Sermon Series, The Same God Will Do It Again Part 3 The Same God Still Works In The Dark

PTMC, we’ve walked through Part 1 The Same God Will Do It Again

And Part 2 The Same God Will Do It Again: Trouble’s Don’t Last Always

But today, I want to go a little bit deeper.

Because sometimes the miracle that we are looking for isn’t in the moments that we look for them in.

Sometimes the miracle are in the darkness before the moment.

Somebody shout: He still works in the dark.

Isaiah 45:3 says: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

I haven’t heard many people preach from this scripture, but yet it carries a deep prophetic revelation.

God tells Cyrus, I will give you treasures of darkness.

That means that there are some blessings God intentionally hides, until we reach a certain season.

There are miracles that don’t show up in daylight, on the clarities of our life, they show up when things look unclear.

In other words, there are breakthroughs we don’t find on the mountaintop, but they show up in the midnight hour.

God says He hides things on purpose so we’ll know it was Him, and not our own strength.

Here it is: Some of our darkest seasons are holding some the treasure that is meant to elevate us.

The darkness wasn’t punishment, it was protection.

The hidden place wasn’t abandonment, it was preparation.

Somebody shout: there are treasure in this.

I believe that God does some of his best work when we can’t see what he’s doing.

God created the world in the dark.

Jesus was resurrected in the dark.

Paul and Silas praised Him at midnight.

And there are some of our miracles that start before we ever see them forming.

When we are saying, Lord, I don’t see You in this, God is saying, but I’m still working in it.

When we cry out, Lord, I can’t trace Your hand, God whispers back, but My fingerprints are all over this.

When we say, God, this season doesn’t make any sense,

He answers, that’s because I’m arranging what you can’t comprehend yet.

When our prayer sounds like they hitting the ceiling and we ask the Lord, Lord, where are You? God responds, I’m work the quietest in the moments where I’m doing the most.

When our heart says, God, I feel lost in this darkness, He declares, I do My greatest miracles in places where your eyes can’t see, but I need you trust My sovereignty, trust my supremacy, my authority, trust my divine reign, in other words, trust me and not your sight.

Understand that darkness is not the absence of God, it’s the arena of God.

It is this type of arena of God, where He steps in, shows up, and proves that He is still in control.

Darkness is not where God disappears; it is where God demonstrates. It is the arena where His power becomes undeniable and His presence undeniable, irrefutable, and unmistakable.

We must never mistake darkness for God’s distance. Darkness is the arena of God — the stage upon which He performs His greatest miracles and reveals His deepest glory.

In darkness God is, shaping faith, producing strength, and unveiling purpose.

And I know that we associate darkness with fear, confusion, and loneliness.

But spiritually, darkness is simply a place where God hasn’t revealed the finished product yet.

It’s like a seed in soil.

It’s like a baby in the womb.

It’s like Jesus in the tomb.

And just because we are surrounded by troubles doesn’t mean that we are re forsaken.

What God hides , He intends to reveal.

The scripture says treasures of darkness which means value, purpose, identity, strength, wisdom, are locked up in places we didn’t want to go.

We thought we were losing, but in reality, God was leading.

We thought we were breaking, but God was building.

Some people might think that the darkness means it’s over, but God meant I’m about to unveil something new.

So, when I can’t trace Him, I still can trust Him.

When I can’t feel Him, I must believe that He’s still working.

When it looks dark and dreary, we need to believe that there are some treasure in it.

Because here it is, what God started, He will finish.

If God initiated it, Heaven is obligated to complete it.

What God sets in motion, no force on earth can stop it from reaching completion.

I’m reminded of a story about a sculptor who bought a large, ugly, rough block of granite.

Everyone laughed at him and asked him, why are you spending so much money on something that looks so worthless?

He looked at them and smiled and said, I know that y’all can’t see it, but I bought it because I see what’s inside that stone.