A Never Doubt Mindset

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God said, son, a 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.120 million to me is like one penny to you. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.280 He thought about it, said God, will you give me 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:10.040 a penny? God? Said, yeah, just a second. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.960 All right, y'all say it like you mean it. This 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.600 is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.360 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.080 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.000 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.360 is alert, my heart is recepted. I will never be 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.280 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.559 to talk to you today about a never doubt mindset. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.520 We all face situations where we don't see a way 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.520 out how we can get well, or how we can 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.920 accomplish a dream, or how our family can be restored. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.640 All the facts say it's not going to happen. That's 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.360 when these thoughts of doubt and discouragement common. If we're 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.280 not careful, we'll live worried and give up on what 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:02.120 we're believing for. But Paul said in Ephesians three, never 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:07.240 doubt God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.000 infinitely more than your greatest request. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.480 God didn't say, never doubt how you feel. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.400 Never doubt because of medical report, never doubt the financial struggle. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:19.440 We're human. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.160 Doubt comes to us all these times we think this 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.280 doesn't seem possible. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.280 We're looking at it in our own ability. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.680 But God said, never doubt what I can do, Never 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.320 doubt my mighty power. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.200 Never doubt God can open doors you can't open. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:42.560 Never doubt God can heal you despite the diagnosis. Never 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:47.079 doubt God can bring the right people divine connections. Or 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.440 maybe your child is off course, running with the wrong crowd, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.560 and you could live stressed, not able to sleep. God 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.160 is saying, never doubt I can turn him around, never 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:58.799 doubt I. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.359 Can bring him into his purpose. But what causes us 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:02.840 to get. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.359 Discouraged is when we look at circumstances only in our 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.960 ability seems too big, too much, too late. That's okay, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.600 you're not doing life by yourself. There is a force 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.480 for you, greater. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.160 Than any force trying to stop you. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.400 At times, you'll feel at a disadvantage and wats you 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.440 up against it, bigger and stronger. And you don't have 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:29.480 the connections, the funds, the courage on your own, You're stuck. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.000 But never doubt God's mighty power. He stopped the sun 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.840 for Joshua, He parted the red sea for Moses. He 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.200 brought three teenagers out of a fiery furnace without the 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.240 smell of smoke. He opened prison doors for Paul and Silas. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.480 He raised Lazarus back to life. He took Gideon from 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:54.440 afraid and insecure to a mighty hero that delivered the Israelites. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.240 He healed my mother of terminal cancer. He gave us 0:03:58.280 --> 0:03:59.600 a basketball arena. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:00.840 I have church in. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.000 The scripture says is there anything too hard for the Lord? 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.840 You may have some situations that seem over your head impossible. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.480 I'm not saying you're not gonna feel doubt. I'm saying, never. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:15.920 Doubt God's mighty power. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.479 Never doubt what the creator of the universe can do 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.440 that set back that impossibility. It's a setup for him 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:25.080 to show. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.599 Out in your life. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.920 The way you conquer doubt is switch over from what you. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.760 Can do to what God can do. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.600 When my father passed and I stepped up to pastor 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.400 and I felt inadequate. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.000 Over my head and I didn't have the training, the experience. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.719 My dad had this big personality, strong and powerful, but 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.479 I was more quiet and reserved. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.239 All these thoughts bombarded my mind. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.560 Joe, You're not enough, you don't have what it takes. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.599 You're gonna get up there and look like a fool. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.279 The truth is I had doubts in my vility. You 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.160 doubts whether I was strong enough, doubts whether the church 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.960 would make it. What kept me going. The reason I 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.600 didn't give into my doubts was because I never doubted 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:12.760 what God can do. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.440 I believe that He is all powerful. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.920 That nothing can stand against him, that when we are weak, 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.880 his power shows up the greatest. I kept reminding myself, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.760 You're the God who chose me before I could choose you. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.520 You're the God who knew me before I was formed 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.599 in my mother's womb. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.040 The God who goes before me and makes cooked places strength. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.800 The God who fights my battles, the God who has 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.400 crowned me with your favor. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.080 You're not doing life on your own. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.159 Quit focusing on just your ability, your talent, your resources. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.240 That's going to cause you a doubt. But to reach 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.120 your destiny, you're going to face things that are over 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.640 your head, where you're outnumbered, you don't have the experience, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.159 the funds, and that legal situation should sink you. This 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.880 is when many people quit believing, lived worried. Try a 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.920 different approach God, I may have a lot of good 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.920 reasons to doubt in my life. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.719 But I am never going to doubt your mighty power. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.440 I know you're still on the throne. You still bring 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.559 dead things back to life. You still heal the sick, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.640 You still multiply the loaves and fish. You still take 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.760 those who are afraid and make them into mighty heroes. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.800 Anyone can get discouraged, Anyone can talk themselves out of it. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.440 I'm asking you to be a never doubt person. Never 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.000 doubt what our God can do. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.080 Never doubt his mighty power to turn things around. Never 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.240 doubt his favor to open doors you couldn't open. Never 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.200 doubt his restoration to give you beauty for the ashes, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.000 to pay you back for the wrongs, to turn your 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:01.280 mourning into dancing. See when we go through difficulties and 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.599 things that are not fair, the never lies start playing. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.280 You'll never be happy again, You'll never meet. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.560 Someone new, this loss, this breakup, how you were raised 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.400 that puts you at a disadvantage. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.160 Don't believe those lies. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:22.240 God knows everything you've been through, every hurt, every injustice, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.080 every lonely night. He said in Isaiah, he will pay 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.480 you back double. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.080 For the unfair things that have happened. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.120 Instead of dwelling on the never lives, come over to 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:37.600 the never doubt mindset. Yes, I've had some bad breaks, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.520 but I know this is not how my story ends. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.440 God. I believe your. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.640 Mighty power is at work in my life, that you're 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.800 a God of justice, that you won't just bring me out, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.560 but you'll bring me out better than I was before. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:53.800 This is what David did. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.400 He was a teenager out in the shepherd's fields taking 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:58.720 care of his father's sheep. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.120 Was the youngest of eight sons. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.160 His brothers were all in the army and prestigious positions. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.240 He was stuck in the fields, lonely and at a disadvantage. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.239 And one day his father asked him to take lunch 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.560 to the brothers, and they were in another city. That's 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.720 when he heard Goliath taunting the Israelites, making fun of 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.160 God's people. All the Israeli soldiers ran in hid. They 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.960 were so afraid. I mean, Goliath was a giant. He 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:31.160 stood over nine feet tall. Something rose up in David, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.200 a fire on the inside. He said, who is this 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.400 uncircumcised philistine that he should defy the armies of a 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.360 living God. He went to King Saul and told him 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:43.119 he wanted. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.920 To fight Goliath. Saul said, David, you're just a boy. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.640 You're too small, too young. You don't have the training, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:51.760 the experience. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.560 Don't let people talk you out of what God put 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.120 in your heart. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:57.559 There will always be. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.199 A Saul in life, someone telling yeah, but you can't 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.800 do You're not good enough. That business won't make it. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.600 You're not gonna get well. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.640 Do yourself a favor. Tune all that out. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.959 They don't control your destiny. They didn't breathe life into you. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.679 They didn't call you, equip you, anoint you. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.240 God did. David went out to face this giant. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.320 He was almost twice David's size, and Goliath had a 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.640 full set of armor, a shield that weighed one hundred 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.640 and twenty five pounds. He was their most skilled warrior, 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.840 the champion of the Philistine army. And here David had 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:38.160 no formal training, no armor, no shield. All he had 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.360 was a slingshot and a few stones. How could he 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.839 have this boldness, this faith when all the circumstances were 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.800 against him, opposition much bigger, and people telling him not 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:50.400 to do it. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.760 He gives us his secret. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.800 He said, Goliath, you come against me with a sword 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.920 and a shield, but I come against you in. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.959 The name of the Lord, God of Israel. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.839 He was saying, in effect, Yes I doubt my size, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.320 Yes I doubt my equipment, Yes I doubt my training, 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.960 but I will never doubt the mighty power of my God. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:15.760 I may be half your size. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.520 Goliath, but I know the God in me is more 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.080 powerful than anything you can do. I may only have 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.600 a slingshot, but I know this slingshot, with the favor 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:26.640 of God, is. 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.120 More powerful than your weapons. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.280 David wasn't discouraged because of his lack of size, lack 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.800 of resources, because he knew God was fighting for him, 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.480 that he had a secret weapon, something that King Saul 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.800 couldn't see, David's father that left. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.640 Him out in the fields. He didn't recognize it. Goliath 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:48.400 couldn't see it. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.160 When he first saw David, he laughed and said, am 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:52.559 I a dog that you've. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:53.520 Come at me with a stint? 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.760 David put a stone in that sling and slung that rock, 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:02.880 hit Goliath in the forehead and knocked him unconscious. David 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:07.800 had less equipment, less training, but never doubt God's mighty 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:12.000 power were working in you to accomplish not just what 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.640 you're hoping for, but infinitely beyond your wildest dreams. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.640 On the way to your destiny, there will be giants. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.480 You can't become all you were created to be without opposition. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.560 Then the thoughts will come how the sickness is too 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.120 big and your business is not gonna make it. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.640 This family issue will never resolve. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.720 You're right where David was, looking at a giant twice 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.120 your size. You can do what the other men in 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:45.319 the army did. Run hide, get talked out of your dream, 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.960 or you can deal with doubt a different way, like David, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.240 not denying the giant, not psyching yourself up. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.080 I don't feel fear. I don't really have this problem. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.760 It's okay to be honest. God, I have doubts in 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.199 what I can do. This giant looks way over my head. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.080 I know in the natural I don't have a chance. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.760 But God, I will never doubt your mighty power. I 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.800 know you are fighting my battles, you are breathing on 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:13.720 my slingshot. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:18.400 You will show yourself strong in my life. And I 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:19.280 say never doubt. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.760 I don't mean you're not gonna have doubts about your ability, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.120 thoughts telling you it's not gonna work out. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.040 Those thoughts come to us all. But you have to 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.559 have this knowing, this trust. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.920 That even though I may doubt my ability, God, I 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.320 will never doubt what you can do. I received an 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.480 email from a young woman. She was born with spina 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.360 biffid on it. Two years old, she had to have 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.280 surgery to untether her spinal cord, and her parents were 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.079 told she'd never be able to walk, run any kind 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.319 of physical activity. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:54.239 They had all these. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.200 Good reasons to doubt and doubt that she would live 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.000 a normal life, doubt that she could go to school, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.120 doubt that she'd ever be married. They were facing a giant. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.880 Medically speaking, she would be in a wheelchair and limited. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.720 These parents had been coming to Lakewood for many years, 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:16.120 and they understood what is impossible with men is possible 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.240 with God. And they never tried to deny the facts, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.120 deny the medical report. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.240 But they didn't let the doubts stay. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.520 They didn't dwell on their lack of ability and what 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:33.040 the report said. Their attitude was, even though we don't 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.720 see a way, God, we know you have a way. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.200 We may doubt what we can do, but we will 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.400 never doubt you. A mighty power God, you can do 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:43.839 what medicine cannot do. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.520 You can heal our daughter. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:50.000 Sometimes we're not seeing breakthroughs and our giant is not 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.400 falling because we're only looking at our ability. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.760 We don't have the resources. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.920 Medically speaking, we can't get well, and this relative looks 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.959 like they'll always be off course, we're looking at it 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.640 in the natural. But God is supernatural. He's going to 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:11.200 do things that go beyond reasoning, beyond logic, things that 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.640 are out of the ordinary. You couldn't plan it, you 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.760 couldn't put it on paper. Is going to defy the odds. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.800 Every day, her mother would exercise her little. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.760 Legs and the whole time speaking faith over her and 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:29.480 declaring and thanking God for her healing. At eleven months old, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.640 much to the doctor's surprise, she started walking. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.920 They couldn't explain it. She joined the children's choir here 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:37.560 at Lakewood. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.960 She loved to sing and dance, but at the age 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.760 of ten, there was a problem with her spinal cord 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.240 and she had to have an emergency surgery. When she 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.000 woke up, she was paralyzed from the neck down. The 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.160 doctor told her, unfortunately, she would never be able to 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:58.720 walk again. They did everything they could medically speaking, but 0:14:58.760 --> 0:14:59.880 they came to the end. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.320 Of the ability. Of course, doubts flooded her mind. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.680 The doctors can't do anything, and I can't even move. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.520 She could have stayed there, defeated, bitter, angry, but she said, God, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.200 you did it for me once. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.080 I know you can do it for me again. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.760 She told the doctor, I walked in here on my own, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.000 and I will walk out of here on my own. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.120 Every circumstance said she is paralyzed, her life was limited. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:27.960 Just accept it. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.800 But on the inside she could hear God whispering, you 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:36.280 will walk again. There will always be two voices competing 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.600 for your attention, the voice of doubt and the voice 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:44.200 of faith. Often the doubting voices are the loudest. They'll 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.240 bombarde your mind. You can't get well, you can't. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.440 Break this addiction. Your business won't make it. Wake up 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.320 in the night and the thoughts are still coming. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.560 But if you'll get quiet, there's another voice, a still 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.640 small voice. It's God speaking to you, say I'm fighting 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:05.000 this battle. This too shall pass. You will recover. Healing 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.280 is coming, freedom is coming, Abundance is coming. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.320 Now you get to choose. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.080 Will you let the voice of doubt, play and worrying, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.480 dwell on the negative not going to happen, thoughts or 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.640 will you do what Paul said and say no thanks. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.400 I will never doubt what God can do in my life. God, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.200 I know your mighty power is greater than anything. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.360 Trying to stop me. That's what allows God to do 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.200 more than you can ask or think. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.760 But the tension is we may doubt our own ability. 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.320 We may have thoughts because of the medical report, the 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:43.320 financial situation. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.280 That's okay. The key is to never doubt what God 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:47.760 can do. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.080 If you'll take the emphasis off of your ability, what 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.920 you have, what you can control, and put that emphasis 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.760 on what God can do, that's how you stay in faith. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:00.680 That's what causes God. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.640 To show out in your life. When she told the 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.960 doctor that she was going to walk out of that room, 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:11.199 despite being told she was permanently paralyzed, she said she 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.720 felt her toes begin to move. That was the start 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.600 of the miracle. Little by little she got better. Her 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.000 therapist told her, out of all of her patients with 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.320 spine of biffida, she was the only one that could 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.000 walk without a brace. My friend Elena went on to 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.360 graduate from college. She got her master's degree. Last weekend, 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:38.040 I dedicated her beautiful baby girl with her husband and family. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:43.200 That's what happens when you never doubt God's mighty power. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.240 Sure we may doubt what we can do, but you're 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:47.360 not on your own. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.680 The most tied God is working in your life. He's 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.800 all powerful. He created the universe. He has you in 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.679 the palm of his hand. You may be in a 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:02.159 situation like Elena. You don't see a way out. The 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.439 odds are against you. You could easily let all this 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.840 doubt fill your mind and talk you out of your healing, 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.000 convince you that you're limited. You have to remember who's 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.840 on your side. The God who caused Elana to walk 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:17.600 when she. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.120 Was supposed to be paralyzed. 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.000 The God who changed the city council member's mind and 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.359 gave us the Compact Center. The God who turned a 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.320 shepherd boy David into a king. The God who brought 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.240 water out of a rock. The God who gave Sarah 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.360 a baby at ninety years old. The God who took 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.680 Joseph from the pit to the palace. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.280 The God who made. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.800 Elisha invisible to the enemy, The God who gave Isaac 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:46.960 one hundred times more than. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.280 He planted in a famine. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.120 The God who multiplied the five blows and two fishs 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:54.199 to feed thousands. 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:55.720 Who are you talking about. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:02.040 That's our king, That's our God leveled out our because 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.880 when you live from this place of faith, that's when 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:09.720 giants fall. That's when supernatural healing comes. That's when doors 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.840 open that we can't open. That's when God will do 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.720 infinitely more than you can imagine. 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.320 A few years ago, we were headed. 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.240 To one of our Nights of Hope in another city, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.280 and we left the hotel and driving to the venue. 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:24.760 It started at seven. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.480 Point thirty, but traffic was really bad on the freeways, 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.640 all backed up and supposed to take us thirty minutes, 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.959 but we'd already been driving an hour and didn't look 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.879 like we would make it on time. And our assistant 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.040 called the venue and told them what was happening. They said, 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.920 don't worry, we'll send the police to come get you. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.040 These two police officers met us on the freeway. One 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.240 of the officers got in our car to drive. He 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.119 pulled onto the shoulder and started passing everyone up. People 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.800 are looking at us, honking like what are you doing? 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:58.240 Get back in line. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.160 He didn't pay any attention. He just kept going. Once 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.480 the traffic cleared. He didn't drive the speed limit. He 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:10.159 drove sixty five seventy. We passed by other police officers. 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.359 They didn't stop us when they saw the officer driving 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:13.720 our car. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:14.520 They just waved. 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.800 When we got downtown, he didn't wait for the light 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.359 to turn green. If it was clear, he ran the 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.959 red light. Other officers on the corner they just waved. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.240 No problem. Here's the point. The reason we could break 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.720 the law was because the law was riding with us. 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.520 Without that officer, we'd have got pulled over it probably 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:36.200 got a ticket. 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.480 But because the law was in our car, we could 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.119 supersede the speed limit. 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:46.479 We weren't bound by normal limitations. In the natural, it 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.919 may be impossible for you to get wound the laws 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:53.359 of medical science, like with the Lena, like with my 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:54.720 mother said. 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:55.280 There's no way. 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:59.080 The good news is someone is riding with you that 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:03.920 supersedes them those laws. God can do what medicine cannot do. 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.440 He made your body. He can bring healing. 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.399 And there's no explanation where it doesn't make sense. But 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:12.760 if you just focus on. 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:18.360 The natural, logical your ability, what the experts say, you're 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.800 going to live limited because there will be giants you 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:26.720 can't overcome, and dreams you can't accomplish. Doubt will come 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.359 cause you to shrink back. You have to remind yourself 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.640 who's writing with you. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.320 You're not in that car, so to speak by yourself. 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:39.080 Jesus took the will. The most High God is ordering 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.159 your steps. The reason you can break the law is 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.679 the law he's writing with you. The God who controls 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:46.440 the universe. 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.440 He's not limited to the laws of nature, the laws 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.760 of science, the laws of finance. 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:54.960 He makes streams in the deserts. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.440 He caused oil to never run out for three and 0:21:58.520 --> 0:21:59.960 a half years for a widow. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:01.080 In the Bible. 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:05.320 Supernatural provision, he sent ravens to feed Elijah by the 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:09.400 brook during a famine. We look at our finances, what 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:13.040 we may We run the numbers, I get this increase 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.800 and saved this much, and maybe get a bonus. 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:16.920 That's all good. 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:20.600 But what God is going to do is not natural, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:22.280 not ordinary. 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:23.520 Something you can't calculate. 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:28.040 He's not limited to your job, your boss, the economy, 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:32.320 the family you come from. He supersedes those things. One 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.560 touch of his favor will put you into overflow, into 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.200 abundance into more than enough. When you're tempted a doubt, 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:43.560 remember who's in your car. This is where Moses missed it. 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.760 He was in the desert leading the Israelites, and God 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.080 had brought them out of slavery, and they were headed 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:50.280 toward the Promised Land. 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:53.080 But the people got tired of eating the. 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.880 Manna each day, something like bread that formed on the ground. 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:01.240 They came to Moses complaining, we don't want this food anymore. 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:04.560 We want meat like we used to have in Egypt. 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:08.359 Moses was frustrated, went to God and told them what 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:09.159 they were saving. 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:12.440 God said, all right, Moses, I'm going to give you meat. 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.639 Not for a day, not for a week, but for 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:18.960 a month. You will have all the meat they could 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:19.520 ever want. 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:24.480 Moses said, God, there are six hundred thousand men out here. 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:26.400 Plus the women and children. 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:30.120 If we butchered all of our flocks, all of our cattle, 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:31.760 we wouldn't have that much meat. 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:36.080 Moses was looking at it only in his ability, only 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:37.000 in what they had. 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:40.040 He told God all the reasons he couldn't do it, 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:42.960 how there were too many people, that's just not possible. 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:46.840 When he finally finished, God asked him a simple question, 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:51.760 He said, Moses, when did I become weak? He was saying, 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:53.240 did you forget I. 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:57.879 Spoke worlds into existence? I created the universe? Do you 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:00.439 think somehow that I lost my power? 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:05.800 God shifted the wind and millions of quall flew in 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:09.239 from the ocean. There were so many quail that they 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:12.360 gathered them up all day, all night, and the next 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:16.639 day too. The scripture said every family gathered no less 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:21.280 than fifty bushels of quail. It was costco size, not 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:25.280 one dinner. They got quail in ball. Here's what's interesting. 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:29.840 Quail don't normally fly that far from the water way 0:24:29.880 --> 0:24:32.840 out there in the desert. But God shifted the wind, 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:36.760 and out of the ordinary the quail came into the camp. 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.840 You don't know what God's about to shift in your life. 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:44.560 Were looking at NASA, y'all. Not me, man, I'm stuck 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:48.080 in my career. This sickness is permanent. I'll never meet someone. 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:52.399 We're saying they can't be quail out here in the desert. 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:55.680 That's not possible. Why don't you tune out all that 0:24:55.920 --> 0:24:57.800 doubt and get in agreement with God. 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:01.200 God, I believe you have some shifts come in my way. 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:06.720 Sudden turnarounds, healing, good breaks, abundance, things I can't explain. 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:09.680 Never doubt God's mighty power. 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:13.560 Sure you may doubt your ability, your strength, your resources, 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:17.359 but never doubt what God can do. You may be 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:20.600 in a situation like Moses. You don't see how it 0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:23.520 can work out. All the facts tell you it's. 0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:26.879 Not gonna happen. It's too late, too hard. God is 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:30.840 asking you what he asked Moses, when did I become weak? 0:25:31.720 --> 0:25:35.120 You will never face a giant that God can't bring down, 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:39.639 Never an obstacle that you can't overcome, never a. 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:41.840 Dream that he can't bring to past. 0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:45.439 Instead of telling him all the reasons it can happen, 0:25:45.920 --> 0:25:49.080 why don't you do like David, look at that obstacle 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:52.240 and say, I'll come against you, not just in my mind, 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:55.760 not just in my ability. I come in the name 0:25:55.960 --> 0:25:58.760 of the Lord, God of Israel. I know who's driving 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:04.320 my car, a God who supersedes natural laws. You wouldn't 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:07.760 be hearing this if God wasn't up to something. This 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:10.840 is an important time you have to let faith wise 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:14.440 uh you on the verge of seeing something you've never seen. 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:17.720 The enemy will work over time. Trying to talk you 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:19.680 out of it. No, no, no, the giants too big. 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:23.240 You can't feed people in the desert. God is saying, 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:28.560 never doubt my mighty power to accomplish infinitely more than 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:32.560 you could ever imagine. If you'll have this never doubt mindset, 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:36.439 I believe and declare you're about to see giants come 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:45.080 down like Elena, supernatural healing like Moses, a shift, supernatural provision, breakthroughs, 0:26:45.400 --> 0:26:49.879 the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, and if 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:50.600 you receive. 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:51.800 It, can you say amen? 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