Moving through Closed Doors & How God Uses Disappointments to Call You Higher

In the Lord, we speak much of doors. Messiah Himself is the Door. Could by moving through doors reveal something crucial in our walk? How does God use disappointments (or undo appointments) to create the best appointment for your life?

“It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.”

—Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Luke 22:42
“Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”

See anybody can move ahead through an open door, but only God’s people move ahead through closed doors.
You know, God told Abraham your life is over in these places, close the door.
But I’ve got something better in Macedonia or to go to Macedonia in the book of Acts in Act 16.
And yet the mission that he went when he got that vision, it wasn’t what he thought it would be.
It didn’t go well, it didn’t go as he thought it’s God, but it was God.
See God can direct you and tell you something.
If something can be of God, it doesn’t mean everything is gonna go easy.
It doesn’t mean you’re not gonna have problems and setbacks and people who come against you and have things and not seeing the fruit that you wanted to see.
It doesn’t mean it’s not gone. God knows the end of it.
You know, Paul is doing all this ministry. He’s in jail. He’s doing that at the end.
He says, I don’t really have anybody around here and yet the seeds that he planted would, would change the history of the world, but he couldn’t see all that God could.
So just because you’re going through something just because things are not, doesn’t mean it’s not God.
Paul says now I will go to the gentiles. Sounds like Paul’s finished with the Jewish people.
Of course, he is Jewish. He can’t be finished with them. He is a Jew.
But you know what you see with Paul, he says, OK, that’s it.
And then, then the next, the next thing you see, he’s back in the next synagogue in the next city.
He always go, it’s like it’s the pattern of the gospel is to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
So he said, I’m going, you think he’s going to go far away?
He goes next door, verse seven, he departed from there and he went to the home of a certain man named, named Justice a worshiper of God whose house was next to the synagogue right there.
OK. So I’m leaving and he’s there right next door every day.
He, they invited Paul to make the home his headquarters at Corin and that house is going to become a real important house.
Paul would later speak of the ministry and, and speak of these people later on because this is going to be a gigantic work of God starting with that little house.
When I was, when I went to India ministering on a mission, they took us to the an Indian synagogue.
They had