WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.740 Welcome to Pamoja Ministry. There are moments 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:09.080 in life when prayer changes. You are no longer 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.060 asking God for something convenient. You are 00:00:12.060 --> 00:00:15.480 no longer asking Him to make life easier. You 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.699 are standing before something. You cannot move. 00:00:19.100 --> 00:00:21.980 You have done what you know to do. You have tried. 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.660 You have prayed. You have waited. You have fought. 00:00:26.019 --> 00:00:28.679 And eventually, you arrive at the boundary of 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.589 your own strength. and from somewhere deep inside 00:00:31.589 --> 00:00:36.829 your spirit comes a cry, God, I need you to intervene. 00:00:37.990 --> 00:00:41.229 This season of Pamoja begins with one extraordinary 00:00:41.229 --> 00:00:44.329 moment in scripture. Jehoshaphat entered a battle, 00:00:44.810 --> 00:00:48.009 the enemy surrounded him, he cried out, and the 00:00:48.009 --> 00:00:51.250 Bible says, the Lord helped him, but it doesn't 00:00:51.250 --> 00:00:54.880 stop there, and God moved them. There is a mystery 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:58.320 hidden inside those words. Sometimes, God gives 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:01.380 you strength to face what is coming. But sometimes, 00:01:01.939 --> 00:01:05.420 God moves what is coming. And that revelation 00:01:05.420 --> 00:01:08.680 opened the door to an entire journey. What happens 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.219 when God intervenes? Sometimes, He helps you. 00:01:12.500 --> 00:01:15.780 Sometimes, He carries you. When your strength 00:01:15.780 --> 00:01:19.239 disappears, He sustains you. When you cannot 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:22.629 see another step, He carries you somewhere. you 00:01:22.629 --> 00:01:25.849 could never reach by yourself. Sometimes God 00:01:25.849 --> 00:01:28.769 looks at what has been pursuing you and establishes 00:01:28.769 --> 00:01:31.969 a boundary no farther. And sometimes he doesn't 00:01:31.969 --> 00:01:35.790 merely stop the battle, he reverses it. The thing 00:01:35.790 --> 00:01:37.909 that looked like your ending becomes the beginning 00:01:37.909 --> 00:01:40.609 of something else. The prison becomes a doorway. 00:01:41.109 --> 00:01:44.709 The accusation collapses. The trap breaks. The 00:01:44.709 --> 00:01:47.409 pursuer becomes defeated. And you discover that 00:01:47.409 --> 00:01:50.129 divine intervention does not always mean escaping 00:01:50.129 --> 00:01:54.109 the battle. Sometimes it means, the battle changes 00:01:54.109 --> 00:01:56.750 direction, but what about when God doesn't move 00:01:56.750 --> 00:01:59.489 immediately? What about the waiting? What about 00:01:59.489 --> 00:02:02.290 the silence? What about the deadline that passes 00:02:02.290 --> 00:02:06.170 while you are still praying? There too, we discovered 00:02:06.170 --> 00:02:09.810 another mystery. Invisible does not mean inactive. 00:02:10.430 --> 00:02:13.710 Silent does not mean absent. Waiting does not 00:02:13.710 --> 00:02:17.449 mean forgotten. Joseph was still in prison when 00:02:17.449 --> 00:02:20.310 Pharaoh began dreaming. something had already 00:02:20.310 --> 00:02:23.009 started moving, even though Joseph could not 00:02:23.009 --> 00:02:26.830 see it. And perhaps what we call, God finally 00:02:26.830 --> 00:02:29.949 showed up, is sometimes simply the moment we 00:02:29.949 --> 00:02:33.650 finally recognize, he was there the entire time. 00:02:34.289 --> 00:02:37.289 And that brings us to the footprints. Two sets 00:02:37.289 --> 00:02:39.990 of footprints while the road was easy, but through 00:02:39.990 --> 00:02:43.189 the fire, the water, the mud, the wilderness, 00:02:43.610 --> 00:02:47.280 the valley, only one. And the question rises, 00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:51.340 God, where were you when I needed you most? And 00:02:51.340 --> 00:02:54.460 then comes the answer. Those were not your footprints. 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:58.379 They were mine. You weren't walking. I was carrying 00:02:58.379 --> 00:03:01.379 you. And perhaps that is the mystery of divine 00:03:01.379 --> 00:03:04.819 intervention. Sometimes you recognize God's hand 00:03:04.819 --> 00:03:08.199 while he is moving. Sometimes you recognize it 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:11.800 while he is carrying you. And sometimes you only 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:14.539 recognize it when you look back. You look at 00:03:14.539 --> 00:03:17.120 what should have destroyed you, the door that 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:20.819 closed, the battle you survived, the snare that 00:03:20.819 --> 00:03:24.120 broke, the strength that somehow returned, the 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.379 faith that somehow remained, and suddenly Psalm 00:03:27.379 --> 00:03:31.759 124 becomes your testimony. If the Lord had not 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:35.439 been on my side, where would I be? This is more 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.379 than a season about miracles. It is a journey 00:03:38.379 --> 00:03:41.500 into the mystery of God's presence when human 00:03:41.500 --> 00:03:44.400 strength reaches its limit. If you are facing 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:47.860 something you cannot move. If you are exhausted 00:03:47.860 --> 00:03:50.900 from carrying something too heavy. If you are 00:03:50.900 --> 00:03:54.599 waiting for an answer you cannot see. If you 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:56.819 are wondering whether God has forgotten you. 00:03:57.340 --> 00:03:59.860 If you have survived something and still don't 00:03:59.860 --> 00:04:04.919 understand how. This season is for you. Ten conversations. 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:10.139 One journey. From God, where are you? To the 00:04:10.139 --> 00:04:13.810 revelation. You were there the entire time. This 00:04:13.810 --> 00:04:17.410 is The Mystery of Divine Intervention, Season 00:04:17.410 --> 00:04:21.750 7 of Pamoja Podcast. Find Pamoja Podcast on your 00:04:21.750 --> 00:04:25.329 favorite podcast platform and join us on YouTube 00:04:25.329 --> 00:04:30.310 at pamojapodcast9924. Come with your questions. 00:04:30.629 --> 00:04:32.810 Come with your battles. Come with your waiting. 00:04:33.189 --> 00:04:36.410 Come with the thing you cannot move. And together, 00:04:36.689 --> 00:04:40.089 let us discover what happens when God intervenes. 00:04:40.170 --> 00:04:43.459 Keep praying. Keep believing. Keep trusting God 00:04:43.459 --> 00:04:46.319 and wherever this season finds you, remember 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:47.839 you are not alone.