Unshakeable Faith

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.360 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.440 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.399 the ministry. If you enjoyed today's MESSI, why don't you 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.600 be a blessing and share it with a friend. We 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.000 appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your line. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:50.120 Well, God bless you. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.160 It's a joy to come into your homes and if 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.600 you're ever in our area, please stop buy and be 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.240 a part of one of our services. I promise you 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.480 we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks so 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.160 much for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.200 I like to start with something funny and heard about 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.640 this man. He was out taking a walk through the 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.480 woods with a friend when all of a sudden they 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.040 encountered a huge grizzly bear about twenty yards in front 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.600 of them. They froze in their tracks as the bear 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.800 intently stared them down. They contemplated what they should do. Finally, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.600 the man whispered to his friend, I think we should run. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.800 His friends said, are you crazy. We can't outrun a 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.679 grizzly bear. The man said, I know that. I don't 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.120 have to outrun him. I just have to outrun you. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:37.560 Hold up your bibles. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.280 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.880 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.360 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.040 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:52.120 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.440 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.160 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:05.040 about unshakable faith. When God puts a promise in your heart, 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.160 you have to come to the place where you believe 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.400 it's going to happen so strongly nothing can. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.440 Talk you out of it. It may seem impossible. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.119 The medical report may say there's no way you're going 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:22.000 to get well, the financial situation says business is. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.120 So slow you're not going to make it. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.040 All the circumstances may tell you you'll never accomplish your dreams, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.600 never meet the right person, never see your family restored. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.960 But deep down you. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.600 Have to have this confidence, this knowing that God. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.160 Is still on the throne. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.800 He's bigger than any obstacle. He already has a way 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.760 and at the exact time what He promised will come 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:54.320 to pass. You have this unshakable confidence. You know that 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.120 God is fighting your battles, arranging things in your favor, 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.440 making a way even when you. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:01.160 Don't see a way. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.240 And instead of being discouraged, you get up in the 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.920 morning thanking God that the answer is on the way. 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.200 Instead of talking about how big the problem is, you 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.480 go through the day talking about how big your God is. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.320 When the negative thoughts come, saying it's impossible, it's been 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.159 too long, you let that go in one ear and 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:22.920 out the other. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.960 Your mind is set in one. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:31.760 Direction, victory, favor, healing, restoration. You know, the moment you prayed, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.559 God set the miracle into motion. It may be taken 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.400 a long time, but God didn't bring you this far 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.240 to leave you. You've seen him do it in the past, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.440 and you know he will do it again in the future. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:49.520 You are fully persuaded. That's unshakable faith. And the fact 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.359 is some promises do take a long time. If God 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.560 made everything happen when we wanted it to happen, it 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:01.280 wouldn't take any faith. We grow in the difficult times. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.320 We grow when our faith is being stretched, when we 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.480 have to believe, when we don't see any reason to believe, 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.039 when we stay in faith when our mind is telling 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.440 us we're wasting our time. When we give God praise 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.520 but we really feel like complaining, that's passing the test. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.400 Every day you do that, your faith is not only increasing, 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.480 your character is not only being developed. But you are 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.919 one day closer to seeing the promise come to pass. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.479 And some of you, we're about to give up on 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.200 a promise, But God has. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:37.120 You here for a reason. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.320 You need to dig your heels in put on a 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:45.080 new attitude. God is saying every promise. I've spoken over 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.720 you every dream I've placed in your spirit, even the 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.320 secret petitions of your heart, the dreams you haven't told 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.400 anyone about. I still have every intention of bringing them 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.440 to pass. Friends, God is a faith full God. It 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.520 may not have happened on your timetable, but that doesn't 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.400 mean it's not going to happen. God has the final 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.000 say Now, don't you dare give up on that promise. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.120 Don't let discouragement, negative thoughts talk you out of it. 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.080 Get your fire back, get your passion back. If God 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.719 said it, he will do it. If God spoke it, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:22.679 he will bring. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:23.120 It to pass. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.480 Now do your part and have unshakable faith. This is 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.839 what the apostle Paul did. He said, none of these 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:36.280 things move me. What were these things? Circumstances that looked impossible, 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.400 people trying to talk him out of it, negative discouraging thoughts. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.960 His attitude was, that doesn't change my mind. I'm not 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:46.239 moved by what I see. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.680 I'm moved by what I know, And I know if 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.800 God before me, who dare be against me? I know 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.320 all of God's promises are yes and amen. I know 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.760 God has the final sayth. That's the attitude we should have. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.440 I'm not moved by this medical report. I respect and 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.279 honor people that are trying to help me get well, 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.200 but I know God can do what medical science cannot do. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.120 God made my body. Doctors can treat me, but only 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:16.960 God can heal me. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.320 I'm not moved by. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.720 The economy, the stock market, my job situation. I know 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.640 God supplies all of my needs. He promised he would 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.520 prosper me even in a recession. I'm not moved by 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.880 how my children are acting, not stressed out because they're 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.880 off course making poor choices. I know it's only a 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.600 matter of time. As for me and my house. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:42.520 We will serve the Lord. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.840 Or for some of you, I'm not moved by the 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.280 fact that I'm single and I haven't met anyone. I 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.000 know God has already picked out the right person. He's 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.600 already ordained him to come across my path. I am 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.320 fully persuaded they are in my future. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.760 Unshakable faith. You're not moved by your circumstances. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.640 Up when something good has happened, Down when you don't 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:07.720 see anything happening. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.840 No, you know that you know that you know. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.679 Everything God promised you is already in your future. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:16.920 This is what Abraham did. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.560 God gave him a promise that he would have a 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.440 child in the natural. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:22.680 It was impossible. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.400 He and his wife Sarah were nearly one hundred years old. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:27.720 But it says in. 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:33.000 Romans four, Abraham did not waver in faith, but he 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.920 was fully persuaded God would do what he promised. How 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:42.560 could Abraham have this unwavering faith when all the odds 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.280 were against him. I could see how he could have 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:49.120 a glimmer of hope, But it says he was fully persuaded. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:54.360 Verse nineteen gives us a secret he considered, not the 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:58.520 weakness of his own body nor the deadness of Sarah's womb. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:06.079 Having unshakable faith is don't consider your circumstances, consider your God. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:12.400 Your circumstances, like Sarah's womb may look dead, the financial 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.600 situation may look impossible, the medical report may say it's hopeless. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.840 All the experts may tell you could never accomplish your dreams. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:26.079 If you only consider that, you'll get discouraged. Before long, 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.400 doubt will creep in that will keep you from God's best. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.760 You've got to do like Abraham say, I'm not going 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.320 to consider just what my mind, my thoughts are telling me. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.880 Not going to consider just what the experts are saying. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.520 I'm not going to consider the size of my problem. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.120 I'm going to consider the size of my God. He 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.120 spoke the world into existence, he flung the stars into space. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.840 He's not limited by the natural he has supernatural power. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:01.160 When you consider God instead of your circumstances, amazing things 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:01.720 can happen. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.160 I have a friend named Courtney. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.680 She attends here, and she applied for a scholarship to 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:08.960 a major university. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.640 She's going to study theater and the arts and acting. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.640 Twenty six hundred other people applied, but there were only 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.120 twelve scholarships available. She could have thought, oh great, what's 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.920 the use of even trying? Those odds are less than 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.640 one half of one percent zero point five percent. But 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:33.000 she didn't consider the odds. She considered her God. Her 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.600 attitude was, God, you control the whole universe, and if 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.719 you want me in this university, I know you can 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.680 cause me to stand out. I'm not moved by what 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.560 I see. I'm moved by what I know, and I 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.400 know your plans for me are for good. I know 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.199 you have far and beyond favor. I know you reward 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.560 those that honor you. A few months ago, Courtney received 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.960 notice in the mail that out of the twenty six 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.360 hundred applications, she was one of the twelve that were chosen. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.400 She's right here on the front row. Courtney, very proud 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:10.640 of you. Some of you are spending too much time 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:12.559 analyzing your situation. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.520 You have so many facts and figures. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.000 It's talking you out of what God can do. If 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:24.160 you would spend more time considering God, thinking about his greatness, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.680 the times he's made away in the past, meditating on 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:32.040 his promises, speaking faith and victory over your life, then 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.640 like Courtney, like Abraham, you'd see God show up and 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.880 do supernatural things. I remember when we first acquired this 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.560 new facility, the former Compact Center. I was told by 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.520 our architects that it would cost approximately one hundred million 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.040 dollars to renovate. My first thought was, how in the 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.360 world will we ever be able to pay for this. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.959 Our team ran the numbers they projected future giving. If 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:03.439 we sold some proper things fell into place, we calculated 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:08.480 we would still be significantly short. I studied those numbers 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.720 again and again, so much so I'd wake up in 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.679 the middle of the night dreaming about those numbers. I 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.680 had analyzed them a thousand different ways. No matter how 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.520 I looked at them, we always came up short on paper. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.560 It just wouldn't work out. One day, I did what 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.320 I'm asking you to do. I said, God, I've considered 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.720 the numbers. I've considered the facts. I've had very intelligent 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:39.760 people give me projections and analysis, and God, it doesn't 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.120 look good. But now I'm going to change my focus 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:44.800 and start considering you. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:45.839 God. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.480 I know you parted the Red Sea for Moses, you 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.760 stopped the sun for Joshua. You protected Daniel from hungry lions. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.840 You took five loaves and fed five thousand. You turn 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.200 water into wine that was back in Bible days. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.120 But God, in my own life, I've seen you heal 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.120 my mother of terminal cancer. You brought my. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.880 Father out of defeat and poverty into a life of 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.800 abundance and purpose. You spared my life on the freeway 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.920 when my car was spinning around an eighteen wheeler right 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.280 in front of me. You caused Victoria and I to 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.920 stumble on to a house that doubled in value overnight. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.839 You've given us this beautiful facility. And God, you said 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:34.440 what you started, you will finish. You said, God, we 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:39.360 would see the surpassing greatness of your favor. You said 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.319 you would supply our needs according to your riches. When 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.439 I changed my focus, instead of considering my circumstances, started 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:54.160 considering my God, doubt, fear, anxiety, negativity didn't have a chance. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.160 Faith rose up, expectancy rose up, hope rose up. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:03.480 I became persuaded. I knew that I knew that, I 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:04.240 knew that I. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.520 Knew God would make a way, even though I didn't 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:08.080 see a way. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:09.920 That's exactly what happened. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.160 Here we are today, not just believing for the promise, 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.880 but enjoying the promise, not just dreaming the dream, but 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:22.840 living the dream. Friends, it's so important what you consider. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.120 What are you focusing on the size of your obstacle 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.040 or the size of your God. If you go through 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.840 the day just thinking about your problems, worried, negative, playing 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.560 out all the scenarios that could happen, that's going to 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:39.800 draw in defeat. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.040 You're using your faith, but you're using it in the 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:43.760 wrong direction. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.360 It takes just as much energy to be negative as 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.960 it does to be positive. It takes just as much 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.720 energy to be worried as it does to believe. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.080 I'm asking us to use our energy for the right purposes. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:05.480 Most people have considered their circumstances long enough. They've considered 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.080 the bank account, the medical report, the odds that. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:10.160 Are against them. 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.760 It's time to make the switch and start considering our God. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.480 Why don't you take the same time that you would 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.440 normally spend worrying and use that time to thank God 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.280 that the answers on the way, Thank Him that he's 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:29.000 fighting your battles, Thank him that breakthroughs are coming. Instead 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.920 of over analyzing the situation, spend that same time meditating 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:34.800 on the scriptures. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.920 I can do all things through Christ. I am strong 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:38.560 in the Lord. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.600 God always causes me to tryumph. Instead of reading the 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.760 medical report for the twelve hundredth time, instead of getting 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.680 on the internet and for four hours googling that disease, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.520 finding everybody that's ever died from it, why don't you 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.240 take that same time to go walk in the park 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.240 and with every step say Lord, thank you that healing 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:04.480 is flowing through me. Thank you that I'm getting stronger, better, healthier. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.040 With every breath. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.560 Lord, Thank you you have me in the palm of 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.800 your hand. Thank you Lord, that nothing can snatch me away. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:14.280 Here's the key. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:19.320 When you make God bigger, your problems become smaller. When 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:24.120 you magnify God instead of your circumstances, faith rises in 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.600 your hearts. That's what's going to keep you fully persuaded. Now, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.480 pay attention to what you're focusing on. Be aware of 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.840 what's playing in your mind all day. Are you considering 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:40.720 your circumstances or are you considering your God? March chapter five, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.040 Jesus was traveling through a town on his way to 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.480 pray for a sick person, but he kept getting stopped 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:52.120 along the way, one delay after another. Finally, these people 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.280 came up and said to his disciples, tell Jesus he 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.040 doesn't need to come any longer. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.840 It's too late. The has died. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:08.520 The scripture says Jesus overhearing but ignoring. Sometimes in order 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.160 to stay in faith, you have to ignore a negative report. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.600 Doesn't mean you deny the facts, act like they're not there. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.720 No, Like Jesus, you may hear the facts. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.639 The odds may be against you, but you choose not 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.080 to dwell on them. You don't go around defeated thinking 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:28.840 all great, I knew I. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.560 Wouldn't get well. Look at this doctor's report. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.200 Now, that may be one report, but God has another report. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.600 The medical report may say, according to medical science, you'll 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:44.399 never get well, But God's report says, I'm restoring. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.440 Health unto you and healing you of your wounds. 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.040 The question is whose report are you going to believe. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.840 The financial report may say you'll never get out of debt, 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.960 you'll never be able to take that mission's trip, you'll 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.800 never afford the house you really want. 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.920 That's one report. Don't deny it. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.480 But choose to believe the report of the Lord. God 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.480 says you will lend and not borrow. Whatever you touch 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.480 will prosper and succeed. His favor surrounds you like a shield. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.000 If you're going to have unshakable faith, you've got to 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.520 learn to ignore the negative reports and choose to believe 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.960 the report of the Lord. One time Jesus saw some 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.280 men on a beach. They were putting away their fishing 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.160 nets and all of their equipment. They'd been out fishing 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.320 that night, and Jesus asked if he could borrow their 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.080 boat so he could push away from the shore and 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.520 teach the people that had gathered. They'd never met before. 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.320 But the men agreed when Jesus finished. As a way 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.880 to say thank you, he told the men, launch out 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.200 into the deep, and you will catch. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:54.320 A great haul of fish. These fishermen begin to reason 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:55.080 in their mind. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:19:00.919 They thought he's a teacher. We're professional fishermen. This is 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.639 how we make a living. We know when the fish 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.840 are biting and when they're not biting. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:07.560 We've been doing this for years. 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.159 We are experts, and now is not the time to 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:15.199 go fishing. For some people, the problem is they know 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.239 too much. Our intellect can talk us out of what 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.760 God wants to do. I told a story once about 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.800 a lady that overcame cancer. Three times after the service, 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.880 another lady came up, said Joel, I liked that story, 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.520 but the type of cancer I have is very rare, 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.640 less than one percent of all cancer. There's no treatment 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.159 for it. The average life expectancy is this long. On 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:45.120 and on, in great detail, she told me all the 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:49.200 reasons why she couldn't get well, and story after story 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.200 of people that had not made it, and how there 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.240 was no medicine that could affect this type of cancer. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.119 When she got finished, she had convinced me I was 0:19:58.160 --> 0:19:58.840 depressed too. 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:02.880 I wasn't even sick I was ready to plan my funeral. 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.280 What was her problem? She knows too much. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.680 She has analyzed it and reanalyzed it, and studied it 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.960 and researched it. No wonder, she doesn't have any faith, 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.359 And it's good to have information. I'm not saying to 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.560 live with our head in the sand, but there comes 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.120 a point where you have to say, I am not 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:28.840 going to put any more doubt and unbelief into my mind. Yes, 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.800 I want to know the facts, but I don't need 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.720 to know all the details of why I'm not going 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.120 to get well, why I'm not going to get out 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.480 of debt, why I can't accomplish my dreams. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:42.200 Take this in the right sense. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.440 Sometimes you have to turn your mind off. If you 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.680 listen long enough the experts, they can talk you out 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.480 of God's best. With the facts, the figures, the details, 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.000 the statistics, they can convince you into living a defeated, 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:02.520 mediocre life, like this guy heard about. He was standing 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.200 on the side of a bridge about to jump, so depressed, 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:09.719 so discouraged. A man ran up and said, please, please 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:11.320 don't jump, let me help. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.280 Tell me about your problems. 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.240 For the next three hours, in great detail, he told 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:18.880 the man all of his problems. 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:20.439 When he got finished, they. 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.439 Both jumped, I want to know the facts, but I 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.440 don't want to know too much. If you don't cut 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.000 that off, it's going to depress you. 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:30.960 You got to get out of. 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.880 The natural and say this may be impossible with men, 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:40.680 but with God, all things are possible. Those fishermen said 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.359 to Jesus, we've been out fishing all night and caught nothing. 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.879 Thank you for your advice, thank you for your suggestion. 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.640 But we're the experts. We know the facts. 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.359 We got the latest fishing report emailed to us earlier 0:21:55.400 --> 0:22:00.159 this morning. Nothing is biting, Jesus said, in effect, the 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:04.440 promise I've given you may not make sense in the natural, 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:09.520 but I have supernatural power. Your report may say that 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:11.879 there are no fish out there, but you have to 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.719 understand I control the fish. There may not have been 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.960 fish last night, last week, or last year, but I 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.359 can assure you they're a fish out there right now. 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:24.560 Jesus finally convinced them. 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.960 They went out, sort of thinking that they were wasting 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:32.439 their time, but they said, nevertheless, Jesus, at your word, 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.520 we will do it. They turned their mind off, They 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:40.639 ignored their logic, their reasoning, their experience what that was 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:45.399 telling them. I've learned God is not always logical. God's 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:48.679 ways are not always our ways. They went out and 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:52.880 caught so many fish that their boat began to sink. Now, 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.000 don't talk yourself out of what God wants to do 0:22:56.160 --> 0:23:00.800 in your life. It may not seem logical. Reasoning may 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:04.080 tell you there's no way. You're too young or too old. 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:08.800 All the odds are against you. It looks impossible. Dare 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:12.760 to do like these fishermen say, God, this promise you've 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:16.159 given me doesn't make sense. I don't see how it 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:19.200 could ever happen. I don't know why I should even get. 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:19.680 My hopes up. 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.720 Nevertheless, God, if you say so, I'm going to believe. 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:28.080 So that's what Mary did, the mother of Christ. She 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:32.280 was a teenager living in Nazareth. An angel appeared unto 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:35.200 her and said, Mary, you are highly favored of God. 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:38.600 You will give birth to a child without knowing a man. 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:40.280 He will be the son of God. 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:45.440 God spoke this incredible promise to her. You can imagine 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:49.560 the thoughts of defeat and doubt that we're bombarding her mind, 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:53.879 saying you can't have a child without a man. That's impossible. 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:57.399 That defies the laws of nature. If she would have 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.760 looked at it just in the natural, she would have 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:03.440 talked herself out of it. But Mary understood this principle. 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:08.479 She didn't consider her circumstances. She considered her God, I 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:11.200 love the way, she answered back. She didn't say that 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.760 sounds so far out. I just don't see how it 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:14.320 could happen. 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:15.560 No, she was bold. 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:19.400 She told the Angel, be it under me, even as 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:23.280 you have said. In other words, let it happen. I'm 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:26.960 in agreement. If God says I'm highly favored, I believe 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:30.160 I'm highly favored. If God says the impossible is going 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:33.000 to happen, I believe the impossible will happen. 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:35.440 That's the way we need to be. 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:38.600 When God puts a promise in our heart. We may 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:40.880 not see how it could work out in the natural, 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:42.880 but we don't try to reason it out. 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:44.520 We don't make excuses. 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:49.600 We do like Abraham and become fully persuaded. You may 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.919 be facing an illness. God gives you the promise with 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:53.960 long life. 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:56.119 He will satisfy you. 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.119 You can either say I don't know, Joel, the report 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:02.560 doesn't look good. I've had this for five years. My 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:05.560 great grandmother died of the same thing. You can talk 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:09.200 yourself out of it, or you can say, like Mary, God, 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:11.679 if you say I'm going to be well, I believe 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:15.360 I'm going to be well. Maybe you're struggling in your finances. 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:18.560 You've run all the numbers. It doesn't look like you'll 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:21.440 ever get out of debt. But because you're a giver, 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:24.359 God gives you the promise. He's going to open the 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:27.800 windows of heaven pour out blessings that you cannot contain. 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:32.240 Now, don't make excuses. God. Do you know where I work? God? 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:34.200 Do you know what the cost of living is? God? 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:37.000 If you've seen the stock market, no, zip that up 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:39.119 and do like Mary, God, let it happen. 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:42.240 I'm in agreement. Be it under me, even as you 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:48.719 have said. Mary asked the angel something interesting. She said, 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:50.439 how can this be? 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:54.240 Seeing that I know not a man? She was asking 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:56.679 a course about the physical. But I believe there's a 0:25:56.720 --> 0:26:00.800 deeper meaning. God is saying, my promises is are not 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:04.919 dependent on man. You don't have to know certain people 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:08.480 in order to fulfill your destiny. Sometimes we think if 0:26:08.480 --> 0:26:10.680 I could just get my boss to like me, then 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:13.120 he'd give me that promotion. If I could just get 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:15.840 to that expert, then I'd have the training. If I 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:19.879 just had some important, influential friends, maybe I could get 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:20.600 a good break. 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:21.400 Now. 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:25.560 God's promises are not dependent on who you know or 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:26.439 who you don't know. 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:30.280 The main thing is you know him and he controls 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:30.840 it all. 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:35.760 The scripture says, promotion does it come from people, It 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:39.879 comes from Almighty God. When it's your time to be promoted, 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:43.800 to be healed, to be restored, God doesn't go check 0:26:43.840 --> 0:26:46.680 with your friends, your neighbors, your co workers. 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:48.200 He says, like Mary. 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:52.200 I'll make it happen without a man. If God can 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:54.879 do it without a man, he can do it without 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:57.720 a bank. He can do it without a loan. He 0:26:57.760 --> 0:27:00.000 can do it without the treatment. He can do it 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:04.400 but without the training. Some of you have considered your 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:09.200 circumstances long enough. It's time to start considering your God. 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.520 He is the all powerful creator. 0:27:12.119 --> 0:27:12.880 Of the universe. 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:17.360 The promise, the dream he's placed in your heart may 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:21.200 seem impossible, may look too big when you run the numbers, 0:27:21.200 --> 0:27:25.040 so to speak, doesn't seem logical. But don't do like 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:29.239 the fishermen and overanalyze it and try to reason it 0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:32.439 all out. You'll just talk yourself out of it. Do 0:27:32.640 --> 0:27:35.760 like Mary Dare to say, God, I don't see a way. 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:38.000 But I know you have a way. Let it happen. 0:27:38.800 --> 0:27:42.440 When the negative reports, the negative thoughts come saying it's 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:43.840 too late, it's impossible. 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:47.320 Learn to ignore it. That's one report. 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:51.160 But remember God has another report, and he's saying today, 0:27:51.760 --> 0:27:55.919 every promise I've spoken over you, every dream I've placed 0:27:55.960 --> 0:27:58.240 in your heart, I will bring it to pass. 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:01.480 I am bringing you out of it into abundance. 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:05.919 You will live healthy and hold your children, will be 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:07.119 mighty in the land. 0:28:07.800 --> 0:28:10.080 You will overcome that addiction. 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:13.600 That problem will not defeat you. 0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:15.520 You will meet the right people. 0:28:16.000 --> 0:28:20.359 You will accomplish dreams greater than you ever imagined, because 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:25.760 you have unshakable faith, because you are fully persuaded. Like Abraham, 0:28:26.080 --> 0:28:30.159 you are going to see the surpassing greatness of God's favor. 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:33.520 I believe it and declare it in Jesus' name. 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:36.040 If you receive it, can just say amen. 0:28:36.119 --> 0:28:41.560 Today we never like to close our broadcast without giving 0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:44.480 you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:44.680 --> 0:28:45.600 Would you pray with me? 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:51.480 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, come 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:52.240 into my heart. 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:57.520 I make you my Lord and Savior. Amen. Well, if 0:28:57.560 --> 0:28:59.880 you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you God born. 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:03.840 Get in a good Bible based church. 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