Embracing the hard things before the blessing || Apostle Les Bowling

Welcome to the Sunday Service || Embracing the hard things before the blessing || Apostle Les Bowling Daniel 2:21, Luke 12:1, Matthew 1:18-20, 2:13, Luke 2:3, 1Pter 5:10 God changes two things, time and season. When time changes things also change, we need to discern the time of our visitations, the time for our advancements, time to climb the mountain of God. We are to discern the time of our season and embrace that season. When times are good we are not to take a vacation but work extra hard for that is time for harvest, seize the time as it comes, we are ascending and need to know that as we have healthy leaders leading us we need to be more discerning as not to lose the moment. We are not here because of good politics but many prayers, we are to maximize this time for increase, what we do today counts. Jabez was born in pain and started in hard times but was more honorable than his brothers, before pleasure is pain, He asks God to enlarge his territory, reminds God where he started, and asks God to bless him and be out of pain. God will increase your capacity for what is in front of you how, by tention then transition. Change equals pain and loss, our stretching and tension cause pain, but in that time what we need is to be developed to a point of overcoming that tension and making us increase, increase makes us responsible more. What is hard in you God will use it to stretch and increase you for the next assignment. Mary received what was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and this was to save mankind, Joseph received instruction from God not to leave Mary as the pregnancy is of the Holy Spirit, Joseph was a man of integrity and stood with Mary for the rest of the journey, Joseph embraced the hard thing, Gods promises are not void of hard things. We may not schedule the hard things, they just find themselves in our lives. God's plan sometimes causes us to embrace hard things. We are to choose our hard things, we are to embrace the hard things even before we embrace blessings. Choose your hard thing. There many hard things we have to bear even in our long journey. Mary is eight and half months pregnant and had to travel a long distance, this is a hard thing riding on a donkey, it's a hard thing for Mary to explain when she got married or how she received this pregnancy. We are to follow God even in the hard things for God's plans go beyond our lives, we are to fight the hard things that go beyond our lives and transcend to our families and our children and grandchildren, we are not to give up but we are to keep on moving, we may slow down or knock down but we are to keep moving, it is hard before blessed. We may not know how many years are remaining but we cannot give up, we keep on moving forward for God has kept us and will continue to lead us to the future. God calls us to move forward together, for He helps us if we succeed without sacrifice, know that someone else did sacrifice for you. God perfects us in different parts of our lives as we move on, He who began the good work will accomplish it. God will establish us to a point that our testimony will be evident to other people. Trials we face now we can go through for God settles us in our purpose. Things that advance here affect what is outside there. We are in a blessed time as long as we embrace the hard times in us, we are to keep on professing and confessing in our hard times until the blessings come over us. Embrace Christ despite the hard times and seize your moments despite the circumstances. We are to go forward with all that we have gotten and embrace God despite the time and hardship as the clock is ticking, it's time for promotion and increase as we move on.