Thoughts while Traveling
3.25.2004
So I am laying in bad last night flipping channels and beginning to doze into dream land. I pass a channel with a church service on it and keep going. I am compelled to return. Why? Not completely sure, although it the topic of the sermon sparked my intrest.
I believe it was a local church here in Charlotte. Anyways, the topic was about "short-circuiting your future" and the things in life that we allow to disable God from blessing us.
Whether it be refusing to obey, or making decisions out of God's will, etc. It was a challenging word, I admit, because it made me look back and face the times when I have allowed that to happen in my own journey. The whole sermon was very good, however something he said is really making me think. I am not sure exactly WHAT I think yet....he was talking about being a minister in a certain denomenational church and constantly facing opposition from his leaders concerning his lack of respect for tradition and the like. He said he was preaching healing, and Spiritual gifts. He finally was removed (I don't know if he removed himself or was taken out of his position) and the Lord took him somewhere else and his ministry has prospered. What got me was this: He said that God physically moved him to a place where he would be HEARD. Where people would benefit and grow from what was being taught. THEN he said God HAD to do that because God is a God of order and structure and would be going against his own word if he kept him in a place where he wouldn't be heard and the message on his heart wasn't received. Now there is a new thought. I must say I have never heard that put like that before. Still am not sure what my opinion is of that, but I am pondering...
I believe it was a local church here in Charlotte. Anyways, the topic was about "short-circuiting your future" and the things in life that we allow to disable God from blessing us.
Whether it be refusing to obey, or making decisions out of God's will, etc. It was a challenging word, I admit, because it made me look back and face the times when I have allowed that to happen in my own journey. The whole sermon was very good, however something he said is really making me think. I am not sure exactly WHAT I think yet....he was talking about being a minister in a certain denomenational church and constantly facing opposition from his leaders concerning his lack of respect for tradition and the like. He said he was preaching healing, and Spiritual gifts. He finally was removed (I don't know if he removed himself or was taken out of his position) and the Lord took him somewhere else and his ministry has prospered. What got me was this: He said that God physically moved him to a place where he would be HEARD. Where people would benefit and grow from what was being taught. THEN he said God HAD to do that because God is a God of order and structure and would be going against his own word if he kept him in a place where he wouldn't be heard and the message on his heart wasn't received. Now there is a new thought. I must say I have never heard that put like that before. Still am not sure what my opinion is of that, but I am pondering...
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