"Handling Life's Bitter Waters" Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr. (Mind-blowing Word)

praise the Lord Saints this is the day that the Lord has made and we are rejoicing and we're glad and I'm glad about it thank you for joining us this day wherever you are in the world I give them a shout out to a college student I give a shout out to the military all around the world I give a shout out to our members that are traveling and joining us by way of the internet I'm praying that the word that God has given us today will be an incredible blessing to your life I'm gonna be ministering from Exodus chapter 15 and the title of the message is handling life's bitter waters and I believe it will be an answer to somebody's challenges in life and help you move forward with God's will for your life have a great day in a fabulous week your worthy father bless your name father we give you the glory we give you honor we thank you for your loving kindness to us every day you kept us all week brought us to this place today and without hesitation we give you thanks and we pray for one another and intercede we pray for you to meet the needs of the brother of the sister of the person whose hand I'm holding God I know you know the details we know you know the details of our brother our sister and you're more than able to step in and work a miracle and we pray that you work that out in Jesus name father while we're praying today we're praying that you would bless our time in your word today speak to us make this Rhema word fresh bread for somebody give a level of direction and answer to solutions for somebody father we pray for you to save somebody restore some backslidden person reclaim them let the Saints be edified old mighty God let the name of the Lord Jesus you get all of the glory and honor we thank you ahead of time father I pray a hinge and protection around this place that you bind every demon in Hell rebuke every demonic spirit every distracting spirit we pray follow our brothers and sisters that are not physically in this building but participating with us Lord through the internet we pray that you speak to them as well and I give you the praise in the things ahead of time in Jesus name Amen amen [Music] all right before you sit down grab your Bibles your iPhone your iPad whatever it is you look at the Bible on and turn it to Exodus chapter 15 Exodus that's the second book in the Bible Genesis answers chapter 15 I'm not saying it cuz of you because I know you know who it where's that but that Joker next to you is looks questionable chapter 15 and I want to begin the reading at verse 22 so Moses verse 22 so Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea then they went out into the wilderness of Shur and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water now when they came to Marah they could not drink the waters of Marah for they were bitter therefore the name of it was called Marah and the people complained against Moses saying what shall we drink y'all say that what shall we drink so he cried out and to the Lord and the Lord showed him a tree when he cast it into the waters the trees were made sweet there he made a statute and an ordinance for them and there he tested them I want to talk about handling life's bitter waters look at your neighbor and say handling life's bitters or bitter waters look on the other side say the same thing that you got to learn how to handle life's bitter waters you're gonna be seated you can be seated okay it is 12 53 7 minutes to 1 I promise I'll be finished when I get done I love and look forward to the 12 o'clock service because this is the time I can take my time no rush y'all get the whole dish y'all get the whole meal not a piece of it now I have to cut nothing off the plate and I had to take nothing off I'm give it all to you I want to just set the stage for this particular situation this is the 15th chapter of Exodus how many of you've seen the movie The Ten Commandments let me see your hands okay good Virginia so how many read Exodus chapter 15 let me see those we'll read those okay some of y'all align okay chapter 14 and 15 tells the story of the children of Israel escaping slavery it's God opening up them to be free God raises up Moses and leads them to freedom they get the victory they get they get released from slavery and you know the story they they they gather their belongings and gather their stuff they leave they get down to the Red Sea and they look over their shoulder and here comes Pharaoh's army coming after them to attack them and recapture them Charleston Heston I mean Moses stretches out his rod and the waters open up on both sides and the children of Israel walk across on what dry ground God did two miracles for them in one setting God number one rolled up the water for them a supernatural event parted the Red Sea number two the miracle of making land or ground that was wet and he makes it dry and they walk across on dry ground then he did a third miracle actually they got on the other side when they got on the other side Farrell's army decided to try to follow the children of Israel to the other side by going and following the path between this opened up Red Sea and the Bible says that the Red Sea closed and drowned Pharaoh's army and the children is wrong now free the only other side of the sea God has opened up and worked as spectacular miracle for them and they're free right after this miracle event they encounter a challenging problem how many of you know if how many of you experience in life that after God does some spectacular the devil wants to raise here to make something powerful happen it's a matter of fact that's an important principle to learn in life I don't have time to talk about it but let me just throw this in for free after something spectacular the devil gets mad and he tries to create some problems and some issues and and in fact that's exactly what happens the children of Israel are through the Red Sea and they get to a place verse number 22 says then they went out into the wilderness of Shur the word sure means wall they'd hit a wall and I don't know if y'all want to tell the truth and be honest but some of you that day have hit a wall in life you're trying to move forward but you've hit a wall you've been trying to get promoted but you've hit a wall you've tried to advance something in life but you've hit a wall and the fact of the matter is the devil wants to frustrate you and make you upset and mad but God has a plan for you I want you to follow with me through this story they they get to the wilderness of Shur and there they are they not only hit a wall but they're there and they've searched for water for three days and they can find no water I think you know that water is essential to life you cannot survive without water you need water animals will need water people need water they they need water and then the text says they came to moraga see that verse 23 and they could not drink the waters of Marah for they were bitter now they've got a multiplicity of problems here there they've hit a wall and some of you have hit a wall in life some of you back up into something you've hit something and you can't move forward you can't get that promotion you can't get a new job you you can't you can't move ahead and you're frustrated and they they've hit a wall and they're looking for water and when they finally think they have found water what they actually find this of water that they can't drink it's bitter water I thought I'd talk about this for a few moments because sitting in our midst in the midst of the people here in this church that IRA members of the First Baptist Church and some of our guests are people here today who are like the children of Israel and you've come up against the waters some bitter waters you've come up to a place where life is not treated your right and people that made you angry and mad people have pisses you off some I look at your neighbours say piss it evolved that's a biblical term look it up in the King James Version P is s ETH pisses isn't about don't email me don't write me is a biblical terminology I thought I should talk about this because every day I encounter somebody who's mad upset hurt disappointed bothered bitter frustrated because life just has not gone their way and they have become bitter they become bitter because they were expecting one thing but something else happened you thought you would want to get good but you got bad you had prayed for answers but instead you walk away with questions you had hope for deliverance but instead you got demons you you thought that you were going to get a job but you stayed you got fired you you you you were looking for something in one direction but you ended up with something in a different direction now I thought I start to talk about this because here the children of Israel have I hit a wall they have not only hit a place of sure a place that they can't go forward they have now come across some bitter waters and the question is they can't drink that water some of you have bitter waters and you shouldn't be drinking but you are drinking bitter waters some of you have not only drunk the bitter waters but you put the water in a canteen and strap the canteen to your belt and every time you get an opportunity you're pulling it out drinking from the bitter waters thinking about somebody who hurts you and somebody who did you wrong and somebody who lied on you and somebody who got you fired and why did they fire you and why they don't give you the song to sing in the church and why is this and why is that and why you're going through this and why are you going through that let me tell you something life has a way of handling you handing you bitter circumstances it is a part of life it is a it is a it is a part of nature you just keep on living matter of fact you don't have to ask for bitterness you don't have to go looking forward you don't have to order it you don't have to go on line or it it's gonna find its way to your house uninvited unrequested bitterness is gonna make its way to your house and the problem is some of you are letting bitterness move in and enjoy itself you're letting bitterness come in and have its way in your life and my assignment is to tell you it's dangerous to let bitterness come into your hand somebody look at your name say it's dangerous and that bitterness come in turn to the person on the other side and say what do I do it disappear in this they got two listeners that says that verse number 23 they came to Marah they came to a place here's here's what made them bitter they came to Marah and there they couldn't drink the water there because the waters were bitter and the Bible says that they named the place they gave a name to the place they called that place they they called it Marah and the word Merai has a meaning it means the fountains of Moses it's the fountain of Moses what does that mean I'm glad you asked the question they had been following Moses's leadership they had been submitting to his authority they had been following him but now the direction that Moses is going is is creating some problems for them and I thought I should talk about this because III want to thank this church because y'all have given me great great support and y'all have followed most of y'all have followed me fairly well as your pastor most of you look at you Davis I hope you ain't one of those people who didn't but there comes a time in in the children of Israel's life where where they cannot drink from the fountain that Moses drinks from those fountains were for Moses and that comes a time in your life where you have to learn how to drink for yourself you have to be able to get something you have to be able to get some waters for yourself and what a lot of y'all end up doing is going home talking about what the pastor saying but jinkin see pastor Jay can see they ought to come a time in your life where you stop talking about what jinkin see it and talk about with Jesus see somebody HiFi your neighbor say he preaching and teaching show enough right now I appreciate you talking about I appreciate you learning from me but you gotta mature to a level that when you need direction from God you can open up this Bible you can get in your prayer closet you can talk to God and God can talk to your stool your self about what he wants to do in your life and you don't have to depend on what the pastor sing you can't always drink from the waters from the same water so so they got to this place and the waters were no good for them it wasn't some it wasn't helpful the Bible says the water was bitter and I wanted to talk about this because some of you are drinking from bitter waters somebody has made you man somebody upsets you you thought she was gonna marry him and he walked her down the aisle was somebody else they fired you from your job they gave somebody else too promotion that you thought you ought to God you and you see them doing their job and you say you better than they are you should have got the job you see her married to that Joker you said that should have been me I think there's a sonnet say it should have been me that's the old song some god I don't know that song lady sang she said should have been me I can't stand it to see him walking down the aisle somebody else it should have been me some of y'all are bitter and the question is what happens when you get bitter bitterness is not a good thing bitterness brings drama and painting Hebrews 12 jot it down don't have time to turn there Hebrews 12 verses 14 and 15 says that when you let bitterness come into your life it causes trouble to spring up in your life some of you got trouble because you've allowed bitterness to come in in 2nd Samuel chapter 16 and 17 listen to what chapter 16 and 17 of 2nd Samuel says in 2nd Samuel 16 verse 23 it says I hid the field as a young man named a hither field who when he speaks it is as if you are listening to the Oracles of God we listen to this guy talking so almost like you talk it's like it's almost like you're talking to God chapter 16 2nd Samuel is verse 23 when you get to chapter 17 verse 23 one chapter later he commits suicide how does a person go from being being Oracles of God to submitting committing suicide how do you go being a mouthpiece from God and one chapter later you're killing yourself it's because he got bitter his boss David had done something that he wasn't happy about it he became bitter about it and it destroyed his life that's why it's dangerous for you to live and abide in bitterness bitterness is a dangerous thing Ben they hadn't gone on with their life you still harboring it you still mad about it you still trying to pay him back you're still trying to hurt them they've gone on with a life but you are still carrying it and I don't know who I'm preaching to but I believe you in his camp somewhere today that God wants to move you forward but you can't move forward because you're still trying to hurt the person back you're still dreamed about he's just thinking about it you're still blaming them about it you're still holding them accountable for it you can never move forward doing that there's a commercial that came on some years ago for during the Superbowl Budweiser commercial and it's the Budweiser commercial with the a lizard named Louie Louie and his partner his partner Lenny was sitting on the on the branch complaining about the frogs the three frogs that got the commercial that Louie and his friends had applied to be in the commercial the frogs had won one role one responsibility one frog said bud the second frog said wise deferred third Frog said a Budweiser but that's all they did they got they got the assignment they got the commercial and Louie is up in the tree looking at the frogs doing the commercial and he's better cuz he should have got the job and his friends said to him Louie let it go and that's what I'm trying to tell y'all let it go you'd have gone on to another relationship and you're still reflecting back on what they did it's dangerous and here they are at the place of Marah and some bitter waters and that's what some of you here today you're still complaining about matter of fact here's how you tell a person's bitter because they complain look at verse number 24 and the people complained y'all never met a complainer a whiner the bitter and wide and whiner and upsetting and the frustrated man but take carrying the burden of bitterness and my job today is to try to get you past that I promise you today you keep living somebody's gonna hurt you somebody's gonna do something some I own your job somebody in your family some neighbors some friends somebody you trusted somebody you love somebody who you went out of your way to support when you need them to help you they're not gonna help you it's gonna happen I promise you it's a part of life it's a part of growing up it's a part of experiencing the journey of life it's going to happen and the problem is when bitterness comes when something happens that hurts you you can choose to let it immobilize you or you can make the choice to let it roll the Bible teaches us that they've got to these bitter waters and they couldn't drink them and so the Bible teaches us how Moses handled it and I loved what he did I want to just tell you you do what Moses did you'll be able to handle bitter waters three things here's the number one verse number 20 matter of fact it's all in verse 25 verse 25 says so he cried out to the Lord stop stick your pen right there there's number one he cried out to the Lord he prayed somebody say he prayed you gotta learn how to pray you got to learn to carry your burdens to the Lord and leave it there you got to have a prayer life you have to have the capacity to commune and talk with God and know that God hears you I'm not talking about just going through the motions some of y'all are good at going through the motions you know how to say the Lord's Prayer our Father which art in heaven I'll be that name y'all go to be and say the same pray every night here I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep if I should die before I wake I pray the law office all you day I ain't talking about repeating no prayer I ain't talking about repeating the words I'm talking about by genuine relationship with God till you can say God I'm ready and I'm here coming to you today and I need you to step in and help me in this situation some of you don't have that it was paralyzing your life matter of fact description and say he prayed as he cried out it means he opened his mouth some of y'all pray little cute prayers nice little cute prayers but they oughta come a time of your life where you cry to God I mean tears running down your face it's not coming out your nose prayer when you fall on your face and cry out is it God I need help to get out of the situation I I can't do it in my own strength and power night I need thee he cried out to God that's point one you got to learn how to cry out somebody say cry out he cried out to God and God gave him direction and I'm almost finished this is a shortest the shortest sermon you hear me preach at 12 o'clock today is this one right here then it says in verse number 25 and the Lord showed him a tree somebody say the Lord showed him a tree look at your neighbors say God showed him a tree this is an important deal and I got to come down here cuz y'all don't hear me whine on up here when I come down here y'all hear me talk to you today God showed him a tree see the way you deal with bitterness is you pray and number one you gotta see the tree the scripture says God showed him a tree you gotta have the capacity to see a tree what are you talking about pastor I'm talking about a tree called Calvary what am I saying I'm saying you have to have the capacity and the ability to look past the person and what they did and see the master of the universe behind it all y'all not hear what I'm saying to you today you got to be able to see y'all not hear what I'm saying to you today you have to see that there is a God that is behind those behind the curtains pulling the chains and quartering the shots and calling the shots because the bottom line is this I know that God wouldn't let nothing happen in my life that he has not already prepared me to be able to handle y'all not hearing what I'm saying when you can see the tree you can see that God has somehow orchestrated permitted it he's not the author of it but he permits it to happen in your life he signs off on it I look back over my life and I think about some things that happened and I can recognize the point that God had to sign off on it that's what people of faith do you got to live knowing and believe knowing that God has sang he permitted it to come until the domain of my life you gotta see a tree behind y'all I hear what I'm saying he saw the tree that tree represents that God is still in charge okay y'all y'all not getting it and then it says he took the tree and what does it say after that read it read it read it like they do in the Holiness Church when he cast it into the when he cast it in the waters the waters were made sweet the waters with made sweet when you put the tree in the water God will change you from being bitter to being able to find some sweetness y'all still ain't got it somebody ain't got it here's what I'm trying to tell you when you see the tree and you put the tree in the bitter water God would take what once made you cry and give you the ability to shout and give him appraisal I got five people who understand what I'm saying what are you saying pasta chicken what I'm saying is when God when you seek God's hand you will be able to call the people who tried to hurt you and you'll be able to call them up and say thank you thank you for finding me I got a better job now thank you for leaving me I got the person God wanted me to have thank you for talking about me my spawn stronger now that I've in my life somebody say my wallet [Applause] I feel a shout coming over today somebody have fire somebody say my water is sweet now I'm not crying anymore I'm not bitter anymore I'm not frustrated I used to get mad I used to growl and I looked at it I used to be in pain when I thought about what you did but I'll God turn my bitter waters in the sweet and I'm better because of what you did now some of y'all I'm almost finished [Applause] some of y'all between Mara and verse 27 which is Elam at Elam there were 12 wells y'all miss a great spot to shout and 70 palm trees I'm preaching to myself I'm excited 12 wills that means prosperity that means more than you could dream or magic 12 wells more than you can drink from by yourself he got enough for you and your mama and your grandmama and your baby's head your sister and your brother he got 12 well and your in-between youuuu stuck in between all I'm trying to tell you is don't drink from the bitter waters of Marah because you got the wails of Elam just up the street [Applause] somebody's I got to 12 wills of elam just up the street I got 70 palm trees just up the road I got prosperity just around the corner they don't need to be crying over what you did to me and how you fired me and how you talked about me in how you rejected me how you lied on me hey gonna deal with you I'm crying let it go stop complaining about it let it go stop whining about it let it come you you're better because of it you're stronger because you're richer because of it you're blessed because of how to put a tree in your bitter waters that tree is a tree called cow a man you've gotta see God you got to look past a person and see that God allowed it for your betterment yeah I I remember I can tell you our two or three incisions in my life I remember when I had this girlfriend I thought I was gonna marry her and I came rolling up the street and she was in the car with another dude thank you for being with that other joke [Applause] [Music] so y'all need to be sending some thank you emails pull out your phone right now send a thank-you text to somebody who don't hurt you say thank you in Washington DC they call me upset you wonder the last two candidates you wonder the last two candidate hurry up give us your your resume I thought what together didn't handle resume throw it together send it to them never even call me back I learned later that they had another person that they wanted to be their pastor and so they just want to put up another name against that other person that other person had preached at the previous week before the vote I hadn't preached there for a year so they just wanted to use me but in the words of Bill Withers keep on using me so he used me up cuz I'm serving a God who is so is using me to do the things he's doing [Applause] [Music] [Applause] somebody help me give God a praise thank y'all for not calling me thank you for not voting me in cuz I am where I am supposed to be [Applause] do y'all understand what I'm saying [Applause] stop being bitter let it go amen give the moisture [Applause] [Music] somebody needs the Lord Jesus in their life you need forgiveness of your sins you don't have the capacity in your own strength to make it right come on and say yes to the Lord right now say yes to Christ right now while the blood is running warm in your veins and say yes to the Lord he will make a way for you come and accept the Lord come and rededicate yourself come and get assurances oh come join the church you already say come join the church right now will be the time [Applause] [Music] come on somebody else come don't put it off yesterday this is the moment this is the time don't let the enemy hold you back the God of the universe is calling you with his arms stretched out wide for you to come he loves you he's seen your pain he's seen you hurt he's made provisions for your sins to be washed away for you to have a relationship with him come right now amen come on [Applause] 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Length: 35min 41sec (2141 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 10 2018