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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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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2 to live a satisfying productive life

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

website or call one 800 Bishop 2

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