When God Trumps Your Plans, Embrace the Shift

When Jesus came in his day, they were stuck in routine. They was doing church. It was the way they was doing it. And they missed glory. They missed glory. Glory walked right past them. The leaders of his day, they missed it because they were stuck in routine when God was doing something new. Isaiah 43, 18 and 19, I feel, on this atmosphere in this church. And so, listen, close alignment in God's will consists of shifts and transitions and a change of plans. [00:38:29] (31 seconds)  #BreakRoutineFindGlory

Always remember, when Christ is on the scene, things shift. Things, transitions, their transitions happen. Change of plans. Just put it like that. Wherever he was, devils had to run. You know, things were shifting. You know, and the leadership of that time, they recognized that. But they were stuck in their ways. And they missed Christ. Joseph and Mary found themselves in fear when the aligning of God's will started in their lives. [00:39:29] (29 seconds)  #ChristTriggersShifts

Remember Caesar Augustus, he just out of nowhere said, man, look, we finna have a census. He wanted to count the people in the Roman world. That's what happens when Christ is on his things, things change. He shifts in governments. God is in control of everything. Why? Because Jesus had to get to Bethlehem. He was to be born in Bethlehem. And so this shift took place to get God back to, to get Jesus married to, and Joseph to where Jesus had to be born. [00:41:13] (68 seconds)  #ChristShiftsNations

This teaches us that fear usually comes when things are changing and moving and God is shifting and transitioning in our lives. But this is the time we, we trust God. We trust, you know, fear is false evidence appearing real. You know, God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of, but of power, love, and of a sound mind. We can trust him in these times when things don't feel right. Cause we serve him by faith anyway. We, we can trust him when we don't see Jesus. [00:43:46] (27 seconds)  #FaithNotFear

God was moving in a different part of the world as well, bringing change to some people's life who were, who were far away from him. These were Gentiles, the, the Magi's, he's moving. And it has to do with God so loved the world. He, he dealing with the Jews. We, we, you see the top of the story, which I've been learning is that these are Jews, but now he's dealing with the Gentiles. And this brings fulfillment to what, what Abraham, what God told Abraham, through you, all the families of the earth will be blessed. [00:44:22] (28 seconds)  #GospelToTheNations

But when we don't follow the Holy Spirit's lead, it dims the word in us. And I don't want the word dim in me. I want it to be alive. Cause that's what the enemy is after. He's after the word. When we learn to respect the Holy Spirit and his lead, it protects the word in us. A lot of times change, a lot of times the change of plan, they, they, they, they come from God because God sees what's ahead of what we don't see. He sees danger that's ahead in our lives. He sees it. [00:50:31] (72 seconds)  #ProtectTheWord

And so, have this ever happened to you, Elmbrook? You, you, like what I said at the beginning, you made a decision and the Holy Spirit stepped in and trumped the decision you felt right about. And he turns you in a, you in the right direction in your circumstances. Have you ever did that for you? It was going this way and he's, we got to respect the lead of the Holy Spirit. And listen, even good ideas, I tell people all the time, even good ideas, we need to run even good ideas of past God. [00:55:07] (32 seconds)  #FollowHolySpiritLead

Because you can feel good about something, but you can feel good about something and we won't even pray about it. It's decisions I make sometimes, I'll be like, oh man, yeah, I'll do it. You know, but how many times like David, David, you should go to the Lord and be like, Lord, should we go up? Should we go to war? And God would be like, go up. Or he'd give them strategic plans on how to go about it, like go behind them. And, you know, when you run decisions past God, man, it keeps us in the right direction. [00:55:39] (32 seconds)  #PrayBeforeYouDecide