Don't Just Walk Through Any Door - Pastor Stephen Chandler

they say they came to balaam and said this is what balak son of support says do not let anything keep you from coming to me because i will reward you handsomely and do whatever you say come and put a curse on these people for me but balaam answered them even if baylet gave me all the silver and all the gold in his palace i cannot do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the lord my god what if we lived in a place where no money could buy us out of god's will come on what if we were so secure in the unchanging hand of our father baltimore county that not one dollar bill signed that amount of influence can cause us to step outside of god's will for our life bailey said he said now spend the night here so that i could find out what else the lord will tell me the night god came to balaam and said since these men have come to summon you go with them but do only what i tell you let me catch you up in the story there was a prophet by the name of balaam balaam was known around town as a person that had the mouthpiece of god he was able to speak on god's behalf israel had stepped into the promised land everybody overlooked them some small insignificant country they can't do much and then jericho falls jericho was the most powerful nation in that land and when they fell people were like oh no we got some problems then ai falls balak king of moab he realized i'm in trouble there's some favor on these people's life if only we understood that the favor of god on our lives gives us the majority even if we are the minority it doesn't matter if your company is small and you're bidding up against a corporation if you have the favor of god on your life if god is fighting on your behalf if god is going for you it doesn't really matter who's against you so barely said i need some help he went from the prophet said can you curse these people he said i will pay you whatever you he handed him a blank check that's just just a question i know your spiritual you love god you never forsake god i have a question for you if somebody came to you and asked you something and the statement started with i will pay you whatever you ask how are you going to act now i'm a pastor so i'm going to say thank you jesus look what the lord has provided i mean i'm not going to do anything illegal but it's like come on i'm listening don't lie to me you're like i'm listening he said i'll give you whatever you need i just need you to curse these people them said i can't do that those are god's people god told me not to go he came back and he doubled his offer balaam went back we're going to have so much fun today because the bible is so confusing he came back to god the first time god said don't go the second time god says okay you can go but only say what i tell you to say wait did god just change his mind because i thought we served a god that's the same yesterday today and forever come on columbia did god change his mind so balaam jumps on his dunk and he starts right i think balaam had his donkey pack for weeks just in case i got the go-ahead and he starts heading towards the nation to curse israel but as he's going god sent an angel to kill balaam what do you do when god tells you to go and then he tries to kill you you go to grove track and you figure that out cause that's the problem all right verse 27 it says this when the donkey that he was riding saw the angel of the lord it laid down under balaam and he was angry and he beat that donkey with his staff then the lord opened the donkey's mouth and the donkey said to balaam what have i done to you to make you beat me these three times you know you are outside of the will of god when a donkey is talking to you somebody like i ain't new i work with donkeys every day of the week man they talk to me all the time well let me put it this way you know you're outside of the will of god not when a donkey's talking to you but when you are talking back what makes you crazier the fact that you can hear it don't you the fact that you are dr doolittle all up in here balaam said to the donkey he said you have made you made me oh if i capricious i'm losing my cool because you made me look bad and i'm more concerned about how i look than being in the will of god it doesn't matter if i'm god in god's will as long as i say you made me look like a fool if only i had a sword in my hand he's all homicidal i would kill you right now the ducky said to balaam am i not your donkey but you have already rewritten all to this day have i been in the habit of doing this to you balaam said they're in the full conversation then the angel of the lord they opened balaam's eyes and he saw the angel lord stand in the road with the sword drawn so he bowed low and he fell face down the end of the lord asked him why have you beaten your donkey god looks out for the donkeys he said i have come here to oppose you because your path is reckless i'm confused how is it reckless god you told me to go the donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times if it had not turned away i would certainly have killed you by now but i would have spared the donkey you gotta love god's word he said if it wasn't for that donkey i would have killed you but i would have let the donkey live you know god is ticked off when he's letting donkeys live but he's like i'm about to take you let's pray father god we're grateful we're thankful god we're grateful that you have given us jesus to build our lives upon ever grateful for your grace for your mercy god for your hand of favor that's on our life in this moment we know that you're speaking god give us ears to hear god as you speak we will obey the matchless name of jesus we pray amen and amen and amen come on baltimore county somebody say amen we're in week two someone said week two we're in week two of this series called doorways and decisions and this series really came from something that god impressed on my life and if you're new uh to union church you're gonna find there is not many times that i say thus saith the lord i take prophecy very seriously not everything is thus saith the lord sometimes it's thus saith the pizza that i ate last night that i shouldn't hate that movie that i watched and i stayed no but sometimes god is speaking and when god speaks it's because he's looking to prepare us for something that he wants to do in our lives and hear me colombia god impressed on my heart that he is getting ready to open supernatural doors in your life if you call union church home if this is a place that god has called you to plant your family god is getting ready to open doors in your life and not just a churchy preacher ah there's a breakthrough on your way no i'm for real for real god is getting ready to mend broken relationships god is getting ready to open people's hearts to you that were once locked off god is getting ready to do things in your life that you didn't even know to pray for they're screaming amen in colombia this is a spiritual room right here you guys pastor yes yes here's the problem just because a door opens doesn't mean you're going to be able to find it or maximize it and as god laid on my heart i'm getting ready to open doors he he charged me stephen it is your job to get the church ready for what i am getting ready to do in their life the first step of getting ready is to respond by faith and not skepticism skepticism is to say oh whatever that's just what the preacher said you're supposed to encourage me and all that other kind of stuff so go ahead encourage me but that's not my story i ain't seen an open door since jimmy carter was president and i'm not expecting one right now well let me tell you how prophecy works it's not guaranteed it's god's desire and how you respond dictates if you see it come to pass in your life the biblical response is the response of mary she said let it be unto me according to god's word over my life can i help you out here you have nothing to lose by activating your faith like some of us were in this skeptical position of i'm not really going to buy into that well what happens if you do and i'm wrong your life looks the same as it looks right now you're lost nothing oh but what if you don't activate your face and i'm on faith and i'm right you miss that opportunity that god has for you so over these weeks we're saying god get us ready teach us how to walk through the door that you have for us today's message is called this don't just walk through any door yes god's getting ready to open a door for you but you got to understand not all doors are the same and you don't just want to walk through any door come here me and my wife we were in israel in 2017 it was an amazing experience we were there for 10 days it was the best five days of my life at about day six i said get me out of here you gotta understand i'm not a hummus guy i don't know what to do with hummus i'm a chick-fil-a guy and then they had no chick-fil-a in tel aviv but i was just like i need some chick-fil-a can i get a cheeseburger i mean um we had this over-ambitious tour guide she wanted to show us the entire bible in 10 days i'm like look lady it took them 3 000 years to live that thing out there is no way we are going to see every event in scripture like okay this is where jesus was baptized that's where he wept okay this is i'm like wait we got there a day early before our our tour started we landed in tel aviv which is a beautiful city we were right there on the water on the beach and my wife loves walking on the beach so we came out of our hotel one evening was like hey let's go walk in on the beach and there was like this cement path and then beach on the other side there was like this tall fence that was like covering the beach but they had these doorways for you to walk through the fence so so we kind of go down and see this doorway so my wife goes through and i go through it next thing you know it is i mean just a beautiful ocean my wife she just likes water she's already rolled up her pants like she's all out in the water waiting around i'm i mean i don't do beaches i'm just like okay let me know you know and i'm right here when you just felt people staring at you you you could feel their eyes on you and i'm just i just feel people staring at me and i'm just like what is this i know i'm in a different country but there's an international place people from all over around it's like that look at this this lady over here is just staring at me this lady over here is staring at me and this lady here is staring at me and this lady here this lady here and next thing i know it was only ladies that were staring at me i look around and i realize i'm on the women's beach y'all gotta understand i've never been to a country where they have a men's beach and a women's beach i walk through an open doorway but just because the doorway is open doesn't mean it's the one that was meant for you to walk through by the way i kept my holiness i didn't see nothing they all it skirts down to their ankles and turtlenecks as they were swimming so holy up in this country but we got enough i'm gonna get in trouble for that one we gotta know what door to walk through not just walking up to any door saying if it's open it must be god balaam had an open door hear me he had a door to guaranteed wealth he had a door to guaranteed influence the king of the nation said you can have whatever you want but yet it wasn't a god door hear me discernment is not needed when there's no open doors you you need discernment when you've got no options i'm just wondering which contract i should take well you ain't got none so uh you got to worry about which one to take because there's none coming the problem comes when you do have one you're like is this god or or is there another one coming i'll give you just three quick thoughts three good thoughts write this down columbia if you could take notes from me i'd really appreciate that first thought is this we have to expect doors to open we've got to expect doors to open here's what happens sometimes when a door opens you got to understand the bible says i is not seen ear has not heard no man can conceive what god has in store it says that god does exceeding and abundantly above all that we could ever ask think or imagine so sometimes when god opens a door for us we didn't see it coming we didn't expect the door to open we didn't know that that opportunity was going to come and because we didn't know that opportunity was come when the door opened we get flustered oh my goodness you would not it's a it's a it's an open door and we're ready to run through because we didn't expect it i i'm praying for a custodian's anointing on you y'all remember your custodian back at school where was college or middle school elementary or whatever your custodian he's walking through those hallways and let me tell you that brother that sister they walk through those hallways like they own the place i'm anxious and you would wonder why is he walking so confidently his confidence was based on the key ring that he had on his pocket some of y'all still got the custodian noises because you hook your keys right here and your your little ear pods and all the stuff your pants falling down you got so much it's on your pants he had confidence because he knew or she knew any door that's locked in this hallway one of these keys is going to open it one of the reasons why we are so shocked when doors open in our life because we don't realize that we actually have a key that unlocks situations in our lives the bible says this a person's gift a person's gift opens doors for him it leads him into the presence of great people god has given you a gift baltimore county and hear me your gift unlocks doors some of you are gifted in connecting with people some of you are gifted and encouraged do you know some people are gifted encouragers and some people give encouragement is not your gifting the prophet in the bible's name was barnabas they called him the son of encourage because when when when you got around barnabas you just you just felt like you could take on the world some of y'all you're giving that encouragement i get around you and i question my own self like man god's gonna do this and you're like are you sure again this is not guaranteed but sometimes when you have the gift of wisdom encouragement is a struggle for you because everything you look at you see the problems you see the different hazards you see the different barriers and you don't mean to be a negative person you don't mean it to your debbie downer you just have the gift of wisdom so hey oh this is going to be great my business is going to blow up well actually if you actually track the trend the economy is going i need to go find me and encourage her right now because i don't need strategy i just need you have a gift and your gift unlocks doors y'all know how i preach i like to say stuff that sounds like heresy and then clean it up at the end can i say one of those things right now baltimore said i could so here i go there's some doors that prayer will not open don't get me wrong prayer is vital because if you don't have a prayer life once the door opens you ain't going to know what to do with it you need prayer but there's some doors that are locked in our lives and we are oh god oh god god hey eli i'm not opening that door for you because i've already given you the key to unlocking your oh i think you hit trauma some of us are praying god won't you send mr wright god won't you send mrs right and god is saying if you would stop pretending to be someone you're not and use the gift that i've given you you're gonna find that your gift unlocks and here's the problem we've spent so much of our time okay i'm not gonna talk about you i'll be shady let me talk about stephen y'all be all right i spend so much of my time coveting somebody else's gift oh if i could only be humorous like this person or if i could be analytical like this oh if i would and here's the thing if you needed that gift to unlock your door god would have given you that gift the simple fact that he didn't give you that gift means that's not the gift that you need to unlock your destiny so instead of being jealous of other people's gifts find out what the key that god has given you to on if you're a numbers person that gift is going to unlock doors in your life if you're an encourager if you're a person that attracts whatever your gift is it unlocks things and gets what i've discovered the more i develop my gift the bigger doors it opens the more i invest in my gift the bigger doors it opens so in the beginning my little key only opens little doors as i develop as i grow as i study my key grows and doors open the fact that i need a key to open a door means that doors that god has for me are locked just because god has for me it doesn't mean it's all going to be open some of you like i know my gifting but it's not opening anything here's the thing a key fixes a problem a key fixes a lock problem and sometimes your problem hasn't grown up enough to receive your key yet you're wondering why am i not getting into that room into that circle into that opportunity they don't got enough problems yet hear me when you are the key the solution to their problem the door gonna come flying open because god god created you knowing that they're gonna need you because you are the solution to get them to where they need to go so i finally discovered my gift my my gift is wisdom i have the gift of prophecy when i when when i start to speak over things doors doors open doors open and it's a little shocking when your gift opens the first door because you're like where'd this come from all right this is good this is good i can do something with this you gotta understand your pastor i'm a little shady you run into the hotel and they give you your key they put in a little envelope and they say your room is room you know 9128 or 915 you got your key and your key unlocks your room every time i get an elevator i swear to swipe the penthouse i'm not i'm not in the penthouse i ain't paid for the penthouse i just want to know though what's up there i mean i'm not going to stay i just want to go see i'll come right back down but but since i just i just swipe my key just to see if it unlocks the door that's not for me and every so often you'll swipe your key you'll hit like the 21st floor and that thing will turn green and it'll go right past floor and i whoa what do you do when your key doesn't just open one door but it opens because this is this discovery process first we discover that i have a gift and my gift opens doors and it opens the door and i get excited but but then it begins to open multiple doors and i find myself in a situation where i i can't i can't walk through both doors at the same time some of y'all got doors open you're not used to doors opening so you don't want to close any of them so you're running one door just for a second how you doing one second and then you run through the other door and yeah hold on i'll be right back with you and you find yourself trying to play two doors somebody say pick come on columbia if you're going to maximize it you you you got to pick it's like when them game shows there's five million dollars behind one door and it's five dollars behind the other door you got 30 seconds to pick and we're going to play some really annoying music go ahead pick my key opens multiple doors here here's one of the things that we don't realize we don't read the bible we write the bible we don't even mean to but as we're reading the bible we write it here's one thing i say it sounds like heresy it's not calm down something like let me give you an example you you wrote the verse that i just read pull that verse it says this a man's gifts opens doors not singular they'll bring every second not singular there's an s on the end of it it says it opens doors and brings you before great men here's how we wrote the bible we thought it said a man's gifts opens door we thought our gift only opens one door and opens the door that god has birth that's not what the bible says it says your gift will open multiple doors plural not just one and it's going to bring you before great man if only we can understand that my gift it's going to open god doors it's going to open financial doors it's going to open favor doors it's going to open dead doors it's going to open setback doors it's going to open painful doors it's going to open doors that the enemy wants me to walk through it's going to open doors that's going to waste my time my gift is going to open doors if i'm not aware of that i find myself in a position where i have multiple doors open balik is knocking on my door offering me all the money in the world and god's saying that's not it but i'm like oh i want to go through it's like a thought is this write this down oh if i can grab your face and beg you on this one take time to seek direction from god thank god for the open doors come on go crazy go nuts glorify him god i'm grateful that you have gifted me and your open door and you're giving me opportunities this is above and beyond anything that i could ever ask think or imagine but when you're finished thanking him don't just run through pause and listen and say god is this the door that you would have for me the one thing i think balaam did right is before he ran through that door he said let me seek god and it says he went that night could you imagine what that prayer was like it probably sounded like god please let me go you know you know you're not praying to god you're negotiating with him if your prayer some sounds something like this god if you then i will come on now that's not a prayer that's a business transaction that's a contract with addendums on addendums on it god if you would just do you like god please i told him no baylor came back with double the money he went back to the guys of god please take the time to seek god first here's the bible says isaiah 55 6 it says seek the lord while he may be found call on him while he's near now sometimes i say that scripture is confusing it's not confusing it's clarity but you need the holy spirit you need revelation to let you know what god's word is saying at face value colombia this verse could look it could look confusing because the bible says seek the lord while he can be found well where he's go where's he going is it calling him while he's near wait he's not always near come on now the bible says that god is emmanuel god with us he promised i will never leave you nor forsake you what is it with this verse that says god could only find god in a certain window here's what the holy spirit revealed to me god will never leave you but the bible never said that you would never leave him when it says seek the lord while he may be found here is just stephen's interpretation i think when a door opens when an opportunity opens when there's a problem in front of you you have a small window to seek god before your emotions take over before your ambition takes over before your preconceived idea of how it should turn out and watch this when money gets involved it's hard to hear god when ambition gets in god it's hard to hear god when when status and influence and promotion and i hear hear what god was saying he said seek me before you're emotionally invested oh i'm again trouble pastor brian people go past the pastor we're ready to get married this is who god has for me question for you did you ask him before you looked into those brown eyes come on now did you seek the lord before she cooked for you before that netflix and chill that was not god in the first place sometimes by the time we go to god we've already made up in our minds how we want it to go i want that job i want that house i want this opportunity i want this and without even realizing it we're unable to hear god not because he's not speaking but because our ambition is drowning out his voice how do i see god by the way seeking god is not just praying and sitting it starts with that i'm gonna i'm gonna seek god to see if this is will how do i do that first study his word god will never open a door of opportunity to you that contradicts his word god will never send you in a direction that contradicts something that he had already told you i remember when i first graduated college i was applying to jobs and i don't know how you were when you got out of college but for me anybody that would take me was good i said i need a new job i got these student loans i gotta pay off anybody i'm here no matter what my degree is if you need me i'm there i actually got a dream job i got offered a job from one of the largest gasoline companies in the entire nation not only was it one of the largest companies it was the largest offer i got by double the second job i got offered was half the amount and y'all they offered me a signing bonus i thought only athletes got signing bonuses i don't know i didn't know that people got 2.9 g i mean whatever my gpa was that they offered those type of people with you know judgmental be quiet college park fear the turtle anyway i had a company car i mean it was it was beyond what i could have prayed for the only problem is it would have required me to move to louisiana three years prior i'd received a word from god stay in maryland there's something that i've called you to do [Music] but this is god it's money you know how you could get bible to convince god god you said the wealth of the wicked stored up for the right you said you're going to give me more than enough so i could you just throwing bible back at god as if he didn't write it and the more i wanted to run through this door the more i realized it contradicted something god told me before i went to my dad he said you know what to do so i turned the job down and you know what happened y'all nothing nothing at all he didn't bring another job with a better salary he didn't even match that salary the car was gone the bonus was gone i went took a job for half the price that i worked there for six months and i was miserable and it didn't line up with the way you know if you give anything out for the lord he gonna give it back to you a hundredfold i got nothing i'm looking around like god this ain't what you promised me y'all that was in 2008. remember 2008 housing bubble that burst economy goes petroleum goes next thing you know all the big gas companies were laying off 30 000 employees at a time you know whenever a company like that lays off people they're always going to get rid of the people who got there first not first but last you have no tenure you're new by if i had not followed the will of god for my life i would have found myself in louisiana louisiana y'all have a little crumb inside a bonus i would have spent it by now unemployed don't get so excited when a door opens take the time to see god is this you seek his will step number two seek his do you have a peace about it james chapter one verse five says this if any of you lacks wisdom just ask oh if i could preach a little bit some of us don't want to ask god because we've asked humans and they've made us feel ignorant you should know this by now why are you asking me figure it out no no god says no no if you have a problem just ask me and he said without reproach here's what god meant by that without the drama know you got to honor your dad celebrate your dads because i gotta trash your dad sometimes i'll be like dad i need some new shoes you already have new shoes that you're not getting new shoes and what happened the last shoes you had we're bringing the shoes here there's a full interrogation and inspection i gotta see put your foot in the chute your toes still fit in there there's no holes in the bottom dad these aren't cool these aren't cool you know i when i was a kid i used to walk to school uphill both ways with no shoes your heavenly father will give you none of that he said no reproach and he said it'll be given to you but watch this he said when you ask you better ask with faith he said don't come to me doubt for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind for let not that man or woman think that they will receive anything from the lord he is a double-minded man unstable in all his ways here's the revelation any area of your life that you are double-minded on don't go that way because god's not in it what does it mean to be double-minded it means i i went to church i prayed about it i even wrote a little connection card that's only for visitors but i wrote on myself because they said i'll pray over it and i said god i need wisdom about this job and i had a peace on monday i went ahead and offered that job and i accepted that job offer i walked through that door but on tuesday i said hold on maybe i could have negotiated that salary one day no no no no this is god this guy wait what thursday come hold on what if another opportunity comes are you fine the bible says that is god speaking to you saying you're double-minded because god's not in it not that you're not going to face fear fear is a part of life not not that you're going to be intimidated by a risk but here's what the bible says it says that you cast all your concerns about god because he cares for you and here's god's response he's going to give you a peace that surpasses natural understanding and his peace is going to guard your heart and guard your mind in christ jesus i'm telling you as i've learned to make decisions in god i'm just walking saying do i have a piece about it okay here we go do i still have a piece about it yes i do i'm moving until i lose my peace because he's going to guide me with his peace the third way is this i need godly counsel in proverbs 11 24 says this where there is no counsel people mess up their life that's what i would write if i was writing the bible but i'm not supposed to people fall watch this this is key it says but in the what's that versus bwi come on in the come on come on come on baltimore in the in the multitude of counselors there is safety let me back up don't just go with one thing don't find a word in the bible and just run on it don't just have a peace god told me and hold up there's too many people running around what god told me and not god confirmed me come on now a sober follower of god understands that i'm human and sometimes i can miss it so i'm looking for god's peace but i'm looking for godly counsel and the word in the mouth of two or three witnesses let a matter be established and i'm not just looking for one counselor i'm looking for a multitude of godly people to help guide my life here's why you can always find someone as dumb as you that's what that's mean but it's true listen you can always find someone to co-sign your foolishness so here check this out right i found this piece of swamp land out in charles county and they said all we got to do is drain all the water out of it they're saying all the population of the world is moving to this area in the next 95 000 years and this is you can find someone foolish enough to say that but here's a it's a multitude of counsel and you're looking for god can i'm gonna get in trouble with that okay don't ask people for advice that don't have doors open in their life hear me don't receive counsel from someone that's not walking in the will of god themselves what in your resume lets me think that i can trust your ability to hear the i need godly counsel around me and if i have confirmation in god's word off i have peace if i have god i can walk through that opportunity trusting watch this that if it wasn't god he would have checked me in one of those areas last thing is this write this down i need to expect open doors i need to take time to seek direction but as i walk through that door i need to pay attention to what is god doing can i tell you how to have fun with your bible look for problems and allow the holy spirit to answer them don't just read your bible you confused as i don't know what i don't mean i read my bible all right no no no god that doesn't make sense and god you never contradict yourself so so help me make sense hear me if something in the bible doesn't make sense understand it's you it's never him it's never that he wrote it wrong it says i'm reading it i'm like god i'm confused why is it that when balaam came to you the first time you said don't go when it came to you the second time you said go but only do what i tell you to do and then when he went you tried to kill him this makes me not want to go when god says go hey it's an open door stephen no i'm good because i was reading this like holy spirit you gotta you gotta help me understand this here's what i feel like god said as you read on this story you'll find out balaam got there and as it got there god gave him words to bless israel not to curse them when god said don't go he said no no you're not going to go curse israel when balak pushed the issue it activated that verse where the bible says whatever the enemy meant for evil god is going to turn it around for good so if you had just left israel alone we wouldn't have done anything to israel but because you're so intent on cursing israel now i have to bless israel because god says all things are going to work together so it was actually balak that activated the blessings of god god said balaam change of plan now it's time to go god bless them because the enemy is trying to curse them so why did he try to kill him this is just stephen you could disagree if you want i'm right you're wrong but anyway because i feel like when balaam got the go-ahead he stopped listening to god i'm going through this door i can't wait and god said stop him because he's walking through that door but for his own purpose not to fulfill my purpose on the other side i have a question for you why do you want to walk through the doors that god's opening for you let's just talk for a moment why do you want to be rich why do you want to be married why do you want all those children why do you want your business to explode is it oh i'ma show them all them people don't believe in me because it's to show your haters is your motivation you're not going to maximize the door that god has for you if you walk through a door with the spirit of i deserve this after all i've been through no no no no no it's not an open door because it's payment for our suffering the holy spirit we should walk through a door is god how can i give you glory as i maximize this opportunity how can i point people back to you as i walk through this door i'm not looking for what's a blessing to me but i'm look hear me god is always doing something in a situation and if we don't know what god is doing we can walk through a god door and still miss it he said in isaiah 30 21 and if you leave god's path and go astray you will hear his voice behind you saying no this is the way walk in you thought god gave you that contract to expand your business and he did but his ulterior motive was because that business person needs jesus they need to see the hope and the freedom in your life you thought god brought that spouse into your life because you you waited for his best and and you sought him and and it was for your joy and for your purpose and it is but he also brought the two of you together because there's a problem here on earth that you all were designed to be the solution to that you are god's answer to the world's problem and if you see your marriage just as how it can be a blessing to me it's good it's just not god because he's like i've brought this to you for so much more than you could ever imagine if you think god gave you children just to give you the picture perfect family just wait till they turn two your pictures ruined some of you are like pastor wait till 22. you want to cut them out the pitcher don't amend that i said i ain't just give you children for instagram posts i gave them to you to mine out the gifts and talents and abilities i've placed inside of them and to release them into the purpose and destiny that i have for them in everything that we have we're looking around saying god what are you doing in it so see i am doing a new thing in isaiah 43 19. now it springs up do you not perceive it i am making a way in the wilderness and streams anyways here's what i've noticed about god doors because he does new things if it's obvious to everybody it's probably not god if it's something that everybody's running after if it's something that's already successful chances are it's not god because god doesn't do the old thing twice so i'm saying god what new thing are you looking to do in my life how do i use this opportunity not just to prove to my haters i made it but god your will be done on earth as it already is in heaven and can we pray father god we are grateful god that you know us you see us and you have a plan and a purpose for a life god they're not here happenstance just making it up as we go along god you have ordered our steps god we pray that you would give us the wisdom god to understand which doors you've opened and which door the enemy opened is not for us right where you are with your eyes closing your head about if you could pray this prayer with me and say holy spirit what are you saying to me this might be the most significant moment of this whole service some of you may have never heard the voice of god before in your life but in this moment allow me to speak to you allow god to make this message personal to you some of you have underestimated yourself for years and god says no you're gifted and it's going to open doors some of you have walked through the wrong door and god says no worries just take two steps back i'm restoring god some of you for you to be honest your heart is locked up you haven't let people in and you haven't let god and you're wondering why other things in your life aren't lining up because it's not until you make your creator the reason why you exist that everything else will make sense to you maybe you're like me and you grew up in church and you went to church you just never knew the god of the church maybe it's your first time in an atmosphere like this wherever you find yourself if you'd be honest enough to say i can't say that god is the center of my life i can't say that i've ever truly surrendered to jesus but i want to i am tired of doing this by myself that's you it's so simple all you have to do is invite him in your life you can do that by praying this prayer say lord jesus in this moment i open my heart i open all that i am to you thank you for dying on the cross so all of my sin can be erased thank you for rising again so that i can walk in your power today i surrender i give you all of me be my lord be my savior and use me for your glory in jesus name amen and amen and amen come on church can you celebrate for every single person that just made the greatest decision ever hallelujah

Channel: Union Church

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Keywords: closed doors, wilderness season, locked doors, middle season, faith in God, spirit of faith, activate your faith, believe in more, hope in Christ, closed door can't stop you, wilderness survival, Peter, revelation, open doors, Good vs God

Id: 6dfc6oG4zJI

Length: 45min 35sec (2735 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 20 2021