How To Deal With Crisis | Tim Sheets

romans 8 and 22 for we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time and we believers also groan even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory before we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering we to wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children including the new bodies he has promised us but we were given this hope when we were saved if we already have something we don't need to hope for it but if we look forward to something we don't yet have we must wait patiently and confidently and the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness for example we don't know what God wants us to pray for but the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words and the father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying for the spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will and we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them one more scripture 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 and verse number 2 the Apostle Paul says I was caught up to the third heaven 14 years ago whether I was in my body or out of the body I don't know only God knows yes only God knows whether I was in the body or outside my body but I do know that I was caught up to paradise and heard things so astounding that they cannot be expressed in words things no human is allowed to tell that experience is worth boasting about but I'm not going to do it I will boast only about my weaknesses if I wanted to bow I would be no fool in doing so because I would be telling the truth but I won't do it because I don't want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can see in my life or here in my message even though I've received such wonderful revelations from God so to keep me from from becoming proud I was given a thorn in the flesh a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud three different times I begged the Lord to take take it away each time he said my grace is all you need my power works best in weakness so now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ can work through me that's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses and in the insults hardships persecutions and troubles that I suffer for Christ for when I am weak then I am strong let's pray thank you this morning Lord for your your goodness and your your your word that feeds us encourages us in life's us and I pray today for that life in your word to come forth into every life here and inspire encourage teach Lord and correct if it if it's necessary but let your word nurture us today I pray for the anointing of Samuel that not one word that I speak fall to the ground Lord use use me today to communicate hope communicate life and communicate Lord the transcending message and principles of your word and Alaska in Jesus name Amen you may be seated Tuesday morning just before I left to come to the office I had the news on and the commentator this we now have a bona fide crisis going on at our southern border the immigration situation is a bona fide kept using that word it's a bona fide crisis and I thought bonafide crisis well that's not good but it's not news we've heard it and heard it and heard it then the commentator quoted other sources who said something must be done about the crisis yet it appears our nation's leaders don't want to deal with it but but they've got to do something and of course we all know that yes something's got to be done so I began to think about how do you deal with a crisis what what do you do when you face a bonafide crisis often we do not at Christ is that our the southern border but a crisis that borders your life a crisis that borders you and your family and Holy Spirit began to draw me to some simple and yet powerful promises for our times right now and for your times in mind that that gives us a valuable life lesson that just changes things it it just comes things sometimes and I think Mother's Day is one of them you just need a calm time this world is crazy all of us at some point in our lives have to deal with a crisis situation I've had to deal with my share our family has had to deal with it share our church family has had to deal with its share many of my my friends have have had to deal with challenging crisis horrible situations and I couldn't tell you how many people that I've prayed for or or talked with who have been in a bonafide crisis crisis by definition simply means a turning point in the progress of something it is a state of affairs in which a decisive change for either the better or the worse is is imminent crisis means a time of danger it means a time of fear and crisis means a time of critical pressure or crucial pressure crisis is used to describe a turning point in a disease or a sickness towards either life or death it's a crisis it's used to describe the point of war that that is between nations that that have things that are now escalating and it's now very very real danger that is present in it it's a crisis individually and familywize it's used to describe a moment that threatens your very way of life it threatens your future it threatens your destiny it it it threatens to destroy things crisis it always occurs at the curve of change or in other words at the bend of change crisis it all often occurs at tipping point moments it's gonna go one way or the other it could Bend this way it could go that way but it's highly unlikely that things are going to stay the way that they are unless something happens unless something's done unless unless something changes unless some action is taking what is crisis it's often described by experts as overwhelming information that floods at you crisis is concentrated information see it's easy to deal with something you know one at a time at least it's easier it's easier to handle something one at a time but but in crisis things flood at us this is happening and then that's happening in and something else happens and then something else happens and something else it's like hell's broken loose and emotions flood at us fears flood at us thoughts race through the mind flooding us with various scenarios none of them are all that good which way are we going to go what are we going to do what's going to happen how do we deal with this well it's concerning this that then the Apostle Paul penned some words that are absolutely soaked with hope in Romans chapter 8 and of course verse 28 it's a common it's a common scripture that it's used by by millions of believers there probably many of you in this room that could quote this verse at least paraphrase it but sometimes we got to dive into it a little bit deeper than just the surface and and dive into some little bit deeper meanings we need to really understand this powerful life-changing scripture yes it's changed lifes but it can do something even even greater than just change it can begin to become a creative thing in the nature of things this is not a religious platitude that Paul is espousing it's alive with God very being it's alive with his watchful care it's a live with just his kingdom backing it it's alive with his creative source nature in it it's it's alive with with the essence of who God is that is called grace grace and indeed it is amazing Paul says those who have accepted God's invitation to be born again they born again one even though you don't deserve it and nobody does no one on earth deserves it even though you don't deserve it you have a deposit of grace that is upon your life whereby the creative wisdom and genius of God can cause all things to begin to work together for your good maybe not the same and it doesn't say the same some things will never be the same but they can be cause to work together for good they can be turned they can be bent in a in a good direction in other words God can always make life good again no matter what no matter what has happened some of you need to hear that all of us need to hear that on occasion we are the only group of people that is on the planet that this promise is made to we're the only group of people that it is activated towards but upon all of us born again God is able to turn all things for our good also and this is a big also this is an incredible also the genius of our God and the power of his kingdom is truly incredible and the wisdom in which functions is so incredible and it reveals another aspect of his grace that soaked the believers life that would be you today if you are one of God's kids if if he's your father it would be you today it's it's another aspect of his grace that soaks us and it is this within the crisis itself there is an answer that is waiting to burst forth that God wants to uncover over the years it's been one of my favorite lessons to proclaim I guess I've come out of every which way that I could think of and I think it's because we need it so much we're thrown there's so much thrown at us right now as far as accumulated or concentrated information it's incredible how much the adversary has piled up the information to bombard us all week long to the point that you wonder how in the world can we survive certain things how can our nation even survive how can our way of life continue on it's just a flood of information and we need to be reminded of something that is a transcending grace that God gives to every single one of us within the crisis itself there is an answer that is waiting to burst forth waiting to be uncovered supernaturally to you by God Himself within the crisis there is a victory waiting to be revealed in spite of the crisis the essence of who God is provides that for his heirs and it has implied that he it is implied that he can't help himself he must do this because it is his nature towards you it's how he feels is how he thinks it's how he will react to you he can't help himself this is his nature to an heir the idea of the wording in Romans 8:28 is just so graphic it can be explained by a snake that strikes and bites someone like a rattlesnake or a Cobra a snake bite of course poisons you now it can that poison it can paralyze you sometimes the crisis can become paralyzing almost it can destroy your inner organs and shut them down ever have a crisis shut you down your heart seems to just shut down and of course it can kill you what is the answer though what's the cure amazingly the answer comes out of the poison itself the anti-venom is actually made out of the venom itself it may sound crazy but they harvest the venom of a poisonous snake and create an anti-venom with it please hear this awesome attribute of God spoken through the Greek language here the graciousness of God provides an anti-venom to whatever strikes you to whatever poisons life for you he he in his wondrous genius and his attitude in heart towards you his graciousness graciousness provides an anti-venom to whatever strikes and air whatever strikes to poison its what the cross was about an Anna do an antidote for sin was being was being given mankind was in a crisis it was a crisis he is able to take something out of the crisis and anoint it to so bless us that it actually even blesses others who are around us that have been struck like we were struck it's it's incredible the end of venom he creates can heal us and others who have been bit there can be multiple healings resulting resulting from your testimony of the anti-venom is available to turn things around for you I have the anti-venom it is flowing through me I have the anti-venom for what has struck you something similar struck me but here's what God provided there can be a turnaround and he can cause things to even be good again that's the idea behind this this great verse of scripture within the crisis there's a victory waiting to be uncovered by our awesome God you may not see it and probably do not but God does there's always something in the crisis that God can use to turn it for good there's there's a weapon that is within the crisis that God's wisdom can hand to you and turn things for you your good there is a resource that he can hand you out of the crisis that can turn everything around and make life good again when David faced Goliath he he charged him with well he had a shepherd's rods as all he had but he declared today I'm going to cut your head off of your shoulders and when he charged him he did not when he charged Goliath he didn't have what was necessary to do that Israel was in crisis they were stymied they were stopped they were blocked and they were in a crisis situation and David did charge Goliath he charged the crisis and out of the crisis came what was necessary to actually remove the situation and unblock things for Israel because the sword necessary to - to handle the crisis was in goliaths hands but God turned it around and he put what was necessary in David's hands to turn the crisis completely around and to turn things around in such a way that it set David on a pathway to promotion and even become the next king out of the crisis came something it came a resource that blessed him and turned things around and Israel was taken care of in Mordecai Anne and Esther's crisis we're told that a man named Haman actually built a gallows to hang Mordecai on that's a crisis also the entire Israeli people that were there they were going to be exterminated kind of like the Nazis did in Germany they were going to exterminate the Jewish people it was a crisis but but Esther went to the king and God miraculously intervened and out of the crisis there was a turning point there was a bending of the crisis and God turned around in such a way their situation that the gallows that were built to hang more to ki were used to hang the one who had authored the crisis which was Haman himself Haman hung on the gallows built for them out of the crisis came a turn around God handed them something that made life good again and protected his people Jacob's son Joseph when he was 17 years old went through a major crisis time his family sold him into slavery you know the story Saudi men to slavery because of his dream and then they the the caravan that bought him sold him into another man's home to be a slave for him and after he was accused of rape by that guy's wife Potiphar he has then put in prison it didn't look like things were gonna work out too well he was in crisis situation the crisis was real being in jail was real the situation was horrible for him but God began to bend the crisis he began to turn it on to her the Pharaoh had the dream and and needed interpreter interpreted and of course Joseph's turpitude interpreted in and out of the crisis came an amazing turnaround he has given charge over the entire resources of Egypt his family crisis turned around and he was able to protect and take care of his family out of the crisis there was an awesome turnaround God was able to hand a victory hand a resource and a promotion that is even hard for us to even comprehend there are promotions waiting for you to trust God and bend them into awesome turnarounds this principle again it all stems from God's grace that is freely given we don't deserve it but at the new birth for those who trust him god deposits a grace that is consistent to turn things around I don't know what your situation may be but God is wise enough to bend it in such a degree that he can bring a resource out that will ultimately bless you in the life of Moses this principle is clearly seen because he killed an Egyptian who was abusing a Hebrew slave we know that he took off running for 200 miles to a mountain that is called Horeb where he lived for the next forty years from time he was 40 until he was 80 years old he lived on Mount Horeb and I have described that in a whole sermon I'm not going to repeat that but I want you to hear this brief aspect of something that has been going off in my heart for today and even in my own life in certain ways here this brief aspect of it Mount Horeb was a desert mountainous what it was there was hardly any foliage on that mountain at all just some acacia trees or desert desert scrub trees scrubby existence there was also a few patches of grass just scattered for sheep here and there but very little and you may remember that Moses spent 40 years living on that desert mountain it had become his hiding place he was there in exile because of what he had done in his past in killing the Egyptian it was a barren place with very very little water there in fact to water the Sheep was was quite a chore because they would have to haul water in in wagons they would have to walk haul water up the mountain just to survive to continue to exist there Horeb it was a the name Horeb actually means the place of desolation or it means the dry place the desert place think of it he lived for decades 40 years on dry Mountain he lived there haunted by his failures he was haunted by losses in his life and he's a classic example of man that was completely Hope deferred and heart sick I thought of this yesterday as I talked to a pastor and his wife who were so hopeless and so heartsick that I actually went into grieving for them because of the loss and the warfare that's coming against their life he was a classic example of someone that was just heart sick Moses lived daily a life that was tortured by by what might have been if only he hadn't messed things up if it hadn't been for that that crisis in his past that he didn't handle right talk about concentrated information flooding his mind talk about emotions flooding his mind Moses was supposed to be the Pharaoh at this point of the story not a sheep herder after 40 years of living in exile on desert on dry mountain Mount Horeb we know what happened God appeared to Moses in a burning bush and said I want you to go back and I want you to lead my people out of Egyptian bondage or slavery they had been slaves in Egypt for 430 years long story short for today Moses did it I don't know where he got the guts to do that the drive or the energy to do that maybe he thought what have I got to lose I don't know but he did it and miraculously when he gets back MERP miracles start to happen miracles in nature miracles in in signs and wonders in nature itself in the in the in the nation of Egypt began to happen 10 plagues brought Egypt's domination to its knees and Moses was able to lead the people of God out of 430 years of slavery and amazingly in too much time he led them right back to his place of Exile desert mountain dry Mountain he led them back to Mount Horeb the place of desolation the dry place the the barren place why did he do that well there was only one reason and that's because God commanded him to take them there well as we know and the book of Exodus reveals a lot of great things happened and did occur on that mountain but remember there was about a million people accompanying Moses at this point not only a million people but all of their livestock camels donkeys cattle oxen there was there was countless livestock following along and now they are all camping on desert mountain dry mountain and there's no water there's no water it quickly becomes a bona fide crisis thousands are going to die of thirst and of course Moses he he starts seeking God he starts asking God what do we do this is a crisis and God tells Moses I want you to take your Shepherd rod that has now been transformed no longer a shepherd rod it had become a rod of authority and I want you to strike those granite walls of of dry desolate mountain and so Moses takes the rod and he does strike desert mountains granite walls and when he did a river began to gush up out of that mountain a river broke out of that mountain rushing and flowing to quench the thirst of a million people and all of their livestock who knew who knew who knew there was a river under dry mountain there was a river buried under that mountain who knew only God he knew there was a river under dry mountain and out of the mountainous crisis there was a there was an answer waiting for God to uncover there was a river reservoir under that mountain I wonder what's buried under your mountain I wonder what's buried under your Mountain waiting for God to uncover I wonder what's under there that only he knows I wonder what river of blessings and resource is buried under your crisis oasis I wonder what's buried under this mountain think about it I wonder what river of resource and blessing has been buried in this wilderness campground waiting for a miraculous God to cause to gush forth waiting for a rod of authority to break it break it loose break it out who knew there was a mighty river there all along Moses had walked that mountain for 40 years and he had no idea he had no idea he was walking on a reservoir he had no idea he was walking on water he was walking on a river he had hauled water up that mountain just to survive he had no idea he had simply come back here because God said you have no idea what God can bring out of your crisis you have no idea of what is buried in your crisis that he can reveal like he did for Moses and the children of Israel he can turn the crisis around for good it was good from then on no longer a dry mountain never a dry mountain again only one with a resourcing River flowing from it God can cause a river that resources you for the rest of your life out of your crisis it's amazing well the Apostle Paul writes I said I wasn't gonna do the eternal gospel so let's land this plane somewhere the Apostle Paul writes to the Corinthians about how did he do he discovered this enabling grace he says it this way everything was going along really good I I was called of God dumping the glory of God knocked me off a donkey and everything turned around I was going the wrong way but but everything was really good and I I saw all these churches built I was seeing signs and wonders and miracles I was receiving visions and revelations from the Lord in fact he said I got an abundance of them so I just saw all of these awesome things I was caught up into paradise and revelation was given to me and then he said something happened a crisis took place in my spiritual life and in my natural life and we know a series of crisis began to flood against Paul designed to make him quit he was beaten with the cat-o'-nine-tails that's the beating Jesus of course took before the cross he was stoned the big rocks were thrown at him to kill him at least three occasions he was left for dead he was shipwrecked and and if not for Angel assistance he would have drowned Paul's family disowned him because he had turned from the jewish historical faith towards christianity and his family disowned Timothy's thought that that is when his wife left him it was a time when he was then imprisoned often he was whipped with rods that's a beating with a cane beyond that he says in second Corinthians 12:7 that a messenger of Satan was sent on a mission to buff at him the word buffett there is calif iso means to hit with the fist or it means to punish or target for affliction to physically abuse a demon spirit was sent to target Paul for affliction it was sent to target him for abuse I for one think that that what he describes as a bonafide crisis as I said earlier I I've been through a few crisis situations and I also have on occasion had to fight demon spirits that attacked me that that tried to buff at me that targeted me to to get me to try to quit I've been there it's exhausting it's it's not easy sometimes it truly is spiritual warfare and I've had to trust the grace of God and use the authority that he has given to me many times still do it's something all believers have to do yes victory is provided by Calvary's cross but also yes the enemy challenges that in our lives sometimes we face physical battles sometimes we face spiritual battles sometimes the crisis is spiritual in nature and we have to raise the rod of authority like Moses and like Paul resisting the devil until he flees from us we can't bury our heads in the sand and pretend there is no devil we we do have an enemy that works against us and we've got to that authority through prayer through decrees of our faith at times we've got to bind the Buffett er which is what Paul was teaching concerning tough times or crisis times he said in in 2nd Corinthians 12 8 I prayed three times about this to the Lord and said Lord get rid of this spiritual attack for me but he said nothing happened and in verse 9 he said each time each of the three times that I asked the Lord said my grace is all you need my power works best in your weak times New King James reads and he said to me my grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness therefore most gladly our I will rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me the Amplified Bible reads but he said to me my grace my favor and loving kindness and mercy is enough for you sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully for my strength and power are made perfect fulfilled and completed and show themselves most effective in your weakness therefore I will all the more gladly glory in my weakness and infirmities that the strength and the power of Christ the Messiah may rest yes may pitch a tent over and dwell upon me one more the message Bible and then he told me my grace is enough it's it's all you need my strength comes into its own in your weakness once I heard that I was glad to let it happen I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift it was a case of Christ's strength moving in my weakness that's the lesson it's a case of Christ's strength in the crisis don't focus on the handicap appreciate the gift don't look at your handicap we're all handicapped some area all of us don't look at the handicapped look at the gift of grace it is sufficient that doesn't mean what some have come to think if think that it it means it doesn't mean well I've given you grace enough to to get just cut this out no just be quiet and take it I'll give you the grace to do that no it means I've given you the grace to overcome it I've given you the grace needed to defeat it I've given you the grace to take care of it grace is Kerris and it means divine enablement a supernatural infusion of Christ's strength or enablement means the deposit of God's unmerited favor means divine influence upon the heart God says Paul don't forget the influence of Jesus that is in you don't forget Calvary's victory is already in your heart don't act inferior to your enemy understand you're not handicapped when you face a crisis or a demon you're not handicapped you have a favoring grace of supernatural enablement to take care of it use your authority bind the buffett er and my grace will start to bend things to your good the root word of Karras is the Greek word Cara and Cara is the Greek word for rejoice or for joy so God says Paul the deposit of joy that is already in you is greater than any crisis that you are ever going to face so rejoice your way through it the joy flow and even if you feel weak don't worry you're not handicapped it'll still work in fact it will be perfected in your weakness you're not handicapped just appreciate the gift the word sufficient is RKO and it means to be enough with more means to be more than enough for those who have received the invitation to be born again once sons and daughters of the Living God there's enough joy to overcome any amount of grief available to flow through the crisis there's more than enough joy to overcome there's enough delegated authority in Christ's name to handle it there's a favour deposit already in your heart to turn any situation for good even satanic attacks even demon buffeting Calvary's victory is enough some rejoice and watch me turn things around rejoice and release the authority that Calvary purchased for you and watch me turn the crisis around in your favor within the crisis there's an answer waiting to be revealed within the crisis God is able to reveal a resource you can't see one you didn't even know was there out of the bite out of the strike the poison he can create an antidote what's buried what's buried under your mountain what's buried under your mountain your desert place could be a watering hole you didn't know anything about God can cause a river of blessing to burst forth he can turn desert times for our good he can do it individually he can do it corporately he did it individually for life so I just showed you he did it corporately for Israel to those who may be facing difficult times to those today who may be in a crisis time maybe you say yeah it's a bonafide crisis please hear the promise of God's Word in our times for our times for your times your heavenly Father has soaked you in a supernatural transcending grace you are soaked with his favor so that there are miracles in your future you knew nothing about and he can cause anything to become good again he can turn it for good singers and musicians would you come this morning lord I pray for that transcending grace on this Mother's Day how many of us has been in crisis times individually and knew the care of our moms who came through in those times and and today we see the transcending gift of grace that that shines through their life so often but you are the source of it and you have said Lord I'll turn things for good all this Mother's Day may their comedy and awareness too of how good you are and how you are bending things in our favor and I pray God that you would begin to remove crisis situations and move on them in such a way that you begin to hand resources to these people that even a river would begin to be bursting forth from the mountain that they are facing and in a corporate way for this house Lord I don't know all that's buried under this mountain but I do know this Lord [Music] you are a gracious God that is turning everything for good let that be a resource that bubbles up and becomes a life flow in everyone here no matter their situation whether it's physical whether it's spiritual no matter what no matter the definition of the crisis grace transcends would you stand please pray God for the healing graces of what Calvary is all about that influence now to penetrate every heart and every life in this room penetrating it with a hope that life can be good again no matter is what what has thrown my way [Music] no matter what it is Lord I'm not handicapped and I appreciate your grace let the gift of grace transcend this room in Jesus name

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