Higher Than Our Plans

We explore why God’s ways are higher than ours and how to find peace when answers delay. From Isaiah 55 to the raising of Lazarus, we learn to rest like a child, trust God’s timing, and worship while we wait.

• God’s thoughts and ways far above ours
• humility and repentance as the doorway to trust
• Psalm 131 and the weaned child’s calm
• honest questions about suffering and delay
• Lazarus as a picture of purposeful timing
• unique miracles and freedom from comparison
• gratitude, worship, and testimony as daily practice
• prayer for victory and steadfast faith

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Transcript

God’s Thoughts Beyond Ours

Prayer For Wisdom And Understanding

Theme: God’s Ways Not Our Ways

Wrestling With Unanswered Questions

Childlike Trust And Humility

God Shows Up In His Time

Lazarus And Unique Miracles

Praise, Testimony, And Closing Blessing

Final Thanksgiving And Victory Prayer

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Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. We come to you with cavalry greetings and the living word of God. In the name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We pray for his abundant blessings, grace, and power for all our listeners in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God's infinite thoughts are far greater than our limited ability to comprehend them. No wonder. The psalmist exclaimed in Psalm 139 verse 17. Psalm 139 verse 17 says, How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them? Hallelujah. Let us pray. Our wonderful Father and our God, we magnify your name. There is no one like you. From everlasting to everlasting, you are our God. There is no one near you. It's only by your love and grace for us that you created us in your image. Thank you for taking care of our needs and inspiration to follow your footsteps. In your words today, Lord, please teach us how to appreciate your mighty power. Grant us the knowledge and understanding of your working. This will greatly bless our lives and ministry. Make your ways known to us, Lord. This will enhance our appreciation and worship of you. Let it be so, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed. Amen. The topic of our message is God's ways, not our ways. God's ways, not our ways. Are the text taken from the book of Isaiah, chapter 55, we read verses 8 and 9. Isaiah 55, verses 8 and 9. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways. Says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Brethren, the text we just read highlights that God's perspective and plans are vastly superior and different from human understanding. Comparing difference to the height of the heavens and the earth. In contextual terms, the passage is part of a call to repentance, offering God's mercy and higher ways to those who turn to Him. It emphasizes the need for humility, acknowledging that human, finite minds cannot fully comprehend the infinite sovereign plans of God. It serves as a reminder to trust God even when circumstances do not make sense for a human perspective. Our hearts as human beings are filled with so many questions for God. Why? When? How? We have to wrestle with faith because of those questions. How can we fully trust a God we don't understand? How can we have faith when God's ways seem even cruel at times? When we try to comprehend God's ways, we can become frustrated. And his actions often do not make sense to our earth-burn mind. We question God's ways when young people die, when tragedy strikes righteous people, when the wicked prosper, or evil seems to triumph. So we beat on heaven's door with our demand for answers. And no answer comes but this one my ways are higher than your ways. In Psalm 131, verses 1 and 2. Psalm 131 verses 1 and 2. We discover the key finding peace, which ways we don't understand. This is my heart is not proud, Lord. My eyes are not hunting. I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have calmed and quieted myself. I am like a wind child with his mother. Like a young child, I am content. No. She may correct him. Take him to the doctor for vaccinations. Tell him no when he wants something very much. But the child trusts her and loves her because he knows she loves him. He rests on his mother in complete humility and trusts her superior wisdom and provision. That's what we must do with God when his ways are beyond our comprehension. In a similar way, we know our God will show up like a mighty warrior in our case. Or in the middle of these challenges, or just when the unbelievers have started believing that they are having an opportunity to mock us. The short thing is that he will show up. Hallelujah. His timing is usually appropriate. For Lazarus, for instance, he waited till the fourth day when the body has started smelling before he raised the dead body. In John chapter 11, verses 43 and 44. John 11, verses 43 and 44, the Bible says, Now, when he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, comfort. And he who had died came out born hand and foot with grave cloth. And his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go. The dead body received life. No, those two miracles were the same. That means the way he will solve your problem will be different from how he will solve mine. What is definite, however, is that once you know him and call upon him, he will answer you in his own way. Nothing and absolutely nothing is beyond him. You don't give up. Trust him and start thanking him for what he will do. Sing this great song with me as we round up. He has promised he will never fail. How we trust him and we follow him. He has promised he will never fail. His faithfulness is forevermore. His faithfulness. My testimonies will shake the world, Lord. Thank you, everlasting Father. In Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed. Amen. Want to appreciate you for your patience and interest in listening to this broadcast. We believe that you have been greatly blessed. You can also listen to this message and several other previous ones on diverse topics on our podcast streaming, codenamed The Voice of Trinity. Kindly help us share the messages with friends and loved ones. This will encourage many who have troubled in mind and assist the salvation of their souls. Thank you very much and God bless you richly as you do so. Amen. My name is Benjamin Olasu Kami Olami Chulo. Let us pray. Our great Father and God, we are full of thanksgiving. How great thou art, Lord. Thank you for your creations. Thank you for your plan for our salvation. Thank you for the vistas of your great works around us. Blessed be your name, Lord. Thank you for your anointing surprises to gladen our hearts and give us access to your greater plans for us. Father, we have heard your word. We have seen your greatness, Lord. We now know it is in humility that you relate with us. Yet you love us. Father, this one thing we ask, that before the world we ask where is our God. Please show forth thyself, Lord, as a mighty warrior and our defender. Grant us victory all around us. Let it be so, Lord. For we pray it in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.