Preach The Word Of God

Which is really the only kind of control God gave us. We’ll save that for tomorrow. We want to control everybody else, we want to control our circumstances, we want to control God, we want to control the future, we want to control our kids. We just want to control everything, so what does God use?  He uses things out of our control that we just can’t do one thing about, no matter how hard we try, no matter how mad it makes us, we cannot make that kid change, we cannot make that spouse change, we cannot change the company we work for, we can’t get rid of the traffic, (laughing) we can’t keep people from waking us up in hotel rooms when we have “do not disturb” signs on the door. We cannot keep the husband from rattling the cracker bag in the morning. (laughing)

You weren’t here this morning but I told a little story about how when we’re out in these hotels, we don’t have a lot of space and I’m trying to study and Dave was in the room this morning trying to get crackers out of a bag and I thought, “how long will it take you to get a cracker out of that bag?” I’m trying to pray and be spiritual and over in the corner I’m hearing: crunch, crunch. Do you know what he said to me as soon as the meeting was over?  He said, “you wait until in the morning!” so when we got back to the room tonight, the first thing he did was run and grab the two cracker bags and run over to where I was and rub them together. (laughing)

So I want you to know that I pay for these messages that I preach to you. (laughing) I had Joel and Victoria Osteen on the tv program the other day and I love a story she told. She said the other day Joel was shooting a bb gun with his son and she said, “I got all worried about it and didn’t want him to do it and said, “Joel, stop that. Somebody’s going to get hurt.” he’s like, “nobody’s going to get hurt.  Everything’s fine. I know what I’m doing.