Got Problems?

Promises cause problems, which God uses to give provision. Consider Moses and the children of Israel fleeing from Pharaoh and brutal slavery. They had been delivered from 400 years of slavery by ten plagues that crushed Egypt, the most powerful nation on the face of the earth at that time. They were led by the cloud by day and the fire by night. I emphasis that for people who say, "God would never lead you into a problem". The children of Israel had to follow the cloud by day and the fire by night because that was God's heating and air conditioning system. They were taken by the hand of God to a position where the Red Sea was before them and nothing but the desert was behind them. This was God's faith seminar. Tactically, it was a trap. The Red Sea was in front of them. Pharaoh and his army was behind them. They were in an impossible situation. Have you ever been there?

God gave Israel and you three options: surrender to the crisis, fight the undefeatable foe, or trust in God to deliver you from the enemies that present themselves, and to wipe them out. Those are the three options. Moses gave Israel and the believers in the 21st century that formula for victory. You will see your enemies no more. When God takes care of your enemies, they are gone forever. There are people here today, who, like the children of Israel, find themselves in an impossible situation. You have a vicious problem for which you have no answer.

God's formula is this: do not be afraid. Stand still. Do your duty. Trust God for a miracle answer. Our God is a Waymaker. Our God is a chain breaker. Our God is the sea walker. Our God is the blind-man healer. He is Almighty. He is all powerful. He is all knowing. He is the king of all kings, and he is the Lord of all Lords. He extends, today, the royal invitation to you: "Call upon Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you know not". He's higher than the highest. He's greater than the greatest. He's stronger than the strongest. Our God is an awesome God! Give Him praise where you are today! The fact: how we conduct our self in the problem will determine how long we stay in the problem. Is it permanent or short lived?

We have a problem, America. We have a problem. The provision is get off the couch and go vote for candidates who are for America and against socialism. Vote the Bible. Vote the Bible. Vote the Bible. Send career politicians home forever. They caused this problem: they are not part of the solution. Now let's talk about solving the problem. How many of you here have ever had a problem? Some of you don't. God love you. Some of you have a problem right now. But I assure you, you're headed for one. I repeat, "How you react in the problem determines how long you're going to stay in the problem". Your life will be measured by the problems you solve or the problems you create.

Continue the concept: how you see the problem IS the problem. A son came home from college wearing the latest clothes. His father met him on the front porch, and said, "Son, you look like a fool in those clothes". At that exact moment, Miss Jones, the neighbor, was walking by, and she said, "Hi, Joe. It's good to see you. You're looking more like your father every day". Joe said, "Yes, my dad was just telling me that". Point: the father thought he looked like a fool: the son looked like he was in style.

There are two points of view. Listen. You might want to write this down in your Bible. People can be different from you without being wrong. Whoa! Isn't that a radical statement? How many of you know people that they just have to be right about everything all the time? Hmm. I'll repeat, "How you see the problem IS the problem". A newspaper carried the story of two young men who were engaged. (Now when I say two men were engaged, I don't mean to each other. Don't misunderstand me. Both of them were engaged to their girlfriends. Just making sure you don't misread that statement.) Both of them got jilted. One of the young men faced the problem this way: he went out and jumped off a bridge and drowned himself. The other one wrote one of those Willie Nelson "Someone did someone wrong" kind of songs. He received $500.000 in royalty. And, friends, with $500.000, you can forget anybody.

Now let's talk about "How to conduct yourself in the problem determines how long you stay in the problem". Here's proof. The children of Israel had the problem of the wilderness. They were there for 40 years. Why? Because they were full of rebellion. Every time Moses gave them a law, they murmured, they complained. And God himself called them "A stiff-necked people". That means stubborn. God didn't sit in heaven wringing his hands and drinking Maalox, and drinking Maalox, saying, "Oh, they're not obeying me". His response was, "Take another lap around mount Sinai". They got back and they went to Moses, "We hate this manna". You see, their mind is still not with the program. "We hate this manna. I know your wife has put out a cookbook manual, "101 Ways to Fix Manna". We don't like manna". "Around the mountain you go one more time, one more time".