THIS Is How God Leads

How is God going to 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 me. 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 leave me, Lauren. If this is what they

need to be redeemed, then let's do it.

If you need me.

In Philip, I I wanted to go to Masia. 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

in Philippi, 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 of days, and

I wonder, you know, what do you do when you

get to Philippi. It's twenty thirty 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 do?

One time, me and Buck went on a mission trip

in Buck's 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're on this mission trip

and he's a bucks, 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

Monk's 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're ready and he.

Say, you wait, no, men 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 vanful of people ruled up and this guy,

I'm gonna call him Bob in case he watches. He's

a pastor now. And Bob just walk up and talk

to anybody. And they didn't understand a word he was saying,

but he just walk up and talked to anybody. And

he's walking up to him. Where you'all from? And they

said Australia, mate, and he liked that. To him, that

was exotic. You know, a van ful of foreigners. I

just got back from Australia, So that's the best accent.

I can do a kind of Australia. If you want

to do Australian accent, just leave off random syllables all

the time. 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 goes Australia is a pretty

big place, mate. There's more than one Clint, So Macedonia

is a big place. You know.

It's not false.

Sees this vision, but he's not exactly sure. You ever

know how many times you're not exactly sure, like you

since 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 don't know 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 friends.

Sometimes I don't know which one to be at each

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 and what's

pushing ahead because.

I hear both.

I hear step out the boat and I hear stay

in the boat, And I don't know what to do

with boat and boat. I don't even have a boat.

Learning 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's they need.

You need ten men at least, But there's not ten

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 sea

and know 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 Clinton this

big place, mate, I saw a man in a vision,

and they go out one Sabbath and watched this since

they knew that there wasn't a synagogue Verse thirteen. 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 for the women one

more time. Who was what the Old Testament called a

god fearer, Now a God. Fear 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 PHILIPI who needs somebody to preach to. So

somebody who needed the message got together with somebody who

needed a congregation. God is a need meeter. God is

a matchmaker. God knows how to put you where you

need to be to release what He gave you. Tear.

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