it won't be easy but I can promise you it will be worth it coming up next
hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with crystal I'm crystal Sparks it is the
week after Thanksgiving I hope you had a great time with your family and your
friends and wherever this video finds you I'm so glad that you are here on my
channel every week on Wednesday I put out a new video and my whole channels
goal is this one thing is to help grow your faith and to help equip you to
accomplish your dreams and your goals hey so I want to talk to you today it's
not always gonna be easy but I can promise you it will always be worth it
you know every time that I've done something big for God it's never been
easy in fact I will tell you this at the moment that I say yes it's like
everything goes crazy and I start to question myself
you think about Peter whenever Jesus beckons him to come out on the water it
says that the very minute his feet hit the water he began to look at the wind
in the waves it's like he thought well goodness if I step out to walk on water
to Jesus then that must mean that the circumstance is going to get better but
I found that often our circumstances are gonna go in the opposite direction of
where God's taking us why the enemy is always gonna use what's around us to try
to keep us from where God's taking us you know whenever I first got asked to
speak I remember I was absolutely terrified I was so scared and I stood up
there that first time and I remember I opened up my mouth and I didn't even
know if words we're gonna come out I was so scared and you know what happened
right after it doesn't speak in that first time I got my next invite to
preach and you know what the next time it was just as scary and I think
sometimes we think if God's called us to it then the beers gonna go away that
it's gonna get easier and although I will say that said some things do get
easier with time I don't think that it ever gets easy necessarily there's
always gonna be circumstances there's always gonna be things and it's not
always gonna be easy but God's promises in his word that it will always be worth
it you know I love reading Paul's letters in the New Testament and I love
that he writes here in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 verse 25 he says three times
I was beaten with rods once I was stoned and he's not talking about drugs
he says three times I suffered shipwreck a night and day I have been in the deep
and what I think is interesting here is Paul's letting the people know I've done
a lot of great things for God but it's not because my life was easy it's not
because I'm less busy than anybody else it wasn't because everything was handed
to me on a silver platter I remember there was one time I was
talking to a lady after church and she said you know there's so much I would do
for God but my life is just so busy I don't have time and I thought about this
and I thought how easy it is for us to buy into the sly because for some reason
in our mind we think the people that do great things for God must not be very
busy they must have not have both schedules like I have they must not have
big agendas with lots to do in kids and sports no the truth is they're just as
busy as you in fact I would say they're probably busier but they've made this
one determination is that God's gonna do something beautiful with their life and
they understand that it might not be easy to serve every Sunday it might not
be easy to give time to your local community it might not be easy but
they've decided this it will always be worth it so many times in our lives we
feel like everything in our world has to line up before we step out and do it but
the truth is that it's called a step of faith because it's going to defy logic
if it didn't defy logic it would say a step of common sense right it doesn't
take faith to walk across your house from the living room to the kitchen why
because you know logically there's nothing there that will hurt you it's a
step of faith when you know that the circumstances are adverse and that you
could be overcome pause letting us know here that he's
gone through some really big difficulties he says three times he
suffered a shipwreck what I think is interesting is that the Bible really
only tells us about one and that's in the book of Acts it tells us about how
he was shipwrecked but just think about this Paul lets us know three times he
was shipwrecked and yet he survived this would be the same as us getting on three
separate planes that all went down and yet we live I mean that is some really
big adversity he says a night and a day I've
spent in a deep the phrase there in the deep is the Greek word basis and that
word basically means in the deepest of the part of the sea so in other words
he's saying I was in a place where it seemed like there was absolutely no hope
and I wasn't there just for a moment but he says I was there for an entire night
an entire day in other words I was in a place where I was completely forgotten
by man it looked like my situation was going to take me under there was no
light to be found and yet God still found him he said in
other words I've gone through really unlucky breaks I've gone through times
of being in the darkness and feeling like nobody's gonna be able to find me
and yet God still knew how to make something great come out of my not good
see Paul's letting us know it even a 24-hour period treading water and the
deepest darkest place of the sea could not make the enemy forfeit the good
things that God has and I want to tell you in your own life that yes it may be
hard but you know what it is always gonna be worth it don't quit when times
get hard in fact when times get hard you've got to begin to have a greater
determination than ever before you know when I pick up my Bible and I read so
much of it about from Paul in the New Testament I think what would have
happened if Paul would have quit what would it happen if on the first
shipwreck he thought well I guess it's just not worth it and we would have
never had Romans if you thought well I guess there's just no hope for me we
would have never had first and second Corinthians if you would have said well
I guess it's just too hard then we wouldn't have Ephesians I want to tell
you that your life is leaving a story for other people to read and if you quit
what are they gonna pick up whose story are they gonna pick up to tell them that
they can make it whose story is it that's gonna inspire them to keep
fighting for their dreams friend let me tell you it's so much more than just
about you see Paul had a determination on the inside because he knew that it
might not be easy but he knew in the end that
God was gonna make it all worth it I want to announce this over you that you
are not defeated other people may have dropped out of sight and they didn't
survive you know Paul didn't talk about any of
the other people that parish in those shipwrecks he just kept his eyes focused
on Jesus and the same is true for you maybe you started after your goals and
two seemed like tons of people were going with you you had a group of people
they were all determined and now it seems like one after another they're
dropping off but Fran let me just tell you I want to announce over you that you
just keep keep keep your eyes on Jesus and that I'll tell you this that the
greatest and get back on the enemy that you can have is to keep fighting to keep
pressing to not give up when times get hard God's power has enabled you to
overcome this far and he's not going to let you down now yes it may be hard but
I can tell you at the end of this it will be worth it so hey did you get
something out of that video today I hope you did I love spending time with you
every single week let's be like Paul let's be able to say at the end of our
life yeah we've been through a lot of hard times but this one thing we know to
be true that it was worth it hey thank you so much for watching if you'll do me
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