Challenging Your Faith | Sandals Church

hey there thanks so much for joining us today here at Samos Church were all about providing a place to be real and here at sandals sure TV this is a great place to figure out what being real means for you and if you'd like to be a part of what we're doing with a momentum project here at sandals churches we're looking to create even more places for people to be real all over the world go ahead and check out moved at SC slash momentum online or download the sandals Church app that's gonna have all the information that you need I hope you guys have a great week faith is something that is essential to your relationship with God without faith the Bible says it is impossible to please God you cannot please God you cannot make God happy in your relationship with him to not believe in Jesus and RH takes way more faith than it does to believe this in your faith it's a field that's worth defending the Bible says in his loving-kindness he saved us it's our faith built upon this truth that inspires us to cultivate kindness to others regardless of what the world says about what's right or wrong or what we should think or feel our faith is his internal compass that guides us and the reality is that without faith we cannot call ourselves Christians thank you thank you yes yes yes yes welcome to 40 days of faith man I want to tell you you know this week's been a been a very very exciting week I think in our church I've just me t been meeting for the faith gatherings if you haven't been to one of those try to go to one of those my wife and I we're trying to make it to every campus pray for us in our household we have a missionary family staying with us and all their kids are sick which means I'm sick right you always share your boogers with your pastor that's just the reality so I'm here today with you guys look forward to be at your campuses super excited to meet and I'm just so excited about what God is doing in our church but you know whenever you step into faith I think a lot of us think as soon as as soon as God's on my side it's always going to be the wind at my back and often times when God's on your side it's the win in your face and so I don't know if you've been following the news or not at all this week but it's been a polarizing week in the media we have a supreme justise who's been nominated and a bombshell has been dropped when it looked like there was nothing that could prevent him from being nominated a woman stepped forward and made some accusations about something that happened in high school and it's polarizing just seems like it doesn't matter whether you're Christian with your black with your white man woman like everybody has an opinion on who to believe and what to believe and and so I I made a mistake this week let me just tell you this so I waited I put my opinion out on social media right so I did that anybody ever done that and right after you present like oh why did I do that so I did that and there's not very many hands up so praise God you all love Jesus more than me but you know let me just say that social media is not the platform for reasonable responses right there's not people who have healthy lives lots of things to do you know there's sharks out there and they're just waiting for you to say something on the internet and here's the only thing that piqued my attention was somebody posted a criticism of Christians and what they said was is how is it that there's all these Christians who know for certain what happened to 3,000 years ago but they have a hard time believing this woman thirty years ago and I said whoa whoa whoa right again I'm not saying she's right or she's wrong or the judge is right or the judge is wrong but you just insulted my faith and I said here's some of the differences and some of you don't know why we believe what we believe but what they were doing is they were throwing Christianity under the bus because from their perception Christians were agreeing with the judge and let me just say this Christians are all over the place on this thing I got Christians who agree on the right Christians who agree on the left you know Christians are a diverse group of people and they have a diverse group of opinions but I simply stated there's a key difference between what I believe in what you're asking me to believe no one knows what happened in high school except those two individuals those are the two individuals who know what happened we're all speculating with Jesus we have 500 eyewitnesses 500 eyewitnesses 500 people who saw a dead guy come out of the grave that's not a he-said she-said that's a whoa God just said it's completely different not only that we have four Gospels that testify where it happened when it happened how what happened and and literally we have billions of lives that have been changed and mine is one of those lives and then I went to bed and woke up the next morning you can imagine I was greeted with wonderful cheer and just great people just exhorting and encouraging my faith what do you think happened right I mean I've been called things like I had to look up some of the insults I was like wow that's so good I have to look it up because I don't know what that means and so let me just say this about your faith if you're going to have faith in God you need to be prepared write this down real faith must be challenged I was not weighing in at all on what happened between the judge and the woman in high school I wasn't at all I was simply stating that our faith in Jesus is reasonable it's reasonable and rather than dealing with that people are attacking my character Who I am what I stand for I mean I got called all kinds of things and you just need to be ready not everybody when you say I'm a Christian everybody's gonna go yeah you yeah you right like if you want that tell people at work you worship lettis people like that's weird but awesome you do you I'll do me you worship lettuce I eat lettuce that's good for you right okay real faith must be challenged if you want your faith to be real listen to me if you want your kids faith to be real it needs to be challenged you need to allow them to experience difficulties let me ask you this question if you're a parent how many of you think you're a better father or mother than God do you know that God allowed his son to be challenged he allowed it so if God allowed his one and only son to be challenged what do you think he's gonna Lao you what do you think he's gonna allow me to go through he's going to allow us to go through challenges real faith must be challenged Matthew 4 1 through 2 Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness anybody feel like they're in the wilderness anybody feel like they're there you like why am I here God's trying to teach you something God's trying to teach and let me just tell you something about the wilderness we're in a series called 40 days of faith if god needs to leave you in the wilderness for 40 years he will he will like parents amen doesn't it drive you crazy when parents are like don't make me count to three and your kid knows three means nothing 1 don't make me do it - I'm gonna get 2 3 3 ok 3 and a half 3 God when God counts to 40 he means 40 this is what God says I'm gonna let you all die off and then your kids will be faithful like oh he's that go to your room 40 years in the desert right 40 years in the desert literally God cannot wait you parents have two-year-olds you need to understand you are eternal compared to your kids you can outweigh them trust me five minutes to a two-year-old is like a century it's a century go to your room for five minutes I must die right so listen to me Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil notice here God didn't tempt Jesus don't ask why God is tempting you here's what James the brother of Jesus says God never tempts you your own desires tempt you you are led by your desires your desires tempt you God may allow you to be tempted but he's not tempting you you do that on your own you do that Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil if you want your faith to grow God has a field trip plan for you and it's in the wilderness and here's one of the things that you guys may have never noticed Jesus is called the new Adam the first Adam is a guy by the name of Adam which if you want to know what the name Adam means in Hebrew it means mud that's what it means the mud man he came from the mud he is Adam the mud man that's who he is the first Adam was tempted listen this in a garden where he had everything he wanted he had everything he needed and he was well fed and he was allowed to eat anything but one thing now we have the new Adam the second Adam Jesus Christ he's in the wilderness he's not in a garden he's not brunette protected he's not well-fed he's starving he's starving and he hasn't eaten for 40 forty days some of you you can't miss snack time right you're a hobbit like there's first breakfast second breakfast third breakfast Jesus hasn't eaten for forty days the greater you want your faith to be the greater the testing you'll have to endure Adam the first Adam couldn't resist one piece of fruit when he was already full Jesus is going to resist all kinds of meals when he's starving to death so Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil for 40 days and 40 nights he fasted and he became very hungry how many of you become hungry when he missed lunch right forty days and forty nights Jesus fasted he's in the desert he's starving he's actually dying that's physically what takes place in your body your body starts eating your own fat it starts eating your own muscle tissue it may even start to take nutrients from your bones that's where Jesus is but I want you to write this down just because I'm in the desert does not mean God has deserted me what if God wants me in the desert what if I'm supposed to be here what if this is the only way God can teach me you've heard me say this many times God is willing to risk your life to save your soul Jesus asked this question what good is it if you inherit the whole world but you forfeit your soul it does you no good if you get everything you ever want and everything you ever need and you spend eternity in hell here's what God is interested in he's interested in saving your soul and so in order to do that he has to allow us to spend time in the desert right where we're in Riverside we're soaked we live in the desert this is where we live this is where we're gonna thrive this is where we're gonna grow but all of us man we all want to be in the oasis let me tell you what makes an oasis beautiful what makes an oasis beautiful as time in the desert time in the desert and some of you in order to learn what God wants to teach you you need to spend a little time in the desert you need to go a little hungry you need to go a little thirsty and so God's gonna allow you to be challenged and that's where many of you are god I don't understand you're calling me to sacrifice sandals is trying to raise ten million extra dollars and and some of you lost your job this week you like God I don't understand this God's not asking you to trust your job he's asking you to trust him some of you are not on the same page in your marriage God's not asking you to trust in your marriage he's asking you to trust in him some of you man you trying to get to church and you're like man anybody ever noticed this life is great until you try to get your family to church some of Tammuz best fights are on the way to church and I always tell her you better repent cuz I got a preach no don't and I will throw you under the bus for God right know you everybody knows you had to repent every single week real faith must be challenged this is one of the most difficult passages of Scripture I hated this passage for about the first 10 years when I when I gave my life to Christ for 10 years everyone Romans 5 Romans but I hated this passage and you will too until you understand it we can rejoice too when we run into problems who does that oh great oh great here's a problem here's a trial God's gonna stretch me yay-yay pain suffering oh I love this you need counseling if you love pain you know when I was walking out here this thing is weighted I don't know what I was doing but I flicked it and whack right in the shin doesn't that feel good you know you're alive right before I'm gonna go out to preach give a little hallelujah and we can rejoice when we whack our shins we can rejoice when our back goes out all right that's how you know when you get old when you're young you go throw your back out you were doing something when you're old you were doing nothing and just with just about is it that embarrassing go the doctor what happened nothing nothing we can rejoice too when we run into problems and trials can we do we know no I don't rejoice when there's turbulence you know when I rejoice when it's over when it's over man for we know that they helped us develop endurance listen to me faith is the long game I've been up in the pastor of this church for 20 years I have watched people come and go come and go and here's what people say to me man it's amazing what God's done in your life and you know what I say cuz I stayed I stayed I'm not any better than you I just outlasted you that's all that's all and here's one of the things when you get older you learn what you can go through that's why I loved you in iron man's right because if I go out and I play basketball with a 20 year old is gonna be embarrassing not for them for me for me my son he's 15 dadless played basketball I said no I've already been humbled today I don't need to be humbled anymore hey man anybody can zig and zag somebody does that you're like lost a hip but let me tell you what I can do give me a name in older people I can out hurt you right amen let me tell you know you know why older people went Iron Man's because we know how to hurt young people are like what is this I'm like that's a pain buddy I had that before we started I love it so in an Iron Man they write your age on your calf and I just I look for the 20-somethings oh yeah get them Lord get them run by a 20 year old suck it up feel so good it does man for we we know that trials helped us develop into endurance you know why I know Tami and I can get through anything because we've been through a lot how do you know if you love somebody seriously if you've never been through anything I can't stand dating people oh we have so much in common yeah talk to me when you get to the uncommon chapter we just both love long walks on the beach who does let me get this straight you like vacations and watching movies and eating out shocker that's weird my wife and I like dishes and preparing our own meals and going to work every day right we can rejoice when we run into problems and trials for we know that they help us develop endurance and endurance develop strength of character look you want to raise great kids let him hurt a little bit my daughters in high school were both in mountain biking it's like the worst sport ever it hurts it hurt it's not fun it's not there's no timeouts there's not a ref it's just go puke and you're done and my daughter Madison said dad I want to quit and I said I know honey I said because it's hard she said yeah you gonna let me quit I said no because life is hard College is hard marriage is hard being a mom will be hard and you've got to learn you can push through things you don't want to push through she said so you're not gonna quit no no and it was for her it was hard let me tell you something parents if you've never let your kids do something hard you've not raised them your job is not to block every single thing that comes their way this is why we got all these young people who can't grow up because nobody told him life is hard life is hard in every classroom in America they should have a sticker on the above the chalkboard it says life is hard get ready but it says follow your dreams yeah that helps you can do anything no you can't you can't every kid has got like right a little sliver I was not gonna be a rocket scientist it was not gonna happen my math scores proved it endurance strength of character and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation do you know what helps you trust God trusting God oh I didn't know that well guess what if you're not hurting you're not trusting you're not believing if it's not difficult you're not growing so stop wondering why would life is so hard just know man if life is not hard for you maybe God doesn't care about you do you know what the Bible says God disciplines his children that he loves that he loves you're like oh I must be loved a lot and gods like amen here's a trial an endurance develops strength of character and characters strengthens our confident hope of salvation and this hope will not disappoint for we know how dearly God loves us because he's given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love who led Jesus into the wilderness the spirit the spirit was with him the spirit was there he wasn't alone you're not alone God is with you God is closer to you than your problems the problem is we're focused on our problems and not God the reason your problems are too big is your God is too small right everybody wants to be David here's the problem your focus on Goliath and that's what everybody else looked at David was focused on God he says who is this uncircumcised philistine that defies the armies of the Living God right we all want to be David but nobody wants to face Goliath we know that God loves us listen for my faith to grow sometimes I must be led where I don't want to go that's what Jesus told Peter he said when you're old you will be led where you don't want to go why so that Peters faith could grow listen me God loves you he's closer to you than your problems he's closer he loves you he's investing in you the world doesn't care about you that's why they want to make it easy for you God knows that the only way we grow is through difficulty and through challenges you before I before I gave my life to Christ I was convinced that I was gonna go into politics and one day I was gonna be President United States and I was fascinated by President Abraham Lincoln without a doubt the greatest president we've ever had and if you want to know why President Lincoln was so great all you need to do is look at the house he was raised in you want a great president raise him with nothing with nothing with dirt floors in a log cabin with nothing that's how you get a Lincoln listen to me God's called you to be more than Lincoln he's called you to be a child of God a son of the king a daughter of the king and for that to happen just like job job says this a guy who was tortured more than any human being he said when God has done it with me I will come forth as gold that's what God is doing is he's refining us he's growing us he's challenging us he's preparing us for greatness everybody wants to be great in America today everybody has dreams nobody wants to do the work real faith puts my beliefs over my desires man listen to me many of you in church have been lied to you were told that when you became a new creation all your sinful desires would go away here's what real faith requires real faith requires you choose your beliefs over your desires and here's why the church is failing in America because people are saying God wouldn't have given me these desires if he didn't ask me to act upon them what that means is nobody's reading the Word of God the Word of God constantly tells us to choose our faith over our feelings to choose our beliefs over our desires during that time remember Jesus has been starving for 40 days the devil came to him and said if you are the son of God what does he attack first who do you believe you are Jesus who do you believe you are listen to me if you're struggling with a sin right now if you're struggling with the temptation right now right before you're about to give in I want you to ask yourself this question who do I believe I am who do I believe I am Imus I'm a son of the king I'm a pastor of Santals Church I'm a husband of Tammy Brown and I am the father of Madison and Kennedy and Ethan and I will not do that because I Know Who I am it's not because I'm never tempted it's because I remind myself of Who I am I told my wife today one of my good friends in ministry just got arrested just got arrested pastor of a huge church his life has spiraled out of control literally had an affair lost his church been arrested by the drug because he was involved with a drug cartel what happened he forgot who he was forgot who he was friend texted me this weekend and said all the devil got ahold of him and I said yes he did yes he did during that time the devil came to him and said if you are the son of God tell these stones to become loaves of bread if you're really who you say you are God would never ask you to hurt he would fix this problem instantaneously is hungry some of you are single and God's saying to wait you say Lord Lord but it's been 40 days it's been 40 days for some of you it's been years and the devil's bring in a loaf of bread and smells good smells nice isn't amazing how the devil can tempt us with stuff he doesn't tempt you with the consequence he tempts you with your desire the devil came to him and said tell these stones to become loaves of bread but Jesus told him no no the Scriptures say people do not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God what is Jesus saying I'm not following my desires I'm following God's desire for my life I'm following God's desire for my life I'm not going to live like the world says I should live the world says you are your sexuality God says you are your spirituality and you must choose the spirit over the flesh every time every time the Apostle Paul said this for a time is coming when people will no longer listen to wholesome teaching they will follow their own circle this word desires and they will look for teachers / churches / pastors who will tell them whatever their ears want to hear my job is not to tell you what you want to hear my job is to tell you what God knows you need to hear and that doesn't always feel good does it it's not always encouraging follow your heart I hear pastors I literally listen to a pastor this week he said the Holy Spirit is not to tear to challenge you I was like wha what literally what he told his churches your holy spirits like a cheerleader with pom-poms you can do it even though you're down by 40 what the Holy Spirit seen man this is not who I've called you to be I've called you to be different I've not called you to act like everybody else I've not called you to live in darkness I've called you to live in light there's a reason some of you feel dark because you're living in darkness and God is calling you into the light and you're not going to feel any better until you live any better you got to change your life and there's all kinds of churches now there's all kinds of churches whole denominations are bowing to culture instead of the Christ listen to me cultures changed the scripture hasn't people always ask me what do you think so it doesn't matter what I think it matters what the scripture says right it either is the Word of God or it isn't and it's sandals we believe it's the Word of God you do you will do us this is who we are so real faith puts my beliefs over my desires next real faith must guide my thoughts and my actions that's what it means to be a Christian what's going on in your head whatever happens in your mind is what comes out in your body right whenever you think you do that's why Jesus talks about the mind over and over and over again sin begins in the mind what's in your head the reason you do things you do is because it was in your head then the devil took him to the holy city of Jerusalem to the highest point of the temple and he said if you are the son of God jump off for the scriptures say he will order his angels to protect you and they will hold you up in their hands and you won't even hurt your foot on a stone and Jesus responded the Scriptures also say you must not test the Lord your God some of you live like fools even though you talk like you have faith here's what the devil is tempting Jesus to do to be foolish with his life here's what real faith requires real faith requires that I trust God with my thoughts and with my actions write this down being a Christian means learning to think feel and act like Jesus not like you that's the problem like anybody ever got in trouble because you were feeling thinking or acting like Jesus or did you get in trouble because you were thinking feeling and acting like you like my wife and I've never been to marriage counseling what happened this week Tammy he was just acting like Jesus again drives me crazy he's just so holy I can't handle it here's the problem some of us don't know how to think like Jesus the next time you're going to make a decision ask this question is this wise what I just got to have faith no you gotta use your brain you got to use your brain okay we don't just believe something that someone said 2,000 years ago 500 eyewitnesses billions have changed lives literally the scriptures themself the Gospels it's reasonable to have faith in who Jesus Christ is many many people doubters more brilliant than you than me guys like CS Lewis who said there's no such thing as Christianity who bowed to the name of Christ because it is real it is real so how to think like Jesus is this a wise decision I'm gonna go buy a car God will provide God's like no no I'm gonna buy a huge house that can't afford so we can open up for small group god it's like attend another house don't buy this house it doesn't matter we put a verse on it right you should put a verse up here you know the fool never learns proverbs or whatever proverbs has more to say about the fool than anything else why because most people are stupid some of you spend money based upon your feelings I feel like there's money in the account is this a wise decision does this decision make sense okay if you're older and if you have to ask yourself is this me then it's you if you're older how many of you have made a dumb decision raise your hands okay young people look at those people their hands up and ask them questions cuz they know what it's like to be burned those are the best people hey dummy I got a question anybody ever made a financial purchase that you just were like oh yeah whenever you go to a timeshare presentation where do they go after your feelings don't you feel like you deserve a vacation every day of your life yeah finally someone who understands me you go to buy a car this car is like made for you I don't think so but some of you're like I'm dumb God knows says I know James 1:5 if you need wisdom ask our generous God praise God God's like hey dummies I got something for you ask our generous God and He will give it to you he will not rebuke you for asking for wisdom you don't have to be like Lord I'm so embarrassed oh my gosh did he dance for something that you know I'm here every week but I need to get smarter God's like I know I know I've been waiting for you right there's a fast track with your name on it right to the front I mean it's like at the airport you know you got your your frequent fliers silver flower gold member and then idiots line straight to the front Here I am again lard it's like welcome welcome if you need wisdom ask ask but you know what we do we're so embarrassed we pretend we know the directions right guys I don't need Google I am Google I mean some of you you can't even ask Siri you're so prideful how do you think like Jesus is this a wise decision one of the ways is how am I going to feel about this ten minutes later after I make it how am I gonna feel a day after I make this what about six months from now what about a year from now how am I going to feel is this a wise decision next how to feel like Jesus asked this question is this kind and here's why you need to ask about kindness because kindness reveals your heart it reveals your heart I hate her when your hearts just like Jesus he always said that didn't he I hate her her her her her Paul says this now I appeal to you with the gentleness and kindness of who remember him Jesus right Jesus Christ he was gentle and kind do you know why he was empathetic to our situation he was kind he cared about people and I don't know if you've been in church but there's this story where you know this woman's caught in the act of adultery and I don't know if you do math very well but how many people does it take what's the minimum number of people it takes to commit adultery - okay you two - you can't commit adultery by yourself it requires another but in this story how many people are thrown in front of the foot of Jesus 1 so we're missing somebody we're missing somebody and remember she's thrown at the feet of Jesus and some of you failed to notice this Jesus gets on the ground and he's nobody knows and a theologians all speculate what's he doing what's he writing you know as you're writing scriptures and everybody gets frustrated and walks away do you know what I believe Jesus is doing he's the attention off the half-naked woman because he cares about her and he loves her maybe instead of drawing attention as somebody who's blown it you could have compassion like Jesus and take the attention away from their sin and have compassion and be kind the reason you struggle being kind is because your hearts in the wrong place how to feel like Jesus is this kind is this kind people make mistakes I went to the doctor's office this week instead of charging me 46 dollars for my copay they charged me 4,600 whoops so I came back into the doctor's office to show him their mistake they were terrified you know I said you're gonna refund my money right right we're all good they didn't they didn't know what to do with that because we live in a culture where when somebody makes a mistake like that you're not kind you're gonna refund my money right right we're all good they didn't know what to do what does that tell you about our culture we lack compassion like Christ next how to act like Jesus is this good is it good you see our world wants you to ask is it fair Jesus wants you to ask is it good for God called you to be good even if it means suffering just as Christ suffered for you he is your example and you must follow in his steps is this good so Jesus is tempted by the devil throw yourself off this building buy a motorcycle don't wear a helmet God's with you amen no that's stupid wear helmet drive carefully your life is a blessing treat it like it is treat it like it is we've got to learn to think like Jesus feel like Jesus and act like Jesus what would happen in your marriage in your life at your work if you became that kind of person the devil is tempting you every single day to act like you feel like you and think like you but every single day the Holy Spirit is nudging you follow Christ be like Christ be like him last point real faith puts God first now the devil took to peak to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all of the kingdoms of the world and their circle this word and never forget it and their what their glory their glory here's how the devil tempts us he shows us everything that's good about sin and he blinds us to everything that's bad so when there's an opportunity for adultery oh look at how beautiful she is or amazing he is look at what your life would be like if you just did this if you just partook in this what it doesn't show you is the trainwreck that your family is guess what Satan didn't show him all the disgruntled members of those societies walking around angry mad ticked off don't want to pay their taxes hate their king he tempts them with only the attractiveness of sin and he tries to blind you to the disaster of sin the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory and he says I will give it to you if you will just kneel down and worship me guess who wants to fulfill your desires it isn't Jesus it isn't Jesus if you ever find yourself in a church or they tell you that God is here to fulfill your desires they don't worship Jesus they have bowed down to another whose name is not Jesus his name is Satan which in the Greek is the accuser the liar your antagonist he hates you some of you've never thought about this God has a plan for your life so to Satan God has a plan for your marriage so to Satan God has a plan for your children so to Satan God has a plan for your singleness so to say I will give it all to you he said if you will just kneel down and worship me worship me Satan says and Jesus says get out of here Satan for the scriptures say you must worship the Lord your God and serve him only listen to me if Jesus needed scripture to defeat the enemy what do you need get your head out of the TV out of the internet get it in the word get it in the word I love this then the devil went away and the angels came back and took care of Jesus took care of Jesus you know what I think that means they fed him they fed him just like they fed Elijah Elijah excuse me when he was starving and God said have a muffin take a nap he imagined what it must be like to eat food made by angels jesus knows because he survived the temptation look I don't know where you are I don't know what you're going through but I know this it's just a valley it's just a valley and if you stay faithful if you keep trusting God will get you through and there are angels ready to meet you on the other side on the other side they want to minister to you and they want to pray with you and they want to feed you that's what God does but listen to me without the valley we will never be who we're called to be and we need that Valley we need those trials because real faith must be challenged and with the Spirit of God living in you you're up to the challenge you can do this the Apostle Paul said I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me and that Christ who didn't eat for 40 days and whipped the devil with just words is the same Christ who died on the cross who rose from the dead and who's rooting for you and cheering for you and he says I'm with you even to the end of the age I'm with you through divorce I'm with you through bankruptcy I'm with you through all things I will never leave you I will never forsake you Jesus says he's called us to trust him in the belly this is week 3 of 40 days of faith I'm guessing if you're listening to God and you're growing in God things are getting tight things are getting difficult and some of you are ready to bail man don't bail before you see what God's gonna do in your life don't miss out don't miss out on what God wants to do in your life hang in there don't give up don't give in God is with you let's pray Heavenly Father thank you thank you so much for being with us Lord Jesus strengthen us encourage us walk with us Lord and I pray for every single person who right now is in the wilderness there in the desert god I pray that right now they wouldn't give up they wouldn't give in they would keep trusting keep believing and God I pray they get to the other side of that Valley I pray that they reach the end of that wilderness and I pray that they are met by angels I pray this in Jesus name Amen

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Length: 43min 54sec (2634 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 24 2018