Anybody can be Christians and sing songs
When the sun is shining it doesn't take much faith to give God glory
When all your bills are paid you don't have to be real strong to shout hallelujah
when everything is well in your life, but when the bottom falls out
When sickness comes
When difficulties tough times hard days long nights
It is then that your faith kicks in to let you know that he's a very present help
in the time of trouble
This word is for somebody going through tough times
For somebody struggling just to keep your head above water
You're smiling just to keep from crying
You're doing the best you can but you put one foot forward and two steps are made backwards
You're trying but things don't seem to be quite working out the way you plan
You thought you'd be in a different place at this season in your life
And it looks like you've been praying and calling on the Lord and you're doing everything right, but you're still
suffering
I've got some good news for you
He'll show up
Yes, he will
He will come through
And just because he hasn't come through already
Does not mean he's not coming through at all
The Lord will make a way. God will get us out in his timing
Anybody here ever been through a trial
And for a moment it looked like it would never end
But now that you're on the other side of it you have surrendered yourself
To the mighty hand of God
God my will is your will
My ways are your ways my desires are your whatever you want me to do I give up
I surrender, you can have my life take it and make it what you want it to be and whenever you give up struggling
God will always bless you
Sometimes God gotta take you all the way down
Before you can bring you back up again
Sometimes God got to take from you what you think you can't get along without
To let you know he was there all the time
Sometimes you got to hit rock bottom
Before you find out who is the rock at the bottom
Expect things to get better for you because they are see life is cyclic
Whatever experience you're having right now. It has not come to stay
It has come to pass
Not to stay just to pass it's just going through
The biggest challenges is to know what's happening. This is a part of this thing we call life this too shall pass
And maintaining perspective putting it in perspective
See a lot of us because of our limited vision of ourselves a lot of us who begin to focus on problems and enable them
to overwhelm us we begin to think that we have no options. We begin to believe that there's no way out
You can decide that you're going to stand up to life
And all of these things that are happening to me right now, they're just temporary
inconveniences
God is going to bring us through this season God's going to get us through this. So this season
Will end
We're just in a season right now. It's going to pass God has the wisdom and God's gonna give us that wisdom
It's pretty easy sometimes to to feel beaten
That doesn't mean give up
In fact it means the opposite
It means it's time for you to fight harder and I'm gonna tell you right now
It won't be easy
It will be hard because life is hard. That's what life is
And these challenges
These challenges that you face
They're gonna do their best to take you down
Do not let them
Stand up dig in
Line up those problems and confront them face them
fight them
Do not let them bring you down. In fact
In fact let those challenges
Raise you up let them elevate you
Let their demands and their trials make you stronger
Let the adversity you face today
Turn you into a better person tomorrow
So so in the future
You look back at these struggles and you say to them
Thank you
You made me better
Stop
wasting today's strength fighting
tomorrow's battles and God says give me my job back
God's job is tomorrow. Your job is today. Give us this day our daily bread
What am I do today. I'm set aside some time and listen to the word of God this day
I'm so glad I'm not God. I'm so glad that
That I don't have to I don't have to figure it all out
I'm so glad I've got a God who has gone before me
I'm so glad I have a father if I did not have to run around like the pagans. What am I gonna eat?
What am I gonna drink? What am I gonna wear? Jesus says stop
Worrying about what God is already working on
Tomorrow is God's job. Tomorrow is God's job. So here's what we have to do. We have to trust God with tomorrow's problems
and embrace today's process
But God promised me the grace for today and the hope for tomorrow
Even in the darkest moments even in the darkest days choose faith over fear
We believe today that
the spirit of fear is loose in our nation and around the world
And it wants to do everything that it can to get us to worry
to feel anxious to feel stressed out to feel as though
everything's over and we're coming to an end. We're not coming to an end
Don't let worry make you go into just panic
Jesus said I am with you in your home. I am where you are. I know your address. I know all about you
I have not forgotten about you. I am with you no matter what comes our way our first
Reaction should be faith that overcomes the fear choose faith over fear
Choose faith over panic and over being petrified. We will survive
We're more than conquerors through Christ
No weapon formed against us will prosper and then he said that nothing can separate us from the love of God
We're being dominated right now in our culture in our in our culture by fear
We need to go from fear-based living to faith-based living
Fear wants to cause us to go into denial to not deal with the issues
Listen to this face the problem but focus on God choose faith over fear
God delights listen in courageous people
and people who are
Strong and courageous who when they face challenges, they don't buckle and they don't fear and they don't fall
When we're going through something the goal isn't just to get through it
The goal is for God to show us something in it
That will make us better on the other side
Let's not be fearful
After all, we always have the Savior who loves us
For you are my hiding place
You protect me from trouble you surround me with songs of victory
The Lord says
I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you
And watch over you
You know enough about God to get you through this valley. We talk about going through
I know I'm gonna get through this and I don't say that in a callous way or a cliche way
I'm saying the Lord is my shepherd. I know that. He's my guide. I know that
Stop living by sight
And start living by faith