GOD HAS A PLAN OF OPPORTUNITY.
ARISE TO THE OPPORTUNITY. COULD THIS DIFFICULTY BE AN OPPORTUNITY?
GOD HAS A PLAN... NO MATTER HOW DARK THE NIGHT ...
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
TEXT:
Psalm 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
LET: Imperative, order, to permit, to give the opportunity, to cause to, to make, to free from
confinement
I. GOD HAS A PLAN, NO MATTER HOW DARK THE NIGHT MAY GROW,
NO MATTER HOW CONTRARY THE WINDS MAY BLOW --- WE MUST TRUST GOD HAS A PLAN...
1 Corinthians 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that
giveth the increase.
A. Ever weigh how heavy daily life can be? is there any rhyme or reason to this mess?
B. SOME TIME BACK I WAS IN MY STUDY AND I WAS PRAYING?
I felt myself with a large question: DO I TRUST GOD?
Of course I trust God and His plan...
Then I felt again DO YOU REALLY TRUST GOD?
Of course I trust God and His plan...
Then I thought SURE, I TRUST GOD WHEN I AM IN THE LIGHT... When I understand
what is going on, when I am doing OK, I trust Him.
Then I weighed my behavior patterns, my moods, my thinking,my behavior and my WORDS that
I speak? I have really been considering my TRUSTING THE PLAN OF GOD.
***A NEGATIVE PERSON SEES DIFFICULTY IN EVERY OPPORTUNITY ---
***A POSITIVE SPIRIT SEES AN OPPORTUNITY IN EVERY DIFFICULTY AND PROBLEM...
II. THIS STUMBLING BLOCK COULD BE YOUR STEPPING STONE...DO WE REALIZE GOD IS BUILDING
HIS PEOPLE?
Revelation 3:17 (NLT) You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ And you
don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
18 So I advise you to buy gold from me—gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich.
Also buy white garments from me so you will not be shamed by your nakedness, and ointment for your
eyes so you will be able to see.
Revelation 3:17 (KJV) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of
nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou
mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
A. Maybe your trophy case appears empty? Maybe your efforts go un-applauded?
Perhaps friends in high places do not appreciate your sacrifices, FOR WHOM ARE YOU WORKING?
B. IN THE EARLY 1970'S I WAS A COLLEGE STUDENT. I traveled playing southern gospel music
on the weekends. I had played lead guitar most of my travels. Our bass player had major surgery and
could not travel any more. We could find no one to play the bass, but had several choice lead guitarist
offer to travel. They were good. I gladly volunteered to move to the bass.
We had traveled many miles one weekend to northern West Virginia to do 4 concerts. We were all
very tired. We returned to east Tennessee. My wife drove down from Virginia and picked me up. No one
knew it but I was blistering mad. Many had bragged on the lead licks from the guitar, but no one said a
kind word about the foundation of the music I laid down on the bass.
I had a VW Beetle and I put my Fender in the back seat and we drove home. I said little.
Linda enquired of the weekend. I told her: I AM GOING TO QUIT, NO ONE BRAGGED ON MY
BASS LICKS. AS A MATTER OF FACT WHEN WE PULL INTO THE DRIVE WAY, I AM GOING
TO BURST THE FENDER INTO SPLINTERS.
Linda never said a word. About a mile from the house, Linda laid her hand on mine and said:
Martin, you cannot do that? I said: WHY NOT?
Linda said: We owe over $1,000.00 on it, and besides that; FOR WHOM ARE YOU PLAYING
YOUR MUSIC? Well, we unloaded the music and suitcases and went to bed.
C. I WAS A STUDENT IN COLLEGE AND I WAS REQUIRED TO TAKE MUSIC APPRECIATION...
Part of the class was to spend time in the LISTENING LIBRARY. I went
on campus early the next morning to do my listening assignment. I ACCIDENTLY, maybe God's
plan, was combing through the albums and I RAN ACROSS ONE THAT CAUGHT MY EYE.
IT WAS CALLED "THE UNSHAMED ACCOMPANIST."
I started reading the cover... It was about a great Italian tender the world knows,
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI. Pavarotti learned to overcome great criticism. Pavarotti said he had
learned to understand criticism and to sing on with GREAT VISIBLE JOY. But this music album
was not about LUCIANO. This album was about the man that played the piano for the famed
tenor singer. THE UNSHAMED ACCOMPANIST PLAYED THE BACKGROUND MUSIC
FOR THE TENOR VOICE, HIS NAME WAS NEVER ON THE MARQUEE OF THE
THEATER. The man playing behind PAVAROTTI made him sound good. The man called himself:
THE UNSHAMED ACCOMPANIST. He would never be a SOLOIST, he learned to appreciate
his role.
Gerald Moore has written several books and traveled the world as the UNSHAMED ACCOMANIST.
I was at practice on Tuesday, I still love playing lead and the bass.
II. THERE IS CRY FROM THE WORLD TODAY ---
EVERYONE WANTS TO PLAY LEAD GUITAR FOR JESUS... ENTERTAIN ME!
Matthew 10:42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water
only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
A. We have a little lady at church that is hard hearing and she is very poor and uneducated.
She wrote this song and will sing it it from time to time, her heart is so pretty.
LORD, LET ME BE THE RUG YOU WIPE YOUR FEET ON TODAY.
I fear Gaither will never make it a hit, but I UNDERSTAND HER HEART!
B. WHAT ABOUT:
AARON
HUR (Lifts the arms)
ANDREW
DORCAS --- Needle and thread
RAHAB --- saves her family.
III. PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE THE LOTTERY-GAMBLE MENTALITY?
WE DESIRE THE HAND-OUT MENTALITY, ENTITLEMENT...
I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS NEGATIVE TRIAL, I SHALL MAKE
THE CHOICE TO BE DEPRESSED AND QUIT.
A. I do not understand why God would allow this?
I refuse to look and see that my own doubt and choices have anything to do with this?
Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we
receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
B. THE ARE WHOLE FAMILIES THAT ARE KNOWN FOR GAMBLING WITH THEIR LIVES...
Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them,
Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whosoever
will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall
save it. 36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
C. If God brings you too it, HE CAN BRING YOU THROUGH IT... WHEN JOB PRAYED FOR HIS
MEAN FRIENDS DELIVERANCE CAME...
IV. GOD HAS A PLAN --- OUR ENEMY DESIRES TO STEAL, KILL AND DESTROY ---
HE AND ALL THE DEMONS LAUGH AND PLOT HOW TO DESTROY YOU AND
HURT GOD. WISE UP MY FRIEND, SEE WHAT THE ENEMY IS TRYING TO DO...
WHY NOT LAUGH AND SAY: I CAN HANDLE THIS... HIS GRACE IS SUFFIENCENT.
2 Corinthians 2:11 (KJV) Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2 Corinthians 2:11 (NLT) so that Satan will not outsmart us. For we are familiar with his evil schemes.
V. GOD HAS THIS ATTACK COVERED BY GRACE...
CAN WE SEE THE SATANIC STRATEDY FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME AND THE
ENEMY IS THROWING EVERY DART HE CAN TO DESTROY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY?
LOOK BACK TO SEE FORWARD...
A. Satan had a plan to destroy God's work on earth.
Satan ISOLATED EVE away from Adam and STARTED HIS MOVE...
DO YOU DESIRE TO BE LIKE GOD?
· Look how pretty it is?
· God is just joking, to stop you?
· Taste it? FEED IT TO ADAM?
· NO REPENTANCE...
THE ENEMY SAYS IT IS OVER HEAR THE FAT LADY SING?
JESUS KNOWS HIS FATHER'S PLAN...
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
B. SATAN HAS ANOTHER TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE: KILL THE GOOD SEED...
THE ENEMY HATES ABEL'S GIVING... this seed of giving is a threat of emeny's existence.
In bitterness, hatred and jealousy Satan moves: CAIN KILL THIS THREAT and BURY HIM...
Satan eliminates GOD'S BOY...
God's plan... ARISE MY LOVE... GOD RAISE UP A NEW SEED OF RIGHTEOUSNESS...
Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God,
said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
C. GOD'S PLAN WILL ATTACK THE ENEMY.
SATAN TAKES A UNIFIED HUMANITY AND THEY START BUILDING ---
GROW A TOWER OF THE FLESH TO SELF-PLEASURE AND SELF WORSHIP.
LET US REACH HIGH AND NOTHING SHALL RESTRAIN US...
Satan knows there is power in unity, the people shall build a WORSHIP CENTER FOR ME...
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto
heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Satan laughs --- HAHAHA --- I HAVE YOU GOD...
GOD IS NOT SURPRISED...GOD HAS HIS PLAN, ..
Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and
they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there
confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face
of all the earth.
D. SATAN HAS ANOTHER PLAN, LET ALL THE PEOPLE BE EATING, MARRYING
AND BE FOCUSED ON EASE AND PLEASURE --- PLEASURE RULES...
The devil and all his demons celebrate --- we have messed up God's plans..
GOD SAYS WAIT A MINUTE, I HAVE THIS COVERED, I HAVE A MAN BUILDING AN ARK...
Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
E. DO NOT BATTLE THE ENEMY WITH THE FLESH...
THE ENEMY LAUGHS HE NOW HAS A PLAN TO DESTROY THE SPIRIT PROMISE.
BY FLESHLY MEANS ...
The Devil allow Sarah to my a fleshly suggestion that Abraham liked:
HERE YOU GO BOY, HE IS THIS PRETTY WOMAN HAGAR, AND HAVE A SON OF THE
FLESH NAMED ISHMAEL...
THE DEVIL THINKS: I HAVE REALLY MESSED UP THE SEED AND THE PROMISE.
Jesus laughs and says: WATCH THIS AS A 90 YEAR OLD WOMAN DOES THE PREGNANT
WADDLE, AND A 100 YEAR OLD MAN BUYING PAMPERS AS HE HOLDS THE PROMISE:
ISAAC... WILL ARISE...
F. THE MIND OF SATAN DESIGNS ANOTHER PLAN: ESAU SHALL BE BITTER,
UNFORGIVING AND RULE OVER THE SEED OF MAN KIND...
EDOMITES SHALL KILL THE PREACHERS (DOEG)
Esau, you bad boy shall rule of JACOB, I have you defeated! God loses.
Jacob, the subplanter has lost the game...
ESAU SELLS HIS BIRTH-RIGHT FOR A BOWL OF LENTIL SOUP...
JACOB ENCOUNTERS GOD ONE NIGHT...
Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince
hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
The Father God arises and says: IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN THROW AT ME?
G. THE DEVILS HAVE A MEETING AND THEY COME UP WITH A PLAN TO
DESTROY THE PROMISED SEED, WE WILL HAVE A GREAT FAMINE AND SEND
GOD'S NATION TO ISREAL TO CORRUPT THEM...
10 BROTHERS HATE THEIR BROTHER AND THEY PLAN TO KILL HIM IN THE WELL.
From the well to slavery to the JAIL HOUSE ROCK...
70 PEOPLE TRAVEL AS THEY ARE STARVING TO DEATH TO EGYPT...
THE DEVIL REJOICES?...
GOD LAUGHS AND SAYS: I HAVE ALREADY MOVED MY SON JOSEPH AND
... JOSEPH STEP INTO THE DREAM --- THEY WILL BOW... JUST AS YOU HAD THE
GOD VISION.
H. GOD'S PLAN HAS THIS COVERED BY THE BLOOD ON THE DOOR POST.
SATAN LAUGHS AT GOD AND SAYS: I HAVE YOUR PEOPLE TRAPED IN EGPYT
AND PHAROAH WILL NEVER LET THEM GO...
God laughs at Satan and says: REMEMBER THAT PRETTY BABY YOU TRIED TO KILL IN THE
RIVER? Well, MOSES HAS MET WITH THE GREAT I AM IN THE DESERT ...
LET MY PEOPLE GO...The Red Sea is nothing to God...
I. GOD'S PLAN WILL OVERCOME SATANIC THINGS OF A SECRET DESIGN NOW WE
WILL HAVE ...Satan has put a man in a high office... HAMAN will get the law passed to kill all the Jews and stop
Jesus' birth. The King has already agreed, the law cannot be reversed.
MORDECAI HAS BEEN FASTING, God laughs ---
GOD'S PLAN --- ALREADY, STEP UP TO THE PLATE ESTHER AND HAMAN HANG HIGH
K. THE SPIES ARE TRAPPED AND WILL DIED, CHECK?
GOD USES RAHAB THE HARLOT TO SAVE THE SPIES
L. ELIMELECH, MAHLON, CHILION DIE IN MOAB --- RUTH, BITTER WOMAN ---
HAHAHAHA SAYS GOD... I HAVE BOAZ THE KINSMAN REDEEMER ---
M. OK DEVILS THE TIME IS GETTING NEAR THE HARVEST, WE HAVE ANOTHER
PLAN --- HEROD KILL ALL THE BABY BOYS --- WE HAVE WON THE GAME?
God says I saw this move coming a long time ago. God moved Joseph and Mary to a SAFE SPOT...
God's ONLY SON HAD COME TO THE MANGER --- Then to Egypt, then back to the temple at 12...
Jesus does his first miracle and the devils tremble...
N. SATAN HAS ONE LAST MOVE... THE VICTORY IS AHEAD --- GOD WILL LOSE.
Jesus rides the donkey into town... The praise fades...
There is a court session, a mockery of a trial --- GUILTY, GUILTY THEY CRY ---
GIVE US BARABUS --- KILL HIM...
TO THE CROSS JESUS GOES ---
DEATH HAS COME --- MAKE THE TOMB SURE ---
THERE WAS A GREAT PARTY AS THE DEMONS OF THE AGES HAD GOD'S SON IN THAT
COLD, COLD TOMB.
SATAN LAUGHED AND LAUGHED, I HAVE DEFEATED GOD'S PLAN...
WAIT, WAIT A MINUTE, THE DEMONS OF HELL WERE SUDDENLY AWARE,
GOD'S PLAN, "IT IS FINISHED"
--- JESUS IS ALIVE AND WELL --- THE CROSS OPENED THE DOOR THAT A LOST A
DYING HUMANITY CAN COME BOLDLY BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD...
THIS IS NO LONGER A RELIGION OF RULES ---
HE GATES OF HEAVEN OPEN TO A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND HIS SON.
JESUS LEFT THE HIS HOLY SPIRIT TO LEAD, GUIDE,AND TEACH US THE WAY TO
COME BOLDLY TO THE FATHER!
CONCLUSION: God had a plan through the eons of time, God has a plan of deliverance or you and yours.
You are a winner either way, if we go, if we stay. This thorn meant to destroy me shall make me stronger and
stronger.
My faith is the anchor --- and though the skin worms devour my body, I SHALL SEE HIM, I SHALL SEE
JESUS FACE TO FACE. Quit allowing the enemy to THROW UP the past, look at the past God won
yesterday. God wins today. God will win tomorrow as one angel will chain him and throw him in hell.
HANG ON MY FRIEND. PRESS ON...
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
