We can trust God in any circumstance we encounter
with the assurance found in these three words God's got this we can we can overcome we can
have victory we can believe in deliverance we can believe in healing we can believe that we can
overcome in any situation as long as we know God's got this is there anything that I ever go
through that God don't know about the answer is a resounding no is there any situation I ever find
myself in that God's not aware of the answer is a resounding no is there any sickness that God can't
heal me of the answer's a resounding no is there any situation that my marriage or my family or my
finances can find ourselves in that God can't fix and the answer is a resounding no is anything too
hard for God no as believers as children of God we know it's going to be okay as long as
we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus Christ now if you're looking to the world
right now for help you're depressed and there is nothing too hard for thee and
there is nothing that's too hard for thee is there anything too hard for me what's the
answer to that question that God's asking us no nothing too hard for him say it again God's
got this we all have things that come against us it's easy to live up tight wondering how it's
going to work out what if the medical report isn't good what if my finances don't get better what if
my child doesn't get accepted in that school we've tried to figure it out we've done our best but we
don't see anything changing if we're not careful we'll live worried discouraged not expecting it
to get better but there's a simple phrase you have to keep down in your spirit God's got this he's on
the throne he sees what's happening he already has the solution you don't have to figure it out
there may not be a logical answer in the natural you don't see a way that's okay we serve a
supernatural God he has ways to do it we've never thought of instead of trying to force it to happen
living up tight you have to let go and let god when you turn it over to him and say God I
know you've got this I know you're in control not only will you feel the heaviness the weight
lift off of you but God will make things happen that you couldn't make happen you have many
problems you have many challenges you have many questions you have many struggles you need to know
that you have a mighty God because when you face mighty problems you need to know that God who
will help you face them is up to the task and he is up to the task right now my friend for
God so loved the world he has never messed up he has never struggled and he is not messing up
now and he is not struggling now he will help us he will help us really what we need to do
during these seasons is focus less on the muscle of mankind and more on the muscle of God reach
up and you'll see that our God has got this in Psalm chapter 46 and verse number one that
Psalmist David wrote God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble I've
told you this before but it bears repeating the only time and place in your entire bible
that God promises to be a present help is when we're in trouble he said I'm going to be
a very present help I'm not going to be a casually present help I'm not going to be a spotty present
help I'm not going to be here and there here a little there little present help he said I'm going
to be a very present help in the time of trouble God is not just with you on the
mountaintops he's with you in the valleys when you're going through things
he knows what you're up against the scripture says God is concerned about what
concerns you a sparrow doesn't fall to the ground without God knowing about it how much more is
God concerned about what's happening in your life trust him live from a place of peace this is
a decision we have to make on a daily basis because every day there's something to worry about
there's some reason to get upset all through the day keep this phrase close to your heart God's
got this he's concerned about me he's working in my life he's bigger than my enemies he's lining up
the right people he's arranging things in my favor that attitude of faith is what allows God
to do amazing things do you know why and how the shepherd boy David was able to
prevail over the warrior giant Goliath very simple David didn't compare himself
to the giant he compared the giant to God we need to quit comparing ourselves to our
troubles quit comparing ourselves to our pain and our pressure and the things we think we
can't do anything about their giants in our lives and instead of trying to figure out what can I do
about it do I have enough money do I have enough clout do I have enough friends is there any way
I can solve this and when you look at it through that eye you're comparing David to Goliath but
David was smart enough to say you come to me with sword and spear but I come to you in the name
of the Lord of hosts and the bible said David ran right toward him and let the rock go and the
giant come down he compared the giant to his God what you're facing may be bigger stronger more
powerful but when you refuse to worry when you refuse to live stressed out instead you stay in
peace thanking God that he's fighting your battles knowing that he's in control you are showing God
by your actions that you're trusting him we worry too much we worry about all sorts of things don't
we we worry about things we can't even change we worry until we're a nervous wreck we
worry ourselves into high blood pressure we worry ourselves into a stroke or a
heart attack we worry ourselves into ulcers we worry until we become
absolutely miserable people the kind of people nobody wants to be around
we worry when it would be easier to trust God is something weighing you down today are
you worried about a situation frustrated by what didn't work out or maybe down on yourself
because you're not where you thought you would be God is saying to you I've got this it's
not a surprise to me I have new beginnings I have healing I have breakthroughs I'm
asking you to change your perspective switch over into faith that situation at work that
you're worried about God's got it I'm asking you to quit worrying about what you're facing quit
losing sleep over that child that's not doing right quit being upset because somebody did
you wrong your dream hasn't come to pass yet can I tell you God's got this I like what Corey
Ten Boon the famous Jewish holocaust survivor said she said worry does not empty tomorrow of
its troubles it empties today of its strength your worry don't change tomorrow your worry
doesn't change next week your worry isn't going to change your situation your worry isn't going to
help you make more money on the job it's not going to fix your car it's not going to fix the house
it's not going to keep it from raining tomorrow all the time you're worrying about whether or not
it'll rain tomorrow you're missing today's sun life is too short for you to live your life every
day worrying about something that might happen worrying about what somebody has
said or what somebody has done life is too short to spend it worrying
life is too short for you to allow yourself to constantly all be all worked up about
something life is too short to go around miserable life is too short for you to make everybody around
you miserable life is too short to harbor grudges life is too short to hate quit worrying
about stuff that hadn't happened yet it's a proven fact that 99 percent
of the things we worry about never happen quit worrying about what can go
wrong and get excited about what can go right it doesn't take any more effort to believe
something bad's going to happen than it does to believe something good is going to happen no more
effort and by the way they're really both faith you can either have faith that something
good is going to happen or you can have faith something bad is going to happen either
one is you've got faith I choose to have faith God's going to do something good I said I choose
to have faith God's going to do something good quit worrying about the future as children of God we don't know what the
future holds but we know who holds the future quit worrying about the future put it in the
hands of God that's where it belongs anyway sometimes we're trying to play God we're trying to
make our boss promote us make ourselves get well and make the contract go through but when you take
your hands off and say God I know you've got this I'm not going to worry about my finances I'm not
going to live up tight because of the medical report I'm not going to be frustrated because
I haven't met the right person God I trust your timing and I trust your ways my life is in your
hands God never promised that we wouldn't have difficulties but he did promise he would give
us strength for every battle he would take what was meant for harm and use to our advantage you
may have a good reason to worry about something in your health your finances a dream you've done
everything you can doesn't look like it's going to work out stay in faith God is saying I've got
this I'm working behind the scenes I'm in the process of turning it around it's just a matter
of time before you see things change in your favor now live out of a place of peace a place of
trust it may not happen the way you thought but God's ways are better than our ways God
knows what's best for you he's got this and if you're in the middle of a storm right now
instead of going home tonight and worry yourself sleepless go to work tomorrow feeling bad
because you worried all night and didn't sleep you know what you realize in the
morning after you've worried all night is that the problem's still
there worrying didn't fix it so I'm worried about my child
I'm worried about our money I'm worried about jobs I'm worried about a car
I'm worried about a place to live I'm worried about my spouse I'm worried you can worry
worry worry worry worry and you're not going to change no kids no spouse no family no bank
balance because worrying how you fix this stuff the way you get a miracle is lay the
worry aside and have faith in God don't worry God's got it all in control God
makes a way where there seems to be no way when you're stuck when you confuse when your
backs against the wall when your marriage is struggling when your finances aren't doing well
when your children aren't doing well when you have a health issue God makes a way where there
seems to be no way where there's no way to turn there's nothing to do there's everything is lost
God makes a way where there seems to be no way father God is the waymaker Isaiah 43 verse 16
the new living translation reads I am the Lord who opened a way through the waters making a dry
path through the sea the red sea for his people one more Isaiah 43 verse 1 message bible when
you're in over your head I'll be there with you when you're in rough waters you will not go down when you're between a rock and a
hard place it won't be a dead end seems to me that there are a lot of people
finding themselves between a rock and a hard place now these powerful verses state very clearly
that God can make a way that he is the waymaker he is the path opener he is the trail blazer he
is the road builder he makes a way when there is no way so there is no way there is no way but
but he makes one or there seems to be no way and he reveals one that we couldn't see or haven't
seen he makes a way when it is impossible to us have you ever been between a rock and a
hard place ever feel like you can't make it ever ever feel like you you can't it's
impossible you you can't make it yeah I've been there a few times ever
feel like you're in over your head I mean the situation's just too
deep you're you're treading water throughout scripture one
principle is always constant God can make a way when there seems to be no way
there are times when life hands us situations and many are in them now with the atmosphere in
our world situations in which our faith must rise and push us to keep right on going trusting
that God will make a way for us to pass through the difficult times to pass through the the
trying time pass through the unknown places to pass through the unknown destinations
times you can't when you can't see like Abel sacrificial times like Noah like
Noah stormy times like Abraham times when there's destinations before you that you can't you
can't know you can't see like Sarah baron times like Elijah lonely times like Job painful times
homesick times testing times death bedtimes just plain old times when it takes faith to handle what
we don't know or see or feel or hear or understand times when we have to put our faith in the
waymaker if you will trust him you can find him to be the waymaker just like everyone that I just
mentioned in the scripture it's been my experience that God doesn't mind getting between a rock and
a hard place and creating ways for his people listen to me today when I tell you that
God can make a way where there is no way hold on when you are in one of those places
where you say there's no way out of this there's no way through this there's nobody
that can help me with this that this is the one that's going to destroy me this is the situation
that is the end of me that's when God steps up and says you can put your trust in me
because I can do anything the things that we think are blocking us God
is going to use to bring us victory when we feel lost and we can't find our way we're
going to find out that God will always make a way unseen hands are working you may not see it
but unseen hands are working unseen plans are are forming and unfolding you may not see it
but that doesn't mean that it isn't happening he's working behind the scenes to turn things for
your good to turn things around for your families to turn things around for prodigals to
turn things around he's he's working behind the scenes on ways to bless you
he's working behind the scenes on ways to to provide for you to open paths of connection
for you he's leading others into your life you don't even know about couldn't possibly
know about he's leading others into your life that will become the answers to your heart
cry answers to your prayers he's blazing a path beyond the dead ends he doesn't stop when it
looks like it's over never has he makes away that's why Hebrews 11 teaches so emphatically
keep going keep trusting keep believing don't quit well for you as a dead end to him is an entryway
to a place you haven't seen yet to a place of awesome victory his love will make a
way for you to get there he's the waymaker he has a plan that we haven't seen yet oh I'm
confident of that there's no dead end to him and I came today to tell you he's the waymaker you
may not see it but he's the waymaker you may have came in today or you may be watching today and you
say I cannot see this that's okay he's behind the scene he's working and he's the waymaker he's
going to anoint you to see beyond the dead end and he's going to anoint you to move into
an area you didn't even know anything about god will make a way well there seems to
be no way and I want to add this to it God will make a way where there seems to be no
way just don't forget him when you get there when things feel hopeless they feel helpless you
just need to know that god promises to make a way when you feel like every door has been shut you can't see how something is going to
happen in front of you he will make a way because our God is a waymaker and he will make
a way through providing a miracle he'll make a way through keeping a promise or he'll just
shine light into the darkness of your situation God makes a way in the middle of no way Israel
found themselves at the red sea and God separates the waters and in the midst of impossibility
Israel walks through on dry ground sea separated on each side and they walk through that's a
God that makes a way in the middle of no way you know when we talk about God being a miracle
worker there are a lot of skeptics in the world today even within the Christian community that
that would say that the miracles of the bible just either never actually took place or they're
not for today but the question for all of us is is really is he still working miracles that's
the question is he still the miracle worker today is God still in the miracle business can can
blind eyes that have never seen miraculously still be open can God still take just a small
amount of food and still multiply that food to to feed thousands can people still be miraculously
healed when everything else says that there's just no way does God still intervene into
human affairs in an extraordinary way and based on what I read in scripture and what
I've seen with my own two eyes and what I've experienced God I want to tell you that God is
still in the business of doing miracles I want you to know that today I believe that with
all of my heart he is still a miracle worker over the past few years I've watched God
heal relationships that seem beyond repair I've watched him heal people of cancer when
doctors said it couldn't be done I've watched him provide financially for people when all hope
seemed to be lost watch God provide for my family when we said there's just no way
that this can happen I've watched him heal both of my boys from back injuries when the
doctors looked at both of them and said it's never going to happen then I watched God do it
God is still in the business of doing miracles I want you to know that I want you to believe it
because I believe it with everything inside of me most of us I would say we have no problem
believing that God does miracles today but we're not quite sure he'll do them for us in order to experience a miracle
sometimes you have to take a step of faith miracles are God's business obedience is mine
miracles are God's business obedience is yours I'm still the miracle worker but
you've got to take a step of faith I like what Mark Batterson says he says you
can't expect God to do the supernatural if you aren't willing to do the natural and here's
the point if you want to see the miraculous sometimes you have to take a step of obedience you
have to trust God you have to have faith and you have to ask you have to do what he's asking you
to do even if you don't want to even if everything inside of you is screaming no that doesn't make
sense some of you are believing God for a desired outcome but quite honestly what you are asking God
to do for you requires a miracle to get it done you need a miracle and Jesus is the
miracle worker he is the miracle worker nothing is impossible for Jesus to do for you Luke chapter 1 verse 37 says for nothing will
be impossible with God Matthew chapter 19 verse 26 says but Jesus looked at them and said with
with man this is impossible let's say it together but with God all things are possible I love
Ephesians 3 20 Paul writes now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or
imagine according to his power that is in work with that doesn't work with inside of us what
does that mean it just means simply God is able God is able Eugene Peterson says
most miracles are the byproduct of a long obedience in the same direction for
some of you guys are saying to you get up get up trust me move forward take
a step of obedience here's another thing if Jesus does a miracle miracle in your
life there's always a bigger purpose involved what's the purpose it will always always
always be about bringing God glory and drawing you closer to him to deepen
your faith to put Jesus on display listen every one of the miracles in the book
of john every one of the miracles in the bible is about bringing glory to God and deepening
the faith of the people involved in the miracle but here's what you need to know God
will never waste your pain he will never waste your hurt he will never waste your
suffering and he will never waste a miracle and here's the other thing regardless of
how long you've been waiting on a miracle Jesus has not forgotten about you there
are no promises in God's word that says that God's going to heal every person that is
suffering or every person that's paralyzed or every person that that's in pain while we're
here on this earth could he heal everyone in the world right now that's suffering absolutely
but for whatever reason he chooses not to even though Romans 8 23 says we groan to
be released from pain and suffering in this lifetime it won't be until we get to heaven
that will be healed and be given new bodies and listen that's a tough reality to accept about
God's sovereignty it's especially tough if if maybe you're a child or you have a child that
is suffering or someone that you love deeply and you just watch them suffer all day long
however even though I don't understand why God may choose to do a miracle here but he chooses
not to do a miracle over here I do know this he is compassionate he is loving he is
good and he's not forgotten about anyone he is with you just as much as he's with
the person that he does the miracle for just as much and listen some of you are waiting
on God to do a miracle in your life listen our savior is still a miracle worker he is still
a promise keeper he's not forgotten about you Isaiah chapter 40 verse 28 says have you heard
have you never heard have you never understood the Lord is the everlasting God the creator
of all the earth he never grows weak or weary no one can measure the depths of his understanding
he gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless even youths will become weak and tired
and young men will fall in exhaustion but those who trust in the Lord who put their faith
in the miracle worker will find new strength they will soar high in wings like eagles they
will run and not grow weary they will walk and not faint that means that regardless of what
you have been through today Jesus is still a miracle worker and the question for
you today is do you need a miracle God's timing is rarely our timing which is why
one of the most frequent cries in the Psalms is how long how long why not now God what
possible reason could you have for making this protracted suffering even longer faith is at least in part the ability to
trust that if you knew everything God knew and if you understood everything God understood
and if you could see everything God sees you'd say that's right it takes faith to believe
that because our vision is so limited and our pain can seem so long but if we knew
what God knew and could see what God sees we would say of course of course I
see why that had to happen to him and to them and to her into that country and
that people and that decision and that thing God knew what he was doing I love what the
commentator Victor Hamilton says God's delays are not necessarily God's denials and as some of
you endure what seems like a long period of God's delay delay delay know that it is not necessarily
his denial when thoughts tell you it's too late it's never going to happen now let
that go in one ear and out the other God is faithful what he promised you is
still in round you may not see any sign of it every circumstance says there's no way things are
happening that you can't see in the unseen realm God is moving the wrong people out of the way
lining up the healing the favor the good breaks they're already on your schedule but here's the
key if you could see how it was going to happen that wouldn't take any faith god can use anything
and anybody to get you where he wants to take you and so I just came to tell somebody who came in
here feeling for your sorry for yourself and came in here just feeling woe is me never nothing
good ever happens to me I'm never I'm always the last one higher than the first one fired I'm
always and you and you got your little sad song that you've loved uh uh to sing I came to tell you
pick up the needle put on a new song I am who God said I am time for you to quit disqualifying
yourself some of us disqualify ourselves for we ever show up I serve a God who can give
me a job I'm not technically qualified for but because I'm in his bloodline if he wills
me to work there he's going to put me there no matter how he gets me there but sometimes your
plan and God's plan are two different things oh I came to tell you you got don't worry about
your plan when yours falls apart that just means it wasn't God that's all it means somebody needs
to take that with you when it doesn't work out the way you thought it would work out that just
means that wasn't God's way that's all it means don't get desperate don't get frustrated don't
certainly don't get mad at God he didn't give you the plan you add the plan sometimes we give God
our deadlines and get mad when he doesn't meet him oh but God does things in his own way his ways are
not our ways his thoughts are not our thoughts and so you got to learn to walk by faith promises
that you've given up on dreams you've let go of you've accepted it's too late to accomplish
that goal too late to break the addiction too late to have a baby that may be true looking at
a normal schedule you don't see it on there but God is saying it's still on my schedule I still
have a way to bring it to pass I wouldn't have promised it if I wasn't going to do it now all
through the day father thank you that what you started in my life you're going to finish it may
seem too late for me but I know it's not too late for you thank you for these unscheduled blessings
blessings out of season I came to tell you your timeline is in the hand of your God he knows what
he started in your life he knows where he's taking you and you gotta walk by faith and not by sight
and stop getting mad at all the people around you it's not their job to elevate your life God
is the one who will exalt you in good time humble yourself unto the mighty hand of god in due
season when the time is right he will exalt you don't ever mistake your feeling of urgency don't
ever mistake your feeling of urgency for purpose from God your urgency your sense of having
to do something should can deceive you into thinking that your purpose from God I've got to
do this right now but here's the thing you feel urgency and I feel urgency but God does not it
doesn't mean that your urgency is felt by God God may put something urgent in your life but
here's the reality your urgency doesn't mean that God also feels it when we handle things
ourselves and don't trust in God's timing we always make things worse right isn't that what
we do we help things along we try to find a way to get the ball rolling I you know I know
God spoke this but you know it seems like God needs a little help so you know lean in and
get the ball rolling come up with some solutions we don't understand how God could do something but
remember he's God he works in supernatural ways often using natural systems but he
does things above creation is anything too hard for the Lord is there anything too hard
for the lord just because it seems like God is too late doesn't mean that he's not going to come
through don't be fooled by the circumstances you may not see anything the odds are against
you the experts say it's not going to work out God controls the universe don't be impatient
for him to act keep believing keep praying and every blessing that belongs to you will
show up you won't have to go after it it's going to come to you it's going to happen at
the time God has planned have you given up hope have you given up hope did God speak something
to you and you look at it and say there is no physical real way that this could happen
scientifically emotionally whatever there's no way this could happen this word of God that was given
to me there's no way it could happen you're in the perfect place for God to show up and speak into
your desolation the word that he has which is hope that his word never returns void then
his purposes and his plans for you will not be thwarted he is God
and when he speaks it it is so just check out the first narrative of
scripture in the creation of all things he spoke it when God speaks it comes to be but we
are limited by time and we look at it and we know that time matters to us it matters we are looking
at time linearly I do not believe that God does God looks in from eternity time is something God
created he's not subservient to it he uses it he gave us all the numerology that's in the
bible the seven days being so significant six days in a rest and the whole like rhythm
of the earth in its seasons God of course uses time but God is not subservient to it god
is eternal he is the alpha and the omega the beginning in the end he was he is and he will be
he is outside of time he is God so remind yourself that when God speaks it will come to be but
it doesn't mean that it will happen tomorrow God doesn't do things on a normal schedule
a normal time frame he has some unscheduled blessings for you things that are out of season
out of the ordinary that shouldn't happen now the medical report says it's too late the financial
experts say things should be down that's when God steps in and says let me show you who I am I'm not
limited by time I'm not affected by the economy I'm not restricted by your age your background
the opposition by how long it's been I control the universe when I speak wombs come back to life
when I speak red seas part when I speak sicknesses leave when I speak addictions are broken marriages
are restored opportunities show up remember every calling every pull into something is a
journey of faith based on his timing not yours we cannot engineer a life of faith hear that
church you cannot engineer a life of faithful obedience you can only live into it trust
him when you don't see anything happening believe when heaven is silent he's working behind
the scenes every blessing that has your name on it if you will be patient it's not only going to find
you it's going to be much better than you think friends know this your life is purposeful but
we have to wait on his perfect timing we may not understand God's timing but we can trust
his character will we be courageously obedient even when we have to wait and here's the
thing if you won't say yes to it you'll never get to see the fulfillment of God you
will have to wait in courageous obedience for the word of the Lord to come to pass he
works out his plans and purposes in us nothing I want I want this to be the final words you
hear nothing is wasted when we trust in god's timing he is the God who says I will give you
beauty for ashes I will give you the oil of joy in your time of mourning and grief only God can
do that only God can redeem time spent waiting time spent hopeless God is the God who invites us
to believe in his character above and beyond our circumstances nothing is wasted when we wait on
our faithful God's timing to reach its fulfillment if the truth be told and we were being totally honest most of us don't like waiting particularly if we're waiting for something
to change or something to get better waiting can be a very frustrating experience
but the worst kind of waiting of all is waiting on God when God forces you to wait for
things to get better in your life for things to improve to change to
reverse and nothing is happening and yet over and over and over and over and
over again in the bible we're told to wait on the Lord the most difficult place for
you to be in life is in God's waiting room in God's waiting room some of you are in God's
waiting room right now what is God's waiting room when you're in a hurry for something to
happen and God isn't that's God's waiting room some of you are in a hurry to graduate
some of you are in a hurry to get married some of you are in a hurry to start a family some
of you are in a hurry to launch a new business to to close a big deal some of you in a hurry
for a big goal a big dream a big accomplishment some of you are in a hurry for all kinds of
different things and God isn't we as human beings hate to wait and we especially
struggle with waiting on God have you ever been in a hurry when
God wasn't and your God I know you're going to come through and I'm praying this
really Godly prayer I know it's your will so where are you why aren't you coming
through and you're in the waiting room of life and we get so impatient we want to hurry God up
and we want things right now and some of you have been waiting for God to come through and you're
about to give up and you're getting discouraged and you realize that God's standard time is
not always running on my time and it's in the waiting rooms of life we learn to trust God the
most in those difficult waiting rooms of life that's where God grows us and builds our character
the most through the pain of waiting we learn to trust God and without faith it's impossible to
please God that's when he builds our character you see while you're working on your project your
goal your dream your vision God's working on you and God's much more interested in you
than in what you're trying to accomplish because you're not taking your accomplishments
to heaven but you are taking your character and sometimes God says yeah I intend to give you
what I've promised you I intend to answer that prayer I intend to fulfill the vision but you're
not ready yet I want you to grow and when you're ready then it's going to happen a lot of times we
think we're waiting on God for something to happen like a prayer to be answered God says you're not
waiting on me I'm waiting on you I'm trying to prepare you I'm testing your faith will you trust
me but I'm also trying to grow you up because the blessing I want to give you so much bigger than
you can handle right now you're not ready for it you can't handle it yet another thing you have
to learn in life is that a delay is not a denial there's a big difference between no and not yet
now immature children don't know the difference you tell a kid not yet they start crying and
having a hissy fit because they think it means no they don't understand a delay is not a denial
God is saying I I intend to do these things in your life that I've given you the vision the
dream to do but you're just not ready yet and at the right time I will answer your prayer God's
often waiting on us now why is this important because when you're in God's waiting room you
fall temptation to all kinds of negative emotions you start worrying you start stressing out you get
anxious you get irritable you get spiritual add you can get envious you can get jealous hey
he got a promotion I didn't get the promotion that she's having a baby I'm not having a
baby she got engaged I didn't get engaged he's starting a new business that's taken off
what about mine and all these kind of negative emotions can come in to your life and then you get
frustrated and then you start having a pity party so what does God want you to do when you're in the
waiting room of life and because you're going to go through it many many times God is not a vending
machine where you put in the prayer and then you pull the thing and you instantly get it there's
always a delay the delays are by design the delays are by design to teach you to trust him and to
grow up in your character hey a delay is not a denial there's a big difference between no and not
yet for those of your parents you understand this there's a big difference between telling your
kids no and not yet it's just not time yet and a delay is not a denial we see it all through
scriptures God told Noah to build a boat that would save his family from a great flood but it
didn't rain for 120 years God told Abraham he'd be the father of a great nation but he didn't
have his first child until he was 99 years old God told Moses that he would lead the people
out of slavery from Egypt they'd been in for over 450 years but then God sends Moses
out into the desert for 40 years to wait God gives Joseph this great dream that he'll save
his family and his people from famine and he'll be a great leader but then Joseph gets sold into
slavery he gets falsely accused and imprisoned and he's waiting there in prison until finally God
takes him from prison and positions him second in command in all of Egypt and the promise comes true
king David God had king David anointed as king but he didn't really get to be king until years
later even Jesus Christ spent his first 30 years waiting in a carpentry shop before he started
his earthly ministry see a delay is not a denial when God delays sometimes we feel forgotten Psalm
13 1 says how long o Lord will you forget me forever you come to a point sometimes of believing
that God has forgotten you don't worry it's a common experience we all go through it one
time or another feeling that God isn't there or at the very least he's forgotten us perhaps
our problems aren't important to him we imagine the Psalmist encounters those very doubts in Psalm
chapter 10 and verse 1 here's what he says there why do you stand afar off oh Lord why do you hide
in times of trouble what you believe is that he has given up on you you may even be feeling that
way right now if so please allow me to remind you that what you're contemplating is a simple
impossibility God never gives up on you he never ceases to care about you and he will not
abandon his work on you of which your trial is a part he even says that your name is written on the
Palms of his hands your very name is tattooed on the Palms of God's hands it is engraved there
it cannot be removed and such is God's concern for you he cannot forget you no matter what
storm you're weathering now you have never left God's mind or his heart yes sometimes when God
delays we feel forgotten but God never delays without a purpose he knows you he knows your
heart he knows everything you're asking him for if he's not doing what you think he should do
just be patient because God loves you don't forget he's got your name tattooed on
his Palm he knows who you are he hasn't forgotten and he never will often God's
timing disappoints us you know there's something maybe something you've been praying about for
a long time and you really you need an answer you know maybe you've been um praying for
something really specific and you needed God to show up within a particular time frame
you know it's an urgent need and he doesn't when God doesn't answer when you need him
to I wonder what conclusions do you come to do you think to yourself you know did I
do something wrong did I ask the wrong way do you find yourself asking does God
even hear my prayers so often we think when God doesn't answer in our way or in our time
that it's because he doesn't love us God loves you he doesn't love anybody else one grain of
sand more than he loves you you know in those darkest moments of life I want you to hear Jesus
looking right through your fear and saying to you trust me I am right here God's timing might not
have been everything you hoped for in your life but I hope you understand that you can
trust the one who keeps the time clock we don't like to trust somebody else's
timing why because if we lose control and so we'd rather then trust God because trusting
God means my goodness I actually have to trust God we'd rather go listen I like the plan and purpose
you have for my life but can we do it my way and here's the funny thing now that I'm a parent
I recognize in my children that they don't like it to wait on my timing they don't like to wait
they don't like to chill and be patient but the thing is if they would just trust my timing
they would recognize it's for their good it's for them to be blessed and prosperous and
so you can live life frustrated anxious stressed out angry or you can rest and go God I have to
trust in your timing just trust his timing why because it'll give you peace it'll give you rest
and it will help you to remove all disappointment and hurt and bitterness from your heart because
you'll know actually God's in control of my life why didn't god just tell you everything
that's gonna happen in your life right up front well I think there are two or three reasons first
it would overwhelm you probably scare you to death but the real reason God doesn't announce his
timetable to you is he wants you to trust him he says just live one day at a time trust me
I I'm a good God I'm a loving God everything I do in your life is for love but you just got to
trust me in acts chapter 1 in the bible the bible says this Jesus said in verse 7 you don't get to
know the time timing is the father's business so you're just not ever going to know stuff in
advance you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow in your life much less the rest of your
life God does not tell us the details in advance he has a timetable for your life but he
doesn't tell you the details in advance if you could understand why God does everything
God does you'd be God God's timing isn't good it's perfect because he knows all the details
he knows past present future he knows what we need what we want what's the wisest thing to do
you can never go wrong waiting upon God's timing if I'm going to wait upon God I've got to trust
him because my waiting is saying I'm trusting you God that your timing is better than mine you
know what I do not know your time is always right and so I'm going to trust you and I'm going to
wait till you give me permission to go there or do this I have that above the ella it isn't
that God's trying to deprive us of anything he only wants what is best for us so it
takes faith and what I mean by that is simply this am I willing to trust God
for his timing before I make a decision just imagine how amazing life would be if we could
trust God all the time in every thing all the time in every thing and trusting God means that we
stop trying to make things happen ourselves and we wait on God how many love waiting we wait on God it's a painful word even to say it
and God doesn't do it when we'd like him to or the way we'd like him to but I can promise you today
if you will keep your eyes on God and trust him to be your recompense and to be your reward and to
be your vindicator you will get double blessings for your farmer trouble trusting him doesn't
mean I'm going to get what I want when I want it trusting him says I believe that when the timing
is right God will provide what I'm asking him for you know broken hearts do mend bodies do healed
disappointment turns into new dreams and the end of one thing can open the door for something
new if we will just put our trust in God you know what if you're still here on
the planet God's got a plan for you it seems to you like God's forgotten all about
you well he hasn't he hears you and he sees you can I tell you today that you're not invisible God
knows exactly where you're at and he knows exactly what's going on in your life and he knows exactly
how much you can take and how much you can't take and he may not be early but he won't be late
God's timing is always perfect do I believe that he has our best interest at heart
if I believe that I'm going to wait but watch this somebody says I don't have any time
to waste you never waste time waiting on God never you always find out that his
timing is always the right time sometimes you need to get knocked down before you can really figure out what your what your
fight is and how you need to fight it sometimes you need to feel
the pain and sting of defeat to activate the real passion and purpose
that God predestined inside of you God says in Jeremiah I know the plans
I have for you plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a
future hear me well on this day this day when you have reached the hilltop and you are deciding on
on next jobs next steps careers further education you would rather find purpose than a job or
career purpose crosses disciplines purpose is an essential element of you it is the reason you are
on the planet at this particular time in history your very existence is wrapped up in the things
you are here to fulfill whatever you choose for a career path remember the struggles along the
way are only meant to shape you for your purpose when God has something for you it doesn't matter
who stands against it if it's meant for you God will move someone is holding you back away
from a door and put someone there who will open it for you I don't know what your future is
but if you're willing to take the harder way the more complicated one the one with more
failures at first their successes the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning more
victory more glory then you will not regret it press on with pride and press on with purpose
and appreciate what God has brought you through
