Naomi faced seemingly insurmountable trouble and sadness. First, her family had to leave their ancestral home because of a devastating famine, then her husband and her two sons died. Feeling as if everything was lost, she headed back for home. Her daughter-in-law, Ruth, decided to stick by Naomi and followed her to a new homeland. There, God gifted them more blessings than they ever could imagine – even to becoming an integral part of God’s Messianic plan of grace.
I wish I had time to talk about time
what do you do when the clock is against
you and and you have enough wisdom to do
it over but you don’t have enough time
to do it over what do you do when you
miss your season and you miss your
window of opportunity what what do you
do when you you know that you’ve got the
desire to do and you’ve got the passion
to do it but but you look in the mirror
and and the wrinkles in your face and
the sagging of your body indicates you
don’t have time to do this all over
again she says I don’t have time to get
pregnant again I don’t have a second
chance at life my life is over go away
don’t hang around me I have nothing left
to give there are people that when you
start running out of time you get bitter
you get desperate you start pushing
people away from you because they’re
asking something of you that you don’t
think you can give anymore and you find
yourself in a place of completion and it
feels like God has forgotten you but I
remind you nothing just happens this is
the
greetings brothers and sisters in the
name of Jesus Christ our King I am so
blessed is so excited to have the
opportunity to share the world with you
I’m excited about the word I still get
excited about the word good preaching 37
years I still love his word I love what
it does in your life and in the heart I
love how it strengthens you I love how
it helps I’ve got a message that I
believe you are going to love take a
look when we look at the theology in the
Book of Ruth we know that the Book of
Ruth is a template for a far larger
issue load it with shadows and types it
brings to us significant issues as it
challenges us to understand that all of
the characters in the Book of Ruth are
the backdrop for historical data that
points to a panoramic view of the life
of Jesus Christ and the fulfillment of
Jesus Christ and suddenly being we begin
to recognize that when we look at a
character like Elimelech we are looking
at a relationship between him and his
wife and how when a limb elect died
naomi became very very bitter and and in
the same since israel became very bitter
if a lost relationship with jehovah and
and it was widowed as it were and is
strange a task away woman who had become
very bitter because she was denied
relationship with jehovah and we see the
two sons and seeing the splitting of the
nation of israel down to the tribe of
Judah and we begin to see how they break
and divide and then die and through
their death and the famine there we see
Ruth who is a Moabite woman who is
connected to them by marriage and now
her husband have died and she is
estranged and she goes back to Moab goes
back to Bethlehem with Naomi Ruth being
a type of a church and they only being a
type of Israel the church gets connected
to God through Israel who walks her back
home to
Boas who is a type of Christ and Boaz
who stands here and sees Ruth over in
the corner gleaning in the corners of
the field spies her and brings her from
the background to the forefront covers
her with his skirts makes her his wife
legitimizes her authenticates her called
with her to be an air of a grace of
which she would have been estranged had
her blood prevailed but because his
blood prevailed over her blood he was
able to it’s just a wonderful wonderful
wonderful story a famine has arose in
this text in a family who is headed by
Elimelech and they leave Bethlehem the
house of bread because of the severity
of the famine and they go to Moab
everybody’s running for their lives
running for their lives they go into
Moab for survival say say thinking that
they were going to be there a short time
end up being there 10 years ulema lack
is strong enough to get Naomi out of
there with their two sons and get them
out of Bethlehem to Moab but he dies in
Moab he dies in Moab and now Naomi is
widowed surviving a famine raising two
sons in a foreign country unable to get
back home because of the famine trying
to survive against adversity and then
she loses her two sons two sons now the
woman has had a dead husband and now
lost two sons the husband you might
could tolerate you make it they will it
was he was up in years he was up in age
it makes sense but to lose two sons in
the space of ten years she has lost
every man she has ever loved exasperated
and frustrated she makes up in her mind
this is enough for me we’re coming to
the end of the famine I want to go back
home there is nothing left for me she
makes a statement she says I went out
full and I came back empty in other
words there was a famine but I was still
blessed it’s amazing because sometimes
you cannot know your blood
because you’re going through a famine
only to find out that the thing that you
were worried about if not nearly as
significant is the thing that you had in
the midst of her famines she still had
her husband and her children sometimes
you can have something and not
appreciated until you lose it after that
she lost her husband and her children
the famine seemed insignificant by
comparison I say that because sometimes
you’re whining about things that really
don’t matter you’re upset about things
that really don’t make any difference in
your life and if you were smart you
would learn how to count your blessings
and to thank God for what he’s done in
your life it looked like all hell had
broken loose in her life the famine who
would have thought that a famine would
come and disrupt this relatively wealthy
family and caused him to flee like
vagrants and move into Moab and uproot
all of their heritage and leave their
home and their surrounding and their
friends and find themselves in Moab who
would have thought that having gone to
Moab that she would lose the husband she
was relying on to be her sustenance her
source her friend and her support he
died and left her there who who who
would have thought that having lost her
husband she goes to rely on her sons and
both not one but both sons died who
would have thought that this woman would
end up in a female feminine Trinity of
three women who the only thing that they
now share in common is that all of them
have gone through death three women
Naomi who if the older woman and Ruth
who would have her daughter-in-law and
Orpah who was her other daughter-in-law
three women whose common a commonality
was pain pain is a strange company
keeper it brings the oddest people
together they’re the secret fraternity
that exists amongst those who have been
in pain that is mind-boggling it
transcends the color of
skin it transcends your background when
you’ve been through certain things you
feel for other people who have been
through those things because you relate
to them and so the women share to tear
together they wept together they cried
together they shared pain together they
shared burial together they shared their
losses together they shared their
emptiness together Naomi decided this is
it got a split I’m going to quit I’m
going back home where I came from gotta
go can’t take anymore
I’m going back home I’m bitter but I’m
going back home bitter I’m frustrated
but I’m going back home and they fellow
gnome and begin to weep because they
only had left a significant impression
on them and all of a sudden in the midst
of this pain Naomi scars reasoning with
them stop crying so I’m crying I have no
options like what am I going to do she
said if I married today and had more
children what are you going to do wait
for the children to become grown that
they might be your husband’s again she
said I’m out of the game
the clock is against me oh I wish I wish
I had time at this age of this stage
they’re the reason why it happened at
this age they’re the reason why it
happened at this level in life it’s not
a mistake it’s not an accident God
didn’t fall asleep on the job and the
devil came in and wrecked the car no God
never sleeps and he never slumbers he’s
in complete control and he knows where
you are and he knows how old you are and
he knows how much time you spent and he
knows what happened to you and he knows
who walked out and left you and he knows
who betrayed you and he knows who
molested you and he knows who rapes you
and he knows who rejected you and he
knows where you are in life and he
about your bills and he knows about your
degree and he knows you dropped out of
school and he knows about what you
didn’t get and he knows about the health
of your child and he knows about the
condition of your neighborhood
understand that and tell yourself
nothing just happens and so open walks
away she walks away I may have to turn
this into a series cuz I can’t I can’t
get out of this but Oprah walks away and
she cried and she goes back but and she
there are people who can walk away from
you and hear me when I tell you this
when people can walk away from you let
them walk
when people can walk away from you let
them walk I can sit down now I preach I
can sit down I don’t need to make an
altar call or nothing I can say I don’t
have to who I don’t have to make you
shout I have just reached right now when
people can walk away from you let them
walk I don’t want you to try to talk
another person in the stand with you
loving you calling you cared about you
coming to see you stay attend to you I
mean hang up the phone
when people can walk away from you let
them walk your destiny is never tied to
anybody that left the Bible said that
they came out from us that it might be
made manifest that they were not of us
for have they been of us no doubt they
would have continued with us people
leave you because they’re not joined to
you and if they’re not joined to you you
get superglue and you can’t make them
stay let them go
who’s on the other hand coming to the
crossroads she looks at oppa who left
roof turns to Naomi and says as the Lord
liveth I shall not leave thee
occasionally in scriptures and the whole
Bible you see it you see it happening
where people who are not even
blood-related spin their lives together
in the most intimate connection possible
and in theologians and scholars and
preachers stumble about it because they
don’t know how to talk about it because
we don’t understand the power being
joined together how can we explain what
made Elisha leave his natural mother and
father and run after Elijah to wait on
him to clean his clothes to pour water
on his hair to set up his tent but some
kind of way Elijah sensed that his
destiny was tied to Elijah how can we
explain Timothy who walks away from
everything that he owns
to hang out at the outside window of a
jail cell as an old man prepares to be
beheaded he peeks in the window handing
him books and blankets
ministering to him the young man
understood I’ll never be who I was meant
to be without you in my life do you hear
what I’m saying
that’s something there’s something about
the way you talk it feeds me it’s
something about the way you speak that
changes me something about your spirit
that motivates me and I’ll never be
completed without you and I didn’t meet
you by accident I didn’t stumble up and
leak this definitive composure that none
of us shocked this didn’t just happen
there’s there the reason that I’m in
this place I’m so sick of talking to
people who think that everything just
happen I guess I’ll go to church I guess
I’ll get safe I guess
I moved to Chicago I guess I’ll move $2
that’s not how it is the steps of a good
man are ordered by the Lord your steps
were ordered if you haven’t got the
phone call that you got when you got
like you got it
you wouldn’t even be here right now if
you had to make the turn that you made
yesterday you wouldn’t experience what
you’re experiencing today God has been
behind the curtain like a puppet master
pulling strings in your life it’s not
that you’re smart it’s not that you’re
great it’s not that you’re holy it’s not
that you’re perfect it’s not that you’re
good but God winded you up pointing you
in the right direction release you into
your destiny and you are here and you
can’t get away drop somebody and tell
them nothing just happens still to come
on the Potters touch think about the
most impoverished financially depleting
thing that ever happened in your life
and shouting nothing think about the
worst scandal that you ever went through
in your life and shall be nothing think
about
people who loved it walked out at Lithia
and shot nothing think about betrayal on
the highest level of your life and shout
nothing think about the struggle going
on on your job right now and shout
nothing they’ll live a satisfying
productive life you must be filled to
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seed is potent my word works the
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this means that I’m up under the banner
of his wheel I’m up under the banner of
his will even in the midst of death I’m
up under the banner of his wheel even in
the midst of pain I’m up under the
banner of his wheel even in the midst of
separation and disappointment I’m under
the banner of his wheel can I take it to
the next level
Jonah was sent to Nineveh went to
Tarshish headed for Tarsus not obeying
God got thrown off the boat
into the belly of the fish swallow up
for three days even though God told him
to go to Nineveh and he didn’t go he was
still in the wheel I’m not sure you can
handle this
he he went the wrong way
and he was still in the will they threw
him off the boat he was feeling the
wheel I’ll prove to you he was in the
wheel it just happened to be a big fish
see it just happened to be a big fish
swimming beside the big boat show that
when beat men dumped him over the fish
just happened
this is too strong you can’t take this
the fish carried him down to the bottom
of the mountains with seaweed wrapped
around his neck he’s thousands of feet
below sea level and God sustained him
sustained him not one day not two days
not four days but three three days
nothing just happens on the third day on
the third day the backslidden rebellious
reprobate
disconnected disjointed preacher comes
up out of the water and thousands of
years later Christ says even as Jonah
was in the belly of the fish three days
so shall the Son of Man be in the grave
he had to get up when he got up and he
had to go down when he went down because
nothing just happens whoa Oh God
your mistakes were in his will your
trouble was in his will your pain was in
his will I don’t care what she went
through Damon said if I make my bed in
hell go out there if I take the wings of
their mourning and I said to the
uttermost parts of the earth God is
still there he was with you
in the middle of your trouble he was
with you in the middle of your pain
that’s why Paul said I’ve learned
whatever state I’m in therewith to be
content I know how to be rich I know how
to be poor I know how to be free I know
how to be back
you ought to shout I don’t care where
you are because nothing just happens
tip seven people and tell him he’s got a
play and he’s got to play it
you
whatever God has predetermined to happen
whatever God has predetermined to happen
will come to pass and no devil in hell
has ever been able to abort the purpose
of God not once and yes God gave you a
human wheel and you are free moral agent
but if you think that your human wheel
is strong enough to change his divine
wheel you are tripping you are out of
your mind
God is gone the reason we worship Him as
God is because he is the CEO he is in
charge
he runs the universe and when God gets
ready to make you and when God gets
ready to break you and when God gets
ready to take you he’s never been
without the power to make you yield to
his will he’s never not one moment or
time not been able to orchestrate your
affairs and nothing in your life think
about the most damnable thing that ever
happened and shout nothing think about
the most embarrassing thing that ever
happened in your life and shouting
nothing think about the most
impoverished financially depleting thing
that ever happened in your life and
shouting nothing think about the worst
scandal that you ever went through in
your life and shouting nothing think
about people who loved it walked out and
left the ax and shovel nothing
think about betrayal on the highest
level of your life and shout nothing
think about the struggle going on on
your job right now and shout nothing
think about the attitude of your kid
folks with your family members and
shouting nothing think about how your
boss is treating you on your job and
shove nothing
think about that disagreement between
you and your children and shout nothing
think about your past life of seeing
your whoremongering your
inappropriateness your attitude your
dysfunction and shove nothing shove
nothing let the Demel hear you say
nothing that devil would think he warned
if you don’t shout nothing the devil
will think he’s in charge if you don’t
shout nothing you don’t think he’s gonna
win but you gotta shout nothing in the
mists of hell and high water shout
nothing in the midst of pain and despair
shout nothing
with your credit is denied shout nothing
convicted out of your house shout
nothing with your boyfriend marry
somebody else shall nothing
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series nothing just happens even as
Jonah was in the belly of the fish three
days so shall the Son of Man be in the
grave he had to get up when he got up
and he had to go down when he went down
because nothing just happens God has a
way of just choosing to bless you and
say that lady right there I’m gonna
leave that house for her came nobody by
the house but her everybody else it
tries to buy it everything’s gonna be
tied up that’s her house nobody’s gonna
get it but the flavor
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you must be filled to capacity gasa
there’s no question my seed is potent my
word works the question is do you have
the capacity to receive for helping us
reach others with your gift of any size
you will receive filled to capacity on
CDs not excessive without the purpose
he’s got something inside of him and out
of the pregnancy of his own divinity he
begins to speak things into existence
and when your gift is $70 or more we’ll
give you both messages from Awakening on
DVD as well whatever you have a need for
God have a feeling for he can feel your
knee however when your gift is $125 or
more we will also add Sarah Jake’s book
colliding with destiny a 30 day journey
through the Book of Ruth and the be
still journal just write us visit our
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I tell you right now it does not matter
where you start it matters where you
finish you’re getting practical
information from leaders I’ve been
proven and been through there and done
that and overcame and been victorious I
shudder to think how many conferences
would have to take place to reach this
many leaders at one time we came here to
get a deeper understanding of how we can
take the vision that God has given you
and take it to the next level it
refocused my my thought process my
hearing my ability to see the word much
differently let’s begin to think beyond
just our tradition and a mindset
challenging us on a whole new level
I’m loving the cross pollenization I’m
loving the output box thinking my hands
were hanging down but I’m strengthened
through this
I’m excited
I’m going to challenge your brain to
think through some things to go to the
next level are you ready
I feel the glory in this place some of
you just went to devil thought you would
never do it again
God made milk gush out of your breasts I
tell you it’s not over till God says
it’s a lot of clothes shot about a
condom book or shot
tell me this what is she doing
nursing a baby anyway even a young woman
can’t nurse a baby as she didn’t have
one she didn’t birth the baby so her
body’s not even supposed to be milking
making milk and she’s too old
even if she had birth the baby but God
that’s why God doesn’t want to hear your
excuses because your excuses for not
doing his wheel are based on your
understanding but God’s going to do some
things in your life that you don’t
understand so it makes your excuses
foolishness because you’re making
excuses based on what you’ve seen happen
before what you see have been before but
nothing just happens God’s gonna do
something God god I got a good Oh God’s
gonna do something for somebody in this
room that you have never seen happen
before in your
you’ve never seen him do it for anybody
else
violent Gordon you can’t explain how it
did it but God’s going to make it happen
I’m out of time I’ve got to stop there
but it’s been a real joy precious joy a
deep and fortifying blessing to share
the word of the Lord with you and to be
an instrument to encourage I pray he
used me well and I pray you become all
that God has called you to be and I pray
above everything else fits you do not
quit for you are closer now than when
you first believed god bless you hold on
this is the