If a bottle of wine is worth a million dollars it's going to be guarded, not left on the table. Things of value must be guarded. We look at the first miracle of Jesus. A personal encouragement to just the disciples. John 2:1-11

Sometimes in life you can endure crushing situations and like an axe head you can start sinking and feel you'll sink forever. You can be so crushed in life. But if you know help is on the way, you can handle anything.

All of life is a process of leaving and entering, leaving one set of circumstances to enter another. You leave the womb to enter into communion of your family of family; kindergarten to enter first grade, singleness to enter into relationship.

As long as you have known the Lord, as long as you have been growing in grace and knowledge, submitting all you are to His care ..maybe years. Know how honest God is in His work with imperfect heroes of faith.

Did you ever grasp, hope and long then God brings peace to you? Have you ever had a season of franticness that gives way to peace? Psalm 131

Let's talk about being blindsided. 1 Peter 4:12 Sometimes, for s season of time…God wants to know if He can trust us enough to look like fools for Him for an extended period of time.

Jude 1:22 says be merciful to those who doubt. Ever had any doubts? Ever doubt your faith? Everybody doubts. If we don't understand what it is and that it's normal the enemy can use that as a leverage against us.

There are times in your life when things change. There are times in life where after seasons of long preparation suddenly God intervenes and turns the whole situation around. Need a suddenly? We look at Paul in Acts 16 and the reality of turning points.

We now look at some who have endured inordinate, extended buffetings above and beyond the call of duty. Some lives of men, women, boys and girls who have had a sliver, a thorn of something that is incessantly always present. Will this last forever?

Are you bound by something? A situation, circumstance, addiction, relationship? Prolonged physical pain, relational strain, financial hardship will wear you down to nothing. Freedom is in a greater bondage, a bond slave relationship with our master Jesus.