You Don’t Need To Have It All Together

Some of the things that you think have left your

life did not leave your life.

They just change forms.

And the ability to transition, I'm getting wound up and

I'm just in my introduction is the most important skill

that you will learn as a Christian. Because God is

never going to leave you or forsake you, but he

will change forms. That means the way He provides for

you in one season will not necessarily be the way

he provides for you.

In the next season.

The relationships that He gives you to support you in

one season will not necessarily be the relationships that are

there in the other season. But just because people leave

doesn't mean that God has withdrawn his assistance. And when

you are in a transitional season, the most important thing

you can do in your whole life is redirect your focus.

In Acts chapter three, the entire context of this miracle

is transitional, and I want to back all the way

up to verse one because Peter and John are are

headed to the temple one day to pray. And one

of the things you really got to do to understand

the Bible at more than just a surface level is

you got to slow down and pay attention to the transitions.

Pay attention to the transitions.

When you're reading the Bible and you want to skip

over that one little part, realize that many of the

miracles happen in transition. Did you ever hear about when

Jesus fed five thousand men and women and children. Did

you know that he wasn't going to feed people that day?

He was trying to escape the crowd and they were

waiting for him on the other side. It's one of

the most famous miracles in the Bible, and it happened

in transition. Some of the greatest things that God will

do in your life, he will do in transition, not

when you get there, not when you have that, but

while you are in transition.

It's almost like God likes to show up.

And cut you off at the crossroads to where you

thought you were going and bless you on his schedule,

not yours. Which is why Jesus said, don't leave Jerusalem,

but stay here.

And wait for the Holy Spirit that the Father is

going to give to you.

Don't do it according to your own plans, because if

you do your own plan, you got to do it

in your own power.

But if you will wait for.

God to give you the plan, then you can receive

the power that accompanies that plan. The difficulty is to

be still in transition long enough to see what God

is doing now. In this particular instance, not only is

the spirit of God now present in the form of

the inhabitation of the Holy Spirit that came on the

day of Pentecost, but Peter and John are about to

experience for the first time a miracle in transition. I

believe somebody today is going to experience a transitional miracle.

What I mean is this.

God is not gonna wait for you to get it

altogether to bless you. God is not gonna wait for

you to get the promotion to provide for you. God

is not going to wait for people to change their

mind about you to start using you. God is not

going to do it when the children get out the house. No,

he's going to show up with dirty clothes, dirty dishes,

and a messed up life.

He's going to do it in transition. Now.

Peter and John were going up to the temple at

the hour of prayer.

The ninth hour. What's that It's a transitional time.

It's the moment in their day where they shifted their

attention from their practical concerns to their spiritual concern the

difficulty in life. Have you noticed this? My dad taught

me how to stick shift. So my first car was

a Chrysler Laser, and it didn't have air conditioning, and

it didn't have a stereo, and it needed a paint job,

and it wasn't automatic. Because my dad was trying to

teach me a life lesson, he was like, son life

isn't automatic, and neither should your first car be, Like

all this deep, doctor phil crap, And I'm just trying

to get to sonic, right, And he's like, you might

not always have a car with a fancy automatic transmission.

You need to be able to drive any car at

any time.

So he wanted me to learn how to shift gears.

I wish he.

Would have taught me how to do that, not only

in driving, but in life, because nobody teaches you how

to shift. Y'all already know this sermon. I can go

watch the panthers, all right. Nobody teaches you. Think of

how many times in your life in the transitions, even

in any given day, how many times, if you are

going to live in peace, how many times you have

to transition from one environment to the next environment? And see,

this is what I learned. Because Holly loves a gift shop.

They always set up the gift shop right by the exit.

It's a trap. It's a trap. It's a trap because

they know if they get you after you have toured Alcatraz.

Y'all, my wife has spent an entire retirement account on

mugs scarves. My wife bought an Alcatraz Christmas ornament because

nothing says Merry Christmas like a souvenir from a maximum

security federal prison that used to house machine gun.

Kelly and al Capone. Happy Birthday, Jesus. Let's see. They

always set up watch.

This the gift shop at the point of transition because

they know if they can catch you in transition. You

know where the devil sets up discouragement to try to

steal your peace, steal your joy, steal your stability, and

steal your.

Focus and steal your presence of mind.

He always sets it up at the points of transition.

So watch this.

If you have been under attack by distraction lately, it

might mean I'm just suggesting you are about to come

out of this thing with a gift in your hand,

just a suggestion. They set it up at the point

of transition.

At the point of transition is where.

You're most vulnerable to attack, and it is also where

there is the greatest opportunity for growth. There's a man

who is sitting outside of a temple. He can see it,

but he can't go in. He can see where prayers

are being answered, but he himself can't walk to the place.

He can see San Francisco. But the Bible says that

he's stuck at a gate. In fact, it says that

Peter and John are in transition to the gate. The

man is in transition, being carried to.

The spot where they would put him every day to

beg While the man is being transitioned to his spot,

and while Peter and John are transitioning to the temple,

God arranges a meeting and a miracle in transition.

Could He be doing the same for you right now?

Can God bless you in transition?

Some of you are transitioning right now professionally.

Some of you are transitioning parentally.

By the time we learn how to burp them, they're driving, and.

Nobody teaches you how to shift, do they? No? Nobody

teaches you that.

Nobody teaches you you can't kiss them.

On the cheek anymore.

When they're seventeen, I still want to kiss you on

the cheek, baby boy.

But it's a transition now.

The way that you manage the transition has everything to

do with whether or not you experience the fullness of

the change. A lot of us get a miracle, but

we trip in transition.

Then we cannot carry out the change that.

God makes in our life because we get trapped in transition.

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