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You Are Made For More! | Dr. Josh Peters

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  1. I have a very simple message for you, but first I have to do

  2. something. It's kind of like Superman.

  3. You ever seen Superman? I'm not Superman, but I have.

  4. I have a message for you. I have a message for you and it

  5. actually fits exactly what you're hearing this morning.

  6. This is what God says for you today.

  7. You are made for more. You are made for more.

  8. Say it with me. I am made for more.

  9. Say it. I am paid for for what an

  10. opportunity. I'm going to read a few

  11. scriptures and then we're going to I'm just going to share my

  12. heart, share a little my own testimony about life.

  13. And you know, when, when these when the herbs and and when the

  14. Millers and all all these missionaries were in Bible

  15. school. I looked out there and I

  16. thought, no way. I'm thinking, I don't know if

  17. they're going to graduate. What are we going to do with

  18. these people? And the Lord simply said, I made

  19. them for more. And look at them now, 23 years

  20. later. I look at the thousands of souls

  21. that they've had the opportunity to share and lead to Jesus and

  22. all the all the teaching and all the creativity and all the

  23. wisdom that God has poured into into your leaders here.

  24. Get all you can from them, receive everything you can from

  25. them because they started with this much with little and now

  26. look at what they have. They have this.

  27. Nothing is impossible with God if you'll just let him work with

  28. you. It's a it's a powerful thing.

  29. It's an honoring thing. So I honor your leaders in this

  30. place today and I honor you for how you've honored them this

  31. morning. So just keep this in mind.

  32. You were made for more, OK, And I want to read you a couple of

  33. scriptures. In Ephesians chapter 1 and verse

    Ephesians 1 chapter mention

  34. 17, it says, I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus

  35. Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom

  36. and revelation so that you may know Him better.

  37. Pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that

  38. you may know God wants you to know something that you may know

  39. the hope to which he has called you.

  40. God has called you. He's called everyone of you.

  41. No one is left out. He has called you.

  42. Verse 19 and His incomparable great power for us who believe.

  43. Do you believe any believers in here?

  44. Yes, we believe that power is the same as the mighty strength

  45. he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at

  46. his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all authority

  47. and rule. And he goes on.

  48. And then in verse chapter 2 and verse when it says you were

  49. dead, you were dead and in your sins, but now you're alive.

  50. You're alive unto God in verse 8 and chapter 2.

  51. For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith, and it

  52. is not of yourselves, for it is a gift from God.

  53. You have received a great supernatural gift from God,

  54. everyone of you, not by works that no one can boast for.

  55. We are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works

  56. which He prepared in advance for us to do.

  57. God created you within, within His mind.

  58. He has a plan and a purpose for you, and He's going to help you

  59. fulfill that plan and your purpose.

  60. You don't have to do it by yourself.

  61. He says I created you by His work by His hand.

  62. He says I have something for you to do in advance before you were

  63. ever born. He has already written out your

  64. life. He's written out the plan from

  65. beginning to end, and he's inserted your name.

  66. All you have to do is get into it, get into that place to where

  67. God will use you. And I know you're being

  68. prepared. I know this.

  69. When the apostle Paul was saying this, he was saying you were

  70. made for more. The moment you were forgiven,

  71. the moment you were born again, you were made for more.

  72. You had a brand new life in God, a brand new life in God.

  73. I've experienced that brand new life in God and I've seen

  74. hundreds of thousands of people around the world receive that

  75. new life, that born again experience with the power of God

  76. in their life to make them more than they thought they would

  77. ever get to be. And sometimes we feel how many

  78. of you feel I felt growing up. I felt just ordinary.

  79. I'm just plain vanilla, just ordinary.

  80. I'm OK, but I don't know that I'll ever be anything more than

  81. who I am now. Do you ever feel that way?

  82. Raise your hands. Do you ever feel that way?

  83. I mean, I have felt that way. I'm just ordinary.

  84. But The thing is, The thing is this.

  85. God has taken ordinary people and he has caused them to do

  86. extraordinary works for him. Extraordinary works.

  87. Extra point, because they believed God, They believed in

  88. him. They believed that God would

  89. work through them to get something done bigger than they

  90. are. I enjoy being a part of

  91. something larger than myself because if it's just me, it's

  92. not enough. So they believed that God made

  93. them for a purpose and for a mission.

  94. I mean, God used ordinary men. He used guys like Moses.

  95. He used guys like the apostle Paul.

  96. Well, he was the apostle early on, Peter, James and John, just

  97. a bunch of fishermen they had, they weren't even educated and

  98. they were just ordinary. But God took ordinary men and he

  99. created them to be extraordinary and they became the, the, the

  100. Super Saints of the Bible. They had no clue what they were

  101. all they were in for. They had no idea what God had in

  102. store for them. I had no idea when I was born

  103. again, baptized in the Holy Spirit, what God had in store

  104. for me had no idea. Now, that's been a long time

  105. ago. That's more than 23 years.

  106. It's more like 43 years. Yeah.

  107. I was born again in 1953 years. Sorry, Toby is correcting me.

  108. I was born again in 1973. That makes me this coming

  109. August, 77 years old. That's older than you, but I

  110. have lived with God. I've run with God, I've served

  111. God, I've enjoyed God. I've had my ups and I've had my

  112. downs, but I've seen the power of God in most every nation of

  113. the world. And I started with nothing.

  114. When I was a young, young man in high school, I, I didn't think I

  115. would ever graduate high school. Did you ever think that?

  116. Do you ever think, how am I going to get through high

  117. school? I'm never going to make it.

  118. And in high school I actually had my high school teacher, she

  119. said, well, we're you will not graduate because I'm not going

  120. to pass you in my English class. Well, thank you very much.

  121. So I quit, I quit high school in my senior year and I went to

  122. work and for ten months I went to work and had a job.

  123. And then I received a letter from the United States Armed

  124. Forces and said welcome to the United States military.

  125. No, OK, I, I wasn't stupid. So I went back to high school

  126. and that changed my, my, my draft status.

  127. And so I graduated from high school.

  128. Thank, thank God, thank you, Jesus, you know, thank you,

  129. Jesus. I graduated, but I never think,

  130. I never thought I could be more. I thought I was just going to.

  131. I couldn't believe these kinds of things about myself until one

  132. night when I was literally dying of an overdose of drugs at 23

  133. years old. I was dying on the floor.

  134. I had raced up into heaven. This demon came out of darkness

  135. to take me. He was wrapping me in this

  136. chain. And I began to call out, Oh, God

  137. help me. Three times I screamed, God help

  138. me. And all of a sudden all the

  139. darkness went away and this brilliant white light came over

  140. round me. And I'm at my friend's home and

  141. there's, there's a picture up on, on their wall of Jesus.

  142. You know, it's kind of like with, with the scars in his

  143. hands and, and he's looking like I'm welcoming you.

  144. What's the idea? I'm sitting there and suddenly

  145. this light shines and I open my eyes and listen.

  146. There was a big party going on in the house.

  147. Lots of people in the house. I don't know what they were

  148. doing. I just know what was happening

  149. to me. And I, I opened my eyes and my

  150. eyes went into the eyes of that picture.

  151. And I heard the voice of God say to me, he said, Son, if you will

  152. just follow after me, I will make something out of your life.

  153. And I said yes, I had. There was no other choice.

  154. I said yes, I didn't know. I did not know what I was saying

  155. yes to. I had no clue of what it meant

  156. to be born again, but I was told all my life, you'll never amount

  157. to nothing. You'll never be anybody, you'll

  158. never go anywhere, you'll never do anything.

  159. You're always going to be poor. You're just a stupid young kid.

  160. Did you ever hear that? No, you don't have.

  161. Don't raise your hand. I know, but a whole lot of us

  162. had that. But I believe those lies.

  163. Those were ungodly beliefs. And I believe those lives until

  164. I found out who I was in Christ. And once I found out who I was

  165. in Christ, let me tell you who I am.

  166. Let me tell you who you are in Christ.

  167. Can I tell you here? Here's who I am in Christ,

  168. Here's who you are. I am loved by Christ.

  169. I am forgiven of all my sin. I am free from all condemnation.

  170. I can forget the past. I'm a new creature.

  171. I'm redeemed from the curse of the law.

  172. I'm accepted by Christ. I am reconciled to God.

  173. I am beloved of God. I am called of God.

  174. I'm brought near by the blood of Jesus.

  175. I am complete in Christ. I'm dead in sin, but I'm alive

  176. to God. I'm a king and a priest to God.

  177. I'm I'm loved with an everlasting love and I'm an heir

  178. of God with the joint heir with Jesus.

  179. You know, I asked the Lord, I said what?

  180. What is my name? He said you call me to be more

  181. and he said look up. What is your name?

  182. My, my, my given name is William.

  183. And it means strong willed warrior, OK.

  184. It means conqueror, protector, defender of the faith.

  185. That's been my life from the day I was born again, from the

  186. moment I met Jesus and I discovered that he was real and

  187. that I was. All of these things on this

  188. paper, they're all Scripture. They're all scripture.

  189. Here's who I am. I am more than a conqueror.

  190. I am healed by the wounds of Jesus.

  191. I am kept by the power of God. I'm sealed with the promise of

  192. the Holy Spirit. I have everlasting life.

  193. I am crucified with Christ. I am a partaker of the divine

  194. nature. I've been blessed with every

  195. spiritual blessing. So have you.

  196. I have peace with God. I can do all things through

  197. Christ who strengthens me. I shall do even greater works

  198. than Christ. I am chosen.

  199. I have overcome the world. I have a guaranteed inheritance

  200. through Jesus. I always triumph in Christ and

  201. in Jesus. I'm in Jesus hands and Christ is

  202. in me. The hope of glory.

  203. That's who I am. When the devil tells me I'm

  204. nothing, I have nothing to give. He'll never take you anywhere.

  205. You read this list to him, you get the word and you say this is

  206. who I am. Devil out, get out of my face.

  207. I don't, I don't believe you anymore.

  208. I don't believe those ungodly beliefs.

  209. I believe this scripture. I believe what this is.

  210. And once I began to believe that, I had to renew my mind

  211. through the reading of this word and I would just eat this word

  212. day and night. I just eat it.

  213. I get filled up on it. I fill up my spirit and I fill

  214. up my mind. I fill up my thinking and it

  215. changed my mind about who I am and who I was.

  216. And that's important for us when we decide that you were made for

  217. more, it's important that we do that.

  218. So, you know, God's called you, He's prepared you, and he has a

  219. plan for you and he's on the way with that plan.

  220. Put it into your life. If you'll just say yes, do you

  221. have a yes in you? Listen that yes, as you're made

  222. for more, how many of you want more?

  223. I want, I want more out of life. I want more of God.

  224. I want more of everything. I just want more.

  225. So I learned how to replace these ungodly beliefs with the

  226. Scripture in the Word of God. Why?

  227. Because I simply believed. Was it hard?

  228. Sometimes. But was it worth it?

  229. Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

  230. The moment I was born again and baptized in the whole.

  231. How many of you been born again? Let me see here.

  232. You've been born again. You love Jesus.

  233. How many of you been baptized in the Holy Spirit?

  234. Let me see here. Oh, you're a crap.

  235. You're a good crap. I like you.

  236. Once I believed that God had made me for more.

  237. Not only did I graduate high school that I went on to a

  238. Community College, I got a degree in fire science.

  239. I went to Bible college for five years.

  240. I became a missionary in Malaysia for three years, a

  241. missionary in Indonesia for the three years, five years teaching

  242. at Liberty Bible College in Florida.

  243. I was the assistant director for seven years as the Globe

  244. Missionary Evangelism. I've spent five years at BRSM at

  245. the big revival, teaching at the school there and help help

  246. create the missions department for that revival.

  247. And then now I've been 26 years this year overseeing Fire

  248. International in all these missionaries that we have in in

  249. 50 nations. Don't tell me God hasn't made

  250. you for more. I mean, but am I bragging?

  251. Yeah, I'm bragging on Jesus because I you don't.

  252. When you say yes, get ready. All I can say is get ready.

  253. Just get ready. Because the only way you will

  254. ever fail is if you quit. If you simply say no, I can't, I

  255. can't get rid of that word. The only way you're going to

  256. fail is if you quit. You need to continue to have a

  257. big dream, big vision. You know, in Joel 2/28 it says,

  258. and afterward I will pour out my spirit on all people.

  259. Your sons and your daughters will prophecy your old mental

  260. dream dreams. Listen, I'm an old man, but I

  261. don't dream. I have visions.

  262. So I'm still young. I'm still young.

  263. Your young men will see visions even on your servants, both men

  264. and women. I will pour out my spirit in

  265. those days. God is calling for you to be

  266. more and have an expectation of what He wants to do with you

  267. than you will ever dream. All I'm saying is God is calling

  268. is God calling you to some of you to the mission field.

  269. You know, to us this is a mission field.

  270. But man, look at the look at the look at the workers he's got

  271. here. Oh, you got quiet.

  272. All the Middle East is calling. Do you know that, that, that the

  273. Philippines is the 4th largest mission sending nation in the

  274. world, 4th to the US, Brazil and one more South Korea, South

  275. Korea, you're #4 you're and you're in the big 5.

  276. But do you understand what God is calling some of you maybe to

  277. go out and minister in other nations?

  278. You say, how am I going to do that?

  279. Ask him. Just ask him.

  280. I mean, you have to ask. I mean, if you don't ask, you

  281. never will. You know, he, if you haven't,

  282. you have not because you ask. No.

  283. Well, ask big ask, ask is God calling you to reach the Hindus,

  284. Buddhists, Muslims, God calling you to reach all of all of the

  285. Philippines, You know your neighbor Indonesia, it needs

  286. Jesus. I will you know, and and you got

  287. you guys are some of the best. I'm I'm serious.

  288. If I wanted to go to some nation and start a church, I want 100

  289. maybe 500 of you to come with me.

  290. Why? Because you have a smile,

  291. everyone smile. You have smiles that draw people

  292. in everywhere we've been this week, even walking, just walking

  293. down the street. Oh, good morning, good morning,

  294. whatever, whatever. And they're just smiling.

  295. They're beaming. And I'm thinking, wow, I want

  296. more of you. I'll, I'll take I'll take all I

  297. can get and let's go somewhere. But I'm going to leave some of

  298. you here because Casey said no, I will.

  299. We'll leave you a few. We'll just leave you a few, but

  300. the question you need to ask yourself, am I willing?

  301. Am I willing to lay down my life for the gospel?

  302. Hey, you sang some very dangerous songs here this

  303. morning. I mean, those are seriously

  304. dangerous songs. I'm serious.

  305. Because when you say take me. All those words you just sang

  306. this morning, were, were you lying?

  307. Were you lying? I don't think so.

  308. You because you worship with such passion, with all of your

  309. heart, you worship. I'm, I like being in here.

  310. Why? Because it's the presence of

  311. God. When we worship like that, I'm

  312. overwhelmed in a good way with the presence of the Lord in the

  313. room this morning. And I'll be honest with you,

  314. because I, I asked God, I want to see things.

  315. I want to be a visioner. I want to see in the heavens.

  316. I want to see what God is doing. And this morning as we're

  317. worshiping, when we were in some of those high places, I mean,

  318. from start to finish, you never stopped.

  319. There was no pause. There was no break.

  320. It was just on and on and on. And Jesus was just up there.

  321. I mean, Jesus, I saw him dancing around his throne.

  322. And I mean, he's looking down here and he was looking at this

  323. little group and he's just, it's, it's, he's, he's in heaven

  324. because of your worship. And I thought, boy, that's

  325. sweet. That's that fragrance you were

  326. thinking about. He was receiving that.

  327. I mean, he's not just sitting there like some.

  328. That's not Jesus. He's happy.

  329. Hey, he's happy and he's happy because of you.

  330. Come on, come on, come on. You know the Lord's still

  331. asking. You know, You ask Jeremiah who

  332. will go for us. Ha, ha, ha.

  333. You laugh. Well, he says, all right, you're

  334. up. Pack your bag.

  335. Pack your bag. When I was graduating from

  336. Bible, Bible College, after five years, I'd taken all the classes

  337. that I could take because then I knew I had to do something.

  338. I took every class because I knew I had to finish and do

  339. something. And as I prayed over, over the

  340. map of the world, like that one there on the back, as I prayed,

  341. I knew I must go. I said, Lord, what do you want

  342. me to do? Do you want me to be a pastor?

  343. You want me to not a youth leader, not the worship leader.

  344. I can, I can, I can be a missionary.

  345. I could, I'd be a pastor maybe. And but as I was praying, I was

  346. watching over S over Asia and there was a man who stepped out

  347. of Malaysia and he looked at me and he said come over here and

  348. help me. 30 days. I prayed and fasted 3 times.

  349. This man stepped out of Malaysia and he said come over here and

  350. help me and I went to my leaders and I said I saw this guy, what

  351. should I do? And they said pack your bag.

  352. Well I did. I packed my bags with my two

  353. children and we moved to Malaysia and we were there for

  354. three years. We started 2 Bible schools and

  355. then from out of that we went into Indonesia and we started a

  356. Bible school there with 18 students, 18 students.

  357. That school grew to over 1000. The church, when Toby and I left

  358. the church was between 14 and 15,000 people.

  359. I'm telling you, you're made for more.

  360. I never dreamed in my lifetime I would be in in in the baptismal

  361. pool, which the baptismal pool was, was about half the size of

  362. this room here. And we would water baptized

  363. between 350 and 500 new converts every 30 days.

  364. New converts. I never in my life dreamed that

  365. I would be made for something like that.

  366. I never believed that God could use me.

  367. And all I did was just dip them and send them.

  368. I just dip them and pray the Holy Ghost on.

  369. Let me shake the devil out and send them all through.

  370. And then God piled them up in piles over here until he got

  371. through with them. What an amazing life I've had

  372. with Jesus. I'm telling you, it's been

  373. nothing like it. And then the then the

  374. Brownsville revival. I've been a part of two great

  375. revivals in my lifetime where, you know, million, 22 million, 3

  376. million people came to 1 church and God was their present.

  377. And there's something about the presence of God that draws

  378. people to watch thousands of people be touched by the power

  379. of God every day, day in and day out.

  380. Watch him raise up missionaries. Watch him call people out of

  381. that congregation because they felt like they were made for

  382. more. And they stood up and they said,

  383. yes, Lord, yes, Lord. I'm so honored to be a part of a

  384. group that fell in love with Jesus enough to say I want more.

  385. I was made for more, more, more for the hunger of the word of

  386. God. What's God made you more for?

  387. More for more powerful testimonies.

  388. How many of you have a testimony?

  389. You have a testimony. God wants to give you more

  390. powerful testimonies. He wants to use you to lay hands

  391. on the sick, to cast out devils. He wants to use you to raise the

  392. spiritually dead and get people saved.

  393. He wants to use you to be fathers, mothers, workers,

  394. whoever you are, whatever your job is.

  395. I when I when I met Jesus, I was, I was a firefighter.

  396. I was a fireman. I was for 10 years.

  397. I was a professional firefighter and I and I rode rescue truck

  398. for seven years. That's where God found me.

  399. I never dreamed that sitting in my fire station out in the

  400. parking lot smoking Colombian pot with the police, I would

  401. ever think that God would send me to another nation to do

  402. something for him. But he did, and here I am, and

  403. I'm still going. Why?

  404. That's why. How old am I?

  405. Old enough to know I'm made for more.

  406. And until until I'm done, I'm not done.

  407. I want to do more. I want to prophecy more.

  408. I want to hear His voice more clearly more.

  409. I want to manifest the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

  410. And they're all available to all of you if you just look for

  411. them. Look for the one who needs that

  412. gift. They're not for you.

  413. They're for someone else. They're for someone else to have

  414. more joy. I want more joy.

  415. I want more answers to my prayers.

  416. I, I, I know that I'm asking and I know I'm not alone.

  417. It works for me. Works for me.

  418. Boy, time is not working for me. But that's OK.

  419. We we're we're are you, are you OK with this?

  420. Are you getting, are you getting some of this lookout?

  421. Fire of God will burn you up. Fire of God will consume you in

  422. ways you never dream, ever dream.

  423. Oh my, my, my, my, my, my. I know it's God's desire for you

  424. to have more. Because you have been.

  425. You have been sprinkled with the word of God.

  426. You've been sprinkled with the power of God.

  427. You've been sprinkled with the prayers of the Saints and you've

  428. been opera having opportunities to to study and be led by those

  429. who who know the power and the fire of the Holy Spirit.

  430. I look at I look at Eric. I remember he says, what do you

  431. think God's calling me to do? What's he asking me to do?

  432. And I'm thinking, I don't know. I but I don't tell him I said

  433. that. But all I heard I I heard a

  434. couple of where he said start small and I will expand the

  435. call. And I look at him now.

  436. He man's all over the world. He he makes I I get tired

  437. looking at his itinerary. I don't know how you do it, but

  438. wow. I just know that I oh Jesus, I'm

  439. going to have to slow to a stop here.

  440. Sad to say, I want to give you I I shared this with the school

  441. the other day with the students. When it talks about realizing

  442. your dreams and your vision, ask God what what is your dream?

  443. Ask. Don't be afraid to ask God for

  444. big things. You think because we think too

  445. small, we think small. I remember one time early on in

  446. the revival, we were taking a team of 20 something to

  447. Guadalajara, Mexico. And I'm praying, Lord, what do

  448. you want me to do with this team?

  449. What do you want us to do? I'm praying over the map.

  450. And, and he said, I said, what do you want us to do while we're

  451. there? Because I don't know these

  452. students. They're green, unproven,

  453. untested. And he said, I don't know how he

  454. talks to you. He just talks to me.

  455. He said, well, what do you want to do?

  456. I said, Oh no, you don't understand.

  457. You're God, it's your Kingdom come.

  458. You're I've been spiritual, your Kingdom come.

  459. I said, what do you want to do? And he just said quietly, He

  460. said like friend to friend. He said, well, what do you want

  461. to do? And I thought, really, you're

  462. asking me what you and I and here this is how my foolish

  463. pride went in my mind. I'll just make it hard for him.

  464. You're asking me what I want to do.

  465. I'll make it hard for you, right?

  466. I'll make it harder. So I said, OK, I start thinking.

  467. I said, here's what I like. I would like, I'd like a theater

  468. that will see 1000 people and I want to see 1000 people in that

  469. building. I want to get the building and

  470. it cost me nothing, zero, you know, nothing.

  471. It's hard to get something for nothing these days, right?

  472. And I said, I want to see. I want to see on the altar

  473. called. I want the altar full of all the

  474. Alcoholics, all the drug addicts, all the prostitutes.

  475. I want to see everyone from the street.

  476. I want to see the I want to see the stage packed with people.

  477. Then I want to see the power of God take them all out and heal

  478. them, deliver them and set them free from demons.

  479. And it got quiet. OK, That was the answer.

  480. OK, what do you do when you just get, OK, pack your bag, get on

  481. the plane, know what you asked for and trust God.

  482. We arrived there. We asked, I said to the

  483. missionary. I said, oh, I want a theater.

  484. What are we doing? I want a theater.

  485. I want to see the 1000 people. I don't want to pay any money

  486. for it. And, and so the next day they

  487. said, oh, I know so much. The guy called and said, Oh yes,

  488. I, I, I will let you have my theater for $300.00 for the

  489. weekend. And I said, never mind, thank

  490. you. That's not what God said, that's

  491. not what I asked for, you know, and so that afternoon he called

  492. back and he said, oh, you are you your, your group is a

  493. religious group. You, you, you.

  494. I, I said yes. And he said, OK, I want to give

  495. you the theatre for zero. I, I said, now we're getting it.

  496. OK, so we, we put the word out. The place filled up with 1000

  497. people. We'd never been there before.

  498. It filled up with 1000 people. And when we gave the altar call,

  499. we preached, we gave the altar call.

  500. The altar was full from one end to the other with Alcoholics,

  501. drug addicts, prostitutes, St. people.

  502. And when we asked the team to come pray for them, the power of

  503. God hit them. Every single one of them, every

  504. single one of them got healed. Every single one of them got

  505. demons cast out of them and they came up full of the Holy Ghost.

  506. Don't tell me you can't be made for more.

  507. I'm telling you, don't let your dream or your vision be this

  508. big. And I have dreamed, dreamed big

  509. dreams for, for the last 40 years.

  510. And I've seen some great stuff. I want you to have that.

  511. God wants you to have that. I want to tell you 7, seven

  512. things you never want to do #1 never allow the world, the

  513. flesh, or the devil to shape your vision or your dream.

  514. Never, only God #2 never allow smallness of vision to rule your

  515. life. Dream big.

  516. And sometimes that's hard for us to dream big when we've had so

  517. little. At times when we come up with

  518. nothing in our lives. I mean, we were a poor little

  519. family. I was the oldest of five and we

  520. never had a lot. And so it was hard for me to get

  521. out of this poverty mentality. I had a hard time getting out of

  522. that. But once I got out, sky was the

  523. limit #3 Never allow those who have no faith to influence you.

  524. I had people tell me and they said, what are you going to do?

  525. I'm going to Malaysia to start Bible school.

  526. Did you ever done that before? No, I said, oh, they said, Oh

  527. well, OK. And so they tried to talk me out

  528. of. They said, you know, that's a

  529. Muslim nation. Do you know they don't like

  530. Christians over there. Do you know?

  531. Do you know, do you know? And I said, so I said God.

  532. So God said this is what he said to do.

  533. In fact, he said he said it so clearly.

  534. He said, I want you to take all the notes from your last three

  535. years of classes and put it in a suitcase.

  536. And I said, what? That suitcase weighed 70 lbs of

  537. paper. And I'm thinking I've got a wife

  538. and two, two daughter myself. That's the suitcase I could put

  539. good stuff in. And but here's the thing about

  540. following God. When the Holy Spirit asks you

  541. something, you have two choices. You obey or you disobey.

  542. He's not going to kill you if you disobey.

  543. It just means I think you'll be disappointed because you didn't

  544. obey. I filled up that that suitcase

  545. with 70 lbs of paper, moved to Malaysia and found that guy who

  546. stepped off that map and he had already booked a week's worth of

  547. meetings for us to share in the preach.

  548. We did that for a week, sitting in the pastor's home at the

  549. breakfast table, and he looked at me and he said, why are you

  550. in Malaysia? I thought, why am I here?

  551. And he said, I said, well, when the Lord spoke to me at school

  552. and he said, start Bible schools with local churches.

  553. And I've said, I've never done that.

  554. So he opened the door to a, a, a bedroom and he and, and, and

  555. from ceiling to floor, wall to wall and with these large

  556. machines, video projectors, he, he said, can you make me a

  557. school out of this? And I started reading off these

  558. names, the Book of Revelation by Ken Summerall, Liberty Bible

  559. College. I said what?

  560. That's where I graduated. I had 70 lbs of notes for every

  561. class on that wall. Don't tell me God can't do

  562. something if you're willing. I was made for more and I was

  563. discovering it as I went. Started 2 Bible schools there.

  564. People were saying you can't do that.

  565. So I don't listen to people who have no faith.

  566. I deal with my faith. I'm not dealing with your faith

  567. this morning. I'm dealing with my faith for

  568. you #4 never allow discouragement to dominate your

  569. faith in God fulfilling your vision or your dream.

  570. Sometimes we get we, you know, sometimes God's in a hurry, but

  571. sometimes God is slow and we get discouraged.

  572. But don't, don't be discouraged. He's there.

  573. You just stay close #5 never allow your circumstances to

  574. limit your vision or your dream. Change your circumstances

  575. through prayer and faith and look through the eyes of faith.

  576. For anything is possible with God, so you have to change it

  577. through faith. That's OK.

  578. Circumstances will always feel like they're against you.

  579. Not enough time, not enough money, not smart enough, not

  580. enough people, not enough, not enough.

  581. Well, I don't let my circumstances rule what I do.

  582. We still do it. And then number six is similar.

  583. Never, never allow finances or money to become a dictator to

  584. your vision or dream. I mean, when I started out as

  585. just said yes to the mission call, I had nothing, had no

  586. money. All I had was go the guy jumping

  587. off the map. And so I started saying God.

  588. People are asking what's God asking you to do?

  589. Go to Malaysia, be a missionary, start school, do this, do this.

  590. And so we'd have coffee and cake and stuff and I would come out,

  591. I'd come out of those, those little, little meetings, just

  592. family meetings with thousands of dollars worth of money.

  593. The first time out, $7000. I've never seen that kind of

  594. money in my life. But God said go.

  595. And if he's telling you to go, he will, He will finance it for

  596. you. Will he not finance things for

  597. you? Airfares.

  598. Yeah. Whatever you need, Whatever you

  599. need, just trust God and let him do it.

  600. And then #7 Never allow failures to set your course in life.

  601. Have we ever failed? Yeah.

  602. Well, if we fall down, we shake the dust off and we say yes.

  603. Lord, again, how? Where do you want me to go?

  604. How do you want me to do it? Let's all stand up together.

  605. All I want you to do. There's a song.

  606. I want you to just stand there and listen.

  607. If you want to shut your eyes, that's fine.

  608. You don't want no singing. I just want you to listen to

  609. these words and let them get into your spirit.

  610. So just listen. This is for you.

  611. I know who I am because I know who you are.

  612. The cross of Salvation was only the star.

  613. Now I'm chosen, free and forgiving.

  614. I have a future and it's worth the living.

  615. Thou wasn't made to me tending a grave.

  616. I was called by name, born and raised back to life again.

  617. I was made for one. I know who I am.

  618. I know who we are. The cross of Salvation was only

  619. star. Now I am chosen, free and

  620. forgiven. I have the future.

  621. It is worth living. I wasn't making thee timid

  622. grave. I was called by.

  623. Name. Born in raise that to I forgive.

  624. I was made no more. What would I make made in my

  625. shame when I found it on grapes. It's running my way out of wire.

  626. I was made the Lord. You are late.

  627. You called out my day. I'll see how your day you made

  628. my ass. I'm not going back.

  629. Was made to be tender grave. I was called by name.

  630. Born and raised until I fucking. I was made for more.

  631. Come on. Sing it over yourself.

  632. So I would I then. My shame with Fountain of Grace

  633. is running my way out of yours.