The document discusses dealing with difficult times and false prophets. It argues that God delivers people in their messes, not from their messes, to glorify himself. When facing hardships, people should process their past through God's providence and develop faith through their experiences. This will allow them to live faithfully. The document also advises starting where you are using what you have to build God's kingdom through family and ministry. It notes overcoming current issues requires addressing past issues and maintaining hope through prayer and seeking God.

1. message eight Propheliars Not Prophesiers Jeremiah 29:4-13

2. An Experiential Exegesis of Things that Come UpTo Break You Down 1. We sometimes feel like Gideon: if God is for me why has all this mess happened to me?

3. An Experiential Exegesis of Things that Come UpTo Break You Down 2. We sometimes feel like the exiles: your predicamentcontradicts your promise

4. An Experiential Exegesis of Things that Come Up to Break You Down 3. We sometimes feel like the captives: your harp is hung and there is no happiness in your harmony

5. The Psychology of Emotions A. If you let what happens to you get in you, it will poison your perspective

6. The Psychology of Emotions B. Whenever you are weak and wounded, you become vulnerable to false prophets

7. Point 1. Some propheliars were declaring, “All you have to do is believethough you have not behaved.”

8. Point 2. If you don’t think right you can’t live right, and if you aren’t faithful, you don’t really have faith.

9. Thesis: God is not out to deliver us from our mess (by the rapture or a miracle), but deliver in our mess to his own glory.

10. Definitions There is not only difference-making faith, but disposition-making faith.

11. Definitions The Lord of hosts is captain and commander-in-chief of innumerable invisible angelic armies that operate on behalf of the believer in hostile enemy territory.

12. Point 4. Once you process your past providentially, then God’s providence uses what came to break you to give you disposition-making faith, so you can turn the word of faith into a way of faithful living.

13. What to Do Since Jesus Is Back Coming for You 1. Start where you are, using what you have, to create the kingdom God intends, 5

14. Definition: In this life, happiness is not something you find some place, some where, with some one, but joy is what you create by a correct relationship with Christ.

15. Point 5. You receive happiness (“blessed”) after holiness.

16. What to Do Since Jesus Is Back Coming for You 2. Build your family to build this church to reach the community, 6

17. Point 6. Getting a life is really rooted in ministry running on the rails of relationships.

18. What to Do Since Jesus Is Back Coming for You 3. To overcome present stuff, there is past stuff you have to get over, 10-11

19. What to Do Since Jesus Is Back Coming for You 4. When life goes bad recognize God is up to something good, and good will come when you call in prayer and seek him with all your heart, 12-13

20. Point 6. True hope is based on your understanding God’s word, praying for God’s will, and seeking God’s ways.