Living in the Light of the Resurrection

Beloved, I'm gonna tell you something. Wait. Wait, I say, wait on the lord. Don't run ahead. Don't leave him. Stay in it. Don't leave. And see Paul writes to the Ephesian church and he says, therefore, take up the whole armor of god so that you may be able to resist evil and having done all, stand. And when you've done all, stand. And when you've done all, when you've done everything, when you have prayed, when you have believed, when you have cried out, when you don't understand, when you have done everything but nothing changes and the enemy says walk away, the enemy says quit, the enemy says it's over, stand. Because let me tell you something, you're one decision away from the very place that God can move. [00:39:19] (63 seconds)  #WaitAndStand

pray and don't give up. Pray and don't give up. You pray and you don't give up. Well, you don't know about my kid, pray and don't give up. You don't know about my marriage, pray and don't give up. You don't know about what the doctor said I had, pray and don't give up. You stay in it. Don't shortchange God. Let him have room to work. [00:47:38] (25 seconds)  #PrayDontGiveUp

See, one of the things that that that I've been telling you for years as a pastor, in this world you will have trouble. It's the same thing that Jesus said. You're gonna have problems. There's gonna be things that are happen that are beyond explanation and and we run around so many times. We we spend years chasing why. Why did this happen? Why is this going on? And see sometimes the why has no clear answer and in times like that, the who becomes everything. See, when we forget about the why and start focusing on the who, our life will begin to make sense. [00:21:13] (48 seconds)  #WhoOverWhy

God, I trust you right now even though everything in my life is telling me to go the different direction, everything is telling me my circumstances are screaming at me right now that this ain't gonna be okay but it's well. That's when faith speaks. Psalm one twenty one says, I lift my eyes up to the hills. Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. When I'm in the midst of the worst day, the worst diagnosis, the worst phone call, the worst relationship blow up there ever, I need to stand back, lift my eyes up to the Lord and realize that's where my help is coming. I'm looking to him and him alone, I'm not looking for anything else but for God to do something. See, faith doesn't panic. [00:27:19] (51 seconds)  #EyesOnTheLord

See, she did everything right and she still suffered. I'm gonna tell you right now, that cuts across the grain of a lot of preaching you'll hear in the country today because people have taken the gospel and turned it into some kind of get rich quick, make you feel good, everything's gonna be alright thing and those people are not ready to suffer. They're not prepared for what's coming. See, my job is to get you ready for real life, not a fantasy life. We're not doing reality TV where it's not really reality TV just in case y'all don't know that. They've script all that stuff out and then try to make it look like it's real. [00:22:01] (51 seconds)  #ReadyForRealLife

Some days I might be down. Some days I might be had all I can carry, the load is too much and I'm crushed under it and I just need somebody to come along and grab me under one arm and say, I got you brother. I'm gonna pray with you. I ain't gonna leave you. I'm gonna stay in it with you. See, that's the kind of see, that's the kind of body that we're trying to build here. It's people that don't quit, people that won't stop. You can come and say, I got the darkest diagnosis in the world. It don't matter. We're to pray anyway. Yes. I'm going believe with you all the way to the hole. I'm not gonna quit. [00:30:15] (48 seconds)  #StayAndPrayTogether

And she knew that that that she couldn't fix it, she knew her husband couldn't fix it, she said the only hope she had was God and so she locked him away, put him into that room, shut the door, didn't tell anybody because she didn't want anybody to mess with what could be a miracle. She left him in it because if the husband had heard that the child was dead, he would have immediately buried him. Come on now. Come on. And she want a chance for a miracle. Yeah. She wanted to for God to at least have the last word. Teacher. Teacher. Good work. See, it as well equals trust not outcome. [00:26:34] (43 seconds)  #MakeRoomForMiracles

Pain's coming, heartache's coming, challenges, things from people that you never expected will show up. And sometimes the deepest pain in your life is the pain you didn't choose. It was unexpected, it was uninvited and it's unexplainable. But Jesus says, in this world, you will have trouble. But the beginning of that, see, if we hold on to what he actually said the whole sentence, he says, I've told you these things so that in me you might have peace. That I'm telling you about the trouble because I need you to stay connected to me because in me that's where you're gonna find your strength, that's where you're find your direction, that's where you're gonna find your hope and that's gonna be the anchor that holds you when everything else is flying apart. In me, you will have peace because I have overcome the world. See, this is when faith gets real. [00:22:53] (79 seconds)  #PeaceInTheStorm