Dharius Daniels - Learn These Lessons NOW for Your Future

It says, «I don’t want you to get to the next season without knowing what you need to know, and you’re trying to learn it, so I’m going to send you the lion and the bear. You might think this is bad timing, but you don’t realize I’m using the lion and the bear to cultivate confidence in you. When you have to deal with Goliath, you will have no doubts because you learned something in this season due to what you went through. The problem is that us and God don’t always agree on timing, but God says, „I’m so much God, so sovereign that I even arranged for you to experience certain problems at just the right time for you. We just don’t always agree on what that best time is.“ He says, „I’m sending you certain problems for a reason; there are certain things you need to learn in this season so you will know them in the next.“ He says, „What you’re learning in this season is not just for this season—it’s for the next. You don’t want to get to the next season without knowing what you need to know.“ Did you hear what I just said? I don’t want you to get to the next season without having learned what you need to learn, so I’m sending you the lion and the bear. You might think this is bad timing, but I’m using the lion and the bear to build your confidence, so that when you face Goliath, you will have no doubts because of what you’ve gone through. I don’t know if there’s anyone here being honest enough to say that if you’d had the same year you just had in 2022 ten years ago, you would have literally lost your mind. But God knew the right time to release you. I have just a few minutes—can I take it a little further? Can I push this just a little more? I said, „Do I have your permission to push this?“ Now this might shake your theological tree, but if I’m not shaking your theological tree, there’s no need for me to be here in Atlanta. If you’re only knowing the same things you knew before I got here, then why did I come here? God is so sovereign that His sovereignty is even seen in your mistakes. You might not be ready for that, are you? Oh, I can prove it to you. Abraham made a mistake, and the consequence of that mistake was called Ishmael. Then Abraham had a son, Isaac. Isaac had a son, Jacob. Jacob had a son, Joseph, who dealt with jealousy from his brothers and was literally put in a pit where they expected him to die. They considered killing him until one of his brothers, Judah—in a turn of events—said, „No, let’s not kill him; let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites.“ So Joseph was taken by the Ishmaelites, sold into slavery, and began working for a man named Potiphar. He was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife, went to prison, came out, interpreted Pharaoh’s dream, and eventually got positioned as the Prime Minister of Egypt, saving his family from famine. None of this would have happened without the initial mistake because the Ishmaelites come from the lineage of Ishmael. If Ishmael didn’t exist, the Ishmaelites wouldn’t exist, and if the Israelites didn’t exist, Joseph couldn’t be rescued from the pit. God, who is a flipper, will take the mistakes of your past and use them as transportation to your future. He says, „I’m so much God that even when the devil tries to use your mistakes, I’ll flip your own mistakes.“ Can I push you a little further? I have 13 reasons. Oh yeah, see, the Bible talks about this concept, and many of us haven’t really had time to work this out. It discusses the concept of recompense and vengeance, and as Christians, we really haven’t spent time unpacking what that means. We often interpret vengeance and recompense as God punishing people who have wronged us, saying, „Get them, Jesus,“ but we limit the idea of recompense to humans, not realizing that everyone has to pay, including the devil. Yes, recompense and vengeance are not God engaging in evil acts to punish those who cause us pain; rather, it is God empowering you to succeed despite it, and then placing those who wronged you in close proximity so they have to watch you prosper. Their punishment is witnessing your victory. „He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies.“ In 2023, they are about to watch you eat! Jesus says, „Give them something to eat.“ The disciples respond, „We can’t; we only have two fish and five loaves.“ Jesus says, „Bring it to me.“ He showed them that you don’t need more to have more. They said, „Oh, you don’t know what to do with that?“ He said, „Bring it to me and watch what I do.“ They brought it to Jesus.