Trust God Even When Life Is Hard | Motivational & Inspirational

people who have never really had their faith tested tend to be spiritually shallow this is because you develop a depth of understanding about God when you've been through a few things the problems you face aren't always bad problems in a sense the fights you find yourself in aren't always a bad thing I say this because God's greatest Miracles always happen when his people are in trouble Moses never knew God could part the Red Sea until he was in trouble Daniel never knew how good God's protection was until he found himself in a lion's den you see every great Act of God almost always started with a problem so here's my advice to you don't always pray for your problems to go away start praying for the Lord to show himself in the midst of your problems don't always pray for your challenges to disappear but start praying for the Lord to empower you to overcome that challenge I encourage you to begin to see your problems as opportunities begin to see the fight before you as an opportunity for you to see God move and act in a mighty way [Music] if you don't know God's word if you don't know that God's word is alive and active how will you survive spiritual battles how will you survive attacks from rules of Darkness so many Believers will pray today and stop praying tomorrow discouraged and defeated thinking God has not answered their prayer and that's because there is a lack of knowledge that the answer to your prayer may be under attack Daniel's answer came after three weeks of Prayer imagine if Daniel stopped praying after two weeks one of the greatest biblical truths to be revealed is that in addition to the Physical Realm that we see in addition to what the naked eye can see and what our hands can touch there also exists an Unseen World an invisible world an invisible Spirit Realm a world that can't be seen by the naked eye but it's inhabited by good and evil spirit beings and both these set of beings affect our world every single day we interact with them more than we think there's a reason the Bible says we don't wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities against Powers against the rulers of the darkness against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the Heavenly places scripture is not there to entertain us and keep us occupied it's there to teach us to edify us instruct and courage and yes even warn us now the devil is cunning and he wants you to either believe that he doesn't exist or to be afraid of him and if he cannot do either of those then he wants you to have a lack of knowledge regarding the authority that you've been given by Jesus Christ Luke 10 verse 19 says behold I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you Satan doesn't want you to know that and he also does not want you to know what Matthew 18 verse 18 says it's another example of the kind of authority the devil doesn't want us to know it says assuredly I say to you whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on Earth will be loosed in heaven now there is no way the devil would even think about coming up against a Christian who knows the authority they have in Jesus Christ there is no way that Satan and his demons would want to come up against a man or woman clothed in the full armor of God not one who has the knowledge that the resurrection power of Jesus Christ is also in them and available to them we need knowledge we need knowledge concerning the authority we have in Jesus because when you lack this knowledge there is no way that you can walk in Dominion nothing is hidden in the spirit Realm not even your lack of knowledge and in order to gain knowledge you have to invest time and you have to put in the effort to seek the Lord because when you want to get something that is deep you have to dig deep to find it there are some deep Revelations that only God can reveal to you if you chase him with an intensity call to me and I will answer you and show you Great and Mighty things which you do not know according to Jeremiah 33 verse 3. so I encourage you to equip yourself to equip yourself with the knowledge of who you are in Christ so when the devil looks at you let him see the light of the Lord in your life let him see a Believer who is suited and booted with their god-given Authority let him see the anointing that is over your life I want you to understand that as children of God we do not look at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal According to second Corinthians chapter 4. verse 18. now we all know the story of Moses and Pharaoh in the Red Sea but I don't want to overlook this passage of scripture in Exodus 3 verses 11 through 15. but Moses said to God who am I that I should go to pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt he said but I will be with you and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you when you have brought the people out of Egypt You Shall Serve God on this mountain then Moses said to God if I come to the people of Israel and say to them the god of your fathers has sent me to you and they ask me what is his name what shall I say to them God said to Moses I am who I am and he said say this to the people of Israel I am has sent me to you God also said to Moses say this to the people of Israel the Lord the god of your fathers the god of Abraham the god of Isaac and the god of Jacob has sent me to you this is my name forever and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations In this passage of scripture Moses was clearly daunted at the prospect of going to pharaoh and telling him to release the children of Israel and really take a moment to think about what Moses had to do here he had to go and take on the government he had to stand for God and stand against the Egyptian king so Moses was clearly asking God the question why me who am I to go and perform such a task but I want you to notice What God Says in his response to Moses in verse 12 God says but I will be with you I have sent you in verse 14 God says to Moses I am who I am I believe it's important for us to take note of a few things here Moses was concerned about himself perhaps he thought he wasn't influential enough or perhaps he thought he wasn't a great fighter but God didn't care whether Moses had great influence in Egypt or not God didn't care if Moses had the skill of a mighty warrior or if Moses was influential enough to go up against pharaoh all God wanted Moses to do was to go in his name in the same way that in world affairs one country can send an ambassador to represent an entire country or the president of that country God gave Moses Authority because he said I have sent you go in my name Moses didn't go to Pharaoh under his own will and Authority he went under the authority of The Great I Am Moses didn't fight Pharaoh with an army or physical 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