Crisis comes for the sake of Change. The first change we need to make is the change in our belief system – a crisis, as far as God is concerned is simply a change that is going on. In other words, what God is saying is that “I am changing things in your life. I am taking away the first in order to establish the second”.
The Bible tells us there is nothing you are going through that is not common to man, e.g. Crisis.
“Every man will go through a crisis situation.”
According to James, the scriptures says, “Count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptation for the trying of your faith worketh patience. Let patience have its full work that you might be perfect and entire, wanting nothing”. Therefore, in a crisis situation, there is a definite skill that is required for you to successfully pass the test.
So crisis can lead us (and God intends for it to lead us), into a better life. That’s His intention and crisis is the gateway to it. All Satan wants is that you become despondent, and crisis becomes detrimental to you.
“The outcome of any crisis rests not in the nature of the problem, but what you do in the situation.”
You must understand that when the season comes, God wants to start changing things in your life. Do not resist the change!
“It is never the circumstance in itself, but, always what we do with it that determines our future.”
Contrary to what psychologists say that a person can control the outcomes of a crisis, the Bible does not say that. In Fact the Bible says that God has total control of the outcome of your crisis. In any crisis, do not try to control the outcome!
For example, when Joseph dreamt and told his brothers, He wasn’t even aware that there will be a famine. That wasn’t in his mind. He didn’t know God’s plan. God worked out the final details – got the chief butler into the prison, Pharaoh had a dream , etc. God was the one that worked every single thing out until he (Joseph) became the Prime Minister of Egypt.
So the outcome is God’s, not ours. Our responsibility is to conduct ourselves in a certain way through the change and crisis.
God says “Your control has to be broken so that I can take control. Then I will lead you into something that you were not even thinking about”.
So, when you say “Well, I lost my job and it affected my vision”, simply understand this – God has closed that door and delivered you from that job in order to take you into something that He has prepared from the foundation of the world. That’s the way God does it, but there is a way He wants you to conduct your affairs when His hand is upon you in the process.
In James 3:4 (KJV), the scriptures says, “Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.”
The Governor is The Lord. So, you are not the Governor, Jesus is the Governor therefore, all He says is this, “I will give you scriptures that you will place on your lips”. Keep declaring those scriptures.
Assuming someone has lost his job, and you’re declaring Psalms 23; thinking “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want”, because I have a job. Now you begin to see things differently that I shall not want, simply because, “the Lord is my Shepherd”.
Then you declare “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, He leads beside still waters, He restores my soul, He leads me in the path of righteousness for His name sake. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear (that’s your conduct now) no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me” Then you say “He has prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies, and anointed my head with oil and my cup runs over”
So you know He has prepared, though you don’t know what the table is but you know He has prepared a table in the presence of…. You allow Jesus to have control over your tongue. You keep the Word of God on your lips.
You declare these things, and allow God to move in your life. You keep those scriptures in your heart, and they build faith on the inside of you. In other words, you’re reading the Word of God, and Christ now dwells in your heart. He is working in your heart, and regulating what is going on in your heart by faith. You are being rooted and grounded in love. So He dwells there and when He dwells there, he now roots you and grounds you in His love, so you start walking in love. Whatever he tells you do, you do.
According to Ephesians 3:13-21, it’s the power of God that strengthens you. It was the power that got you rooted and grounded in love.
In summary, focus on the conduct. God produces the results. Whatsoever He tells you to do, you do it and you see the result.
From last Sunday’s message, 16th September 2018.
