Be strong and courageous fear not neither be thou dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go
and if you started every day of your life with that verse
Things would change your attitude would change
Your disposition would change your actions would change
I think it's especially important that what you think when you first get up in the morning
I think that we need to
I mean at least for me I find the enemy will make a bid for my mind early in the morning
Sometimes before I ever put my feet on the floor. And so one of the things that you can do early in the morning
Is say I'm gonna have a good day, whatever I need to deal with today I can deal with it because God is with me
He won't let more come on me than what I can bear
So if you think strong
You're going to be strong we prefer no problems and no challenges
That certainly would be my first prayer
God I'd love to have no problems today. But I think we all know that there's very few days
That are like that in reality and I want to encourage you every day of your life
Depend on God to give you the strength that you need you can't just be strong
You have to depend on God to be strong through you
I don't even pray anymore God
Give me strength I say god you are my strength
He is our strength we draw strength from God when we spend time with him on a daily basis
That's why I recommend do it early. I mean
Even if you only think that you can manage five minutes
I mean get up and before you do anything else
Spend some time with God
Let him know that you need him that you don't even begin to think that you can have a successful day without him
Draw your strength from him
The basis of our courage is not how strong I am. The basis of our courage is
God
God is the ultimate one who determines our life and how we face the circumstances of life
Many of God's people live in utter defeat
As they face their daily work and life
Because they won't believe
What God said
I will never leave you nor forsake you be strong and of a good courage fear not neither be that dismayed
The Lord your God is with you wherever you go
Let me ask this what more do you need than to promise the Lord your God is with you wherever you go
What more do you need than that
And yet there are some people who would say, yeah, but you don't know my circumstances
I know who does
God knows everybody's circumstances
He knows where you came from
Knows your strength and your weaknesses. He knows your unbeliefs. He knows your beliefs
He knows what you struggle with. He knows everything about every one of us
When we're going through challenges
One of the things that the devil loves to tell us one of the
thoughts that he likes to keep putting in our head over and over is
I can't do this
It's just too much for me. It's too hard
I can't do this. I can't take it
Today, I just want to tell you that you are stronger than you think you are
The enemy wants us to think that we're weak
That we can't do it. It's too much for us. It's overwhelming. It's too hard
But the truth is is that if you think strong you'll be strong
And if you think weak
You're going to be weak
God wants you to know
And he wants you to begin to think
I can do whatever I need to do
Through Christ who is my strength
And I am stronger
Than I think I am
And the truth is is if you think you can't you can't
and if you think you can you can
Whatever situation circumstances you're facing. Here's what you do
You come to God each day and Lord you said here's what you said
You said be strong and very courageous that you'd be with me in this I'm going to trust you
You say how many times I have to say that every day
And depending upon the nature of it several times a day
Or many times a day whatever one thing for certain God will not fail you
He can't because he's God
He may not work the circumstances out exactly like you think he would but he will
In other words whenever you and I turn to God
We have the promise
That holy omnipotent omniscient omnipresent God
Will be with us no matter what
I just want you to know that you can start today living boldly and without fear
Jesus is in you he's for you. He's with you. He said I'll never leave you nor forsake you
And so we can live freely we can go out and we can try things. We don't have to be afraid of failure
You are capable of amazing things
But if you don't think you are
Then you will let challenges defeat you
Whenever you look through the eyes of doubt and unbelief, you're going to fail
But when you and I are walking by faith, and we're trusting God
He may challenge you to do things you think
How's that going to work?
If God tells you to do something and you're confident of what he's saying you just obey him
You can go through all kinds of difficulty hardships and problems with confidence and joy in your heart
When you are trusting God and believing that he'll do what he said
God has put so much ability
in us
I don't think any one of you has any idea how much
ability that you have I mean God given God ordained ability on the inside of you
And once again I know that some of you are hurting so bad right now and
Maybe your pain has been so bad. You even just feel really confused
And you know what if you can't seem to grasp anything that I'm saying today other than this
I want you to remember that you are stronger than you think you are
And you can do whatever you need to do
And nothing is too great for God. There's nothing you face that he can't handle God understands our fears
Here's the problem we have sometimes if we can't figure out how God's gonna do something we don't believe him
The only thing God may say to you facing a challenge is be strong and very courageous put your trust in me
Rely upon me
Just see what I do. Don't try to figure it out
Don't try to figure out what God's going to do
God knows exactly what he's going to do
Let me tell you something if you really know God and you know the word of God
You are a giant killer
You don't have to be afraid of giants. You know what we've all got something going on in our life
Maybe not today, but at different times that we think is just bigger than us
more
than we can stand more than we can take
You know what, I think I think sometimes we have an issue in front of us and God is encouraging us to go forward, but
We think it to death
We stare at the giants too long and we think too long about everything that could happen and everything that might happen and
Maybe even things that we've tried to do in the past that haven't worked
Sometimes you need to move when you feel like you have the confidence
And you feel like you have the courage and not just keep putting it off and putting it off and putting it off
Let me tell you something. The bible says that we are more than conquerors
And God has a plan for your life and there's nothing that you've been through that you cannot recover from
Because you are stronger than you think you are. Be strong and very courageous
That one verse is enough to take you through anything in life you face
You can take that verse all the way to the grave
So I think many times people face situations and circumstances in life
That if they just had that one verse be strong and courageous
Don't don't don't fear anything set your mind upon God, but oftentimes
situations arise and our first response is fear our first response ought to be okay God
Be strong and courageous which simply means I'm setting my mind upon God to face this with me
So whatever we go through if we're trusting god
Then we can be confident
That God never allows more to come on us than what we can bear. So when you feel like
I can't take any more
Another good thing to say is
I
will not have more than what I can deal with God promises me
So instead of thinking I can't take this one more day
You know, you can say well I'd rather not have it one more day
But whatever it is, I can do it