Acts: How To Follow God In Our Lives

Well, it's good to be back with you. Welcome to

be that is glad that you're here. If you have

your Bibles turned with me to Act sixteen, and we'll

start in verse six. In just a moment, Act sixteen.

Starting in verse six. The title of my sermon this

morning is how do we follow God with our lives?

How do we follow God with our lives? You know,

we all need directions, right We all need directions for

different things in our life. We need directions for a

recipe cook a meal. We need directions for if we're

learning a new game. If you we were, if you

got a board game, or you got some type of game,

you you follow the instructions on how to play. Again,

we all need different directions on even taking exam. If

we go to school we have exam, on how we

take to the test or what things we're gonna need

for the exam we have. We need directions for all

things in our life. This week, as you many of

you know, we have been. We came back yesterday. I

was out of country for a mission trip. There was

twelve of us, seven from Bethesda and five from the Summit.

We went on a mission trip to eastern Europe and

just I don't remember all my days were running together now,

but just it seemed like just a little bit ago.

I think it was Friday. We landed in Doha, Doha, Qatar,

and it's one of the it's actually the nicest, known

as the nicest airport in the entire world. It is,

but it's huge, it's massive. And we landed in Doha

and got into our gate and I had been there before.

Devin and I have been on the mission trip in

Tanzania and that's where we flew out of there. And

we landed to our gate and we got out and

there's a team of twelve of us. We all kind

of gathered together out the gate and we had when

we'd been before. There was this nice spot in the

airport where there was a burger king. Amen and US

Americans have missed our burgers and there was a burger

king in the KFC and Lufu court and it was

kind of remote. There wasn't as many people there. So

I said to Devin, I think it'd be a good spot.

We have a ten hour layover in Qatar, so it

would be a nice spot for the team to hang out.

Tables are as good bathrooms, all kind of stuff. So

we knew, but from where we were at that point

where we came in on the terminal where we were,

they gay, I had no idea how to get to

where we were to where that spot was. Well, Devon says, well,

I know how to get there. I said, you do.

He said, yeah, I know how to get there. Just

follow me. So I said, take at it, buddy. Now

I will tell you I have an eternal belief within

me that I am good with directions, like there's something

in my spirit that says I can figure it out.

But the reality is, as much as I might feel

I'm good, the reality is I'm horrible. Okay, don't follow

me anywhere. If I say I think we should go

this way, don't say what I think that because my

internal instincts are always off. So I just I got

to the back of the line of our group, and

Devon got to the headline, and I just followed wherever

Devin went, because I knew if you left it up

to me, I would be lost. I would take you

to the wrong spot. We would wander around that airport,

probably for an hour, trying to find that spot where

we were trying to get to. But Devin knew where

to go, and Devin led us our whole group right

to the burger king and I saw the sign. It's wonderful.

I say that because we need directions, and many times

we wander around in our lives because we're following our

own sense of direction. And many times I think it

takes us longer to get to where God wants us

to go because we're following our sense of direction. Do

you know, I really believe God has a starting point

in your life, and God has an ending point in

your life, and in the course of your life, he

has a place of where he wants you to be,

where he wants you to go. But many times we

can get off on what God wants for us because

we're following our own good sense of direction, and many

times our directions are flawed. This morning, as we come

to this passage of scripture, you see Paul and Acts

chapter sixteen, and he's just finished his second missionary journey,

about to start his second and he's traveling. He's traveled

through the first missionary all the churches he's visited on

his first missionary journey's traveled through there, and now he's

about to start his second missionary journey, and he's really

he's kind of like us at the front of that gate. Lord,

I believe I know kind of where you want us

to go. But God, I need you to lead. God,

I need you to get ahead. I need you, God,

to show us where to go, because you know the

right path, you know the best directions. You have the

best directions. And so I believe Paul just said God,

I'm going to follow you. Wherever you lead, I will follow.

And this morning, as we see Paul followed the Lord

with his life, I think we can learn how we

should follow God with our life. And so that's the

goal this morning, how do we follow God with our lives.

Let's stand and read God's word together. It's Acts, chapter sixteen.

Or you just four verses. Don't let that think you

will be a short sermon. I preach to you in

three weeks. So I hope you brought a bad lunch.

Chapter sixteen, tent of verse six its says, and when

they went to the regions of Phrygia and Galatia, having

been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak a word

in Asia, and when they come up to Messia, they

attempt to go to by Athenia, but the spirit of

Jesus did not allow them. Surpassing by Messylia, they went

to true Us and a vision appeared to Paul in

the night of men of Macedonia standing there urging him, saying,

come over to Macedonia and help us. When Paul had

seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia,

concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel

to them. Let's pray together, Father, we need your direction. Lord.

Without you will wander aimlessly. Without you, Lord, will go

the wrong way. We'll do the wrong things. So Lord,

today help us learn how to follow you, Lord, God,

to get give us a spirit that wants, Lord you

to lead us, that searches for your path. This searches

for your direction, that surrenders to your Holy Spirit, Lord,

that listens to your call. So Lord, I pray today, Lord,

may you use your word just as you spoke to Paul,

just as you spoke to your church. God, may you

speak to us today. We gather together as a body believers, Lord,

wanting to hear Lord your voice today. So Lord, I

pray for your Holy Spirit to feel me and pour

me out. Father, Lord, feel this room. Lord with your spirit,

and may you speak to the hearts of your people.

And Lord, I pray you give us openness Lord to

your word and a willingness to respond Lord to it. Lord,

we love you, We thank you Lord for today you name.

We pray, Amen, you may be seated. How do we

follow God with our lives? First we followed God with

our lives. We follow the Holy Spirit. First, we follow

the Holy Spirit with our speech. So here's Paul and

Silas and Timothy, as we saw last week, have joined

Paul on his missionary journey. The Bible tells us verse six,

they went through the regions of Phrygia and Galatia. Galacia

was the region of the first missionary journey. That's if

you look back with us, that's the areas of the

cities of Iconium, Lystra and Derby, or Lystra and Derby

and so on. Those are the area. So we know

that Paul took Timothy and Silas and they went through

and revisited all those churches. And then he tells us

the second area they went through, and this is Phrygia.

Phrygia was a portion of Asia, and so they kind

of going there. I think we have a map, we'll

show you up on the screen, and you could see

there on the right as they go through Syria Aneoxieras

where they started. That's the starting point there. And you

can see they go through Cecilia, which is Tarsius, and

then you can see the gray area there's Galatian. You

see derby Icony and Lystra and that's the areas of

the first missionary journey. As you come to the Antioxassitia,

that was the last area in Glacia. That's with all

the first missionary journey. And now Paul's starting his second

missionary journey, and he's looking for God, where are you

going to lead us next? And who are the people

who we're going to speak to? Where are the churches

that we're going to start. And so he goes to

into Asia. And there's kind of two areas of Asia.

Phrygia is the first part and that's the first area there,

and then you see Missia and that's the second part.

So he goes to Phrygia and he starts in this area.

And look at what the Bible says in verse six,

and when they went through the regions of Phrygia, and Glacia.

Having forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the Word

in Asia, they get into this new area of Asia,

and the region of Asia called Phrygia, and the Bible

says that the whole Spirit forbids Paul to speak. Now,

if you've just walked with us, now, we've been preaching

through the Book of Acts for over a year now,

and if you scanned Thelize, just few chapters of Acts,

one thing you'll learn about Paul is Paul is never

short for words, right. And as you look in Acts

thirteen and fourteen, as he become the leader of this

missionary journey in every city, when they preached to Lystra

derby Iconium, Paul was the very first one to deliver

the message of the Gospel to these new areas. So

he was passionate about preaching in Lystra. When he preached there,

the people of the city had not heard the Gospel,

and they were Greek, and they called Paul Hermes, which

was the god of language. So he talked so much

they said, you must be the God of language. I mean,

the man loved to talk, he loved to preach. And

Acts fifteen he spoke not only to the people of

these new areas. But in Acts fifteen we saw Paul

was the one who spoke up to the Judaizers in

in Oxyria, we saw Paul is the one who spoke

up to the Jerusalem Council. In Acts fifteen we see

Paul is never short for words. We even see that

even with his brother Varnabas when they disagreed, he spoke

up about his beliefs about John Mark. Paul is never

short for words. He's always willing to speak for God

when God calls him to speak.

And now he comes to a.

New area, probably on fire for what God has done.

God's expanded the church through a new area.

He's about to go into a new area he's never

heard of the gospel, and Holy Spirit says.

No, Paul, don't speak.

I mean, that's like me as much as I like

to preach, and God telling me I can't preach. That's

exactly what happened here. But listen for Paul following God

with his life. Met God, I'll follow the Holy Spirit

with my speech. So God, when you tell me to speak,

I'll speak. But God, when you tell me no, I'll

oll Obay. You know, it's important that as we follow

God with our lives that we follow God with our speech.

Sometimes we think directionally God, what decisions am I making?

What actions am I taking? But how do we think

in our lives of God? How are you leading in

what I say? And when I should speak, maybe to

an unbeliever, and when I shouldn't speak. I think it's

weird to think about. For Paul, it's very important when

I follow God in my life and only with my

directions and decisions I'm making with my line, but also

it means for what I say, what I do with

my mouth. You know, the Bible says so much about speaking,

and it's not all important what we say, but how

we say it. Heard of a woman she was traveling

abroad for without her husband, and she was in Paris,

and this was before the phones and emails and all

the modern technology. Now it's back the days when it

had telegram. And she was in Paris and she found

this beautiful bracelet, and so she thought she needed to

reach out to her husband back in America and find

out if it's okay for him to for her to

buy it. So she sent a telegram to him and

she says, I found this beautiful bracelet. It's the one

I've been looking for in my whole life. The cost

is only seven five hundred. Do you think I can

buy it? Her husband got the wire and he was

quickly wanted to respond back, so he sent a very

short response. He says, no comma, price too high. He

signed his name by, but in the transmission the comma

was left out and the message read no price too high.

She was thrilled emitting the comma almost put him into

a coma.

You know what we say is really you know.

The Bible says a lot about what we say and

how we should say it. Scripture talks about how the

Holy Spirit should instruct our speech and Luke Jesus teaching

his disciples. In Luke chapter twelve, he says, when you

bring you before the sin of gods and the rulers

and authorities, don't be anxious for what you're about. So

how you should defend yourself what you should say, for

the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour

what you are to say. You know, the Holy Spirit

should god our speech. We should depend upon the Holy

Spirit to provide us what to say in the moments

when we are being a witness for him. Holy Spirit

should instruct our speech. Scripture talks about God guarding our speech.

Passes like Psalm forty one to three says, set a

guardle Lord over my mouth, keep watch over the door

of my lips. How are you allowing the Holy Spirit

to instruct your speech? How are you allowing God to

guard your speech saying only things that would edify the Lord,

to bring honor to the Lord. How Our scripture also

talks about Jesus judging our speech. You know, the Bible

says in Matthew twelve, Jesus said in thirty six and

thirty seven, I tell you, on the day of judgment,

people will give an account for every careless word they speech.

For by your words you'll be justified, and by your

words you'll be condemned. You know, it's important if we

want to follow the Lord with our lives, that we

follow the Holy Spirit with our speech when we should speak,

and what we should say when we speak. I ask

you today, you following the Lord with your life and

part of that, or you follow the Lord with your speech,

you fall in the Holy Spirit to guide you in

your speech. Think, if we want to learn today how

to follow God with our lives, we follow Paul's example

allowing the Holy Spirit to guide our speech. But secondly,

if how do we follow God with our lives, we

follow the Holy Spirit with our speech. Secondly, we follow

Jesus with our direction. It's interesting as you go back

to that map, Paul is making his way through Asia

and he's Phrygia and the Bible prevents him to speak.

He gets to miss Up, which is about a little

over halfway. And look what the Bible says in verse

seven of this passage of scripture. When he had come

up to Missia, they attempted to go to Bythenia, but

the spirit of Jesus did not allow him.

So you can kind of imagine Paul's getting a little antsy.

Okay, you know, he's going through this area, goes to Asia,

wants to share the gospel with him. The Holy Spirit

says no, and he says, you know, I really want

to go.

I want to go east here.

I want to go to Bythenia, which is another area

he seeks. The Lord says, I.

Really want to do this is really where I want

to go.

I can't really share the gospel here, but maybe I

should go this way, And that was his desire that's

where he wanted to go.

If you see the map, and Scripture.

Says in verse seven, But the spirit of Jesus isn't

that interesting? You see the Holy Spirit God his speech,

but now Jesus.

Is guiding his direction. Can I tell you if we want.

To follow the Lord with our lives or God with

our lives, we must allow the Holy Spirit to We

must follow the Holy Spirit with our speech, but we

must follow Jesus with our direction. You know, there's many

times in our life we really are determined we want

to go a certain way. We really might much like Paul,

I really want to do this God, I really want.

To go this way.

And how many times does the spirit or maybe Jesus

says none, no, no, DA shouldn't do that. But we're determined, no, no, no no,

I want to do what I want to do, and

we follow our past. Here for Paul, he surrendered to

Jesus's direction for his life. You know, you think about

Jesus and Mare. We did a study just a few

years ago in Mark. If you remember, in Mark chapter one,

Jesus is in the send of God. He preaches his

first sermon and the send of God, and there after

the sermon and he after he heals a demon possessed man,

he goes to Peter's home and Peter's mother in law sick.

I wonder if you remember this story, and Jesus reaches

out and prays for her and he heals her. And

after it heals her at the root, the word gets

out that he heals this Peter's mother in law so

much so the people of the city bring all the

sick to Jesus that night and they're at outside, just

covered outside of Peter's house.

They're just sick. And that night Jesus goes to one

on one.

If you go back and read this passage with me,

you can go see it in Mark Mark throughout the

end of kind of thirty six and on or thirty

and on. Jesus goes one by one and he touches

his on him. You remember that. Well, that night, about

four o'clock in the morning, scripture says, Jesus gets out

away from the town, away from peter home, and he's praying.

The next morning, the disciples get up and they're looking

for Jesus, and the Bible says that outside of Peter's

home again, the people have gathered again to be healed. Well,

they're frantic. All these people are waiting. All the people

want to see Jesus. All these people want to be healed.

Disciples are friend that they're looking for him all over

the place. And they go out into this remote place

and they find Jesus praying. And I want you to

see what happened in Mark, chapter one, verse thirty six,

and it says Simon, those who were searching for him,

they found him and says, everyone's looking for you. And

he said to them, let us go on to the

next town that I might preach there also, for that

is why I came out. So he went through all

of Galilee, preaching in the sin of gods and casting

out demons. They go to find Jesus and all the

people back at Peter's house are waiting to be healed.

You can kind of get a sense of disciples. All right,

We've got to get back, man. We got some great

things happening here at Peter's house. And Jesus says, he

I'm going in another direction. I know that's important, but

this is what God's leading me to do. You see,

the disciples had one plan. Jesus had was following God's

direction and many times in our life. Listen, we have

our plans, what we think is right. How how much

are we willing to like Christ and like Paul says, Lord,

this may be a good path, but it may not

be your path. And Lord, I want your path. I

want your direction from my life. And how much are

we willing, Let's be honest, how much are we willing

to search out Jesus's path for us? Of the great

things about hanging out with people in the mission field,

as we had some conversations this week and hear in

store worries heard a story this week. We talk a

lot about unreached people groups, unreached people groups her people

who live in our world who have little to no

access to the Gospel. That means they may take two

or three days, maybe even a month to travel from

where they lived to find someone who knows who Jesus is.

Heard a story from a friend this week and he

was in a very Muslim area, and there's a story.

There was a woman and she was one night she

had a dream and in her dream she was she

was surrounded by dark beings and the dark beings had

her chained or to the chair and they were attacking

her and the dream a being of light came to

her and the dark beings fled. The woman, living in

an unreached people area where there was surrounded by muslim

and no Christianity and no access to Jesus, woke up

from the dream and says, I much found Jesus. Never

heard of Jesus before she got up that morning, and

for two hours that day she searched door to door.

She searched looking for someone who knew Jesus, who'd never

heard of Jesus. Finally, at the end of two hours,

she found one person and she said, they said, yeah,

I've heard of that Jesus and once I've heard someone

talking about it. And if you go to this house,

I've heard that person say that name. Before the lady

went to the house knocking on the door, true story,

knocking on the door. The people opened up the door

and as they met the person, they said, we have

been praying for the last listen to this, the last

two hours for you to come. They led her to

the Lord and she found Jesus that day. Listen. What

if she had got up from that dream and says,

you know, I just I just ate something bad. Just

had a little heartburn. I shouldn't ate that food last night. No,

She searched for Jesus this direction in her life, and

when Jesus led her, she followed. Listen, when God's calling you,

when God's leading you, when God's directing you. It may

not make sense, it may not be comfortable, it may

seem out of the ordinary, it may seem crazy. But

many times the simplest thing for us to do is

just say, God, what you lead me to do? I'll

follow Lord you Jesus with my life. Can I ask

you today as we look at how do you follow

God with our lives? What's the direction of your life today?

What are what directions and what desires are you following?

Are you following Jesus with your life? Is Jesus guiding

the direction of your life? And are you willing to

search for Jesus's direction for your life? Paul was looking

for Jesus' direction. How about you as we look this morning,

Let's look at the third thing this morning? How do

we follow God with our lives? We follow the Holy

Spirit with our speech, we follow Jesus with our direction.

And lastly, one of the things I think is beautiful

about this pastor of scripture is see the Father's son

in the Holy spirit. You see God, the Father lasts.

How do we follow God with the lives? We follow

God with our life. Paul goes to miss Yah. He

really wants to go by Athenaea. Jesus, the spirit of

Jesus says no. In verse nine it says Paul has

a vision, a lot like that woman. In Verse nine

says the vision appeared to Paul in the night. A

man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him, saying, come

over to Macedonia and help us. And when Paul had

seen the vision, immediately he sought to go up to Macedonia,

concluding that God had called us to preach the Gospel

to us and should go back to the map. Paul,

if you Paul goes all the way through Asia.

He got halfway to Missia.

He felt like you should go to Bathenia, go Rite,

or go north if you will, God said, Jesus says no.

He goes all the way to the end, never shares

one word, never says anything, does it share. The Gospel

goes all the way through It comes to Troas at

the very end of the city. The kind of a

a city on the coast, and there that night he

hears he sees a vision of a man from Macedonia,

which is across to see there the Mediterranean Sea into Macedonia.

He hears a Macedonia man calling, come help us. Scripture

says in this passive scripture, when Paul saw the vision,

he sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that God had

called him to preach. You can almost sense that in

this passage of scripture, all along Paul was wont to

do what he wanted to do first, wanted to go

to Asia first, want to share the gospel. Holy Spirit

said No, goes into Messiah. Halfway through Asia says, well,

if that doesn't work, I'll go to Bythenias Plan B.

God says no, he goes to trueass And now God

gives him a call. And I love this part because

here in this passage of scripture, Paul sees a vision

and the vision is a man in Macedonia calling for help.

You know this is my interpretation or my imagination maybe,

but I really wonder today, in this passage of scripture,

who's the Macedonia man calling? Is he calling to Paul? No?

I believe he's called to God. He's calling to God.

God come and help us, and God sent Paul to

be his messenger. That God knew hear me today. God

knew that there was a man in Macedonia that needed

the good news of Jesus, and God sent Paul to

be that messenger. He heard the call. I believe there's

people all over our world today, across our world here

calling just like the Macedonia man seeking God, calling for

God to come help. And it may mean that He

sends us to go to answer that call, to be

God's messing. It may be a place that we don't

want to go. It may be a place that's not

easy to get to, but God may call us. And

if He calls us, will we go. I mentioned to

you at the beginning of the message that we were

away this last week on a mission trip to eastern Europe.

We were ministering to Curtis refugee children. Interesting story about

this trip was back in the early spring, we connected

with our ministry partner in the area and we were

trying to plan out what we would do on our

seven days there, and he told us about these Curtis

refugee children. These refugee children. He told us at that

time they lived near the dump and they would take

things that they got from the dump. Their parents would

to make their houses and these children were required by

their parents to back and also sell the things that

they would steal to make money for the family. And

so we we we've heard about these kids. We heard

that they were also were not in school, and we

also heard that it was illegal to bag in that

city that they were that we visited in eastern Europe,

it was illegal and to the police called them, they

would deport them. So but in that city there was

this mission there's this mission house. In this mission house

would feed these children every day and and do some

teaching to them. So the mission was, we understood it

is that we would go into this city. We would

go in this mission house and we would help serve

a meal and we would care for these children.

There were about forty children that were there.

So that was the plan. That was the mission. That's

what we thought was what God was going to do.

We were excited. We had some directions. Let's go, and

about August we called the missionary see how things were going,

a mission partner.

What was things looking like?

How what was going to be details, what were things

that we needed to do.

In August.

He told us that the police had came in and

they had gotten a lot of the children, and there

were very little children left. He wasn't sure that we

were even going to be able to do anything now.

So the best bad at this point was for us

to wait to the end of September and to find

out if we were even going to be able to

do the ministry in the mission house. So wait till

the end of September. Now, mind you, we were leaving

August fourth, end of September. It is only two weeks away.

But let's call. Let's do a call back and see

where we were on September twenty two weeks from when

we were to leave out. We get a call there

are roughly ten to fifteen children left left from forty

about five families are left. But we're going to be

able to minister these children every day from Mondays to

Thursday from one to five, and that we needed to

fill that four hour period of time with games, with

Bible lessons, with crafts.

So we thought, this is great, this is a good plan.

There's not forty of them, there's only ten of them.

But hey, we've got a plan.

We're going to be able to miss them.

Let's go.

So we get there. We for two weeks.

We crammed. We got Bible plans, we got game plans,

we got craft plans. We get to the center on Monday.

I believe there's around seven kids there. They eat first,

and then it just became just pure chaos.

To be honest with you, the kids were out of control.

They were throwing fits when they didn't get their way.

At one point, I believe it was during Bible time.

Of the boys came in the middle of the Bible

time and just hit one of the other boys. He

took off running outside the center. The other two the

boy that got hit and his brother, who was like

maybe one, I mean like first grade, they both took

off and they went outside and they were throwing haymakers

at you. We had to separate them. The kids were

we couldn't We couldn't get them still for one moment

to do any kind of organized thing. We get through

the end of the day, it's just been chaos. We

couldn't do anything. We planned any any games, any crafts, anything,

hardly that we planned it all in that time period,

the whole team, twelve of us, were just exhausted, like, I.

Don't know if this is gonna work.

Are we doing more damage than good. We came together

since we're going to sit to it another day. The

next day, there were three children there. Most of the

other kids were with their parents doing some paperwork something

for the government. We weren't sure. We found out from

the ministry leader who was leading that center came to

us and says, you know what, I think the best

thing for you to do is, let's not do this.

Let's not come here tomorrow. Let's go to their city.

Let's go to their village, and let's do the Bible,

the games and everything right in their village. There's a

chance to reach more of the kids, to maybe reach

the moms. So we forgot our plans, we forgot our details,

we forgot everything that we thought we had planned ready

to go, and we went to the village. We got there,

we gave them, we'd served the meal to them, and

we had the ladies in one area and the children

and the other. We shared a Bible story and we

had five ladies that were there for five mamas, and

as we had one of our team members sharing the

Bible with our students. We had a lady from our

team share a testimony in the Bible passage with those ladies,

those mamas, and she said to them, listen to this.

Do you want to receive Jesus. One of the ladies says,

I do, And she led that lady to the Lord. Now,

after that mama prayed to receive Jesus. Another mom came

up says, I want to receive Jesus, And one by one,

five ladies received Jesus Christ as in one savior. I

tell you that because we had all our plans, we

had all our directions, we had all the things that

we thought we wanted to do. But God had another plan.

You know, one thing that I have learned that I

think we see so faithfully in scripture. His ways are

so much greater than our ways. You know, the Bible

says in Isaiah fifty five to nine.

For as a heaven are higher than the earth, So

my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts

than your thoughts. You know, His ways are greater than

our ways. His plans are better than our plans. You know,

God brought listened to me this morning God brought Paul

across a country to lead him to a people that

needed to hear the gospel.

Listen to me today. Last week God led twelve people

from Durham here across the world to take the gospel

to a people who needed to hear. And we were

able to share that love, that message, that gospel with them.

And see five moms received Jesus the last day in

the village and I asked, Abandon, you want to make

your way up last day in the village that he

had our ministry partners were talking with the ladies. As

I told you before, the police are trying to catch

the children because it's illegal to beg catch.

Them and deport them.

That deported over majority of the children and the families

in I think may or June again, there's like five

families left. There's like eleven children. We found out that

as the minisitary partners were talking with the ladies remaining

listen to this, we found out that all those mamas

and all those children are about to be deported and

they're going to be deported back. Listen to this. They're

going to be deported back to their home country, which

is a closed country with no access to the gospel.

You know when they're going to be deported October twentieth.

If we'd went ten days later, they would have never heard.

If we were stopped on Monday and just said, this

is not working. This is not good, this is not

working out. They're too misbehave there too. It's too difficult.

We can't handle the behavior. We don't. We don't can't.

We can't talk to them in their language. This is

too hard, God, this is not what we signed up for.

This must be easy trip. If we would have stopped,

they never heard the good News of Jesus.

But when we just say God, God, I'll follow you.

I'll let the Holy Spirit lead my speech.

God, I'll follow your direction even when.

It doesn't make sense.

And God, I'll follow you with my life.

Why you called me to do, God, I will surrender

even if it's not comfortable, if it's not what I

signed up for. God, I'll give you my life. You know,

I really belie believe God's gonna call people from our church.

Listen to me. I believe God's gonna call people in

our church into the ministry. I believe God's gonna raise

up a pastor, a minister, you say, well, now I

have business plans, I have this what I want to

do with my life, and God's gonna call someone else

out from that to it's something else, totally different. God's

gonna do it. If God calls you to do it,

would you surrender? I believe God's gonna call missionaries out

of our church. We've been praying for it every Thursday,

that God would grow our church that.

He might send us out.

I believe God's gonna raise up full time missionaries like

He's done in the past, people who will give up

their life, sacrifice their comforts of living in America to

live in a foreign land, to share the gospel, the

good news of Jesus with people who are calling calling God. God.

God will send somebody, send somebody. I need you, God,

and God's gonna send people right from our church to go.

It's not gonna make sense, it's not gonna be comfortable,

it's not gonna be what they want to do.

But God's gonna call.

When there's gonna be those who will say, ill surrender.

I believe God's gonna call more people to go on

short term mission trips like we did this last week,

and that may be you. God's We're going to plan

some trips in the next year. And you're gonna say, Pastor,

I don't have money to do.

That, I don't have the skills to do that. But

I'm telling you God's gonna call.

And I just ask you. As God calls you, would

you follow him? Will you follow him with your speech?

Will you follow him with the direction of your life?

Will you follow him with all your life when it calls?

Whatever God's calling you, leading you, speaking to you today,

would you follow him today? Let's stand and let's pray together,

Father Lord. This is your day, this is your word,

this is your time. Lord. I pray today we would

have a spirit of surrender, saying God, Lord, I want you,

I want to follow you with my life. What's my speech,

with my directions? With all of me? Lord, I surrender

Lord to you or we love you. I thank you

Lord for what you done here today. Oh God, may

you lead us? Father Lord. I pray there's someone today

that their life is on the wrong path. I pray

there would be day there would be those who'd hear

your call and to hear the message of your Holy Spirit,

to hear your voice Jesus, and I pray those would

be some would turn back to you God, surrender Lord

to your calling on them. Lord. However, Lord, you lead

us today. Lord, I pray God, we would follow Lord

you or we thank you Lord for a pause example.

And Lord, today I pray we would surrender to your

calling on us, your Spirit's leading in us. Lord, may

we be a people who follow you God. In your name,

we pray, ess

And all to Him,