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reports on my message for tonight I want
to talk about the topic promise problems
promise problems I wanted to name that
mo problems mo promise or more promise
mo problems because no one ever talks
about the marriage between promise and
problems PT preached an incredible
message called finding home ones and if
you haven’t heard it you gotta get you
got to get the podcast it was so
powerful and he talked about how we’ve
been moving and moving anyone who moves
knows is just you never know how much
stuff you have until it’s time to move
and we have six children so you know how
much stuff they have until it’s time to
move like my daughter Jesus bless her
this stuff just does like where did you
get this from like she takes all the
things from lost and found at school and
stuffs it under her bed just in case
someone’s looking for it she’s going to
bring it the next day so there’s just
like so many issues going on at our
house and so we’ve been traveling so
much we hired movers and movers came and
and I realized I was so excited about
moving because a pastor and I have been
sharing the room with our baby
which like seems so sweet when we had
the idea and so we wanted to watch a
movie and then we realized that we would
have to put on the subtitles because
she’s not the boss of us but if she
wakes up it could get real interesting
in our house so we started doing stuff
like not closing cabinets all the way
once again she runs nothing I don’t know
what I don’t because this is on the live
stream is gonna live forever so it’s
important to me that I tell her she runs
nothing she’s one now but Shawn no
YouTube lives forever and so we started
doing things like whispering
and in this house she was going to have
her own room so I was excited the movers
were later I’m like no no no I want to
watch movies I want to close cabinets I
want to have this promise of this house
where my husband and I have our own
space and it was about half way into the
move when we made it to the new house
and I started seeing the movers bring in
the boxes that I realized that they were
struggling a little bit
with all of our stuff you know I was
excited about the promise of the new
house but my promise was their problem
my promise meant that they had to work
hard and lift boxes and figure out where
things when I was excited about the
promise but I didn’t realize that my
promise would be someone else’s problem
has your promise ever become someone
else’s problem like you got promoted at
the expense of someone who has more
seniority not being seen at all sure
promise your reason to celebrate but it
was someone else’s problem I want to
open up the text when we recognize that
the children of Israel are living out
their promise the promise that God made
with Abraham that they would have many
many descendants he would be the father
as many nations and they’re thriving and
they’re living in the their promise but
something happens when the new king
recognizes what’s happening I want to go
to Exodus 1 and 7 says but the children
of Israel were fruitful and increased
abundantly they were home they were
exactly where God said they were
supposed to be they were increasing
abundantly they multiplied and grew
exceedingly mighty and the land was
filled with them verse 8 continues it
says now there arose a new king over
Egypt who did not know Joseph so it’s
important that you all recognize that
the king
no Joseph because there was a covenant
between all of the other Kings and
Joseph because they learned over time
that there was favored over Joseph’s
life but the new King didn’t care about
the old favor that existed over the
children of Israel so the new king
didn’t realize really who he was messing
with when he started getting ideas he
didn’t recognize that the children of
Israel had a history of surviving he
didn’t recognize that they had a history
of being counted out and not having
enough but yet how still yet somehow
still coming out on the other side they
didn’t know at the time when they were
spreading the rumors and having these
secret meetings and trying to figure out
what was going on that there was a
promise over their life
he was just threatened by the fact that
they had found their promise verse 9
tells us and he said to his people look
now the people of the children of Israel
are more and mightier than we and verse
10 continue to says come let us deal
shrewdly with them so he calls this
secret meeting with his people and he
says look at them over there fulfilling
their promise I’m threatened by that has
anyone ever been threatened by your
ability to fulfill your promise see the
tricky thing about fulfilling your
promises you are so focused on what
you’re doing that you don’t even
recognize the side meetings that are
taking place by people who are
threatened by you doing what you’re
doing you don’t even recognize that your
acceleration means that someone has to
step up their game or watch you move
there was something happening that the
children of Israel didn’t even know
about and it says come let us deal
shrewdly with them the old King James
Version says wisely let us deal wisely
with them and I wondered why he said
let’s deal wisely with them instead of
just like you know like running up on
them and
you know telling them this is how it’s
going to be I’m the king but he
recognized that he was going to have to
finesse this situation because they had
more influence than power
have you ever had someone who couldn’t
exactly cut you off because they still
had to see you so they had to learn to
deal with you a certain way like I can’t
exactly tell them how I really feel some
I have to smile when they come into the
room but on the inside I’m trying to
deal with them wisely because they don’t
want to risk being disconnected fully
promised problems when it means more
that I stay connected to you than it
does that I tell you how I really feel
promised problems come let us deal
wisely with them lest they multiply and
it happened in the event award that they
also join our enemies and fight against
us and so go up out of the land
verse 11 continues therefore they set
taskmasters over them to afflict them
with their burdens and they built for
pharaoh supply cities tie them in
Rameses and verse 12 says but the more
the more they afflicted them the more
they multiplied and grew so the king was
a little too late because they had
already multiplied in such a way that
there was nothing he could do to stop
them see God had covered them while they
were multiplying so that by payment came
to the attention of people who had the
power to maybe stop them or throw a
little salt in your game or throw Fears
your way it was already too late because
you had this confidence already that you
already knew who God had called you to
be you knew where you were supposed to
be so it was too late my time they
started hating on you because you are
already recognizing who God had called
you to be
so therefore the affliction started
working for their favor because even
though I was afflicted sometimes God
causes us to grow through affliction he
causes things
take place in our life that feel like
affliction but it’s really growth it’s
really growth I want to go back to verse
11 cuz there’s a part here that I want
you to fully understand because he’s
that taskmasters over them to afflict
them with their burdens so the King gave
his burdens to the children of Israel
and this is something that you have to
be aware of because as you are
manifesting your promise there are going
to be people who manipulate your
strength for their advantage because
they think that it will slow you down
and keep you from manifesting fully who
God has called you to be they’ll start
using your talents and your connections
and everything else for their advantage
because they recognize that there’s some
type of race taking place that you don’t
even recognize me when you have a good
heart you think everyone else has a good
heart
so you give so freely that you don’t
recognize that they’re trying to
sabotage what you’re giving to them so
freely but the text tells us that that
didn’t work out for them because you
meant it for evil but the Lord turned it
around for good the affliction didn’t
work out the way they wanted it to yeah
yeah every promise has attached to it a
set of problems and it’s difficult to
comprehend that because we’re so excited
about the promise that when we run into
the problems is kind of shocking because
for all intents and purposes the
children of Israel had already
manifested their promise they were as
father Abraham was the father of many
nations just as God had promised their
promise had already been manifest they
were just doing what they had been
called to do and all of a sudden God
says I’m going to increase the children
of Israel but I’m going to have to
increase them through affliction and as
we came in this room I couldn’t help but
feel
the pain that comes when you’re being
increased by affliction when you’re
trying to understand what’s going on in
your life and why does it seem like I’m
winning on one side but losing on the
other side I have my promise but I don’t
have any friends I have my promise but I
don’t have the job I’ve got the idea but
I don’t have the resource I have this
promise but I also had these problems
attached to it and in a way it almost
neutralizes the excitement of the
promise because nobody said that no
promise no problem that the more that I
move in the direction of home and I
follow where God is calling me the
lonelier this road gets no one told me
that manifesting this promise was going
to cause so many problems and that’s why
destiny is not for the weak it’s not for
those who need to be accepted and
validated and wants everyone to like
them this thing called destiny is for
people who recognize that every problem
also has a promise yeah that is the yin
and yang of promise and problems because
as I was feeling sorry for the movers as
they were moving the boxes in you know
because it was hot and I wasn’t helping
like because the way my muscles are set
up like and so I felt bad and we kept
offering them water and ordering pizza
trying to like you know like we with
y’all kinda and it wasn’t until the end
of the move that I realized that I
thought it was a problem but for them
they saw it as a promise because they
were gonna get a paycheck at the end of
this and if you aren’t careful you will
forget in the middle of the problem that
there’s also a promise attached to it
because the work that you have to go
through to figure out the problem it
doesn’t feel like there’s a promise
attached to it in the moment
this was such a pivotal moment in the
text because this was before the
children of Israel were going to be held
in bondage and captivity they didn’t
realize that though it they had
manifested promise on one level in order
for God to take them to the promised
land to the land that would ultimately
be there they were going to have to go
through a period of affliction and there
are people in this room who have been
wondering why am I in this place of
affliction and God said to keep holding
on and keep holding on to this promise
that I gave you since you were a child
has been down on the inside of you and
my word will not return until you would
keep holding on in the middle of this
problem because when I get finished
you’re going to see that the problem was
actually a promise what looked like
affliction was actually me multiplying
you and showing you how strong you were
and showing you what I had done on the
inside of you that you could break off
chains off of your life when God takes
it to the next dimension in the next
level he often does it through
affliction so the king he said
taskmasters over them to afflict them
with their burdens and they built for
pharaoh supply city so supply cities for
those of you guys are Bible scholars I’m
just going to say this for those of you
who don’t know the supply cities were
for the treasures of the King so he made
the children of Israel build where he
would hold his treasures it was a
reminder to them every single day that
they were working for someone who seemed
like they had more than them that seemed
like he had more to give them and he
kept making them see this every single
day have you ever been in the situation
where you were working for someone who
seemed like they had more than you but
you had a promise down on the inside of
you and it wasn’t really adding up while
you were exposed to something but
couldn’t actually lay hold of it
couldn’t actually start your own
production company couldn’t actually
write your own book but you were exposed
to this thing over and over again
exposed to the industry but not where I
should be in the end
Street feels like affliction and I love
this because as I was studying I
recognized it Python was one city but
Ramses is City Ramses ended up playing
an important role for the people of
Israel because when God got ready to set
them free from bondage he took them
through the city of Ramses the same
place where they were inflicted ended up
being the same place that they would
walk through in order to become free
that means that you look back over your
life over all these places where you
afflicted and people were walking away
from you and you didn’t have nothing you
felt like you were coming up short that
that same place that same source spot
would ultimately be the place where God
will trust you through chains broken off
of you with a new direction and future
ahead of you and you would stretch
through the same place that used to hold
you down with your head held high in a
new confidence because you were no
longer the person who you used to be
when you were building the supply city
for someone who didn’t even understand
your value I was given to you in this
same area and when God saw fit to bring
me up he took me through the same alley
where I was once in bondage so when we
break chains off of our life we need to
hold onto the change because the chains
are a promise that what was once a
problem will eventually become the
promise of God over my life that it hurt
me in one season but I’m going to have
victory in the next season Paul said
that I reckon that the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to be
compared not even worthy to be compared
how many Rameses i represented in this
room you came in with the Rameses on
your mind with the city where you felt
bondage with the problem that you felt
like had no freedom you came in
with this bondage on your mind and God
wanted to send a word on a Wednesday
night at the same place where you feel
that bondage that same place that you
feel the infliction the same place where
you feel like you were coming up short
that you’re too insecure that you don’t
have the resources that you don’t have
the team that same place it’s going to
be the same place where I walk you and
your people through where I walk you end
your generations through you’re going to
walk through the very place that was
meant to hold you down and you’re going
to walk through with such confidence if
you remember that it was me who was
there even in the midst of the struggle
that I had a plan even when you were
afflicted Pharaoh
showed them the way out by making them
bills the supplies Gideon Ramsey he
didn’t even realize that he was showing
them the way out somebody doesn’t even
realize that they were being your GPS
they thought that they were abusing you
and mistreating you but what you were
really doing was showing me my words
what you were really doing was showing
me the way out what you were really
doing was helping me to recognize that I
don’t have to live like this anymore
you showed me I had options I thought I
had to stay in this one little part of
Egypt but because you took me out out of
my comfort zone because you made me feel
uncomfortable I was able to recognize
that there was no limits and no
boundaries to what is possible for me
you messed around and sent me free you
thought you were talking about me you
messed around and showed me the keys you
showed me that I was more than a
conqueror you show me that no weapon
formed against me shall prosper
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you thought it was bondage you thought I
wouldn’t come out on the other side I
thought I wouldn’t come out on the other
side the people of Israel didn’t know
when they were building those supplies
maybe that that would be the same city
that God took them through you made me
count myself out you made me think I
wasn’t good enough but when God’s wisdom
collided with my experience I recognized
that he makes all things work together
for our good that I needed that place of
bondage so that I would recognize the
way up
I needed that place of bondage I would
had passion and fuel to be who he called
me to be so the new king probably should
have taken into consideration a bit
further that they were related to Joseph
because had he taken that into
consideration he would have recognized
that he didn’t have to honor the
covenant between Joseph’s and God but
ultimately he would need to honor the
covenant between God and the children of
Israel because they had this history of
coming out on the other side and verse
12 continues and this is my last little
point but the more they afflicted them
the more they afflicted them the more
they multiplied and grew and they were
in dread of the children of Israel
there’s one thing that I want you to
take away from this message for me it is
the most important thing that you can
take away and that is in moments of
affliction you’ve got to recognize that
affliction is your teacher you’ve got to
recognize the Blessed
of affliction because there was
something about them being afflicted
that made them multiply and grow I
reckoned that there was something about
having things so hard in their life that
made them stick together so much so that
there was a love that was produced down
on the inside of them that even bondage
couldn’t break there was something about
this affliction this affliction that
made you who you are there is something
about this current affliction that is
trying to multiply you and grow you in
ways that you don’t even fully
understand they were afflicted and they
multiplied and they grew and they didn’t
even know about the promised land and
they didn’t even know that ultimately
the Messiah was going to come through
their bloodline they didn’t even know
why they were being afflicted in the
moment you don’t know why God is
afflicting you in this moment you don’t
know why it’s so hard you don’t
understand why you have promise and
problems in the same hand but you got to
trust the one who causes all things to
work together for your good and start
looking at your affliction with fresh
eyes instead of seeing it as punishment
instead of seeing it as isolation to
start asking you what are you trying to
multiply on the inside of me
where there a area of lack done only
inside of me that can only grow through
this process of affliction when you make
the affliction about what God is trying
to produce in you and not the problems
that are on the outside of you then
you’re going to come out on the other
side more quickly than you even realize
because you learn the beauty and growing
under affliction you learn the beauty
and growing when there is pressure
pressure what is this affliction trying
to teach me would you stand with me as I
prepare to close and if you don’t have
to go please don’t go because this is
the most precious moment in a service
this is a moment when someone who has
been struggling with problems recognized
that there is
a promise attached to it you see it’s so
easy for us to say that every promise
has a problem and every problem has a
promise but when you’re in the middle of
that affliction it’s hard to believe
that something is being multiplied down
on the inside of you as a matter of fact
it it actually hurts to even think that
God would allow you to prosper to a
certain point and then all of a sudden
you don’t see his hand at all up until
this point the children of Israel were
doing exactly what they were supposed to
be doing they were multiplying they were
being fruitful and multiplying just like
it said in Genesis and all of a sudden
it seemed like they were being punished
for multiplying but they didn’t
recognize that man’s punishment could
not override God’s promise that man’s
ability to control them in the moment
would not override what God was going to
do long-term sometimes God will use
Asaro in your life to point you in the
right direction I use Pharaoh I use
their greed I use their ignorance I use
everything about what was wrong with him
to show you what was right about you and
some of us need to thank our Pharaohs
instead of regretting what we think we
lost in the time that we were in bondage
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maybe you’re hearing you’re saying I
understand the affliction part but I
don’t see the the promise very clearly
anymore I used to see it it used to seem
like things were working out for me and
they were lining one up but now I don’t
see it any longer I want you to meet us
at this altar because gods want to give
you clarity and focus and vision to
recognize that you’re moving at his pace
not yours that he has a plan even in the
midst of trouble that though you’re
being slayed you can trust in him that
there is a rhythm to this thing and I’m
not just having you out here so that you
can be afflicted so that you can be made
of full of I got a promise I got a
promise in this problem I got a promise
in this problem I got a promise in this
problem some of you need to start
telling your problem I got a promise
done on the inside of you there is a
promise in my finances there is a
promise over my career I don’t care that
it looks like a problem that every one
of there’s a promise down on the inside
of this and I promise on to that promise
to come forth I promise on to that
promise that you will not be bigger than
any issue or struggle I promise I
promise I promise I that promises are
going to start springing up like never
before that where you once saw our
problem you’re going to start getting so
created because you recognize it is a
promise that God didn’t bring you this
part and leave you that he wouldn’t open
the door and bring you into this land to
turn around and forsake you but you have
to recognize that you are a part of the
righteousness of God and that his
history and seeing his people through
bondage and seeing them set through set
free from affliction dates back to
Genesis and Exodus and last week and
this week that he’s been doing this
thing for a long time and if you were
just there to believe that you are a
part of a master plan that you are
connected to divinity so humanity cannot
hold you down that even when the world
means it for evil that God will turn
this thing around there’s a promise
in this problem there is a promise
there’s a promise found on the inside of
you you’re not a problem child
you’re a promise child before I place
you in your mother’s womb he said he
says I know you I know your afflictions
I know what you’re dealing with I know
that some of these afflictions you
subscribe to on your own that that you
didn’t need anyone else to inflict you
that you’ve been afflicting yourself
with your insecurities with your
negative thoughts you’ve been inflicting
yourself and he said I will bind up the
weapon that’s in your own hand and it
won’t prosper again to the promise I
have them on the inside of you that I
spared your life for a reason there is a
promise down on the inside of you that
not even you could take out there not
even you could run I have to ask because
I see it so clearly that there’s someone
who’s been so high off the promise that
they’ve been ignoring the problems and
as I was speaking this message was
convicting you but you are so proud of
the promise that you don’t even want to
address the problem because there’s
something about addressing the problem
that takes takes away the sweetness of
the promise and God says I want you to
taste all of it
because you need me even with the
promise you can’t be so high off the
promise that you don’t need me any
longer let me solve those problems that
you’re ignoring he says I’m got enough
to do that is that you I want you to
come to this altar because God wants to
give you the strength the wisdom and the
strategy to attack the problems that
exist even with your promise don’t let
sin fact that you’re doing well on one
side blind you from what’s going on on
the other side you’re strong enough to
handle that thing too one thing doesn’t
disqualify the other we need the problem
with the promise because we need the God
who is in control of it all I don’t want
the promise without any problem because
that means I might just have the promise
on my
on but if you give me a problem you give
me a reason to drop to my knees and
start saying God I need you in this
thing don’t just give me no promises
tell me what the strings attached to it
are help me to understand that even in
the midst of this struggle I need you
even in the midst of the success I need
you is the God of my promise and the God
of my problems and before you there is
no other so I surrender both the promise
and the problem to the one who knows how
all things are going to work together
and I ask that you do this thing that
you do that everyone’s been talking
about this thing where you make all
things work together for our good I want
you to do whatever that is I’m not even
sure some of you aren’t even religious
you don’t even open the Bible but you
keep hearing about this all things
working together for your good kind of
thing and you just want to know if he
can do that in your life I want you to
come because he’s ready to show you he’s
ready to make you a living witness he
says you don’t have to open the Bible
I’m going to make your life a living
testimony I want you to recognize that I
can speak to you and through you and
change your life and transform you as
only I can do there’s so much promise in
this room so much promise in this room
baby would you pray
that’s a lot to take in just take a
minute and take it in that’s a lot of
truth God is literally trying to change
your eyes because what you thought was
one thing it’s something completely
different your life is being built right
now destiny in the future that God has
trusted you to hope those bricks you
think you’re building for somebody else
is for you just for you the labor even
the labor in the struggle is for you
God’s building your life through your
affliction your affliction is the
material that God uses to build the
destiny that you are worthy of Father
Lord we we’ve had a truth revealed to us
that only heaven could send we honor it
we respect it we receive it got a thank
you that you have adjusted our eyes in
such a way that we don’t see affliction
the same even in the midst of the pain
of it we recognize that you’re building
something in fact the more affliction
the greater the thing that you’re
building is and so father this paradigm
shift we receive right now we thank you
for this word it is renewing our mind so
that we can get back to hope so we can
get back to building so that we can get
back to life
we’re grateful I just want you to repeat
after me Heavenly Father thank you for
your love I feel it Heavenly Father
thank you for this word I receive it
thank you for Jesus thank you for making
him who had no sin all of mine all of my
weakness all of my stumbling all of my
affliction you place it his body nailed
it to the cross
put it to death and just as he overcame
it and was raised up by it I too shall
overcome my affliction and be exalted
thereby and I will be a witness to the
son through what I overcame Holy Spirit
filled me up so that this truth might
remain in me I want to walk in it every
single day I’m going to walk in it
my past is behind me even past ways of
thinking my future is bright and I’m on
my way to all what you have for me I
receive it now in Jesus name Amen amen
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hopefully this comment doesnt appear multiple times (it appears to freeze once i try to post my comment.. not certain if its really posting), but all I really wanted to say was great post and thanks for sharing.