Why You Feel Stuck: Your Purpose Depends On It | Lesson 9 of Called Course | Study with John Bevere

I realized that if I wouldn't have been led by the spirit wouldn't have allowed God to bring me through these times of refining and trials what he's done through Lisa's in my life right now would have destroyed me I would have been full of Pride I would have been full of myself I would have been doing things in My Own Strength because if you can get something accomplished in your own strength by manipulating creating an Ishmael then you'll keep doing it keep doing it and keep doing it and keep doing it instead of Allowing God to do it thank you [Music] you know we've been talking over and over again about discovering your specific calling and that if you seek God diligently in faith what's God going to do he's going to give you a glimpse yeah yeah remember a glimpse I have I was just looking in in my file this morning of the glimpses that God gave me in 1981 1984 literally in 1981 and 84 I'm reading this morning things I'm doing today wow it's amazing and yet if you would have said to me God's going to raise you up and send you the nations of the world by writing books I would have left you out of the room because English was my worst subject I couldn't even write a paper let alone a chapter or a book and yet that's how God has raised you us up so often the very path that we believe we're going to go on is not the path that will end up going on I remember you know when I was working for my church I was so striving and striving and striving and striving and I remember one day the Holy Spirit spoke to me and he said you just thought of another way that I'm going to raise you up and send you the Nations yeah he said you just thought of another way I'm not going to do it he said and he told me that day he said you will not be able to figure out how I'm going to raise you up because this is a walk of faith not a walk of sight see God God sees Joseph he sees a young man that's going to obey him and what does God do he gives him a glimpse gives them two dreams about leadership Joseph had no idea between that dream and the Fulfillment of that dream was a pit which pit stands for preachers in training by the way um it's an acronym for people in training I should say that because we all go through those pits then there would be 10 years of slavery and then there'd be two years of a dungeon and it'd be so hopeless that you'd think you'd never get out of it uh David has a Prophet come the the senior prophet of the whole nation you're the next king of Israel David has no idea I mean he sees it all coming to pass he's like oh man God is doing this just right he gets asked to the Palace to be a Minstrel and then he get asked to be Saul's armor Bearer The King's armor bear then he gets asked to come to the king's son's or to the king's table to eat with his sons then he gets given the King's Daughter for wife David's like come on he's just setting me up he's going to hand that Throne to me the prophecy is going to be fulfilled what David doesn't understand is there's going to be 14 years right of a hell week you know living in deserts living in wildernesses having to go to the Philistines and exile can't see his family can't you know see the people he grew up with can't enjoy the customs of his Nation he's growing up with all because of his boss that God puts him under but yet that was the the road traveled for him to have the character to be a Good Shepherd in Israel if you look at John the Baptist God announces his calling to his dad before he's even born he's still in his mama's womb but he's in the wilderness 30 years training for a six-month Ministry can you imagine that training 30 years for a six-month Ministry remember he's six months older than Jesus and when Jesus comes along he says I must decrease that he may increase six month Ministry you look at Moses Moses knows when he's 40 years old I'm the one that's going to deliver this nation yet it wasn't for 40 more years he's on the back side of the desert why does God do this that's what we're talking about well I want to read something from First Peter chapter 1 verses 6 and 7. I think I'll put it up on the board so be truly glad all right is that established glad okay there is wonderful joy ahead now remember the Fulfillment of anything God promises to you for your calling is Joy there's joy wrapped up in that package okay so if I like wrap up a gift and you open it up involved in that gift is joy fulfilling your calling there's joy remember go back to lesson number two all right there is wonderful joy ahead even though you must endure many now I want you to underscore that word many many trials for a little while now a little while to God can be two three four five six years remember a day with Lords a thousand years a thousand years is one day so what that means is basically 40 years is what an hour okay so a little while to God 15 minutes could be six seven years all right for a little while these trials will show that your faith is genuine it is being what is being your faith is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold though your faith is far more precious than mere gold so when your faith remains strong through many trials again emphasis on many it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world aspect of fulfilling your calling that you have to talk about and that is the many trials the many trials strengthened your faith build your character so that you can handle that position that God is calling you to and I remember when let's go back to my time in in the church when I was driving the van so before I became the youth pastor we're going back into that time I remember that the pastor and his wife my job for four years or actually excuse me three and a half years was to take care of their personal you know responsibilities their children at school giving their kids swimming lessons I was picking up the guest speakers that's how I was picking up T.L Osborne well they they liked the job that I did so much that their executive assistant position came open which is more of an administrative role a secretary role and they said oh man we're going to put John in that role we're losing our existing person we want him to be in that role so they moved me into that role and I did a horrible job it just wasn't I just didn't have the gift set to be a good Administrative Assistant I'm just not a secretary okay and so I remember the final straw that broke the camel's back is when my pastor had a big television you know appearance that he was supposed to do and I forgot to tell him about it and he missed it and he said hey John what was I supposed to be doing an hour ago and I went oh no so what happened was they loved they loved Lisa and I so much and they love me they realized hey we put him we we positioned him to fail we put him in a bad position well my job of picking up the guest speakers was already taken I raised up another man to take that job so they're like gosh we don't we got to find somewhere to put John so they so they put me in this position that was I reported to a woman who reported to a man who reported to the pastor so I went down three levels okay I I reported directly to the pastor my office there were three offices in the executive office mine his and hers and now I'm way in another part of the building working for a woman who works for a man who works for them and that man wasn't even in their area so I I was in pain I was in pain and um I remember in this time period I was really really on edge I was yelling at my wife yelling at my baby whose name is Addison who was only nine months old at the time I'm mad at my friends I'm yelling at them I'm just like yelling at everybody I'm mad at everybody I'm mad at everything everything's just going wrong and I've never been this way it's the first time in my whole life I'd ever been so angry and got angry so easy and so one day I was out praying and I said God where is all this anger coming from what do I bind and cast out of my life and that's when I learned that you can't cast out flesh you have to crucify it and the Lord spoke to me that morning and I'll never forget he said son he said look at look at your wedding ring on your finger and I looked at my wedding ring and he had brought this scripture to my attention and and you know I I I looked at my wedding ring and it was a different ring Lisa gave this to me later but it was a gold ring and he said does that look like pure gold to you and I said yes it does he said is it pure gold and I said no it's not I said it's 14 karat gold now 14 karat means 14 Parts out of 24 Parts is gold 10 parts out of 24 Parts is impurities copper zinc nickel he said it looks like pure gold though doesn't it I said yeah it looks like pure gold he said if I put it he said if you put that ring in a furnace and you heat up the furnace to 7000 degrees Fahrenheit what happens I said well the gold liquefies he said then what happens I said well then all the impurities will come to the surface and the Lord said they appear right and I said yeah they appear he said they were in there the whole time right I said yeah they were in there the whole time he said you keep saying where's this all this anger coming from why do I keep getting angry so easy why am I offended with everybody he said these are impurities that have been in there and he said I've brought you into my furnace of affection Isaiah 48 and he said this furnace is causing these these these substances to appear these this anger to appear this he said now you can blame everybody you can blame your wife blame your pastor blame your friends and he said if you do the impurities will go right back down he said or you can say God this is my problem and he said what I'll do is he said I'll take my big Ladle and scoop off the impurities and I realize right then my faith which is much more precious than gold was being tested by fire and I remember in this six months it was actually an 18-month time period at one point it got so bad I was walking in to the church offices and they were big they had 450 employees at one point and I remember one day I just I couldn't I I got up in pain I went to bed in pain I ate breakfast in pain I ate lunch and pain I eat dinner and pain I mean do you know when Jeremiah said my pain is Perpetual I understand that I lived in pain I remember one day I closed the door in my office and I just put my head between the corner the walls right and I said God why do I hurt so bad inside and God spoke to me he said because you're dying he said there's always pain and death and then he said this to me that day he said do you want to know how you're going to know when you're dead I said how do I know when I'm dead he said when you don't hurt anymore he said deaf people don't hurt well I said God would you please kill me quick that was what I went through but then remember I I said I want to become youth pastor right well now I'm a youth pastor and everything's great for six months just like the other time oh I'm loving it we we gotta we got a a a a youth television program the church had never had it before but God had put it in my heart we raised the funds with the youth not the parents of the youth the youth gave to it we had 10 o'clock every Saturday night on a station that reached 4 million people in Central Florida man everything's rocking rock and rocking right but I remember there was a young man in my youth group and his dad was my boss he was the Executive Administrative pastor of the church and I'm preaching on Holiness and dying to yourself and printing these messages right well he comes up to me one day and go he's just crying he just said how can I live the life you're preaching well my mom and dad do this at home and this at home and this at home and he walked up to my wife and said that and my wife went oh no this is John's boss well that man tried to destroy me and for the next 18 months this was another 18-month one a little while can be 18 months seems like a forever when you're in it though I remember that man he determined to destroy me ow he drove a wedge between me and the pastor I didn't meet with the pastor at one point for four months couldn't get to him because he he had told the pastor lies about me that weren't true told me lies about the pastor that I don't think were true and he was just driving a wedge and I remember I was spending hours praying every day I mean hours just to just to keep a a great attitude right and I remember employees would walk up to my wife of the church and they'd go why doesn't he just put your husband's name on this like he forbid praying in the in the choir loft which is where I went every lunch to pray because I was on a fast like God what's going on and there were all kinds of things that he did and he was just determined to destroy me and finally he he did he he got me to the point where I was going to be fired on that Monday it was a Friday and I had the first meeting with the pastor in four months and the pastor's two brothers said John you're going to be fired on Monday you just need to brace yourself and on Sunday morning Pastor got up and said there's going to be a big change in the youth group I need to meet with all the parents on Tuesday night and I'm sitting there on the platform and I know the brothers have told me I'm fired you know I remember walking into that pastor's office and the pastor looked at me and he was alone he was supposed to be there with that guy and they were going to fire me and he said God sent you here you're not leaving and I remember God delivered us in that very hour and I remember that man six months later I was out of town everything he was doing got exposed everything he was doing he could have been prosecuted and put in jail for years but the pastor had mercy on him just followed it away at a lawyer's office but these are some of the things that you know I went through and what what I couldn't understand is I'm not being productive I'm not being fruitful seems like you know yeah you know a lot of Youth were getting ministered to in our youth meetings but I was like why do I have to live like this with all this adversity and all this hardship and all this I'm sure Paul must have thought that you know he's got these Jews that are following from City to City to City trying to destroy him but yet he said God take it away from me and God says don't you realize my grace is sufficient for you yeah because my strength is made perfect in your weakness what I didn't understand is that God was developing character in me it was going to be able to handle the calling that he had placed on my life I'm firmly convinced that when God called me back in the mid-80s if God would have well back in the early 80s if God would have put me when I really believed I was ready because I used to tell people I'm ready I mean Jesus is coming in 1988. I've got to get out to the Nations I literally said that and and and I was ready in 1985 86 and I was like and and I remember there's a lady named Marilyn and she was one of the guests in our church and she just looked at me she said just go start your ministry just go down to the to the to the to the Caribbean like T.L Osborne and Daisy Osborne do just start your ministry I was like yeah that's what I need to do and I realized that if I wouldn't have been led by the spirit wouldn't have allowed God to bring me through these times of refining and trials what he's done through Lisa's in my life right now would have destroyed me I would have been full of pride I would have been full of myself I would have been doing things in My Own Strength because if you can get something accomplished in your own strength by manipulating creating an Ishmael then you'll keep doing it keep doing it and keep doing it and keep doing it instead of Allowing God to do it and the thing is as people with callings on our life do we want God to be doing this or us to be doing it let me tell you um when I was trying to birth my Ishmael I was asked to go to the Philippines this was right before I became the youth pastor okay right at the very end after TL after I said no to TL I was asked by another Ministry to go to the Philippines and I remember God gave me the money 45 minutes before the flight left my wife I made an agreement with her the the minister it was a big organization he said I'll pay half your ticket to the Philippines you pay the other half you go over there and preach My Guy and um I remember I said to my wife I said I'm putting it on the credit card but back then if you turned in the ticket you got full credit I said I promise you I'll knock it on that plane unless unless God gives us the money and so for one week I'm just like okay God okay God everybody knows in my church I'm going okay you're going to do something so I went to the wealthiest guy in our church he was a guy who owned two Jets okay and um I said to him I'm going on a missions trip I'm going to the Philippines would you drive me to the airport he said oh I'd love to and uh I remember the morning I was going on that trip to the Philippines I open up the door and there's a bible school student staying at my door and I said no no you're not supposed to take me the other guy's taking me he said oh he couldn't do it last night he asked me to take you and I was like oh my gosh I'm gonna go to the airport with this guy and I'm gonna have to get a cab home because I can't get on the plane so we're driving to the airport he's talking to me all about his Bible School experiences and I'm I'm like I'm not even there I'm like going through it and I remember we got to the airport he said let me come in with you and I said no I don't want you to come in with me he said come on let me come in with you okay he's just going to watch me get in a cab and go home so he comes in and he puts my bag down the Bible School student he said you know last Wednesday night I was in bed and I knew about your trip he said God kept me up half the night saying that I needed to pay for half your ticket because you didn't have a thousand dollars and you needed a thousand dollars I said okay he said I finally got to sleep that night by saying God if you arrange a miraculous way for me to hand it to him I'll do it he said when that guy asked me to take you last night I about fell out of my bed he said I'm here to tell you you have your thousand dollars get on the plane I literally called Lisa for so I'm on this plane to the Philippines right and I'm just reading I'm reading the Bible and and the Bible says there was a man sent by God whose name was John that was John the Baptist and the sent by God jumped up off the page and the Holy Spirit said to me do you want to be sent by John bevere or do you want to be sent by God and I said I want to be sent by God yeah and you know what the holy spirit said to me he said good he said because if you send you you'll go in your Authority yeah he said but if I send you you'll go in my authority now do you know what I started noticing all throughout the the gospels in the book of Acts after that I noticed that what are the statements they said about John the Baptist he speaks as one with authority he doesn't speak like the scribes and the Pharisees well now wait a minute here's John his dad's a priest he's supposed to go to school with gamilia and learned under the greatest teacher Bible teacher of their day in Jerusalem all of his friends are going to Camellia school and God says go to the desert wow and John's like no no you mean I'm supposed to go study under Camellia desert no no no all my friends they're going to get diplomas they're going to get their their their doctorates they're going they're going to become pastors of churches desert and he goes to the desert and the Bible says I love this it says it says Caiaphas was high priest and anus were high priests and all these priests were doing their thing and the word of the Lord came to John in the desert wow and he spoke as one with authority and that's what Jesus meant would you go out there desert for what did you go out there for to see a reed chicken in the wind to see somebody dressed up in nice clothes they're in the king's palaces he said you went out there to hear a prophet a man with the word of the Lord a man who speaks under Authority and what happened was God said you let me send you you go in my authority so now think about this in the business world think about this in education think about this in military think about this in athletics what happened to my friend named Aaron he listened to God and now he's prospered in the realm of the PGA he's impacted so many more people when he won his first tournament he won in on Easter Sunday and he did a sunrise service with 2 000 people at the event and they talked about it on International TV they wrote about it in the Sydney newspaper I was in Sydney when he won it and I'm like look at the impact he's now operating in God's Authority in the PGA so it doesn't matter if you're in Ministry I'm telling you my stories because hey this is this is my realm God's called me to the ministry but if you're called the military you're called to the science you're called to education you're called to raise children whatever it is if you're doing what God tells you let me tell you the enemy is going to try to get you to birth in Ishmael he's going to do everything he can everything he can to get you out of the place God puts you he's going to get you to try to launch yourself early because he doesn't want you going in God's Authority and so that's the real key man I'll tell you this is lesson nine and if there's one that I can't over emphasize it's this one because you know how many people I see that are in Ministry because they're in Ministry because they know they're called to Ministry but they don't have authority they're not doing near what God called them to do because they went out ahead of their time they listened to the people that said hey go out and start a church you've got a calling on your life just just find a city and start a church but yet they're not walking in that Authority I want to see a generation rise up that they have the authority of God in them in the medical field in in in in the marketplace in education in government in athletics that's the Joshua generation that I really believe is coming the many that are chosen not the few yeah when you look at it from the cross the resurrection till the second coming of Jesus yes few will fulfill what God has called them to do but I believe that generation that final generation before he comes they're going to be like Joshua's generation and I believe many are going to be chosen in that generation I believe you guys are part of that generation in the last lesson it's the next one it's really the exciting one okay here's the question we're going to address how do I maximize my calling boy this one's going to be good I can hardly wait to get to it foreign [Music]

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Published: Tue Mar 21 2023