The Sermon Open Our Eyes by David McGee
May 18, 2014
Open Our Eyes (36:46)
Referenced Scriptures: 2 Kings 6:8-23; Romans 11:33
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2 Kings 6:8-23
8) Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
9) The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down.
10) The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
11) The heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Won‘t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?
12) One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.
13) He said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him. It was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
14) Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
15) When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16) He answered, Don‘t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.
17) Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18) When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
19) Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. He led them to Samaria.
20) It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21) The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I strike them? shall I strike them?
22) He answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
23) He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
Romans 11:33
33) Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
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The end of the whole group, England. He was a visual who is aware, put down the false prophets put down the temples of Vail and that he set it up so that the people of Israel could worship God freely. So he kind of looked at in his room. His miracle ministry, his power ministry was about working with the entire nation, whereas Michelle, his ministry was more working individual and as you read through second change, we find that there were eighteen encounters that are listed between Eli Shah and needy people. So is his was, like the needs of individuals and yet how these needs of individuals were reflected in the need for greater need of Israel, so, so Elisha then recognize that with God there with God. They are with the people there was more to life going on than what they notice to what they could seek size you look into the mirror as the cat looks into the mirror. He sees the other. The lion 's sometimes I think that we need to do that in our own lives. Sometimes we think of ourselves as a pussycat and we are the king of the beast. The lines because in Christ we are greater. He is greater and greater is he that is in us the needed is in the world, and sometimes we just don't feel that sometimes we just don't think those in those terms. But God is with us. And so there is an example from our checks about Elisha 's ministry that why I was, I thought was quite interesting and so we must then resist the tendency to think about the limitations that we have in our life we have to look at and resist the temptation to look at life from our own eyes and say what God is reflecting back to us. What is it that God really wants to do and so you have a tendency to think in terms of limitations and limitations of family background limitations of our environment limitations of our nation. I'm our resources. Now I could do that but and that's the characteristic that. She represents the was is that we can do this with no thoughts. So instead, we must see and we must ask God for that which he wants to accomplish in our life and how that God wants to use us now does God want to use you does God want to use 's answer is yes, so, God wants to use us now with that in mind, we already come up with well he wants to use us of anything, but now there is enough sometimes we lead with our books and when we meet with our bugs were walking backwards, we don't see what's coming when we lead with the things in the excuses we are looking at the things that are going to happen that are wrong and were constantly living in the past and we can see the future because of our box being in the way. Okay thank you so, so here we have a lie south, and he has this spirit of prophecy meeting God has a way of bestowing gifts upon us and he guessed that God gave to us gives to us is for the benefit. The profit PR five. The profit of all, not PR OPAC to those of you who are now got that profit profit mean PROM IT means a great sister Mary. Some may make a profit on that one. And we find that Elisha was a prophet of God who was able to speak for God and God will give to you live show some inside information meeting that in the situation that we look at today in the end, the tax. There are, there is a king who is wanting to destroy Israel and you shall knows what that guy wants to do now. You have any enemies. And I know we love everybody, but there are some people who don't like us. Okay the enemies of our life that that we have enemies, and we find that Eli 's show was valuable. He was more valuable to the King of Israel, than a whole spy network again. It was more profitable to Israel and to the king of Israel, then an entire spy network of working against the going and infiltrating the enemy in our lives. What if you knew what was coming next. What if you knew the answer to the test that you are about to take. I know that comes from studying what why thank you all. Of course, you don't take the test and you know the answer. We don't take the test. Why do we take test here where the teachers that widen the outcasts of Han shot to show growth. Good answer. Why does God give this doesn't he already know where we are added, our growth chance you would see the problem is we don't know where the lines you need to test the proof glass of the shelter lost how much growth. You see we are the cat looking in the mirror at one of without the mirror. We just think with a little cat, but with the mirror with the tests and the whole works. What happens. We see ourselves for who we really are the only Laguna Marriott. He looked in the mirror that the UI think I am the cat. The little line. The little kitten looking in the mirror. That's not who he thinks he is over. Maybe this guy thinks he is not an audio never know about cats, but the blood in our lives, and you looking to marijuana use any doubt what you say anything. The challenge for us is God will give us test so that we actually can see the person in the mirror. We really is so Israel was already aware, and will read in verses verses eight through tenth I read those first at one time when the king up on a IAR a.m. program was at war with Israel after consulting with his officers. He said at such and such a place I want to amble out what an ambush set the holy man send a message to the king of Israel. Watch out when you're passing this place because around has set an ambush. There so the king of Israel said were concerned, the place of which the holy man warned and warned him, and the king, the kind of thing happen this kind of thing happens all the time so all of this means. The men all of this beings of people are known by God. All of the good things about things the intentions and the thoughts. Everything is known by God. And so, God knows. Not only what men do they knows what they plan to do this. This is important for us in the sense that what your God is all knowledge. God has all knowledge. God does not remember the past and he does not see into the future God has all knowledge. Everything that has happened is happening it will happen is the knowledge of God. He knows it. I like the young, the story of nearly go to the banquet hall and is a thousand places to sit and there is a place card there with you with a name on it. The names turned upside down and you have to find your place to set, but you don't go around checking you go around and you pick your see can you set down and turn the name tag over and your name is there. God knew you would set there but you still make the choice. See, God knows the choices they were going to make, and he doesn't make us make the choices he knows were going to choose install from the thoughts and intents of our heart out to influence our thoughts to love and to forgive to know that God is with us, and God will take care of us and he will protect us, and there are times by the gift of the Spirit, word of knowledge where God is able to impart to us a word of his knowledge about certain situations doesn't happen all the time. There are some people that God has blessed with this ministry and they are able to deliver that way. My grandmother was that way my grandmother. She was a preacher in her heyday, and not on what that meant heyday. But anyhow, in her day she was a minister and winds, and she was. She wouldn't like to have a church, but she would speak at different times in churches and my grandmother, they wouldn't have been able to talk about. You didn't want to you to want to be living outside of God. Whenever you were in the sister Stockdale at my grandmother 's name sister stalked out, you have a lot of young women away from God when Sister Stockdale was preaching because shooting Trajan and she call you out should call you out and she just like bone marrow, wise, and she would tell you exactly what you're joyriding on what's going on in the lesson because you heard in the gossip Vine. She heard it from God, and the calling out was not to embarrass what to bring people back to the right relationship with God and our lives. God knows all about, and God knows the schemes of people upon their bad. And God has a way of preparing his children for those tests or those difficulties that are coming. God has a way of ministering to loss of preparing us for tomorrow's test. God has a way of influencing our hearts, influencing our thoughts. Sometimes it's by David move. A long way to go. Sometimes it is the original is and tell me it's just like Ellen, I should. I should start you ready for this. I should start. I know I should prepare for this and okay, but I can start you just do that you should go to know this is maybe, you know, I pray about where I should go nuts in the morning when the stupid thing that we could illustrate about them, but I can go to Dunkin' Donuts and go through the drive-through, not in the car or I can go to giant Eagle, while sometimes got to get out of the car and go to giant Eagle, so I got a kind of a giant Eagle, you will maybe six months ago or so. Nancy was there, not Nancy, I think Cliff and Nancy Mart robotic assisted Mark Margie was here. Margie scripts sister and she works there and she's not better? and, and she can restart me about her mom and her mother 's needs and how that perhaps you know I ever ran some ideas via and they were able to get hospice inning to care into the home to help take care of small, now she was said and Marjie said God must've brought you here today because we didn't know what to do and so there are there other occasions, and there is another person that that I've known that her her husband died in hospice and this was maybe three years ago, maybe longer, and she asked me this morning. She had a question about things going on in her life that she said okay. Jan Jesus put it out there for me and and I you know these are things that I've dealt with in many people 's lives, and I just throw some ideas out there. She said thank you guys, I felt to go to giant Eagle for the. The notes so you see there are impressions that God leaves us with an sometimes we make the right than in outlining every gallon we run into this like the kid that was listening to the story of bone walked into how that law and his wife. And tomorrow and tomorrow and lots wife turned back, and she turned into a pillar of salt. Globally, says that's nothing my mother turned back, and she turned into a telephone call. Talk to. So in our lives. God has us going in particular directions any as a purpose for that. So anyhow, we find out they became the kind of thing happen all the time with Eli Shah and the beginning of Israel and became the air are a RAM that was trying to defeat Israel so became this interesting numbers eleven, the king of a RAM was furious. I can even plan a secret attack without them knowing it. So he goes on your verse eleven is curious overall that he caught his officers together and said, tell me who is leaking information to the king of Israel is the spy in our ranks. Now, there has got to be a spy in here somewhere. Just think if when somebody comes and says after you. I know what you want. I do note or that this is where the word of knowledge works word of knowledge is Jan has a problem she's been praying for an française, they've been healed me by first painting I know him by his first name, God and the Gunite. Our first name basis. So God says to me, talk to Jan about getting Jan hasn't told anybody. And God has said David. He talked again about so I go up and say again what about and she says I do not see that is a word of knowledge from God giving us insight to help. Now if I would go up and say, Jan, I think you should rather go do this or go do that and just as well. That's news to me. Should she do it. The answer is no because every individual has to follow their own bleeding with God, not what somebody else tells them she you know, we can blame anyone for our life, when it comes the day of judgment. We stand before God we are accountable for our life for the decisions we've made things were done or not done, and God in his love for us wants to lead us in the path of righteousness. He wants to lead us, so we can do the right things for the right reason. And when the enemy of our soul. The plotters and planners in the schemers when they are trying to do things to upset get us off course. God has already prepared us to give us the strength to say and do the right thing God has a way of preparing us for the problems are coming tomorrow. He has a way of getting us to see what we really I lion the Hawaiian of the tribe of Judah. The line is God and God helps us to see what he sees in us is a God season that he sees the reflection he wants us to see the reflection you want us to see what he sees in us what we may not be there yet, but it ultimately won't be, and this is a challenge. It was here that the king of a RAM is furious because satisfying the mix. There's a spot going on here. First, while one of his men said no, my master dear King is not any of us. If you want to show the prophet in Israel. He tells the king of Israel, everything you say even what you whisper in your bedroom so you say it is a live shot the profit I thought was interesting that in a foreign country indications court word has got to them about the prophet in Israel, word has gotten to the king 's court in Israel. I mean in around about the prophet in Israel. How that this man of God. Shop has the ability to know what the enemies them to do before the enemy, even though the God has prepared for us a path of planning a purpose, and God knows what that is for us and he wants us to follow that plan that purpose, and in so doing, we change who we are. We believe that the spirit of God and the word of God and the Holy Spirit change us, like love, God 's character is love. He wants that love to be reflected in our life, we need to Seaver and then allowed to go out from so it is not. When God gives us knowledge word about it is never to destroy someone else. It is always to give us the strength to deal with easy if God is a demagogue trying about this, and God wants me to destroy them that I got been giving that information. God wants us to change about the power to change on us to give us the power to withstand to create the barrier or to know what's going on. So were not caught off guard. God is never caught off guard by any event that happens in our life never so God is not caught off guard. Neither should we, God is with us. He is preparing a place is preparing a path he will help us guide us by his word in his spirit so now I like verse thirteen I like this, the king said to find out where he is also someone to capture him to be hence free funny deductible are the cause. Shadow knows what the Kings planning before you implanted and so the king finally finds out that God is informing. A show about what's happening while you read things about it, and is in his bedchamber. God already knows it informs Elisha in the back is up. It's as you know what were the sneak up on Rick 's sneak up on this guy Elisha I got budget. I think that's funny that I told a reporter came back using .net Susan. Bands, the one we got to do reporting. Then he dispatched. We got them now. We got that that profit is in. Banbury display dispatch horses and chariots p.m. for his sin and impressive fighting force. Why is capture the one guy impressive fighting force. They came by night, we snuck up on them. They stock up on them and they surrounded the city and to utilize anyway. Just, you know, you don't have to have much of imagination, but you cannot you just imagine that these forces enters this little community of docklands, not like a major metropolis and the whole place is surrounded. I mean that God may not worry lysozyme -based backup midnight. They've got chariots, then got the horses, and in all the chariots have the charioteers and then have the mean being the soldiers in the bid to have the spears and many others. There's man everywhere is where you take your sky Captain well early in the morning verse fifteen, a servant of the holy man got up and went out and serving as a surprise. Surprise horses and chariots surrounding the city. The young man explained all master water was added in the assurance of God 's word comes to our lives. The assurance of God 's word comes to our lives. Now the other Scripture. I was going to throw in here is somewhere in my notes. Here's an Romans chapter eleven verse thirty three, and I think it fits right in this part. This part is says and this is Paul writing the church at Rome, he says, have you ever come on anything quite like his extravagant generosity. The extravagant generosity of God. Have you ever come upon anything quite like the extravagant generosity of God. So here is the surrounding armies of their survey comes out will work where we are in trouble now. Did you ever think that you didn't have enough vision ever think that you were not capable of his rubber feel like there was more to life than where you're at. Paul says to us, have you considered the extravagant extravagant generosity of God. Okay, this deep, deep wisdom. The extravagant generosity of God is the wisdom is the application of truth to life have you considered the extravagant generosity of God 's wisdom that you are going to be able to take truth apply to your life and have an outcome beyond what you ever imagined. Paul says it's way over our heads will never figure it out. Is there anyone around who can explain God, you know, we can we look in the mirror and we say I'm a cat that's a cat and I am no bigger than what I see myself to be, and God is saying can you figure out. Can you figure out the new town. The can you explain to me a God that he loves me beyond what I'm ever capable of feeling like I'm loved I am forgiven a mail. All of my sins and I am reset. I am a receiver of the blessing of God and the love of God. I am God 's child by choice of God and myself in it, but explain God all here and here is anyone smart enough to tell God what to do like you give them information and anyone who has done such a huge favor for God to ask that God asking for device needs out what to do. Can you give out advice. Everything comes from him. Everything comes from him all things. Everything is everything everything again. Everything comes from God. Everything happens through him. Everything ends up in him always, Lord God has a way of bringing his glory and through everything always. Everything always. Everything always has a way of doing it. So here is the servant looking around. Oh my gosh, we're in trouble. Now Eli Shaw, adware trouble game. It's early in the morning so they awaken to this the scenario and what is Elisha saying verse sixteen that worried about it. There are more on our side than on their own. There's there's more with us than with them so you don't understand what what's there and there's you and I Eli show his sick. I thought the prophet Simon says and then three times in this section. Should praise. Separate our God open his eyes and let them see that software when we face here. We need God. Open our eyes, God will open our eyes. They God ready God all day in my eyes again, God open my eyes. We think we see, but we don't. There is more to life than what we see there is more to the problem than what we see there is more to the difficulty in what we see because there is called surrounding our lives as our Elisha prays God opened his eyes and what happens. His eyes were open the eyes of a young man were open and he saw a wonder the whole mountain side. Here is an army surrounding the city, but what the man sees this entire mouse inside the whole valley of chariots and horses. Wonder of wonders, chariots of God, the armies of God are at his disposal. Raiders heated is in you the news and world got open our eyes see what you see, not only in a bar in the surroundings and of our difficulties in the possibilities and when the time aliens attacked so these days, people would not look at as all of us that them. Let's attack, and so they attacked the village was largely due to do money to it right right, go on strike these people blind. Their blind Justice Elijah prayed first nineteen this is not a Windows like human humorous things. I think you should call out to them as you blind guy that you came to capture the United States, nineteen document at all. You guys are attacking it. Don't know where you're going. I want to put your hands on the shoulder. The guy in front of union. Follow us. I may take you where you want to find this guy that you're looking for on their blinded and will do so. There are all these soldiers. Everybody came they're all following each of them say that they put a hand on, but house unifying following their distance, followed, did you ever follow somebody informed the I follow people the far right end of the driveway. She wavered under. I couldn't see anywhere. I mean it was so foggy I could see a verse on this lonely kind words going people in the driveway. I pulled out my soul is brought for my business I'm in the wrong place so that you know these guys are in a fog down over the north of it. If all the guys out of a license leaving given in one eight oh. They entered the city that sent what I go, they went to Samaria, they entered into the capital Samaria inside the walled cities, and the armies and air of this amount of scenario, there anything in backing our program is that in all the soldiers in everything. She brings all the alarming in the middle. The city is the one who I should do it right. God open their eyes so they can see where they go boom with regret, solace, we're inside the city. We are sitting ducks, and so became brave as he is says, you know. Stepfather. I think we should massacre them. I think we should tell him all teach them a lesson, but the Elisha report replies, not on your life. You know that you didn't let the hand to capture them. Now you're not going to kill the no sire make a feast for them and send them back to their masters, love your enemies and pray for those who despitefully use you love them. Why, because we are loving as God loves, we are allowing God to love us and move through us because they are not going to determine your outcome enemies. Your enemy is not going to determine where your life goes your adversaries are not the problem. We are no one can defeat you. No one can take you out of God 's hand. No one can make you fail. No one is capable of removing God 's grace and blessing from your life. No one or nothing are alive, is in our hands and when we put our life, our hands are well in God 's hands God 's will. Nothing. Nothing. No one can take us remove well what God wants to do in our lives and no one nothing. No one, no person, no matter no ethical note, I shall can stop you from being what God wants you to be so. We are heads he is honest and we are together in this no excuses. The wanted to do it prepared a huge face for them, and after the Yankton tribe faith in their fill, he dismissed them okay guys, I want you to know in the home. The ones who came to capture Elisha Elisha leave them captive takes them into the city lets them know that his God is greater than their God feeds them sends them home. Our God is greater. Our God is greater than any difficulty in any person in any problem and his ability to open our eyes is right in front of us. It's right there. What we have to do pray God opened my eyes. AC and then. So what is our prayer, God open our eyes. She was then our closing prayer is God opened my eyes, ready, God opened my eyes, you're ready I'm ready to see what God has around you, not what you see here people, problems, difficulties, what God has around the Angels are full in this room because there with you. God 's angels watching over you. This spirit is about to Jesus is here. We allow his love to flow through us. Our closing prayer. God open my eyes, ready, God opened my nice, and then so beThe end of the whole group, England. He was a visual who is aware, put down the false prophets put down the temples of Vail and that he set it up so that the people of Israel could worship God freely. So he kind of looked at in his room. His miracle ministry, his power ministry was about working with the entire nation, whereas Michelle, his ministry was more working individual and as you read through second change, we find that there were eighteen encounters that are listed between Eli Shah and needy people. So is his was, like the needs of individuals and yet how these needs of individuals were reflected in the need for greater need of Israel, so, so Elisha then recognize that with God there with God. They are with the people there was more to life going on than what they notice to what they could seek size you look into the mirror as the cat looks into the mirror. He sees the other. The lion 's sometimes I think that we need to do that in our own lives. Sometimes we think of ourselves as a pussycat and we are the king of the beast. The lines because in Christ we are greater. He is greater and greater is he that is in us the needed is in the world, and sometimes we just don't feel that sometimes we just don't think those in those terms. But God is with us. And so there is an example from our checks about Elisha 's ministry that why I was, I thought was quite interesting and so we must then resist the tendency to think about the limitations that we have in our life we have to look at and resist the temptation to look at life from our own eyes and say what God is reflecting back to us. What is it that God really wants to do and so you have a tendency to think in terms of limitations and limitations of family background limitations of our environment limitations of our nation. I'm our resources. Now I could do that but and that's the characteristic that. She represents the was is that we can do this with no thoughts. So instead, we must see and we must ask God for that which he wants to accomplish in our life and how that God wants to use us now does God want to use you does God want to use 's answer is yes, so, God wants to use us now with that in mind, we already come up with well he wants to use us of anything, but now there is enough sometimes we lead with our books and when we meet with our bugs were walking backwards, we don't see what's coming when we lead with the things in the excuses we are looking at the things that are going to happen that are wrong and were constantly living in the past and we can see the future because of our box being in the way. Okay thank you so, so here we have a lie south, and he has this spirit of prophecy meeting God has a way of bestowing gifts upon us and he guessed that God gave to us gives to us is for the benefit. The profit PR five. The profit of all, not PR OPAC to those of you who are now got that profit profit mean PROM IT means a great sister Mary. Some may make a profit on that one. And we find that Elisha was a prophet of God who was able to speak for God and God will give to you live show some inside information meeting that in the situation that we look at today in the end, the tax. There are, there is a king who is wanting to destroy Israel and you shall knows what that guy wants to do now. You have any enemies. And I know we love everybody, but there are some people who don't like us. Okay the enemies of our life that that we have enemies, and we find that Eli 's show was valuable. He was more valuable to the King of Israel, than a whole spy network again. It was more profitable to Israel and to the king of Israel, then an entire spy network of working against the going and infiltrating the enemy in our lives. What if you knew what was coming next. What if you knew the answer to the test that you are about to take. I know that comes from studying what why thank you all. Of course, you don't take the test and you know the answer. We don't take the test. Why do we take test here where the teachers that widen the outcasts of Han shot to show growth. Good answer. Why does God give this doesn't he already know where we are added, our growth chance you would see the problem is we don't know where the lines you need to test the proof glass of the shelter lost how much growth. You see we are the cat looking in the mirror at one of without the mirror. We just think with a little cat, but with the mirror with the tests and the whole works. What happens. We see ourselves for who we really are the only Laguna Marriott. He looked in the mirror that the UI think I am the cat. The little line. The little kitten looking in the mirror. That's not who he thinks he is over. Maybe this guy thinks he is not an audio never know about cats, but the blood in our lives, and you looking to marijuana use any doubt what you say anything. The challenge for us is God will give us test so that we actually can see the person in the mirror. We really is so Israel was already aware, and will read in verses verses eight through tenth I read those first at one time when the king up on a IAR a.m. program was at war with Israel after consulting with his officers. He said at such and such a place I want to amble out what an ambush set the holy man send a message to the king of Israel. Watch out when you're passing this place because around has set an ambush. There so the king of Israel said were concerned, the place of which the holy man warned and warned him, and the king, the kind of thing happen this kind of thing happens all the time so all of this means. The men all of this beings of people are known by God. All of the good things about things the intentions and the thoughts. Everything is known by God. And so, God knows. Not only what men do they knows what they plan to do this. This is important for us in the sense that what your God is all knowledge. God has all knowledge. God does not remember the past and he does not see into the future God has all knowledge. Everything that has happened is happening it will happen is the knowledge of God. He knows it. I like the young, the story of nearly go to the banquet hall and is a thousand places to sit and there is a place card there with you with a name on it. The names turned upside down and you have to find your place to set, but you don't go around checking you go around and you pick your see can you set down and turn the name tag over and your name is there. God knew you would set there but you still make the choice. See, God knows the choices they were going to make, and he doesn't make us make the choices he knows were going to choose install from the thoughts and intents of our heart out to influence our thoughts to love and to forgive to know that God is with us, and God will take care of us and he will protect us, and there are times by the gift of the Spirit, word of knowledge where God is able to impart to us a word of his knowledge about certain situations doesn't happen all the time. There are some people that God has blessed with this ministry and they are able to deliver that way. My grandmother was that way my grandmother. She was a preacher in her heyday, and not on what that meant heyday. But anyhow, in her day she was a minister and winds, and she was. She wouldn't like to have a church, but she would speak at different times in churches and my grandmother, they wouldn't have been able to talk about. You didn't want to you to want to be living outside of God. Whenever you were in the sister Stockdale at my grandmother 's name sister stalked out, you have a lot of young women away from God when Sister Stockdale was preaching because shooting Trajan and she call you out should call you out and she just like bone marrow, wise, and she would tell you exactly what you're joyriding on what's going on in the lesson because you heard in the gossip Vine. She heard it from God, and the calling out was not to embarrass what to bring people back to the right relationship with God and our lives. God knows all about, and God knows the schemes of people upon their bad. And God has a way of preparing his children for those tests or those difficulties that are coming. God has a way of ministering to loss of preparing us for tomorrow's test. God has a way of influencing our hearts, influencing our thoughts. Sometimes it's by David move. A long way to go. Sometimes it is the original is and tell me it's just like Ellen, I should. I should start you ready for this. I should start. I know I should prepare for this and okay, but I can start you just do that you should go to know this is maybe, you know, I pray about where I should go nuts in the morning when the stupid thing that we could illustrate about them, but I can go to Dunkin' Donuts and go through the drive-through, not in the car or I can go to giant Eagle, while sometimes got to get out of the car and go to giant Eagle, so I got a kind of a giant Eagle, you will maybe six months ago or so. Nancy was there, not Nancy, I think Cliff and Nancy Mart robotic assisted Mark Margie was here. Margie scripts sister and she works there and she's not better? and, and she can restart me about her mom and her mother 's needs and how that perhaps you know I ever ran some ideas via and they were able to get hospice inning to care into the home to help take care of small, now she was said and Marjie said God must've brought you here today because we didn't know what to do and so there are there other occasions, and there is another person that that I've known that her her husband died in hospice and this was maybe three years ago, maybe longer, and she asked me this morning. She had a question about things going on in her life that she said okay. Jan Jesus put it out there for me and and I you know these are things that I've dealt with in many people 's lives, and I just throw some ideas out there. She said thank you guys, I felt to go to giant Eagle for the. The notes so you see there are impressions that God leaves us with an sometimes we make the right than in outlining every gallon we run into this like the kid that was listening to the story of bone walked into how that law and his wife. And tomorrow and tomorrow and lots wife turned back, and she turned into a pillar of salt. Globally, says that's nothing my mother turned back, and she turned into a telephone call. Talk to. So in our lives. God has us going in particular directions any as a purpose for that. So anyhow, we find out they became the kind of thing happen all the time with Eli Shah and the beginning of Israel and became the air are a RAM that was trying to defeat Israel so became this interesting numbers eleven, the king of a RAM was furious. I can even plan a secret attack without them knowing it. So he goes on your verse eleven is curious overall that he caught his officers together and said, tell me who is leaking information to the king of Israel is the spy in our ranks. Now, there has got to be a spy in here somewhere. Just think if when somebody comes and says after you. I know what you want. I do note or that this is where the word of knowledge works word of knowledge is Jan has a problem she's been praying for an française, they've been healed me by first painting I know him by his first name, God and the Gunite. Our first name basis. So God says to me, talk to Jan about getting Jan hasn't told anybody. And God has said David. He talked again about so I go up and say again what about and she says I do not see that is a word of knowledge from God giving us insight to help. Now if I would go up and say, Jan, I think you should rather go do this or go do that and just as well. That's news to me. Should she do it. The answer is no because every individual has to follow their own bleeding with God, not what somebody else tells them she you know, we can blame anyone for our life, when it comes the day of judgment. We stand before God we are accountable for our life for the decisions we've made things were done or not done, and God in his love for us wants to lead us in the path of righteousness. He wants to lead us, so we can do the right things for the right reason. And when the enemy of our soul. The plotters and planners in the schemers when they are trying to do things to upset get us off course. God has already prepared us to give us the strength to say and do the right thing God has a way of preparing us for the problems are coming tomorrow. He has a way of getting us to see what we really I lion the Hawaiian of the tribe of Judah. The line is God and God helps us to see what he sees in us is a God season that he sees the reflection he wants us to see the reflection you want us to see what he sees in us what we may not be there yet, but it ultimately won't be, and this is a challenge. It was here that the king of a RAM is furious because satisfying the mix. There's a spot going on here. First, while one of his men said no, my master dear King is not any of us. If you want to show the prophet in Israel. He tells the king of Israel, everything you say even what you whisper in your bedroom so you say it is a live shot the profit I thought was interesting that in a foreign country indications court word has got to them about the prophet in Israel, word has gotten to the king 's court in Israel. I mean in around about the prophet in Israel. How that this man of God. Shop has the ability to know what the enemies them to do before the enemy, even though the God has prepared for us a path of planning a purpose, and God knows what that is for us and he wants us to follow that plan that purpose, and in so doing, we change who we are. We believe that the spirit of God and the word of God and the Holy Spirit change us, like love, God 's character is love. He wants that love to be reflected in our life, we need to Seaver and then allowed to go out from so it is not. When God gives us knowledge word about it is never to destroy someone else. It is always to give us the strength to deal with easy if God is a demagogue trying about this, and God wants me to destroy them that I got been giving that information. God wants us to change about the power to change on us to give us the power to withstand to create the barrier or to know what's going on. So were not caught off guard. God is never caught off guard by any event that happens in our life never so God is not caught off guard. Neither should we, God is with us. He is preparing a place is preparing a path he will help us guide us by his word in his spirit so now I like verse thirteen I like this, the king said to find out where he is also someone to capture him to be hence free funny deductible are the cause. Shadow knows what the Kings planning before you implanted and so the king finally finds out that God is informing. A show about what's happening while you read things about it, and is in his bedchamber. God already knows it informs Elisha in the back is up. It's as you know what were the sneak up on Rick 's sneak up on this guy Elisha I got budget. I think that's funny that I told a reporter came back using .net Susan. Bands, the one we got to do reporting. Then he dispatched. We got them now. We got that that profit is in. Banbury display dispatch horses and chariots p.m. for his sin and impressive fighting force. Why is capture the one guy impressive fighting force. They came by night, we snuck up on them. They stock up on them and they surrounded the city and to utilize anyway. Just, you know, you don't have to have much of imagination, but you cannot you just imagine that these forces enters this little community of docklands, not like a major metropolis and the whole place is surrounded. I mean that God may not worry lysozyme -based backup midnight. They've got chariots, then got the horses, and in all the chariots have the charioteers and then have the mean being the soldiers in the bid to have the spears and many others. There's man everywhere is where you take your sky Captain well early in the morning verse fifteen, a servant of the holy man got up and went out and serving as a surprise. Surprise horses and chariots surrounding the city. The young man explained all master water was added in the assurance of God 's word comes to our lives. The assurance of God 's word comes to our lives. Now the other Scripture. I was going to throw in here is somewhere in my notes. Here's an Romans chapter eleven verse thirty three, and I think it fits right in this part. This part is says and this is Paul writing the church at Rome, he says, have you ever come on anything quite like his extravagant generosity. The extravagant generosity of God. Have you ever come upon anything quite like the extravagant generosity of God. So here is the surrounding armies of their survey comes out will work where we are in trouble now. Did you ever think that you didn't have enough vision ever think that you were not capable of his rubber feel like there was more to life than where you're at. Paul says to us, have you considered the extravagant extravagant generosity of God. Okay, this deep, deep wisdom. The extravagant generosity of God is the wisdom is the application of truth to life have you considered the extravagant generosity of God 's wisdom that you are going to be able to take truth apply to your life and have an outcome beyond what you ever imagined. Paul says it's way over our heads will never figure it out. Is there anyone around who can explain God, you know, we can we look in the mirror and we say I'm a cat that's a cat and I am no bigger than what I see myself to be, and God is saying can you figure out. Can you figure out the new town. The can you explain to me a God that he loves me beyond what I'm ever capable of feeling like I'm loved I am forgiven a mail. All of my sins and I am reset. I am a receiver of the blessing of God and the love of God. I am God 's child by choice of God and myself in it, but explain God all here and here is anyone smart enough to tell God what to do like you give them information and anyone who has done such a huge favor for God to ask that God asking for device needs out what to do. Can you give out advice. Everything comes from him. Everything comes from him all things. Everything is everything everything again. Everything comes from God. Everything happens through him. Everything ends up in him always, Lord God has a way of bringing his glory and through everything always. Everything always. Everything always has a way of doing it. So here is the servant looking around. Oh my gosh, we're in trouble. Now Eli Shaw, adware trouble game. It's early in the morning so they awaken to this the scenario and what is Elisha saying verse sixteen that worried about it. There are more on our side than on their own. There's there's more with us than with them so you don't understand what what's there and there's you and I Eli show his sick. I thought the prophet Simon says and then three times in this section. Should praise. Separate our God open his eyes and let them see that software when we face here. We need God. Open our eyes, God will open our eyes. They God ready God all day in my eyes again, God open my eyes. We think we see, but we don't. There is more to life than what we see there is more to the problem than what we see there is more to the difficulty in what we see because there is called surrounding our lives as our Elisha prays God opened his eyes and what happens. His eyes were open the eyes of a young man were open and he saw a wonder the whole mountain side. Here is an army surrounding the city, but what the man sees this entire mouse inside the whole valley of chariots and horses. Wonder of wonders, chariots of God, the armies of God are at his disposal. Raiders heated is in you the news and world got open our eyes see what you see, not only in a bar in the surroundings and of our difficulties in the possibilities and when the time aliens attacked so these days, people would not look at as all of us that them. Let's attack, and so they attacked the village was largely due to do money to it right right, go on strike these people blind. Their blind Justice Elijah prayed first nineteen this is not a Windows like human humorous things. I think you should call out to them as you blind guy that you came to capture the United States, nineteen document at all. You guys are attacking it. Don't know where you're going. I want to put your hands on the shoulder. The guy in front of union. Follow us. I may take you where you want to find this guy that you're looking for on their blinded and will do so. There are all these soldiers. Everybody came they're all following each of them say that they put a hand on, but house unifying following their distance, followed, did you ever follow somebody informed the I follow people the far right end of the driveway. She wavered under. I couldn't see anywhere. I mean it was so foggy I could see a verse on this lonely kind words going people in the driveway. I pulled out my soul is brought for my business I'm in the wrong place so that you know these guys are in a fog down over the north of it. If all the guys out of a license leaving given in one eight oh. They entered the city that sent what I go, they went to Samaria, they entered into the capital Samaria inside the walled cities, and the armies and air of this amount of scenario, there anything in backing our program is that in all the soldiers in everything. She brings all the alarming in the middle. The city is the one who I should do it right. God open their eyes so they can see where they go boom with regret, solace, we're inside the city. We are sitting ducks, and so became brave as he is says, you know. Stepfather. I think we should massacre them. I think we should tell him all teach them a lesson, but the Elisha report replies, not on your life. You know that you didn't let the hand to capture them. Now you're not going to kill the no sire make a feast for them and send them back to their masters, love your enemies and pray for those who despitefully use you love them. Why, because we are loving as God loves, we are allowing God to love us and move through us because they are not going to determine your outcome enemies. Your enemy is not going to determine where your life goes your adversaries are not the problem. We are no one can defeat you. No one can take you out of God 's hand. No one can make you fail. No one is capable of removing God 's grace and blessing from your life. No one or nothing are alive, is in our hands and when we put our life, our hands are well in God 's hands God 's will. Nothing. Nothing. No one can take us remove well what God wants to do in our lives and no one nothing. No one, no person, no matter no ethical note, I shall can stop you from being what God wants you to be so. We are heads he is honest and we are together in this no excuses. The wanted to do it prepared a huge face for them, and after the Yankton tribe faith in their fill, he dismissed them okay guys, I want you to know in the home. The ones who came to capture Elisha Elisha leave them captive takes them into the city lets them know that his God is greater than their God feeds them sends them home. Our God is greater. Our God is greater than any difficulty in any person in any problem and his ability to open our eyes is right in front of us. It's right there. What we have to do pray God opened my eyes. AC and then. So what is our prayer, God open our eyes. She was then our closing prayer is God opened my eyes, ready, God opened my eyes, you're ready I'm ready to see what God has around you, not what you see here people, problems, difficulties, what God has around the Angels are full in this room because there with you. God 's angels watching over you. This spirit is about to Jesus is here. We allow his love to flow through us. Our closing prayer. God open my eyes, ready, God opened my nice, and then so be