we've all gone through hard times but today's video is talking about getting
over it and moving on coming up men
hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with crystal I'm crystal Sparks I'm so glad
that you are here on my channel hey no matter if you are here every single week
or maybe this year first time you came here welcome I'm so glad that you're
here I'm honored to spend this time with you my channels one purpose is to help
grow your faith in to help equip you to accomplish your dreams and your goals
hey watch all the way to the end I'm talking about some exciting stuff that I
have coming up and you don't want to miss out you know a few years ago my
husband and I moved into a new neighborhood and there's lots of new
construction going on new homes being built it seemed like almost every single
week there was a new house going up and my son and I went for a walk one night
and we were just talking and enjoying the sunset so beautiful just an a
beautiful evening the breeze was nice everything was great but this one thing
you know whenever there's new construction going into a neighborhood
the last thing to be done is the landscaping and so the landscaping was
just getting done on this particular street and the smell was overwhelming
there was tons of flies and my son asked me Mom why does the street stink so bad
and I began to explain to him you know that whenever they put down new
landscaping that they'll always come in and put in manure and witches animal
poop to help nourish the plants and I told them those new plants they need
lots of manure to help give them all the nutrients they need to grow to their
full potential and I said even though that this street stinks really bad right
now if you come back down the street in just a few months it's gonna be full of
beautiful things you know time went on and we were out on another walk and sure
enough all those plants on that street were beautiful they were flourishing you
know it kind of made me think about times in our lives where we feel like
we're just going through stinky seasons have you ever felt like that
like anything that bad that could happen has happened
it seems like one bad break after another and Fran let me just tell you if
you find yourself in a season like that don't get discouraged don't start to top
out just know this that that is God putting manure on your dreams that you
won't reach your all potential unless you go through some
stinky times unless you go through some hard times I love this scripture in
Isaiah 43 verse 18 it says do not earnestly remember the former things
neither consider the things of old behold I'm doing a new thing now it
springs forth do you not perceive it and know it and will you not give heed to it
I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert I love the
scripture so much for this reason because the Lord tells us here do not
earnestly remember the former things in other words don't be so focused on the
bad seasons that you miss out on the good seasons I have ahead of you we get
so focused with the things that aren't going right that we miss out on all the
things that are going right and he's saying don't remember what was back
there you know sometimes I'll talk to people and they'll say crystal the theme
of my life is bad luck the theme of my life is bad brakes and that makes me so
sad and what they're saying is I'm gonna keep repeating what happened to me five
years ago ten years ago one year ago I'm just living my life on repeat and the
Lord would say quit remembering those things you're setting your mind on the
stinky season when God's calling you forth into a new thing you know what if
whenever we go through those seasons that are hard that are stinky they kind
of smell bad it seems like we didn't get the job promotion we wanted that
business didn't work out the way we thought our marriage is struggling our
kids aren't doing what we want them to do what if instead of us complaining
about it as saying god this is just more fertilizer it's you getting me prepared
for something greater God even though everything in my finances doesn't look
like what I want it to look like I know this is just a fertilizer that's getting
all the nutrients I need to go into my next season with grace it may smell bad
for a little while but if I keep doing the right thing
I'm going to come up to a new season of growth a new season of my full potential
a new season of God beginning to pour out on me one blessing on top of another
see we've got to get to a place where we quit complaining about the fertilizer
quit complaining about the people that hurt you quit complaining about how the
didn't work out and start saying god I know that you are gonna take this
fertilizer and make it into something great I know that all things do work
together for my good you know I read a story recently about a woman and
whenever she was 12 years old her mother went on dialysis her mom was a single
mom and she was left to kind of take care of her younger brother and so she
started cooking and getting him ready for school which I can't even imagine
how hard that was for a twelve-year-old you know as I read her story about her
telling what this scenario was like she said it was really difficult not to have
a mom who was healthy my mom wasn't able she says to go to the different school
programs when all is it able to take us to school she wasn't able to clean so I
did those things for her you know she helped raise her brother and now here
she is she went on to get her master's degree and she's got a doctorate
currently that she's working on and then on top of that she's working in
corporate America happily married with three children of her own see if she
wouldn't have not forgotten the hard things she wouldn't have been looking
for the good things that God has ahead I have a pastor friend of mine that said
recently don't just go through things grow through things you've got to begin
to grow through the fertilizer seasons of life yes things aren't going the way
you want them to go I understand that everything doesn't look like it's
panning out the way you want it to but just know this that those bad breaks
that bad news that doctor's report is just fertilizer it's just getting you
ready for the good things that God has ahead for you another scripture that'll
encourage you I love this so much in Psalms 30 verse 5 says God's anger is
for a moment but his favor is for a lifetime weeping may endure for a night
but his joy comes in the morning I love that so much because it lets me know
this there might be just a moment where I feel like God have you forgotten me
God are you angry at me God have you forsaken me have you ever thought that
but I love that the psalmist goes on to say but his favor is for a lifetime in
other words more of my life is meant to be dwelling on the good things that
God's doing then constantly remembering how things didn't work out
constantly remembering about that disappointment constantly remembering
about that bad break and the sad thing is the more we dwell on the things that
we don't want the more of those things begin to appear in our life instead we
need to begin to get our eyes off of our past and start looking out the front
think about even in your refrigerator right now you've got lots of food right
if you begin to go in there and eat expired food what would happen you'd get
sick if you begin to eat expired yogurt began to drink expired milk began to put
expired butter on your moldy bread what would happen you would be so sick why
you're eating expired food and your body wasn't made to run on that the same is
true in our lives so many of us are living on yesterday's disappointment we
wake up and the moment our eyes open we begin to play out scenarios of how
yesterday disappointed us and so today we'll - in fact we start to lower
expectations we even tell our children don't get your hopes up why because
we're earnestly we remembering the disappointments of yesterday see here in
Isaiah chapter 43 god wants to do a new thing for his people but he can't do the
new thing unless they do the first thing and that's forgetting all the
disappointment forgetting how they've been let down forgetting how things
didn't turn out the way they wanted forgetting about the people that hurt
them forgetting about the people that left them and just begin to set their
eyes on heaven I want to encourage you friend if you're in a season of your
life where it feels like one stinky street after another and it seems like
one disappointment heaped on top of the other I want to just give you good news
that that is fertilizer and it's letting you know that good things are ahead and
just like that street that we walk down just a few months later was filled with
beautiful flowers and just like the woman whose story I told you about she
went on to get her master's and now is working on her doctorate with three kids
and a happy marriage I want to tell you that the same is true in your life don't
let this disappointment set up the rest of your life don't let this hard season
begin to define what God's going to do for the rest of your life because I
promise you this the rest of your life to be the best of your life and you're
gonna say just like the psalmist did in Psalms 30 verse 5 even though I thought
God's anger was for a moment his favour was for my lifetime and that is the
common theme of my life amen hey did you get something out of this
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