What are you supposed to do when God doesn’t give you a plan?
because I understand that God wants
to use me but I need to know what that’s
going to look like you understand I need
some details I need some
specifics I need some marching orders I
need some dates sometimes some
instructions so please Lord if it’s not too much trouble send that guy
back and he said we were gonna have a
son that was gonna like change the world
and stuff but I need to hear it for
myself and I need to know the plan any
planners in the house any planners any
planners any planners thank God for you
thank God for you because all the people
without their hand up they always come
late and make the worship leaders lead
to the first two rows and it’s empty and
they come crawling in last minute but I don’t
hate you in the back but I’m just saying
thank God for the planners but it can
become a problem and I’m gonna show you
why I’m gonna show you why he said we
need to know the plan if it’s gonna be
this big thing you know if you gave us
this promise I need to know the plan cuz
without a plan the promise is just
abstract rhetoric without the without
the plan I can know God is for me he
wants to use me I’m gonna spread the gospel
and all that sounds good but just send
him back if I could get five minutes
with this awesome looking man who was
talking to my wife and told her she was
about to get pregnant I need to know the
plan now I love the next phrase God
heard Manoah God heard Manoa isn’t it
interesting that the woman wasn’t
praying to get pregnant when the angel
said it was gonna happen I don’t know if
she gave up I don’t know if she did pray
I don’t know if she didn’t pray the Bible
doesn’t say it doesn’t matter
and then Manoah is begging God to show up
and speak to him and you know God
initiates we respond God initiates we
respond but God heard Manoah and when we
Manoah prayed God didn’t say figure it
out yourself and trust me instead he
obliged Manoah’s need for more
information let the person next to you
know something real quick and it might
sound cocky but tell him anyway his true
say he hears me
God hears me he hears me better than
Siri and Alexa he hears me he hears me
he knows my voice he likes when I call
him when I say help he says yes before I
can even get h- out my mouth he hears me he
hears my groans where words don’t come
he hears me he hears my heart and the
secret petitions of things that people
don’t know that I’m dealing with he
hears me he hears the unspoken did you
go to youth group and we used to say I
have an unspoken he hears what I don’t
say he hears what’s behind what I said
that’s really driving the behavior he
hears me he hears my secret frustration
that I don’t say around people because
if I told him how frustrated I was it
would scare them but he hears me he hears
me when I sing to him when I tell him
worthy is the Lamb of God he hears me I
know there’s better singers than me and
I know I don’t always sing on key but he
hears me when I sing thank you Jesus he
hears me it blesses his heart to hear me
and the angel of God came again to the
woman wait-wait-wait-wait-wait to the
woman
Manoah asked for the visit and this
angel is back out talking to his wife
because God is not going to do it like
you want him to do it he’s gonna want to
see will you trust him so the angel God
came again to the woman while she was
out in the field but her husband Manoah
was not with her and the woman hurried to
tell her husband he’s here the man who
appeared to me the other day Manoah got up
and followed his wife and when he came
to the man
he said are you the man who talked to my
wife hold on let me change Manoah’s
accent are you the man who talked to my
wife
she said she said an awesome-looking man
came and said that she was gonna be
pregnant was that you the angel said I am
so Manoah asked him when your words
are fulfilled I don’t doubt you’re going to
do it I just need to know the plan what is
to be the rule that governs the boy’s
life and work how do we do this how do
we do this we had a meeting this week
about the church and I know what I want
to see but I don’t know the plan for it and so a lot
of times when I get in that mode I start
trying to like tweak stuff and I start
trying to manipulate stuff I know you
don’t do this but I’m a control freak
and so I’ll be like well we could do
this this and this and it’s all good
it’s all good but I want you to watch
what the angel does instead of giving
Manoah the plan which is what he asked
for what do we do with this boy that you
said is going to be born that’s going to
do something great what do I do with
this calling and what do I do in this
situation
I need to know the plan I need to know
the details I need to know the agenda
and the Bible says that the angel verse
13 answered your wife so now the angel
pivots from what Manoah asked to what he
needed to know right now now sometimes
when you pray to God he’s going to pivot
and you’re gonna be like I need the plan
but God will pivot I mean this angel
would have made a great politician or
preacher or basketball player he could
have been in the all-star game because
watch how quick he pivots we need to
know what to do when the boy is born
what are we gonna do how are we going to raise him
how are we how many times
you know Manoah’s full of questions
right of course he is do we need to put
him in a special school do we need to
get him a tutor
do we need to teach him karate do we need
to teach him jiu jitsu you know should we
be strict should we be what are we
doing what are we doing and the angel
said just tell your wife right now don’t
drink anything or eat anything unclean
that’s all you need no right now
the pivot from what you think you need
to know to what you really need to know
and God just watch his footwork see we
always want to see God’s hand but
sometimes you gotta watch his feet
because sometimes he wants to set a
different direction to say you’re not
even looking at the right side of this
watch the pivot and when he pivots you
got to be quick to go with him and say
God I don’t want your hand I want your
face I want to know you I want to seek
you I want to see you I want to feel you
I want to know you I want to have you I
wanna I want to understand what you know
I need to understand and I wonder is God
trying to pivot your prayer life is God
trying to pivot your strategizing is God
trying to pivot because you’re always
trying to look for him in logic you’re
always trying to look for him in
analysis and in calculation but God is
Spirit and you can’t get to Spirit
through strategy you’ve got to come to
God like this you’ve got to come to God
with open arms open hands and an open
heart
it’s the pivot funny thing about a
pivot though it’s a small move but it
sets a completely different direction
Manoah you can’t handle
the plan right now you can’t my word is
a lamp unto your feet a light unto your
path
funny thing about pivot I’ve been doing
this all week just studying this sermon
just trying to get God to show me
different ways see situations and to see
his will and what I think is his will and
what I thought was his will and I
thought he was always doing this but
sometimes he’s doing that and they get
this promise this is from the Lord you
know he didn’t realize that at first but he
starts to sense he starts to sense that
this may be God this may be God it’s too
big to be anything I could do I don’t
have a plan for it I don’t have a
context for it I don’t know this may
be God this is the Lord this is from the
Lord this gift set that I have
this talent this child that I’m raising
this is from the Lord somebody say this
is from the Lord and so since it’s from
the Lord then I need him to show me how
to do it but sometimes he won’t answer
the question that I ask instead he will
give me the wisdom that I need because
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