Sunday Message · Fountain of Grace International · Pretoria North
They're Using You-And God Is Too
Your pain at work, in relationships, or at church might feel pointless. But what if the very people hurting you are unknowingly part of God's plan to position you for breakthrough?
Pastor Ricardo Zaal · Fountain of Grace International, Pretoria North
You feel used, drained, and forgotten-but God sees what they don't.
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This message is for you if:
- You keep giving at work but never get the promised promotion
- You're in a relationship where he keeps making empty promises
- You feel abandoned and overlooked by people you trusted
- You're tired of being treated like you don't matter
When Use Becomes Training
Joseph's brothers threw him in a pit because they were jealous. They thought they were destroying him. David's own family sent him out to tend sheep alone all day-overlooked, undervalued, invisible. Neither of them knew what God knew: their betrayal was the first step toward their greatest purpose.
When someone uses you-whether it's your boss asking you to stay late without recognition, a partner promising a future that never comes, or a church leader stretching you thin with no reward-you're being trained. God doesn't waste pain. He converts it into skill, character, and readiness for what comes next.
The person exploiting you thinks they're gaining something. God thinks differently. He sees the strengthening happening inside you. Every time you're stretched beyond what feels fair, you're learning capacity you'll need later.
The Pattern in Scripture
Samuel the prophet was sent to anoint a king, but God didn't tell him which son. When he arrived at Jesse's house, he looked at the eldest son-the obvious choice, the tall one, the one who looked like a leader. God said no. Samuel went through seven sons, all rejected. The youngest was still out with the sheep, doing the job no one else wanted.
When David finally came-sunburned, alone all day, overlooked by his own family-God said, 'This is the one.' David had been trained in obscurity. While his brothers saw him as disposable, God saw him as a shepherd preparing to lead a nation. The same skills-protecting, providing, staying faithful when no one is watching-would become his greatest strength as king.
Genesis 50:20 captures this truth: 'You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.' Joseph told his brothers this years later, after he'd been sold into slavery, imprisoned falsely, and finally elevated to save Egypt. The very betrayal that looked like the end was the beginning.
What God Is Actually Doing While They Use You
At work, your boss uses your talent but won't promote you. You stay late, solve problems, make them look good. But God is building your reputation silently. One person-like Lana in Pastor Ricardo's story-will notice your character, your reliability, your willingness to help. When a real opportunity opens, your faithfulness becomes your reference. The abuse was training you not to demand credit, to lead quietly, to solve problems without needing recognition.
In a manipulative relationship, he makes promises to keep you close. 'I'll leave my wife. I'll change. I'll buy you a house if you just stay a little longer.' You're being used. But God is training you to recognize what you will never accept from a spouse. The pain teaches you boundaries. The false promises train you to demand integrity. You're learning what love actually looks like by experiencing what it doesn't.
When church leaders stretch you with promises of leadership that never materialize, God is testing your motive. Are you serving to be seen, or to serve? Are you faithful in small things, or only when there's a reward? The confusion and disappointment strip away the wrong reasons and leave only what's real-and that's what God can actually use.
Jesus Went Through the Same Pattern
They arrested Jesus, beat him, mocked him, lifted him on a cross to die. It looked like total defeat. They thought they were destroying him. But God meant it for redemption. The very cross that was meant to be his end became the door through which all of us walk free. Jesus didn't stay dead. He rose, and in rising, he made a way for everyone who's been used, abused, and left for dead to rise too.
When Jesus rose, he didn't rise as a victim. He rose as a king. He told his followers, 'All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me.' That's what happens when God has a plan. The people who meant it for evil end up serving God's purpose of good. And everyone who comes after Jesus-everyone who trusts him-gets lifted with him.
You are not separate from this pattern. If you've been used, abused, or forgotten, Jesus knows exactly what that feels like. And he knows exactly how God turns it into purpose. Isaiah 49:15-16 says God has engraved your name on the palm of his hand. Every time he lifts his hand in blessing, your name is visible. You are not forgotten. You are not useless. You are being prepared.
What Changes When You Understand This
You stop asking 'Why is this happening to me?' and start asking 'What is God doing in me?' The pain doesn't disappear, but it stops being pointless. Every time you're tempted to quit, to give up, to believe you're worthless-remember Joseph in the pit, David with the sheep, Jesus on the cross. None of them stayed there. All of them were being positioned.
Your obedience becomes power. When you choose to keep showing up, keep being honest, keep serving even when you're not getting credit, you're not being naive-you're being trained for authority. God doesn't trust people with power who need to be seen. He trusts people with power who've learned to serve without applause.
And you stop waiting for the people who hurt you to fix it. You stop needing them to apologize or admit they were wrong. You look at what God did with their use of you, and you move forward into what he's building. That's freedom. That's how you stop being trapped by the people who tried to trap you.
The Promise Over Your Life
Jeremiah 29:11 isn't just comfort-it's a declaration: 'I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.' Not plans to punish you for being naive. Not plans to waste what happened to you. Plans to prosper you. The very thing meant to destroy you becomes the thing that strengthens you.
If you're tired right now, if you feel used up and forgotten, God hears that. He's not deaf to your frustration. He's not blind to the promises people made and broke. And he's not done with you. What looks like the end is the pit. What looks like the end is the shepherding years no one respects. What looks like the end is the cross. It's never the end. It's always the setup.
Your name is engraved on God's hand. When people mean it for evil, God means it for good. And when your time comes-when the doors open that only God can open-you'll be ready because you've been trained by fire. You won't need anyone's permission or applause. You'll have authority because you've learned faithfulness.
"When they use you, they're actually training you-and while they think they're abusing you, God is making you unbreakable."
- Pastor Ricardo Zaal
Key Takeaways
- Betrayal Is Part of God's Design, Not Outside It Joseph's brothers meant to destroy him by throwing him in a pit and selling him into slavery. But that pit led to Egypt, where he saved nations. God didn't cause their jealousy, but he was already using it before it happened. When people betray you-at work, in relationships, in ministry-you're not experiencing something God didn't see coming. You're walking through something God is already converting into purpose. The question isn't 'How could God let this happen?' The question is 'What is God building while this is happening?'
- Training Happens in Obscurity, Before Elevation David spent years alone with sheep, overlooked by his own family, no one watching, no applause. That's where he learned to fight lions and bears, to stand firm when threatened, to protect what was entrusted to him. God didn't put him in the spotlight first. God trained him first, hidden and unglamorous. When your breakthrough comes, you'll be ready not because you were famous, but because you were faithful when it didn't matter. The loneliness, the overlooking, the hard work no one sees-that's not wasted time. That's your training ground.
- God's Plan for Good Overrides Everyone Else's Plan for Harm Genesis 50:20 is the hinge of hope: 'You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.' Your boss meant to use you for free labor. Your partner meant to manipulate you. Your church leader meant to exploit your loyalty. But 'God meant it for good.' This doesn't erase the wrongness of what they did-it means God is better at turning ashes into purpose than anyone is at creating ashes. When you trust that God meant good, you stop needing the people who hurt you to acknowledge it or fix it. You move. You build. You rise.
If you are in or around Pretoria or Johannesburg, come and join us on a Sunday - these messages are preached live every week at Fountain of Grace International, 323 B Danie Theron Street, Pretoria North.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know the difference between being used and being trained?
Being used is when someone takes from you without ever giving back or helping you grow. Being trained is when God is building character and capability inside you even while someone else is taking advantage. The key: Is God's hand in it? Are you growing in faithfulness, wisdom, boundaries, or skill-even if the person using you doesn't intend it? If yes, God is training you. Keep showing up with integrity. If the situation is dangerous (physical abuse, financial ruin, spiritual deception), get out. God trains you through fire, not through destruction.
What if I feel bitter about the time I 'wasted' being used?
That time wasn't wasted if God used it to make you stronger, wiser, or more discerning. But if you're staying bitter, you're still trapped by the person who hurt you. The way forward is to see what God did with what happened, not just what the person did to you. Ask God: 'What did I learn? How am I different now? Who do I refuse to become because of this?' Then move. Joseph could have stayed bitter about his brothers forever. Instead, he saw God's hand. That freed him to save Egypt-and later, to forgive his brothers.
If God has a plan, why does He let people hurt me?
God doesn't cause people's sin or their choices to hurt you. But he's powerful enough to take what people mean for evil and use it for good. He doesn't need their cruelty-he works *around* it and *through* it. Jesus is the proof: they killed him, but God raised him and made his death the door to salvation for everyone. God doesn't waste suffering; he transforms it. Your job is to stay faithful, keep your integrity, and trust that what God is building in you is stronger than what anyone is taking from you.
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Rejected and loved, like the rose trampled on the creature that fall Above all nature and all creatures and all the waves that move before them and all that you took before Rejected Jesus, the world on the ground You took the fall, and thought of me Thank you, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Oh, Jesus, Jesus Baba, sikhi libu shandada sikhi libu shandada Heavenly Father, I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour I honour you, I praise you, I give you the glory that you deserve for you are God and you are not a man that you should lie So this morning as we come in your presence, Father God We just want to give you everything that you deserve this morning, Father God We just want to give you the highest praise for you are God and you are not a man that you should lie, Father God Because we know, Father God, whatever you said it will come to pass, whenever you said it it will still come to pass, Father God So this morning I just thank you for that I thank you for that, I thank you for that Use me this morning, Father God, for your glory, Father God Use me this morning for your glory Let me be the one that is lower and you the one that is lifted, Father God So that this morning as I lift you up, Father God I know, Father God, all men will be drawn unto you, Father God, this morning Because I know, Father God, whenever we lift you up, Father God all men will be drawn unto you So this morning I want to pray, Father God, for the service this morning I mean for the sermon this morning, Father God for the sermon that you said that they have been using people, Father God They've been using people but they didn't know that you had the plan for that uses, Father God So this morning I come in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior and I pray you, Lord, let everything that goes out here, Father God let it be for your glory and not for men in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior I pray now, Father God Hallelujah So this morning I want to come to you and just give you an insight what God is speaking to me God has spoken to me quite a lot of times saying certain things and I want to make sure that you go with me as we go Please just go, bear with me So whenever I go onto things like this where I will be going live or on Facebook I welcome everybody that is here as well especially my wife, my kids They are my pillar They are my pillar, they are my pillar They are the ones that give me an actual time like this because remember I could have been spending time with them but unfortunately there's also a time for everything You know that there's a time for everything Amen You know that there's a time for everything Now because there's a time for everything This is the time for the Lord This is the time for the Lord This is the time for the Lord This is the time for the Lord This is the time So this morning I want us to go into a few things Now as my message is entitled When they use you in God's plan Now this is something that sounds contradictory to what I'm saying It's contradictory in a sense of When I look at the subject or the heading It says when they use you Now how can somebody use you at the same time It is in God's plan for using you How can it be like that? How can somebody be using you? But it's still in God's plan I want to bring a few messages A few points out for you this morning So I want to Let me give you a direction of where we are heading to Now number one is I'm going to give you my statement They will use you They will abuse you Even confuse you But God They will use you They will abuse you Even confuse you But God has another plan But God has something else in mind But God said it in the beginning of time You will be tested Go through trials and tribulations But count it all joy Count it all joy this morning Because when they use you When they abuse you The thing for you to do is just to say Okay Lord Jesus They are using me They are abusing me But God What is your plan? So let me start off by saying that Certain things in your life Might be looking as if It is against what you have planned for yourself But when you're looking at it You are actually working according to God's plan Now this morning I want to bring a boy to you this morning And I want this boy to illustrate To illustrate this That I'm saying to you Now picture this This boy grew up with brothers Now imagine growing up with brothers But you are treated differently than your brothers Now for some It is a situation where When they treat you differently Maybe your mom and dad treat you better Than what they treated your sisters and brothers Now picture this boy This boy got treated differently And every time He is put on a pedestal By his father And every time when he is put on a pedestal Now I'm speaking also at the same time to you As a mother, as a father Remember as a mother, as a father You have something that you are obliged not to do It is to show favoritism to your kids So picture this The boy grew up and every time The father is saying to him Hey well done Things is done well This and that and the other So at the end of the day This boy being the boy that he is The brothers and the sisters now I mean the brothers in this case Starting to become jealous of him Now this boy's name is Joseph Now picture somebody gets a nice Colorful cloth Clothing piece Picture this Somebody gets a nice clothes And then Your brothers become jealous So when the brothers become jealous They had one thing in mind And the thing that they had in mind Is to throw this person in a pit Now what they didn't know Is that this pit situation Was actually the plan of God Now you might ask How can somebody be put in a pit And it's a plan of God Because God had another plan for this boy Now I'm speaking to you From another boy's point of view as well Now picture this A boy who is literally Before everybody must wake up He must be gone Out of the house Now I'm speaking to you About another boy Now before sunset He will be going out And come back When it's late also So he doesn't see a lot from the family The whole day he's out there And every time he's out there You see him Being alone Alone, alone, alone Not having a conversation Of the right human Or human conversations Or Conversations that are supposed to be Between men and men Or women and women Women or men, men or women Whichever conversation Now picture somebody Who is actually Not even seen by his mother And father a lot Only at night time When he comes from far The boy I'm talking about is David Now imagine David Getting up in the morning And they're actually asking him To take the sheep out A shepherd boy That was literally cast out And when you're looking at David Being cast out They actually There's a word I'm looking for They undermine him There we go, that's the one They undermine him Because, or let me go to the scripture Let me go to the scripture Now in 1 Samuel 16 You read about this person Now the person I'm talking about Let me read the scripture for you 1 Samuel 16 Now 1 Samuel 16 I will be reading from verse 1 Just to give you an underlining of that The Lord said to Samuel How long will you be mourned For Saul Seeing I have rejected him From reigning over Israel Fill your horn with oil I will send you to Jesse The Bethlehemite For I have provided for myself a king Among his sons Samuel said How can I go If Saul yield He will kill me And the Lord said Take a heaver with you And say I have come to sacrifice to the Lord And invite Jesse To the sacrifice And I will show you What you shall do And you shall anoint for me The one I name to you Now picture this If Samuel Is now going to a place Where he has not been having A specific name That who he must anoint But at the same time As he is actually Anointed Now he's actually going in there And saying Jesse I want to see your sons Because I don't know which son Is actually the one That is supposed to be Anointed Now I want to ask you this question If God sends you out To a place Now when he sends you out to a place What does he do He doesn't give you a name But he said to you Go out there And anoint For me the one I name to you Now at the time God didn't name the person He just said Go out Now as we read further You will understand Why I'm saying There was no name mentioned And Samuel did What the Lord said And came to Bethlehem And the elders of the town Trembled And he's coming and said Have you come peacefully Now they're worried Asking Samuel Have you come peacefully And he said Peacefully I have come to sacrifice to the Lord Consecrate yourself and come with me To the sacrifice And he consecrated Jesse And his sons And called them to the sacrifice Now when they had come He looked on Iliad The eldest son And said Surely the Lord anointed Is before him Now picture this Because he's the eldest son You will think he will automatically Be the one That will become Whatever God says to become In our culture we grew up The elders will get the house The elders will do this The elders will be that The elders The elders will literally take over Where the father has left But in this case It's not the case But let's go on Let's go ahead Now he said When they had come He looked on Iliad The eldest son And said The Lord's anointed is before him Now imagine You're already deciding to the Lord That this is the anointed one But the Lord said to Samuel Look not on his appearance Look not on his appearance Or at the height of his stature For I have rejected him Imagine When somebody stands in front of you You will think that This is an anointed person That's standing in front of you Because of the person being At big stature But in this case The Lord said Don't look at his stature For I have rejected him For the Lord sees not as man sees For men look at the outward appearance But the Lord looks on the heart Then the jersey called Abinah And made him pass before Samuel But Samuel said Neither has the Lord chosen this one Then Jesse made Shema pass by Samuel said No has the Lord chosen him Jesse made seven of his sons pass Before Samuel Imagine seven Seven people before you Have been rejected So this morning I want to tell you that So many people have been rejected Before you Because of the plan of God in your life Seven of them has been rejected Seven of them has been rejected You have been rejected You had made people Seven people to be rejected Before you Because of God's plan for your life And you still don't see yourself Being the anointed one That God has chosen So many times when you stand In the gap of certain people You don't know that you actually Has been anointed already by God It's just the physical appearance That needs to move in So this morning Look at this What he said Then Jesse made Shema pass Jesse made seven of his sons pass Before Samuel And Samuel said to Jesse The Lord has not chosen any of these The Lord has not chosen any of these Then he said to Jesse Are all your sons here Jesse? Jesse said Jesse said There is yet the youngest He is tending the sheep Samuel said to Jesse Send for him for me For we will not sit down to eat Until he is here I'm telling you this morning that The plan of God is for everybody If you have not arrived They will not be moving anywhere They will not be able to eat Until you step into What God has appointed you to do So this morning I want to prophesy this morning that Everywhere that you are appointed Everywhere where God's plan is for you People will not be eating People will not be seeing you People will not be able to move People will say But I will wait for you If you can say this after me I will wait And put your name in there I will wait for Ricardo David Zal this morning Before I can eat I will not move If Ricardo David Zal is not coming I will not move If Ricardo David Zal is not coming I will not eat If Ricardo David Zal is not coming So put your name there where I put my name And say this morning Prophesy to your life They will wait for me Because it's God's plan They will wait for me Because it's God's plan They will wait for me Until I get anointed Now Send for him We will not sit down to eat Until he is here Period Jesse sent out And brought him David David had a healthy Reddish complexion And beautiful eyes And was fine looking The Lord said to Samuel Arise and anoint him This is he The Lord said Arise, anoint him This is he So picture somebody Has been Sitting in the sun the whole day Now if you If you picture this Sitting in the sun for the whole day Your skin colour Reddish of complexion But still They see this is you That needs to be anointed So this morning I want to bring my message To a few things A few things Now I can only speak Out of experience I cannot speak out of your experience Because you have experienced your own And I can speak Out of my experience So this morning I want to speak out of my experience What this Means into my life Now let me tell you A story Now I was working At a company Some time ago Now as I was working in the company I always Used to say I help everyone I would love to help everyone So every time whenever somebody asked me to help I will help them Every time they come to me I will help them Now there was a certain department In this company Now this department Was the dealership Department Now the dealership department Is a different department from where I used to work Now I was working in Retentions Now as I was working In retentions My work Is only to retain clients And not do anything else But there was a certain Woman Who always come to me Because she was sitting Closer to me In fact there was two women One was the head of department At the time Her name was Lana Now Lana made her soul rest In peace because I have so much I have so much To say about her At the time when she Was only seeing me At the time she saw me as Wow This one is always helpful Or always smiling because I had a thing That I always say When I go into a place I will smile and I will make friends With everybody regardless Whether you know me or you don't Just by me greeting you every time Very nicely Even if you don't know me You will try to know me Because of my greeting So Lana came to me one day And said you know I'm sitting so close To you can I ask you That sometimes whenever I need help Can I help you And can you help me sorry Then I would say Lana No problem Please let's do that So she keep on sending me An email and saying please do A confirmation of cover quickly for this And then the dealerships I will send through to her I will quickly respond Because at the time I didn't know Or I wasn't even intending To move to their department I was just helping out of the goodness Of my heart so that is why I'm Saying to you I can only Speak from my experience I cannot speak from your experience You have your own experience but Just remember this They will use you they will even Sometimes abuse you Even confuse you But God God God has a Plan for you Now let me Let me talk about Lana Now every time I speak to Lana I would say How are you Lana And then she will be responding No I'm good Afrikaans And it kept on going like that Until one day she asked Another lady Jolene To help To say Jolene must ask me For help I kept on helping Jolene The whole time the whole time Until one day It happened That there was a position open Now when the position Was open I did not even Think of applying For the position I didn't even consider Applying for the position because What the positions Merits was I did not have them The first merit Was saying that you have to have A management Degree They call it that A diploma in something Management I can't remember exactly but One of them was saying Minimum requirements is this Then I Then I didn't bother But Lana Called me to say Come here And then I said Lana Yes I will help you what can I help you with today The first thing she said to me No today I don't want You to help me I want to help you And I was like What do you mean by that Then she said there's a position that is Opening I would love you To fill that position You have proven the time that You were helping me All along You always were helping me Now there's a word that they Say it's reciprocation I don't know how that word but it's something That when you do something good To somebody they In return would Like to do something good to you As well so Due to the fact that I always help them she Said she would love to help me as Well now May her soul rest in peace because Lana was the one that Opened up a door for me Where my merit Or my things that Was happening I was not Able to apply for that Kind of job she said apply For the job and if I can't find somebody I will put you in that position So what I then did is I applied And lo and behold God's plan Is perfect Perfect perfect While they thought maybe They were using me By using every time Me to help them Because there were some times When I was supposed to go Home but then they will say no No no can you please help us Before you go home then it's Already knock off time long Time ago but then I will help Them so they will abuse You so so in this Case it's not about the Use it's more About going to the next place Where you then say abuse Now as they abusing Me because of they they now Taking advantages And push me further And then I realized This Is only a plan of God And I kept on helping them so As I was actually Doing that I got so confused Because now they Making me confused how can I be going into a Place where I don't have the merits To work there I don't have the degree I don't have the things that They actually say I should be having But God Had a plan I applied for the job I got the job When I Go back and I looked at Why I got the job I asked Lana the question I said Lana There could have been A lot of people That could have full disposition Why me you went through a lot Of interviews why me And Lana said to me these words And she was very Much of a How do you say Spiritual woman She said You know what Every time when you help me I was asking God how can I Help you back And that is how I Could repay you so this This day as I'm standing to you when I Got that job I was like You're This is wonderful now let Me come back And Explain to You when they Uses you in God's Plan now when they Uses you in God's plan According to Genesis 50 Verse 20 Now Genesis 50 verse 20 says it's like This but as For you You thought evil Against me But God meant it Unto good To bring to pass As it is This day to save Much people alive Now but As for you you thought Evil against me but God meant it Unto good so you Thought that you Can use the guy but God had another plan For his good So I want To speak to you in a three Fold way number one When they use You they actually Train you They train you so In this case I want to bring something to you That when you work for Somebody you get Trained To do what the person Is doing or you Either Get used by the things That the person cannot do Themself so when Somebody cannot do Something themselves They will outsource that So this morning I want to Tell you something when they Use you just Sit back and say God what is Your plan for this God what is Your plan for this Because many at Of times when they use You they actually Are training you To become Where God wants you to be I am just making an example Whenever you are starting off As a cleaner in a company They will use You as a cleaner But if God has a different Plan for your life You will quickly See the plan that God has For you So in this case where you are a cleaner What will happen Is that every time You clean you will Pick up a paper and maybe Read and start Understanding the papers that you Pick up and put them that side And you start understanding and you Start learning and you start learning By the time you realize When there is a position open God is actually using That papers that you were picking up To help you To become the Better person When the relationship That you are in Every time When the guy comes to you A married man comes to you And every time sleeping with you Then you think This is not fair This is not fair Do you know that That is also something That will help you To know that It is not right To do something like that I am teaching you Not to do that Because remember there is a Saying that says What goes around comes around Now if you are not married And you sleep with somebody who is married In this case I am making it As if it is a man but what if it is A woman that sleeps with a guy A married woman Or vice versa Now you get used They even abuse you Because when you get Used they training you How not To be when you are Married Because the guy will come to you While he use you While he is abusing you He will even confuse you To say to you I will leave my wife For you one day He is so confusing you That you think That every time I sleep with him It will be something good But in this case It is something That will make you to understand That one day When I have my wife When I have my husband I will not be the one That will sleep with people Outside of the Outside of marriage Confusing somebody else Therefore I am saying To you This is also the same thing That happened let me make an example Of Of things that we Know Things that we know In a church for argument sake They will then Use you To say you must do one, two And three not knowing That they think they are using you Because some men of God Are not men of God that come With the intent To love you But to love themself So when they think They can love themself by Using you God is actually training you In the meantime While they think They are abusing you They are actually making you stronger Because when They stretch you To your limit In this case where I was saying When Lana was actually stretching me To work overtime to Help her She actually was stretching me Stretching me Stretching me So that is why When you go And you get stretched By the use that they are using you When you go into The put And saying but God where Are you God where are you You get trained To know where you coming from That where you are Heading is a better place So this morning I want to pray For you this morning that Should anything be happening where People are using you and abusing You even confusing You with the promises that They made even confusing You thinking that this is the right Place to be like for argument Sake what they will do is In a case I am just Making an example of a church For argument sake They will say to you one day you Will become one of the Elders one day you will become one Of the pastors but Whenever you see What you have done up to thus far For this church and not Going growing anywhere Even though your aim was Not to have a leadership Position but your aim was To grow and then they using You they using you they using you And sometimes confusing You by the promises that they made So they making promises to you that This is what they will do I will buy You a house I will buy you a car So that you can help me in The ministry but God But God But God have Another plan So when God has another plan For you You go through training Like The way David was trained When he was sharpening The sheep he knew That whenever somebody Is falling from that Sheep he had to go And he even take a bear A lion And he so many things that He actually went through fighting For his sheep he went Through a lot of things to make Known to him That he is Trained to go Into the plan of God Because as he was Doing all these Things looking After the sheep God prepared him to look After a nation Because to look after a nation Is the same concept or the same Way of looking after a Nation than what you looking after A sheep So when you When you looking after sheep You learn how to treat The sheep Nicely so that they don't Have to run away You also learn at the same Time how to give The need Of the sheep to them So you've been used By your father and your Brothers to go and Shepherd the sheep But at the same time While they were using you They trained you So while they were using you Or abusing you Because sometimes you don't even See during the day You don't even see your house You don't even see where you stay You don't even have the same treatment As what the other brothers have Therefore their stature Was higher than your stature You are just a mere timid Because of the food that you eat Is not the same food that they eat Because during the course of the day You have to Take one Let's say one scarf And eat out of that Yourself Sometimes you have to even go And get some food out of other places So this has been training You To know Into God's plan So this morning I want to tell you That when they confuse You Don't get confused Because of the plan Of God He will always make your desire Known to you And he will give you your heart's Desire And if he gives you your heart's desire It's actually Where things Becomes better Where it's put into place So this morning I want to Take you back to To what Jesus went through They thought They were using Jesus They thought they were Abusing Jesus when they lift him Up and put him high On a Cross But that was the abuse That went into that Made us today The plan that God had On that cross of Calvary Made you It was made for you And me For a day like this To be free To be free To be free Because he said he has come To set the captives free So you were in captivity With everything that you were Going through So when you were captured Into Satan's web Jesus came to set you free So when Jesus came to set you free He set you free In a lot of ways Now the way he came to set you free Is that whenever He set you free He has given you A place high above Everyone else because When you are a kingdom kid When you are born out of a king You are a king You are the prince Because of where Jesus Has put you So take this time And pray for you this morning So that you can know that Whenever They use you Whenever they abuse you Whenever they even confuse you But God Has a plan for you Now when God has a plan for you A plan is so simple Because according to Jeremiah 29 11 My plan for you To prosper you and not to harm you To prosper and not to harm you So whenever you Feel like you are hurt It is not the hurt That is there It is the hurt that help you To stretch you To the things that will actually Harm you And therefore the stretch Has helped you So this morning I want to pray for you this morning That as they abuse you Let God be using you As they abuse you Let God be using you As they abuse you Let God be using you for the plan that He has set up for you So this morning where they have planned To use you as just a Mere outcast God has anointed You already Way before He has written your name He has actually not just written He has tattooed your name He engraved your name On the palm of His hand So that you might not be forgotten Every time Whenever He lifts up His hand People will see your name on His hand So this morning I want to pray for you And I want to come to you and I say to you That wherever you feel Useless just know That God is using you For His plan You are useless Look look look There is somebody that is also Listening to this That is saying also But I feel used I feel dirty He has been using me all along Every time whenever He speaks to me He makes me feel so good He confuses me actually Every time whenever He speaks Saying this There is one that is actually Saying every time He is saying to me I will leave my wife For you We will get married Let me just fix this With my wife Every time He says that Is every time that you start believing Him The same one every time Whenever He hits you Saying that you didn't Even cook for Him You've been used By Him and every time He hits you He said I will not hit you Anymore You keep on believing Him And you go back and then it happens That He hits you again Every time He hits you again Every time He makes a promise Not to hit you So I want to pray for you this morning Where you are at work And every time they promise you That they will give you a promotion If only you run with this project And every time whenever The project is done They say no, no, no This project wasn't profitable We will make sure that the next project Every time they use you Just to make use of your Your brains To make use of your You being clever Better than them Every time they keep on promising you I want to pray that God will make sure That this will change in your life There will be coming a change In your life Because of the plan that they have for you Not to harm you The plan to prosper you this morning So this morning I pray that this morning As you are like Jesus Going through your Cross This morning And the cross becoming heavier and heavier May you only see The glory that comes with The crown given As you going this morning As a Joseph going into the Pert and be sold out This morning I pray that this morning That you will be seeing What God is seeing in your life So whenever you feel like you are Useless that you know That God has a plan and a purpose For you in your life I prophesy that every time Whenever somebody say A wrong word to you May every time you be reminded About the words that You are the apple of God's eye You are The one that Is actually come to Serve on this earth So I prophesy this morning that Everywhere you go and you feel Useless may you be used In the kingdom of God I pray this morning that Everywhere you go And people think that they will Bring you down You will be lifted Every time they think that Their plans is to bring you Down The same plan to bring You down is the plan that God uses for Good I come to you Now in the mighty name of Jesus My God Heavenly Father this morning I bring everyone to you Everyone that felt At some point That they are useless I pray this morning that Everyone that feels That they are useless I pray this morning that Everyone that feels That they are useless I pray this morning Father God let them see How you will make the plan Useful To them This morning I want to come to you In the mighty name of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior I pray Lord Jesus that where People has been used Let them Understand That the plan that goes Into that was to strengthen Them to stand as a better Person next time This morning I want to pray a lot that As the devil was using Your people Thinking that it Will be their downfall I want to pray this morning Let them see The good in it Some of them who even said words That meant To harm them I pray that that words Will be turned into a blessing Every curse that was spoken Upon their lives turn it Into a blessing this morning Father God Everything that was said That was promised to them Let that promise Come to pass Father God in the mighty Name of Jesus I pray this morning also Father God for those of them That is actually Saying I'm fed up I'm tired I cannot Take it anymore I've been living a life that has Been whole or holy According to God's word But I don't see any Progress in my life I want to pray for that person now In the mighty name of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior your Promises are a amen Your promises Father God Is that you will always keep Your word you honor your word Higher than yourself This morning so every promise That you have promised them Father God I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Let that promise become real For the God so that they don't feel Fed up for the God because they are Only mere Human beings my God And being a human Being Father God we have the The time Where we actually feel like no I can't take it anymore Let them be a human being Father God And say to you I'm fed up I'm tired So that Whenever you can see the frustration Father God because You knew their frustration long before But they cannot speak to you About it because they think that you will Turn a blind eye or turn A deaf ear but Your word says it That you always hear Your children Your word says it My God that you always Are there for them So this morning I want to pray That in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior Let whatever they're going Through be for the good That you have planned In the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior we Pray Amen Now this morning I want to I want to put an invite to you If you feel that You are led To do something in the Ministry or you feel like You wanna Become A pillar Not just a financial Pillar but also Somebody who would like to help With whatever Need be whether it's In evangelism Whether it is in media Whether it is in Going out Making disciples of men To actually go out To do The work of God So if you are feeling led To do that You can contact me There's a number on the screen If you're on Facebook There's a number on the screen if you're on YouTube You can contact That number WhatsApp me say I would like to be This one two Or three But if you feel like No I'm too far to actually Do this and you Feel like we are doing a Good deed for Jesus We are doing a good job For Jesus that we are going Out to actually Get people to know Jesus And you feel like Well I would like to Also Yelp in this By any donation You can WhatsApp us On the number on the screen If you are far out there Or you feel like I don't want to give my time I just want to give some Funding towards a certain Thing Now remember when you Speak about the ministry Ministry is Run out of funds God always provide Whether you do or not God will always provide But if you feel like God is asking you Or put it laid upon your heart To put something into the ministry Just to Put petrol in the Car where we go To go and see people pray for people You can do that Whether it is just to To help with the Livestream like this for argument sake Put a little bit of data On the phones To stream this You can do that As well If you feel like By God to say Look I just want to go and move A chair When you are there To do so If you feel that you need a Prayer request Counseling Now for every prayer request you can Send to your prayer request The number is on the line And I will pray personally For you I will pray personally for you If you need counseling You can just put on the number there Say man of God There is a certain Area in my life I am not feeling Well I feel like I need A counseling on that Put your number on there Or send me a whatsapp Even if there is a testimony That you felt like Due to my ministry Or fountain of grace ministry I have become a certain Thing or You have been helping me In a certain way You can send your testimonies True because by this Testimony you will Save a life By your testimony you will save a life This morning I want to thank you Thank you for everything that you You have done in the ministry As well for those of you Who are working Endlessly without Getting tired behind the scenes Doing certain things For the ministry Thank you for that Fountain of grace ministries Where we only live by Grace Grace abound that makes Us to go far So this morning I thank you Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God The sweet fellowship of the Holy Ghost Rest and abide with us Until Jesus comes Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us All the days of our lives And we shall dwell in the house of the Lord Forever And ever In Jesus name Amen God bless you Sin Sin