Seeing Adversity The Right Way

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 uness dot co. 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:33.040 Hi. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:34.640 This is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.679 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:38.399 the ministry. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.880 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.440 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.480 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:50.120 your life. Will God bless you always a joy to 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.160 come into your home. We love you and we're believing 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.880 for God's very very best for your lives. If you're 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.040 ever in our area, stop by and be a part 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.200 of one of our services. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:00.360 We would love to have you. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.800 But thanks for tuning in today, Thanks for coming out. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.200 I like to get started each week with something kind 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.200 of funny, and I heard about this husband and wife. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.600 They were driving down the road and they saw this 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.840 sign that said Nakodochius forty miles ahead. They begin to 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.920 argue over how to correctly pronounce the name Nakodochus. The 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.560 husband got so upset he finally said, when we get there, 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.239 I'm gonna stop and prove to you that I was right. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.760 They drove silently for the next thirty minutes. When he 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.960 got to the town, he pulled into the first little 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:32.079 fast food restaurant. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:33.959 They both marched up to the counter. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.840 He said to the young lady working behind it, my 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.720 wife and I have been arguing for the last thirty minutes. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:44.560 Would you please, very slowly and very clearly, tell us 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.519 how to pronounce the name of this place. The young 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.360 lady's eyes got real big. She leaned over the counter 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:56.640 and said, Burger Keen, all right. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.880 Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean. This 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:01.880 is my Bible. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.920 I am what it says I am, I have what 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.480 it says I have I can do what it says 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:08.079 I can do. 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.959 Today. I will be taught the word of God. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:16.200 I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.320 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.680 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:29.280 living a resurrected life. Every person goes through adversities. We've 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.920 all had unfair things happen. We didn't get a promotion 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.960 we deserve, we lose a loved one, a friend betrayed us, 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.520 or maybe a marriage didn't last, and it's easy to 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.240 get negative and bitter and lose our enthusiasm for life. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.400 So many people are living in the past, focused on 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.280 who hurt them and how. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.080 Unfair it was. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:56.280 They go around with a victim mentality, always blaming somebody else. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.600 But understand, you are not defined by your past. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.760 You were prepared by your past. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.960 Every challenge you've been through, every adversity you faced, God 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.600 deposited something on the inside. Your character was being developed, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:18.839 strength was being increased, vision was being enlarged. With every difficulty, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.960 you can experience a new level of God's goodness. You 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.599 may have had unfair things happen, somebody did you wrong, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.839 or maybe you've made poor choices that's brought trouble on yourself. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.480 But if you can just see it the right way, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:35.880 you are not defined by your past. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.080 Your past is getting you prepared. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.359 One of the best things that I've ever learned is 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.279 nothing in life happens to me, it happens for me. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.599 In other words, God would not have allowed me to 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.160 go through it if he didn't have a purpose for it. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.440 He wouldn't have allowed that adversity to come if he 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.240 didn't already have a plan to get good out of it. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.800 And even though it's difficult, even though it may be unfair, 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.160 if you'll keep the right attitude, it's not only going 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.599 to help develop you into who you really are, it's 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.599 going to get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.240 It did not happen by accident. All things work together 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.320 for good when you love the Lord, and it doesn't 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.880 say that all things are good. It may be uncomfortable, 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.080 you may not like it, but if you'll stay in faith. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.280 God will use it to get some good out of it. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.040 Maybe you've gone through a major setback in your health, 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.800 in your marriage, in your finances, but don't let that 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.520 set back become the central focus of your life now, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.400 keep your new goals in front of you, keep your 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:47.200 dreams alive. Jesus endured the pain of the cross by 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.560 focusing on the joy that was set before him. What 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.200 are you focusing on today, what didn't work out? Who 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.919 hurts you how unfair it was? Or are you focusing 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.520 on your dreams, your goals knowing that your best days 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.600 are still out in front of you. And those adversities, 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.560 even though they may look like stumbling blocks, God can 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.560 use them as stepping stones to take you to a 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:16.080 higher level. Everything you've gone through in life, every adversity, 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.760 every lonely time, God was depositing something on the inside. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.599 He's getting you prepared, and you wouldn't be who you 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.480 are today. You wouldn't have the depth, the maturity, the 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.760 insight if it were not for those things. Keep it 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.360 in the right perspective. We are not defined by our past. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.720 You're not defined by how you were raised, or by 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.280 how somebody treated you, or even by the mistakes you've made. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.280 You are prepared by your past. And I'm asking us 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.560 today to shake off any kind of self pity, shake 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:54.440 off bitterness, shake off going around offended. Life is too 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.719 short to have a victim mentality. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:58.800 And you may have seen. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.320 One of your dreams died, you lost a loved one, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.920 lost a marriage, lost your enthusiasm in life. But here's 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.080 how God works. You've been through the death, you've been 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.120 through the burial. Now it's the third day. It's time 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:17.080 for your resurrection. If you're going to live this resurrected life, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.680 you have to have a resurrected mentality. In other words, 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.640 I may have been cheated in a business deal, but 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.119 I'm not bitter. I'm not sour. I know that didn't 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.600 happen to me. That happened for me. God said he 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.560 would be my vindicator. He said he would pay me 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.760 back double for every injustice. So I'm not going to 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.120 drag around defeated. I am stayed in faith, knowing that 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.400 that just qualified me for double. Or in your health, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.360 maybe you're facing a sickness. It's been that way a 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.920 long time. The medical report doesn't look good. You should 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.320 be down and discouraged. But no, I know this isn't 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.600 happening to me. It's happening for me. God is in 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.840 complete control, and I believe he's not only going to 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.880 turn it around, but he's gonna bring me out better 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.040 off than I was before. Stay in faith, or like 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.800 I said, maybe you've made poor choices. You've made some 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.640 mistakes that's opened the door to trouble. And now that 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.360 condemning voice, the accuser keeps telling you you blew it. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.840 It's your fault. You can't expect anything good. No, You've 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.360 got to shake that off and say, I may have 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.400 brought trouble on myself, but I know God's mercy is 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.280 bigger than any mistake I've ever made. Now, I am 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.560 not gonna live my life guilty. I'm not giving up 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.440 on my dreams. I know I'm growing, I'm learning, and 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.400 in the end, God's gonna use it all to my advantage. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.680 Have that resurrection mentality. You are a child of the 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.520 most High God. Nothing can happen to you. It can 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:48.840 only happen for you. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:50.840 It's all a part of God's plan. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.120 And even when it doesn't seem like it's fair, God 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.640 said here in Isaiah sixty one, verse three, he will 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:02.040 give you beauty for your ashes, joy for your mourning. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.920 Some of you may feel like today all you have 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.640 is a bunch of ashes. Nothing in life has turned out, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.679 none of your dreams have come to pass. That simply 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.760 means you've been through the death, you've been through the burial. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.520 Now it's time for your resurrection. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.880 And the good news is it's not over until God 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.520 says it's over. He still has a way to bring 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.000 your dreams to pass. Why don't you get in agreement 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.880 with him? Why don't you shake off. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.679 That victim mentality. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.839 If we will have the right perspective, it takes away 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.520 all the power of the enemy. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.040 When things come against us in. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.679 The natural, we should get down and discourage, go around 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:46.040 complaining defeated. But when we understand this principle that eventually 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.160 God is going to get some good out of it, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.720 and even though it's difficult, God's depositing something on the inside, 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.160 then we can have a smile on our face even 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.600 when our plans don't work out. We can be in 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.679 peace even when we should be stressed out. We can 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.920 be good to people even when they're not being good 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.320 to us. You may have a boss, a friend, a 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.400 child that's kind of hard to get along with. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.080 Sometimes you have to look. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.160 At him and just say it in faith, you are 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.320 not happening to me. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.160 You are happening for me. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.640 They may not understand it, but don't bother explaining it 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.800 to him. This may seem kind of funny, but some 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.280 of my enemies I need to thank them the most. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.560 Some of them I need to write them a check. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.960 They don't realize how God has used them to stretch me, 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.160 to grow me up, to help me have a greater 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:34.319 confidence in Him. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:36.400 I've told you how. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.520 When we were trying to acquire this place, one of 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.280 the main business leaders in the city told a friend 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.959 of mine, it'll be a cold day in hell before 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.560 Lakewood ever gets the Compact Center. That man doesn't know 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.720 what he did for me. When I see him, I 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.920 need to buy his dinner McDonald's. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:54.319 Probably. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.080 I don't know if we'd be here today if it 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.000 were not for him. God, you used him to light 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.640 a new fire on the inside, to give. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.199 Me a new determination, a new passion. He didn't happen 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.520 to me, He happened for me. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.520 At first, I was thinking, Wow, we've got a lot 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.440 of things coming against us, and looks like our opponents 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.240 are very big, very powerful. But I had to shake 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.800 that off and say, no, if God be for us, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.880 who dare be against us? The bigger they are, the 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.360 harder they fall. We didn't have a victim mentality. We 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.000 had a victor mentality. But too many times, when it 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.760 looks like one of our dreams has died, we just 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:34.280 give up. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:35.480 We stop believing. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.439 I've seen people that miss God's best because they never 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.280 get past the burial stage. They go through a disappointment, 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.760 something doesn't go their way, and instead of letting it 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.720 go knowing that God has another plan, instead of getting 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.840 a fresh vision for their life, they waller around in 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.600 self pity. But you'll never get to your resurrection. You'll 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.480 never get to phase three if you don't get past 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.920 the death and the burial. In other words, you got 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.080 to have the attitude. I did my best, I gave 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.440 it my all. For some reason, it didn't work out. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.800 Now I am not going to sit around the rest 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.400 of my life and mourn over something that I cannot change. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.439 That's over and done. So I'm on regroup. I'm on refocus. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.840 I know I've been through the death, I've been through 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.839 the burial. I'm getting ready for my resurrection. I'm getting 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.719 ready for the new thing God's going to do. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:27.480 In my life. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.040 And most of the time, the reason God closes a 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.040 door when we're walking in obedience and being our best. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.920 It's because He has something better in store. But when 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.400 we get sour, when we don't get our way and 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.400 we live bitter, offended, negative, that stops God from bringing 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.520 the new thing. We have to be able to say, God, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.280 even though I didn't get my way, I trust you. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.400 I know you know what's best for me, and I 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.200 believe at the right time, you will give me the 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.440 desires of my heart. Several years after Victoria and I 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.080 got married, we sold the house we were living in 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.720 and moved to another place, and the people that bought 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.800 the house several months later, they filed a lawsuit against us. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.319 They were having a problem with the outside sewards, and 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.800 they not only sued us, but they sued the builder, 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.120 the architect, the realtor, the plumber, like five or ten 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.800 different people, everybody they could think of. And I knew 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.240 that we didn't do anything wrong, we were. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:22.760 Not at fault. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.559 But I was so distraught over this lawsuit. It went 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.440 on month after month. I remember I had to go 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.160 downtown and give my deposition. I was so stressed out 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.160 and so nervous, thinking, this is the worst thing in 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:37.680 the world that's ever happened to me. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.600 And at that deposition it took me like two hours. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.160 After I got finished, I was so nauseated I couldn't 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.000 even drive home. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.360 I'd allowed it to upset me that much. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.200 Well, about six months later it was all thrown out 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:51.640 and we were totally cleared. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:53.439 But during that whole. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.120 Time, I was thinking of how bad it was, and 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.240 just how this is not fair, and God, this is 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.839 just wasting time, on and on. I saw myself as 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.520 a victim. But about three years later I begin to 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.720 see what God was doing. When we signed the least 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.880 for this place, a company filed a lawsuit to try 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.200 to keep us from moving in. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.200 I realize now God was getting me prepared. Back then. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.640 When I went to give my deposition concerning this place, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.560 I was as calm as I could be. Now, I 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.520 know if I had not gone through that other lawsuit 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.560 and seen how it all was going to work out, 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 I wouldn't have been as confident. I wouldn't have been 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.440 as ready when it came to something that really mattered. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.240 What I'm saying is, when you. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.880 Go through tough times you don't know what God's getting 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.120 you prepared for, don't be shortsighted and think, Oh God, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:44.960 why is this happening? 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.240 This is not fair. No, God would not have allowed 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:49.120 it if he. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.560 Wasn't going to get some kind of good out of it. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.880 It may be ten years down the road you look 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.600 up and think, Wow, if I hadn't had that adversity, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.520 I wouldn't have met this person that entered to this person, and. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.960 On and on. God has it all figured out. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.680 And some of you right now, the thing that you're 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.760 fighting against, the thing that's got you so stressed out, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.960 if God were to take it away, you wouldn't be 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.000 prepared for what he has in store. It would keep 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.440 you from going to the level he's trying to get you. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.240 To keep it all in perspective that coworker you don't 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.000 like that job you dread going to, it's not happening 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.000 to you. It's happening for you. God's getting you prepared 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:34.000 for greater levels. And what has a great impact on 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.320 whether or not it happens or how long we stay 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:41.120 there is our attitude when we go around sour complaining God, 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:42.800 why am I always getting. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:43.400 These bad breaks? 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.840 No, stay in faith, Just say God, I know You're 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.800 in complete control of my life, and no matter how 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.680 tempted I am to be disappointed. I am not going 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.000 to be a victim. I am not going to go 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.960 around negative blaming other people. I know You've got me 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.760 in the palm of your hand, and I believe one 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.680 day I'm going to look out and see how this 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.800 has all turned out for my good stay in faith. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.800 I know this pastor friend, he had a man in 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.920 his congregation that was always having a problem. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.200 This man was always complaining to him about something and 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:17.720 just always in need. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.880 And he finally got tired of it. He was praying. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.280 He said, God, would you just move this man to 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:24.120 another church. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.280 He is draining all my strength, draining all my energy, 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:28.200 taking all my time. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:29.240 He said. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.120 He heard God speak to him right down in here, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.000 and God said, no, I'm not going to do that. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.920 That man has kept you on your knees like nothing 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:41.440 I've ever seen before. It's not happening to you, it's 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:42.400 happening for you. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:43.800 Thank God. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.040 We don't have anybody like that around here. Okay, maybe 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.160 one person, but they're not here today. But the fact 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.000 is we grow in the difficult times. That's when our 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.240 character is being developed. Yet it's fun being on the 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.479 mountaintop where it's easy, but we're not being stretched. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:02.640 It's when we have. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.359 To dig our heels in and overlook an insult and 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.160 forgive a wrong and do the right thing even when 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:10.639 people aren't treating us right. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:11.679 That's when we're growing. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.000 And I'm not saying to believe for tough times, but 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.600 when they come, I've already made up my mind. I'm 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.560 not gonna get sour, I'm not gonna get bitter. I'm 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.200 gonna get better. I know God is trying to deposit 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.280 something on the inside. We've got to go through the 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.840 valley in faith, knowing that it's taking us to a 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:30.600 higher mountain. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:31.240 Now. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.639 I love what David said, though I walk through the 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.440 valley of the shadow of death, he didn't say though 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.560 I live in the valley, though I'm stuck in the valley, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.680 though I probably die in the valley. No, he said, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.919 this valley is temporary. I'm not gonna die with these problems. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.760 This too shall pass. And the fact is every one 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.000 of us is going through something, a health issue, financial difficulty, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.199 a struggle at work. We all have something in the 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.399 natural that could steal our joy and cause us to 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:04.000 be worded. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.240 But we got to keep the perspective like. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.240 David and say no, I'm going through this. This didn't 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.240 come to stay, it came to pass. Now, all through 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.440 the day, you need to remind yourself this is temporary. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.040 This is just a season. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.960 I may be lonely right now, but I'm not gonna 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.679 stay lonely. I know God's gonna bring the right person 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:28.080 into my life. Or I may be wounded emotionally. I 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.080 may be hurting on the inside, but I'm not gonna 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.480 stay wounded. I know God is the restore of my soul. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.720 He's gonna bring healing and give me. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.000 Beauty for these ashes. 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.679 You have to keep yourself encouraged. Don't settle in the 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.600 valley that is not your permanent address. It says in 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:51.280 Psaw eighty four, passing through the Valley of Weeping, you 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.080 will find pools of blessings. What does that mean when 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.640 you go through the valley, when you go through difficult times, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.880 if you will stay in faith, God will take those 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.919 tears and turn them into pools that will actually refresh you. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:07.680 You look up and. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.960 Think, man, I should be down, i should be stressed out. 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.680 I've got so much coming against me, But I'm happy. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.600 I'm at peace. I'm expecting good things. 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.840 Why is that it's because you're tapping into those pools 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.080 of blessings and God is refreshing you. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:25.520 And I know sometimes when we go. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.040 Through loss, it's easy to feel like we've been robbed, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.840 like something's been stolen from us. You lose a loved one, 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.920 loss of a marriage, even the loss of a childhood 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.120 if you weren't raised in a good environment. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:39.640 And when we go through a. 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:43.520 Loss, we can have one of two attitudes. We can say, God, 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.919 this isn't fair, Why did this happen? 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:47.200 It doesn't make any sense. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.360 We can get bitter, negative, live life, angry and offended. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:53.280 But a much better. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.800 Approach is to take that loss and sow it as 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.560 a seed and just say God, I don't really know 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.760 why this this has happened to me. I don't know 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.840 why this has been taken away. But God, I'm not 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.840 gonna allow anyone or anything to steal from me. I'm 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.960 giving it to you as a seed, trusting that you 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:12.640 will bring. 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:13.240 Me a harvest. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.080 Don't have a victim mentality. Maybe you didn't get the 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:21.240 promotion you deserved. Just say God, nobody stole this promotion 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.480 from me. I know you control the whole universe. And 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.959 even though it wasn't right. God, I'm giving it to 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.560 you as a seed, trusting that you will bring me 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:31.000 an even better promotion. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:33.800 Or how about a relationship that didn't work out. 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.000 God, I'm not gonna sit around bitter for the rest 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.320 of my life thinking about the months and the years 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.880 that I've wasted. I'm giving this relationship to you as 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.880 a seed, believing that you will bring me divine connections, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.080 the right people into my life. You cannot have a 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.159 victim mentality. Hey I lost my loved one, I've been robbed. No, 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.680 just turn it over to God. Give it to him 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.399 and you'll be amazed at what kind of harvest he 0:20:59.440 --> 0:20:59.920 can bring. 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:02.119 I think about Jesus. 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.360 Before he came to the resurrection, he had to go 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:09.359 through the garden of Gasemone, the road to Galgatha, and 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:10.080 the Cross. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:12.080 Those were his biggest challenges. 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.840 The enemy always fights us the hardest when he knows 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.760 we are closest to our victory, and many times on 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.520 the way to our resurrection, on the way to our 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.359 dreams being fulfilled, we'll go through these. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.720 Same type of things. And it's interesting. 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.240 When Jesus prayed for Peter, he didn't pray that he 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.600 would never have to go through anything difficult. 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.160 He prayed that his faith. 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:40.280 Would remain strong, and in the garden of Gasemone, Jesus 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.439 was so distraught over what he was about to face. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.679 He was in such agony in his spirit that he 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.440 swept great drops of blood. He said, Father, if you're 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.879 willing take this cup from me, nevertheless, not my will, 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.600 yours be done. It was there in the garden that 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.800 he made a decision to hold on to the promise 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:04.400 that God had put in his heart. In fact, there 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.919 was a war going on on the inside. Everything in 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.720 him was telling him, you're not gonna make it. There's 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.960 no way, it's too tough. But when he made the 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.399 decision to stay in faith, God send an angel that 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.439 began to strengthen him. You may feel like you're in 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.439 the garden right now. Everything has come against you. You 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.600 don't see in the natural how you could make it. 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.840 But God is saying, hold on to that promise, keep believing, 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.680 keep hoping, keep praying. You are close to your victory. 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:38.800 On the road to be crucified. They made Jesus carry 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:41.760 his own cross, but he had been so beaten down, 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:45.639 so mistreated, he couldn't carry it. The whole way he 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:49.520 fell down under the weight of his cross. The message 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:53.119 is you don't have to be strong one hundred percent 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:53.840 of the time. 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:58.240 Sometimes the cross we're carrying can be extremely heavy. 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:01.960 The accusing voice tell you if every day is not 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:05.080 a perfect day, if you don't stay in faith every minute, 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:07.360 keep your joy and keep your peace, and you're. 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:08.200 Just not strong enough. 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:13.040 But it's always encouraging to remember that even Jesus fell 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:16.040 down under the weight of his cross, a man by 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:18.800 the name of Simon came and helped him to carry you. 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.080 God will always send somebody across your path to be 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:24.560 there for you. 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:25.800 In the time of your greatest need. 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:29.200 Maybe today it's my voice telling you you can make it. 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:32.840 There are better days up ahead. But the enemy will 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:37.480 tell you this. He'll tell you lost your victory, you 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:40.560 had a bad day, you had a pity party, you 0:23:40.680 --> 0:23:43.320 lost your temper, you yelled at your kids on God 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.199 saying that's okay, You're human. I know what it feels 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:49.520 like to fall down. I've been there. Just get back 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:53.840 up again. You've got a resurrection coming. They nailed Jesus 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:57.360 to the cross, and as he hung there, he felt 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:01.960 so lonely, so dejected, he cried out, my God, my God, 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:06.080 why have you forsaken me? He asked a question, but 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:10.680 he didn't hear any kind of answer. Sometimes heaven can 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:14.879 be silent. You pray, you believe you're doing your best, 0:24:15.200 --> 0:24:18.880 but you don't see anything happening. You're hurting on the inside. 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:23.040 It looks like it's over. But in those silent times, 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:28.200 something powerful is happening down in here. God is stretching you. 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.960 You're developing a greater confidence in him. Your mind will 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:34.840 tell you it's over, it's never going to happen, but 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:37.280 something will rise up in your spirit that says, no, 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:39.560 God is still on the throne. 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:42.320 This is not happening to me. It's happening for me. 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:46.400 And even though it's not fair, even though I'm discouraged, 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:48.919 deep down, I know that I know I've got a 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:52.240 resurrection coming. I know God can still turn this around. 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:55.920 As Jesus hung on the cross in all that pain, 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:59.160 the soldiers made fun of him, locked him, ridiculed him. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:04.240 In spite of all that suffering, in spite of the disrespect, 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:07.960 he looked up to heaven and said, Father, forgive them. 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:11.440 They don't know what they're doing. He forgave his enemies. 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:15.640 Then he committed his spirit into his father's hands. They 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:16.840 put him in the grave. 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:18.320 I'm sure the. 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:22.400 Forces of darkness were celebrating, rejoicing, thinking they had finally 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:25.800 won the victory. But they didn't realize it's not over 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:29.760 until God says it's over. God always has the final say. 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:33.960 He controls the whole universe. That was on Friday, But 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:37.520 three days later, on Sunday morning, Jesus came up out 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.360 of that grave. He said, I am he that lives. 0:25:40.680 --> 0:25:45.200 I was dead, but I am alive forevermore. He went 0:25:45.240 --> 0:25:49.240 on to say, because I live, you can live. 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:49.639 Also. 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:53.280 God has an abundant life in store for each one 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:56.920 of us. But many times, on the way to our victories, 0:25:57.000 --> 0:26:00.720 just like Jesus, will experience some of these setback. Some 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:04.200 of these difficult times. You have to remind yourself it's 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:07.240 not happening to me, it's happening for me. God's getting 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:12.120 me prepared on the inside. He's depositing strength, courage, and ability. 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:16.159 Keep your eyes focused on your goals, says in Hebrews. 0:26:16.680 --> 0:26:21.000 Now faith is you have to have a now mentality. 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:24.440 Not one day I'm going to be happy. One day 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:27.840 God's gonna work in my life. No, now is the 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:31.399 time to release your faith. The fact is, right now, 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:33.040 God is working in your life. 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:34.200 Right now. 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:37.800 God's arranging things in your favor. Right now, God's trying 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:40.439 to fill you with his strength. Stay in the now. 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:45.360 That's what activates God's power. You remember when Mary and 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:48.440 Martha were at the tomb of their brother Lazarus. 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:50.840 He'd been dead for four days, and they were there 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:52.200 crying so distraught. 0:26:52.760 --> 0:26:56.280 Jesus finally showed up and said, I am the Resurrection 0:26:56.680 --> 0:27:00.199 and the Life. They said, yes, Jesus, we know in 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:03.240 the last days you'll raise our brother Lazarus from the 0:27:03.280 --> 0:27:05.800 dead when we all go to heaven. Jesus said, in 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:08.920 the fact, No, Mary, no, Martha, I'm not talking about 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:10.000 in the last days. 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:11.960 I'm talking about today. 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:15.160 If you'll roll away the stone, I'll raise your brother 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:19.119 right now. He was saying, I am a right now God. 0:27:19.720 --> 0:27:22.280 A lot of times, like these ladies, we're believing one 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:24.960 day God's gonna do something great in my life. One 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:28.040 day God's gonna resurrect my dead dreams. No, we have 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:31.240 to get out of that one day mentality, and let's 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:35.400 start believing that today God's gonna do something great today. 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:39.280 God's gonna open up supernatural doors have a now mentality. 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:42.720 And I know some of you have been through the death, 0:27:43.000 --> 0:27:44.640 so to speak. You've been through the burial. 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:48.560 You've had people lie about you, lost friends, gone through disappointments, 0:27:48.600 --> 0:27:52.719 face sicknesses. But God didn't take you through everything. He 0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:57.080 took you through just so you could come out beaten down, bedraggled, 0:27:57.200 --> 0:27:57.960 half dead. 0:27:58.480 --> 0:27:59.520 Well, how you doing, brother? 0:27:59.600 --> 0:28:03.359 All be good under the circumstances. Now it's time for 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:06.560 your resurrection. It's time for you to rise up and 0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:08.320 take everything that belongs to you. 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:09.920 If you've been. 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:13.760 Crucified with Christ, you can be raised with Christ. The 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:16.280 enemy may have done his best, but his best will 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:18.959 never be enough. You've got to shake off the past, 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:23.880 shake off every disappointment, shake off every injustice, shake off 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:24.640 every failure. 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:28.280 Let today be a new beginning. You may feel like you're. 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:31.680 In the garden, down and discouraged, but take heart, you've 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:34.960 got a resurrection coming. You may have fallen down under 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:37.480 the weight of your cross. God is saying get back 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:40.680 up again. You're close to your victory. You may even 0:28:40.720 --> 0:28:43.440 feel like you're on the cross. Your dreams have died 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:47.120 everything's coming against you. You've got to get a new perspective. 0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:50.640 Nothing in life has happened to you, It has happened 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:51.080 for you. 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:53.640 God has you in the palm of his hand. 0:28:54.200 --> 0:28:56.440 He is going to take what was meant to destroy 0:28:56.560 --> 0:29:00.200 you and use it to thrust you into your divine destiny. 0:29:00.720 --> 0:29:03.840 Remember you are not defined by your past. You are 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:09.120 prepared by your past. Every adversity, every obstacle, God's depositing 0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:13.000 something on the inside. If you'll live this resurrected life, 0:29:13.160 --> 0:29:15.840 you won't have a victim mentality. You will have a 0:29:15.960 --> 0:29:19.520 victoria mentality. And even when things come against you, you'll 0:29:19.560 --> 0:29:22.719 still have a smile on your face. 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