now raise your hand if you're in an uncertain place today uncertain what's
next in your life uncertain how you're gonna put some pieces back together
uncertain how some things are gonna come together for you uncertain whether or
not you can be what you need to be uncertain whether it's ever gonna change
for you don't you ever get to the point I'm almost 40 now where you pretty much
give up on you changing yeah it's like in your teens and 20s you continue to
imagine this future version of yourself and future me is gonna be amazing
if I ever get to meet future me I'm gonna get his autograph because I can
picture him and yet every year that goes by every little birthday that I have I
kind of feel it's less and less likely that I'm ever gonna meet him and if it's not
yourself that you're uncertain about it might be other people and whether
they'll ever be able to move past the way that they feel about you and I know
some of you have relationships that are very uncertain right now just wave at me
if I'm talking to you at all because I prayed about what to share and God said
I want you to speak to the ladies about the uncertain place now it's called a
certain place because Jacob has never been here before so he doesn't know what
to call it and the town is actually called Luz it's a it's a little place
it's not really a big place and he has to stop there have you ever had to stop
somewhere where you didn't want to be come on have you ever have you ever had
a layover that that you didn't plan for have you ever have you ever had the sun
set on your situation and you had to lay down let's let's think about this Jacob
has to lay down in the middle of nowhere sometimes in our lives God will give us
the ability to rename places and things that we've been through God gives you
the ability to call things that be not as though they are so that's how you can
go through something in your life that to people
it looks like an ending but you can call it a new beginning that's what faith
gives you the power to do faith doesn't always give you the ability to change or
determine what you go through it always gives you the ability to determine what
you call what you go through some of us need to rename some places in our lives
because I got news for you some of the people that broke your heart were
actually doing you a favor because if they would have stayed in your life they
would have limited you sometimes when people leave your life it's because God
is making room for an upgrade sometimes I turn on my iPhone and it gives me a
message it says an update is available I hear the Spirit of God saying to
somebody today I know you've lost some things lost some time lost some people
walked away from you and maybe some of it was your fault
but the Spirit of God says today an update is available or you can lay down
here and die and wish you were back where you have been or wonder about
where you're going to be but the revelation is is it's so good he says
the Lord is in this place can I just get you to say that the Lord is in this
place the Lord is in this place now some places it's really easy to say that I've
had moments in the presence of God just beautiful moments where everything felt
great I've had um I've had moments in my life where I've seen God do things that
I would have never even dreamed about as a boy and then I watched my dad die of
ALS and I watched him gasp for his breath and I wonder can I say the Lord is in
this place when my dad is gasping for his last breath like I can when I'm on
vacation I wonder can I say the Lord is in this place when I'm still only
halfway there like I'll be able to when I get to my destination now the enemy is
really really tricky he always wants to get you to imagine a place called there
and and there is where Jacob was going there is where Jacob had set out for
there is Huron is it's the place that you're going toward in this place in
your life it's the place where your finances are finally able to support a
reasonable lifestyle there is a place where you're no longer controlled and
mastered by the addiction where you don't feel the chains of these habits
that have been on your wrists and your ankles for decades and decades there is
the place where the memory of the trauma of what you went through at the hands of
people who should have known better at the hands of people who should have
protected you and not only did they not protect you but they inflicted pain upon
you there is the place where you are no longer haunted by the memory of what
they did and when I get there I'm gonna praise God because He brought me out
with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and nobody could do it but Him it's
the Red Sea He brought me through its the pit He brought me out of its the
lion's den He snatched me out of its the fire He rescued me from there somebody's
out there if this is not a message about praising God there I came to tell you
praise Him here
here here we don't like here in our modern culture very much that's why I
have so many tools to escape here that's what Instagram is that's what
Facebook is it's a way for me to leave here even if I can't leave physically I
can leave mentally I was on vacation this week last week with my family on Instagram looking at people who were at
work why would you leave work to go on vacation to go back to work in your mind
on your iPhone because I don't want to be here I want to be there I don't want to
be here look how broken I am here look how bad it hurts here I don't want to be
here some of you you don't have to wave at me some of you don't even want to be
here like right here right now I know you're grateful and you're smiling and
you're trying your best to look like you're happy you're not happy this is
the last place you want to be you think Jacob wanted to be lying on a rock in a
place called Luz nobody goes to Luz on vacation Luz isn't on anybody's
bucket list Jacob didn't set up for Luz he set out for Huron and the sun set and
sometimes the sun goes down and the lights go off and you not have no choice
but to stop where you are and that's where God shows up hey thanks for
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