Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

If you can see it right, he's actually giving you everything you cried out for.

We just never should have been arrogant enough to come up with the formula of how we thought he was going to get us there.

So I use this analogy all of the time.

How many of you know the Bible said the steps of a good manner are ordered of the Lord?

Familiar with the verse?

Okay, I can't see too many lights in here, TV church. of a good manner ordered of the Lord. Familiar with the verse. Okay.

Can't see too many lights in here.

TV church, my God.

Granddaddy wanted to be on TV and I'm still dealing with the lights after all these years.

The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord, right?

I want to say to you that I believe the verse is only relevant when the stairs go this way.

Because you do not need a reminder that the steps are ordered of the Lord when it's an ascending staircase.

You'll need the promise when it looks like every step you're taking

is going in the wrong direction and then you say the steps of a good man are ordered of the lord

these songs about goodness are not relevant to people who don't experience bad things.

Come on.

They can only be sung correctly when you walk through the tragedy,

came out on the other side and said,

if I'd have known it was going to be like this,

I'd walk through it a thousand times again.

As much hell as it was in that moment,

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