Sometimes, we hold back from experiencing God's best because we fear being disappointed. We limit our expectations to what seems possible or comfortable, inadvertently robbing ourselves of the miracles God longs to perform in our lives. Remember, God knows what is truly best for us, and His promises, like Romans 8:28, assure us that all things work together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Trusting Him fully means releasing our need for control and embracing His perfect plan, even when it differs from our own. [01:24]
Romans 8:28 (ESV)
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Reflection: In what area of your life have you been limiting God's potential impact due to a fear of disappointment, and how might you begin to release that fear this week?
When faced with difficult circumstances, it's easy to feel paralyzed and simply wait. However, even the smallest step taken in faith can trigger a powerful response from God. The story of the lepers at the city gate illustrates this: their decision to move, even with uncertainty, led to a miraculous deliverance. When you make a decision to move forward with God, your actions are magnified in the spiritual realm, opening doors for His provision and intervention. [08:25]
2 Kings 7:3-5 (ESV)
Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gates. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we shall die also. So come, let us fall into the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives, we shall live. If they kill us, we shall only die.” So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. And when they came to the outskirts of the camp, behold, there was no one there.
Reflection: Consider a situation where you feel stuck. What is one small, decisive step you can take this week in faith, trusting that God will magnify your action?
In a world filled with distractions, discerning God's voice can be challenging. Yet, just as sheep recognize their shepherd's voice, we are called to know and respond to His call. The woman with the issue of blood heard about Jesus and, in that moment, her life was transformed. When you hear God's voice, even a whisper of His truth, it has the power to change your identity and bring about complete healing and wholeness. [12:09]
Mark 5:27-29 (ESV)
She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Reflection: Where have you recently sensed God speaking to you, and what is one way you can actively respond to that voice this week?
Many of us are in a survival mode, just trying to get by. However, God desires to transform us from survivors into messengers, impacting others through our obedience. The lepers, after discovering the abandoned Syrian camp filled with provisions, didn't just keep it to themselves; they became messengers, returning to share the good news and restore what was lost. Your obedience, even in small acts, can lead to immense blessings and restoration, not just for you, but for those around you. [16:16]
2 Kings 7:8-9 (ESV)
And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried off from it gold and silver and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and called to the guards of the city gate and told them, saying, “We were in the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one at all there, nor the sound of any man, but horses tied, and donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”
Reflection: Think about a time when you have experienced God's provision or deliverance. How can you share that testimony to encourage someone else who might be in a similar situation?
The course of our lives can be profoundly altered by a single, obedient decision. Whether it's a decision to trust God with your career, your family, or your finances, that choice can set in motion a ripple effect of blessings that extend far beyond what you can imagine. The stories shared highlight how one act of faith, one step of obedience, can lead to magnification and multiplication, impacting generations to come. Embrace the power of making a decision to trust and obey God today. [31:42]
Philippians 4:6-7 (ESV)
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Reflection: Reflect on a significant decision you made in the past that you now see as a turning point. What was it about that decision that allowed God to work so powerfully, and how can you apply that lesson to future choices?
Decision points define the trajectory of faith: choose to move or remain stuck. The talk urges believers to stop limiting what God can do because fear of disappointment shrinks expectation and steals miracles. Using the startling story of the four lepers who decided to risk going to the enemy camp, it shows how a small act of obedience — rising at twilight and moving — was magnified in the spiritual realm and turned retreat into restitution. Movement, even when it looks insignificant outwardly, can trigger divine amplification that the enemy mistakes for an overwhelming army.
Parallel to that is the story of the woman with the flow of blood: hearing about Jesus led her to reach, touch, and be restored. Hearing and responding to Christ’s voice reorders identity — from outcast to daughter — and opens access to what belongs to God’s children. The preacher emphasizes that hearing must become doing: decisions rooted in the voice of God carry a different weight and generate consequences beyond immediate perception.
Practical testimony anchors the theological point. One small act of obedience — a phone call, an offer on a piece of land, a willingness to serve — became the seed for long-term multiplication: staff, school growth, new facilities, and generations benefiting. Obedience is presented as generative rather than merely sacrificial; it is the soil where multiplication takes root and the mechanism through which lost possessions, opportunities, and people are restored.
Finally, the message calls for peace that comes from hearing rather than from the absence of storms. True discernment is accompanied by an interior steadiness; when a decision aligns with the word and yields peace, it is likely the right one even if circumstances remain difficult. The final appeal is simple and urgent: make the decision to trust, obey, and move. Small beginnings, when tethered to God’s voice and obeyed, become the avenues for magnification, multiplication, and the reversal of loss into abundant blessing.
The lord is our shepherd. We shall not want. He's your shepherd. He's we shall not want. He shall not withhold any good thing from us. Why? Because he is our shepherd and we don't even know what we want but the lord is our shepherd. What is David doing in the twenty third Psalms? He's bragging on the lord.
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#HeIsMyShepherd
You will never have peace over a storm that you don't have peace in. You're in the storm, but you got peace in it. We want peace over the storm, but we don't have peace in the storm. So we want God to take the storm out of way so we can have peace. He said, it don't work that way. You have peace over the storm because you have peace in the storm.
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#PeaceInTheStorm
Twilight. It's twilight. They got up before lepers got up at twilight, and when did the Syrian army hear what sounded like an army coming to completely annihilate it? When was that? Twilight. So what is that what's the story trying to what is what is this story teaching us today? That that is that as soon as they made a decision to go forward and and and just do something, What they feel like here is gonna end up being doing something for God that their movement was magnified. Whenever we do nothing, there's nothing to be magnified.
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#TwilightMovement
And they showed up at the camp and they're completely gone. You know what was left? Gold, their silver, their articles, their food, their everything that the enemy has stolen from them was still there, but the enemy was gone. You know what god is telling us word today? That if we obey him and we just be obedient and a lot of times we're a bit that's a decision we have to make that the things that the enemy has stolen from you, you're going to get it back.
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#RecoveredAndRestored
How in the world can four lepers guys probably one or two of them was just, know, just you know, they're they're just not even picking their feet up. I mean, they're just lying their feet as they're going and but somehow another the army heard what they heard was another army coming because once we make a decision, once we hear from God and we make a decision, once we start moving, it might not look like anything on the outside, but in the spiritual realm that decision that I'm gonna do what God is calling me to do is gonna be magnified.
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#SmallStepsBigMiracles
That means Jesus became flesh. He became just like us because it was man that that committed a sin. So, it was man that's how to pay the price of sin. So, Jesus had to come as a son of man to pay the price. It's the gospel. So, he has So Jesus here, he is we have to understand this, that Jesus, he is he is the son of man. Obviously, he's sinless, that's what makes him the son of God, but everything else about him is the is the same holy spirit that was on Jesus that is the same holy spirit that is upon you. The same anointing, the ability that is on Jesus is the same anointing and ability that is on us. Does everybody understand that?
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#SameAnointingAsChrist
No one used to you know, watch this. I got I got to do this. I'm get you get you out of here because we get over. She heard. They heard, and they went. You gotta hear for god. You gotta watch it because the enemy, he runs his mouth too. Out of all the things that we've done from from that ministry, buying land to her starting school and all this kind of stuff that we did, we heard as many negative words. No. We had a lot more negative words than we had positive words.
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#IgnoreTheNaysayers
They have food because they have our food and let's just turn ourselves in and if they don't they don't like us because we're Israelites, then they're gonna kill us. But we're gonna die anyway. But why sit here and die? We're gonna at least feel like we're doing something to die and this is a point a lot of times we are. Why sit here if we're gonna die?
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#ChooseAction
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