You know you're in a crisis when life is overwhelming you.

Dr Tony Evans says the Lord sometimes allows us to hit bottom,

so the only place we can look is up.

The good news is God allows creates and uses crises so that he can

demonstrate he alone is God. This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr Tony Evans.

We often try to blame Satan when we find ourselves facing tough times, but today Dr Evans talks about another explanation and why a crisis may be the best thing that ever happened to us. Let's join him.

Revival is when the reality of God becomes real to the experience of his people,

when God, in a sense, re-enters into your situation of life.

When there was the return of God, it was often in the midst of a crisis a situation that

men could not fix such as the situation that we find in 2 Chronicles chapter 20 with King Jehossafat.

Jehassafat and God's people were being surrounded by the enemy.

They were being surrounded by those who were against them.

You know you're in a crisis when you feel like Jhassafat felt because verse 3 says

Jehassafat was afraid. A crisis bursts fear. It bursts insecurity, trauma, and even terror,

because it looms so large in your life.

There are financial crises.

Crisis can come in health forms when the doctors don't know quite how to fix the problem.

There can be relational crisis and you're overwhelmed by the

inability to fix whatever the nature of the relationship is. Here's when you

really know you're in a crisis.

Verse 12, he says, oh our God, will you not judge them

for we are powerless before this great multitude

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