Faith in Action: Trusting God's Promises

When I was converted at the University of Texas at the age of 21, a man came up to me as I've said many times and put several books in my hand. One of those books was the autobiography of George Mueller, and I was absolutely astounded at that little volume. [00:47:52]

I felt like the Lord had laid on my heart to give away the money I had for that Summer's meals to give away all that money to that particular Endeavor and to trust God. And what happened was for some reason my friends were working as waiters and a lady just heard that I was living with these boys. [00:03:38]

God met every need all the time, and as God began to work in the ministry, I began to see indigenous missionaries, men that lived on $75 a month and had started 15, 20 churches, men of whom the world is not worthy, many of them uneducated, unshaven mountain men, and that God just gloriously was using. [00:05:05]

One of the great problems is that unless you cut yourself off from the arm of the flesh, you'll never see God work. Unless you cut yourself off from the arm of the flesh, you'll never see God work. And so God began to train, and so we began to support missionaries. [00:08:38]

The last few months have been the leanest of our ministry since June. We have lived every day from hand to mouth. Several times Darren, John, and I have not received our salaries. In spite of this hardship, all the men and women in the field have received their support without exception. [00:10:14]

God has taken away from us even the little strength we thought we had. We have nothing to hope in but Him. We have 7 days before the end of the month and not a single missionary has been paid. Mission giving usually goes down in December because of the Christmas holidays. [00:12:20]

I felt led that God would send someone to us before the mail arrived who would give a gift to the mission. At midday, a brother from Kentucky came to the office and gave us $15. It was a great confirmation to all of us that God had heard our prayers and that He was with us. [00:15:31]

I would rather be a beggar in the court of God than to sit in the seats of the mighty in the greatest halls of this present age. I would be the weakest of all His children that I might see greater portions of His grace. I would be the most incompetent that I might see greater measures of His strength. [00:26:15]

The promise belongs to those with the right passion, and the promise belongs to the weak. The promise belongs to the weak. Young men, you will heartily agree that you can do nothing of yourself. You don't know at all what that means. If it's going to take so many decades of all your strength being destroyed. [00:38:38]

The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force. Now, in light of Luke 16:16, it seems best to interpret this passage to mean this: the kingdom presses ahead relentlessly, and only the relentless press their way into it. The men that are used of God, if I could only have two words to describe them. [00:42:49]

There is nothing, there is absolutely nothing in your life that cannot be overcome through wrestling and prayer and believing and availing yourself of the promises of God. Let's pray. Father, I come before you and ask you, Lord, you are a good God. You are a very good God. [00:56:54]

You can trust God. You can trust God. Don't you hear me? You don't have to go into debt. You can trust God. If God has called you to do something, why run to men? Why tell them? Why raise support from them? Why speak great things about yourself so that they might give? [00:30:12]