Are you looking for supernatural doors to open to you in ministry?
I've got a real practical word for you today.
Hi, my name is Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word.
And I heard a message yesterday, actually from Willie George.
He inspired this one and he is an amazing pastor.
He was quoting the Apostle Paul in several chapters.
The first one out of 1 Corinthians, starting in chapter 2, verse 2, I came to you in weakness
with great fear and trembling.
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration
of the Spirit's power.
So that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power.
Now we know God is good and his word is faithful and true.
And we're always to look to his word, not necessarily to something supernatural.
But when we walk in the word and we pray, God will often meet us in the natural, in
supernatural ways.
We are to have the power of God and the supernatural manifesting in our lives.
You know, it's really interesting when you think about how God supernaturally provides
direction.
Think about when God was providing manna in the wilderness.
You know, when did he provide it?
He provided when they supernaturally needed it.
Sometimes we don't see God because we have the things in the natural that we need for
the season that we're walking in.
We have the tools.
We have the connections.
God will often do supernatural things with people that are in very desperate places.
Missionaries that are on the field or people that are overseas, maybe even in dangerous
or desperate places.
That's where you might see something truly astounding or shocking.
90% of the time though, God moves in our natural and he moves through our relationships and
with our skill sets with others.
You know, we shouldn't necessarily seek signs and wonders.
In fact, the word warns us that it's a wicked and perverse generation that seeks those signs
and wonders.
But what's so true and what is so awesome about God is if you will seek his face, you'll
stick to what the word says and you'll obey him in the natural.
Often what happens then is he meets you and he does something in the supernatural.
Now we see this in Matthew 16.4.
Now that was my reference about the wicked and perverse generation.
When you just put your feet to the ground to do whatever he's telling you to do, that's
where you're going to see him meet you.
Matthew 14.24, here we go.
Now this was the Apostle Paul, right?
He's on his missionary journeys.
On arriving there, they gathered the church together and they reported all that God had
done through them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
When God is supernaturally moving through men and women of God out of chapter 14 of
the book of Matthew here, he'll do it in a way that only he could do it.
In other words, the door opens and enables you to walk through that door.
The door is something that you by faith have to walk through knowing that when you get
on the other side of that door, God is going to meet you there.
It's really amazing.
Now this one is 1 Corinthians chapter 8, but I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost
verse 9 because a great door for effective work has opened unto me and there are many
who oppose me.
See Paul here is seeing where his doors are open.
He's seeing the opportunities that are ahead of him.
You know you're really operating in supernatural favor when all of a sudden a door that you
maybe did not expect supernaturally opens and then when you by faith walk through that
door.
not knowing what's on the other side of that door you just walk through it that's where he meets you
and that's where all of a sudden something supernatural begins to manifest. You know so
many times it's really about just being at the right place at the right time and being prepared
so that when that door opens you're really ready to walk through it and then the lord can do
something supernatural through you this is out of second corinthians chapter 2 starting in verse 12
now when i went to troas to preach the gospel of christ and i found that the lord had opened
the door for me 13 i still had no peace of mind because i did not find my brother titus there
so i said goodbye to them and went on to macedonia okay it's interesting in this verse here he's
talking about the timing and the leading of where he was supposed to go he was going to end up going
to a big gathering of believers there was a supernatural divine appointment on the other end
of it but guess what he had to walk through that when god opened those doors you know i don't know
what god's doing in your life today i was reflecting on a time in my life when the lord was dealing
with me about being a blessing to another woman of god i was a young born again spirit filled
christian i had just stepped on the campus of oru i was going up into the prayer tower and i was
praying and the holy spirit was dealing with me about nannying or you know being a blessing to a
woman of god who had a a big ministry huge outreach but she needed help and at that point
in time in my life i i had been a nanny i had worked in other people's homes and i just felt
led of the lord to find the office of this woman and walk into the office and and say i you know
that you might feel like this is kind of unusual but i've been praying about it and does this woman
need help caring for her children and this the secretary kind of looked at me and said uh yes
let me talk to her she gets up she goes across the room walks through a door comes back a few
minutes later the woman the woman of god comes and she sits down across the table from me and
she looks at me and she said so i hear you've worked as a nanny and i said yes and told her
just a little bit about myself i probably talked maybe two maybe three minutes and she said when
can you start i need help see at that moment in time a door was opening for me i didn't know anyone
in this city i i didn't have any connections with this family i just prayed and knew that i had
maybe some skills that this precious hard-working woman of god needed and i was willing at that
moment to be the hands and the feet of jesus to just empower someone else my challenge for you
today is if your heart is really to be a servant and to love others and to empower others in ministry
today maybe god is asking you to walk through a door and to be the hands and the feet of jesus
and to empower someone else who is in ministry or maybe just another believer and help them
so that they can walk out their calling have a great week and thank you for listening this
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