I'm coming to you now from the basin. This is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for you to break it down a little more.

Take it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know. Let's go.

You know, many times in our life, even when things don't go the way we wanted them to, or when things happen in a really horrible way, I've noticed a lot of people still find a way through that to rejoice, to redeem the situation.

And to show God's glory in it, and that always inspires me. I have three people that come to my mind every single time I mention that, who I've witnessed in my life that found a way that when the healing didn't come or the protection wasn't there, and the worst thing happened, these three people that I think about moved forward.

And they moved forward with morning broken hearts, never quite the same again. But when I say with God, there's always a way. That's what I mean. I don't mean there's always a way to avoid suffering because Jesus went on a road that we call viadolorosa, the way of suffering to the cross.

And he prayed if there is any other way father let this cup pass from me nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. So Jesus himself shows us that the way the truth in the life he shows us the one who is the way shows us that the way to our salvation was through his cross.

So we're not saying with God, there's always a way around suffering, but there is always a way through whatever God leads you through gate, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me.

So the second confession that came to me the other day and I love things I can get in my heart and even say out loud and write down if they have meaning to me, I'm looking for things that kind of helped me get my faith stirred up, helped me get my focus on God, helped me get my horizons broadened so I don't just live in my own head.

But the second thing God gave me when I was thinking about going to preach is God is not out to get me. He is in it with me working through me fighting for me.

And I thought about that as it relates to preaching and ministering. I think for many years I had a very subtle and buried fear that I didn't even know was there that somehow in the process of preaching that I was going to screw it up and almost not that God wanted me to, but almost that I was doomed to.

And I wouldn't have said, man, God is out to get me. I think what I would have thought though was, man, I'm not perfect. I'm not worthy to preach this message.

And even though I don't have this list of things that are in my life where I'm just trying to be a hypocrite, yes, struggle with things and I wrestle with things just like all of you do.

But standing up, I'm not saying that I'm perfect, but man, I'd have probably deserved to preach this. And since I don't deserve it and since I don't know all this Greek and Hebrew and I probably could have studied more or learn more, I could be living this out more, you know, or there's not enough examples of historical Christian figures in this sermon.

And it's too modern or it's not modern enough. It's, you know, all these reasons why I think my, either my life or my knowledge disqualifies me almost thought of it like God didn't want to bless my message.

You know, I didn't always feel this way, but a lot of times I would. And kind of waiting for, waiting for God to pull the rug out from under me or waiting for you ever seen like a trail.

A trap door open and somebody just fall down. And that's what I mean by God out to get me in preaching and in life, you know, I think one of one of the artists that I listened to a few years ago said, is God playing the joke on me like he was talking about having success and wondering is God playing a joke on me.

Sounds weird to talk about God that way, but almost feel like God is looking for a reason to take, take things away. God is looking for a reason to send things into chaos in our life.

And I understand there's a lot of scriptural passages where we see God dealing with his people in a way that seems harsh to us and, you know, just from a literal interpretation, it is harsh.

We do have now in the model of Jesus and in the life of Jesus and the reality of Jesus, the assurance that God is looking for a way to love us.

Now, I want you to look that sink in. God is looking for a way to love me. And will I let him in because he's looking for ways to love me.

He's looking for ways to use me. He's looking for ways to encourage me, strengthen me, build me up, help me, not always the way that I tell him he should. Don't get me wrong about that.

But God is always looking for a way to show his love to me and through me.

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