Going through a hard season

And I came to declare today to everybody who's been

going through a season of failure or depression or uncertainty

or rejection or disappointment, let the dirt do its work.

Don't fight it, don't run from it, and don't pluck

up the seed because you don't like the season.

Let the dirt do its work.

This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is what

the kingdom of God is like.

There's nothing man.

Can do to you that God cannot use for his good.

And I believe that. I believe that all.

Things work together for the good of them.

That love the Lord and are called according to his purpose.

But I don't always know how. But I don't have

to know how. Because I know who.

The emphasis on Romans 8.28 isn't on things. All things

work together for the good. The emphasis is not on good.

Because it might not feel good and I might not

know how it's good while I'm in it. The emphasis

of Romans 8.28 is that I'm called. That I love

God and I'm called according to his purpose.

Amen.

So his purpose is the promise that lets me know

that it seems insignificant, that.

To me it's invisible, and I don't know how, but.

I know.

Everybody who wants to praise God for it, I'm going

to give you 30 seconds to do what you need

to do. Maybe your neighbor.

Doesn't want this word. Maybe they want to let a

bird snatch it.

Or a thorn choking, but there are some people here

who have been in the ground for a little while,

and I prophesy resurrection.

To every person.

Who's been in a depression. You've been in a funk.

You've been in a failure.

The devil said it was it, but Sunday came.

Where you at, Matthews? Where you at, Valentine? Where you at, UC?

You know what's crazy? I'm calling out all these campuses,

and somehow they see me on their screens, and I

don't know how, but I don't have to know how.

And you know what?

Somehow I'm preaching this word and it's getting in your

heart and God's going to use it and it won't

return void, but it will accomplish what God sent it

to do. But his ways are higher than my ways

and his.

Thoughts than my thoughts.

I don't have to know. I just have to sow.

I just have to go.

I don't have to know. I don't know how I'm

going to make it, but I don't have to know how.

I don't know who God's going to use to get

me through this, but I don't have to know how.

It might be manna that falls from the sky. It

might be a widow at Zarephath that God uses to

feed me. It might be a little boy's lunch that

I didn't even count in the official total because I

thought he was insignificant.

But the seed always looks small. God might use a

little boy, a little thing, the littlest thing. I don't

have to know how. And some of you are stuck

because you need to know too much.

You need to be perceived as someone who knows.

And so you remain in darkness.

You want to be perceived as someone who understands things

that the soil represents uncertainty. And I think it's good

every once in a while for us to hear a

sermon where the farmer admits.

I don't even know how.

Come on, because if you had to call somebody who

just lost their child in a car wreck like I

have to do often, and you were telling them that

God is going to get you through this, you wouldn't

be so quick to tell them how.

I don't know how, but I pray right now in

the name of.

Jesus that the God of all comfort, that's who.

Would surround you with his angels. That's who. I don't

know how.

But I know whom I have believed. So I pray,

I sow, I scatter. Some seed gets snatched. Some seed

gets scorched. Some seed gets strangled. I'd make a good sermon,

wouldn't it? They all start with the letter S. And

the temptation is when the seed is scattered, but it

does not produce. You never want to sow again. So

then you prayed and the cancer still ate their body.

What's to make you ever want to pray again? So

you stopped sowing. You stopped expecting. You had a funeral

and stopped expecting a harvest. The business failed. That one

child is on drugs. And you got very confused about

the difference between God's job and your job. Obedience is

the job of the farmer. Jesus is not the farmer

in this parable. He's the seed. He's the seed. He

is the seed of God. And he was planted in

the soil of the earth for three days. And his

resurrection gives us an expectation. We don't have to understand

the events of.

Our life to walk in a posture.

I think it's better sometimes that we don't know. I

think it's better sometimes that we stay in a state

of uncertainty so that we don't get confused and think

that we're the seed, that we're the source. I pray

that this message has been practical today and you'll be

able to take something from it for your life.

Really, I think it's supposed to be prophetic.

That doesn't mean a crystal ball or a 900 number.

To me, that means that you receive this seed personally.

It's all about the soil. And if this seed gets

snatched or scorched by the trials of life or choked

out by the deceitfulness of riches, the cares of this life,

or the desire for other things, it will be as

if it was never sown. And it'll be just another seed,

just another pep talk, just another Bible lesson. If you

receive this seed, though, I'm trying to tell you that

God has has set you free of the expectation to

understand obedience is your job.

Outcome is God's.

Let him do his job. Let him do his job.

Let the dirt do its work.

Let the sufferings of this present time produce in you

a glory that is not worthy to be compared. In comparison,

it's so much bigger than that dirt. Some of you

are in a dirt stage right now of your dream.

The first thing that happened to Joseph when God gave

him a dream.

Do you remember? They held a parade in his honor.

Huh?

He printed up his business cards and started handing them out.

He got four million followers on Instagram.

They threw him in a pit. Every promise needs a pit.

Every dream needs dirt. Your faith needs fertilizer all by itself.

The ground produces grain. Water it. Plow it.

Get your heart right and let the dirt, the rejection,

the insecurity, the confusion. God is not the author of confusion.

God did not reject you, but he will. use Genesis 50, 20.

What you meant for evil, God intended it for good

and the saving of many lives.

Let the dirt do its work. Hey, thank you for watching.

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