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Are you looking for supernatural doors to open to you in ministry?

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I've got a real practical word for you today.

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Hi, my name is Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word.

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And I heard a message yesterday, actually from Willie George.

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He inspired this one and he is an amazing pastor.

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He was quoting the Apostle Paul in several chapters.

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The first one out of 1 Corinthians, starting in chapter 2, verse 2, I came to you in weakness

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with great fear and trembling.

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My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration

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of the Spirit's power.

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So that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power.

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Now we know God is good and his word is faithful and true.

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And we're always to look to his word, not necessarily to something supernatural.

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But when we walk in the word and we pray, God will often meet us in the natural, in

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supernatural ways.

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We are to have the power of God and the supernatural manifesting in our lives.

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You know, it's really interesting when you think about how God supernaturally provides

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direction.

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Think about when God was providing manna in the wilderness.

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You know, when did he provide it?

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He provided when they supernaturally needed it.

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Sometimes we don't see God because we have the things in the natural that we need for

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the season that we're walking in.

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We have the tools.

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We have the connections.

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God will often do supernatural things with people that are in very desperate places.

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Missionaries that are on the field or people that are overseas, maybe even in dangerous

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or desperate places.

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That's where you might see something truly astounding or shocking.

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90% of the time though, God moves in our natural and he moves through our relationships and

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with our skill sets with others.

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You know, we shouldn't necessarily seek signs and wonders.

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In fact, the word warns us that it's a wicked and perverse generation that seeks those signs

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and wonders.

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But what's so true and what is so awesome about God is if you will seek his face, you'll

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stick to what the word says and you'll obey him in the natural.

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Often what happens then is he meets you and he does something in the supernatural.

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Now we see this in Matthew 16.4.

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Now that was my reference about the wicked and perverse generation.

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When you just put your feet to the ground to do whatever he's telling you to do, that's

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where you're going to see him meet you.

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Matthew 14.24, here we go.

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Now this was the Apostle Paul, right?

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He's on his missionary journeys.

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On arriving there, they gathered the church together and they reported all that God had

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done through them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

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When God is supernaturally moving through men and women of God out of chapter 14 of

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the book of Matthew here, he'll do it in a way that only he could do it.

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In other words, the door opens and enables you to walk through that door.

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The door is something that you by faith have to walk through knowing that when you get

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on the other side of that door, God is going to meet you there.

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It's really amazing.

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Now this one is 1 Corinthians chapter 8, but I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost

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verse 9 because a great door for effective work has opened unto me and there are many

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who oppose me.

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See Paul here is seeing where his doors are open.

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He's seeing the opportunities that are ahead of him.

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You know you're really operating in supernatural favor when all of a sudden a door that you

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maybe did not expect supernaturally opens and then when you by faith walk through that

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door.

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not knowing what's on the other side of that door you just walk through it that's where he meets you

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and that's where all of a sudden something supernatural begins to manifest. You know so

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many times it's really about just being at the right place at the right time and being prepared

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so that when that door opens you're really ready to walk through it and then the lord can do

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something supernatural through you this is out of second corinthians chapter 2 starting in verse 12

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now when i went to troas to preach the gospel of christ and i found that the lord had opened

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the door for me 13 i still had no peace of mind because i did not find my brother titus there

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so i said goodbye to them and went on to macedonia okay it's interesting in this verse here he's

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talking about the timing and the leading of where he was supposed to go he was going to end up going

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to a big gathering of believers there was a supernatural divine appointment on the other end

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of it but guess what he had to walk through that when god opened those doors you know i don't know

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what god's doing in your life today i was reflecting on a time in my life when the lord was dealing

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with me about being a blessing to another woman of god i was a young born again spirit filled

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christian i had just stepped on the campus of oru i was going up into the prayer tower and i was

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praying and the holy spirit was dealing with me about nannying or you know being a blessing to a

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woman of god who had a a big ministry huge outreach but she needed help and at that point

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in time in my life i i had been a nanny i had worked in other people's homes and i just felt

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led of the lord to find the office of this woman and walk into the office and and say i you know

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that you might feel like this is kind of unusual but i've been praying about it and does this woman

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need help caring for her children and this the secretary kind of looked at me and said uh yes

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let me talk to her she gets up she goes across the room walks through a door comes back a few

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minutes later the woman the woman of god comes and she sits down across the table from me and

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she looks at me and she said so i hear you've worked as a nanny and i said yes and told her

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just a little bit about myself i probably talked maybe two maybe three minutes and she said when

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can you start i need help see at that moment in time a door was opening for me i didn't know anyone

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in this city i i didn't have any connections with this family i just prayed and knew that i had

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maybe some skills that this precious hard-working woman of god needed and i was willing at that

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moment to be the hands and the feet of jesus to just empower someone else my challenge for you

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today is if your heart is really to be a servant and to love others and to empower others in ministry

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today maybe god is asking you to walk through a door and to be the hands and the feet of jesus

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and to empower someone else who is in ministry or maybe just another believer and help them

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so that they can walk out their calling have a great week and thank you for listening this

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is Restoring Word with Leanne Friessman. Please like and subscribe and share this message with others.

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Thanks again.

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you