y’all life is hard stuff happens
and we have questions sometimes that
that cause us to have to wrestle through
our faith and our faith is strengthened
and it is encouraged through the wrestle
but for anybody who’s struggling for
anybody whose faith is wavering just a
little bit I want you to know that God
hears every question that you’re asking
all of the ponderings of your heart
anything that others around you may have
made you feel guilty for asking anybody
ever just gone through some stuff when
your reality changes and there are new
questions to ask in that new
circumstance you need to know that your
God loves you enough to give you margin
and grace to ask the questions that you
need in that season of your life when
John the Baptist asked the question are
you the expected one or should I look
for somebody else what I want to tell
you is that Jesus did not send back up a
rebuke he did not send back a response
of offense he was not mad at John’s
frailty that if you’ve wavered just a
bit if you’ve wondered if you’ve asked
questions you need to know that our God
is not mad at you you need to know that
our God sees you he knows where you are
he knows where I am he sees every single
tear that falls from her eyes and I want
you to know that not one of those tears
has been lost in the carpet fibers of
your bedroom floor every single one of
them have been captured in the palm of
all my stuck
if you circle around Jericho would you
know that your God sees he sees every
single step that you’re taking he sees
every single single time you take a
couple steps back he sees every single
time you have asked the question that
you’ve wondered God have I put my eggs
in the wrong basket are you really who
you say you are and I want to tell
anybody who can be as honest as John the
Baptist and say my circles actually
haven’t been clean and clear that I’ve
wavered in my faith sometimes anybody
that’s brave enough to do like that like
John the Baptist what I want to tell you
is that Jesus heard John’s question and
he was not mad at him for asking the
question and if you’ve wondered if God
is emphatic I came to tell you from the
south of town he’s
I came to tell you
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I came to tell you that sometimes our
faith is best built in the gymnasium of
obscurity that sometimes when we don’t
quite see God the way we want to see him
we’re in the light that we desire to see
him and sometimes when we ask questions
that that is the way our faith becomes
stronger and more sure that the woman
you’re going to be 10 years from now
it’s going to be strengthened and
reshaped the woman I pray that I am five
years from now was gonna be completely
different because of the struggle that I
went through in my faith in this season
of my life
it is the wrestling that strengthens us
and what I love about this passage of
Scripture with John the Baptist asking
that question that honestly could have
been offensive to Jesus but Jesus not
rebuking him what I love about this
question is that it shows the humanities
and the frailty of a man who’s going
through some stuff
God gives John so much grace to wrestle
through his face except Jesus doesn’t
rebuke him he gives him all the margin
he needs to ask whatever questions he
needs to ask because although Jesus has
not changed he is still who II always
was yesterday today and forever more
John’s reality has changed Jesus doesn’t
the reality of our lives does oh if the
people of God the church would give each
other as much grace as Jesus gifts to us
there is only one who has ever been able
to say he who is without sin cast the
first stone there’s only one who’s ever
had the right to cast the stone and he
chose not to do it
and yet we have so little grace for a
brother or a sister in Christ who
honestly is just resting not because
he’s changed but because their
circumstances changed and I say to you
that if you know someone if you’ve got a
dear friend in your life if you’ve got a
loriana who just needs a friend I’m
saying don’t don’t scold that person
because they’re struggling you give them
the same grace Jesus does while they
figure out what it means to keep their
mouth closed while they’re walking
around that mountain if they slip up in
the building of their faith if they
question if they have wanderings and
ponderings about whether what they’ve
read and what they’ve heard preached in
church whether or not it’s really true
as they struggle through that would you
just let them that watch Oh whose faith
is strong to go over and tell the one
who is wavering just a little bit who’s
in the midst of the struggle as his
current circumstances are not what he
expected and anticipated devastating
actually I want you to go and be a
witness share their testimony of what
you get is you have seen me do and when
you share the testimony you will see
that that answers the question that that
individual has been asked
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I don’t know if you will see this or not, but we are a very small church in a very small town in McClure, Illinois. We are currently going through the Elijah study in our Sunday morning GLOW (Godly Ladies of Worth) class. We would love for you to visit us sometime if God puts it upon your heart! We are Thesparkministries.com, you can get information about us there. Thank you.