The Workings of God

The speaker discusses the topic of understanding the workings of God. They emphasize that God does not operate in the way people expect and that many people are in crisis or confusion because they do not understand how God works. The speaker encourages listeners to desire a deeper understanding of God and to not become comfortable with their current level of knowledge. They also explain that sometimes God closes doors or allows certain things to happen in order to bring about something better. The speaker shares personal experiences and quotes scripture to illustrate their points. They urge listeners to trust God completely and to see everything that happens as part of God's plan. They emphasize that power belongs to God and that no other power can oppose Him. The speaker ends by encouraging listeners to learn from the testimonies of other believers who have understood the workings of God. through live radio and of our pleasant go-on to end the day. Thank you for joining me on the phone line at 615-528-103. Thank you for joining me on the mobile app ThruLine for Radio mobile app. Those of you on Facebook, as always it's a blessing to have you join me. Today I want to continue on a subject I started a couple of weeks ago or maybe a month ago or so. Understanding the workings of God. Understanding the workings of God. You may see an abbreviated or a shorter version of that which is the workings of God. Let us pray together. Father in the name of Jesus, speak to hearts, speak to minds and spirit. Let your word rest in the deep recess of our being. Let it bring transformation. Let there be impact with the power of your word. In Jesus name, amen and amen. Thank you for sharing the session. I really appreciate that as well. I'm going to continue to share on the workings of God. One of the things I know, one of the things I have paid attention to is that God does not do things the way that some of us expect him to. God does not do things the way that some of us expect him to. Many people are in crisis today. Many people don't understand certain things today. Many people are in a state of confusion because they have not understood or they don't know how God works. When I speak of the workings of God, I'm referring to the way that God does what he does. I'm going to be very clear on today. There are some things to your mind and to your eyes which may be a negative thing. But to God, it is the best thing. It would be one of the greatest things that can happen to you. I want to help you to understand. I want to help you to learn. I want to help you to see how God works. But as I'm attempting to get there, I want us also to pay attention to this thought. It is not good to become comfortable with what you are accustomed to. There is so much more to the God that we know. I want to pray for you today. God will give you desire to go further, go deeper, learn more, expand. I want you to say expand. Say it again, expand. You and I ought not to be comfortable with how things are. We should never become comfortable with the status quo. We should not become comfortable with just sermons, Bible study, church services, work, recreation, the same old every day, every week, month after month. I am praying for you that you will begin to see God and understand God on new dimensions, new ways. I'm praying for you that your eyes will be open. The eyes of your understanding will be open. That you will get a fresh sense of the power of the living God. That you will desire more of God beyond a weekend service. That you will desire more of God beyond a live session like this one. The Spirit of God will hold you. That you will be captivated by the power of the living God. That you will be captivated by His presence. That you will say, I can't get enough of you, Father. I can't get enough of you. I am praying for you that every one of you, within the sound of my voice, will have that experience. Will have that experience. The experience by which you will really see God in new and fresh ways. So as we get into the session today, understanding the workings of God. Let me tell you this, beloved friends. The way that God works is going to blow your mind. There was one time in life, there was one time in life I was a very anxious person. Very frustrated. I want to say perhaps very confused. Many things and little things bothered me. Yes, I was a Christian. Yes, I was praying. Yes, I was doing everything I know how. I served in church. I did everything. But yet I was anxious. I was filled with anxiety. I was filled with fear at times, frustration. Simply because I did not understand fully the workings of God. Did I see God work before? Did I see the hand of God before? Had God moved in my life before? Absolutely. I need to stop you and I need to say this. One of the things which can happen to anybody is that we can become so familiar with our surroundings that we forget how God worked in the past. Not that we forget. Sometimes there are so many unbelieving Christians. You heard me right. There are so many unbelieving Christians around us that we begin to believe what they say. We begin to believe how they act. We begin to believe what they share. As a result, we forget or we lose sight of the workings of God. Hear me friends. I want you to hear me well. There is a place that God wants to take you that is only through His power that you understand what God is doing. I want to break this apart because I need us to understand this. God will stop certain things so that He will allow other things to come through. God will cause someone else to be promoted only for you to be skipped because you have something better in mind. The Bible says out of the book of Psalm 62 it says God has spoken plainly and I have heard it many times. Power belongs to God. Power belongs to God. God has spoken. The Psalmist said I heard it twice. That power belongs to God. I want to read an apportioned scripture. Psalm 75 verse 6 says For not from the east or from the west not from the wilderness comes lifting up but it is God who executes judgment and putting down one and lifting up another. Maybe you might be familiar with the translation which says promotion does not come from the east or the west but with God the lifting up It does not come from the wilderness It does not come from the east It does not come from the west It does not come from the north or the south but it comes from God. So dear beloved friends some things happen to you because power belongs to God. Some doors are closed or were closed in your face because power belongs to God. Some people said no to you not because the people of themselves are evil but it is part of the workings of God. I want you to say to yourself God is working on my behalf. Say it again. God is working on my behalf. The moment you become confident that everything which is happening is an act of God working on your behalf it is the moment you begin to receive what God has for you. When Abraham is called out of the charters to go into land that God will show him in Genesis 12 it demonstrates to us that power belongs to God. He left his family he left his father's house he left his kindred his country people to a land that God was going to show him. Most people would not do this. Most people would not engage in that. You know why? Because sometimes we become so familiar with how things are. We become so familiar with how things should work or how things must work. Listen to me beloved friends. Many Christians many Christians are hindered. Many Christians miss what God is doing next because God does not operate on their program. Many people are thinking that God is moving too slow. Many people think that God has forgotten them. Let me just say this to you. God will not forget his own. Psalm 705 tells us that promotion does not come from the east or from the west but it comes from God. I want you to hear this word because I know this word will be lodged in your spirit and then you will begin to look at things in your life. You will begin to watch things around you and you won't look at them from a negative light but you will now begin to look at them from a positive light. You will see everything and you will see God's hand in it. You heard me right. You will see everything and you will see God's hand in it. Why did you have to miss the flight? I paid so much money to travel to this destination and I missed the flight. Listen to me. God's hand is in that. Power belongs to God. Understand the workings of God. Understand the workings of God. And the more that the Lord has given me understanding is the more passionate I become to share this with people because I encounter people on a weekly basis who are overtaken by anxiety. They are overtaken by worry. They are overtaken by panic. And if I can say to them, stop. Stop. Roll your cares upon the Lord. Roll over your concerns, your anxiety, the pressures of life, the unknown, the unsettling, the future, the fears. Give it to God. You may say, I have been doing this. You can't do it halfway. We cannot do it halfway. In order for us to understand the workings of God, we must come to the place whereby we trust God completely. I know right now someone may be mocking at you that something that you started is not working the way that it's supposed to work. Perhaps it's a business. Perhaps it's a ministry. Perhaps it's your family. And right at this phase, you're feeling frustrated. You're wondering, did I make a mistake? Did I hear God? Did the Lord really speak? Did the Lord really call me? Understand the workings of God. God will put you in a slow lane. Yes. God will cause things to move slowly Let His name be glorified. If you have a moment, I want you to listen to some powerful voices in Christian history throughout the centuries, through a couple years ago, 30, 100, 50 years ago. And listen to the testimonies of the men and women of God who came to the place and understood the workings of God. When people say no to you, when people reject you, when people criticize you, when people ostracize you, when people gang up against you and slander you, we must understand the workings of God. Understand. The psalmist says, Power belongs to God. Do you know what this means? If power belongs to God, there is no power. There is no power that can resist. There is no power that can withstand, brother. There is no power that can conquer. There is no power that is strong enough to oppose the power of God. Let me say this to you, beloved friend. If God called you to something, if God called you to someone, it doesn't matter who is standing at the door. It doesn't matter who is at the gate. It doesn't matter who is occupying that office space. It doesn't matter who is holding the seal, the key, the stamp. It doesn't matter who the president is. It doesn't matter who the governor, the mayor of that city is. It doesn't matter who that local representative is. It doesn't matter who that pastor is, that manager, that president, that COC. Oh, it does not matter. And I want you to hear this. That's when you understand the workings of God. When you understand the workings of God, people who are in authority, they are there. They may have their power. They may have their strength. But there is a power that overrules and overrides every other power. And that is the power of Elohim Adonai. Sometimes you may feel stuck. You may feel like you're not moving. You may feel like you're marking time. You may feel like everything is passing you by. Don't be discouraged. Don't despair. Simply ask God to give you understanding. Pray now and say, Lord, give me understanding. Because when you understand the workings of God, you may say, Man of God, I am 50. Man of God, I'm 60. I'm 65. I'm 80. I'm 75. I'm 25. I expected this and that to happen at a certain time, at a certain age. I expected this to happen in my home country. I expected that to happen in a neighborhood that I'm a part of. I expected that to take place in a church or an organization that I'm a part of. Listen to me. I want you to hear me well. Remember, promotion is not from the east or from the west. God is the one who lifts up. God is the one who's engaged in lifting up. God is the one who expands. God is the one who expands. Listen to me. Moses was a deliverer before he killed an Egyptian. Let me just go a bit deeper because I need us to understand. The mistake that Moses made, the sin that he committed, however you want to view it, the mishap, the bad rep that Moses had, the bad track record, God did not hinder God from using Moses as a deliverer. I want you to understand the workings of God. I want you to understand. You may not be proud of your past. You may not be proud of what you have encountered. You may not be proud of your past. You may not be proud of your future. You may not be proud of your past. You may not be proud of your future. You may not be proud of your past. You may not be proud of your future. You may not be proud of your past. You may not be proud of your future. You may not be proud of your past. You may not be proud of your future. You may not be proud of your past. You may not be proud of your future. You may not be proud of your past. You may not be proud of your future. In short, he planted a church. He planted a church in his city. He was on a mission. He was on a mission to do exactly what God called. In 13 years, in 13 years, they moaned. They moaned over 13 times. You heard me right. I know many people would be like, you know what, I'm out. I cannot be part of that ministry. I don't want to be part of it. I can't associate with anything that is moving so much. I can't associate myself with anything that seems to have no vision, no structure. Stop. Listen. I want you to hear this. The man of God said, they moaned 13 times. Are you ready for this one? When God was ready, when God was ready, they built, that ministry built a debt free, you heard me right, a debt free, debt free, debt free building with over a 500 seat facility. Back in the days, it had everything that, you know, a regular church, a church of today has. Nothing was missing. Nothing was lacking. It was an edifice that had everything that was needed back in those days. But they moved 13 times. And every time they moved, people did not journal with them. Some people left because they did not understand or they did not know the workings of God. You hear me? You hear me? Some people may not understand why you're still single. And you may not be able to explain that to them. But it's part of the workings of God. Some people may not understand why you're already married and your kids are grown. It's because it's also part of the workings of God. You've heard it. Many people say it as a cliché. God moves in mysterious ways. Let me tell you something. I don't want us to say this as a cliché. I want us to say it with confidence. I want us to say it because we know God operates beyond our wildest dreams. God will do things that will surprise you, that will surprise your adversary, surprise the enemy. And people will open their mouth against you. God will continue to exalt you. God will continue to lift you up. God will continue to lift you... Let me say this, beloved friends. God will cause people to die. I know this is not something that you may want to hear. God will cause people to die just to get you to move to the next level or the next phase that He has ordained for you and I. You think I'm making this up, right? Ask David. God simply caused Saul to play the fool. And when he played the fool long enough, Saul was a dead man and David became king of Israel. Need I say anything else? Need I say anything else? I want us to understand. I want us to understand the working of God. I want us to know. I want us to know. Let me just change this up a bit. God wants us to know how He operates. That's good. God wants you to know how He operates. Let's stop for a minute. Let us pray. Teach me. Show me how you operate. Show me how you are working. Show me how you're doing things. Your car breaks down. Your car breaks down in the middle of the three-way or on the highway. Oh no. I don't want this to happen to me. Nobody wants a car to break down. But it's at that moment God can use that particular occasion or that event rather. Cause somebody else to be a blessing to you. Open our eyes and begin to say, Lord, show me how you're working. I want you to pray this prayer with me right now. Say, Lord, show me how you're working. Come on, pray it again. Lord, show me how you're working. Some people are being fired from their job. They're cussing the boss. They're cussing the supervisor. They're cussing the co-workers because they don't understand the workings of God. I know if you have been lousy on your job and perhaps it was a good thing for them to let you go. If you did your job faithfully and someone someone with malicious intention got you fired. Perhaps the company is going on and you got laid off. Understand the workings of God. God is up to something. I want you to say this. God is up to something great in my life. Say it again. God is up to something great in my life. I can lose my job. What about my bills? What about my family? What about my children? How am I going to feed them? How am I going to pay my rent, my mortgage? Debt is piling up. Listen, may God open your eyes. Open Hagar's eyes in the book of Genesis. When Hagar and Ishmael were thrown out of the house of Abraham and Hagar was despondent. She was discouraged. The resources that Abraham had given to Hagar was totally finished. It had run out. Hagar threw Ishmael on the tree and she went away and she pretty much gave up. Ishmael was crying and the Bible says, and God heard. And God heard the cry of the child. Listen to me, beloved friends. Listen to me, beloved friends. And God caused Hagar to see water. God caused Hagar to see water so that she would be fresh and a boy would be revived. Understand the workings of God. I have seen so many things in my journey. And some of you, if you had to go through it, you would say, no, that's not God. You see, it's because some of us, we've been culturized, we've been made to think a certain way. If it's negative, it must be the devil. If it's positive, it must be God. Let me reshape, rewire, help you rewire your thinking. Everything negative is not the devil and everything positive is not God. I want you to hear me today. Everything negative is not the devil and everything positive is not God. I know this may not be what you you've heard or accustomed to. Some things that are negative, they will work in your favor. They will work for you. You heard me. Let me give you an example. You may apply for an entry-level position at a company. The hiring professional may say to you, you know what? I'm sorry, but we're not hiring. And you may be devastated. But then something said to you, go back a month later, two months later. And you followed the prompting, the leading of the Holy Spirit and you went back or you go back two months later. That time, they're hiring but they're not hiring for the entry-level position. I want you to hear this word. But they're hiring at a position much higher than that position. Not only so, what you are going to be paid, what they're offering for that new position is much more than the position that you were applying for two months earlier. I want you to hear this word. I want you to hear this word. Because too many Christians miss out on the workings of God. They miss out. They miss out and they continue to pray. They continue to fast. They continue to cry. They continue to frustrate themselves. It's because your eyes and your ears have been closed to the way that God works. I want you to stop for me and say, Lord, open my eyes. Open my ears. Let me see and let me know how you're working. After illustration, two months after you go and you apply for the job, guess what? The hiring professional said, you're qualified. When can you start? The arrangements are made. The job offer is given. You receive that job offer. It's accepted. You start with that company and you start at a much higher pay rate, much higher salary than you would have started two months earlier at the entry level. If you had been hired for the entry level, it would take you perhaps two years at least before you could be promoted to the next level and to the next level. Do you hear what I'm saying today? Understand the workings of God. Years ago, I shared and I said, stop cursing your adversaries. Stop cursing your troubles. Stop cursing your bad days. Stop thinking everything negative or bad which happens to you is bad luck. It's people did this to you and people did that to you. No. No. Stop. Begin to realize that part of the things that you're facing, they constitute, they make up the workings of God. Workings of God. The workings of God. You mean God will literally cause me to lose my job so I could start my own business? You were sure about that. You're right. The workings of God. I'm not asking you to quit your job. I'm not asking you to be thoughtful and lazy and misbehave and lose your job and think, oh, well, God, the man of God said, God works in mysterious ways and God will always say, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's get this right, beloved friend. What is to get this right? Workings of God. Not things that we coordinate. Not things that we orchestrate. Did you hear what I say? The workings of God are not things that we put our hands into. We don't tell God how to do it. We simply sit back and watch things happen. Watch God move in the affairs of man. Watch things unfold. I say this all the time. People cannot stop me. People cannot block me. People may try to slow me down. Yes, and that's temporary. I want you to say temporary. Temporary. Whatever humans and demons and devils do, that's temporary. Even some of the things that people are a part of, God is working behind them. It's like Joseph in the book of Genesis 37. And the few chapters which follow, Joseph is thrown into a pit. Joseph is sold. Many of us would not stomach this. We'd be like, Oh my, God has forgotten me. Why would God allow this and that to happen? And I pity Christians. I pity people who don't understand the workings of God. And they're so quick to throw things in your face. If you're a son of God, if you're a child of God, if you're a woman of God, God will not allow this to happen. You don't know how God works. You have no clue how God works. You hear what I say? When people understand the way that God works, then you'll be sensitive. You'll be discerning to know that God will close a door. Just one door. So that he will cause you to walk into seven doors. Are you with me? Glory to God. Understand the workings of God. God will shut all. That's why I tell people I am no longer depending on man. I'm no longer waiting on man to pull string, as they say, or to make things happen for me. No, God delivered me from people. God delivered me from relying on people. Because I can say this. There were times I depended on people. I trusted in people. I hoped people would do and be and do. But then I realized that God opened my eyes and he made me understand that power belonged to the Lord. Power belonged to the Lord. Do I still need people? Absolutely. Is God using people to do great things and powerful things? Yes. But it's the people that I least expect. It's the people. God is amazing. It's the people that God will use in your life once you understand the workings of God. Some of you right now you are hinged on to certain denominations. You're hinged on to certain pastors. You're hinged on to certain ministries. You're hinged on to certain prophets. And the reason why you're hinged on to them is because in part some of them make you feel guilty. That if you leave, if you walk away, if you go in the direction that God has called you to go, you will never be blessed. You'll be cursed. Listen to me. That's intimidation. That's control. And that's evil work. I want you to hear this. Some people, they only talk about what they have accomplished and what they can do. But they never help empower or impact others. Listen to me, beloved friends. If you only understand the workings of God, you'll be able to trust God to deliver you from human hands. The arm of flesh, you will operate to God. You will be able to walk away from the arms of flesh and put your confidence in God. The Bible says, go to the person who put their confidence or their trust in 26. You heard You heard this. I am sharing it with you because I want you, I want you to come to a place in your life where you count everything as joy because God is working in the places. Anybody remember in Genesis, when God invited Abraham into a covenant and God said to Abraham, I want you to prepare this. The emblems prepared, the bullet prepared everything, cut them up and set them in order. The Bible says Abraham did exactly that. In Genesis chapter 15 and there was another time in Genesis, God did that again to Abraham. But one particular time, what happened? When Abraham was waiting for God to respond or to show up the way that he expected, God allowed a deep sleep to fall upon Abraham. This is what God is going to do to some of you. God is going to cause you to fall asleep so that God would work things out. You know what I've discovered? Too many people try to tell God how to do things for them. I'm praying for this Father, this is how I want you to do this. I'm believing you for that, this is how I want you to do it. I'm trusting you for another, this is how I want you to do it. Listen to me, beloved friend. If God has called you, if God has chosen you, if God has given you an assignment, if God has appointed you for a task, God knows exactly how it's going to be done. Trust Him. Quit giving yourself you know, quit raising your blood pressure, let me put it this way. Let anxiety go. Let worries go. Come to the place in your life where you'd say, I don't know what God is doing, but I know that God is doing everything well. You know, I know how we are as humans. We are so glued to results, we are so glued especially if you're the kind of person that you are so big on details. You want to see every turn, every twist, every corner, everything that God does and sometimes what God has to do, He has to treat us like Abraham and He has to put us into sleep. That when we wake up, we realize that the transaction is already done. You heard me right. God does not need your interference or your input. There are certain places that God will say, I want you to do this, I want you to do that, I want you to do A, B, C and D and afterwards God will say, now sit down, go to sleep. I got this. But some of us want to sit down, we want to be awake, we want to see what God is doing and God is saying, you know what, I don't want you to see, I want to put you to sleep. There are times that God will keep our eyes open, we'll see, we'll witness but there are times God will work things out and God will simply present it to us. Are you hearing me? Did you hear what I said? I want to say it again, there are times that God will put us to sleep but there are other times God will work things out and God will present it to us. The worst thing that can happen to a believer is for us to live our lives in anxiety or anxiousness. You heard me? So you don't know how the resources are going to come in, you don't know how the bills are going to be paid, you don't know and the enemy plagues your mind and tells you, oh you have to worry, you've got to fret. No, you're not supposed to worry, you're not supposed to fret. Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you. The future must be given to the God who knows all things. We must continue to trust the future in the God who knows it all. Understand it. Understand the workings of God. The workings of God. I have worked with many people just like you have worked with many people but one thing that can be a little bit disheartening, one thing that can be a little bit annoying is when people are supposed to walk in faith and honor God in faith that they don't have the faith factor, they don't have the faith to believe. You know why this is so? It's because they rely on what they can see, they rely on what they know, they rely on the information that you have and it's time that we rewire ourselves, we rewire our minds, we rewire our spirits, our souls, we rewire. It's time that we come to the place whereby we trust God and God alone. That's why I don't engage in projects with some people because I can't enter into a covenant with someone who does not believe God. I don't waste my time with people who are frustrated about everything. I don't have time for that. We are a people of faith. We move in a dimension of faith. God is the one who has power. God has power. God's power said to Abraham, leave all the charities and go to the land I will show you. God's power is said to the people allow Joseph to go down into Egypt because I'm going to raise up the Hebrew as a powerful people. It's God's power that brought Moses out of Midian, out of the backside of the desert. It's God's power. Would you open your eyes and see that God's power will supersede your frustration. God's power will supersede your worries. God's power will supersede your anxiety. Stop. I know this may be heavy for some of you because some people cannot understand how a simple person like Frampton Paul is putting his confidence and his trust in God. It's because I have a track record with a God that does not fail. I have a track record. I have experiences. I know you may have experiences but I can talk about a God who does mighty things. I can talk about a God who does glorious things. I can talk about a God who has never failed, never abandoned, never gone back on his word. He is yes and amen. His words are faithful and true. He has always come through with his word. Sometimes God will cause you to go through the fire yet you will not be burned. Proof to you and I that you did not need the fire department to prove to you and I that you did not need a fire extinguisher and I'm not talking naturally but I'm talking spiritually because the things that you will go through in life and only God only God himself can bring you through these things. I want you to hear this beloved ones. That's why I say to people all the time. Don't do what others are doing. Don't do it because someone else is doing it. Don't do it because others say that's how to do it. Do things how God tells you to do it because when you do what God tells you to do you will have his result but when you do what others are doing and how they do it you will never have result. You get me right? Understand the workings of God. Understand the workings of God. There's a way that God does it. There's a way that God is going to do it. Every time I share and since I started to share on that topic understand the workings of God I realized that God has allowed me to go through some seasons and some cycles and God has allowed me to go through some alleys and some bypass and some crossroads and some God has allowed me to really enter certain places in life experience and all I can say it's because of him. You know what? When we go through the valley of the shadow of death the bible says that he is with us. When we go through the fire God will be with us. When we go through the water it shall not overtake us. We shall not be drunk by the water. I want you to hear this. So everything that you go through in life seek to understand the workings of God. Don't be passive. I must add this. I must let you know this. Don't be passive because some people say well God is working everything so I'm just going to sit here and watch. No, no, no, no, no. Don't be passive because if this guy Elijah in the book of Kings first Kings chapter 17 if Elijah had become passive and sat at the brook of Cherubim after he had dried up Elijah you've got to hide. You've got to know when you've got to hide by the brook. You've got to know when the brook has dried up. You've got to know when God is speaking. You've got to know what he's saying and you've got to move in the direction that he wants you to move. I am praying for you beloved. I'm praying for every one of you that you'll understand the workings of God. The workings of God may be in a still small voice. The workings of God may be in a loud voice. God may disrupt your pattern. God may disrupt your work schedule. God may disrupt your sleep. God may cause your child to... Not my child. Not my child. Stop it. Stop it. God may put pressure on your spouse because we need to understand the workings of God, beloved friends. God may cause your bestie, one of your best friends to decide you know what, I don't want to have anything to do with you and it will slander you. Are you still in the building with me? Are you still here? Oh glory to God. Understand the workings of God. Understand the workings of God. I want to go back and I want to thank some people. I want to thank some people in my past. Some people who were once friends with me. Some family members who were wonderful to me. Yes. But guess what? The enemy came in. The enemy got a hold of them. Perhaps I should put it this way. God allowed them to be Judas. God allowed them, yes God allowed them to act up. God allowed them to turn their back. God allowed them to slander. God allowed them to speak evil. God allowed them to cause me pain. You know why? Because in the process, in the process, everything that has been done, everything that has been said, has simply done what the apostle Paul said. Advanced the gospel. Advanced the gospel. Push me further. Push me higher. That's what God wants to do for you. Every one of you. Every one of you. Quit crying about the things that have been done to you. Stop it. Stop crying about how people mishandle you. Quit putting on a whole pity party for yourself. Glory to God. Quit putting on a whole pity party for yourself and come to the place where you will understand. Oh glory to God. Understand the workings of God. Understand the things that God will put you through. Not because He hates you. But God puts us through things because He loves us. Because He has greater plans. Because His intentions are great. Because of where He has taken us. I am yet to see I am yet to see a great building. I am yet to see a great edifice with very shallow foundation. The taller the building, the deeper the ditch. You heard me. The taller the building, the deeper the ditch. If you know anything about construction and even if you don't know anything about construction you drive around New York City or wherever you are in the world and take a good look at construction site. It is going to be a high rise. You can bet your life they are going to be digging several stories. I didn't say one. They are not just going to basement or cellar. But they are going deep. They are going deep to the bedrock of the earth. Why? Because the higher the building the higher the building has to go is the deeper the ditch. I want you to hear this word. As from today you begin to understand all glory to God. Understand the workings of God. My prayer for every one of you. Every person on this session. Every person. God bless you. Those of you who joined me. Those of you on whatever platform that you are on. God bless every one of you. Is that wherever life has taken you to this point. Understand that God is in it. The Bible says God has spoken once. And David responds twice have I heard it. That power. Power. Power. Power belongs to the Lord. You study somewhere else that promotion does not come from the east or the west. The lifting up comes from God. So if God allows you to be done right now. Listen to this beloved friends. As I get ready to pray with every one of you. If God allows you or permits you to be done right now. If you can't rub two pennies together. If you don't know whether you're coming or going. Now I'm not celebrating that you have no money. I'm not emphasizing that this is a good thing to be in. A good place to be in. Guess what? If you're homeless rejected, dejected. If you're stuck right now. I am glorifying this places. But this is one thing I am saying to every one of you. If that's where you are right now. Understand that God is the one who is going to lift you up. Not man. Not man. God will use man. I want you to hear this. God will use people in the process. God will use people in the process. And it's the people that you least expect. I said God will use people in the process. Glory to God. And it's the people that you least expect. I mean I could continue for hours on to tell you how God has literally fulfilled His word. And He's fulfilling His word. Because I have come to a place in life. Yes. I have come to a place in life where I understand the workings of God. You don't like me. I understand it to be the workings of God. You love me. I understand it to be the workings of God. You speak well of me. I understand it to be the workings of God. You slander me. I understand it to be the workings of God. You have nothing to say. I see it as the workings of God. You support True Life Radio. You support Part of the Seminary. Or you choose not to support it. Or support them. I understand the workings of God. It's Reinhard Bonnke when God called him to be the evangelist to Africa. The contents of Africa and the world by extension. Reinhard Bonnke did not know how he was going to get this thing accomplished. But he prayed and he said God if you want me to be the evangelist to the contents of Africa you are going to show up in that stadium. You're going to show up. And that's one thing I can tell anybody. If you're going to be around me, if you're going to walk with me, guess what? I may not be moving at your pace. But one thing, I am moving at the pace of the spirit of the Lord. Because I understand. I understand the workings of God. And I want you to understand it. God wants you to understand it. God wants all of us to understand it. That we need to understand his work. Father, in the name of your son Jesus Christ power and might is in your hand. We don't want to be in a place where we are so frustrated. Where we are so angry. And we misunderstand what you're doing. Many people have missed they have missed your blessing. They have missed their breakfast. They have missed their change of season. They have moved prematurely. Or they have stayed for too long. They have embraced that which they should have refrained from embracing. They have given where they should refrain from giving. And they refrain from giving where they should have sown. I pray in the name of Jesus that we would not mix or misinterpret evil. Neither would we misinterpret or misappropriate good. I pray for clear understanding. Give your people understanding. Increase the faith of every person who is going to come in contact with this session. Those who are on it right now. Open their eyes. Open their ears. Some things happen to you. Happen to us. Happen to me. For the difference of your gospel. People said no because you were about to give us a bigger yes. People said yes because you were about to say no. Father I thank you that you allow men to walk overhead. Yes Father. Simply to bring us glory to God into a large place. I thank you. Give us understanding. Give your people understanding. Every man. Every woman. Give them understanding to see and to know. To work in the strong, the mighty, the powerful name Jesus the Christ. Those of you who might be stuck with no rock and helpless. You do not know what is going on in your life. You feel like everything is at a standstill. You don't need another preacher. What you need is to understand what God is doing. And the way to understand it is to come to a place in your life where you say I'm going to see God. I respect the preachers. I respect the prophets. I respect those that God would allow to speak. But there comes a time when you've got to shut yourself up with God and say Lord speak to me. Speak to me and God will speak to you if you listen. Open your ears and open your eyes. He will speak and God will show you. Beloved friends I encourage those of you going to fellowship into the space on tomorrow which is already Sunday. Which is today. I pray that you go. You go with the spirit of humility. You go with an open mind. You go with an understanding that God can change things in an instant. You heard me. That God can change things in an instant. In an instant as one person can be and God can bring that person down. Yes as David Saul was in charge of Israel. But when it was David's time that even the armies of Israel could have kept David out. Out of the city. Out of out of that place. Out of that place. The Jebusites was strong. But when it was David's time David conquered that area. And it became Mount Zion. Listen to me beloved friends. I want you to hear this as I pray and as I speak. As I speak to you. As the Lord directs me. Yes. Go with an open mind and trust God to reveal Himself with power. As I started this session do not be satisfied with where you are. Get to a place of holy discontent where you are righteously discontented with the status quo. There is more to God. There is more to the power of God. There is more to the strength of God. There is more to the wisdom and the will of God. Get to the place where you see the power of God demonstrated in your life through what you say and through what you do. I pray for you. As your eyes and your ears are open and you will come to a place where you say yes. Yes I understand. Yes I see it. Yes I see that. That is God's working. I tell people don't fret for me. Don't feel sorry for me. Are you hearing this? Sometimes when people know you and they experience you perhaps in a particular season they say man of God I pity you man of God I am so sorry. Man of God. Oh glory to God. One person said to me years ago why is your church so small? I prefer to have a small church than to have a big church with 200 people and every one of them fighting against each other. I have to teach them for another time. Understanding the working of God. Understanding the working of God. Give me two people who can believe God with me. Give me two people who are willing to walk with me. Give me one person who has the same faith and say man of God we can believe God for this mountain. Oh glory to God. I have seen God done mighty things with a handful of people and I have watched, I have looked and I have seen several hundreds of people and they can't get anything done. Don't get me started. When you understand the working of God God will show himself mighty and God will show himself strong. I bless you. Thank you for supporting True Life Radio. Thank you for being a part of Special Ministries. Thank you for sharing this session because together we will see. I am going to say it again. I say together we will see. Oh glory to God. Together we will see the power of God. Together we will see that God is the one who exalts. God is the one who lifts somebody up and takes down up. I don't know how he does it but I know he does it.