don't let anything shine on me that's too hot for me because the greater the light the greater the heat often my timing and will could have destroyed me if I have got it any sooner it would have crushed me yes we must be grateful for even when God doesn't answer prayers and even when God says No in fact I would dare to say to you that I shout more over closed doors than I do open ones because I trust God that he knows what I can handle and what I can handle and if he says
no I say thank you and if he says yes I say thank you and I've learned whatever state I'm in there with to be content because he knows what's best for me little did he know that today would not be like any other day when they LED blind barter mayus to his spot and set him down down out of the way close enough to the traffic to attract attention but not so close that he would be trampled on by the crowd he sat in his spot wrapped in his coat against the morning Breeze his cup
in his hand for you see because he was blind in his eyes it had affected every area of his life his self-esteem his masculinity his income his Commerce his marketability are all affected because one thing has gone wrong in his life and he has made a job out of being dysfunctional like all of us who don't get well we create a ecosystem of survival that's built around our dysfunction and some of us refuse to get well because we fall in love with being sick wow and they laid him by the highways side begging and the
scripture says the most amazing thing it says that he heard that Jesus was passing by and when I read it I couldn't help but get excited because it reminded me that God doesn't let everything go wrong at the same time that even though the man couldn't see he could hear and Isn't it nice to know that God doesn't need anything that you lost to bless you that's right right that God will use what you've got left to bless you that he'll take what is within close proximity to you and allow you to hear he heard
that Jesus was passing by I don't know how he distinguished the sound of Jesus footsteps from other but some kind of way he knew that it was Jesus that was passing by and he sense something that is never said the fierce urgency of now nobody told him that this would be the last walk Jesus Took wow that this would be the last chance that he would have to get an Earthly miracle from an Earthly Christ that he was on his way to Calvary and though he could not see he did not like Vision they asked
Helen Keller what was it like to be blind she said it's not so bad to be blind she said it's far worse to have eyes and have no vision this man had the vision that if he didn't get it right now he wouldn't get so the first thing you got to have is vision and then the second thing you got to have is enough courage to be disruptive yes he wasn't worried about being politically correct fitting in being popular being accepted he wasn't worried about the tone or the pitch of his voice he was not
afraid to get loud he cried out Jesus thou son of David have mercy on me oh oh oh that I might receive I don't want a car I don't want a house I don't want a donkey I don't want a goat I don't want to feel I just want you to fix the little thing that has shut down everything in my life and everybody has a little thing that shut down everything in their life and if you fix this one thing I can fix the rest of it myself oh that I might receive my sight
and the disciples that were with Jesus told him to shut up but when you sense urgency you can't let man shut you down he cried all the more until he did something that few in the Bible can ever say they did he cried out till God Stood Still yes and there's somebody right now who needs a miracle so bad that you need to cry out until God stands still and the Bible said that Jesus Stood Still in spite of his disciples making a decision for him without him come on that he was too busy and
too important to have to stop and take care of the needs of the blind man Jesus Stood Still In other words The Cry of the blind arrested the sights of Jesus good god of mercy and he arrested him to the degree that all of a sudden Jesus Stood Still and commanded that he be called watch this he made the men who who forbid him from coming have to turn around and call him isn't it funny how God will make your enemies your foot stools isn't it funny how God will use the very people who didn't
want you to holler anymore to commanded them that he be called he made them reverse the curse come on and they told him Jesus wants you now this is what I want to tell you he had to answer the call blind yes wow Jesus didn't come to him and they didn't go get him they just called him and that means that he had to go toward Jesus blind come on and I have learned over the 45 years of my Ministry that most of the time I was moving toward him blind thank you thank you for
I couldn't see my way clear I didn't know how it was going to happen I didn't know who I was going to hire I didn't know where I was going to go I didn't know what I'd have to do but if you are willing yes to go toward what you hear blind God will do amazing things wow in your life he went to him blind but he didn't go from him blind come on that's right cuz once you make it to Jesus he will make everything all right [Music] Hallelujah often when I'm not doing what
I'm doing here I do seminars I go and listen that different people speak not just preachers but teachers not just teachers but thinkers not just thinkers but leaders not just leaders but business people and when I go into a business session they always teach that the best place to build a business is around a problem M that if you find your problem you found your business because if your business solves a problem you don't have to spend much money marketing it right you you for examp example you don't have to spend a lot of money
marketing hospitals that's right because it solves a problem the fact that it is the answer is its own marketing yes you don't have to Market to a great degree funeral homes because there will always be clients because there will always be de anytime you find a business that solves a problem you are going to be successful amen the reason Our God has withstood the test of time the reason the Bible is still the bestselling book in the world the reason that our God is called on on every continent on this Earth in one language or
another is because he is the problem solver he is the mountain mover yes for every disease he is the Healer yes right too often we think that we know the solution and we spend time and months and years and sometimes decades before we finally learn that we are not as smart as we thought we were and we don't know as much as we think we know and we don't have as much as we think that we have and finally with humility we bow our heads before his grace and submit to his Sovereign plan and understand
the manifold wisdom of God that God knows everything about everything the gra does not say to the master ventner excuse me but now it's the right time to act no he hangs on the vine and waits counting on the master to know when to pluck me and when to crush me and when to convert me yes and when to preserve me because he knows when to do what in your life there are some things that God gave me now had he given me 20 years ago I would have spoiled it had he given it to
me 10 years ago I'd have made a mess of it there are some things that God had to put on hold for such a time as this that I would be strong enough old enough wise enough at the right season in my life to master well enough what he's given me what about you aren't there times in your life that you see God giving you things now that you wanted earlier but God held them back and let you stay on the vine until it was time to pull you at the right time to produce what
he wanted to produce in your life because God has a clock that's not our clock his timetable is not our timetable his ways are not our ways his thoughts are not our thoughts and if we just humble down and and get patient enough to wait on him they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall Mount up wings like eagles they should run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint oh God teach me how to wait teach me how to wait teach me how to wait even if I have
to just hang there like a grape on a vine and wait teach me how to hang on and wait on you cuz you know just when to pluck me and you know just when to pull me and you know just when to expose me and you know how much light I can bear and oh God don't let anything shine on me that's too bright for me don't let anything shine on me that's too hot for me because the greater the light the greater the heat often my timing and will could have destroyed me if I
have got it any sooner it would have cred trust me yes we must be grateful for even when God doesn't answer prayers and even when God says No in fact I would dare to say to you that I shout more over closed doors than I do open ones because I trust God that he knows what I can handle and what I can't handle and if he says no I say thank you and if he says yes I say thank you and I've learned whatever state I'm in there withth to be content because he knows what's
best for me job said he knows the way that I takeen when he's tried me I shall come forth as pure goal I'm turning it over to him every problem every situation every crisis every every situation that comes up in my life that seems insurmountable I cast my cares on him because I understand that everything God does is strategic yes when the Bible says in the beginning was word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the word in the in the Greek is logos and logos is more than word is thought
it means that everything that God is is well thought out is well planned he's not talking out of the top of his head he's talking out of the depths of his will sir and what God has ordered will come to pass and he has a strategy yeah he has a strategy he told his disciples he says there're the cult when you get to the village and he's tied up and he's waiting on you to come he knew where the cult was in another Village without going going there because God is strategic and he put the
right cult in the right place at the right time so that Jesus could make his entry a cult that no man had ever set on before because God is a strategic God I got to stop cuz if I get to going down this road I'm going to fool around and get myself happy God is a strategic God he knows how hot to make it he knows how cold to make it he knows how tough to make it he knows what it takes to make your son's will break he knows what it takes to bring your
daughter into submission he knows what it takes to heal your marriage he knows what it takes to bind up the wounds of your broken heart and he knows when to do what to get you where you need to be he always sees every problem before it occurs the master ventor will use anything to point you back to our need for him for without him I will just hang on this Vine until I and thank you Lord for knowing when to pluck me off the [Music] vine this night was like the night before the night before
that and the night before that and the night before that it had had become a routine ever since every since the old man's son had left he would peing in the room where he once lie and look at the bed he once slept in and look at the pajamas he once wore and the cup he want drank from and the plate he once ate from and wonder where is my child tonight I think not knowing is is the most painful part of it uncertainty can almost be fatal and he couldn't help it but night after
night he would go to the window and peek out I know it's silly I know it's crazy I know it's ridiculous but you cannot cut love off with the Turning of a switch and though he was gone he still loved him and though he had spent his substance in riti his living and ran out the door belligerently and gone about his own will and sought himself a new family a family filled with friends and Frolic and foolishness the old man knew that the friends and the Frolic and the foolishness was only built around the finances
and as soon as he ran out of finances the friends and the Frolic and the foolishness would all go away and maybe just maybe if he were humble enough maybe I'll get to see him come down that road before God closes my eyes and I never see him again and it had become his nightly routine it had become his thoughts it had overwhelmed him like it overwhelms all of us anytime we lose something that we love it's impossible to find the off switch to stop caring about what we care about and stop loving what we
love and stop needing what we need until one night while he was going through what would seem like the waste of time of going through the routine of the same thing over and over and over again and looking at the bed and looking at the pajamas and looking at the plate and looking at the cup and looking out the window this time it was different because when he looked when he looked out the window he saw a form in the shadows and he knew by the gate of his walk that that was his son and
he opened up the door and ran out on the front porch and something in his flesh told him to stand there and be still and be proud and make the boy growel but something in his heart said run and when you are old there are not many things that will make you run but the sight of his son coming home would make him run yes sir wow the star of the story is not the prodal son it is the Relentless love of the [Music] father for the prodical son fluctuates and the elder brother is angry
and the only one stable in the whole story is the father and the only one stable in your life is the father Yes No Matter What state you're in whether you're in the dirty stage of being in the ground or the growing stage of coming up a plant or the fruitful stage of buding and blossoming into volumes and clusters of grapes or the crushing stage of the painful regrets and miseries and vicissitudes of life I want to assure you that whatever state you're in the star of your story is never your process it's your promise
of the father that I will wait for you wow until you find yourself and to somebody today that I'm speaking to I mean I know your name your address your phone number your state or where you come from I may not know the language you speak or what you have on right now but the father told me to tell you he's looking out the window again wow thank you and he's waiting on you and he'll take you back yes even if you smell like the hog pin you've been in and he'll take you back even
if it means flies and Nats are all around your head and he'll take you back even if you have not been washed and the old man ran out to meet him and covered him with a robe of righteousness that made him appear clean though underneath he was filthy and sweaty and dirty and he put the ring on his finger to recognize that he was still a part of the family and just before he let him back in the house he killed the fatted calf for without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin
and to God be the glory because the blood sealed the deal the fatted calf died that the son might live and brought him back into the house again and so may you join us in our father's house plucked yes crushed sometimes bottled and constrained yes but he has a place for you yes at the table and he's waiting on you yes and he told me to say come and die the master caller come and die [Music]
