Faith in Action: Embracing Challenges in the New Year
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"Jesus says you should never say that. and he's not saying you shouldn't keep your promises. What he's saying is you shouldn't try to use something other than you to substantiate your promise, that what you genuinely choose to do in your heart is all the power that you should choose to depend on." [00:02:38]
"That sometimes we think the capacity for us to accomplish something is external to the power that is already within us. That the power of this word is our faith in the word. And so often we, you know, we have people who swear in, you know, I mean, I've seen it in a court of law." [00:04:12]
"And so we try to attach these external accoutrements to our word. To create some substantiation of the authenticity of the word when the power is in your word. And so often we'll even make, you know, a proclamation for the year. Oh, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. But you know something?" [00:04:50]
"But as your brother and as your friend, what I want to, encourage you with today is that why all of those things are certainly necessary and are ingredients for us to overcome whatever challenge that might come before us, for us to be genuinely successful in life, in your personal life, in the life of the church, life of your community." [00:07:17]
"The most important ingredient is faith. because it's possible to be handsome I'm trying to find a handsome man in here David you can have this distinguished professorial look like David all right he's a oh I wish if I could just be like David yeah you know oh my gosh then I could really have it going on you know okay you know so so you know you you you you can you you can have all of these different things but at the same time you know in your heart of hearts you're not doing what God has called you to do you haven't fulfilled your divine mission and it's usually because a limitation in faith it usually isn't an absence it's a limitation now I maintain that we all have faith I maintain that we all have faith we all have a measure of it I mean when you get in your car get in your car turn on your car you drive out of the parking lot here you turn left or right on 16 and a half sometimes your your mind is gone you're thinking about something else you're thinking about the next thing you're gonna do you're just turning but every time you turn that wheel" [00:09:55]
"Your car is going in the direction that you want it to go without the slightest second or third thought of it. You don't think about the connection between your steering wheel and the wheels of the car. You don't even know whether it's a mechanical one or it's a drive -by -wire, whatever. You just know, if I turn it, it's going to go because that's what it always does." [00:11:59]
"However, all too often, we don't realize the connection between faith and the direction of our lives. That there is a linkage there that we don't really have to think about. But we should appreciate the reality of that connection enough to take our lives by the wheel through our faith in God so that he's really the one who's steering our lives." [00:13:00]
"And a man comes up and says, please have pity on me or mercy on me, depending upon your scripture, your understanding. Your version of scripture. He comes up and says, my son has a deaf and mute spirit. And this spirit will throw him into the fire, into the water. And he says, if you can, have mercy or pity on us. And I like what Jesus says." [00:13:55]
"He basically says, if? If? In other words, the guy had a measure of faith, otherwise he wouldn't have brought the child to Jesus to begin with, right? He believed that this guy is really like everything that everyone has been saying. Word has been spreading like wildfire. This is my chance." [00:15:24]
"So I think that as we go into 2025, God is going to bring us challenges, opportunities, adversity, and the real challenge is not going to be the hardship. But whether we're going to go to God and say, if, or we're going to say, when. Are we going to have enough faith in God to ask him and say, if?" [00:17:57]
"to take some risk, it requires us to step out. But the more we move, it is the evidence of our faith. When we move without knowing where all the pieces are, without knowing how it's all going to come together, when we just do what God has called us to do, he has a way of bringing all the resources that are needed to accomplish that which you've set out to do in his name." [00:24:34]
"be ready to give up something that is important to you so that you can get something that's more important than what you thought was important and that is the faith to be able to make it through the challenge that is before you faith does work and when we have God's faith in us we can do things that we thought were not possible amen" [00:25:58]
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"That sometimes we think the capacity for us to accomplish something is external to the power that is already within us. That the power of this word is our faith in the word. And so often we, you know, we have people who swear in, you know, I mean, I've seen it in a court of law." [00:04:12]
"And so we try to attach these external accoutrements to our word. To create some substantiation of the authenticity of the word when the power is in your word. And so often we'll even make, you know, a proclamation for the year. Oh, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. But you know something?" [00:04:50]
"But as your brother and as your friend, what I want to, encourage you with today is that why all of those things are certainly necessary and are ingredients for us to overcome whatever challenge that might come before us, for us to be genuinely successful in life, in your personal life, in the life of the church, life of your community." [00:07:17]
"The most important ingredient is faith. because it's possible to be handsome I'm trying to find a handsome man in here David you can have this distinguished professorial look like David all right he's a oh I wish if I could just be like David yeah you know oh my gosh then I could really have it going on you know okay you know so so you know you you you you can you you can have all of these different things but at the same time you know in your heart of hearts you're not doing what God has called you to do you haven't fulfilled your divine mission and it's usually because a limitation in faith it usually isn't an absence it's a limitation now I maintain that we all have faith I maintain that we all have faith we all have a measure of it I mean when you get in your car get in your car turn on your car you drive out of the parking lot here you turn left or right on 16 and a half sometimes your your mind is gone you're thinking about something else you're thinking about the next thing you're gonna do you're just turning but every time you turn that wheel" [00:09:55]
"Your car is going in the direction that you want it to go without the slightest second or third thought of it. You don't think about the connection between your steering wheel and the wheels of the car. You don't even know whether it's a mechanical one or it's a drive -by -wire, whatever. You just know, if I turn it, it's going to go because that's what it always does." [00:11:59]
"However, all too often, we don't realize the connection between faith and the direction of our lives. That there is a linkage there that we don't really have to think about. But we should appreciate the reality of that connection enough to take our lives by the wheel through our faith in God so that he's really the one who's steering our lives." [00:13:00]
"And a man comes up and says, please have pity on me or mercy on me, depending upon your scripture, your understanding. Your version of scripture. He comes up and says, my son has a deaf and mute spirit. And this spirit will throw him into the fire, into the water. And he says, if you can, have mercy or pity on us. And I like what Jesus says." [00:13:55]
"He basically says, if? If? In other words, the guy had a measure of faith, otherwise he wouldn't have brought the child to Jesus to begin with, right? He believed that this guy is really like everything that everyone has been saying. Word has been spreading like wildfire. This is my chance." [00:15:24]
"So I think that as we go into 2025, God is going to bring us challenges, opportunities, adversity, and the real challenge is not going to be the hardship. But whether we're going to go to God and say, if, or we're going to say, when. Are we going to have enough faith in God to ask him and say, if?" [00:17:57]
"to take some risk, it requires us to step out. But the more we move, it is the evidence of our faith. When we move without knowing where all the pieces are, without knowing how it's all going to come together, when we just do what God has called us to do, he has a way of bringing all the resources that are needed to accomplish that which you've set out to do in his name." [00:24:34]
"be ready to give up something that is important to you so that you can get something that's more important than what you thought was important and that is the faith to be able to make it through the challenge that is before you faith does work and when we have God's faith in us we can do things that we thought were not possible amen" [00:25:58]
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