TRUSTING GOD: THIS PROBLEM IS AN OPPORTUNITY…
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
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1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Psalm 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Psalm 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Psalm 37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
GOD HAS A PLAN… THIS PROBLEM WILL RUIN MY BUSINESS… WAS THIS ACCIDENT AND ACCIDENT IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK …
A man owned a very prosperous fine dining restaurant in New York. Chicken was their primary food. He ordered hundreds of chickens for the holiday season. The big truck backed up and unloaded the chicken. When the truck left the owner opened the boxes of chicken, NOTHING BUT CHICKEN WINGS, NOTHING BUT WINGS! He called his supplier. They had already left the office. There was nothing that he could do. So HE STARTED WORKING WITH THE CHICKEN WINGS. He played around with different recipes. Finally he came up with HOT WINGS… That weekend he broke all sales records selling HOT WINGS --- HE PUT THE CITY ON THE MAP --- BUFFALO HOT WINGS… Buffalo wild wings would have never happened unless the wrong delivery occurred?
COULD THIS ACCIDENT BEEN GOD?
COULD GOD BE IN THIS PROBLEM? WILL I REACT OR WILL I ACT --- NATURE IS SO AMAZING.
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
GOD HAS A PLAN… DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY? IT APPEARS THE MINISTRY IS OVER, QUEEN JEZEBEL HAS SIGNED A DEATH WARRANT ON PREACHER ELIJAH. AHAB AND JEZEBEL HATED THE MESSEGER BECAUSE THE HATED THE MESSAGE…
What do you mean DON’T WORRY? Elijah THE MOST POWERFUL FAMILY IN THE WORLD HATES ME AND MY MESSAGE…
1 Kings 17:4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
MY BROOK GOES DRY? THE RAVENS STOP COMING? NOW WORRY? WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE BROOK GOES DRY?
1 Kings 17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
GOD’S PLAN DOES NOT DEPEND ON THE RAVENS OR THE BROOK?
GET UP AND GO --- GOD DOES NOT ALWAYS BRING YOU THE ANSWER, YOU HAVE TO ARISE AND GO…
1 Kings 17:9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
GOD HAS A PLAN… FEAR NOT PREACHER, FEAR NOT WIDOW LADY, FEAR NOT SON…
1 Kings 17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
THEY FOUND GOD IN THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL OF MEAL… YOU MAY NOT ALWAYS FIND GOD UNTIL YOU GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL… TRUST GOD… DON’T WORRY THE DOGS WILL NOT GET YOU?
BY THE WAY: THE SAME DOGS THAT LICKED NABBOTH’S INNOCENT BLOOD WILL LICK THE KING’S BLOOD… NOT YOURS…
Ahab servants went through the CHARIOT WASH, AND WASHED AHAB’S CHARIOT AND ARMOUR --- THERE WERE DOGS WAITING TO LICK THE BLOOD…
GOOD HAS A PLAN TRUST IT, THE SAME DOGS… THAT LICKED NABBOTH AND AHAB, THE SAME DOGS WILL JUST LEAVE A TESTIMONY OF WICKED JEZEBEL…
2 Kings 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
2 Kings 9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
My friends, DON’T WORRY, TRUST THE PLAN OF GOD…. WHEN THE STORM RAGES HIGH? WHEN THE DOCTOR HAS BAD NEWS? WHEN THERE IS NO WAY OR NO ANSWER, TRUST GOD’S PLAN…
GOD HAS A PLAN… IF I TRUST GOD COULD THIS PROBLEM EQUAL A GOD OPPORTUNITY?
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
CAN WE SEE GOD’S PLAN? IS THIS BY CHANGE OR A STRANGE COINCIDENCE OR HAS GOD A PLAN? WE MUST LEARN TO TRUST THE DESIGN OF A MIGHTY CREATOR.
Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
I read about the BLACKPOLL WARBLER. This WARBLE is a songbird that sings so beautiful. A warble weighs less than ¾ of an once. In adulthood the warble is about 5 inches long. The BLACKPOLL WARBLER lives in Alaska in the summer months and south Africa in the winter. The warble flies at 21,000 feet, about 4 miles high, catching the wind and it flies until it gets past Bermuda. Just past Bermuda the winds change and the WARBLE THEN RIDES THE WIND TO IT’S WINTER HOME IN SOUTH AFRICA. The little bird flies 2,400 miles in 3 days and nights.
How could the timing of a small bird fly 2,400 miles in 3 days, if the warbler’s flight varied 1% it would miss the target of its home by hundreds of miles. THEN COME SPRING THE SMALL WARBLE FLIES 2400 MILES BACK TO ALASKA.
God has a plan… for the warbler and God has a plan for you. Unless we learn to trust THE DESIGNER we can’t make it. IF THE RAVEN? IF THE BLACKPOLL WARBLE?
GOD CAN HANDLE THIS! DO WE HAVE THE FAITH TO TRUST HIM THROUGH THIS STORM
Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
GOD HAS A PLAN… A SCHOOL OF ENGINEERIN THAT GRANTS MASTERS DEGREES FOR INSECTS?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE MASSIVE TERMITE NESTS? Termites at soft and weak, they cannot exist in sunlight or in heat? The design of the termite is amazing. Termites have advance architectural and engineering skills. They design wet mud and work it until it hardens, it is always a long narrow wedge shaped mound. The mound is ALWAYS NORTH AND SOUTH this protects the tunnels from the heat of the east-west sun that would heat the colony until all the termites were dead.
The termites dig until they find a source of water. NOTE: It has been discovered water tunnels down to 130 feet.) The flow of the north-south wind through the tunnels pull air over the water and the colony has AIR-CONDITIONING that keeps them cool. HOW DOES THE TERMINTE KNOW NORTH AND SOUTH?
Is there a MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAM THAT TEACHES THE QUEEN TERMITE WHEN, WHERE AND HOW TO DO THIS?
OR IS THERE A MIGHTY GOD WITH A PLAN…
GOD HAS A PLAN… HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED AT A JAR OF HONEY WITH THE HONEY COMB IN IT?
Matthew 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
When I taught school my last year the teacher across the hall, Keith Spiers had purchased a bee hive that connected to the inside of the window with a tube that lead to the outside. This was so interesting to watch God’s design. The bee is related to the wasps and the ant. B POLLINATE EES DO A GREAT SERVICE FOR THE CREATION... THEY CARRY NECTOR FROM BLOOM TO BLOOM AS WELL AS CARRY THE NECTOR BACK TO THE HIVE FOR HONEY PRODUCTION.
The bee is short and fat. The wings are short and by engineering feats the bee cannot fly. The short wings will not carry the body through the air. God made the bee and when He finish God said fly bee, the bee has flown ever since. I pray scientist never get smart enough to communicate with the bee and tell it, YOU CAN NOT FLY… we will never have honey again.
There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees. Bee keeping has been practice since Bible days. Remember when Jonathan was weak and ate honey? Remember Samson and his parents eating honey for strength? Bees have a long tongue to gather the nector. They have little baskets on the back legs to carry the pollen home. Bees have 5 eyes, 2 large compound eyes, and three small eyes between the large eyes.
Male bees have antennae in 13 segments, the female’s antennae has 12 segments. The bee smells, hears, and taste and even has a sense of touch by their antennae.
Bees are willing to die for the hive. Bees communicate by wing movement. They have divisions of labor. Some care for eggs. Some guard the entrance, others will fan their wings at the entrance to cool the bee hive down. Tells other bees where they can find pollen, the bee communicates by THE WAGGLE DANCE... This dance tells direction by the sun, by polarization, or by the magnetic field of a map to the source of food.
BEES HAVE LEARNED THEY HAVE A HEAVENLY FATHER THAT TAKES CARE OF THEM….
RUMINATE? DOES GOD HAVE A PLAN? WHY WORRY? EXPLAIN THE PROFIT IN WORRY?
Matthew 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
FEAR NOT: GOD HAS A PLAN FOR US… THE RED SEA IN FRONT OF US? THE MIGHTIEST ARMY OF THE WORLD BEHIND US? CRUMBLING, COMPLAINING, MURMURING PEOPLE WITH US… GOD HAS A PLAN TO DELIVER.
Exodus 14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever.
FEAR NOT, WORRY NOT, FRET NOT--- WHY WORRY WHEN YOU CAN TRUST THE MIGHTY GOD THAT HAS ALL UNDER HIS CONTROL?
Psalm 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psalm 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
CONCLUSION: NATURE TEACHES US, BE STILL AND TRUST GOD… THIS PROBLEM IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
When a BUZZARD flies around LITTLE BIRDS come out to fight? The buzzard and the little birds may fight each other for a long time. If a storm blows in the buzzard gets soaking wet.
Not so the eagle never fights with other birds, he just gently rides the wind higher and higher until the fighting birds cannot reach him. When a big storm blows in… the eagle sense the storm coming so the EAGLE SOARS ABOVE THE STORM… Until the storm passes by…
NOAH TRUST THE GOD THAT HAD A PLAN… GOD HAD A PLAN ---DANIEL TRUSTED GOD IN THE LIONS’ DEN.
GOD HAD A PLAN --- THE THREE HEBREW BOYS TRUSTED GOD WHEN THE FIRE WAS 7X’S HOTTER.GOD HAD A PLAN --- RUTH AND NAOMI TRUSTED GOD IN THE DROUGHT.
GOD HAD A PLAN --- ESTER AND UNCLE MOREDICAI TRUSTED GOD WHEN HAMAN HATED GOD’S CHILDREN.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
