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Surviving Stressful Situation

Surviving Stressful Situations

Ps. 27:7-14Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.9Hide

not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Each of us has had moments where we were tested beyond our comfort zone.

This is not an easy place to be.

Know however that there is a blessing tucked away in the encounter.

When working out, there is always that place we call our threshold.

At this point we can either press forward past the pain or turn back to our comfort zone.

It at this point where you need someone to push you!

Lady Cowan and I were in the gym and I saw two guys working out had a lot weight weight on the bar!

The guys were telling him to push and he got it up then the guy said give me one more!

He had just giving his all but he said one more!

The guy took it back down and as he was trying to get back up he was screaming the guys were say push push push and the when he could not push it any further he helped him take it to the top!

The spotter motivated him to go a little further past that threshold of pain towards accomplishing what he wanted to accomplish.

This is what God does for you and I.

When we think we have reached our threshold of pain, when we are stressed out, maxed out, and we want to return to our comfort zone, God will send us a word that shows us a picture of what we are going to look like and it gives us what we need to push past our place of pain.

This is a place of intensity and enormous pain.

David discovered you can survive stressful situations, You can be

blessed when your about to break down. .

God will come in a give you a revelation so you will know even if it hurts, there is a healing on the other side painful situations.

You can’t give up now!

The blessing is at this point of pain.

God blesses us at our breaking point.

What is most impressive in this Psalms is no matter what, David continues to talk to God.

David tries to get us to see that it is alright to desire that your prayers be answered.

I.            Keep Praying!

Many of us have been at that place where we need God to work it out for us right now.

We know God moves in his own time, but we need a breakthrough right now!

It is always ok to be honest with God.

Psalm 27:7 says 7Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

– Like David, it is alright to say this thing is hurting you.

It is not that we doubt him, but we believe this thing is more than we can bear.

Jonah was in the belly of whale and it was at his breaking point that God stepped in.

Hannah was at her breaking point when she began to pray.

They thought she was drunk, but it was at this moment that God stepped in on her behalf.

You will find out that some of your most powerful prayers will come when you fill stress out!

It is when your broken that your prayers are most sincere.

Even Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane at his lowest point, desired that his bitter cup be removed.

Many of you have been there, you didn’t know how it was going to work out, but you realized that in these moments your prayers were more powerful.

To overcome breakdown, depression, and stress

*Realize the power of being persistent.

– Psalms 27: 8 says 8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

– We have to be consistent when seeking God.

*Know that God is Immutability– Psalm 27:9-10 says 9Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

– Immutability deals with the unchanging God.

Even though things around us are changing, we know God is the one constant that we have in our life.

God is the same day after day.

He is not a man that he should lie.

If he said it 5yrs ago, he means it today.

God is immutable and always there.

*We need instruction – David needed instruction.

Psalm 27:11 says 11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

– David had a lot of enemies around him and he realized that he needed a word from the Lord.

He needs to know what God’s instruction is for his life.

A. We need a relevant word– We need a word that can make since of what is happening in our life.

What we are going through, we don’t need a cliché for.

We need a real word that can meet us right where are

B. We need a Revelation of his will-What is it that God needs us to do right now?

We don’t want to miss what God has for our life.

We don’t want to miss what he he is doing right now!

C. We want to react in wisdom– We want to move.

We want to make sure we are doing what God told us to do.

We don’t act a fool just because we have enemies.

We can’t come down on their level.

If we act like we want to act, we would end up in jail.

So we want God to give us what we need so we can react in wisdom.

D. We need divine intervention– Psalm 27.12 says 12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

– It has gotten so rough; we need God to step in right now!

Your money and your degree can’t get you out of this.

It is just like a miracle.

Divine intervention is God’s involvement in human affairs.

David is saying circumstances are all around him, but he knows God can divinely intervene.

God can work through circumstances.

God will work in it-He can work in the thing.

He will use the thing to bless you.

Ex- Somebody has a sickness and you are asking God to intervene.

God might give the doctor the wisdom to prescribe the medication to heal you or work the procedure.

Don’t curse the doctor or get mad at the person.

God can use them to bring your miracle.

He will use your doctor, your lawyer, or your teacher.

God can use the circumstance to bless you.

God will go over it (the circumstance).

– Over transcends the facts.

God will rise above it and blow people’s minds.

People will ask how it happened and all you will be able to do is say it is a miracle.

He will work without it.

– God will just move it all together.

He will move it out the way.

We don’t care how he God blesses us as long as he does.

While I'm praying I don't give up

While I'm Praying I don't give in

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