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preaching; I preached on the street corner. I said, “Jesus, today
we’re going to preach on the street corner and He obeyed.”

That was my expectation; where I am, there is Jesus.
Praise God, He showed up! He did come! He did bless! He
did miracles! It was wonderful! Jesus was listening to me.
Wherever I took Him, He went. I didn’t understand. John
2:2&3, “…and Jesus also was invited, and His disciples, to the
wedding. And when the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said
to Him, ‘They have no wine.’” Jesus is now thirty years old.
From age twelve to thirty Jesus obeyed His parents. She had
the expectation of that but it’s going to change right now.

John 2:4, “And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what do I have
to do with you? My hour has not yet come.’” When Mary said,
“They have no wine,” I don’t think she was expecting a miracle
but I think she was expecting her son to go to the store and get
some wine. They ran out of wine. “Jesus, you do what I tell
you to do.” All of a sudden He said, “Woman, it’s over. What
do I have to do with you?” For the first time her eyes were
opened and her heart understood. She had pondered it all those
years and finally it dawned on her. The best thing Mary ever
said is in John 2:5, “His mother said to the servants, ‘Whatever
He says to you, do it.’”

She understood that union is Lordship. He doesn’t do
what I say. I do what He says. We quoted already, and I’d like
to read it again, John 12:26, “If anyone serves Me, let him
follow Me; and where I am, there shall My servant also be; if
anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.” I had it
backwards. I thought, “Where I am, there Jesus would be.” But
that verse says, “Wherever Jesus is, there will be my servant.”
When God began to show me that, it changed my life. This was
a crossroad in my life. It was critical.
At this point you learn that it’s not me telling Jesus what
to do but it’s learning to listen to Him, so that you can go where
He is. This is where many ministries come to an end. When
Christians learn this, sometimes they quit their church. Pastors
leave their pastorates. Missionaries come off the field. People
who are writing books no longer write the books. Artists who