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what does Fear go after it goes after
our power and our Authority it goes
after our love
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today we’re going to talk about strong
in Trials okay so last year John and I
took my grandson Asher to Disney World
now I have to tell you a little
something about Asher Asher is a 39 year
old man trapped in a 10 year old’s body
the entire way there I sat with him on
the plane he had the Disney World
brochure he had it all mapped out and we
went through ride by ride in the three
different parks and he ranked them and
he asked me is this one going to be dark
will this one turn me upside down I
don’t want to go upside down will this
one spin will people be screaming will
you be screaming well I scream we went
through every single ride when we landed
John pulled me aside at the baggage
claim and he said Lisa Asher could have
a meltdown on the very first ride we
better start out in the Magic Kingdom we
better start out slow but John is
Italian and I am Sicilian so we have
different parenting Styles I said no no
we’re not going to start out slow we’re
going to find out what is the scariest
ride and we’re going to start with one
of those found out everybody said it was
a consensus dinosaur ride scariest ride
so we went on that right and when we
went on the dinosaur ride I’m not gonna
lie I closed my eyes three times and I
knew it was fake Asher was next to me
holding on to me we got off and he
looked at me and he said Gee mama
that was terrifying and that was fun
welcome to 2020 Christianity it is going
to be terrifying and it is going to be
fun but you know what you are not here
for It’s a small world you are here for
the Avatar right you are here as
somebody just passing through and God is
taking us into season from strength to
strength and so you’re thinking I don’t
think this is fun well if you can see
what’s on the other side of it maybe
you’ll be excited about what I have to
say love this quotes by Bob Riley he
said hard times don’t create Heroes
that’s not what creates Heroes he says
it’s during the hard times when the hero
within us is revealed and we know that
the hero within us is Jesus so let’s
talk about how that hero within gets
revealed second Timothy is talking about
there’s a gift in your life say There’s
a Hero
and there’s a gift and trials will bring
out the gift and trials will also bring
out the hero I’m just going to go really
quick to Second Timothy chapter 1 verses
six through seven this is what he says
he’s talked about the legacies talking
about Timothy’s Legacy of Lois and
Eunice that this was a faith that was
first woven in his mother and his
grandmother but now was on him and he
says for this reason for this reason why
what reason for a legacy reason I remind
you to Fan into Flame the gift of God
see some of you are thinking I’m not
sure I have a gift no there is a gift of
God on your life which is in you through
the laying on of my hands for God gave
us a spirit not a fear of one another
version says it a little bit clearer God
has not given us a spirit of fear but of
power love and a sound mind or
self-control so let’s talk about what
does Fear go after it goes after our
power and our Authority it goes after
our love see the truth is Love Lives to
benefit other people fear says what
about me what about mine and soundness
of mind soundness of mind means I’m
always going to be tormented I’m going
to be thinking but if this happens let’s
have a worry everything is going to
deconstruct in my life according to how
I can control or how I can provide but
God is not the one who gave you a spirit
of fear he gave you power and authority
he gave you the ability to love people
who are difficult to love and he gave
you self-control and soundness of mind
now knowing you’ve been equipped with
these things what would that trial of
preparation to reveal that inner hero
look like Isaiah 43 I remember this is
one of the very first scriptures God
gave me when he called me into the
ministry didn’t like it at the time but
this is what he says verse one but now
thus says the Lord he who created you o
Jacob he who formed you o Israel fear
not for I have redeemed you I have
called you by name that’s all great
you’re mine love that when you pass
through the waters okay not so much I
will be with you and through the rivers
they shall not overwhelm you when you
walk through the fire you shall not be
burned and the Flames shall not consume
you notice it doesn’t say if you pass
through the water it says win it doesn’t
say if you pass through the fire it says
when God takes his people through things
he doesn’t have you camped there one of
my favorite quotes by Winston Churchill
says if you’re going through hell you
just keep going when we don’t have hope
on the other side we sit down in the
fire we sit down in the water and we cry
I cannot have you do that God is taking
you through something and the way you
went in is not the way you’re going to
come out you’re going to come out
stronger and you’re going to come about
realizing that God was faithful he says
fear not I have redeemed you he redeemed
us in Christ he redeemed us he calls us
by name he calls us his own and then
let’s look at the trial Factor so fire
water and then James talks about the
testing of our faith and I think we’re
all in this season together right now
where our faith is being tested it says
in James chapter 1 verse 2 count it all
joy my brothers I’m just going to make
this personal hey girlfriends count it
all joy when you meet Trials of various
kinds for you know that the testing of
your faith produces steadfastness and
let steadfastness have its full effect
not a half effect full effect
that you may be perfect and complete
lacking nothing do you hear that God is
saying if you will go all the way
through let have its full effect you’re
going to come out perfect
complete lacking nothing let’s read it
from the message paraphrase I
particularly find this one disturbing it
says consider it a sheer gift friends
when tests and challenges come at you
from all sides now this used to kind of
be a funny one but this isn’t funny
because these tests and challenges are
coming at you and me from all sides
there’s Financial challenges there’s
health challenges isolation challenges
and God is saying hey
get excited this is a gift consider it a
sheer gift pure joy I’m sorry I I don’t
I don’t like that I don’t I don’t think
these are gifts and and joys
but apparently God looks at things every
every way in every way differently than
I do because our God considers ambushes
without any means of Escape all sides
various trials to be an opportunity to
show himself strong God is using these
times to develop a strength in you he’s
developing things that you did not even
know were inside of you he goes on to
say you know that Under Pressure your
faith life is forced into the open
Under Pressure things that were unseen
become seen Under Pressure the hero
within comes in Under Pressure your
faith life what you trusted in comes to
the surface I live here in Colorado and
we do not have spring I don’t know it’s
supposed to be first day of spring right
now and I I don’t even
we’ve got we’ve got snow we’ve got ice
there was a trick there were birds
singing two days ago and then we just
got hit hard
if I want to have spring flowers like
everybody else that lives in a warm
climate I have to do something I have to
get bulbs from Home Depot the daffodils
and the irises and the Tulips and I have
to put them in the refrigerator and
pretend like they’re having a mild
winter and then when it should be spring
but it’s still winter I put them on the
windowsill and they begin to bloom it is
a process called forcing them and God is
creating Seasons right now for his
people to bloom Under Pressure God is
looking Beyond just our circumstances
and he is saying I’m going to reveal who
you really are in this situation and it
goes to say your faith life is forced in
the open and shows its true colors
sometimes that’s not something that we
want to have revealed but I would rather
find out what I was trusting in now and
get it right then continue to live a
life that is not a life of strength he
goes on to say so don’t try to get out
of anything pre-maturely
I’m going to tell you a little secret
I’ve learned by being almost 60.
you can get out that’s why he says don’t
try to get out in in the ESV it said hey
let let the steadfastness have its full
effect you can always opt out you can
always say I this is just too hard this
is just too long I don’t like what’s
going on but what I have discovered is
there will be a retest and the retest is
usually harder
stay the course there are so many things
that we win in life by just staying
steadfast just staying strong standing
in the goodness of God singing out loud
when you want to sit down and cry it
says let it do its work so you can
become mature and well developed not
deficient in any way you know a few days
ago I sat down I uh I asked moms to post
some some stories about their kids and
what they were doing during this day and
time this beautiful mother wrote in and
she she told me the story about how she
was she was struggling she was
struggling she was like okay I’m gonna
make it to nap time and when I make it
to nap time I’m just I’m gonna put my
kids down I’m gonna put my kids on she
got him down she was like Hallelujah
they’re down for the nap and she said
she thought I’m just gonna lay on my
sofa just for a little bit just for a
little because her faith life was being
it was being forced there was a lot of
mom on kid contact that she wasn’t used
to having and she said she was on the
sofa and she just began to sing she
began to just sing
and she said you you take what the enemy
meant for evil she was singing that
verse and from her children’s bedroom
she heard them sing back the next verse
and you turn it for good
see God wants to take what the enemy
meant for division and fear and
destruction and despair and he wants to
turn it for good he wants to make us a
people who are sustainable and strong he
wants this to be a season that reveals
the hero in you so stay strong in the
trial you will go through it just keep
moving forward in God’s goodness sing
your way through to the other side
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