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We're in, I mean, you'd have to be, I don't know, brain dead or spent the last eight months on another planet to not realize that we are in the most unique, interesting times of our lifetime for sure.

There have been, as we look at history, there have been crazy times.

So at history where the have been crazy times so at history

where the church faced incredible difficulties, challenges,

where mankind faced horrible, horrible circumstances.

And so we're not the first generation.

I don't wanna throw a pity party.

We actually have it quite good by comparison

to other times and seasons. But we do have

our hands full, so to speak, as we face the dilemmas that are before us. And here's what I want to

talk to you about today. When the Lord allows a challenge to come our way. The challenge is to reveal need and invite us into

breakthrough. Whenever the Lord brings a challenge, maybe it's a financial thing, could be a health

issue like this pandemic, it could be any number of things. The Lord is

exposing a need in me. If I turn to fear, he's not shaming me. If I turn to insecurity or panic or

whatever it might, he's not shaming me. He's just bringing to the surface where I have built

wrong security. Insecurity is wrong security exposed.

And he brings it to the surface, not to shame me,

but to bring it out in the open so I can deal with it

and move into divine solution, move into God's answer.

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