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have you ever had an opportunity presented to you and you said no no I don't want to
do that no I can't do that maybe you didn't think you were qualified or maybe you thought
there was someone else better for the job or maybe you just didn't have the resources you
know there's numbers of reasons that we say no when certain opportunities present themselves
but then have you ever done that and then later got to thinking uh what'd I say no for
I wish I'd have done that maybe I could have done that have you ever wrestled with the no
before thinking maybe I could oh maybe I should you see I'll never forget one time when Joel's
father was the pastor of the church back in the old building and we were worshiping God it was in
the middle of our worship just like we were doing today my hands were up I was praising God when I
opened my eyes Joel's father had turned around in his seat and looked at me and said Victoria
why don't you go up and do the prayer time well he wasn't talking about next week or
the next week he was talking about the end of the song that was just about over
I'm sure I looked at him because I had never even remotely given him the thought
that I wanted to get on the platform and do the prayer time I don't even know where he got that
but I'll never forget chuckling with a nervous laugh and I said uh Daddy-o I don't think so
you know in his sweet gentle way he just smiled at me he turned around and he never said any more to
me during that service you know I remember standing there thinking I just need to get
out of here but when I got home I was wrestling with that no I was so disappointed in myself and
really quite frankly I was mad at myself because I thought to myself if if he thought I could do it
why do I think that I can't do it if someone has faith in me why don't I have faith in myself
and I went back and I went forth and I went back and I went forth and as I was wrestling with that
I realized that that no just wasn't satisfactory to me so if I began to dig deep because on the
inside of me I realized there was a yes but it was buried under fear it was buried under the pretense
that I could not do it it was buried under the thought why does anybody need to hear from me you
see that no was not satisfactory to me so I began to dig up my yes and I began to say I want to do
it God help me do it God I want to give you my yes and through that struggle I had to make a decision
was I just going to have one foot in and one foot out or was I going to make a firm decision and say
the next time he asked me if he ever does I'm gonna prepare and I'm Gonna Be Ready so every
time I'd go to church I'd be praising with one eye open say maybe not today Lord but not today Lord
you know he did ask me again he did ask me again
and you know what I did I mustered up that great big yes and I got up and I did the prayer time
you see what that yes did for me it kicked in God's grace it caused me to begin to rely on God
I prepared but then I allowed the grace of God to work in me and work through me there's a scripture
that says that God is working in US to Will and to do his good pleasure when you realize
that you don't have to do everything on your own and if it gets done it's only because of
your ability when you realize that is not always the case but that it's God who's working in you
it's God who's preparing you if you will get into agreement with God God can do amazing things in
our lives but God needs our yes he needs to hear our yes when I think about how that yes kicked in
and gave me the power to be able to do that it was it was a very much of a learning experience for me
because see I didn't realize at the time that God was up to something but when I look back I
realized that that yes was one step closer to my destiny that yes was one step closer to the next
step now the truth is I don't know how many times I ever got back up on the platform when Daddy was
there but I'll tell you what that experience gave me the courage and the boldness when God asked me
yes again listen if you're struggling with a yes today if you're struggling between yes and no
when God talks to you maybe you don't think you're equipped maybe you don't have the right resources
maybe there's a plethora of reasons that you can make excuses can I tell you make a decision just
settle it in your mind if God wants me to do it I'm gonna give him my yes and I'm going to prepare
and move forward because let me tell you something just like my father-in-law asked
me and I said no he didn't hold that no against me and your heavenly father is not going to hold
that no against you you may have said no time and time again but I can tell you just like my
father-in-law God's gonna ask you again he's going to ask you again so I encourage you to
make a decision to give God your yes hold on to the promises of God listen to what it says in
second Corinthians 1 20. it says for no matter how many promises God has made they are yes in Christ
and so through him we speak the amen through him who speaks the amen who speaks the yes
we speak the yes God's promises are going to stand forever they will remain but he is
looking for us to say yes he is looking for us to take that step of Faith to say God I'm
all in no matter what it looks like hey what in the world does yes look like to you today
what does it look like to you today what does your yes look like when you think about God yes God I'm
going to forgive the people that hurt me yes God I'm going to trust you in this very difficult time
God I am all in with you God knowing that you can bring about favor in my situation
yes God I'm going to begin to reach out to people even if I don't feel like I have time God I know
that you can make up that time for me maybe you just need to surrender some things in your life
and say yes God it is time for you to work through me I'm gonna quit trying to doing it on my own and
God I'm just going to say yes to you I'm going to take that step of faith God and let you open
those Supernatural doors for me what does your yes look like today because God is waiting on you to
get into agreement with him and as soon as you say yes to God guess what the grace of God kicks
in you see you're not on your own God doesn't want you to do it on your own God wants you to
do it with him in Partnership ship an agreement with him and you know what you can say yes think
about this of old he wavered in there yes they wavered in there no one day they were Believers
the next day they were denying Jesus listen God is not going to hold your no against you
but make some firm decisions to say I am going to trust God in this no matter what it looks like no
matter how scared I am no matter how buried that yes is in my in my spirit I'm gonna dig
it up I'm gonna work it out because the Bible talks about this it says you have to hold fast
your profession of faith you have to hold fast that yes see that indicates that something is
going to try to take that yes from you and we're very well aware that time tries to steal our yes
people try to steal our yes all these nose and shut doors try to steal our yes
but you know what we're going to have to step over a lot of no's and hold fast to that yes hold
it tight see it's not just in your ability it's in God's ability through you it's in him opening
Supernatural doors can I tell you is it gonna be easy absolutely not is it worth it absolutely it
is God is a god of Miracles and he wants to take you step by step but he needs your amen he needs
your agreement think about Noah when God came to Noah and spoke to Noah and said Noah I want you
to build an ark Noah had no idea first off what a boat was what an ark was because no one had seen
rain it had literally never rained the Theologian said but you know what Noah did he said yes God
so he was fighting the odds because no one had ever seen rain and no one wanted to get into
agreement with his yes but he said I'm going to stay in agreement with God yes and he kept
building that Ark it took years and years people made fun of him they even said Noah is crazy
he and his family are crazy people but what did Noah keep doing he kept pounding the nails
he kept saying yes in his obedience to God let me tell you something Noah's
Ark stands as a monument today a sign of God's goodness a sign of God's agreement
you see we are in Covenant with this great God and he wants your yes I have a friend of mine
who who has a large family many siblings and she made a decision to say yes to God in a new way and
what I mean by that is she was going to let go of some of her past habits and she was going to start
serving God in a fresh new way because he had given her an impression to do it differently well
let me tell you something her family didn't think that was so Keen in fact they made ugly remarks
to her they literally quit inviting her to certain Gatherings because she had a new commitment to God
but can I tell you she stayed faithful to her commitment she held on tight to that yes even
when she wasn't invited to things she continued to be kind to her family show love and when they
did invite her she showed up with all of her blessings to them can I tell you today after
years and years of holding on to that yes staying committed making that decision even when it was
tough even when it would have been easier to go back her yes stands as an anchor of Hope to her
family and many of them have come back to Jesus Christ because of that yes is our yes always easy
no but our yes is always worth it when we serve a mighty God get up every day reconfirm your yes
yes God I am yours yes God what do you want me to do today yes God I will trust you I will forgive I
will take that step of faith God I believe that when I get into agreement with you you're gonna
do what I can't do you're gonna do the impossible amen amen thank you Lord we praise you thanks for
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