Standing While Things Are Falling

This message and now this book was birthed in me during a time when I was going through many things at one time. My wife and I had recently started a new church, we believed God to see this church grow, and we had many decisions to make. I had just left a full-time job and took on a part-time job out of town. It seems that everything I was trying to do to please God and to see the church grow was falling apart, but I knew God was amid it. One of the ministers in our church, Lisa McCall, was teaching Bible study on Wednesday nights, and she started teaching about journaling, and that's when my life began to change. I began to learn some new things about journaling and hearing God's voice, so I asked God a question: “Lord, how can I continue to stand when it seems everything around me is falling apart?” God responded with ten steps. Those ten steps became a series that I preached and are now the ten chapters of this book. As we walk through these ten steps together, I hope I can provide some direction, comfort, and victory to you, the reader. We will go through each step individually, and I will do my best to convey to you what the Lord taught me and is still teaching me during this period. Several different Christian songs out today speak to knowing who we are in Christ. It is very important that we know our place in God whenever we're trying to hold onto a promise that we receive from him. First, John 5 verse 13 in the New Kings James translation states that we should know that we have Salvation. This is not something we should be wondering about. If I tried to hold on to the promise from God because things are falling apart, then in order for me to hold on to that promise, I have got to know I have eternal life, because if I question that, I will question everything. Therefore, I will not be able to hold on to the promise of God. We know who we are in Christ by knowing that we are righteous in His sight. That righteousness comes by faith.