It’s Been Happening All Your Life

It would be much easier if God gave us the dream and then just brought it to pass, made everything easy. But we would never grow, we’d never develop our spiritual muscles, and we’d never learn to really trust Him. In difficult times is when you show God what you’re made of. That’s where you prove that you can handle the blessing, handle the favor. You’re not going to let disappointments, bad breaks, people that come against you, convince you to live bitter, give up on your dreams.

God’s Messages

Dear Lord,
Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..

Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….

David said in Psalm 68 each day, God carries us in his arms and you may have situations that are too much for you.
God is saying, don’t worry, I’m going to carry you.
You’re going to feel supernatural strength, peace that passes understanding favor that causes things to fall into place on your own.
You wouldn’t make it through the sickness.
You’d fall apart in that divorce had trouble at work would defeat you, but you’re not on your own.
You’re being carried by the God who created you.
When you look back over your life, you can see these times where God carried you.
How did you make it through that unfair childhood?
You should be insecure, dysfunctional floundering, but look at you, you’re blessed, you’re strong, doing great things. That wasn’t luck.
That was God carrying you. He was protecting you when you didn’t realize it.
He was moving the wrong people out of the way, opening doors that you couldn’t open.
He’s been carrying you your whole life. How did you get through that challenge with your child?
You should had a nervous breakdown, should have worn you out, caused you to give up on dreams.
But every day you had strength to move forward, you had the grace to stay in faith you believed.
When every thought said it was never going to work out. The enemy tried to take your child out.
But because you kept praying God, not only carried you, but he carried your child.
Where would we be without the God who carries us? It’s easy to thank Him for blessings.
I thank Him for turning things around.
But I’ve also learned to thank him for carrying me through the difficulties, for sustaining me, for not letting the opposition defeat me, not letting the worry take root, not letting the doubt talk me out of my dreams.
That wasn’t just my strong will. My great faith that was God carrying me.
When my father went to be with the Lord. In 1999 my whole world was turned upside down.
My father was my hero and outside of Victoria, he was my best friend.
I’d worked with him 17 years here at Lakewood. Behind the scenes doing the television production.
We had traveled the world together. He’d come over to the house for dinner. We’d go see the Astros play.
I thought he’d lived into his nineties. But at 77 he had a heart attack and was suddenly taken away.
I had never ministered, but I knew I was supposed to step up and pastor the church didn’t make sense to my mind, didn’t feel qualified.
I didn’t have the experience. Thoughts told me nobody’s gonna listen to you Joel.
But in my heart, I felt it so strongly. I took that step of faith.
I started ministering on Sunday mornings. Our daughter Alexandra was three months old.
At the time our son, Jonathan was four. I didn’t know how to put a message together.
I had never done any public speaking on top of that.
I was grieving the loss of my father trying to navigate him, not being here, how to run the church, how to minister a newborn baby.
I look back now and think, how did I make it through?
How did I learn how to minister in the most difficult time of my life?
How did we raise our little Children when we were both learning a new profession, becoming pastors.
That was God carrying us. I felt a strength that I had never felt.
Yes, I missed my father, but it wasn’t what I thought. I didn’t fall apart.
I wasn’t overcome with sorrow for months. I felt peace.
There was a grace to step into my destiny wasn’t all easy, but I had the passion, the determination, the favor to keep moving forward.
That wasn’t natural, that was supernatural. I hope you enjoyed watching this clip.
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