Struggles

“Look at our community, our nation, our families. We can ask ourselves these questions. Do we struggle today? Do we struggle? I mean, have you struggled with something in the past week in your life? An emotion, a frustration, a relationship matter, a financial issue? I mean, have you struggled? Anybody in here struggling? Do we struggle? My goodness, you're a bunch of holy people.”

“And so James talks to us here at the outset about what I would call the struggle of temptation, the struggle of temptation. It's the struggle that we all know, but it's the struggle that is based upon something very specific.”

“It's not a natural thing to begin to confront and to change the default modes that are so often present in our lives.”

“And we are fighting with the temptation, but I'm afraid a lot of times we've mixed up fighting with temptation and just giving in to sin. We say, you know what, I'm struggling with this. I'm struggling with lust. So you're struggling with it? No, I'm just doing it every day. Well, it's not a struggle with temptation. You're just living in sin. A lot of times we call living in sin a struggle when it's really we've just given up.”

“Dad saw what I needed to do to be the man that I am today. And I'm incredibly grateful for that. I'm incredibly grateful that all along the way, even as I struggled, I struggled with being different. I struggled with this whole armless thing. I struggled with how people treated me and how people look at me. And in this day and age, you know, it's like I struggle even now with, you know, go out to Valentine's Day with my wife.”

“And y'all, it works. Like so many of you in here nodding because you know it works. You've done it. If you're struggling with that, like just try it. Just try it. Because what we're really struggling with, the sins that we're struggling with that are preventing the rest, the unbelief that we're struggling with, are these very things that Christ has provided for us, but we just can't grasp.”

“Basically, these two are struggling now and they're gonna struggle forever. And from the very beginning, Jacob's life is marked to be a life of struggle, a life of struggle. When he's born in Genesis 25, chapter verse 26, he comes out grabbing the heel of his brother Esau, Already showing that he is constantly striving for his position. Remember, God has promised him the older will serve the younger. Jacob, from the very beginning, is striving to pull God's plan at his timing.”

“"For this I toil, struggling with all of his energy, Christ energy, that he powerfully works within me." I might be struggling.”