2023.12.03 - CRISIS - Tough As Nails

Psalms 1:1-3

1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

 

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

 

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

KJV

 

 

 

 

When what is see doesn’t make sense I remind myself of what He said . . . And that is hard!

 

Church isn't easy - it was never supposed to be

 

Calling things that were not as though they were

 

 

You are tougher than you think you are

• The closest a woman will come to actual death without dying is giving birth
• The closest a man will come is having a cold, a hang nail, a sore throat or . . . You fill in the blanks, LOL 

 

He may not resurrect the thing, but He wants to resurrect the part of you that died with the thing

• Resurrected things HAVE life and GIVE life 
• God wants to birth something new in and through a reborn you.
• Part of a rebirth of a Christian is a mental shift to do  and be and believe what they could not before - now through Christ.
•  rebirth and resurrection allows is to Believe in a capacity that we were simply not able to before
• The resilience God has placed inside of you is nothing less that superhuman, beyond the limits of human capability - it is from Divine

 

Psalms 121

121:1 A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

KJV

 

 

Ephesians 3:20-4:1

 

20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

 

21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

KJV

• Ephesians 3:20

 

 

Prove it - YOU ARE SAVED AND YOU ALREADY KNOW IT, YOU HAVE FELT A QUICKENING IN YOUR SPIRIT AND KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT THE SAME!

 

Romans 8:26-9:1

26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. KJV

 

You are tough as nails - and God may well have driven you into the fabric of your broken family to hold it together