I have a special scripture God gave me. So put your hand on your heart because I want you to listen Okay. And this is, Mark 11:23 “Whosoever shall say to this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe the things that he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.” So now I want you to put your hands up because you’re going to speak to your mountains. Why? Because you’re going to get what’s on the other side, right? Okay. Say Father in the name of Jesus, I speak to this mountain that is obstructing me from what I need to have. I thank you Father, that today, today I get what’s on the other side. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
I like this about God. He always wants to give you dramatic changes that are good. So put your hand on your heart. Say I’m getting a dramatic change that is good.
I want you to look at five areas of your life. You know, there’s some things I have wanted and wanted to see God do, but I have doubts. It has you, looking at it like, I never had a doubt in my life. I have, I don’t believe you.
I think we both had doubts. And so what do we do? And I’m really dealing with five of the basic doubts that can come your way and want to do with them. So number one is David had a wife who was a jerk. You know, Michael got upset with him because she saw him dancing before the Lord. That’s really bad news. And she despised him in her heart because she thought he wasn’t sophisticated enough so he never went with her again. He divorced her. And folks, sometimes I looked at this, you have to divorce your unbelief. You know, there are some things that you think, well yeah, God can do it, but I don’t know if he’ll do it for me. And so you have to say, okay, can God do all things? Can I believe God in these challenging times? You say, no, I can’t.
Now we’re going to pray. Okay, ready? Say Father, I believe according to the Bible, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And so it’s important for us to separate ourselves from those unbelief’s. Now you say, how do you do that? And it’s a shame that she didn’t divorce herself from her unbelief because she never had any children. So, unbelief keeps you in a negative place. And what was it? It was criticism. Did you ever criticize anybody? But criticizing others and how they did it, what they didn’t do, or how they dressed or how they treated their children or how they don’t handle their money right.
Don’t criticize because it does something to you. It caused her to lose her opportunity for a child. Really, and that’s big time. Bury your criticism of others. Who are you mad at today? Who are you criticizing today? I’m not going to ask you to raise your hand. Just put your hand on your heart and pray and say, Father, that criticism I have of that person, whether it’s right or wrong, I am burying. I’m leaving it here, and I’m not picking it up and taking it home. I’m not called to criticize. I’m called to change. Amen.
Okay. Now I want to talk about another D, and this is death because sometimes death can be a real hard thing for us. So here David has a son and Bathsheba and the child dies and David is fasting during this time. You know, everyone has had disappointments in prayer.
Well, you’ve had disappointments in circumstances. You get disappointed at God sometime and if you say you haven’t, you’re a liar. Cause I’ve been disappointed at God sometimes I thought he should do it faster and just do it. He hasn’t even done it yet. You know what I’m saying? And David had a son and you know, the son was very sick and David fasted and prayed. Now he could have taken a lot of condemnation on himself because this baby was born out of wedlock but he didn’t, he fasted and prayed and says, maybe the lord will bring him back. I don’t want him to die. I don’t want him to die. David stood that I want this child to live. And there are some things I have wanted I didn’t get.
And so then do you give up on God and wave God goodbye? No way. What did he do? He’s fasting and praying and it doesn’t happen. And he said, I can’t bring him back to life, but someday I can go to him. He can’t come back to me, but I can go to him. Do you look for the positive part of what God can do? I find sometimes we carry grief because we don’t like the way God did it. We wanted him to do such and such and it didn’t happen. So that can be a dangerous thing. I’m going to share some family things. When my father died and my father was hard to live with, he had mental problems. My mother didn’t have a picnic with him and you know, he got all right and then he died and my mother went into grief and she was grieving all the time, all the time.
And I thought, why are you doing this? One day I called her and I felt like God gave me an answer. I called her one day and I said, mother, do you believe that Jesus carried your grief and sorrow? The Bible says it. Yes. She said, I believe it. I said, then why are you carrying the grief of your husband? Because if Jesus carried it for you, what are you doing carrying it? And she cried and prayed, and that was the end of it. You can carry grief. But does the Bible say he carried your griefs? Are you going to carry this? Because grief can break you down. It can wound you to no end. We know that. I looked at this and I thought David was smart. He can’t come to me, but I can go to him. He chose the path of what God could do in this situation and he could do a great miracle. Now, grief, let’s just talk about it. People say to me, well, grief is good for you. Well, it might be good for a little while, but when people carry it and carry it, they quit going to church, quit reading their Bible because they’re mad at God and grieved at God. That’s dangerous. Grief can be dangerous. We have to bury our grief and trust God’s word.
Now I’ve had disappointments. Oh God, I wanted this door to open and it didn’t open. Where are you? You know, but you’re going to have to leave some of these things with God and trust God. Everybody say it, trust God, and my mother was a different person after that and she lived very well until she died.
Now the third thing is disease. You know the leper. I’m wild in faith, you know I always will be. It says a man with leprosy came and knelt before Jesus. Lord, if you’re willing, you can make me clean. Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. I am willing. He said, be clean. Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. Does God want you to be whole? Yes. Now he was cleansed of leprosy. Jesus said, I’m willing. I think you have to stand on this, I am willing, and I may take a while, but I think wholeness here is bigger. Jesus said be clean. I’m willing. Be clean. Immediately he was cleansed of the leprosy. That’s wonderful. But I think also leprosy chewed off their fingers, their toes, parts of their body. Jesus restored what he had lost. I think he got some new fingers and some new toes. I bet he really looked good. Maybe he hadn’t had a nose, but I think wholeness can be more than just getting rid of it. It can be getting hold of what you lost. Do you like that? You turn down what God can give you. And what about timing? I don’t understand God’s timing. I wish he’d get faster and some things are fast. You need to bury your unbelief that God is not willing to heal and just not give up. So let’s do it. Father, I bury unbelief. I thank you Father, that I am free from disappointment. You called me here. You have a purpose. I’m not looking down. I’m looking up.
Okay, the next one is disaster. Everybody say disaster and that’s kind of what we think we’re in right now is a disaster. Shall we fall apart? Have a nervous breakdown? I don’t think so. Suddenly. Now when we look at this, this is Paul and Barnabas in a prison, and what are they doing at midnight?
Where is God? I can’t believe he deserted us. We’re so good. We preach the gospel. Then we get in trouble and he looks the other way. Watch your behavior in disaster and help others when they are in disaster. You have to bury your unbelief. And what did they begin to do? They began to praise God. Wow. And immediately, all the doors and everyone’s chains were loosed. You realize I wasn’t just their chains that were loosed. It was everybody. Your faith affects everybody. And what I see in my life is faith pleases God. If I want to whine and murmur around it, it doesn’t please God. But if I want to believe and people think I’m crazy and relatives doing man neighbors, Hey, it’s very important that I please God, very important. And sometimes it takes a long time on some things, and some things you don’t understand, but you trust God. Anyway, so bury your unbelief that God cannot bring your freedom.
Despair is a horrible thing. And I think about Absalom’s sister, she was raped by her half-brother. I’m sure you would want to kill them. Somebody hurting your sister, your half-sister or hurting your family. That’s a horrible, horrible thing. And you can live in bitterness, you can live in it. And this is a very serious thing.
And probably some of you know mine, I don’t know, you’ve been here a long time, but what are we going to do? Are we going to hold on to bitterness? Are we going to hold on to despair? You know, I don’t believe we can hold on to bitterness.
It’s just something that latches itself onto you and suddenly you realize, Oh yes, I am bitter about that. And you can be free. Why hold onto it. Bitterness hurts you. If you live in that bitterness, wow, you’re going to hurt yourself and you think you’re hurting them. But the one you are hurting the most is yourself.
You know, folks, there comes a point when it can be buried and you don’t have it. I want you to pray now. Say, Father, I want to give up bitterness. I want to give up despair because I don’t want to have bitterness destroy me. Because if you don’t bury it, how can I tell you this? It can bury you. I don’t want to be buried. Amen. hat keeps us in despair. Say, Father, I don’t want to be bitter. I don’t want to think I deserve to be bitter. I want to be free. I am repenting of any bitterness I’ve held toward anyone and I believe that you are doing things in me. I’m going to leave here in freedom in Jesus’ name. Amen. God, we thank you that we’re not going to carry bitterness out of here and what is it comes to your mind.
I’ve already repented. I’ve forgiven. I’m not under that. Okay. Put your hand on your heart. Say, Father, I want to repent of any bitterness I have carried toward anyone. I thank you that who the Son sets free is free Indeed. I am free from all bitterness in Jesus’ name and I stay free because I remember, I chose to forgive to bury that unforgiveness. Amen.
Now, the last one fits everybody. Bury thoughts that tell you God does not care about your future. I think that’s one of the worst things of all. Well, look with what’s happening in the world, he doesn’t care about my future or look at where I have failed. He doesn’t have a future for me. God has good future for us and we need not to go there with that. And I think with all the news that we see, we can really think negative, can’t we? I’m not going to think negative. And I don’t think we can ever give up on our children and on our circumstances.
We believe that God will take care of our future and that it isn’t over till we win.