How To Have An Unshakable Faith When I Doubt | Unshakable | Pastor Brett Moore

What does that say about you? I'll tell you what it means. It means you're in really good company because you're in the company with people like Sarah, who at an old age, God told her she was gonna have a son, and she laughed because she doubted that God would provide. You're in company with Moses who doubted that God picked the best public speaker. You're in company with Gideon who doubted God's promise of victory. With David, a man after God's own heart who doubted God's timing. With John the Baptist who doubted from prison if Jesus was the promised one, and Peter while walking on water looking at him, he doubts, is Jesus the one who cares? Church, what does the Bible make abundantly clear? It's this, doubters make great disciples. [00:52:02] (50 seconds)  #DoubtMakesDisciples

And here's the accusing question that I've asked the Lord, and I wonder if you've asked it too. Why am I not where I want to be? Maybe you've woken up and you've not thought that, but maybe you thought, I'm not where I thought I would be by now. Have you ever thought like that comparison? It fuels doubts. It fuels doubts because in its assumption that the diagnosis for today is permanent and that healing can't happen. Doubt makes us ask if God still cares because we don't see it. We don't see as God sees. We don't have the perspective that God has. We don't see what God sees. We don't know the fullness of his plan. [00:43:20] (47 seconds)  #ComparisonFuelsDoubt

We don't know the the fullness of his provision. We don't know the plenty that God wants to bless. Church, New Hope online in the room, you have to hear this. Just because you can't see the end of what God is doing in your life, it doesn't mean he's not at work. God is absolutely at work in your life. You're noticing it doesn't diminish that. No matter if you brought all the doubts in here today or not, God is up to something in your life, and it's not meaningless. You matter more than you know. Though you may not see it or feel it, let me tell you what's true of every single person here. God is refining your faith. [00:44:07] (43 seconds)  #GodIsWorking

My translation, Elijah, it's time to get back to work. This is this is incredibly personal for me because here's the question that doubt makes me ask about my calling. Can pastors doubt their calling? Doubt leads us to ask some really hard questions. Here's the questions that doubt makes me ask. Have the decisions I've made in the past mean that now I'm not effective anymore? When you find yourself cut upset covered by it, you can't see your way out of it. It's all you can think of. Here's the worry. God, do you still need me? [00:51:08] (46 seconds)  #CallingAndDoubt

Doubt just whittles us down and it grinds us, it grows us to a place of burden where we start wondering, am I the kind of person God even wants around, much less use? Does he does he still want me? So what's our question? How can we have an unshakable faith when we doubt? If doubt is making a judgment call based on what I can see, then what do we do? Or where do we go? Where do we go when doubt leaves us shaken? We remember that what matters most to God, God's final category for you is not your doubts versus your certainty. God's final category for you is your union with the Lord Jesus, who invites weary people to himself. [00:58:33] (67 seconds)  #IdentityInChrist

And I wrote down in my notes even when, but I wanna say especially when your doubt is painful, especially when it hurts. And here's why. Because if you come here to church today, if you're listening, if you come into the church and you're hurting, you know what your pain is doing? It is cultivating something in you that without the hardship could not be produced. There's a wave that people who are hurting understand God that is unique and special that people who have never been through the fire can never understand. That's why we can agree. That's why James one two is right. We can say, we consider it pure joy whenever we face trials of many kinds. [00:45:27] (52 seconds)  #JoyInTrials

Elijah had some extraordinary moments. Think of the timeline of this prophet's life. But here's the thing about moments. As extraordinary as they are, as powerful and moving as they may be, all moments have an expiration date. And to answer the questions that doubt leads us to ask and maybe you're asking right now, you need more than a moment. So what are those questions? If you're taking notes, I think the first question that doubt leads us to ask is, does God care? And does God care is an honest question. This is not an accusatory question to God. This doesn't offend God that you wonder, but does God care? [00:39:38] (51 seconds)  #MoreThanAMoment

We're familiar. This is not this is not distinct to only a few people. All of us know that feeling. It's at home or with our families or at work. We know that emotion, but do we know the name of that emotion? That emotion, that feeling has a name and that name is doubt. We're gonna spend a lot of time talking about doubt today. Let me give you my working definition. This is not dictionary. This is the Brett International, definition of the word doubt. Doubt is very simply making a judgment call based on what I can see. Doubt is deciding. It's evaluating. It's gauging, assessing the conditions, but it's all based on your point of view. You're the only one who has that opinion. [00:33:14] (50 seconds)  #DoubtIsPerspective