Key Points
Your relationship with Christ changes your relationship with adversity.
Talk like you know where you’re from.
Adversity is an adjuster.
Adversity gives you access. It’s an access point to more of God’s grace to get through. If you have to go through it, grace is guaranteed.
Paradox of provision: You can’t run over if you don’t run through.
You can’t receive the wisdom to give to others if you don’t go through your weakness and adversity.
Adversity is an advertisement. In order to be in a valley, you have to be between two mountaintops. In order to be in shadow, the sun must be present. When you see your enemies, grab your spoon, fork and knife, because a meal is coming! The next time you see your adversaries, see them as an advertisement of what’s to come.
Selah! Amen!
When I look back, its not that I went through then I was running over. It’s that I was running over while I went through!
What you’re going through is pointing to what you’re going to be running over with!
Remember: It’s not WHEN you get through, it’s AS you GO through.
The presence of an adversary does not mean the absence of the Lord. You just have to do it with an anxious feeling. “Yay, though I walk…. You don’t have to run; your cup will.
~ Stephen Furtick
Reference verses
The Divine Shepherd: A Psalm of David.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil,
for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.
We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia, for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.
Harvest Life 