I wish God could be more like Google just being honest with you cuz I have a
great relationship with Google Google knows what I want to ask it before I
finish the word what I like about Google is Google seems to anticipate what I
need to know and God seems to be the opposite because I'm begging him
sometimes to let me know what to do about this relationship about this
decision what if you can invest your money with the kind of knowledge with
which David went to Hebron what if God will tell you which stock what if
God will tell you how to balance the portfolio what if God will tell you
which position to apply for wouldn't that be amazing if God would order your steps
like that what's that the Amazon what's it called echo somebody sent us an Amazon
echo recently I would suggest putting it on your Christmas list it's an amazing
device this is not a product endorsement
but it's amazing do any of you have it it's voice-activated because sometimes
you can't be bothered to have to use your thumbs so I like Alexa that's her
name Alexa I have a relationship with Alexa where I say her name
I say Alexa and she lights up kind of like Holly when I say her what she's
nodding and I can tell her what song to play what tasks to perform Alexa and she
lights up and she answers me she hears me when I call
she's like the Lord well yesterday I walked in and Graham was doing his
homework but I want you to see something I caught it on my video camera cuz I
never seen anything like this before
if 88 - n = alright hmm Alexa
what is 19 plus 9 the sum of 19 and 9 is 28 are you kidding me right now are
you kidding me what are you kidding me right now
about what how you're doing your homework I am checking checking touch your neighbor
say I'm checking I'm checking I'm checking I already did the work I'm just
checking and see I have a feeling when when David inquired of the Lord where do
I go next he was already on his way he was just checking because when you
walked in God's ways you will know God's will all you gotta do is check Jesus
said if I leave I'll send you the spirit of truth and he'll show you the
ways to walk in I'm checking I'm checking I'm checking so I don't have to ask God
about every decision I don't have to stress about God's will when I live my
life in God's ways I have the confidence that my steps are ordered where's my organ my
steps are ordered by the Lord cuz I delight in his way why arts all on
your feet I'm trying to tell you you don't have to
worry so much about what when you get your why right
when you walk in the ways of God when you submit to him because God's strategy is
submission and now you can sit down cuz you're not gonna like this part
the other s word is submission and in all of the steps that David took away
from the throne for 15 years into the land of the Philistines into the place
of Ziklag while it looked like he was moving away from the promise God had
made him he was moving into submission
submission the steps of a good man are ordered wait a minute that's what they
do in the military ordered and I found out a lot of people will rejoice over
the sovereignty of God but resist submission and to believe in sovereignty
without embracing submission is not faith it's fairy tale if I say my steps
are ordered by the Lord as a way of excusing my decisions I have
misunderstood the implication of Psalm 37:23 I wonder how much differently we
would respond to Psalm 37:23 if we considered the word ordered because when
God went that David went to God David didn't give God his opinion he asked God
for his next order now when you live like that you can have complete and
total confidence in every move you make every breath you take
and whether you're moving away from your goal or toward your goal you can know
I'm in submission so I'm at piece
submission brings peace when you try to get the strategy before submission
you're out of order and it doesn't work when you say God
orders your steps understand what you're saying is not that God will take the
step for you it's that he will tell you which one to take
so when I ask God to heal my relationship with my dad
God did not do it until I submitted to the way that he wanted me to do it which
was to humble myself and go into my dad and instead of proving how right I was
and how wrong he was to find a point of connection but that required submission
and when I submitted myself to God's Way I experienced God's will a lot of the
things that are not working in my life are because I'm out of order sometimes
when your finances are out of order you have the money you need it's just not in
I think I preached us into a funeral
it's because God is really not first in your priorities I can tell by your
ledger I can tell because everybody else gets your first and God gets what's left
when you give God your best he blesses what's left when you give God what's
left how can you believe him for his best
you're out of order the the three times that me in Holly have fought in 15 years
of marriage I might be understating but when we fight it's not because we don't
have a blessed marriage it's because something is out of order something is
out of order there's a step I'm skipping see when I talk to my wife and I need to
work something out the thing I gotta do before I can explain myself is to
empathize which does not come naturally to me to listen to your wrong point of
view before I give you the correct one but sometimes there's something I need
to learn about how you see it so I can come over onto your side that's why we
have so much racial and religious tension in our nation we're out of order
we're out of order before we even listen to one another we're giving a lesson to
the other but you can't give the lesson until you're willing to listen
so we're out of order and now we're frustrated cuz it's not working and we
don't know what to do but but David's life is a life is interesting how when
he was in order how everything will had a flow to it the oil flows when you're
in order the Bible says he inquired of the Lord shall I go up to one of the
cities of Judah which was not by the way the ultimate capital because everything
God does he does in steps and stages it would be seven and a half more years
before David would come into the fullness of his calling but all you need
for now is the next step David had been making moves see he he had been he had
been working toward this this moment where he would go to Judah and he had
sent the men of Judah gifts and he was set up now and he asked God is now the
time because I don't want to move until you want me to move and in one sentence God
taught him his next move because for 15 years God had taught him to submit
if you can receive this message today and submit your desires God will God
will tell you what to do when you delight yourself in his way that's what
Psalm 37 says that he delighteth in his way I thought that meant and I'm so
stupid I thought that meant for the longest time I don't know I can't get
this stuff the first time I thought that meant that God delights in his way the steps of
a good man are ordered by the Lord put it up there the steps of a good man are
ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way I thought that meant that if I'm
a good man and my steps are ordered God will delight and well of course God
delights in the way that he orders that doesn't make any sense it means that when
I delight in his way see he delighteth in his way who's he
the man whose steps are ordered when I delight in God's way I will be in God's
will and my steps will be ordered and I can stay on this step as long as I need
to stay on this step and I can stay in this season as long as I need to be in
this season because God I don't want to go into any greater responsibility or
influence until you say I'm ready I don't want to come out of this oven till
I'm ready I don't want to enter into the promotion until I'm ready and when you
say step I step and my steps are ordered it's a statement of submission
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