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THIS Is How God Leads | Pastor Steven Furtick | Steven Furtick | YouTubeToText
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God often leads individuals to fulfill their next purpose by addressing needs, frequently using those who are experiencing similar struggles to bring about healing and redemption.
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how is God gonna lead you into what he has next for your life with a need how is
God going to choose who he uses through the people who are broken he can't meet
a need through someone who doesn't have a need and he will often use you to
alleviate the same pain that you yourself are experiencing because God
leads with need God is leading me what do you mean when you say that you mean you
feel good about it Jesus didn't get to the cross feeling good about it
in fact he prayed father if it's possible take this cup from me I don't
want to do it I don't feel like doing it but lead me Lord if this is what they
need to be redeemed then let's do it if you need me in Philipi I wanted to go
to Mysia I wanted to go to Asia I wanted to be married I didn't want to be
in this situation I don't even like this right now but God lead me show me
the need and lead me through the valley of the shadow of death God being my
leader doesn't mean I won't go through anything it means he won't leave me
alone and there's a reason I'm going through what I'm going through
God knows what I need and so he says we ended up and Philipi the leading city
of that district of Macedonia and we stayed there several days and he doesn't
talk about what they did over those couple days and I wonder you know what
do you do when you get to Philipi it's 20-30 thousand people in the town and you
saw one man in a vision do you walk around looking for him
like hey I saw a man are you him what do you what do you do um one time
me and Buck went on a mission trip and Bucks on staff now he's been on staff
God guess about coming up on eight years on staff but we've been friends since
college we were on this mission trip and he's a Buck's a funny guy but he
doesn't like to show it a lot he reminded me of this guy that we went on
the mission trip with this dude was country
oh no I don't mean like monks corner country this dude was from Louisiana and
he was big country and he would walk up and talk to anybody and he had these
little country sayings that I still don't know what they mean
he used to we'd be getting ready in the morning and be like you ready and he say
you waiting on me you backing up and the first part was understanding what he
actually said like please say that again and then he'd say what he said if you're
waiting on me you're backing up and I still wouldn't know what it meant even
though I understood what he said but I had this flashback preparing this
message we were at a gas station and there was another guy named Clint that
was on the team and he was from Australia but he wasn't with us at the
time they were somewhere else and a van full of people rolled up and
this guy imma call him Bob in case he watches he's a pastor now and Bob just
walked up and talked to anybody and they didn't understand a word he was saying
but he just walked up and talked to anybody and he's walking up to him where y'all
from and they said Australia mate and he
liked that to him that was exotic you know a van full of foreigners I just got
back from Australia so that's the best accent I can do
if you want to do Australian accent just leave off random syllables
all the time there's they just leave crap off all the time and shorten
everything Australia mate he said Australia hey Australia
y'all know a guy named Clint from Australia and the poor guy driving the
van go's Australia's a pretty big place mate like there's more than one
Clint so Macedonia is a big place you know it's not Paul sees this vision but
he's not exactly sure you ever notice how many times you're not exactly sure like
you sense God is leading you to do something but it's a needle ooh a need a
needle in a haystack so I'm here but I dunno what I'm looking
for I'm raising these kids but I don't know if I'm doing it right I'm trying to
discipline them and be their friend sometimes I don't know which one to be
at which time and I want them to love me but I need them to fear me so I don't
know which one to be right now and I'm trying to be patient but I'm also trying
to be proactive and sometimes I don't know what's waiting on God what's
pushing ahead cuz I hear both I hear step out the boat and stay in the
boat and I don't know what to do with the boat and I don't even have a boat I don't even
like the water
so you got to look for a synagogue right that's where Paul would always start his
preaching and to have a synagogue you need everybody say need you need 10 men at
least but there's not 10 Jewish men to form a synagogue in Philippi that's how
desperate the city is for what Paul had and that's why God had to tell him no
about my Mysia and no about Asia because there was a
more desperate need somewhere else I wonder if God told you no for a reason
I wonder if God left you there for a reason Paul's looking you seen Clint
Clint it's big place mate I saw a man in a vision and they go out one Sabbath
and watch this since they knew that there wasn't a synagogue verse 13 on the
Sabbath we stayed outside the city gate to the river where we expected to find a
place of Prayer you'll find what you're looking for by the way if you look for a
place God is working you will find it in every situation
ask Lanny if God will show up in a hospital room
ask him if God will show up in a desperate situation oh yeah
God will show up at a custody hearing oh yeah God will show up in a bankruptcy
God will show up in a divorce God will show up in a broken heart God will show
up in a season of despondency God will show up in a crisis God will show up in
national turmoil God God is here I'm just looking for it so Paul says I
didn't find what I expected and I didn't get what I wanted but my God will meet
all my needs now here's what God knew I've been waiting all week to show you
this so please be merciful if I'm too excited and you don't like my level of
energy because I've had all week to get ready for this
there was a woman let's hear it for the women one more time
who was what the Old Testament called a God fearer now a God fearer is a Gentile who
believes in the Jewish God so she's ready to receive the message about Jesus
Christ the Messiah but she needs somebody to explain it to her well good
news there's somebody in Philippi who needs
somebody to preach to so somebody who needed the message got together with
somebody who needed a congregation God is a need meter God is a matchmaker God
knows how to put you where you need to be to release what he gave you to carry
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