Brie Davis closes out our Damaged Goods series with this message about how to manage unfair situations in life.
we are going into our final installment
of our damage good sermon series how
many of y’all have been blessed by the
damage good sermon series so far pastor
michael has done a phenomenal job of
convicting and encouraging us through
this sermon series and as we peel off
the layers of the damaged areas that we
have in life – not today I’m going to be
talking about the final thing that I
believe is an area that we all have in
damage area in and that God wants to
heal and so this morning I’m going to be
talking to you about the unfair things
that we experience in life those things
that kind of gut punch you those things
that you didn’t expect the things that
you don’t even feel like you deserved
and so this morning we’re going to talk
about that but before we go there let’s
pray together lord I thank you for this
morning Lord God I thank you for every
single person in this place today Lord
god I thank you forwarding my mouth Lord
whatever it is that you want to say this
morning say it through me God open up
hearts and minds to hear from you this
morning and even as pastor Michael is
away and teaching at the Church of
Battle Creek Lord we lift him up to you
God and we thank you right now Lord
whatever he says what God that it will
fall on a good soil or God open minds
and open hearts to hear what you’re
saying as you heal the racial racial
tension even in our city today Lord God
we thank you for that in the name of
Jesus we pray amen amen
so this morning I’m going to be talking
to you guys about the unfair things that
happen in life how many of all have had
something that you feel like was unfair
that it happened to you and your life
before okay things that you just don’t
deserve things that just came out of
nowhere you weren’t ready for you wasn’t
expecting there are certain things that
have happened in my life that felt like
they were unfair but what I’m realizing
is that there are some good things that
can come from those unfair situations
and so this morning that’s what we’re
going to talk about my point that I’m
going to start with is something that a
lot of parents say to their kids if you
have children in here you probably said
it once or twice to your child when your
child comes to you and says mom or dad I
want this and you said no you’re not
getting that I’m not going to pay that
for you I’m not going to buy that you
got the groceries you got we got bills
out here we
I gonna do that and then they say we
that’s not fair and oftentimes my
parents are said it to me god bless you
y’all had probably said it to yo kids
before life is not fair point number one
life is not fair and now I’m not trying
to start us off on a depressing point I
want y’all to know that okay
but until we get this reality in our
minds we’re always going to be shocked
and appalled when something doesn’t go
our way the truth is God never promised
us that life will be fair as a matter of
fact jesus promised us the exact
opposite of that that we will go through
trials and tribulations in this world so
life is not fair that’s our first point
today and we’re going to start off with
there’s many different examples of life
not being fair right how about you and
your husband decide we won’t lose some
weight together we won’t get on a diet
y’all eating the same foods drink the
same amount of water at the same gym
with the same trainer and for some
reason his weight is dropping like that
and you’re just saying no I ain’t going
nowhere I ain’t going nowhere your
weight is just holding on right it’s
unfair it’s unfair when you help out of
cousin or somebody who needs some money
they in trouble that need some help you
lend them something lend them some money
and then three years down the line
you’re still looking for that money it
has not returned you have not gotten a
return on your investment yet it’s just
not fair I personally feel like God you
know he played me a little bit and I’m
gonna explain what i’ma say okay my
eyebrows okay
God knew that I would be born in such a
time as this when eyebrows must be on
fleek and for some reason when I was
born he said let’s different give her
just a couple of strands over each eye
so I’m up here with 80% pistol and 20%
hair you think I’m bad it’s not right I
feel like as women out here that got
extra hair they getting to tweeze and
threading and all that and I’m up here
struggling it’s just not fair
it’s just he playing me I don’t know
it’s my thorn in my side I don’t know
sometimes I’ll be up here with I brought
up and I brought down I don’t mean it
okay
life is just not fair even though those
are some funny examples of how life is
not fair we’ve experienced some deep and
hurtful ways in which life is not fair
like when you give your heart away to
somebody and they mistreat you like when
you give birth to a child and then you
have to bury that child it’s unfair how
about you put all your blood sweat and
tears until starting a business and it’s
just not kicking off the way that you
wanted to it just doesn’t seem fair well
this morning I want to share with you
some things that can come from the
unfair situations in our lives over the
past few years I’ve been walking out my
own healing process and some things that
happen unfairly in my life and what I
realize is this is point number two
unfair situations can produce fruit and
this this is that this is the kicker
here okay I believe that God is more
interested in our lives being fruitful
than our lives being fair and the truth
is some of the fruits that’s producing
our lives would not be produced have we
not going through unfair situations so
this morning my goal is this my goal is
to change someone’s perspective for you
to allow the Holy Spirit to change your
perspective that instead of running from
avoiding being upset with and frustrated
with the unfair situations in your life
that one day you can look at those
unfair situations and say thank you
thank you because you produce something
to me that had I not going through you I
would never have in my life today and so
let’s look at the scripture of Romans 5
3 through 5 this is one of those
scriptures that’s hard to take when
you’re going through an unfair situation
it says we can rejoice too when we run
into problems and trials for we know
that they help us develop endurance and
endurance develop strength of character
and character strengthens our confident
hope of salvation and this hope will not
lead to disappointment for we know how
dearly God loves us because he has given
us the Holy Spirit to see
our hearts with his love so basically
what that scripture saying is unfair
things are going to happen and if you
change your perspective on it you’ll be
able to say thank you because they’re
going to produce endurance character
confident hope and you and they only
those things will only be producing you
when you go through something that’s
unfair so this morning we’re going to
get to a point where at by the end of
this and that eventually your
perspective and my perspective will be
changed so much that we can look at our
uncle our unfair situations and be
grateful for them because of what they
produce in us what’s a good example of
this just in the natural is oftentimes
manure and we know a manure is y’all
know manure is right okay
the bubu okay manure oftentimes can be
used to actually be used to a grow fruit
and so basically what we’re saying today
is this God can take the crap in your
life the manure in your life but things
you don’t want to deal with the things
that stink that sucks
that you hate happen to you but put with
the right soil or a good perspective he
can actually produce some fruit and you
that not only you will heat off of but
everybody else can eat off of too that’s
what he can do our God specializes and
making good out of bad that’s like his
thing like he’s good at that here’s a
professional at it okay so this morning
we’re going to talk about the certain
certain fruits that can come from unfair
situations and what the last thing I
want to say before we go into those
fruits is that point number three the
fruit that we get from unfair situations
is what I’m calling today the fair of
unfair the fair of unfair the FAI are of
unfair and what I’m going to do is want
to go through four different things are
there are many things that can come from
and be producing you from unfair
situations but we’re just going to talk
about four of those things this morning
so what’s the first thing that can be
producing you from an unfair situation
forgiveness forgiveness is the first
thing that could be producing these
diseases the
crazy thing about forgiveness I really
believe that you’re not more you’re
never more like Christ than when you can
forgive somebody we need to forgive
somebody that did you wrong you’re never
more like Christ right everybody in here
has been wronged by somebody in your
life before and to actually let go and
allow that offense to you be free from
that offense you’re never more like
Christ we know Christ is a servant he’s
compassionate he did miracles wonderful
things that Christ did on this earth and
those really are christ-like behavior
but to be able to lift someone square in
the eye that did you wrong and forgive
them we’ve only seen Jesus do that okay
so you’re never more like Christ than
when you can forget there’s a person in
the Bible that did something very
similar to what Jesus did on the cross
and his name was Stephen Stephen was a
man in the book of Acts he was a man
that the Bible describes as full of the
Holy Spirit
now Stephen was going around he was
saying the truth of God’s Word to many
people he was just going out and trying
to help people really get the gospel but
people got mad because Stephen was
telling the truth
and it wasn’t lining up with their lives
so what they said is we’re going to go
and lie on season lyza see I lied on
Stephen say he’s out here blasting me in
the name of God the council arrested him
he went before the council told the same
truth that he’d been telling made the
council mad and what they do is like
toddlers put their hands over their ears
started screaming rush that Stephen
pulling him out of this city and began
to stone him now I’m not for sure if
anyone in here has ever been stoned
before but stoning is when you stand in
the middle of a circle of people and
they throw rocks at you until you die
that is a slow death okay we don’t know
if they’re pebbles we don’t know if
they’re big stones whatever they were
throwing at him they were throwing at
him and while they were throwing those
rocks at Stephen Stephen says something
spectacular in acts 7 and 59 it says as
they stole
him Stephen prayed Lord Jesus receive my
spirit he fell to his knees shouting
Lord don’t charge them with this sin and
with that he died now when I read the
scripture I was encouraged and
frustrated at the same time because
Stephen is given he’s a regular human
being he was not Jesus right he does a
regular human being out here trying to
live right for the Lord and when they
started stoning him Stephen was able to
forgive his murderers while they were
murdering him while they stoned him
while they threw rocks at him while they
lied on him he was able in that instant
to forgive them what do you need to
forgive how long have you been holding
on to it Stephen is a prime example that
every single one of us every single
believer can forgive and the reason that
we can forgive is because we had the
forgiver living on the inside of us and
he can do it then we can do it whatever
he can do we can do right so if he’s
living on the inside of us we have that
power now my issue is is that a lot of
times we don’t know what the definition
of forgiveness really is forgiveness is
not telling our offender that what they
did was okay it’s not giving you a
thumbs up yeah hurt me like that yeah
that was good no that’s not what
forgiveness is and a lot of times it’s
hard for us to forgive because we feel
like we’re letting that person off the
hook when we do forgive them forgiveness
is not reconciling the relationship with
your offender just because you were
friends at one point don’t mean you got
to be friends again
that’s not forgiveness forgiveness is
not forgetting now I know we talked
about forgive and forget all the time in
the church but we’re not robots we can’t
go back to a part of our life and hit
delete on that mug we’re going to
remember even though you remember
forgiveness is not forgetting but
forgiveness is not bringing it back up
forgiveness is letting it go forgiveness
is a decision it’s saying that today I
decide that I want to forgive
forgiveness could be today I decide that
I
– what – forgive you ain’t got fulfill I
mean forgiveness ain’t going to come
natural okay
you got a won’t to do it and sometimes
you don’t want to do but you want to
want to do it so truth
that’s how forgiveness start it’s a
decision but forgiveness is also a
process forgiveness is not one decision
I make one day I make the decision and
today I went on ahead with and let go of
every single thing now you may be able
to do that but it’s okay if forgiveness
is a process for you when people get in
a wreck and they break their column
collarbone and they break a leg and they
in a hospital we don’t go up to them and
say girl shake it off you find keep on
moving
you okay keep going we don’t do that
right emotionally we can’t do that
either if you’ve been hurt by something
you need a healing process just like you
was in a hospital physically you need a
healing process so don’t this is the
thing about forgiveness it’s better for
forgiveness to be real than forgiveness
to be rushed I want it to be deep I want
to really mean it when I say it I want
to really let it go I don’t want to say
I let it go and then I see you at the
store and I’m ready to fight all of a
sudden again okay forgiveness we want it
to be real and not rushed so that’s the
first thing that comes from an unfair
situation you never know how to forgive
until you’ve been wronged you never even
tap into that part of your character
inside of you until you’ve been wronged
we don’t know how to forgive unless we
have to so as a forgiveness what’s
another thing that God can produce in us
a fruit that God can produce in us from
an unfair situation I believe the a is
for authenticity when an unfair
situation happens to us we had the
choice of putting on a mask and acting
like we’re fine or being authentic and
letting a note letting others know that
we’re hurt by that so authenticity is
something that can be produced in us
because of an unfair situation a person
that we’re going to look at in the Bible
is Hannah
and first samuel one and nine and i’m
going to read a couple of scriptures but
this is a story about Hannah Hannah was
a good woman she was just a good woman
I heard trying to have a baby for her
husband now back in the day polygamy was
okay so her husband had another wife she
had a sister wife and her name was
Pineda now pnina um I want to
necessarily necessarily describe her as
a good woman you see what I’m saying
banana was out here teasing Hannah
because she couldn’t have a baby now
that is not ripen I was just dropping
kids left and right and then teasing
Chanukah she can’t have no kids not
right
so it’s unfair right Hannah had a moment
with God with God where she got
authentic so let’s look at 1st Samuel
and it says in 1st Samuel 1:9 through 18
it says so Hannah 8 then she pulled
herself together and slipped away
quietly and enter the sanctuary
now hold on pause one second right there
in my mind
so Hannah eggs and she pulled herself
together sits awake while eating into
the sanctuary this is how it still
happens okay have you ever been in a
situation where you needed to cry but it
just one the time of the place so you
had to hold it together till you got to
the time the place and he was like I
tell you guys for the place you wanted
to get through the actual ball like
that’s what Hannah did handle was that
dinner she was sitting there with
tonight in her Nancy self and everybody
else at the table and she was teasing
her and had a good holding I was just I
just like a get to a place where she can
actually let out her emotions so she
pulled herself together slipped away
quietly and incident to the sanctuary
the priest Eli was on duty at some
interest to God’s temple in the
customary seat crushed in soul Hannah
prayed to God and cried and cried
inconsolably then she made a vow oh god
of Angel armies if you’ll take a good
hard look in my pain if you’ll quit
neglecting me and go into action for me
by giving me a son I’ll give him
completely unreservedly to you I’ll set
him apart for a life of holy discipline
it
so happened that while she continued to
pray before God Eli was watching her
closely
Hannah was praying in our heart silently
her lips moved but no sound was heard
Eli jumped to conclusions this is mrs.
Bobby I can tell you right he like
jumped to conclusions that she was drunk
he approached her and said you’re drunk
how long do you plan to keep this up
sober up woman Hannah said oh no sir
please I am a woman hard used I haven’t
been drinking
not a drop of wine or beer the only
thing I’ve been pulling out is my heart
pulling it out to God don’t think for a
moment I’m a bad woman it’s because I’m
so desperately unhappy and in such pain
that I’ve stayed here so long now this
is what I love about the scripture the
Hannah this passage descriptors about
Hannah Hannah it says that she cried and
cried inconsolably now y’all know what
the ugly cry is right cry that’s the cry
that Hannah head it wasn’t a cry where
she was just wiped the corners of her
eyes okay nobody see her in worship
crying and nothing like that she was
crying inconsolably she was so hurt by
what had happened and what would the
unfairness that she was going through
she didn’t know what to do other than be
real with God when unfair situations
come to us they present us with an
opportunity to be authentic not only
with God but the people around us
Hannah went to God and she said to him
if you stop neglecting me if you just
look at take a good hard look at my pain
then maybe you’ll give me a son
she was real with God now in the world
that we live in with social media and
all that stuff authenticity is something
that is really hard to find now ain’t
nobody getting up out of bed taking a
picture themselves with crusts in their
eyes that’s I booked a little drool on
the side of it you’re looking like Don
King you ain’t putting that on social
media okay that’s a real real we’re
gonna you know put some makeup on or
whatever they put there my eyebrows in
I’m not going out with my eyebrows
filled in y’all okay so authenticity is
something that we
easily come by the world in the society
that we lived in either says put on the
mask and act like everything’s okay or
go out here and act like everything is
fine when everybody asks you how you
doing say good don’t give them any more
information than that they could use it
against you they can look at you
differently authenticity is hard to find
in our world but the only way that we
can have a real relationship with God is
if we’re real God can heal anything that
we don’t surrender if we’re not honest
about what we need healing in he can’t
touch it he’s a gentleman you are the
one that opened up the door to God being
able to heal you in the only way that
that happens is to be authentic with God
Hannah was not only authentic with God
she was authentic with the people that
God put around her so when Eli came out
and accused her being drunk she could
have put up her walls right there she
could have been like uh-uh no I’m fine
don’t worry about me I’m good I’m good
do you boo-boo I’m good she could’ve did
that but instead she told them I’m a
woman hard used I am NOT out here
pulling up the drink I’m out here
point-i my heart to the Lord that’s what
she is having an authentic moment who is
on your home team who is your safe place
who is your village because if you can’t
be authentic with those people then
healing can’t come to your door the
Bible tells us that we’re healed by
opening up and letting others know what
our problems are and so when we get
authentic when we get authentic with God
and then we get authentic with the
people around us that’s when we know
we’re opening up our door for healing
we all have damaged areas right the only
way that we can get them healed is
through God and the only way we get them
healed through God is when we’re real
about them covering up and acting like
we don’t got them you ain’t gonna do
nothing but slowly leak out whatever we
don’t get we don’t surrender to God we
slowly leak out everywhere else people
like what’s wrong with them because they
didn’t think that’s a God you are here
snapping on people for no reason man in
traffic and stuff but it’s really you
just gotta get some things to God you’re
going to slowly leak wherever you go
until you surrender whatever it is to
God so
authenticity it’s something that comes
from unfair situations the next thing
that comes from unfair situations is
identity when you go through an unfair
situation it looks you dead and I and
ask who are you who are you yeah I know
he left you but who are you yeah I know
the kid is acting a fool but who are you
yeah I know your bank account is super
low right now but who are you
unfair situations come to ask us do you
know who you are
even if life is not going the way that
you wanted to go do you still know that
you’re called do you still know that
you’re enough do you still know that
you’re loved and oftentimes we think we
know until that thing comes let us
invade and then it’s like oh shoot him I
really called
am I really supposed to do this exact I
really just say he loves me is God
really good all of those things we start
to question because that unfair
situation is going against those plans
that we already made in our head so
there’s a person in the Bible by the
name of Ruth she got her own book go
girl
girl power she are here with her book in
the Bible okay Ruth was a woman that
went through an unfair situation she
married a wonderful man and married into
a wonderful family and in that family
she was introduced to the true and
living God something that Ruth didn’t
have in her homeland and in her family
but she was introduced to that well in a
short amount of time her father-in-law
her brother-in-law and her husband all
passed away unfair all the men that
taught you who God really is now gone
it’s an unfair situation now Ruth had
the opportunity because her
mother-in-law Naomi said to her I’m
going to go back to my homeland you stay
here and do you find you a man get
remarried all that stuff or whatever and
I’m going to go ahead and go well Ruth
is saying to her no you won’t lead me
and the reason that Ruth doesn’t want
Naomi to leave her is because Ruth found
out who she really was Ruth got
introduced to her real identity from her
in-laws and so in Ruth
I’m Ruth one and sixteen it says when
they only try to go away from roof roof
replied and said don’t ask me to leave
you and turn back wherever you go I will
go wherever you live I will live your
people will be my people and your God
will be my god the most valuable thing
that you can lose from an unfair
situation is your identity it’s the most
precious treasure that God has given us
is to know who we are in God and when
unfair situations come they come and
challenge then they come and challenge
you to say do you really believe that
this is who God said you are and the
most valuable thing we can give away is
knowing who we are in God unfair
situations when they come and I’m able
to look that thing square in the eye and
say this is who I am and God regardless
of what you’re telling me right now that
drops the anchor of my identity just a
little bit lower
that drops that anchor of knowing Who I
am and God just a little bit lower
because I realized that the situation
doesn’t get to define me how other
people treat me doesn’t get to define me
and said I’m defined by the Word of God
and what God says about me in the Word
of God that’s who I really am unfair
situations will come and try to slap a
nametag on you tell you somebody
different but it’s up to us to decide no
no no I see what you’re trying to say
but that’s not me I’m not a bad mother
because my kid is going to do what they
want to do I’m not a bad husband because
my wife decided to go somewhere else I’m
not a bad business person and not called
the business because my business isn’t
doing well right now we have to make
that decision and unfair situations come
to drop that anchor just a little bit
lower who are you who do you believe you
are have you allowed the things of your
past to define you have you allowed them
to identify who you are ignoring the
truth of God’s Word that’s why we have
to stay in God’s Word that’s why we have
to have a daily devotional life that’s
why we have to keep that word coming and
come
and coming no matter what because it
tells us who we really are it tells us
the truth unfair situations lie to us so
identity it’s something that we get from
unfair situations now the last thing the
last and final fruit that we get from
unfair situations I struggle with I
struggle with because it’s the letter r
and there’s so many are words out there
okay what am I supposed to do Lord
I thought about Redemption you know
David Saul tried to kill David he was
redeemed
I thought about restoration job went
through tons of unfair situations none
of us could even imagine going through
and at the end of his second life it was
better than the first part of his life
restoration but I really felt like God
wanted me to pinpoint relationship
relationship with God under fair
situations come and they asked you this
question
is he real do you really believe that
he’s real because I heard you sing the
songs he’s a good good father is it good
I heard you quote the scriptures I heard
you tell that girl the other day how
good god is but now that this situation
is knocking on your door do you still
believe it do you still believe that God
is king of kings and Lord of lords
all-powerful all-knowing Jehovah Jireh
your provider do you really believe it
because the truth is you don’t know God
as a provider until you broke
you don’t know God is healer until
you’re hurt
this is the moment in life when we get
to make a definitive statement of how
real our God is it’s unfair situations
that come and try to say to you do you
really believe that he’s real if you
believe that he’s real are you going to
stick with them through this are you
going to hold on to him for dear life
I’ll never forget a couple years ago I
was going through something and it was a
struggle and I literally had a hard time
I listen to that song good good father I
had a hard time saying those words I had
a hard time saying god you’re good
because the unfair situation I was
walking out wasn’t good at all and I
mean it was a struggle now before then
Mike was grand okay good good father
everywhere I sing it in the grocery song
I was having a hard time in my quiet
time with God telling him that he’s good
because that situation was so bad it was
so bad I could not I couldn’t all the
years of knowing who God was it
questioned all those years and unfair
situations come and do then they
question all that time that you’ve been
singing o songs
read those scriptures I’ve been in that
time with God coming to church go into a
big group it questions all of that is he
real I’ll never forget I was talking to
my mom just the other day and she said
to me she said girl with the things that
I’ve been through in life came nobody
tell me God ain’t real came nobody tell
me God ain’t real the unfair situation
is not meant to kill you it’s meant to
solidify your relationship with God in
the Bible there are three Hebrew boys
chiraq Meshach and Abednego Bendigo
y’all know that’s this trifling anyways
and they were good righteous holy man
trying to do right trying to live right
for the Lord
and never King Nebuchadnezzar got upset
he wanted on the bathroom they said no
King never got mad he said throw him in
the fire they got to go into fire now
thank God
punishment nowadays it’s not like what
it was back in the day okay the fire was
so hot that the people that threw them
in the fire died that’s how hot the fire
was okay so they got thrown into this
fire well eventually
keen a blitz back at the fire and he
says now didn’t we throw three people in
their fire it looks like there’s four
people in their fire now and this is
what I come to believe those three
Hebrew boys they worship God with their
lives and with their character with
their words and with their actions but
she has been become real real until they
got in that fire when they got thrown in
that fire that fourth person in there
with Jesus Christ that’s when Jesus got
real real Jesus gets real real to us he
becomes real the relationship when it
becomes real when we get thrown in the
fires of life it’s the fire that makes
them real it’s not just the good times
everybody loves a good times but it’s
those bad times those hard times those
hurtful times those painful times that
you realize God is real and he is for me
and he really will never leave me nor
forsake me but you don’t know that till
you get thrown in the fire like three
Hebrew boys relationship this is your
opportunity this it seems like unfair
situations come to take us out but I
promise you that God can use those
unfair situations for you to walk into a
whole nother level of relationship with
him I know that after years of being
saved and believing in Jesus Christ
it was the unfair situations in my life
that made me fall madly in love with him
I thought I was in love but it wasn’t
till we walked through some fires
together that I really realized I was in
love with him and that he loves me and
that he loved me but if the unfair
situations that put those right in our
face
so this morning as we talk about unfair
situations there’s a person that went
through a really really unfair day same
as Jesus the day of crucifixion was the
best of days and the worst of days is
the best of days because it provided
salvation for all of us but it was the
worst days because he was bruised and
beaten
he was spit on and laughed at he was
ridiculed in front of millions of
thousands of people Jesus had a really
bad day and on that day he said seven
things on the cross and I believe that
he was showing us that there’s fair and
unfair the first thing he said was
forgiveness Father forgive them they
don’t know what they doing authenticity
on that cross Jesus said father you have
forsaken me he had a real moment on the
cross he didn’t hold that in because
everybody was around I want them know
I’m going through up here he didn’t do
that he had a real moment on the cross
not only did he have a real moment with
God on the cross he said I’m thirsty on
the cross he had a real moment with
everybody around him Jesus was authentic
identity Jesus on the cross said to the
thief today you’ll be with me in
paradise in other words I’m on this
cross and they telling me I’m not the
Son of God but I know I am so I can
promise you you’ll be in paradise with
me today identity never questioned his
identity and the last and final thing
that Jesus said on the cross his father
into your hands I commend my spirit
in other words God I trust you he didn’t
say the last thing to his mama to the
disciples to the guards to the angels
his very last statement was to the
realist relationship that he had on this
earth to his father I believe that there
is somebody in here today that’s walking
out in an unfair situation something
that you didn’t deserve something that
hurts something that was a gut punch you
were not expecting it at all and in this
series this damaged good series we
realize that we’re all damaged in some
areas
but what I also want you to realize is
we’re all so good we’re damn is good God
even though we’ve been through some
tough stuff and we’ll still go through
some tough stuff he specializes in
taking the good the bad and the ugly
melting it together and making some
beautiful heart of it he specializes in
making good out of bad so those unfair
situations don’t try to avoid them don’t
try to get away from them don’t be mad
at them make a decision today in your
heart that one day I’m going to say
thank you to that unfair situation one
day I’m going to be grateful for what
happened because it’s going to produce
something in me that I would have never
have gotten had I not going through it
there’s a scripture that I want to share
with you Romans 8 and 18 in the
amplified bible it says for I consider
from the standpoint of faith that the
sufferings of the present life are not
worthy to be compared with the glory
that is about to be revealed to us and
in us the stuff that you have walked
through is nothing compared to the glory
of God that’s going to be shown through
you and it’s going to come because of
the suffering that you walk through
because of the unfair things that you
have walked through and this is what I
believe that the wounds of your past are
medicine for someone else’s future we’re
walking through stuff just for ourselves
we’re not walking through stuff just so
I can get through it and so I can help
somebody else get through Jesus didn’t
have that unfair day for himself that
was for us whatever you have walked
through he’ll get through it hold on to
God walk it out because one day someone
is going to need that testimony to walk
through what they’re going through
the last time that I stood on this stage
was two years ago 2015 and I spoke on
identity and after that situations came
and smacked me in the face
all men try to took us out and I really
honestly when I was walking through
those things never thought I’d ever be
up here again because the depression and
the fear and the sadness that I was
going through was so hurtful and so
weighty that I just didn’t know am I
going to be used again not just for this
stage but anything can God use me I’m
jacked up and broken and messed up but I
promise you from taking day by day and
step by step and saying I’m going to
forgive and I’m going to be real and
authentic and no that’s not who I am day
by day as I walk that out and I held on
to my relationship with God God put a
little muscle back in me it’s like I was
lifting some weights and I really
believe that this lesson this what I’m
saying to you today is something that
I’m walking out in my own life I believe
it I believe that if you give those
unfair situations to God that he can
heal you and redeem you and not only
that but he can give you new gifts and
new fruits that you never had before
until you walk this out don’t be mad at
what happened be grateful be grateful
[Applause]
God can use it all God can use every
ounce of it