This is a Saddleback Church podcast.

So when it comes to the difficulty phase of a dream, that's page four.

There are internal and external difficulties.

One of the things people will often say if you're in the process of dreaming,

you move into action, you encounter a delay, and then it gets difficulty.

I'm sure you've gotten this question before, almost like somebody saying to you,

well, you shouldn't dream, you shouldn't be doing what you're doing.

They'll say, well, what's God trying to teach you in this?

And one of the lies, I believe the enemy puts into people's minds is that if God gives me a

dream, it should be easy.

And it's like, ask one person in life if that's true.

Yeah.

So I'm sure you've gotten that question before.

It's like, what's God trying to teach you?

But the promise that we don't like to quote as much where Jesus says,

in this world, you will have a travelation.

And so that clarity of difficult marriage, parenting, ministry,

every good thing that ever happens through our lives

encounters difficulty.

Talk about living with the reality, difficulty is going to come.

Right.

And how that produces endurance in this faith.

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