"How to Overcome Challenges in Life" Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr. (Encouragement)

a small segment of people in the tribe of Israel have become discouraged and frustrated because life is not going their way as a matter of fact this tribe the small section from the tribe of Judah is upset because they have watched their friends and relatives give freedom from slavery from bondage while they remain in bondage and they are somewhat frustrated because they have watched some other people do well and I wanted to talk about this because I feel and since that there are a number of people in our church in our congregation in our sphere of influence who have become frustrated with life because life is not going their way you watch other people get promoted and your promotion is still not come down the pike some single lady has watched her friends getting married while she's still single somebody else's watch some of their friends move into their new house somebody else has been recognized in ministry yet somebody else is frustrated because life just not seem to be going that way you are in a similar situation has the children of Israel found themselves the tribe of Judah the small section who are frustrated and upset because life is not going their way as a matter of fact they have they are feeling as though God has rejected them and forgotten about them anybody ever felt like God has forgotten about you let me see one two three I see we have a bunch of liars up in the camp here today it is this group of people that the Prophet Jeremiah has been given instructions to go and talk to Jeremiah goes and talks to them and they give Jeremiah the pastor the assignment of going and talking to God on their behalf and it is his first twisties this 12 chapter these first four verses where Jeremiah goes and talks to God on behalf of this disgruntled group of people can y'all walk with me through these first four verses and let's see what Jeremiah says to God listen to what he says verse number one look listen is righteous are you O Lord when I plead with you let me put that in the days terminology here's what they're saying God when we come to plead our case with you you are right on you got it right on you you make the right calls righteous are you O Lord when I plead my case with you but then he says is yet let me talk with you about your judgments here's what they're saying I'm having some issues with some of your latest decisions then he begins to peel off a number of questions to God he says why does the way of the wicked prosper why are the wicked people doing so well young miles will come on and tell the truth some of y'all that felt like that before you you've been upset and frustrated and mad cuz folks that don't go to church and thinking about church ain't trying to live right ain't trying to do the holy thing here you are doing all you living for the Lord the best you know how in church on Sunday Bible study on Tuesday cross around your neck got your Bible underneath your arm paying your tithes and your offerings and when you got up this morning you walked outside hoping that your hooptie would start while your neighbor is outside washing their brand-new car got miles we'll come on and tell you and you said now what's up with this God what's up with this I got to go ahead and hold my cost on this joke and next door ain't seen the inside of a church and here in a new car that's what they're saying why does the way of the wicked prosper why are those happy who deal so treacherously why are the people who are so mean and nasty seem to be so happy y'all ever met somebody like that they just seem like everything's going their way but yet they treat people like trash verse 2 he he further defends his articulates his feelings you have planted them yes they have taken root they grow yes they bear fruit here's what he's saying they are where they are because of you god they're doing everything that they're doing because of you you planted them they're bearing fruit because of you how many y'all know everybody's doing what they're doing they got there because of the mercy of Almighty God he says they've you planted them they've taken root they they bear fruit they're growing but then he says in verse to the latter part you are near in their mouth but far from their mind this is a crowd he says we've watched these people and we recognize that they know how to talk chuckling go when they are around church people they know all the right things y'all gonna make this a tough service for me today enjoy come on y'all met some people who know how to talk like church people talk on the around church people but as soon as church is over and when they get around the other friends they can become a chameleon and flip right over to the way they've talked like their friends and the unrighteous people talk and that's what he said he says they they know how to talk Church but their hearts are far from you their minds are far from you but then he says in verse 3 and look at verse 3 he says but hey you know me hey hey I'm your dog I'm your boy you know me you've seen me and you've tested my heart towards you you know that I got it going on you know that I'm right you know that we got it together then he says this pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepared them for the day of slaughter now this is an interesting verse because what he in essence does is raising a theological statement that unfortunately is very untrue here's what he's saying here's what he is suggesting to God he is suggesting to God take these jokers out these these wicked people who are approximately so well can you take them out and kill them now y'all looking straight ahead but y'all would if y'all want to be honest there's some people that you wouldn't be upset if God just took them out there y'all go acting like I don't know what I'm talking about but you know some jacked up Joker some mean and nasty cantankerous people that you wouldn't be upset if God decided to take them off the planet he's suggesting to God to go ahead and lead them to the slaughter and kill them and the reason he's making that suggestion is because of the error in his theology he somehow feels they somehow feel that the blessings that would have come to them has somehow been mistakenly given to wicked people and if the truth be told some of y'all had that same jacked up theology you think that what God really has for you has somehow landed on the wicked doorsteps and that God needs to kill them so that you can get your blessing let me tell you something what God has for you is for you what's got your name on it is not going to arrive at somebody else's doorstep matter of fact you don't need to be upset and busted and disgusted and mad because of what God did for somebody else if God bless your neighbor it means he is in the neighborhood so instead of being jealous of your neighbor you ought to say praise the Lord here's what you ought to be saying if God blessed that joker let me wait and see what he got for me if he opened up the door for that non church-going non type and don't know a single verse in the Bible don't go to church if he did that for them I can't wait to see what he got for me I wish I had a witness somewhere in the camp somebody HiFi your neighbors say I can't wait to see what God's got for me come on say it what attitude I can't wait to see what God's got in store I can't wait to see what the breakthrough is for me I can't wait you never have to be jealous of what God does for somebody else so he's making a suggestion to God to kill him lead him to the slaughter take him out that's his erroneous theology he says to them but then he says verse for his another part of his theology that's jacked up he says how long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither the beasts and the birds are consumed for the wickedness of those who dwell there here's what he's saying he is saying our our land is mourning the herbs of the field are withering away we are going through tough economic times and having challenging challenging times and though and it's because of the wickedness of the people who dwell there he has somehow come to the conclusion that judgment falls on the nation because of wicked people and from the surface that sounds true but here's the fact that I matter here is the here is the truth of the matter God doesn't judge a nation because of the wickedness of wicked people the wicked can't do anything but be wicked I know I know this is no theological a over y'all's head but here's the reality of the fact here's what the Bible really teaches Jah God judges a nation not because of the wickedness of the wicked but because righteous people fail to live righteous now that's a whole another sermon right there I could come on down through history and look at case after case in situation after situation even when God would destroy a city he said if I could find ten righteous people I'll hold back my judgment if I can find the righteous doing right God judges the nation not because of the wickedness of the wicked but because of the people who claim to be righteous who failed to do right so they have somehow drawn that conclusion then they say because they said he will not see our final end the last part of verse four he even see he said the wicked have concluded that God won't see him so he's pleaded his case to God now after he spent four verses pleading his case we come to verse 5 y'all still awake if I put y'all asleep yet in verse 5 there's a shift and the shift is now in verse 5 God begins to answer Jeremiah and listen to what he says if you have run with the footmen and they have worn your butt out how can you continue with horses first this is this is jam-packed with stuff that I want to just spend a few moments unpacking can y'all give me just a few moments can y'all just stay with me for a few moments I I know I know I'm this is not the kind of message that's gonna make you jump and shout but if you can just get a hold of this one truth in over this dis concept this principle this truth of his word it'll transform your life God answers Jeremiah by raising this question a question and he says to them if you've been running with footmen and they have worn you out what you gonna do when the horse has come so I want to I want to I'm going to divide what I want to say it to you in two parts let me first of all talk to you about footing and somebody say footing say footmen one more time footing see in the back in that day when they had a war when a nation was going to attack another nation one Kingdom were going against another Kingdom and they would bring their armies in to attack the Bible's the history teaches us that when they would bring the soldiers and they bring their weapons and they bring their armies they would first of all send thousands and thousands of foot soldiers in against the nation or the kingdom that they were attacking they would bring in these hundreds and thousands of foot soldiers they weren't very powerful they weren't the strongest men they didn't have a lot of weapons that just were a lot of them and they would send them in to weed out and thin out the opposing army they knew that most of their foot me were going to die they knew that they were going to get defeated they didn't expect them to win they just expected them to go in and weaken the opposing armies soldiers and God is in essence saying to Jeremiah and saying to the people of Judah that what you are facing is you're facing footmen soldiers it's a whole lot of them coming at you they coming at you in swarms is one thing after another one challenge after another one situation after another one bill after another one problem after another it looks like it's a lot it is a lot but a much power there it ain't much authority there it won't do much damage but it can wear you out I don't know who I'm preaching to but there's some people here today who God is calling your problems footmen problems much of what you are facing my brothers and sisters are footmen situations it's just one thing after another you pay one building there's another one way for you one thing break down and when you get that fix something else break down you get to one issue with your child and you turn around and there's another issue with your child you get one thing worked out on your job and before you can get the ink dried on that sub Mel shows up here's what God is saying that they were there problems with footmen problems and that's what I've come here to tell you today that some of what you're facing is nothing more than a footman problem gossip and slander people talking about you footman problem nobody understands you footman problem light on Chiti talked about em mistreated footmen problem fights and disagreements footman problem rebuked and scorned sometimes up sometimes down sometimes level to the ground footman problem being rejected by other people footman problem not enough money to pay a bill footman problem husband won't talk to you footman problem he won't bring the money home footman problem wife won't give you non footman problem children won't do right footman problem struggling in school footman problem grown children moving back in footman problem being dishonored and disrespected footman problem can't agree on things with key people in your life footman problem nobody accepts your ministry footman problem can't find a job footman problem they won't promote you on the job that you got footman problem you can't get financing for your dream footman problem what you are facing I tell you is probably just a footman situation now here's the thing about footman you got to celebrate footman you got to give God praise for footman because why listen learn to celebrate and thank God these were footman things at the Jews had that the children of Israel had and God counted them and God calls them foot many in essence says don't let the footmen wear you out some of you are complaining about your footmen when you ought to be glad that you're still running with the foot instead of moping and complaining and crying about this problem after that problem and this challenge after that challenge and this situation after that situation learn to thank God that you should have lost your mind but you didn't you shouldn't quit but you did you should have walked out but you didn't you should have had a nervous breakdown but all the stuff that came your way but you're still here you should have cussed them out but you didn't use all the words you planned on use it you should have given them a piece of your mind but you did you should have told them where to go and what to do with it but you didn't you've been running with the foot and you've been hanging tough you've been reading up your loins you've been gaining your strength and even though he keeps coming one thing after nothing you feel like it's never going to get to an end God told me to come and tell you to learn to celebrate the fact that you're still here I'm still here somebody Harlan say I'm still here I shouldn't lost my mind but I'm still here not only should you celebrate that you are running with the footmen and you're still here you ought to celebrate footman because footman indicated you headed in the right direction or y'all didn't hear me right there celebrate footman because it means you are headed in the right direction would you talk about past here's what I'm saying you the devil would never throw obstacles in your way if you hit it to hell he would never try to slow you down if you were headed where he wants you to go the fact that you got one issue after another is an indication that you're headed towards your destiny I can't give your help you you're headed toward fulfilling what it is God has called you to do you're headed in the direction of God's assignment for your life hallelujah and guess what the closer you get to where you're going the more intense the footman began to cop I don't know who I'm preaching to today but you better learn how to thank God you better say to yourself I must be getting close to where I'm supposed to be I must be on the brink of my breakthrough I must be getting close to my destiny I must be about to get to the place that God has created me to be it means you are headed in the right direction who am i preaching to today tell your neighbor I must be headed in the right direction with all this hell I'm going through and all these battles that I'm having and all this stuff that's coming my way and every challenge and every phone call and all these letters and all this stuff is trying to take me out I must be headed in the right direction celebrate the fact that you got food not only because you're still here not only because you're in the right direction but celebrate because footmen are precursors to horses footmen are precursors to horses so if I got footman coming that means the soldiers on horses are coming next if this is tough then what's coming next was really going to be tough I didn't expect you all to shout on that point right there because I feel you saying well if it's gonna get worse faster why should I be celebrating I'm glad you asked the question because what you're going through now is preparing you for what you're about to go through amen the present trials that you are facing are designed to prepare you for your future so why should you be excited you ask here's why Oh Russia's God the door put the police officers by the door somebody's gonna get up and run out of here when they hear this revelation right here here's why you ought to shout because the greater the trial the greater the blessing the bigger the giant the bigger the blessing the heavier the challenge the greater the victory I can't get no help somebody better get ready because what's coming down the pike yet you're going to face means that when you get to love the side you're gonna have a huge lesson that's beyond what you ever dreamed all imagine can I get some half up in here her I feel a shout up in here my soul if you only knew where God was about to take you to you would stop complaining and stop moving and stop crying and you would learn to lift your hands and say I must be about to do something great in my life somebody give the Lord a shot would be very quickly somebody think praise his name I'm going somewhere I'm about to achieve something I'm I'm about to accomplish something incredible in my life life I never dreamed or imagined but with all the stuff that's coming at me and all the drama and all the pain and all the anxiety and all the trouble I must be about to step up in the subdued listen the Bible gives us testimony after testimony Joseph had to be rejected by his brothers sold into slavery lied on by his boss's wife cast into jail by his boss forgotten by his jail mate he had to go through all of that just so he could be the number two man in all of Egypt he had to go to hell he had to go from the pit to the palace somebody get ready you going from the pit to the facts Daniel had to be thrown into the Lions Den the Hebrew boys had to go through the fiery furnace listen to this the woman who had the issue of blood carried that condition for 12 years 12 years spent all her money going to doctor after doctor nobody could heal her situation at the situation trying to get it her get made whole but she was sick and sick for 12 years and then when Jesus came through town listen it is she touched the hem of His garment she had to go through 12 doctors to get to the him of his gompa 50 and here's what's huge when she touched the hem of His garment Jesus stopped everything that was going on and said somebody has touched me now I know y'all didn't shout on that because y'all don't know what that means hold up listen to me listen back in that day women were not considered people they will consider property Jesus gave her status because he didn't say something touching me he says somebody touch me y'all excuse me I feel like hollering and preaching right now Jesus had to be crucified and buried in order to be resurrected you got to go through something the problem with this generation is that we don't want to deal with anything we want the rewards without going through the challenge and my assignment here today is to tell you is that you got to go through something before you get to where you're going suck it up boyfriend suck it up girlfriend gird up your loins strengthen yourself in carriage yourself and make up in your mind I'm not quitting I'm not crying I'm not walking away greater is He that's in me then he that is in this world I'm running out of time that's the foot and can I talk about the horses for a second I said can I talk about the horses tell your neighbor the horses are coming tell them on the other side the horses are coming tap them in front of you tap them behind you find somebody else they say the horses are coming telling they're coming the horses are coming the horses are coming horses are strong they're fast they're strong they're fast they can endure long distances the average horse walks 22 miles a day a horse can run at full speed for several miles full speed not trotting I'm saying they can run at full speed for several miles horses who can run whether it's hot or whether it's cold they can run in the heat and the cold horses rest while they are standing I got to break everything down for y'all God is going to give you the ability right now in the midst of where you are to be stronger than a horse and to be faster than a horse and just endure distances longer than the horse and he's going to give you the ability to run in the heat and the cold when it's going way on and when is not going well and he's going to give you the ability to rest even while you're standing ah now check this out look at verse 5 he says if you have one with the foot minute they have wearied up then how can you continue with horses now here's something that God is trying to unveiled us he's trying to make us understand this he's trying to get you an eye to know that it is his expectation for you to contend with the horses that went over y'all here one more time I see I got the break everything down for this crowd here's what he is saying he's saying in the end them ended in normal senses if you put a man up against a horse a man will never outrun a horse outlast a horse we can't compete with horses but his verse says it implies that it is his expectation for you to contend with the horse okay all right let me see how can I break this down for y'all here's what God is saying in the natural you can't compete with the horse in the natural you can't fight you can outrun you can outlast you can't out stand the horse but God says this I am going to give you supernaturally the ability to do what you cannot do in your natural power and strength I don't know who I'm preaching to today but my assignment is to tell you this morning that God is going to give you power to do supernaturally by his strength and his anointing that which you cannot do in your own strengths and abilities don't be discouraged don't quit don't get mad don't be upset but God is going to help you do supernaturally that which you cannot do in your own power and might this crowd just fine let me let me let me give you my testimony maybe this will help y'all out here I am John Kenneth Jenkins senior I am pastoring the First Baptist Church of Barnard in clown I do not have a seminary degree I do not have a bachelor's degree I am unqualified to be where I am naturally so God gave me supernatural ability okay look 10,000 people every weekend doctors lawyers educators business owners managers professional athletes all Kaza people's black people white people Asian people Hispanic people come to hear me preach I'm running I am managing millions of dollars 2003 we took in 12 million dollars 2004 14 million dollars 2005 18 million dollars 2006 20 million dollars 2007 and 2008 22 million dollars if he was gonna be freaking out on $50,000 a year how would I handle and manage 22 million if I didn't recognize that the struggles I had when 50 wasn't footmen preparing me for millions of dollars I gotta hurry up I gotta hurry up we purchased in 1992 the whole Hechinger Builder 60,000 square feet renovated it made it 105 thousand square feet paid it off in six years and buying that building and paying it off was a footman getting us ready to build this building and pay this building ah can I get somebody to run with me can I get some people to say I'm running with the horses I have preached around the world I have been the Guyana South America Ghana West Africa Johannesburg South Africa Trinidad West Indies I've preached for the major denominations I preach for the Baptist General Conference and the National Baptist Convention and the Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship I have preached to the some of the most noted preachers in this world John Stanley James and Charlie Dobson Evie Hill Tony Evans I have preached to President Clinton and his wife President Bush and his wife Condoleezza Rice you go pass you a bath I'm not qualified but I'm running I shouldn't be there but I'm running I don't have the education but I run it I'm doing supernaturally what I cannot do by my own strength inability who am i preaching to today the oil that's dripping off of me is about to drip on you lift up your hands all ye gates and be lifted up ye everlasting doors but King of glory has come in get ready to run get ready to run get ready to compete with the horses get ready to let God take you somewhere Oh Hey no more tears no more cry no more complaining no more whimpering no more being afraid rise up o children of God the horses are coming and God is going to give you power to run with the horses going to say five people here and say I'm running with the horses I'm getting ready safe I'm okay insane I'm about to run with the horses hey hey hey hey God yes boy anoint me and power me help me on every side help me be what I came in do what I can't do and a team what I can't see run run I want you to look at your neighbor where somebody bought in hand look at him in now and say I can take a lickin and keep on tickin I can take it I can take it a blanket Oh yeah whoa now listen when I got up this morning when I got up this morning I couldn't get up my loan went off and I couldn't get up while I was laying there God said to me I want you to preach running with the horses I had an argument with God I said God I've already preached that there I said that was a theme file Church for like five years he said yes but there's some folk who haven't heard it yet and then I said and just my dialogue with God and I said to God I said but thousands have already heard he told me to say he said but they need to hear it again I don't know I'm reaching to but whoever you are get ready don't get weary by the footmen coz the horses are coming and you are gonna one with the horses ah the I'm running I'm running I'm running all right Oh Oh yeah we hope that you have been blessed by this message from Pastor Jacobs if you understand to have fallen away from your relationship with Jesus Christ you just have to confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and rose again with all your sins are now beginning and you're part of a family of God welcome maybe you're already saved and in need of a church home one that will nurture your growth and development as a Christian or perhaps you were once in fellowship with God but if since drifted away or ready to return to your first love whatever the case we'd love to have you become a part of the first baptist family simply contact us a 301 773 3600 or visit our website at WWF PC linen org for information on any of our convenient services or 100 plus ministries designed to meet your most intimate needs pastor john cage and senior First Baptist Church of 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Length: 44min 26sec (2666 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 09 2016