Cooke Revivals with Tracy and Michael Cooke
Cooke Revivals with Tracy and Michael Cooke
Finding Strength and Hope in the Midst of Spiritual Struggles
Have you ever found yourself on your knees, feeling like you've lost the battle of faith? We've all been there, and it's those moments that can either break us or forge us into something stronger. In our heartfelt episode, we peel back the layers of spiritual struggle, drawing on the trials of David and the comforting verses of Psalms and Isaiah. We hold space for the recognition of our falls, and most importantly, we share the profound understanding that it's in our vulnerability that we truly find God's strength and guidance. Join us as we traverse the rocky terrain of faith, reminding you that it's not about the number of times we stumble but the resolve with which we rise.
Weariness can sometimes engulf even the most devout heart, and it's then that we must shed our masks and lay trust in the divine plan. Through the narratives of Elijah's exhaustion and Abraham's impatience, we underline the essential lesson of God's impeccable timing. We take a compassionate look at Joseph's trials, recognizing the transformative power of the hardships that ultimately shaped his destiny. With this episode, we aim to uplift your spirit and pray for anyone feeling the weight of spiritual fatigue. Let's embrace together the champion within and find the perseverance to keep moving forward, anchored in the hope of our divine appointments and the strength they bestow.
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Speaker 1:Well, today's subject we're gonna talk about help me, I've fallen. Help me, I have fallen or I have fallen. Well, I wanna highlight that because we want to deal with the reality of Christianity. Not all the time do we have mountain top experiences. Not all the time do we have that excitement, joy, that fun boy spirit. I'm so, you know, I'm just so on fire for God. No, there is trials, there is tribulation, there's times of mistakes, there's times that, lord, I've gotten off track. I need to seize the moment, seize the opportunity and refocus, realign my life back up with God. So we wanna talk today about subject help me, I'm falling because the reality of this Christian wall.
Speaker 1:There is gonna be moments and days where it feel like hell is bombarding against you. Everything has been ripped from you. One moment you in success, the next moment feel like you're a complete failure. Disappointment has settled in, you feel as though you're suffocating under the weight of every life problems and you find yourself being bombarded in your mind. Your trouble, your perplex. What do you do? Who do you turn to? Who can you trust with the anguish and the pain that is inside of you? Who can you turn to? Who can you get advice from? Wisdom from that can guard your pain, but he'll advance you in the kingdom. Well, that's a very touchy subject, so let's deal with that.
Speaker 1:Let's go to Psalm 1st, 37 and 24. Psalm 38 and 24, and this is a Psalm of David out of the house of bendivate. Now, anybody that knows about pain in the eyes and the life of David, oh my God, just looking through the eyes of David, you can see in your own eyes the moment of success, a moment of great victories, the moment of triumphant moments, and then the moment everything slipped through your hands. David at one moment. Now he is being crowned king of Israel and all of a sudden, armies after armies of Israel, they're fighting, they're winning the battles, and now look like complete success, only to find himself losing his greatest battle. His home begins to get ripped apart, tragedy hits his home, hits his family, and all of a sudden now he finds himself not as a giant killer, not as a king of Israel, but now he finds himself a victim to his own pains, his own suffering. And now he's seeking God and weeping, saying Lord, what should I do? Everything has been stolen zig-lags in the smoking furnace, everything that you work hard for, everything that you sweat at your brow for, and all of a sudden now it's been detached from your life. And now you find yourself in a vulnerable state. But you're still a spirit-filled believer, you still love God, but you're crying out help me. I'm falling, I'm tearing the inside. I don't wanna keep up the appearance anymore. Oh my God, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1:Verse 24, psalm 37, though he fail, he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord. Upholdeth him with his hands. Though he fail, he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord. Listen to that the Lord said though he may mistakes. Oh my God, ladies and gentlemen, let's deal with that. When we get around mistakes and we don't see David acknowledged that the Lord created me a clean heart, renewed me in the right spirit. David acknowledged his transgression. David acknowledged his wrongdoings. But yeah, he's a man that the gospel in heart, but David through his eyes is a vintage image.
Speaker 1:That success is not enough to keep your house in tank. Success is not enough to keep your ministry in tank. There are stages or vulnerabilities cause the same moment of success. All of a sudden, now, the next day, complete failure. You find yourself in a wilderness. You find yourself in depression. You find yourself in a place that you don't wanna rise up from the bed but you rather sleep throughout the day than night to find yourself suffocating in your wallet and your own pain and suffering because you lost your perspective in God.
Speaker 1:The Psalmist David, same the Lord, say. Though he fell, he would not be early cast down, the Lord will hold him with the right hand of His power and authority. You might have fallen today. You may be tar on the inside. You may be up against your greatest financial battle, you may have strife, you might have been gone through a divorce, you may have the massive violence in your home, in your life. Whatever the case may be that you have already faced or Perhaps may face. Not speaking gloom or doom or prophesied by no means, but there is Values that we all walk through and order. Get to the mountaintop experience with God.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, today, if you're just logging on, we're coming from Psalm 37, I'm sorry. Isaiah 40 and 28, that's Isaiah 40 and 28. Isaiah 40 and 28. Has thou not known, has that not her, that ever lesson God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fain if not, neither is weary? We just talked about Psalm 37 and 4 in the life of David. Listen, has thou not known, has thou not heard, that the ever lesson God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fain and not, neither is with it, neither. There is no searching of his understanding. He get power to the faint and to them that have no might, he increases strength. Oh my God, there's no failures in God, the failures in us. So let's talk about this just a moment.
Speaker 1:You know you have to understand God's perfect plan for you. Everything is center around Building your relationship up with God. The psalmist, david, in his eyes, is a vivid image of you. Can have success, and that's mom. Everything is a glad has been ripped and snatched from you. So success is enough is not enough to keep your house in tank. You have to keep your focus center on Christ. But you say I love Christ, I'm just tired, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1:Who to turn to? Well, even the greatest prophets in the Old Testament, elijah, the master prophet, who just called down fire upon the false prophets of Bill. Just a bill sent out assignment against his life, a death threat. How is it that a prophet and that statue, that status, know who Elijah is and 24 hours or so later we're told that he's under the Juniper tree Desiring to die. He's in depression Because he hears one woman, a Jezebel spirit, wants to take his life and send out a death. But he just got through, seen 450 prophets consumed by the fire of God Because Elijah is still Human. He was still human.
Speaker 1:No matter how great you are in your calling, she'll gives your anointing. You're still in this human flesh, you still in this earthland body and as long as you in this earthland body you're gonna be. You're gonna have seasons of vulnerability, you're gonna feel like a prey and the paratroops coming after you. And then you get to a place when you're done, all you know what to do and you're standing. But, lord, when that prophecy is gonna come to pass, when that prayer gonna be answered, when is my loved one gonna be saved? When I'm gonna get that miracle that I need so desperately in my life, how long do I gotta wait before God answers me? And you get weary on life journey. You get weary. Oh my god.
Speaker 1:Another great example of wearing this, not waiting on God's perfect time it was Abraham. We have so much going on today in our land cause. Abraham did not wait upon the Lord Because we think we have to help, guide out, we think we need to aid him, as though he's not God by himself. You know, when you go through these battles, david said. The scripture says when he's fallen, he's not cast down, but he's upholded by the hands of God. God would hold you up when you feel like you have no more strength to fight the battles.
Speaker 1:Warfare is tensified on every corner of your life. Finance is not where it needs to be. Don't have the right job promotion or the right job position. God is faithful and just. You just got to keep holding on and holding out, ladies and gentlemen, and don't you give up on the virtue of your miracle and don't you tune me out.
Speaker 1:Right now I want to help you get up from that state. I feel like I'm tired on the inside. I can't do this anymore. What do you do when you don't want to do it? No more. Very good question. It comes to uniform of a statement. What do you do when you don't want to do it anymore. Oh my God, I have been there so many times where I felt like God. I just don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1:You know the mindsets of people and the prosecution and the level of success and the mistakes of failures and the misopportunities, and you know, please send man keeping up the appearance and, oh my God, joseph put on that mask. He kept up the appearance and Pharaoh's court yards until he came to reality and face his own family and they all fell down his knees and began to take off their masks and cry and say I am your brother, joseph, the very one that you rip the coat of many colors, threw me in the pit, went from Potiphar House, fox accused, but in the wrong place at the wrong time. And now I'm in prison, incarcerated. I'm interpreting dreams and restoring one back to the right hand of Pharaoh. Now I'm interpreting the dream of Pharaoh seven phatic years and seven lean years, and now Israel has been saved and brought to Egypt because of Joseph's obedience, but he's still wearing that mask.
Speaker 1:Are you tired of wearing that mask? You're tired on the inside. That doesn't measure. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, just cause you, tell me inside, doesn't weaken your faith, doesn't make you less of a Christian. It means you've been real with yourself. It doesn't mean God has forsaken you. Doesn't mean God's angry with you. That's foolishness. Stop listening to that foolish and nonsense and stop allowing everyone to speak into your ear gates. There are moments that we all feel like God. This cross I'm carrying is collapsing. It's costing me to collapse. I don't have that same ambition, that same desire, that same hunger. What do you do? What do you preach? Preacher, help me. What do I do? Help me. I'm falling, I'm tar on the inside.
Speaker 1:Well, the only recipe, ladies and gentlemen, is allowing time to heal. Time heals all situations and you have to trust the God of timing. You have to trust the God of perfect timing. Let me give you some examples. See, in the life of David, he had to trust the timetable because he went through so many catastrophic battles in his own home, betrayed by his own son, absalom, who, revolt against him, went to take his crown and his throne. His own son revolted against him. Oh my God, he's facing tragedy at his highest climates.
Speaker 1:Yes, david messed up. Yes, david made a mistake. His mistake did not define his purpose in God. This is making excuses for or give license to it. But your mistake did not define who you are in God. God lived beyond our failures and our mistakes. We just had to get back up, shake ourself, get back in the right mindset of thinking, shift our attitude and realize God's very best intention is for me is to learn from this. Let it be a life lesson to teach me how to make a better person.
Speaker 1:Because of me, I see is the me I'm going to be. So I need to understand that next time I see myself, I need to see myself like Christ sees me. How do Christ see you today? Or how do you see yourself? Well, you may be looking into yourself in a myrione image. You may see nothing but mistakes, failures, problems for piling up. Ministry is not going the way you want to go, job is not so. Seeing what you desire in life, your career is not the one that you chose, that you wanted when you graduated, went to college, and now you find yourself not having a career that you had Desire. And now you find yourself Second guess in the plan, the purpose of God, just like David. What do I do, lord? He cried out unto God. And God said to David get up and pursue, you're going to recover all. Hallelujah today.
Speaker 1:All ladies and gentlemen, this is Prophet Tresa Alakut. You're watching Uniting Faith TV. We want to ignite faith in you. We want to put faith in you that will hold on to the nail scar hands of Jesus. Hold on to the orders of your own heart, your own life. Don't let go the homes of the orders. Why? Because your breakthroughs within reach.
Speaker 1:I know you're going through the hardest part of your life. I can relate. You're going through the hardest test of your life again. We've all been through great challenges, great tests, not because the virus hit the land, my God. We've been challenged and tested for years upon years as Christians. You're going to be tested, you're going to be tried, but you've got to keep the right attitude and you got to keep on marching in the venture of faith. Don't start marching in faith, don't stop. Keep igniting that faith inside of you. Let that desire burn within you again. Let Christ come alive, let hope become alive, let your believing system come alive. Why? Because God's going to do it again.
Speaker 1:God's perfect timing and David recover all just like God said to him. But David had come to a realization. Success is not enough to keep my home intact. Success in ministry is not enough to keep it pack. You got to learn how to close all doors that the emma cannot come in, and it takes time. But you got to learn to close their doors where the emma cannot come in Unwelcome or uninvited. But you'll learn that as you begin to take that step towards the mark of the high calling of God in your life, oh, my God, I want you to know.
Speaker 1:Just like I said Isaiah, listen, has thou not known, has thou not heard that ever less in God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, he fainteth not. Neither is he weary. There is no watching of his understanding. He give power to the faint. Until then, to have no might increases the strength. He give power to the faint. What is he saying? He talked to the believers here. He's not talking to the center, the ungodly. He's talking to his covenant chosen people. And you are his covenant chosen people.
Speaker 1:And listen, everyone in the Bible has made some type of mistakes. Are you greater than Moses? I sure hope you don't put yourself on the same platform as Moses as a prophet. Yes, you may be a prophet, but you are not on the same platform as Moses. By no means. By no means Are you greater than Abraham. So are you greater than Abraham, who had boarded his destiny for a period of 25 years?
Speaker 1:After Ishmael, at 14 years of age, here come Isaac. He went ahead of the plan of God, tried to help out to fulfill prophecy, made a great mistake, oh my God. He made a great mistake, but he became the friend of God. David was a man that God's own heart. He had Uriah, his greatest soldier, murdered so he could have Bethsheba, oh my God. Then his son, king Simon, was the wisest king to ever live, and even some said everything at the end is vanity and my crown don't mean nothing. My position, my platform, my ministry means nothing If I don't understand my assignment. Keep the faith, keep the love of Christ. Resender yourself, refocus, realign yourself today, because I'm telling you, if you haven't been to a season, been tired, value back a place of weeping. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:Even David ran like a fugitive. He had himself in the cave of the Dolan, hunted by Saul, his mentor. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that, mentors, you've been hunted by your mentor. The one that helped train you, disciple you, now is hunting you because you don't want to pass on the patan, or because you got jealous. David 10,000 saw 1000.
Speaker 1:So now mentors turning on their own spiritual children, sons and daughters in faith who are supposed to succeed them in ministry. Oh my God, it's so much perversion in the kingdom. Listen, when it is, your time is up. One's got to decrease, one's got to increase. My God, look at the tragedy. David got tired. He was hiding like a fugitive in the cave of the dormant, running from soul. So had the priest kill, murder the priests, hunting the life of David who serve him. For 10 years was his arm barrier, lived up his hands, serve in his house and now saw as hunting David for a very system, it's very life. And now he's got the high in caves because he's been threatened by his mentor. Oh my God, may God help you mentors, you spiritual father and spiritual mothers. God, shame on you. May God judge you for such nonsense and not understanding that you pass the torch on.
Speaker 1:You don't operate in pride and jealousy, you don't operate in the spirit. I want to keep my crown until the day I die. That's never. It's never God's intention. You have to procreate, in other word, reproduce yourself. You got to reproduce who you are. One put 1000 flight to 10,000 flight.
Speaker 1:But David, he gives us a life lesson. Success is not to keep nothing. Keep my house intact. I got to close all the doors to the enemy coming in unwelcome and uninvited. What do I do? You get up and you pursue. You can recover all, but I'm tired. I know you're tired. We all get there. We all have been there one time and another and I'm sure we may get there again, because in this journey of Christianity there's ups and downs of life.
Speaker 1:Why the bad things happen to good people, I don't know. We'll know that answer when we get to heaven, that's. I can't answer that for you. Why the bad things happen to good people, why are their children diagnosed with diseases that were no fault of their own? I can't answer that. Why do people born Handicap deform? Is the sin of the parents or it's a generational curse? Some cases may be. I do know this. Whatever we don't have an answer for here. One day you can ask all of those questions to the one that holds all the answers.
Speaker 1:But what I do know, in 37 years of ministry, I've learned a lot in this journey, and there's been many valleys and there've been many great mountains, but through it all I've learned how to trust in Jesus. I learned how to stand on this word, trust His tining. When you've done all you know what to do, stand in these. You chump the sins put on the whole arm of God. Yes, you're tired. It's nothing wrong being tired. That doesn't make me less anointed. Oh, my God, please.
Speaker 1:Elijah, the greatest master prophet, got tired, got fatigued, got depressed, but God fed him supernaturally, gave him strength to continue his life ministry and his journey for God. Moses violated everything, hiding holy, buried a man in Egypt cause he wanted to deliver his own people, ran like a fugitive in a backside of the desert, but God kept his appointment with Moses in a backside of the desert. And, ladies and gentlemen, no matter how tired you get, help me out forward. Well, get back up, because God's got appointment with you today and you got appointment with the almighty God.
Speaker 1:Abraham messed up more than any of them in the Old Testament. Because the Bible still rages over the mistake of Abraham today Watch your news, mistake that's taking place in our land, in the Middle East and Israel. All God to do is stand away from the disobedience of Abraham, but we don't want to talk about that. We don't want to talk about disobedience here in Abraham. That's cause of continuous battle, even unto our day and our generation. Get back up. You're not, listen. You can't go under for going over. Oh, hallelujah, let me say that again. You can't go under for going over. I know there's a miracle with your name on it. Through the life of David, we learned today, through the life of Moses, elijah, abraham, on and on and on Peter. There's so many in the Bible, just so many examples. Though he slayed me, yet when I trust him self-inflicted wounds, things we brought on our own self, but yet God has suffered it.
Speaker 1:You say I'm tired. Let me pray for you now. Let me encourage you. Get up one more time, fight one more time. I didn't hear the bell ring. Your opponent is in the center of that ring and he hits below the bell. The adversary, satan hits below the bell. But you got a champion inside of you. You got a champion inside of you. Get back up. Help me. I'm falling Father in the name of Jesus. As this broadcast comes to an end, everyone that's fatigued, spiritually burned out, facing problems in their homes, their life, ministry, their business, encouraged them today. Let this message find them in faith, ignite faith back into them, let them be blessed and courage be real in their lives. Help them, but they can't help themselves. Lord, that is my prayer to everyone in the Son. My voice in Jesus, mighty name, amen, amen.
