You're in Training, Part 1 (cont'd)

What you do when you hit your crisis. Whatever the crisis is what you do if you do something other than calling.if you do something other than get in the word if you do something other than, say, Lord, what would you have me do, then you haven't yet finished training in Psalm 34 King David said this about times of crisis when the righteous cry for help in the Lord hears them and delivers them from all their troubles hello and welcome to this Wednesday. Addition of destined for victory pastor Paul Sheppard. If you are going through a crisis today, God will deliver you first want you to cry out for his when you cast your cares upon him, he will sustain today's destined for victory message is straight ahead stay with us now or visit pastor Paul.net to listen online on-demand that's pastor Paul now in today's message you're in training is pastor Paul Mazza says a lot for 40 years. Why you went to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commands know why they can't afford to take both to the promised land, who did know how to obey him. Why would God give you blessings and you live in disobedience. Why would he do that car's destroyer. You keep your eye and no enemies to take you somewhere where there are enemies that are required for you to fight in obedience and faith.I'm taking over. And some of us to where we are and you can blame it on God all you want gossip I had met you are where you are because you put yourself there. You are where you are because you dishonored me in the matter of money you are where you are because you dishonored me in the matter of managing relationships you where you are because you decide to make the kind of person I talked about the Bible lays out for you. The kind of person you're supposed to marry you when marry somebody because of their shoulders. Matta got a broad shouldered, you've always had any head steps and something you got all excited and God blessed you with that little brother went beside but I have to give him a little swag. Teach them a little something but not what you and show guys there but I'm using the train you because I got some but you you got a passive marriage test first same brothers you'd have had to get to get the brass you get the Coca-Cola shape. You say you know reasons that I got up and said that while growing up Coca-Cola bottle shape (women adjustments you know she was kinda no revelation. So you good luck. But God will teach you as well. Simply because it will amaze you. You had a life I don't care what they look like Lord just give me the grace to not count somebody up and I'm not sure to catch a case over this. Use it to train you. You and that… And put you in that you put you in bed to put you in debt. You had to have it now, so just put on a credit card and trust him that one faith believe that in 30 days, God no believe God for the cash before you went in the store. The cast everything else needs are met children to take care of you would only want your kids but you still gotta pay child support. You don't pay child state because God tells you you made him take care of them. Yeah, how like you. My ex is living with now. That's not our problem God told you what to do with your children are concerned. After all bills are paid you all you responsible to handle and some you want you want to upgrade to TB you want to upgrade to this that believe God for the cash so you put it down on walkout. You will not accept the love of believing God to upgrade your car your car running fine, but Ulysses will message a united favor let you drive in some luxurious that's not the Bible Bible says he will be faithful over a few things that drive and well take care of it like it's a benzo that's what you know you pass your test test on the front yard trying to sway Ben's all.

Don't put God in. I was going bless you and give you perfect peace put Malone what I have done seasons out here. I came out here in need of a second cargo removed we wanted you could just jump on septa and go all around the city. You need a call if you need a car.

I need of the call, I drove a nice car across the country. If I knew when I got here. What I found out before I got the card filling come pick it up a signal.

17th St. because of the finest, I ran into what we believe in God and I know when that early-season church was small income was very limited, but the past I need to be driving the car and not to do that.

So God blessed with a second car blessed with the cash a little prayer group called us that we been praying for you ever since you moved we get together some night house and meet for prayer would bring an offer, and every week more to bring.

Often we did know why the most they will get an offer and then finally one night, they said you know what the Lord wants us to be a blessing.

The pastor Paul with this money, and it will clear across the country called me and said we been told the story how they been having this weekly prayer meeting set aside money and he says not what the $1700 and they said we just try to check make sure this is God's leading. We think it is, but we will just take what you do you have a need for $1700 and I don't put it this way. If God is telling y'all to give me $1700. Listen to him and I told the story how me to the car and so we had brother in the church about cars and so he was looking in the paper genre and he went because I didn't know what I was doing and he went checked out after my question found a found afford to cover this. We escort.

Escort ford escort 1984 escort four $2200 I'd saved up 200 these folks sent me. 17 and a brother local pastor called me someone to come up with my son and I service I went up there priest they gave me $300.17 +3+2 $2200 is almost like Argos slapped them down walked out drove that car summary also as a leader of the people sought drove that car till it dropped the car till it literally drove a good rule of marriage. Wife drives a better car and so I drove that car till it dropped. The spring was coming through the drivers seat.

Some had burst and then it was coming to Polk. America must set out below. Madison just tried to call was fixed everything that car till a mechanic across the street and said pastor let it go. You let it go but doesn't have expiration dates on that thing and I'm here to tell you I drove it. I passed that test so that we will position for what God had for us.

You are training right now and when I get into the next part of this message. I'm gonna link the training concept to the discipline that he goes on and talks about that's in the heart of the text, but I'm just set the stage for you. Now you need to understand where you are.

Everything about you like this training for where you go, you cannot ignore now looking too far ahead for the joy set before you gotta make some decisions about when what you're dealing with now you got your relationships better. Now you gotta settle your differences but now you can't please somebody, so that you will now you have to into and will be right back with more of today's destined for victory message from Pastor Paul Sheppard who is senior pastor at destiny Christian Fellowship in Fremont, California. Remember you can always listen to the broadcast on demand@pastorpaul.net that's Pastor Paul.net.

Also find a host of great resources that are online store you want to stay with us at the conclusion of today's message Pastor Paul will join me from a studio in California, but first let's join him for the second half of this teaching you're in training. I'm here to tell you that you are in training. Moses said in Deuteronomy 8 God humbled you and God tested you he went on to say in verse three he humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you today's pulpits you will never be hungry, but he said number one, you will put yourself in the desert, not God. So while you were there. God set it up as a training course and he intently could affect your week ahead, the food is laid out.

He said no way to get hungry, teach you how to pray. Call me what you do when you hit your crisis. Whatever the crisis is what you do if you do something other than call on.if you do something other than get in the word if you do something other than, say, Lord, what would you have me do, then you haven't yet finished training. If you pick up the phone and called to go to try to bail you out and you haven't even said Lord I'm asking you to lead me all the way through this desert.

I'm asking you to walk me through this.

Show me what I'm supposed to learn this.

God, I don't want to cheat on any examinations I want to pass it all believe in for next level. I'm believing for harvest. But I want my office to be right. So God I want to cheat this season. He calls them to hunger so that they would cry out to him and then he fed them with Manna; Amanda season now you know Amanda means what is what the word means, literally, what is it they woke up every morning and what is it was on the ground and God said don't forward. What is it he taught them even to daddy's and don't start up welfare mentality or disk will no no no.

I'm your source eat what I gave you thank me for act right to revoke right with the strength of it and see what I give you tomorrow and so they passed the Manna test. So when I got to the quail – meet guys on the receipt of your past that this don't awarded.

Trust me to feed you don't store it up I'll take care of you and some of them tried to store it up and disobey God and he calls the distinct some of your blessings.

What would be blessings of thinking right about now because you refuse to honor God in this season and I'm here to tell you that you are in training and noticed him in Deuteronomy 8 Ford says your calls didn't wear out, and your feet, then swelled on the whole 40 years. So no man in your heart that is a man disciplines his son so the Lord disciplines you and I'll pick it up and talk about the discipline concept in the next part of the message.

He said even while they were in the world is what he had no business being, God said I made sure that you made it sound like we are in your life right now somewhere you like your marriage or your kids are dealing with your college education or your or your job or lack of job you're looking for more income streams. Whatever it is you don't like your social life you don't like the people in your life you got more enemies, and you can have whatever show is God said, but notice what all of the stuff he set out on making sure that you make the calls didn't wear out and swell. In other words, got some knuckle kill you in the desert.

I'm going to train you in the desert does. It's no fun, but I'm going to train you and so that when I take you into Canaan. You'll know how to act. You'll know how to live and I came to tell somebody. God's got bigger plans for you than you can imagine, but he refuses to put you on the next level without you passing the test of this level, you are in training. You gotta get your attitude right now you gotta get your giving right now you gotta get your loving right now you gotta get your serving right now and if you get it right now God says your eye has an senior year. Haven't heard it hasn't even heart. What I prepared for those who love me. God's got big plans for your future in every key area of your life. God has planned. You haven't seen the best of what God is going to do yet you haven't seen it yet he's got big plans, but he'll never unveil them prematurely. You gotta make sure that it's through faith and obedience and diligence and in Lawrence that you pressure way into the next level.

Next level was in some you can confess your way into the vessel returned to speak the next level you can speak it the next level you enter in through obedience, through faith, through handling things right to use the financial analogy. Jesus gave in Luke 16. He said whoever can be trusted with little can be trusted with much what you know I'm right now what is now on your job if you can handle that right, God's got some important people.

There would later take you to be a board vote if you can deal with these folks now what God said to Jeremiah and in Jeremiah 12. Five. I believe it is if you run with the footman and they've worn you out what you're going to win the horses show up with the footman. I doubly see where it would be like this. I beg to differ. If you think the next level is special people free. What you don't know no devil new business new Tim Tatian the next level is not just positive. The next level has giants bigger than this one has problems because I missed one and you have to deal with things at the next level all the way around. So God is training you learn to settle things. Now you set your differences with people now gets added to straight you gotta finally put an end to some of the drama in your life now. No more drama. Gotta decide no more drama if you need to be right and you need me to be wrong, just so we can settle all is fine.

I'm not arguing anymore waving the white flag. Oh come on, the way you still fight for you and me. We are, you will be in the wilderness, you gotta settle it. Let it go.

Give it to God, Jesus, let people he could have killed with a look with a wish which them out of this world any let them slap him and beat him and spit on him and pull his beard out and thrust him with with thorns, humiliate him in the Bible says what he chose to do is instead of despising what he went through.

He despised the shame of what he went through.

He said I don't care that this ashamed me that this is humiliating me. I choose to not be humiliated. I chose to not let this make me feel bad. I choose to despise not the thing.

But the shame of it so we all have to learn to despise your shame.

That's all you're worried about is your image. If I put my double pump and in heaven. Gotta be saying past that this I'm ready for you now to go to the next level in that area as you learn how to shut up Grover Alsace, who called it shut. Mouth grace. I did our decisive primitive Saints. I want to thank you for praying the Lord gave me shut mouth grace.devil is shot. I grew up and found out shut mouth.

Grace means the grace to shut up when the devil surrenders you know what you say right now because all of us know you know what your enemies, you know exactly where you can hit him in the devil sit right Nancy hi they went there Sadie's and you say it in a same demon jump right over the elements. Although he did all Gary also is like that. I say this is about the people in jail right now little resident. They normally got in some stupid fight and didn't allow sense to win the day and they messed around and kill somebody over an argument. Do you know which only sell the same thing you know, you also save you can shoot somebody UK stab somebody so you learn to follow God thanks for joining us for today's destined for victory message you're in training.

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