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how many of you had some went through
some things that you just
did not understand at all
spent a few years being totally confused
and miserable and
almost lost your faith a number of times
and now you look back and you
you you know now why that had to happen
isn’t it fun
i’ll give you an example
when i was still doing my little home
bible study because of having a
full-time job i didn’t really have time
to study
properly and get any sleep and
you know i was raising kids i had kids i
had a full-time job and
so i started feeling like god wanted me
to quit my job
but the problem was if i quit my job we
were going to be
short 40 every month of having enough
money to pay our bills
and that was and then that was not even
having that was not even looking at
anything for clothes or car repairs or
home repairs or anything like that that
was just to pay the bills
and uh but i just kept feeling like
that’s what god wanted me to do well
i partially obeyed god and that never
works
you say what did you do i got a
part-time job
come on anybody know what i’m talking
about
well god i want to obey you but i’m
gonna have a little backup plan here
just in case
just in case you don’t come through i’m
gonna have a little back-up plan
well you know what you’re not gonna get
your breakthrough until you get rid of
your backup plan
oh you didn’t like that i’ll tell them
[Applause]
come on you’re not you’re not going to
get what you want until you get rid of
your backup plan
see i’ll preach to you more if you act
better
[Laughter]
just think about that
and so i finally i got fired from my
part-time job
which i knew immediately was god because
i was i’d never been fired from a job i
wasn’t the kind of person that got fired
from a job
but i mean from the time i went to work
at that place
i couldn’t do anything right i mean it
was ridiculous the mistakes that i made
i would have fired me
and so
i quit my job and i was so scared
oh my gosh i was scared and for six
years
every month supernaturally
some way god provided that money that we
needed
to pay our bills
and i can tell you i look back now and
those were some of the most
precious years in my life
and such bonding times with god
when i would see the little things that
he did for me
that i knew was him couldn’t have
possibly
been anybody else but you know i was
really really really
getting tired of living like that
when god went i made this big sacrifice
when are you going to come through with
some prosperity for us
we’re tithing we’re giving i’m preaching
i’m teaching you know
we love to give god a list of all of our
good qualities like
you you owe me something look at all the
good stuff i’m doing here god and you’re
not doing anything
and um
my pastor came by wanted to share
a good report he had a speaking
engagement which i was just
desperate to have anybody to ask me to
come and speak anywhere they never did
and he came by
and he’d gotten this big offering and
two or three people
said they wanted to partner with him and
he was all excited he told me is good
news and
i did what we do oh praise the lord that
thank you jesus and
and well at least i was trying to act
like i knew i was supposed to act
and uh then all of a sudden it was like
he
he said oh is it okay that i’m telling
you this
i don’t and i’m like
no i wish you’d shut up but i didn’t
tell him
how many of you when you’re just you
feel like you’re hurting so bad you feel
like your guts are gonna fall apart you
don’t
appreciate hearing somebody else’s great
testimony
come on be honest
so even with giving your testimony
there’s a time
i mean you know if somebody looks like
they’re about to fall over dead with the
flu
that’s not when you should tell them
that you started to get it last week and
god heals you
that’s the time to have a little bit of
compassion
amen
and so i pretended like i was real happy
for him and when he left i went and
threw myself across my daughter’s bed
and i cried and cried and cried and
cried
and cried and when i got up from that
bed
i said jesus i don’t care if i
ever see one result
i will continue to tithe and give
offerings
until the day you come back to get me
and
our finances changed from that day let
me go back to what i said earlier
we got to stop serving god just to get a
result
do you hear me we know there are
promises
it’s fine to believe for those promises
but how we behave in our relationship
with god
cannot be based on whether he’s giving
me what i want or not
he’s already already given us
more than anybody could possibly ever
deserve
in a million lifetimes
well i didn’t understand why we were
going through that
it didn’t make any sense we had
sacrificed we were trying to do what was
right
well i know now i fully understand it
because then we needed 40 a month
you would fall right out of your chair
if i told you how much it cost to run
this ministry now
every month and you know what
i never think about it god brings the
money in
we don’t charge for our conferences
our ministry has no debt at
all none
[Applause]
we’ve never paid one cent in interest
because we’ve never borrowed money
and it used to be 40
a month but see that’s where i learned
how to trust god
you got to learn how to trust god for
your socks and underwear before you can
trust him
for a worldwide ministry come on
[Applause]
and i still have a notebook at home
where i wrote my little prayer list to
god back in the
70s dear god i need 12 new washcloths
and
i need a new skillet and i’ll never
forget the day that somebody knocked on
my door and i answered the door and
didn’t recognize the person she said
i hope that you do not think that i am
stark raven mad
but i felt like god told me to bring you
12 new washcloths
i’m that’s the kind of stuff that knits
you to god
i mean because i knew that that had to
be god and see
saying we trust god is one thing but
when we really trust
god we enter his rest
trying to trust god is frustrating but
when you really trust him
you really don’t worry about the
situation because you know
that god will take care of it you don’t
know when you’re not trying to figure
out when
you don’t know how you’re not trying to
figure out how you’re just
you know god will do it and if god
doesn’t do it then maybe it’s not
supposed to be done
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