1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,160 Are you thankful for the move of God's Spirit? 2 00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:03,920 Amen. Hey, stay standing. 3 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,040 Stay standing Every room. And here's why, because I want 4 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:08,680 to. I want to give honor where honor 5 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,480 is due. The Bible tells us to do that. 6 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,840 And today we are blessed because we have someone who is very, 7 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,760 very special to this house and to Pastor Sarah, my wife and I, 8 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,360 Pastor Todd Mullins, who is the lead pastor of Christ Fellowship 9 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,720 Church. Yeah, in West Palm Beach is in 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,840 the house today. I told you last week he was 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,119 going to be here and he's here. Everybody's so pumped. 12 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:36,120 And Pastor Todd and his wife Julie are the pastors of Christ 13 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,320 Fellowship Church, a multi site church like our church. 14 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,000 They have I think 13 locations now up and down the East Coast 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,160 of Florida. And we have told them for a long 16 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:46,720 time, you take the east, we'll take the West, we'll meet 17 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,440 somewhere Okeechobee or something like that. 18 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,080 Clewiston, right? But but you guys know that that 19 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,440 he means you've heard us talk about them often. 20 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,800 Pastor Todd is, is a mentor, is a friend, is a Big Brother and 21 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,120 is a pastor to me and to my wife. 22 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:06,560 And so I'm so thankful about a year ago, he released a a new 23 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,400 book called Don't Let Doubt Take You Out. 24 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,520 And we're actually launching this series for the next 4 weeks 25 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,960 here at Next Level. And so so here's what's going to 26 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:18,520 happen. We have these books available in 27 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,720 all the foyers, which by the way, he said he doesn't make a 28 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,840 penny on this. Everything he every sail goes 29 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,240 right back into their church to build their church in in, in 30 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,920 West Palm. So anyway, here's what I think's 31 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,240 going to happen as Pastor Todd is preaching today. 32 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,600 I have a sense that God's going to speak to you. 33 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,880 So come on, let's stay in this atmosphere, prayer and openness. 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,280 But secondly, I think God is going to put someone's face on 35 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,640 your heart and go, oh man, I wish they were here. 36 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:44,760 I wish they could hear this word. 37 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,120 Hey, listen, on your way out today at all our locations, 38 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,520 don't just buy one copy, get 2 copies. 39 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,520 Here's why. One for yourself to read and 40 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,440 absorb and let God, you really marinate this word deep into 41 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:55,720 your spirit over the next few weeks. 42 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,120 But then secondly, get one for a friend that you can give to them 43 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,760 this week and say, hey, I heard this guy preach at our church 44 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,040 this weekend. It was awesome. 45 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,680 I thought of you, I bought this book for you. 46 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,120 Why don't you come with me next Sunday and join me in the house. 47 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,080 Amen. Use this as a tool for 48 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:11,240 evangelism. Sound good? 49 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,120 So come on everybody, further ado. 50 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,640 Will you give it up for my pastor? 51 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:22,440 Come on, how you doing? Hey Church, we love you so much. 52 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,360 Grab a seat at all our locations today. 53 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,520 It is so good being with you. I am so excited to be here. 54 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,200 It feels like home maybe because I've been here so much and 55 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,200 somebody from the team next level come over and hang out 56 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,440 with us at Christ Fellowship and we're working together. 57 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,040 In fact, there's already things I've seen that you're doing 58 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,800 today that I want to take back and do it our church next week. 59 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,960 So thank you for letting me borrow and steal in Jesus name. 60 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,280 I'm honored to be here and I'm honored to to be in relationship 61 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,240 with your pastors. You have a great church. 62 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,960 You have some great pastors. They are truly Julianized, 63 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,120 dearest friends, we mean that we've been through highs and 64 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,880 lows and usually on the lows we get a box of Donuts together. 65 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,200 That's what we do. And we pray, we eat Donuts and 66 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,280 pray together. But I want you to know that they 67 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,440 are the real deal. You are you are under some great 68 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,720 leaders that love you. They love Jesus, they're holy, 69 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,400 and they know how to have fun all at the same time, which is 70 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,440 amazing. So thank God you're in this 71 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,600 house learning and growing what it means to walk with Jesus. 72 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,240 And I'm honored to be here. I'm honored that you're kicking 73 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,800 off a series. Don't let doubt take you out. 74 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,720 And then I get to be a part of kicking that off with you today 75 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,640 and that you're going to read through this. 76 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:36,000 I believe the Lord gave me a clear word that I wrote in this 77 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,800 book that isn't, it is my story because doubt almost took me out 78 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,040 many times. But I believe it's the story of 79 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,920 a lot of people that struggle with doubt or insecurities or 80 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:51,200 anxiety or fear. And God has a very clear answer 81 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,240 when it comes to all of that. When I wrote the book, Don't Let 82 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,880 That Take you out, it was interesting because people said, 83 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,360 Todd, why did you write a book about doubt? 84 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,520 Because it seems like you have such strong faith, the gift of 85 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,440 faith. And the Bible actually talks 86 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,000 about a spiritual gift of faith that God gives to people. 87 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,320 And I believe God gave me that gift because it's easy for me to 88 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,440 take him at his word. Like I'm just like, all right, 89 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,160 that's I got it to believe for the miraculous. 90 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,600 But could it be that God actually gives you a spiritual 91 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,640 gift in an area of your need? Like he might have looked down 92 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,040 at my life. And man, that boy's going to 93 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,520 need some faith because he's going to struggle with doubt. 94 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,640 So I'm going to give him the gift of faith so he can work 95 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,080 through some stuff He's got to work through. 96 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,080 In fact, the very fact that I am up here preaching to you on 97 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,160 Sunday morning is a miracle because I didn't want to do 98 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,120 this. I didn't know how to do this. 99 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,840 I in fact, it was the furthest thing from my mind to be a 100 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:48,160 pastor. Not that I didn't like pastors, 101 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,640 I had some great pastors when I was growing up. 102 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,960 I just didn't want to be 1. I, I plan to be a doctor, an 103 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,320 orthopedic surgeon. And so I was in school going for 104 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,160 that and I had some pastures that saw something on my life 105 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:00,600 and they called that out of my life. 106 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,560 And I prayed with it. And I was like, yes, I'm 107 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,080 supposed to go into ministry. So about the same time, my 108 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,360 parents had started a Bible study in our home in Palm Beach 109 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,320 Gardens over in the West Palm Beach area with about 20 people. 110 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,640 I went off to school, came back and it became a church and there 111 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,680 was 50 people. It had grown a lot in just a few 112 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,960 years, stayed small for a long time. 113 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,480 But after 25 years of serving my mom and dad's vision, 25 years 114 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,240 of serving them in in kind of small places for many years, it 115 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,800 was time for Julie and I to step up and become the the lead 116 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,440 senior pastors. And, but by the time we, we let 117 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,400 me say this, 25 years is a long time to wait for something 118 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:39,680 right. And I just want to encourage 119 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,880 somebody don't wander in the waiting. 120 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:45,720 A lot of times when you're waiting and it doesn't feel like 121 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,200 God is showing up on the time, He's never late. 122 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,200 God is never late. He's always on. 123 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,960 He's rarely on our time, but he's never late. 124 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,560 And in the waiting, He works on us. 125 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,120 The waiting is never wasted. Think about Joseph, it was 13 126 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,320 years from the pit to the palace. 127 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,200 For David, it was 22 years from the time he was anointed to be 128 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,480 king until he was appointed as king. 22 years, right? 129 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,240 I could go on and on, but if you are in the waiting room of God, 130 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,600 if you're in God's waiting room, you're in a good place, you're 131 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,680 in good company and God is doing work on the inside of you so he 132 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,760 can work through you in a remarkable way. 133 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,480 So, so don't wander in the waiting. 134 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,400 So 25 years of of being faithful, God said it's time to 135 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,720 be the senior pastor and I go, OK. 136 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,280 But the problem was the church was no longer 70 people. 137 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,400 It now had over 11,000 people in attendance every week, a staff 138 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,520 of about 150 and a budget that was so big I couldn't count it. 139 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,960 I've like God, I don't know if I can do that. 140 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,720 I could do the 70 people. I just don't know if I can do 141 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,400 the 11,000 because I don't know what I'm doing. 142 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,160 And if I fail, everybody's going to see it because I'm going to 143 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,240 fail on a platform. And at the time, I didn't know 144 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,440 how to, I hadn't been preaching that much. 145 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,520 I preached a long time ago when I was a youth pastor, but I 146 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,120 didn't have any preaching skills. 147 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,680 And my dad said you got to, you got to get that up to speed, 148 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,200 son, because like kind of a job requirement that you. 149 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,160 So he was the old football coach. 150 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,680 He gave me a few coaching points, kick me on the backside 151 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:12,920 and get out there and give it a go. 152 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,560 So I'm giving it a go with 11,000 people. 153 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,560 And at the same time we had just brought John Maxwell down, that 154 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,320 author and leadership guru and he became one of one of our 155 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,200 teaching pastors and lived there. 156 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,680 So he every time I was trying to preach, John was on the front 157 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,760 row. So I would just stay away from 158 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,240 where John and he was taking notes while I would preach. 159 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,040 And I'm thinking, what in the world could he possibly be 160 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,680 writing down that I am saying right now? 161 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,120 I do. And then one Sunday while I was 162 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,280 up trying to preach, I looked out in this section right here 163 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,320 about 14 rows back from the platform and I saw a person that 164 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,840 looked like this evangelist, world known evangelist called 165 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,360 Reinhardt Bonke. I know. 166 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,320 Oh, wow, that's what I thought when I saw I'm preaching and I'm 167 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,360 like, there's Reinhardt. Why is Reinhardt Bonke? 168 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,000 And if you don't know who Reinhard Bonke is, just Google 169 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,440 him. You're going to see a picture 170 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,400 probably like this. This he would be, he would go 171 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,920 evangelize in Africa, Africa for Jesus. 172 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,240 And when he would get up, there would be a million people at his 173 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,720 crusades and he would preach and they would get saved and they 174 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,520 would get healed. And he's in the auditorium while 175 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,480 I'm trying to learn how to preach. 176 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,400 So I remember the moment when I brought all my doubts and 177 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,960 insecurities to God and I was like, God, I don't know if I do 178 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,600 this, like I don't know if I have what it takes to do what 179 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,480 I'm being asked to do. I I just don't think I'm enough 180 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,000 for this. And I remember the moment when 181 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,600 God actually answered that prayer and it wasn't the answer 182 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,280 that I was expecting and it wasn't the answer that I was 183 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:49,840 actually hoping for. You know, I might have been 184 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:54,400 hoping for Todd as I was with your father. 185 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,560 I will be with you. Something I don't know Mufasa 186 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:00,960 epic. I don't know, I don't know what 187 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,720 I had playing in my mind, but it was something like that. 188 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,360 But what I got when I was like, Lord, I don't think I have what 189 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,960 it takes. What I heard back was, Todd, 190 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,640 you're right, you don't have what it takes. 191 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,640 You're not enough. And I remember thinking, well, 192 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,440 maybe I should go be that doctor after all, Too late. 193 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,200 But as I continue to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, 194 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,480 what I heard him say was, Todd, you're not enough. 195 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,240 But I am. Todd, you don't have what it 196 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,960 takes. But I've got what you need and 197 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,160 it made me lean into the Lord. See, what I learned in that 198 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,520 moment is that the benefit of the doubt is that it made me 199 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,480 desperate. The benefit of the doubt is that 200 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,360 it keeps you dependent. The understanding that that you 201 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,800 have weaknesses makes you lean into the strength of God and so 202 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:59,160 can actually be good for us. We're not trying to muster up 203 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,080 our own strength and power and self-made and I can do it. 204 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,760 It keeps us leaning in to the father. 205 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,480 So what I've learned in all these years of pastoring people 206 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,480 and and having conversations with people is I learned that 207 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,720 everybody deals with that. Even the most confident person, 208 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,880 you know, at work, you know, they kind of get on your nerves. 209 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,640 That person. Everybody deals without 210 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,280 everybody. Nobody is immune from this. 211 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,040 And doubt attacks us in three key areas of our life. 212 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,400 And I would imagine it's attacked you in in these same 213 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,400 the first long before you ever doubt God, you doubt yourself. 214 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,840 You know, you, you, you see what everybody else is doing starts 215 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,360 in school in comparison. You're like, oh, look at what 216 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:44,480 they're doing. And I don't know if I'm good 217 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,760 enough to make the team. I don't know if I'm And so we 218 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,760 start holding back and we carry some of those things with us all 219 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,240 through our life. We think that we can't. 220 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:56,840 So we don't, we don't step out. We don't live the life we're 221 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,280 created to live. We hold back and doubts trying 222 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,640 to take you out from being who God created you to be. 223 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,440 Then doubt works its way into our friendships and our 224 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,040 relationships. When somebody hurts you, what, 225 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:09,920 what's the first thing that you do? 226 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,520 Well, don't do it again, right? You, you question their motives, 227 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,560 you question their loyalty, their commitment, their 228 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:17,600 friendship, and you start to withdraw. 229 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,720 And so doubt is trying to actually take you out of the 230 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,040 relationships that God has created for you. 231 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:27,200 But I've learned that doubt does its most damaging work when it 232 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,920 comes to the supernatural and when you think about it. 233 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,280 And doubt is actually the natural response to the 234 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,720 supernatural, because if something is supernatural, it 235 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,000 means it's above the natural. And so when we can't see it or 236 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,360 touch it or quantify it, it's easy to doubt it and discount 237 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,520 it. And so when doubt works its way 238 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,080 in, when God doesn't maybe answer your prayers the way that 239 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,880 you thought he should, he doesn't come through. 240 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,960 When you think he would, doubt creeps his way in and says, 241 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,760 well, prayer doesn't work. God's not real, God's not there 242 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,080 for you. This must not work. 243 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,720 And doubt is trying to take you out of your relationship with 244 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,360 the one that holds life altogether. 245 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,840 But what I've learned is if we deal with doubt the right way, 246 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,320 it doesn't have to take us out. Doubt can actually lead to a 247 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,160 deeper faith because then you begin to work through, why do I 248 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,440 believe what I believe? Doubt can actually lead to what 249 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,000 I call a God fidence. It's not a confidence, it's a 250 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,480 confidence like in who God is and who God says I am. 251 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,800 And that gives you a strength no matter what you have to face in 252 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,600 life. And when you handle doubt right 253 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,880 in relationships, it actually leads to healthy conversations, 254 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,120 working through some of the problems that you're facing. 255 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,400 So doubt doesn't have to take you out. 256 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:44,160 So today I want to look just at one part of of doubt and I want 257 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,800 to look at a story in the Bible that this guy is actually what I 258 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,960 would call the poster child of doubt. 259 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,880 Doubt almost took him out. In fact, if you looked up in the 260 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,800 Bible a person dealing without, you might see the face of 261 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,040 Gideon. Gideon had to deal with some 262 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,440 doubt. In Judges chapter 6, we read 263 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:06,080 this story about this frightened farm boy that becomes a national 264 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,160 hero in two chapters. But he had to step out of his 265 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:10,880 comfort zone and into his calling. 266 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:15,120 He couldn't listen to the voices of doubt and anxiety and fear 267 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,600 that was trying to hold him back. 268 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,760 He had to step out and say yes to God. 269 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,120 Can I tell you that when you say yes to God, that yes will 270 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,160 determine your destiny? That yes will shape every 271 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,120 decision you make? After that, even when you don't 272 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,760 even know what the yes fully means, you say yes to God. 273 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,680 Gideon ended up saying yes. So the story opens up and 274 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:37,720 telling us that for seven years the Israelites were in Judges 275 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,360 chapter 6. The Israelites have been 276 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:43,160 tormented and terrorized by their enemy, the Midianites. 277 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,400 The Midianites would swarm in and take all of their crops and 278 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,720 their animals. And they lived in such fear that 279 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,920 it said the Israelites were now living in caves. 280 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,560 They wouldn't even live in their homes because they were afraid 281 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:55,920 all the time. And this went on for seven 282 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:00,320 years, Year after year, month after month, nothing seemed to 283 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,640 change. He thought he was nothing's 284 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,520 going to change, nothing's good. It's always going to be this 285 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,760 way. Discouragement had kind of set 286 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,040 in on the people of God. And maybe you're there or you've 287 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,840 been there before where the enemy has told you nothing's 288 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,960 going to change that situation, that problems are not the same 289 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,240 problem in your marriage, same problem in your company, same 290 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,760 financial stuff, same physical over. 291 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,720 And you start getting a little bit despaired, settle in on you 292 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,360 because it feels like nothing's going to change. 293 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,200 That's exactly where the Israelites were. 294 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,960 So you're not alone. It was in that moment that the 295 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,440 Angel of the Lord came up behind Gideon while he was in a hole 296 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,320 thrashing some wheat, which is not where you would normally do 297 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,080 it, but he was hiding in a hole because he didn't want the enemy 298 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,840 to come take his wheat. So he's hiding in a hole, scared 299 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,920 to death, and the Angel of the Lord comes up behind him and 300 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,720 goes, the Lord is with you, mighty warrior. 301 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,760 And I bet there was some reverb on it, mighty warrior, mighty 302 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,520 warrior. But it scared him even more. 303 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,800 What? And Gideon probably was 304 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,000 thinking, there's no mighty warrior here. 305 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,640 But I am a whole scared to death of the enemy. 306 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,440 You, you got the wrong guy. Like I'm not a mighty warrior. 307 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,120 Do you not see what's going on here? 308 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:11,640 The mighty warrior must live down the street. 309 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,440 You just go down there. But we know that God didn't get 310 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,480 the wrong address today. We know that God does not make 311 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,920 mistakes, which tells us that the way God sees you is 312 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,200 different than the way you see you. 313 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,440 Let that sink in because Gideon did not see himself as a mighty 314 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,960 warrior, but the Angel of the Lord, which by the way, anytime 315 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,280 you see the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament is a reference 316 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:38,000 to the pre Incarnate Christ. It is Jesus showing up on the 317 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,760 scene before he shows up in Bethlehem. 318 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,480 So this is Jesus, not some Angel, the Angel of the Lord 319 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,440 saying to him. So that tells me that if he sees 320 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,520 that in Gideon, but Gideon didn't see that in himself. 321 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,360 The way you see you is different than the way God sees you. 322 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,280 We, we have a tendency to see all of our failures and our, our 323 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:05,600 mistakes and our, our flops. But God sees the gifts and the 324 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:10,040 calling and the destiny and the purpose that he has placed in 325 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,200 your life. You know why? 326 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,920 Because he put it there, he, he put it in your life. 327 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,720 He, he knows it's there. We tend to think sometimes, man, 328 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,440 how could God ever use me in in some great way? 329 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,160 You know, I, I've messed up so, so much. 330 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,800 I don't believe that God is so worried about the ways you've 331 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,480 messed up. He just wants you to step up and 332 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,960 become the man of God, the woman of God that God has called you 333 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:35,160 to be like, be the leader in your family, be the leader at 334 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,600 your work. Come on, let's go. 335 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,360 And sometimes it may not be so much that you feel like you've 336 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,320 messed up so much, but you just feel unqualified, like you're 337 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,720 just thinking about who is me? Who am I that God would ever 338 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,360 want to use me? I mean, I just, I don't even, I 339 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,080 don't know that much. I'll tell you who you are. 340 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,520 Do you know that the Bible, the word of God, has prophetic 341 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,040 declarations in it of who you are? 342 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,160 When you are in Christ, it says that you are a child of God. 343 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,800 You are a new creation. You are a member, an important 344 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,520 member of God's body, his family. 345 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,119 You're an ambassador for Christ to the world. 346 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,680 You are a living temple of the Holy Spirit. 347 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,720 In Romans 8, you are loved unconditionally. 348 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:18,599 In Ephesians 2, you are seated with Christ in heavenly places. 349 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,960 You are more than a conqueror. This is who you are. 350 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,480 You are chosen and set apart for God. 351 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,000 Now that's just a few things of who you are. 352 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:32,680 Yet so often we live so far below what God intended our 353 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,600 lives to be, and instead we end up settling for lies. 354 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,840 Lies that maybe somebody spoke over us when we were kids, 355 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:44,520 somebody said something to us. You're not worthy of anything 356 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,080 worth love and you're no good. You'll never be able to do 357 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,320 anything. And those things, they stick to 358 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:51,880 us. I had, I had things spoken over 359 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,280 me, not by my family, but by kids at school when I was in 4th 360 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:59,520 grade that to this day is just as loud as my voice speaking to 361 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,560 you See, things like that try to stick to us and try to hold us 362 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,520 back, right? Or maybe sometimes we're pinned 363 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,600 down by our past mistakes and failures and we're thinking, 364 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,480 well, I'm just kind of living out what I guess I deserve. 365 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,040 What if? What if we stop listening to the 366 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,640 lies banging around in our minds and we actually listen to what 367 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:20,920 God says about us? Let me tell you this. 368 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,840 The truest thing about you is what God says about you. 369 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,600 The truest thing about you is not what some kid in 4th grade 370 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,800 said or what your ex said. The truest thing about you is 371 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,760 what God says about you. And God, he always sees the best 372 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,160 in you. It's like parents, when you have 373 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,560 young kids, you always see the best in your kids. 374 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,000 Don't you like your little Angel? 375 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,600 Like if you get a report that they got in a fight at school, 376 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:46,280 you're like, what would be my child? 377 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:51,520 What did the other kid do right? Or if, if, if the teacher 378 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,520 saying, well, they're, they're, they're not paying attention. 379 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,160 Well, it must be because they're not being challenged because 380 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,880 they're gifted, right? I mean, because we see the best 381 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:01,200 in our kids until they're teenagers. 382 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,320 That's another story. But I'm just saying, well, God 383 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,320 sees the best in you. That's why he was able to see 384 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,200 the best in Gideon and actually call him a mighty warrior. 385 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,240 And then Gideon begins to make all these excuses. 386 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,640 He's the least in his family. Their family's the least in the 387 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:17,960 clan. The clan's the least in the 388 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,640 tribe, our tribes the least. I mean, just like all these 389 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,840 excuses. Can I tell you it was almost 390 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,320 like the Angel Lord didn't even listen to him. 391 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,920 God is not surprised at your humanity. 392 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,200 He's not taken back because you're dealing with some stuff. 393 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:36,840 He knows all about that stuff, right? 394 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,120 He he he's not surprised by your doubts and insecurities. 395 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,400 He just doesn't want you to be controlled by them. 396 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,200 He wants you to be able to step out and be the person God has 397 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,440 called you to be. So the Angel of the Lord didn't 398 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,400 even respond to all of his excuses. 399 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:55,520 What he says in verse 14. He says go in the strength you 400 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,520 have and save Israel out of Midian's hands. 401 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:00,760 Say that last part with me out loud. 402 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,600 At all of our campuses have I not sent? 403 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,840 You go, have I not sent you? Go with the strength you have. 404 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,720 Have I not sent you to that, to that workplace? 405 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,360 Have I not put you at that school? 406 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,560 Have I not placed you in that neighborhood, in that family? 407 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,920 Have I not put you there? Go with the strength that you 408 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,600 have. It may not feel like much, it 409 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,720 may not look like much, but go with what you got. 410 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,680 You got a little bit. Go with what you got. 411 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,120 I feel like I came all the way from West Palm Beach to tell 412 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:33,400 somebody at next level. Go with what you got. 413 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,640 You think God's got something on your life. 414 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,560 God's given you a little courage, a little faith. 415 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,000 It is it may you may just have a little bit of faith, but didn't 416 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,720 Jesus say all you needed was a little bit of faith? 417 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,480 Didn't he? Didn't he say in Matthew that if 418 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:51,640 you have faith as small as a mustard seed, a mustard seed is 419 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,560 this is like a speck of pepper small. 420 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,760 It's really small. But he says if you have faith as 421 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:00,400 small as a mustard seed, you can say to that mountain, move from 422 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,440 here to there move. It could be a mountain of fear, 423 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,600 a mountain of debt, a mountain of sickness. 424 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,240 You can say to that mountain, move from here to there, and 425 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,280 what does it say? And it will move. 426 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,400 It will move. All it takes is mustard seed 427 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,040 faith. But what I've learned is that a 428 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,080 seed is not supposed to stay small. 429 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,560 A seed was never created to stay a seed. 430 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,840 A seed was created by God to get what? 431 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,720 To get planted in the ground, to get water, to get nourished, to 432 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,800 get fertilized so so your seed, your faith can start small. 433 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,760 It's just not supposed to stay small, right? 434 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,000 I'm afraid too many Christians have been walking around for 435 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,560 years with their mustard seed faith. 436 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,280 All I can learn. Look at my mustard seed, George, 437 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,800 Jesus said, Jesus said, all I need is the little mustard. 438 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:51,320 I got my little mustard. He also said, grow that thing, 439 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,560 right? Plant that thing, work that 440 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,280 thing. That's what you put that in the 441 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,800 ground, right? Let it grow. 442 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:58,320 You go with the strength you got. 443 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,600 Let me tell you, your strength is going to get stronger because 444 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,680 your faith is going to grow when you go with what you got. 445 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,880 OK, one other thing about about this part of the story and then 446 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:13,960 we'll move on. I love where God meets Gideon in 447 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:18,720 a hole, in a ground, hiding. He didn't wait for Gideon to 448 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,240 become a mighty warrior, a great man of faith. 449 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,400 Get his act together and then I'll use you. 450 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,720 No, he, he, he met Gideon right where he was. 451 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:30,600 Here's here's the point. God meets you where you are 452 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,720 today, wherever you are on your spiritual journey with him. 453 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:38,080 He, he meets you right there and he speaks to you right there and 454 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,440 he, he calls you right, right there. 455 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,440 He, he doesn't wait until you've got it all together. 456 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,320 He doesn't wait till you've got all your issues worked out to 457 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,440 say, I want to amuse you. I want to take you from where 458 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,960 you are and move you up. He, he's going to meet you right 459 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,760 where you are now. He loves you too much to let you 460 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:54,560 stay where you are, right? So he's going to pull you out of 461 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,560 some stuff, but he meets us right where you are. 462 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,000 So I wonder where you are today. What doubts and fears and 463 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,040 insecurities and struggles and stuff you're still working 464 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,440 through that you think are keeping you back from being who 465 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,840 God created you to be? I want to tell you no. 466 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,760 You got to step out of that. Step out of that thinking and be 467 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,880 who God has created you to be. So. 468 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,920 So Gideon takes the Angel of the Lord. 469 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,400 His word finally gets out of the hole. 470 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,760 But before he can go deal with the Midianites, he has to deal 471 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,320 with some sin stuff in his home and his family. 472 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,160 The Angel tells him to go tear down this altar that his father 473 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,680 had built to a false God named Baal. 474 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,680 And so there was this dualism going on in their life. 475 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:40,200 They were trying to worship God and worship the things of the 476 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,200 world, this other God, which happens a lot in our lives. 477 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,360 Without knowing it. We can worship God and we're 478 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:49,400 still kind of chasing after other things where we try to 479 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,520 tack Jesus on to a just a part of our lives. 480 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,920 And what the Angel Lord said, No, no, no, we got a clean, 481 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,440 clean house, right? There's some things you got to 482 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,640 go tear down and remove so that I can build you up and be who 483 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,240 you're supposed to be. The same is true for us. 484 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,680 God loves us too much to let us stay where we are with some of 485 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,200 the stuff we got in our life. He's going to say that's got to 486 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,800 come down so you can be built up. 487 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,160 There's some things that you've been holding on to that you've 488 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,160 got to remove so that you can actually walk in the freedom and 489 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,440 the power and do do what I've called you to do. 490 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,840 But that that altar's got to come down. 491 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,000 Feel like that's a word for somebody today. 492 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:24,920 There's an altar that's got to come down. 493 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,200 There's something that you have been made an idol in your life 494 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,720 or you've given too much attention to and got to saying 495 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,640 that's got to come down. But when you read the story, 496 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,720 Gideon didn't go by himself to tear down the altar. 497 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,720 It was too big for him. He actually took a group of of 498 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,680 men with him from his man case and they had to get there and 499 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,400 they had to go tear this alter down together. 500 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,160 Can I tell you there are some things in your life that have 501 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,440 gotten so big you need some help getting it torn down? 502 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,240 It might have been something that was passed down forgetting 503 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,040 and it was generational, something that been passed down 504 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,680 from generation and he needed some help. 505 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,760 You need some help. That's why your pastors are all 506 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,280 the time encouraging you to get in a group because when you 507 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,120 group up, you can grow up. When you get in a group, you get 508 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,960 around some people that know some things about God that you 509 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,600 don't know. They know the Word of God. 510 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,600 They've been walking with the God more than you've been 511 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,640 walking with God. And their faith is actually 512 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,320 going to help your faith get stronger. 513 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,880 But if you never connect to a group, if you just come in and 514 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,680 sit and soak and sour and leave, you're never going to become who 515 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,120 God's created you to be to help you grow up, get in a group. 516 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,440 And then maybe some of you are thinking, well, Todd, I'm good. 517 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:35,920 I'm not, I'm not dealing with any of that. 518 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,360 I'm strong in my faith. You need to group up to help. 519 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:42,200 Some of the people that just got saved at Easter know how to grow 520 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:49,280 up in their faith, right? So Gideon deals with the altar 521 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,920 of Bale. He gathers 32,000 men to go 522 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,840 fight the Midianites. And that sounds like a lot, 523 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,520 32,000, But there were 135,000 of the Midianites coming against 524 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,000 them. So the odds are about four to 525 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,080 one, one to four, right? Not bad. 526 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,440 They could do that. I've seen enough Mission 527 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,560 Impossible movies, right, that they could. 528 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:11,960 They could probably take them out. 529 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,640 So God said, yeah, you got too many. 530 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,600 Tell everybody who's scared they can leave. 531 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:24,200 And Gideon probably like, can I go to 22,000 of them, walk out 532 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,400 on Gideon 22,000, turn and leave. 533 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:34,960 Can I tell you one of the hardest things that I've seen is 534 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,880 when somebody walks out on you, Hard to deal with. 535 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,800 When somebody leaves you, a business partner leaves you, a 536 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,800 friend leaves you. They don't even tell you why. 537 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,600 They just get mad at you and they leave about something. 538 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,880 A family member that won't talk to you anymore, a spouse that 539 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:55,320 walks out. And anytime somebody walks out, 540 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,440 it opens the door to doubt because you begin to go, well 541 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,320 what, what's wrong and why did they leave? 542 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,760 And I can't believe it and maybe it's me and maybe it's something 543 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,320 I did and maybe it's something I should have done better. 544 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,600 And what about them I thought? And doubt just starts swirling 545 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,920 around in her head. Gideon had 22,000 walk out on 546 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:16,280 him. 2/3 of his army left him. He was already dealing with his 547 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,840 own insecurities and, and, and, and fears as he was. 548 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,560 He was unsure about himself. And 2/3 walk out. 549 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,800 So now he's down to 10,000. And then God says you still got 550 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:29,480 too many, take them down to this spring and watch them drink 551 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,920 water. And if they drink water, like by 552 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,480 scooping it up in their hands, you can keep them. 553 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,760 But if they get down on all fours like a dog, you got to let 554 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:43,680 them go. So they go to the spring 9700 of 555 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,920 them they're kicked out and only 300 are left with the water. 556 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,080 And so Gideon tells them, okay, everybody who drink like a dog, 557 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,040 you got to go. You know that they were probably 558 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,240 going dog. What's up with that? 559 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,000 That doesn't even make sense. What are you thinking? 560 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,800 That's and Gideon probably was thinking, what am I saying? 561 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,000 Why would I do this? Did I really hear from God, 562 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,080 right? Or was that some bad hummus I 563 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,120 had last night? They're all going to go talk 564 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,600 about me and say Gideon the Goober told us to go home 565 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,080 because we drank. You know, he was dealing with 566 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:18,160 all of that fear and insecurity. You know, he was back in 2021. 567 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,560 I got to go to Israel and it wasn't my first time. 568 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,920 I've been to Israel like 1213 times before, but I've always 569 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,880 been in large groups. And I wanted to go and just 570 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,520 experience the Holy Land, like just go and be. 571 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,360 So my wife and I and two of our couple friends went with us and 572 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:35,480 we went over there and I wanted to go some places we had never 573 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,280 I'd never been before. And one of the places was Gideon 574 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,120 Springs, the spring that he took his army to. 575 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,280 And they know from the archaeological digs that right 576 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,920 around the area, and this is the only water source, that this is 577 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,320 the exact location where Gideon took his men. 578 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,920 Now it's bigger than that. It broadens out and it streams 579 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,440 down. But that would have been where 580 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,600 they were. And I don't know why a puddle of 581 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,720 water messed me up that day. But when I stood at Gideon 582 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,400 Springs, I had to walk away from Julie and a few of the other 583 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,920 people. And I'm getting tears in my 584 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,440 eyes. I'm like, what is going on? 585 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,360 Why am I crying? I think I was moved a little bit 586 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,960 by what Gideon must have been going through, the insecurities 587 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,520 that he was already dealing with, the pressures that he 588 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,480 already felt, and now all these people that walked out on him. 589 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,640 And then now he's up at 300 and I'm supposed to leave this. 590 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,600 I don't even know that I know what I'm doing. 591 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,680 God, I just feel so like insecure. 592 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,520 But he obeyed anyway. I think what got me that day was 593 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,640 his obedience that he did not question God or reason with God 594 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,840 or argue with God. He just said, OK, but God, I'm 595 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,480 going to do it. I'm going to care more about 596 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,800 what you say to me than what they're going to say about me. 597 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,720 I care more about you and your blessing. 598 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,400 I'm going to, I'm going to walk in obedience. 599 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,000 And there's a lesson we can learn from this part of the 600 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,760 story that you don't have to understand completely in order 601 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,160 to obey immediately. Let that get in your spirit. 602 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,160 You don't have to understand completely in order to obey 603 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,520 immediate because I guarantee that Gideon did not understand 604 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,160 completely how this was going to work or if it was going to work, 605 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,360 but yet he obeyed immediately. And there was a blessing that 606 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,920 comes when we obey God even when we don't fully understand His 607 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,400 plan. In fact, most of the times you 608 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,200 and I are not going to fully understand His plan. 609 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,760 He's going to a lot of times when God ask you to do 610 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,680 something, you're only going to get a, a little prompting of 611 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,240 your spirit. You're going to get one word 1 612 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,760 scripture one. It's like a piece to a puzzle. 613 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,640 That's all you're going to get. And you're not even going to get 614 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,400 the puzzle box top to figure out how that piece fits in. 615 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,240 You're going to get this one little piece and he's going to 616 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,160 say, go trust me in this surrender this area, obey me 617 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,360 here, right? Trust him. 618 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,720 And it's scary when that happens because you're, you're actually 619 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,040 stepping into the unknown. Like what if I do this? 620 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,800 I think about Abraham stepping into the unknown. 621 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,200 When God caught Abraham, he says, I'm going to show you, I'm 622 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,360 going to build a nation out of here. 623 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,320 I'm going to show you a land that I'm going to give you. 624 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,080 But you've got to leave your, your homeland, your people that 625 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,840 are worshipping all these false gods and doing all these things 626 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,760 that are not, they're going to take you out of that. 627 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,600 So I can get you where you need to be. 628 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,160 And so he told Sarah, we're leaving, pack everybody up, 629 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,960 let's go. And Sarah asked, I'm sure, where 630 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:29,200 are we going? And Abraham probably responded, 631 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,360 I don't know, because when you read the Scripture, God says, 632 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,960 I'm going to show you when you get there, so just get going. 633 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,280 Can you imagine? He had to step out from his 634 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,520 known everything that He knew. He had to step from the known 635 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,240 into the unknown. Can I tell you that when God 636 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,160 calls you to step from your known what you know and trust 637 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,520 Him in the unknown, it's only unknown to you. 638 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,360 It's not unknown to God because nothing is unknown to God. 639 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,760 It's only scary to you. It's sacred to God because 640 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,400 you're actually trusting him. You're actually saying, yes, 641 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,240 God, I trust you even though I don't know. 642 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,760 And that yes, will shape everything in your life. 643 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,000 I wonder what God has been asking you to step out and trust 644 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,200 him in. I wonder if there's an area of 645 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,520 your life lately that you've since the Lord just kind of 646 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,240 repeatedly saying trust me with. That might be your business or 647 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,520 your career. There might be a future decision 648 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,120 that you've been praying for wisdom on and you sense the Lord 649 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,400 saying something and he's just saying, trust me. 650 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,160 It's just a one piece of the puzzle. 651 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,400 It could be a relationship. Trust me in that. 652 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,440 That's not the right relationship for you. 653 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,440 Trust me in that. Trust me, I've got better for 654 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,320 you than that. Don't, don't, don't stay there. 655 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,000 Not talking about a marriage. I'm talking about it could be 656 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,960 finances. It's amazing to me that for 657 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:57,160 Christians, Christ followers who love Jesus, that finances is one 658 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,520 of the last areas that we actually trust God in. 659 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,520 Even on our money. It says in God we trust the very 660 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,280 thing that we don't want to trust God with, right? 661 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,760 Is that funny? We'll trust him with a lot. 662 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,920 We trust him with our eternal salvation, our soul. 663 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,880 Yes, Lord, I trust you with my soul. 664 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,000 We trust him with our family. Lord, take my kids, please take 665 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,200 my kids, take my husband, my wife, take your God. 666 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,760 But when it comes to our finances, we're like, Oh no, I 667 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,320 can do better. I can do better than I don't 668 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:29,600 have to trust you with this, right? 669 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,120 So I wonder what it is the guy's saying, take a step. 670 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,680 Trust me with this. So Gideon, trust God takes the 671 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,480 challenge. He steps out with his 300 men to 672 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,920 go against 135,000. So the odds are stacked against 673 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,720 him like this isn't going to work. 674 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,480 I'm sure he was thinking this isn't going to work and maybe 675 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,360 you're up against something today that you feel like the 676 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,040 odds are stacked against you and it's just it's not going to 677 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,120 work. This is going to work. 678 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,400 The odds are stacked against my dream that God's put in my 679 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,320 heart. It feels like it's not working 680 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,040 in my business. I don't have enough. 681 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,720 I don't, I don't have enough resources. 682 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,680 I don't have time. I don't have enough money. 683 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,239 Can I ask you a question? What if? 684 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,880 What if not enough is just enough? 685 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,840 What if not enough is just enough to keep you from relying 686 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,719 on your own strength and abilities and not lean on your 687 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,639 own understanding, but in all your ways, acknowledge him and 688 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:24,880 he'll direct your path. What if, what if not enough? 689 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,040 What you're dealing with is is just enough. 690 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:30,960 So Gideon, with not enough, takes his 300 men, separates 691 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:35,080 them into three groups, gives them all a torch, a jar to cover 692 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:40,120 the torch, and a trumpet. Not a spear, not a shield, not a 693 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,800 sword, a torch, a jar and a trumpet. 694 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,520 Again, they had to be going. What's up with that? 695 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,880 Right? He spreads them out around the 696 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,560 enemy's camp on the Cliff where the enemy was there. 697 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,440 And Gideon, let me let you know a secret. 698 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:55,679 Gideon. He stepped out with doubt. 699 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:01,280 There is no way that he knew how this was going to work or if it 700 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,400 was going to work. But he stepped out with his 701 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:04,760 doubt. Sometimes you just got to step 702 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,520 out in your doubt. It's like, OK, got him on. 703 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,560 Because you know a little. You may not know it all, but you 704 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,160 know, a little talk a lot about stepping out in faith. 705 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,560 You know, stepping out in faith. Yeah. 706 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,880 Well, yeah, it took some faith for getting to do that. 707 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,320 But he stepped out in doubt. And that doubt kept him 708 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,080 dependent. That doubt kept him holding on 709 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,280 to Jesus. So they they climb the hill 710 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,280 around the enemy. It says that once they all break 711 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,800 their jars and then the torches light up the the hillside, they 712 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,280 blow their horn and then they shout freedom. 713 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,560 No, that's Braveheart. They shot a sword for the Lord 714 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,080 and for Gideon. And so it says in the Bible that 715 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,160 the enemy down below was so shocked and scared by the noise 716 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,360 and the lights and the trumpets, they started killing each other. 717 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,000 They started turning on each other, kill each other and they 718 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,840 ran off. So the guys didn't even have to 719 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,960 fight them. The Lord fought the battle for 720 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,400 them. They went down and got all the 721 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,120 plunder and all the stuff from the enemy's camp. 722 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,480 What I want you to see is that in that one day the people were 723 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,280 delivered. God's people were were set free 724 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,960 from the harassment of the enemy that had been going on. 725 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,760 Day after day, year after year. Something changed. 726 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,200 But it wouldn't have changed if Gideon hadn't gotten out of his 727 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,240 home. If he had stayed listening to 728 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:25,520 doubts and fears and insecurities, he would have 729 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,400 never stepped out. And it not only impacted Gideon, 730 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,440 he actually became exactly who the Angel of the Lord said he 731 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,400 was, a mighty warrior, right? But it not only impacted, 732 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,760 impacted him and impacted an entire nation, it impacted 733 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:46,600 Listen to this people that Gideon never knew, people that 734 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,160 Gideon would, would never, would never meet. 735 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,960 So this whole story was, was bigger than Gideon. 736 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,680 The same is true for you. When you step out from your 737 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,320 doubts and fears and anxieties and you trust God. 738 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,760 Fear no longer forms your future. 739 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:10,880 Faith does. You step into your your destiny. 740 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:15,240 But you can't do that hiding in a hole in the ground, listening 741 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:21,480 to the wrong voices. Fear and faith, they actually 742 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,760 have the same root definition. Think about it. 743 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,240 Fear and faith. It's believing that what you 744 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:32,560 cannot see is going to happen. Fear and faith, believing what 745 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,440 you cannot see is going to happen. 1 is born out of 746 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,320 darkness. Despair 1 is born out of light. 747 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,000 And the one that you align yourself with today will 748 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:49,920 actually shape your life. I don't want doubt to take you 749 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,200 out. Like it almost took me out. 750 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,560 Like it almost took Gideon out. I want you to live with a faith 751 00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:01,360 that is growing courage, confidence that God is working 752 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,240 in your life and he's going to work through your life. 753 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:05,600 And no matter what you're facing right now in your life, that 754 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,600 he's got more for you. He has more in store than you 755 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,560 even have in mind. But it's going to require you to 756 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,960 not listen to doubt and despair and discouragement, but step out 757 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,280 and be who God's called you to be. 758 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,920 So I want to, I want to pray for you today and I want to pray the 759 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,320 gift of faith over you because I believe God's given me that 760 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,960 gift. I want to pray it over you today 761 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,280 that you would receive it. So if you have been maybe 762 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,760 struggling with doubt, struggling with fear and 763 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,280 anxiety, this prayer is for you. And so in all our locations, if 764 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,720 that's you today, I just want you to do something bold. 765 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:42,440 If that's you, I just want you to stand so I can pray over you. 766 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,280 If you are dealing with doubt, despair, discouragement and it's 767 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,840 and you go. It's been trying to Take Me Out, 768 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,960 Todd. It's been trying to keep me from 769 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,720 being the man, the woman that I'm called to be. 770 00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:55,320 And I, I'm not going to deal with any longer. 771 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,440 I'm going to, I'm going to take my, I'm getting out of the hole. 772 00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,440 I'm taking my stand today at all our locations. 773 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,960 If that's you, not everybody has to stand. 774 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,200 But if that's you, that's OK. I'm going to pray over you 775 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,120 today. Would you just hold your hands 776 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,520 open like this in a posture of receiving as I pray? 777 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,840 Father God, I thank you that we can come to you today on the 778 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,840 authority of your word that says who we are in you, that we are 779 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,440 chosen and we are loved and we are anointed and we are purposed 780 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,000 and we have life full of destiny and we're not going to let 781 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,920 anything hold us back. So I pray for my brothers and 782 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,760 sisters that are standing today. God is an act of faith. 783 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,680 They stand today. They say they're no longer going 784 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,960 to listen to the lies of doubt that would try to trip them up 785 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,120 and take them out. Lord, I pray faith over them 786 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,040 today. I pray for the gift of faith 787 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,080 that you've graciously given to me. 788 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,200 God, I deposited on their lives today. 789 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,600 The faith would rise up in them today that when doubt begins to 790 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,520 shout at them that God faith would scream louder that they 791 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,080 would know who they are in Jesus name. 792 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,720 You can put your hands down with the rest of you stand for this 793 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:54,520 last prayer if you need to get your relationship right with 794 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,840 Jesus. Can I tell you that the only way 795 00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,880 that you'll ever live the life that you've been created to live 796 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,920 is in right relationship with God. 797 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,000 And so if your relationship with him isn't right, forget about 798 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,240 it. The rest of life is going to be 799 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:07,880 off. But if that gets right, he can 800 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,160 make all things right. And so if you need to get your 801 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,000 relationship with Jesus right, maybe you've never had one, or 802 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,720 maybe it's just not where it needs to be. 803 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,120 This last prayer is for you. And if you would say, Todd, 804 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,360 include me in this prayer right where you are, would you just 805 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,040 raise your hands up high across all our little campuses? 806 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,240 If that's you today, hold him. Up high we're all going to pray 807 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:26,560 this prayer out loud, but those you with your hands up, you 808 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,920 prayed a little bit louder. Pray this after me say, dear 809 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:35,840 Lord Jesus come into my life. Forgive me of all my sin for 810 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,040 going my own way, for doing my own thing. 811 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,520 Today I turn, I make you the Lord of my life in Jesus name I 812 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,840 pray, Amen. Come on, let's thank God today 813 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,400 for all those that made that decision.