Why Do We Go Through Troubles?

This message from the Word of God is relevant to every person in this assembly and the millions around the world. How many of you've ever been in trouble? I will tell you this is the sermon for the day. Going out to meet trouble is life's shortest walk. If you're not in trouble today, you're headed for trouble. If you're in a day of trouble, this message is for you. Let's read Psalm 50:15, David writes: "Call upon Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me".

Father God, let us hear the Word of God today, and call upon you in a day of trouble, and experience the joy of your victorious deliverance from every form of trouble. And all of God's children said, praise the Lord.

Trouble, it's the gateway to discovering the power of God. Listen. God Himself cannot deliver the man or woman who is not in trouble. God cannot show you His power until you get in real trouble. You will never know God in all of His glory until you get in real trouble. How many of you've ever been in real trouble? How can you know God is a healer without having been in a battle with sickness or disease? How can you know that God is a provider without ever having been in need? How can you know that God is a friend that sticks closer than a brother without having been lonely, rejected, or cast aside by those who said they loved you? How can you know that God is the healer of broken hearts without sobbing in some personal Gethsemane, when God seems so silent, the night seems so long and so hopelessly dark? How can you know God is a deliverer until you have seen Him come to your aid and raise up a barrier against those who were accusing you, and crushed the opposition, trying to destroy you?

That's the kind of God you serve. I repeat, "Are you in trouble"? That's wonderful. It's absolutely thrilling. You're in a beautiful position to discover the God of the Bible. You can discover the power of God, because He's a God who answers prayer. You can discover the God that heals the broken hearted and heals the sick and restores shattered dreams. You will discover, in the day of trouble, a God that will lead you and comfort you and be the Shepherd through the valley of the shadow of death. He is the God who gives you victory over your enemies. Let me tell you something. When you really start to do something that counts for God, the devil will line up his troops to knock you off. And on the other side of the line of scrimmage, the Lord of hosts and all of His delegated forces will come quickly to defend you. And He will scatter your enemies like the straw of the summer threshing floor. Let me tell you: I know that to be true. I would not be alive if it were not for the fact that we serve an Almighty, all-sufficient, prayer-answering God!

When you get in trouble, you will discover the God that comes to your rescue. You will discover joy that is unspeakable and full of glory. You will discover the God that gives you hope. The God that gives you the hope that is the anchor of your soul, who opens the gates of heaven to the righteous, you will discover Him only when you come into great trouble. Notice the position. God says, "Call upon Me". As powerful as God is, God cannot answer your prayers until you pray them. I have had people all of my life come to me and explain something that's very complicated and full of problems. And I said, have you prayed about it? No, I was wanting you to do something about it.

Prayer is doing something about it. God is not involved until you pray about it. When you pray about it, it is recorded in Heaven by Jesus Christ, who is your intermediary. And He makes sure that it's recorded in the Chronicles of Heaven. What you bind on earth is bound Heaven, what you loose on earth is loosed in Heaven. And supernatural powers come into play. That's when God begins to answer what you think can't be answered. He starts to control what you think is out of control. He does the impossible. And suddenly the storm clouds are gone, because we serve a prayer-answering God!

So, what I'm saying is prayer should be your first choice, not your last chance. God's proposition is you call, I'll answer. It's that simple. Hear this, when the three Hebrew children were in the fiery furnace, they called upon the Lord, and the fourth Man appeared in the flames. When you get in trouble, God does not send someone, He shows up Himself. Question, if you were the king or the queen of unlimited wealth, and you saw a ragged, hungry, starving child begging in the streets in great need, and you said to that child, here's a royal decree. I want you to call me tomorrow at the palace and I will give you every desire of your heart. And the next day that child came to the palace and presented the royal decree to you with a face of hope and eyes of expectation, wouldn't you help that child? Yes.