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One of them said, we never 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.680 get to let our hair down. Let's each tell the 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.800 area that we struggle in the most, our greatest sin, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.839 so we can pray for each other. First pastor said, 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.720 I hate to admit it, but I have a problem 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.959 with gambling. Sometimes I'll sneak out at night and gamble. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.080 Second pastor said, I'm ashamed to admit this, but I 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.320 have a problem with cheating. I hardly ever pay my taxes. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.600 Third pastor sat there silently. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.160 They waited and waited. He wouldn't budge. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.560 They said, we are not leaving until you tell us 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.560 your greatest sin. He said, all right, My greatest sin 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.800 is gossiping, and I can't wait. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:49.560 To get off this boat. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.760 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.520 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.040 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.800 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.920 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.400 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.280 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:15.959 about grow through it. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:17.200 We all go. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.440 Through things that are uncomfortable and things that we don't like. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.079 A coworker is getting on our nerves. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.160 Child is difficult to raise, a dream is taken longer 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.120 than we thought, and it's easy to live frustrated wondering. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:31.959 Why it's not changing. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.520 But I've learned you can't pray away everything that's uncomfortable. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:42.480 God uses difficulties, delays, and inconveniences. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:42.760 To do a work in us. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.160 And if the situation is not changing, maybe God is 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.200 using the situation to change you. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.520 He wouldn't have allowed it if he didn't have a 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:53.440 purpose for it. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:58.880 Don't just go through it upset, bitter, offended. Grow through 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.400 it an opportunity to get stronger, to develop your character, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.360 to build your spiritual muscles. Because we don't grow so 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.000 much in the good times, we grow in the difficult times. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.720 And the scripture says our faith is tested in the 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:15.880 fire of affliction. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:17.640 That person that. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.800 Did you wrong, that's not random, it's not just a 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:21.560 bad break. 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.960 That's a test God is seen. 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.479 Are you gonna get bitter, hold a grudge, try to 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.000 pay them back, or are you gonna take the high 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.760 road and forgive or you didn't get the promotion you 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:38.720 deserved wasn't fair. Are you gonna get upset, bad mouth 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.480 the company, slack off, or are you going to keep 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.279 being your best, going the extra mild knowing that God has. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:46.240 Something better coming. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:51.039 These times when we're uncomfortable and we're not getting our way, 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.159 those are opportunities to prove to God that you're ready 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:56.440 to go to the next level. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.839 Before you're promoted. There's a time of testing, a time 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:01.560 of proving. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.200 If you keep letting the same people offend you, the 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.880 same traffic upsets you, same challenge is still your joy, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.240 then you're going to get stuck. You're going through it, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.920 try a better approach, grow through it. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.719 God. I don't like this. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.640 It's uncomfortable, but I trust you. I know you wouldn't 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.840 have allowed it if I didn't need it. So I'm 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.760 gonna pass this test. I'm not gonna let this jerk, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.159 I mean, this coworker get on my nerves anymore. I'm 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.760 not gonna get frustrated every time I don't get my way, 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.280 not gonna be sour because things aren't changing on my timetable. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.160 God, I know you're. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.200 Working all things for my good that's how you grow. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.960 That's how you come out stronger, more confident. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.280 More loving, more forgiving. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.680 When the Israelites were in the desert on the way 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.320 to the Promised Land, the scripture says that God didn't 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:58.160 take them the easiest way because they weren't prepared for war. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.800 There were enemies that were bigger and stronger that would 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:02.680 have defeated them. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:03.800 They had to. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.560 Go through some things to get ready for what God 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.640 had in store, and the longer route wasn't because God 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.760 just wanted to make their life miserable, having to deal 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.159 with delays, not knowing what they were going to. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.239 Eat, people coming against them. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.520 That was all strategic. That was growing them up, making 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.640 them stronger. God knew they needed that to go into 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.479 the Promised Land. The reason you face difficulties and things 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.440 that may not seem fair is because God has an 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.240 awesome future in store for you. Where God is taking 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.400 you is going to take greater faith, greater strength, greater patience. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.120 Every challenge you face is a sign that God is 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.400 getting you ready for something you've never seen. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.120 Don't get sour, why is this happening? 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.320 Have a new perspective. God is growing me up. He's 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.160 getting me prepared for my promised land. But if God 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.200 gave you right now all that He has lined up, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:01.760 it wouldn't be a blessing. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.920 It would be a burden. He loves you too much 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:06.840 to give you what you can't handle. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.679 There will be seasons where it's taken longer than you thought. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.520 You're still in the desert, dealing with that cranky neighbor, 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.560 fighting that battle in your hell, pressured raising that child. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:20.240 You could be sour. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.239 When is this going to change? No, that's the time 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.840 to prove to God who you are. You're not weak, 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.680 You're a warrior. You don't fall apart when trouble comes. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.880 You are strong in the Lord. You don't complain that 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.440 you can't take it anymore. You can do all things 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.480 through Christ. You don't live offended by people that did 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.960 you wrong. You let God be your vindicator. That's how 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.120 you don't just go. 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.120 Through it, you grow through it. When you prove to 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.840 God that you'll be faithful when it's not fair. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.240 You'll be good to people that are not good to you. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.640 You'll stay in peace when you should be upset because 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.480 your spiritual muscles are growing, because you're getting strong longer, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:01.960 developing your character. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.200 God can take you to new levels of your destiny. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.760 He can entrust you with more favor, more resources, more influence. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.400 And I know sometimes it's painful, but the. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:14.640 Pain has a purpose. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.680 When I lift weights, the last two or three reps 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.640 are always painful. My mind says, stop, this is hurting. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.560 I'm uncomfortable. I don't like it, but I know that pressure. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:32.600 That pain is number one only temporary, and number two 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.440 is causing me to get stronger. I was uncomfortable for 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.959 a short time, but the results lasted a long time. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.360 Now I have this massive good looking for sea, but 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.240 in my mind I do. But you may be uncomfortable 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:48.120 for a season. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.040 And yes, it's hard to bite your tongue when somebody's rude. 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.960 It's hard to keep a good attitude when the contract 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.640 didn't go through. It's hard to stay in faith when 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.880 things aren't changing. But if you'll dig down deep and 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.920 pass the test, you're going to come into favor that 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:05.280 will last a long time. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:06.960 Here's what I've learned. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.840 The pain of discipline is less than the pain of regret. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.840 It is painful to do the right thing when it's hard, 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.200 but it's less painful to look back and think What 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.360 could I have become if I wouldn't let this temper 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.360 get the best to make? What could I have become 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.840 if I learned how to overcome this compromise, Deal with 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.760 this impatience, this jealousy, this pride, not being easily offended, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.479 Not let that hold me back. The mistake the Israelites 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.960 made out there in the desert is they didn't grow 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:37.439 through it. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.160 They didn't pass the test. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.520 They thought the delay was a bad break, when in 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.200 fact it was God protecting them. He knew they weren't ready. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.439 They would have been defeated. He was doing them a favor. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.080 But they thought He had forgotten about them. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.680 They were negative and complain, Moses, why'd you bring us 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:56.920 out in the desert to die? 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.000 It's nothing good to eat out here. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.880 God gave them manna every morning for breakfast, but they 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.400 got tired of it because they didn't pass the test. 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.640 Because they never grew, never developed the faith, the trust, 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:11.360 the character. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.800 They went around the same mountain for forty years. Here. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.040 God had brought them out of slavery, sent plagues on 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:24.560 their oppressors, parted the Red Sea, drowned Pharaoh's army. God 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.200 didn't do all those amazing things to lead them in 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:27.760 the desert. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:29.559 What was the problem. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.160 They didn't pass the test, They never got prepared for 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.840 where God was taking them. They complained when it wasn't easy. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.520 They got discouraged because it was taking longer. They were 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.600 frustrated because they weren't getting their way. When the truth is, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.520 all those difficulties, all those inconveniences, that wasn't the enemy. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.800 That was God giving them opportunities to grow. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.839 How you handle difficulties will determine whether you make it 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.840 into your promised land. God has the good breaks, he 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:06.360 is the right people, the resources, But before that happens, 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.120 you have to prove to him that you can handle it. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.040 The way you're tested is in the fire of affliction. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.319 It's in disappointments, delays, when you're not getting your way, 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.920 recognize that's an opportunity to come up higher. It's easy 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.600 to get negative, try to pay people back. It's easy 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.920 to live in self pity, discourage over a bad break. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.800 It's easy to get upset in traffic. It's easy to 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.440 be rude to people that are rude to you. But 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:36.720 what if you knew. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.160 All that was a test, that it wasn't random, It was. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.439 Strategic that God puts you there to see how you 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.280 would respond. Don't be like the Israelites and go the 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.240 next forty years letting the same things upset you, same 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:56.120 people offend you, same traffic frustrates you, same compromise defeats you. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.120 That's going through it. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.800 I'm asking you to grow through it instead of waiting 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.120 for it to change. Why don't you change, Instead of 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.920 trying to pray away the difficulty, why don't you pray 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.360 God help me to do the right thing in the 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.800 midst of this difficulty. Every challenge is an opportunity to 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:19.080 prove to God that you can handle the favor, the influence, the. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.880 Destiny that He's laid out for you. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.160 It's not going to come without testing, without proving that 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.120 you have the character, the integrity, the fortitude to handle it. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:34.079 We see this with Joseph in the Scripture. As a teenager, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.200 God gave him a dream that he would be in 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.160 leadership and he would see great favor and influence. He 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.120 was excited, he knew big things were in his future. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.600 But Psalm one five says until the time came to 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:53.800 fulfill Joseph's dream, God tested Joseph's character it's significant that 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.079 God gave him a dream. Then God said, I'm going 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.240 to test you to see if you can handle it. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.080 Test your character. Will you be good to people that 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.119 are not good to you. I'm going to test your endurance. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.880 Will you give up if it doesn't happen fast enough. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.960 I'm going to test your integrity. Will you do the 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.040 right thing when no one is watching. I'm going to 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.440 test your attitude. Will you get sour when things don't 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.080 go your way? We love when God gives us a dream. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.439 We know something big is in our future. We have 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:30.120 to realize along with the dream come test. How we 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.920 respond will determine whether we keep going around the mountain 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.160 or whether we go in to our promised land. Joseph's 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.880 brothers heard about this dream, and they didn't like it. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.720 They were already jealous of Joseph. He was their father's 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:45.520 favorite child. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.320 One day, these brothers were in another city taking care 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.040 of their animals out in the pastures. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.400 Joseph's father asked him to travel there to check on them. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.080 When the brothers saw him coming, they thought, this is 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.240 our chance to get rid of Joseph. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.480 They threw him into a pit. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.280 They were going to leave him there when they saw 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:08.000 a caravan of Ishmaelites coming. Instead, they sold Joseph as 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.240 a slave. His whole world was turned upside down. He 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:16.200 went from his father's favorite child to a slave in 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.000 a foreign country, didn't speak the language. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:20.560 His freedom was gone. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.400 You would think he would be bitter, God, where are you? 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.560 Why did you let my family betray me? But you 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:32.160 never read where Joseph complained, kept being his best, doing 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.240 the right thing when the wrong thing happened, so much 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.320 so that the owner of that house put Joseph in 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.600 charge of all of his household. Joseph wasn't just going 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.400 through it, he was growing through it. His attitude was, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.280 this is where God has me, so I'm gonna shine. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.680 It's not fair. I don't understand it, but God, I 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.600 trust you. I believe that you're ordering my steps. The 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.000 owner's wife lied about Joseph. He is falsely and cue 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.800 put in prison. Surely now he would be upset God, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.960 I've had enough, But Joseph kept doing the right thing. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.760 He excelled in prison. The warden ended up putting him 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.040 in charge. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.520 Notice how he's passing the test, proving to God that 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.440 he could be trusted, that he had the character, the integrity, 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:21.760 the humility. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.480 He interpreted a dream for a fellow prisoner. Could have 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.840 been sour, not going to do you a favor. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.800 Man, I got more problems than you, but he was unselfish. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:36.040 Not long after that, he interpreted the Pharaoh's dream. The 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.520 Pharaoh was so impressed he made Joseph the prime minister 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:40.280 of Egypt. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:41.440 Overnight. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.920 He went from a slave to one of the most 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.640 powerful people of that day. But notice how the dream 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:52.000 came to pass. God tested Joseph's character all along the way. 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.360 The challenges we face aren't random. That's God giving you 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.800 an opportunity to develop your muscles, to get strong longer. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.360 To prove to him that you can handle the promotion. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.240 It may not be as dramatic as Joseph being put 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:08.920 in prison for something you didn't do. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:10.800 It may just be. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.320 How you handle the traffic each morning, how you treat 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.920 the person at work that's not good to you, how 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.920 you respond when you're doing the right thing but the 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.760 wrong thing is happening. Don't get bitter, don't try to 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:24.720 pay people back. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.360 Be a Joseph. Show God what you're made of. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.800 That's an opportunity to grow when you do the right thing. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:37.520 Your spiritual muscles are getting stronger. Your trust, your patience, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.920 your endurance, your faith is increasing. When God sees that 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.160 you can handle the dream, when you've proven to him 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.840 that you have the character, the integrity, He'll open doors 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.400 you could never open. He'll defeat giants that were much bigger. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:57.480 You'll find yourself further than you've ever imagined. Maybe, like Joseph, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.200 you're in that time of testing now, wondering why these 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.960 unfair things have happened, why the doors have closed, why 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.520 it's taken so long. God has not forgotten about you. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.960 He sees you doing the right thing when it's hard. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.119 He sees you praising when you could be complaining. He 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.000 sees you at work being your best and not getting 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:19.520 the credit. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.840 He sees the lonely nights, those tears from what's breaking 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:24.399 your hearts. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.159 But you're still serving, still giving, still being good to people. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.400 You are proving to God that you can handle the blessing. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.320 I know thoughts of whispers never gonna work out. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.000 No, your time is coming. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.639 The scripture says, when you have passed the test, you 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:40.920 will receive the. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:45.840 Victor's crown of life. Victory is coming. Favor is coming. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.879 You've been struggling a long time. Ease is coming. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.200 God is about to shift some things, like with Joseph. 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.280 He's gonna take it from the background to the foreground. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.800 It's gonna happen suddenly, a shift from borrowing to lending, 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:05.200 from being stuck to being promoted, from morning to dancing, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:06.760 from sorrow to joy. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.520 That Victor's crown is on the way. Now. Keep being faithful, 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.359 keep doing the right thing. When you're uncomfortable. You don't 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.639 understand it. It's not fair. Don't just go through it. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.280 Grow through it. 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.600 It's doing something on the inside of you. It's getting 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.480 you prepared for something that you've never seen. A couple 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.000 of years after my father passed them, the church was 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.040 growing and we needed a larger auditorium, the Compact Center. 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.680 This place became available after a year and a half battle. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.040 By the grace of God. Ten city council members voted 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.000 for us and we got the facility, and we were 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.040 so excited. I grew up watching the Rockets play basketball here, 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.080 and this was more than I ever dreamed. But the 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.439 day after that big victory, a large company that owns 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.240 all the property around this building filed a federal lawsuit 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.240 to try to keep from moving in. They said we 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:06.000 violated the deed restrictions, that this was a sports facility 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.760 and not a church. Our attorneys told us there was 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.159 no guarantee that we would win, that it could be 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:12.760 tied up. 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.520 In the court system for ten years. I thought, God, you. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.359 Just gave us this great victory. We just spent the 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.720 day celebrating. Now it was like the wind was taken 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.720 out of ourselves. I prayed, I believed, I declared, but 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.680 nothing changed. Months went by. The other side didn't want 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.440 to talk. It was to their advantage to just sit 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.000 it out longer. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.240 It took the worse it was for us. I had 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.800 to do what I'm asking you to do. I didn't 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.840 like it. I was uncomfortable. Thoughts told me it was 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.199 never going to work out. You're going to look like 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:47.720 a fool. 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.760 You told those people you got the building, you celebrated, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.159 and you're going to have to give it back. I said, no, 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.000 Thanks God, I know you're still on the throne. 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.159 I know what you started you will finish. 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:00.840 I know you being four a it's more than the 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.440 world being against us. There were many nights I woke 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.520 up in a cold sweat, tempted to worry, doubt, had 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.920 to make that decision to tune it out. Two years later, 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.600 with hardly any contact, the other side called and said 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.000 they wanted to meet. Twenty four hours after that, they 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.080 had not only dropped the lawsuit, but they leased us 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.680 nine thousand cupboard parking spaces. We didn't have to build 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.840 a fifty million dollar garage. What am I saying, Before 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.480 your dream comes to pass, God will test your character. 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.159 He'll put you in situations that are uncomfortable that you 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:38.119 don't understand. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.959 God could have turned this around in two weeks instead 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.760 of two years. It's no harder for God. He's God. 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.159 But He was doing a work in me. 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.800 He was getting me prepared to handle the blessings that 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:51.399 were coming. 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:53.960 It's not always about right now. 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.680 God is looking down the road at what you're going 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.840 to need to handle the weight of blessing, the weight 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.640 of favor. In those two years, I learned to pray 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.679 like I had never prayed. I learned to trust that 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.480 God was in control. I learned to lean not to 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.639 my own understanding. Some things you can only learn in 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.960 the battle, in the difficulty, when you don't see a 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.520 way but God wouldn't have allowed it if it wasn't 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.480 working for your good. If it's not changing, maybe God 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.120 is changing you. He's given you an opportunity to grow, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.600 to develop greater character, to prove to him. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.720 That you won't give up easily, that you'll do the right. 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.680 Thing when it's hard, that you'll believe when every thought 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:41.800 says to doubt, that you'll stand strong in faith even when. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:43.440 You're facing a goliath. 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:47.480 Isaiah forty one says, God will harden you to difficulty. 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:49.520 Some of the things I. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.399 Face today, if I would have faced twenty years ago, 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.920 they would have defeated me. God knows what you can 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.959 handle as you keep passing these tests. What's happening is 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:05.119 He's hardening you to difficulty. You're getting stronger, your faith 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:09.480 is growing, your endurance is increasing, your spiritual muscles are 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:13.280 being built up. The reason God is doing this is 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.240 because there are awesome things. 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:15.680 In your future. 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.679 God is taking you to a wide and spacious place. 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.520 He's going to enlarge your territories. Here's the key. 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.960 With greater influence comes greater giants. With greater blessings come 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:34.000 greater opposition. Greater favor comes greater persecution. If he didn't 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:38.040 harden you to difficulty, you couldn't withstand what comes against you. 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.639 Even now, if you look back into your life, some 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.760 of the things that you face today, if you would 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.440 have faced a few years ago, they would have caused 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.960 you to live worried, upset. Now it's no big deal. 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.560 You know God's fighting your battles. You know no weapon 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.720 formed against you will prosper. You know this too shall pass. 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:02.720 Why is that you're growing? You've gotten stronger, your faith 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:07.040 is increased, your expectancy is greater, your trust at a 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:09.920 new level. The things you've been through, I know they 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:13.399 weren't fun, they weren't comfortable, But it wasn't God just 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:18.320 making you suffer. They deposited something on the inside. Everything 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:22.080 you've been through was necessary for where God is taking you. 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:24.320 If you don't understand this, you'll. 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:28.440 Lift frustrated, fighting everything you don't like, bitter over who 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:29.080 did you wrong? 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:32.520 God? Why did these brothers throw me into a pit? God? 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.240 Why did that company file the lawsuit? God? 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:38.360 Why did I have this setback? That's just going through it, 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:43.399 discouraged upset. That's what most people do. But I'm asking 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.160 you to grow through it. See it as an opportunity 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:50.119 to show God what you're made of, to prove to 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:52.560 him that you'll do the right thing when it's hard, 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:55.439 that you'll keep a good attitude when you feel like 0:23:55.560 --> 0:24:00.359 being upset. That's developing your character. That's proven to go God, 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:01.640 that you're ready for the. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.679 Fullness of your destiny. 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:06.920 And when things are taken longer than we thought, could 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:10.000 it be we're delaying what God wants to do. 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:13.240 We're waiting for him to change the situation. 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:16.960 But God is waiting for us to change. We're waiting 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.199 for him to remove what's uncomfortable. But if we'll do 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:24.080 the right thing when it's uncomfortable, then God will change things. 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.000 Think about David. He was anointed to be the next 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:31.119 king of Israel. Prophet Samuel showed up at his house 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:36.040 chose him over his brothers, a remarkable moment, but David 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:37.360 didn't go to the palace. 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:39.480 He went back to the shepherd's fields. 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:45.199 You can be anointed before you're appointed, like Joseph. You 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:47.480 can have the dream, but there will be a time 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:51.040 of testing, a time of proving to get you prepared 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:53.719 for what God promised. And this is where we can 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:57.160 get discouraged. God, you anointed me. Why did you send 0:24:57.160 --> 0:25:00.640 me back to take care of these sheepd to complain, 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:04.520 could have slacked off, but out in the shepherd's fields 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:06.159 with no one watching. 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:09.000 He kept being his best. He's a king with a 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:09.680 big dream. 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:15.360 What's he doing shoveling sheep dum protecting the animals closely 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:19.119 watching over them. He had his slingshot ready for wild 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:23.480 animal came, David was there. He nailed it, never dreaming 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:26.520 that one day he would use that same skill to. 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:27.320 Slay a giant. 0:25:28.640 --> 0:25:31.240 David had to prove that he would take care of 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.800 those sheep before God would allow him to take care 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:35.520 of his people. 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:38.440 Don't despise the small beginnings. 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:43.880 Don't slack off because you're not getting recognition. Nobody's celebrating you. 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:44.879 You're in preparation. 0:25:45.800 --> 0:25:49.479 Keep passing those tasks, being your best, serving when no 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:49.920 one is. 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:53.040 Looking, doing the right thing when you're not getting the credit. 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:54.680 God is watching. 0:25:55.440 --> 0:25:59.120 He sees your faithfulness, He sees how trustworthy you are, 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:01.199 how you have that spirit of excellence. 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:05.000 King Saul suffered from depression. They sent for. 0:26:05.040 --> 0:26:07.320 David to come to the palace to play the heart 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:11.159 for Saul. As David was playing, being good to Saul 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:14.160 saw through a spirit David and tried to kill him. 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.960 This happened several times. David had to flee for his life. 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:21.439 He had done no wrong, he didn't deserve this, but 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:23.840 now he was living in caves. 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:26.520 Hiding in the wilderness. Saul kept chasing him. 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:30.520 One night, Saul and his men were asleep and David 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:32.000 snuck over to their camp. 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:34.800 This was his big chance to get rid of Saul. 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:37.679 He could finally put an end to this man that 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:41.800 was making him miserable, finally get out of this uncomfortable situation. 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:43.880 But David wouldn't do it. 0:26:44.760 --> 0:26:47.600 He knew Saul was the king and he wasn't going 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:48.920 to touch God's anointed. 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:51.359 He was going to let God make the transition. 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:55.199 When God can trust you to not get out of 0:26:55.280 --> 0:26:59.760 every uncomfortable situation, but to do the right thing, to 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:02.480 take the high road, forgive your enemies. 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:04.600 Not live sour because you. 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:08.320 Had the bad break, frustrated because a dream hasn't. 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:08.840 Come to pass. 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:12.280 You are proving to God that you can take your throne, 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:15.320 so to speak, that you can handle the blessing, the 0:27:15.320 --> 0:27:19.200 favor that He has in store. It may be unfair, 0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:23.080 you don't understand it. Don't just go through it, grow 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:27.400 through it. God sees what's happening. He sees who did 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:30.960 your own, he sees what didn't work out, he sees 0:27:31.000 --> 0:27:32.000 the medical report. 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:34.600 That's not how your story ends. 0:27:34.880 --> 0:27:37.720 That's one chapter in the book that He's written for 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:38.520 your life. 0:27:38.640 --> 0:27:41.000 There are many great chapters up ahead. 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:45.280 Don't fight everything you don't like before you ask God 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:48.880 to change the situation. Say God, help me to change, 0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:51.560 help me to grow, help me to come up higher, 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:55.679 to trust you more. Those are opportunities to show God 0:27:55.960 --> 0:27:59.640 that you're ready for the amazing future he has in store. 0:27:59.840 --> 0:28:03.880 You haven't seen, heard, or imagined where God is taking you. 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:05.960 That's why you face challenges. 0:28:06.200 --> 0:28:10.000 He's getting you prepared for something greater if you'll keep 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:12.960 the right attitude, not just go through it, but grow 0:28:13.000 --> 0:28:16.879 through it. 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