Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a hurry when God wasn't.
Speaker 1: One of the most difficult things in life is to
Speaker 1: sit in God's waiting room. God's waiting room is when
Speaker 1: there's something beyond your control that you can't speed up,
Speaker 1: an answer to prayer, a miracle, a change in a situation,
Speaker 1: and you want it to change, but it is totally
Speaker 1: out of your control, and you have to wait on God.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Ecclesiastes three to eleven, God does
Speaker 1: everything just right and on time, but people can never
Speaker 1: completely understand what he's doing. Boy, is that the truth?
Speaker 1: We don't know always what God is doing, and we
Speaker 1: certainly don't know when He's going to do it, and
Speaker 1: so much of life we spend waiting on God's timetable.
Speaker 1: How do you keep on believing while you're waiting on God?
Speaker 1: If any man had to wait, it was Abraham. God
Speaker 1: gave him a promise that he'd have a baby who
Speaker 1: would become a great nation, which later became the nation
Speaker 1: of Israel. But Abraham had to wait one hundred years
Speaker 1: for that baby. That's a long time to wait. What
Speaker 1: do you do while you're waiting on God? The Bible says,
Speaker 1: five things. Number one, you need to first understand the
Speaker 1: six phases of faith. God always takes you through a
Speaker 1: predictable phase and stages of faith. The first phase of
Speaker 1: faith is when God gives you a dream, an idea,
Speaker 1: an ambition, a goal.
Speaker 2: God gives you a dream.
Speaker 1: In at age seventy five, God gave Abraham a dream.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm going to make you into a great nation.
Speaker 1: But that's just the start. Phase two is a decision,
Speaker 1: and a decision is when you decide to act on
Speaker 1: that dream. A dream without a decision is worthless, and
Speaker 1: every dream of God has a risk to it. It
Speaker 1: has a part that you have to to take a
Speaker 1: step of faith out. Abraham had to leave his existing
Speaker 1: homeland and go to a place where he never knew.
Speaker 1: He had never heard of, never heard of, never been there.
Speaker 2: He took a risk.
Speaker 1: And when God gives you a dream and says this
Speaker 1: is what I want to do with your life, there's
Speaker 1: going to come a point you have to make the
Speaker 1: decision to say, Okay, God, I'm going to go after
Speaker 1: your dream for my life, not my own dream. Once
Speaker 1: you've done that, you move into phase three. And phase
Speaker 1: three is delay because the dream is never fulfilled instantly.
Speaker 1: When God gives you an idea of what he wants
Speaker 1: to do with your life, and when he actually fulfills it,
Speaker 1: there is always a time gap because He wants to
Speaker 1: grow you, he wants to build you up. Eleven years
Speaker 1: after God gave Abraham his dream, Abraham still didn't have
Speaker 1: a child. And when he's eighty six, it says, but
Speaker 1: Sarah still had not borne any children. What's happened in
Speaker 1: those eleven years. The answer is nothing. He was just
Speaker 1: waiting on God. He's tempted to doubt, tempted to despair,
Speaker 1: tempted to take detours, but God says, no, You're going
Speaker 1: to wait for the fulfillment of the dream I've given you.
Speaker 1: Then comes along phase four, and that is difficulty. God
Speaker 1: not only let you wait for a while, but while
Speaker 1: you wait, he lets you.
Speaker 2: Have some problems. Isn't that fun?
Speaker 1: And so you go through the stage of difficulty, where
Speaker 1: things go from bad to really bad.
Speaker 2: To worse to impossible.
Speaker 1: And you notice that at age ninety nine, Abraham still
Speaker 1: didn't have a son. He's ninety nine, his wife Sarah
Speaker 1: is eighty nine, and he still it says, how can
Speaker 1: a son be born?
Speaker 2: To a man my age.
Speaker 1: Now, what's worse is that God changed Abraham's name. His
Speaker 1: name originally was Abram, and God changed his name to Abraham,
Speaker 1: which means father of a great nation. Now imagine this.
Speaker 1: He walks into a seven to eleven. The guy says,
Speaker 1: what's your name, father of a great nation?
Speaker 2: Oh? How many kids you have? None? How old are you?
Speaker 2: Ninety nine?
Speaker 1: That's kind of embarrassing, folks. It's a test of his faith.
Speaker 1: But eventually god fulfills the dream and at age one
Speaker 1: hundred and his wife is ninety Sarah, they have a
Speaker 1: miracle baby and they name him Isaac, which means laughter,
Speaker 1: because they laughed at that thought. I mean, Sarah's ninety
Speaker 1: years old. We know she didn't believe God when God
Speaker 1: said you're pregnant because she laughed. Any woman who really
Speaker 1: believed God at ninety and figured she was pregnant would
Speaker 1: have cried. But she laughs, and God laughs, and Abraham laughs,
Speaker 1: and Isaac is named Laughter, and they have a miracle boy.
Speaker 1: And I think this is great. But then comes the
Speaker 1: most difficult phase of faith of all number five, dead end.
Speaker 1: And at dead end, God allows your dream to seemingly die.
Speaker 2: Abraham was asked to give up the miracle child. God says,
Speaker 2: I want you to sacrifice him back to me. Now
Speaker 2: get this.
Speaker 1: Abraham wakes one hundred years, gets a baby, he starts
Speaker 1: to grow up, and God says, by the way, now,
Speaker 1: I want you to give him back to me. I
Speaker 1: want you to sacrifice him to me. Abraham's thinking, what
Speaker 1: kind of God is this?
Speaker 2: Is this a cruel joke?
Speaker 1: He's asking me to sacrifice the very dream child that
Speaker 1: was promised to me. And he looks he feels pretty hopeless.
Speaker 1: How do you know when you're at a dead end,
Speaker 1: you feel hopeless. Some of you are at a dead
Speaker 1: end in your marriage right now. Some of you are
Speaker 1: at a dead end and getting married. Some of you
Speaker 1: are at a dead end when you look at your budget,
Speaker 1: when you look at your career, when you look at
Speaker 1: your friendships, your relationships. Some of you are at a
Speaker 1: physical dead end and your help is falling apart. And
Speaker 1: when you're at this stage, you start to doubt God's
Speaker 1: wisdom and love and you say, why is this happening
Speaker 1: to me? It's out of your control. Well, congratulations, God
Speaker 1: is getting you ready. He is preparing you for the
Speaker 1: final phase of faith, which is deliverance. And the greater
Speaker 1: the dead end, the more hopeless the situation, the greater
Speaker 1: the deliverance is going to be. The more of a miracle.
Speaker 1: It'll be you go, Wow, that was God. Only God
Speaker 1: could have done that. And so God is getting you
Speaker 1: ready for a miracle, the miracle of deliverance. Now, everybody
Speaker 1: in this room, God's going to take you through these
Speaker 1: six phases of faith many many times in your life,
Speaker 1: over and over again.
Speaker 2: You'll go from.
Speaker 1: Dream to decision, to delay, to difficulty, to dead end
Speaker 1: to deliverance, and then they'll do it again, and then
Speaker 1: they'll do it again to keep you growing in your faith.
Speaker 1: In fact, everybody here is at one of these stages
Speaker 1: right now. Some of you are in the dream phase,
Speaker 1: you're getting an idea. Some of you are in the
Speaker 1: delay phase or the difficulty or the dead end phase.
Speaker 2: But you have to understand how God works.
Speaker 1: If you're going to learn to be patient and keep
Speaker 1: on believing when you're waiting on God. The second thing
Speaker 1: you do when you're waiting for deliverance is you remember
Speaker 1: what God can do.
Speaker 2: Remember what God can do.
Speaker 1: The situation may be out of your control, but it's
Speaker 1: not out of God's control. So you don't focus on
Speaker 1: what you can't do. You focus on what God can do.
Speaker 1: What can God do? Well, look at this verse Romans
Speaker 1: four seventeen.
Speaker 2: Read it with me.
Speaker 1: Abraham believed in God, who gives life to the dead
Speaker 1: and who creates something out of nothing. Folks, That verse
Speaker 1: right there is the definition of a miracle. Because in
Speaker 1: a miracle, here's what happens. Either God gives life to
Speaker 1: something that's dead, or he creates something out of nothing.
Speaker 2: And that's what it's all about. Though. That's what God
Speaker 2: can do.
Speaker 1: He can give life to a dead career, a dead marriage,
Speaker 1: dead dreams, dead finances, and he can bring something out
Speaker 1: of nothing. Jesus said, anything as possible if you have faith. Now,
Speaker 1: I want you to notice something. This is very important.
Speaker 1: What did Abraham put his faith in? Look at that verse.
Speaker 1: What did he believe in? Did he believe in himself?
Speaker 2: No? Did he believe in his feelings? No?
Speaker 1: Did he put faith in faith, you know, like I'm
Speaker 1: just put faith in faith.
Speaker 2: No? Did he practice positive thinking?
Speaker 1: No? He believed in God. Now I believe in positive thinking.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this many times, but positive thinking and
Speaker 1: faith are not the same.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 1: You hear these songs about positive thinking, like I believe
Speaker 1: that for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows.
Speaker 2: Folks, that's belowney.
Speaker 1: If every drop of rain produced a flower, the world
Speaker 1: would be covered with flowers.
Speaker 2: We'd be tiptoing through the tulips. It's just not true.
Speaker 1: And positive thinking works in one situation. It works in
Speaker 1: situations where you have control over the situation. I, for instance,
Speaker 1: you believe you're going to do a good job at something,
Speaker 1: you'll probably do a better job than if you didn't
Speaker 1: believe it. But positive thinking is worthless in things that
Speaker 1: are out of your control.
Speaker 2: You can say, I hope my mom is going to live,
Speaker 2: but that's not going to change anything.
Speaker 1: You can say I hope that he doesn't get heard
Speaker 1: in that accident, but that isn't going to stop them
Speaker 1: from getting hurt. I hope my team wins. I hope
Speaker 1: I get a job. That's just wishful thinking. Positive thinking
Speaker 1: is worthless in situations out of your control, especially when
Speaker 1: you come to a dead end in life. When you
Speaker 1: come to a dead end, you need more and just
Speaker 1: a nice happy thought. You need faith in God. You know,
Speaker 1: I could say, you know, I believe I look like
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt. I could say it all the time I want.
Speaker 1: It's going to make me look like Brad Pitt. What's
Speaker 1: going to happen is the only thing that changes circumstances
Speaker 1: is faith in God. Faith in God works when things
Speaker 1: are out of your control.
Speaker 2: Now here's a little secret. Most of life is beyond
Speaker 2: your control.
Speaker 1: So you need faith in God far more than you
Speaker 1: need just kind of happy positive, you know, think pretty thoughts.
Speaker 1: When you get to a dead end, you need to
Speaker 1: remember what God can do Lotus's verse, what is impossible
Speaker 1: with men is possible with God. The third thing you
Speaker 1: do when you're waiting on God is rely on God's promises.
Speaker 1: Rely on what God has promised. The Bible says in
Speaker 1: Romans four eighteen, when hope was dead within him, Abraham
Speaker 1: went on hoping in faith.
Speaker 2: He relied on the word of God.
Speaker 1: Have you ever felt that way that hope was dying
Speaker 1: inside of you? How do you know when hope is
Speaker 1: dying inside of you? You start using the word never.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to get married, We're never going to
Speaker 1: have a baby, I'm never going to be happy again.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to change. Abraham went on hoping in faith.
Speaker 1: This isn't just wishful thinking, This isn't just positive thinking.
Speaker 1: This is hoping in faith, faith in God. You keep
Speaker 1: on believing. How do you keep on believing when you
Speaker 1: feel like doubting, when you feel like giving up? Well,
Speaker 1: it says there he relied on God's word and nothing
Speaker 1: is more reliable.
Speaker 2: Now, I hope you've gotten this by now.
Speaker 1: You've got to get into God's word if you're going
Speaker 1: to be a man of faith, if you're going to
Speaker 1: be a woman of faith, you have to get God's
Speaker 1: promises in your life. Even here, once again we hit
Speaker 1: it again. Rely on what God has promised. He relied
Speaker 1: on the word of God, and that's what kept them
Speaker 1: going when Hope wanted to give up. You need to
Speaker 1: read this book, Study this book, memorize Bible verses Matthew
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty six. With God, everything is possible and Glatians
Speaker 1: five to six. The only thing that counts is faith
Speaker 1: expressing itself through love. When you get the promises of
Speaker 1: God in your life, you will be able to hope
Speaker 1: in faith rather than giving up. Now when you come
Speaker 1: to a dead end, rely on the promises. Notice this
Speaker 1: next verse, While God was testing him, and that's what
Speaker 1: waiting is.
Speaker 2: It's a test.
Speaker 1: Abraham still trusted in God and his promises, so he
Speaker 1: offered his son Isaac. Now this is a test. Isaac
Speaker 1: grows up and God says, I want you to give
Speaker 1: him back to me. I want you to sacrifice them
Speaker 1: to me. But Abraham didn't panic. I would have, but
Speaker 1: Abraham didn't panic. God said, give me your son back,
Speaker 1: sacrifice them to me. But he didn't panic. For three reasons,
Speaker 1: the Bible tells us. One, he believed that God would
Speaker 1: raise him from the dead Hebrews eleven nineteen. Second, when
Speaker 1: he's telling his servant, we're going up the hill to
Speaker 1: make the sacrifice, he says, will be back, Not I'll
Speaker 1: be back, but we'll be back. He fully intended the
Speaker 1: son to come back with him. And Third, when his
Speaker 1: little boy, Isaac is walking up the hill with him
Speaker 1: and he says, Daddy, where's the lamb we're going to sacrifice,
Speaker 1: Abraham says, the Lord will provide. He had every intention
Speaker 1: and no doubt that God was going to spare his
Speaker 1: son or resurrect him from the dead. Why he had
Speaker 1: the promises of God. Now here's the big test in
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 2: What are you going to.
Speaker 1: Do when God says to you, I want you to
Speaker 1: sacrifice your greatest dream.
Speaker 2: That is the ultimate test of faith.
Speaker 1: When God says the thing you value most in life,
Speaker 1: what you want most in life, what you crave most
Speaker 1: in life, will you offer it on the altar?
Speaker 2: To me, this is a test.
Speaker 1: Will you do what Abraham did? Will you hope against hope?
Speaker 1: Will you hope in faith? And will you rely on
Speaker 1: the promises of God? Look at the next verse Romans
Speaker 1: four eighteen. Though it seemed Abraham's hope could not be fulfilled,
Speaker 1: he did become the father of many nations, exactly as
Speaker 1: God has promised. Noticed the word seemed things are never
Speaker 1: as bleak as they seem if you look at them
Speaker 1: from God's point of view. The Disciples followed Jesus around
Speaker 1: for three years, and they thought he was going to
Speaker 1: bring in the kingdom and set up the kingom.
Speaker 2: They'd all be rulers.
Speaker 1: And one day they look up and Jesus is hanging
Speaker 1: on the cross and he's dead. You talk about a
Speaker 1: dead end. They are devastated. He's the Messiah, He's the
Speaker 1: son of God. How in the world could be hanging
Speaker 1: on a cross. They didn't know that Easter.
Speaker 2: Was just a couple days away.
Speaker 1: God specializes in turning dead situations around and resurrecting situations
Speaker 1: that look.
Speaker 2: Hopeless when we rely on the promises of God.
Speaker 1: Notice, he says, he became the father of many nations.
Speaker 2: Exactly as God had promised.
Speaker 1: Promise is only as good as the integrity of the promiser,
Speaker 1: and God cannot lie. The fourth thing you do when
Speaker 1: you're waiting on God recognize the facts in faith. Face them,
Speaker 1: but face them in faith. Recognize the facts of your
Speaker 1: life in faith. Romans four nineteen and twenty says, without
Speaker 1: weakening in his faith, he it's Abraham faced the facts
Speaker 1: that his body was as good as dead and Sarah's
Speaker 1: womb was also dead. He's been pretty blunt here, yet
Speaker 1: he didn't waver with unbelief. God's word translation says, through faith,
Speaker 1: he regarded the facts. Abraham recognizes that he and his
Speaker 1: wife are beyond child bearing years. He's ninety nine, his
Speaker 1: wife is eighty nine, and it is a medical impossibility
Speaker 1: that they're going to have children.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: He doesn't deny the facts. He faces them with faith.
Speaker 1: This is very very important.
Speaker 2: Get this.
Speaker 1: Faith does not ignore reality. Faith does not pretend you
Speaker 1: don't have a problem. Faith does not act like it's
Speaker 1: no difficulty. Faith is not denial. Please hear that, because
Speaker 1: a lot of people think it is. Let me give
Speaker 1: you definition of faith. Faith is facing the facts in
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 2: Without being discouraged by them. That's faith.
Speaker 1: It's not denying you have problems. It's not denying you
Speaker 1: have difficulties. It's not denying you're facing a dead end
Speaker 1: or a hopeless situation.
Speaker 2: From a human standpoint.
Speaker 1: It is facing the fact of problems in your life
Speaker 1: without being discouraged by them. That is true faith. Some
Speaker 1: of you are facing cancer. Some of you have loved
Speaker 1: ones who are facing cancer right now. You cannot deny
Speaker 1: the diagnosed, but you can defy the verdict.
Speaker 2: Big difference.
Speaker 1: You cannot deny the diagnosis. I don't have cancer, Yes
Speaker 1: you do. They don't have cancer, Yes they do. You
Speaker 1: cannot deny the diagnosis. That's fantasy, it's denial. But you
Speaker 1: can defy the verdict, and you can fight it and
Speaker 1: say we're going to work at this and we're going
Speaker 1: to do all we can to beat.
Speaker 2: It and defy the verdict.
Speaker 1: You see, this is very important because there's a brand
Speaker 1: of Christianity out there that says, deny all your problems
Speaker 1: and just smile, smile, smile. That's not Jesus, that's Pollyanna.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It says, you know, I'm not sick. Positive confession, I'm
Speaker 1: not sick. I got a one hundred and four temperature,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sick. Or you know, I'm not in debt.
Speaker 1: I'm on the verge of bankruptcy, but I'm not in debt.
Speaker 1: Faith is not asking you to deny reality. It never does.
Speaker 1: Faith asks you to face the reality in your life
Speaker 1: without being discouraged by it. It's not living in denial.
Speaker 1: Faith is not clinging to the past. Faith is not
Speaker 1: stubborn foolishness. Please understand this. If you're still waiting for
Speaker 1: eight Tracks to make a comeback, let it go.
Speaker 2: It's over. It isn't coming back.
Speaker 1: If you're still waiting for that special guy or girl
Speaker 1: to invite you out on a date, that person from
Speaker 1: high school and it's your fiftieth reunion.
Speaker 2: Let it go. That puppy's not coming home. Just let
Speaker 2: it go. Grieve deeply, but let it go.
Speaker 1: Some of you need to do some legitimate, deep grieving
Speaker 1: in your life. That things have not turned out as
Speaker 1: you plan, that what you dream for your life isn't
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But you don't have a pity party. You
Speaker 1: believe that God knows best, and you say, yes, it
Speaker 1: didn't turn out the way I plan, but I believe
Speaker 1: God has a better plan.
Speaker 2: That is faith.
Speaker 1: Yes, things did not work out the way I thought,
Speaker 1: but I believe God is not through with my life,
Speaker 1: and He's working in my life, and God has good
Speaker 1: things in store for me.
Speaker 2: Still.
Speaker 1: That is faith. It is facing the facts in faith.
Speaker 1: It's not fantasy. It's just not being discouraged. One of
Speaker 1: the things I've told pastors for many, many years, it's
Speaker 1: an old cavalry military rule. It says, when the horse
Speaker 1: is dead, dismount. Okay, don't keep beating the dead horse.
Speaker 1: And when a dream dies, you just dismount and saddle
Speaker 1: another one. Because God's not through with you. God is
Speaker 1: not through with you. Some of you wanted to get married,
Speaker 1: but you never did. Some of you wanted to have children,
Speaker 1: but you never have. What do you do with a
Speaker 1: blocked love? Pull yourself into a cell, build a shell
Speaker 1: around yourself, be self concerned, a prickly pair. I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna let anybody get close to me again. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let anybody hurt me. I'm going to hold in
Speaker 1: my emotions, of course not. What do you do when
Speaker 1: a love is blocked? You redirect it, You rechannel it.
Speaker 1: You know that story I've told you several times about
Speaker 1: Corey tin Boom when she was a young woman, was
Speaker 1: engaged to be married, and all of a sudden the
Speaker 1: boy broke up with her and married a friend, and
Speaker 1: she was devastated, and she never did marry, went through
Speaker 1: life as a single woman. But she redirected her love.
Speaker 1: She didn't pull herself into a little shell, and she
Speaker 1: became one of the most loving Christian leaders of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century, influencing millions and millions of people. She redirected
Speaker 1: her love in a new direction. How do you keep
Speaker 1: on believing when you feel like giving up? You do
Speaker 1: these five things. First, you need to understand the six
Speaker 1: phases of faith that God will take you through over
Speaker 1: and over and over. Then you remember what God can do.
Speaker 2: He can do anything.
Speaker 1: Then you rely on God's promises and remember what He's
Speaker 1: promised to do. Then you recognize the facts of your
Speaker 1: life in faith. You don't deny them. You recognize them,
Speaker 1: but you don't get discouraged. And finally you rejoice in anticipation.
Speaker 1: In anti patient, you expect, You joyfully expect God to
Speaker 1: act in your life and to do good things, even
Speaker 1: if it's not the way you plan. He will do
Speaker 1: good things. You expect him to act. Romans fourth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one says this Abraham never doubted. He believed God
Speaker 1: for his faith and trust grew ever stronger, and he
Speaker 1: praised God for this blessing even before it happened. Wow,
Speaker 1: he was completely sure that God was well able to
Speaker 1: do anything he promised. Notice, even before it happened. That
Speaker 1: is real faith. When you thank God for something after
Speaker 1: it happens, that's gratitude. When you thank God for something
Speaker 1: before it happens, that is faith. And the highest form
Speaker 1: of faith is thanking God in advance.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you're going to work this out.
Speaker 1: I'm at a dead end, but I thank you in
Speaker 1: advance that you know what you're doing. I thank you
Speaker 1: in advance that you're going to work it all out.
Speaker 1: One day, Jesus went up to a tomb and some
Speaker 1: people had asked him to raise Lazarus from the dead,
Speaker 1: and he walks up and he prays, Father, I thank
Speaker 1: you that you've already heard me.
Speaker 2: What was he doing thanking God in advance?
Speaker 1: When God delivers, there are three kinds of deliverance.
Speaker 2: The first is circumstantial.
Speaker 1: Deliverance, and in that a type of deliverance, God changes
Speaker 1: the situation. He miraculously turns the situation around. And God
Speaker 1: will do that many many times in your life, but
Speaker 1: he's not going to always do it. He will do
Speaker 1: many miracles in your life, but he's not always going
Speaker 1: to change the situation. Sometimes he does personal deliverance and
Speaker 1: he changes you and you get a bigger perspective, you
Speaker 1: get a deeper faith, you get a larger character, you
Speaker 1: get a better attitude. And God changes you and leaves
Speaker 1: the situation personal deliverance. But there is some pain in
Speaker 1: life that is only going to be relieved through ultimate deliverance,
Speaker 1: and that is Heaven. One day We're going to a place,
Speaker 1: those of us who know the Lord, where there is
Speaker 1: no sorrow, no tears, no suffering, no sadness. And that
Speaker 1: is ultimately the deliverance that God wants to offer to you. Now, listen,
Speaker 1: God has not promised to take away all your pain.
Speaker 1: God has not promised that all your loved ones are
Speaker 1: going to live for as long as you want them
Speaker 1: to live. God has not promised that you will not
Speaker 1: have any difficulties, that you will never have any dead ends,
Speaker 1: never have any delays. He has not promised to take
Speaker 1: away all your pain. He has promised to give you
Speaker 1: the strength to handle it. And he has promised that
Speaker 1: one day, ultimately, he will deliver you to heaven, where
Speaker 1: there is no sorrow, no suffering, no sadness, and no pain.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this, we rejoice in the hope of
Speaker 1: the glory of God. What is the glory of God?
Speaker 1: The hope of God's glory is heaven. But there's only
Speaker 1: one way to get there, through Jesus Christ. You don't
Speaker 1: work for it or earn it. It's through Jesus Christ. Now,
Speaker 1: the Bible word for deliverance is the word salvation. That's
Speaker 1: what salvation means. Jesus Christ is your savior. He is
Speaker 1: your deliverer, and he will deliver you. And that is
Speaker 1: a far cry from just positive thinking. You see, all
Speaker 1: the world can offer is wishful thinking. The world hopes
Speaker 1: for the best but Jesus Christ offers the best.
Speaker 2: Hope that's bow our heads.
Speaker 1: Are you at a dead end this morning? Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: can turn your hopeless and into an endless hope. So
Speaker 1: whatever problem seems hopeless to you, I urge you to
Speaker 1: give it and your life to Jesus Christ right now,
Speaker 1: to Jesus Christ. I give you my problems and I
Speaker 1: give you my life.
Speaker 2: We ask you for miracles in Jesus' name. Amen,