Trust That This Setback Is a Setup for BREAKTHROUGH
God is preparing you for something bigger than yourself and greater than yourself and stronger than yourself. And it may be years before your questions are answered and you begin to understand why you had to go through what you had to go through to get to where you had to get.
And in the meantime, that’s where faith operates. [Music] It is a misnomer to think that if you walk with God and serve God and do his will and work that you won’t have any trouble. The reality is they that live godly shall suffer persecution. And you don’t get to pick when or how or what the suffering is, but it still happens. I’m building my church.
My church is exploding. This some 20 years ago. Everything is amazing. I’m reaching around the world for Jesus. Souls are being saved. And then the bottom dropped out. It started dropping when my mother-in-law died. And it kept dropping when my mother developed Alzheimer’s and she died. And there I was preaching and ministering and helping and even healing the gifts of healing operating in my life.
Couldn’t help my own mother. And she died. And just when I thought I couldn’t take anymore, my 13-year-old daughter walks in the room and tells my wife and I that she’s pregnant. My wife collapsing the floor and all the air goes out the room and suddenly I begin to understand that there are times that crush the human soul that try your emotions that are not judgment or penalty or God being angry or God hating you but God developing you that you don’t get everything just because you go to a class or hear a sermon. You have to live these sermons
out in your life. Both the hearer and the speaker. What gives you the integrity of the message is the things you suffer behind the scenes to have the conviction to be able to declare them. To know that God has been proven in you. I found myself asking questions that I’d never asked myself. Where is God? Why? Why aren’t you moving like you moved in the Bible? Move for me like you moved for Moses and Joshua and Jacob and Israel. Move for me.
And I had to seek him. And that’s a good thing. I had to search for him. I had to search my heart to understand what level of faith do you have? You You don’t need to search your heart when everything’s going right. You need to search your heart when all hell is breaking loose and trouble is everywhere and you feel deep down inside like you want to die and you’re asking questions that you dare not utter aloud lest the church judge you but in your secrecy in your private times alone with God you’re saying where are you when are you coming when is a
