#291 - Mark Hitchcock // God Orders Our Stops and Steps

The Daily Blade: Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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We explore how God guides through both steps and stops, drawing from Acts 16 where Paul faces repeated closed doors yet keeps moving. We share two simple principles—keep doing what you know to do and trust that God orders both your progress and your pauses. • acts 16 as a model for guidance • the value of movement amid uncertainty • how god uses closed doors to funnel direction • practicing the general will while awaiting specifics • discerning through scripture, counsel and circumstances • ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.
0:20.4	Welcome back to the Daily Blade. I'm Dr. Mark Hitchcock. I'm the pastor of Faith Bible
0:25.0	Church in Edmund, Oklahoma. I'm filling in for Kyle and Jobby this week.
0:30.2	You know, one of the most important things in the life of every believer is to know God's will.
0:34.7	Maybe you're seeking God's will for something in your life, and it just seems like a lot of doors keep closing, and you kind of don't know what to do. It seems like you've kind of run out of options. Well, I want to look at a passage today in the book of Acts, Acts chapter 16, that I think will help us. Acts 16, verse 6, this is on Paul's second missionary journey. He's got Timothy and Silas with him.
0:56.5	Says they passed through the Phrygian and Galatian regions, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit
1:01.1	to speak their word in Asia. And when they had come to Mycia, they were trying to go into
1:05.4	Bethenia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them. And passing by Micea, they came down to Troas.
1:13.7	There's a great story from the life of Daniel Boone.
1:16.2	He was one of America's heroes on the frontier.
1:19.4	Once he was returning from some uncharted forests beyond the Kentucky River, and a lady
1:23.9	asked him if he'd ever been lost.
1:25.9	And the famous frontiersman said this.
1:27.9	He said, I can't say I was ever lost, ma'am, but I was bewildered once for three days.
1:33.1	But the apostle Paul could say the same thing as he was traveling there on his second missionary
1:37.0	journey. In Acts 16, Paul was clearly perplexed and bewildered for an extended stretch of time
1:43.9	as he was seeking God's will and God's
1:46.3	guidance, but he just encountered one closed door after another. The same thing's often true in your
1:53.3	life and my life. We can find ourselves perplexed and bewildered as we kind of navigate a forest of
1:59.4	decisions that we face every day.
2:01.6	Maybe a decision about marriage.
2:03.6	Should I get married?
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