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!!! *Dealing With Difficulties*
!!! *TEXT**/:/*/ *2 Timothy 3:1* This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
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*/2 Timothy 3:1/*/ You can be certain that in the last days there will be some very hard times.
(Contemporary English Version) /
*/2 Timothy 3:1/*/ You should also know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times.
(The New Living Translation) /
*/2 Timothy 3:1/*/ But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
(NIV)/
In these different translations we have seen and heard words like perilous times, hard times, difficult times, and terrible times.
The point that I want you to get is that regardless of how we say it difficult times are a part of life and are to be expected.
We should expect times to become more difficult the closer we get to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul is warning Timothy of the collapse of a society into an ungodly state of living just prior to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I believe that it is safe to say that you and I are living in those difficult times and that we feel the effects of it.
There are times in our daily lives where we feel hard-pressed because of the difficulties that we face.
There are times when we face such difficulties that we feel that we want survive them.
But somehow by the wonderful grace and mercy of God we make it.
Difficulties have a way of revealing the true character of who we are.
God allows difficulties to come into our lives to test and prove us.
James chapter 1 and verse 2 tells us that God allows these difficulties times, these troublesome times or these hard times to come in order to test us and to develop us.
In fact James says that when these difficult times comes we are to count it pure joy knowing that they will produce patience and endurance with in us.
That is if we allow God to work in our lives to accomplish His will and purpose in us.
It's not a question if you will be tested but when you will be tested.
James did not say if difficulties and troubles come; but when they come.
Difficulties are coming into our lives if we are ready or not.
During your life on this earth you will have a series of tests.
No test is easy but it does help when you are prepared for it.
Studying God's word, praying, seeking the face of God and faithful attendance to the house of God is preparation for the difficult test that God allows to come into your lives.
The dictionary defines difficulty as, “something obstructing one's course and demanding effort and endurance if one's end is to be attained.
God wants you to overcome the difficulties of life.
God allows the difficulties that we face to be a test of who we are and to test the quality of our character.
I want us to look at four difficulties that we all will have to face at some point in our lives.
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I. A MAJOR MOVE THAT AFFECTS CRITICAL CHANGE.
(This Is A Test of Our Willingness)
!! A. With every move there is a change.
You cannot move from one place to the other without something changing.
*/Hebrews 11:8/*/ "By faith Abraham when he was called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going."/
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This was a major move for Abraham.
But with this move came great change.
God asked Abraham to pick up every thing he had and move to another place.
God was telling Abraham to leave his comfort zone behind him.
God was saying to Abraham, "Abraham, I am taking you to a new level of faith.
I am taking you to a new level of anointing.
I am taking you to a place that you have never been before.
A place of my Presence, Power and Provision."
!!! 2. Abraham could have asked, “God where are you taking me?
God, where am I going?
How long is it going to take to get there?"
But that's not what Abraham did.
He just simply took a step of faith in the direction that God told him to.
!!! 3.
This was a major change for Abraham.
This was a difficult change for Abraham.
In the first place he was 75 years old.
He was ready for retirement.
Abraham was ready for social security, God says, Abraham leave your comfort zone and come and go with me.
!!! 4. While Abraham was ready to call it quits, God was saying it's time for a major move and some critical changes.
!!! 5.
Here is the first test of a real believer.
A real believer will follow God's leading without questioning where God is taking him.
!!! 6. Every step that we take either moves us closer to God and His provision for our lives or it moves us away from God and His Provision for us.
Are we willing to follow God to the place of His glory and provision for us?
!! B. Most Christians live in a comfort zone.
!!! 1.
The comfort zone is a frame or state of mind more than it is a physical location.
Most Christian have reached a place in their lives where they are satisfied with just being saved and on their way to heaven
!!! 2. God wants us to leave our comfort zone and make a major impact in the lives of other people.
!!! 3. God wants us to move in the direction that He has prepared for us and bring about a positive change in the lives of others as we go.
!!! 4. God says, Start moving and I will direct you.
If your faith hasn't led you to take any risks it's not faith.
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II.
DELAYED PROMISES THAT PRODUCE DREAMERS.
(This is a test of Our vision)
!! A. We often face the difficulty of a delayed promise.
*/Hebrews 11:9/*/ By faith he made his home in the Promised Land like a stranger in a foreign country.
He lived in tents as did Isaac and Jacob who were heirs of him of the same promise./
*/Hebrews 11:39/*/ And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:/
!!! 1. Promise is a very important word in the vocabulary of faith.
!!! 2. God said, "I'm going to give you the Promised Land."
And Abraham may have wanted to, when?
God wants us to base our lives on promises not explanations.
God promised him the Promised Land but after he got there, there was a delay.
In fact Abraham not only waited his life, he waited Isaac's life and Jacob's life -- three generations and they still were living in tents.
They couldn't even settle down.
How would you like to live in a tent for three generations?
Can you imagine Sarah saying, "Abraham, when are we going to get a real house?"
!!! 3. I can handle a test in life if I know there's going to be an end to it, I can see out there at the end.
But the hardest kinds of tests to handle are the tests in life when you don't know if they're ever going to end.
That's difficult.
The delayed promise that you have been waiting on that brings difficulty into your life.
You wondering God, "when are you going to come through on that promise?" Folks never quit or give up.
!!! 4. Abraham never gave up.
He never went back to Ur. Abraham waited on the fulfillment of the vision that God had promised him of a son and the promise land.
He never lost sight of what God had shown him and revealed to him.
!!! 5. Some of you are going through this test right now.
You have a vision of things getting better.
The question is, "When are things going to get better?"
God I've had this vision locked up inside of me for so long.
When will I see it come to pass?
There are times when God makes a promise to you that may not come to pass in your lifetime.
That doesn't mean that God failed to fulfill a promise.
It may simply be that God will bring it to pass in the lifetime of your children or grandchildren.
*/Hebrews 11:39/*/ said, "These all died in faith not having received the promise."/
!!! 6. God's word said that the world was not even worthy of such people because of the strong faith that they possessed.
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