{"id":16176,"date":"2017-06-25T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T18:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16176"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:30:49","slug":"hidden-for-you-not-hidden-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/hidden-for-you-not-hidden-from-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden For You, Not Hidden From You"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hidden in Plain Sight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

God has a plan for all of us.\u00a0 God has a plan for you<\/strong>.\u00a0 This plan will be hidden and kept secret until you are ready to discover it.\u00a0 Sadly, most will never be ready.\u00a0 Most people will go to their graves never knowing what God prepared for them on this side of eternity.<\/p>\n

I was born-again in a dramatic way.\u00a0 However, after a short time I got caught up in the religious system.\u00a0 Religion has power; power is to get you to conform and be like everyone else in the group.\u00a0 In religion, you are conditioned to believe certain doctrines.\u00a0 Many times, you may not know why you believe them.\u00a0 Eventually the religious life leads to a predictable pattern of the mundane.\u00a0 Repetitious works keep you going until you burn out and slowly drift into a state of complacency.<\/p>\n

I was born-again in 1973 and it wasn\u2019t until around 2009 that I began to take a hard look at my life and the results I was experiencing.\u00a0 I began seeking, truly seeking, with all my heart.\u00a0 I searched for answers in books and through other ministries. I delved into God\u2019s Word and began to question why my life was so different from what the Bible said it could be.\u00a0 When I realized where I was compared what God promised in His Word, I GOT MAD!\u00a0 I spent 36 years of my life missing out on what God predestined for me! \u00a0You see, God kept His hidden plan for me secret until I was ready to take the necessary steps to discover it.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit began to lead me down a path that would be revealed to me step by step.<\/p>\n

God will not reveal His total plan for your life all at once.\u00a0 As you take a step, He will reveal the next one.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because, He wants to keep your destiny hidden from Satan.\u00a0 If Satan knew where God was taking you, he would try to thwart that plan.\u00a0 God is pretty creative in hiding things! \u00a0Look what God did to the devil regarding Jesus.\u00a0 He got Satan to believe that if Jesus was crucified, God\u2019s plan to rescue mankind from the curse would be over.\u00a0 God pulled a fast one on Satan.\u00a0 Because Jesus was a perfect man and also God, He was qualified to be an eternal sacrifice for all mankind.\u00a0 When Christ was crucified, so was sin and every other negative thing.\u00a0 Everything that Satan did was undone by the crucifixion of Jesus.\u00a0 Satan didn\u2019t have a clue! \u00a0The \u201cfoolishness\u201d of the cross became Satan\u2019s undoing!<\/p>\n

In like manner, God has hidden what He is doing with you from the enemy.\u00a0 Satan tries to defeat you every single day and thinks he\u2019s getting the best of you\u2026but<\/em> God has a plan.\u00a0 IF you will truly seek God with all your heart, the Spirit will begin to lead you step by step down the path God has for you. You will not see the end, but you will see the next step.\u00a0 When you do, take that step by faith.<\/p>\n

Let me give you an example.\u00a0 God, since 2009, has been leading me in a new direction. God instructed and I followed.\u00a0 I had been serving the Lord in the capacity of a pastor for years.\u00a0 I thought it was my calling.\u00a0 However, God led me to give up pastoring and brought my wife and I to Faith Life Church<\/a> in New Albany, Ohio.\u00a0 I was drawn to the teaching of the Pastor, Gary Keesee<\/a>.\u00a0 His teaching resonated with me.\u00a0 He was presenting clear biblical solutions to the problems I had been having.\u00a0 My wife and I attended the services for a couple of years. \u00a0I also got involved with a small group of kingdom-minded business people and was eventually encouraged to conduct a small group of my own.<\/p>\n

When we said yes to lead the small group, God gave me an outline on what to cover.\u00a0 I called the group, SUCCESS\u2014IT\u2019S YOUR CHOICE.\u00a0 Our first session was more than amazing.\u00a0 The group loved what I was teaching.\u00a0 When it came time to do another session, we did it again and many of the same people returned.\u00a0 By the third round, we had to limit the size of the group because the group was getting too large.\u00a0 I was so encouraged!\u00a0 People were engaged and excited about success and God\u2019s plan for them.\u00a0 My goal was to present practical steps that lead to success based on proven strategies I have used over the years.<\/p>\n

Then I was encouraged by a few to write a book that contained the lessons I had prepared.\u00a0 I wanted to write a book for years, but had no idea how to go about it.\u00a0 I had the content, but now what?<\/p>\n

God arranged to put a brother in my group who already learned how to get a book published on Amazon.\u00a0 (There is an entire story behind this, but that\u2019s for another time.).\u00a0 As of this writing we are doing the final edits. Within a couple of weeks, SUCCESS\u2014IT\u2019S YOUR CHOICE, 10 PROVEN BIBLICAL STRATEGIES FOR LIVING THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS<\/strong>, will be introduced to the world.\u00a0 Also, as a result of that small group, my blog, SendOutYourRoots.com<\/strong> was born.\u00a0 So far, I have written nearly 50 articles which are touching lives all over the world!<\/p>\n

Do you see the pattern here?\u00a0 Step by step the Lord has been leading me to write!\u00a0 I am a salesman with a high school education for crying out loud!\u00a0 I never imagined that I would have a Blog and be writing a book.\u00a0 Now I have plans to write even more books!<\/p>\n

God wanted what He has taught me to get out to others.\u00a0 One of His strategies was to make me a writer.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know this from the beginning.\u00a0 It was revealed to me step by step. I am learning and developing my writing skills and God has given me an excellent partner, my wife Sandy, to help me fulfill this calling.\u00a0 One of her majors was English!\u00a0 Part of God\u2019s plan?\u00a0 She is my help-mate in every way and I couldn\u2019t do this without her.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the next step for me?\u00a0 I do not know! \u00a0That\u2019s the exciting part!\u00a0 One thing I do know is that God will reveal the next step while hiding His entire plan for me from the enemy.<\/p>\n

What is God showing you?\u00a0 What is that next step you<\/strong> should take?\u00a0 If you don\u2019t take the first step the next step won\u2019t be revealed to you.\u00a0 You\u2019ll never know the deep and hidden things God has planned for you. \u00a0Please don\u2019t let that happen!\u00a0 Take time to meditate on this portion of His Word:<\/p>\n

What eye did not see and ear
\n<\/em>did not hear,
\n<\/em>and what never entered the human mind\u2014
\n<\/em>God has prepared this for those
\n<\/em>who love Him.
\n<\/em>Now God has revealed these things to us
\n<\/em>by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches
\n<\/em>everything, even the depths of God.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0~1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (HCSB)<\/em><\/p>\n

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God will not reveal His total plan for your life all at once.\u00a0 As you take a step, He will reveal the next one.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because, He wants to keep your destiny hidden from Satan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,202],"tags":[560,454,563,561,558,557,562,559],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}