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The Night Time Ain't So Bad Series
Contributed by Ken Hubbard on Feb 11, 2010 (message contributor)
Summary: A message about how the tough "night times" of our lives make us stronger and deepen our faith
INTRO
VIDEO Rocky III Clip
EXPLAIN Video Clip
- If you're going to survive the battles
- If you're going to survive what the enemy throws at you
- If you're going to survive...
1. You Need a Tribe You Won't Get Voted Off
2. Can't Go Over the Hedge
3. You Can't Curse Your Crisis
4. You Need a Power Partnership
5. You Must Forgive Yourself and Others
6. Realize You Don't Have to Survive
7. Recognize That the Night Time Ain't So Bad
- You've heard a handful of Survivors who took all the enemy threw at them
- And recognize that the Devil ain't so bad.
- You're wondering what that has to do with today's text.
- It was the night time
(TOUGH TIME)
* That brought forth the fruit of Aaron's Staff
- And I can't close this series without reminding you...
- That the dead things you possess need a night-time experience
* In order to live
- Some of you have been through battles that have left some things in your life dead as
* Aaron's Staff
* Broom Stick
- You're happy with parts of your life but other parts are dead
* Because of A Battle
A Hurt
A Pain
A Word
A Voice
A Person
A Disappointment
- But I want you to know that the miracle happens during the night time!
- In order for faith to effectively incubate
- It must germinate through a night time experience
EXAMPLE Planting my first garden this summer
- You need to remember during your dark situation
- That God does his best work in the night time
- Your day begins with darkness
- When God began to create
* He stepped into darkness and said, "let there be light".
- You show me a survivor living large and happy about life
- And I'll show you someone who has come through a night time.
Misery - Ministry
Test - Testimony
Pain - Power
- Because the night time ain't so bad
EXAMPLE Waking up in the middle of the night with an Asthma
attack
I was afraid of the dark
- You can't keep the night from coming
- But remember, joy comes in the morning
...weeping may remain for a night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.
- And the night time ain't so bad!
- Even Jesus went through a night time
o Interesting that when Judas came to Jesus and kissed him
„X Putting him in a night-time
„X Jesus called him friend
o When Peter tried to keep Jesus from going through the night-time
„X Jesus called Peter a devil
ƒ{ In essence what Jesus was saying:
o If I have no crucifixion
„X I cannot have a resurrection
o At night-time it is hard to see
o But survivors use the flashlight of faith
ƒ{ Jesus is saying if there is no night time
* Faith can't incubate
- And the night time ain't so bad
- When you can't trace him keep on trusting him
- Because the night time ain't so bad
- Hear my Mother Night Time Ain't So Bad
- Hear Skip Night Time Ain't So Bad
- People in this church
Affair Ain't So Bad
Cancer Ain't So Bad
Abandonment Ain't So Bad
Drugs/Alcohol Ain't So Bad
Prison Ain't So Bad
Religious Abuse Ain't So Bad
Abused Ain't So Bad
- The Next Time
Battle Ain't So Bad
Crisis Ain't So Bad
Struggle Ain't So Bad
Hurt Ain't So Bad
Disappointment Ain't So Bad
- The Devil should have take me out when he had me down
- When I was:
* Intimidated
* Afraid
* Hurt
* Discouraged
* Sinning
* Beat up
- But now I know you ain't so bad!
