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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about designed to withstand.
Speaker 4: There are times in life we can feel overwhelmed, like
Speaker 4: the pressure's too much, we go through a loss, we're
Speaker 4: dealing with an illness, or we're not being treated right.
Speaker 4: A lady told me how things had come against her
Speaker 4: at work and looked like she was going to lose
Speaker 4: her position. She said, I can't take it anymore. The worry,
Speaker 4: the stress, the demands is too much to handle. She
Speaker 4: felt like she was going to collapse under that weight,
Speaker 4: like it was unbearable. But Paul said in First Corinthians,
Speaker 4: God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted
Speaker 4: with more than you can bear, but with the temptation
Speaker 4: will make a way of escape so you can bear it.
Speaker 4: Paul was saying God will not let you face more
Speaker 4: pressure than you can handle. He won't let more weight
Speaker 4: come on you that you don't have the strength to bear.
Speaker 4: When an architect designs a building, a big skyscraper, he
Speaker 4: doesn't just design the outside, what it's going to look like,
Speaker 4: the color, the size, the shape. That's important, but it's
Speaker 4: of no use if he doesn't design the inner structure.
Speaker 4: He calculates all the loads, how much each floor will weigh,
Speaker 4: how much wind it will face, how much equipment will
Speaker 4: be on it, then he'll know how big the still
Speaker 4: beams should be, and how deep the piers in the ground,
Speaker 4: how thick the foundation. In California, where they can have earthquakes,
Speaker 4: you have to put special reinforcements in the framing, more
Speaker 4: than we do here in Florida. The glass has to
Speaker 4: withstand hurricane force winds. I was at a hotel in
Speaker 4: Colorado during the summer. I notice on the slope roof
Speaker 4: all these cables and wires. I didn't know what it was.
Speaker 4: I asked the man. He said, those are heaters to
Speaker 4: melt the snow. He explained that if you don't keep
Speaker 4: the snow off, it can pile up, and that weight
Speaker 4: can cause the roof to collapse. The architect specifically designs
Speaker 4: each structure so it can withstand the pressure, so it
Speaker 4: can bear the weight. The good news is your architect
Speaker 4: is the most high god. He not only designed solar
Speaker 4: systems and mountain ranges, but he designed you. When he
Speaker 4: laid out the plan for your life, he calculated everything
Speaker 4: you would face, all the pressure, all the weight, all
Speaker 4: the winds. He took into account every hurt, every loss,
Speaker 4: every injustice, every mistake, and he designed your beams big
Speaker 4: enough your foundation thick enough. He put in you the determination,
Speaker 4: the courage, the stamina that no matter what comes against you,
Speaker 4: it will not be too much to bear. You've been
Speaker 4: designed to withstand the storms, designed to outlast the opposition,
Speaker 4: designed to endure until the dream comes to pass. God
Speaker 4: wouldn't be just if he knew we were going to
Speaker 4: face one hundred and twenty mile an hour winds. But
Speaker 4: he only designed us for eighty mile and hour winds.
Speaker 4: That wouldn't even pass code. You couldn't get that designed
Speaker 4: through city planning. How much more has God put in
Speaker 4: you exactly what you need? You may not be able
Speaker 4: to see it, but your walls are strong enough, your
Speaker 4: foundation is deep enough you can bear whatever comes your way.
Speaker 4: God didn't miscalculate when he designs you. He didn't forget
Speaker 4: about what environment you'd be in, what conditions you would face.
Speaker 4: He didn't accidentally leave out a beam. Now you can't
Speaker 4: handle the weight. Nothing you face will cause you to
Speaker 4: collapse under the weight. Now, thoughts may tell you it's
Speaker 4: too much, you can't handle it. You need to remind yourself.
Speaker 4: I've been designed to withstand. I have what it takes.
Speaker 4: I am determined enough I'm strong enough, I'm bold enough,
Speaker 4: I am well able Now. An architect doesn't wait till
Speaker 4: the pressure comes to see what kind of beams to
Speaker 4: put in. He doesn't wait till the middle of the
Speaker 4: storm to check the force of the winds to see
Speaker 4: how much resistance to decide what kind of structure to build.
Speaker 4: It's all calculated ahead of time. It's designed before one
Speaker 4: concrete truck shows up, before one hammer is lifted. The
Speaker 4: specs are studied, calculated, and approved before construction ever begins.
Speaker 4: In the same way, before you were formed in your
Speaker 4: mother's womb, your specs were carefully designed. Everything was strategically
Speaker 4: and precisely put in you for what you're going to
Speaker 4: need when you face big challenges. That means you have
Speaker 4: big beams, you have strong infrastructure. You don't really know
Speaker 4: what's in you until you get some weight on you.
Speaker 4: You don't know what you can handle until the pressure comes.
Speaker 4: And when something happens that we've never faced, a loss,
Speaker 4: a disappointment, a set back. It's easy to think I
Speaker 4: can't handle this, it's going to sink me. The truth
Speaker 4: is you wouldn't be facing it unless you could handle it.
Speaker 4: If it was too much to bear. God wouldn't have
Speaker 4: allowed it. The very fact that it happened is a
Speaker 4: sign that you are well able. Now. You may have
Speaker 4: never put that kind of pressure on your beams, the
Speaker 4: glass walls of your building, so to speak, may have
Speaker 4: never experienced winds so strong. That's why you're tempted to
Speaker 4: feel overwhelmed. You don't realize the structure has been designed for.
Speaker 4: That pressure. Wasn't a surprise to your architect. He knew
Speaker 4: ahead of time. That's why he made the glass so strong.
Speaker 4: He took into account wins that you never knew you
Speaker 4: would encounter. Nothing you face will cause you to collapse.
Speaker 4: You've been designed to withstand. Now you can collapse in
Speaker 4: your mind, in your thinking. You can give in and think, oh,
Speaker 4: this is too much. I'm overwhelmed. I can't handle it.
Speaker 4: That's why the scripture tells us, don't faint in your mind.
Speaker 4: Your structure is strong enough. Now, get your mind strong enough.
Speaker 4: Quit telling yourself it's too big. It's been this way
Speaker 4: too long. I can't take it anymore. You are well able.
Speaker 4: No weapon formed against you is going to prosper that
Speaker 4: different dificult. He didn't come to stay. It came to pass.
Speaker 4: But to say we can't handle it is to say
Speaker 4: when God designed me, he miscalculated. He didn't make my
Speaker 4: foundation deep enough. He left out a beam. I can't
Speaker 4: carry this weight. God doesn't make mistakes. The Psalmas said,
Speaker 4: you have been fearfully and wonderfully made. It's not just
Speaker 4: talking about the outside, our looks, our size, our talents.
Speaker 4: That's talking about your specs as well your infrastructure. How
Speaker 4: God designed things that you can't see, how he planned
Speaker 4: ahead of time for challenges and obstacles. Things you would
Speaker 4: think would cause you to collapse. But out of nowhere,
Speaker 4: strength rises up. A courage comes, a faith to overcome,
Speaker 4: a determination to stand strong and outlast the opposition. When
Speaker 4: we acquired this building, it didn't have any rooms for
Speaker 4: chillchildren's and youth facilities. It's a big sports arena. We
Speaker 4: needed some classrooms, so we built a five story building
Speaker 4: on the end that connects through the lobbies. It's our
Speaker 4: family life center. We told the architects, one day, we're
Speaker 4: going to want to add five more stories. We're going
Speaker 4: to need to expand, so they designed the foundation, the peers,
Speaker 4: the underground to accommodate ten stories. But when you see
Speaker 4: the building. What you see as a five story building.
Speaker 4: Unless you have the plans, unless you have the specs,
Speaker 4: you don't realize it's designed for ten stories. People driving
Speaker 4: down the freeway think the building's finished, it's peaked, that's
Speaker 4: as tall as it will ever be. They don't know
Speaker 4: what's underground. What enables it to go higher is the
Speaker 4: way that the beams can handle the thickness of the foundation.
Speaker 4: In the same way, you may think you've reached your limits,
Speaker 4: you've been at that same level a long time. Can
Speaker 4: I encourage you? You have more floors in you. You've
Speaker 4: handled this much pressure, fine, You've gotten comfortable carrying this
Speaker 4: much weight. It's no problem. But if you could look
Speaker 4: at your specs, if you could see the plans God
Speaker 4: has for you, you would notice your beings are much
Speaker 4: bigger than what you're carrying right now. You could think
Speaker 4: God over designs you. He put things in you that
Speaker 4: you don't need. No, He's coming. God has new levels,
Speaker 4: and with that increase comes more weight. You're going to
Speaker 4: have more pressure. Now. I don't mean pressure in a
Speaker 4: bad sense. This is pressure that makes you stretch, makes
Speaker 4: you grow, makes you release your faith, believe bigger and
Speaker 4: take on new challenges, not just difficulties, but positive pressure
Speaker 4: where you discover you can handle things that you never
Speaker 4: thought you could handle. For seventeen years I worked behind
Speaker 4: the scenes here at Lakewood doing the television production. In
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety nine, when my father went to be with
Speaker 4: the Lord, I knew I was supposed to step up
Speaker 4: and pasture the church, but I didn't know how it
Speaker 4: was going to work out. I had never faced that
Speaker 4: much pressure, not only having to get up in front
Speaker 4: of people, thoughts telling me I wasn't qualified, nobody was
Speaker 4: going to listen, but losing my father was very traumatic.
Speaker 4: I had worked with him every day for years. We
Speaker 4: had traveled the world together, and now he was gone.
Speaker 4: I should have been overwhelmed. The pressure should have caused
Speaker 4: me to shrink back and be discouraged. But in the
Speaker 4: midst of that turmoil, I felt a strength that I
Speaker 4: had never felt, A determination, a resilience, a confidence that
Speaker 4: didn't make sense to my mind. When I stepped up
Speaker 4: to minister. Yes, I was nervous, I was afraid, but
Speaker 4: down deep, I believe that I could do it. I
Speaker 4: believed I had what it tanks. There was a boldness
Speaker 4: that I had never experienced. I realize now that wasn't
Speaker 4: just me being strong. I had been designed for this.
Speaker 4: I was designed to withstand the pressure. I was designed
Speaker 4: to overcome the loss. I discovered My beams were big enough,
Speaker 4: my foundation was strong enough that this didn't catch God
Speaker 4: off guard? What am I saying? You've been designed for
Speaker 4: everything you're go into face. When you come into things
Speaker 4: that seemed too hard, too big, too unfair, things that
Speaker 4: should cause you to collapse, don't worry. God knew they
Speaker 4: were coming. He already made your beams big enough. You
Speaker 4: will be able to bear it. Now. It may be uncomfortable,
Speaker 4: you may have to stretch, but that pressure is not
Speaker 4: going to stop you. You're going to discover ability that
Speaker 4: you didn't oh you had. Even now. I have some opposition,
Speaker 4: people that don't understand me, but that no more bothers me.
Speaker 4: I never pay any attention to it. For some people,
Speaker 4: that would cause them to be negative, bitter, spiteful, But
Speaker 4: God's given me the grace to handle it. The pressure
Speaker 4: that would cause some people to collapse doesn't affect me.
Speaker 4: Whatever is in your future, you have the grace to
Speaker 4: handle it. Nothing you face will be beyond what you've
Speaker 4: been designed for. But if you would have told me
Speaker 4: back in my twenties, when I was behind the scenes,
Speaker 4: that one day I would be up here in front
Speaker 4: of you every week and have to have something to say,
Speaker 4: and we would own the Compact Center, and I'd be
Speaker 4: responsible to raise the funds, I'd say, there's no way
Speaker 4: I can't carry that much weight. It's because I couldn't
Speaker 4: see the infrastructure. I'd never been put under that kind
Speaker 4: of pressure. But when when it comes, like with me,
Speaker 4: you'll discover your beams are in place, your foundation is
Speaker 4: strong enough, your steel is big enough. Now the key
Speaker 4: is don't lose the battle in your mind. Your mind
Speaker 4: will tell you your five stories when you're designed for ten stories.
Speaker 4: Your mind will say it's too much. Shrink back, it's
Speaker 4: not fair, it's never going to work out. I might
Speaker 4: believe you if your architect live down the street, you
Speaker 4: might convince me. If your architect work for a firm downtown,
Speaker 4: he could make a mistake. But can I remind you
Speaker 4: your architect is the god who spoke worlds into existence.
Speaker 4: He doesn't miscalculate. You will never face a situation that
Speaker 4: you're not designed for. You will never face pressure that
Speaker 4: has to cause you to collapse. A problem that's too big,
Speaker 4: a dream where you can't care the weight. And when
Speaker 4: I look back over my life at the critical points
Speaker 4: where I could have been overwhelmed, my mom being diagnosed
Speaker 4: with terminal cancer, the death of my father, the lawsuit
Speaker 4: with the Compact Center, every time it was uncomfortable, I
Speaker 4: could have been discouraged and given up. But I discovered
Speaker 4: not that the pressure went away, but that I could
Speaker 4: handle more pressure. I discovered I was designed to carry
Speaker 4: more weight. And if you don't face the pressure, you'll
Speaker 4: never know who you really are. The higher you go,
Speaker 4: the more pressure there will be. The good news is
Speaker 4: you have the beams to handle it. At some point
Speaker 4: that pressure will subside and you'll see you're stronger than
Speaker 4: you think. Some of the things that overwhelmed you ten
Speaker 4: years ago, you can look back now and say, like me,
Speaker 4: it's no big deal. That trouble at work that almost
Speaker 4: gave you a nervous breakdown, but you came through it.
Speaker 4: Now things like that don't bother you anymore. It's not
Speaker 4: so much that God changed the circumstances. It's that God
Speaker 4: changed you. He showed you who you really are. You
Speaker 4: thought you'd always be at five stories. You better get ready.
Speaker 4: There's a skyscraper in you. There are new levels, new
Speaker 4: mountains to climb, new giants to conquers, new skills to learn.
Speaker 4: With the new comes more opposition, more weight, more pressure.
Speaker 4: Don't let it overwhelm you. Let it inspire you. That
Speaker 4: means God's about to add another floor. He's about to
Speaker 4: take you higher. Well, Joel, I didn't have a good childhood.
Speaker 4: Nobody was there to encourage me to cheer me on.
Speaker 4: That wasn't fair. But you have the beams to handle it.
Speaker 4: You have the infrastructure to rise above it. That didn't
Speaker 4: stop your future. Well, I came down with this illness.
Speaker 4: That's why I'm overwhelmed. Isaiah said, take hold of God's strength.
Speaker 4: It will be overwhelming if you don't remind yourself that
Speaker 4: it's not a surprise to God. He wouldn't have allowed
Speaker 4: it if you couldn't bear it. Since he did allow it,
Speaker 4: that means you are well able now all through the day.
Speaker 4: You need to take hold of his strength. Father, Thank
Speaker 4: you that I am strong in the Lord. Thank you
Speaker 4: that you are fighting my battles. Thank you that you
Speaker 4: being for me is more than the world being against me,
Speaker 4: the apostle. Paul faced all kinds of unfair situations. Three times.
Speaker 4: He was beaten with rods, he was put in prison
Speaker 4: without a trial, He was shipwrecked, spent the night on
Speaker 4: the open sea, bitten by a poisonous snake. He could
Speaker 4: have collapsed under all the pressure, lived overwhelmed. Yet he's
Speaker 4: the one that said, thanks be to God, who always
Speaker 4: causes us to trial. He knew God won't let us
Speaker 4: face things that we can't handle. If you'll stay in faith,
Speaker 4: you'll discover, like Paul, you've been designed to withstand the
Speaker 4: pressure that the enemy didn't somehow come up with the
Speaker 4: scheme to outwit the God who created you. He can't
Speaker 4: send a storm so powerful to knock your walls down.
Speaker 4: He can't put so much weight on you that your
Speaker 4: beams can't hold up. Paul said, we are pressed on
Speaker 4: every side, but we are not crushed. He was saying,
Speaker 4: in effect, we've been designed to withstand the difficulty. Our
Speaker 4: architect took into account all the trouble, the wind, the
Speaker 4: bad break, and he's put in you the courage, the stamina,
Speaker 4: the endurance to withstand. As a young man, David was
Speaker 4: anointed to be the next king of Israel. But he
Speaker 4: didn't go to the palace. He went back to the
Speaker 4: shepherd's fields and took care of his father's sheep for years.
Speaker 4: I'm sure thoughts told him, David, you're never going to
Speaker 4: be the king. You're stuck out here. Nobody pays attention
Speaker 4: to you. He could have been discouraged, but he kept
Speaker 4: doing the right thing. He eventually defeated Goliath. He went
Speaker 4: to the palace to serve King Saul. David was good
Speaker 4: to Saul, faithful, loyal, but Saul was jealous of David.
Speaker 4: He could see the favor on his life, and while
Speaker 4: David was playing the heart for Saul, trying to make
Speaker 4: him feel better, out of nowhere, Saul threw a spear
Speaker 4: across the room, barely missed David. He had to take off,
Speaker 4: running for his life. He spent months in the desert,
Speaker 4: hiding in caves, living on the run, with Saul constantly
Speaker 4: on his trail. David thought it was difficult those years
Speaker 4: in the lonely shepherd's fields, but he had never faced
Speaker 4: this kind of pressure, the king trying to kill him.
Speaker 4: He could have been overwhelmed, given up, faded into the
Speaker 4: sunset but David understood this principle. His attitude was, I've
Speaker 4: been designed to overcome this injustice. I know God wouldn't
Speaker 4: have allowed it if I couldn't handle it. On the
Speaker 4: way to your destiny, there will be opposition, things that
Speaker 4: are not fair, people that should be for you but
Speaker 4: turn against you. You have to remind yourself you've been
Speaker 4: designed for it. You're not going to collapse under that weight.
Speaker 4: Your beams are big enough. You don't have to live bitter.
Speaker 4: You don't have to get revenge. You can forgive, you
Speaker 4: can stay on the high road. May not have been fair,
Speaker 4: but like with David, you've been designed to overcome the injustice.
Speaker 4: You've been designed to outlast the opposition. If David would
Speaker 4: to complain about the Shepherd's fields, let King Saul overwhelm him,
Speaker 4: we wouldn't be talking about him. He knew God would
Speaker 4: never let him face more than he could bear. He
Speaker 4: didn't like it. It was uncomfortable, but he didn't let
Speaker 4: the pressure cause him to lose focus and miss his destiny.
Speaker 4: We all have these times where we can be overwhelmed.
Speaker 4: But the reason you have big opposition is because you
Speaker 4: have a big destiny. The good news is. God took
Speaker 4: that all into account when he designed your infrastructure. He
Speaker 4: didn't give you a big future with weak walls, little beings,
Speaker 4: small foundation. You are stronger than you think. You have
Speaker 4: more stamina, more endurance, more grace, more forgiveness. Those challenges
Speaker 4: are a sign that new floors are coming. God is
Speaker 4: about to take you higher, to show you new levels
Speaker 4: of increase in favor. Now, don't complain about the difficulties.
Speaker 4: That's when you discover what's in you. David discovered courage, perseverance,
Speaker 4: faith like he had never seen. If you'll keep the
Speaker 4: right attitude that pressure, instead of breaking you, it will
Speaker 4: develop you. You'll grow and mature so you can take
Speaker 4: your throne. Now. You may be in a time of testing.
Speaker 4: Now you feel like the weight is too much to bear.
Speaker 4: People at work aren't treating you right. That situation with
Speaker 4: your child has you overwhelmed. Have a new perspective. God
Speaker 4: is saying you've been designed to withstand. Now you have
Speaker 4: to do your part and take hold of His strength.
Speaker 4: Instead of thinking all day about how difficult it is.
Speaker 4: Turn it around. I can do all things through Christ.
Speaker 4: I've been armed with strength for this battle. I may
Speaker 4: walk through the valley of the shadow of Death. But
Speaker 4: I know a secret. I'm day in here. This valley
Speaker 4: is not my home. I'm coming out better, stronger, victorious,
Speaker 4: into new levels of my destiny. A friend of mine
Speaker 4: came to see this building a few years ago. He's
Speaker 4: an engineer. I took him through the lobbies and into
Speaker 4: the auditorium, and I brought him here on the platform.
Speaker 4: Showed him the lights, the sound system, the screams, the
Speaker 4: things that are impressive to me. He liked it. But
Speaker 4: then he asked me something that no one has ever asked.
Speaker 4: He said, can I see the mechanical rooms? I said
Speaker 4: the what he said, the mechanical areas, the power plant,
Speaker 4: the heating and cooling system, the chilled water pipes. I
Speaker 4: didn't even know where they were. I had to get
Speaker 4: my brother in law, Keaven. He took us to areas
Speaker 4: of this building that I've never seen, huge rooms filled
Speaker 4: with equipment, generators, pumps, electrical panels. He showed us big
Speaker 4: beams that allow this building to spend over one hundred
Speaker 4: yards without a column. My friend couldn't believe it. He
Speaker 4: stood there in awe. Well. I left that day with
Speaker 4: the new appreciation for this building. It has all kinds
Speaker 4: of things behind the scenes, things we can't see, design
Speaker 4: and infrastructure that make what we can see so amazing.
Speaker 4: In the same way, God has put incredible things in
Speaker 4: you that you can't see. You have beams that can
Speaker 4: take you much further than you are right now. You
Speaker 4: have infrastructure to take you to higher levels, to add
Speaker 4: new floors. God didn't design you to reach a certain
Speaker 4: level and stay there. You may be at five stories.
Speaker 4: Now you're blessed. God's been good to you. What you
Speaker 4: can't see is you have a ten story foundation. Where
Speaker 4: you are is not your final destination. He not only
Speaker 4: designed you to increase, but to withstand the storms. As
Speaker 4: you take new ground, there will be new obstacles, the
Speaker 4: greater the opportunity, the greater the opposition. In religious terms,
Speaker 4: new levels, new devils. Well, whatever you face, remind yourself
Speaker 4: you can handle it, not necessarily because you're so great,
Speaker 4: but because your architect, the most High God, has designed
Speaker 4: you with everything that you need. You will never face
Speaker 4: a situation that you cannot bear. Now, when you're tempted
Speaker 4: to think I'm overwhelmed, I can't handle this. If you
Speaker 4: could only see your mechanical room, if you only knew
Speaker 4: what God put in you, you would realize you can't
Speaker 4: handle it. You've been designed to withstand. I believe and
Speaker 4: declare strength is coming into you in a new way.
Speaker 4: Courage is rising up. You will withstand every storm, outlast
Speaker 4: every attack, overcome every obstacle, and become everything God's created
Speaker 4: you to be in Jesus' name. And if you receive it,
Speaker 4: can you say it? Men? Today, I'd like to give
Speaker 4: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.
Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll
Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I'll make
Speaker 4: you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer,
Speaker 4: we believe you got born again. Get in a good
Speaker 4: Bible based church, and keep God first place.
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