What to Do When You Feel Like You’ve Lost Everything | Pastor Adam French

I want you to imagine that for a moment, but there's one man he's pressing through, he's pushing through faster than anybody else, pushing people out of the way. You can hear people say, "Hey, hey, what's going on?" And all of a sudden, this man comes in front of someone and that man is Jesus. That's what Jerryus does. And you can see the look on his face, the look of worry, the look of fear, the look of concern, and I love what Jesus tells him. He tells him, "Only believe." Welcome to a word, and I'm Adam French, and we're going to unpack those two words right there. "Only believe." In the Greek, it's a present command. So it's not something that you do one time or something that happens in the past, but you're supposed to keep believing. Now, think about this, Jerryus is walking to Jesus because he knows that his daughter is back home and she's dying. I don't know what's going on in your life right now. You may be facing something very, very difficult. You may be facing the word cancer. You may be facing the word divorce. You may be facing the word of addiction or, you know, I don't know what's going on. Maybe you're having a mental health crisis. I don't know what is touching you right now close to home on your phone as you're watching this or you're listening to this at the gym or listening to this on your couch. I don't know what that is, but the word that Jesus is saying to you is only believe. We'll only believe in what, right? You know, this hits hard because literally people come to him all of a sudden as he's telling Jesus about this issue, someone comes and says, "Hey, listen. She's dead. Hey, listen.

It's over. I'll hope his loss. Like, you've been praying about this. You've been coming to the Lord about this, but hey, listen. That time is ended. But I love how Jesus responds that this, this worst moment of his life, this most difficult time in his life as he's standing in front of Jesus, right? I've done this. I've been praying for something significant in my life and it's just not working out right now. And I'm still going. I'm still standing before God and Jesus in prayer and Jesus over here is everything that's happening, right? And, and before Jerry's can even answer, as this person comes up and says, "Hey, listen. We'll bother Jesus anymore. Your daughter is dead. Jesus, here's that conversation and he steps in and there's this collision, right?" And that happens in our life. That moment when what we hope to happen isn't really happening the way that we wanted it to or that moment when faith and fear collide, that moment when love and someone who's difficult or is an enemy or hate even collides, that moment when our generosity collides with the actual reality of our bank account. We have that collision, right? And Jesus says, "Listen, I want you to only believe. I want you to keep believing if you're watching this in your cell, if you're listening to this on your couch. Hey, keep believing. Hope isn't lost. It hasn't, it hasn't ended for you and choose to pray instead of worry, right? And, and listen, you can say, "I'm going to trust God, but not myself today."

Faith isn't the absence of fear. It's in the midst of fear choosing to believe today. I'm calling you and I'm asking you, will you believe? Will you trust? Because that's what happened, that's what happened to Jairus. He, he believed and, and the story is that Jesus comes back to his home and he walks in. People are actually laughing, right? They're, you know, cause Jesus said, "Oh, she's just sick." They've already started to bring in the lamenters, right? They, they would, people would hire people to mourn in that time in that biblical context. They're already there. They're already mourning. They're already weeping and Jesus walks in and he heals the daughter. Right? Listen, I don't know, God, God, he may not take your situation. I'm not saying that. I'm not one of those pastures. I mean, it doesn't, just cause you pray don't mean it's going to change something, but I'll tell you what will change is you. You will change. Your faith will strengthen. Your dependence on God will grow. So whatever, whatever is happening in your life, listen, don't be afraid as Mark chapter five and verse 36, 36 says, Mark five, verse 36 says, "Don't be afraid. Only believe." I'm pastor Adam French and I'm encouraging you today to take this word and make it a great