I have a word from God for you today. It wasn’t really what I was thinking about, I just couldn’t get it out of my mind. I’ve been ministering to so many people, I keep ministering over and over again about God’s power is made perfect in our weakness. It's just kind of a catchphrase, but it’s really in our inability to figure things out. Just the way things move in our lives and our business. And so this word is kind of for business people because that's who I've been talking to. But at the same time, it's also for anybody doing business of any kind in the marketplace or just in your life, and that it has to do with certain things that happened. And I'm sure this has happened to many of you out there. And this is why I feel that God wants me to talk about it. It’s because you're praying for things, you're praying for answers. And then the answer seemed to come and as soon as your focus on them, they move away. As soon as you think, Hey, here's the answer. And so you turn your focus on it and out it goes. It's like what's going on? The answer to that is just really simple. It’s a problem that we have that the favor of God brings answers into our life. But as soon as we changed the focus from focusing on him to focusing on what we think the answer is, it moves away from us. And it comes down to this experience that I had. When I was younger, I just got out of teaching karate. That was my life at the time. And I decided to go into sales. I didn't have any training in that way and I had a mentor that was mentoring me in sales. And so I would look at different jobs and I would ask God, God will this job meet my need for my family? That sounds like a wonderful prayer. And then I would go, is this one better or is this one better? I'd look at different jobs. And as it is in sales, a lot of times you work for one job and then you do that for a year or something, and then you go to a different job. And so it wasn't like I'm looking for jobs every day, but I was working on straight commission and so I would ask God, you know, will this position meet the need for my family? And I never got an answer. After 2 or 3 years of not getting an answer, so finally I thought, Hey God talks to me all the time. Why isn't he answering my question? And so I just said, God how come you're not answering my question when I ask you, and immediately he answered, because you're asking me if this job is going to meet your need. And I can't answer that question because I'm the one who meets your need, not the job. That has stuck with me forever and now more than ever it's making, as I start ministering to more and more people, God starts giving me more wisdom. This principle of our God meeting our needs is more relevant today than at any other time in probably our life. And it comes down to this idea that when we focus on something, that's going to meet our needs. We're not focusing on Christ to meet our needs. Okay. What we're doing is we change our focus from God over on to something that seems like it's going to be the solution. Now for business people, it could be that you're going to get a contract. And so you're in this position and Hey, I'm going to get this contract. And then right before you sign it and get it signed, it moves off. Or it could be a loan, or it could be maybe a supply line or maybe you're going to make a sale selling insurance or it's going to be a big sale. I remember that happening one time. It could be a lot of different things. As soon as you start focusing on that being the solution, it moves away from you. And the reason is that God doesn't want things to be the solution. He wants him to be the solution. And so once something becomes our source, we get out of step with the Holy Spirit. The Lord is our source. And once we changed our focus from him being our source to something else, being our source, and I don't know how to say this exactly, but what seems like is going to be the answer to what our need is. Once we focus on that being the source for that need, we change our focus from focusing on him, to what we think is a solution. This is going to be the solution to my business. And that's where we mess up. So we can't look at what we think are solutions. We have to always concentrate and focus on God being our solution. So I've said this to several people, I pray for things, for answers, and different things like that. But I also pray for the unknown. I pray for what I don't know. And God said, don't wonder how, in other words, not to wonder how, because we start changing our focus and we start wondering how this is going to happen. Well, how's this going to happen? And how's that going to happen? And all of that leads down to is just doubt and unbelief. In other words, I don't know how that's going to happen. I don't know how that's going to work out. And then the next thing that happens is something comes and it looks like a solution. And we go, well, that must be it. That must be the source. And so we start focusing on that. And as soon as we do that, we get close. It moves away. Why? Because God's calling us to a position that's higher than where we're at. And it works this way. When you get born again, you'll start believing God for things and it seems like they happen right away. But as we progress in our relationship with him, our faith is required at higher and higher levels. So you might be at a level. And it seems like when you get born again and you believe for something. When I got born again I was teaching karate and my paycheck met all my bills and it didn't leave much leftover. And so I gave a tithe and people were giving me food and it was salmon. I mean smoked salmon, cans of smoked salmon, fresh salmon. We never ran out eating salmon. Now a lot of people would like to be in that position because they love salmon. Well, I was eating it almost every day for a while. It just kept pouring in, but then there's another level where you have to exercise your faith for bigger things and you have to keep moving up and moving up and moving up because God is always bringing you up to a higher level where your faith needs to progress to. And so now you're at a level where he expects you to focus on him more than you did before. Maybe it's not quite the way. It's just that now you're dealing with bigger numbers, you're beating bigger situations, your employees, you have employees now. Now you have a bigger overhead, you have all of these things and you need to exercise your faith for these bigger things. So we get distracted because we think that something is going to be our source. And as soon as we do that, we lose our focus on God being our source. And what happens here is we're getting into a situation that seems disastrous. It seems like it is absolutely the worst possible situation that we could be in or the worst possible thing that we could do. And it is exactly what we need. Okay. So you may go, God may tell you to go apply here. Well, I'm not gonna apply there because if I do that, their salary or their sales thing is not gonna pay my bills. But God's telling you to do it anyway. God may tell you to do something in your business. And it might at first make a lot of sense. In other words, you're growing. And so you have this problem in your businesses going under, and you're asking for wisdom from God, and he gives you the solution and goes, oh, that makes a lot of sense. I wonder why I haven't thought of that before. But then as you grow in your faith, he'll start telling you more hidden secrets that are made for you. That doesn't make sense. In other words, they look like they could be a disaster if you took those on, but they're exactly what you need. Because God has hidden something for you. And when you take your focus off of him and you look at what seems like the natural solution, you're missing God. And so he's trying to get you to find these hidden solutions. These hidden secrets have been hidden for you, not hidden from you, but hidden for you. And so you have to focus on that. And so what I'm learning and that I've been learning is how to relax in a situation where I don't wonder how things are going to work out. So I'll give an example. Last night, I went out with my wife. We were going to go to a restaurant. She likes to go to this one restaurant and we pull in, we get out of the car and she just stops and goes, what are we doing? You know you don't like this place. This is not your type of restaurant. I said, Hey, don't worry about it. Just relax and flow with it. Okay. You know, I don't know how things are going to work out. I don't know anything. Okay. Let's just flow with it. And I've just learned to be in that situation, we went in, we had a wonderful time. God spoke to me and the food that, I might not have liked, I had and I liked it. She was looking at me like you don't normally like that food. I'm going, no, it's really good. And it was, and we had a really good time. We had a wonderful time. It seems like a small thing, but it's really not because it's being comfortable walking into situations that look like they could be a disaster. I'm fine with that. You see, I've learned how to be fine with this. We were ministering to somebody yesterday, my partner and I, and we were kind of laughing. And I said, we were talking earlier, cause we talked back and forth and we share the word and we share about the peace of God, you know, passing understanding. And, Susan is my partner, she at first, she almost didn't want to say it, but I knew what she was going to say. I said it's like, you feel guilty for being at peace. And she goes, yeah, that's exactly right. You see, everybody else is all worried and stuff. You know about their situation where no, we got this. Why? Because we'll keep focusing on him. We don't care about the stuff around us. You know, God's going to meet our needs and that's all we do. We don't think about anything else. We just know he's going to meet our needs. How? I don't care how. He told me not to wonder how so I'm not even going to wonder how. If something comes and it looks like the solution might be, but I don't care. Okay. Because I'm not changing my focus off of him onto something else that looks like it might be what I need this thing over here may look like I don't need that, but it may be what God wants me to take. Okay. But I can't see it. You see, I can wonder about things and I can kind of figure things out in my mind. And I can think, well, they're going to kind of work this way or that way. But I've learned to tell the difference between what's in my head and what's coming to me from the Spirit of God and what's coming to me from the enemy. And so even though I might think this is going to work a certain way, I don't focus on that. I keep my focus on him because I know that I don't have to figure this out. I've gotten very, very comfortable in walking with him and not wondering how things are going to happen. Just being totally comfortable. So with my wife and I, you know, I said, Hey, don't worry. Don't worry about it. It's going to be okay. Well, I just knew. I just had that peace. I didn't care about the restaurant. Okay. It may not have been my first choice. It wasn't my first choice. My wife and I have other restaurants that we like to go to, but she wanted to go to this. Now that seems like such a small thing, but it's just not. So I'm going to give you a couple of scriptures over here in Second Corinthians. This has really been one of the scriptures that I've been talking to people about so much lately. And Paul, he's writing this letter to a church in Corinthians. It's a second letter. And he's talking to them about the different problems that they're having and correcting them and giving them instruction. And he said, he's talking about boasting. And he says, I'm going to kind of get over into the flesh here a little bit. And you know, boasts about these things because other people are coming to them and they're boasting about who they are and you know, their position and why they should listen to them. And it's like somebody walking around with their chest out, you know who I am and I can tell you how good I am. And I'm wonderful. Paul follows, just like the opposite. He's going, listen, I've been through a lot. I have this thorn on my side and I've asked God three times to get rid of it. I've been in deep trouble. And God told me my grace or my favor is sufficient for you because in your weakness, my power, my strength is made perfect in your inability to produce results. And so Paul says, you know, Hey, he says, so then I will boast most gladly about my weakness so that the power of Christ may reside in me. Therefore, I am content with weakness, with insults, with troubles, with persecution, with difficulties, for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong. Yeah. See, when he says persecution, it's not like today, you know where people are saying, well, it is kind of like today a little bit, because we're getting into some serious persecution, you know, on the church today. But for Paul back then the persecution was, they stoned him. They left him for dead and the disciples came and they carried him off and he came back to life. But that was his persecution. They just stoned him. So, you know, we have persecution like this too. We have, churches that aren’t closing down. And so they're charging him like a thousand dollars a day in fines because they won't close their church because we have a constitutional right to have church and the government isn't supposed to interfere in our church. But they're trying to put fear on us and say, Hey, you have to close your church. This in the past, we're not doing that right now, but they've had hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and they say, I don't care where we're still gonna have church. That's what they've done. So for some churches that have been persecuted, they have been persecuted because they haven't complied because they believe in the constitution and their churches have grown. And the ones who have tried to comply, their churches collapsed. And now they're out of, out of business, so they have to start over again. So he says, therefore, I am content with weakness, with insults, with troubles. You remember that Paul, He said, I feel bound by the Holy Spirit to go to at the time of Pentecost and everybody was warning him, Paul, you're going to be bound up. They're going to bind you up. And he says, I don't care. I don't care about that. I feel bound by the Holy Spirit to go on some I'm going okay. I'm not worried about anything, but God was getting him ready, preparing him for what was going to happen. And it wasn't pulling him back. His grace was sufficient for him. Okay. And he's become an example for us to be able to walk in whatever God gives us. And to know that he's going to take care of us. And his favor is going to be on us. See his favor attracts solutions. They attract opportunities into our life. But the moment we focus on those opportunities and we don't listen to God and focus on him, they move away from us. And that's a concept that we have to understand because there's some of you out there and you're in that situation where it seems like it's coming and then it moves away and you don't know why that's happening. And the reason why that happens is that you're changing your focus from off of him onto something. And I've recently had this happen where something came, an opportunity came and it didn't look like it was going to be a good opportunity at first, I was just like, well, whatever I didn't really care. And then I went to God and I said God, should I take this opportunity? Because you know, I don't think it's really something for us at this time. And God said, well, you shouldn't do it this way, but you should do it this way. I said, okay. So I didn't know how we were going to do it, but he told me how to do it. And I took that opportunity, but I didn't really care. I didn't change. I didn't think of that as being a solution. I didn't think of that as being my source. I kept my focus on him, but that was just an unknown source. Do you see? I kept my focus on him. I looked at it. Yeah. Whatever, you know, should I take it or not? Okay. It never became my source. It's not my source today. It's just something that came. I asked God about it. He told me how to do it. I said, okay, I did it. And that's it. But my focus is still on the Lord. He's the source. And I don't change that every time my mind starts looking at things as being a source, I cut it off. I don't let that imagination come into my mind. I don't care about those things. God is going to meet my need. God is the one that meets my need. Nothing else meets my need. Philippians 4:19. We'll just look at that real fast. He says, and my God shall supply my need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. I love the scripture. I'm going to tell you something about this scripture. Some people think that God's going to supply only what you need and nothing else. No, I only have one need and that need is for every promise in the Bible to be manifested in my life. And some of those promises are very important. Like Psalms 21, God will give me the desires of my heart. He will not withhold the requests of my lips. You have desires that are put in you for your business, to expand your business that is from God. But as soon as you make them the focus, then you're getting out of step with the Holy Spirit. So I say, well, God I'd like this or I'd like that, you know, he's pushing that into me, but that's not going to be the source of my pleasure. It's not going to be a thing that gives me, my joy is the best way to say it. In other words, people will go after things, I want a new motorcycle, and then I've got to have a new boat. And then I got to have this and I got to have that. And those things just become distractions and you have fun, but they don't bring them, they don't bring the peace of God. They don't bring the delight that the Lord brings. They're just distractions. You might want a bigger house or something like that. But when you get in it, you just want something more. Okay. I just joke with people all the time because people, you know, we talk about cars. I like cars. I want to buy a new car every day. It doesn't matter if I buy a car, the next day I want to buy a new car. I see another car. I like it. Oh, I like that car. Oh, I like that car. Every day, I'd like to buy a new car, but then I'm sitting in my truck and I'm happy. What's the other car going to give me that this car doesn't give me. I drove around in a car for a long time and I was very happy with it. I didn't buy a new one until the transmission went out, but I was happy with that car. There were a lot of things I liked about that car. Even though I looked at other cars and I liked those cars, I thought, but you know, when I'm driving my car, what's the difference. I'm looking out the windshield. I don't look at anything else. Okay. So it's not the source of my happiness. It's not the source of my peace. It's not the source of my joy. Things don't do that for me. He does that for me. But as long as I keep my focus on him, as long as my delight is in the Lord, he gives me the desires of my heart. But the desires of my heart are not locked up in material things. That seems kind of weird because he's telling you, he's pushing you to expand your business and that's the desire of your heart. And so you go, okay, and you step forward to expand your business. And it is a desire of your heart. And he says to you, I will not withhold the requests of your lips, but at the same time, you don't lose focus off of God. Okay? I'm expanding my business. It is a desire of my heart. God has put that desire is there, but the thing of expanding your business is not the source of your joy. He is. And that's the difference. It can be a slight variant, but it makes all the difference in the world. What I've noticed when I'm listening to different pastors over the years and different people in their struggles, but especially pastors, because they're always trying to push you and always trying to lean into the Spirit of God to see what he has to say. And there's something that seems to come in, but then move out. And there's something that they have to change. Some little tiny tweak that needs to be tweaked, and God is trying to get them into a different level. Once they tweak it, the doors open up, and these things flood in. And for a lot of us, it's a focus of changing him as being our source into thinking that that, because our favor from God has brought something to us that that is now our source to our need. No, we can't look at it as a source to our need because as soon as we do that, we're going to push it away. Okay? God supplies our needs. Through the power that works within us, Christ Jesus, it's the favor of God that brings things into our life. And that favor is actually pouring into our life. It's actually pulling opportunities into our life. It's actually pulling solutions into our life, but we can't take our focus off of Jesus meeting our needs, to focus on things being the source for our needs. Seems like a fine thing, but it's very, very important because God's power is made perfect in our inability to produce results. So that's why I actually like Paul, I could boast in being able to go into a situation and I don't know where I'm going with it. I don't know what the outcome's going to be. And I'm perfectly at peace in doing that. And that's something that I've been gaining ground in. It's a marker in my life that I've gained some ground in. And so I'm okay with that. I delight in that. I think it's fun. See, I look at The Rone Dolph Show. Where’s it going? What's it going to turn into? How's it going to turn in a certain direction? What's going to happen? I don't know. And I'm okay with not knowing, I'm okay, with as long as I keep my focus on him. I'm okay. And I don't let people speak in and say, well, I think you should do this. Or I think this is, I can see this happening and I can see that happening. No, no. If God hasn't told me, I'm not interested. Okay. If you give me a word, it better confirm what's inside my heart. There's a story of a prophet and God told him to go and speak and then go right back and not talk to anybody. And on the way back, a prophet said, well, God told me that you could come in and eat with me. And so he did, but he then when he went out a lion ate him. Because he didn't do what God said he was trying to do with somebody else, the direction somebody else was telling him, but that he wasn't being correct. So I've learned to be very, very careful and keep my focus on what the Lord is saying. Hebrews chapter three, it's another one of my favorite scriptures, because it’s become very meaningful, meaningful to me. He says, oh, that today you would listen as he speaks, do not harden your heart. As in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. There your father's tested me and tried me. And they saw my works for 40 years. And when we think of testing, we think of testing in kind of a negative way. No, they were actually stepping out in what God told them to do, but they were doing it grudgingly. They were going through three days in the wilderness. They came up to the red sea, which looked like an absolute impossibility. When I was talking, when I just said a few minutes ago, God bringing you into something that looks like it could be disastrous. And yet he's telling you to do it. That's the way it was for these children of Israel coming out of Egypt, they came into what looked like a disastrous situation, the red sea in front of them, the army behind them. That's disastrous. But sometimes God leads us into what we think as being a disaster so that we can know that we can trust him. We can take our eyes off of what we think is going to be our source and keep our eyes on him, knowing that he is our source. And that's what we have to understand. So when we get up to the red sea, it's easy to understand that, Hey, I got to keep looking at God. But when you think that you have a solution to your problem, okay. And you think, okay, this is a solution. You take your focus off of God onto that as being the source for your solution. Now you're in trouble. Okay. So that's what was happening to them. Okay. They got up to the red sea, they saw a mighty miracle. Then they got three days into the desert and they start complaining. Okay. God, you're just trying to kill me. You've brought me out in here into the wilderness, just to destroy me. No, brought you up there so that you might learn the ways of God, so that you might learn to keep your focus on him and know that he's going to come through for you. So they only did that for 40 years and they still couldn't get ahold of the message. And so, because of that, he got angry with them and he said, you'll never enter into my rest because of that because they couldn't get a hold of keeping their focus on the Lord and knowing that he was gonna come through for them. And that's an important lesson for us. What may look like a disastrous situation may be exactly the answer and the solution to what we need in our business. And it gives glory to God. You see when the children of Israel went through and they had to fight different armies and they were conquering the armies when God told them to go up and fight this army. And they would defeat it. When they refuse to go, then God said, okay don't go. No, no we're going to go now. No, you refused. Okay. I said, okay, now you want to go, don't go. Because you're going to get beat. Okay. No, no. We're going to go anyway. No, they got, they got wiped out. But when they finally went over into the promised land, the spies went out and they said, listen, we've heard about what God's doing in your life. We're afraid of what God's doing in your life. Because God gets the glory in our weakness, in our inability to produce results. When we get into a situation that looks like it has no impasse. That's where God's power is made. Perfect and gives him glory and people around us. See, wow, God's really working for you. Yes, he is. And so that's what happened. I like to read sometimes out of the message translation because it really puts things into words that we're accustomed to. So I'm going to read it out of the message today. Please listen, don't turn a deaf ear to what God's saying. As in the bitter uprising, that time of wilderness testing, even though they watched me at work for 40 years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way. Over and over they tried my patience and I was provoked, oh, so provoked. I said, they'll never keep their minds on God. They refuse to walk down my road. Exasperated I vowed, they'll never get where they're going. They're never able to sit down and rest. You see the only time that we can get into the rest that God has for us is when we keep our eyes on what he's doing and keep our eyes on him being the answer to our prayers, that my God shall supply my need according to his riches and glory. Nothing else is going to supply, only what he's going to supply and I trust in that. Now I can get into a rest. And when you get into that rest, you almost feel guilty. It seems like I gotta be worrying. No, no, we shouldn't be worrying, but you get into that situation. I know some of you are out there and you're thinking, yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Do you know? It seems like you gotta be worried because everybody else gets worried in this situation. No, no, we're the opposite. We're supposed to be at rest. We're supposed to be at peace. No, we're not. We're not guilty about it. Matter of fact, we should proclaim it. So the people will see us and go, wow, something's going on? Something's going on with those people. God wants to work in your life. And he wants to be the source of every need that you have. And he wants people to recognize that he's working in you so that he gets the glory. So Matthew six says, of course, seek first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. So remember I said, the favor of God brings all these things that everybody else has after and he brings those to us. We just can't look at them as being any kind of source for what we need. And that's in verse 33. Now in verse 31, I talked about this yesterday, it says, therefore, take no thought saying what shall we eat? Having any kind of concern over our needs. Don't take any thought. In the New King James version, he says, therefore do not worry. Saying, don't worry saying how is my need going to be met? How can I get by? You've told me to do this God, now how can I do this? It seems like everything is coming and it's leaving. How can I? Don't take the worry and say it. Out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth speaks. Okay. So what do you say? You say this, but seek first, the kingdom of God, I'm seeking the kingdom of God. I'm focusing my focus on the Lord. Okay. My favor that God has given me. He gave me that favor even before I was born again when I was just a sinner doing stupid stuff. Those were the things that I shouldn't have been doing at all. I knew better, but they were the lust of the flesh. I did them anyway. And he was still giving me his favor. He still protected me. And when the time came and I recognized his worries about what you need and start saying it, You capture worries and you bring them into submission to the word of God. Therefore take no thought. Then King James says, therefore, don't take a worry. First of all, don't take it. And second don't say it. Okay. Because when you say it, you take it instead, you bring it into captivity. How do you do that? By seeking first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And then all these things that everybody else is running after coming to you. So the thought comes well, I'm not going to be able to get over this situation. And that thought is actually in the form of a worry, but you don't take it. No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to seek the kingdom of God first. I'm going to ask God, maybe what looks like a road that I need to go down doesn't look like the best road, but I'm going to ask God about it. Maybe this solution isn't a solution that I think that I can take hold of. In other words, it's going to cost me such and such. I don't have the money right now. I can't do this. But you don't look at that. You go, God, should I do this? And God says, yes, you should. Well, I don't have the money for it. That has nothing to do with it. We seek first, the kingdom of God and all of his righteousness. I might go, God, should I do this? Cause I don't have the money for it. And God says, yeah, do it go, okay. How do I do it? And then he tells you something else comes and you go, man, that looks like that's going to fit right in. Should I do it? And God says, no, don't do it. But God, it's not going to cost me anything. It's free. It's going to be given to me. No, no, don't do it. Okay. Don't touch it. Okay. I'm won’t touch that. But this thing I can't do, I'll do it now. It's a fun life. I mean, it gets really exciting doing life this way. It's incredible how much fun it is. And yes, sometimes you can feel a little guilty for having so much fun in the midst of all this stuff. I've talked about this before, he prepares a table before us in the midst of our enemies. He describes that table as being overflowing. It's a cup overflowing. You gotta be careful because something could drop off the table. Something could fall off the table. It's full and yet there's chaos running around you. But we don't run around the world, the world runs around us. This is where we're supposed to be. You’re thinking Rone, I don't want to be here. No, this is where you're supposed to be. You're supposed to be in a position where you don't know how things are going to work out and you calmly walk in it because God tells you to walk in it and you have a blast when you do it. I'm telling you it's so much fun. I mean, it is so much fun to learn how to trust God. So we don't worry about it. We definitely don't take the worry and these thoughts and say them. We only say what God tells us to say. So the opposite is true. In other words, we don't take the thoughts and the worry and say them. So what we do is we say what the word of God says. That's how we answer those thoughts and worries. We answer them with the word spoken out of our mouths. That's what Jesus did. Well, Jesus just make this stone into bread, and then you can eat it. No, he says the word. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of his mouth, that's what we're going to live by. Okay. So we don't take these thoughts and we especially don't say them, we do the opposite. We say what the word says. Philippians 4:6, going back to Philippians 4 and I'm going to read this out of two translations again. The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus. You see, he's telling us that the peace that God gives us surpasses your understanding. Yeah. I don't understand it. I really don't. That's why you feel guilty about it sometimes like, well, everybody else's worried about this and I'm not, maybe there's something wrong with me. No, there’s nothing wrong with you. The peace of God surpasses understanding when you keep your focus on him and you're relying only in him, then this peace comes on you and it surpasses your understanding. It doesn't make sense, but you got it anyway. The message translation says don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it a sense of God's wholeness. That's peace, wholeness, everything coming together for good will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. You see Christ displaces, the anointed one displaces the worry and thoughts. So when these things are coming and they look like they are going to be the source of our problem or the source of the need that we have in our life. We don't focus on it. We don't think it's a source. We let Christ be the center of our source. And then the wholeness, the peace cause that's what peace is, the wholeness. It's going to surpass your understanding. You're going to be made complete. So we just have to continually make him our source and not let anything else take its place because the moment we do, we push solutions away from us. So I know this is the answer for some people out there that you've been wondering about this situation, cause it's been happening in your life. And when you make Christ the center, then his peace passes all understanding. And so when you get over into only concentrating on him, then these things that seem to come in and go away, opportunities come and they leave. These things keep bouncing. You don't care about it. You just know that he's going to supply your need. And in that, you get into this peace that surpasses understanding you don't understand how it works. But you just know that God is meeting your need, period. What was it going to be? This or that or this or that? I don't know. I'll ask him. Okay. And maybe the thing that I think is going to be a disaster is actually what he's going to tell me to go after, or he's going to tell me to do something and I can't afford, or he's gonna tell me to do something that maybe you're in sickness and maybe you can't walk. And what he's going to tell you to do is run instead. I've heard stories of that. I've heard stories where somebody was crippled from something and they were in a wheelchair and God said, get up and walk. And they got up. And so they put their feet on the ground and they start walking and they're walking with a cane or something. And one day God says, I want you to run. Why run? I can barely walk. I'm using a cane or a walker. How am I going to run? But they put it to the side and they start running. Well, that seems like a disaster. You're going to fall on your face. No, because God said to run, you see faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. But it's his word, his Holy Spirit word, speaking to us and making the word, what's in the Bible alive to us. And so we act on what he says and we see a phenomenal result. We do things that he tells us to do. Things that don't make any sense. I've shared this story with you before, I've done this many, many times, but this last time that I did this it was just kind of memorable. This lady says, man, my back is really sore. And she goes, oh my back. You know how people with their back is, cause you know, their back really sore. And I said, well, sit here. I said, in the name of Jesus, you're healed. Sit here in this chair. She sits down in this chair. I said, okay, stand up. She stands up. I said, okay, sit down. She sits down. I said, okay, stand up. She stands up the second time. And she goes, my back is healed. I don't have any pain in my back. She starts jumping up and down. So that didn’t make sense, didn’t make any sense whatsoever. But it was what the Spirit of God said to do. You may be hearing something. So like today, I've been talking to people about this very same thing that I spoke about today. But I was expecting God to lead me in a different direction, but I couldn't get it out of my mind. So I said, okay, well that's what God wants me to say. You see, God's going to tell you things and you just have to act on it. You have to be willing to act on what God is telling you to do even though it's not going to make sense. You may be in a situation right now and you need healing in your body. And God's going to tell you you need to do something. Do it. If it doesn't make sense, it's probably God. You may need a financial miracle in your business. He's telling you to do something, do it. Well, that doesn’t make sense, do it. Well, I can't do it, do it anyway. Well, that's going to seem foolish. Yes, it's supposed to. It's supposed to confuse the wise. It's supposed to confuse the strong. It's supposed to confuse those people that are in business around you that say you can't do it. Do it anyway. So father, we just thank you for this time. We thank you for your word and we thank you that this word is for people out there, that you are people that are experiencing God. And this is an answer to something that you needed. It's an answer to a problem that you had. And because of this, you're going to change your focus. And now the favor of God is going to start rushing in like a flood. And He is going to be your source for everything you need and everything he's telling you to do in Jesus name. All right. We'll see you tomorrow and we'll have another word from God for you, but until then have a great, great day. Experience God all day long. Expect to have God talk to you today in Jesus' name.

Well, that's mercy, me and this is Rone with The Rone Dolph Show. And I love that song. It's called say I won't. And it's about really it's about people saying, you know, we can't do it. We won't do it. It's not going to happen. God's not going to do it for you. Well, I'm here to tell you that they're wrong and we're right. And the Bible's right. So today we're going to be talking about, and it's Friday, but today we're going to be talking about the order in getting the promise. You see, there's an order to it. We don't understand that sometimes, but we have to understand the order if we're going to get to the promise. And so it's important that we do that and get ahold of that. So I'm going to start with Exodus, chapter 14, and I was reading this and it just hit me. It was amazing to me because actually it's chapter 14, starting in verses 16 and 17. But you know, I've said before that I had this vision from God and God drew a line in the sand and it was red. And his side of the sand was reddish sand. And he was standing on that side. I was standing on the other side and he said, you stay on your side, you do what I'm going to tell you to do, and I'm going to do my part. You're going to do what you're supposed to do. I'm going to do my part. And so, you know, I've had other visions since then, when you know, I'm being doing something and all of a sudden I can tell that I stepped over the side. I could actually see it. I stepped on his side and try to do what he was supposed to do and not what I'm supposed to do. And in business, a lot of times that's very easy for business people to do that, try to step over and make things happen instead of letting God make it happen. And the more that I meditate on this, the more that I understand this, the better I get at it. In other words, even in my relationships with people and stuff, instead of getting upset or unhappy, I just pray about it. I just say, God, I need you to do your part. Okay. And I'm going to do my part. I'm going to stay in the fruit of the spirit. So we're going to talk about this. Let's start with verse 16. And it says as for you, and then in 17, it says, as, for me, he starts off by saying and talking to Moses. And he says, as for you, Moses, as for you, this is what you're going to do. And as for me, this is what I'm going to do, Moses. So I'm not going to read everything he says right now, I'm going to point out this process. As for you, Moses, you're going to do this as for me, I'm going to do this. You see, that's what God is telling us. As for you. I want you to do this. And as for me, this is what I'm going to do. That's a principle that we have to understand. There's also order in this. He didn't say, Moses, I'm going to do this. And then you're going to do this. No, he said, Moses, as for you, this is what you're going to do. As for me, this is what I'm going to do. In other words, Moses, on one side, God's on the other side, Moses, this is what you're going to do. Then this is what I'm going to do. You see there's Moses and God Moses, you're going to do this first. I'm going to do this second. As Christians we want the first move to be made by God. God, I want you to move first. And then I'll move. I want a sign from you before I move. I don't want to have to pray and spend time with you and get to know you and get to learn your voice and get the wisdom. I just want you to move first and then I'll know, I want to see you move first. I want to see in the natural that you're moving first. I want to get, you know, something to happen first that I can see it. And then I'll move. Now sometimes, you know, God can do that. I was listening to somebody give their testimony and they were of a different faith that believes in dreams. And so they were being witnessed to over a period of four years. And he said, you know, finally, he asked God to give me a dream and God gave him a dream. So that was something that he could, you know, latch on to. But his faith has been building. He had been hearing the word, he had been doing what he was supposed to do, what God had directed him before he got to that part. Now we say, you know, well Rone, you know, in Romans chapter five verse eight. I'm going to go up there. He says, but God demonstrates his own love for us in this while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. So you say, well, Rone, while I was yet a sinner Christ died for me. So in other words, he did it first. And then I got saved. No, you got to wait a minute. You got to go back to Isaiah, Isaiah 53, and Isaiah 53 says this who has believed our report. And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed for? He shall grow up before him as a tender plant. And as a root out of dry ground, he has no form or comeliness. And when we see him, there's no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we did not esteem Him. Surely he has borne our grief. He carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken smitten of God and afflicted, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our next city. The chastisement for our peace was upon him. And by his stripes, we are healed. You see, there had to be something that, Isaiah had something to do. He had a prophecy to give before Jesus came. It's always, man first, God's going to tell man, what's going to happen. He told his prophets what, what was going to happen? They have to write it. They had to say it before it could happen. Jesus was going to come. And he was going to fulfill, you know, 2000 plus, you know, prophecies, an impossible situation for anybody except for God. But it had to be spoken first. Then it happened. And then while we yet sinned, sinners, Christ died for us. You see, but there's a process to it. And we have to understand that process. And it's hard. The hardest principle is knowing the ways of God and it's that we have to make the first step and have to say before we see, this is the hardest thing that people have to understand is that we have to make the first step because everybody wants God to make the first step. They want to see it before they believe it as Thomas did. But in fact, that's not the way God operates, and In Romans 4:17. He's we see this when it's talking about, you know, Abraham, and he says, oh, certain verse 16, therefore it's by faith that it might be according to grace so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, I have made you the father of many nations in the presence of him who believed God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things, which do not exist as though they did. He doesn't call those things as though they do. He calls those things as though they did in the past tense. There's so much in this scripture, but it's by faith that it might be according to grace so that the promise might be sure to all the seed where the seed who's the seed, the ones who believe the ones who made the step to believe. God gives us that faith. But we have to exercise it. Not only to those who have the law, but also those who have the faith of, of Abraham, who is the father of us all. So in the presence of God, he believed God. And it's God who gives life to the dead and calls those things, which do not exist as though they do. Yeah, but there's a generation that's growing up and they're not having a problem with this. They're understanding this, there are people right now. If you're watching the show, what's going on. Uh, we had our Greg here yesterday and he gave a powerful testimony of following God and doing what God said and being obedient to what he said and things started happening. Okay. And then as, uh, so you need to go back and listen to that. Let's go to Psalms 91. This is kind of a recap of what I said yesterday. Psalms 91 says he who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. Now a lot of times people will say, well, gee, I would sure like to know what it means to dwell in the secret place of most high. Well, I can tell you what it means. It means that those people who are walking and being led by the spirit of God, because it's a secret place. We were talking yesterday on the show and we said, art, art was sharing how he's, he's late. He's carrying his GRA gear. And he sees a building and he has an, he goes, I just felt like I needed to walk around this building. And so he did, you know, many times we do things. Once you start experiencing God in your life, you're going to know that, you know, sometimes it's not like a voice that tells you something. It's not like a, you know, a push, it's not anything even tangible. It's just like, I just felt like I needed to do this. I was curious sometimes. Okay. But that's the secret place. It doesn't make sense to people outside, you know, for art, he was late. What are you going around the building for? You got to get to the fire station. You got to do this. But the secret place is where you follow God, where God's leading you and you learn how to be led. And again, it's difficult because you've got to make that step. You've got to be the one who's willing to be led, even when it's inconvenient, even when it doesn't seem like the right thing to do, but that person will dwell in the secret place. And he will abide under the shadow of the almighty. Now, what's the shadow of the almighty. Well, it's the anointing of God. It's a direction of God. It's his presence in our life when we follow him. And again, it doesn't make sense. And then the next thing it says, it says, I will say of the Lord. So that's the next key here? I will say. Now, a lot of times we don't want to say, I don't want to say anything before I've seen it happen. That's what people, the way they think I want to see it happen before I say something. In other words, I want to say that I'm healed. When I know that I'm healed. Well, that's not God, God calls those things, which do not exist as though they did. If we're going to walk, as Jesus walked, we have to do what Jesus did. We have to have faith in God. We have to understand his ways. His way says, I'm going to say before I see it, I have to say, I have it. It's done before I have it. So I say, I will say of the Lord, he's my refuge. And my fortress. Even when you don't feel like he's your refuge and your fortress, it says yes in him. I will trust the key here is we stop. And we think, I will say of the Lord. He's my refuge. And my fortress, my God, in whom I trust, surely he shall deliver me from the snare of the Fowler and from the perilous pestilence noises, some pestilence in another translation. But we've got to carry that down. I will say, you see, I will say the Lord. He's my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust. But I will say surely he shall deliver me from the snare of the Fowler. I will say he will deliver me from the perilous pestilence. I will say he will cover me with his feathers and under his wings, I'll take refuge. I will say that I'm not afraid of the terror by night. I will say that I, nor of the arrow, that flies by day, I will say that I'm not afraid of the pestilence that walks in darkness. And I will say, I'm not afraid of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. Now, this is the order of it. I'm going to say these things before I see them before I sense them with my physical being just the opposite of what happens in our business. Because in our business, we get bombarded by so many distractions. We have, you know, salesmen come and say that they have the latest and greatest. And oh, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. And you have to take this. No, what we have to do is we have to discern things. We have to hear from God, get wisdom from God, and hear what he has to say. But we have to understand that when he gives us a direction, we have to say that we have it before we receive it. Before we see it before we can feel it and touch it. And for a lot of business people, that's not the way they think they think, Hey, I'm not going to believe this until I can see it with my eyes. That's the way Thomas was. He was probably a businessman because he acted just like one. I got to see it. I'm not going to believe it until you show it to me. You know, put it down here on paper. Let me see it. Let me see you at work. That's how vacuum people, you know, you sell them. You're going in. They're vacuuming. Let me show you how this works. Let me let you see this. Let me, you know, let me show you and demonstrate how this thing works so that you can believe it. God's asking us to believe before we see. And for some Christians and for anybody, that's not walking in the spirit, that's very, very difficult to do. But this is the order in which we do receive, because then he says in verse nine, because you have made the Lord, who's my refuge. Even the most high, your dwelling place, no evil shall be following you. And neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. In other words, he's giving us the promise because we followed him. You see it's saying, because you've made the Lord, who's my refuge even the most high, your dwelling place. In other words, he who dwells in the secret place. Okay. He who follows and is led by the spirit is going to get the promise. He who's led by the spirit of God is going to receive the promise. He who dwells in the secret place of the most high. Okay? Because you've made the Lord who's my refuge. Even the most high, your habitation, therefore, no evil shall befall. You and neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. So there's an order to it. And when we follow that order, then we're going to have what he says. So let's go back to Exodus. We're looking at Exodus again. And the Lord said to Moses, why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. As, and as for you lift up your staff and extend your hand towards the sea and divide it so that the Israel lights may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground. Now, as for me, I'm going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will come after them. That I may be honored. See God was going to be honored in this situation. This story has been told for, you know, all generations, how they went through the red sea, but we have to understand that when we're following God. We have to be willing to take, be taken to the impossible in verse. I think it is verses four, three, and God was talking to Moses. And he said, Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites that they're wandering around confused. There's a secret place. Again, they're wandering around confused. They're going into the desert. They're surrounded by the desert. They have no place to hide. And they're coming up to the red sea. They're confused. They don't know what they're doing. We're going to go down there and snatch their life from him. We're going to go down there and we're going to destroy him. But he who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the anointing, shall abide under the promise. We'll be able to say as the Lord, he's my refuge, my fortress, the God in whom I trust. So it wasn't a dead-end for them. It looked like a dead end. It looked like everything was going to end for them, but it wasn't. They weren't going to end it. Wasn't their end. And he said, Moses, what are you doing? Why are you crying out to me? Do what I told you to do. Send them down to the red sea. But God, we can't send them down to the red sea. That's a trap. We're going to walk right into the trap. I will say the Lord. He's my refuge. My fortress, the God in whom I trust, I will not be afraid of the snare of the Fowler. Nope. God, this is a trap. We're going down to the red sea. This is a trap for us that they're going to come and they're going to wipe us out. No Moses telling him to do what I told you to do. Why are you crying out to me? Okay. Put your hand. This is what you're going to do. Moses. You're going to put your hand out over the sea and then I'm going to part it. And as for me, what I'm going to do for you, what I'm going to do is I'm going to, I'm going to let them come in. What they think was a trap is going to turn around to be a trap for them. See, they thought they were going to trap you, but it's going to be a, that the trap is going to be turned around on them. So we have to understand that God is protecting us. God, the enemy is going to come against us and they're going to try to trap us. But the trap is actually going to be turned on them. The trap is actually going to be turned on the Fowler on the one who sets the trap. It's going to be turned. And we have to understand that. We have to understand that we can dwell in the secret place of the most high we can follow God. Jesus did and afford to go to act like Jesus. Then we're going to have to do what Jesus did. He said, I only do what my father is telling me to do. I only do what he's showing me to do. Present tense. Sometimes it's not a word from God. It's just, I need to go around this building. I just need, I'm curious about that, that, that building over there. I'm curious about that business. And I walk into that business and I start telling him about Jesus. I tell him about the goodness of God. And he starts going to church because he had been walked away from God. So God wants us to be conformed to his image. Let's look at Romans eight. We need to always look at Romans eight. We need to constantly be reminded of Romans eight, for who God, fornew. He also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. We are to be conformed to the image of Jesus so that he might be the first of many brethren. He is the first. And then we are the body. He is the head, but we have to follow the spirit of God. We have to be conformed into his image. We are predestined to be conformed, but we have our part. We have to start walking it. We have to start believing it. See, it's easy to say that we are predestined and not walk it. It's easy to say that we are predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ, but not walk in the image of Christ just to have a mental agreement with it. But we're, we're called to go beyond the mental agreement and to actually take hold of it and walk in it because the promise comes after we take the first step, the promise that he's given us in our business, in the things that we're doing comes after we take the first step. That's the way God moves. That's the way that's, that's how the in Hebrews, he said they didn't know my ways. That's the ways of God. All right. So this is Rone on The Rone Dolph Show. And this weekend is going to be the 4th of July. So have a safe and happy weekend. But more than that, expect to have an encounter with God, expect that you're going to hear from God in ways that you've never heard before, expect that he's going to give you insight into what you read in the Bible. I can tell when God is in with me, when I'm reading the Bible, I can tell when his anointing is there. So until next week, God bless you and we'll see you on Monday.