Matthew 26:36-46

Even Jesus had his moments of running up against the will of the Father; even he had to roll with some roadblocks for our sake!

Acts 16:16-40

God knows how to derail this world's attempts to silence the gospel and discourage his messengers.

Acts 16:1-15

God frustrates good plans in exchange for great plans; we don't always know what he's up to, but he doesn't make mistakes.

Mark 9: 2-13

God stops us when we try to turn worship into a circus; our intentions might be good, but he just won't stand for it.

Jonah 4

God also loves us enough to stop us when we are hard-hearted toward others he loves; he knows how to rewarm our hearts.

Jonah 1

God loves us enough to thwart us when we are running away from him; he knows just how to stop us without crushing us. 

1 Chronicles 22

Sometimes, God stops us from doing a good thing, simply because he wants someone else to do it, instead!

Psalm 2, Psalm 33

The nations of this earth have their own plans, but God is in control of history; he destroys the plans of kings to protect his people. 

Genesis 27

Sometimes obedience to God is easy. Often times it is not. When God reveals his plans for our lives we need to seek to do all we can to obey and follow his guidelines. If we don't we might find ourselves up against a roadblock.

God may very well use other people and those people's deception to block our path. It may be exactly what we need when we're too stubborn to obey him.

Genesis 11:1-9

When human beings try to conspire against God and disobey him as a team, he breaks up the team and hits “reset.”