Most failure comes, not from a lack of talent or opportunity, but from a lack of determination. Babe Ruth said, “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” And just like Rizpah proved in 2 Samuel 2 when she refused to quit, your determination will get the attention of the king. You may be fighting to save a dream, fighting to defeat sickness or fighting to protect your family like Rizpah. What you have to get hold of is determination that says, “None of these things move me.” Even when there’s no fight left in me, I won’t let go!
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connection each week we received
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ministry and we know many of our viewers
are facing difficult circumstances some
of you have health related issues maybe
you have troubles in your marriage some
of you are facing business problems and
many times when God doesn’t move
immediately we think that he’s given up
on us but today dad teaches us that with
faith and determination you can see God
move your mountain
I want you to go with me to the book of
Acts chapter 20 he says in Acts chapter
20 and verse 22 and see now I go bound
in the spirit to Jerusalem not knowing
the things that will happen to me there
except the Holy Spirit testifies in
every city that chains and tribulations
await me verse 20 for this is so
powerful but none of these things move
me
I know Chains and tribulation and
suffering is waiting for me where I’m
headed but none of these things move me
nor do I count my life dear to myself so
that I may finish my race with joy in
the ministry which I have received from
the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel
of the grace of God I’m going to finish
my race with joy none of these things
move me these are the words of a man who
was determined to do what God had called
him to do Webster defines the word
determination as being to reach a
decision about something to have one’s
mind made up to become unwavering in
one’s actions listen and attitudes I am
I have determined I have determination
I will not waver in my actions or my
attitude desperation produces desire
desire produces determination and
determination produces your destiny
I think of rispa one of the concubines
of king psalm and how that she had us
chopped to two sons that were hanged by
the gibbehhh’ nights and she spread a
call on a rock for three months she
lived there and she beat the
cackles she kicked the jackals away and
beat the beat the fowl of the air off of
the corpses of her children and they
were dead but she was so determined to
save her family and her sons were dead
if she was that determined to kick the
jackals and beat the fowl off of her
dead children how much more should we be
determined to see all of our children
saved and free and in the plan and
purpose of God
she had a determination about her family
and she held to it and the word reached
the king please understand if you’re
full of determination you can get the
attention of the king it is
determination that reaches the attention
of the king when you have the spirit
that is determined to live for God
determined to do what God has called you
to do and even though you’re facing
things and going through things you
don’t waver your determination is said
this is a powerful thing most men fail
not because of lack of opportunity not
because of lack of education or lack of
talent but because of lack of
determination Napoleon said
determination makes you invisible
invincible he said that determination
meaning trying and trying and trying and
trying again and again and again and
again makes you uncomfortable
Babe Ruth the famous baseball player
said it is impossible to defeat someone
who refuses to quit that’s why you pray
one more time that’s why you dream one
more time that’s why you try one more
time that’s why you ask one more time
Ludwig Beethoven was 5 years of age when
he played the violin masterfully by the
age of 13
this prodigy in music was an
accomplished pianist by the age of 20 he
had studied under Mozart and Haydn he
had written nine symphonies and many
musical music chamber music at the age
of 20 he began losing his hearing by the
age 50
he was completely stoned death he could
hear nothing and he was determined to
get the music out that was in him even
though he was totally deaf and what he
did was he solved the legs of his piano
off and laid the piano on the floor and
laid on the floor with it so he could
feel the vibration of his music and
wrote his greatest symphonies when he
was stoned death through sheer
determination one day they heard him
pounding with his fists and aggravation
and frustration on the keyboard and he
screamed out these words I will take
life by the throat I will not let life
defeat me I will win so it is in our
lives when we face all kinds of
struggles and all kinds of challenges
but you have to understand that you only
get strength in struggle you only get
advance from adversity and you change
the level of your determination when you
hit rough times and if you don’t change
the level of your determination then you
will give up and walk away from what God
intended you to have you have to at
times take life by the throat I will
I’ll take this sickness that has come by
the throat I’ll take this challenge
against my family by the throat we need
to quit whining and feeling sorry for
ourselves and having pity parties and we
need to stir up something in us called a
divine determination that says I take
life by the throat whatever comes at me
none of these things move me I’m going
to do what God said I could do David
lost his family lost his home lost his
resources at a place called Zen glad and
he went and said God what shall I do and
God said pursue pursue the supernatural
pursue restoration pursue them
Occulus if God tells you to go after
it’s because he plans on you getting it
he doesn’t tell you to go after and
pursue if he doesn’t plan on you making
it so he can just tease you with failure
God has told some of you to pursue a
dream to pursue deliverance for your
children to pursue a breakthrough in
your life to pursue things that are that
are greater than your even thinking
you’re capable of doing and the word of
the Lord to you is pursue the miraculous
pursue the supernatural pursue and you
shall doubtless God said recover it all
the Bible said when he got and pursued
and found the enemy they were having a
party with his stuff they were drinking
and playing and having a party having a
big party with all of the stuff they had
stolen from him you know the enemy
doesn’t care as long as you play Church
that doesn’t scare the devil he has a
party but when you decide to pursue when
you get determined and you say I’m going
to take life by the throat this attack
against me and my family my business I’m
not going to just lay here and take it I
am determined that none of these things
move me I know God said I’m going to do
some things and I’m going to do it
that’s what it takes it takes that kind
of divine determination
Jacob had that determination the Bible
said that he wanted a blessing he wasn’t
in line for he wasn’t the most qualified
he wasn’t the most talented he was not
the most good best looking but he was
the most determined and he wrestled
listen to this determination he wrestled
with an angel until the breaking of the
day and as soon as he started wrestling
with the angel the Bible said the angel
at the beginning of the wrestling match
reached over and touched the hollow of
his thigh that is the socket where your
leg and your hip bone connect and he
disconnected his leg from his hip bone
can you imagine the pain and that’s
where most of us quit and give up but
the thing that I want you to see about
Jacob is he
wrestled in his pain the rest of the
night he was so determined that he went
from fighting to clinging when he
couldn’t fight anymore
he cleaned hold of that angel and
wouldn’t let him go in the Angels get
off on me freak what’s wrong with you
and finally that the angel looks at him
and says will you relax a little bit I
hurt you I thought you would quit when
it got painful but I believe you’re
clinging if you will go from fighting to
clinging he said I will not let you go
until I get blessed that’s what it takes
you better listen to me teenager
life ain’t gonna give you anything
people aren’t gonna do anything for you
but if you have a determination you may
not be the sharpest knife in the drawer
you may not have what everybody else has
going for but if you have a
determination you’ll get it and you’ll
bring it home and you’ll stand in it and
you’ll say look what the Lord has done
none of these things move me his legs
out of socket but he’s determined to be
blessed he’s hanging on I’m in pain but
I’m hanging on I’m suffering I’m
frustrated but I’m hanging on this is
how you do it life doesn’t give any free
cards to anybody you got resistance you
got adversity you got problems coming at
you you need a new level of
determination that comes only from
grabbing hold of Jesus and clinging to
it and saying I won’t let you go until
you bless me failure shall not overtake
you as long as you’re determined to
succeed the Book of Jeremiah is a
picture of divine determination the clay
was marred in the Potters hand but God
is determined to finish what he started
in your life he’s determined to bring
out of your pain and out of your out of
your out of your sin and out of you
background and out of your mess he’s
determined to bring a vessel of Honor
and he will not give up on you and you
may get smashed down and you may have to
go back on the wheel and it may feel
like your life is going around in
circles and you’re not getting anywhere
but I promise you you have a God who has
divine determination and he’s gonna
finish what he started in the story of
the unjust judge in Luke chapter 18 the
woman who kept coming and the Bible said
she came continually and the unjust
judge said I’m not going to give you
what you want but she said over and over
and over avenge me of my adversary
avenge me of my adversary she had a
determination and finally the judge said
I’m telling you that normally I wouldn’t
do this but this woman because of her
continual coming she’s so determined
she’s gonna make me go on Prozac if I
can’t get her to leave me alone so give
her what she wants I’m saying to you
that our God is not the unjust judge and
he’s not holding back and he’s not
stingy with his blessings he just wants
somebody to get determined enough to
push through the headwinds and say god I
know you can bless somebody like me use
somebody like me open opportunities for
somebody like me I’m yours
I love Caleb the Bible said that came up
in Joshua when when they were ready that
possessed the promised land Moses sent
them in with ten spies and they came
back with a good report saying we’re
well able to take the land but 10 of the
spies said there’s Giants there we can’t
do it
I’m going to tell you what had to be
frustration is they missed the Promised
Land for the next 40 years they’re
marching in circles in the desert on a
death march because God said I’ll let
that whole generation die out and I’ll
let a new generation be born out in the
wilderness and they will in half
what you could have had because you were
not determined to do what I told you to
do and every day for 40 years I can see
Caleb walking in the Death March and one
dies and another dies and another dies
two and a half million over 40 years
died out and finally the last one dies
and now he was 40 when he started but
are 45 now he’s now he’s 85 years old
and the Bible said Caleb crosses over
the Jordan with the children of Israel
and Joshua and Joshua was handing out
real estate and property and inheritance
to different tribes and families and up
steps an old man with a cane in his hand
he says give me this mountain 40 years
ago I saw a mountain my eyes saw it and
all these years I’ve been determined
while I was March and I’m gonna get that
mountain I’m gonna get that mountain I
watched all these people die out and I
am more determined to have it now and he
said now there’s Giants on that mountain
he said if those Christians couldn’t
keep me from my blessing for 40 years of
wilderness marching in a death march
there’s no way a Giants going to stop me
give me my mountain and you know what he
got it he got it somebody needs to cry
out today give me my Mountain give me my
Mountain I don’t care how much time has
elapsed I don’t care how long it’s been
you if you quit and you give up then
that’s what you will have but there
comes a time when you have to go to
another level in your determination that
when life hits you you stand up and you
say give me this mountain give me this
mountain the syrophoenician woman cried
after them the disciple said send her
away she crieth after us she said my
daughter is sick I need a healing and
they said go away and she bypassed them
and went to Jesus and even jesus said to
her a powerful statement you’re in the
wrong dispensation the blessing the
bread
is-is-is for the israelites you you
don’t understand healing is the
children’s bread the Bible said that she
said yes Lord listen to this
determination but even the dogs lick up
the crumbs under the table I could
almost hear Jesus look at her and say oh
my who let the dogs out something’s
about to change the kingdom is going to
the dogs the big shots are sitting
around and they’re not asking for
anything but here’s a woman willing to
crawl under the table she’s got such
determination that she says if I can
just get a crumb if I can just I don’t
have to have the whole loaf just give me
a crumb and I know it’ll be enough to do
what I need
she received a long-distance miracle for
her child your children may not be here
but while you’re in this room right now
if your faith can go to another level of
determination you can send a
long-distance miracle to your child
wherever your child is they may be a
million miles away from God but that
doesn’t mean the Holy Spirit can’t walk
into the bedroom into the bar into
wherever they are and set them free
you can get a long-distance miracle her
son her daughter was a long ways away
but Jesus said o woman great is thy
faith be it unto you even as you have
said God healed her daughter that very
moment her determination listened
received a declaration o woman great is
thy faith be it unto thee Churchill said
success is the ability to go from one
failure to another without losing
enthusiasm Edison said I have not failed
I learned 10,000 ways that don’t work
we are not to let setback steal our
determination to live for God try one
more time get up one more time be
determined boy I I just marvel at how
quick we fold and how easy people break
down and abandon their dreams because
they were rejected or they didn’t make
the team or they didn’t get the
scholarship or this didn’t happen or
they got fired or something happened
that really messed them up and they just
throw in the towel so quick you have no
idea what it takes to be what God has
called you to be we’ll have to have a
steel like determination in your soul
that looks at life and takes it by the
throat and says I’m not a victim I’m not
somebody that just has to have a pity
party all the time but I’m taking this
thing by the throat
choke it he was crippled and totally
paralyzed from his waist down then he
became the President of the United
States FDR at 19 months she was deaf
dumb and blind from a disease but she
did not let it stop her Helen Keller
he was so severely burned that doctor
said he would never walk but in 1934 a
new world record was set in running by
Glenn Cunningham they were born black in
a racist society Booker T Washington
Martin Luther King jr. they had a
determination to do what God had called
them to do his parents survived the
Holocaust he was born paralysed from his
waist down but he became the world’s
greatest violin played player he saw
Perlman they told him that he was slow
and somewhat his name was
Albert Einstein don’t you let the devil
in the world tell you you can’t make it
and you can’t do it
none of these things move me none of
these things move me you don’t have to
be pretty you don’t have to be the
smartest you don’t have to be the
talented that one you don’t have to be
the most gifted one but you do have to
have a determination that when you get
knocked down you get back up and you go
right back at it and your grab life by
the throat and you say none of these
things move me I will get my family to
heaven I will do what God has called me
to do I will see that bless I will be
blessed like Jacob like the
syrophoenician woman I will get the
crumbs under the table because all it
takes is determination I wish somebody’d
let the dogs out at free chapel I think
God’s so sick and tired of people who
don’t want anything who come to church
bless me if you want to bless me I
really don’t care I don’t really need
you know why you don’t need anything cuz
you’re living less than what God when
you’re really living where God wants you
to live you have to get up every day and
pray God I need you today lord have
mercy where am I gonna get the money
lord I need you that’s a sign you’re
walking by faith I’m determined anybody
determined I’m gonna tell you something
when you get determined to live for
Jesus no temptation can take you out
no devil can take you out peer pressure
can’t take you when you determine you
can live it on a college campus when
you’re determined you can live it in the
middle of hail when you’re determined
you can be the only one in your family
that ever lives for Jesus but when
you’re determined you can do it
none of these things none of these
things move me hallelujah clap your
hands and praise God
come on shout I am determined shout I
will not quit I will not give up I will
not back up I will not throw in the town
there’s no quit in me I am determined
say it none of these things none of
these things all these setbacks none of
them none of these things move me now
isn’t the time to give up on your dreams
now is the time to say none of these
things move me if today’s message has
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