Rick Hall GIVE IT TO GOD

IMPORTANT * * We started the recording FIVE minutes into the teaching. PLEASE read these foundation verses from Amplified Bible to understand the INTENSITY of God’s PEACE in the DARK, NUMB place with SHOCK – everyone I loved in my family faced FIERCE health attacks and fear of death

God’s PEACE in HARD PLACE TESTIMONY – Psalm 138 & 145 (SON DIE SUICIDE)

After Isaiah 40:31 – wait Lord, mount up wings like eagles (eight verses later God says)

Isaiah 41:8-10 (AMP) But you, Israel, MY SERVANT, JACOB, WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN, the offspring of Abraham My friend, 9 You whom I [the Lord] have taken from the ends of the earth and have called from the corners of it, and said to you, YOU ARE MY SERVANT—I HAVE CHOSEN YOU and not cast you off [even though you are exiled]. 10 FEAR NOT [there is nothing to fear], for I AM WITH YOU; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I AM YOUR GOD. I WILL STRENGTHEN AND HARDEN YOU TO DIFFICULTIES, YES, I WILL HELP YOU; YES, I WILL HOLD YOU UP AND RETAIN YOU WITH MY [VICTORIOUS] RIGHT HAND OF RIGHTNESS AND JUSTICE. (Most people buckle at knees with pressure)

HARD PLACE 9 MONTHS like Job:
1. Lose job, face foreclosure twice on house (4 months behind), food bank, sterling job skills/NO interviews
2. Dad 80, hip pop out of socket often = 911 ambulance call
3. Jason neck herniated disk, bone from dead body fused to his spine: Can’t SUE if die, paralyzed, can’t speak
4. Justin die by suicide after kill gay partner in BLOOD BATH with three knifes two weeks before 28th birthday

PRAYER: Isaiah 43:1-7 (AMP) BUT NOW [in spite of past judgments for Israel's sins], thus says the LORD, HE WHO CREATED YOU, O Jacob, and HE WHO FORMED YOU, O Israel: FEAR NOT, FOR I HAVE REDEEMED YOU [ransomed you by paying a price instead of leaving you captives]; I have called you by your name (BELOVED, Child of God); you are Mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I WILL BE WITH YOU, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you. 3 For I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, YOUR SAVIOR; I give Egypt [to the Babylonians] for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba [a province of Ethiopia] in exchange [for your release]. 4 Because YOU ARE PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT AND HONORED, and because I LOVE You, I will give men in return for you and peoples in exchange for your life. 5 FEAR NOT, FOR I AM WITH YOU; I will bring your offspring from the east [where they are dispersed] and gather you from the west. 6 I will say to the north, Give up! and to the south, Keep not back. Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth - 7 Even everyone who is CALLED BY MY NAME, whom I have CREATED FOR MY GLORY, whom I HAVE FORMED, whom I HAVE MADE.

Isaiah 43:10-12 (AMP) You are MY WITNESSES, says the Lord, and MY SERVANT whom I HAVE CHOSEN, that you may KNOW ME, BELIEVE ME AND REMAIN STEADFAST TO ME, AND UNDERSTAND THAT I AM HE. Before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. 11 I, EVEN I, AM THE LORD, AND BESIDES ME THERE IS NO SAVIOR. 12 I have declared [the future] and have saved [the nation in times of danger], and I have shown [that I am God]—when there was no strange and alien god among you; therefore YOU ARE MY WITNESSES, SAYS THE LORD, THAT I AM GOD.

BENEFITS OF TRIBULATION: Romans 12:12 (AMP) Rejoice and exult in hope; be steadfast and PATIENT in suffering and TRIBULATION; be constant in prayer. *tribulation works PATIENCE

1. TRUST GOD’S CHARACTER, CONFIDENCE David anointed king age 17, King Saul pursued him 13 years to kill him. Live cave, 400 men debt, discouraged, discontent: David STIR himself up in God
2. Gives credibility to pray with others in hard place: (Six friends kids die by suicide/accident; PRAY WITH them Psalm 138 and Psalm 145 for hour to bring God’s peace)
3. Changes FOCUS to IMPORTANT Things: Redemption, purpose - share Gospel, Bill of Rights, safe house, warm, food, clothes, vehicle, friends that care