Wherever He Leads, I'll Go

B. God’s Ways are Often Unexplained

But, let me say that, not only are God’s ways unknown; I also want to say that God’s ways are unexplained. God did not have to give to Philip any reason for going. He just simply said, “Go,” and Philip traveled under sealed orders. And, perfect obedience does not need to know why. Now, God may not speak to you through an angel, but He is going to speak to you.

Now, let me tell you how the Holy Spirit works. It’s so interesting. First of all, the Holy Spirit begins to work on an individual—an unsaved sinner. He begins to soften that sinner’s heart for the gospel. Maybe He brings influences, or whatever, to that person, and then God finds a man over here, or a woman over here, who is filled with the Holy Spirit, that He can use, and God gets the two together. Now, here’s Philip, way up in Samaria, and here’s the eunuch, way down here in Gaza, and God brings the two together.

And you know, as you study the Bible, and great salvation experiences in the Bible, that happens so often. For example, Jesus said, in John chapter 4 and verse 4: “And he must needs go through Samaria” (John 4:4). I mean, He felt a divine compulsion to go through Samaria. It didn’t say, “Let’s just go through”—“He must needs.” And, He went through Samaria. And, there was that Samaritan woman there—she had such a thirst for the Lord Jesus—and she was saved. That was a divine appointment. You can read, in Acts chapter 10, where there was this man named Cornelius, who was a Gentile of the Italian band. He had a thirst—a hunger—to know God. And, you can read how God took Simon Peter, and God brought the two together.

I’ve seen it happen in my own life so many times, where God just supernaturally leads me to a person who needed the gospel of Jesus Christ, when my heart was right and their heart was hungry. I was sitting on a plane in Tulsa, and I’d been praying and seeking the face of God, and there was a vacant seat near me. And, I just prayed, “Lord God, I make myself available. If I can help the person who’s going to sit in that seat, just, Lord, help me to help the person who is going to sit in that seat. I’m available Lord.” And, I pray for the person before they ever get on the plane.

Well, I waited, and after the plane filled up, that seat was still vacant. The last person, to my knowledge, to get on that plane was the lady who came and sat down beside me. And, she just plopped down. She had a big bundle of things in her hands. And, she got out a Bible. I thought, “Well, that’s unusual for a person to be carrying a Bible.” I often carry one on the plane—as a matter of fact—just almost all the time. I had just put my Bible in my briefcase. I’d been reading there, from Revelation 12:11, where it says: “And they overcame him”—that is, the devil—“by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death” (Revelation 12:11). I’d been studying that scripture—pondering on it, looking—my heart was full of that particular scripture.