Motivation to Strengthen Your Faith in Uncertain Times
When you face a dilemma and you run into a crisis and you’re trying to figure out what in the world is going on in my life and it feels like you’re going backwards instead of forwards and you trusted the wrong person or you made the wrong decision or the business didn’t turn out like you think and you have a setback.
You have to remember a setback is set up for a comeback. And I challenge you today, if you’re going to make anything last, you got to stay when it’s rough. And so I had sat on a plane for about 12 hours, left the beautiful city of Dallas, flew to London, got out in Heathrow, walked the corridors, made the change, and then flew another nine or 10 hours to Lagos, Nigeria.
And then by car, I traveled out somewhere I had never been before. to speak to over a million people. I was in the hotel getting ready for the event. Pastor Adaboya had invited me to one of the biggest meetings he does during the year. He’s huge all over the world, but in Africa it’s unexplainable. And I was getting ready to go when I got a call.
Phone rang. My son Jamar had had a heart attack and the doctors were trying to stabilize him and while they were telling me about it, he’d had a second one and the airport was shut down for the evening and we had to pull all kind of strings to get out of there and I never got to preach to the crowd. one because under battle you always have to keep your priorities straight.
Don’t let the seduction of the crowd or the allurement of the masses make you forget about the commitment to the few. Jamar was my son and I had to be there. And I wondered, Lord, how in the world could this be happening? They had rushed him into surgery and it didn’t look good. And I said, “This is a 20-some year old young man who’s vibrant, healthy, in good shape, not overweight.
How could this happen? You we we want to understand everything, but we don’t.” So I flew for hours and hours and all the while I stayed awake the whole time saying, “God, spare my son because I don’t want to know the pain of losing my child.” And we want to understand why. And I got to the hospital.
I came down the hall and he’s laying in the hospital bed and he said, “I hear my daddy coming.” And I walked in the room. I shaved his chest. I talked to him. I tried to get him ready for this this surgery they were going to do cuz they had to try to figure out where this was coming from. And the first one hadn’t proven it.
