God allows crises so that he can demonstrate he alone is God.

Dr Tony Evans says even though we may not like hard times we need them.

In a crisis you need to see the living God,

and you need an experience with that God.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

When our circumstances turn sour, we can't wait for them to change. That's only natural.

Well, today Dr Evans talks about an unnatural way to think of a crisis and the benefits it'll bring to your relationship with the

Lord. Let's join him. 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 Second Chronicles chapter 20 with King Jehossafat.

Jehassafat is in a crisis. He is now being overwhelmed.

The statement is that a great multitude is coming against you.

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

When everywhere you look, there is a problem.

It's one thing after another.

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 Jahassafat felt because verse 3 says Jehassafat was afraid.

A crisis burst fear.

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