Can You Trust God's Timing? | Steven Furtick

You know how many things the devil has kept you from doing in your life that God called you to do because of what could happen if you did and many of us the enemy doesn't even have to fight us with real events or circumstances Even the suggestion of a disaster is enough to send some of us into retreat and so even the thought of what if they don't like you is enough to keep you in the house or just a thought of what if they break my life. The heart is enough to prevent you from spreading into the relationship or just a thought.

You know that many of you are reluctant to get involved in this church because you had a bad previous experience in the church and I understand that because once you have been through a storm, I lived through Hurricane Hugo I was eight years old when Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, North Carolina. South. It terrified me. I didn't want to spend the night away from home for two years after that when I was a kid, because one thing after having survived a storm. You have survived bad weather after you have survived abuse, what people don't tell you is that even after the storm has passed, it still ravages your insides and the saddest thing in the world is to see a Christian who has been liberated by the love of Christ to know that neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation nor death nor life nor angels nor demons nor the present nor the future nor any other power will be able to separate me from the love of God It is in Christ Jesus, my Lord, that I am trying to say.

Some of us need to fire the devil as our weatherman. We have been consulting the wrong source to find out what our future will be like and that is why we now stay home and remain afraid. and we remain paranoid and never plant and never harvest. Solomon said because we look at the wind, what a strange picture, you can't really see the wind, you can only see its effects and he says when you look at the wind, you know. "Is this a good time?" I'm using it to talk about when the sower goes to sow, he wants the wind to work with him and when the wind blows in the opposite direction, all your seeds hit you in the face, but you never feel that everything you soldiers feel like Something is just counterproductive to you.

Are you trying to be nice to someone? That's the last one I'm doing. I have to preach this twice tomorrow. I need my brain cells, but have you ever been hit by your own seed because that's what it says when the wind. blows against you some of you have had the wind against you your whole life you didn't have the right shoes your parents didn't make much money you had to learn to fit in you had to learn to be tough you had to learn to be tough and you learned to survive a storm, but the problem with that, the only problem with that is that sometimes the wind isn't even against you, but you still feel like it is because your mind is gathering evidence in support of a verdict that is no longer accurate like that. who watches the wind tries to discover what is popular if it is not popular.

I appreciate our students who are having rhythm night next Sunday night and I want to talk about this. In some ways, Tim, looking at the wind is like trying to determine what's going to give you influence and then you let the influence override your character, and looking at the wind is trying to say oh, they like me, they like me, this is what they like. need. to be to be like that is that is to look at the wind now give yourself another who is looking at the wind it is necessary to be in a good mood to fulfill your commitments that is to look at the wind because some of my climate systems are internal and I discovered it a long time ago We know that normally The mood you are in when you make a commitment doesn't match the mood you are in when it comes time to fulfill the commitment, so watching the wind is for those of us who sometimes need to feel it. to fulfill it and Solomon says the wisest man the richest man the man who said that doing things out of vanity is like chasing the wind uses this metaphor a lot in his book Ecclesiastes The Collected Teachings which are like proverbs but it is written in such a way that convinces of the knowledge of the universe and the uselessness of vanity.

He uses this image of the wind because it is an invisible force and says that if you are always checking and checking how you feel, you will. Always find a reason to contradict your responsibility, so there will always be a reason why you don't feel like forgiving people, but if you want to be free, you may have to go against your feelings in order to live in freedom. saying that you may have to walk against the wind you may have to forgive against the wind, especially in marriage. I love Holly so much because she decided a long time ago that I was the man and for her she came to the verdict on her skin day before she did. she took my name is hers and since she came to the verdict that she loves me and I am a good man in our marriage, she works to gather evidence to support that I am the man for her, she could easily do the opposite.

Could you find 15 reasons why he's only 5ft 9in and bigger on screen? You know, she could come up with 15 reasons why I'm usually in a bad mood three and a half days out of seven. She could find 15 reasons not to feel that way about me. But sometimes commitment means facing resistance with resolution in your heart. You can find a reason to leave this church in the next three days if you want. In fact, the law of averages says that there is someone in your line right now who, if you get to know them, will give you a reason to leave this church in the next three days because they will disappoint you with their lack of Christian character, but if you move to a person in the same row, I bet you there is someone in that row who loves Jesus. there's someone in that line who's honest there's someone in that line who's sincere but you'll never do it so we'll see I'm going to get my wife to do it I'm going to get my I'm going to do the tithe thing but I'll do it after I get it mine because the thing after the thing is going to do the thing and then this happened, there was the thing and but the economy, but the presidential elections, you see how we do it by consulting the forecast instead of consulting our faith. he who looks at the wind or observes the wind will never sell and looks at the clouds will never harvest because it always seems like it could rain at any time and you can't harvest when it's wet and Solomon didn't have a weather Channel App and Solomon didn't have a weather channel .

He is dealing with people who would check conditions before fulfilling their commitments by looking at the wind. How many people have not started what God told them to start because they have been waiting for the wind? More free time I'm going to write a book someday, you even keep a diary right now. I'm going to write a book someday, when are you going to write it? I'm going to build a cabin in Maine, that's what I'll do someday. some familiar land, no, it is an imaginary scenario that distances you from a real opportunity. You see it?

To look at the wind is to wish you had a different wife instead of loving the one you have as Christ loves the Church. This is getting good. The message will be better than your beard when I'm done with it, my brother, and that says a lot, but you know Peter knew something about watching the wind, although wasn't Peter the Apostle like that, always wanting to do something impulsive sometimes? It worked for him sometimes it worked against him but one thing you love about him is that he didn't wait for the perfect circumstances to say it, he didn't wait until he had knowledge to give his opinion, have you ever lived with someone like that, it's terrible and I noticed something about God and I wanted to give you this because they have these things in the church, they say well, God is punctual.

God yes, he is punctual. God, he's rarely early, but he's never late. Ask Lázaro if he was there. Lazarus always late. It arrives about four days late. The decaying bodily worms were making their way into the eye socket when Jesus got there and Mary and Martha had set their watch. Ask Peter if Jesus was ever late. Ask him. Ask him if I have ever been sent into a storm because of Jesus' instruction to go to the other side. This has been really exciting for me as I've studied it this week because the real thing about faith is do you

trust

God's

timing

?

I know it well and that was the test for Mary and Martha Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life and Jesus said well you know I am the resurrection and she said well I know that my brother will rise on the last day He said no, I am the resurrection, it was not that she did not

trust

in what He could do, but that you can trust when God is going to do it, you can trust someone's intention but not trust in their

timing

and as I already spoke well about that. Holly in this sermon let me tell you: I trust her with my life.

I trust that she will be faithful to our wedding vows. I trust her if she cooks for me or orders something from a menu. I trust her to know more about what I want to eat. of what I want, she knows me, that's how I trust this woman with everything except time when she says it will be 30 minutes, I say three hours because she taught me that her concept of time is different from mine, one is right, one is deceived and I trust her, I really trust her. I put her in a room full of supermodels, men, calendars, men and I trust her there, but if she said we were leaving in an hour, I would set three alarms because I trust her for everything except When some of us trust that God some day will take us to heaven, some of us trust that He died on the cross for our sin, we trust Him with everything, but we don't allow Him to do something when we want Him to do it.

He leaves us in the fiery furnace for seconds too long and we will be screaming God, get me out of this, but God said the real test for a mature Christian is: do you trust me with my time? Trusting Him in the meantime is where maturity is. developed and Jesus was always doing things at a bad time He always went to Jerusalem at the time when everyone wanted to kill him that's a bad time to show up when they're looking for you to execute you that's a bad time 5,000 men, women and children show up at the On the other hand now this is right after John the Baptist.

I just want you to know how often God does things in our lives at a bad time because some of you are like right now in your lives like that. this is a bad time for me God and I used to have this friend every time he called me on the phone he was so respectful he would say good time or bad time he always wanted to know that before saying anything else and I believe the Holy Spirit is telling him to someone today good time or bad time and you are like this a bad time I'm too old to do this now I'm too young to do this now I'm too busy to be doing this now I used to have a better job I used to have more money it's a bad time but God likes to bless people in a bad time He likes to resurrect people on the fourth day and when Jesus heard that John the Baptist had When Herod cut off his head, it was a bad time and he wanted to get away from the crowd, so He went to the other side with the disciples and when they got there there was a crowd waiting to get autographs, healing and fish and chips. and all this, in fact, when he did the miracle and fed the 5,000, the first thing the disciples said was that it's late, it's a bad time, it's a bad time and Jesus, when he took the bread, blessed it, broke it . and he gave them to them He did the miracle at a bad time now I'm now I'm divorced now I'm a single mother now is a bad time for me to believe in God it's a bad time I really wasted a lot of years it's a bad time to do this I think I made the wrong decision I don't even think I should live in Roanoke I don't even think I should live in Charlotte I mean it's a bad time it's a bad place that's what the disciples said they said it's a remote place and it's too late so say goodbye to the crowd and Jesus said no I want to bless you when it's too little and when it's too late because I want to bless when you think it's a bad time so I can teach you how to consult your faith instead of consulting your forecast, you got the timing wrong man, You continue to observe time and that is why you now live in fear of everything that could happen and everything that has happened.

It happened and as long as you watch the weather, as long as you keep that wrong weather, man, this is what God showed me, the weather is to be checked, not watched, when you see, when you sit, when you sit and look at it all day. it scares you Oh it's all good to plan it's good to make provisions but don't look at the weather if you look at the weather you'll get into your feelings and you'll lose your faith and now the wind look this will work against you to contradict the word that God spoke to you hey thank you for watching, make sure to subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a single video or live stream and share this video with a friend and don't forget you can join me. live every sunday thanks again for watching