BRICK WALLS

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (MSG)

1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

 

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” ― Randy Pausch

In times of crisis or when under pressure we want change don’t we?  When under the gun or facing a big consequence we make promises to GOD and others. “Get me out of this and I will fix it.” “This is the last time”, we say.

We agree to do “anything” and everything.

Yet when the smoke clears and the pressure eases, many of us forget the “commitments” that were made and the “promises” that were promised.

Or maybe those commitments suddenly become more challenging or more than we bargained for and we start making excuses.

I like this little quote I opened with.

"The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” 

Day after day I work with folks in crisis.  Jail may be looming. Homelessness coming. Yet when the “brick walls” need scaling to overcome the crisis and consequence, often instead of pressing through or over them, many folks choose to quit, to make excuses, to play the victim rather than seeing the wall as a challenge to overcome!

Remember Jesus said there would be challenges.  Jesus said there would be brick walls.

John 16:33

In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration

But Jesus promises later in that same passage for us to BE OF GOOD CHEER for He has overcome them! 

Never forget, Jesus knows the brick walls you are facing.  In fact He may have allowed them to be built.  He wants you to trust Him to help you over them and through them.  He wants to see how badly you want it.

Matthew 17:20

…if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.

They are there to refine and define you!

Romans 5:3-5

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character 

produces hope…

Far too many times in life we allow the BRICK WALLS to dictate to us rather than trusting the truth that says NO WALL is big enough to keep us from what GOD has destined for us.

The question is how badly do you want to overcome?

The question is how much faith, trust and hope are you bringing to the wall?

Are you staring at a brick wall today?  Was there a time recently when crisis hit and you were willing to do anything to change the circumstance?

Don’t lose that desperation.  If walls need to be scaled then scale them!

GOD WILL HELP!

Matthew 19:26 (AMP)

26 But Jesus looked at them and said, With men this is impossible, but all things are possible with God.

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

― Thomas Edison

Have a blessed weekend!

I love you all

Freedom Church

 

Pastor GDelaney