This is Part 13 of Pastor Chuck Bernal’s message series, “Passages That Pump Me Up”. If there were no obstacles, no limits and no regrets, what would be your greatest dream for your life and for our church? This message will help you to discover some truth from Scripture that will change your life with this message titled: "Big Dreams, Big God, Big Opportunities". Pastor This is Part 14 of Pastor Chuck Bernal’s message series, “Passages That Pump Me Up”. All of us face problems, people and pressures in life that seek to defeat us and define us - if we let them. With God's help we can rise above the trials of life and find victory. This is the heart of this message titled, "What Can You Do When Life's Bugging You". This messsage was delivered at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX on Sunday, August 30, 2015

2. WHAT CAN YOU DO
WHEN LIFE’S
BUGGING YOU?

3. QUESTION 1:
WHAT’S BUGGING
YOU TODAY?

4. After the cutting locusts finished
eating the crops, the swarming
locusts took what was left!

5. After them came the
hopping locusts, and then the
stripping locusts, too!
(Joel 1:4 – New Living Translation)

8. Locusts = Problems

9. The Lord says, “I will give you
back what you lost to the
swarming locusts, the hopping
locusts, the stripping locusts,
and the cutting locusts . . .

10. Surely the Lord has done
great things! Don’t be afraid,
my people.

11. Be glad now and rejoice, for the
Lord has done great things.
(Joel 1:4, 2:20-21, 25 – New Living Translation)

12. LIFE TRUTH 1:

13. You are always going
to have problems, pressures
and people that want to hurt you
and destroy you!

14. LIFE TRUTH 2:

15. God’s strength & power will
always get us through and
give us back what the enemy
tries to destroy in our lives!

16. The enemy comes with the
sole intention of stealing and
killing and destroying . . .
(John 10:10 – Phillips New Testament)

17. QUESTION 2:
WHAT’S BLESSING
YOU TODAY?

18. I came so they can have real
and eternal life, more and better
life than they ever dreamed of.
(John 10:10 – The Message)

19. Always be glad because of
the Lord! I will say it again:
Rejoice and be glad.
Always be gentle with others.

20. The Lord will soon be here.
Don't worry about anything,
but pray about everything. With
thankful hearts offer up your
prayers and requests to God.

21. Then, because you belong to
Christ Jesus, God will bless you
with peace that no one can
completely understand.

22. And this peace will control the
way you think and feel . . .
keep your minds on whatever
is true, pure, right, holy, friendly,
and proper.

23. Don't ever stop thinking about
what is truly worthwhile and
worthy of praise. You know
the teachings I gave you,

24. and you know what you heard
me say and saw me do.
So follow my example.
And God, who gives peace,
will be with you . . .

25. I have learned to be satisfied
with whatever I have. I know
what it is to be poor or to have
plenty, and I have lived under
all kinds of conditions.

26. I know what it means to be full or
to be hungry, to have too much
or too little.

27. Christ gives me the strength
to face anything.
(Philippians 4:4-9, 11-13 – Contemporary English Version)

28. Trusting God brings me
a positive perspective

29. Trusting God replaces
worry with worship

30. Trusting God provides
peace in the middle
of problems

31. Trusting God changes
the way I think & feel
about life

32. Trusting God makes me
content with what I have

33. Trusting God helps me
make it through anything

34. Celebrate God all day, every day. I
mean, revel in him! . . . Don't fret or
worry. Instead of worrying, pray.

35. Let petitions and praises shape
your worries into prayers, letting
God know your concerns. Before
you know it, a sense of God's
wholeness,

36. everything coming together for
good, will come and settle you
down. It's wonderful what happens
when Christ displaces worry at the
center of your life.

37. Summing it all up, friends, I'd say
you'll do best by filling your minds
and meditating on things true,
noble, reputable, authentic,
compelling, gracious--

38. the best, not the worst; the
beautiful, not the ugly; things to
praise, not things to curse . . .
Do that, and God,

39. who makes everything work
together, will work you into his most
excellent harmonies . . . . I've
learned by now to be quite content
whatever my circumstances.

40. I'm just as happy with little as with
much, with much as with little.
I've found the recipe for being
happy whether full or hungry,
hands full or hands empty.

41. Whatever I have, wherever I am,
I can make it through anything
in the One who makes
me who I am.
(Philippians 4:4, 6-9, 11-13 – The Message)

42. QUESTION 3:
WHO ARE YOU
BELIEVING TODAY?

43. The devil has always been a
murderer and a liar. There is
nothing truthful about him.
He speaks on his own, and
everything he says is a lie.

44. Not only is he a liar himself,
but he is also the father
of all lies.
(John 8:44 – Contemporary English Version)

45. Yet what we suffer now
is nothing compared to the
glory he will give us later . . .

46. What can we ever say to such
wonderful things as these?
If God is on our side, who can
ever be against us?

47. Since he did not spare even his
own Son for us but gave him up
for us all, won’t he also surely
give us everything else?
(Romans 8:18, 31-32 – Living Bible)

48. So it all comes down to this –
what are you gonna
believe and who are you
gonna listen to?

49. Instead letting the “bugs” of life
devour you, with God’s promises
assure us that – with His help,
we can devour them!

50. Let’s Pray