When You Lose Things Along The Way

in the fingers [Music] in the sea [Music] all right I'm not sure I don't have a title for this yet so my little team will help me here but Daniel 11:35 let's quote the scripture first and some of those of understanding shall fall to refine them purify them and make them white until the time of the end because it is still for the appointed time let's pray father we thank you for your word we thank you for your holy word we thank you Lord that this is not the word of a man or a woman this is your holy word and father you said not to add to it or take it away so for Holy Spirit we ask you to help us preach the truth and divine balance and not adding to or taking away from from what you intended and what you want us to know and we just Thank You Holy Spirit for making it alive let it come alive like fresh bread fresh manna to us today then it can be worked into our lives that we won't be just hearers but we will be doers and everyone said amen here in Daniel 11 it talks about there's going to be some people that fall away and I don't know where you're at today if you've fallen away because of a couple of situations sometimes people fall away because those are attacked by the hands of others which we're going to share a little bit about Joseph today but those who fell by the hands of other people Joseph he went through a lot of jungle of mistreatment he was thrown in pits of situations we're gonna talk a little bit about that but he really wasn't the one that was it wasn't his fault it wasn't God sent so much and sometimes in our life you're just with the wrong person have you ever been in a trial of trouble because you have you're with a Jonah the ship and so sometimes you fall and then other times you because of our own crazy choices have fallen and made choices we've sinned we've had addictions we've disobeyed God when he told us to let something go and we wouldn't do it we persisted of course none of us have ever done that but we end up falling and no matter which one by the hands of other people or by something you've done god wants to refine us he wants to purify us and in the end times you know have you noticed a lot of people are struggling and going through things it's like if it's not financial it's physical or it's mental or it's relational it's like there's so many tests and trials and struggles but through it all we have to be refined and that word refined there means to get rid of the mixture and so today we want to talk about some things when you lose things along the way have you ever lost anything along the way well Jacob lost or Joseph lost two coats and so we want to know when you lose things you can't put your trust in what you lost you have to keep your trust in the Lord so we're going to talk a little bit about that so the first thing you have to do if you fallen maybe you've fallen into deception bad choices sins you stumbled and fell got snared you've got broken hearted whatever place you find yourself today you have to make a choice to get up it's really easy to sit and blame other people for where you are today but regardless of whatever's happened to you God might not have sent it but God can use it amen say it might not be God sent but it can be God used so whatever we find ourself this morning we have to choose we have to get up the Bible says that a righteous man falls seven times but what happens he rises again you got to rise again and some people right now they're so discouraged with Church they're upset with this or that and you can blame all you want but you know you have to have your own relationship with the Lord and you have to make sure your heart stays right so in the first person you have to forgive and the hardest person you have to forgive is everyone go me me it's me you're the hardest person to forgive you have to forgive yourself because you don't feel you deserve another chance maybe you aborted God's plan or you've blown it you've done something you know it's wrong and you're continually repent and you keep on doing it again you have to get up again and you have to say I forgive myself because the devil will come to you and you'll say God can never use you again you're done you're finished it's over God's never done with you if you get up again but to get up you have to repent and that's a message people don't want to hear today or repentance we've all learned is a good word because repent means you can turn face the situation head-on and then you turn around amen so you get up first of all you rise again and then you get refined and refining you know nothing is nothing is really good until it's been tested even a car they won't sell a car until it's been tested it's got to be Road tested they have a lot of tests they have to go through but before they put a car on a lot for you to buy it has to be tested how much more before God really uses us we'll be tested and once said we don't like to test but thank God when we pass them and if we don't pass them we just keep taking the same one over and over again that's no fun so we have to get rid of the mixture in us metals not worth much until it's been through the fire isaiah 48:10 said behold i have refined thee not with silver but i have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction boy some people just ripped those Bible verses right out we don't want to talk about the furnace we don't want to talk about the fire well there's the devil's fire and then there's God's fire so you have to know sometimes the devil sends a fire and sometimes there's a purifying refining fire to perfect you and to NT to get rid of the mixture in our life and a lot of times the tests we go through it's like Joseph kept going through things but the original call that God put him the devil couldn't kill he cannot kill us until God's done with us if we keep walking with him amen so metal-metal isn't worth much until it's been through the fire so we have to know first of all we got to get up because real followers and I put this on my facebook yesterday real followers drop the ball get sacked fumble miss a shot break a bone but guess what the game's not over I grew up with two boys that were possessed with basketball since first grade I put him in basketball it was my fault but they loved it and when my son was hurt he broke his nose in a game he taped it back up and went back in the game I was so mad I took him to the doctor it was the whole series of games that day and the doctor goes go let him play like you're no help at all I thought I'd you take no he said he already broke it it's broken just go let him play but that's what we have to do we play we play hurt we play in pain I was studying a lot of football players and the injuries that they've had and Joe Namath one of them I mean he's an old-timer but man there's there's games they should have never played they had x-rays of some of these football players and every finger and toe was sprayed was sprained and broken and they'd ask the guys afterwards would you do it all again after your body's all you've lost body parts basically and I said oh yeah we would we'd do it again how much more in the kingdom when you get a broken feeling and you get hurt or you you get offended you get but you got to get tape yourself up and get back in the game amen because we're not just playing against the Red Sox or whatever team we're here we're here to fight spiritual things and the devils after to still kill and destroy he wants you out of the game forever he wants you so offended you're on the sidelines and now you're ineffective so if we don't keep our heart right you might get somewhere but you'll be so bitter you'll be so unforgiving you're just oozing the bad stuff out so you're not really rising up to rise up you have to say lord I forgive and forgiveness let's just say it for a second about forgiveness forgiving first of all you have to forgive yourself but forgiveness is an unending exercise everyone say unending exercise means you got to do it all the time for those that are walking with God because people are always going to disappoint you because nobody's going to be able to meet your need and you're gonna forgive you have to forgive yourself because you're not always going to be everything you thought so you got to keep exercising and keep forgiving and you have to know that forgiveness see somebody more than our sins to forgive someone you have to say okay and this is easy as a parent because you see your kids and you go I love them even though they did that stupid thing you know we could all tell stories couldn't we I had one son that used to hide things he was a great kid but he'd do stuff and he'd hide it you know I went to Florida once and and I saw you at all these dents in his car and it's like oh I didn't know about that and he tried to spray painted himself and cover it up you know like oops does it make you love him less no does you get irritated yeah do you forgive him yeah why cuz you see them bigger they're just young he was only in high school still they're just they're bigger than their sins and that's how we have to see each other we're bigger than where we missed it amen so we got a if we're gonna grow spiritually we have to have an enlarged heart to keep unforgiving when we get let down and you're gonna be constantly let down with with Christian friends maybe or whoever is in your life so forgiveness is the willingness to see somebody more than where they missed it it's to give up the right to retaliate now if you're a fleshly person if someone spits on you you want to spit on them but when you walk with the Lord you that reaction might be there you know yeah but you have self-control you've learned to walk with the Lord enough to say you know you're harnessed you you pull yourself back I'm not I'm not going to retaliate because whenever you retaliate we act just like the world we don't get a reward but when you do things God's Way he's watching he's watching over us and he rewards us amen I mean in this story that we're gonna get into it says God is even when you're going through hard times you have to know God's with you even if people disappoint you and do bad things too you have to know God's with me when God's with you it makes the difference and it might not make the difference right away it doesn't seem like anything's happened but in the long haul you'll be so glad you took the high road amen the low road isn't the road of the flesh anybody can go that route the world goes that way but we're supposed to be different but we won't be unless we really have a walk with God and we he knows he's watching our attitudes you're just constantly living in that awesome holy fear of God that awesome holy presence of God knowing that you have that healthy relationship so you give up the right to retaliate and then to forgive you always have to acknowledge your sin first because to forgive you have to take some blame well you know maybe my tone wasn't that great or maybe this so if you acknowledge your part first then it's easier to see where they need to be forgiven right but if you don't ever if you don't ever look at yourself and judge yourself in a healthy way then we get arrogant we get self-righteous we get mean-spirited you know and you get meat spirited because you you stop forgiving you stop exercising we don't get the right spiritually the Bible says that we have to keep on forgiving because people are gonna constantly upset you amen so acknowledge our sin first then how do you know you've forgiven you stop rehearsing and keep talking about it people that keep regurgitating people's faults and all this they haven't forgiven yet no it's it's okay to get it out and out of your system but then you know what get it out of your system don't just keep we've already heard that ten times you know what I mean and it doesn't do you any good to just keep putting your all that energy and all that negative emotion so we have to learn to forgive now these are the things that Joseph learned forgiveness means to send away in the Old Testament the high priest would lay hands on goats one of the goats he laid all the he laid on all the people's sins and then they'd send that goat off and wander in the wilderness and it was ascending away and that's when we forgive ourselves we forgive others there's ascending away and when the devil tries to bring it back up you have to say no it's been sent away as far as the East is from the West that's why a lot of people don't get up they get so condemned and they're so full of shame and they feel so bad about themselves that they just say why try again so you have to know you have to truly send that away and when the enemy comes with his lies you know no I've dealt with that the blade is under the blood of Jesus amen that's something we have to do daily now one of the scriptures God will walk through the fire with us just as he did Shadrach Meshach and Abednego our God whom we serve they said shall deliver us from this burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O king but if not a lot of people don't read that but if not what happens if you don't seem to get delivered out of this situation what are you gonna do you're gonna go back no you have to do just like Shadrach Meshach and Abednego says God's gonna deliver me out of this I'm believing with my whole heart but if not we will not serve your gods we are not going to go with what the culture is trying to bring into the church in this hour we're not going to believe all these new wins of doctrines and all these compromising now they're just trying to you know lower the standard of the Bible now worship is just entertainment and I used to say four years ago worship is going to get to a point and I saw that I had a prophetic glimpse of what the future was I mean people are gonna start worshiping their worship it's all about entertainment no we're here to worship God amen it's not about us even though we do get blessed it's about him and there's such a freedom when we can forget about herself and concentrate on him but regardless we're not going to compromise with the world and as a result of the ear tickling messages that we're all hearing and you know bringing all these cult you know all this stuff into the church to try to get people saved because they think the gospel is not strong enough to bring it in all I won't even tell you what they're doing at Easter and all this other stuff to get people it's not a matter of just getting people we got to make disciples amen we got to make disciples and the only way we're going to change is by hearing what the Bible says because if you just keep fleshly entertaining people go to Disneyland Disneyland and church are separate things we are not supposed to be mixing them some of you know what I'm talking about I won't go there but we're not going to serve your gods we're not going to compromise so you know the Bible says the ways narrow there's a there's a you want to go and get wide you can bring in all sorts of stuff but the way is still narrow I'm glad that the Bloods has not lost its power how about you guys okay let's look at the lice life of Joseph there's a couple lessons we want to learn today about some people maybe one of you guys or all of us we've lost some things along the way we can't put our trust in the things that we've lost our hope is in God and here in Genesis 37 we're gonna see that the name Joseph means God will add but before God added he subtracted if you look at Joseph's life and this is you have to know the way of the Spirit the way of the Spirit the Holy Spirit doesn't always lead you into wonderful places you know and that's why we've been yeah that's why we have so many wimpy Christians they don't they're not warriors they don't know how to stand and at the moment they get offended they would draw they quit they're not even in the natural like a good football player knows how to suck it up and play play the game you know we've we've not taught Christians how to stand and to resist being you know not every you're not gonna like everybody in church you're not gonna like everybody's wife you're not gonna like all the kids you're not but you know what you don't have to you have to love God and God says through that you're gonna love people through me you don't get a choice and that's when we get fleshly we start thinking oh you know what I mean we just so live out of the soul rather than out of the spirit but here now Joseph and the thing of the kingdom I want to seek real quick here before we get into this is God subtracts to add he loses to gain he said if you want to live you got to die everything about God is absolutely opposite of what we've been taught in the natural because we're not of this world we're of a different Kingdom so we have to do the way things God says he said if you want to live you got to die if you want to be blessed you give no we want everyone to give to us know if you want to live and be blessed by God you have to give give and then you shall receive and then he said you have to die to live and then if you want to rule you got to serve to be great in God's kingdom is opposite of what the world says we're here for fame we're here for money and power Alex no we're here to serve if you want to be great in God's kingdom you learn to serve you'll be a servant you be a servant so everything that God does is totally opposite and so if we're trained in the ways of the world and things start happening backwards where we think God's left us know you could be in training now here Joseph he's been given these coats and he loses two coats have you ever lost a coat I have a funny story when my kids are in high school I just bought my 69 son a winter coat and it's hard to find coats for that dude you have to understand he's you know I even had to buy a NFL football bed when he was growing up because he's so tall and I had the extra order and you know big bit everything with him is big almost seven foot so he loses this new coat I just bought him at a basketball game oh I was so upset I was like how can you lose this new coat we got you you know so I thought I'm gonna go to the lost and found so I go to I'm gonna go to the middle school lost and found and then this you know because the games are switched back and forth to the high school so I end up going to the middle school you wouldn't believe what I found in the middle school lost have found one of my jackets were in there it was a green jacket with I mean you have to understand some of the clothes I wear it's not something everybody would wear in fact it was here's this green jacket of mine in that I was just like oh my gosh here I was upset with my son for losing his coat now here I found I've lost one so then then I go to the high school and I found what I've told my other sons coats in there in fact I think I found two of them they're there and I did to find my gosh my our whole family had lost coats well copes here and Joseph had lost two coats it represents titles positions status jobs coats make you feel important okay so Joseph lost two coats and we're gonna look at here for a second and it came to pass in verse 23 when Joseph was coming to the brethren that they stripped joseph of his coat his coat of many colors that was upon him when we know all about this what happened to Joseph here is that they they said come and let him sell him to the Ishmaelites in verse 23 and verse 31 they took Joseph's coat and they killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood and they sent the coat of many colors and they brought it to their father and they said look what we found know now whether it be their son's coat or not of course he was freaked out he's like Nala now and animals killed him and bla bla bla bla bla and the first thing we have to learn about here in the life of Joseph and it happens in our lives as well we can all probably say we've lost some things we must know the difference between our calling and our coat your calling is your assignment from the Lord your assignment can be your position no this is the other thing you have to know God will change things around sometimes and if we're stuck on one thing and that things taken away and your identities and that thing you're gonna totally lose who you are in Christ he doesn't want our confidence to be in our coats Joseph lost his coat but he didn't lose his calling you might have lost your coat your job your status whatever but that doesn't mean that God's not with you it doesn't mean that what God's asked you to do or called you to do is done it's over it just means you've lost a coat and the other good news is God's got more coats why do we think that when we lose something that's it you might have a better coat for you down the road but Joseph gives us an example of the other of a man that had a dream from God but he kept losing things along the way but it doesn't mean God's done with him but it means that he's taken twists and turns and the more that you have a calling I would say your and I used to do a series on this picked out to be picked on to be picked up you're picked out you're called by God he says here you're you know here just your assignment here's your assignment for me I want you to do this or you could say you're on a football team okay now you're gonna be on this team well what's going to happen the first thing that after you picked out as you're picked on why is everybody picking on me because you got the football and they don't want you to have it so they're gonna try to tackle you you have an anointing you have a calling and the devil wants you to cough up your ministry so he's gonna attack you and we are not prepared for the attack because we're in war so we don't understand warfare when it comes and then then one says well you don't have enough faith Joseph why did you lose your coat well he had nothing to do with losing that coat the devil actually tried to snuff him out it wasn't maybe God sent but God used him God used it so we have to keep understanding that no matter what if you've lost your coat doesn't mean you've lost your assignment say haven't lost my assignment isn't that good news now Genesis 39 we see that he loses another coat and Potiphar it was an officer of Pharaoh captain of the guard he bought him we know that he was thrown into a pit but here they sold him to Ishmaelites and then Potiphar buys them and now he's all of a sudden I love this in verse 2 and the Lord was with Joseph if if the Lord's with you you might lose some stuff but if Lord's with you there's some things that have been gonna be restored there's some things he said well there that was good for that season but you don't really need it now at this point in time Joseph didn't need that coat he had another coat and now he's being blessed in God's with him because he's walking the best way that he can the Lord was with him verse 3 he's with him and the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand he became an overseer and then we know that Potiphar's wife cast her eyes upon him and she wanted him she wanted to lay with him now think about this think about what kind of a woman would do this and what if he would have yielded now his life was hell because he resisted her for for a few years he was in jail sin but what if he would have submitted to that Jezebel you know there's certain things the devil has planned that he wants you to get off God's course for your life there's there's people God will send you and then there's temptations the devil will send you and you have to know the difference because if he would have went with this woman who knows if he ever would have recovered I know people that have married the wrong person God told him don't marry this person I'm thinking of this one minister in mind he said don't marry this person she's not the right one for you and he did anyway he said God spoke to him he was on these steps you know exactly was the Lord said he said she's so beautiful I just love her well she ended up I want him to tell you all that she did but she ended up having all these affairs even with his own brother misery misery misery his whole life became miserable and here God was trying to spare him and I just say this to you there's sometimes there's people you think you want you say I gotta have that guy or I gotta have that girl if God says they're not the right one I don't care how beautiful they are they're not the right one amen he said I miss God I know I miss God I went above God so many times we do that we think I know better than he sold fast she doesn't really know I mean I can change this person I'll get him saved or whatever but Jacob or Joseph I keep saying Jacob that's his dad by the way but Joseph he had too much of the fear of the Lord in him and he said no I'm not gonna he said verse 9 there's none greater in this house and I neither hath he kept back anything from me but you because thou art his wife how done I can do this great wickedness and sin against God he had the fear of God even though there was no one in the house and maybe nobody would have known when you know and you're in a temptation situation you know God's watching me you know I might get away with this but there's always a price to pay because you know Satan's apples always have worms everything looks so great until payday now payday doesn't come all the time with the devil and that's why we think we're getting away with that especially when we're young you know we could sneak and do this and that mom and dad aren't gonna find out but payday what the devil eventually comes because he comes to steal comes to kill and to destroy so here it came to pass as she spoke to Jason Joseph day by day this was an everyday temptation every day she was trying to weaken him seduce him wear him down day by day that he hearkened not unto her to lie by her be with her and it came to pass about this time that Joseph went into the to do his business and there was none of the men of the house there within and she caught him by his coat here comes he's about ready to be decoded he she caught him by his garment and she said lie with me and he left his garment in her hand and he fled the Bible says that we are to flee youthful us sometimes you just got to run you know it's like if I stay another second long I'm gonna be tempted if I look at this picture if I go to this movie I'm opening up a door I have to flee there's some things you just there's doors you just have to shut you just have to just leave it so he what did he do he just left his garment in her hand and because of the wickedness of her and what she was all about she used that coat to lie against him to pretend you know she had some pride there she was okay you're gonna resist me this is gonna cost you you know you you say you don't want me okay well now you're gonna pay so what happened she caught him by his garment and and he left his garment in her hand and then she keeps the garment and she tells her husband she left his left his garment with me and the master heard his words and what'd he do he threw him into prison now here he lost his first coat he didn't do anything wrong he had a glimpse of his future and he was telling his brother and his family you know they're all good I saw these sheaves you're all going to bow down he didn't have a clue of what it was he was just voicing that dream so they thought well if we kill get rid of this coat he can't have that he won't be superior over us and that's what the devil does he thinks if I can get your coat if I can get your your status if I can get your job if I can get you this or that or this then I've got that gift that God's put inside you I can stop you if I can just get your coat you're done and you have to tell the devil oh no that was just my coat that was just a symbol my confidence and trust oh I love that coat it's great having that status it's great having that honor it's great being in that position but I'm more than my coat because God's inside of me and that calling is inside of me and that assignment that's on your life regardless if you lost your job regardless if you've lost some things along the way you still haven't Saima from God if you choose to walk with him amen so that's the first thing we must know the difference between our calling our dream our vision or our assignment and our coat our temporary symbol title or a position we have to know the difference because in life things are going to shift the devil is going to try to come and test you and then also you're going to be tested by the Lord not biting but temptation but you're going to be you're going to be tested Joseph shows up we may lose things along a way but our security must be in the Lord not in our coats our call or our assignment is bigger than anyone's attempt to kill it you need to write that down your assignment from the Lord is bigger than anyone's attempt to kill it you're dreamed to be a good mom to be a good dad to be a good boss to be a good whatever it is you get that vision from god you're gonna be attacked you're gonna be tested but you know you just keep hanging on remember just like Joseph he lost his coats but God was with him oh if God was with me I wouldn't have lost that isn't that how we feel if God was really on his job and his angels were there what happened why did I lose this what happened you know what there's some things we're not going to understand but remember the ways of the kingdom are not the ways of this world the way the way the way up in the kingdom is down and the way to be blessed in the kingdom is to give to give it's I've just I've just loved that all the men of God that and women of God I've been around that are really their givers they give their time they give their money they give her their blessing they just give and they don't look for anything in return they've just learned that's the nature of God God so loved he gave so if we get stingy and tight and we only want people to bless us and it's Christmas and everybody I want my gift you know we're missing the boat we just got to focus on God is my reward and he's gonna reward me in the way I need to be rewarded he's gonna bless me and his time in his way amen everyone say but God so our assignment is bigger than anyone's attempt to kill it and will they oh yeah Jezebel's out to steal kill him destroy every prophetic ministry is going to have a Jezebel after them to stop them to silence them to kind of hinder that their gifting because that's there's just warfare with certain things you do you're gonna have to know this is the you know now that we're teaching more younger ministers are starting out you need to watch certain things because now that you've been through a lot of your race you can help someone else starting so this is you better watch out you know you might be an ugly woman but all of a sudden now you're gonna serve God and you're gonna get all these guys after you the wrong guys you might be an ugly dude but all of a sudden all these women are just why it's to stop your calling I say that just to kind of make you laugh a little bit so here's Joseph rejected by his brothers separated from his beloved father remember what a great relationship they had you know Joseph had Jacob had two sons Joseph and Benjamin by Rachel that was a love of his life so he lived when she died having Benjamin in childbirth he lived his life through Benjamin and Joseph and so now here Joseph had that relationship with his dad and it's just gone because the jealousy of his brothers then he's physically and mentally abused thrown into a pit sold as a slave and now his boss throws him into a prison because he's lost his second coat now why because he's gifted your calling will draw an attack you're an anointing you have the football Joseph had a calling and the devil didn't want to fulfill it you have to know when you have a calling from God if you really haven't a calling of God there's going to be warfare around it picked out to be picked on but then always God comes and picks you up he doesn't pick you up when you think you should be picked up I think Joseph probably was pretty irritated and upset in prison all those years thinking you know yeah right I had this great dream huh guess that was the flesh I guess had too much pizza that night Here I am in prison know everybody's forgotten me I've been interpreting other people's dreams and every nobody remembers me Here I am just think of the lonely hours he was just sitting there wondering boys you know he does it even it's not even worth having a call in my life there's an attack and there's warfare that goes along with your gifting he's good-looking sometimes good-looking people have more temptations and ugly ones beautiful young little boys get abducted and raped beautiful young girls for no reason at all other than that they're beautiful the devil is mean devil he's walking with the Lord but the good thing with Joseph is he kept his heart right God was with him no matter matter what he lost and I want to say to you no matter what you've lost if you're walking with the Lord the Lord is with you he might not deliver you the time that you think you should be livered I mean there's a lot of things we all pray for Lord Lord when is this gonna happen and when is this gonna happen I want to but you know God knows when we need to be picked up he always comes through will you stay in the game even when it gets tough will you stay in the game when you don't get your prayers answered it doesn't look like this is going to happen we have to be like Shadrach Meshach and Abednego remember I'm gonna serve God he's gonna deliver me but if not if I don't get delivered up if I'm in prison I'm still going to serve the Lord I'm not going to serve your gods this is coming to a point especially in the church as a the new world order and the new world religion comes in this all this you know we all come together and we all have many ways to God and all there's going to be persecution for the true believer in the government 501c3 tell them what to tell us what to preach or certain sins we're not going to be able to touch this we have to decide what are we going to do so me and my house we're going to serve the Lord there's there's coming a persecution that we've never taught we hardly know how to resist being offended in the flesh but God always causes his people to scatter and spread and get stronger during persecution do you know that and great revival so let me close here with this will you stay in the game ask your neighbor will you stay in the game the devil wants to steal your coat to stop you he wants to get you to quit I'm sure everybody's at this place and on YouTube but we're preaching to today there's you've had temptations to quit what is it worth it is it worth it is it worth it and then those dark days pass and you go oh yeah it's worth it you know just hang on we may go through seasons of stripping of decoding your coats may be stolen but God has more coats don't cling to the coat some people if they lose their position that was all they thought they were their position and the position is gone now they don't know who they are your coat is temporary and in this world fear draws us to run to symbols if you have this if you and even in the churches taught if you have this and if you have that then you have faith and buhbuh buhbuh know do you have a relationship with the Lord do you know how to walk in love are you serving God are you serving the kingdom are you giving are you a person of the Spirit in John 19 23 through 24 and closing here jesus knew what it was like to be decoded they delivered my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing it says the soldiers crucified Jesus they took his clothes his seamless robe they took it he was decoded but he still fulfilled his destiny I want to encourage you if you've lost things along the way you can still fulfill your destiny amen Jesus shows us they took his robe Joseph they took his coats not just once but twice we lose things along the way but you can lose coats don't get all attached to them God can send you a new code might look different and I believe the whole church is gonna start looking different than than what we've seen and many times God has to move in different ways once once the spirit of religion come I won't get into all that but you got to know God's destiny his plan he helps when whatever we has been stolen he knows he was still with Joseph look at all the path it took for Joseph he was just decoded along the way that special robe was in blood and looked like an animal devoured him but it was supposed to be such a blessing and sometimes that status symbol that you got you thought this is it and it got taken away but your assignment isn't done amen that's a pretty father we thank you that you showed us what it's like when they took your robe they took your garments but you still fulfilled your destiny and I just pray for everyone to be encouraged this morning that regardless of maybe they've lost different things people in their lives relationships jobs only you know what people have faced in life husbands loves loves of their life to death to disease sickness all these losses things that we thought for sure would never be taken away but father you said that you're with us you'll never leave us and you'll never forsake us so we thank you for it just encourage everyone today Lauren they've been hurt wounded or offended we just pray Lord that they'd get up again every champion tapes himself back up and gets back in the game we can't afford to be on the sidelines in this hour thank you Lord Jesus name and everyone said [Music] you

Channel: Roberta Morrison

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Keywords: Roberta Morrison-Gilbert, Roberta Morrison, Living In His Presence Church, Bible Teaching

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Length: 39min 39sec (2379 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 09 2017