What To Do When It Seems Like God Isn't Working

Our challenge as people of faith is to synchronize our

faith with God's schedule.

That's the challenge. Twould not be a challenge, twould not

twould not be a challenge.

If God would mark harvest season on your schedule, would

not be a challenge. Wouldn't be a challenge because you

could keep yourself occupied until that point. Don't even worry

about it. You'll be married by twenty seven. Well, then

I'm good. I'll just enjoy myself till twenty seven and

then my man will show up. Is it October of

twenty twenty? I want God, because Lord, we could be

ready with the sickle if you would let us see

the schedule. Talk to me, people of faith, talk to me,

men and women of God of great faith.

I could be.

Ready with the sickle if you would synchronize in our office.

My schedule is synchronized, and to synchronize my schedule to

Holly schedule, to my assistant schedule is helpful because now

she can know where I'm going to be and what

I've got to do, and she can keep a surveillance

system on my schedule to kind of know what she

needs to pray about me with and when I'm gonna

be in a bad mood because I had to meet

with Chunks, And I'm just kidding. Chunks is amazing. But

she's got all that on her schedule, and it helps

us to be in the same flow when we're on

the same schedule.

So let me ask you a question.

How do you relate to a god in patience who

won't show you the schedule he's working off of.

Because this scripture says.

That the man scatters this on the ground and the

seed sprouts and grows. But watch this the real test

of the seed, and this is my message. There's my message.

It's my message. All that other stuff want my messages.

My message. The real test of the seed is can

it survive the soil. So he says that the seed

is scattered, and you can see that, right, You can

see the beginning of the thing.

It might not be easy.

I got a long way to go, and my muscles

might be sore at the end of the day from

the sowing process, but at least I can see.

That the ground is being broken up. I can see it.

I can see it, and well, the harvest season is

a season of.

Joy because I'm going to be eating.

From the field that I'm working in real soon.

But he says that the seed.

Sprouts and grows because of the work of the soil.

I think that's where most dreams die in the soil,

in the soil. I think that's where most marriages fail,

in the soil. I think that's where most good intentions

give way to apathy, in the soil.

In the soil, I think it's.

I think it's somewhere between changing diapers and sending them

off to college that most parents wonder.

Did anything that I taught you take root in your heart? Hello?

I mean it's one thing to be the farmer in

this passage.

He had to sow the seed and he had to

reap the seed.

But what about the times where you're not the farmer,

but you're the seed.

Can I preach this like I gave it to me.

I hope you'll understand that sometimes you're gonna feel like

that seed that goes down.

Into the soil, and the soil is a very strange place.

To be because when the seed is in the soil,

it cannot see the intention of the one who sowed it.

When the seed is in the soil, there are times

where it feels like it's not going to get enough

oxygen or water.

To make it. I know that I'm personifying an inanimate.

Object, But you know, your life is a sea, Your

dream is.

A seed, your vision is a seed.

Your purpose is a seed. We talked about it last week.

It seems insignificant, and it takes a lot of faith

to see the purpose.

In what seems insignificant. But you know what takes.

Even more faith to believe that the purpose is still

working when the process is invisible.

In the soil stage. Yes it takes faith to.

Sow, and yes it takes faith to reap, But what

takes the most faith is to be buried in the

soil of uncertainty and keep growing. But that's exactly what

you've got to do. The Kingdom of Heaven is like

a sea. The man scattered it, and it went in

the soil, and.

It stayed in the soil, and it stayed in the soil,

and it stayed in the soil, and it's stayed in

the soil, and it stayed in the soil.

Every stage of faith. I find myself to be pretty pretty.

Proficient in at this point in.

Walking with God, I don't mind sowing. I don't mind working.

I don't mind writing a song. I don't mind writing

a sermon.

I don't mind ministering to somebody. I don't mind sowing.

I certainly don't mind reaping. I don't mind reaping a bit.

Problem is I don't know what tool to use in

the soil stage.

Talk to me, talk to me.

When I'm sewing, I need belief that it can become something.

When I'm reaping, I need the strength to go out.

And act on what I've initiated.

There are some stages of faith. There's not a thing

you can do. Just takes time.

I'm I'm believing for something I can't see anymore. Sowing

a seed means releasing it.

That means you you've got to let it go for

a while. You gotta just step back. And the seed

is in the soil to die.

So the farmer's telling you, yeah, man, I scattered the

sea and I woke up, and I saw the ear,

and I saw the head, and I took my sickle

and I had a sandwich.

It was the most amazing thing to see this going.

Can I speak?

I went down in that soil, and I was down

in that soil so long. I thought I was about

to die in the soil. I was gasping for breath

and the soil. I didn't know if I had been forgotten.

I felt like the farmer didn't love me anymore. I

didn't even know what I was going through. Then all

of a sudden, I started to change shapes and everything

was unfamiliar. But I was still down in the soil.

Didn't even know if anybody remembered they had put me there.

Can I hear somebody's shout because.

You know what it.

Feels like to be a seed? Well my preaching too.

I know this message is personal.

For somebody, and the seed.

Is in the ground, But the scripture says, don't get

it twisted.

The seed is still on schedule.

This is where I want to encourage you. If you

feel like a seed that is in the ground of uncertainty,

the ground of disappointment, the ground of doubt, I know

God's going to fill in the blank for what you need,

because you know what your seed is. And if I

asked you, you wouldn't say the real thing that's working in

your life. You would say the churchily acceptable thing, the

spiritually acceptable thing.

You wouldn't talk about the real dirt that your life

is in.

You wouldn't talk about the real process that you're trapped in.

You wouldn't talk about the real thought patterns. So you

just substitute whatever you need for seed, Okay, And God

knows what it is, and you.

Know what it is. And I want to preach about that.

Seed because one thing I found out about the seed

is that the seed is protected.

I need you to know when you're in.

A soil season in your life, in a season where

you can't see anything happening. See, God knew that the

seed would need to survive a period of vulnerability. So

every seed is wrapped in a hard protective coating. The

seed is wrapped in a hard protective coating so that

until it produces what it's meant to produce, nothing's going

to be able to get what's inside of the seed.

I see Moses in a basket trying to kill off

all the Hebrew children. But until the seed was ready

to be released, the seed was in a basket floating

down a river to protect it. Touch three people say

I'm protected. I need you to know that I'm protected.

I need you to know that God has covered me.

I need you to know that God has wrapped me up.

I need you to know that God didn't just put

purpose inside of me. He put protection all around me.

And until it comes to pass, I need you to

know I'm protected. The devil can try to snatch me up,

but I'm the rank can fall really hard, or i

can go through a dry season, but I'm protected.

I'm coated.

I got something on the outside protecting what's on the inside.

God's got me covered.

And it shall come forward because I'm protected.

I'm protected.

God said to tell somebody your child is protected. You're

praying about him. Well, why you're praying about him? You

need to know that God already wrapped him. There are

some things in life you can't do for your child,

but how many are grateful when the seed leads your hands?

It never leads God's side. His eye is on the

sparrow and he's gotsure babies.

It's protected, it's protected, and the seed is in a stage.

Right now where.

It doesn't have the roots to be able to get

the nutrients from the soil, and it doesn't have the

ability through photosynthesis. You would think I was an agricultural horticultural.

Expert preaching this sermon.

I got excited about the seed, and I discovered that

the seed has its own food supply until the time

that it is able to derive the nutrients from another source.

What am I trying to say? The seed has not

only protection, but the seed has provision. Help me preach.

Everything I need for life and Godliness is inside of me.

And what I can't get from others in the soil stage,

God will give it to me from the inside.

I'll take myself, love myself, help myself, bless myself, encourage myself.

The stuff that the seed needs is already in the seed.

Sohn't me worried about it, because it's protected, protection and provision.

If you're looking at somebody who's shouting right now and

you don't understand their enthusiasm, the reason they're shouting is

they've got.

Some stuff in the ground out They've got some dreams

in the ground. They've got some potential in the ground.

And when it rains, farmers don't get annoyed.

When it rains.

Everybody who has something in the.

Ground reaches up to receive. I hear a sound of

an abundance of rain.

In the house today.

Come on, you better stretch and catch this rain, you

better catch.

This so so the protection is on the seed, the

provision is in the seed

And it's just a matter of time before the potential

is released from the sea.