God Works All Things For Your Good

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I promise you it 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.440 will make you feel right at home. But thanks so 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.840 much for tuning in. Thanks again for coming out today. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.600 I like to start with something funny. And I heard 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.119 about this husband and wife. They'd been arguing and now 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.040 they were giving each other the silent treatment. The man 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.040 had to catch a flight early the next day, and 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.560 he needed his wife to wake him up at five 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.080 in the morning. Not wanting to break the silence, he 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:30.880 wrote a note and put it on her side of 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.760 the bed that said, please wake me up at five. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.280 The next morning, he got up at eight. He missed 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.480 his flight. He was so upset. He went in to 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.239 ask why she didn't wake him up, and he noticed 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.240 a piece of paper on his side of the bed. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.000 He opened it up. It said, get up, it's five, 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.840 all right, Hold up your Bible. Say it like you 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.240 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.040 I am. I have what it says I have. I 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.720 can do what it says I can do. Today I 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.919 will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.880 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.680 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.320 I want to talk to you today about how God 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.639 works all things for our good. And every person goes 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.000 through disappointments and things that don't seem to make sense. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.080 It's easy to get discouraged and think, why did this 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.160 happen to me? Why did my loved one not make it? 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.360 Why did this person treat me wrong? Why did I 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.760 get laid off? Had a man recently tell me how 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.640 he lost his job after so many years, and he 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.600 just didn't understand it. He said, Joel, I gave that 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.480 company my best, was always there on time. I was loyal. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.920 It's just not right. We have to understand even though 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.040 life is not always fair, God is fair, and he 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.240 promises in Romans eight twenty eight that all things work 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:03.200 together for our good. I believe the keyword is together. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.080 In other words, you cannot isolate one part of your 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.160 life and say, well, this is not good. It's not 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.520 good that I got laid off. It's not good that 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.200 my child got sick. It's not good that my relationship 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.040 didn't work out. Yes, that's true, but that's just one 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.440 part of your life. God can see the big picture 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:27.040 that disappointment is not the end your life doesn't stop 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.239 because of one setback. That's simply one piece of your puzzle. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.000 There's another piece coming that's going to connect it all. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.360 It's going to work together for your good. My children 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.680 and I used to love to make chocolate chip cookies, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.280 and we'd been doing it so long, since they were 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.159 two or three years old. We didn't even have to 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.799 look at the directions anymore. We knew exactly what they took. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.400 So Jonathan would go get the brown sugar and the eggs, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.680 and Alexander would grab the flour, the bacon, soda, the vanilla. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.040 I'd get the bowls and the mixer. We were very 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.760 precise to put in the exact right amount and the 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.839 exact order it was called for. You had to have 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.799 separate bowls, and at one point you mix the contents 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.800 of the smaller bowl into the larger bawl. You beat 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.360 one egg in at a time, and if you really 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.240 want it to taste good, it's very important how much 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.560 goes in and when it goes in. I remember one 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.919 time we forgot to put the bacon soda in. I thought, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.560 no big deal, just a little teaspoonful, How could that 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.440 matter in such a large bowl. But when we got 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.680 those cookies out. They were as flat as could be. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.800 They didn't rise one bent. They were tasteless. Nobody would 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:45.960 eat them. It was like something Victoria had cooked. I know, 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.600 I got to go out to eat today. Victoria is 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.280 a great cook. She is a master of the microwave. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.520 What was the problem with our cookies? An ingredient was 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:03.440 left out. A small amount made a huge difference. And 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.120 some people are bitter on life because they haven't waited 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.960 for all their pieces to come together. God has promised 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.359 a great plan for you. He has predestined you to 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.080 live in victory. And when things happen that you don't understand, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.719 things that don't make sense, don't get stuck there. God 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.160 has some more ingredients come in your way. You may 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.320 feel like your life is kind of flat today. Flatten 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.039 your finances, flatten your career, flatten your marriage. But all 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.120 God has to do is add some of his bacon soda. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.479 That'll cause you to rise to a new level. You've 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.200 probably seen that chef on television, Chef Emerald, When he 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.520 adds an ingredient, he always says, bam. Just imagine God 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.599 puts a little bit of favor bam. A healing BAM, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.800 a good break BAM. Some of you are lonely. All 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.680 God has to do is BAM, a divine connection. Have 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.920 you're at odds with the child BAM, super natural restoration 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.640 at I don't know about you, but I'm expecting some 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:09.200 bams in my life. I'm expecting God to add the 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:14.160 right ingredients. That means the right people, the right opportunities, 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.440 the right breaks at just the right time. And you 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.480 may have had some disappointments. Life may not have treated 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.360 you fair, but you wouldn't be alive if God didn't 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.960 have another victory in your future. That setback was not 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.880 the end. That breakup you went through years ago. It 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.800 may not have made sense, but there's another piece coming 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.200 that's gonna pull it all together. Don't be impatient. It's 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.600 not over until God says it's over. The fact is 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.920 we all have things that if we isolate them, we 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.440 don't understand. But if you will just keep pressing forward, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.240 one day you will look back and see how it 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.720 all played into a master plan that God had designed 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.120 for your life. But the problem is when we isolate 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.080 these negative experiences and we wonder why something has happened 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.640 to us, it causes us to get better. I know 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.280 people right now that are mad at God. They're soured 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.200 on life, no joy, no enthusiasm. It's because they went 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.200 through a disappointment, went through something unfair, and instead of 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.320 believing that God was still in control, believing that it 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.280 was going to lead to a new beginning, they isolate 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.400 that incident and they think, well, why did God let 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.560 this happen to me? But everything is not going to 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.200 make sense on his own. We have to have a 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.480 deep inner trust, a confidence down in here that says, 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.320 I know God has a great plan for my life. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.520 I know He is directing my steps, and even though 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.360 I may not understand this, I know it's not a 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.040 surprise to God, and somehow, some way, He's going to 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.440 work it out to my advantage. Imagine one day we 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.760 decided we don't have time to make the chocolate chip cookies. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.440 Let's just get the ingredients out and eat them separately. Jonathan, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.920 go ahead, start. Here's a cup of brown sugar. Here's 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.600 a teaspoon of vanilla to wash it down with. Here's 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.240 a raw egg. Here's your two cups of flour. Now, Jonathan, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.760 you officially have chocolate chip cookies on the inside. Somehow 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.680 it's just not the same. The key is it all 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.199 works together. It's got to be just the right mix, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.120 put in just at the right time if it's really 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.760 gonna taste good. In the same way, you can't isolate 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.560 one part of your life and think, oh, this doesn't 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.640 taste good. My life is sour, Joel. I went through 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.680 a divorce, or I lost a loved one that was 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.400 so close to me. I started a business that didn't 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.200 make it. I've been through so much. No, that's just 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.600 one ingredient. It's not supposed to taste good by itself. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.360 It's got to be mixed together. When you go through disappointments, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.520 when your in slow seasons, don't get discouraged. All your 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.760 ingredients are not in yet. Remember, a little bit of 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.240 bacon soda can make a huge difference. That means just 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.520 a little break, Just meeting one new person, just getting 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.520 one new idea, just one touch of God's favor can 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.560 turn the sour into sweet, the sorrow into joy, the 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.720 morning into dancing. I read about a young man he 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.360 wasn't wanted by his parents. He was giving up for 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.280 adoption at six weeks of age, and when he turned 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.920 two he developed a mysterious illness that kept him from 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.040 growing properly. First they thought it was something like cystic fibrosis. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.120 They ruled that out. For six years, he was in 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.800 and out of the hospitals trying to find what was wrong. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.920 Eventually he got a little better and started growing, but 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.640 he was still very small. His dream in school was 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:47.040 to play sports baseball, basketball, football, but he was way 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.920 too small to make matters where some of the kids 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.440 bullied him, made fun of him, called him names. Didn't 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.440 look like God had a plan, didn't seem to make sense. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:01.320 But remember it's not over until God says all he 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:05.319 needed was a few more ingredients. Being left by his 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:10.360 parents being rejected, that isolated on its own is very distasteful, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.080 spending years in and out of the hospital, that alone 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.080 can be very discouraging, But that's not the end of 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:21.040 the process. When God begins to add some of his ingredients, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.520 when he mixes in a spoonful of his favor and 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.360 a cup of his goodness, and he sprinkles a few 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.120 of his supernatural breaks, then all of a sudden, what 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:36.480 was very distasteful by itself, mixed together with the right ingredients, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.439 becomes very tasteful, and even though he couldn't play those 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.680 kind of sports, he knew that wasn't the end of 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.280 his story. He knew God didn't make any mistakes. He 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.040 started going to ice skating lessons with his sister. It 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.360 wasn't long before the coach noticed he was an extremely 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.280 gifted skater. Long story short, he started training for the Olympics. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.160 All the experts told him he was too small. You 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.520 don't have a chance. You're just wasting your time. But listen, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.440 you are not who people say you are. You are 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:14.800 who God says you are. Scott Hamilton went on to 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:21.400 win every national and international skating championship for four straight years, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.439 including the nineteen eighty four Olympic gold medal. And in 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.760 the natural, you may not see how you could accomplish 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.480 your goals. You don't see how you could fulfill what 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.760 God's put in your heart. But not today. All of 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.520 your ingredients are not in. When we're making those cookies, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.200 our favorite thing is to put the chocolate chips in. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.160 That's what gives them the flavor and makes them look 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.440 so tasty. Some of you today, you haven't had your 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.360 chocolate chips put in yet. Why are you soured on life. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.240 You don't know what God has in your future. Get 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.959 your joy back, your vision back. Quit dwelling on all 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.920 your disappointments and why you went what you went through, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.800 and shake that off and have the attitude. I've had 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.920 my flower put in. I've been through the mixing process. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.520 Now I know I'm close to those chocolate chips. I 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.439 know just a few more ingredients and God's gonna bring 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.719 it all together and cause it to work out for 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.160 my good. One time, when Moses was leading the people 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.520 of Israel, they'd been traveling through the wilderness day after 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.520 day without any water. They were so thirsty they didn't 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.200 know if they could make it. They finally came to 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.400 this river. They were so excited their dream had come true. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.160 They rushed over there to drink it. But when they 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.400 tasted the water, it was bitter. They couldn't drink it. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.200 It was too sour. Have you ever come to a 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.800 place in life where you thought it would be your 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.520 dream come true? You thought you would have finally accomplished 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.200 a gold but all of a sudden something didn't work out. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.880 You spent years building a business, maybe even working there. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.640 You're ready to retire, only to find that it's not 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.560 going to happen, is not going to last. I talked 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.679 to a young lady. She was so excited about having 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.520 a baby. It was her first child, and she and 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.520 her husband were getting the nursery already, everything prepared. But 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.080 unfortunately she wasn't able to carry the child full term. 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.360 She had a miscarriage. Those waters were bitter. In nineteen 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.160 eighty one, our family was looking forward to having a 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.720 big Christmas together. It was going to be a fun 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.479 time of family and friends. But on December the eleventh, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.440 we got the news that my mother had terminal cancer 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.360 and given just a few weeks to live. What we 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.600 thought would be a season of celebration ended up being 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.080 a very bitter season. That's what happened to these people. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.120 There was no water to drink. They were so thirsty, 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.080 and they began to complain to Moses. They got so 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.760 discouraged they thought it was all over. But no, God 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.960 still had a plan, and God told Moses to put 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.720 a certain kind of tree in the water, and when 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:02.520 he did, those bitter waters were turned into sweet. Now 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.520 the people could freely drink as much as they wanted. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.080 What is God saying when life turns out bitter when 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.800 things seem unfair. I'm not at a loss. I still 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.760 have an ingredient that I can put in that can 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.880 turn your bitter waters into sweep. You may not understand 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.640 why you went through what you went through, but don't 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.600 try to figure it all out. Faith is all about 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:31.200 trusting God when you don't understand things. Some people get 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.440 so caught up on why God didn't answer their prayers, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.960 things like God, you could have healed my loved one. God, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.280 you could have restored my marriage. God, you could have 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.280 kept me from getting laid off. Listen, here's what I've learned. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.320 Don't ever put a question mark where God has put 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.840 a period. When something is over and done, let it 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.000 go and move on to the next chapter in your life. 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.400 It may be bitter, but God has another ingredient. There's 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.560 something in your future that's going to turn the sour 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.960 into sweet. I know a gentleman that worked for many 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:09.080 years for a major newspaper. He was getting close to retiring, 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.240 but at the last minute they had to let him go. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.680 Those waters were better. He understood this principle. He didn't 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.200 get soured on life and go around complaining. He stayed 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.040 in faith, believing that God would open up another door. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.600 His dream was always to write books, and he had 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.800 done a few here and there on the side while 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.400 he was working as a reporter, but he never had 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.360 the courage to really step out and do it full time. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.320 But not long after he was laid off, he got 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.160 a call from a publishing agent asking if he was 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.320 available to work on a major book with the well 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.800 known author. He took that opportunity, and today he's living 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.720 his dream. He's doing what he always wanted to do. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.160 He told how if he had not been laid off, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.320 he wouldn't have been available. That agent would have never 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.000 called him. What am I saying? God has another ingreedy. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.840 When one door closes, God's going to open up another door. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.480 If you will stay in faith, it'll be a bigger 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:07.440 and a better door. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:08.280 Now. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.439 I found sometimes like this, gentleman, if we don't have 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.520 the courage to take a step of faith, God will 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.199 give us a push to get us out of our 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:21.840 comfort zone. Those bitter waters may be a blessing in disguise. No, 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.560 it's not good that you lost your job, but it 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.919 could be good if it causes you to stretch to 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.879 the next level or if it causes you to go 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.360 back to school, go back to college. It's not good 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.760 that you get a bad report about your health, but 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.960 it can be good if it causes you to get 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.120 back in shape. It wasn't good when my father went 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.000 to be with the Lord. We prayed, we believed the 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.800 waters were bitter, but really it was those bitter waters 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.680 that forced me out of my comfort zone. That's when 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.159 I really stepped into my divine destiny. The symbol for 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:57.240 the word the symbol for the word crisis in Chinese 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.320 is made up of two words, danger and opportunity. In 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.960 every crisis and every loss and every disappointment, there's both 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.160 danger to get bitter, to stay sour, to settle where 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:14.720 we are, and there's opportunity. We can grow, we can 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.880 step out in faith, we can stretch to the new 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.879 things that God has in store. I've talked to a 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.680 lot of people that went through Hurricane Katrina. They lost everything. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.360 I told them, you can accept the hand that you've 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.520 been dealt, seeing this as an opportunity to meet new friends, 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.720 to live in a new city, to have a new job. 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.600 Or you can fight it. You can resist it, get bitter, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.399 live with a chip on your shoulder. The choice is 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:46.760 up to you. There's both danger and opportunity in every crisis. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.359 There's a couple that's here every weekend, find people, faithful people. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.320 They lost their teenage daughter to cancer. We prayed and 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.800 believed with them for many, many years, and she made 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.280 it a lot longer than she was supposed to. But 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.359 one day she went home to be with the Lord. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.440 As you can imagine, that was some bitter waters. They 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.320 didn't understand it. Even though it was difficult, they committed 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.560 it into God's hands. Today that couple is a shining 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.560 example of how God can turn the sour into sweet. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:23.159 Every time I see them, they radiate God's goodness. Whenever 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.760 I meet someone that's lost a young person, they're the 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.600 first people I think of. I always ask them to call. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.000 They went through a major crisis. I can't think of 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:38.479 anything bigger. They face danger. They could easily be negative, bitter, 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.679 angry people blaming God why did this happen? But know 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.639 in that crisis, they saw the opportunity. They saw a 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:51.119 chance to receive God's grace, and today they're helping others 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.719 to make it through. God wants to show his grace 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.600 through you. When you go through a crisis, and instead 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.520 of getting bitter, if you believe that God is still 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.520 in control, you stay hopeful and believe that He's going 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.680 to open up a new door, then you too will 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.040 become a face of grace. You will not only see 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.040 God's goodness in a greater way, but you will inspire 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.520 others to keep moving forward into the good things God 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.400 has in store. I love the way Job put it. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.440 Though he slay me, yet will I trust him? The 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.679 reason Job had this unwavering trust was because he knew 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.080 God was still on the throne. When we go through 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.760 things that don't make sense, things that we don't really understand, 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.920 we've got to be able to say with Job, I'm 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.800 not worried about it. I know God is still in 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.840 complete control of my life. I know He's got me 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.919 in the palm of his hand. This may look like 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.440 the end, but I know God has a new beginning. 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.879 These waters may be bitter right now, but I know 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.040 God has another ingredient that's going to turn them into sweet. 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.359 Weeping may endure for a night, but I know a 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:04.800 secret joy is coming in the morning. The scripture talks 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:09.240 about how all of our days have been written in 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:13.960 God's book. He's already recorded every part of your life, 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.840 from the beginning to the end. God knows every disappointment, 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:23.200 every loss, every challenge. The good news is your story 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:28.159 ends in victory. Your final chapter concludes with you fulfilling 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.800 your God given destiny. Here's the key. When you go 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.520 through a disappointment, when you go through a loss, don't 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.040 stop on that page. You've got to keep moving forward. 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.160 There's another chapter in front of you, but you've got 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.280 to be willing to walk into it. Sometimes we get 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.040 so focused on what didn't work out, why I went 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.960 through that divorce, and why didn't get that promotion that 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.800 I worked so hard for. Listen, you've been on that 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.159 page long enough. You've reread that chapter four hundred and 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:59.760 fifty times. Let it go and move into the new 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.600 after God has in store. You may not understand everything 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:07.160 you went through, but if you just keep pressing forward, 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.600 not letting the bitterness take root, you will come to 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.679 a chapter in your future that'll pull it all together, 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:17.359 a chapter that'll cause it to make sense. Was talking 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:20.200 to this couple not long ago. They have a son, 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:23.320 and they've always had a good relationship with him. In fact, 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.840 they used to work together. But somehow they got crossways, 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.320 and now this son won't speak to them. He moved 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:33.000 to another city. They don't even have a phone number, 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:34.600 they don't know how to get in touch with him. 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:38.480 So you can imagine they're just very concerned, very discouraged. 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.680 I told them what I'm telling you. That is not 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:46.960 your final chapter. There's another chapter coming somewhere in your future. 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.879 Is a restoration chapter. It may be a month, or 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.280 a year, or ten years. But don't get stuck on 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:57.840 that page. Keep praying, keep believing that chapter will come 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:01.000 to an end. The bitter waters will be turned into sweet, 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:04.359 and you'll see that relationship restored. You gotta get a 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:06.840 vision for it. You gotta let the seed take root. 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:10.040 Some of you are ready to go to a new chapter, 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:12.560 but you've got to be willing to let go of 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.480 the old. What's behind you is not near as important 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:19.879 as what's in front of you. Everything you've been through 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:23.119 was to get you prepared for where you are right now. 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:27.680 Those disappointments, those challenges were never meant to destroy you. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:31.400 They were meant to strengthen you, to build your character, 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:34.840 to give you the fortitude you need to accomplish your 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:38.480 god given destiny. You may have had unfair things happen, 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.600 things that you don't understand, but let me tell you 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:45.000 have come too far to stop. Now. You need to 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:48.080 dig your heels in and say, I may not understand it, 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:50.000 it may not have been fair, but I am not 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:53.399 getting stuck on this page. I know God has another 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.240 chapter with my name on it, and that chapter is 0:23:56.320 --> 0:24:00.960 full of blessing, full of favor, full of victory. Our 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.479 little daughter Alexandra used to love to put puzzles together, 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:07.280 and when she was about five years old, every couple 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:09.719 weeks we'd go buy a puzzle and sit down and 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:11.760 work on it. And sometimes it would take us two 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.639 or three days, and invariably we would find a piece 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.240 of that puzzle that didn't look like it was going 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.439 to fit anywhere. We would try every option that we 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:25.199 could see here and there, but still nothing. Finally, I 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:28.399 would always think the manufacturer must have messed up and 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:31.159 left a piece out, or somebody came by at night 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:32.880 and took it off the table, or the dog got 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:35.120 a hold of it. But this piece is a mistake. 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:39.680 It does not fit anywhere. But what's interesting every time 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:42.600 when we got the puzzle closer to being finished, and 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:46.000 more of the pieces came together all the sudden that 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:50.280 piece would fit perfectly into place. What was the problem earlier? 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:54.679 All the other pieces weren't together yet. Some of you 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:59.120 today you have issues that you don't understand, and you're wondering, Joel, 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:01.960 if God is so good, why did my life turn 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:04.800 out like this? Or why did I go through that divorce? 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:07.800 Why didn't I get that promotion? Just doesn't seem to 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:11.040 make sense. Yes, that's true on its own, but it's 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:14.280 because you have pieces to your puzzle that have not 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:18.199 yet come together. If you will stay in faith, before 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:22.200 long you will see how every set back, every disappointment, 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:26.480 even a loss that was simply another piece of your puzzle, 0:25:26.880 --> 0:25:29.679 if it had not happened, it would not have connected 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:32.200 you to the great things that God had in your future. 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:35.760 Heard about this young lady. Her dad had had a 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:39.320 heart transplant and he seemed to be doing well. Everything 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:42.520 was going good, But several months later she got an 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:46.159 unexpected call saying that her father suddenly had died. He 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:49.159 didn't make it. She was in another city working on 0:25:49.200 --> 0:25:53.800 her master's degree. She immediately went to the airport, so upset, 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:56.840 so heartbroken. Now, she was sitting there at the gate 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:00.240 area with her head down, just sobbing and sobbing. She 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:03.440 felt these loving arms put around her, and a young 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:08.160 man said, ma'am, what's wrong. She immediately recognized the voice. 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:11.719 She looked up and it was Kevin Costner, the movie actor. 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:14.520 She told what was wrong and how her father had 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:18.280 passed away, and he stayed there the whole time, comforting her, 0:26:18.560 --> 0:26:20.840 letting her know that everything was going to be all right. 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:24.159 In fact, several times some of his people came and 0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:25.960 tried to get him to go catch his own flight, 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:29.119 but he wouldn't go. He stayed with her until she 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:31.800 was ready to board. Just as they were leaving, he 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:34.239 mentioned that he was going to be back in that 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:37.520 city a couple of months later filming a movie. He 0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:39.800 asked her to stop by and let him know how 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:43.440 she was doing. Several months later, she was driving across 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:46.359 town running an errand she had some papers to deliver 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:49.320 for her company. Traffic was all backed up. When she 0:26:49.359 --> 0:26:51.760 got up, she noticed they were filming a movie over 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:54.560 on the park area. Over there. She wondered if it 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:57.080 was the one with Kevin Costner. She didn't have time 0:26:57.080 --> 0:26:58.960 to stop she was in a hurry and didn't want 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.359 to bother him. When she was coming back from that 0:27:01.520 --> 0:27:03.879 errand shed got in some more traffic, looked over. It 0:27:03.920 --> 0:27:07.480 was another part of a movie. This time she stopped. Indeed, 0:27:07.480 --> 0:27:10.320 it was the movie with Kevin Costner. She told the 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:13.840 security guard to tell Kevin that the lady that was 0:27:13.880 --> 0:27:16.720 sobbing in the airport was here. Sure enough, they brought 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:18.600 her right over to Kevin, and he was just as 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:21.479 kind and warm as he was before, and offered her 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:24.320 a place to sit and watch the scene take place. 0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:27.320 In a few minutes, an executive in charge of the 0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:29.720 production came and sat by the young lady, just being 0:27:29.800 --> 0:27:32.720 friendly and explaining what the scene was all about and 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:36.000 how it all worked. Those two just hit it off 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:39.880 like they were old friends. That night, the lady called 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:42.760 her mother and said, Mom, today I met the man 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:45.439 of my dreams. I met the men I'm going to marry. 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:48.440 Sure enough, they started dating, fell in love. One year 0:27:48.520 --> 0:27:52.199 later they got married. Who would have ever thought sitting 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:55.640 in an airport grieving the loss of her father would 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:59.480 be a significant piece of her puzzle that God would 0:27:59.560 --> 0:28:02.560 use to connect her with somebody. She'd spend the rest 0:28:02.560 --> 0:28:05.640 of her life with what am I saying. God has 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:10.840 the right pieces to make your puzzle fit together. That 0:28:10.920 --> 0:28:14.840 puzzle may not make sense right now, but don't get discouraged. 0:28:15.040 --> 0:28:17.879 There's another peace coming that's going to pull it all together. 0:28:18.359 --> 0:28:21.240 Don't get stuck on that page. God has some more 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:24.520 ingredients for your life. Ingredients that will turn the sour 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:28.560 into sweep, ingredients that will turn mourning into dancing even, 0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:31.560 ingredients that will lift you out of mediocrity into a 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:34.800 life of abundance. And sometimes by faith, you just need 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:38.360 to hear it. Hear God's saying it. Bam. Another divine 0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:44.160 connection bam. Another breakthrough bam. Another supernatural opportunity bam. Another 0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:49.040 wall coming down. Get ready for some bams in your life. 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:51.960 You have not seen your best days. They are still 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:54.760 in your future. If you will learn to shake off 0:28:54.760 --> 0:28:58.240 the bitterness and not dwell on unanswered questions, but really 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:00.920 believe that God is in complete control O, then God 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:04.080 is going to show up and show out in unusual ways. 0:29:04.320 --> 0:29:07.640 He'll take your scars and turn them into stars. He'll 0:29:07.680 --> 0:29:10.000 take the mess and make it into you a message. 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:11.920 When you come to the end, you'll be able to 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:15.840 say I finish my course, I fulfilled my destiny. God 0:29:15.960 --> 0:29:19.920 worked all things together for my good. If you receive it, 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:24.600 can you say amen. We never like to close our 0:29:24.640 --> 0:29:28.240 broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 0:29:28.280 --> 0:29:31.080 lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:36.240 say it, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 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