The Sermon Embracing This God-Life by David McGee
Aug 05, 2012
Embracing This God-Life (28:59)
Referenced Scriptures: Mark 9:23-24; Mark 11:22-25; Colossians 1:29
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- When you Believe in God, but don't think you can change.
- Is there anything too hard for God?
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Mark 9:23-24
23) Jesus said to him, "If you can believe? All things are possible to him who believes."
24) Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"
Mark 11:22-25
22) Jesus answering said to them, "Have faith in God.
23) For most assuredly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,‘ and doesn‘t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says happens; he shall have whatever he says.
24) Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
25) Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
Colossians 1:29
29) for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
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And turn in your Bibles were José Philip put it up on the board here in a minute. I will look at the marks after nine versus twenty three through twenty display three twenty four and there's a couple of tiles of use for this message and some of them on this is actually a chapter. The idea came from a chapter in the book called the Christian atheist. The Christian, atheist, and this by Craig Rochelle DRO ESC HDL and called the Christian atheism weight when he does in this book he talks about how that as Christians we believe certain things that are not true and what, in this case when you believe in God but don't think you can change that the title. The chapter when you believe in God, and don't think you can change my title would be embracing this God life, and it's from one of our Scripture so many give proper context here. So as we look at this as I said the idea came from his booking came from paint from this chapter, but so many times we believe in God but don't believe that we can say we don't think that we can change and so the challenge comes to us over and over again. Is there anything impossible with God. And if there's nothing impossible with God, then how to life into this idea of changing, becoming what God wants me to be that we would have all of these ideals. The nap if this life that we have in Christ, then we there is this power, and this change that we want to happen in our life. But yet it seems like there's a process that were not getting where we want to go in the message Bible Mark chapter nine, says verse twenty three Jesus said, if there are no if among believers. Anything can happen if there are no interests and the challenge there in that verse did you ever say well if him or not be okay if the circumstance had been different, I would be different if this had coming up gifts in your life. The big I saw you some of the rest of the thought have enough experiences. When I write about it, if only if only I had done this while Nathan Dunlap. I would never had this gut like a little kid in Sunday school class that name talk about how that lots wife was fleeing from Sodom, Gomorrah, and she turned around and turned into a pillar of salt and the little boy said that's nothing my mom turned around and she turned into a telephone pole little humor. So anyhow we look at the SMR life. If this had happened about and happened, things would be different on verse twenty four goes on to say no sooner were the words out of his mouth. Then the father cried that I believe help me with my doubts, and relieved. So if we are in this if mode we do to challenge for us, then, is to ask God to help our unbelief help us get over our if it Jesus said in the King James version it's written. Jesus said to him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him who believes. So it's a very straightforward. It sounds very logical and something we can grasp with our minds. We ask and receive right believe spontaneous response to believe this last, and then of course I ready to receive it in my life. So what's so hard about that Walmart Chapter 11 verses twenty through twenty two through twenty five, Jesus was matter of fact embrace this, God, life, it will brace this God what that's a challenge for each of us embrace this God life wife. This is not a know if embrace this guideline really embrace it and nothing will be too much for you this month and for instance Jesus said, go jump in the light, no shuffling or showing shallow thing, and it's as good as done. That's wired you to pray for absolutely everything ranging from small to large include everything as you embrace the spotlight include everything in your prayers as you embrace the spotlight that means begin the we take those if God in prayer. The things that we think have ruined it may be the very things that God would use to help us make and when you assume the posture of prayer. Remember that it's not all asking if you have anything against someone forgive. Only then will your heavenly father be inclined to also wipe away your wife, your slate clean of sin. So embrace this godlike than you will get lots everything sounds pretty good. Remember though what is said in the Scripture. It's not always about asking if you have anything against someone. It's about reflecting the character of God as I read through these verses. If we cut is started the end of verse twenty five and worked back to the beginning of verse twenty four. We have this, we have God 's forgiveness as we forgive others. We understand we were aware of understanding the impact of that forgiveness. We have ourselves praying, taking our gifts and so on to God. We inversely, for we have the embracing of this godlike and getting gods everything into our life. We have a command to pray not everything. Verse twenty three. We have mountains, we can say them go jump in the lake. Those mountains that we have, but it all starts with the very first verse. Verse twenty two. Me and bracing this God life do I really believe understand grasp the concept that the life that I am living is a godlike July embrace the concept that I am living a God life now the chosen. I think which put up roadblocks upon that concept is there some things in my life that are just not going the way I think they should so therefore I can't really believe that this is a God life L so what do you embrace what part of you do you think you can't change what part of you as you say what this is. I'm going to embrace the idea of this guideline, but look at our shortcomings are. Failures are thinking and why is it that pops up. Maybe not today, but why we done this before and suddenly run into this roadblock and in detail all minuses of the godlike is look at the shortcoming look at the sin look at this addiction look at this type think that we start running in little things, and we stopped saying this is a God life while your member of the quote that says if you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. While police is an understanding of the heart, but we are building a student believe is an understanding of the head by our action is from our hearts that we are living out this godlike that you love me you keep my commandments. So we are embracing we are praising the God life that I need to say what embracing is no know embracing holding onto what keeps us from embracing while I think sometimes we believe a lie. We lived with the line, we think that we cannot change. We think that we can change maybe ninety nine percent of ourselves, but there's some part of ourselves that we just can't change and we are held captive. I do. I've not been there. I've never been in jail when I hope we never have to be your never do something that would put me there or whatever, but it is thought to be a captivating variance, and but we are sometimes behind the prison bars of our thoughts believe in God but think he simply just can't help me where I am and that thinking is at the heart of my failure of my not being able to embrace this guideline a lot. I believe this truth will affect will act as if it is as if that were true, alive believe this truth will act like a truth in our life. Now in this book that I spoke up by aggression. He speaks about this. This individually calls and Jeremy who was addicted and then they go spaces, and he was addicted in no particular order to alcohol, pornography sleeping with girls and smoking pot, although Jeremy gave his life, God, at the age of fifteen, and he attended church weekly. His life wasn't moving forward each week. Jeremy faithfully sits on the forth Road sure, you can never overcome his addiction. So the question is why do some important because in his mind. This makes him unworthy of God 's love and that's the challenge that gets to us every time we think we're unworthy of God 's love. We generally look at something we have done. We look at a failure that has that we have or continue to have in our life and we start backing up from Walt God loves me. Yeah, but I'm not worthy of it. So therefore I back away from. And every time I back away from it. I remind myself remind myself of all the things that I've done wrong and those failures continue to be a roadblock in front of me and it is like God wanting to do something in my life but I don't let him because I'm not worth getting in Sunday school. I know I spoke about this couple guys with good illustrations are now using to if I if I purchased you. It to live our gift certificate at one of the local Milo, giant Eagle, whatever I give you certain that I get a gift certificate for two hundred dollars now you put that in your pocket or purse and you don't spend it is a lot alive. I don't want passive pay two hundred dollars for my coupon for me while you have already paid two hundred dollars coupons already purchase the purchase price of if you find it's already been paid. Now the question is are you going to redeem it. Jesus Christ has paid the price for our sins are you going to regain God has paid the price for this God life that we are to live our by reading the question becomes then how am I going to do this, not the light and hit an Israeli, we're caught up in a couple of things were caught up in an hard thinking and and him and him know what's are very right. Sometimes I was a, our neighbor, they have a dog and they put in one of those fences those lines underground. They put a shock collar on the dog and whenever the dog going to the latest input. The lineup of the put flags where the line was okay so the dog knows these days the fly and wonders what those are, but he says he gets close enough those life stop me and everything doesn't work anybody ever wear one to see if they were. One volunteer where one not so the dog knows where those flies are safe of life quality eventually took the flag down, but the dog still doesn't know where the flags are why cutting of that if he goes over their union shop. We were and our neighbors, and purchasing court and they have then asked Rhonda, if we want to take John Jackson to see the new tasks the case of the baby calf. It's Weigle and Phil Jackson. He's in there looking in the Kenworthy, the mother and the calf far at all that and then in another pan may have about twenty or thirty young child that had not not been outside there during training half of them are outside and have a more inside learning training for they have them out in this outside and they have an electric fence around the field that they are in smaller field and what happens if the Cavs don't know if you don't AOL if you thought the fans what happens. You shot so they learn to back away now. Sometimes cows growing up a fireman, wireless, sometimes the shock would propel them to go through it. So the challenge is to not have them run into the fence and get shopping and keep on going. They they approached the fence slowly could shop and back away. I now the challenge is how many times have we attempted something and fail buckshot. Now the flags are down, but we won't attempt it again because we know when I get sure and how many times in our life. Have we felt that we just can't make it well from experience, we learned that Brandy would you please come up to. I've asked Randy to help me on this one. I'm another storing your later when he has so graciously decided that he picked this up this folder as you get up now I don't have to hand a holdup like this. Okay, now she addictions are very difficult because sometimes we believe that it's not you. We look at other people is a whiteout. I could bring up about Pepsi not too difficult but addictions, they can have a all that okay but if enough you are going to pray what would you pray for your Georgia, really strong, why somebody would help you see in our life is not only going to take all the strength that we can muster. It's going to take more than what we can must to overcome our addiction. That's where God comes in. You see for one, look at this thing. What's wrong I can do that. I just mind over matter, but also because they are, how much you think you can make is that every now just think positive thoughts and www.. But guess what positive thoughts don't compensate for the strain on the muscles addictive behavior is not only something we think it's something we feel, and we need help to overcome both think so, not only takes all the strength I can muster it takes more than the strength that I can come up with. So when God is telling us that we are to have faith is telling us not only do we have to pick this up, but I'll will also have to have his health among women continue to hold so you think you can do hold this the whole time that I was talking by yourself. No, because sometimes you need some help. That's where we come a long disabled. What's wrong with you. My kids go like a moment I can pick it up you people give you advice. It's really stupid. And that's what this is, you get all that up all day because, look, I can pick it up. I called us all day like this is not the same in every person is different with everything that happens in their life, because sometimes what happens in my life is ill. I can handle this, but you know what. In this way, it's become very difficult about that. That's all you sit down, so he imagine that a Majesty. That's why whenever we are talking about what's going on in our life, we have to pray we have to believe we have to ask God for help because no one can do this on their own, and I character in our problems come to the point where we we recognize that we have needs in our life thing to note is that thanks, Bob. This is illustrated. They make no imagine that Bob jicama here. You think the error life. The Devils always interested in reminding us of what we can't do what we can't say where we can have, and we recognize the difficulties we have our limitations. Now I'm going to ask Bob to look up this pulpit while Bob documented another skeletal characteristic, there will now be told not to embarrass and what you imagine that but the now Bob with all the work and the manual labor of Israeli shoulders again& again are guitar friendly and shoulders of the shot they know has been my peer and that this pulpit. We can't do it not because he would drive one of the tribe of what you think is pretty no thought, saying the Bible says if you have enough faith. He decided his mouth and jump and go jump in the lake. It will jump in the lake now sponsoring the site. No public move say that while public. The public note of adventure prayer now everyone up everyone of us years. He ever think you would be helpful to the kingdom of God. Every anybody here would be helpful. We can go with it. While I want to see. I want wall, Joe Island Bobby Ellen Tracy, one now, which is staying here. Tracy went to stand down in volume. If you stand on their waltz later, what is finally handled over there and lifted up. Okay, say that again public movement on the public growth did not do anything you can send them what did Bob doubt exhaustive, but the moment. That's when you see our faith doesn't necessarily have to be honest doing it. Our faith is that we are a body of Christ which we coming to church and guess what, we had five people moved the ball. One had a request in our life. How many things are like that. I think that we look at mountains and say not that jump in the light, but we can't do it against what God can do it, maybe not through us, but through one another in El Salvador. David has people that he works with any make, and it makes small business loans to these individuals that Arreola, they are in this market and a small business loan. The order by the organization. Dave worked with gave the first forty dollars a hundred dollars to an individual for a small business loan. Where exactly forty hundred dollars come from custom your pocket windows into the offering plate and also El Salvador to make this possible for a friend request in El Salvador, Bob and a prayer request. Paul put move. How did it go through the body of Christ. Imagine that. So encouraging words come from a higher income from our actions and some of our actions fulfill other people 's requests and prayers. Thank you I was doing was that it so whatever the challenge is one ever in the challenge in. We have to respond in a positive way you think Bob could set up here and say I can't move the pulpit on all the years of working on the thing gone. That's right. I can do by myself. I can't move this model by myself anymore but guess what God can move through you to make this happen on a request comes in our life. This book here. Randy with what say life without limits tell me what's wrong with this guy in there. The book says life without limits. He doesn't have any lives. He has no legs. He has no arms life without limits, but that so how can he encourage us that he were looking at an insult life and he has, and has no arms, no legs, right in the line finance the life. How could he ever think within himself that he could help anyone who has arms and legs like the book life without limits in the first chapter is if you can't get the miracle become one if you can get the miracle become one of the four guys that study are picked up at the became the miracle, the Bob couldn't do on his own. That's the body of Christ. That's you and I that's what we are called to be in due to become likewise wants us to be. We can do is to take more strength than you can muster more strength. You can be on your round. You're going to need help, God will be there to be your help, he will give you the strength that you need to to be that help or if you're saying to the mountain that is bigger than you. I call this one happen, but God, I believe you're going to move his mouth, Pakistan, and people in El Salvador that however going to get out of debt. However, to make this business work along comes an organization that walls be a with the word am looking for, shall loan shark in charge of fifty percent interest, overriding on stuff and I never can get out of debt. They will allow them give them financial gain. The twenty dollars and forty dollars that we put in enough ring and we put twenty dollars and offering my Synod to El Salvador. And guess what, it makes a difference in answer to prayer. Somebody in El Salvador or Africa or Georgia or places around the world fraught with our mission, and in the missionary offering. We've answered the prayers of people halfway around the world. We've answered their prayers. How hard was it for four guys to pick this up is pretty easy, wasn't black, it was an immovable object from a so every one of our prayer. So that's why we could. Bob could look at this and say if only I had worked all those years of room. My shoulders. I could probably move this if I hadn't if I was thirty years younger I could do this if I was if I was if I was what the Scriptures say humidity is gone, life, your prayer her someone says other thing, if I forgot what that chapter wants after there it is. Jesus said if there are no answer some unbelievers, anything can happen if there are no and some unbelievers, anything can happen if I were younger. If I were in a different city. If I were a different community. If I had a better education. If if if you read of them and get rid of the innocent, God can do anything. That's the challenge and then the solstice, unless the good book you want to get it. Life without limits and this young man. No arms. The legs makes it happen. They then all others. Nikki after basic training. Yes, it think that the challenge of theirs if there is, and if in your life brought up. This is embrace God embrace this God life, you're forgiven your love. You are capable, and what you can't do. That's a learned behavior with the false idea the learned behavior with the football and learned behavior and a false idea, BC on my own. I can't do this, but God I'm helping you. I'm asking for your help I can get. I can get it done. Now I can overcome father, thank you for your blessings. Thank you for touching our lives in a very real way. Thank you Lord for helping us know that you are with us, not only in your spirit and your Holy Spirit and not only is it about me just doing it myself. God, it's about. We has the body of Christ coming together to serve you to serve one another to help one another in the good times and bad times when things are going well there. Things are not going well, God to help us bless us now. Lord we pray that we might be a blessing that we might be the miracle in someone else's life. We pray in Jesus name and everyone said amen. God bless youAnd turn in your Bibles were José Philip put it up on the board here in a minute. I will look at the marks after nine versus twenty three through twenty display three twenty four and there's a couple of tiles of use for this message and some of them on this is actually a chapter. The idea came from a chapter in the book called the Christian atheist. The Christian, atheist, and this by Craig Rochelle DRO ESC HDL and called the Christian atheism weight when he does in this book he talks about how that as Christians we believe certain things that are not true and what, in this case when you believe in God but don't think you can change that the title. The chapter when you believe in God, and don't think you can change my title would be embracing this God life, and it's from one of our Scripture so many give proper context here. So as we look at this as I said the idea came from his booking came from paint from this chapter, but so many times we believe in God but don't believe that we can say we don't think that we can change and so the challenge comes to us over and over again. Is there anything impossible with God. And if there's nothing impossible with God, then how to life into this idea of changing, becoming what God wants me to be that we would have all of these ideals. The nap if this life that we have in Christ, then we there is this power, and this change that we want to happen in our life. But yet it seems like there's a process that were not getting where we want to go in the message Bible Mark chapter nine, says verse twenty three Jesus said, if there are no if among believers. Anything can happen if there are no interests and the challenge there in that verse did you ever say well if him or not be okay if the circumstance had been different, I would be different if this had coming up gifts in your life. The big I saw you some of the rest of the thought have enough experiences. When I write about it, if only if only I had done this while Nathan Dunlap. I would never had this gut like a little kid in Sunday school class that name talk about how that lots wife was fleeing from Sodom, Gomorrah, and she turned around and turned into a pillar of salt and the little boy said that's nothing my mom turned around and she turned into a telephone pole little humor. So anyhow we look at the SMR life. If this had happened about and happened, things would be different on verse twenty four goes on to say no sooner were the words out of his mouth. Then the father cried that I believe help me with my doubts, and relieved. So if we are in this if mode we do to challenge for us, then, is to ask God to help our unbelief help us get over our if it Jesus said in the King James version it's written. Jesus said to him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him who believes. So it's a very straightforward. It sounds very logical and something we can grasp with our minds. We ask and receive right believe spontaneous response to believe this last, and then of course I ready to receive it in my life. So what's so hard about that Walmart Chapter 11 verses twenty through twenty two through twenty five, Jesus was matter of fact embrace this, God, life, it will brace this God what that's a challenge for each of us embrace this God life wife. This is not a know if embrace this guideline really embrace it and nothing will be too much for you this month and for instance Jesus said, go jump in the light, no shuffling or showing shallow thing, and it's as good as done. That's wired you to pray for absolutely everything ranging from small to large include everything as you embrace the spotlight include everything in your prayers as you embrace the spotlight that means begin the we take those if God in prayer. The things that we think have ruined it may be the very things that God would use to help us make and when you assume the posture of prayer. Remember that it's not all asking if you have anything against someone forgive. Only then will your heavenly father be inclined to also wipe away your wife, your slate clean of sin. So embrace this godlike than you will get lots everything sounds pretty good. Remember though what is said in the Scripture. It's not always about asking if you have anything against someone. It's about reflecting the character of God as I read through these verses. If we cut is started the end of verse twenty five and worked back to the beginning of verse twenty four. We have this, we have God 's forgiveness as we forgive others. We understand we were aware of understanding the impact of that forgiveness. We have ourselves praying, taking our gifts and so on to God. We inversely, for we have the embracing of this godlike and getting gods everything into our life. We have a command to pray not everything. Verse twenty three. We have mountains, we can say them go jump in the lake. Those mountains that we have, but it all starts with the very first verse. Verse twenty two. Me and bracing this God life do I really believe understand grasp the concept that the life that I am living is a godlike July embrace the concept that I am living a God life now the chosen. I think which put up roadblocks upon that concept is there some things in my life that are just not going the way I think they should so therefore I can't really believe that this is a God life L so what do you embrace what part of you do you think you can't change what part of you as you say what this is. I'm going to embrace the idea of this guideline, but look at our shortcomings are. Failures are thinking and why is it that pops up. Maybe not today, but why we done this before and suddenly run into this roadblock and in detail all minuses of the godlike is look at the shortcoming look at the sin look at this addiction look at this type think that we start running in little things, and we stopped saying this is a God life while your member of the quote that says if you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. While police is an understanding of the heart, but we are building a student believe is an understanding of the head by our action is from our hearts that we are living out this godlike that you love me you keep my commandments. So we are embracing we are praising the God life that I need to say what embracing is no know embracing holding onto what keeps us from embracing while I think sometimes we believe a lie. We lived with the line, we think that we cannot change. We think that we can change maybe ninety nine percent of ourselves, but there's some part of ourselves that we just can't change and we are held captive. I do. I've not been there. I've never been in jail when I hope we never have to be your never do something that would put me there or whatever, but it is thought to be a captivating variance, and but we are sometimes behind the prison bars of our thoughts believe in God but think he simply just can't help me where I am and that thinking is at the heart of my failure of my not being able to embrace this guideline a lot. I believe this truth will affect will act as if it is as if that were true, alive believe this truth will act like a truth in our life. Now in this book that I spoke up by aggression. He speaks about this. This individually calls and Jeremy who was addicted and then they go spaces, and he was addicted in no particular order to alcohol, pornography sleeping with girls and smoking pot, although Jeremy gave his life, God, at the age of fifteen, and he attended church weekly. His life wasn't moving forward each week. Jeremy faithfully sits on the forth Road sure, you can never overcome his addiction. So the question is why do some important because in his mind. This makes him unworthy of God 's love and that's the challenge that gets to us every time we think we're unworthy of God 's love. We generally look at something we have done. We look at a failure that has that we have or continue to have in our life and we start backing up from Walt God loves me. Yeah, but I'm not worthy of it. So therefore I back away from. And every time I back away from it. I remind myself remind myself of all the things that I've done wrong and those failures continue to be a roadblock in front of me and it is like God wanting to do something in my life but I don't let him because I'm not worth getting in Sunday school. I know I spoke about this couple guys with good illustrations are now using to if I if I purchased you. It to live our gift certificate at one of the local Milo, giant Eagle, whatever I give you certain that I get a gift certificate for two hundred dollars now you put that in your pocket or purse and you don't spend it is a lot alive. I don't want passive pay two hundred dollars for my coupon for me while you have already paid two hundred dollars coupons already purchase the purchase price of if you find it's already been paid. Now the question is are you going to redeem it. Jesus Christ has paid the price for our sins are you going to regain God has paid the price for this God life that we are to live our by reading the question becomes then how am I going to do this, not the light and hit an Israeli, we're caught up in a couple of things were caught up in an hard thinking and and him and him know what's are very right. Sometimes I was a, our neighbor, they have a dog and they put in one of those fences those lines underground. They put a shock collar on the dog and whenever the dog going to the latest input. The lineup of the put flags where the line was okay so the dog knows these days the fly and wonders what those are, but he says he gets close enough those life stop me and everything doesn't work anybody ever wear one to see if they were. One volunteer where one not so the dog knows where those flies are safe of life quality eventually took the flag down, but the dog still doesn't know where the flags are why cutting of that if he goes over their union shop. We were and our neighbors, and purchasing court and they have then asked Rhonda, if we want to take John Jackson to see the new tasks the case of the baby calf. It's Weigle and Phil Jackson. He's in there looking in the Kenworthy, the mother and the calf far at all that and then in another pan may have about twenty or thirty young child that had not not been outside there during training half of them are outside and have a more inside learning training for they have them out in this outside and they have an electric fence around the field that they are in smaller field and what happens if the Cavs don't know if you don't AOL if you thought the fans what happens. You shot so they learn to back away now. Sometimes cows growing up a fireman, wireless, sometimes the shock would propel them to go through it. So the challenge is to not have them run into the fence and get shopping and keep on going. They they approached the fence slowly could shop and back away. I now the challenge is how many times have we attempted something and fail buckshot. Now the flags are down, but we won't attempt it again because we know when I get sure and how many times in our life. Have we felt that we just can't make it well from experience, we learned that Brandy would you please come up to. I've asked Randy to help me on this one. I'm another storing your later when he has so graciously decided that he picked this up this folder as you get up now I don't have to hand a holdup like this. Okay, now she addictions are very difficult because sometimes we believe that it's not you. We look at other people is a whiteout. I could bring up about Pepsi not too difficult but addictions, they can have a all that okay but if enough you are going to pray what would you pray for your Georgia, really strong, why somebody would help you see in our life is not only going to take all the strength that we can muster. It's going to take more than what we can must to overcome our addiction. That's where God comes in. You see for one, look at this thing. What's wrong I can do that. I just mind over matter, but also because they are, how much you think you can make is that every now just think positive thoughts and www.. But guess what positive thoughts don't compensate for the strain on the muscles addictive behavior is not only something we think it's something we feel, and we need help to overcome both think so, not only takes all the strength I can muster it takes more than the strength that I can come up with. So when God is telling us that we are to have faith is telling us not only do we have to pick this up, but I'll will also have to have his health among women continue to hold so you think you can do hold this the whole time that I was talking by yourself. No, because sometimes you need some help. That's where we come a long disabled. What's wrong with you. My kids go like a moment I can pick it up you people give you advice. It's really stupid. And that's what this is, you get all that up all day because, look, I can pick it up. I called us all day like this is not the same in every person is different with everything that happens in their life, because sometimes what happens in my life is ill. I can handle this, but you know what. In this way, it's become very difficult about that. That's all you sit down, so he imagine that a Majesty. That's why whenever we are talking about what's going on in our life, we have to pray we have to believe we have to ask God for help because no one can do this on their own, and I character in our problems come to the point where we we recognize that we have needs in our life thing to note is that thanks, Bob. This is illustrated. They make no imagine that Bob jicama here. You think the error life. The Devils always interested in reminding us of what we can't do what we can't say where we can have, and we recognize the difficulties we have our limitations. Now I'm going to ask Bob to look up this pulpit while Bob documented another skeletal characteristic, there will now be told not to embarrass and what you imagine that but the now Bob with all the work and the manual labor of Israeli shoulders again& again are guitar friendly and shoulders of the shot they know has been my peer and that this pulpit. We can't do it not because he would drive one of the tribe of what you think is pretty no thought, saying the Bible says if you have enough faith. He decided his mouth and jump and go jump in the lake. It will jump in the lake now sponsoring the site. No public move say that while public. The public note of adventure prayer now everyone up everyone of us years. He ever think you would be helpful to the kingdom of God. Every anybody here would be helpful. We can go with it. While I want to see. I want wall, Joe Island Bobby Ellen Tracy, one now, which is staying here. Tracy went to stand down in volume. If you stand on their waltz later, what is finally handled over there and lifted up. Okay, say that again public movement on the public growth did not do anything you can send them what did Bob doubt exhaustive, but the moment. That's when you see our faith doesn't necessarily have to be honest doing it. Our faith is that we are a body of Christ which we coming to church and guess what, we had five people moved the ball. One had a request in our life. How many things are like that. I think that we look at mountains and say not that jump in the light, but we can't do it against what God can do it, maybe not through us, but through one another in El Salvador. David has people that he works with any make, and it makes small business loans to these individuals that Arreola, they are in this market and a small business loan. The order by the organization. Dave worked with gave the first forty dollars a hundred dollars to an individual for a small business loan. Where exactly forty hundred dollars come from custom your pocket windows into the offering plate and also El Salvador to make this possible for a friend request in El Salvador, Bob and a prayer request. Paul put move. How did it go through the body of Christ. Imagine that. So encouraging words come from a higher income from our actions and some of our actions fulfill other people 's requests and prayers. Thank you I was doing was that it so whatever the challenge is one ever in the challenge in. We have to respond in a positive way you think Bob could set up here and say I can't move the pulpit on all the years of working on the thing gone. That's right. I can do by myself. I can't move this model by myself anymore but guess what God can move through you to make this happen on a request comes in our life. This book here. Randy with what say life without limits tell me what's wrong with this guy in there. The book says life without limits. He doesn't have any lives. He has no legs. He has no arms life without limits, but that so how can he encourage us that he were looking at an insult life and he has, and has no arms, no legs, right in the line finance the life. How could he ever think within himself that he could help anyone who has arms and legs like the book life without limits in the first chapter is if you can't get the miracle become one if you can get the miracle become one of the four guys that study are picked up at the became the miracle, the Bob couldn't do on his own. That's the body of Christ. That's you and I that's what we are called to be in due to become likewise wants us to be. We can do is to take more strength than you can muster more strength. You can be on your round. You're going to need help, God will be there to be your help, he will give you the strength that you need to to be that help or if you're saying to the mountain that is bigger than you. I call this one happen, but God, I believe you're going to move his mouth, Pakistan, and people in El Salvador that however going to get out of debt. However, to make this business work along comes an organization that walls be a with the word am looking for, shall loan shark in charge of fifty percent interest, overriding on stuff and I never can get out of debt. They will allow them give them financial gain. The twenty dollars and forty dollars that we put in enough ring and we put twenty dollars and offering my Synod to El Salvador. And guess what, it makes a difference in answer to prayer. Somebody in El Salvador or Africa or Georgia or places around the world fraught with our mission, and in the missionary offering. We've answered the prayers of people halfway around the world. We've answered their prayers. How hard was it for four guys to pick this up is pretty easy, wasn't black, it was an immovable object from a so every one of our prayer. So that's why we could. Bob could look at this and say if only I had worked all those years of room. My shoulders. I could probably move this if I hadn't if I was thirty years younger I could do this if I was if I was if I was what the Scriptures say humidity is gone, life, your prayer her someone says other thing, if I forgot what that chapter wants after there it is. Jesus said if there are no answer some unbelievers, anything can happen if there are no and some unbelievers, anything can happen if I were younger. If I were in a different city. If I were a different community. If I had a better education. If if if you read of them and get rid of the innocent, God can do anything. That's the challenge and then the solstice, unless the good book you want to get it. Life without limits and this young man. No arms. The legs makes it happen. They then all others. Nikki after basic training. Yes, it think that the challenge of theirs if there is, and if in your life brought up. This is embrace God embrace this God life, you're forgiven your love. You are capable, and what you can't do. That's a learned behavior with the false idea the learned behavior with the football and learned behavior and a false idea, BC on my own. I can't do this, but God I'm helping you. I'm asking for your help I can get. I can get it done. Now I can overcome father, thank you for your blessings. Thank you for touching our lives in a very real way. Thank you Lord for helping us know that you are with us, not only in your spirit and your Holy Spirit and not only is it about me just doing it myself. God, it's about. We has the body of Christ coming together to serve you to serve one another to help one another in the good times and bad times when things are going well there. Things are not going well, God to help us bless us now. Lord we pray that we might be a blessing that we might be the miracle in someone else's life. We pray in Jesus name and everyone said amen. God bless you