Highlight - 372 When God Interrupts Your Plans: How Divine Disruptions Shape Disciples

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Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Divine interruptions often feel like setbacks, but Scripture reveals them as invitations to deeper trust and worship. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar explore how God lovingly disrupts plans, trials, and expectations to accomplish purposes far greater than we can see. They explain that what feels like chaos is often God positioning His people rather than punishing them, and that faith is revealed most clearly when plans unravel. Drawing from biblical examples, they show how God uses suffering, deto...

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0:00.0	Seriously, I shudder to think where I'd be now without Jesus interrupting my life.
0:05.6	I'd be rich and successful, hopeless and helpless, sitting in the shadow of death,
0:09.1	hating for hell.
0:10.6	And what a horror beyond words to be rich, hopeless and helpless before death.
0:15.9	Oh, man.
0:17.8	Plans.
0:18.2	You know, it's been said, if you want to make God laugh, tell me your plans for the day.
0:21.5	That's one of my favorite sayings, man.
0:23.3	This is what I got going on today, Lord. Now, here it is. Bless it. Right? But no, think about it.
0:28.5	The most loving thing that God can do is interrupt your day, and even in your eyes, perhaps even sour your day, right?
0:37.1	Jonah, did he plan on going into the belly
0:39.9	of a big fish? Think of the disciples. Was the cross part of their ultimate goal that was inside
0:45.0	their mind? Mary didn't wake up saying, hey, you know what? I'm going to have the Messiah,
0:50.0	you know, come inside of my womb today. You know, God's interruptions are the most loving thing that
0:58.2	God can do instead of our life. Even Jesus in Matthew 14, right? Like he's, he's tired. He goes on a
1:05.0	boat to get away from the crowds. He's expecting to have like a day to himself. He gets to the other side and there is a crowd of people.
1:14.0	And I love the response.
1:15.0	You preach on this often.
1:16.0	I love the response from Jesus.
1:17.2	He wasn't like, oh, come on, I wanted this time.
1:19.6	He didn't turn the boat around to look for another shore.
1:22.9	He responded with compassion.
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