The Mystery of Purpose | Pastor Sheryl Brady

[Music] take your bibles if you will to ephesians chapter one thank you pastor travis for killing us in here last week i mean to tell you if you missed it you must go back and watch it because he delivered a powerful prophetic word in this house and it blessed us all ephesians chapter one if you don't have a bible just follow us on the screen if they put it up there ephesians chapter one verse nine the bible says having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself it's his will and it was done according to his good pleasure he is the one that purposed it and he did it in himself that in the dispensation of the fullness of time he might gather together in one of all things in christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him in whom also we have obtained an inheritance you have an inheritance today i don't care if your natural mom or daddy have left you a dime you still have an inheritance that's got your name on it does anybody believe that and being predestinated and being predestinated according to the purpose of him not our purpose but according to the purpose of him who worketh all things look at somebody and tell them it's working for you it's working for you you may not think it but it's all working for you who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in christ i want to just take the next few moments and i want to talk from the subject the mystery of purpose so many times people are hungry and they're longing to know what is the purpose there are people that's been in the church for years and years and years and still will uh find a way to find the courage to say i don't know the purpose of god for my life oh it is a bit of a mystery but there is also an understanding and we're going to talk about the mystery of that purpose today father today i thank you god for just walking into this room and being in this place giving us the freedom to worship you to sit at your feet to hear your words as they come alive on the pages of this word it is not by accident or by chance who is watching who is in this building who is opened up to hear what you have to say today i believe that you will feel every empty vessel that you will touch every broken heart that you will encourage every head that hangs down and that your word will find those who need your life today thank you for blessing me to declare it and thank you for blessing your people to receive it and we thank you for it in jesus name somebody shout amen on your way down to your seat talk about the mystery of his purpose just say the mystery of his purpose you have heard me often i i guess probably over the last uh three or four weeks that we have been back you've heard me say uh possibly and if you haven't then you'll hear me right now but one of the phrases that i keep repeating that i started saying early in the pandemic is that if you are still here and if you have survived then there is an absolute reason that you are still here and that you have survived and we owe it to ourselves and we owe it to god to discover what that reason is he did not have to let you live you know i've heard that that phrase all of my life he didn't have to let you live but after coming through a pandemic and and and seeing what has happened uh it's made me that become real to me he didn't have to let me leave but he did it when and he did it and it was not by an accident and it was not by chance that you have survived some of the things that god has brought you through you really have survived on purpose because what we have uh what we have experienced and what we have come to call a virus is is really much more than a virus this has affected the systems of the entire world and uh if all you see out of the last 18 months is is is a virus then you're not seeing enough and as a matter of fact if all you see is what you see then you don't see all there is to be seen because there is much more to it than meets the eye our world has experienced a divine disruption i said our world your world my world our world has experienced a divine disruption and personally i i feel like god disrupted everything that was normal and everything that was natural and he he disrupted all the things that we would prefer and he did it on every level uh the bible says it like this he shook everything that could be shaken so that that which could not be shaken would remain so therefore we can and that would remain there that that word means to be kept he said he shook everything that could be shaken so that we might remain so that we might be kept and and that we might be preserved and that we might be present if you're happy to be present and accounted for today somebody just close your eyes clap your hands and tell god thank you and because he let us live we can say with great confidence that god is intentional about the life that you are given and if god is going to be intentional and if god is going to be mindful and if god is going to be purposeful about my life and about your life then we need to be purposeful as well he told jeremiah he said before i formed you in the belly he said i i knew you and before you came out of your mother's womb he said i sanctified you and he said i ordained you now i cannot lay hands on these people that we laid hands on today and make them into anything that god has not already made them to be i said i can't do it but i can lay hands on them and confirm what god has done in their life and he said i ordained you as a prophet to the nations it was in eternity that he said i formed you in eternity jeremiah he said i knew you before anybody ever knew you i knew you before you ever knew your mama i knew you before your mama ever knew your daddy i knew who you were and he said i set you apart and i sanctified you and i ordained you and he said i while you were in eternity i made you a prophet people didn't make you a prophet you didn't make yourself a prophet you didn't just take on a title and say i am a prophet or i am a prophetess he said i made you that in eternity he said oh i did all of that before you ever came into the earth before you ever had your first birthday before any of of whatever happens to you in life he said i did that for you before you ever got there well i guess in if i was jeremiah probably would have come in through uh come into a season or two in my life where i would have said well god that's awesome that that you did all of that in eternity but what do i do right now because i'm not living in eternity i am living in time what is your purpose now for my life on the earth what is your purpose your your plan your destiny what is your will for my life has anybody ever asked god what is your will because you don't want to waste time doing your will when you could be doing his will and you don't want to waste your life doing what other people want you to do because people can manipulate you into doing things that was never the will of god and when you fall into that trap you are wasting your life so we ought to pray every day god what is your will if you let me live to see this day there has to be a reason that you let me live i want to know your will for my life i need to know because in you i live and in you i move and in you i have my being so this is really an age old question people have been asking this for generations and rightfully so because if we are not living in his will and we're not living in his purpose and we are not living in his intention then we are wasting something that is so precious that it is it is called time and we are wasting that and we can never get time back again will you just kind of look at somebody don't touch them but just look at them and say don't waste your time ephesians 1 and 9 says having made known if you have your bible just underline that in the scripture having made known unto us the mystery of his will now immediately upon reading that verse there's a couple things i understand about my purpose number one i understand that my purpose is something that god makes known to me okay you don't just it don't just happen it's something that god makes known to you the bible says in first corinthians two and nine that i have not seen an ear hath not heard neither has it entered into the heart of man the things which god hath prepared for them that love him but god hath revealed your eyes haven't seen it your ears haven't heard it but but god has revealed it unto them how did he do that he did it by his spirit so therefore if i'm going to understand my purpose then i have got to open up my heart to receive his spirit and so these are things that god prepared for them and so since god prepared it for them he's the only one that knows the combination and so because he prepared it for them for you for me then god has to be the one that reveals it you cannot count on people to tell you what god's will is for your life you will find yourself jacked up inside and out if you try to wait on people to tell you who you are in god it is something that you got to know that you know that you know that you know for yourself amen the second thing that i know about his will and about his purpose by reading that verse is that it's a mystery and though it is what god has for me and though it is what god has predestined for my life it is a mystery and it is something that i if i'm going to understand it i'm going to have to lean in to god so i lean in in every service i lean in when i hear his word i lean in in prayer i lean in every time i get the opportunity i lean in because i want to know what he has for my life in every worship service if you wonder why i worship it's because i lean in because the more i lean in the more he talks and the more he talks the more i understand i begin to understand what he wants for my life i began to understand that i am not my own but i've been bought with a price and i've been trained to hear his voice because in him i was with him in the bosom of the father and in that bosom i learned his voice so that when i came to earth out of eternity i would still recognize that voice and that's why when he called you out of darkness into his marvelous light you stop dead in your tracks because you recognize oh i hadn't heard that voice in a while but the moment he spoke i knew it was him because he familiarized me with his voice in eternity so that i would recognize his voice in time it's a mystery it's a mystery what is a mystery a mystery is a secret so therefore if i'm going to know the secret then i'm going to have to become well acquainted with the one who carries the secret look at somebody and just tell them you're gonna have to break down and know god for yourself now that's difficult for a lot of people because many times when god talks um i'm just going to say it like i have felt it for a while but uh most of my life whenever god talks sometimes it sounds like he's talking right over your head anybody ever felt that way about god it's just like lord i love it and it's crazy i appreciate the preacher and and all of that but i i i mean i'm right here god okay so you talk up here and if you felt that way i don't want you to feel bad because that's really nothing new because you can look all throughout the scripture and you will find people who felt like god was just talking over their head on many occasions he talked up above their their understanding and and he wasn't doing that to to just be mean and not be understood but he was doing it to make you reach to make you lean in and and he he did that because and he does that because he functions on one level and we function on another he functions in the spirit and we function in the natural in the flesh and and and he is a very strategic god somebody say god is strategic wherever the disciples went it was not by accident or not by chance if you look in the book of acts all the places that they went to all the cities that they went to were key cities they were key financial cities they were key for different things and so they didn't just wander because he knew it would be a waste of time for them to just wander and so he ordained the bible said that he ordered their steps he orders your steps so everywhere they went uh god had a plan that was strategic and they fell into the plan or they walked into the plan of god uh because god is a strategic god somebody say he's strategic for instance if you look in the book of john you will see his first miracle and and we read about that first miracle how many of you know what the first miracle was come on tyson what was the first miracle it was turning the water into wine so he was at a wedding and his mother was there and at this particular wedding they ran out of wine and his mother says to him son they have no wine and his response to her was why are you telling me that what a woman number one don't ever call your mom a woman okay because that ain't gonna go over well woman what what what have i to do with the with thee why are you telling me this and you know the story the mother looked she didn't talk about it no more she looked to the people that were around him and said just do whatever he tells you to do and so he got six water pots somebody grab yourself and say i'm a water pot i'm a war i'm an empty pot that god wants to feel and oh he wants to turn whatever he fills me into it might just be water but he ultimately wants to turn it into wine oh god i thank you for having a plan to turn just something bland something tasteless something ordinary in me into something that is called wine and you know the story he filled the water pots and went down to cana and he and he filled those water pots it was water when it went into the pot it was water as they walked back to the wedding it was water when he looked at it but all of a sudden when he started pouring it out god watch out because when god starts pouring you out you can turn into something completely that you had no idea that you were god when he pours you out i went in water but i came out wide tell somebody i went in water but i came out wine you know that story and when when when they took it to the people they took it to the leader and he he tasted it and when he tasted it he was in shock because everybody knew that when you have a wedding you give people the best wine first and you get them good and drunk and then you give them the cheap stuff and they'll never even know that you've given them the cheap stuff so everyone around him that day was concerned about them about earthly things about fleshly things things that they were worried about running out of wine but he was concerned and he was operating and functioning in a not an earthly dimension but in a heavenly dimension and and while it was about wine uh to them to him it was reminding us that the bible says better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof just when you thought it couldn't get no better god will turn around and save the best for the last oh here's what he said your letter house will be great i dare anybody somebody everybody to believe what i'm telling you today he was moving on one level while everybody around him was moving on another level now in john same book john chapter 3 and nicodemus comes to him nicodemus is operating in the earth realm and he is operating he is operating in the spirit realm and nicodemus comes to him and he says sir i need some wisdom what must i do to be saved and jesus says to him you must be born again so nicodemus says how can that happen how how can i go back into my mother's womb that's gonna be impossible how can i go back into her womb for a second time here's the problem jesus was talking in the spirit while nicodemus was thinking in the flesh and in the fourth chapter he goes down to a woman who he goes down into samaria and he goes to a well and at that well he meets a woman and he asks the woman he said can you give me something to drink and that woman looks at him and says you don't want none to drink because you ain't got nothing to draw with if you had something to draw with then you might could get something to drink she is thinking in the natural but he is operating in the spirit and he looks at her and he says woman if you knew the gift of god and who i am and what i am asking you you would give me to drink you would give me to drink and you you you would have asked me that i would have given you something to drink i would have given you living water and in that conversation somewhere he elevated her and she quit thinking down here and she tapped into up here thinking and she said that give me that water if you've got something that will make me never thirst again give it to me [Applause] and then he goes over to chapter six and he he starts ministering to the five thousand you know the story the two fish and the five loaves there there was actually more than five thousand because there was probably every man probably had a one wife and so that would have make it make it ten and and then they probably all of them had at least one child so it's not really five thousand it's probably more like fifteen thousand and this miracle is a great miracle in the scripture everybody's preached it but the truth of the matter is is is if you really read the story and i i like to read it in matthew's connotation because if you read the story what you find out is that this really was an unnecessary miracle okay here's why it was an unnecessary miracle the reason i say that is because they weren't really in a crisis they were hungry but it wasn't a crisis because they could have went home okay are y'all following me they could have went home and if they'd went home then they could have gotten something to eat and the disciples actually said we got this sir we got this and and what we're going to do is we're going to dismiss dismiss if you're through preaching and and we're going to send them home but jesus said to them he said you need not they need not depart they need not depart just just give them this is 15 000 people just give them something to eat and so now the disciples got to figure out what they got to work with and and he they they find out that there is one little boy in the crowd who had a a brown paper bag and in that brown paper bag uh he had two fish and five loaves of bread now i wonder how they knew that he had that bag in that big of a crowd probably because the fish have been in there all day long in the heat and in the sun and they probably smelled those fish i don't know that's just my part i added that but but the little boy gave his lunch uh uh oh lord help me i said the little boy gave up his lunch to them and the bible said that jesus took the two fish and he took five loaves and the bible said that he took it he took it number one he took it he doesn't have to take it but he took it and when he took it he blessed it so he lifted up his eyes to the father and he asked the father to bless something now whenever you ask god to bless something what you're actually doing is saying god please make more out of this than what it is it's not enough but you have the ability have you ever had to pray over what you had on the table and say god i'm asking you to make this to bless this food lord make something i make more out of it than what it is he took it he blessed it and the bible said then he broke it and he he gave it to all and to all of those that that did eat they were filled the disciples here wanted to to they they they wanted to have the they've almost missed the opportunity because they wanted to dismiss the opportunity there was an opportunity there but the disciples really nearly missed it because here's the deal he is strategic somebody say god is strategic this was a strategic opportunity to touch the biggest mass of people that we will ever see in the scripture are you following me the disciples missed it they were going to just send them away but jesus knew because he's strategic this is going to be one of the biggest mass mega crowds that i will ever have to do what i need to do with and so what did he do when they wanted um almost missed it he said no no give me this opportunity give me this moment and i'm going to perform a miracle in this moment that i don't even really have to perform because this miracle is now the platform that will catapult me to my purpose and to my destiny here's what i want you to watch number one be careful not to so flippantly dismiss things this happened to be a big crowd but sometimes god will put you in the middle of a small crowd like he did joseph in the prison it was just those two men who needed their dreams interpreted and he decided yeah i can interpret their dreams he didn't wait for a mega crowd to use his gift he just used his gift right where he was look at somebody and tell him you better use your gift here's what i want you to watch watch what happens here he says to the disciples he says to the disciples okay so what what do we have to work with i know you want to send them home but what do we have to work with and they said well we have we only have two fish and we only have five loaves of bread uh here hear me here church but because he is standing in his purpose and because his strategy is in alignment with the purpose of god he said that's all you got give it to me because it's gonna work and it's going to work because i'm in my purpose y'all are not getting that what he's doing is he is showing them that when you have a strategic plan that lines up with the purpose of god you don't need much to work with [Applause] look at somebody and tell them you don't need as much as you think you need when your strategy aligns with your purpose it will happen even when those around you don't think it will happen it will happen when the odds are against you it will happen when the bank says no sorry we're not going to give you the loan it will happen whether people support you or whether they don't support you it will happen whether they like you or whether they don't like you whenever your strategy is undergirded by a divine purpose from god you can take less and still do so jesus fed 5 000 really 15 000 people out of one boy's lunch why and how because he was moving on purpose it pays to know your purpose i said it pays to know your purpose he performed the miracle and then he sent everybody home i mean do y'all see that he performed the miracle that he sent them home he had preached all day then he performed a miracle and then he sent them home it was not like he fed them so that he could keep on preaching are y'all following me it's not like he just wanted to keep on preaching so he's like just feed them so they'll shut up and and i can still keep on preaching it wasn't like that he said that's why i say it was an unnecessary miracle because he could have sent them home already uh church was over okay church was over and they could have went home but instead he fed them and then he told the disciples to gather up the scraps can you imagine fed 15 000 people with one boy's lunch and they still had leftovers and the disciples had to go out and do the work look at somebody and tell them you do have to do the work and they had to clean up the scraps and while they were doing that the bible said that he went up into the mountain to pray why did he go up into the mountain and pray because he knew that this miracle would be the moment in his life that shifted everything in his life because there is a moment of purpose that you can step into and when you tap into it it will shift everything in your life one minute you'll be here and the next minute you will be moved look at somebody and tell them you better not miss your moment he knew it was his moment now now there there is no way that 15 000 people why do you say that pastor brady because there's no way that 15 000 people can watch him move in his divine destiny and his divine purpose and his divine authority and and it be kept secret you know you can't keep secrets even with one person now don't tell nobody next thing you know everybody knows can you imagine it's fifteen thousand people he knows the secret is going to get out and he and and i can just imagine child i was there let me tell you something i was there he took two fish five loaves of bread he blessed it he broke it he gave it and guess what a piece of that is in my stomach everywhere i go i'm carrying a little bit of that miracle with me oh you come too late to tell me you ain't able because i got some of it in me i saw it with my own eyes i watched him take not enough and turn it into more than enough he sees the moment look at somebody and tell him you better seize it you better seize it and here's what i want you to understand i just told you about four four miracles just four of them and we looked at those four miracles in pieces we saw the wedding piece we saw the nicodemus piece we saw the woman at the well piece and we saw the two fish and the five loaves piece and i have preached all four of those ticks and those stories and preach them in divisionally okay but because and the reason i've done that is because i was looking so hard at the story individually that i failed to see the master plan of god i was so into the individual story that it blocked me from seeing the overall strategy of god as a whole and this is not just a problem that happened in the bible this happens all day every day it's what happens to people like you and people like me when we look at our life story and we look at it like we look at a bible story we start seeing our lives in pieces because we think down here we think in the earthly realm and so we look at our life in pieces and we fail to look at our life as a whole we look at our life frame by frame snapshot by snapshot we look at our life in small pieces it's a good day i will praise the lord it's a bad day i don't think i can go to church today oh that's a good man uh but that's a bad man she's a good woman that that's that's not a good woman i made the right decision right there but i made the wrong decision over here those people added to my life those people decreased my life that made me happy oh but that made me sad and as long as we look at a life in pieces like that we never see the strategy of god when he says i can take your good and your bad and work it all together and i will ultimately take that which was bad and i will balance it out with that which was good and i will make you a cake and you will have your cake and eat it too when we are stuck and only looking at our life in those individual increments then our worship becomes inconsistent oh if we've had a good week we're happy and we're here praising god oh but i'm going to tell you something even when you don't have a good week you do have a reason to be happy if for no other reason you have a reason to praise him because there's breath in your body and the bible said let everything that has breath what [Applause] see we don't see our lives in the big picture most of the time we look at it in increments we look at it in the natural because we are after the flesh but if we would ever look to see it in the bigger picture we would see the accomplishment and the purpose of god oh because i'm going to tell you something that's exactly how god does it i said that's exactly how god if you ever looked at somebody and said lord that person has been through so much i don't know how in the world they able to keep coming to church keep lifting their hands keep praising god they don't lost this they don't lost that that i lost the other you know why because it whatever you lost it has nothing to do with who god is he's still good and he's good all i said he's good all right he's good in the bad times he's good in the hard times he's good in the sad times he is a good god and he thinks strategically so he fed them he sent them home he made the disciples clean up the mess and he said i'm going up into the mountain and i'm going to pray and he prayed all night long now that's that's good right there i said he prayed all night long and the bible said that in the fourth watch of the night which is somewhere between three and six a.m here he comes down off the mountain mind you he hasn't even been to sleep yet okay he has done taught all of them he's done work that miracle with two fish five loaves of bread he goes up to the mountain and begins to pray prays until three or four in the morning and then he comes back down and he immediately starts working another miracle he starts performing a miracle and he ain't even been to bed yet and and and he's out there because the disciples are on on the boat and they're in the storm and and yeah let me tell you something about god even though let me tell you something god can see you when you cannot see him i said god can see you when you cannot see him and they were out wrestling and toiling in a storm and he says here let me go down there because prayer will help you to know god it'll help you to know what's coming it'll help you to know what he is lord have mercy he said let me get down there and help them and he calms everything down and the bible says that when he gets to the other side where everybody else is at everybody is talking about him oh fifteen thousand are talking about what he just did yesterday over uh they they're talking over here about what he did over there see you ain't got to make your name great he said i will make your name great you ain't got to be the one that runs out and tells everybody you ain't gonna believe what i just did cause he will make your name great they were all telling everybody about what he had done let me tell you every miracle that he worked and every miracle that he did not work it was strategically aligning him closer and closer to his purpose that's how his mind was thinking oh doesn't the bible say let this mind that is in christ jesus be also in you what mind a strategic mind a mind a mind that says i have set my face like a flint to fulfill the purpose of god for my life i only do that that that thing right there that i hear my father say do and if we're going to get that kind of mind the in the mind that jesus christ has then we have to stop looking at our life through the lens of all of these little moments that we find ourselves in and we've got to learn how to stand on a bad day and still say he's a good god we've got to learn how to stand in a bad moment in a bad season and say god you're still sovereign you're still worthy i don't understand you but i will bless the lord at all all times good times bad time i will bless him you gotta learn to let stuff go look at somebody and tell him you gotta let some things go in your life what do you mean i mean let go of your anger let go of your frustration quit giving your mind on ways to get even and get on with your life you ain't got to get even you got to get on because god has a purpose for you quit worrying about who did you wrong who told lies who betrayed you who left you who who forgot all about you because you when you do that you are not looking at your life in the big picture and god wants somebody that's hearing me today to understand it it's time now for you to quit looking at every little snapshot of your life and letting it control your purpose and letting it control your destiny he wants you to get to the point where you can back up and you can say oh that was not good but he has the ability to make all things work together for my good so rather than crying because you have rejected me i think i will just rejoice because in the big picture of my life your rejection caused me to seek god and because you showed me rejection i sought him and he gave me direction you it was rejection but i got direction out of your rejection whatever you face in life you gotta break that choker down into small pieces and you gotta stand back and say yeah that was bad that was bad oh but that was good and then look at somebody and tell them out of everything don't just add up the bad things don't just add up the good thing add up everything because the truth of the matter is there will be moments when times are good there'll be moments when times are bad come on where are my real people at there will be moments that you will cry tears of joy but i promise you there'll be moments that you will cry tears of sorrow there'll be moments that you can not even see your way clear and then there'll be other moments that you can see the entire pathway there'll be moments where you will not have enough but i tell you there will also be moments that you will have more than enough and if you're not able to look and see the whole picture if you only look at the screenshot life will change who god intended for you to be i don't know who i'm talking to today but god has an intention for your life but life will change you is there anybody that knows what i'm talking about lana was when she was a baby she was always a peacemaker she was calm she didn't like to fight but then tina nina came along and i watched my child who didn't like to fight learn how to fight why because life had switched upon her look at somebody and tell them life will switch up on you if you don't believe that ask this woman in the old testament by the name of naomi naomi her name means my joy that means somebody picked her up when she was little and said you are my naomi you are my chore but because of a famine that hit the land her and her husband and their two sons had to move out of bethlehem judah over into moab so that they could survive there was no food where they were while they were over there two sons marry two beautiful women one was named oppa the other one was named ruth everything is going good it looks like it's going to be awesome husbands have their wives it certainly won't be long until we have some grandchildren around her just as life was getting ready to bloom her husband dies and sometimes life don't give you a break because right on the heels of her husband her son dies and while she's trying to cope with the grief of losing her husband and her son then her other son dies so the place that had become a blessing in her life has now begun to feel like a place that was cursed so she is looking at all that she has lost see i'm not just preaching about naomi i'm preaching about somebody that's hearing me today she is looking at everything that she has lost and because of that she can't see everything that she still has and so she renames herself she says to them don't call me naomi naomi means my joy and i don't have any joy anymore because of what i've been through so instead of calling me naomi call me mara why do you want us to call you mara she said because mara means my sorrow and because she defined herself by one phase in her life y'all better help me today i said she totally renamed herself because she defined herself by one little season in her life i don't know who i'm talking to today but that season that you've been in is not who you are she does not understand she doesn't understand that everything that happened in her life was structured the famine drove her out of bethlehem jewel judah and pushed her into moab god used the famine over here to relocate her over here and there was a reason for that because you had to meet somebody by the name of ruth let me tell you he did not just take her over there because there was no food over here because i don't care where you are god god can feed you even in the middle of a famine he knows how to get to you what you need to sustain you so he could have fed her over here but he allowed that famine to push her into another place so that she could meet ruth he used her hunger to drive her into her purpose somebody needs to hear me today you wonder how you got where you are lord help me jesus can i tell you that there is a reason that you are here there is a reason that you are sitting in the potter's house of north dallas or there is a reason that you are watching me today there is a reason that you live in texas there is a reason that you took your mouth and found yourself in texas this morning there is a reason and guess what it is not what you think it is god use what you think it is to move you into a divine purpose that he had preordained for you and it's all working for your good liars are working for your good backbiters are working for your good your mistakes are working for your good your failures are working for your good your storms are working for you look at somebody and tell them it's working for you it's working for you the loss that you've been through is working for you those that hate you it is working for you it is god shifting your life and moving you around to align you with his purpose [Music] look at somebody and tell him i'm here on purpose look at somebody else and tell him i'm right where i'm supposed to be at this age in my life at this stage in my life at this time in my life at this season in my life i am right where i am supposed to be because i am here on purpose i don't know who i'm talking to today but god said to tell somebody that's wrestling with where i should have been and well i could have been and i would have been god said to quit wrestling with all of that stuff and all i want you to do is trust me that i am god he wants to remind somebody in the potter's house today that he is still the potter and you still are the clay he wants to remind somebody that he has a plan for your life that is bigger than every loss that you have faced like many of you naomi was bitter she was bitter with the hand that life had dealt her sit down and give me five more minutes i said she was bitter are you bitter today i said are you bitter over anything you need to ask yourself that because when you are bitter people cannot see what they have because they are consumed with what they lost that was better than all those who yeah i said bitter people cannot see what they have because they are eaten up and consumed with all that they lost she was bitter the woman of god my joy was bitter she said i'm leaving moab i'm going back to my homeland my boys are dead my husband's dead there's nothing here for me anymore her daughter-in-law oprah said bye bye but her daughter-in-law ruth said hold up hold up hold up what you talking about you can't go no way hold on don't you move i gotta go get some of my stuff together cause i let you go without me you hear me that because you are important to me you have shown me my destiny you have shown me my purpose you cannot leave me in moab you cannot make me stay here i am going with you bit and all i am going with you oh woman of god i am going with you because i want to be where you are your people they're going to be my people your god will be my god wherever they bury you they're going to bury me because i want our bones to mingle together i am going to be where you are she didn't know how she was going but she was going anyhow look at somebody and tell them i'm going into how i'm going in the house i can't explain it what orphan says what you mean you're going with her i can't explain it over all i know is i can't stay here another day in my life i gotta get out of this place this is my opportunity this is my window this is how i'm gonna escape she didn't understand she didn't know how to put it into words but she said i'm going anyway what you gonna tell your mama i don't know but i'm going anyway the culture's different over there i know but i'm going anyway oh you know what was happening there was a shift that was coming to her life some of y'all been feeling that you've been feeling god putting you've been putting in the clutch and god has been shifting your chaos oh he's been taking you from faith to faith and from glory to glory look at somebody and tell him i'm stepping into my purpose i'm stepping let me tell you this i mean he wondered how opera give me a little bit of something many were wondering how old i could walk away how could alba walk away get this it's not deep orpah could easily walk away because there was no purpose in her stain [Applause] there was no purpose in her stain connected to naomi so she did not have the same attraction to naomi that ruth had she didn't have the same desire she didn't have the same passion so she could not stay connected in the way that ruth was staying connected oppa had not been pre-destined y'all better hear me i said offer had not been predestined and some of the people that you keep trying to make want what you want in life will never want what you want in life because they have not been predestined to want what you want in life you're trying to pull up you're trying to drag them you're trying to make them you're trying to make them get it you got to understand and you know what it is it's nothing but dead weight and if you don't get it off of you they're gonna fool around and hold you back from coming into alignment with the purpose of god but look at somebody and tell them watch out because i'm coming into alignment no matter who that separates me from or who it makes me identify with because i'm coming in you cannot make people want you cannot make people want to stay that don't want to stay the bible said they came out from us because they were not of us for had they been of us they would have no doubt continued with us ruth has this crazy ridiculous desire that oprah does not have and that desire makes her want to run into the very thing that oppa wants to run away from what ruth doesn't know is that god is going to use that thing that passion that desire to lead her she doesn't know this but he's going to use that to lead her into her purpose ruth hungered in a way that orpah did not hunger i said she had a longing in a way that oprah did not have ruth had a purpose that orpah did not have she was hungry and even though she knew that it would take her to a place that she had never been before she said i'm ready even though it would take her out of her comfort zone she said i gotta go even though it would cause her to walk in steps that she had never walked in dangerous places even though it the culture there was going to be different than the culture that she grew up in all of her life even though it was taking her out of her element it was going to ultimately land her in the middle of her purpose listen to go into your purpose you have to give up running in packs some of y'all wondered why friends have walked out some of you are trying to make connections that you had uh pre-pandemic now in post-pandemic and and you're still trying to make those connections and god said no no no no i did that and the reason i've isolated you and i've called you unto me it's because i've got to read there's a reason for that there is a purpose for your life and you have got to be willing to go it alone if you have to go it alone you cannot run in a pack and pursue the purpose of god for your life ruth had to say goodbye to moab goodbye to family goodbye to friends she had to say goodbye oppa so that she could tap into the purpose of god for her life she was with them but she was not of them how many of you can say i i get mad i get that i was with them all of my life but i was not of them she did what they did but she was not one of them she lived where they lived but she was not one she was with them but she was not of them and you may have gone where they've gone then you may have did what they did i'm talking to somebody today but you are not of them because there is a higher calling on your life sir there is a higher purpose on your life and if you are willing to put in the clutch god will make the shift and when he makes the shift he'll open up the windows of heaven on your behalf and when he opens and he will pour oh i wish i had some barley right here because i would throw it all up in the air [Music] god will open the windows of heaven pour you out a blessing fruit made the shift she's in a new place she has no job she has no family she has no familiarity she has no income she has no friendships she has no relationships because all of that was a part of her history and it was not destined to be a part of her destiny all she has is naomi and she doesn't when i tell you god is strategic she doesn't even know that naomi is really just the bait that is going to pull her [Applause] into her purpose naomi is the bait that will bring her into the plan of god for her life so naomi says girl now that we're back we got to have some to eat up in here up in here so take this basket lord this has been a good message for props take this basket and go out there and find a field and out of all of the fields that she found herself in because the steps of a good man or a good woman are ordered by the lord she found herself landing in boaz's field so the thing this is what rook didn't know i got to stop this what rook didn't know she did not know that the thing that god drew her out of moab with was not the ultimate thing that he had for her but it would be the thing that would lead her to the thing to the purpose to the destiny that god had for her and while her passion led her to naomi and naomi led her to bethlehem judah and naomi put a basket in her head her basket would ultimately lead her to the field of boaz who was her husband but she didn't know that god had led her into the field that one day she would ultimately own [Music] you

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Length: 62min 9sec (3729 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 19 2021