When pressure points, point back.

I'm asking the question today, Could it be that your

pressure is trying to point you to a higher power.

The enemy will always point to what you don't have,

what you can't be, what you can't do. But when

he does, point back, when pressure points, point back, I

want you to point at your neighbor's face, put your

finger right in front of their nose, and tell them

you need this message.

Tell him point back, point back.

I see Pauline's Second Corinthians defending himself against the Judaizers

because they are questioning his credentials for ministry, and they're.

Pointing their finger in his face.

Who do you think you are preaching that circumcision is

of no effenc and it is a new creation in

Christ's accounts. I see a church pointing their finger in

the face of Paul. But what's what point Paul does

When they're pointing their finger? You know those you know

those things, those those points, you know, those those things

the devil uses to make you feel smaller than and

less than and not enough for and never enough for

and never gonna be.

And you never were, and your.

Mama wasn't and your daddy wasn't and you can't be either.

When he points point back, I have this treasure in

earthen vessels, that the excellency of.

The power might be.

Proven to be from God and.

Not from me. That's how you turn pressure.

Into power, pressure into power. Pressure woanted, somebody say pressure

into power, pressure into power. So Paul says, we were

pressed but not crushed. Maybe he has in mind here

the garden of Getsemone. You know, the place where the

Savior knelt down, all alone but not abandoned, struck down

but not destroyed, headed to the cross, but the joy

set before him enabled.

Him to endure it.

The Bible says he knelt down and prayed. He prayed

so hard that he started sweating drops that were like blood.

He prayed so long that his cathillaries might have burst.

He prayed so long, with nobody around to relieve the pressure.

But as he sweat, came forth from the mouth of

the living.

Eternal word of God.

Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. What happened

He turned pressure into power, and he did it in

a place called cat semone.

Cat semone means.

Olive pressed, And the world's greatest power came from the

Savior's greatest pressure. At whatever you're going through today. I

came with an announcement. Paul said, we have this treasure.

But you don't even know what you have until you're

under pressure.

Pressure points, pressure points, pressure comes to call you out

and to know do you really trust God? The devil

got up in God's station and said, let me put

some pressure on job, and let's see what's really in him.

Because you claim to be an orange, but you might

be a lemon, and I won't know to.

I squeeze you.

You might just be painted a certain color. Let me

find out what's inside my pressure. Pressure proves whether you

really believe the promise. So I want to read the

scripture again pressure points. Paul has reached that point. Have

you ever been at that point? Is Paul the only one?

Are you more spiritual than Paul? Where nothing ever.

Pressured you to the point where you wondered.

Would you make it?

So, Paul says, the pressure came verse seven to show,

to reveal, to point out that this power, this all

surpassing power, this great power that raised Christ from the grave,

can only be proven.

After the pressure is applied. So the pressure shows me.

That it's not about me.

You know how they say God will never put more

on you than you can bear.

That's not true.

That is a Bible verse, but it's out of context.

It's talking about temptation as talking about God is not

the author of evil. But they can't fit all that

on a bumper sticker, so they just put God won't

put on any more on you than you can bear.

It sounds better on p interest, but that's not what

the verse means. God will most certainly put more on

you than you can bear, so you will realize that

you were not meant to bear it, so you can

access the supply that was yours all along. You've been

under pressure.

Good.

The pressure came to show you where your power came from.

No pressure, no pressure, no pressure. If you're not under pressure,

you're only going to have the power that you have.

But the pressure came to show you power and provision

that you could not have accessed any other way.

How many here, get some out of this, make some

noise now, he says, therefore.

Verse sixteen, because we know that pressure produces power, because

we know that what is coming at me is not

greater than what lives within me. Because we know that

somebody say, I already know I a pressure.

I ally pre pressure pre sure, because I am pre sure.

God said you gotta fight pressure with pre sure. You've

got to know some things so deeply in your Therefore,

we do not lose heart. Though outwardly it doesn't look

very good. We are wasting away. I'm not crushed yet. Inwardly,

I've got something on the inside greater than whatever surrounds

me on the outside.

We are being renewed day by day four our light

and momentary pressure, troubles, trials, teenagers, bills, aches, pains. I'm

not gonna lie. Some people here are under horrendous pressure.

I'm not minimizing it. I'm just saying that that a

certainty of what I'm about to share with you next

that Paul, this is what Paul knew that he could

only learn under pressure.

He said, I've learned because of what I've been through.

And I've learned because of what God.

Has done for me.

I have learned that my light and momentary troubles are

achieving for me an eternal glory.

So the pressure that I'm under right.

Now is pointing to a glory that is going to

be so much greater. How many believe the glory.

That is on the.

Other side is going to be so much greater what

God is doing through my life in this season of pressure.

I'm gonna be stronger. I'm gonna be stable. I'm gonna

be steady next time. I know how to sake it off.

Next time, I know how to walk right through it.

Next time, I know how to spend the night in

the fiery furnace and come out without the smell of

smoke on my clothes.

Who is this for?

You've been under pressure. The pressure has been putting to

your end. But God says, I'm putting a glory for

the joy set before it in tore the crop, desciding

his share.

Glory of the Lord is released, and the power of

God is released through the pressure.

I'm telling you right now, I.

Know what it feels like to feel like there's no

way out. I know what it feels like to feel

like there's no way of escape. But when you can't

find a way out, that's when God makes a way in.

He's coming in to spend the night with you. He's

right there with you. In the pressure.

I'm pushing to somebody, and I'm pointing toward glory.

I'm pointing toward glory the enemy will point toward your shame,

your failure, your weakness. Paul said, I'm pointing to glory.

I'm pointing to glory.

Come on, let's practice when you get under pressure this week.

What you're gonna do, What you're gonna do.

We have this treasure in earthen vessels, seeing us. What

the promise of God and the presence of God does

in my life, It does what they learned how to

do to the airplane, because if they didn't learn how

to pressurize the cabin of the airplane, we couldn't make

it to thirty thousand feet because our bodies were designed

to breathe at sea level. But our minds conceived something

that could fly in an atmosphere that we could not

retain consciousness in, and that's why the cabin had to

be pressurized.

Why I come to the word.

Of God is to pressurize my spirit with the promises

of God, because I have this treasure in earthen vessels,

and the pressure is too great for me, and my

humanity cannot bear the weight of the glory of God.

Because I'm made of dust, and to the dust I

will return.

And I am weak, and I am poor, and I

am broken and without him, I can do nothing. But

when I get my spirit pressurized touch somebody say, I'm

pressurized when I get into the presence of God, and

I am reminded that these light and momentary afflictions are

not worthy to be compared with the I can go higher.

And Paul said, I made it through it because I

got above it.

Lift your hands in the presence of the Lord.

On your feet now, for.

Everybody who's under pressure, this message came to you just

at this time, to reveal to you what the pressure

is for.

To show that this all surpassing power, power, the raised

Christ from the dead, power, this spook the world's into existence,

power that makes winds and waste.

Still with one word, this all surpassing power is from

God and not from us.

Are you at the point where you realize.

That you can't carry the weight of your calling?

Are you at the point where you realize that you

don't have the wisdom you need to goide your life

by your own intuition and decisions. Have you come to

that point. We're on the right and on the left,

to the north and to the south. All you see

is pressure all around you. The word of the Lord

this day is that what is within you is greater

than what's around you. And God brought you into his

presence this day to pressure eyes your resolve with the

promises of God. Lift your hands to heaven. See that's

how we point back. When the enemy is pointing at

everything that I'm not, I lift my head hands to

point to all that God is. Come on in this place,

begin to clap your hands and praise God.

Praise points back. Praise points back. Praise points back. When

you give him the praise, he gives you his peace.

Praise points back. Come on, give him the praise. If

you know the power, the power of God is operative

in your situation.

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