Unlocking the Power of Faith in God

1. "I understand Christians who don't like to travel and who love their home. I'm no different from you. I don't like to travel. I don't like to travel. I don't like to travel. I don't like to like the last, the last trip. They put us, we got on the plane one hour. I mean, we, we got up, we got on the plane and immediately we're told to get off. As soon as we got on, we're told to get off. We waited an hour. We got back on the plane and we sat there for five hours, no water, no movement, no, you know, we're sorry. Just, you know, they kept saying 25 more minutes and that turned into five hours. So I don't like that any more than you don't like that. So it's not like that. It's not like that. It's not like that. It's not like that. It's not like that. It's not like we have this glamorous life. So I understand Christians who love their home and they don't like to travel. I understand you, but I don't understand you. If you say God lives in your heart and you don't love the world for God, so love the world. And you say God's in you and you don't care two cents about the world. That's kind of a disconnect. Don't you? Don't you think? We should have some compassion for the world." [48:27] (77 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "We'll go back to time. Thailand in January, over 140 students in the Bible college. Only three of them are over the age of 40. God's moving in the young Buddhist communities of the Asian world. And the young people are flocking to Christianity and leaving Buddhism. Hallelujah. They're leaving Islam in East Africa and they're leaving witchcraft. There is no way Islam or witchcraft is going to win in East Africa. The gospel is on fire and it's spreading. And we don't have church in Africa like you do here. We start at 930. We get out around two and nobody complains. It's not like America. After 20 minutes, you get the, oh, on, y 'all. You want revival, but you might want it your way. I don't know that it comes your way." [49:53] (69 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "You know how you got saved, right? You believe someone was raised from the, so people do still get raised from the, it's possible. And we saw a multitude of churches off of those two miracles. Multitude of churches out in the bush start because, you know, people get raised from the dead. News travels. So we just did, we just preached it one way and we started seeing results like crazy. I mean, just normal people coming back and average people, and we didn't get into, are you an apostle, are you a prophet, are you, we just said, just go do it, just go do it. Had a young single lady named Upendo, she came back two years after graduation and she wanted to greet me and she had learned English and because I told him, I said, if you learn English, the whole world will open up to you. So she learned English and she came back. I said, Upendo, what have you been doing? She looked at me real strange. She said, I've been doing what you told me to do. I said, well, which part? She said, well, I work in Arusha. I save my money and I go out in the bush and I found a place, a region out in the bush where they didn't have any churches and I take two bags. One is my Bible and my tablet. The other is food. And she told me how many kilometers she walked. And later I went, because, you know, Americans, I went back to my room. It was like a 20 -mile trek. Out in the bush. And in two years, she started four churches. Young 20 -something -year -old single person started four churches. And it dawned on me when I got back to the room, hey, you know how that happened? I never told her she couldn't. I just told her she could and released her and she went and did it." [59:46] (114 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "I want to talk to you about what's possible with you. Turn with me to Mark chapter 9. Mark chapter 9. Now, I'm going to go quick. Blessed are the brief. Shall be invited back. It's not a scripture, but maybe it should be. Mark chapter 9, verse 17. Then one of the crowd answered and said, Mark 9, 17. Teacher, I brought you my son who has a mute spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down. Foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to your disciples that they should cast it out, but they could not. He answered. Answered and said, oh, I'm sovereign God and everything's up to me. No. You know, the teaching on the sovereignty of God has hit a resurgence of popularity right now in America, especially among young people. And it concerns me because this teaching about the sovereignty of God has elements of truth, but at the end of the day, it's the laziest theology anybody can ever have. Because it's que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be. But listen to how Jesus talks." [01:00:36] (87 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "I come from a messed up home. Messed up. Messed up. Messed up. Well, they're trying to commit. They're trying to commit suicide four times by the time I was 14. She was institutionalized three times. My brother spent the most part of his adult life in prison. Ended up murdering a man. Then he killed himself. Dad killed himself. Mother died young. Look, I don't say that for pity. I say that, look at me. You know what I found out? Redemption is greater than my pain. I said redemption is greater than my pain. It's possible to live completely healed of whatever tried to mark you. It's possible to live healed of whatever past you came out of. What God did in Christ is greater than what Satan did in Adam. So you got to be careful about how you talk about your pain. Don't be talking about it like it's some prize that God can't do anything and that you're some special case that your life has been so horrible that redemption can't fix it. No, honey. Let me just tell you, any way you've been broken, God can put you back together. But you have to, you have to come to a place where you look at yourself in the mirror and say, you know what? It's possible." [01:16:02] (103 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "It's possible to have a great marriage. No matter how bad it's been, it's possible that it can be good. See, I got bad kids. It's possible they can change. It's possible they can find Jesus. I've got horrible grandkids. It's possible for them to find Jesus. It's possible. Some of the, listen, some of the people that I met in life, there's, there's, there's a group of men. This is years ago. They're already dead. And you say, how do you know they're already dead? Because they were all on death row. McAllister State Prison. Just a few weeks, they were all going to be put to death. And they sent me in there to minister to them. I came out crying. They taught me more about peace and love and joy than I ever learned outside the, in the Bible college. They said, we're ready. We made a mistake. And Jesus paid for our sin. But now we get to pay, pay for what we did with our physical lives. And we're going to face it. We're going to tell those people we're sorry for what we did. And we're going to face death with joy. Those men had more peace than anybody I've ever met. It's possible. It's possible on death row to have more peace than people outside. Isn't that crazy? God is a God of the impossible. Can you say amen? All I want to do today is stir you up to think about what might be possible in your life." [01:20:01] (100 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "It's possible for you to live free from any curse of the law. You say, what's the curse of the law? Look it up. Write this down if you're a note taker. Deuteronomy 28, 15 to 68 is the curse of the law. When you read through those things, and they're horrible. I mean, if you ever want to get depressed, just read it. But Deuteronomy 28, verses 15 to 68 shows me what I don't have to put up with as a believer. I don't have to have children and lose them to the world. I don't have to have a wife and my best friend sleep with them. It's in there. I'm redeemed from the curse. Poverty, sickness, and death. Here's some more. It's possible to receive everything Jesus did in redemption. Forgiveness of sins. Total deliverance from demonic power. Not only from sin's penalty, but from sin's power. I don't have to give in to temptation anymore. Sin's power is broken." [01:24:38] (77 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "It's possible to live in this world, but live above it. You know what I'm finding out now? People in church vexed by evil. Vexed by evil. You know, that's a plot of the enemy to vex your spirit over the evil that's in this world. The Bible says Lot, listen. 1 Peter said Lot was a righteous man. He was a righteous man who was vexed because of the behavior of the people he lived around. Now, listen. It's interesting that the Bible calls him righteous, but that dude was ineffective. He was not affecting anybody around him. Not only he had a crazy idea of throwing his daughter out in the street and letting the men do with her what they wanted. How crazy is that? And then he couldn't motivate his family to get busy enough to get out of Sodom. That means he couldn't motivate his family to get out of Sodom. That means he had no influence over his own family. The angel had to grab him and drag him out. He was vexed. He had become ineffective. And let me just say, you know, in love, as much as I can say, sometimes people, they go so deep into politics, they stay vexed. If you stay watching news all day long, you're probably going to stay vexed. But you need to. You need to put your nose more in the Bible than you do whatever news outlet you're watching because they're not selling any good news." [01:26:55] (91 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)