Just A Little Longer | Bro. James Malone

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Every Soul, thus, winning those souls and equipping them to be

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Thank you for joining us today. And we hope that you are blessed

by today's podcast. One of Jesus said to his

disciples Matthew 25 24, actually, the Lord was speaking

about everything that was going to come about at the end of time

at the end of the world. And they said Master how, how

can we know that these things would be?

Your what is it? What are the signs?

What are we going to be looking for the first thing that he told

them? He said, be not deceived said be

not deceived because our our adversary is the master of

deception a man and he said don't be deceived during those

At times the times of the end times.

And so we need to be alert but at the same time, we got to help

others to see the truth, even to help others see the truth.

And so we love the Lord, a man tonight if you're remain

standing here this evening, we're going to go to the word of

the Lord here this evening He-Man.

And we're thankful for brother James Malone tonight.

Amen. Were thankful for the years that

he has been here with us and we're grateful for him.

The a few weeks ago, he was gone due to just a purse.

Trip and such and we were talking.

I was talking really back in leadership prayer before church

and said that a missed him and not just him but also the things

that he just contributes to around here from by service to

service, you know, leading us many times Opening Service and

taking us to the Lord in prayer for people in need of it and and

offering in all those things that you know just being on the

opposite side of that same thing and that's not eat very much but

it is, it really is. It's a very integral rho.

Oh a man in placement within our services and I appreciate amen.

His willingness to do that service after service after

service. But he's going to come here

tonight and he's going to speak to us with the lord has laid

upon his heart, a man, and we're glad to each one of you are

here. Glad for our guests that are

here tonight. Amen as well.

Amen. Let's just give an attention.

If you will tonight to the word. Amy can we clap a hand into the

Lord tonight? As brother, Malone, comes this

evening and let's thank God. Amen, for him.

Amen. So I tell you what, it's just

really good to have those song Throwbacks.

I know we kind of talked about it this morning and I tell you

what, they just carried on in it and I'm good with it.

They just bring back some memories.

And and Pastor said well you know, when I'm not when I don't

have to minister I can be a little bit more like liberal I

guess. So he's able to he was able to

get up here and sing. It is very good to see him back

up here again and able to do that.

Of course, when I always come to this Pulpit, I always want to

give honor to pasture. Whether he's here or not, which

more often than not, he's usually not here.

But when he asked me to minister tonight, he said I'm going to be

here. I'm gonna be there.

So I don't know if maybe he heard my last time and he's

like, you know what, I'm going to make you do it while I'm

there this time. But he's here and he doesn't

have to listen to it on podcast or anything gets to hear it

live. Amen.

And I appreciate everything that he does for me because he gets

me out of my comfort zone. This, I'm going to be honest

with you. This is out of my comfort zone.

You guys know me. You guys know I like to talk but

when it when everyone's just staring at me and I have to do

all the talking and we don't get to conversate back and forth.

It's a little bit different, it's a little bit like out of my

comfort zone. And not only that, it's just

ministering the word which takes on a whole new like fear for me.

But, but I appreciate past, or not.

And I've always said, and, I've told Brother Zach this, the

other night that anytime Pastor asked me to do it.

I'm gonna say yes. I don't know, it's because I

know that there's a reason that he's asking me, especially even

if he's here, that there's a reason that he's asking me,

whether it's God speaking to him telling me to do it or just

something that he feels that. All right, James, you have been

a little bit of lakhs and I need you to do a little bit more,

whatever he feels in his Spirit, but I appreciate him.

I appreciate what he's doing? Of course, we talked about it,

he does iron sharpens iron, and we just had it just this last

Thursday and, and we don't get to have it every every month

like we planned. But, but when we do get to, It

is a vital intricate thing for me because just this last time,

I was like, Pastor, why can't we have this couple weeks ago

because it would have been a little bit more because just the

information that he gave me kind of was very important for what I

was getting ready to do today. Of course, I want to give

honored of course, the rest of our ministry.

Bishop is here tonight, sister. Maggie is here tonight, love and

appreciate them. I love seeing them here.

I know they hate missing here. I know we said last time that

the, when they've been gone due to the Pain and not being able

to be here and waiting on the surgery is the longest they've

ever been out of church. And I know that they hate not

being here and I appreciate them, and the Masons and, and

what they do. And like I said, bring it in the

songs, brother. Nathan, I love, you know, this.

I know you've left kind of, like, gotten back a little bit

more on the singing, But when you sing it just does something

for my spirit. You just got a voice that just,

I don't know. Just brings back those old

memories because when I first came here, you were the only one

singing with a little bit of help, but it just brings back

and I just love to hear you sing.

I appreciate you for like and I know you told us your vocal

cords are stripped, but he's still getting up here singing

and and I appreciate him for what he does.

That is a sacrifice Sometimes sometimes we Overlook it because

it is a talent that some of us lack and and it may come easier

for others, but it is a sacrifice to do.

What he does day in and day out, but I appreciate the ministry.

I appreciate what they're doing for me and in my life.

But while I have, you standing will go ahead and go to the

reading of the word and I'll let you sit and we'll see where we

go tonight. But my scripture, I want to

start off with tonight. Is it crazy ass?

These 3? This will be 1 through 8 and

many of you have heard this. It's nothing new but it's a

scripture that just kind of came to me and was something that God

is just dealing with me with that.

It says scripture, verse 1 says to everything, there is a season

and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

We know this a time to be born and a time to die.

A time to plant and a time to pluck up that, which was planted

A Time to Kill. And a time to heal, a time to

break down, and a time to build up a time to weep and a time to

laugh, a time to mourn. Born and a time to dance, a time

to Cast Away stones and a time to gather Stones together.

A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing a time to

get and a time to lose a time to keep and a time to Cast Away a

time to Rend and a time to sew a time to keep silence and a time

to speak, a time to love and a time to hate a time of war and a

time of Peace Ecclesiastes here is telling us that there is a

time for Everything there. If you read through everything

that there's a time for, there's nothing in your life that there

is not a season and a time for. And and I want to minister just

on this topic tonight. Just a little longer, just a

little longer. Will you help me pray tonight?

Lord, we love you. We praise.

You got Lord, we thank you for what you're doing in the

service. God for the sweet presence that

I already feel in here. God, lord, we just ask God, that

your hand would be upon this message.

God, Lord, let it be Anointed God lord remove any air from my

lungs. My lips.

Got a lord though. It may come from a familiar

voice to these people. But Lord, let it be your words

that are spoken Through Me, Jesus.

I thank you, God, for what you're doing and what you're

going to do. And I'm going to give you all

the glory that you so deserve in the name of Jesus, we pray.

Amen. Amen.

And you may be seated tonight. Just a little longer is is just

a the title that came to me. I often talk and you know,

whenever I'm told the chi come up with a messy or, you know,

I'm asked a minister, I'm trying to think bouquet God, what do

you want me to do? And and he like I said, he

usually comes to me with a title, some little thought.

And then I've just really kind of like got to expound on it.

But this week Pastor came to me two weeks ago and asked me if I

wanted Minister today. For me, that seems pretty

rushed. But but usually the, you know,

there's a problem, you know, it is there's there's there's it's

okay, but but for some reason, this time, nothing was wanting

to come into my head like, it's like, okay.

Alright, there's no thoughts. There's no like I've, you know,

jotted some stuff down. I didn't know if maybe I was

going to have to go to the archives, break something else

out. Like all right, I've already

minister to let's let's brush the dust off of this.

I didn't know what what I was needing to do but But I'm just.

All right God, what do you want to do?

And then this this I guess it was started last Sunday.

My car was just making a sound. It was making a sound.

I tell you and it did not sound good, I was in the parking lot

and I was, I thought I knew what it was.

So I was looking up a video right before service of how to

fix it and brother, Mike was standing outside and and he

heard my car and I come walking in.

He goes, what are you trying to do?

Start that thing? No, it was just running, it was,

it was having issues. And I had Monday off of work, so

I had Sunday, it was making noise.

I had Monday off of work. I was like, all right, we're

going to see what this problem is.

I thought it may have been an idler pulley for anyone, that

knows what that is. It's just, it's just something

on the engine, okay? And I looked up a video, it

didn't look that hard to change. It was fine.

Well, okay, I had the day off and I'm like, all right, we're

going to work on this, come to find out, it end up being like a

water pump and so I get to looking at it and I've got that

change the water pump while I'm in there.

I change the idler pulley. Cuz it was bad to and you know

when a car gets a lot of miles, there's stuff that's gonna go

bad on it. Right?

And so I changed the water pump. It was leaking, everything that

was bad, change, the idler pulley.

And then while we're in there, messing around.

We look at the belt, the serpentine belt, which makes all

those things go. It was dry rotted.

It was cracked. It would had all kinds of

issues, and I'm like, all right, all right.

What, what else? You know?

That's, that's the question we're not supposed to ask,

right? But I get to looking at that and

I'm thinking, man, that's, that's that that Bell was bad.

For many of you know, like passages said, I had just gotten

back over. Thanksgiving from a trip to

Texas. That's a 14-hour drive there in

a 14-hour drive back. So that's, that's a long haul,

right? And as I look at the issues that

my car was having like, okay, that was just a blessing in

itself. All right, that God made God, I

was able to get there, get back, nothing broke, that, that belt

was just in bad shape and I didn't have any issues with it,

but given what was wrong with it?

I'm surprised I didn't have any issues with it, right?

And so we get those things changed on money, I have The day

off work. It was great.

I was able to do that stuff, get it changed.

And then when you know Wednesday my car just has a bad vibration

in it. I'm like what in the world is

this? So it gets and it kind of goes

away. You go certain miles per hour

and then it like it started to go a second.

All right, well maybe it's fine. Well Thursday, it had the same

problem and I was like, all right, I've had this vibration

before when I when I've had the car before and and it end up

being a caliper locked up on the left hand side.

Well, I'm like all right I think I know what it is.

It is, I get to work it, you know, it was vibrating and it

was having issues. I get to work and I'm like, all

right, I need to see because, you know, if it's a caliper

locking up your wheels going to be hot.

And there's a lot of heat that's there.

And there's been many a cars that have caught on fire because

the break is locked up. So, so I get down there.

I start feeling around. I feel the left hand side, and

I'm like, that's the one I'd change before.

It's cold, it's good, nothing wrong.

I go with the right hand side, I reach through the wheel, to feel

the heat and I touched that rotor and I burned my finger.

That that was. I had a locked up caliper so

when you know Thursday, I get off work, I get to go to the

auto parts store, get some more stuff and, and I get to change

out account, a brake caliper. Get done with us.

It's fine. I've done this before, it's no

problem. But we can get in the mindset

that it's really easy to get frustrated and get upset about

when it rains it pours, right? Because that's what I do.

That's what was happening to me. Write my car started having

issues man I thought it was one thing then it was something else

and in the first thing that was going to be a cheap fix.

Well then the next thing is a little more expensive and you

know, and then it just kind of snowballs from there and then

the break locks up and I'm like, man, you know, it's just it can

be easy but but I think it's all about perspective.

Right. It's all about your perspective,

I could get upset and I could get frustrated about my car

having all these issues or I can look at it from a different

direction. I you know like I said I just

got back from Texas or was no issues and then they all get

that they all issues snow pile. But I happen to have Monday off.

Why did I have Monday off? Well, it was just a random day

that I don't. If I don't use these days before

the end of the year, I'm gonna lose them.

So I was like, all right, I'll just take this Monday off.

Well, it just so happened. I had taken this day off.

And I had this time to change the parts because once I get off

work, then I wouldn't have time because it wasn't a quick like

five minute job. It was a pretty intense job and

so I have the day off to make repairs and then you know

Thursday I was able to make that repair.

I was able to get the part that the auto store the auto parts

stores had my parts. They had what I needed and it

was fine and I think so long, right?

So okay, but it had what I needed and so I was able to make

the repairs myself and I was able to do it myself.

And if I look at it from that direction, that that's just the

financial blessing because it had any of this went out while I

was driving to Texas, I would have had a tow bill, right?

I would had to have be towed wherever I was.

And if I was halfway between that six hours, one way, six

hours, another way it just, it could have been a whole lot

worse or and then I would have had to pay a mechanic to fix it

because I wouldn't had any tools.

I would have had any way of doing it myself, right?

So if I look at it that way, then it was a financial blessing

because I didn't have to Pay somebody else to do it so I can

look at it is, oh man, when it rains it, pours all this man,

it's costing me money. But if I look at it the other

way man, it could cost me so much more I could have had to

have somebody else do this, right?

But I'm thankful that I can have that mindset but it's not always

that easy. Because I can look at it now, I

can think. Oh yeah.

Well that's the mindset to have and I can I can do that but but

it's not always that easy. Probably the worst thing that

you can say to someone that is going through something or in

the middle of a storm and the middle of a trial is just a

little longer, who wants to hear that?

I mean, seriously. Nobody wants to hear that when

you're in the middle of a storm in the middle of a try.

Hey, just a little bit longer. I know that it's real dark.

It's been raining for a long time.

I know that you have all these issues in your life.

I know that you're battling migraines but just a little bit.

Longer. I know, I know that you've been

throwing up and now you're just dry heaving because you got

nothing left to throw up, but just a little bit longer, you

know, if I know you're in so much pain and you can barely

even stand a walk or move but just a little longer, okay?

That's the worst thing that you can say to someone, because they

don't want to hear it right then because you're not going through

what they're going through. It's easy to say just a little

longer when you're on the other side and everything is fine.

We want the storm to end. We want everything to be good.

We don't want to know, Just a little bit longer, we want to

know exactly when it will end. So we have something to look

forward to. All right, we're looking at the

10-day forecast. All right, it's raining for the

next three days, but in four days, we're going to have

Sunshine. We're going to have a, we're

going to have 80 degree weather. We want to look forward to

something and just sleep through our pain, sleep through our

trial, right? We don't know what, we don't

want to know, what else can go wrong, right?

Because in the midst of a trial and storm, in the midst of

whatever it is, you have going on.

On everything is going to go wrong.

Nothing's going to go right? And and we know that that's the

one question that you never asked in the middle of a storm

in the middle of something. Is what else?

Could go wrong. Yeah, just ask that in front of

someone and they will let you know.

It, don't ask that question because you will find out.

Yeah, it's like praying for patients.

You just it's something you don't do.

That's that's one of the things you learn real quick.

When you come around people that pray is like, don't pray for

patience like what that sounds use.

They said pray for everything. No, no.

You don't want to pray for patience because God is just

going to give you an opportunity to work that patients to try

that place to get better and to have patience.

That's so that's something you don't, you don't want to do.

If it can become very easy to have a woe is me attitude?

And feel like you're the only one going through, whatever it

is, that you're going through, it's very easy, it's very easy

to feel like nobody else knows because because you don't feel

like anyone else can relate, right?

Because a lot of times, you'll get some people that are really

open about their problems. And they will share everything,

but then, but the most of us, we don't want to share our

problems. We don't want to share what's

going on with us because we You know, that's just the way we

are. We don't want people to know

that we're hurting that, we're going through something that,

you know, that we try when we're by ourselves at night, or we

don't want them to know that that we're vulnerable.

We want people to think that we're strong, but I'm here to

tell you that you're not alone, no matter what the adversary is

going to tell you, no matter what you're facing right now.

You are not alone. You are in this with other

people. And just like, not everyone

knows what's going on in your life because you're not an

oversharer, you don't know what everyone else is going through

either. Because I think the majority of

us don't want to burden somebody else with our problems.

We think that our problems are just not that significant and

that there are others that have it worse than you do, right?

I mean I probably said that, right?

That I might be in the midst of something, but that other

there's people there's people that's worse off than me.

You know? I just have car problems.

There's somebody else battling cancer.

There's somebody else that's dealing with homelessness.

There's somebody else that doesn't know where they're going

to get their food from tonight. There's somebody else that Is

still looking for a job. There's somebody else.

So my problems are not that small.

We put a value on our problems because we think that somebody

else has it so much worse, but that's how we think not God.

His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

Isaiah 55 89, says, from for. My thoughts are not your

thoughts. Neither are your ways.

My ways saith the Lord for, as the heavens are higher than the

earth. So are my ways higher than your

ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

So we should never never put limits on God, based on our

thoughts. Hey man.

We should never put limits on God based on our thoughts

because his thoughts are higher than ours.

Well we're going to do is we're going to make our God look like

a human to us and we're going to bring him down to humanity

standards and think that he doesn't have all the power that

he has. That he can't do what he can do

that. He can't heal Us in the middle

of Arkham, and he can't take away the sickness in our life

that he can't heal a joint that he can't do, what it is that he

can do that. We know that he can do So, so

God cares about you specifically, right, we can't

put limits on God. God cares about you.

Specifically, how do I know this?

How do I know that out of all these people in all the world?

God cares about me specifically. Well, Matthew 10 and 30 tells me

says, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered my hairs.

Are numbered mine, not yours. You don't know the number of

hairs on my head, but God does he knows all that?

Now, I know we joke about this all Time that some people are

easier to count than others, right, I know we joke about that

but in all seriousness in everybody over all the world,

not just not caramel, not just L annoyed, not just the United

States but the entire world that's billions of people that

God knows every hair that is on their head.

You specifically, God knows the hairs that are on your head, he

cares about you, no matter what, no matter what the adversary is

telling you, God cares about you.

He knows you individually now are open in.

Scripture says that there is a season for everything.

And we know that no season lasts forever, but some Seasons last

longer than others. Amen.

Amen. Some Seasons.

Last longer than others. And I think here in a little bit

we'll find out why When we were in Good Seasons, we are not

worried about how long they last amen.

How many, how many really enjoy the winter that these ice cold

temperatures that we have out here?

When your hands are freezing? Your feet are freezing nobody.

Nobody loves that go to. Okay.

You know I'm just kidding, I do not love it, I do not love

freezing cold hands. I like to be able to feel my

hands and and I've said it often times, I'd rather be sweating

then cold. So when Summer's here, that's a

Season for me, when Summer's here, I'm not worried about how

long it's going to last. I'm not worried about when it's

going to end. I'm just enjoying the day.

It might be 100 degrees outside but I'll say, you know what, I'm

going to enjoy it anyway because I don't like the cold, we're

going to continue, right? So some Seasons last forever,

some are better than others and we're not worried about how long

the Good Seasons last but I tell you when the difficult Seasons

come along we get a little bit more I guess scrutiny on it a

little more worried about how long it's going to last.

All right. How many more days?

How long is Is this going to last?

But and it feels like it lasts forever, right?

The summer the summer time. Feels like it goes by Toto too

fast. All of our seasons are

relatively the same three months apart.

Right. You know, and I tell you what

some are feels like it just goes so fast and then winter just

feels like it drags on its. That's our good season and

that's our bad. That's my good season of my bad

season, but I'm going to let you in on a little secret that God's

timing is not our timing. We want it.

We want everything on our time, right?

We want the seasons to last as long as we want them to last.

We want them to go when they when we're tired of them.

But God's timing is not our timing and he knows what is best

for us. Whether we know it or not in

that what Isaiah just told us that his thoughts are higher

than our thoughts. He knows what's best for us,

even though we don't because we are gonna, you know, we will

think with our heart, we will think with our mind and we won't

think with the Holy Ghost, which God has granted us and that is

the thing that we need to lead us.

He knows what's best for us. But when I am going through a

difficult season and nothing seems to work from work in my

favor, I'm always drawn to my man.

Joe Nah. Now I don't know, I probably

talked about Jobe a lot. I don't really know if I do or

not because I don't go back and really listen to my messages,

but I do know I do. I will say because I was looking

through my notes. Last week, I'd are not last week

last month because I did this last month last month.

I didn't mention Joe and I didn't go into depth, okay?

So you guys get to hear more about on tonight.

But when I'm going through a trial, when I'm going through

show, I like to go to job. Job is just somebody I like to

turn to just because if you if you have not heard of Joe.

Which I'm sure many of you has specially.

If you heard me, like I said, but if you have not heard Joe, I

encourage you to go and read the book of Job.

I encourage you to read the whole Bible but but I do

encourage you to read the book of Joe because I think when

we're in the middle of a storm, when I remember in the middle of

a trial, I think every one of us can relate to job.

Now we do not have it near as bad as job if you have it as bad

as job I am so sorry. I am sorry for everything that

you are going through and and I will pray with you and I will

try to be a better friend than his friends.

Were you just? You just let me know.

And I will, I will pray for you but Joe It was just a man living

for God. We read we read about Joe.

He was a man living for God. The scripture says that he was

in fear of God, he loved him. You know, and women who speaks

and fear it that's not and he was afraid of them, but it was

in the respect, you know? And he had a, he had an active

prayer life, he did everything right and he had a relationship

with God. When you come to read Jobe you

you will know that you'll find out.

Job was wealthy. He had a good family.

When he had farmland, menservants and maidservants

job. If you think about a job, had

everything going for him. I mean, how could you not like

have a relationship with the Lord, right?

I mean, he's wealthy, he's got Sons, he's got daughters.

He's you know, when we read about Joe, he's been praying for

his sons and daughters. This is how active of a prayer

life he is. Because, in case his sons and

daughters made a mistake, he's offering a sacrifice for his

sons and daughters, not just him because he knows it, he's

living, right? He's knows that he's done and he

wants, That relationship with God, he has everything going for

him, he has that camels. I mean, everyone's looking up

them, he's got the family, you know, whatever it is.

But even though job was faithful to God and he did everything

right, he still experienced every kind of loss there is man

if you read. Like I said, you read through a

job, then, first two chapters is man, it's full of stuff.

And I mean it starts to get into his friends and going back and

forth with his friends and how they're just not so good but

that's something else. But the first two chapters of

job, you really hear about his life.

And you really hear about him and you find out that he was

good. He was faithful.

He was just he did everything right, he did nothing wrong and

really, and read the reason he went through a lot of this stuff

is because God trusted and believed in him.

Amen. So you might be going through a

trial in your life, but don't think it's because you're doing

something bad, or you got some sin against your life, God may

be trusting you. The we often say that he will

never. I give you more that you can

handle, he knows what you can handle and he's the working on

you. Hallelujah.

So he experienced every kind of lost their was what a job lose.

Let's just kind of give a little bit of a rundown, one, Joe blow.

This is how it all started. He's, you know what first?

He's living a great life, one day comes, and it's first, he

loses his oxen, and his donkeys. And all the servants that were

tending to them were all killed, but one all of his sheep had

burned up when they said fire fell from heaven, all of his

sheep and the servants that were tending to the Sheep all burned

up. But one Camels his camel, I'm

not laughing because this is terrible.

But his camels were taking taken and all the servants that took

care of the camels were killed, but one, then his seven sons and

three daughters died and all, and they were having a big old

party and like they had friends and people and everything there

and everyone died there when the house collapsed, but one and why

was it just but one and all this it was so that that one Could go

and tell Joe about the tragedy that had just happened and the

scripture tells us that while one was speaking while they were

in yet speaking. The next one came with the next

sad story. And then, while that one was

speaking, the next one came with the next session with the next

tragedy and then with the sons and daughters, I can't imagine.

I like, what would he doesn't even have time to mourn or

comprehend. The loss that has just taken

place because he's being told about some other law said he is

it. Experiencing.

But what is Job's response to all of this?

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.

Now, it's not now it's not necessarily that simple because

Job 1 20 through 22. It doesn't just say, well, you

know, the Lord gives the Lord takes away.

No job one and twenty and through 22 says then job arose.

Rent his mantle and shaved his head.

We know that when people do that, they are in serious

morning, it is not something that they're just like wake up

one day. And you know what?

I need a new hairstyle on a new wardrobe.

This is something that they did there.

Culture was serious morning that went on.

He shaved his head. He fell down to the ground, but

what did he do? He worshipped.

That's amazing. That is something to be said

about that. He continues in and it says, and

said naked. I came out of my mother's womb

and naked shall I return? Thither the lord gave and the

Lord hath taken away blessed, be the name of the Lord.

And then verse 22 says in all this job sinned not nor charged

God foolishly boy. Oh boy.

How hard would that be? To experience the amount of loss

that he went through, I know that I've heard stories of

people that lose a child or lose a loved one and they completely

turn away from God because they blame God, for letting

something. So tragic happened in their

lives. Why could why could a god of

Grace and a god of Mercy in a God, that loves me.

Let this thing happen. They don't understand.

And they turn from God, but job tells us that the Lord gives and

the Lord takes away. We will never understand it as

we said, and in Isaiah, will never understand it because his

thoughts are higher than his, our thoughts.

His ways are higher than our ways.

We will never understand it. So, don't ever think that you

can think with your human mind that you will understand God and

why things are happening. So, when somebody asks you, why

is this bad thing happen in the world?

I don't know, but God does and I choose to believe in him because

he has a plan and a purpose. And, and it's not for me to

decide because I will not make the right decision.

I will not know what What's right?

But God knows what's right. And I choose to believe that he

has got a plan and a purpose. Hallelujah.

But he didn't stop there. He lost everything.

And then his said and everything and he said, not.

So that's everything that everything, that's everything he

has, but we know that then Satan goes back and talks to God and,

you know, again as like, you know what, he lost everything,

but, you know, okay, that's fine.

That's just her worldly possessions, you take away his

health and he's going to curse you in an instant, right?

We know this, if you've read the, if you read the story, you

know this. So then he lost his health.

He had sore boils from the soles of his feet to the top.

Top of his head, it didn't matter.

If it was on the bottom of his foot, the back of his calf is

bottom side. His back, his head, his ears,

whatever it was, he had sore boils all over so bad that he

was taken a tool that you would use for.

I don't know what, but it's not for what he's using it for

trying to scrape them boils off. Could you imagine the pain that

he is in that he's able to endure the scraping of the

boils? This great this pain that he's

having to endure just because he thinks it is going to get some

relief from scraping with this. That is pain that is hurting,

but on top of that to top it all off, then his wife comes along.

He's going through the hardest thing, that probably anybody in

their life ever has to go through and the one person that

is supposed to comfort him that's supposed to love him.

That's supposed to speak a word of encouragement into his life.

When he is down, that is supposed to lift him up, when he

can't do it anymore, his wife, his spouse.

Tell him to curse God and die. But still, Joe did not said he

wasn't gonna listen to her, he wasn't going to trust in her.

He says that she's as, as the other women that don't

understand that don't, they're just lacking Faith.

They don't believe. This is truly amazing.

And there's something to be said about that, that woman, that

Satan left alone, because he thought Satan thought that he

was doing a work by leaving this woman and often in the end.

I think the last time I talked about, I said, you know, Satan

got it right by leaving her because he she spoke doubt into

his life, told him to just Curse God, but we'll find out that in

the end. That very that same woman that

Satan Left Alive. Birth seven Moore's, attend more

children, seven more sons and three more daughters and Joe was

able to have a blessed life because Satan didn't take that.

One thing, he thought he was causing a curse to Joe by by

leaving her alive and ends up. God, will God will use it for a

blessing. So, so, just a spoiler alert

here. If you have not read job in the

end, the Lord gives job twice as much as he had before.

Now, if you re job, you know, that he had a lot to begin with.

And so when it when he gets double the portion he's got

thousands upon thousands of The Oxen of the donkey's of the

camels of the sheep of the you know, and then he's got more

servants and then he gets the seven sons and three daughters

fact that he lost. And in the scripture tells us

that he dies being old and full of days.

It said that he got to, he got to watch his son, I think it's

140 more years after after he goes through this trial.

After he goes through the storm, he lives another 140 years and

gets to see his sons. His son Sons, and his sons, Sons

his grandchildren. He gets to see them be born and

be raised and and have a great life all because he continued to

trust in the Lord. He continued to send them no

matter my circumstance, no matter what I'm going through.

Yes, I experienced loss but God, you are still great.

You are still Mighty, you are still the provider, and I still

worship you and praise you. Hallelujah!

We can look at the life after joke, storm and think, yes, that

would be nice. I would love to be blessed by

God just like Joe. I would love to have my my

resources doubled. I'd love to have the the

grandchildren and be able to be in good health and and live days

and you know, pass away being old and full of days, you know,

he didn't die of being stalked trampled.

An animal or someone else taking his life.

He was old and full of days, he died of old age, he got to

experience life, something, that that Satan thought he was going

to take from him and he got to experience in the latter part of

his life. Hallelujah.

Praise God. I thank you.

Jesus. But we have to look at what job

endured to get there. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't

want to go through everything job went through it.

There's no way in my life that I would want to go through that

just to experience the blessings that job had.

But it does help me to understand that, I too can get

through whatever storm that I am in.

If job can get through losing everything that he had.

Because we come to find out that his friends weren't even really

friends in the moment either because they tell them.

Well, you know what, you actually must have sent.

You must have done something wrong.

There is no way that all of this is going to befall you without

you doing something, so they didn't believe him.

So it just ended up being more negativity into his life than

what he really, so he end up being by himself for the the for

the good portion of his storm. He had nobody else to rely on so

it helps me to understand that. I too can make it make it

through a storm. Joe could have easily said you

know what, I can't take it anymore but he didn't, he

continued to praise the Lord and after even lost everything he

worships he worshiped the Lord because he held on just a little

longer right because he didn't give up, he had to continue to

hold on because he hold on just a little longer.

He was able to see the blessing. I'm here to tell someone tonight

just a little longer that thing that you don't want to hear in

the middle of your storm that little phrase.

That just might send a little nerve in your mind and your body

that says don't talk to me like that.

I don't, I don't want to hear that.

Just a little longer. If you give up now, you may

never see the blessing. That is waiting for you.

If Joe gave up in the middle of storm, he never would.

If he would have went ahead and curse.

God, like, his wife had told him to, he would have, never have

gotten to experience his grandchildren experience.

His children being raised again experience, you know, everything

and being dying of old age. He would have never got to

experience that again if he had just given up, so don't give up.

I know that's easier said than done right words.

Talk is cheap as they say actions speak louder than words.

We can go with all the phrases, right?

But James, of course, we know the Book of James and I like

James, he's got a good name, you know?

But but but there's just something to be said but I don't

know. He's kind of he's a he's a cool

dude, I guess but James one makes it sound really easy.

Because if we read James 1 2 through 4, it says my brethren

count, it all joy boy. Oh boy, when you fall into

divers Temptations. Knowing this that the trying of

your faith worketh patience, but let patience have her perfect

work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing.

Right. So he doesn't say, he doesn't

just stop at count. It all joy, when you fall into

divers Temptations. He doesn't stop there.

Although, you know, if we, I think we quote that often times

and you know someone's going in going through something and

you're like, count it all joy. You counted all the, you know

what? You just just smile just smile.

That's all you have to do. It's really simple.

Okay? It because it doesn't matter

what's going on man. It's so easy to tell somebody

that like I said earlier, when you're on this side of it, when

Not in the middle of a storm because, you know, you've been

through your own battles, you've been through your own trials.

That is something you don't want to hear, because it does not

sound very easy at all. That's the last thing you want

to do. But I tell you what, I like the

way the message version words, this James James 1 2 and 4 in

the message, sir. And the message version says

consider it a sheer gift. Aw, it's Christmas time, we like

gifts, consider it a sheer gift friends, when tests and

challenges come at you from all sides.

And boy, does it feel like they do?

You know that Under Pressure? Your faith life is forced into

the open and shows its true colors.

So don't try to get out of anything, prematurely let it do

its work so you become mature and well-developed not deficient

in any way man. the message version has a way of putting it

in layman's terms for us to understand, because the thing

that sticks out to me, Is don't try to get out of anything

prematurely. Amen.

You guys can go ahead and stand with me for musicians.

Can come says, don't try to get out of anything prematurely

Because like I said earlier, when we are in a difficult

season we just want it to be done and over with, we're not

worried about a lesson that we're going to learn.

We're not worried about how much stronger it's going to make us.

We're not worried about what's going to come next after that.

That I need to be ready for. We just want this storm because

I don't like being uncomfortable.

I don't like the pain that I feel.

I don't like the sorrow in my My soul.

I don't like the battle that I'm facing, whatever it maybe, I

don't like it. I just want it to be over.

But if we rush through that season just as the James said,

if we rush through that season, we may not be a stronger

prepared for the next difficult season that is inevitably going

to come because we know that no season lasts forever.

We done talked about that and that every season it's going to

come to week. We have four seasons, right?

You're going to experience every season, sometimes we experience

all four seasons in a day here in Southern Illinois.

And and I mean, sometimes in our walk with God, we may experience

that too. Amen.

But if we rush through that season, we're not going to be

ready for that next season to come along.

We may not be mentally strong for the battle.

We're getting ready to face we. Now we may not be physically

strong for what's getting ready to come at us.

So wait, just a little longer, God has a plan and purpose for

each and every one of us know, all of our plans and all of our

purposes are not the same. You are not meant to do what I'm

meant to do, and I'm not meant to do what you're meant to do,

but we are all one body. We just as the body has many

members, we are all one body, you can be a toll.

I can be a the small toe that just seems to be little to

nothing but we all want part and we don't want to be lacking any

part of the body. We are all in some season of

life right now because the Bible says to everything there is a

season, we are all in some season right now.

Some of us may be in the same season.

Some of us may be going through the same thing right now.

Some of us may be experiencing a loss at the exact same time.

Some of us may be facing some mental battle you know

depression whatever it may be. We may be facing that but of

course we don't share those things.

Or you may have gone through a battle that somebody else is

going through right now. And that you are there to get

them through that battle. Amen.

This altar is open tonight. For any who will?

I just want to encourage someone not to give up the adversary is

going to. He's going to try and discourage

you any way that he can to just give up that.

No matter what you do. You have gone too far, you have

done too much sin in your life. There is no sense in even

repenting because it's not going to make any bit of difference.

It doesn't matter what God did on Calvary.

It doesn't matter for the blood that was shed because you are

not worthy of the Salvation that he is trying to give you.

But just a little longer, You Are Not Alone.

No matter what the adversary tries to tell you, you are not

alone. Your blessing is on its way.

If you hold on just a little longer like Jobe.

Your blessing is on its way. It may not be financially.

It may not be what ever, you know?

However, it is, it may be just a mental blessing, that's coming

your way. It may be some relief in your

spirit. It may be a renewal of the Holy

Ghost and maybe just just something that nobody else is

privy to. But your blessing is on its way

Trust and Believe. Even the Lord that he has what

you need. Hallelujah.

Can we just talk to the Lord right now?

Lift up your hands, and just speak to him.

He has a plan and a purpose for your life.

God, we thank you for your word, Lord.

We thank you for your message. God Lord, we thank you for what

you have spoken God into our lives.

God lord, I want to hang on just a little bit longer.

God, I don't want to give up right now in the middle of the

child, in the middle of the storm in the middle of whatever

I am. I'm going through because I know

God, my blessing is on its way. I know God that you have a plan

and a purpose for me. God lord I will hang on just a

little bit longer God in Jesus name help.

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