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Andrew Wommack on today’s program Andrew
explains how miraculous changes can take
place in your life when you stop
limiting God with small thinking now
here’s Andrew welcome to our Monday’s
broadcast of the gospel truth and I am
really excited today to be sharing with
you a series that I’ve entitled don’t
limit God you know for those of you who
have been familiar with our ministry for
the let’s say for over seven years it
was in January the 31st of 2002 that I
had the second most significant
encounter that I’ve ever had with the
Lord and the Lord spoke some things to
me I’ll go into more detail as I go
through this series I won’t take time to
share it all now but in a nutshell what
he did was tell me that I was limiting
what he could do through me through my
small thinking and so in 2002 I made a
teaching entitled taking the limits off
of God and I taught basically many of
the same things that I’m going to be
teaching right now on this television
program but of course it was only with
six months worth of time in between when
the Lord had spoken that to me and when
I started seeing things happen and I
mean the ministry just exploded and good
things happened and so when I made this
teaching on taking the limits off of God
back in 2002 I was getting some
statistics about the change that it had
wrought in my life but really most of it
was all about what was going to happen
well here we are seven years later and I
can tell you that this is proven now not
just from a perspective of faith
believing that this is going to happen I
can look back and show you empirical
fact that the change that this mindset
change wrought in my life has been
dramatic I mean it is powerful and over
the last few months the Lord has been
speaking to me
that it’s time to take the limits off of
him again that you know what I did in my
way of thinking I increase my
expectation my imagination what I was
believing for but the Lord has been
speaking to me at the end of 2008 that
it was time to start thinking big again
and so I’m already beginning to see some
significant things coming and I’m going
to be talking about some of that but let
me just say that I made a brand new
teaching on this when we were in Phoenix
Arizona for our gospel truth seminar on
January the 1st 2nd and 3rd of 2009 and
what I did was take those 5 teachings at
that gospel truth seminar and I just
talked about this and I tell you I think
it was awesome I believe that a lot of
people’s lives were changed and so we’ve
got some brand new product this new
teaching is entitled don’t limit God
whereas the teaching that was made seven
years ago was entitled taking the limits
off of God and I believe that this is
really going to help you the reason I’m
sharing these things really isn’t for my
benefit just to be giving a testimony of
what God has done for me but as I’ve
shared this with other people I really
believe that this is something that all
of us have a tendency to do is to limit
God with our small thinking and we just
think about it this way God is infinite
God is Almighty
we call him Almighty God and here is
this infinite Almighty God who can do
exceeding abundantly above all we ask or
think according to the power that works
in us Ephesians 3:20 here is God with
all of his potential but he works
through finite men and the sad thing is
most of us are not in touch with God the
way that we should be most of us are
more in tune with the world around us
and people and we look at people and we
draw our inspiration more from people
than we do from God so here is this
infinite limitless God with all of his
ability and most of us are living on a
plane far below that just relating to
other people and basically doing what
the other average people do and I tell
you if you stop and think about it that
is recipe for
mr. here is this Almighty God who wants
to show himself powerful in our lives
but before he can do it we have to start
taking these limits off of him we’ve got
to quit this thinking that we are just
mere human beings you know in the
Christian world today there is a
doctrine that’s expressed in a lot of
ways there’s this one song that is very
catchy it’s got a real catchy tune and
I’m aware that some people they don’t
think about the words but the words of
this song just drive me up the law
because it starts off by saying Lord I’m
only human
I’m just a man one day at a time sweet
Jesus man I hate that song again it’s
got a catchy tune but I am not only
human you are not only human if you have
been born again then god almighty lives
on the inside of you and according to
Ephesians chapter 1 verses 18 and 19 you
have the same power living on the inside
of you that raised Jesus Christ from the
dead and all things are possible to him
that believes is what the scripture says
there is just an infinite possibility of
what God can do through a person who has
been born again and is God possessed and
yet the sad thing is most of us are not
thinking that way we’re thinking just
like that song says look I’m only human
I’m just a man I’m just a woman no when
you got born again you became God
possessed you now have the power and the
ability of God living on the inside of
you and as quickly and to the degree
that you renew your mind you can start
seeing supernatural things happen you
know I could spend weeks just
introducing this subject but I think
it’s important that you realize that
this isn’t just me giving a testimony of
what has happened in my life but as I
testify and talk about what God has
spoken to me I believe that this same
thing applies to every one of you every
one of you most of us are living way way
way below our privileges there are many
people watching this program worldwide
right what right now that just have
embraced sickness
and think that sickness is just a
natural part of living and that you have
to get sick that when the flu comes
around you expect to get it you expect
to get old you expect to get feeble
again I mean you do have to get old if
you stay on this earth but you don’t
have to get feeble people Moses was 120
years old his natural force wasn’t
abated nor his eyesight dim is what the
scripture says and what we have is
greater than what Moses had I believe
that we can live in health I believe
that you can still be strong and vibrant
see that’s an area that people say but
I’m only human well I’m not only even
I’ve got the same power on the inside of
me that raised Jesus Christ from the
dead I’ve got the promises in 3rd John
chapter 1 verse 2 that beloved I wish
above all things that you prosper and be
in health even as your soul prospers
first Peter 2:24 by His stripes we were
healed see in that area you need to take
the limits off of God you don’t need to
just look around at other people and say
but everybody gets sick this is a
genetic thing everybody and my family
has had this it doesn’t matter what
other people have had even if they’ve
been born again the potential is inside
of every born-again person that you can
live a supernaturally healthy life the
potential is in you that whatever you
set your hand into a prosper I don’t
care if your second or third generation
welfare if you’re a born-again and if
god almighty lives on the inside of you
you need to quit limiting God and just
doing things the way that it’s been done
in your family for generations and you
need to believe God for prosperity and
independence and to be a productive
contributing part of society instead of
someone who’s just taking it doesn’t
matter if it’s you know people in your
family have had divorces for years and
generations you can change that God can
change all of these things I’m just
trying to say that God has his ability
and his power not only reserved for when
we die and go to heaven but right here
in this present evil world God wants to
bless you let me use a verse out of
Galatians chapter 1 that just says this
and I tell you this is a powerful
passage of Scripture in Galatians
chapter one
and I believe it’s verse 4 it says
talking about Jesus who gave himself for
our sins that he might deliver us from
this present evil world according to the
will of God and our Father notice that
Jesus gave himself for our sins to
deliver us from this present evil world
not the one to come not just talking
about the punishment of eternal hell our
lake of fire not talking about something
that’s after we die and it’s reserved
for us in heaven this says that he gave
himself for our sins that he might
deliver us from this present evil world
and then it goes on to say according to
the will of God and our Father it is
God’s will for you to be delivered from
this present evil world now I’m not
saying that you want to have trouble and
he said all those who live godly in
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
there are going to be problems but they
need to be external they need to be out
there you might have people criticize
you you are going to have problems
because you live in a fallen world and
you encounter people on a fallen basis
I’m not saying that a sickness that
poverty that emotional problems and
disputes with people won’t happen
because we live in a fallen world but
they don’t have to get on the inside of
you you can overcome those sicknesses
and diseases you can overcome the
economic problems that people find
themselves in you can walk in victory
and have joy in your heart even if other
people reject you I tell you I believe
in an absolute total victorious
Christian life I believe that we ought
to be the head and not the tail people
say how are you doing and you say well
pretty good under the circumstances you
need to get out from under the
circumstances and start sitting in
Christ in heavenly places and live in a
victorious life
I’m just saying brothers and sisters
that we limit God we limit God by
accepting a substandard life we look
around and we’re looking at people and
we just think that this is the way
things have to be I am here saying that
you do not have to live a defeated
discouraged life and I know that there
are some of you thinking well I believe
that and I’ve tried but you know get up
again get up and go again the Bible says
that a
righteous man will fall seven times and
yet he’ll get back up you know if you’ve
really got God on the inside of you
first Corinthians chapter 13 says God’s
kind of love never fails it hopes all
things it believes all things it endures
all things love never fails God’s kind
of love will help you to get up and even
if you’ve tried and run into failure I’m
not saying these things to condemn you
but I’m saying it to encourage you that
praise God we need to start believing
for something bigger we are limiting God
by our small thinking that’s my
testimony and you know when I talk about
this encounter that I had with the Lord
in January the 31st 2002 this isn’t when
I was out you know serving the devil and
in rebellion towards God this is seven
years ago I started on television in
January the 3rd of 2000 and I had been
in ministry since 1968 so at this time
in 2002 and the Lord spoke to me that I
had limited God I had been serving the
Lord for 34 years I pastored three
churches I’ve been on radio for nearly
30 years we already had a ministry going
we had doubled in size from 2000 to 2002
when the Lord spoke to me so it’s not
like I wasn’t seeking the Lord I’m not
talking about that I was out there just
rebelling and God I was doing what God
told me to do I was seeing results there
were good things happening and yet there
was more God wanted to do more as a
matter of fact many of you watching this
program I would dare to say that the
vast majority of people watching this
program right now would have never seen
me on television would have never been
exposed to this ministry and if God has
touched you through this broadcast it
would have never impacted you if I
hadn’t have responded positively to what
God spoke to me January the 31st 2002 we
wouldn’t have expanded we wouldn’t have
been making the impact that we’re making
I’m telling you this just radically
radically changed my life and there’s a
lot of things that the Lord used to get
that across but let me read these verses
to you out of
Psalms chapter 78 this is really the the
number-one scripture that the Lord used
to get this point across to me Psalms
chapter 78 I won’t take time to read the
whole thing but it’s recounting Jewish
history specifically talking about the
time that the Lord took the Israelites
out of the land of Egypt and how
miraculous it was and how good god was
to him and yet how that these people
just constantly rebelled at God and
didn’t respond appropriately to God and
because of it they limited God so this
is what it’s talking about here in
Psalms chapter 78 verse 36 it says
nevertheless they did flatter him
talking about the Israelites did flatter
God with their mouths and they lied on
him with their tongues for their heart
was not right with him neither were they
steadfast in his covenant but he being
full of compassion forgave their
iniquity and destroyed them not yea many
a time turned he his anger away and did
not stir up all of his wrath for he
remembered that they were but flesh a
win that passeth away and cometh not
again how often they provoked him in the
wilderness those of you that are
familiar with the story of the
Israelites and their 40 years in the
wilderness I mean it was just constant
rebellion towards God it didn’t matter
how good god was to him three days after
they had crossed the Red Sea and they
saw God part the Red Sea and they walked
through the midst of the Red Sea and
then the sea came upon the Egyptians and
destroyed the mightiest nation on the
face of the earth at that time three
days after this great miracle the people
started they were thirsty they didn’t
see how they were going to get water out
in the desert and they begin to start
complaining that God brought us out here
into the desert so that he could kill us
and he it would have been better for us
to die in Egypt and they begin to gripe
and complain three days after one of the
mightiest miracles that the world has
ever experienced that’s just amazing but
you know what it wasn’t just that group
of people there are many of us that do
the same thing God has saved you God has
delivered
you from problems God has saved some of
your marriage that God has healed you of
miraculous things there’s been wonderful
things happen and yet the next problem
that comes up we act like we don’t have
any history with the Lord any
remembrance about what has happened and
we just go back to being discouraged and
depressed and you know God did this but
can’t he do this well I tell you that’s
just it the same thing as being acted
out over and over again today so back to
Psalm 78 verse 40 it says how often they
provoked him in the wilderness and
grieve him in the desert yay they turned
back and tempted God and limited the
Holy One of Israel and this is a
scripture that God it just exploded on
the inside of me and the Lord spoke to
me and he says Andrew you are limiting
what I can do through you and I’m going
to be giving you a lot of reasons it was
subtle I didn’t recognize it if you
would have asked me say two months prior
to when the Lord spoke to me this truth
in January the 31st 2002 if you would
have asked me back in November of
December of 2001 are you limiting God
are you believing God I would have said
certainly I am because we had nearly
doubled in two years we were seeing
growth we were setting records and you
know what many people would have thought
boy you are really going for it and yet
there were things in my heart that we’re
limiting what God could do with me and
the Lord’s been speaking to me in just
the last few months that even though
I’ve come to a new level you know he
wants to take me higher there’s more it
doesn’t matter who you are there’s more
God has more for you I just really feel
that in my heart that God is speaking
through me to some of you who it’s not
like you are just totally running away
from God you didn’t believe God to a
degree and you are seeing some good
things happen but I just feel like the
Lord is saying that there’s more that
God wants all of us to come up to a new
level and this is what the Lord was
speaking to me and he said that you have
limited the Holy One of Israel that’s
talk that’s the terminology Old
Testament terminology that are referring
to the Messiah to Jesus Christ they were
limiting
God could do you know in their instance
it’s very obvious the Lord wanted them
to enter into the promised land and to
conquer all of the parasites and the
Canaanites and all of the other i’ts and
he wanted them to occupy that land and
he was bringing them into this land that
flowed with milk and honey he had this
wonderful promise for them to wear I
mean it was just they brought back a
sample of the grapes and they took one
cluster of grapes and he was so huge
that they had to put it on a pole and
carry it in between two men you know we
can’t even relate to that this was just
it was I mean it was a supernaturally
blessed land God wanted his people to
enter into there but they limited him by
their disbelief they wouldn’t do it they
rebelled the spies went out and brought
back this negative report about how that
there were giants in the land and
because of this it calls fear and
unbelief in the people and the people
because of their unbelief stopped the
goodness that God had planned for them
from coming to pass and because of that
they had to wander in a wilderness for
40 years that was not God’s will they
had scorpions they had snakes they had
plagues among the people there were all
of these things that happened to them
and it wasn’t God’s will and I’m going
to expand on this a lot during this week
and make some points here but there are
some of you watching this program that
your life is in a mess I mean it just
seems like relationships have fallen
apart
you can’t prosper the way that you
believe that you’re supposed to prosper
financially emotionally physically in
just every area of your life it seems
like you’re in a wilderness like you’re
in a desert like nothing is working and
some of you are saying but God why are
you doing this to me
God is not the author of that God has a
perfect plan for you and if you aren’t
living in abundance and victory now
again I’m not saying victory without a
fight we live in a fallen world and
there are going to be opportunities for
us to fight but I’m saying if you aren’t
winning in this fight if you are being
defeated if you’re discouraged
it is not God
who caused this to happen just like the
Israelites God planned for them to enter
into this promised land but they
rebelled at him they limited God’s
goodness through their unbelief and I’m
telling you that if you are being
overcome by your problems if you aren’t
winning over them if you aren’t
victorious it is not God’s will that you
be in this wilderness it’s not God’s
will you have limited God and I know
that some people take what I’m saying
right here and you think well boy you’re
putting the blame on me and you’re
condemning me I’m not condemning I’m
trying to enlighten and let us recognize
that God’s not our problem
God doesn’t just control us God doesn’t
sovereignly control what is going to
happen to you God does it has not ever
ordained than any person be a dud that
any person just be a loser God’s plans
for you are good Jeremiah chapter 29
verse 11 says I know the thoughts that I
think toward you says the Lord thoughts
of peace and not of evil to give you an
expected in other translations will say
a hope and a future
and there’s many different ways of
phrasing that but I like the King James
when it says and expected in in other
words you can discover God’s will and
God has a plan for you that I guarantee
you is victorious and you can anticipate
victory instead of defeat instead of
just rolling the dice and saying que
sera sera whatever will be will be in
wonder what’s going to happen you can
know what the outcome is going to be
because God Almighty has a perfect plan
a good plan for your life God hasn’t
ordained any of us to be failures if you
are seeing failure in your life in your
relationships and your finances in your
health I’m telling you it’s not God who
ordained that some way we have limited
God and just as I’m giving my personal
testimony 2002 I was seeking God I loved
God I was serving God and there were
good things happening and yet there were
things going on on the inside of me that
I wasn’t even aware of until God spoke
to me and start
revealing it it wasn’t intentional it
wasn’t rebellious
that I was limiting God of course there
are people who just intentionally rebel
at God and are going against God and of
course that’s going to limit God but I’m
saying that this doesn’t mean that
necessarily you are just antagonistic or
are rebellious towards God but I’m
telling you that if you aren’t seeing
victory in your life if you aren’t
living a life that when you wake up
every day you are just so excited
because God is good god and your life is
blessed and I’m telling you I believe
you’re limiting God God’s plan for your
life are awesome and you ought to be
just experiencing a wonderful life that
is what God intends for us to live and
so I’m beginning to share with you some
things that God told me but I’m going to
make direct application to you and I
believe that this is going to be an
encouragement to you and I help to you
to take the limits off of God and as you
do this if it impacts your life half as
much as this has changed my life I
guarantee you it’s going to be awesome
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truth this really is a concept that just
goes contrary to I would estimate
probably fifty percent or more of the
body of Christ around the world doesn’t
even believe that it’s possible to limit
God they may not put in that terminology
but most people really believe that God
is sovereign and that God does whatever
he wants to and everything plays out
exactly the way that God wants it
nothing can happen but what it’s God’s
will that’s probably one of the most
dominant doctrines in the body of Christ
and that is completely against this
scripture and all of these other
scriptures