foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so I promise Lord I'll never walk away God bless you today I am so happy to be with you again and I will be speaking to you about a very vital and important subject in fact this subject is so important for you that you can never really be able to do the will of God unless you grasp the concepts of this session we're going to be doing today not necessarily do I mean that I have all the answers but maybe I have some of the answers for you today and I trust that God will just anoint these things to your to your heart for a scripture reference and text will turn to the Book of Luke obviously one of my favorite books to speak from in the 22nd chapter and I shall begin reading with verse 29. Luke chapter 22 and verse 39 and he came out and went as he was walked to the Mount of Olives and his disciples also followed him and when he was at the place he said unto them pray that you enter not into temptation and he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast and kneel down and prayed saying father if thou be willing remove this cup from me nevertheless not my will but thine be done and there appeared an angel unto him from Heaven strengthening him of course you recognize very quickly that this was the Lord himself praying and seeking the will of God if Jesus Christ needed to seek the will of God certainly we need to seek the will of the Lord and the Lord will speak to us and what I would like to speak to you today on the subject of two things that are extremely urgent in order to do God's will obviously the very first one is we're going to have to know how to find the will of God how do you determine what the will of God is number two when you determine what the will of God is then you're going to have to have Supernatural strength from the Lord you will not be able to accomplish but God commissions you to do in your own strength your own education your own ability your own understanding certainly will not be enough we will need the blessings of God within us and Upon Us in order to do what he commissions us to do amen I suppose as I travel from conference to conference camp meeting to camp meeting and seminars and Bible schools the question that is ask me the most especially by young people young people who really desire to do the will of God so many times they will say to me brother Cole if I know my own heart I am willing to do anything that God wants me to do no matter what it is no matter how much sacrifice it involves no matter where he wants me to go I'm willing to go that the problem is how do I know what God wants me as a particular individual how do I know what God wants me to do well there is an answer to that there is an answer and if you will give attention to the scripture today and to a few things that I have learned from the seeking the will of God no doubt we'll be able to help you to determine what is the will of God for your life amen amen how can I know the will of God how do I find it I'm going to propose to you that there are three ways I know there's others but I'm going to propose to you three ways today that will help you determine what the will of God is for your life number one and please don't ever forget this one it's very vital very important very urgent that you understand this and that is that you can determine the will of God from God's word now we call this book this wonderful book that we treasure and love so very much we call this book the old will of God or the Old Testament and the New Testament quite actually that if there was more modern language we would call it the old will of God and the new will of God so God's will is spelled out for us right here in the word of the Lord when it comes to the uh will of God concerning uh Salvation you don't have to see handwriting on the wall you don't have to see someone writing it in the sky or some miraculous thing like that it's spelled out in God's word there is not a question in my mind that repentance of our sins and baptism by immersion in the wonderful name of the Lord Jesus Christ and then the infilling of the Holy Ghost speaking with other tongues as the spirit of God gives the utterance as the evidence of the Holy Ghost and then to live a clean holy life separated from sin and to dress modestly there's no question in my mind that that is a will of God some people say well if God will tell me well God's already told you in his word and his word does not change his word is forever settled in heaven and God is never going to directly or indirectly speak to us through someone something that is contradictory to his word anytime something is a will of God you can be sure that it will be in harmony with what already is written praise the Lord I was very very deeply challenged when I first went to Thailand in order to do the will of God I was born in this wonderful church I was born in this glorious truth my father and mother were already very very active people in the local church when I was born my father for the cold brother Jewel Cole was already a lay preacher an elder in the church at Newark Ohio under brother James frush and he was very very active he did a lot of brother Fresh's Hospital calls and sick calls and in fact my father even had a set of keys to brother Fresh's car that he could get the car anytime he wanted to and make many of these calls for him especially in the night time whether fresh was getting older and in the night time my father would make these calls for him and my mother was always very very active in the work of the Lord when when I was born and they taught me this truth and so I was born in this truth and raised in this truth and later he went into the full-time Ministry my mother later became the international latest auxiliary president and my father a member of the foreign missionary board and now I was on my way to the nation of Thailand to do the work in that Nation nation of Thailand happens to be 93 percent Buddhist there were 250 000 Buddhist priests in the nation of Thailand when I arrived there there were 23 000 Buddhist temples in the just a small area just in the city of Bangkok alone where I lived there were over 400 Buddhist temples in that one single City there were there was Buddhist Idols almost on every area even out on the streets where they would bow and worship to idolatry there was less than one percent there was one tenth of one percent of the entire nation that was Christian of any sort that included the Roman Catholics the Greek Catholics that included the Presbyterians which was the largest Protestant Church in the nation at that time it included the Christian Missionary Alliance and the Baptists all Christians together was one tenth of one percent of the population of Thailand my faith was greatly challenged not at first not at the very first but I remember making a trip to the northern part of Thailand this trip took absolutely days to make we traveled for one whole week in order to make this trip every time we would see a little group of people working in the fields we would stop and give them a message about Jesus Christ we had colored charts with us that we would use and those colored charts would catch the attention of those rural people who live very very simple lives had very little education many of them could not read nor write and so the colored charts would catch their attention and we would give something like Street meetings to these people and teach them and preach to them about the wonderful things of God and we would stop in the cities and we would go left and right in in every direction east and west and through these cities so that's one reason it took such a long time but of course another reason the roads were very very bad in those days and we had to move rather slowly but we drove for one whole week to the north of Thailand where we was going to visit some precious people for a conference a presbyterian conference I had caught the attention of the Presbyterian people and they had me coming north to teach in their conference and after these days and miles and miles and miles of traveling I did not see one single Christian Church not one in all of that trip until we got within 50 or 60 miles of where we were going I remember the first little church building I seen after sending hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Buddhist temples and thousands of Buddhist priests early in the mornings I remember seeing the first little uh church that I seen on this trip it was within 50 miles of our destination it probably was about 18 feet wide it was probably 25 feet long and it was a German Orthodox Church I remember getting out of the car and and beside being so fascinated with that little church building because it was the first one I had seen and I walked around that building three times the priest was not there if he had been there he'd have been wearing a black robe he would have been wearing a black hat miter on his head and he would have been wearing a very heavy beard very heavy beard I don't want to offend you but I'm telling you the way I was feeling then I'd been in Thailand already for six months if I would have seen that priest I promise you I would have thrown my arms around him and I would have embraced him I would have wept and I would have said brother I am so happy to see at least one single person that believes in Jesus Christ amen and my faith was challenged the things that I had been taught as a child the things that I had been taught as a teenager the things that I had been taught as a young preacher the things that I had preached as a young preacher and as a young Pastor was now very very challenged and I promised you I researched the scriptures I researched them very very carefully amen quite frankly I made an effort to find a hole in the doctrine that you and I believe and if I would have found it I would have left the Fellowship of the United Pentecostal Church not only had these people not heard the message that I was preaching and the message that you believed there was thousands and thousands and hundreds of thousands of people in Thailand that had never even heard the name of Jesus Christ that knew absolutely nothing about the Lord whatsoever had never even heard his name had no idea or concept who he was and this challenged me how could it be that someone in the midst of a people like that that believed in Repentance that believed in baptism though it was in the Trinity formula of being baptized in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost how could these people be lost that was the thoughts that were going through my mind how could it be that these people would take a stand I met some Presbyterian people on that trip thank God in that first week that I was there 156 of them were baptized in the wonderful name of the Lord Jesus Christ and among those that were baptized were Elders that had suffered great persecution during World War II during World War II the Japanese overrun the nation of Thailand in a very short time they just literally colonialized and took control of Thailand and uh and they began to persecute the Christian people the nation declared anybody that was a Christian to be a traitor to the nation and those that were leaders those that were Elders or pastors or preachers were imprisoned unless they were willing to recant their faith in Jesus Christ if they was willing to say I no longer am a Christian and if they would go to the Buddhist temple at least one time and worship then their lives would be spared they did not kill the ordinary member of the church but if he was an elder or a leader uh then he was severely persecuted and there were men that were baptized in that week's trip that men literally held guns to their head and said you must recant your faith in Jesus Christ you cannot you cannot be a Christian and live and I remember one man was baptized One Elder who said I do not want to die but I will not deny the Lord Jesus Christ that man was not baptized in Jesus name that man knew nothing about baptism in Jesus name that man was not filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues he had never heard tell of it in his life but he had such an experience of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ that he was able to suffer that kind of persecution but yet there was one Sergeant among them who held a gun on him then a lieutenant came in and that Lieutenant took a pistol and held it against his head and said if you don't recant I'm going to blow your brains out right here in front of this congregation and he refused to do it the other side of the coin the wonderful thing is the sergeant that was there later believed on the Lord was baptized in Jesus name filled with the Holy Ghost and became the pastor of that church he was much like Saul who persecuted and later believed but these things was going through my mind how can people with this kind of faith this kind of an experience with God how could it possibly be that they are not saved that they're not ready and my mind was challenged and I began researching the scripture I remember it was terribly terribly hot there in the afternoons and it was the culture of the people to get up very early in the morning and I started getting up at 5 00 a.m in the morning it would get daylight at that time I would get up very early in the morning and I would start searching the scripture and I made an effort to find a hole in the doctrine that you and I preach but let me tell you something there is no holes in the doctrine that we preach I was more thoroughly convinced after that search that we have the message that somehow we had to get the message to the people of repentance baptism in Jesus name I feel it is absolutely essential that that is not something I have to see in the sky it's not something that God has to write on the wall for me it's already written in the word of God it is settled and the scripture is in harmony with itself as far as I'm concerned the vision is clear to me there is no confusion in my mind there is not one thread of a doubt concerning the will of God and salvation and it's also true about many things we don't have to pray whether it's the will of God to reach the world or not the commission is already there go ye into all the world and preach the gospel we don't even have to think about it just do it Jesus said to do it now it may not be your particular thing to do to go to some foreign country or to go some particular City maybe the will of God is right where you're at but you can know for sure now the Bible is not going to spell out the personal will of God for you as to what city for you to go to however he can cause various scriptures to be quickened to you in the spirit that they become the direct word of the Lord to you praise God the Bible can come alive to you it can become very personal to you and give you Direction in your life number two we can get help from someone that we trust some man of God some woman of God can give us Direction someone said brother Cole did uh God send you to Thailand and laughingly but much truth is in it I said no God did not send me to Thailand Effie Kurt sent me to Thailand I had baptized a man from the nation of Thailand who was the Secretary of the Presbyterian movement and he had been in the United States for a conference and God miraculously brought me together with him it was miraculous how the Lord brought me together with brother boommark get his son I was in the City of Erie Pennsylvania visiting a former Pastor who was establishing a new church and uh moonmark gittisan was in that City speaking at six different Presbyterian churches one each night he was on his third world tour to end the third time to America very brilliant man he could quote the entire New Testament by memory but it was wonderful how God brought us together I was at the pastor's apartment one day which was an upstairs apartment with an out with an entrance in the front just uh on the side of a house uh not easily accessible or easy to find and I was there alone one day studying the Book of Esther I remember reading the book of Esther and uh he knocked on the door when I went to the door I had no experience with foreigners I knew nothing about foreigners and quite frankly I was very frightened of him even though he was a small man you know small men with a gun can do a lot of harm and so I was quite concerned as to what he might want he took a piece of paper out of his pocket just a small piece of paper larger than that but about that length and on it was in address the address of the apartment where I was at there was no name on that uh piece of paper just the address of that apartment and he told me that he was speaking in six different Presbyterian churches and that he had received this note somewhere he said I've been in New York City I have been in Detroit Michigan and I've been in Toronto Ontario Canada and I don't know who give this to me I don't know why they gave it to me but I have come here today to possibly find out why I have this note I was afraid of him but on the strength of that scripture that says lest you entertain angels unaware uh you know so I invited him into the apartment and while we were talking together I began asking him questions and I was looking at the church directory at the same time to see if in fact the address of the pastor was in there I thought perhaps he may have got a hold of one of our church directories and that that he was just took that address and was going to do a con job on me for some reason I I couldn't figure out who I even want to con me I didn't have anything but but anyhow it was those thoughts was in my mind and while I was looking through the church directory I discovered that the pastor had moved there so recently that his address was 300 miles from that City so I started looking for the church address thinking that perhaps it was there and when I look for the name of the church the church was so new that it was not listed in the directory at all and I was wondering and so I said to him Reverend gitisan have you ever heard tal of the baptism of the Holy Spirit speaking with tongues and his eyes lit up and he said oh yes he said I speak with tongues there are six of us and he put his fingers up like that and he said there are six of us in the nation of Thailand that speak with tongues I was the first one to speak with tongues and my daughter and my sister and my son-in-law and then he named someone else he said there are six of us in the nation of Thailand who speak with tongues and I thought oh praise God maybe God's doing some great work here and I intended to ask him the question Reverend gettysan have you ever heard tell of water baptism by immersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that was my intended question but he interrupted me I got as far as saying Reverend get his son have you ever heard tell of baptism by immersion and he interrupted me he was a man about 65 years old and I was only about 24 25. years old and in Thailand's culture they consider you a child to your 30. so he called me a child he spoke good English he was a brilliant man he said no child he said oh yes you know you know that I'm Presbyterian and you think you think that because I'm Presbyterian that I sprinkle he said I have a baptistry in the church that I Pastor in the capital city Bangkok and I baptized people by immersion in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Ghost and I looked at him and I said well Reverend get his son what is the name of the son and when I said that he began to stare at me his eyes glistened with tears I thought he was suddenly having a heart attack and that's exactly what I asked him I said Reverend get his son are you sick are you having a a a heart attack and he said no child I am not having a heart attack he said I can quote the entire New Testament by heart and when you ask me that question what is the name of the son he said suddenly just like a curtain rolled back I seen Jesus Christ as he really is and for the next two days we spent together discussing the scripture and at the end of those two days he was wonderfully baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and he was going back to Thailand it never occurred to me that I should be going to Thailand that was a will of God for me to go to Thailand God had never said anything like that to me in any way that I could recognize and I had no intentions of going I thought well he'll go back there and he'll baptize his people and and he'll do the great work and and I've done my job job and I'll go on and do my thing here I was pastor of a small Church in the state of West Virginia in the mountains but anyhow I went to the Ohio camp meeting and brother Effie Kurtz whom I taught was assistant God in those days a young man had so much respect for the Ohio district superintendent and he walked up to me and pointed his finger at me and he said Billy if you don't go to Thailand you're going to miss God and turned around and walked away and that had such an impact upon my life actually it was a man of God that I had confidence in that Drew me into the will of the Lord he gave me direction and that is one way that we can find God's will is to find someone that you trust you know someone that you can really trust ought to be someone that wouldn't have their interest in mind they're not going to tell you something to do something that's going to be to their benefit but they're going to tell you something that is really from the Lord so that is a way that's the second way that I propose to you is talk to a man or a woman that you trust that you found to be sincere and honest before God they can help give you Direction and thirdly and this is a system that you will have to develop in your life God can speak to you directly I call it the voice of God now I have personally never heard an audible sound that I believe to be the voice of God for me it has been that God would impress upon my mind very gently very very gently that the Lord would speak to me amen I uh I'm going to propose to you today that God does not speak to all individuals in exactly the same way for instance God does not speak to me in the same way that he speaks to my wife surely but he does consistently speak to me in the same way when God speaks to me it's very consistent and in my particular case it is a very very gentle impression upon my mind I have learned the hard way that when I get a strong impression impression upon my mind to do something that that's not the voice of God in my life at all it really is not uh I have discovered through the the method of trial and error and that's the way you find God's will is uh learning how the Lord speaks to you and you learn how the Lord speaks to you by trial and error you determine what you believe to be the will of God and you try it if you discover that it is that you were wrong that is it is not the will of God then you discard that and then you listen again and when you feel that God has spoken to you try it again and see if it's the will of God and if you find it it is you're going to determine that there is a slight difference between the two maybe very slight or there may be a great difference but it may be just a very slight difference in what you've found out to be the will of God and what you found out not to be the will of God they're just a slight difference in the voice that is there and how the Lord is speaking to you remember that difference and you learn this through trial and error I learned that when it was a strong voice and strong speaking to me that it was coming from my own flesh because my flesh is very strong I was raised to be a fighter and my character was to be a fighter in an instant never giving too much serious uh consideration just it's a problem let's fight and so I had to I had to check and realize that sometimes my flesh was speaking to me sometimes the devil can speak to you many times people can speak to you who do not have your interests at mine or maybe though they do have your interests in mind they are totally in uninformed and are not speaking the things of God to you I remember when I first began to realize very strongly how the Lord was speaking to me I was in Canada on one time in another man's Pulpit I'm cautious in my own Pulpit but I am extremely cautious in another man's fulpit that I don't just abuse that church or abuse that Pastor in any way and the Lord uh put a gentle impression upon my mind to do something that was very drastic and very very strong and so I reasoned with the Lord in my mind now Lord I'm not going to do that unless you speak very strongly to me I'm not going to do this drastic thing in this man's pulpit and congregation and very gently on the impression upon my mind the Lord whispered the words to me into my mind I never speak to you strongly it is always a gentle impression on your mind I said I reason with the Lord all right Lord here goes and I did something very drastic that congregation just gas for their breath I thought that Pastor was going to faint I thought he was going to fall in the floor out of his chair he was heading over to the right of me and I wondered what have I done now after service no one said very much to me they all very quietly and very courteously shook hands with me the pastor drove me home without talking we had lunch and he hardly said anything I thought oh my god what have I done and what has happened here two weeks later I got a letter from him and said brother Cole our church was splitting officially we had made an agreement out of anger that we were going to court and we were going to struggle over the assets of this building and when you said what you said it totally changed our church and it never occurred it never happened not one single family left our church and the problem was solved but it took me two weeks to find that out and I was a nervous wreck that two weeks wondering what in the world I had done but I have learned through the method of trial and error that God speaks to me very gently I have friends I have friends that I have faith in I have faith in them their personality is so different from mine their Ministry is so different from mine I'm very very methodical very methodical for me to stand here in front of this camera is no problem at all because I do that in front of a congregation I'm not one to run around and move around it's just my way but I have friends that when the Lord speaks to them they do something like this they go oh yeah and you know I have never felt that in my life never one time have I ever thought I told God one day I said God why don't you do that to me just for fun ones I've never I've never felt such a thing I see my friends doing all that I've never felt anything like that and I know I'm full of the Holy Ghost it's just not the way God speaks to me there's some that see visions and dreams and here's Thunder and and it's all Bible it's all Bible God spoke to Samuel with an audible voice awakened him in the night he heard his name called honorably there's others that were instructed as to the will of God by a man of God it was Saul of the Old Testament that Samuel spoke to and called his attention to the will of God and anointed him and said it's the will of God for you God didn't speak to Saul God spoke to Samuel and Samuel made Saul to understand the will of God and then Saul of tarshish in the New Testament seen a light the light was so strong that it knocked him down on the road to Damascus and he heard a voice also Saul Saul white persecutest thou me and he knew who was talking to him he said who art thou Lord or who art thou Jehovah he knew that God was talking to him so it is scriptural for the Lord to speak to different people in different ways what I'm proposing to you is that God will be consistent in the way that he speaks to you as an individual so as a result many many times I have went around the world with a gentle impression upon my mind no great no great thing amen however God speaks to my wife surely in a very very dramatic way it is amazing how God speaks to her I never shall forget when the Lord called me into the ministry I was working in a laboratory for the Weirton Steel company and my job was at night from 11 o'clock at night until seven o'clock in the morning and it was such an easy job on the night shift it was uh just not much for us to do at all we could do everything I had to do in an hour hour and a half it just was little intervals of things I would do and my job was so easy and when I would come home in the mornings I would go to bed for a couple of hours and and get up and go through the whole day as if I hadn't worked because my job was so easy and but God began to speak to me in those times just general Impressions on my mind I began to realize that I was going to have to preach the gospel and I became convinced that I was going to have to preach and God was dealing with my wife at the same time the Lord literally awakened her out of her sleep with an utterable voice she heard a voice that called her name and awakened her during the night it so frightened her that she didn't do anything about it she did not get out of bed she didn't pray she was just frightened by all of it and responded in fear well nothing happened that first night further and the second night it happened again and then the third night it happened again and again she did nothing about it but on the third night it happened the second time and then the third time and she said the third time the voice was thunderous and she leaped out of bed in total shock and fear and knelt down and began to pray and she prayed in this fashion Lord if the if this is you speak to me and the Lord spoke to her in an audible voice and said are you willing to sacrifice if I call your husband into the ministry and she said Lord if it's really you and this is really you I'm willing to do whatever but Billy has never said a word to me about his call to preach he's never ever mentioned it to me one single time and if this is you really speaking to me and I'm not having some kind of a dream or an illusion or something and that I'm not just crazy you cause him to speak to me today about this well I came home as usual went to bed and got up in a couple of hours and my wife was in her little kitchen I remember in those days that kitchen was so tiny that I probably wouldn't be able to get in it today as big as I am now but I could get in it then the tiny little place where we had to eat and she had her hands full of a dozen of eggs and was fixing eggs and bacon that morning for our breakfast I had not said one word to her upon coming home and had not yet said a word to her and I walked into the kitchen and I said Shirley I'm going to have to preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and she broke every one of those eggs she dropped them right straight on the floor well that's very dramatic I've never had such an experience never has God spoke to me that way not even one time I have never had a dream that I thought was from God I know God speaks to me God speaks to her in that way he speaks to me in another way when the Lord called her to Thailand the Lord spoke to me in the same way you know I I told you about brother Kurt speaking to me and then the Lord began to speak to my mind and the way he speaks to me general impression on my mind and I became convinced that it was a will of God for me to go to Thailand but not my wife oh she became so sick in those days thinking about this we went to a camp meeting brother SG Norris was the camp speaker in those days they economized they've loosened up a little bit these camps not very much but they've loosened up a little bit and they'll get two speakers there instead of one but in those days brother Norris was teaching during the day and preaching at night and every single day he preached on sacrifice I remember us walking out I was a youth president during that time for the district and I remember of course we were very young my wife was only what 21 years old then maybe 22. and she was hanging on my arm and we was walking out of church after he had preached and she said to me can't that man speak on any other subject other than sacrifice I mean he was eating her lunch because God was wanting to talk to her and she wasn't interested I was talking to her about Thailand and she was not interested at all and when we went to to the home and she became very very ill she was very ill and she was in bed for six ten days 10 days and at that time the king and queen of Thailand was in the nation of America and there was pictures and magazines someone knowing my interest handed me I believe it was my father handed me magazines with pictures of these folks in the Enderman I didn't ask her to read these magazines I just laid them on her bed and she was looking through these magazines and she leaped out of bed and came running into where I was at in the living room and literally fell down on the floor I was sitting and embrace my ankles and uh and and said Billy I'm ready to go to Thailand I said well surely what in the name of God has happened to you she said I was only nine years old when God filled me with the Holy Ghost it's been these many years ago now and when I went home I knelt down by my bed as a nine-year-old girl and I prayed God if I should ever fail you please just let me die tonight and I suddenly seen the vision of four men they stood like they were in a photo like it was a snapshot of four men I never knew what it meant they were foreigners they were very dark in complexion their eyes was black and their hair was black and I never knew what it meant I never have told my father I have never told my mother but when I opened the magazine today there was the picture of those four men that God showed me when I was only nine years old and they are from Thailand I am ready to go that's very dramatic oh how I wished I could have an experience like that at least one time I have never had an experience like that never has God spoke to me that way but I do know how God speaks to me and I've learned it through trial and error God is consistent the way he speaks to you thank you this will just give you an idea of how the Lord will speak to you to me it is very gently an impression upon my mind to my wife it's very dramatic and the Lord still speaks to her in that fashion you may not be either one of those extremes you may be somewhere in the middle but you can find how the Lord speaks to you we always call it the voice of God but that can mean so many different things when we say the voice of God what we mean when we say the voice of God is how the Lord speaks to you and you're going to learn that through trial and error amen the important thing is that once you learn that you have to exercise Faith you have to exercise faith in what you have learned this is a problem with some people some people when God speaks to them and they know it's the voice of the Lord they just don't have the courage to do God's will I remember one time when I was visiting a friend of mine in a in a kind of a vacation type house that he had I had a day off I was doing Holy Ghost rallies at the time a different place different section of a district every night but I had one night off for a rest and visiting a friend I decided to call another friend and we were talking and I said to him why don't you come on over we're going to have dinner here in a little while and we're just going to visit tonight why don't you come on over and of course it was a pretty good drive two or three hour drive for him to come over and he said I cannot come over because I'm right in the middle of uh doing some things here that I just can't get away from and I said well all right and then later he said to me is it the will of God for me to come over there I said well I don't know if it's a will of God or not I would enjoy your company it's a it's my will I don't know if it's God's will or not and I said yes yes it is the will of God I felt that gentle impression of my mind I said yes it is the will of God he said I'll be there in three hours and he came and while he was there the spirit of the Lord moved upon me and the spirit of Prophecy we was in a time of discussion and prayer sitting in the living room and suddenly the spirit of Prophecy moved upon me and I prophesied to him he looked like I had shot him with a shotgun and then he said to me there's just one question I said don't ask the question I'll give you the answer and I spoke to him again and he fell over on the floor like a dead man and laid on his face for 30 minutes if I should mention the name of this man it would Astound you because he's a distinguished man among us and when he came to himself he said just two weeks ago I was traveling down the highway an interstate highway in my car and the spirit of the Lord moved upon me so strongly that I've had to pull the car off of the road and park along the side of the road and the Lord spoke to me in tongues and gave me an interpretation and I said to the Lord Lord if this is really you speaking to me you caused Billy Cole to speak to me and say the same things and when you spoke to me you spoke identically the same words to me that the Lord had spoken except for one thing and that's what you added you added that one thing and the Lord spoke to me well the next day he was driving me to an airport so I could go on to my next meeting then for the next night and on the way to the airport he said to me Billy was that really God well I'm a little more uh diplomatic now and a little smoother than I used to be I used to be very straightforward and I looked at him and I said you make me sick I said I've been around the world I have no idea how many times and God has never spoke to me like that never you see the problem is many times we're not willing to exercise the faith that it takes you have to exit once you learn how God speaks to you then then do it when I get a gentle impression to go around the world I just go no questions asked just do it because I've learned that that is God and we have to learn how to exercise faith in Walking with the Lord amen and another thing that I need to caution you about in the Lord speaking to you is that sometimes God will reveal to you what people are doing but that does not necessarily mean that the will of God is for you to be involved now let me give you an example of what I mean my wife was uh ready to come home from Thailand there was an extreme urgency for her to come home and and I could not leave Thailand at that time I was going to remain in Thailand for a while and the night the last night she was in Thailand she had a dream that was from the Lord and she dreamed that a certain Church a church that I would have chosen I would have loved to have been the pastor of that church it was a city that if I could choose it would have been the city that I would have chosen to live in all the cities of the world and she said the the church I had a dream last night that that church had an election and elected you as pastor well she made her trip home and as soon as she seen my father and mother my father said surely you need to call superintendent so and so and he has a message for you and when he calls when she called that superintendent he said last night such and such a church had an election and your husband was elected pastor of that church unanimously it would have been very easy for me to have said oh this is the will of God it was not the will of God it was the will of God for me to stay in Thailand it was the will of God for me to come home for a short time and go back to Thailand I don't mean to boast but if I had not gone back to Thailand the second term there would not be any United Pentecostal Church of Thailand it would have dissolved it would have just absolutely evaporated from the nation there may have been a few people that embraced this truth but they would have been without Direction and there would be no United Pentecostal Church in Thailand if I had not have gone back or at least if somebody had not have gone it was the will of God for me to go well what was happening Brother Cole that was not the will of God for me God was simply revealing to me through my wife what those people were doing that's not the way God speaks to me God speaks to me in a gentle impression it's not the way the Lord speaks to me and I must not forget that I must not forget that or I will miss God so sometimes the Lord simply reveals to you what people are doing doesn't necessarily mean that uh that you ought to be doing that very thing or involved in that thing amen faith Faith to take action you have got to remember that we are the children of God we are his children not his servant we are his children praise the Lord and the child reacts to a King different than a servant reacts to a King in Thailand we had we had a king and the servants when they came before the king they would never ever be before the king unless they were on their knees even if they were carrying a tray of of food or something to drink they would get down on their knees and walk on their knees up to the king and they would never ever speak to the king unless he spoke to them and what he said to them demanded an answer otherwise they would never ever speak to the king and when they walked away from the Kings they would have to walk away on their knees and back up they would never ever turn their back to the king never and furthermore when they was on their knees their toes must not touch the floor they had to lift their feet up off of the floor when they were walking on their knees it's quite a trick you ought to try it sometime but the King's son had an entirely different relationship with the King they would Embrace they would talk the king would tell his son the secrets and he would impart unto him the leadership of that Nation amen there was a total different relationship and we have to develop a relationship with the Lord that we are the children of God my daughter Brenda I adore her she is so precious to me and she loves me enough to die for me if it were necessary we have a wonderful father-daughter relationship I only had one child and I thank God for her she's never give me a minutes trouble but when she was a young girl she loved to serve she loved to carry something to drink or something to eat to where you were sitting she just enjoyed doing that my daughter served me and my daughter was also obedient to me she obeyed me in fact we just had kind of an understanding that when I told her to do something and I was absolutely sure that she understood what I wanted her to do and she didn't do it while there was be a little discomfort involved in that and she learned that very young in life amen and so my daughter Brenda obeyed me and she served me but she was not my servant she was my child and so you have to develop with the Lord a child father relationship not a servant father relationship it's true that we serve the Lord let me read you something to to prove that to you amen we if you turn with me in John chapter 15 and verse 15 let me read to you a very interesting scripture Jesus said this is the words of the Lord henceforth I call you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth but I have called you friends Jesus said I'm not going to call you servants anymore turn with me to Galatians and the fourth chapter and verse 7 and let me read it for you wherefore Thou Art no more a servant but a son and if his son's in an heir of God through Christ and listen to this in first John in first John the the third chapter I believe it is and verse one and two beloved what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world kneweth us not because he knew it him not beloved now are we the sons of God and it does not yet appear what it shall be but we know that when we shall see him we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is beloved now are you the sons of God we have to have that child father relationship not a servant father relationship so get up off of your knees so to speak lift up your head exercise some Faith you have got to have some faith in what the Lord wants you to do have faith in the voice of God and when the Lord speaks to you do it praise God get a clear-cut direction from God your greatness lies in your Visions but they are great only to the extent to which it inspires you to trust God to work and strive towards doing the will of God if you're unmovable if you cannot be moved God can speak to people you know sometimes God will speak to people and uh even when we pray you know I've had a little trouble with this six six a.m in the morning prayer meetings find some of some of you and and I I can't relate to some of the things that we do now I can relate to Worship in the Lord for an hour but I can't relate to praying an hour or two just praying and asking God the same thing all the time you know we get up and and we go through this moaning and groaning and and praying and and asking the Lord the same thing every single day and the Lord says uh okay go ahead and the next morning we get up and ask him the same thing ask him the same question and the Lord says okay and the next morning we get up and ask him the same thing and finally God says okay we need to take some action on what the Lord says there's a time to ask there's a time to pray and there's a time to stop praying get up off of your face and do something it takes faith to do that amen we must be able to respond it's got to got to move us it's got to move us I never shall forget one time when a young man was really seeking the Lord he was seeking God for power with God he wanted God to use him in order to be used of the Lord to help people receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost and I was doing Holy Ghost rallies in his particular district and was coming to his church and God gave him a great experience and when I arrived the former District presbyter had driven me to his house to this new Pastor's house where the he was going to be the hosts of the meeting and as soon as I got out of the car this young preacher come running up to me oh brother Cole I know that God has sent you to me today he has a message for me uh through you I said well if he has a message for me to give it to you he hasn't given it to me yet I don't believe in saying thus saith the Lord if the Lord hasn't said anything well he had to go to the grocery store to pick up a few groceries for his wife and uh and he wanted me to ride along with him and he said I want to tell you what God has uh has done and and the experience I've had I said I am very very very interested please uh please tell me all about this and he said to me that I've been praying I've been fasting three times a day or three times a week three days a week I have been fasting every week for six months and I've been praying for God to use me and Empower me to help people receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost I said oh that's great he said well let me tell you what happened the other morning I was getting up for my time of prayer and fasting and I walked into this room that was very dark and suddenly the room was very bright and I could see the Lord I seen a vision of the Lord and it was the room was so bright and he said I would just overcome by this and I just fell down on the floor before this vision and worshiped the Lord he said what do you think of that I said I believe it I've never had such an experience but but I believe it happened to you but I still don't have a message from the Lord for you well he got the groceries we went home she cooked the meal and we were sitting down to the meal and they had a little girl sitting in a high chair or their only child and I noticed that there was a plate sitting there a setting at the table for his wife and for me and he sat down at the table but there was no plate no silverware or anything for him I said aren't you going to eat he said eat he said no I'm fasting I said did you say God sent me here to give you a message he said yes I did I said well I just got the message right now the message is eat God has already spoke to you what are you fasting for God's already spoke to you God's already answered accept the answer take action on the answer my God he eat like a hog he was so hungry I thought he was going to eat the plate too but that was a message for him there is a time to fast and pray I believe in that and I'll be talking about that in a later a video for you of uh in spiritual warfare and intercession there is a time for that but when God speaks to you it is time to rise up and take action on what the Lord has said so their faith is involved in in discovering the will of God you know you're safe as long as you're praying if you're always on the Altar and you're always weeping and crying and you're laying on the Altar and you're weeping and crying and saying oh God make me to know your will nobody is going to criticize you unless it's me you know you're safe you're safe no matter how many times God talks to you as long as you're doing that you're safe nobody's going to criticize you they're going to say you're wonderful oh they are so wonderful they pray all the time hey there's some of you praying that needs to get up and do what God's told you to do amen praise the lord well my I hope you survived that and let's go on there are some things that hinders your faith there's times when you know things that hinder your faith I know there's some people that's just so full of unbelief that that uh many times there's capable conscientious people that just everywhere being held back and unable to do their best because of their lack of confidence in God it's not confidence in yourself it is confidence in God you don't have confidence in your own flesh the Bible says don't put confidence in the flesh but you have confidence in your contact with God you have confidence with the fact that God is in you with you directing you and helping you and going to be with you that's where your confidence is at amen now there are some things that I want to talk to you I'm going to talk to you about three things that will hinder your confidence amen number one is the lack of preparation or the lack of Education sometimes when there is great Revival you will be thrust into a position that you're not prepared for you Bible school students and you that are sitting in front of these videos and studying uh videos and studying the Bible you are not wasting your time it is very important that you prepare yourself for the work of God but there will be times that you will be thrust into a position before you're ready for that position now there's something that you need to do because that will stagger your confidence I and and some people don't know what to do in a situation like that you need to humble yourself and go to someone that knows how to do the job and say hey I don't know how to do this will you help me nobody is going to think little of you when you do something like that unless you've lied about your qualifications and that might be a problem but if you go to people and say hey I need some help I need to know what to do here uh can you give me some instructions you know some people just bull those away through and even wreck churches wreck churches because they won't ask someone for a little bit of advice and counsel there's been many times the devil has been blamed for destroying churches when men who didn't know what they're doing have destroyed churches many many times and there's times when we're thrust into a position maybe it's Sunday school teacher maybe it's the youth president maybe it's this or that or the other it doesn't have to be a pastor or a superintendent but it can be of a lesser position that we're thrust into you simply need to ask for guidance and how to do it I remember when I was working in the PowerHouse of the Weirton steel when I was young they had a machine that run on a rail track like a like a like a train track and it was a powerful machine and it poured ground up coal into a bin that they fired the boilers and furnaces with to make power and a fella didn't show up one day for his job and the boss came to me and said Cole can you run that machine I said sure I can run that machine the truth was I had never seen that machine before in my life I had never seen it and I went up there without asking anybody how to do it and started running the machine I didn't know how to start it I didn't know how to get it to Roland the problem was I didn't know how to stop it it was a powerful machine it was a heavy machine made of steel and it was big and I grabbed up four by fours wood of four by fours and started throwing under the wheels of that machine and it would chew those four befores up like they were toothpicks it would just break them and Splinter them and keep light on and going and that machine run off of the tracks and run right straight through the wall of the factory right outside I had the mill rights in a screaming rage but nevertheless it would have been a whole lot better to say I'm willing to run the machine but I don't know how to run the machine if you show me how to do it I'll be glad to do it and many times we are thrust into positions that we're not prepared for you are not spinning your wheels when you are preparing to do the work of the Lord that is important it is important and you will be able to call upon those things amen a second thing that will hinder your faith that will stagger your faith that will cause you to falter in your faith in doing the will of God is the lack of familiarity or the lack of experience you you there's only one way to get experience and that is just to jump into it and do something if you're going to get experience as a swimmer you're going to have to get in the water you're going to have to learn how to swim amen by getting in the water you can't learn how to swim by sitting on a chair you've got to get in the water and so it is and uh there's just only one and you you're going to break a few dishes if you're learning to wash dishes you know you're going to break a few dishes and uh and someone's going to have to put up with that and you have to give place for that and hopefully you're with someone that doesn't love the dishes more than they love you when you're learning how to wash them you know and and willing to teach you and it comes through experience amen and the third thing that I want to talk to you about and it's extremely important don't forget this one it'll knock you down to your knees if you're not careful it will stagger you and that is the lack of recognition the lack of recognition sometimes leaders do not know how to complement sometimes pastors withhold compliments from the Saints because they a fear that they may get the big head and get out in left field somewhere or something sometimes superintendents won't compliment pastors or District board members and and on and on and on and maybe Sunday school teachers won't compliment their helpers and this type of thing they just don't know how to complement and and there's times when you're doing a good job then no one will tell you you have to be very cautious or this will knock you down it will discourage you I'm going to say what I really believe I know that there are times it's let me say this first it's very easy for me to compliment I just go around complimenting the Saints I Pastor all the time I Pat them on the back and tell them I don't know how how I would pastor this church without your help they don't get the big head they're encouraged and it's easy for me to compliment it's also easy for me to correct I don't hesitate to call someone in and talk to them about what they're doing wrong as well but if you're going to tell people what's wrong you have to tell them what they're doing right or they will become so discouraged someone says they'll get the big head they'll get exalted and they they will fall because of being exalted let me tell you something for every single person that falls from being exalted there are ten that fall because they're discouraged and we we withhold we withhold compliments we withhold words of encouragement even people that are famous even people that are district superintendents even people that are popular camp meetings and so I don't care who they are everybody not everybody equal but everybody needs a compliment once in a while someone they need someone to say hey you're doing a good job and we get discouraged if we never hear it if we never hear it no matter what the job may be but let me give you a word let me give you something that will protect you if nobody recognizes the good job that you're doing this will help you if you will keep your attention right on Jesus Christ and everything you do it as unto the Lord don't do it for the sake of men though you love men respect men do it as unto the Lord and the Lord will always reward you openly it may take time he may bear with you a little while but even though he bears with you a little while there will be a day that he will reward you openly and bless you for your faithfulness praise God so do it as unto the Lord hallelujah now these things are so important it's important what I'm talking to you about today on this video because it is possible for you to carry bricks to a tower that will never ever be built and you will have wasted your entire life that's exactly what they did in Babylon They Carried bricks to a tower that was not finished and you don't want to do that I don't want you to do it find the will of God a very untalented uninteresting uh person who is very ordinary in the will of God can accomplish more when he's in the will of God than a very talented skilled educated person can accomplish out of the will of God God will work with us you must find his will remember that God's will is all around us the scripture says lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest well brother Cole I've quoted that and heard that what in the world does it mean it means look and see what needs to be done and do it and if there's too many things to do it means start choosing what is the priorities start setting priorities start governing your time you can't do everything so you choose what is priorities what is the most important thing amen hallelujah we have to learn that the will of God we have to submit our will to God God cannot make us do his will we have to submit to the will of God and the Bible says whosoever will May Come and and when you're praying for someone they have to submit their will to God God cannot make anyone serve him because God has put within us a god-like will we are not Gods but we have a god-like will it has to be submitted well why do we pray for some wayward child why would we pray for some wayward son if that being true well because every time we pray for that person God will knock on the heart of that person and draw upon them but he can't make them serve him unless they'll submit their will to the Lord and let me bring this thought to you it was first given to me by Brother JT Pugh many years ago as having just a little conversation with him over a sandwich in a cup of of a glass of Coca-Cola or something and he made a remark to me that has remained in my thoughts ever since I didn't hear him preach on it but he just made a passing remark that just took root in my heart many years ago and I've never forgot it and these are the words that he said men can in fear interfere with God's will God does not overrule the will of men very often and that may be true in your life what you're going to do in such a situation when men overrule the will of God and God respects their Wills don't you think for one second the scripture says when two or three agree on any one thing it shall be done I want you to know that God respects the will of men and you cannot ignore the will of men and you cannot bulldoze down the will of men many times and maybe they're Godly men or women will make a decision that will affect your life and may even put you out of the will of God what you're going to do the important thing is that you do not become bitter once you become bitter no matter how right you are and how wrong they are you're finished when bitterness enters your heart you're done it's all over for you when you're bitter now I didn't say hurt it's very possible for you to be hurt and wounded in your spirit without being bitterness but when hurt turns to bitterness you're finished it's all over for you I don't care what the future would have been you're done when you're filled with bitterness Amen Let me give you an example in the Bible where the will of men overruled the will of God many times but because this individual trusted in God they finally came into the will of God in spite of men and that is the beautiful character of Joseph it was the will of God for Joseph to be the prime minister of the whole Known World of that day but it was the will of men to hate him his brethren hated him when he came to see them while they was working some 50 miles away with the Sheep heard when they seen him coming those Brethren didn't say oh here comes our wonderful young brother that's not what they said it all it isn't they didn't say Here Comes our brother that is so blessed of the Lord and he has great visions and dreams for the future that's not what they said they said Here Comes The Dreamer and they planned his death they were going to kill him it was the will of not only men but of his Brethren to kill him and to destroy him and one of those men talked him out of it so they decided just to isolate him to put him in a pit and not have nothing to do with him until he died on his own does that sound familiar of course it does to some of us isolation sometimes men will not kill us they won't take the responsibility of killing us or destroying our reputation they just so totally idle isolate us that we suffocate and die on our own that was the will of men but it was the will of God for him to be prime minister Joseph did not become bitter it was the will of men to sell him to a bunch of Egyptians as they were going along the way it was the will of men to make him a servant for him to scrub floors and to clean toilets if you please and carry garbage out of the house that was the will of men it was the will of God for him to be prime minister of the whole Known World what did Joseph do he was the best servant that potiphar ever had he was such a good he was such a good servant that he made him manager of all of his business he was promoted he did such a good job he didn't become bitter it was a will of Potiphar's wife to seduce him but Joseph had something in his heart to protect him and because of her wounded Spirit she lied against Joseph potiphar didn't believe him didn't believe her if potiphar that captain of of the army would have believed what he was saying what she was saying that he had made a pass at his wife he would have killed him but he didn't believe him but he had to do something with that raging woman of his so he put him in prison did Joseph become bitter no was he hurt you be sure he was hurt you be sure that he wasn't over there having a party but he was not bitter and he was the best prisoner they ever had over there he was such a good prisoner he always did his best in any given circumstance that he was in that's all you can do do your best in the circumstances that you're in if you're not in the will of God do the best in the situation you're in if it's cleaning the church be the best janitor and custodian they've ever had in in the history of that church and he was the best prisoner and they made him the assistant Warden if you please the warden liked him so well he put him in charge of the others and then God continued to work with Joseph God never forsook Joseph men were frustrating the will of God but God did not forsake Joseph and so it was that he was able to prophesy to a couple of prisoners that was in there and their prophecies and his prophecies became true one of them was killed and hanged and the other was restored to the household of the king and pharaoh but he forgot Joseph lingered on in prison for three more years after that hurt yeah he was hurt he was wounded but he was not bitter and because he never allowed himself to become God eventually brought him to be the prime minister of the whole Known World and whatever the will of God is in your life and Men frustrate that will don't become bitter because when you become bitter towards your leader when you become bitter towards your pastor when you become bitter towards the presbyter or the district they may be 100 wrong and it's not impossible that they're wrong not impossible I don't care what they say it's not impossible that they're wrong men are wrong sometimes dead wrong sometimes I've been so wrong I've been right and I have been wrong and I've had to say I'm sorry I was wrong and there's some men won't do that there's some men that are so arrogant that they will never admit that they're wrong and sometimes good men Godly men righteous men are wrong but don't you dare become bitter towards them if you become bitter toward your leader you're not going to make it God will not be able to do in your life what he wants to do when men slam a door shut if you will not become bitter if you keep a sweet spirit God will open another door for you and you say well they shut that door too that's all right don't become bitter he'll open another door and if they slam that door shut God will open another door and he'll keep opening doors until you get in the will of God as long as you do not become bitter when you become bitter I didn't say hurt it's human to be hurt you cannot be human and not be hurt when men frustrate you and and destroy the will of God in your life you can't help from being hurt but there's a difference between being hurt and being bitter what is bitter it's when you hate that person when you start hating that person you are bitter and you're finished you're done unless you can get that bitterness out of your heart and if you can keep that bitterness out of your heart eventually God will keep opening doors for you and they'll slam them shut and God will open another door for you until eventually you'll come into the perfect will of God and he'll make all of them know that it was the will of God for your life and they were wrong and they will humble themselves if they are what they ought to be praise the Lord and we need the strength of the Lord I talk to you about that in the video just before this on having the anointing of God the Bible says that Jesus prayed in the garden not my will but thine be done and the scripture says and there appeared an angel unto him from heaven and strengthening him there will be times that you will think that the Lord has forsaken you but he will not and it's not the end of the road for you remember that when Jesus died on the cross he cried he lost my God my God why hast Thou forsaken me and if Jesus said that there'll be an experience in your life someday that you'll say it but don't let those thoughts linger in your mind he will not forsake you he will strengthen you he will help you he will be with you remember when you have the baptism of the Holy Ghost what happens is that an omnipresent God a God that fills the universe takes a part of himself and puts it right on the inside of you enough to fill you up and we call it being filled with the Holy Ghost you are in fact filled with holy God God is with you and God just doesn't leave you and come back and leave you and come back he may become silent but he does not leave he will stay with you until you literally drive him out of your life you have to drive God out of your life and that is possible but he is not going to leave you he is there with you praise the Lord and I hope that this will help you to find the will of God in your life trial and error until you find out the way that God speaks to you when you realize you were wrong admit you were wrong hey have a reverse gear some people only have a forward gear and they're constantly running into brick walls and smashing their car you need a break and you need a reverse and just simply say I was wrong we'll do this again we'll start over there are people that are in positions in the church today that has been out of the will of God for 15 years and they'll die there that doesn't mean they'll be lost but their Works will be burned up because they're out of the will of God amen the Lord bless you and keep you until I see you in the next video amen don't be discouraged by different fields this is something that you have to be cautious of as well as other things that I have mentioned today on this video there are times you must understand that there are different fields and the ground is different the ground is not the same you can plant the same seed and give it the same care in one area and you reproduce a certain amount of fruit but then you can plant that same seed and give it the same care in another area and it will produce maybe more food or less fruit than what you did somewhere else so you want to keep this in mind and and so it is with people and Nations and areas the ground is not the same the point I want to make to you there's no such a thing as an impossible place however I am remembering that in the scripture that Jesus told the disciples that if a city would not receive them just to shake the dust off of their feet and leave so that evidently means that there were places that even the apostles could not produce much or perhaps any results at all I like to believe that every place is possible but every place is not equally the same you can go to some areas and uh and and it is very very difficult then you go to another place and it would seem to be that the people are so hungry and their hearts are so fertile for the things of the Lord so keep this in mind also when you're seeking out the will of God just because the place that you're in is difficult that doesn't necessarily mean that you're out of the will of God because God indeed wants all men to hear this gospel however if you've went for a very long time three four five years without results it certainly is worth re-examination and don't make the examination yourself get some professional help get someone to help you that is sensitive to the spirit of God gifted in the spirit to help you to re-examine and perhaps give you some new Direction I remember one time I went to a whole missionary it's a home where he had been endeavoring to start a work for quite some time he had spent several years there and he had two good families and and he was concerned about the future I said drive me through your city and he drove me through the city I said sir my dear brother you have reaped the Harvest of this city you have reaped it now what you need to do is let's go to another city nearby and let's sits out that City and so we went and I said oh there's a great church in this city if we can persuade the two families you have to move with you into this city and God will give you a great church they were persuaded they in fact moved the people that was with him actually didn't have to move that far because they was already in that direction in their housing and so they moved with him to that new city and within just six months time he had 50 or 60 people he reaped a great harvest from a new area so this is something you have to take into consideration also when you're doing the will of God remember the ground is not always the same God bless you in Jesus name do the will of God in your life show yourself to me Lord I crave the love that's more than emotion deep in my commitment to you I give you total devotion show yourself to me Lord I pray a love that's more than emotion deep in my commitment to you I give you total devotion show yourself to me Lord I pray a love is more than emotions deep in mind [Music]