Latest / The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey / Today's Word 02-26-26 Planted Before You Arrived
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I am Sherry Mackett. It's time right now for today's word.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Planted before you arrived. Planted before you arrived Looke nineteen
- 0:15Speaker 1: three and four, says Zaychias. Tried to get to a
- 0:19Speaker 1: look at Jesus, but he was too short to see
- 0:22Speaker 1: over the crowd, so he ran ahead and climbed a
- 0:25Speaker 1: sycamore fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going
- 0:29Speaker 1: to pass that way. You know, Zachaias had a problem.
- 0:34Speaker 1: He was too short to see over the crowd. Jesus
- 0:37Speaker 1: was passing through Jericho and the streets were packed. If
- 0:41Speaker 1: he stayed where he was, he would miss his moment.
- 0:44Speaker 1: But Zachaias didn't realize was that God had already prepared
- 0:50Speaker 1: a solution centuries before he was even born. See there
- 0:53Speaker 1: was a sycamore tree planted along that road. Sycamore trees
- 0:58Speaker 1: can live for hundreds of years. That means long before
- 1:01Speaker 1: zach Kaa has ever struggled with his reputation, long before
- 1:05Speaker 1: he ever became a tax collective, long before he ever
- 1:09Speaker 1: felt the ache of needing mercy. God allowed a tree
- 1:13Speaker 1: to be planted in exactly the right spot. Come on, Jesus,
- 1:17Speaker 1: it wasn't random, y'all. It was providence generations earlier. God
- 1:22Speaker 1: knew that one day a man desperate for a fresh
- 1:25Speaker 1: start would need elevation. That tree would give him the
- 1:29Speaker 1: vantage point that would lead to an encounter with Jesus,
- 1:33Speaker 1: and that encounter would change everything. Salvation came to his
- 1:37Speaker 1: house that day because God had already prepared the path.
- 1:41Speaker 1: See here's what that means for you and for me.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Your tree is already planted. You may feel like you're
- 1:49Speaker 1: at a disadvantage right now.
- 1:51Speaker 2: The odds seing stacked against you.
- 1:53Speaker 1: The crowd looks too big, the obstacles feel too high.
- 1:56Speaker 1: But what you can't see is what God is already arranged.
- 2:01Speaker 2: How he's been working behind.
- 2:03Speaker 1: The scenes, lining up opportunities, positioning people, orchestrating timing. You're
- 2:09Speaker 1: worried about the right door opened, but God planeted years ago.
- 2:13Speaker 1: You're wondering how you're gonna overcome that setback, but God
- 2:17Speaker 1: already made provision. You're trying to figure out how it'll
- 2:21Speaker 1: all comes together, but Heaven is never scrambling. See the
- 2:26Speaker 1: blessings you're about to step in two didn't start last week.
- 2:31Speaker 1: It may have started generations ago. The fable you'll experience
- 2:36Speaker 1: didn't appear overnight. God has been aligning details you don't
- 2:40Speaker 1: even know about. Zach Kay has thought he was just
- 2:43Speaker 1: climbing a tree. In reality, he was stepping into a
- 2:46Speaker 1: divine appointment. Come on, Jesus, there are moments coming in
- 2:49Speaker 1: your life that you couldn't have manufacture if you tried,
- 2:53Speaker 1: You couldn't manipulate, you couldn't even force it. They'll be
- 2:56Speaker 1: unmistakably the hand of God. The right person is gonna
- 2:59Speaker 1: show up at the right time, The right conversations will happen,
- 3:02Speaker 1: the right opportunities will appear, and you'll realize this was
- 3:06Speaker 1: planet long before I got here.
- 3:10Speaker 2: So do yourself a favor.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Stop striving, stop worrying about how it's gonna happen. Your
- 3:16Speaker 1: responsibility is simple obedience. God's responsibility is orchestration. Come o, Jesus,
- 3:23Speaker 1: run ahead, climb in faith, Take the step, and trust
- 3:26Speaker 1: that when Jesus passes by, everything you need will already
- 3:31Speaker 1: be in place. Father, Thank you that you be go
- 3:33Speaker 1: before us and prepare what we cannot see.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Thank you for the trees you plant, the.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Doors you've already arranged, and the blessings you've set in motion.
- 3:42Speaker 1: Help us to trust your time and and walk by faith. God.
- 3:44Speaker 1: We believe you're directing our steps and bringing us into
- 3:48Speaker 1: divine appointments that will move us into our purpose in
- 3:51Speaker 1: Jesus' name.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Now that's your word for today.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Take it apply to your everyday life, and you continue
- 3:58Speaker 1: to be encouraged and inspired your early morning praise party.
- 4:01Speaker 2: I am Sherry macke