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I want to encourage you today, that no matter what you’re facing, whether its family problems, challenges with your children, financial distress, health issues, business or employment frustration, GOD CAN turn it around.
Do you know that when you got up this morning, God was thinking about you? He was aware of your needs. He is mindful of the blessings He has laid up for you and right now He is making plans to get those blessings to you.
Psalm 78v18-19 NKJV
And they tested God in their heart by asking for food of their fancy. Yes, they spoke against God: They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?”
Notice what God’s people, the Israelites said in the OT, “Can God?”.
They should have put God first and in front, and said “God Can”.
When you say, “Can God”?, you are doubting Him, but when you say, “God Can”, you are having Faith in Him.
When you find yourself in a situation that looks impossible, don’t say, “Oh where is God? Why is God letting this happen to me? God doesn’t care about me! Why is God not helping me!
God does care about you. He said in…
1 Peter 5:7 NKJV
Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
God does not want you burdened and worried.
God does care but are you giving your cares to Him?
You are not designed to carry burdens and cares. That’s God job.
Hebrews 11:6 MSG
It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that He exists and that He cares enough to respond to those who seek Him.
God cares enough to respond to those who seek Him.
Are you seeking Him?
Are you putting faith in God?
Or are you seeking your own agenda, putting trust in yourself?
The children of Israel spoke against God. They said, “Can God”.
I discovered from personal experience and through many years of watching God work, that whatever you speak against, you will not possess.
That’s what happened in the book of Malachi as well. God corrected His people concerning the tithe. They were struggling financially but they were not bringing the tithe to Him. They were robbing Him.
And immediately after that, He corrected those who were tithing and following Him but were speaking against Him and saying, “It’s useless to serve God. We are obeying Him, we are giving, but the wicked are prospering”.
God didn’t appreciate His people saying that. Their words were harsh against Him and blocking His blessings.
That is the one sin satan wanted Job to commit, to speak against God. He said, “if you touch him, he will curse You to Your face”. But in all that Job went through, He never sinned.
Job 1:22 NKJV
In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.
That is exactly what the devil wants us to do. He wants us to charge God with wrong.
He steals, kills and destroys and then blames it on God. He wants us to believe that God is the One who did it and He is behind all the pain and suffering.
God is not your problem. He is your solution to every problem.
The Book of Job
The entire book of Job is trying to find the answer to why.
Why was I born for this? Why did this happen to me?
But the faith walk in God is not trying to find the answer to why but what do I do when I don’t know why.
Will I still trust God when answers seem slow in coming?
Will I still praise Him even when things don’t seem to be going my way.
Can you trust His heart even when you can’t trace His hand?
That is when faith roars.
Instead of blaming God and speaking against Him, speak against the devil and resist him. Rebel against him.
Don’t rebel against God. Rebel against the devil, his lies and suggestions.
So let’s begin to say, “God Can”.
God can provide for me in the middle of the desert.
God can turn my marriage around.
God can turn my business around.
God can restore health to my body.
God can bless me financially.
God can do exceedingly abundantly…
God can!
God told Keith Moore: “Is it that the problem is so big or is it that your faith is so small?”
God said in Proverbs 24v10 that if you faint in the day of adversity your strength is small. He never said “because the adversity is big”.
Say, “God Can”
Say, “God Can Turn it Around”
John 16v33 AMPC
I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have perfect peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.
John 14v27 AMPC
Peace I leave with you; My own peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.
So, God can turn it around.
But in order for God to turn it around, He needs one ingredient and that ingredient is called Faith.
Why Faith?
Because faith gives God access into your life and faith gives you access into His grace.
Hebrews 11v6 NKJV
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
God is not the condemner, He is the Rewarder.
God is not the withholder, He is the Rewarder.
God is not the sickness maker, He is the Healer.
So how should we respond?
- Have faith in how much God loves you.
Your faith really begins to work and roar when you know how much God loves you.
God loves you just as much as He loves Jesus.
John 17:23 NLT
I am in them and You are in Me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that You sent Me and that You love them as much as You love Me.
“But Pastor, if God loves me, why am I still in this mess”.
That is not the question you should be asking.
You should be asking, “If God loves me, why am I allowing this mess in my life”.
Take authority. Resist and rebel against the devil and he will flee from you.
Don’t evaluate God’s love for you by what you go through.
If you have, then you say “God loves me.”
If you don’t have, then you say, “God doesn’t love me.”
You are evaluating God’s love for you by what you are going through.
God is not going around saying, “I love you, I love you not”
God is going around saying, “I love you, I love you, I love you.”
- Faith works in a forgiving heart
Mark 11v22-25 NKJV
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
25 And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.”
Just like cars work by petrol, faith works by love.
Your Faith is not working if you don’t forgive and if you don’t walk in love.
Faith works by love. (Galatians 5:6)
Unforgiveness is a hindrance to your faith.
Unforgiveness is a blessing blocker.
Live and walk in forgiveness in order for your faith to work.
“Oh, but you don’t know what they did to me?”
You don’t know what it’s doing to you right now. That poison of unforgiveness is hurting you right now.
Bitterness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
They still doing it to you right now if you haven’t forgiven them of it.
When I forgive someone, it does not necessarily mean that they were right in what they did to me. It just means I go free.
You can’t get ahead if you keep trying to get even.
Say what you mean but don’t say it mean.
Speak the truth in love.
The love of God makes the truth receivable.
When you release the love of God towards someone, you are releasing God because God is love.
God then becomes responsible for your success.
Hand over the care to God.
Have faith in God.
Have faith in how much He loves you.
Walk in love and forgive continually.
God Will Turn it Around!
God Can Turn it Around!