*Stop picking and choosing
I want to talk to my hungry people: SOMETIMES God will order hunger. He will put you in a situation that hurts and leave you in it. And let you struggle.
He will let me be hungry both to abound and to suffer need. Ah, everybody in this room, streaming online, zooming in here; I don’t care how you are making contact with me: In some area of your life, you are in need. It’s not just the poor folks.
There are folks with a job and they are in need.
There are rich folks in need.
Nobody escapes it: white folks in need, brown folks in need, young folks in need, old folks in need.
It may not be the same need, but just because it is not the same need, It:
– Doesn’t mean it’s not a need.
– Doesn’t mean the need doesn’t cause pain.
– Doesn’t mean that it doesn’t create frustration.
– Doesn’t mean that you don’t have to toil and wrestle with it.
And then he says, “I can do all things”
He doesn’t use this text to be motivational. That’s not the meaning of ‘I can do all things.’
‘I can do all things’ means I can be poor; I can be rich; I can be married; I can be single; I can be with; I can be without.
‘I can do all things’: see you want to pick the things that you can do through Christ but Paul gave you a list!
If You order struggle: I can do that
If You order tears: I can do that.
If You order loneliness: I can do that.
If You order pain: I can do that.
If You order the pit house: I can do that.
If You order the palace: I can do that too.
If You order me a lot of friends: I can do that.
If You order isolation: I can do
My God, somebody needs to put in the comments: “I can do it.”
Whatever the devil is threatening you with, tell Him “I can do it.”
All hell might be breaking loose in your life, but tell Him, “I can do it through Christ which strengthens me.”
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” – Philippians 4:13
