We live in a very mobile world. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys of the Bible.

Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

They were having the most amazing revival in Samaria.

Philip was preaching, people were getting saved, God was doing miraculous things,

I mean, it was powerful. Acts chapter 8, verse 8 says, and there was great joy in that city.

Isn't that what we want for our city? Isn't that what we pray for

to see the joy of God's presence and people right with God and in fellowship with one another?

And you would imagine that'd be a good place to stay. Let's just stop here.

Philip could just settle down and live there and continue to minister there.

And it's in that context, in the middle of all of that, verse 26, that the angel of the Lord spake into Philip, saying arise and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

I'll just tell you, this makes no sense. From a human standpoint, to leave the city and go to the desert, to leave blessing and go to nothing, to leave this time of

refreshing and go to what seems like barrenness, Lord, what are you doing? I want to talk to you

today about divine appointments.

You see, as we journey through life, Philip was called on here to make a journey,

and as he's journeying from place to place to place, God is making divine appointments for him.

There are some appointments that we set for ourselves and then there are others that

are set for us. Birth was your first divine appointment. God made that one for you. And death and

judgment is your final divine appointment. The Bible says it's appointed him in once to die and after this

the judgment. But between those two divine appointments, there are other divine appointments.

Divine appointments that you either keep or you miss.

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