The Divine Set Up 2: You can run but you can’t hide

 

Divine Set up 2: You can run but you can’t hide

 

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

 

• When we talk about Divine set ups we are saying that God has a way of putting people in your life, or you in a situation in order to get you or give you what you need to get you where you need to be.
• The great thing about Divine set ups as we might not recognize it during the time of it taking place but we will surely know afterward that it was totally the Lord allowing or causing it to happen
• Think about Joseph’s life, how he had the dream to where his purpose would lead him, but it appeared as though he was not taking steps toward it but away from it.
• We was beaten and thrown into slavery, he was then brought forward and made a chief ruler of the slaves and then was falsely accused and thrown into jail.
• From jail he met two workers within the King’s courts and translated a dream they had. The one got out and the King Pharoah had a dream and needed an interpreter and sure enough remembered Joseph. Joseph was brought forth and after helping the king Pharoah he was given a royal position of authority.
• Later Joseph’s family comes and Joseph tells them,

 

Genesis 50:20

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

• Joseph recognizes that the Lord had put him in the right situations, around the right people, at the right times to get him to the place he needed to be
• Joseph recognized the providence of God
• I have and you have experienced so many times and events in our life when we truly experienced a move of God or a divine set up and we maybe didn’t recognize it until later on
• Before I came to the Lord I had a serious anger issue. I mean I was simply mad and hateful
• My music list was the gangster rap that simply glorified killing and murder. I had this deep seated anger within me and any little thing would set it off
• When I got saved and experienced the love of God that anger seemingly was removed and replaced
• I was working at Ferran and spending some special time with brother Henry every day and seeking the face of God.
• The Lord really wanted to do some deep cleaning in me during this time and put me in some divine set ups to expose what I needed and how to handle situations.

 

James 1:19-20

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires

 

• Testimony about sharpening my knife on the electricians cart.

 

Ephesians 4:26-32

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity. He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need. Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

 

 

Anger in your heart exposed!

• The anger Paul is speaking about here is not a revenge type of anger or a retaliation, but a anger that is affiliated with love. One that causes a disturbance within when you love someone or something and it is far from what it is meant to be.
• The anger that is sinful is usually attached to a selfish, or prideful response. As if your pride or your self indulgencing heart is not being fulfilled and the response is a sinful anger.
• Paul says that when a person comes to Jesus and is a stealer, he must stop stealing, and start doing righteous acts by laboring.
• Then Paul speaks about our speech and our conduct and how we are to live our lives in complete mindfulness of the Holy Spirit
• The call not to grieve the Holy Spirit is one that is a warning of all warnings, for it is HE, the Holy Spirit that is the in house resident of God
• We have to live our life mindful that He is wanting to teach, show, and lead us to greener pastures but we would never get there if we don’t listen, and follow.
• ``Lord telling me to go back the next day and tell him I am sorry for getting upset and angry at him.
• Man I did not want to do this, but I knew I had to. We arrived at work and sure enough he was standing in line to get in the buck hoist and I said “Hey man, I am so sorry for getting so angry in my heart toward you yesterday. Please forgive me!”
• Man that dude looked at me and said “you want to make me happy?” I said “yes”, He said, “Then don’t look at me or talk to me.”
• DANG!! DANG!! I had to pray again and the Lord showed me what good is it to love only the people that love you back. Love them that hate you.
• For what seemed like months every morning we would arrive at the same time and be waiting for the buck hoist to go up to the floor we were working on. Every day, he and I stood next to one another and every day I said good morning. How are you? No answer then after months of almost every day, he looked at me and said, man it is a good morning. I had a awesome weekend. DUDE that was the best feeling I had ever had. FIRE WORKS was exploding in the inside because I had loved him to the point of friendship
• The Lord used that Divine set up to expose a deep rooted sin and on top of it to also reveal a long lasting principle. OBEY THE HOLY SPIRIT
• Don’t Grieve Him with my actions or life, or my desire to not obey
• In God’s providence maybe, just maybe He has brought up some situaitons or some people, or even messages like this one to expose some unforgiveness, bitterness, or anger that has not been dealt with.
• Maybe He has shown you that your actions are grieving His Spirit. This means to shame, embarrass or cause to suffer sadness
• When we live a life far from obedience, we live a life of causing the Holy Spirit to suffer sadness
• He gives us divine set ups to deal with dirt, and to offer you His life