Cooke Revivals with Tracy and Michael Cooke
Cooke Revivals with Tracy and Michael Cooke
Spiritual Growth Through Embracing Life's Hardships
Discover the unexpected joy that lies within life's challenges as we traverse the teachings of the Apostle James with me, Prophet Tristan. This episode promises to shine a light on how embracing trials with a joyous heart can lead to profound spiritual fortitude and growth. Experience a shift in perspective as we discuss the virtues of patience and wisdom, providing a beacon of hope for anyone who's in the midst of personal struggles. It's not merely about weathering the storm but emerging from it with a renewed sense of purpose, and a stronger, more resilient faith.
Venture with us through stories of perseverance and the importance of keeping faith afloat during life's roughest waters. We dissect how trials can fortify your connection with God, much like a diamond formed under pressure, and explore the emergence of patience through these very tribulations. This dialogue serves as a reminder that each challenge is a stepping stone towards achieving the greatness outlined in God's promises. Feel uplifted and empowered as we affirm that with God, every obstacle faced is an opportunity for victory, and remember - you are destined to overcome.
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God bless you. This is your prophet, trace Allen Kitt. Welcome to a Nightingale Faith TV program today. Listen, our topic today is going to be Count it All Joy. Oh, my Lord, count it All Joy. Well, you're going to need this message to help build your faith. When there are times of testing, walking through the valleys of the shadow of death, nothing brings awareness and a trust or relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ like being tested. Then you know how much work you have in you, how much work you train yourself to learn to speak as a word speaker. Standing on the word of God, standing on the rock of all ages, the bombing of Gilead. Listen, I know this teacher is going to help you. So welcome again to a Nightingale Faith TV program. We're just so honored to come to you, your homes around the world, wherever you're watching us at, listen, I know that God's going to do what he says. So I want you to comment below what you believe in God for, what you trust in the Lord for, and watch what God does in this program today.
Speaker 1:Well, let's go to the book of James, the servant of God, chapter one, verse one, and of the Lord Jesus Christ. To the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad. Greetings, my brother. Count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptation, many different trials, tribulations, knowing this, that the trial of your faith work a patient, but let patient have her perfect word that you may be perfect and care won't enough. If any of you like wisdom, let him ask of God. They give it to all men liberally and upgrade it not and it shall be giving him.
Speaker 1:Oh James, the apostle James, the youngest of all the apostles, at the age of 17, learned the key ingredient to his ministry understanding the timing of God. Now, everything we go through, you can see where it looks like. Timing is the most essential part of every test. Why? Because it teaches you how to guard your emotions, how to master your emotion. When you got to, count it all joy, all things work together for the good of those that love the Lord, calling coin to his divine purpose. Now the apostle James here he's teaching us through his own eyes, his own trials, testing. He said count it all joy.
Speaker 1:The apostle James, everything he was going through in his ministry, his family, his life, he's saying count it all joy when you fall into situations it looks unbearable, it becomes unpredictable. He said count it all joy. Take this moment, no matter what you're going through, even what you may never understand, take on the attitude of joy. Well, prophets don't feel joy. There's no test filled joy. There's not a trial. They feel joyful. It's not a valley they walk through to feel joyful.
Speaker 1:But I've got to learn how to rejoice even in the face of all adversities and calamities all around. I've got to learn how to take on the attitude, the positive mindset. Thank you, though he slayed me. Yet when I trust you and I am this bits of affliction, I'm going to rise to the occasion and seize the moment for the miracles of Jesus to work in my life. Well, I don't know about you, but there is times when I saw Lord. Am I going to come through this or am I going to come out of this? And you know what? Every single time when I look to one way, god comes another way. When I wasn't expecting it to be as big as it was, all of a sudden God came down and show himself that he is a God, or more than enough.
Speaker 1:I want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, right now, everything you're going through is working to benefit your spiritual growth, producing knowledge and wisdom in you, advancing you in the kingdom. Well, you said it doesn't feel good. Nothing we go through feel good. Sickness, do not feel good. Pain do not feel good. Hard age, disappointment, broken relationship, robber, promotion, robber that position that you know should be yours. So there's so many things you can analyze and look at and have an excuse not to go for it. But we're in this march of faith. That's why this TV program is to help build faith in you, help you get to the place of saying you know what, lord, I'm a count of Lord, joy, my body's right been pained. I'm not speaking negative but, lord, I'm a rejoice caused by your stripes. I am healed. I'm not going to be disappointed because of that.
Speaker 1:Paying said work out the way I want it to work out or the way I pre-just it with the pre-moderation in my own eyes, I'm going to realize this. What did the word of God say? Well, the apostle James is serving of God. He said count of all joy, brother, when you are going to different trials that you don't understand, different things that you're facing that you may not understand, because one thing about it God will make it work for your good. He'll turn that calamity around and make it to be a promotion for you. He knows you're down setting, he knows you're uprising, and I want you to know that anytime God is going to move, anytime you want to call upon the name of the Lord, you can do so. If you need special prayers, call that toll free number at the bottom of the screen Someone standing by to pray with you and believe God for you right now, right now, not tomorrow. He's a right now God. So what are you waiting for? Pick up that phone, down that toll free number, someone standing by to take your prayer request and pray for you and pray with you.
Speaker 1:When, in Romans, chapter five, therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into the grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God, not only so, but we glory in tribulation, oh my God. Not only so, but we glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation. Work with patience, and patience and experience hope. Look at that and hope. Make it not ashamed, because the love of God is shed a broad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Look what he's saying.
Speaker 1:The Apostle Paul was saying in the book of Romans to the Roman believer he's saying listen, but we glory in tribulation. Knowing that tribulation, work with patience and patience and experience hope. We glory in tribulation. Oh, my God, I know what you're thinking right now. What kind of character and manner God was the Apostle Paul?
Speaker 1:Well, down the road, damascus, out chapter nine, he has an encounter with God. And this is what I'm saying to you. You have to understand that everything that God does is sin around. Count it all joy. Well, you don't have the finances that you want. Count it all joy. Believe God for bigger doors. Believe God for great air increase. Believe God, trust him, even though at times you cannot trace him. Trust him, take him at his word.
Speaker 1:Now, two examples are two different ministries here the Apostle Paul and the Apostle James. The Apostle James is saying when you fall into divergentation, don't let it defeat you, don't let mistakes that we often make become the bit of our failure. In other words, learn from those mistakes, learn from those lessons of life and get back on your feet and pursue and get back everything that God said is yours. I prophesied that today You're watching this broadcast for a reason because you need to be lifted up in your spirit and God is telling me to tell you Count it all joy, count all joy. Listen, they said hope, make it not a shame, because the love of God is the growing of hearts by the Holy Ghost. Hope comes from the experience and that experience was birthed by patience, and patience came because of things that you had to endure, things that you had to face.
Speaker 1:And I'm telling you there's times that in our lives where we feel like God has forsaken us. We feel like God, what's going on? You begin to second guess God's plan for your life. You begin to doubt the rest of me that God said is yours. You begin to get into a self-pity part. You find yourself like the prophets of old. You're under a jewellery and you're wishing to die. And then all of a sudden you're like oh God, I'm going to die. You think you're the only one.
Speaker 1:You have that me and myself syndrome, but the fact of the matter is you're not the only one going through a test. You're not the only one that's on a mountain. You're not the only one that's gone through a valley. That's the beauty of relationship Learning from one another. Learn life lesson through someone else that's already been through that done that came out with victory and counted joy. See, when you count a joy, you letting your devil know, you letting yourself know, you know what. I have a good reason to quit, but I've got more reason to keep going. I've got reason to quit throw in the towel, it's over, but I've got more reason to hang on to the horns of the artist of God. I've got more reason to have stick, ability and trust God with my future, because I've already experienced some mean disappointment in my past, failures in my past. But I've turned those failures of your past, that's turned them into your tomorrow, platforms of victory. Count it all joy, oh my God. As I was saying earlier, we're talking about two different ministries, two different characters, but both of them is saying Count it all joy.
Speaker 1:The apostle Paul, down the road to the mask and thinking he was doing the will of God, prosecuting the Christians, had the wrong intention but thinking he had the right intentions. But God got his undivided attention down the road to mask and the light from heaven shut down and gave him the ability to see the right way. And, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to know God will open your eyes of understanding. He will give you wisdom and knowledge he will bring you forth with divine clarity. Well, you said how can I rejoice? I just lost a loved one. How do I rejoice? Because our names are written in the book of life.
Speaker 1:The life I live is not the life that you see. As the apostle Paul said, I put off this old tabernacle. Why? Because this is just bars of bones of house to flesh. The real us is the spirit, and one day it's a point to man to die in the judgment of God. But while we have our living here on this earth, we will be tested, we will be tried. We will have prosperity, times of success in our business, our ministry, our family. Then it's going to be times of brokenness, times of separation, times of weeping. You know, it's a time to laugh, it's a time to dance, time to rejoice, time to mourn.
Speaker 1:Now, all of that allows you to see that you're a human and you have need of someone who has more power and strength than you do. So when you go through the storms of life, lean on the anchor that holds. Now, I don't know how many times your cells are being ripped and torn. The anchor holds. In spite of every storm that you may ever encounter. Don't give up on the break of your miracle. Well, I'm so glad to be able to share this with you today.
Speaker 1:We're talking about counting it all joy. We have grace. Grace enabled me to stand the test. Grace enabled me to stand before my giants, and though the giants look way taller than I do, the giants look fearful, but I'm not operating in fear. I'm operating in the mind of Christ, the spirit of the anointing one. I'm operating in the understanding.
Speaker 1:No matter what I encounter, no matter what you go through, you don't have to give up on the verge of a miracle. You don't have to throw in the towel just yet. Hold on, hold out. I'm igniting faith in you to believe for the impossible. The Apostle James said brother, when you fall, that means there will be a time of vulnerability. There will be a time that you feel crushed. There will be a time disappointment come.
Speaker 1:We don't have all those answers, but the answer is we do know, we apply them, we teach you how to have faith, because we have weathered a lot of storms, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of storms over 37 years of ministry. We have weathered a lot of storms and we're still standing. Thank you, lord, in His name. We're counting it all Join. Oh my God. So many things that I've been testing, going through mistakes I've made going ahead of God like behind. But I've always found that moment All right. I can't change it, god you can. I can't fix it, god you can. So my attitude determines my altitude. If I'm gonna come out of this, I'm gonna count on all joy.
Speaker 1:You may feel like everything in your life is incarcerated. You may feel like you're back us up against the wall. There's no way out. You may feel hopeless and to a pit of despair. Get up again. Raise up again. Climb one more time. Climb, get up one more time because I guarantee you, when you start moving forward, in the middle of what you go through, you'll find God will become more real in your life. You'll find the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob, the God that say you know what? I'm not gonna leave you in the middle of this trial. I'm not gonna forsake you because you have a moment of grief or doubt. I'm not gonna leave you because you doubt my word. See, a lot of people. They wanna just be so judgmental and cruel.
Speaker 1:Now, every one of us had doubt at one time or another, even down in Thomas. He said I won't I believe that until I see the NL Prince in his hands. All the other apostles he came to. He revealed himself to him and they said Thomas, jesus is resurrected, he's alive. He said I'm not gonna believe that unless I see the NL Prince in his hands. Then all of a sudden Jesus shows up and he says look into my hands. Blessed are those who have not seen but yet have believed Thomas. See, thomas, the reason why he had honest doubts? Because he saw the crucifixion right before he very own eyes. He saw his master and lord crucify Calvary. So any hope that redemption is gonna take place seemed hopeless and it was over with. But the moment that Jesus said it was finished was not saying it's over. I'm counting the whole joy. I came to my own, my own receiving not Got whipped with a cat of nine tails, beer plucked out, crowns of thorns to munt me as the king of kings. But no matter what, he counted all joy because he said not my will be done, but that will be done.
Speaker 1:Listen, ladies and gentlemen, patience comes and it's birth out of what you go through. So think about this. One of the fruits of the spirit is patience. So the next time the Emmy is so pressing you, trying to call her she to quit, or trying to make you feel like you're not good enough. You done, you messed up. What have you now? Tell the devil? He's a liar. And you turn this around. You and God. You take the first step, he'll take the next step. You begin to lift your hands. We've been being dirt for the night Psalm 35,. But joy come within the morning.
Speaker 1:And when you go through those, listen to what the apostle Paul said. We glory in tribulations. We glorify God in a midst of what the devil man from harm. God's going to turn around for our good. Oh my God, keeping the attitude centered upon the cross, speaking metaphorically, as a place of deliverance. There's hope that make it not a shame, but it's one. It is there, I brought in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is giving them to us. There's no shame in going through a trial, a test or a self-inflicted wound, not that we want to. Even with a self-inflicted wound, the woman who had a blood disease for 12 years and marked chapter five was a step. She brought that on her own self a self-inflicted wound, but God was so merciful, full of grace, that he wanted her to understand. Count this joy, no matter what you go through in life, cause it can work for your good if you are turned over to the Lord Jesus Christ. I expect God to intervene, expect God to be real and watch how God changed the outlook of your own life.
Speaker 1:Two greater samples and assuming more in the word of God. This is the bill you to a place that calls what Tribulation work at patience. So if you're always in the hurry like this, there's some tribulation coming. Not speaking negative or prophesying, but listen, I've learned, you gotta wait on the Lord, isaiah 1431,. But they, the way to put a law, shall renew that strength. They shall mount up a wings of ego. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk, and not what. Run and not be weary, walk and not faint. Why? Because you are approaching the situation not in the eyes of defeat but the eyes of victory. I'm not defeated If I get back. I'm on defeated If I close my arms and give up, surrender the fight to the enemy.
Speaker 1:You are a champion of faith. You are not what the enemy says you are. You are what God says you are and you're gonna do and accomplish everything that God says you can cause. I believe in you. Jesus believes in you and this word enables me to stand when I don't know nothing else to do. If he's your chapter says I'm going to stand and be victorious. Why? Because I know that God is faithful. I know that God is a just God and no matter what you may be going through today, first and foremost, take God and his word. Take him in his word. Second of all, analyze what you're going through in the eyes of faith. See it like God sees. God already sees you overcome. He already sees you victorious. Let's see Torrey's disciple. Let us cross over.
Speaker 1:Storm came, the boat began to fill the water. Disciple was when the water began to fill the boat. They were operating. The word of the fear came on them, but Jesus rebuked the winds and the waves and said peace, be still. Oh, you're a little faint. Count it joy because you're crossing over. Let's hope and believe in that faith and trust in it and that victory on the other side of this storm. There is victory on the other side of this test. There's a victory on the other side of this valley. Whatever you're going through today, rejoice. And when you're on the mountain, rejoice, because every mountain that's a valley behind it, every valley that's a mountain in front of it. You need to understand. God trains us and his disciple does, and let patient have her perfect work in your life.
Speaker 1:Don't be in a hurry. Wait on the Lord, cause when you wait on him you are renewing your strength and ability to stand against all odds. That's pounding up against you, and the next time the enemy wants to discourage you, shake it off. Shake the devil off In the name of Jesus. Stay in the word of God, stay in prayer, stay in fashion, stay in your covenant commitment with God. Well, I want to pray for you right now that God would encourage you, build your faith. I hope you enjoy this broadcast. Listen, this is to help you, to strengthen, encourage you and, whatever you're going through, don't be embarrassed or ashamed. It's good, because you have to realize you're not the only one that's been knocked down. The key is get back up. Get back up, fight this fight of faith. Don't throw in the towel. There's a miracle with your name on it. That's a breakthrough with your name on you and your household, you and your family.
Speaker 1:Father, I thank you right now to everyone on son of my voice that's watching me right now In their homes or in their cars. How are they watching this broadcast we're talking about? Counted all joy, lord. I release the spirit of joy. I release the spirit of happiness. I release happiness To cover sorrow. God moved that grief, move that pain of a lost loved one, move that pain, sickness in their body. Counted all joy, lord. Release promotion, prosperity. I release healing. In the mighty name of Jesus.
Speaker 1:Well, again, thank you for joining us in this broadcast. Just a little honor, a minute to go before the broadcast ends. Before he ends, I want to remind you again, if you have not downloaded our free app, do so today. There's materials there that could help you, develop you, keep you in faith. You can watch it 24, seven and those moment that Amy wants to test you.
Speaker 1:Remember. All things work together For the good at. Look those that love the law also to don't forget. Thank you for your support in this ministry. Your contribution is needed. Thank you, because he that when so is his wise. So thank you for your continued monthly partnership with us. And you're not a part of monthly partnership with us. Consider being a monthly partner, partnership with us in this ministry, because we're making a difference in the lives of so many countless Valences, and we want you to be a part of the greatest happen in your life. Join hands today. Well, my friend, I love you, appreciate you this is prophet Tristan and cook in night in faith TV program. And remember Nothing's impossible with God. Nothing counted. All joy counted, all joy which is gonna work out at the end. God bless you.
