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Wow hi y’all the privileged to have an
opportunity to be with you from Dallas
my family and I love love love this
incredible church and we love this
gathering of women together I am so
blessed and encouraged and stirred and
challenged about what it is that Miss
Debbie just shared with us because she
basically gave us a different vantage
point with which to look at our trials
but it doesn’t mean that after this
conference is over we’ll all be out of
our trials it means that even while
we’re yet in them we can look at them
differently and we can be different
while we’re in them I was thinking about
this while she was what pastor Debbie
was speaking I was thinking about the
fact that my three boys I think they do
travel together with me a lot we hang
out together a lot and when they come on
ministry trips with me I’ll be honest
with you and telling you that the last
thing they are really concerned about at
this stage in their lives is ministry
what they want to know is does the hotel
have a pool so they want to know they
love swimming it’s their thing and so I
remember a couple of summers ago they
were swimming my little one had just
learned really how to be under the water
for an extended period of time so they
were really all enjoying being under the
water all three of them being able to
swim and I noticed that their eyes were
closed while they were under the water
and and so what my husband said to them
hey guys you know me give you some
goggles so you can feel comfortable
opening your eyes up ER or seeing
underwater so you can see underwater and
so we gave them these goggles that we
bought on sale at the local Super
Walmart down the street anybody believe
in the power of Walmart can somebody say
Amen but we gave them this gave them
these goggles they put the goggles on
they went under the water they were
swimming under the water and one of them
came back up and said I
really still can’t see my husband looked
at him and said did you open your eyes
my son said oh he went back down under
the water this time eyes open came up
and said I can see I can see it wasn’t
that he couldn’t have seen underwater
before he had exactly what you need he
was fitted with the right equipment to
be able to see he just had to open up
his eyes pastor Debbie just helped us
open up her eyes each and every one of
us that have placed faith in Jesus
Christ we have been given the equipment
you have got the power of the Holy Ghost
living on the inside of you and when you
are in over your head when you are in
deep waters when the trials and troubles
of life come your way my friend all you
have to do now is activate the equipment
that you’ve been given just open up your
eyes and you’ll be able to see it all
from a different vantage point in a
different perspective which is why I
could not wait to get up here because I
wanted to share with any of you and that
is all of us who are in trials in our
life by the way every single one of you
under the sound of my voice are in one
of three places you need to know that
even if you’re not in a trial right now
first of all we would like to tell you
we are happy for you but every single
one of us is one of three places you’re
either right smack dab in the middle of
a trial on your way into one on your way
out of one because the nature of the
world in which we live Jesus said John
16:33 in this world you will have
trouble you don’t have to go looking for
it just keep living and the trouble will
come and find you can I get one witness
snows on him Joseph but in the midst of
that we can believe in the truth that is
told to us in two of my favorite verses
in all of Scripture I was sitting there
listening to pastor Debbie still mulling
over in my mind what I might share with
you and as she started talking I knew
for sure that I wanted to encourage you
with these two verses from Ephesians
chapter 3 verse 20 and 21
now unto Him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
all that you can ask or even think
according to the power that works within
us to help be the glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus throughout all
generations forever and ever
somebody ought to say amen to that
that’s so good I think I’m gonna read it
again now unto Him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
all that you can ask or even think
according to the power Holy Spirit that
is at work on the inside of all of you
to that Great God be the glory
from generation to generation in the
church and in Christ Jesus both now and
forever somebody ought to say amen to
that
that means there is no trouble that you
are facing there is no difficulty that
you’re in there is no pit you have done
for yourself there is no situation or
issue or drama that is currently
unfolding at any of our lives the hips
power is not greater still
you may feel overwhelmed what you need
to know that your God does not I love
these two verses so much they are a
doxology a doxology means basically an
outpouring of praise and worship to God
this is one of the pinnacles of all of
Paul’s writing Paul the Apostle that
gave us the majority of the Old
Testament scholars say that of all Poe
gave us really it seasons is the creme
de la creme of all of his writings and
of all that he gave us in the book of
Ephesians where he talks about the
lavishness of God’s grace toward us and
all that we have inherited at daughters
of the Most High King they say of all
the beautiful language that he gives us
in the
he gives us any visions really the
cherry on top of the cake is this
doxology this outburst of praise and
worship to God and here’s the thing
y’all when he wrote the book of
Ephesians he was in prison he was
basically on Roman house arrest he is in
a situation he does not particularly
care to be in he is in a trial and right
there in the midst of the trial he has
an outburst of praise and worship to God
two verses a doxology where he extolled
and worshipped just like you did just a
few moments ago some of you stood you
beaten you said I’m just like Paul I’m
in the middle of a trial but in the
middle of your trial you get exactly
what Paul did pastor Debbie had a stand
up and worship God anyway it’s one thing
to have about solid you while you’re not
in a trial it’s a whole nother thing
capture God’s attention in a whole
nother way when you are in a trial and
yet you choose to have an outburst of
praise and worship to our great amazing
God that’s what Paul did he gave us this
doxology kind of seems like he’s off
track a little bit he’s been talking
about so many other things in the book
of Ephesians and all of a sudden out of
nowhere he seems to just kind of start
talking about how great God is about his
amazing power and he can barely find the
right word did you notice that it’s like
he keeps just piling more big words on
top of more big words on top of other
big words because he can’t seem to find
the exact right word that he wants to
use he builds a huge picture for us
about how great and grand and amazing
and magnificent the power of God is to
every single one of us in our lives I
want to walk with you through these
verses because if you can walk out of
here and if I can walk out of here
seeing with our eyes open seeing our our
trials and tribulations with a brand new
perspective it will literally change all
of our lives I want you to look at these
verses like a pyramid
except the pyramid is turned upside down
so you’ve got the smallest layer on the
bottom then another that builds the
foundation for another and then another
and then another this is how Paul gives
us these verses the very beginning he
saw just a little nugget and then that
little nugget lays the foundation for
the next and then the next and then the
next until he has built for us a
monstrosity about the greatness of God
we’re going to take that journey right
up that pyramid I want you to see the
progression the journey that Paul takes
us on in these two verses he says now
now unto Him now unto Him who is able to
do it now unto him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
now unto him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
all that you can ask and if you can’t
ask you because your brain can’t even
figure out the right words to verbalize
what you’re trying to ask
he says that’s all right just think it
and I can do pass back
now unto him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
all that you can ask or think according
to some power that’s supposed to be
working on the inside of you now unto
Him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above and beyond all that you
can ask or think according to the power
that’s supposed to be working on the
inside of you
to him be the glory in the church that’s
us and in Christ Jesus both now and
forever somebody say Amen all right
we’re going to take every single one of
these steps together are you guys with
me the very first step in the
progression through these two verses
that are going to change our perspective
the way that we look at our trials just
like pastor Debbie described to us a few
moments ago the very first step seems
like the most significant but it really
is the hinge on what’s the rest of it
turned and it hears the word now
somebody say now Paul says I want you to
start thinking about the greatness and
the power and the amazing ability that
God has toward you that he wants you to
experience in your regular everyday
living as a single woman as a wife as a
mother of a person working in corporate
America as a person working in full-time
ministry as a volunteer as a parent at
the school as a teacher as an accountant
as a lawyer he said I want you to start
thinking about God’s power and I don’t
want you to have thought about it
yesterday we’re not talking about
yesterday he said I don’t even want you
to think about it in your tomorrows he
says there is a time to consider how
great God’s power is for you and that
time is when he wants you to think about
it right now while you’re sitting in
this room while you’re at this
conference exactly what the Lord has
allowed to happen in your life in the
days leading up to this conference he
says now is
time for you to make a connection
between what’s happening in your life
and how God wants to express his power
to you in that specific situation
yo this is important because if you’re
anything like me sometimes there is a
disconnect between my reality and my
relationship with God sometimes I forget
that the stuff I’m learning on Sunday is
supposed to apply to Monday sometimes I
forget that all the stuff I gathered
from the Women’s Conference that the
encouragement that I gleaned that the
Word of God that was spoken over me that
the fear that was prayed out of me that
the salvation that I received when I
came down the altar sometimes I forget
that this is not supposed to be
compartmentalized in some little corner
of my life saved for a rainy day but he
wants to be involved on my Monday and
then at work on my Tuesday and then at
home on my Wednesday and then while I’m
trying to figure out another way to cook
chicken on my Thursday and then on my
Friday and on running errands on my
Saturday that this is supposed to apply
to my right now Paul says would you
please make the connection a woman came
and stood up on this platform at the end
of the evening a woman to happen to have
a little car accident and then that car
accident led to there being an extra
ticket that was so graciously given by
the woman who got hit in the other car
and so she gives her a ticket and jams
up here last night and she comes forward
to accept Jesus Christ as her Savior
Paul says would you know that what
happened to you yesterday means
everything in your today that it’s
connected that I planned it or I allowed
it but I fully intend as pastor Debbie
said to walk with you through it but the
only reason why I allow circumstances in
your life is because sometimes when we
are flat on our back that’s the only
time we ever take a breath and look up
and see him for who he really is
and so no all the circumstances of our
lives
obviously they are not good a car wreck
not good
but somehow he works all things together
for our good my mom my mom is a master
chef actually she’s not she’s not she’s
just my mom and she’s a really good cook
and you know there’s just no cooking
like your mama’s cooking right I admire
my mother so much for many reasons one
of them is that you know she’s a great
cook and I remember on Sundays when I
was growing up y’all there was none of
this go out to eat dinner business after
church on Sunday that was like a treat
but I grew up in the kind of house where
you ate at home on Sunday does anybody
know what I’m talking about like that
was the best meal of the whole week my
mom started started planning for it on
Saturday sometimes she was cooking like
the roast all night on Saturday and we
would just smell it all night then the
yeast rolls would be rising and you know
she might do a couple dishes the night
before so she didn’t have to worry about
it all that you know all this home cook
stuff I mean we would smell all night we
would wake up we hadn’t even been to
church yet we were already ready for
Sunday dinner we were just hungry
I remember that we would have this huge
wonderful dinner on Sunday and now as a
mother of three I know how much work
that was I appreciate it even more I
still even can’t figure it out honestly
I cannot figure out how was one oven
because I only have one other my mom had
one oven I cannot figure out for the
life of me how you get all that stuff on
the table hot at the same time I can not
figure it out for the life of me so I
appreciate her now even more and now I
also understand why on Monday and
Tuesday she didn’t cook nothing
too much work but what she did do was
going to the refrigerator and she would
see what was left over so she’d have a
little leftover chicken leftover
macaroni little leftover broccoli
whatever she pull it all out she’d start
chopping and dice and put everything
together stir it all up pour a little
cream of mushroom soup in there cuz you
know that makes everything better right
she’s stir that in there and then she’d
sprinkled some grated cheese on top you
know put it in the oven for about an
hour or so maybe less at 350 degrees and
she would bake it she’d stand there and
just the right time she’d pull it out
she’d set it on the table and she’d give
it a French sounding name we thought it
was something brand new and spectacular
but it really wasn’t it was just
leftovers in the hands of a master let
me tell you what God does with your life
he takes this piece and that piece and
and this little leftover piece and the
part you thought would be valuable for
absolutely nothing in this season of
your life that you just wonder why you
even went on that detour in the first
place and he takes all of this stuff and
he chops it and he dices it and he
reconfigures it nice turns the cream of
the Holy Spirit in it and then he
sprinkles a little grace and mercy on
top because grace and mercy make
everything better and then yes he puts
you in the oven of fire and trial for
just a little while but like any good
master chef he’s standing there watching
not to allow you to overcook not for
just even one minute and at just the
right time he pulls you out and listen
to me he gives you a brand new name and
he serves you to a lost in a dying world
that needs to see that he is mmm good so
when you’re in the trial when you’re in
the fire when you find that things are
difficult that you’re having issues that
there is a surprise a something that has
met you in your year that
you were not planning for when you find
that that has happened just know that
the master chef has got his eye on you
and he wants you to know that right now
was the time now is the time that he
wants you to begin to consider don’t
disconnect connect the present tense
mess of God’s ability with your current
circumstances not for yesterday not even
necessarily for tomorrow Paul says today
I want you to think about the fact that
now is the time for you to make the
connection so we said there is a time
and the time is now and if this is the
time for us to do some turning and the
turning is unto you now unto Him because
I’m going to tell you exactly what to do
right now in the middle of your trial
I’m going to tell you he says to divert
your attention to turn it 180 degrees
away from focusing on your trial to
focusing on him he says you’ve got to
turn your attention you have got to
discipline yourself instruct yourself
not to concentrate on and nurse and pay
attention to the issue you’ve got to pay
attention to God here’s the one that
deserve your attention not the problem
and if you’re anything like me you know
how difficult this is because when you
are having a little drama in your life
somebody say drama I love what I’m
speaking to women because if I say drama
everybody in this room knows exactly
what I’m talking about does yes when we
have drama that unfolds in your life if
you’re like me your tendency is to stay
up a few extra minutes or a couple of
hours at night going over the issue that
you are facing or you walk through the
bookstore and it seems like every single
book you’re passing on the Shelf has to
do with your drama and so you pull those
books off and you take them up to the
register to buy them so you can read
more about your drama and then you walk
through the magazine stand and they’re
on the magazine stand every single
feature that is on the cover has to do
with your drama and then dr. oz is
talking about it too and so is
your fill and then you know Oprah’s not
on anymore but she still got that
Network and she’s talking about it –
everywhere you look
you are face to face with your issue so
you give it inadvertently we don’t mean
to but we give it the attention that is
supposed to be given to our God
you know what worship is don’t you
worship is attention and some of us are
worshiping our issue instead of
worshipping God we are giving to the
drama what’s supposed to be reserved
only for our God so we do what miss
Debbie just had us to do not just
corporately with 7,000 other sisters
what we do in our bedroom when we wake
up in the morning and the tears are
about to form in our eye or the sweat is
about to form on our brow we’re just
about to get concerned because we feel
that discouragement welling up on the
inside of us we do the exact same thing
in our bedroom to an audience of one
that we did in this room with 7,000
other sisters we stand up to our feet or
down on our knees or prostrate on the
floor or you lay there still in the bed
sometimes can I tell you that I know
once my feet hit the floor it’s over the
boys are going to know I’m up people are
gonna know I’m up it’s over so sometimes
I lay on that bed and I say Lord today I
present myself a living sacrifice to you
this bed is the altar Lord and I’ll lay
myself upon it and today Lord I fix my
eyes on you Paul says now is the time to
do some turning you gotta turn your
attention unto him Jesus had to do it do
you remember when he went to the cross
y’all he wasn’t particularly fond of
that idea
he didn’t go to the cross looking at the
cross it says that for the joy set
before him he endured the cross he
didn’t endure the cross looking at it he
was looking past it to the joy of
knowing that there would be women
gathered in Springfield in the year 2014
and
there would be an opportunity for them
to have a relationship with the father
through him he looked past the trial to
you and the joy set before him it
allowed him to be able to endure the
challenge that was on his plate to
endure and the same is true of you and I
you know when you’re watching when
you’re watching a movie and there’ll be
something in the foreground you’re
paying attention to this person or this
conversation or this thing that’s
dynamic that’s happening and then all of
a sudden in cinema cinematographer what
they will do sometimes does not
necessarily show you an entirely
different different screen or a
different shot what they will do is
simply blur what was in the foreground
and then all of a sudden something comes
to life in your eyes that have always
been in the background you just didn’t
see it because your perspective had not
been changed positive wasn’t it’s all
about perspective it’s not that the
issue is not there anymore it’s just you
command it to be word in Jesus name and
you look past it to what the joy is that
is set before you now is the time to do
some turning unto him and he says the
reason why you can do this turning is
because of that third step and it’s the
truth and the truth is this he is able
to do it
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I’m giving that one a little time to
sink into the heart of somebody that is
here today and you’re just about at the
end of your rope because you’ve been on
your knees a long time about that one
and you have started to wonder whether
or not it can be done the Holy Spirit
says to you today through this little
simple one phrase in this passage God
can
listen to me whether or not she will is
a question of his sovereignty it is not
a question of his ability believing that
he can that’s our business whether or
not he will that’s his business
pastor Debbie did not come up here on
this platform and say I prayed for
healing and the next time I went to the
doctor the reports that I was free and
clear that’s not what she said she came
up here and even said to us at the end
of the message I’m still walking out my
healing I’m still trusting God with the
completion of my healing so whether or
not he will do exactly what you’re
praying for him for do that’s his
business but believing that he can
putting a stake in the ground and saying
to the enemy who seeks to speak fear and
discouragement over her over over our
lives or like David just encouraging
yourself in the Lord you know sometimes
you got to just encourage yourself you
got to look in the mirror and say you
know what I don’t care what’s going on
sister today you serve a God who’s got
your back he can do it y’all there are
not many things that you can count on
anymore in this world there just aren’t
everything is changing everything around
us change our bank account statements is
going to take are going to change our
job positions or status is going to
change just when you think you know your
husband he goes and changes your kids
you’ve got their schedule figure out
then they grow up one more year and got
to prefigure it out again
everything changes there’s little you
can count on anymore Paul says I want to
give you one thing that third step that
no matter if there’s anything else in
this world you can count on there is one
thing you can take to the bank and that
is that your God can do it
he can do it I’m saying to you that your
God can fix your marriage I’m saying to
the one who has got the diagnosis your
God can turn that diagnosis around I’m
also saying to you that when you get the
diagnosis that your God can come in like
a flood and give you such a anchor of
peace and hope and his presence with you
while he walks you through it he can do
that too
you need to know that your God can lifts
the depression that the addiction that
you’ve been wondering whether or not
you’ll ever be able to be free from that
addiction you have tried everything you
need know to try and you’re wondering
now but even once that you need to know
today the Holy Spirit says to you
through a man that wrote a passage 2000
years ago he wants you to know that your
God can loosen those shackles today he
wants you to know mother that that adult
towels of yours that is breaking your
heart he wants you to know he can bring
that child back home he wants you to
know for the one who is searching for a
job you have not your spouse has not
been able to find a source of income you
need to know that he is the God that can
cause the write resumes across the right
desk at the exact right moment that
there is the exact right position open
he can do it you know need to know that
your God is a God of masterful miracles
that he is pulling off stuff that your
mind cannot even imagine he can do it in
the original language there is one word
that Paul used that is translated is
able to do in our in our English
language that word is Dunamis somebody
say Dunamis I want you to see how much
that sounds like what we’ve derived
later our English word dynamite it’s
almost like we need to be clear on what
kind of power that we are talking about
that it is not some weakling feeble
power it’s not the same power you have
or that the strongest person in your
life has it’s not that kind of power
because even
their power is not able to get you out
of that issue but you need to know that
the power he has is a dynamite power
that in an instant it can completely
change or alter the structure of a thing
in one fell swoop swoop it can
completely alter the molecular structure
of an object it can make and form and
produce and bring about and caused and
restructure and flatten an arrest and
rearrange and accomplish anything in the
blink of an eye that’s the kind of power
that our God has and you need to know
about this universe power y’all that the
way paul used it in the in this
particular verse that the way it’s used
in the sentence implies that it is an
inherent power let me tell you why this
is important because then it tells us
that power is not something god has
power is who he is it means that he does
not have all power in his hand he is the
all-powerful one this is good news
because it means when you see your
girlfriend who got god’s power released
in her life because a miracle came into
her circumstances we don’t have to kind
of quietly internally feel a little
insecure that maybe now that God gave
something his power away there’s a
little bit left left for us we don’t
have to be a little bit jealous or
envious that God gave it away over there
so there might not be enough left for
the 6999 others of us who were left in
the through we don’t have to worry about
that because when he gave the power away
he is now was no less powerful than he
was before he gave it
y’all God is not just how big up he’s
not a big version of us he doesn’t need
a good nap before he can handle all of
us we don’t have the capacity to where
God out all the power that you will have
on need to be dispensed to your life to
live the victorious Christian life that
he has called you or I to live all power
is always available to every single one
of us all
the time and that’s the truth Paul says
you can hang your hat on take it to the
bank he can do it but he doesn’t just do
it he doesn’t just do it in some regular
normal kind of way Mack he does it
exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
he does it big go big or go home that’s
the way he does it he does it beyond
your wildest imagination I wrote down
some different translations of this
segment of the verse the New Living
Translation says he can accomplish
infinitely more than you ask her think
the English standard version says he can
do far more abundantly than you ask her
things
the Amplified Bible says abundantly is
not good enough he can do super
abundantly far over and above infinitely
beyond our highest prayers desires but
hopes or dreams and then the good old
message Bible says God can do anything
you know far more than you could ever
imagine or guess or request in your
wildest dreams any translation you read
it however you slice it the bottom line
is God is able he doesn’t big very
interesting to me because didn’t it
sound like when you when we when we read
those different translations and we hear
them
it sounds like Paul can’t really find
the right words to you
he’s trying I want you to picture him
those 2000 or so years ago as he is
sitting there in a Roman prison and he
is over the parchment paper and he’s
there with his quill and ink and he is
trying to figure out when he gets to
this segment of the birth how do I
describe to
people for generations to come the power
of God and he tries one word that’s not
goodness he writes another word huh that
one doesn’t cut it either
he gives us another I want you to see
the sweat pouring down his brow as he
gets that writer’s block that any writer
always gets when they’re trying to find
the right word or the right combination
of words to correctly describe something
and he tried word combination after word
combination but he can’t quite find the
words that are big enough grand enough
huge enough lavish enough extravagant
enough to really help us to get how
magnanimous the power of God is so he
takes a whole lot of big words and puts
them together when he gets all these
huge Greek words and I will not even
begin to try to describe or to pronounce
for you when he gets them all put
together he stands back looks at them
and realizes that they are still not
doing a good enough job of describing
how great the power of God is that is
available to believers in Jesus Christ
so he does one more thing he takes this
little prefix in the Greek language the
prefix is hyper somebody say hyper hyper
basically means beyond he takes two
hyper and he puts them on as a prefix to
two of those long words hyper basically
means I’m trying to say this but that’s
not good enough so what I really mean is
beyond this hyper means beyond it’s kind
of like how you can extend your elbow or
you could need to go to the hospital
because you hyper extended your elbow
right you can go to the grocery store
you can buy white light bulbs or you
actually can buy hyper white light bulbs
that means they’re like for real light
some of us in the room have active
children
others of us have hyper active children
it means beyond the norm postive I want
you to know that what your God is
capable of doing in your life is not
just what you ask because honestly Paul
said you would be selling yourself short
if God just did what you asked that your
brain can’t even come up with a prayer
request a solution it can’t even devise
something that even touches the fringes
of God’s capability so he says I want
you to know that God does not just do
what you ask he does beyond it and then
just when you thought that God had done
more than you could ask or imagine God
doesn’t just do one level of beyond
remember he put Hyper twice God does
beyond what you would have already
thought was beyond God does way past
your way past
he takes what your brain can’t even
begin to imagine and he does beyond that
and then in his incident glory and
sovereignty and omniscience and
omnipresence looking at the generations
that are to come looking and considering
and strategizing of him entire kingdom
agenda he does beyond the you’re beyond
way past your way past which is why when
we pray yes we make our prayer request
known but let me tell you the smartest
prayer we can ever pray Lord yes here’s
what I want please do it or do something
better
it’s relinquishes our selves to his
sovereignty can I just tell you guys
that one of the things I’m most grateful
for in my life is unanswered prayers
because if God had given me half the
stuff I had begged him for in my life
I’d be in a world of trouble right now
can somebody say Amen I’m so grateful
that in His grace and in His sovereignty
he looked beyond all my begging in
almost two years and all my lord this is
what I really need right now he looked
all of that – what was to come and he
did this what we don’t even know we mean
he does beyond your beyond way past your
way past I want to describe this to you
because when you get a handle on this it
does change the way you pray it causes
you to stop praying some kids meal snack
pack number one McDonald’s kind of
prayers it causes you to take God to the
best steakhouse in town and say Lord I
want to because you know that when
someone has what it required to take
care of it then it changes what you
request mix your prayer life bigger so
God does beyond the beyond way past the
way past if you were when you left here
or when you left home rather you came
here let’s say you have a teenager at
home and you told your teenager before
you left the house listen when I come
home I want your room clean that’s the
expectation that’s the request so when
you go home tomorrow night or Sunday
night whenever you’re going home you go
home and you walk into the house you
haven’t gone to the bedroom yet you just
walk into the house and the smell of
cleaning product is assaulting you on
every side you look over to the kitchen
the kitchen is completely clean and the
dining room is completely clean and the
living room is completely clean the
whole house has been cleaned by your
teenager I’m just saying it could happen
which is talking in hypothetical
situations I’m saying it can happen so
now your teenager did not just do what
you asked they did they did beyond what
you asked
you’re already impressed cup size done
beyond it so you are just smile on your
face you’ve already given him a hug a
big hug yourself excited because they
just did more than what you could have
even thought they would do and so you
walk into your bedroom
and if you walk into your bathroom to
just start unpacking it when you walk
into your bathroom there is a hot bath
that has been drawn for Mama don’t laugh
it’s possible is what I’m saying
possible a hot bath there but no right
there by your sink that’s his mom enjoy
your bath and after you’re finished I’m
going to have a hot meal for you that
I’m going to serve for you in bed
tonight I’m saying it could happen so
now your teenager didn’t just do what
you asked and they didn’t just do beyond
it they did beyond the beyond okay I got
another one for you get another one okay
so Jerry and I live in a fairly rural
part of the dallas-fort Worth area we
like it that way because we got three
boys they need to kind of run around
have room to play outside I love that
kids can still play outside in this day
and age I make I’m one of those mean
mothers that make them stay outside and
I put water bottles outside and then I
lock the door and I look at it through
the window any time they come to me and
say have the nerve to say to me that
they are bored I say oh no you not you
see that tree right there go play with
it you can eat it you can play tag with
it I don’t care what you do with it but
you are not coming in to play video
games today we’re not on my watch not
today so they play outside we like it
that way out in the country behind our
house is a big backyard and then there
is this kind of steep drop-off to a
creek it’s one of the reasons why I
almost didn’t want to buy that little
house it’s a little small house we like
the yard and almost in whereby it comes
in that Creek at the back Jerry said
don’t worry about it we’re just just
like a man don’t worry about it we’re
going to put up this little knee-high
you know chicken wire fence we will tell
them till since they’re little and it
works great we just told them that fence
line you just don’t go past that fence
line we’ve never had a problem 6 years
that we’ve been there they know the
fence line is the expectation if I were
to look outside of my window one day
while I’m washing
dishes and see that one of the boys have
gone down into the creek they’re
standing up on the other side waving at
me now my boy has not just gone to the
expectation he has gone beyond it now on
the other side of the creek there are
tons of trees there’s a neighbor’s house
back there actually my sister lives back
there now and I can’t even see my
sister’s house in the springtime or in
the summer because all the leaves are on
the trees but in the fall in winter when
all those leaves come down you can kind
of get a little view of the house back
there and if my sister called me one day
and said hey are you missing one of the
boys don’t worry about it he’s over here
sitting on my front porch we’re just
having some lemonade well now my boy
it’s not only going to get us thinking
but my boy has not just gone beyond he
had gone beyond the beyond way past what
I already thought was way past ok I got
one more for you one more got a friend
named Maria her husband’s a great
husband but he’s not the most romantic
guy ever just not she said to me last
year she said Priscilla you know what
for my birthday if that man can just get
me like a real good car not one he just
ran through the drugstore a real quick
and picked up but one he read he knew it
means something to me and he writes in
it that would just be what I want that’s
the expectation she said she came home
there on her pillow there was a card and
a box she didn’t even have to know
what’s in the box just by the mere fact
that there is the box he has already
gone beyond the expectation good thing
it didn’t matter what was in the box
because she opened it up and it was an
umbrella
wah-wah but it didn’t matter because he
has gone beyond so she opens up the
sweet card that was a great card and she
she read all the things that were
printed in there and then read all the
things that he wrote right at the bottom
of what he wrote to her he said oh by
the way I hear it rains a lot in Paris
[Applause]
oh I knew y’all would get that one now
he hasn’t just done what she’s asked
he’s done beyond what she would have
thought was already beyond this is what
God does he hears your request then he
takes into consideration stuff that your
brain can’t even imagine and he does
beyond what would have already been your
wildest dream and so we have his
daughters in our trial we trust him as
the God who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above Japan to beyond now
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unto Him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above and beyond according to
our in regards to all that you ask or
think I just got to take a quick second
to tell you about this all business all
that you asked for think we’ve got we’ve
got the truth but he can do it
transcendently above all you ask her
think and it is about the totality all
this power of God that we’re talking
about it’s about the totality everything
that concerns you all of it because when
we start talking about the grandeur and
the greatness of God’s power sometimes
we’re thinking about such big big issues
we forget that he also cares about your
little issues as pastor Debbie said if
if your problem is if your drama is
really not little to you is it never
compare what you’re going through with
somebody else and think well God’s too
busy doing that to be concerned with
what I’m going through he can be cares
about everything that is on your plate
everything that’s in your heart
everything that is on your mind
I’ll close by telling you guys this that
I’m two days ago we were driving
somewhere I had my laptop with me was
doing some work Jerry had his iPad some
other things and cell phone things like
that we as we do we got out of the car
we put our things underneath seats
places where they would not be easily
detected we thought we did a good job we
went and ran our errand came back to the
car to realize someone a couple of days
ago broke into the car took my laptop
took his I pad took whatever was
valuable in the car took everything out
and actually didn’t obviously it’s
unsettling but it didn’t bother us too
much because my husband’s got these
codes he’s locked his computer down so
you got to know the code to be able to
get to all the information our personal
information my computer is the only one
that doesn’t have a code so all of our
family pictures around any manuscripts
they’ve been writing anything it’s just
completely available for anybody to see
everything and my prayer request
yesterday morning at 8:15 was Lord when
you hope that person whoever has got it
could you just help them at the very
least Lord to just logon for Wi-Fi
because see if they connect to Wi-Fi my
husband’s got it set up that immediately
the Apple people somewhere will lock the
computer down so that now the folks
can’t get into all of our personal stuff
that was my request lord I just need him
to log on just need him to want to get
on Wi-Fi so that at least all of my
personal information isn’t exposed gosh
I feel so much better about that I
prayed with the girls in our office
drove back home after praying I walked
in the door into the kitchen Jerry said
oh I just got an alert computer’s been
locked down while you were praying about
it God was already up to doing it
[Applause]
and y’all in that moment can I tell you
what I thought I thought I should have
praise bigger so my next prayer was Lord
you know that little message that came
up that when it’s lockdown that message
comes up this of hey this computer’s
been stolen here’s here’s a phone number
you can call to return it my next prayer
with Lord would you forgive me for
praying so small I’m praying but that
person that stole it will have a change
of heart call the number and return it
because God can do what you think is the
most unbelievable unreasonable
irrational things you would never pray
because how could that ever happen God
doesn’t pray that one I’ve got your back
Lord Jesus I pray over my sisters today
I am playing over every single one that
is in a trial specifically today but all
of us are are in the midst of life Lord
and that happens and God I pray that you
would help us to be women that believe
in your power that know you are able to
do beyond what we ask for things and
then Lord would you help us to trust you
with your help of God not to to be
satisfied with a mundane relationship
with you that doesn’t trust to believe
or have faith or step out on water Lord
in the midst of the struggles in the
midst of the battle would you help us to
be a army and women that stand firm on
the great grand power that our God has
Lord we trust you today somebody say I
trust you