Trusting God's Plan Through Life's Trials
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "God loves you, and you need a Savior. This point is foundational to the Christian faith. Not just to this message today, but it's foundational to the Christian faith. God loves you, and you need a Savior. If you don't agree with that this morning, if you're struggling with that thought this morning, I'm going to tell you, you're going to struggle. You're going to struggle with everything else that this word has to say. If you don't believe in your heart that God loves you, this won't make sense. This won't change your life if you can't wrap your mind around the thought that God loves you." (40 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Church, you are incapable of loving other people. Sorry, my wife just made a face because I spit sometimes in my talk. She's been watching me do that all morning. Side note. We are incapable of loving other people if we don't know the love of God. You tracking with me? See the enemy's trying to thwart. He's trying to thwart my plans this morning. We're going to talk about that here in a little bit. We are incapable of loving other people if you don't understand the love that God has for you first. Church is foundational." (33 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "As a believer in Jesus Christ, if you're in here today and you're a believer in Jesus Christ, God has a plan for you and it's to reach people with the gospel message. All right? That's big picture, okay? That's 30,000 foot view. That's God's plans for our lives. He wants to change this world through me and you. He, he wants to use me and you to bring the gospel to people around us. That's what he wants to do." (24 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Church, God's given you dreams. He's given you visions. He's given you promises. But too often, we hear this phrase, hey, trust the process. Just trust, anybody trust the process, right? You're going through some garbage, you're like, just gotta trust the process. It'll work out. It'll work. It'll work out. Just trust the process. It's okay. That's an okay mindset to have, but what if we learn to trust God through the process? We put our trust in the process. That's gonna let us down at some point in time. But church, if we can learn to trust God through the process." (39 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "God works all, all things good for those who love Him who've been called according to His purpose. I look in this place and these three different services and I know this is something new for New Hope Church, but each service is a little bit smaller than what we're used to, right? But here's the cool thing about that is we look around here and there's plenty of open seats in this place right now, right? You know what I see? I see a boatload of opportunity. I see opportunity for you guys to take the gospel, for you to take the love of Jesus Christ, understand that, know it, accept it, trust God, and the process that you're in right now, love other people and spread that gospel." (36 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "But here's the deal about sleep is unless you're an insomniac. It always comes. It might be a little bit later than what you wanted. But sleep always comes. And you can't force it. You can't make it happen. It just does. But sometimes in our lives we find that that's kind of our response to different things. We want to make things happen. We want to force things to take place in our lives. And we do that in different areas. Whether it's relationships. Sometimes we want to force certain relationships to happen. Sometimes we want people. We want people to like us. And so we do what we can to make sure they know that they can like us." (38 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Joseph didn't make this stuff happen, right? He trusted God through the process. He walked through the garbage. He went through the roller coaster up and down in life. I got to tell you, I'm 37 years old myself, right? And my wife, I said this earlier, so, you know, you guys get the same information first service. Second service didn't get this. She's older than I am, all right? So just so you know. But here we are in our 30s and 40s. And so, don't worry about that either, all right? There are a lot of things you guys don't have to worry about. I'll give you the key things you got to worry about today. We're fairly young still, in my mind, all right? We're not old by any stretch of the imagination, but we've gone through some stuff. I look in this room and I know some of you guys, you've gone through some stuff. You've had difficulties. You've had struggles. You've had things that have caused you to go, God, where are you at in this? But that does not change the truth of these first two points, church. That God loves you and he has a plan for you. And sometimes we have to go through the garbage to get to where God's taking us." (72 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "And so, so all of a sudden, he's in prison. And Joseph's just on this rollercoaster ride, okay? You track with me? He's on this rollercoaster ride of success, of failure, of success, of struggle. Of God, what? What? What's going on here? The enemy tries to thwart God's plans. And so then, the cupbearer and the baker, if you're familiar with the story, those two guys come on the scene. And if you're not familiar with the story, my challenge, get into Genesis. Read chapter 37 through 41. You know what? Read a little bit more than that. Jump ahead of where Pastor Brad's at, all right? So that when he preaches on it, you're like, oh, I remember this. You wanna learn the Bible and you want that to impact you? Absolutely do that, all right? Get into that word." (47 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "And so, so Joseph's like, cupbearer, remember me when you get out of prison. And the cupbearer's like, yeah, I got you. Except that I don't. I'm gonna go do my own thing. So the cupbearer forgets Joseph. Joseph spends two more years sitting in prison for something he didn't do until all of a sudden Pharaoh, Pharaoh has a dream. And then the cupbearer remembers, hey, there was this dude that I spent time in the clanker with. You need to bring that dude out. He can interpret dreams. So Pharaoh calls Joseph, brings him up, tells him his dream. Joseph interprets the dream. And the dream interpretation is, hey, Egypt's gonna have seven years of prosperity, seven years of abundance of grain. We gotta collect that. We gotta keep it because right after that is gonna be seven years of drought, seven years of despair and famine, all right?" (47 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "And so, so read through this. The cupbearer, the baker, they get on the scene. They're like, dude, we had some wild dreams last night. Anybody have wild dreams? You just, you have no idea where they came from, right? Sometimes it's just that like day old pizza that you ate yesterday afternoon that you shouldn't have. But sometimes, sometimes God speaks to us through a dream. Sometimes he's giving us purpose. He's, he's, he's trying to bring something up, all right? And so, so we gotta be sensitive to that. We gotta be listening to that. Well, the cupbearer and the baker, they're like, we had these dreams. We don't know what they mean. Joseph's like, I can interpret those for you. And so he interprets these dreams for the cupbearer and the baker and spoiler alert, the cup baker gets reinstated into the service of Pharaoh. Yay, cup baker, cup bearer. I mess these words up all the time. The baker legit ends up losing his life. They're like, you know what? Your dream was not very good. You're out. And so the baker dies, all right? It's just the way it is." (59 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "God loves you, and you need a Savior. This point is foundational to the Christian faith. Not just to this message today, but it's foundational to the Christian faith. God loves you, and you need a Savior. If you don't agree with that this morning, if you're struggling with that thought this morning, I'm going to tell you, you're going to struggle. You're going to struggle with everything else that this word has to say. If you don't believe in your heart that God loves you, this won't make sense. This won't change your life if you can't wrap your mind around the thought that God loves you." (40 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Church, you are incapable of loving other people. Sorry, my wife just made a face because I spit sometimes in my talk. She's been watching me do that all morning. Side note. We are incapable of loving other people if we don't know the love of God. You tracking with me? See the enemy's trying to thwart. He's trying to thwart my plans this morning. We're going to talk about that here in a little bit. We are incapable of loving other people if you don't understand the love that God has for you first. Church is foundational." (33 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "As a believer in Jesus Christ, if you're in here today and you're a believer in Jesus Christ, God has a plan for you and it's to reach people with the gospel message. All right? That's big picture, okay? That's 30,000 foot view. That's God's plans for our lives. He wants to change this world through me and you. He, he wants to use me and you to bring the gospel to people around us. That's what he wants to do." (24 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Church, God's given you dreams. He's given you visions. He's given you promises. But too often, we hear this phrase, hey, trust the process. Just trust, anybody trust the process, right? You're going through some garbage, you're like, just gotta trust the process. It'll work out. It'll work. It'll work out. Just trust the process. It's okay. That's an okay mindset to have, but what if we learn to trust God through the process? We put our trust in the process. That's gonna let us down at some point in time. But church, if we can learn to trust God through the process." (39 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "God works all, all things good for those who love Him who've been called according to His purpose. I look in this place and these three different services and I know this is something new for New Hope Church, but each service is a little bit smaller than what we're used to, right? But here's the cool thing about that is we look around here and there's plenty of open seats in this place right now, right? You know what I see? I see a boatload of opportunity. I see opportunity for you guys to take the gospel, for you to take the love of Jesus Christ, understand that, know it, accept it, trust God, and the process that you're in right now, love other people and spread that gospel." (36 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "But here's the deal about sleep is unless you're an insomniac. It always comes. It might be a little bit later than what you wanted. But sleep always comes. And you can't force it. You can't make it happen. It just does. But sometimes in our lives we find that that's kind of our response to different things. We want to make things happen. We want to force things to take place in our lives. And we do that in different areas. Whether it's relationships. Sometimes we want to force certain relationships to happen. Sometimes we want people. We want people to like us. And so we do what we can to make sure they know that they can like us." (38 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Joseph didn't make this stuff happen, right? He trusted God through the process. He walked through the garbage. He went through the roller coaster up and down in life. I got to tell you, I'm 37 years old myself, right? And my wife, I said this earlier, so, you know, you guys get the same information first service. Second service didn't get this. She's older than I am, all right? So just so you know. But here we are in our 30s and 40s. And so, don't worry about that either, all right? There are a lot of things you guys don't have to worry about. I'll give you the key things you got to worry about today. We're fairly young still, in my mind, all right? We're not old by any stretch of the imagination, but we've gone through some stuff. I look in this room and I know some of you guys, you've gone through some stuff. You've had difficulties. You've had struggles. You've had things that have caused you to go, God, where are you at in this? But that does not change the truth of these first two points, church. That God loves you and he has a plan for you. And sometimes we have to go through the garbage to get to where God's taking us." (72 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "And so, so all of a sudden, he's in prison. And Joseph's just on this rollercoaster ride, okay? You track with me? He's on this rollercoaster ride of success, of failure, of success, of struggle. Of God, what? What? What's going on here? The enemy tries to thwart God's plans. And so then, the cupbearer and the baker, if you're familiar with the story, those two guys come on the scene. And if you're not familiar with the story, my challenge, get into Genesis. Read chapter 37 through 41. You know what? Read a little bit more than that. Jump ahead of where Pastor Brad's at, all right? So that when he preaches on it, you're like, oh, I remember this. You wanna learn the Bible and you want that to impact you? Absolutely do that, all right? Get into that word." (47 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "And so, so Joseph's like, cupbearer, remember me when you get out of prison. And the cupbearer's like, yeah, I got you. Except that I don't. I'm gonna go do my own thing. So the cupbearer forgets Joseph. Joseph spends two more years sitting in prison for something he didn't do until all of a sudden Pharaoh, Pharaoh has a dream. And then the cupbearer remembers, hey, there was this dude that I spent time in the clanker with. You need to bring that dude out. He can interpret dreams. So Pharaoh calls Joseph, brings him up, tells him his dream. Joseph interprets the dream. And the dream interpretation is, hey, Egypt's gonna have seven years of prosperity, seven years of abundance of grain. We gotta collect that. We gotta keep it because right after that is gonna be seven years of drought, seven years of despair and famine, all right?" (47 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "And so, so read through this. The cupbearer, the baker, they get on the scene. They're like, dude, we had some wild dreams last night. Anybody have wild dreams? You just, you have no idea where they came from, right? Sometimes it's just that like day old pizza that you ate yesterday afternoon that you shouldn't have. But sometimes, sometimes God speaks to us through a dream. Sometimes he's giving us purpose. He's, he's, he's trying to bring something up, all right? And so, so we gotta be sensitive to that. We gotta be listening to that. Well, the cupbearer and the baker, they're like, we had these dreams. We don't know what they mean. Joseph's like, I can interpret those for you. And so he interprets these dreams for the cupbearer and the baker and spoiler alert, the cup baker gets reinstated into the service of Pharaoh. Yay, cup baker, cup bearer. I mess these words up all the time. The baker legit ends up losing his life. They're like, you know what? Your dream was not very good. You're out. And so the baker dies, all right? It's just the way it is." (59 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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