I would like to start off by
asking you a question: Do you really think that when God told Joshua, “I want
you to march around the walls seven times, and on the seventh time I want you
to shout,” that Joshua could really comprehend that? Do you think he processed
it this way in his thoughts: “Okay, we’re going to march around the walls,
we’re gonna shout, and the walls are gonna come tumbling down.” Huh? I don’t
think that he quite could have grasped that. He was a warrior.
Also, think about this. God
speaks to Gideon and tells him, “Okay, I’m going to use you to defeat the
enemies of Israel. So he gathers up an army of 30,000 and whittles them down to
300. Then God said, “I want you to use clay lamps and horns to defeat the
enemy.” Do you believe that Gideon understood how God was going to do it? Gideon
is ready by brandishing a sword, and he has warriors ready standing behind him
and God says, “You’re to use clay lanterns and horns, and with this, you will
defeat the enemy.” I don’t think that Gideon fully grasped that. I don’t believe
Gideon said, “Oh, no problem, God just said we’re going to use clay pots and
blow a lamb’s horn and that’s it!”
He didn’t take the time
apparently to try and figure out what God was telling him to do. Cuz if he had
tried to mentally figure it out, I’m not sure he would have understood it, and
I’m not even sure that he would have done it. All he knew was that God said,
“Do it,” so, “Boys, this is what we’re going to do.” He must have thought, “It
makes perfect sense to God, so let’s do it.”
Many times we don’t know the end
from the beginning. This is something we need to know though: every one of us
is somewhere in the process. Right now you are somewhere between where you used
to be and where you are going. That’s pretty deep, ain’t it? That’s called
process, and you can’t figure out why certain parts of it are hard. “That can’t
be God, I bind the devil in Jesus’ name, shundai, shaba!”
You’ve bound the devil and cast
out demons. You’ve prayed and fasted. And you’re still going through this
thing. It could be God. God’s taking you through a process. But it hurts! I
know. That’s usually your flesh burning, and God loves the scent of burning
flesh, so let it burn, baby. He’s taking you through this process to the
fulfillment of the purpose that He placed in you from the foundations of the
earth.
Walking in the promises. How many
of you want to walk in the promises and not just stand on them? Here’s one key
amongst so many others; although, I would consider it the key of keys. You must develop the ability of being in the
right place at the right time doing the right thing with the right people.
If you don’t have the right people, it ain’t gonna work.
Believe me. I’ve tried and tried
and tried and tried to do right things with the wrong people, and the first key
whether in business, ministry, or life is to get the right people on the bus. Because
when you got the right people on the bus, it usually doesn’t matter where the
bus is going. Did you hear me? That is a principle of success.
Now you want to be in the right
place at the right time doing the right thing with the right people. How are
you going to do that? We’ll continue this and I’m going to share some things
that I’ve discovered in the Word of God and in my own life that have brought me
to that place; I’m not telling you that I always hit the mark and I’m always
where I’m supposed to be, although I know there are times when I’m not doing
what I’m supposed to be doing.
God’s Word says, “If you’ll obey
these words, these statues, these commands, my blessings, all of these
blessings will come upon you and overtake you.” The problem is that we are all
looking for the blessings, but we’re not getting overtaken by the blessings.
Why? Because we’re not in the right place, at the right time, doing the right
things with the right people.
~ pg
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