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Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
How to Get Out of Bad Situations
"There is an escape route and the angels are assigned to help you."
~ Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
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Wisdom is more precious than rubies. Nothing you desire can compare with her. —Proverbs 3:15 NLT
DISCUSSION:
God is a warrior, and He wants to come into your situation and vindicate you. God is not going to let things go for very long before He intervenes in your life. You have to trust Him. He hasn’t changed His mind about you or your situation. He wants to come into bad situations and correct them and take care of it, but it involves timing and relationships. The Lord uses wisdom, and we've learned that we don't always act. We're not reactionary when something happens, especially when the devil is acting up. A lot of people I considered mature when I was growing up were people that I watched could handle themselves in a situation. We don't want to react, and you must have the Lord's wisdom. Don't be reactionary in your soul and in your flesh. A lot of us want to just do something about it right away. If you get into an argument or a situation where you're vindictive, and you don't realize it, but you've escalated it by feeding into it, and they’ve pulled you in. A person can pull you in. I know people pre-emptively formulate what they're going to say on purpose just to push your buttons. Certain people can push your buttons, and they have an effect on you to do that. They say certain things or do certain things just to set you up. When I was growing up, I thought, why were some people able to handle that?
They said, “Well, we've been through this before, we had those feelings just like everyone else to do something about it, or fight and argue back, and you could win the argument, but really not win at all.” My professor in college said, “You can win an argument and the person can still go to hell.” “You could win a theological argument about something, and then the person you win the argument with doesn't accept it and they could still be lost.” Wisdom is knowing when to speak, when to react, and knowing when not to.
I have found in over 30 years of working with the public, dealing with 800 people a day, in an aircraft where they already felt fear and out of control, that you had to watch how you react and respond. It was very abrasive at times. We had to be trained on how to disarm the situation instead of allowing it to escalate. You had to watch what you said and how you reacted. When I was learning this from people who had been at the job for a long time, they said, I feel the same way you do, but I'm not going to let them know that. I'm going to be the one who is wise.
When I met Jesus, one of the things that I noticed about Him is He never said anything unless He meant it. Even though He's God, I could tell as He was talking, He was thinking. I was with Him for 45 minutes, and I watched him. People asked me if He had sandals on, but I never looked down at His feet. They’d ask if I saw His nail prints, and I said, “I never looked at Him, I was always looking at His face.” I was locked for 45 minutes on His face. Even though He used His hands and He walked around, I was always focused on His face.
The reason why I wanted to look into His eyes, is because I wanted to see how He operates and to see if there were any similarities or good traits and bad traits that I had. What I found was He always thinks about what He's going to say, even though He's never wrong. I asked Him, “What are you thinking?” He said, “I remember the day I thought of you, and I breathed you into your mother's womb.” I heard Him have that thought when I was looking at Him and asked Him that question. He said, “You came out perfect, you came out exactly as I thought of you that day.” He was thinking all these things, but He never said them. Then He said it. Wisdom is you can think things and listen to the Lord and gather wisdom, you don't have to react to something. I don't know if all of you have had this.
WHEN TO RESPOND
I know you've probably had this happen too, but there have been times where you felt like you weren't supposed to respond. That is really hard to do. It was exactly what was meant. That was the most effective thing. If you want to shut the devil down, just don't respond to him. He wants all the attention. He tries to get you to focus on him. He's trying to play you into a role where you're submissive to him and take suggestions. That's what happened in the garden with what he did with Adam and Eve. He had to position them in a place where they would listen to him and consider what he was saying. If you don't consider it, he has no power whatsoever. If he starts to do lying signs and wonders to try to scare you, say to Him the Lord is in control of my life, and I have angels all around me, and you can't even manipulate my environment anymore; you shut them down. You'll see that wisdom is what you need to invest in. Jesus has asked me before, “If you could have anything you want from Me, what would you ask for?” I replied, “Wisdom.” I didn't even hesitate, Solomon said, “if you ask for wisdom, you've asked for the best thing.” Even James says that if you ask for wisdom, you will get it. It's a guaranteed answer to prayer. When we teach on prayer, I always tell people to start with training wheels. Ask for something as a guarantee; ask for wisdom.
There is no shifting of shadows in Heaven. If you ask for wisdom, God's going to give it to you. I know this will build your faith up in prayer. The book of Proverbs is full of information about wisdom. In Proverbs, chapter four talks about wisdom. It's the most valuable commodity, and it says that we should do everything we can to obtain it. In Paul's writings, he talks about having the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him (Ephesians 1:17). If God ever says to you, “You can have anything you want,” you should never hesitate; you should say, “I want to know you.” If you respond that way, you're going to get everything. I'm telling you this because I was in Heaven, and I saw how it works up there. Everybody in Heaven can't wait for Jesus to come around because they get their time with Him. He continually visits people. He keeps going for eternity. He sits on the throne, but I have seen Him in different places, and I don't know how He does it.
The people can't wait to have their time with Him, and they live in Heaven. They cannot wait to go to the throne room and worship Him. Everybody wants to go to the throne room and worship. They're in Heaven and they all want is to talk to Jesus. Their time in Heaven is spent doing whatever they are assigned to do. The reference points are when they get to talk to Jesus in person, and they get to go to the throne by invitation. They have appointments to do this. Everyone gets appointments to visit with Jesus, and they go from appointment to appointment. Everything in between is just being in Heaven. The people love to be in Heaven, but they wait for those visitations and those times with Him.
IF YOU GET INTO A BAD SITUATION
If you get in a bad situation, you could sit beat yourself up about it and think it’s probably your fault. You might ask yourself, “How did I get into this?” You're trying to reverse engineer the situation to figure out how did this all happen?
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For example, “How did I just get this flat tire? How did I just miss paying my bills? How did I fall asleep and miss work?” You can blame yourself for all of this, and your first response is, “Holy Spirit, I'm weak right now, and I need your help.” Don't concentrate on the why. I know it’s hard because if you talk to people that are softhearted and they're in trouble, they are already sorry, and when you question them, they had nothing to do with what happened at all, but they're blaming themselves. The way you get out of a bad situation is you turn yourself in immediately and you ask for wisdom. You may see a map with an escape route.
Paul said that there is no temptation that is taking you, that is not common to man, and God will give you the strength to stand up under any temptation. He will provide a way of escape for you to bear up under it, an escape route (1 Corinthians 10:13). I was taught this when I was in Heaven that there is an escape route and that the angels are assigned to help you, but they don't want you to waste time and a lot of us waste time and beat ourselves up, asking “Why did this happen?” Jesus was asked that all the time. Why was this person born crippled? Why did this person die? Was it the sins of their Fathers or their sins? Jesus said none of that. He said, “It's because the glory of God's going to be revealed right now because I'm going to pray,” and He changes it. That is what Jesus taught me, and it’s how He thinks. There's a way out.
Most people wait too long to turn themselves in.
If you find yourself in a bad situation, how do you get out of it?
How do get out of asking “why” all the time, and get into “turning yourself in,” and allow God to locate you?
HOW WE HEAR FROM GOD
Allow God to speak to you through this map in your spirit. When I was in Heaven, I saw that words are actually images as well, and they have taste and color. Things in Heaven have many dimensions. Down here, we hear something or see something, and we say, “God said this, or God showed me that.” The Lord doesn't speak to me in words. He speaks to me visually. I can shake somebody's hand and have a vision, but they'll never know that I had it. Then from what I see, I know what I will do for that person, or this is what I'm going to say to them, and this is what God has for them or I'm going to pray this way. Sometimes I pray for a person and never say a word, ever. I’ve had the Lord tell me that person is going to be dead in a year unless they change their diet because they have cancer right now in their body. I've had this happen. I’ll meet them, and then I go up to speak and I’ll start talking about diet, and the Lord will tell me as I'm talking to them, but I'm not looking at them. “You got to change your diet, and cancer takes advantage of you in a weakened immune system,” and I’ll go into this thing, but all I did was shake their hand. There are other people whom I have never met. I just see them, and the Lord will give me a vision. It’s a visual thing in your spirit.
There is an escape route for you to get out of debt, whether it’s debt in your body or in your mind, or if you feel like you're not spiritually where you need to be. I’ve had God move on my life to where He caught me up and he hit me and erased several years that I was behind like that. It's by His Grace, and I know He can do this for you. He can reset the clock. He can reset all the bad situations that you might feel like you're in right now.
I’ve made mistakes, and I've asked for advice from my instructors, my pastors, and my friends. “How could I have done this differently so that this would have turned out the right way?” I would ask them right away when something happens. If you don't ask these things and if you don't turn yourself in, somebody may not correct you, and you'll just keep doing the same thing over again and not learn. It's best to turn yourself in and ask for wisdom right away.
Too often, because of the way people are treated, they assume that how they're being treated is because of who they are. They almost expect to be treated that way, and it's not even true. We see people like Esther in the Bible; from the day she was born, she was being groomed “for a time such as this.” She was always that way, even the day before when somebody looked at her wrong and mistreated her. Suddenly, she was chosen to go to the King's court, and she changed history. I bet the day before, there were people that mistreated Esther, and they didn't discern who she was, then all of a sudden she became the Queen.
1. Can you be humble enough and teachable, to be instructed? If the Holy Spirit would speak to you, would you do what He said, and would you listen to Him?
2. Discuss the process of Esther being groomed to be a queen and how that was always the plan but yet how she persevered with that word in her heart that she was sent for such a time as this.
KATHI:
Esther reached that place where she hit a wall where her uncle had to come to her and say, “You know, if you hold your peace at this time, deliverance is going to come from somewhere else, and you won't be saved.” She had to really dig deep and find that word that was in her, that she knew that she was sent for such a time as this. The scripture that was coming to me as we were teaching is in Psalms, it's 119:165, “Great peace have they which love your law and nothing will offend you.” It's the word. It always comes back to the word. Jesus is the word. When that word becomes more real in us, then it's going to overthrow what people are saying. If there's an area where you are consistently being hit or you keep hurting in an area? Get the word on that area and fortify yourself up on what God says about you in that area.
PRAYER:
Lord, we pray for all our Warrior Fellowship friends that whatever that area is, Lord, they consider a weakness. We call it a strength, Lord. I ask You that You would guide all our brothers and sisters into the scripture. That's the answer for that weakness, and that weakness would be turned to strength. We just declare it and it says in Your Word “That through faith, their weaknesses were turned to strength.” So just say that with us in your groups tonight or today, whatever time of day it is, wherever you are, say, "By faith, I believe, God according to your word, that my weakness is turned to strength and that your strength is made perfect in my weakness." You're going to get excited about your weaknesses because that's going to be an area where you can see the glory of God manifest because when you're strong in that area, you're going to know it's Him. God bless you all, and thanks for being with us. God bless you.
KEVIN:
There are some things that are just meant to be. You're going to go back to your true self. No matter what you go through, no matter what situation you find yourself in, you're going to go back to the fact that God loves you the way you are. He destined you for a purpose down here, in this life. Bad situations happen to us all, but the heroes are the ones who decide to locate themselves, turn themselves in and walk out. That's what I believe for you all.
