Forgiving Unfair // Life is Unfair – F.U. – Forgiveness University (Part 7) – Michael Todd – Transformation Church

Mike Todd’s Introduction

• Did you know that the real sign of spiritual maturity is not circumstance? When you can praise God, no matter what, it’s a sign of maturity.
• When we start to remember that God got us through the last season, relationship, pain, and hurdle – memory allows us to be thankful.
• You’re still here – even if you didn’t like what happened – by the grace of God.
• It’s on purpose, and for a purpose.
• God says, “I have a designer piece of clothing for you, called praise.” You can take off the heaviness and put on praise. He wants you with your problems, faults, and flaws and He wants your praise.
• If you’ve had a spirit of heaviness over your life – whether it’s the election, finances, a broken heart, a lack of purpose – there’s been a spirit of heaviness. Put on a spirit of praise. How? Speak well of God.
• Turn your compliments upward. “Lord, thank you for loving me. Lord I lift you. I magnify you. You are bigger than the depression, anxiety, my success. God I love you. There’s nobody like Jehovah. You’re the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
• Today as a church, as we meet on almost every confident, Father, I thank you that the spirit of heaviness has to go. We come against the spirit of heaviness right now. We thank you Father God that praise will go before us and transform us to be more like You. We agree with you God.
• Declare that, “I agree with God”.
• We see God’s hand in this challenging year of 2020.
• No matter what happened for you emotionally this week, you are not a citizen first of the USA. You are a citizen of heaven. We have responses in heaven’s systems that produces results on Earth as it is in heaven. We have prayer, praise, and we can lift a hallelujah that affects what happens here on Earth. Make sure that it’s reflected at work when you hear racists talking, not just here in church. There is no greater time for the church to be the church than right now.
• All you have is all you need.
• When we look at all God has done in these 6 short years of ministry, this is a bunch of people with faith – in fact, crazy faith – to believe in impossible moments.
• Faith without works is dead. Every year, we have opportunities to stretch our faith with a crazy faith offering on Sunday, December 6^th. This is a spiritual act that we’re going to pray and ask God to stretch our faith in a particular area. If you go to God and ask Him what you’re supposed to sow. He will tell you. From Mike’s experience, He usually challenges you – but all He is looking for is obedience. Mike has watched how God has honored His word over their lives and the lives of their staff.
• You only get to what’s on the other side when you obey.
• We’re going to come to this moment and show our children’s children how to honor the house of God.
• This is a Holy moment of giving. Mike has provided with the team for people to actually come and to actually give their offering.
• From November 30^th to December 5^th, from 7AM to 7PM, there will be experience rooms with worship playing. This will be a journey. For some of you, it’s not just a click away. It can be the thing that changes everything. When Mike saw God change his heart, it changed his world.
• This is an opportunity for your faith to grow.
• Today, we are in week 7 of a series we’re calling F.U.

• Mike really does believe God has given him a word today and that church should be enjoyed, not endured.
• Mike had some family members go to a high school playoff game this week. Mike asked, “Did the team win the game?” The response was, “the referees were horrible.” The person never answered if they won or lost – they just wanted to let Mike know that it was an unfair game.

1. A True Champion Must Always Overcome Unfair 

There will be a game where they refs didn’t get it right. There will be a game that’s unfair. To be a true victor, you have to overcome unfair.

When it comes to forgiveness, it’s only needed when it’s in an unfair situation.

You only need to forgive when it’s unfair.

Look at our champion, Jesus. Think about what He had to go through. Everything He went through for us, beaten, betrayed, dogged by people who cheered for Him on one day, was all unfair and He still died for us.  

2 Corinthians 2:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)

14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us spreads and makes evident everywhere the sweet fragrance of the knowledge of Him.

We always talk about triumph.

Triumph means victory.

Victory means battle.

Battles are always unfair.

You never get a victory if you never had a battle. The battle is prerequisite for the victory. We don’t pray for battles, we just pray for victory. That’s fine, as long as you know the victory is on the other side of the battle.

When you’re going against someone and trying to win, people start to fight unfairly.

You’re not in battles where everyone is trying to do the right thing.

When something happens unfairly, you have a higher opportunity to be offended.

Something will happen that isn’t warranted.

Most people don’t forgive because nobody in their life acknowledges that what happened to them wasn’t unfair.

 It causes people to feel like they have to protect themselves.

Message Title: Forgiving Unfair

You’ve been holding onto the offense because nobody came and acknowledged that it was so wrong and unfair.

2. Unfair is Never Fair

You can never make fair out of an unfair situation.

• It was unfair for your Dad to have a child and not be there for you. It was unfair for you to have to graduations with nobody there.

• It was unfair for your siblings to get attention for sports and for you to not get any for academics.

• It was unfair to not have an opportunity to be recognized at that church for your seed and being compared to a tree.

• It’s unfair for you to have been treated how you were in that family. It’s unfair for you to have to be by yourself caring for your special needs child.

• It’s unfair that you trusted a leader who took advantage of you because you were loyal.

• It’s unfair that you were passed over for promotion because of your skin color.

• It’s unfair that it took all of these years to have a black female VP in the USA.

What do we do when that is our reality?

The only way to fix something is to validate it first.

You can’t fix something that you don’t validate is real. “You do have Daddy issues.” If you don’t acknowledge it and validate how you feel, you can’t fix it.

When you’ve been from man to man, then you do in fact, deal with insecurity. When you feel the need to buy Birkin bags, the rest of us can see the little girl who didn’t get presents. Now, you provide for yourself and get all of these stuff. Does it keep you warm at night?

If we act like it’s not valid, it can’t be fixed.

John 16:33 New Living Translation (NLT)

33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

Have you had something unfair happen to you this year?

Are we going to just talk about forgiving or actually do the things to address the areas in our lives that are hard to forgive?

It’s unfair and it’s hard to forgive your husband/wife for cheating on you and/or leaving you.

Some of you may have signed up for Fake Forgiveness University.

People who are in Fake Forgiveness University are prideful. People in Forgiveness University understand their need for God and are humble.

People who are in Fake Forgiveness University keep count of offenses. How many people have you made tallies on how many times they messed you over? People in Forgiveness University lose count of offense. The 70 x 7 was to lose count, not to keep score.

People who are in Fake Forgiveness University think forgiveness is an option. “I’ll forgive when they apologize… or I’ll forgive when I’m ready, etc.” People in Forgiveness University know that forgiveness is mandatory.

People who are in Fake Forgiveness University give people what they deserve. People in Forgiveness University you give people grace that isn’t deserved.

People who are in Fake Forgiveness University focus on the faults of others. People in Forgiveness University focus on the forgiveness provided by our Father.

People who are in Fake Forgiveness University – believe that forgiveness is only acceptable when circumstances are unfair. People in Forgiveness University give forgiveness when circumstances are unfair.

Today, we’re going to look at the story of Joseph.

Genesis 37 New International Version (NIV)

Joseph’s Dreams

37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line.

Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

8 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Joseph Sold by His Brothers

12 Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem, 13 and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.”

“Very well,” he replied.

14 So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.

When Joseph arrived at Shechem, 15 a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, “What are you looking for?”

16 He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?”

17 “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”

So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. 18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

19 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. 20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”

21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said. 22 “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing— 24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.

25 As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

26 Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.

28 So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

29 When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. 30 He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn’t there! Where can I turn now?”

31 Then they got Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. 32 They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe.”

33 He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”

34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. 35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.

36 Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

His brothers tried to kill him. One brother suggested putting him in a well. Then they sold him.

He had a lot of opportunities to sit in the chair of unfair. He was betrayed.

Chair of Unfair #1: BETRAYAL

The first chair of unfair you have to avoid sitting in is the chair of betrayal.

You can’t betray someone if there isn’t already trust there.

People can spend decades of their life not fulfilling God’s plan and purpose for their life because they rather sit in the seat of betrayal.

What if Joseph said, “That’s it for me. I’ve been betrayed by the people I love.” He was only 17 years old. The people closest to him cut him so deep. He didn’t stay seated in betrayal. He was able to somehow keep moving in an unfair situation.

Does overcoming have something to do with moving even when it’s unfair?

Joseph was later sold into slavery to Potiphar, who begins to see the anointing in Joseph’s life and puts him in charge of a lot of things. Joseph was also a handsome man.

Joseph was working one day and a cougar, Potiphar’s wife, saw him and she would ask him to sleep with her every day.

Joseph one day, caught himself getting pinned down by the cougar despite always rejecting her. Somehow, she was able to get his coat, and she screamed until Potiphar came. She said to throw him in jail for trying to rape her. That was an unfair, untrue accusation.

Now he had been blamed.

Chair of Unfair #2: BLAME

Now, you choose not to take responsibility for anything you do because you now blame everyone and you choose to stay in it.

“I ain’t forgiving them.” That was unfair. You didn’t even do it and you were still blamed. God wants us to forgive unfair, but we’re forfeiting the ultimate plan God has for us because we want to sit in the chair of unfair.  

If you don’t move from the chair, you start replaying the situation and it starts to change your character.

Joseph could’ve said, “maybe I should’ve done it if I’m still going to get blamed for it anyway.” Then we sit in this place of blame. You may feel like, “maybe I should’ve just cussed them out.”

Joseph ended up in jail after being falsely accused/blamed. He suffered full consequences for something he didn’t do.

The Holy Spirit can allow you to get out of the seat of betrayal and the seat of blame.

Joseph was able to continue being effective, even though he was in unfair situations.

He was still nimble. He didn’t stay seated in any of the chairs.

When you’ve been betrayed, you find other people who have been betrayed.

We build relationships around dysfunction.

• • • Side-note: Mike’s friend Pastor Dr. Dharius Daniels wrote a book called “Relational Intelligence” that will walk you through how to assess your relationships, define them, discern them, align them, and finally activate your relationships to unlock your greatest potential. See below:

You can always find somebody to agree with your dysfunction.

What if Joseph didn’t interpret the dream and chose to not care and to say that he didn’t care? Since Joseph could see blame, but didn’t sit in it, he could still be used by God. God still wants to use you, even though the place you’re in right now is unfair.

Joseph interpreted both dreams. That the cup bearer would be restored and that the baker would ultimately experience death. He did the interpretations despite not deserving to be there. He asked the cup bearer to just remember him and put in a good word for him. The cup bearer agreed, but still forgot about Joseph for 2 years.

Joseph is now a decade into this life. The bible says that the cup bearer thought no other thought about Joseph.

The chair a lot of people live in right now is the chair of being bypassed. “People keep passing me up, they don’t see me, someone is always more talented, they still forgot about me.” This is the seat the enemy wants you to stay in. He wants to make you feel insecure because you’re always bypassed.

Chair of Unfair #3: BYPASS

For 2 years, Joseph sat in jail, faith probably fading because nobody considered him – didn’t give him a thought.

It’s unfair that they don’t see you, that they don’t acknowledge you, that they never sang your song, that your family always forgets your birthday, that they never return the favors, that they keep bypassing you – but are you going to sit in it?

Any of these chairs are lifelong chairs. There are people that are already dead sitting in these chairs.

Betrayal, Blame, and Bypass – All people have had these things happen to them. The enemy wants you to stay seated.

He’ll bring people that tell you, “Don’t be free” … “Hang on to that.”…“They deserve that.”…”They deserve to not have you at thanksgiving.”… “If it was me…”

“They’ll never see you, so don’t see anyone else. Start comparing and competing. Make them see you. Overcompensate.” – Your motivation is no longer purpose from God, it’s the pain that you’ve experienced.

For Joseph, somehow after everything that happened, he was still usable by God despite the unfair situation.

Two years later, the Pharaoh had a dream that nobody could interpret. Then the cup bearer remembered Joseph. They called him up, changed his clothes, and brought him to the king.

Most people, after all of the pain that’s happened to them, they’re so jaded even when they get to the palace they don’t even want to use their gift anymore. “I’ll keep from you, what God has given me, because what happened to me was unfair.”

When God speaks to you, is it pure or is it defiled by all of the stuff in you?

Anecdote: Mike was betrayed by a bad contractor. He went to the church. He was betrayed, because there was church. He was blamed for stuff that hadn’t happened. He bypassed Mike by taking a lien out on Mike’s house before they could even meet to discuss. Mike was paying about 3k in interest every month. At that time, Mike had no money, he was “broke, broke”. However, the whole time he was there, he was preaching more than he had ever been preaching in his life. Eventually, his parents loaned him the money after wasting almost 30k. God never came down to smite the contractor. Mike had to pay for it after being betrayed, blamed, and bypassed. God was trying to figure out in Mike, how much could he take without letting the bitterness come out through him to the people in the church.

Joseph was able to interpret Pharaoh’s dream because he was forgiving all along the way.

**Side note: go back and read these chapters in Genesis (Genesis 41:1-57).

Joseph went from the prison to the palace because he was still usable by God.

Your situation will change if you don’t remain seated in the chair of unfair.

He got the ultimate upgrade, but the test wasn’t over.

His brothers and father fell into famine as well. At this point, he was sitting in the seat of power and the people who betrayed him now needed his blessing.

This is where most people betray it all, it’s the chair of bitterness. When you become something bigger and you decide to be bitter.

Chair of Unfair #4: BITTERNESS

“You can’t be talking to me” – “I was trying to figure out if you deserve my forgiveness.” When we sit in the seat of bitterness, God’s ultimate plan for our lives gets thwarted.

In fact, we even pass on generational bitterness.

You don’t speak to a certain uncle because of generational bitterness.

The racism in your life has been nurtured.

Fear, insecurity, poverty – you have been nurtured as it relates to them.

Joseph figured out how to forgive unfair.

It wasn’t necessarily easy. He may have even been in and out of the chairs briefly.

We have to navigate on our journey with God. People will mess you up. You’ll have opportunities to be betrayed, to sit in blame, but you have to be able to navigate people who side step you and to refrain from bitterness.

For Joseph, it had been 22 years of forgiving unfair.

Could God trust you with your offender?

It may never happen, but could God trust you with your offender?

Could God trust you with the life of the person who betrayed you?

Anecdote: The man who did Mike wrong had really played them. He had never even put in the heat in the house. The first few months of their daughter’s life were cold. Then that man’s son showed up at the doorstep 7 years ago. When his son needed help after being betrayed, now Mike had something that mattered to him. What was going to come out? Mike said, “hey bro, ride with me to the bank”. Mike blessed the socks off of him – not because Mike wanted to but, because he remembered what God had done for him.

If you’re ever going to be able to walk in the blessing God has called you to be in, you will have to forgive people that have done things to you that were unfair.

Hebrews 12:15 New King James Version (NKJV)

15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

If your root is bitterness, then you can be doing the right thing, the wrong way. For example, you don’t serve God out of trying to “do good” and to “prove” your salvation.

If you’re going to forgive unfair:

1. Believe God is With You

In the midst of all of his trials, God was with Joseph. No matter the betrayal, blame, or bypass, God is with you.

Genesis 39:2-3 New Living Translation (NLT)

2 The Lord was with Joseph, so he succeeded in everything he did as he served in the home of his Egyptian master. 3 Potiphar noticed this and realized that the Lord was with Joseph, giving him success in everything he did.

2. Being in an Unfair Situation Doesn’t Release You of Your Responsibility

All things are working together for your good.

Things may be unfair, but it doesn’t take the responsibility off of you.

Anecdote: Mike found MJ’s autism diagnosis to be a completely unfair situation. He felt betrayed by God. He thought of anyone and everyone to blame for the diagnosis, etc. Nevertheless, God told Mike that he needed to be working while He (God) was working everything out.

The season is hard, but God is still good. The season is jacked up, but He is still with you.

Some of you have been sitting down trying to defer your responsibility. Every step of the way, Joseph had something to do.

James 1:12 New International Version (NIV)

12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

3. Serve When It Sucks

He was in the prison and he did nothing wrong. Mike may have been in there for potentially touching her booty after being pursued every day, but Joseph did nothing wrong. He had no fault and he was still asked of God to use his gifts.

Will you sing when it sucks? Will you pray for people when it sucks? Will you pray for the president when it sucks?

It’s crazy that there’s a group of people only willing to pray for the president they like.

Will you still give? Will you still love? Will you still serve?

Colossians 3:23 New Living Translation (NLT)

23 Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord, rather than for the people who have blamed you, betrayed you, bypassed you, or made you feel bitter.

This week, write down everything that happened to you. It was unfair. You don’t have to stay there. You can forgive unfair.

Genesis 41:50-52 New Living Translation (NLT)

50 During this time, before the first of the famine years, two sons were born to Joseph and his wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On. 51 Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.” 52 Joseph named his second son Ephraim, for he said, “God has made me fruitful in this land of my grief.”

Joseph named his children based on what God had done for him.

4. Don’t Name Out of Your Pain

Name it “a practice round”. Name it “preparation”. Don’t put a name on it that sums up your pain.

God can’t deliver if you’ve already decided. Don’t decide to stay depressed and stay in anxiety. Joseph never decided that God couldn’t use the unfair. Don’t put a period where God has put a comma.

If Joseph put a period, we wouldn’t be talking about it today.

Surrender your chair.

Our Savior sat in these seats so that you would never have to sit in them. He even washed Judas’ feet and allowed him to go betray Him. He was betrayed, blamed, and bypassed.

If you accept Jesus, you can get out of the chair of unfair.

When you forgive, freedom happens. Now you can walk around and move freely.

Genesis 45 New International Version (NIV)

Joseph Makes Himself Known

45 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. 2 And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.

4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! 5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. 6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. 7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. 9 Now hurry back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay. 10 You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have. 11 I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’

12 “You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you. 13 Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

14 Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping. 15 And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.

16 When the news reached Pharaoh’s palace that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and all his officials were pleased. 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan, 18 and bring your father and your families back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can enjoy the fat of the land.’

19 “You are also directed to tell them, ‘Do this: Take some carts from Egypt for your children and your wives, and get your father and come. 20 Never mind about your belongings, because the best of all Egypt will be yours.’”

21 So the sons of Israel did this. Joseph gave them carts, as Pharaoh had commanded, and he also gave them provisions for their journey. 22 To each of them he gave new clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes. 23 And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions for his journey. 24 Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Don’t quarrel on the way!”

25 So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. 26 They told him, “Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt.” Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them. 27 But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. 28 And Israel said, “I’m convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Your offenders don’t know what to say when they get caught.

Joseph acknowledge that God sent him there ahead of his brothers to preserve their lives.

Every unfair situation is not a setback. It was a setup to preserve generations.

Your unfair situation surrendered to God is not a destination, it’s a direction.

3. Your Unfair Situation Surrendered to God is not a Destination it’s a Direction

God didn’t leave him. He went through it with him and used him in a mighty way. The Lord was with Joseph.

Have you sat down in one of these chairs and have you got comfortable?

If you’ve chosen to sit in any of these unfair chairs, today, by the power of Jesus Christ, you are being offered an opportunity to get up.

Get up and lift your hands. Surrender the unfair to God.

You won’t stay there. You’ll be directed.

Prayer and altar call: Father God, we are asking that you be with anyone harboring unforgiveness. Your word says you are an ever present help in times of trouble. Thank you that right now by your spirit that you will be with us. We ask that people’s purpose will come alive today, that a new fire would raise up on the inside of them. That because of what you did on the cross, they can get up. That even when the season sucks, that they will be able to serve. Serve their husband, wife, or business. You went down and defeated death, hell, and the grave so that we could get up. You are the undefeated king. You are champion. You took the unfair situation of the world’s sin and took it on your shoulders so that we could get up. Holy Spirit, do the work that only you can do. Anyone who believes in you can come boldly to you and ask for help. Here we are Father. If you’ve never gotten from the chair, God is saying, He can help you. Mike used to be comfortable in these chairs, now he has a conviction to not let these chairs become his home. This is being offered to you, the greatest gift you can ever have. A progressing life brought to you by the Holy Spirit, the paraclete who walks beside you. If you want to be added to this prayer, all you have to do is believe and confess that Jesus Christ died for you and rose again just for you and so that you could get out of these chairs. On the count of three, slip your hand in the air. 1. You’re making the greatest decision you’ve ever made. 2. You are the one that God has been coming after and we’re proud of you. 3. Just lift that hand up. Heaven is going to rejoice because you’re being added to the number of people who have come to God.

Prayer of Salvation: God, thank you. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for dying for me. Thank you for raising again for me. Today, I receive you, change me, renew me, transform me, I’m yours, from this day forward, in Jesus name, I agree, Amen.

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Next week, Mike is going to talk about “Forgiving Fathers.” We all need to watch next week.

Watch this sermon again. Watch some other ones and some other ministries. Go out this week and live a transformed life.

You can also still get “Relationship Goals” the book and study guide today for additional relationship support:

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SUMMARY NOTES

1. A True Champion Must Always Overcome Unfair

– Triumph means victory.

– Victory means battle.

– Battles are always unfair.

2. Unfair is Never Fair

– Chair of Unfair #1: BETRAYAL

– Chair of Unfair #2: BLAME

– Chair of Unfair #3: BYPASS

– Chair of Unfair #4: BITTERNESS

If you’re going to forgive unfair:

– Believe God is With You

– Being in an Unfair Situation Doesn’t Release You of Your Responsibility

– Serve When It Sucks

– Don’t Name Out of Your Pain

3. Your Unfair Situation Surrendered to God is not a Destination it’s a Direction

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