The Donkey Will Be Tied

<p>Rev. Linda Adkins and Karol Lowery open Matthew 21 and ask the question most of us read straight past: how did Jesus know the donkey would be there?</p><p><br>Standing outside town at the stables — before the triumphal entry, before He ever sees the village — He tells two disciples exactly what they will find. A donkey and her colt, tethered. An owner who will hand them over. That is the gift of the word of wisdom in operation: a divine directive given when no one has the knowledge yet. Pastor Linda separates it carefully from the word of knowledge — Nathanael under the fig tree, the woman at the well with five husbands — where God reveals what somebody already knows, so you understand He has been in your business all along.</p><p><br>Also in this message: Zechariah 9, and why kings rode horses into war but donkeys to make peace. Elijah sent to Jezebel&#39;s own hometown, to a widow who had no idea God had already commanded her to sustain him. The Passover lamb big enough that you had to invite the neighbors. And a present-day account of a canceled contract — hundreds of thousands of dollars, already gone — rewritten within 24 hours after a man obeyed a word spoken over him in a living room.</p>