Zion Church | The Pathway To Success Part 20 | Pastor Keith Battle

You have all kinds of reasons why you did it and most people will listen to you and say that makes sense, But at the end of the day, you're scared. And God said, God is not saying don't ever don't ever get scared, he just said don't stay scared. Sometimes you gotta do it while you're scared. You can't watch this, here it is. Your mission's gotta be bigger than your fear. Because watch this, he says Go back to verse six. He says, be strong and gracious, don't be scared for you're the one and you will lead these people to possess all the land. Here's the reason why you can't let fear stop you because it's bigger than you. [00:27:46] (40 seconds)  #missionbiggerthanfear

Look at verse nine. He says it again. I command you be strong and courageous. That's fortified. Let me tell you something, if you're gonna if you're have success, good success, you're gonna have to have something in you. I hope you all can handle this. I don't know a better word. It it it's you gotta have a dog in you. I ain't talking about parliament, funkadelic. I ain't talking about that dog. I'm talking about that grit. Who understands what I'm talking about? That I don't quit. I don't quit. You you done messed with the wrong one. All you did was make me tougher. You made me go deeper. You ain't gonna make me run away. You ain't gonna make me back down. [00:19:09] (41 seconds)  #gritnotquit

God likes choosing people who it don't make sense so that when it happens, the glory can only go one place. And he says to the weakest man in the weakest family, go in the strength you got. Oh, that's a sermon right there. Go in the strength you got. You all you got is excuses and God said, go in the strength you got. Why God? Here's the here's the answer. Verse 16, because I will be with you. You're gonna destroy the Midianites as if you're fighting against one man. Why? Because I will be with you. That's gonna be the difference. My presence is gonna be the difference. [00:35:52] (47 seconds)  #gowithwhatyougot

Once a day for six days, and the seventh day, walk around seven times. Do you know how funny, how crazy he looked? Even to his military team, what are we doing? But it was a move of faith. And some of you can't reach levels of success in your life because you only do what's logical. Go ahead. Work. You would never do something like that. That's why if God tells you, I want you to have this property, you would never walk around it. That just went right over your head right there. You you you you too smart to do something like that. [00:04:53] (35 seconds)  #faithoverlogic

you say, you know what? God can't use me anymore. But how is it that your standard is higher than his? He said, if you confess your sins, I'm faithful and just to forgive you and cleanse you. Yeah. So now, you have a standard that's holier than God because you won't use you won't watch this. You won't serve God when you think you're not worthy. What you don't know is is that when God first chose you, he already knew the wild stuff he was gonna do before he chose you. So now that you know what he already knew, you weren't worthy when you thought you were worthy. [00:25:54] (34 seconds)  #forgivenotunworthy

Look at all these people. If I could just make it make sense to y'all, Some of y'all don't understand all the people who are dependent on you to not run away in fear. All the people that need you to walk in courage because they're people, it's people, it ain't it's bigger than you. It ain't just about your feelings and your needs, it's bigger than you. It's bigger. What God called you to do is bigger than you. It's about the people he's trying to help. Do you understand what I'm saying? And you can't get over your fears. That's the enemy. God is not giving you a spirit of fear. Power, love, and a sound mind, that comes from God. [00:28:25] (38 seconds)  #othersdependonyou

And then he says, it's not not only that reason for you to not be afraid, he says, also, I swore to their ancestors they would that I would give their descendants this land. You know what God's saying? I can't have you being scared and walking away because my name is on the line. My word is on the line. There's a promise on the table. I wrote I made a promise to the ancestors of these Israelites that I was gonna give them this land. And I need you to understand that you don't just have my protection, you got a promise on this. [00:29:04] (32 seconds)  #promiseontheline

See, watch this, faith will require you to take some things. Favor will make God just give you some stuff. Oh, I wish I had a good I wish I had a church church in here today. I said there's some things I had to take by faith, but there's some things God just gave me by favor. Has God ever gave you something? I didn't even ask for it. God, I didn't even ask for that, God. I didn't even ask for it, but you just you just thought about me. You just thought well of me. You just decide he decided to do it. He decided to he decided to do it. [00:15:43] (44 seconds)  #givennotearned