Doubt has us waver in our thoughts and decisions, but self-doubt causes us to question that something good can happen for others, but can it happen for us. Joyce explores what self-doubt looks like in life and how with big faith we can approach God and not second guess His blessings for us again.
the word doubt defined in the greek
dictionary which was the original
language this was taught in
means to be without a way
which we’re never without a way because
jesus is the way
so when you hear that phrase no way
there’s just no way
there’s no way this is going to work
that’s a good time to open your mouth
and say jesus is the way
so there is a way i may not know what it
is but he does
to be without resources
and this next part of this definition to
be honest i had to think this one over
for a while i actually had to
finally pray and just say god what
what’s with that
part of the part of the definition of
the word
to doubt means
to be embarrassed
and you know what i think that refers to
i think
that’s some of the reason why we waver
back and forth
and we we think well
yeah this i’m going to do this well no
i’m not going to do this but yeah i’m
going to do this well no i’m not going
to do this
i think that there’s a part of us that’s
very concerned that if we’re wrong and
god doesn’t come through that we’re
going to be embarrassed
when we have to face up to other people
that it didn’t happen in our life
and i don’t think we have to be like
that
to be in doubt to be perplexed to be at
a loss
doubt also means to stand in two ways or
to have everything just all up in the
air
and when you’ve got a relationship with
god things are not ever are always just
up in the air now let’s talk about
self-doubt
first of all the bible says in ephesians
3 12 one of my favorite scriptures that
because of our faith in jesus
we now can dare
everybody say dare
that that word is used a lot it’s used
in ephesians 3 20
that god is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above and beyond all that we
could ever dare
to hope ask or think
and god doesn’t want you to have little
faith
he wants you to have big faith
and he wants you to ask him for and
believe for things that your mind cannot
get in agreement with
come on
i mean i one one day i was praying many
years ago and i felt like i was supposed
to pray this prayer that sounded really
stupid to me
but i i was going to be daring and so i
prayed god
i pray that
the time will come when you will let me
help every person on the planet
now
you know the very next thing i heard
from the devil was who do you think you
are
see if you really step out in faith
and you get daring and bold in your
faith the enemy is going to right away
tell you who do you think that you are
and then he’s going to start reminding
you of everything that you do wrong
well you know what i i don’t think we’ve
got the whole planet yet but we’re
making good progress amen
and
you know i would rather believe for a
lot and get some of it than believe for
a little and get all of it
so why not go ahead and just be daring
we dare to have the boldness the courage
and the confidence of free access i love
what the amplified bible says an
unreserved approach to god
a woman that was waiting on me in a
store one time
her and i got to talk and i found out
she was a christian and
i just asked her some questions you know
i think sometimes even in the
conversations we have with people and
the questions we ask people we don’t
even know what we’re being led by the
spirit
because the questions that i asked her
led into her telling me something
that i was then able to
help her with that i believe may have
been life-changing for her
so i was asking her about
the store i said do you guys work on
commission she said no we don’t work on
commission we’re salaried but she said
we do have quotas that we have to meet
and if you don’t meet the quotas then
you can lose your job
and
so she said you know when
when we don’t have many customers it can
get really tough and i said well do you
pray
and ask god
to send you customers do you pray and
ask god to give you favor with the
people that are in the store so even
though they don’t understand why they
would really prefer that you wait on
them rather than somebody else
and that woman looked at me like
a deer looking at headlights
i mean and she had been a christian
for 30 some odd plus years
but she was not
part of a church
that taught her to be bold and
aggressive in her faith so she looked at
me and she said well
would it be okay to ask god for
something like that
i said you can ask god for anything you
want
the worst thing that can happen is you
won’t get it
amen
now see if i needed customers to meet my
quota
because of what i’ve been taught it
would never occur to me not to ask god
to give me favor and send them to me
why should i stand around let some
unbeliever have them when i’m believing
god get them over here to me god
make me look good
are you with me
but see we’re not going to do that
if we look at ourselves
and think because of our mistakes we
dare not
expect god to do those kinds of things
for us
are you with me tonight
are you getting anything out of this
a little bit
no no hold on okay
now
i mean listen i know
that i know that i know
what faith can do
because i can tell you and i mean this
sincerely
it’s not like a put down i am so not
qualified to do what i’m doing
i mean i just am not
and i had a lot of people that were very
happy to tell me that
but the whole thing is is whatever
you’re not
god is
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and i love in the book of joshua when
god called joshua to take moses’s place
which that must have been scary
he said to him i will be with you as i
was with moses
he didn’t say go be like moses
he said i will be with you as i was with
moses moses had weaknesses that god
filled up
joshua had weaknesses that god filled up
i i was the least likely person for god
to ask to do this but somewhere somehow
god gave me that gift of faith to just
i couldn’t even tell you why i believed
it but i just believed it and i couldn’t
let it go
and so here we are today
amen
from 25 people in my living room floor
for five
years
to having the privilege of doing what
i’m doing today
i want to encourage you to stop doubting
yourself
because god doesn’t do great things for
you because you’re great
he does them because he’s great and it
shows his greatness more when he does
them through people that the world would
think really
i like people to look and say well that
has to be god
because we certainly know you
come on
what kind of a good testimony would it
be for that woman if she had all these
customers and people are saying well
what do you
how does that happen and then she gets
an opportunity to say well i pray
you should try it
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