The Pattern of Detours

Going on the hand of God Dr. Tony Evans says it may be difficult to understand why hard times, but that's what God is doing and you miss the purpose of this is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans father speaker seen pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative, no matter how it seems our lives always go according to plan. The problem is it's not our plan today. Dr. Evans takes us to Genesis chapter 39 as he talks about how to recognize God's agenda when it differs from ours. Let's join him to ask about them that you should look for if you are not in the place that you had planned to be in there is not a person here today who is not even need to come from a detour headed to a detour because life is full of detours. The first aspect of the detour which would come and introduced his detours always involve test detours involve a test test or trial in the biblical terminology task or trial is in her circumstance, either created or allowed by God in order to develop us in preparation for his purpose for us knows what is in your heart, but the test is designed to reveal it… Deceitful. The Bible says they trick us and so God wants you to really see what deep down inside of you and it comes out with a test.

It's coming up on my annual physical review and annual physical review. I'm going to have to take a stress test which means a doctor put me on a treadmill and I've got a lot on the treadmill with all the attachments on my chest did not take my word that I think it's okay diet because I feel like my Hansel cake as we are doing. Let's put you under some stress on the treadmill on the wall. The traumas Bill Clinton and inclined and keep inclined until I'm huffing and puffing the teller on the sweat perspiring until I can take it no until outflow in the town to look at his paper and tell me what circumstances Joseph is in a test because he's now a slave in a situation he never planned to begin, and it is adverse event. No auto stalled into slavery by his own family and is one of chapter 39 said he stayed in Egypt and the God from the Israelite men bought and sold like property is in a bad situation and says the lines were taken and when we fast-forward to the end of the story. Joseph says God brought me to this place, so once his mantle.

Mrs. when going through a test not talking about a test, you create, one that God put you in going through a test mistake the hand of man for the hand of God.

Don't mistake the hand of God for the handmaid faith people put them in the situation that he set them up in a situation difficult. His brothers were jealous of his brothers Putman.

His brother plan to kill his brother sold his brother Dave and his new life. The people with this plant life, but if you always say what people are doing and you miss what God is doing that you miss the divine purpose of the allowed to be used by God to move to the next step where God wanted him to be just, this people is not God's sense, but it does not look for the hand of God, even though it's coming to the so don't get mixed up.

God uses people even your people and your family to move you to your destiny by creating a detour during a test is being called to the witness. You know what you do on the witness stand to testify is what you said you believe this is what you said amen to in church.

If what you say, praise the Lord to when you were going through anything real test calls into the witness stand and says now testifying to the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God because you understand if it's not real, doing a test has revealed it wasn't real yet is real because you are dealing with anything, but it is during the test, the trial when finger gone topsy-turvy.

Joseph had many reasons to believe God has abandoned him and you have those feelings. When you are in a deep pit where is God, why did God put me here. Why would I get behind her hips like the gap you want to get up but she property where God happens during a test.

It seemed like God's phone line is busy going silent. Remember, the purpose of the test is to develop you some minibus iron shirts and shorts before we came today or maybe ladies you and your blouse.

You did that to get the wrinkles out you did that to get the wrinkles out the shirt or blouse mapping clean each but if you have wrinkles in it. You needed to get the wrinkles out.

Joseph had some wrinkles. We found out that he was a tattletale on his brothers that he flaunted the code in front of his brought brothers to to show that know he was the was the most love son weeks we saw that he had some wrinkles want a bad kid but he was immature, so put in a situation the wrinkles out wrinkles on his shirt not your blouse.

Could you plan to put on and you want to look good… So what God is, he puts us in test and he allows the ticket us and steam is writhing on the bus if not just plans where it wants to look good when he puts us all.

So he allows the fire of testing to bring steam out of our lives not being mean and not be in the wrinkles of the good.

When he identifies with now Joseph is living a life he didn't plan on his daddy didn't raise in the be a slave. That's what is now at least two, number two, the second on the detour to destiny of the pattern that God uses his training were told to learn through testing so testing is designed to provide training. Look at verse two the Lord was with Joseph. He became a successful man. He was in the house of his master's master saw the Lord was with him and God, because all that he did to prosper in his hand. Joseph found favor in the sight became his personal servant he put everything he had on the Joseph K listed with training.

Number one spiritual training, the Lord was with Joseph as a slave. The Lord was with Joseph in his trial. The Lord was with Joseph being bought and sold. The Lord was with him.

In other words, he didn't let his circumstance compromised his spiritual relationship seeking to get mad. I'm gonna try when actually is the occasion to draw near to God and says the Lord was with him. Watch this while his life was going south slave now, but it says the Lord was with him with a sponge full of water and then you have pressure pressure to post bond will come out because it will when you feel the pressure, God comes out maybe discussing the comes out comes out for complaining that comes a bit mad comes out bitterness that comes out why that's which will follow you when you saw the sponge to soak it is what comes when you put on the pressure. Pressure is not God before you hit the trial to come out of you when you try one allotment God in the truck when it came to God, now that I'm in the closeness along the way. Joseph was with the spiritual relationship as his priority and God was with him. This is going south slave, but he gives you the key here is the key to making it during the season of trial and says he became a successful man because the Lord was with not because of who he knew the company's contacts because of the bloated writing of the company's name, become his bank account is successful man become listening to the Lord, you know what contacts you have, what power you think you have the rib that it was a success because the Lord was with him noticed by the way, since it first was with him. Verse three the Lord because all they did the prosper. Verse five the Lord blessed the Egyptians house on his accounts because the Lord nothing with opponents. Verse 23, because the Lord was with him. Did you get the point noticed were the Lord was with him LOLB when you see in the Bible LORD as opposed to L smile will be exposed to different Hebrew words LOV is the word Jehovah Yahweh.

That is the self revealing God. That's the God who reveals himself to you in the situations in life see a lot of us know God without knowing Jehovah Jehovah is when God reveals himself to you is that the law was with Joseph should shuffle copy is what religion they have a relationship. And the Lord was with him and the Lord made him a success. So there must be the spiritual relationship that you particularly when life has gone like a diligent and the Lord blessed him as a slave. God had much bigger plans in mind for Joseph.

Dr. Evans will tell us about them when he returns in a moment. Stay with the thing about serving an infinite God is that no matter how much you know there's always more to learn so brand-new to Scripture or an experienced ministry professional.

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Visit us today@tonyevans.org or call us at 1-800-800-3222 to make the arrangements and request your copy of the detours to destiny audio series. I'll repeat that contact information after part two of today's lesson. Here's Tony. Joseph is now in command and part of his house. Okay, but what Joseph L come in command in all major automation yet so I got a job as a make him second in command so I can get some experience in leadership dealing with skill set to be when I don't know all to give you you better take that with the right way once this is working for non-Christian is a pagan believer non-Christian company as most of you are will not work with non-Christians, non-Christian bosses, non-Christian corporations, non-Christians says about Jews verse five the Lord bless Egyptians house on the counter Joseph. That's the Lord's blessing was upon already in the house and let me do everything. In other words, the Christian was the best employee the same about the Christian non-Christians the Lord would mean it is because the questions were in the field. So let me ask you what you witness like at work. If you are accused of being a Christian on the job would be enough to convict you or would you be found innocent of all charges because you cost like you talk like to run around like to get drunk like there's nothing unique about you steal my self.you can work with you. You should do the best employee on time employee because it is with you non-Christian company non-Christian occupation span among the crowd because of your integrity because of your mistakes because of your morale and teach the computer stand out. You are different than all the employees so God is giving him experience in a non-Christian for what God is going to do in his life.

He's preparing a lie like this because of the verse three. Not his master saw that the Lord was with but that's a pagan man man go see the Lord is with only two ways word and deed that if he was a witness with his mouth when he backed it up with his feet even talk about Jesus and turning sloppy work to do good work and skip the fact that his faith was the basis of how he worked.

It was word and deed talk about you all day and nothing done but it didn't get stuff done early Jesus out. It was just working for paycheck. It was working for person and the law was with him as the Lord with you in your career. Once his wife is what his job was not his destiny can see a lot of us have made our jobs on destiny. See this job really was… A few minutes to get ready fired five job. If you owe him second in command job will be severely supportive as.I get a pink slip. So your job is not your destiny, your job may just be preparation for your destiny. Learn skills and is used for his kingdom. Make your job all in a better chance maybe you got little educational because his job was not his destiny but his relationship with God, which was going to determine his destiny was with him on his job.

God cares more about the development of the dream then the realization of the dream sees the dreamer's got the gift of having dreams and interpreting dreams he's dream and most of us a dream. As most of us have dreams. But God cares more about the development of the dreamer and the experience with the dream. Why, because when he gives you whatever dream he has for you. He wants to know that your shoulders can bear the weight of opportunity because if you get to a place that fills the dream, but you can bear the weight of your character to handle the dream that you hold you and the dream collapse. He wants to develop. The person before he gives you the purpose. Dr. Evans will come back in a moment with the final story about a misguided turtle and the lesson she can teachers about finding our destiny. But first we should look into getting a copy of Tony's current teaching series Joseph detours to destiny a set of nine messages that will help you understand that even when you feel like your life is stalled or gone completely off the rails.

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Let them straight into another.

Right now though Dr. Evans is back with this final story to wrap up our lesson for today. True story of the loggerhead tunnel.

What was once seen this… And long term female was getting ready to burst, so she climbed up into the sand dune in order to give birth after she gave birth to her little babies. She became disoriented and was not walking back toward the water that would be the Netflix. The walk back to what she was going for the house on the sand so some of the rangers came and they put they put shackles on the other two big… They put shackles on the legs of the turtle and flip it on its back. The turtle back to the water. Now the terminal half-life is been turned upside down because was flipped on its back and I don't know what the turtle was thinking, but why would you flip me over my back and put you in shape because you're going the wrong way. We gotta detour you. We gotta take you back to the war because you don't know where you are. You think you going right which are going well because you've been disoriented by you in the circumstances that you get you back. We gotta pull you against your will get back to the total recognize?

She went to the place you want to be in some way because this will make your desk the first aspect of the deed to the.nobody escapes he wants to be in God's will and experience God destiny in adverse circumstances that God created the alternative. Dr. Tony brought you made possible by the generous contributions listeners like