Embracing God's Will Amidst Life's Challenges

"Praise be to God. Praise be to God. Oh, hallelujah. Let's lift up the name of Jesus and give Him praise together right now. Hallelujah. We can do a lot better than that. Come on, let's give God some praise in this house right now. Let's give Him some high praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. We're so blessed. We appreciate you, Jesus. Hallelujah. To God be all the praise and glory." [00:22:56] (29 seconds)


"When you're doing the will of God, it doesn't always look like you think it's going to look. Amen. When you begin to step into the perfect plan that God has for your life, it does not always look like you think it should look. When Israel stepped into the promised land, it did not look like they thought it would look. They saw giants. But it was the perfect will of God for their life." [00:26:05] (36 seconds)


"Listen you know what the will of God is that you move forward in accomplishing his purpose in the midst of adversity and obstacles now now when we begin to pray and we start praying things like god i want your will to be done done in my life oh God I want you to have your way God nothing but your will I'll do whatever you want all of a sudden adversity hits and we're like whoa God look what happened what happened God whoa God hello did you did did you did you not hear my prayer I just prayed for your will your will's got to be good why did bad happen what you don't realize is you're never going to learn patience if you don't go through adversity hello you're never going to learn faith if your faith is not tested you're never going to become a warrior if you don't fight a battle you're never going to be strong if you don't lift weights hallelujah amen if we're going to be children of God we're going to face adversity over come problems and we're going to prosper and we're going to prosper you can't appreciate something if you don't pay for it if the if it didn't cost you anything it wouldn't be valuable to you the reason things are valuable is there's a price attached to it it costs you blood sweat and tears to get to that place you you you you paid a price this is why we don't give our children things that we don't feel like that they will appreciate why because they'll take something valuable to us they'll throw it on the ground walk on it and why do we do that what you know we do we make them pay a little price you know it's not necessarily a big price but but you know what it is it's helping them understand" [00:30:25] (116 seconds)


"Our circumstances don't dictate our relationship with God. The enemy. The enemy projects feelings, fear, depression, anxiety, worry, hopelessness, despair, and it's a feeling. And then attached to the feeling is a thought, feeling of despair. God's left you. God's dropped you. He's finished with you. Your ministry's done." [00:34:38] (43 seconds)


"Now, if you were to speak that out loud to me or to anybody, you would almost feel half silly to say those words out loud because that's not the way you hear anyone talk, and that's definitely not the way you hear the Scripture talk, but the thoughts go through your mind, and then you begin to think on them. Because there's a feeling attached to it. And so this feeling and this thought all of a sudden bring despair on you, and you start to lose hope." [00:35:23] (33 seconds)


"Focus on the wrong thing. The enemy successfully distracted you from how big your God is to how little you are. Some of y 'all staring at me like I fell off the cart, acting like you ain't never heard the voice of the enemy superheroes out here. Well, if the devil's not messing with you, you move in the wrong direction. If you're going to the promised land, you're going to hear the voice of the enemy." [00:38:20] (35 seconds)


"And you focus on what mature people focus on. You mature on, or excuse me, you focus on your mission. You focus on your purpose. You focus on what God already told you he was going to do. You don't focus on what you feel. You don't focus on what your circumstance looks like. You focus on the word. God gave you when he called you. He said, I'm with you. I'll be with you. And I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. Lo, I'm with you all the way, even to the end of the world." [00:39:21] (32 seconds)


"Rejoice in the Lord always. Somebody shout rejoice in the Lord always. again, I will say rejoice. Somebody shout rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand. Forbearance, reasonableness, it's talking about self -control. Keep control of yourself. Keep your attitude under control. Keep your emotions under control." [00:40:50] (30 seconds)


"Do not be anxious about anything. Boom. Anybody have been anxious today? Yeah. Anxiety, anxious, anxiousness. What's the word? Uh, anxious, uh, worry, whatever you want to call it is when we think we can control the situation. So we're going to worry about it till it fixes itself. You can't control it. Quit worrying about it." [00:43:22] (33 seconds)


"Boy, I'm telling you, God wants to encourage somebody today. He wants to get you off of the problem and get you focused on the solution. Amen. He says right here, he says, I've learned whatsoever situation I am to be content. I know, everybody say, I know how to be brought low. And I know, say, I know how to abound. He said, in any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret." [00:54:28] (30 seconds)


"I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. It doesn't matter if I got too much or too little. I've learned I'm going to be content. Why? This is the secret he learned. I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. He's learned. It doesn't matter the circumstance. God's with. It doesn't matter what I'm facing. God's with me. It doesn't matter how bleak it looks. God's got it. God's got my future. God's got my babies. God's got my marriage." [00:54:58] (39 seconds)