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Blessings Without Question
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| We don't ask God why we were blessed. | |
| We don't tend to do that much. | |
| We don't question the blessings. | |
| We don't ask, but we ask why when it's not. | |
| And really, it should be the other way around, meaning we all are worthy of hell, and we've been saved. | |
| So everything we got is a blessing. | |
| Everything's extra. | |
| So we should be asking every day, why'd you bless me, Lord? | |
| Why? | |
| I don't deserve it, but thank you. | |
| But as far as the other things, we always ask God why. | |
| And the Bible gives the answer. | |
| I mentioned that you brought up that one time when I was here, the very first time is we were in the wake of the hurricane, that harbinger and the hurricane and swept our whole building. | |
| But it happened actually on 8.28 is when Hurricane Irene happened. | |
| 828 struck us. | |
| And so people said, 8.28, 828, 828. | |
| That's familiar. | |
| It's Romans 8.28. | |
| Which says God works all things for good. | |
| Even that, all things. | |
| I don't know if you remember Richard Wirnbrand, and Serena. | |
| They're awesome people. | |
| And on my shows. | |
| Awesome. | |
| And they were in the underground church in Romania and they suffered under that. | |
| He was in prison for 14 years. | |
| Ten years. | |
| He was beaten. | |
| His feet were hurt. | |
| Yeah, and yet he came out rejoicing. | |
| He came out. | |
| He had the greatest times with the Lord in prison. | |
| They were people of joy. | |
| And he said that the Lord said to him when he was in prison, he saw in the scripture it said, God works all things for good. | |
| He saw that. | |
| But he read it wrong. | |
| It's really not, God worked all things for good. | |
| He learned in prison, God works all things for good. | |
| There's nothing that he doesn't work for good. | |
| In prison, his life was, his ministry was born. | |
| God did all those things. | |
| And the other thing is that when he was in prison, he said, God, he was complaining. | |
| Why? | |
| He said, he was a pastor, and he finds himself chained up. | |
| He says, why'd you, why do you, and he heard the Lord say, you're a pastor, but you were running around all the time. | |
| I couldn't get you to sit down on my feet, so I had to chain you up. | |
| So he said his feet. | |
| And then he said, but Lord, Lord, I've been in solitary confinement for four years. | |
| I haven't seen the sun rise. | |
| And you said it rains on the, but also you caused the sun to rise on the righteous. | |
| So even if you don't, and the unrighteous, so even if you don't think I'm righteous, please, why don't I have a sunrise? | |
| Why doesn't the sun shine? | |
| Why doesn't the sun shine? | |
| And he said, the spirit of answers said, you're the light. | |
| You shine in the darkness. | |
| You're the sunrise. | |
| You shine. | |
| He ended up shining to his torturers, and he ended up winning them to the Lord. | |