God, How Am I Supposed To Do This?

• There may be a place in your life today  where you’re saying to yourself…not out loud,   but you’re saying to yourself…”How am I  supposed to do that when all I have is this?” “How am I supposed to do that? How am I  supposed to raise these kids when I don’t   even understand the world they’re living in? How  am I supposed to raise a family when I came from   a broken family? How am I supposed to move  up in my job so I can provide for my future   when I don’t even have the basic education that  was required to be in the position I’m in now,
• let alone the one that’s ahead of me? How do I do  this? How do I do that when all I have is this?” Now, fortunately, there is a principle you and  I can lean on should we choose to. I want you   to take this with you into every situation  in your life where you’re saying, “How am I   supposed to do that?” “All right, Preacher.
• You’re  telling me to forgive, move forward, be healed,   be sanctified, be free, live for Jesus, do these  things, be patient, be kind, and be humble. I hear you. How am I supposed to do that when all  I have is this? Because everything you’re up here   talking about I don’t have much of a template for,  and every time I try to do it, my old template   inserts itself in the place of my good intentions.
• So, my template is overwriting my intentions every   time you say ‘Amen’ after one of these sermons.  How am I supposed to do that? It sounds good.   ‘Praise him in the midnight hour.’ How am I  supposed to do that?” Here’s the principle. If you’re supposed to do it, you will have God’s  support for it. Now, I know it doesn’t feel like   that right now, because sometimes when God is  beginning to do something in your life, you do not
• see his support. So, I went all the way back to  the beginning of the whole Bible in Genesis 1:1.   I figured since we’re talking  about the source we should go   to the source and see what the source  did to create every situation we see. The Bible says in Genesis, chapter 1, verse  1, “In the beginning God…” That’s the source.
• That’s why I can move forward into the next  season of my life: because “In the beginning   God…” What did he do? “…created the heavens  and the earth.” I love this part. It says,   “Now the earth was formless and empty,  darkness was over the surface of the deep,   and the Spirit of God was hovering  over the waters.” Stay right there.