FLYING WITH THE FAITHFUL
Pastor Lloyd Benson, II, MBA
Flying with the Faithful I was waiting in the terminal at Los Angeles International Airport for an extended period. The passengers were aboard the plane on the runway, but something took place where the pilot had to delay the time in which it took for us to take flight into the air and before we could ascend, and I can get to my final destination. During that time God said to me, “It’s important that you learn in every situation that I’ve allowed you to wait because with me if you would appreciate the waiting, then you can more so see what you have to endure before your final destination.” But in the waiting, we waste time instead of investing time, instead of learning in the process, because we’re saying I’m just waiting on time to pass. But God says when I have you in “the waiting” it’s not for you to wait on time to pass. It’s for you to invest time Global Link Magazine / 4th Qtr. 2018
therefore when you do begin to ascend, you’ll already be ready for the assignment or your destination that’s ahead of you. So I decided to get out my notebook because God is not required to speak more than once. He gives you something, and you must be in tuned to hear. That’s why it’s important that we learn to listen more than we speak because God comes in a still small voice. And you must be able to cancel out the external noise to be able to hear what God is trying to speak to your spirit. You must be still to know that He is God and he’s speaking to you. So God said to me, “Look around you and begin to talk to those that are in your immediate vicinity.” I was in seat 24A in the rear of the plane. I had not made it first class yet, but I will get there. Being in the rear, is like being on the bottom, but you can be on top on the bottom. Even in the rear, you can be in the first class in the back. It just depends on understanding where you are seated and where God has placed you strategically. I was seated in the rear of the plane. God spoke to me and said, “There are four people I need you to meet in the back of this plane.” Then God reminded me of a pilot I met before this trip who explained to me the wonders about flying. The pilot said there are four main things you need to know before you can take off in an airplane: you must have the lift, you must have thrust, you must have weight, and you must have drag. Lift, thrust, weight, and drag. God will sometimes take you through something, and then He’ll bring it back to your remembrance later, so, you can understand what he was trying to teach you at that time. While I was in the back of this plane, God said, “I exposed you to the pilot first. I exposed you to leadership first, but now you have to go back and get the lesson.” Apostle Dr. Lloyd Benson told us “God will expose you to what you are to become.” And so, God had exposed me to the pilot, but I had not yet got the lesson from it. So, while I’m sitting there, God said again, “There are four people you’re going to meet, Mr. Lift, Ms. Thrust, Mr. Weight and Dr. Drag.” Then God begins to say, “Fly with the faithful, fly with the faithful.” Then I took notice of the people in my vicinity. These are real people with fictitious names. Mr. Lift is the guy to my right. He’s worked all over the country. He’s an architect and builds hospitals, so he’s been flying all his life. Mr. Lift told me we could do two or three things while we’re on this plane together. He said, “We can ei12
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