God's Word Is True. His Timing Is Just Different.

By Gobel Brockman


Back in the mid 90's I had an interesting thing happen. In the space of two or three months our church had two different guest speakers. Both of them, not knowing what the other had said, both told me that they felt led by the Holy Spirit to let me know that my music would go beyond this area and be heard by people in other countries. (See I Corinthians 12 for more study on prophecy and other spiritual gifts.) In my limited understanding I wondered how this would come about. Would I get a "record contract"? Would other established and more talented artists record my songs? I figured that was the more likely scenario, so I began doing what I thought I should - I sent demos of my songs to publishers. Most I never heard back from, but one in particular, a label with national exposure, did something different. Their policy was to have several people with the label 'grade' the songs, and if the combined average score was 6.0 or higher, they would publish the song(s). I sent three songs, and after several months I got the results: all scored 5 or higher, with one scoring 5.7. I missed having a song published by a national label by .3.

I wasn't devastated or anything, but at that point I pretty much decided to give up on the idea. I simply figured that if God really impressed on those two ministers to tell me what they did, then God would do it in His way at His time. Several years later, a new phenomenon came along:

YouTube.

I began posting some of my songs there, and in the matter of a few months a pretty cool thing happened - people in other countries were clicking a mouse and hearing my music. A partial list of the countries that are listed as having clicked on the links include Thailand, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Philippines, Germany, Vietnam, Turkey, Italy, and France.

I know that was kind of a long story, and my point is not to talk about me and my music. I want to talk about God, His word, and His promises. If God says something is going to happen, it will. It may not happen when or how we think it will, but it will happen. The word spoken to me never said anything about record contracts, royalties, or any of the trappings that go with it. The word spoken simply said that folks in other countries would hear the songs that God gave me. At that time, there was no YouTube. But God knew there would be. It took over a decade, but what I was told would happen did happen.

The Bible is filled with both promises for our lives now and prophecies of things yet to come. Every promise and every prophecy will come to pass. The Bible says that God "...is not a man that He should lie..." In another place it says that it is impossible for God to lie. My point this week is to simply get across to you that God's word WILL be fulfilled - in His way, and in His time. God is faithful. He has promised to never leave or forsake you as a Christian, and He won't. If He has made a promise, He will fulfill it. At times the answers come out of left field, sometimes long after we have given up on it.

There's probably a sermon on YouTube about that very thing.