like eh you over the altar I was crying I was having people pray my brother and I was hanging over each other with prayer and intercession and we mother was shopping when we were praying for the death angel to pass our house that night we were terrified so I said Danny after church real challenge we drove home with mother we were silent we weren't saying when we got home he was still in bed it's okay we're walking down the hall mama said good night we're hugged good night man we're welcome to our bedrooms I said because my mom and dad always had breakfast before he went to working so the minute we heard dad we had those old hardwood floors cracking and we heard daddy go down the hall and Danny I mean we're talking about 5:00 in the morning in which we never up during school and so Danny comes over there he goes it's okay so I'm getting out of bed we're just coming in our bedroom when the front door closes and then lights go out lights come on so why drive I got back in bed he jumps back in bed so I said Danny this is it tonight after work he said we are in so much trouble we are so much of a weird so all day in school it was just like we were swimming through thick gel of beer it is like so our family always ate dinner Monday through Friday at 5:30 dad come home at 5:00 shower and come in so we're setting the table and here comes the driveway up my dad and he's gone he was tall six foot two three guy and Danny's and we're said the table and my dad comes to that front door and he goes Jamie my mom's name I am so mad I am so mad I can't believe it I said what's wrong chef she's he said these cheap cars these cheap cars he said I barely backed up and I barely hit up he said it is a beam he said I barely touched the pole and it's butylated get call all states call all state these cheap cars and they walk back to the through the hall and they go to their bedroom and I looked at my brother I said Danny if ever there's a God put a belief in God like nothing but that Christmas we towed the story and my dad went I still remember that tall gray headed man laid back on that couch screaming and hollering and baiting the couch and it was a memory I will never forget Oh [Applause] you know those moments like that my dad said what's wrong with our family my mom loves chocolate and she choked on one of those at a holiday and and my sister's a nurse my mom was a nurse my mom sister was a nurse and she's passed away many years ago and she grabbed my mom got it choked she was laughing so hard and then my sister got it I'm sorry beating her chest you know trying to get it come out and and then mom falls over and we're all trying to beat her back and finally the chocolate goes right there and then Nancy I and my mother my brother were just my dad is there's nothing wrong with his family were laughing over death you know near death but I thank God that when my mom got the Holy Ghost she got a merry heart there was just a I read a statement that said parenting is like fun fair and firm and I think is so need to be fun so those memories that memory is precious one last memory there are so many memories and moments that are precious to me the my absolute favorite story is when many of you've asked and I was trying to think of anything new there are so many new things that's happened that I need to write him all down someone said Donna do you embellish these I said I wish I wish I was embellishing all this I've got to tell you one little quick story I had two skin cancer on my nose and that you know how high and low we can get just real quick these highs and lows my doctor I never understood him the whole time he's like what are we gonna do those there's no one knows you got consular and we're going to a little bit of everything and I'm going I've got cancer my yeah soon what I'm trying to say okay I'll just sign the paper or whatever and every time I go and I go yeah okay when's the surgery well he was like that too the whole thing I never understood him bent hardly and so anyway but when we when I went into surgery their footing fixing to put me out he looked over he's a Muslim dude I said yes sir he said they may have to take your nose off and he put me to sleep right then and I went what and then I went out later I asked him why did you do that [Music] he's to do a sweet woman and I didn't want to hurt you too bad I said oh it was a shocker I tell you well but when I came to they had this big huge they put a ball on skin grafts to hold that thing down he did and I had this big white thing right here for six weeks and I'm walking around like this you know and holding my mic that ball in place for their skin graft to finally take on so six weeks later our spokes supposed to speak in Maryland ladies conference and I called Linda I said you know I don't know if I'm gonna be able to come she said I said that day is the day I take my bandage off so my husband drove me up there and so it was the first time I'm to see my nose and I'm my husband's laying on the bed and I take the bandage off just before church and I go oh I'm I'm crying talking Jesus Jesus oh he said what's wrong I said it's Henry its Harry the skin rep is Harry they took the hairy part and put it on my nose and my husband's practicality he said why it's more important no nose or a hairy poop so I'm my emotions are plummeted I mean just like it's Harry and I said I guess I can use Nair I guess I could shave it and I'm just putting my heart just sunk you know if my husband's late just for a few minutes aren't we emotional I'm unbelievable rollercoasters he's late just a few minutes and I'm already crying and praying and thinking what's we're gonna say at the funeral you know I'm saying and then he rides oh thank God he didn't have a record I mean you know we go through so these and that's I was like so then I go in the shower and I got the soap and medicine and I'm going yeah I supposed to brush and get it clean it oh and I'm building an altar in the shower oh my god is Harry NoZe first and this is smaller than what it did was look he was huge your sort of strength and I would come out of the shower and just I looked in the mirror and I go thank you Jesus thank you goes what now I said they're just stitches they're just stitches I had all these tiny little stitches all through it our emotions are so unstable or they not my last funny story and I do love to make people I love laugh I love a good wheeze I loved wheeze until like I'm hoarse and and I love it all so go back there and get those DVDs because they'll make you ease and they're all humor it's funny it's crazy story a lot of these stories are on there some this last ones on it this is my absolute favorite story and this is my biggest request and many of you have heard it a zillion times but so many of you said you gotta tell I got friends here my mom and I and my husband went to a camp meeting on a Friday night and it was one of those powerful messages and our camp evangelist said at the midnight hour of the rapture is coming and he kept on pointing at the midnight hour at the midnight hour and oh it was powerful at the midnight hour and we we went to the altar we pray through mom and I and my husband we're just bawling and crying we're having a good time and kept on said the midnight hour and so we're leaving it's about 11:30 that night from camp-meeting we had refreshments we're leaving in so my husband said why don't you and mom get in the front and I'll sit back here with all the boxes our district ladies have been working on some things and so it's okay so we're driving away from the campground we go to a filling station and he's getting gas and we're just waiting we're going to motel room and we're tired from the whole week and finally Gary gets in the back seat of the car wood leaves the door open I said mom do you want anything here at Exxon before we leave the motel she said no I don't think so I said Gary I looked in the rearview mind mirror I said do you want anything he said no I don't think I do I said okay and I put it in drive and then I heard my husband say wait and then the door closed because I knew his leg was out and I just drove off so we're we're just driving and you know driving through down through Virginia and just driving and we're going through a little old town that was a civil war town and that old town square had a humongous clock humongous clock and we're driving toward that town square and I said is that not spooky that's spooky to me look at all the hands pointing at midnight that is spooky that's exactly what that would preach in such a nice ooh that's spooky mom is that spooky to you all those hands right we're coming right toward that man she said that is spooky I said Gary look at that isn't that spooky to you and I said my Gary look at that it's the midnight hour it's the rapture it's a rapture we're lost we're lost I stop right in the middle of the road and mom said what are you saying I said Gary's gone Gary's gone it's a rapture she said what are you saying people were honking I roll my windows nice and go around and Sirius it's a rapture it's the rocks are we are over the edge delirious we're screaming mama said I can't believe it after all these years I said you're lost I'm lost she's the baby I prayed through tonight I said can you feel Jesus she said I can't feel nothing I'm so scared she has a little heart problem we're screaming in there honking I said go around it serious in our delirium we're screaming in holler mama said what are we gonna do are we going back to Portsmouth I said no I don't want them to know I'm lost I'm the pastor's wife she said well let's go back to the campground I said no I don't want to know who's lost at the campground oh we are having these major scenarios in our mind I said what if what happens now and then I said mama see if there's any clothes left so mama gets on her knees and looks over she said the clothes must go with you and then it hit me I said mama Gary's got all the money in the credit cards I don't have any cash oh it was pre Devon days oh we're over the edge delirious over we're screaming we're trying to be saved after the rapture we're screaming how are we doing you turning in one way and the reason why we knew it was one way because the cars coming towards and so then we go down another road and in our delirium that night they were having like a street party but the way we were looking at it my mom said the spirits are making people come out of their homes don't look at him we were locking the doors I did another u-turn I went up on the sidewalk it trashed and I'm trying to get away from these spirits coming after me we are absolutely lost all sense of reason we had no sense of reason mama said we maybe he may have got out of line I said no he's we're lost you're lost I'm lost we go all the way back in at the top of the hill we look down at the next time my house has got a cup of coffee and he's just like this we drive by a mile over my window I said baby why did you do that he said remember when I said wait maybe I would like cup of coffee he said I shut the door hey hey hey and the woman at the Exxon station was looking out looking at me he said I told that woman gave my wife 20 in 30 minutes and when she's through talking she'll thank the rapture took place [Applause] whoo for weeks you know those weeks after that I devil pray double faster double done done the double did triple did did everything I could if I woke up and my head was already gonna go where are you in the house shaving okay I mean I know he's going I my dear Lord I hope that puts some merriment in your spirit and a good medicine now before I go on trips my mother always gives me last my mom lives with me she'll be 88 and she's been living with me for 21 years now and she is a hoot she still works she's a retired nurse but my brother owns a restaurant and she feels like it is not doing well until she's there every day and he definitely don't think it does well either she makes homemade desserts and breads and and I am what I am do to her and she's getting bones she's Russell box I buy our box arrests over a week she's two boxes of Krispy Kremes a week I've had one this year and I'm carrying it with me as I scream I'll go up to see her she's on the couch reading a book with a box of crystal silver on her chest and eating candy weena but and I bought her 24 rabbits for Easter five of those empty rabbits those hollow ones and twenty of those ones this big solid all the way through and they were eaten in two weeks is that sickening or what and she is more spry and her blood is perfect her life is unbelievable so I'm just saying I've been blessed with a mom that is um she tries to help me up from the chair I said mother you're a being almost don't try to help me everybody's watching she's a precious I'm worried about you I've been blessed I want to give you but my mom gives me last minutes instructions she'll say no baby you just tell those people and she'll say come here you got a string and and and my husband died both are doted on by our mom and I've been blessed by that for motherless daughters I'm sad but I've been blessed but I wanted to give you some last-minute instructions I was speaking somewhere up north at Italy campground and my mom I was had a bad bronchitis and mom said you better take your antibiotics so I'm up on a stage like this and all the way across the service there was a note that came all the way down to me and it was a little piece of paper in a head your mother caused the district office and said are you taking your antibodies okay I'm 59 in few weeks I went thank you thank you number one I didn't know how she found the district office phone number that's what I was trying to figure out I want to give you some last-minute instructions if you don't mind someone that loves you and more than anything in the world I want change without paying I read a statement that said most people don't change unless they have pain and I've often told the Lord Jesus please let my flesh be so submissive that I don't have to have pain to change me please Lord why do I have to go through pain to be changed we've all had to touch the stove that's hot and then so he can't touch the stove no more it'll burn you I wanted to just in these last few moments to tell you that there are people live their whole life with pain just because they won't change there's people that constantly bump against the will of God and they have to suffer the consequence of pain because the ultimate end is that they live happily ever after but they're constantly fighting against the resistance of the spirit realm that's trying their best to not to Niagara Falls and falling off the cliff but to walk into a vein of the spirit that will lift their life so high that they don't even comprehend how great their life is meant to be I want to give you one of those last-minute instructions and this message is something that you yourself is going to have to take home and look in the mirror and and evaluate your life your marriage your children your your ministry in your church my husband was a bad diabetic and he would not take insulin I told this to several ladies the other night he wouldn't take insulin he kept on putting it off I don't want to do insulin he hated the thought of injections and all that and so he got very very sick went to the hospital and the doctor came in there and I just so happened walked out of his room and the doctor a lady doctor I looked at her and she she had all the equipment the monitor to do his finger and I saw the needles she's going to teach him how to do insulin and do all that I said he won't do it he won't do it for years we tried to get him on insulin he won't do it I said unless you can come up with something that'll get him to change his way and she said I said he'll say this statement I'm not afraid of death because to him it's heaven so you know and I know I'm gonna die young so you know that attitude she said don't worry I've done this before I've got it I said don't don't look at me I'm not gonna say a word so I go in there she goes in first I wait a bit and I sit down she saw mr. Linville your sugar is outrageous your medicines all those pills you're taking is not working and he said you've got to go on insulin he said I know I know I'm gonna die yet and he said I know I'm gonna die young he said but I don't want those shots and she said and this is where her brilliance came out she said no mr. Linville it's not that I'm worried about your death I know you are going to die young because you're not taking care of yourself he said she said but what it's gonna be bad for you yes you're gonna rot until you die and in the rotting you're going to have a lot of pain I still see the white color come on his face the best color I've ever seen on his face I wanted to go yes and he just got real quiet he said well tell me about how to do insulin and it it's been great ever since it's been good he's Vincent and worked all as well but he had to come to the grips with the right moment and I want to if the Lord will permit my spirit and you feel I won't be able to go in depth about this but I want to talk to you about the beauty of being obedient to Jesus and that obedience is going to lead you into a path of not rotting but of a blessing oh my goodness oh my goodness I'm giving you today through the spirit I feel of fresh invitation to your soul to experience a true awesomeness with God that will pour out over your children that would spill out on the environment that you're in and that that fresh invitation to your soul will take you out of your comfort zone I will tell you that it will put into your life a need to replace the appetite that you have for certain things into the appetite of the Spirit it will have to replace it will have to there's nothing worse than than denying yourself with a box of Krispy Kremes there's stuff worse than that but the denying factor the replacing your lifestyles with this lifestyle it takes a lot of hard work to replace it and to refill your brain with other things but can I tell you there is an awesome invitation of the spirit realm that God has been waiting for a long time to give you another path of a blessing well up till now you've been rotting I don't want a rock world I don't want to be deteriorating of relationships oh no I want to laugh with my veins popping out I want children to hug me and love me I want people say I want what you've got I want my life to be joy and peaceful and at rest in the spirit realm I do not want to change with pain I don't want to have to change with pain I know as children we learn our Sakura sir our boundaries by absolutely not stop no don't I had a mother come to me recently and she said it's so hard she said to set boundaries I said I want to tell you some about boundaries without a boundary to water it's a swamp but you put a boundary to your teenager into your daughter and your son without boundaries it's a swamp but you put a boundary there's a mighty flow of the river that can be dynamically drawn to the ultimate plan by Jesus Christ oh absolutely I lived with her mom to set boundaries because she didn't let in my whole flesh spread out like a swamp to every every snake and every foul thing of this world was swimming into my spirit oh no this is a boundary oh no you won't oh no you won't uh-uh you won't and I resisted the boundary but she I didn't realize that my life was being forced into a greater path and a greater down dimension the spirit realm of the Holy Ghost hallelujah I didn't realize I was being directed and guided to a destiny instead of spreading out like a swamp oh thank you thank you lord my favorite story and I've said this many times if we forgive me if I repeat it but it's my it's a memory that I will never forget in a middle middle of a message our pastor was preaching I was a teenager and right in the middle of a message he went yes young people I think you've talked to you disturb the service don't you dare leave I was on that row my mom has a little crunch in her jaw when she's upset you see this muscle move and she just turned like this and I saw that crunch and I knew death was near to my body and I thought oh no I'm this is over she just looked to see if I was on that Pew have to church the church vacuum down except the parents of those kids I still remember the parents said pastor I don't appreciate you doing that tire you could wait to have to talk about it I don't going line by line line by line of all these kids I grew up with teenagers by now 15 and I thought God please my mother be like them please please be my excitement I said I saw the smirk of some of these friends in mind I looked over and the parents were crossing their own man as a Hornet you know what the pastor for openly repeating us over the pulpit and my mother who is a Joan of Arc of Spirit she went can I say sir she's you see where my melodramatic comes from can I say something I just want to say I'm so ashamed of my daughter being used by the devil and I'm I'm so ashamed I want you to apologize to your pastor and I went oh no oh no you stand up he was a tall man you stand up and look him I stood up my way i sat down him not only will she be corrected now but she will be corrected when she gets home and I just the lady beside me the young man beside me his mom did the same thing now of all the people on that Pew isn't it ironic the two that's living for the Lord I was taught an invaluable lesson of a boundary of obedience it was invaluable because as I stepped at 16 and 17 my pasture was shaped my hen and I don't know how he found out but he's the sister Donna you're not going to go tonight with all those other young people are you know when no sir I was but I'm not now I'm just no I'm not I'm talking about a blessing of the Lord the Lord longs more than anything in the world that you have settled it once and for all a divine guided life by God requires an obedient spirit not only to God but to those that have rule over you it's important because I don't know if you understand the divineness of God God works with the steps of the righteous are ordered by God you don't understand that your family has a destiny you single young lady have a destiny you young lady your grandma your Nana whoever you are out there you are still under the Mandate of a divine purpose in your life you are not sitting on a pew filling a table and singing or working on a little booth you are have a divine plan by God and that divine plan it may be just raising a little boy to be the next John the Baptist of this next generation I don't know the plan I do not know I do not know what Sunday school teacher that you're going to influence a young girl that would lay down her life for the sacrifice of the kingdom in these final days I don't know the divine plan for your life but the the difference is that people who say yes to God will see life different than everyone else in the church it's a different persona it's a different caliber of a person a person that has given it all and say Jesus I say yes to the Divine Will I'll say yes I won't cross my eyes I won't move my eyes I won't get myself in a huff and puff I won't do nothing I'll say yes Lord yes Lord yes Lord I will obey those that have rule over me I'll do whatever and it will God for a divine appointment by God you are missing divine appointments for your children and for your marriage and for your future when you are struggling with no yes yes I'll do that no no I won't do that yes yes no no no yes yes no no yes yes your controlling the factor and the the destiny projection of your life and your children your marriage your future your singlehood yes okay destinies here yes Jesus no whoohoo I don't want that I'll step back oh yes I'll take that oh no Unsoeld so and so day he's supposed to be here there in that I believe in the divine order of God I believe that everything is divinely planned by Jesus he has established our goings hallelujah Jesus is divine order that you be here at this ladies conference hallelujah Jesus every aspect of our lives are not happened chance people who say yes to God sees life different they're drawn in and embrace life into the love of Jesus like others don't even sense or feel they don't wait to Sunday and Wednesday to experience God people that have a spirit that's because they sense God's presence all around them all through they all through their day let me tell you about people that are saying yes Jesus people that are saying oh God give me the guidance of spirit today the divine order people that walk in that blessing round don't see walking through their daily life is a merely a mundane moment it's not just merely walking through the motions of life every day but when you walk into the desire to be guided and directed by Jesus that day is a pursuit for an adventure of a divine lessons and divine appointments that God has in store for you hallelujah Jesus I don't want my divine appointment missed today I don't want to miss that my divine lesson today people that are says yes to God an obedient God are very honest people very honest they look in the mirror and they said Donna you're not doing good you're slipped here you're not doing good people that are wanting God's will are honest to themselves to themselves they're not living in some unbelievable dream that even though they come Sunday and they live like the devil Monday through Friday they're going to heaven it don't this is not scriptural that you're living you're not living you're not honest you're not honest with your children you're not honest it's it's a dishonesty and then you go in the car and because you're not honest saying yes to Jesus doesn't mean though you're going to live happily ever after and I'm leading to an end here I appreciate you're as happy as I am and make you laugh I feel this so strong sister shoemaker this morning people that understand the divine order of God don't always live happily ever after I see these beautiful babies back there in the hall I've never had the privilege to have children I had cancer when I was 31 and I look I want to squeeze him I want to hug him I want to melt him into my body I adopted a child and lost a child they came back and got it five days later the woman walked the streets but found out she could get SSI with the keeping the baby but the Lord knows all things but a person that doesn't live happily ever after just saying God hears my life doesn't mean happily ever after but what it does mean is this being a person that says yes to God only means one thing that that person has chosen to trust him even when he doesn't understand why he requires the things he does it means that once you say yes to God you've just refused to turn back that's it no matter what storm you're going through no matter what you're facing you may not be happily ever after but you said oh as for me I keep on saying is my house oh no I won't I won't turn back I'm going forward it may not be happily ever after but I settled it a long time ago I will follow the obedience of a bigger vision of being a diet divine appointment by God oh absolutely happily ever after doesn't exist exhale we get to Eternity but this society that we're living in is is telling us that this radical obedience to God's commandment to listen to God's convictions to obey those that have rollovers to walk in the character of Christ is obsolete they're mingling and blending churches with the will of the flesh with the will of the Spirit it doesn't max it doesn't mix rather it doesn't mix but when you have this desire like a keyboard is just to come and play softly for a moment but when you have this desire to have divine lessons and appointments by God it doesn't obedience doesn't mean is more than not sinning folks do you understand that it's more than not sinning obedience it is just having an overwhelming urge and a desire to walk in the center of God's will for your life that's it you may stumble you may you don't even want to stumble about being perfect just saying to Jesus doesn't mean you're going to have perfect performance but rather just perfect surrender to the Lord day by day and say God forgive me just forgive me today I slipped up my mouth wasn't sweet I did want to get him to buy for me and I didn't cuss but I was coming near it but I've sort of slipped in spirit I want to be guided and blessed by Jesus I want you evaluate the come and goes and the yes and knows of your life I want you to understand that there is a divine appointment for you for your gifts and abilities and your kingdom and people are sitting all of their lives on pews that have never surrendered you're filling up Sunday school rooms you're singing in choirs you look cute you shout you worship or praise the Lord but you have not entered into an intimacy with God that will get you to a place of a divine appointment to his destiny I don't want that in my life I have to constantly jerk up this Oh flesh as my mom jerked me that 15-year old time and she said oh no so what does she do I clean the commodes for three months in that church I cleaned the church for three months but she was right beside me she was a nursing supervisor three to eleven she said Donna we're going to clean the house of God for three months and you're going to sit beside me and she was fun I remember cleaning those commodes and she said Donna God is pleased with what we're doing in this house and God's pleased that you're willing to say forgive me pastor ever since then something solidified in my spirit that boundary came up high and strong in my heart and I'd like you to think in your spirit how how how have I led the Swan come have I let loose with my children to where the the laughter in the car over a silly message has made them knocked down one boundary have you griped in the car over a long prayer time have you laughed about a youth leader it's important folks because you're going to miss a divine lesson or you're going to miss a divine appointment by God at the very time you need it just because you're sitting on a few don't mean you have the stamp of approval on your life no I've had young beautiful single women said and I want to look at them and said God will not invest a faithful spiritual man to you until you become faithful to him he hasn't raised a spiritual young man that will be faithful to you when you have breast cancer to invest in you when you have been playing with the world and every other guy until you find a an investing Holy Ghost filled young man that God has been his whole life getting prepared for a girl that will be reached out through righteousness and will link to his divine appointment you're not honest you're lying to yourself then what do i do what do i do then seek ye first the kingdom of God you start seeking the first the kingdom of God and let me tell you something someone told me they said Donna how is it you chubby I don't have my dad was in the ministry how is it and someone this is done after this is twenty eight twenty eighteen nineteen years of travel around the world how is it and I thought I don't know because I'm chubby I'm not smart I don't know how I got here but one thing when they said I want to do that I'm going to do that and it's it's a price to do it it's a price unbelievable price but off but the Lord gave me a snap reply that I never thought of oh he is my god and the Lord spoke to me just like that and I said I know why I'm here and it wasn't a brownie point on mine part I said the Bible says you pray in private secret he'll reward you openly that's it I started praying when I was 17 I started seeking God I wanted to divine direction by God I don't know when it may come I don't know when the appointment may be here but I'm going into the secret hiding place because I heard a momma that went in his secret hiding place and all when I stand up here I wish he was here this morning and I wish he was here because you ought to see her I told her one time she when I get up she travels with me when she picks the places he has to be candid or Hawaii she loves those places I would guy came out she's her clapping she stood nobody knew she's my mother I told her later said mommy don't do that sweetie I said cuz they don't know you're not my mother but it makes everybody else stand up class and I don't want I don't want to be standing up clap oh yeah they don't have to do that she's if you're not quiet I'm gonna get pom-poms but I've got to tell you this story my mother was a sectional leader of the ladies auxilary then of our section tupelo until my dad became blind my dad asked mom to quit my mom had a heart after God and she loved the kingdom of God and she would let me go to youth camp and she would cook youth camp so I go to youth camp so I could have many such a sacrificial selfless mom but let me tell you something when I and my husband got our went in there - for our license in Mississippi see I'm not standing on my me I truly no I'm not but the Lord's we were getting our license and Mississippi and the district superintendent at the time brother Edwards looked at me and he said folks I don't know if you know who this is this is Donna Shepherd and sister Donna do you know that we were considering your mother's a lady's president of the ladies ministries or auxilary of Mississippi and then she quit I said well my dad went blind she had to go back to nursing well I want to tell you the feeling I felt when I was voted in 20 years ago as a ladies president of Virginia it was in the office but I want you to know I cannot tell you the look of my mom's face and when I stood on that that's when she stood up started clapping and I looked at her and I thought no mother it's not Donna I'm fulfilling a divine appointment by your life and by your selflessness I want to say it out loud i total ATAR so it's important it's important I want to give you a divine appointment that God gave me and God is no different I'm just trying to say I'm of no worth except he's just a vessel just like us but I want to tell you a divine appointment some have heard this and I'm going to sing this song in conclusion and then and then we'll go home please be honest with yourself please evaluate put yourself under the specs and see how much you're controlling your destiny but I want to tell you how neat it is to feel that everywhere you walk he's with you there's you say well I'm not perfect I love what sister joseon's it's not performance level is what I'm talking about his love for you and he loves those that do wrong but he blesses those that do right but I've got to tell you a sweet story that the Lord did for me and this is how infinite God is about you and he knows everything about you divine appointments some pastor's wife some minister's wife may have heard this but it literally helped me through a major storm in my life I had been hurting on my left side for a long time several years ago and I was in the airport and I loved ladybugs now I don't want him all over my house but I like little sweaters or a little something like that and so I'm in this boutique and there's a ladybug luggage that was absolutely delightful until I saw the price and I wasn't in whimsical spending at the time I was more electric bill spending so I rode around with it I thought it's so cute we'll go through the airport with that ladybug tote or heart suitcase whatever it was and that was so six months later I'm hurting on my left side really hurting him and so I finally went in had an MRI I'm flying home that coming Tuesday was I go to urologist to see the prognosis of that MRI I figure disinfection or whatever on Saturday night I'm flying home from a ladies conference I'm in the Memphis Airport and I'm buying I'm in lying to get a barbecue sandwich at Corky's barbecue is that not good oh my goodness I'm standing there it's the evening I'm tired I look tired feel tired a woman walks over to me as I'm in lined along these women these people she comes over and taps me on the shoulder sister Turner she goes like this and just taps me and I go yes ma'am she said you look like a woman that likes ladybugs I'm not embellishing I went yes I didn't have any ladybugs on me I mean no designer and I said she's if you go down the terminal in a Bowtique there's a luggage there for $4.99 and I went thank you and she just walks away and I was like you know like this is spooky I went I went on got the barbecue sandwich ate it but I thought well I'm in a hurry I gotta catch my flight so I ran down to the terminal we're looking boutiques trying to find it and I walked in boat taking there in the corner I went everybody started looking at me I was sober went with it yeah I was like oh I had five dollars and I bought it and I went down the terminal looking through the gates trying to find the lady I was stunned I called my husband called my mom called my best friend's and yuck the most weirdest thing your ladybug what I was just calling everybody it was stunning I didn't know what the divine moment was you know I was like what in the world ladybug divine moment you know you don't even think about that so come Tuesday I walk in my urologist sits down and he said you have a tumor on your left kidney it's cancerous we're gonna have to take her kidney may have gone dialysis it was one of the bleakest reports I was breathless I lost my breath I signed for surgery walked into a lab - gave the gave my blood for them to get pints of blood ready for me and I walked it out in shock and I walked to my car and I started hyperventilating I was 1 and God spoke to me and he said if I know you like lady banks I know all about today I tell you oh I range of the church prayed got my emotions emptied out I ran home told my husband I don't believe it we're going to get a second opinion we did found a professor and he had a new technique of freezing tumors so it's frozen every six months I have an MRI or an ultrasound at 1-1 a year of either one every time I go in there I have a little ladybug in my purse when I went in surgery I had five ladybugs stuffy things and the doctor looked at he went well and these are I said ladybugs Oh but when God I needed a childlike help that God knows where I'm and then when I recognized I I knew I have a I don't have a lot of hair but he knows the very hairs on her head he numbered him that didn't relate cuz some are losing him mine I've lost but when he told me I know you like oh Jesus you're that knowing and folks he knows the book you read this morning he knows when I walked in that boutique seven months before and rode around with that little carton cart oh my jesus knows us and he understands the destiny of your life those that you influenced and those about you and I don't want to miss a divine appointment by God this song is going to be just a stand up altar call we crammed down the front I want you just listen to the first verse as this brother would play it if my voice will permit me to sing it hallelujah brother as you played this if you could let me have a monitor a good sound of that song for me yes this is going to be our alter calm and really I'd like you to say God please let me be honest with me and let me come to a divine appointment with you Jesus you can stand if you'd like in the dark and lonely hours I listen for your voice to calm my fears we haven't as I stare into the quietness my heart meeting alone is all I hear but listen but I know that you are near me even when I cannot hear you we're never far you're here within my heart and the love that you have given is all I'll ever need to make it true I put my hope and trust in you [Music] I know that loves beyond all limits [Music] whose arms are strong to say I know great whose power is all-sufficient and that the blood of Christ can wash away each day I know a love don't you feel that love we founded this a weekend hallelujah Jesus now I want you to hear this verse in times of your endless questions there is only one truth you know to know that it's his love that surrounds you a love that will never let you go I know that he'll be painful when in human eyes it may seem Oakland just cling to him hello and he'll make his presence known ladybug he'll so tenderly he'll hold you he'll remind you that this love you crown just trust alone [Music] that floats beyond all limits let's walk to the front I know [Music] power is awesome bishop and that's the blood of Christ and wash away each day I know I love to remember so when the darkness comes [Music] [Music] who ever changes [Music] Hey [Music] I like this there is nothing [Music] Oh sufficient and the blood of Christ can wash away [Applause] [Music] direct your mind [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hallelujah Jesus

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Published: Wed May 13 2020