The hidden untold true store of Christmas | Pastor Brent Simpson | Christmas At Arise

-God entered our world so that we could enter his.

-The beauty of Immanuel is not that He rescues us from every hard time, but that He is with us in every hard time.

1. God’s will for your life is rarely a straight line.

-God’s plan for your life sometimes looks more like a maze than a straight path.

-Trying to find God’s will and doing the right thing can be confusing.

2. God may be advancing His purpose in your life even when it seems you’re going the wrong way.

3. With or without God we are still going to experience great tragedy.

-Everything that God wanted to do in the world came with great

-Opposition is NOT evidence of being out of God’s

-You are not out of God's will just because something bad happens to you. You are out of God's will when you are out of relationship with God

3. God will use your painful seasons to forge your character and unfold his-story. -You will become as strong as life’s challenges forge you to be.

-The beauty of the Christmas story is that it is forged on the canvas of human pain. -Our pain and difficulties is what teaches us what we are and how we will respond to things.

-If Jesus had to take the long and winding road, how much more will you and I end up on the long and winding road