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Have you ever felt betrayed, overlooked, or abandoned—and wondered if God even noticed? In this powerful message, you’ll discover that God sees what they did, and He’s already responding on your behalf. Drawing from the story of Joseph, the Red Sea, and powerful biblical promises, this message will remind you that the betrayal, the silence, and the attacks are not the end of your story—they’re the setup for your breakthrough.
👉 If you’ve been asking, “Where is God in this?” — this message will renew your hope, restore your faith, and reveal that His hand has been on you all along.
📖 Scripture Highlight: “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” — Isaiah 54:17
Have you ever felt betrayed, overlooked, or abandoned—and wondered if God even noticed? In this powerful message, you’ll discover that God sees what they did, and He’s already responding on your behalf. Drawing from the story of Joseph, the Red Sea, and powerful biblical promises, this message will remind you that the betrayal, the silence, and the attacks are not the end of your story—they’re the setup for your breakthrough.
👉 If you’ve been asking, “Where is God in this?” — this message will renew your hope, restore your faith, and reveal that His hand has been on you all along.
📖 Scripture Highlight: “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” — Isaiah 54:17
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00:00I don't know who this is for today, but you've been carrying something heavy.
00:04You've been wrestling with the thought, and do they even know what they did to me?
00:08Does anybody even see how they treated me?
00:11Does anybody even care?
00:13And the enemy has been whispering in your ear, nobody notices.
00:18Nobody's coming.
00:19You're on your own.
00:21But I came to remind you, God sees what they did.
00:24He saw the betrayal.
00:26He saw the lie.
00:27He saw the doors they slammed in your face.
00:29He saw the moments you cried yourself to sleep, wondering if you'd ever get back up again.
00:34And here's the good news.
00:36God doesn't just see.
00:38He responds.
00:39The Bible tells us in Genesis that when Joseph's brothers threw him into a pit and left him for dead,
00:45God was already orchestrating a palace.
00:48What they thought was the end of his story was just the beginning of his promotion.
00:52They stripped Joseph of his coat, but they couldn't strip him of his calling.
00:56And the same is true for you.
00:58They may have tried to bury you, but they didn't know you were a seed.
01:02They may have thought they were breaking you, but God is using it to make you.
01:07See, the people who wronged you, they thought they got away with it.
01:10They thought they closed the book on your life.
01:13But God keeps the receipts.
01:15God doesn't overlook injustice.
01:16He doesn't forget pain.
01:18He doesn't ignore the silent tears you've cried when nobody else was around.
01:22And while you've been trying to figure out how to fix it, God's already been moving behind the scenes to redeem it.
01:31That's why the scripture says, no weapon formed against you shall prosper.
01:35Notice it doesn't say the weapon won't form.
01:38It doesn't say you won't feel the sting of betrayal.
01:40It says it won't prosper, which means what the enemy designed to destroy you, God is going to use to deliver you.
01:49You may be in a pit right now.
01:51You may be standing in front of a closed door.
01:53You may feel like your reputation has been ruined.
01:56Your opportunity missed.
01:57Your trust shattered.
01:58But don't you dare confuse silence with absence.
02:02Just because God hasn't made a move yet doesn't mean he's not working.
02:07He is the God who part sees when his people feel trapped.
02:10He is the God who shuts lion's mouth when his children are surrounded.
02:14He is the God who shows up in fiery furnaces and turns up his glory until not even the smell of smoke is on you.
02:23And I believe he's about to respond in your situation.
02:26The same people who counted you out are going to have to watch God raise you up.
02:31The same people who tried to break you are going to see that it only built you.
02:36The same circumstances that were meant to bury you are about to reveal the fruit of your faith.
02:42So hold your head high.
02:43Keep walking in obedience.
02:45Refuse to let bitterness take root.
02:48Because God sees what they did and he's responding.
02:51Not on your timetable but on his.
02:54Not in your way but in a way that will leave no doubt that it was his hand at work.
02:59And when he does you won't even want revenge anymore.
03:02You'll just stand in awe and say look what the Lord has done.
03:06God saw the betrayal before you did.
03:09And he already planned your breakthrough.
03:12You didn't stumble into this season by accident.
03:15And you're not facing what you're facing because God has abandoned you.
03:18Long before you even took your first breath God knew every detail of your story.
03:24He knew the pain you would encounter.
03:27The people who would betray you.
03:29And the tears you would cry when you felt misunderstood and overlooked.
03:32That's why his word says before I formed you in the womb I knew you.
03:37Before you were born I set you apart.
03:40You were already chosen.
03:42You were already appointed.
03:44You were already marked for a purpose that no one can cancel.
03:48Betrayal may have blindsided you but it never blindsided God.
03:53What shook you didn't shake him.
03:54And what caught you off guard never caught him off guard.
03:57He saw it all before it ever touched your life.
04:01And he had already made a way of escape.
04:03Think about Joseph.
04:04His brothers hated him.
04:06Sold him into slavery.
04:07And lied to their father about him being dead.
04:11Joseph didn't see it coming.
04:13He didn't wake up that morning expecting to be thrown into a pit.
04:16And stripped of his coat.
04:18But God saw it long before.
04:20And while Joseph was in the pit.
04:22While he was in Potiphar's house.
04:24While he was in the prison.
04:25And God was already planning the palace.
04:28The betrayal was not the end.
04:30It was a step toward the breakthrough.
04:33And just like Joseph you may feel like people stripped you of your dignity.
04:37Your reputation or your trust.
04:39But they cannot strip you of your destiny.
04:42Because your destiny doesn't come from people.
04:45It comes from the one who formed you.
04:47Betrayal has a way of making us feel like we're forgotten.
04:50Like we're invisible.
04:52Like what we went through doesn't matter.
04:53But God is saying today I saw it.
04:57I saw the moment they lied about you.
04:59I saw the conversation behind your back.
05:03I saw the manipulation.
05:04The rejection.
05:06The cruelty.
05:07And I didn't just see it.
05:08I already wrote a response.
05:10Because the enemy wants you to believe that betrayal is the final chapter.
05:14But God says it's just the middle of the story.
05:17You may not see the ending yet.
05:19But God has already written it.
05:22He knows how he's going to bring you out.
05:24How he's going to heal you.
05:26And how he's going to restore what was lost.
05:28Nothing is wasted when it passes through his hands.
05:31Because the reason this is so powerful is because betrayal always comes from close proximity.
05:37A stranger can't betray you.
05:40Only someone who was close enough to touch your heart.
05:43Close enough to know your trust.
05:44Close enough to sit at your table.
05:47And when they turned on you it cut deeper than you expected.
05:50But the same God who allowed it knew how he would use it.
05:53That's why you can't measure your worth by the way they treated you.
05:57You can't let their actions define your identity.
06:00You have to anchor yourself in the truth that before they ever hurt you.
06:04God had already set you apart.
06:07He knew the pain but he also knew the purpose.
06:10He saw the betrayal.
06:11But he already planned the breakthrough.
06:13When you look back over your life.
06:15You can see moments where you thought the betrayal was going to break you.
06:19Maybe it was a spouse who walked away.
06:22A friend who turned their back.
06:24A co-worker who sabotaged you.
06:26Or even a family member who should have been the one protecting you.
06:30And yet here you are.
06:31Still standing.
06:32Still breathing.
06:33Still moving forward.
06:34That's proof that God's plan is stronger than people's plots.
06:39They thought their betrayal would bury you.
06:41But God said I'm going to use it to bless you.
06:45They thought they were ending your story.
06:46But God said I'm just getting started.
06:49Don't confuse the pain of betrayal with the absence of God.
06:53Just because they hurt you doesn't mean God left you.
06:56He has been there all along.
06:58Even in the silent seasons.
07:00Even in the moments when you wondered if he still cared.
07:03Every tear you cried he caught.
07:05Every prayer you whispered in the dark he heard.
07:08And every step you've taken since then he has guided.
07:12That's why you're still here even when you thought you'd never recover.
07:15That's why you still have breath in your body and purpose in your heart.
07:20Because the betrayal wasn't the end.
07:22It was the setup.
07:24God is a master of turning betrayal.
07:26He takes the very thing the enemy meant to destroy you.
07:29And uses it to position you for greater.
07:32That's why he said to Jeremiah.
07:34Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.
07:37He knew your weakness.
07:38He knew your strength.
07:40He knew the scars you'd carry and the grace you'd need.
07:43And he still set you apart.
07:45He still called you.
07:46He still anointed you.
07:48Betrayal didn't disqualify Eucalyptus.
07:50It showed you who was for you.
07:52Who was against you.
07:54And most importantly who has always been with you.
07:58So while you may still feel the sting of what they did.
08:01Don't let it define you.
08:02Let it remind you that God saw it long before you did.
08:05He already accounted.
08:07He already made provision for your healing.
08:09He already carved a path for your comeback.
08:13And the same God who knew you before you were formed.
08:16Is the same God who is guiding you now.
08:18Through the fallout of betrayal.
08:21He hasn't changed his mind about you.
08:23He hasn't revoked his calling on your life.
08:26He hasn't stopped working in your favor.
08:28What they meant for harm.
08:29God is turning into the setup for your promotion.
08:33You didn't ask for the attack.
08:34You didn't sign up for the rejection.
08:37You weren't looking for a battle.
08:38You were just trying to be faithful.
08:41And still out of nowhere.
08:43You found yourself under pressure.
08:44Under scrutiny.
08:46Under fire.
08:47But just because the enemy meant it for evil.
08:50Doesn't mean that's how the story ends.
08:52God is the author and the finisher.
08:54And if it's not good yet.
08:55He's not done yet.
08:56They may have meant to destroy you.
08:58But heaven has a habit of flipping the script.
09:00Joseph knew what it felt like to be targeted for doing nothing wrong.
09:05He was favored, yes.
09:07But that favor attracted hatred.
09:09His brothers weren't just jealous.
09:11They were intentional in their attack.
09:14They stripped him of his coat and threw him in a pit.
09:17Then they sold him into slavery.
09:19Lied to their father.
09:20And moved on as if Joseph had never existed.
09:23But what they didn't know was that every move they made against him was positioning Joseph closer to bouts.
09:31The pit wasn't pleasant.
09:33But it was part of the path.
09:34The prison wasn't fair.
09:36But it was part of the process.
09:38What they meant for harm.
09:40God used this training ground for leadership.
09:43There are people who tried to harm you.
09:45Not always physically but emotionally, spiritually.
09:49They spoke against you.
09:50Turned others against you.
09:51Sabotaged your name.
09:53And hoped you wouldn't recover.
09:55But God has a way of building something beautiful from the ashes of betrayal.
09:59He has a pattern of using pain as preparation.
10:03You thought it was a setback.
10:04But in heaven's eyes it was a setup.
10:07You thought it was rejection.
10:08But in reality it was redirection.
10:12You thought it was over.
10:13But it was just the doorway to something new.
10:15The promotion God is bringing in your life won't come because of perfect circumstances.
10:21It will come because you trusted him in the middle of chaos.
10:25Anyone can praise in the palace.
10:27But can you worship in the prison?
10:29Can you stay faithful when people forget you?
10:33Can you serve with excellence even when it looks like nobody's watching?
10:36Because what you do in those moments proves to God that he can trust you with more.
10:41Joseph didn't complain his way into the palace.
10:44He served his way.
10:46He stayed steady.
10:47He stayed humble.
10:48And in the middle of a famine God raised him up to save a nation.
10:52Your pain has purpose.
10:54The things the enemy tried to use to destroy you are going to be the very things God uses to elevate you.
10:59That heartbreak, it's making you compassionate.
11:04That betrayal, it's sharpening your discernment.
11:07That loss, it's deepening your dependence on him.
11:10God is not wasting one ounce of your struggle.
11:13He's not surprised by the attack.
11:15He's not pacing the floors of heaven trying to figure out how to fix it.
11:18He already knew.
11:20He already planned.
11:22And he's already turning it around sometimes.
11:24God doesn't deliver you from the fire.
11:27He needs you in it.
11:28And what they meant to burn you will become the place where his glory is revealed.
11:33You might still smell the smoke but you won't be consumed.
11:36That's the God you serve.
11:38He doesn't just protect you.
11:40He promotes you in plain sight.
11:42He prepares a table in the presence of your enemies.
11:45Not after they leave.
11:47Not once they apologize.
11:48Right there while they watch.
11:50Because God doesn't need permission to bless you.
11:53He just needs your obedience.
11:55The people who tried to limit you.
11:57Don't realize they were pushing you into your next level.
12:01The ones who tried to block you didn't realize they were opening a door.
12:05The boss who let you go.
12:06The friend who betrayed you.
12:08The person who counted you out.
12:10They thought they were closing your future.
12:12But God said, I'll use even that.
12:14Joseph didn't just get back what was stolen.
12:18He was promoted above all of Egypt except Pharaoh.
12:21Because when God restores, he doesn't take you back to where you were.
12:25He propels you forward into something greater than you imagined.
12:28Stop wasting time trying to get even.
12:32Stop rehearsing what they did.
12:34Stop trying to prove yourself to people who can't see what God placed in you.
12:39Let them underestimate you.
12:41Let them overlook you.
12:43Because promotion doesn't come from people.
12:45It comes from the Lord.
12:47And when he lifts you up, no one can push you down.
12:50What they meant for harm, God is going to use to make you a testimony.
12:55Not just for your benefit, but for the saving of many lives.
12:59That's what Joseph said.
13:01He realized it wasn't just about it.
13:03His pain had generational purpose.
13:05You may not see it clearly now.
13:07But one day you'll look back and say,
13:09I thank you, God, that they walked away.
13:12Thank you that door closed.
13:15Thank you that betrayal didn't break me.
13:17Because if it hadn't happened, I never would have stepped into what you had prepared.
13:21Heaven is not reacting to your situation.
13:24Heaven is orchestrating a response that is bigger than your pain.
13:27The people who thought they hurt you didn't realize they were helping you become who God called you to be.
13:32Silence doesn't mean absence.
13:35God is working behind the scenes.
13:37One of the hardest things to face in life is the silence of God.
13:42When you pray and the heavens feel like brass.
13:44When you cry and it seems like no answer comes.
13:47When you've been faithful and it feels like nothing is moving.
13:50That silence can make you question if he's really there, if he's listening, if he even cares.
13:57But silence is not the same as absence.
14:00Just because you can't hear him doesn't mean he's not near you.
14:03Just because you can't see the evidence doesn't mean he's not orchestrating the outcome.
14:08That's why the word says, the Lord will fight for you.
14:12You need only to be still.
14:14It doesn't say he might fight.
14:16It says he will fight.
14:18When Israel stood trapped between Pharaoh's army and the Red Sea, they couldn't hear a plan.
14:24They didn't see a way out.
14:25All they could see was danger closing in behind them and a dead end in front of them.
14:31In that silence, fear rose.
14:33Doubt crept in.
14:35They began to wonder if God had led them out only to abandon them in the wilderness.
14:39But in the silence, God was setting the stage.
14:42He hadn't brought them that far to leave them.
14:45He was about to show them a deliverance so great that generations would still be talking about it.
14:51And the command was simple.
14:53Be still.
14:54Hold your peace.
14:55Don't mistake the silence for abandonment.
14:58Sometimes the silence of God is where your faith grows the most.
15:02Because it's in the silence that you have to trust his character when you can't trace his hand.
15:06It's in the silence that you learn to rest.
15:09Not in what you see, but in what he said.
15:12Silence tests your roots.
15:14Anybody can praise when the blessings are obvious.
15:17But can you worship when all you hear is quiet?
15:20Can you stand firm when your emotions are screaming for answers and God simply says,
15:25But behind the scenes, God is moving pieces you don't even know exist.
15:30He's aligning conversations, shifting hearts, closing doors that would have destroyed you.
15:35Opening doors that no one can shut.
15:38You think nothing is happening, but heaven is busy.
15:42You think your prayers are hanging in the air, but God is bottling every tear and writing every request into his plan.
15:49He is not ignoring you.
15:51He is orchestrating something that requires silence for now.
15:54Because if he told you everything, you might try to run ahead of him.
15:58If he showed you the whole picture, you might not be ready to handle it yet.
16:02Silence is sometimes protection.
16:04Think about seeds.
16:06When you plant them in the ground, they don't make a sound.
16:10You don't hear them sprouting.
16:12You don't hear the roots pushing through the soil.
16:15But beneath the surface, life is happening.
16:17Growth is taking place.
16:20And in due season, what was buried in silence breaks forth into sight.
16:23That's what God is doing with you.
16:26You may feel buried, but you're really planted.
16:29You may feel like nothing is moving, but under the soil of silence, God is developing something you can't yet see.
16:36David knew what it was to live in the silence of God.
16:38He had been anointed king as a teenager, but spent years running from Saul, hiding in caves, living in the tension of a promise spoken, but not yet fulfilled.
16:50He must have wondered if God had forgotten his word.
16:53Yet in the silence, God was shaping David's character, teaching him dependence, preparing him to lead with humility and strength.
17:01When the crown finally came, David was ready because the silence had prepared him.
17:06The enemy wants you to interpret silence as abandonment so you'll give up before the breakthrough.
17:12He wants you to believe the lack of sound means a lack of presence.
17:16But the opposite is true.
17:18Silence is often a sign that God is closer than you think.
17:21The teacher is always silent during the test, but that doesn't mean they've left the room.
17:26It means they're watching to see if you'll apply what you've already learned.
17:30And your faith is being tested not to break you, but to prove you.
17:34When you feel like you can't hear God, hold on to what he's already said.
17:40Go back to his promises.
17:42Go back to his word.
17:44Stand on the truth that the same God who brought Israel through the sea, who shut the mouths of lions, who stood in the fiery furnace, is still the same God working for you.
17:54He hasn't changed.
17:55He hasn't failed.
17:57He hasn't lost a battle yet.
17:59Be still doesn't mean do nothing.
18:01It means trust.
18:02It means keep showing up in faith.
18:04Keep believing.
18:05Keep serving.
18:07Keep sowing.
18:08Even when you don't see fruit yet, trust that the soil is working.
18:12Even when the silence is deafening, trust that heaven is moving.
18:16Because silence is not absence.
18:18And one day you will see what he was doing all along.
18:21They thought they buried you, but they didn't know you were a seed.
18:25There are moments in life when people think they've seen the end of you.
18:29They counted you out, shut the door on you, and walked away as if your story was finished.
18:34They thought their betrayal, their lies, their rejection would cover you so completely that you'd never rise again.
18:40But what they didn't realize is that burying isn't always the end.
18:45It's often the beginning.
18:46Because when God places his hand on your life, being pushed down isn't your conclusion.
18:51That's why Jesus said, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed.
18:57But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
19:02Burial and planting look the same on the surface.
19:06Both involve being covered in dirt.
19:08Both involve being hidden.
19:09Both involve a season of darkness.
19:12But the difference is expectation.
19:15Burial expects decay.
19:16Planting expects growth.
19:18They thought they buried you, but God knew you were being planted.
19:22What they did in malice, God is using for multiplication.
19:25What they meant to suffocate, God is going to resurrect.
19:30And the very dirt they tried to use to cover, you will become the soil that produces your fruit.
19:35Think about Joseph again.
19:37His brothers threw him into a pit and thought it was over.
19:41They sold him into slavery and thought they'd erased his future.
19:45But the pit was soil.
19:47The prison was soil.
19:48The lies against him were soil.
19:50And in that soil, Joseph's faith grew.
19:52His character deepened.
19:53And his calling was cultivated.
19:56When he finally stepped into the palace, it wasn't in spite of what they did.
20:00It was because God used what they did as the planting ground for his destiny.
20:05Some of you have been in a season where it feels like dirt has been shoveled on you from every direction.
20:11People walked away.
20:13Opportunities closed.
20:15Slammed words were spoken over you that crushed your spirit.
20:18And you wondered, why would God let me be covered like this?
20:22But the covering wasn't punishment.
20:24It was preparation.
20:26Seeds can't grow on the surface.
20:28They have to go down before they can come up.
20:30And that's what's happening in your life.
20:32You're not being buried to dig.
20:34You're being planted to multiply.
20:37The process of a seed breaking in the soil isn't pretty.
20:40The outer shell has to crack.
20:42The seed has to split.
20:43Growth always requires breaking.
20:45That's why some of the most painful seasons you've endured are producing the most powerful fruit in you.
20:52The breaking wasn't to destroy you.
20:54It was to release what God had put inside you.
20:57Without the breaking, the life inside the seed could never come forth.
21:00Without the dirt, the roots could never grow deep enough to sustain the harvest.
21:05Jesus himself went through this principle.
21:08He allowed himself to be buried in a tomb.
21:10The world thought it was over.
21:12The enemy celebrated as if he had won.
21:15But three days later, the ground that was supposed to hold him became the place of resurrection.
21:21The stone that sealed the tomb couldn't stop the seed of salvation.
21:25And because he rose, you rise.
21:28Because he came out of the ground, you can step out of what tried to hold you down.
21:32Don't despise the dirt that's been thrown on you.
21:36That dirt is working for you.
21:38It's insulating you.
21:39It's protecting you while the roots form.
21:42It's providing the nutrients that will strengthen you.
21:45You may feel hidden, overlooked, forgotten.
21:46But God hides you on purpose.
21:49He doesn't expose seeds before their time.
21:52He allows a season of obscurity so that when you sprout, you can withstand the weight of your calling.
21:57If you came up too soon, you'd wither.
22:00But because you've endured the dirt, you'll flourish.
22:03Every attack, every lie, every disappointment, it's all soil.
22:06And that soil is the very thing God will use to testify of his glory in your life.
22:13That's why you can't give up in the dark.
22:16That's why you can't quit while you're still under the ground.
22:18Because the breaking is happening.
22:20The roots are forming.
22:21And the harvest is coming.
22:23They thought they buried you.
22:24But God knew you were a seed.
22:27And here's the thing about seeds.
22:29They don't just grow back as they were.
22:31They come back multiplied.
22:32What started as one becomes many.
22:35What looks small produces abundance.
22:37That's what God is about to do in your life.
22:40The loss you thought would end you is going to multiply your faith.
22:44Eve thought would break you is going to multiply your influence.
22:48The season that felt like death is going to produce a harvest greater than you imagined.
22:53So don't curse the dirt.
22:55Don't despise the hidden place.
22:58Don't believe the lie that you're finished.
23:00Because the very fact that you're still here means the seed is still alive.
23:04And if the seed is alive, then resurrection is on the way.
23:08God's response will be greater than their attack proving his hand has been on you all along.
23:14When the enemy came against you, he didn't just attack you.
23:17He attacked the plan of God on your life.
23:20That's why it felt so intense, so personal, so overwhelming.
23:24But the word promises, a no weapon formed against you shall prosper.
23:28And every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.
23:33It doesn't say the weapon won't form.
23:35It says it won't prosper.
23:36That means their attack may have left a scar, but it won't stop your destiny.
23:41Their words may have stung.
23:43But they won't silence your calling.
23:46Their betrayal may have shaken you, but it won't destroy you.
23:49Because God's response is always greater than the attack.
23:53You see, when God responds, he doesn't just restore you.
23:56He elevates you.
23:57He doesn't just balance the scale.
24:00He tips it in your favor.
24:02He doesn't just prove your enemy's wrong.
24:04He proves his power right.
24:06Look at Job.
24:07The enemy stripped him of his health, his wealth, his family, his peace.
24:11The attack was devastating, but God's response was double for his trouble.
24:16Job ended with more than he started.
24:19Not because the attack wasn't real, but because God's response was greater.
24:24And that's exactly what he wants to do in your life.
24:27The attacks you've endured weren't random.
24:29They were strategic.
24:31The enemy doesn't fight what isn't a threat.
24:32The fact that you've been under attack is proof that there's something valuable on your life.
24:38He tried to shut you down because he knew what would happen if you kept standing.
24:42He tried to silence you because he knew what would happen if you kept speaking.
24:47He tried to break you because he knew what would happen if you stayed faithful.
24:51But what he underestimated was the hand of God on you.
24:56Because every time the enemy came one way, God raised the standard against him.
25:01Every time the weapon was formed, God stepped in and said, it will not prosper.
25:05When you look back over your life, you'll see moments where the attack should have taken you out.
25:11You should have lost your mind.
25:13You should have quit.
25:14You should have stayed broken.
25:15But here you are, still breathing, still believing, still standing.
25:20That's evidence that God's hand has been on you all along.
25:23His response was working even when you couldn't see it.
25:27His covering was there even when you felt exposed.
25:30His protection was present even when the enemy came in like a flood.
25:34Think about Daniel in the lion's den.
25:37The attack was designed to end him.
25:39They said a trap sealed the decree and threw him into a pit with hungry lions.
25:43It should have been the end of his story.
25:45But God's response was to shut the mouths of the lions.
25:49Daniel didn't just survive the night.
25:51He came out untouched and the very ones who plotted against him had to watch as God elevated him.
25:58That's what happens when God responds.
26:00The attack loses its power and his glory takes center stage.
26:04The truth is you can't control the attacks.
26:07You can't stop people from talking.
26:09You can't prevent betrayal.
26:11You can't stop every fiery dart of the enemy.
26:14But you can rest in the assurance that God has already declared the outcome.
26:18No weapon will prosper.
26:20Not some weapons.
26:21Not most weapons.
26:22No weapon.
26:23That means the attack may have been real but the victory is guaranteed.
26:28And the more the enemy tries, the more God's glory will be revealed in your life.
26:33Some of you are in the middle of a season where it feels like the weapons are flying from every direction.
26:38Financial pressure, relational conflict, health battles, emotional turmoil.
26:45And you wonder where is God in all this?
26:47The answer is he's right where he's always been fighting for you.
26:51Working behind the scenes, responding in ways you can't yet see.
26:54And when the dust settles, you'll realize that his response far outweighed the attack.
27:00God never wastes an attack.
27:03He uses it as a platform for his glory.
27:06He uses it to strengthen your faith, to deepen your roots, to enlarge your influence.
27:10What the enemy meant to shut down, God will use to open doors you couldn't have walked through otherwise.
27:17What the enemy thought would break you, God will use to show others his sustaining power.
27:22You're not just going to survive this.
27:24You're going to come out with a testimony that proves his hand has been on you all along.
27:30So lift your head.
27:31Don't let the enemy convince you that the attack has the final word.
27:35It doesn't.
27:36God does.
27:37And his word is that no weapon shall prosper.
27:40His word is that every tongue that rose against you will be silenced.
27:45His word is that his response will be greater than their attack.
27:48The very people who doubted you will have to watch as God elevates you.
27:53The same circumstances that tried to bury you will become the soil for your blessing.
27:58The same enemy who came against you will regret he ever targeted you.
28:03Because God's response will leave no doubt whose hand has been on you.
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