Trusting God's Path: Embracing Spiritual Growth and Change

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1. "God just does that. He can do that. He's God. So he can do whatever he wants to do. So we don't understand what he's doing. We don't have to understand it. We just have to trust him. Have to do it. And so anyway, so he's doing that. So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness and the Red Sea and the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks and out of the land of Egypt." [01:27] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "You need to sometimes you got to do something and the things that God is lending you to is like taking the bones of Joseph because you're not going back to where you used to be. You're not going back to the place where you used to be. And so I just love that. I just threw it up there. I'm not going to teach you on the whole thing of it. And so I don't know. Sometimes we just need to do that and realize that God did that." [03:28] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "We have to trust the Lord in the good times. We have to trust the Lord in the bad times. We just have to trust God when we like where we're at. We have to trust God when we don't like where we're at. And sometimes we just got to trust God. Okay. Because he who has begun a good work. Now I love this good work here word because that word good work there is means worthwhile. He who has begun a worthwhile work if you will, in you." [06:00] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "God sees our growth and grace as something good. He sees us growing while we're at that place because we grow in that place. Now, it's not always just a bad place. Sometimes it's a good place. But he's working a good work in us, a worthwhile work in us, and it is good. We love that part in Genesis, everything God created, it is good, it is good, it is good, he doesn't stop. God is forever creating. And he's always creating us." [08:01] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "Sometimes when we start having problems, we think the initial is the official. We believe the worst first, but whenever there's problems, and we believe that God is leading us, we believe that God is giving us revelation, then we just have to trust God. And this is what's happened with them here. They're, they're, they're going through this, they're going through this process. But God, good thing about problems, that God has a plan for the problem. The plan for the problem is resistance." [11:05] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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6. "Whenever you begin to have proper spiritual posture thank you you learn that during difficult times. You don't learn it, I'm sorry and trust me, I've searched the scriptures from kiver to kiver it's cover to cover it's been funny. Trying to make you forget about my proper, proper. We learn proper posture during difficult times. These people by the time the children of Israel by the time they make it to and of course we realize it's an entire different generation, but by the time they made it they understood their the posture that they're supposed to be in through everything that God allowed them to go through." [17:09] (62 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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7. "The first posture I want to tell you is is an emotional posture. It's very important what kind of emotional posture you're going to have. What kind of emotional approach what kind of emotional attitude you're going to have. And the first one is do not be afraid. What's the opposite of fear? It's all about participation. You can say that. What's the opposite of fear? Faith. Faith. And so you're the first here comes these guys after them with everything they have here everything you said yes God to you're at this place God has led you children here husband there wife there finances here all this kind of stuff you're doing and then the enemy just comes just comes rushing in and when the enemy comes in what's your posture going to be?" [20:27] (63 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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8. "The one thing that I want to say the one thing Jesus taught us though that he had a good posture on the good day he had the exact same good posture on the bad day right? because he had his faith he had his trust he just and that's that's what we have to do and let me say this whenever we learn how to do that and we learn how to do that the spirit of God obviously is helping us he helps us along the way it's his grace it's his grace that is with us and he equips us to do it he even he even his grace is a gift." [26:16] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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9. "The gift of faith is not only you receive it by by hearing the word reading the word singing the word whatever you do to get the word in it but the gift of faith is that which supersedes I'm going to say it regular faith which means what he gives you faith to believe things for stuff that you ordinarily wouldn't believe God for and if you have faith then that faith is attached to trust so now you're going to trust God for stuff or in situations you wouldn't ordinarily trust God for here's the third one come to me he's going to give you what you need to get through something that you ordinarily wouldn't have got through right." [27:32] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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10. "No matter how bad the situation is on the outside do not look don't let the enemy get you bound up on the inside that's the battle can't control the other stuff if you can do something about it if you can't don't worry about it knowing my God shall deliver me somebody needs to hear this tonight because it's just you just do and so I do we all do whether everything's great I mean I'm just saying so anyway so we know what happened these men oh here's what I want to say verse 20 when you do that which they were in verse 21 they were bound on the outside but on the inside they went to meet us." [38:32] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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