April 3, 2022 - How to trust when the answer is “no”or “not yet”

I just want to show you this clip from Bill Johnson. Messenger.

We have sound for that. You can read the words. It doesn't say what the scripture says that without faith. It is impossible to please him. It doesn't say without worship. It doesn't say without prayer. It doesn't say about fasting. It doesn't describe any of the other essential parts of our walk with the Lord, doesn't say without Bible reading it says without faith. Why? Because the element of trust is the focus of the Lord. Why? Because he is the most trustworthy individual in the universe. And it is a violation of creation to not trust. The one was worthy of trust. Did you catch that? It's a violation of creation, not to trust the one who's worthy of trust.

Ouch.

We need to trust the trust about 1. Even when he doesn't agree with us.

We need to be able to trust him that he sees beyond this moment in time and space. And, and sometimes, I admit the best thought I have is that he thinks generationally. And I think about 5 minutes ago. He's the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And he's working things down for future Generations. That I might not understand now. And if that's all that I went I'm going. Okay, fine.

I'll get to that fine.

It's easy to trust when you feel peace and joy, and hope it's easy to trust. When you feel it's not easy to dress when you feel like God has let you down or let you the wrong way or set you up and shut you down.

It's always in your health, your relationships or in how you receive your living. Those three things make up your identity. And those three things are the things that the enemy will test you in, and God allows them to test you in.

How do you trust when the answers? Don't come, how do you trust when you're offended it? Got how do you trust when know who the answer is? No or not yet? And I've already hinted at it it it's it's going to take a lifetime to understand this. So that's the word I'm using to explain it all. Okay. Lifetime.

I'm going to encourage you today to learn element. To ignore offense. 2 Face Reality to engage Community, to take up your cross, to identify strongholds to magnify Jesus into embed testimony. There's a lot to get through each one of these can be a sermon in itself, but trust me, there's notes on the back for the stuff. I can't cover today.

Let's let's start with learning Le Mans. I talked about this before but this song 628 is fantastic. Listen to this verse, Oh My People trust him at all times. For all your heart to him. For God is our refuge.

Or out your heart to him. That's what element is 4. Element is when we pour out our emotions and our feelings. And it's it's okay to feel like you've been offended. A God, that God is offended you in some way. We understand theologically, he's good and he's done it, right, but that's not what our feelings. Tell us. And if you try to push aside those feelings, if you try to shove them down, what will you become is a plastic Christian? And you don't believe the words that come out of your mouth and we can all tell. You're not believing the words coming out of your mouth.

To learn limited pour out your heart to him, pour out your emotion to him. You will, it's okay. It was both feelings. Tell you what you really believe if you don't acknowledge, but, yeah, I got, I am, I am really upset at this. You can never let him heal. What's really going on in your heart.

Because the issue is Trust.

If I trusted God is all the time and everywhere. I would have peace and joy and Hope. And I would just like all the time and in every situation and and I would not ever not be deliriously. Happy.

Did you catch that one line in the song We sang, if I ever need reminding, there's an empty to, there's an empty the grave without a body.

Wow.

Learn laments. Learn to pour out your heart. The easiest way to do it is you can read through the songs until you get us on that feels the way that you feel and then you camp out there and you just read it and you read it and read it. Till something will happen. Something will happen for me. It's like about to become aware that 3000 years ago. The author of that bomb felt the same way I did and that blows me away. 3000 years ago, God knew how he felt.

And so he knows how I feel too. And 3000 years ago. It was okay with him pouring out his heart to him, so I can pour out my heart to him too. And it's not going to faze. God, God's okay with that.

Learn limits and use. Lament the question that you can ask yourself is doing. Well question. I'm asking you is, do you use lament and do your limits turn to Thanksgiving and praise? Yeah. I forgot to mention two-thirds of the Psalms Psalms of lament almost every single one except you that I found will turn it back to praise ones. As I will praise you in the future like not today, but maybe later but and then two others, just leave it blank, but every other one goes back and says yet I will praise you. I will I will lead the procession. I William yet. You are good.

Lamont pours, out your emotion to God and you turn it back to praise you even stay in that feeling. And then until you're ready to go to France.

Most of the Psalms are personal Psalms. There are a few that are communal communal laments. Most of them are done in private. Just so you know. Or at your heart to God and use the Lament.

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Thing is, we need to learn to ignore offense and this comes from Matthew. 11 2 to 6, and I'm reading from the Holman Christian Standard Bible. It's just with John heard in prison. John was in prison. When John heard in prison with the Messiah was doing he sent a message by his disciples and ask him. Are you the one who is to come or should we expect someone else in? Jesus replied. Go and report to John? What you hear and see the blind? See the lame walk. Those with skin diseases are healed. The deaf hear, the dead are raised in the poor. I told good news, and if anyone is not offended because of me, he is blessed. What's going on here?

John Jesus's cousin with baptizing and he saw, Jesus, and Jesus came to be baptized by John and then John heard the voice from heaven and saw the Spirit descending and the voice said, this is my son in whom I am. Well, pleased. John knew he was preparing the way for the Messiah and he had every reason to believe that Jesus was the one who was to come.

You would have no one or he probably would have heard that. When Jesus announced his ministry. He went into the into the synagogue and you opened up Isaiah. And if the spirit of the Lord is upon me to release the prisoner was the first thing he's at,

And John was in prison.

There's a disconnect that happens sometimes. When we say God, this is your promise in the word and this is my reality.

And what is Jesus say?

Blessed. Is he, who is an offended because of me?

Life is not going to work out perfectly. Proverbs are not promises, they are. The best-case scenario.

if the holy you need Holy Spirit to speak the word to you to make it come alive so you can rely on that word, but

Sometimes it just won't light up.

At least, now in the current place in the current time.

I believe in healing. Guess what? I'm still taking drugs and I see the doctor all the time, and I were checking out other things. I know God wants to heal.

I'm not completely. Well, I know Heavens going to be a whole lot better than this Earth.

But for me, like I am I still seeking him.

I'll get to that in a minute. I don't want to jump ahead.

Where are we at? What are we talkin about? Ignore defense? Oh, yeah. You need to give up your right to understand. So you can have the peace that passes understanding.

Your everything is not always going to make sense.

That's what he said, cast your cares on him because he cares for you. He cares about it, not making sense. He doesn't care to explain it all the time.

What do you want? Do you want the answer? Do you want the peace?

Not saying they're mutually exclusive, but I am saying, if you didn't have me cancers, you're not going to happens.

The easiest way that I found to give up out right to understand is is to choose gratitude grateful.

Be grateful in all things. That's not always as easy as it to do, as it is to say.

And you don't want it to be a plot like it just don't want the words to come out of your mouth. You want to feel grateful?

So it was so we're told to give thanks with her whole heart that our whole heart is that decision, you make that decision to be thankful. And you do that action, that says it's thankful. So sometimes gratitude the action is praise.

I will choose to praise God. Before the answer comes, I will choose to praise him in the storm. I will choose to praise him before the battle. I will choose the praise and the action is praise. Your motion is peace.

When I can be in his presence for any extended period of time, I'm going to exchange my problems first piece.

When I ate it might be we gather together. It might be that we're youth on powerful times are in 10,000 people in a place singing God's Praises in your whole body, just shakes, if it's awesome.

But it's been awesome here, even this morning.

In the most intimate time for me. I've always been in my alone time. So we got

learn to ignore events.

When I say ignore offense, I don't tell you to not face reality cuz that's the next Part. F is face reality. You got to You need to face reality. And that again, this is from the Holman Christian Standard Bible, Hebrews 12, 7 endure suffering as discipline. God is dealing you with you as Sons for what son is there that the father does not discipline.

Whatever situation you're in where you feel? The that doesn't line up with God.

God set me up again, whatever feeling that is. Whatever that situation is, you still have to do what you need to do in that situation. Simple example is healing, right? I pray to God. It hasn't come. I'm going to go to the doctor. The only thing in scripture where it says that it is the warning in scripture about doctors. I was looking up all the verses. I'm sorry Leo. There's lots of horses that really aren't Auntie doctor, but don't we won't go there, but but but but the reason why they are, is, is that there is a one of the king's you didn't seek after the Lord. He only sought after doctors. And that's the dichotomy is if you're not seeking the Lord, but just relying on the doctors or just relying on the medicine or just relying on the surgery or just relying. Yeah, that's not right. But when you seek God and go to the doctor seek God and pick the medicine seek. And get the surgery, that's real face.

Because it's faith that God is going to see me through here. Even if I don't get healed miraculously. I know God going to be with me through the whole thing. Even if I don't see the goodness of the lord, of the land of the living yet. I know, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Cuz God is God.

We can't see what your glasses on.

It's not like a thief to get the surgery. It's not like a thief to get the medication. It's not like a fee to go to the specialist. It it's lack of faith. Just rely on those things. And not seek God, and not ask for prayers and not. Ask God to heal, you.

I don't know why this person here, but it's a good one. So I'll read it. Will it be in 4627? Don't worry about anything instead. Pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all he's done and you'll experience God's peace, which exceed anything we can understand his peace. Guide your hearts and Minds as you live in Christ, Jesus.

How do you face reality on your face reality? Knowing that God will work all things together for good?

Are you facing reality with that attitude?

Whatever, whatever you need to go through, you got to go through it. You have to do it. It's not that we

we're not just relying on the wisdom of people.

But we don't not rely on the wisdom of people.

so, We need to learn lament. Ignore offense, face reality.

Annie, engage community.

Where we at with that Galatians? That's not collections. That's Galatians. Galician 6 to engage reality, share with each other's burdens and in this way will be the law of Christ.

interesting comparison on Facebook and I thought, yeah, that I'm not quoting him the quotes from Tony Evans and I couldn't get

Here's the sentiment. Here's his sentiment. It's like

Don't have to live together if you're married. But it helps the relationship.

You don't have to be a come to church if you're a Christian. But it helps the relationships.

And I think that that's an important thing that we need to.

We've all been there, right? But it we we we we don't want to Bear. We we don't want to burden everyone with our burdens. We've had people just dump on us with everything that's going on in the end. And sometimes we haven't taken it. Well. And other times, it's like the third time today. And what am I getting really more depressed than you are encouraged and that's not good.

but the fact of the matter is, the only reason we journey together is because we journey together.

And it's not every single one of us need someone that we can talk to and help carry the burdens.

Every single one of us need to to be able to allow someone to help carry our burdens.

We we need to be able to be in a safe place where we can voice our concerns and and not. Not feel like we're destroying their faith in the process. Right.

so, you need people who are people of wisdom and people who can can can

can be trusted.

We all need to be people of wisdom and people who are Trussville. So, because somebody will need that listening year. Someone will need that encouragement. We can give

I do think there's something for church structure where the elders are overseers of the church. And those are good people. You know, they've been here a long time. They've been with Christ a long time and then those are good people.

But it's never been God's intention.

Not for us, all to grow up and be more and more in the image of God. And yeah, we should be those people that are people of wisdom and people are weird rest of them.

Listen, it is totally okay. If you're having a bad day and someone has to comes and says, listen it. It's totally a Tuesday. Can I share with you what? I'm going through?

I think it's okay to say, can I meet with you this week? Because right now, it just a little bit too much.

And I want to be there for you, when we actually talk is, I think that's okay. I think it's totally okay, for us.

One of the things I've learned is a pastor is when I as a pastor coming to a crisis situation.

I'm generally not as good as I would be afterwards. Yeah, I get in the way of doctors and nurses and EMTs and whoever else knows what they're doing and has to do it and I'm just in the way. So I've just learned to stand back and just be there with the family afterwards be there with that person lab afterwards. And and I've learned because I've messed it up way too many times. I get in the way of people who know what they're doing. but, So, I think all of us and I gave you all of us in the church that none of us needs to be that professional. This is what we're do, you know, we can take care of this kind of person, but we all need to be we're going to come alongside and walk with you.

I'll be there with you. It going to take you to that appointment. Hey, do you want to go for coffee after you have that appointment? Those are things that we should be doing, can do, and, and have them designed to do.

Have you risk your burdens with others?

I don't know. Why is it thankful. I just wanted to really hit home being thankful and gratitude and in testimony are two things that are absolutely essential to us, but but I don't know if it works here. But do you? Have you risked the burden your burdens with others?

Salerno lament. Ignore offense, face reality, engage community. Richie is take up your cross.

Matthew. Where is Matthew is Matthew 16:24 225. Then Jesus said to his disciples, if any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way. Take up your cross and follow me. If you try to hang on to your own life, you'll lose it. But if you take up. Give your life for my sake. You will save it.

when we have that time where God tells us no, or not yet and it drops us to our knees or causes us to whatever. There will come a time in that process where we recognize that he is King and that's a good thing.

what I want to warn us all about is,

Husbands, no, that's okay. If you're not married, guys. Learn this soon. When your wife says fine, it's not okay.

It can be okay. But there's about 16 or 17 different things. It could mean like fine. Good mean, she's going to kill you later. Find might mean that you will just hold it against you for the rest of your natural life. Find might mean that you're doing the dishes this week. Finite mean that you're doing something else that you need it. Like fine does not mean, okay.

I think a lot of us might just be speaking to myself. We think of picking up our crosses like saying, find the god.

And it's that same attitude that says, okay. Fine.

Meaning.

Anyway, I don't see Kim anymore.

When I say fine, sometimes to God, it's it's okay. God. You are God. I can't do a thing about it, fine.

And then, what I noticed is, I'm not spending time with him. I'm not reading his word. I'm not spending time in his present. I'm not meditating on his work. I'm not soaking in his presence. I am not, I'm not doing those things and why? Because I, I, I, I haven't picked up my cross. I've simply said, fine.

I haven't yielded anyting. I just don't have any argument Lacks.

Have you let God be God and still seek him to find him. That's the key.

If you, if you can take up your cross, if you say God, I'm taking up my cross. And and then I'm going to, I will still seek you. I will yet. I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. I will. I will keep on Looking for what you want me to do. I might have got it wrong this time, but next time. I'm not going to miss that sign. I'm not going to miss what you told me to do.

Picking up your Cross isn't suck it up buttercup.

It's acknowledging him as Lord of your life. And knowing that that's such a good thing. Who's your good? Father is working all things together for good for you?

He is, God of the generations. He was a god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

He thinks generationally.

And I'm not designed to do that. I really cannot see past. The end of this month. Let's be honest. I don't know how this is going to know how, I don't whatever, whatever I have to be able to trust him in that.

Learn lament, ignore offense, face reality. Engage Community. Take up your cross. S. I is identify strongholds. 2nd Corinthians. 10 325 says we are human but we don't wage war as humans. Do we use God's Mighty weapons to knock down worldly weapons. Not worldly weapon to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy Falls. Arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing god. We capture the rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ. what if the new or not yet from God is

the tool he showed he uses to show us strongholds in our life.

What's a stronghold? Stronghold.

When God says, no or not. Yet it's chose. It's really clearly where we put our trust. And the stronghold is whatever, we put our trust in.

Stronghold can be good. The name of the Lord is a strong tower, people run into it and they're safe. God is a good place to have a few our stronghold anything. That's not God. And there's our stronghold needs to be torn down.

Because enemy strongholds are safe places for the enemy to hide. Stronghold aren't farts their ways of thinking.

And what we got answers, nor not yet. What becomes obvious the way you were thinking?

Because if it's with our health and we say God, you got to heal us and get, we don't get healed. What will the where do we have peace? Then? We don't have peace. We know we're trusting something else. We're trusting in divine intervention, right now. We think

But really maybe we're trusting in the god better. Do what I want him to do when I wanted to do them. And then there's you really God.

Maybe we're trusting in if I get this job that's going to work out and it I can do it and we're trusting in that.

Maybe God's got something better over here. Maybe God. God got a different direction set up over in that way.

Whenever we lose our peace, whenever we lose our joy, whenever we lose our hope.

Take a look to what stronghold you're believing in. What way of thinking is allowing the enemy to be safe in your thoughts. The enemy's thoughts to be safe in your thoughts.

What did he say in the garden? Did God really say?

How was the Temptation did God really saying?

God, I thought you wanted me to do this. Did you really say that?

Well, if it doesn't work out, the way I planned. What do I do? Not like it. Honestly, what do I do next?

Cancer stressed. That's the answer.

If you want to learn how to tear down strongholds, it's on the back of the notes. And if you need help, I will be available. Not today. I got something after service, but after we look at, I'm

Is God pointed out strongholds for you to tear down?

You can do it. That's what Paul did. Paul said we turn down human arguments that sets them self up against the knowledge of price. If Paul did it. You got the word. You got a Holy Spirit. You got people around you, you can tear down the strongholds. You can't.

Identify strongholds emem in there is magnified. Jesus 1st, Peter 3:15.

That's not the one 3:15 instead. You must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asked you about the hoop, as a Believer, always be ready to explain it to do this, in a gentle and respectful way. I actually like the old and I E version the way they say it. They say in your heart, set apart Christ as Lord. In your heart, set apart Christ as Lord.

The wonderful thing about gathering together for worship. Well.

When are the answers nor not yet? It's easy for us to get impressed with the size of our problem. Problems, just seem to get bigger. Because this didn't work out the way that I thought it was. Now, what am I going to do? And what if this doesn't work out? And what if this goes this way? And what about this? Whether it's your relationship, whether it's your health with hurts your the way you receive your living.

You can magnify your problems. You know, you can you can magnify your problems.

You and I need to instead magnify Jesus. How do we do that? We don't really magnify like magnify, make some bigger. But all we do is we make it bigger than our problems. We look at him, more than we look at our problems. We take our cares and we can get the money and because he cares for us and we give them our problems and we say, God this is your problem, not mine cuz you told me that you don't worry about what I eat or what I wear. You said that. It's your problem. Not mine. You told me, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. It's your problem. Not mine. How are you going to take care of it? It's, it's getting it over to him. It really it. It's

It's Faith, over fear, its trust over turmoil. It's being still and knowing that he is God. It's in returning and resting that were saved and it's in quietness and confidence that we have strength. That's a quote from Isaiah. And the next line in that food is what you would have, none of it.

It's yours. It's available to you. It comes as we magnify Jesus.

So when we come together and we sing the songs in one of the songs are all of the songs. Just pours out. Gives you words to saying, whatever is on your heart, make use of those things. Magnify Jesus. In your alone time, spend time in the worship, whether that's with music or whether that's with with songs and praise that, you sing yourself thinking, add new song. Magnify Jesus. If all you can do is read something in the book. I like to read. Jesus everyday, so, get read Jesus, cuz he's just awesome. Just pick up. Go through the gospels and read. What he says, read what he does read. What? He promised read? Jesus like just magnify Jesus.

Magnify Jesus.

I find it easier to magnify Jesus when I choose to be thankful. Give, thanks.

When was the last time you encounter God and received his peace?

You can say this morning. Awesome. Could be the message you maybe did it before?

The answer needs to be tomorrow or this afternoon, make sure it's tomorrow or this afternoon.

How do you connect with God? Like it go for a walk and just look at the spring, just about ready to be sprung? and it's, it's it's easier to connect with God and nature, when it's not 40 below, and let me tell you.

Good.

So learn lament, ignore offense, face reality, engage Community to take up your cross. Identify stronghold, magnify Jesus and the finally is in bed testimony. Revelation 12:1 tells as they conquered him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony. They didn't love their lives in the face of death.

Oh, that is an empty. I don't know where. Probably different version of right there, but I like that. You overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony.

When you experience an answer. No or not yet?

It's easy for us to magnify the problems. We need to choose to magnify God.

It's easy to pour out a complaint to God and forget. To turn it around to praise.

And what can happen is?

You start to remember every time God has let you down.

And you can start the focus on all the times. You feel like he's failed, you.

And it's a spiral of death that can happen. When we focus on the testimony that says God is Not Enough for God is insufficient. Or God has set me up for. God is really good and it just gets going.

What we need is Holy Spirit to remind us of the whole truth of our experiences with God.

We need the testimony that yeah, I have been through the fire, but I have not been burned. I have been through the waters, but I have not brown. I have been through the Deep Waters and they have not overtaken me.

Because if we focus just on the big Waters or just on the fire or just on the on the, the floods. And forget that. Yeah, we made it through. And yeah, I think change the guess what? God eventually gave God did work that out sometime and some way.

What are the things are? Or I forgot?

Don't, you don't say that?

When we remember testimony. We don't need to. Embellish it in anyway. Meaning. We've all heard those testimonies of people.

That we're just so evil. And then God turned around, right? Like those are the only testimonies we had in church. When I was growing up. It was either being healed or being so bad and I was, I was never that bad. I never got arrested and, and a

You don't have to embellish that, you don't have to embellish how bad you were, you don't have to if you need to remember the whole truth. You don't need to. If you don't embellish and you don't, I don't think I wrote this down.

God has been with you. God has seen you through. How do I know? Cuz you're still breathing, you're still here. So I know he saved you in countless ways, and then countless times. And then we either you don't even know, or didn't even see. But in other ways that you have known, and you have seen and you've been through some tough times and you've been through some heartaches, and you've been through some things that you just don't have answers for, but you, you let those Thorn settle into the Flash and you are fine with, you're okay with it.

Remember God. Remember testimony. Don't you, you don't Testify the negative, your Testify the truth. You testify all of it. You don't blow up how bad it really was. Or like, you don't embellish how bad it really. Was, you say that see the truth. This wasn't my thought in that, I There's been two times in my life that God has really asked. I know, I felt in my spirit got asked me to give all my money away.

Both times were before I was married and have kids. But do you need the one time I was I was a student. I had a job. I always like, I didn't have a lot in the bank, but I also had no credit cards or no nothing to rely on. Right? So, I was at some events and I went the next night. Like I got spoke to me, the one night. I went back the next night with all took all the cash out of my bank account. Even, I can't even remember who it was or what they were doing. But God bless them. That night someone went around the neighbor, our neighborhood and took a took something and broke the back of every car window. And my car was parked on the street and I was like I got no money. I got no credit. It's fall. It's not snow on the ground, but it's it was it's chilly.

Like what am I going to do? You know before I really had a thought to think about that. My brother-in-law and sister said that they would pay for it and you know that when we went to an auto wrecker and my brother-in-law worked a deal and it was any box I think to get a new window and get it replaced. I didn't have any box. I would have had it for a week when my next check came in but

I never want to remember that like 80 bucks today. I got lines of credit that will cover that forever. Like it's not that's not the big deal. The betting. The big deal in that memory is that people loved me and took care of me? And I didn't ask them for it and I like they were students to like it's not like they had a lot of money, but but they worked it out for me. And I remember that and I thank God for them because of that. Because probably my solution would have been cardboard, but I couldn't even afford cardboard in that time. So it would have been up there. But

So when we think about things God has done in the past. We don't need to embellish it like we don't need to say.

I don't know how you embellish that, you know, it was $400, and I was going to be 3 months before I got being again or something. It was literally, it was going to be It's probably Sunday morning or Saturday morning cuz it was a Friday night thing. So it would have been the next Friday. I would had money. but, You have things in your life to that. God has blessed you with and saw you through and it don't forget those things. If you can write them down or write them down. If if you You can go into your phone, make a memo of that and just okay. God bless me today. I want to make a memo of that. Make make you do a voice memo and and talk into your phone and remind. So you can remind yourself of the blessings of God. You can remind yourself of the little things that he has done because some of those little things are very big things and don't ever forget those things.

It starts to build confidence in God. It start when you can remember what God has done for you, when you can remember how he seen you through. If nothing else, I want you to take time this week, go in God's presence and just say, God show me why I can trust you. And give yourself 5 or 10 minutes, whatever makes you uncomfortable and asked. If you have to wait in his presence long enough to be uncomfortable. That's the only thing I'm going to say. Because if you're uncomfortable, then you can get comfortable.

And then just let him show you. He'll bring those memories back to you. How have you seen me through? You might show you something that you need to get healed up where I bought, you failed me in this. But actually, I see now that you didn't, you were with me. I see that. You were with me through that hard time. I see that you use this for something good.

Listen, you have not because you ask not to go to God. Go to the throne of grace and ask him to reveal to you, the truth of how you can trust him. This is all coming to me right now. So this might be a good tool, write this down, and do it because He's done this for me when I haven't asked for it. So I know it's a powerful thing when he doesn't, but I believe you can ask for these things and he'll do it for you.

Embed testimony. Remember the good things of God. If you do that and you still don't find anything and God has never helped you in the past. You're lying to yourself, but you can go and and what about other people, there are other stories out there. You can go to YouTube and just please testimony of Jesus and there are hundreds of stories of people getting healed for the same thing that you're you're sick with now or that you don't talk to people. There are books and books written about the good things of God, get one of those bugs and and get those stories if you got none of your own, but I know you here and I can guess what you're watching online.

You got those stories yourself. And if you can remember them, holy spirit will help you remember them? Ghetto Stories in the in the front of your mind, realizing you can trust him cuz of what he's done for you.

What has God done for you or others in the past?

As I was saying, I didn't tell you anything. You didn't already know.

We've all learned this before and I'm saying I had to learn this again this week. So you might need to learn it again sometime, too.

It takes a lifetime to learn. How to trust God?

Along the way to learn lament ignore offense face reality engaged Community. Take up your cross. Identify strongholds, magnify Jesus and embed testimony.

And get to the place where it where you exchange your problems with his peace.

Where are you?

Would you remember the good things that he's done in the past and you can trust him for the good things going on here? Celebrate those small things. If that's all you got celebrate, those small things. Thank him for those small things because it's in thinking, for those small things, that bigger things start to come.

Oh my goodness. I was just thinking I just I just flashed relationship. That's that sweet. We get sold the big things in a relationship and it's like nothing. Those people will never change. But guess what? I guess they have to have green just a little bit, just a little bit and those little bits.

You can trust if God is going to finish the good work. He started in you, he will finish the good work. He started in them. Stand with me. That's closing prayer.

Oh Lord. I Thank you that you we can trust you.

Lord, I Thank you that it just doesn't meet need to be something that we say, but it's something people see in US.

The DC, the peace, and the joy, and the hope that we have, because we trust you.

And Lord. I pray that even sweet people will people who know us and know more of the story of what we're going through. Will see us and say how do you have that piece or how do you have that Joy your body about who? And then we'll be ready and willing to share the reason for that. Hope that you give us.

Lord. God. I thank you that. It's your light people see in US. I pray for everyone going through a difficult time with finances with health. Orrin in relationships right now. God and Lord, I speak peace to each and everyone. And I pray, I pray. Ask Lori that we would use. The tools you have given us. I trust you more and more.

God be the center of our discussion in our thoughts.

Let Faith rise up in US.

When darkness might overtake us.

And Lord, I Thank you that you are and will finish the good work. You started in each of us.

Speak, peace to every heart, every small everybody. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen. Thank you.