We live in a world where everyone's telling you you can't pull this off
We live in a time when
When people even in the church don't believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, and what he can do
Sometimes we just look at the scriptures and go, well yeah that
was back then and you guys it's it's not about back then it's it's about always
It's about, ever since the beginning of this book and all the way to the end
The followers of God were filled with courage
There was a fearlessness in them there was a confidence of my God will come through. We grew up with these stories
We really did and so these are the stories we grew up with
This courage and don't you remember as a kid just having this faith like God can do anything
through me. You know
What he says if i seek his kingdom first everything's gonna be taken care of I swear it'll happen
Oh no, that's being irresponsible
Oh no, not anymore not 21st century now we've got methods of you know
Taking care of yourself and looking to the future back then
They had they had to use faith, we don't have to now
Because we've set up other systems, and well God gave that as a provision to you, so it's like, no
I don't believe it
I believe I'm supposed to live by faith
And yet from the beginning when I read these stories it's about people who say no I'm not afraid
And all the way to the end all the way to the book of revelation, where it says you know
What those who conquer those
Who make it through there it says in Revelation 21:6 those are the ones that I'm going to bring with
Me and I'm gonna, say to them I'm gonna be their God they're gonna be my children, but the cowards
The disbelieving and he goes on to describe the lake of fire
We got to be those bold people those courageous people and I just, want to remind you week after week
About how much power is in you those who have the Holy Spirit of God inside of you
We get knocked down here and there and then people start telling you
You can't pull it off and and our faith and that risk, and that courage just seems to subside
And it's not right
It's not good that's not how we want to live
And it's so rare
That someone even in
Church gatherings so rare for someone to put their arm around you and remind you of how powerful you are
How powerful your God is who dwells inside of you
And what you can do
You know, we kind of we become more and more cowardly
He's never been pleased with cowardice
He's never been pleased with people who don't believe that he can come through and that he can do anything
You know people go man you spend a lot of time going and speaking to youths speaking to college students
Why and I go they still believe
They still believe that God can do anything like anything and they live like it
And they're looking for
40 year old guys
With kids
That will still do crazy things and they need to believe that
God is still God not just when he was when we were little kids
But when were 40 when were 80
Just go man I'm gonna go for it God's done some amazing things throughout time
You can probably even think right now of times when your dreams were squashed
Times when you just felt
God wants me to do this thing, God wants me to do this thing, and then feel things
Don't happen the way you thought they would and pretty soon people start talking you into being
A little bit more responsible and then pretty soon because that's where your flesh wants to go anyways
You just go yeah I can't do anything great
See sometimes in church
I know for me man I was going nuts
When I was in high school and then junior college but then I remember getting more educated and going off to bible college
And pretty soon you meet these people that are more educated than you are and you start to feel really
Dumb compared to them and then you think
Well I don't want to say anything because that guy is so much smarter just listen to him you know
And then then the more you learn the more you realize how much you don't know
And there's always someone better than you and you think, well I can't counsel that guy's got a PHD in counseling and you know
He was a guest of Dr. Phil
and you know, when you start going going going and you just start believing like
Well what am I gonna do okay and you just you know, what maybe maybe, they'll just come to church
And Francis will talk to him or or maybe this will happen or this happen to the point where you just don't even
Believe that God could do anything great through you anymore and is that really how we want to live
It doesn't make sense
We're children of God
Why don't I believe like I used to. As I grow
In my knowledge I want my courage and my boldness to grow with it not not the opposite
When's the last time you just went and did something that was just absolutely insane in the eyes of everyone else
But you had the confidence you knew it was what God was calling you to do
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