I know it feels like this Valley will never end but it will you will make it through the valley David said yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the death I will fear no evil for you are with me you are not alone in the valley never forget this God is with you in the valley God is with you in the valley I don't know what valley you're going through but the antidote is Psalm 73:28 as for me God's presence is all I need I've made the Sovereign Lord my shelter God
is with you walking with you through your deepest and darkest Valley you could say it or pray it this way even in the darker moments of life I will not give way to Panic or anxiety because the Lord is with me there's no room for fear one of my favorite Bible verses is Isaiah 41:10 so do not fear for I with you do not be dismayed for I am your God I will strengthen you and help you I will uphold you with my righteous right hand you can face life's valleys without fear you can and
will come through through the valley because he's with you yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you're with me your rod and your staff they comfort me God is God not just of your Mountaintop experiences he's the god of The Valleys too valleys are a symbol of difficult times in your life in the Bible and God says I'm not just the god of the mountain tops the peak experiences in your life I am the god of The Valleys in the times of Darkness the times
of Despair the times of defeat the times of discouragement because the truth is most of your life and my life are not lived on the mountain tops when you're in a Mountaintop experience the it's the view is great but mountain peaks are far and few most of the time you live your life uh in the valley I don't know what kind of Valley you're going through right now it may be a financial Valley you're going in a real tough spot Maybe in a relational Valley maybe you're going through a physical illness and a valley of
of disease or or sickness Even in our darkest days God says I'm there and I'm there with you uh but I've I've come to learn that um he is the god of the mountain but he is the god of the valley I've learned that valleys are necessary and I've learned that God does a great work in me that he can only do in the valley I want to remind someone today that there is no fruit on the Mountaintop there's only fruit in the valley I've learned that God wants to do something great through me so
he must first do something very deep in me and he can only do that in the valley the valley is the stretching place the valley is the place that when you're in it you think it's Warfare the truth is you can't reach your Destiny without going through Valley the valleys are strategic when you're on top of a mountain the only way to go higher is to come down that mountain go through the valley then you can go up a bigger Mountain God allows valleys not to hold us back but because he's taken us higher without
The Valleys we would get stuck I will take a valley with Jesus over a Mountaintop without him because as long as I have Jesus I have possibilities I have a future I have a promise Give Me Jesus in any situation I'll take that God's with you in the valley and you may not feel it you may not be able to clap for that yet you may you may be saying amen but in your heart you're going I don't feel it that's okay we don't live by feelings and when I cannot Trace his hand I can
trust his heart God's doing something in me right now I don't see it all yet but I do know I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living I do know God is doing something great right now and I I can't really sense it I can't really see it I can't really feel it quite frankly it took every ounce of Faith just to get here this morning but I do believe that God is still doing a work in my life and maybe you feel today like Jin I just feel like
all of hell is against me I just feel like I am coming up literally against the gates of hell some of you in the depth of the darkest Valley I have no doubt about that regardless of the type of Valley it's not going to last there is a way out valleys are temporary valleys end look again what the verse says yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death David didn't say I walk in the valley or I walk to the valley he said I walk through the valley a valley has an
opening on each end they don't go on forever they're not dead in streets we don't walk to valleys we walk through valleys they're not a permanent location it's like a tunnel there's a beginning and an end you walk through a valley is not something you will stay in your entire life it's something you go through a circumstance or a season or a situation it's not a coincidence that David wrote in Psalm 23 though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death he didn't say though I stay in the valley though I live in
the valley no the valley is not your home the valley is temporary you're just passing through the valley it's just a matter of time before it's turned into a Gateway a Gateway of favor a Gateway of healing now don't let the valley become permanent in your thinking instead of complaining about the valley being discouraged over what you're going through all through the day father thank you that this Valley is only temporary I believe what you promised that you're about to transform it into a Gateway of Hope a Gateway of blessing a Gateway of victory that
Valley is leading you to the awesome future God has in store good is always ahead for the Christian it is there our our thing is not in any way shape or form we are defeated that's not it we will go through hard things and we have to build and we have to work we have to do the hard things and you can do hard things but on the other side of that God is preparing something even better for us but we have to call on him while he is near remember that God has a good
purpose for my Valley remember that God has a good purpose for my Valley God is a good God God cannot do evil it is impossible for God to do evil God can only do good in your life God has good plans for your life and so I remember that even in the problems I'm going through the valleys I'm going through the valley of conflict or grief or fear or failure or whatever God is building character when you're going through that Valley and that character is going to outlast everything else
