What if the plan you didn't choose—the one you got pushed into by a thunderstorm, a rerouted bus, and a restaurant nobody had heard of—turned out to be exactly the plan God had in mind all along?

In this episode of God's Power Stories and our series In the Margins, we were supposed to go straight to Thyatira, then Pergamum, then stop for lunch. But thunderstorms rolled into Pergamum and drenched everything in sight. We pivoted. John's first reaction: Great. Now we're winging it. But what unfolded was so layered and so clearly orchestrated that the thunderstorm felt less like bad luck and more like an escort.

Our guide Sinan took us to a restaurant owned by a personal friend—a man who had started with nothing, with food nobody would try. Until Sinan struck up a conversation and said: Let me taste your food. One act of noticing changed  ...