Embracing Divine Interruptions: The Unstoppable Gospel

Here's the important part, though. Having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. Isn't that interesting? It's like that why, if we're supposed to go and tell the whole world, why would God say no right now to a certain area? They weren't ready yet. Their hearts had not been prepped. They had not heard maybe those initial thoughts of what they needed to hear. So why not Paul and them? Why don't they go? Because God has a plan right now for him to go to another part of the country where he needs him at this moment to go and share. [00:31:43] (42 seconds)  #TrustGodsTiming

Be prepared to share the gospel with anyone at any time, at any place, is what I get from that. And don't be so focused on a spiritual concept and an idea that you don't allow God to not interrupt what you're getting ready to do to be able to share Christ with someone, okay? And I think that's an important thing. [00:38:35] (25 seconds)  #FaithNotFear

Sometimes we think that it's up to us. Like, I've got to say the right words, and if I don't remember the correct scriptures or putting it in the right order or I don't, like, teach correctly, this person could die and go to hell. And we put this weight on our shoulders. And so, what do we do instead of going and sharing Christ with someone? We just say, it's safer for me to sit on the bench. Don't really put me in, coach, because I might get out on the field. I might fumble. And that's not what God sees in you at all. He sees a person that loves him and knows him. And so, all you have to do is to be willing to share when the opportunity arises and when it comes. [00:39:24] (44 seconds)  #VoiceForChrist

Anticipate and be willing for God to interrupt what you think is the important thing to do at that moment. They were headed to go pray, and allow God to intervene, to have your attention, to draw you into an opportunity to share Christ. In other words, don't schedule your day so tight that God can't use you, all right? No matter what it is that you're doing, work, play, family, allow God the chance to intervene and to bring someone to you that needs to know Christ. [00:44:53] (33 seconds)  #CapturedButSeen

People are enslaved by a desire for power, for profit, for money. They're captured by drugs. So many things that just gain our attention. The need to be loved and connected is something that we see constantly with social media, and how we're driven by that with our phones and likes, and people can get caught up in that, and yet they're the loneliest people in the whole entire world because they're sitting around all the time thriving and wanting this, and yet they're captured by it. What are people around us captured by? [00:45:51] (42 seconds)  #RunToHeal

You might have intended this for harm you may have been following in an order and you beat me and put me in here and did something horrible to me but in this moment god intends this for good and he is using this for something positive. [00:53:07] (16 seconds)  #BeTheLightDrawThemIn

Let me tell you this. I know sometimes God is going to put us in the path with someone who's experiencing a very desperate situation. I've been there more than once with someone who's lost a child, with someone who's lost a spouse, with someone that was strung out on drugs. There's been a lot of difficult situations that I've been in, but I'm going to tell you that when you're there, God has placed you there for a reason, and you should be willing to step in because when someone is lost, we can intervene. We can be a part of that, and God will guide you, and he'll give you the words to say, and he will help you because just like in the very first conversion where it's said that the Lord Jesus was preparing her heart, he's preparing their heart as well. [00:55:35] (51 seconds)  #SeizeTheBridgeToChrist

Everything had changed for him. Everything was different. And so we see three very distinct, different presentations here of the gospel. But why do we get this in Acts chapter 16 when we have read throughout the book of Acts that there were thousands who came to know Christ? There were thousands who accepted and became a part of the church. Why do we get these three stories? And I think here's what I see in this. The gospel is for everyone. He had a rich person. He had a person that was a slave. And then he had a Gentile. These are three people that particularly the Jewish community wouldn't have necessarily embraced at every level. But they were also three lesser people in their society as well. Two of them were women, not held in as much of a high regard. One had slave status. And of course, the third one was a Gentile. He was a Roman soldier. The Jews just didn't care for them, period. And so we see that the gospel was not picky about who needed to know Christ. Jesus was there to share Christ with everyone that would be willing to hear. [00:57:05] (72 seconds)  #AnticipateGodsMove

If you are living the kind of life that you should be as a believer, you are this light, right? You're the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. And people should be drawn to you. And they should be coming and asking you questions and saying, I'm interested. And you should seize those opportunities. Don't scratch your head and go, I'm not real sure. instead say i'll find out the answer to that for you but i do know another answer that i'd like to share with you i have jesus christ as my lord and savior and i don't know if you do but i'd love to share that with you and then go find out the answer to that other question later. [00:58:51] (38 seconds)  #FeetThatBringGoodNews

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news you're being sent if you're looking for permission i give you permission you're sent you now have full liberty to go and share christ with anybody that you could ever want and i'm only sharing that with you because that was the request that jesus christ gave. [01:02:46] (17 seconds)