It takes faith to leave it alone. When you take your hands off and you let God take care of it, that’s not a lack of faith; that’s great faith. When you can say, “God, I trust You with my weeds. I trust You with things I don’t understand. I’m not going to get in a hurry and try to fix things that will damage my harvest. I’m going to leave it alone.” That’s a powerful position.
Pray bold prayers over your children, bold prayers over your finances, bold prayers over your dreams. Don’t let that prayer go unanswered because you never prayed it, you never asked God to do the unusual, the uncommon.
You may have things coming against you now: sickness, addiction, trouble with a child. Can I encourage you? It is powerless to stop your purpose. The weapon may have formed, but it will not prosper. The Most High God has His hands outstretched toward you: a hand of healing, a hand of deliverance, a hand of freedom.
Too often, we put these conditions on God and conditions on our prayers. “God, I’ll be happy if my boss moves to the back side of Mars. When you get him out of my life, then I’ll have a good attitude.” Have you ever thought that God is using that person to do a work in you, to develop your character, to teach you to love those who are not very lovable? Instead of saying, “God, get me out of this situation.” Pray, “God, come into this situation. Help me to have a good attitude, help me to do the right thing when the wrong thing is happening.”
You've convinced yourself you're the exception.
That God's grace covers everyone else-
but not you. I need you to hear this clearly:
You are not the exception. You are exactly who this is for.
The prayer in this video takes 30 seconds.
Your excuses have taken years. Say it. Mean it. Watch what happens.
When you ask God to come in, you’re saying, “God, don’t just change the situation, change me. Help me to not just go through this but to grow through it. If God delivered you out of everything instantly, you would never reach your potential.
On the way to your destiny, there will be Goliaths on your property, giants inhabiting places that God has promised you. It’s time to serve some eviction notices. You have to tell depression, “You’re not welcome on my property.” Tell shame, insecurity, not good enough, “You don’t belong here; your time is up.”
Good enough is not your destiny. God put greatness in you. He has an awesome future in store. Get thirsty again. Start dreaming again, start believing again, start hoping again.
You can’t control how everyone treats you, but you can control how you respond. When someone is rude, you don’t have to get upset. When they cut you off in traffic, that doesn’t have to sour your morning. Stay in peace.
Getting old starts in our mind. Your spirit never ages; the body does. Your body may age, but your spirit is ageless. The real you that lives on the inside doesn’t have to get old. Aging is inevitable, but getting old is optional.
Too often, we’re discounting ourselves, waiting to get older or wishing we were younger. You know what you’re going to say twenty years from now? That you wish you could be at the age you are right now. Step into who you are today.
The mistake we can make is that we discount people based on their age. When you’re older, it’s easy to discount the young. It’s not how you were raised. They’re not doing it the way you did. But God is progressive. He does new things. The same message, but different methods.
Your assignment didn’t go away at seventy. Your value didn’t decrease at eighty. If anything, it increased. You have wisdom. You have experience. You’ve developed talent. You’ve gone through highs and lows. You’ve seen the faithfulness of God. Age hasn’t lessened you; it’s prepared you.
Don’t be intimidated by the size of your dream. He’s the one who put it in your heart. Those things God whispered to you that you haven’t told anyone about, it seems so unlikely that you don’t see how it could ever happen. God wouldn’t have spoken that to you if He didn’t have a way to bring it to pass. All He needs is for you to come into agreement. Dare to ask Him.
I’ve learned some things only God can change. The more you try to force it, the more frustrated you’re going to be. The Psalmist said, “Unless the Lord builds the house, we labor in vain.”
Don’t be defined by one event. Don’t let one failure, one disappointment, one bad season, sour the rest of your life. Move forward in faith. Your destiny is waiting. Your children are counting on you. This is your time to shine. Dare to believe.
The enemy is called the accuser. He’d love for you to live down on yourself. He’ll remind you of every mistake you’ve ever made. It may all be true, but what he doesn’t tell you is that there’s another chance coming. God’s mercy is bigger than your mistakes.