Struggles

“Look at our community, our nation, our families. We can ask ourselves these questions. Do we struggle today? Do we struggle? I mean, have you struggled with something in the past week in your life? An emotion, a frustration, a relationship matter, a financial issue? I mean, have you struggled? Anybody in here struggling? Do we struggle? My goodness, you're a bunch of holy people.”

“i want to talk about the struggle the struggle of living in the default mode because the struggle is a big part of what happens and when we face this struggle we have to understand that that it is a struggle. It's not a natural thing to begin to confront and to change the default modes that are so often present in our lives. So many of us, as I've already mentioned, have adopted patterns of behavioral recidivism, where we keep repeating the same faults and failures, and we continue to act”

“And we are fighting with the temptation, but I'm afraid a lot of times we've mixed up fighting with temptation and just giving in to sin. We say, you know what, I'm struggling with this. I'm struggling with lust. So you're struggling with it? No, I'm just doing it every day. Well, it's not a struggle with temptation. You're just living in sin. A lot of times we call living in sin a struggle when it's really we've just given up. And so what I want us to do today is first start out by defining temptation”

“Dad saw what I needed to do to be the man that I am today. And I'm incredibly grateful for that. I'm incredibly grateful that all along the way, even as I struggled, I struggled with being different. I struggled with this whole armless thing. I struggled with how people treated me and how people look at me. And in this day and age, you know, it's like I struggle even now with, you know, go out to Valentine's Day with my wife.”

“Basically, these two are struggling now and they're gonna struggle forever. And from the very beginning, Jacob's life is marked to be a life of struggle, a life of struggle. When he's born in Genesis 25, chapter verse 26, he comes out grabbing the heel of his brother Esau, Already showing that he is constantly striving for his position. Remember, God has promised him the older will serve the younger. Jacob, from the very beginning, is striving to pull God's plan at his timing.”

“experience and can and can understand a bit more what Paul is describing in verse 29 when he says, "For this I toil, struggling with all of his energy, Christ energy, that he powerfully works within me." I might be struggling. Paul was struggling, but he was struggling with the energy of the living God inside of”

“is that sometimes you know it's kind of like if you got sometimes we can grab on things that we should have no business grabbing it's like being in a water and you're drowning so we feel like this barren land it's kind of like drowning in a pool or not drowning drowning means you're dead but like you get what I'm saying like you're struggling You're on a struggle bus, ocean, lake, pool, wherever it could be. And when you're struggling, because you're in this season, you're struggling,”

“God is sort of painting across human history. And in a moment, so often, we can see and hear God clearly, and then in the next, struggle. Struggle with what he says, struggle with if he cares, struggle with if he is still moving and can move on our behalf. Every single one of us know this”