Some of you want to take their poor circumstances and use them as justification for you doing anything, acting any old way, misbehaving whenever you get good and ready,

and you want to blame it on somebody else.

No, what originally happened is on somebody else.

What you're doing about what happened is on you.

Bad things happen to all of us.

The question is, how will we respond? Hello, and thanks for stopping by for today's Destined for Victory, featuring the preaching ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard. Well, the Bible is full of great stories, real life tales a triumph and tragedy, blessedness and brokenness. And today, Pastor Paul takes you to the book of Genesis to share a well-known but not always well-remembered lesson.

It's not adversity that determines what happens to us.

It's how we handle it.

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The Lord put on my heart to give you this word.

It's a timely word for some of you based on where you are now.

And even if it's not timely based on where you are now,

it's timely for you to hear it and tuck it away because chances are at some point you will find yourself on your road trip of life dealing with unexpected challenges and God has a word for you here in the book of beginnings, the book of

Genesis through the story of a woman named Hagar. Now normally when we look at this

passage, our focus is on Abraham and Sarah. When we look at this section of Genesis, you're

almost always talking about God's word to a man named Abram, that he was going to use him to be the father of many nations

and through him all the nations of the world would be blessed and we're typically looking at that

sometimes we're looking at the journey that he and Sarah took before they got their act together and saw the promises of God fulfilled

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