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God Is Using What You’re Going Through to Prepare You

6:44415 summary words · ~2 min readEnglishBy Hullalujah MinistriesTranscribed Nov 5, 2026

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Summary

Severe hardship and resistance are not evidence of God's abandonment, but an intentional process of spiritual preparation for a future calling.

Section summaries

Facing unusual hardship

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Believers who feel singled out by persistent, unseen battles and heavy resistance often question why faithful prayer has not produced smoother paths. This intense friction is addressed directly to reframe the battle from divine failure to spiritual purpose.

Severe friction does not mean a believer has failed or been forgotten.

Biblical examples of trial

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Believers often mistake hardship for abandonment, but scripture demonstrates that chosen servants faced extreme trials before fulfilling their callings. Joseph endured slavery and false imprisonment, David hid in caves from Saul after his anointing, Paul faced beatings and shipwrecks, and Jesus endured crucifixion.

Joseph spent years in prison before stepping into God's promise.
David lived in caves as an anointed king before reaching the throne.
Suffering is an established biblical prerequisite rather than proof of God's absence.

God's purpose in the storm

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God uses the fire of affliction to build spiritual endurance, faith, character, and complete dependence on Him. Romans 8:28 promises that God actively works all trials, delays, and betrayals together for good, even when the current view from the prison or cave obscures the final outcome.

God uses storms to forge character and strength that easy seasons cannot produce.
Romans 8:28 promises that God works all circumstances together for good, not that all circumstances are inherently good.

Breakthrough and preparation

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Spiritual opposition frequently peaks immediately before a major breakthrough because enemy attacks target a believer's divine calling. Believers are urged to reframe their struggles as preparation for a higher assignment rather than evidence of abandonment.

Spiritual opposition targets destiny and often peaks right before breakthrough.
Current trials prepare believers with the capacity needed for future assignments.

A call to persevere

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Believers are exhorted to keep praying, trusting, and advancing because the God who stood with biblical figures and raised Christ from the dead remains active. What currently feels like total destruction will ultimately be recognized as divine preparation.

Current trials are temporary chapters in an ongoing testimony.
Keep praying and persevering without surrendering faith.

Key points

Opposition Precedes Breakthrough — Intense resistance often signals that a person is approaching a significant breakthrough rather than facing a canceled future.
Trials Forge Essential Character — Endurance, faith, character, and complete reliance on God are developed exclusively during trials and storms.
Scripture Normalizes Severe Hardship — Biblical figures like Joseph, David, Paul, and Jesus experienced profound suffering despite walking directly in God's will.

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If the Holy Spirit led you to this

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message today,

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I need you to hear something that I

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believe everything happening in your

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life

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>> may make more sense after this.

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I want to talk to the person whose life

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has been just unusually hard. I don't

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mean difficult, not inconvenient. I mean

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unusually hard.

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The kind of hard where you look around

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and wonder why everyone else seems to be

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moving forward

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while you're fighting massive battles

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that no one else sees.

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The kind of hard where you've prayed,

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you've believed, you've stayed faithful,

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and yet it seems like

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every step forward comes with massive

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resistance.

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Listen, if that's you, stay with me

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because I believe [music] what I'm about

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to share with you right now will

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completely change how you view the

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battle you're facing.

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You see,

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one of the biggest [music] mistakes

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believers make is assuming that

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difficulty means God abandoned you.

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We think if God's with us,

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everything should work and become

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easier.

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We think if we're in God's will, every

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door should just open immediately.

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We think if we're following Jesus,

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the road should become smoother.

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But listen, when you study scripture,

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that's not what happened at all.

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Look at Joseph, for example. God gave

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Joseph a dream, [music]

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a powerful dream.

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But before Joseph ever stepped into that

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promise, he was betrayed by his

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brothers. [music]

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He was thrown into a pit, sold into

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slavery, and falsely accused, forgotten,

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in prison.

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For years, his circumstances looked

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nothing like the promise that God gave

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him.

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Yet God never abandoned him.

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God was preparing him.

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Look at David.

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David was anointed king

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when he was still a shepherd.

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But, after the anointing came a mighty

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[music] battle.

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Saul hunted him. People turned against

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him.

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He spent years hiding in caves.

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Can you imagine that?

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Anointed by God, chosen by God,

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yet still living in a cave.

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But, the cave wasn't the end of David's

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story. [music] The cave was the

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preparation for the kingdom.

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And then we have the Apostle Paul,

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shipwrecked, but beaten, imprisoned,

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[music] persecuted.

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Yet, Paul would go on to impact the

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entire world with the gospel.

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Man, and then we have Jesus, the sinless

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son of God,

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rejected, mocked, [music] betrayed,

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crucified.

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If difficulty meant God had abandoned

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someone,

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then explain Jesus.

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Listen, the reality is this. Sometimes

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the battle's not evidence that God has

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left you at all.

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Sometimes the battle is evidence that

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God's developing you. He forges in

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[music] the fire.

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There are things God can only build in

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the storm.

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Strength, endurance, faith,

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dependence on him, character, trust.

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And some of the strongest believers I

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have ever met didn't come out of easy

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seasons.

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On the contrary, they came [music] out

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of battles. They came out of valleys.

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They came out of seasons where

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all they had left was God. That's what

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happened to me.

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And maybe that's where some of you are

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right now.

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Maybe you're tired. Maybe you're

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discouraged.

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Maybe you're wondering when are things

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finally to change?

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Man, I want to encourage you today. I

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know you hear me.

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Don't judge God's faithfulness by your

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current circumstances. Joseph couldn't

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see the palace from the prison.

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David couldn't see the throne from the

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cave.

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Paul couldn't see the impact from the

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prison.

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Man, but I tell you, God was working in

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every one of those seasons.

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Even when [music] they couldn't see it.

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Remember, Romans 8:28 tells us that all

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things work together for the good

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[music] of those who love God and are

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called according to his purpose.

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Notice it doesn't say all things are

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good.

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It says God [music] works all things

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together for good.

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The betrayal, the disappointments,

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the delay, the [music] closed doors, the

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tears, the battles.

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God is able to use all of it.

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Listen, I want you to hear me clearly.

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The enemy wants you to [music] believe

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that your struggle is proof that your

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future has been canceled.

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But the truth is,

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many times the greatest opposition

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appears

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right before the greatest breakthrough.

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The enemy attacks on purpose.

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He attacks people's [music] call and he

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attacks people's destinies.

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And some of you need to stop seeing

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yourself as abandoned. [music]

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And start seeing yourself as being

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prepared.

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Prepared for something mighty, bigger

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than you can currently see.

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Prepared for [music] a testimony.

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Prepared for a greater level of faith.

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Prepared for an assignment that requires

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the strength God is building in you

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right now today.

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So, if your life has been unusually

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hard,

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Don't quit. [music] Don't give up. Don't

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throw away your faith.

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Keep trusting.

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Keep believing. Keep praying. [music]

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Keep moving forward.

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Because the same God who was with Joseph

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in the prison

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was with you.

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The same God who was with David in those

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caves.

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The same God who was with Paul in the

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prison cell.

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And man,

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the same God who raised Jesus from the

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dead

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is with you today. [music]

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Your story isn't over. Your purpose has

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never been canceled. And your calling is

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not dead. God is still writing your

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testimony. And one day

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>> [music]

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>> you'll look back and realize that what

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felt like destruction

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was actually a mighty preparation.

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God bless you.

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