Restore Your Life's Purpose | Joshua 1:9 Be strong and courageous.

[Music] there are moments that try the human soul so violently and so perplexing that if the truth were told all of us have had moments that we wanted to throw up our hands and walk away particularly painful is discouragement in the life of the believer because as we travel from season to season it is not just the perils that we face but it is see the wicked go forward while the righteous are upheld by discouragement can creep in secretly hide behind clothes makeup hairdos discouragement is so bold that it will even hide behind a smile it will always right to work with you and if it doesn't catch a ride go on to work and to catch a ride on the way back home discouragement will go into a tent it will walk right into a section-8 neighborhood but don't think that it stops discouragement will walk right into a middle-class house they won't just stop there it'll go in a mansion and sit on the side of the jacuzzi and tell you life is not worth living if you listen at discouragement it will cause you to make bad decisions it will cause you to thing that life is not worth living and secretly the the facade of the smile and a good morning and a praise Lord and how are you you will wonder if you're ever going to get out of what you're into one of the things that we know about life is that it is always changing sometimes you're up sometimes you're down sometimes you're happy and sometimes you're sad now that's that thing called life and when we begin to understand and know that accepting that reality that we will never ever have things just on an even keel all the time but you're gonna have some ups then you're gonna have some downs but during those down moments that's where the growth takes place that's where the work is anybody can feel good when they have their health their bills are paid they have happy relationships the children are acting normal business is successful anybody could be positive then anybody can have faith under those kinds of circumstances see what the real challenge the real challenge of growth mentally emotionally and spiritually comes when you get knocked down adversity introduces a man to himself or woman how you handle it that's where the growth takes place sometimes I see people succeeding who didn't pray nearly as hard work nearly as long and it seems like they seemingly have moments of victory in close proximity so I could see not while I am having a similar experience but while all hell has broken loose in my life and I am going through agony and tragedy seemingly they are having victory and triumph and if you are not careful the very sight of their prosperity becomes your agony and seeing them go forward will be a source of such continued frustration that it is not your tests that baffles you but their success agonizingly displayed before you makes you despair of life until david says in 37 and 1 fret not thyself over evildoers how they prosper in their own way they shall soon be cut off he says in other words don't make a permanent decision over a temporary circumstance he says don't allow a moment of agony to make you draw a conclusion about life prematurely because if you just keep on walking with God God has a way of making everything all right I was going through a major challenge in my life that was wearing me out that was using me and one of my students told me in a class that I was teaching lessons in truth she said less until you handle it with grace it will stay in your face and it stayed there a long time are you going through it are you growing through it are you bigger and better because of it because it's not going to leave you until you grow through it are you learning anything are you doing it over and over and over again then Saturday is doing the same thing in the same way expecting a different outcome I found so many passive Christians who have been taught the type of faith that a mr. Silas you breem originally given to us as a tranquilizer to make us content for heaven while others possess earth my faith in the radical faith if not a path of faith if not an indifferent faith if not a faith that will take down on what the Scriptures has promised me you can't just sit on your couch and wait on the Lord can I tell you you can't not sit on your couch and wait on the Lord life will pass you by you're not waiting on the Lord the Lord is waiting on you the next thing that is important is that expect things to get better for you because they are say life is cyclic you're not what is it whatever experience you're having right now it has not come to stay it has come to pass not to stay just to pass it's just going through the biggest challenge is is to know what's happening this is a part of this thing we call life this too shall pass and maintaining perspective putting it in perspective how do we get stuck a friend of mine working on a job loved the company very much expected to retire there and one day they call him in the office ask him for his badge and identification told him he was fired and he had to leave then he was devastated and if you came anywhere near him he will tell you his story as we all have stories even when he got a job he went on the job telling anybody who would listen how they fired him unjustly and he always ended with it wasn't fair life isn't fair it's not fair that birds eat worms and they do though bb8 don't procrastinate don't become frustrated all you have to to win this battle to stay on track where there's a will there's a way in fact we are often tormented by vision because the visionary sees what shall be and wakes up to deal with what is he warns us and declares to us that the steps implies process means it's gonna take a while means that you can't get to the destination just because you want it just because you saw it just because you liked it just because you need it you know when you're going to a service station to get gas you don't go in there and just stop pumping when you push the lever up it clears the previous bill by the same token if you want to begin to move you've got to clear your mind of all the unnecessary luggage and baggage that's weighing us down all of us have experienced some tragedy if we haven't we will sometimes your life will be in a slump and you can either let it destroy your life or you can build upon it you can permit it to let it hold you down or you can decide I'm not going to let that happen to me I'm bigger than this I don't care how good you I don't care how talented you are I don't care how much you work on yourself there's some times when things aren't going to go right there are times with anything that can happen will happen make a declaration to yourself declare all-out war that you're going to get out of this rut I suggest to you that if you are facing a challenge don't stop stay busy work your plan continue to do those things that you know that work for you after you have evaluated yourself in the situation sometimes you have to back up and go within and try and meditate and recharge your batteries go away clear your head and then come back and look at it from a different vantage point I was thinking about Hebrews 11 and it says now faith is the substance of things hoped for it if the evidence of things not seen so by it the elders obtained a good report see we got all of this teaching of our faith and faith faith faith faith but we're talking to people who have settled all around me I see people who sell who settle with less and what God promised it who just may do out of their land all around I see people who stop swinging I've seen people who've gotten 40 40 you quit it 40 well if it was gonna happen it would happen and you know the math and this go let myself go I'm not doing it I'm not picking out no castis surprise me I know you get a discount if you buy early but I am NOT planning to die I'm planning to live support I will not settle it may take longer it may be harder I may have to go this way when I thought I could go that way that's the kind of people I like to run with I like to run with people who will not take no for an answer I like to run with people who refuse to settle or less than the best for what God have in your life next thing is that you've got to activate the thinker in you don't allow your emotions to control you we are emotional but you want to begin to discipline your emotion your mind goes on automatic you know we don't have to have any encouragement to grow you don't have to water them they don't have to get sunshine they don't have to have fertile ground they will grow through the cracks of a sidewalk but if you want to grow orchids or roses or any kind of exotic flowers there are special processes and procedures you must go through we're by the same token you don't have to force yourself or motivate yourself to think negatively to be depressed to hate somebody to want revenge you want to get back at somebody to beat yourself up over the head to feel loaded with guilt you don't have to make any effort to do that your mind is on automatic it will do that by itself but if you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness if you want to begin to really enjoy our happy successful healthy life you've got to be willing to go against the tide you've got to be willing to harness your will and say in spite of this I'm in control here you have got to make a declaration that this is what you stand for you're standing up for your dreams you're standing up for peace of mind you're standing up for health you want it and you're gonna go all out to have it you've got to make those kind of declarations to yourself I'm unstoppable this will not get me to the challenges you need some kind of trophy that proves that he that is in you is greater than heinous after you Florida go we're not gonna live and die and shout and fall out and talk in tongues and not produce anything when Jesus came down to the seashore and saw the disciples who had been fishing all night he didn't asked him how long have they been fishing he said have you caught anything he didn't ask him how old are you he said have you caught anything hope isn't expected here I'm gonna build something I'm gonna make something happen I am NOT going to live and die and not leave anything in the earth and the sign that I was here I'm gonna build something I'm the least owns as a memorial I'm the Lima Park Corner he'll have the lease some sort of sad that my children and my children's children will know that when I passed through the world the Lord was with me I will not settle even if I have to start over even if it took longer than I expected even if I had to make payments even if I have to crawl on my belly so when you begin to look at your past give an interpretation that empowers you that's where it used to be that's not where I am now I'm growing I will not settle I will not settle I will not do it I will fight you every morning you put me on Tuesday you will have to whip me on Wednesday you whip me always here I'll see you Thursday afternoon I will fight you every day I will not settle it's how you tranquilize your hope because you don't want to deal with the pain of having not attained so you move the goal to line up with where you are see a lot of people want to exempt themselves from taking responsibility all they want to do is talk about the problem every time you see them they'll tell you their story you want to take responsibility for your life I got me here I can get me out of this I'm not going to be a volunteer victim George Bernard Shaw said there are two kinds of people in life said those that make things happen and those that don't know what happened except where you are and the responsibility that you're going to take yourself where you want to go he wanted a good husband but she wasn't a good wife you wanted children but you wasn't a good parent you wanted that wife but you wasn't a good man I measure the value of a man by how hard he presses that's how you can determine who you fight you about how hard they press how hard you press tells me how hard you hit you can be all big and muscle-bound and still not have enough force behind your pulse force kinetic energy energy in motion you can't have energy sit move an energy is measured by motion that's why the devil wants you to sit sit down shut up and feel sorry for yourself but trying to blow the devil's line this morning I feel a prescient spirit in here this morning I feel a determination in here this morning I feel a fighting it is longer look at the neighbors say get on up them step don't you get 40 and get tired don't you get 50 get tired don't you get 60 and get tired go get tired understanding and knowing that we can move from where we are that we can begin to design the kind of life that empowers us that gives us happiness that enable us to be on top of who we are knowing that as we begin to explore new horizons and new vistas in life that as we begin to to focus on developing ourselves as we begin to elevate ourselves and not to follow the crowd activating the thinking us and disciplining the emotional part of ourselves it's not easy but through practice and practice and practice practice makes one absolutely not dismantle that belief system practice makes improvement you can always better your best you can always go beyond anything that you have ever done you'll never hit a state of perfection and so are you looking for new breakthroughs through practice and practice you'll get better and better and there's still some things that will happen to you that will catch you on the blindside that you did not anticipate sometimes a visionary cries out on the inside and says God don't even show me what she'll do because every time I shout and dance over what you showed me I go home to a harsh and painful bleak dark reality and the fact that I am torn between what shall be and what he is creates in my life the Bible said Hope deferred makes the heart sick there are moments that I'd rather not know that I'm going to be king if you're gonna send me back out into the field to take care of sheep why didn't you just hide that I was going to be king so I could be satisfied taking care of sheep but because you told me you had more for me I wanted to hasten the process to get to my destiny now I'm not happy doing what I used to be happy doing because I'm tormented by what she'll be I want to hasten my process so that I could get to and expected in but that cannot be done because the blessing given too soon is not a blessing at all I could give my son the car keys now and tell him to go to the store but had I given it to him when he was five it would not have been a blessing at all same car same Sun giving too soon can't handle it so would I be a good father if I gave him a good thing too soon sometimes my goodness is proven by my ability to say not yet the younger brother of the prodigal son teaches us in frantically that if we get what is ours too soon we cannot handle it that the same thing that should make us praise the father will drive us away from the father if we get it too soon the Bible said he said give me the portion of goods that falleth to me the father gave in and gave it to him and the blessing drove him over the edge he ordered - the Gorgas steps it would let you bypass the process almost people who offered you quick deals the reason the deal went down is because God ordered you to go up the steps he didn't intend for you to go up the elevator he knew if he got there too fast he was gonna be ready for it she slowed down the process he let the deal go down it wasn't time yet what you are and what you become depends on how you use your time you can decide that you're going to stand up to life you have the power to make that decision you have something that you brought to the universe and that if you decide that my life deserves my developing this what I do well and becoming the best at it and mastering myself I grant you you'll never ever be without the thing that I'm thankful for is to know that God orders the steps it helps me to understand that I am not wandering aimlessly that I'm not just moving on my own that there is of course for me to take and that I can't graduate till I take that there is a path for me to trod that God is that making this thing up as he goes I thought he was making it up as he went that's why I prayed so he could make it up my way I prayed to abort the process I prayed to speed it up I prayed to get out of things that he wanted me to stay in - I prayed that I wouldn't have to endure things that he wanted me to endure I was working on the destination but he was working on me and sometimes he made me wait he made me slow down said no you skip that step go back and do that again if you skipped it with Jimmy I'm gonna send it back with Freddie if you skipped it with Willie you will have to go do it with Roger if you skipped it with Sally you will go through it with Suzy because all of these are tools that I'm using the work on you I'm not preparing the blessing for you I'm preparing you for the blessing the blessing is already prepared oh my god the blessing is already prepared eyes have not seen ears have not heard neither have entered into the heart of man the things that God have prepared for them that love it did you know your blessing is already ready that is that it's already in place that God it is fixing it up right now it's already done that the work doesn't have to be applied to where you're going the work has to be applied to you so that when you get where you're going you can handle what you gotta handle heads oh god help me preach the steps the steps the step 10 three people say the steps the steps the steps so part of beginning to get unstuck you've got to decide that the behavior pattern that you have adopted doesn't work for you you've got to change your strategies and changing your strategy means reinventing your life recreating you and you have the power to do that you can decide that you're going to change that you're not going to be a wimp so as you're in the process of reinventing your life write a description of the kind of person that you want to be one of the things that you must overcome what qualities about your personality you know that you're going to have to change because those particular characteristics are liabilities to you what are your assets what are you strong points go for walks do some things for you just go for a stroll so you can engage in some reflective thinking on life on yourself listen to upbeat music music that inspire you I had a program for myself I have books that I read that inspire me tapes that I listen to that far Mia because you're gonna have sometimes low moments when you won't want to get out of bed at times you won't want to come out the house it's called life God is ordered steps my prayer has always been Lord don't give me more than I can have I knew better you know when to bless I would have done that you know how listen you know when I'm ready to be blessed teach me patience with the process go through the process

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Published: Thu Oct 03 2019