When You're Perplexed

God let you know what you need to know in order to do with his window.

I'll give you five year projection. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, not the assurance of things you already have. Hello and thanks for being here for today's destined for victory with pastor Paul Sheppard, senior pastor, destiny Christian Fellowship in Fremont, California. Sometimes God speaks to you directly through his word to other believers in Christ through prayer here him and you know you've heard other times he silent gives you part of the picture, but not all of your frustrated or perplexed because your wanting an answer that God seems unwilling to give the stay with us now for today's message from Pastor Paul.

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Let's join him as he shares his message when you're like this brand of Christianity when they try to make you always be joyful. Joy should always be with them but doesn't always manifest the same way.

Sometimes I have joy of my fears of how I'm feeling and that is legitimate heard a preacher, a hyperspace preacher talk about the fact that we had no business in the body of Christ, greasy.

I was watching them on TV as he expounded this output is required. There is no level of faith that will prevent you from grieving. In fact, it is because of faith and because of the grace of God that I can grieve and yet so I just wanted to share with y'all my own devotion as I'm working through losing this spiritual daughter and it's okay to be perplexed to say God really see was wrestling in the last moments there. It was really really troubling and challenging. They want to pray the Lord keep their pride and lack of faith Because we have faith and when you pray in faith and you don't get what you it's okay to be perplexed. It's okay to say I don't get it. I think about seven years ago we were still in the hotels were in the last month of being in hotels before we built this worship center where the move-in several months before moving in here.

One of my brothers was murdered. He had just been in MOD the Saturday before we had a great fellowship process and will be always has and what have you got out of his car. One night with his work, bad computer stuff, coming home late one evening, somebody jumps out of the bushes and demands what he had in I don't know if he struggled. I don't think he did. I didn't get that sense at all from what the police report showed that the guy just decided maybe because he could recognize them or whatever to just shooting and is killed outside of his home and had just been with us in fellowship. I am not like my deep friends who have an explanation for everything you know so many people who have never met a mystery they couldn't solve all the people all the body of Christ is crawling with. Let me take you some folks there are times when we are perplexed and confident. I'm not by myself.

The apostle Paul said at times don't get I don't understand it doesn't make sense and you know we love something just makes sense. Even if we don't like it, please let it make but there are times when both we don't like it and it doesn't make sense what you do when you're perplexed and all I want to tell you and I'm done is I think we have to admit there are things we will never know in this life say I grew up in a hymn sing in church and one of the hymns had a course that there will understand it better than the church will understand them better by now not going to quit God speak to me and bring back old information was on hold all goals should implement why God's revelation. Do you know God can be more silent than anybody you've ever had God speak to me. I came to California because God's wonderful time of God speaking very directly, very, Very Significant Way, God spoke God.

But times body was talking, but God said they wisely got what you his silence can be deafening, but all the same.

Paul said in first Corinthians 13 and nine for we know in part. Therefore, when we prophesy we can only prophesy in part, and so don't expect to get it all now. You not going get some of it now. God reveals the less I learned what God let you know what you need to know in order to do his will.

Now he's not going to give you your five year projection. All we we love projections.

God tell me what you will be doing in my life five years from now about to go live from day to day then you better not try to project into the future. James in his epistle with his letter James and listen, y'all say today, tomorrow, do this and that next week Nexium to do this and that and all that out. What is your life. It's a vapor quickly banishes you how to hear and you don't always get a preview. Some folks get previews I met people who their loved one said they told him that they would check it out said the Lord will take me and all that and and it happened just like they said while they got approved. Most of us don't get a preview you know when you find out that you die when you go so what you do when you're perplexed. Here's my answer, and I'm done. Your focus on what you do know, don't expect to know everything. Something to know so what we gotta do is live our lives.

And when these times will be perplexed, these times I don't get income. Don't spend your time trying to get what you don't get just going to Bring her to be here. Those things could so what we do preaching this for people whatever you're going through in your life. Whatever the crisis is facing in your life when it doesn't turn out the way you want women when it makes no sense. Then you gotta learn to do what I'm telling myself and telling you right now you gotta focus on what you do know so glad they are things I do know in the word of God. Don't know for instance, in Psalm 46 and one that God is a huge strength when in trouble. I do know according to Proverbs 18 and that the name of the law is a strong and the righteous to Pam Behar see no, according to Isaiah 26 and three that God will keep him please stay on him was a conditional. Gotta keep your mind on him. You can pastor Paul Sheppard will be right back with the second half of today's destined for victory message when you're perplexed. Remember you can always listen to this program. In recent messages on demand@pastorpaul.net that's pastor Paul.net we find a host of great resources that are online store you can also listen on your mobile device by downloading our destined for victory mobile app search destined for victory.

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But first, the rest of today's message when you're perplexed once again stress repulsion 25 live without his presence in my life you live to see him face to face. No 40 and 29 against every week he increases might go to later told upon the Lord's know this three things like eagles and not be weary, they will walk and not 30. According to all the building know that you hear so soon we go see the sea to the presence of the more so because one goal see.

When you get there, what we know there will trouble will will know we love God because we will be where the fullness of joy. Everything sometimes, but I do know I do know I do know the promises of the shore and one morning we will fly away from here when checking out a here. Don't put down your homes in this life will prevent him who's going to take a here is a place for you to prepare a place no real real soon, but when we leave here. We know there is heaven, yet is working on it for all we can rejoice the God of our salvation more for your family for your church but no that we know the Lord promises I'm going to be with you always.

I use your screen on don't get you in trouble when you don't have to fear evil because he said I'm with you around my staff. Whatever comfort you and prepare a place for you in the presence of your very glory to God over to God, glory to God, thank you for letting the priest to myself.

I hope it helps you to preserve times we don't get it when you don't get it. You just don't get it.

Do yourself a favor and read by around your favorite quit trying to get it when you don't get used to the three words that have come to be real comfortable coming out of my mouth home I say so much that his role in the cell everywhere.

I know people come to get appointment appointment to come in there with the mystery, and I look at them so I could say what you so you just had to come sit, look at me are you all know that's not folded in just to give me a phone appointment with so when he'll know I'm still at my house. It's okay to feel okay because it's feelings process is why we believe in therapy in this church.

Some Christians are super spiritual don't believe in Jesus and my therapist. Okay hope that works out for you, but he has gifted people to help people just like doctors have study and they can help you with some stuff talking this week about a friend who came from one of those radical churches pastor didn't believe in medicine of any kind in this pastor years after that died angry with God, wondering why God didn't heal but when he had the opportunity to go to the doctor.

He refused things like that since we got to be. We live in balance. I praise God for healing I'm experience healing I'm laying hands on people supernaturally healed. Healing is still a gift in the body of Christ, but healing done, the same way, to every body and every time I was supernaturally healed and laid hands.

One of my friends in New York. She was a nurse but she was gifted and healings got a lot of people supernaturally. When she got a certain type of cancer in her 30s. It is advanced rapidly. She being a nurse knew what was going on got the states for never forget that those of us who loved us and when we pray for healing at a certain point, she said, stop praying she said if the Lord was going to heal me. He had done it. I know you'll have faith. I have faith.

She said stop I'm get ready to go and some of them try to talk her into.

She said I'm get ready go home. She was in the hospital fourth stage IV cancer. There just managing her pain and the night nurse told some of us later said her last hours were the most unusual have ever seen anybody experience does not know the Lord. She said in her room.

I heard her talking like she was talking to a lover.

She said she was Savior so wonderful, my life with you so meaningful. I love all that you said she was just talking like she said I don't know man women there. She said, and she just she just loved on somebody over and over again, she said, and then she went silent and the night nurse it I said to myself, oh, she finally fell asleep. She fell asleep.

She worshiped her way right into the Lord to tell you it's real even when you don't understand it's real. I want you to be. Thanks so much for being here for today's destined for victory message when you're perplexed right now. I'm pleased to welcome Pastor Paul who joins me from studio California pastor know your heart is encouraged by so many of our friends were listing and letting us know that destined for victory is having an impact on their lives tell us to remind me why are you so committed using media such a big part of this ministry will weigh now tell you I'm sold on the fact that if we're going to fulfill the great commission and of course that's our job as the body of Christ to go into the world to make disciples to baptize people and teach them to observe all things that Christ commanded to do that I am more convinced than ever. It demands that we take a strong fresh look at how to use technology and every other resource. To that end.

In other words, we gotta realize we were boomers. I'm a baby boomer born between 46 and 64 that our generation me to and I realize that we were the last generation in American history that was typically raised in church or in some religious training, and we've got three generations under us, and now there's an emerging fourth-generation there still being developed. There known as generation alpha my first grandchild is an alpha and so I realize that with these three.

For generations we've gotta preach the gospel to. They are not inclined to come to church and hear the gospel if you will, but the vast majority of them are probably going to have to be reached where they are before we can get them into the life of the church so technology is very important to the end that we can reach them with the good news of Jesus Christ is what it's all about pastor reaching as many people as we can with the gospel.

You know, media can often go or missionaries cannot into the homes of elderly shut-ins or those with no way of getting to church. It can also travel into remote areas of the world that are often hostile to the Christian faith.

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