God Has a Plan for Your Breakthrough

If you went into a stadium and looked at the field and saw a junior high soccer team or football team playing against the Gold Cup team, you would say, this is ridiculous; how could that be? Or a high school football or soccer team playing against the World Cup championship team. That is just no match. It's the same thing with any sport that would be out there. Many times, life hits you that way.

You're in a marriage and the situation is not changing and emotionally it's tearing you down, mentally it is putting you in a dark place. And you look at life, and you're saying, come on, God, I've prayed, I've called out to you, and there is no match. There's no match to when I look at my emotions and deal with the level of gravity of this situation. There's just no way that I can overcome it to where this joy that you talk about, this peace you talk about, the strength you talk about, how could that be? Many times, you look at your life and there are overwhelming circumstances because you lost somebody very dear to you, and you're trying to get past the pain, the anger, the frustration, the isolation, and you find yourself many times struggling like it's no match.

There's not enough help, no matter how many families surround and walk with you. Life can make us feel that way. Many times, when it's that way, God wants to teach us a process if we are willing to learn from him.

Moses had to give up a sword in order to learn to trust God, a stick with two million people screaming at him, and a most equipped, powerful army coming at him. But yet God tells him to obey him. I challenge you today that when life puts you in no-match situations like going into Jericho, where there are double reinforced walls and giants, how do you operate in that? 

When you're weak, you become strong like Paul did because he decided to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh. Decide to hold to God's Word. Pray.

Put people around you that will stand by you. Choose to believe that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly all I could ever ask or think. You can do all things through Christ because you no longer depend on your strength.

Paul had to count all things lost. He was the Pharisee of Pharisees, knew nine languages, and was a scholar and a philosopher, yet he chose to walk in the Word of God and trust him one day at a time. That was his victory.

So it's not what you face in this life and how overwhelming it is. It's how you learn to trust God through the process that transforms your life to the point where you no longer live. It is Christ who lives through and in you.

Stay focused.

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