Dealing-With-Uncertainty

Now raise your hand. If you're in an uncertain place today,

Uncertain what's next in your life, Uncertain how you're gonna

put some pieces back together, Uncertain how some things are

gonna come together for you, Uncertain whether or not you

can beat what you need to be, Uncertain whether it's

ever gonna change for you. Don't you ever get to

the point, I'm almost forty now where you pretty much

give up on you changing. Yeah, It's like in your

teens and twenties, you continue to imagine this future version

of yourself and future me is gonna be amazing. If

I ever get to meet future me, I'm gonna get

his autograph because I can picture him. And yet every

year that goes by, every little birthday that I have,

I kind of feel it's less and less likely than

I'm ever gonna meet him. And if it's not yourself

that you're uncertain about, it might be other people and

whether they'll ever be able to move past the way

that they feel about you. And I know some of

you have relationships that are very uncertain right now. Just

wave at me if I'm talking to you at all.

Because I prayed about what to share, and God said

I want you to speak to the ladies about the

uncertain place. Now it's called a certain place because Jacob

has never been here before, so he doesn't know what

to call it. And the town is actually called Luz

It's a little place, it's not really a big place,

and he has to stop there. Have you ever had

to stop somewhere where you didn't want to be? Come on,

have you ever? Have you ever had a layover that

you didn't plan for? Have you ever have you ever

had the sunset on your situation and you had to

lay down? Let's think about this. Jacob has to down

in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes in our lives, God

will give us the ability to rename places and things

that we've been through. God gives you the ability to

call things that be not as though they are. So

that's how you can go through something in your life

that to people it looks like an ending, but you

can call it a new beginning. That's what faith gives

you the power to do. Faith doesn't always give you

the ability to change or determine what you go through.

It always gives you the ability to determine what you

call what you go through. Some of us need to

rename some places in our lives, because I got news

for you. Some of the people that broke your heart

were actually doing you a favor, because if they would

have stayed in your life, it would have limited you.

Sometimes when people leave your life, it's because God is

making room for an upgrade. Sometimes I to on my

iPhone and it gives me a message. It says an

update is available. I hear the spirit of God saying

to somebody today, I know you've lost some things lost,

some time lost, some people walked away from you, and

maybe some of it was your fault. But the Spirit

of God says today and update is available. Or you

can lay down here and die and wish you were

back where you have been, or wonder about where you're

going to be. But the Revelation says, it's so good.

He says, the Lord is in this place. Can I

just get you to say that the Lord is in

this place? The Lord is in this place now. Some places,

it's really easy to say that I've had moments in

the presence of God, just beautiful moments where everything felt great.

I've had I've had moments in my life where I've

seen God do things that I would have never even

dreamed about as a boy. And then I watched my

dad die of als, and I watched him gasp for breath,

And I wonder, can I say the Lord is in

this place when my dad is gasping for his last

breath like I can when I'm on vacation. I wonder,

can I say the Lord is in this place when

I'm still only halfway there, like I'll be able to

when I get to my destination. Now, the enemy is really,

really tricky. He always wants to get you to imagine

a place called there. And there is where Jacob was going.

There is where Jacob had set out for. There is Hauran.

It's the place that you're going toward in this place

in your life. It is the place where your finances

are finally able to support a reasonable lifestyle. There is

a place where you're no longer controlled and mastered by

the addiction, where you don't feel the chains of these

habits that have been on your wrists and your ankles

for decades and decades. There is the place where the

memory of the trauma of what you went through at

the hands of people who should have known better, at

the hands of people who should have protected you, and

not only did they not protect you, but they inflicted

pain upon you. There is the place where you are

no longer haunted by the memory of what they did.

And when I get there, I'm going to praise God

because he brought me out with a mighty hand and

an outstretched arm, and nobody could do it but him.

It's the red sea he brought me through. It's the

pit he brought me out of. It's the lie instant

he snatched me out of. It's the fire he rescued

me from there. Somebody shout there, yet, this is not

a message about praising God there. I came to tell

you praise Him here. Here. Here. We don't like here

in our modern culture very much. That's why I have

so many tools to escape here. That's what Instagram is,

That's what Facebook is. It's a way for me to

leave here. Even if I can't leave physically, I can

leave mentally. I was on vacation this week last week

with my family on Instagram looking at people who were

at work. Why would you leave work to go on

vacation to go back to work? In your mind on

your iPhone? Because I don't want to be here. I

want to be there. I don't want to be here.

Look how broken I am here, Look how bad it

hurts here. I don't want to be here. Some of you,

you don't have to wave at me. Some of you

don't even want to be here. Like right here, right now.

I know you're grateful and you're smiling, and you're trying

your best to look like you're happy. You're not happy.

This is the last place you want to be, you

think Jacob wanted to be lying on a rock in

a place called Luz. Nobody goes to LUs on vacation

love sitting on anybody's bucket list. Jacob didn't set out

for LUs. He set out for Huran and the sunset.

And sometimes the sun goes down and the lights go off,

and you have no choice but to stop where you are,

and that's where God shows up. Hey, thanks for watching.

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