Pastor Shawn/Beautiful Temple Podcast Shawn M. Nicholson

As in the natural so in the spiritual, God works through and in the storm.

The Bible tells us that our walk with God is going to be a journey of ups and downs.
We are continually moving from strength to strength, victory to victory, glory to glory!
In between the victories there are struggles. In between the breakthroughs there are battles.

Where is your faith? What are you doing to increase it? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. It is time for the people of God to increase their level of expectation. God said He would do it. We need to trust and challenge Him

How many of us have looked back at our life and realized that it is only the grace of
God that we have lived this long?
Car wrecks, drugs, gang violence, drowning and so many other circumstances have
taken the lives of those we have been acquainted with,
Some of you here, right now you know that if it wasn’t for the grace of God you
would have died in that car wreck, you would have been the one spending your life
behind prison walls, or you would have been the one who died of a drug overdose.
How many know we don’t always listen to wise counsel, (we could have saved
ourselves a lot of grief and pain had we just listened to those who tried to instruct us)

Even though what we have seems small, weak, insignificant this is on purpose, because God has designed it so that what we have must be connected to him, to work.

The difference is the power of God.
It is not your ability, your knowledge, your talent, or the size of your gift or the beauty of your gift that matters

All that matters is: How much of God is in your heart.
Your heart represents what you have that you’re willing to surrender to God.

It is time to stop allowing the enemy to use the weak and the willing to ruin your walk with Jesus. In the presence of the fool and foolishness, just subtly rise up on your tippy toes as a trigger to remind you that YOU ARE A SON OF GOD AND YOUR AFFECTIONS ARE ON THINGS ABOVE AND NOT ON THIS EARTH. Instead of coming down I will elevate myself higher. You can even thank them for their help.