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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