Let me tell you something. The reason you have faith is because you're going to have trouble.

You don't need faith if you don't have any challenges, no winds blowing against your life.

I don't need faith. I can put it on cruise if I got no trouble.

Faith is built for tough times.

We may praise God when all is well, but do we trust him when all seems lost?

Hello and welcome to another great day here on Destined for Victory with Pastor Paul Shepard.

You know, many of the key figures in God's word, Moses, Abraham, Rehab, were not praised by God for their behavior, but for their faith, a faith that shone most brightly during

the darkest of times.

We're headed to the Book of Ruth today, so open up your Bible if you can, and follow along

with Pastor Paul for the next 20 minutes or so.

Remember to come see us at Pastor Paul.net, where you can listen to any of our recent messages on demand, including today's.

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Now, with today's Destin for Victory Message, getting bitter or getting better, here is

Pastor Paul.

God can take stuff that shouldn't happen to you.

When people abuse you and mistreat you, that shouldn't happen to you because mistreatment

is never God's plan.

But the amazing thing about the God we serve is he is so God he'll take what should not have happened

and work it so well until it looks like it was part of the original design and we got to get

that straight that's why people are always trying to figure out is God in this and now let's see was

God in that every time a disaster happened now was that God punishing us back when 9-11

happened that's what everybody was that God and then some preachers on the TV all over that

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