Was It Enough? | Stephen Dufresne | Collinsville, Oklahoma | JTH Crusades 2025 | Wednesday AM

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Was It Enough?" | Stephen Dufresne | Collinsville, Oklahoma | JTH Crusades 2025 | Wednesday AM

Dufresne Ministries Podcast – October 14, 2025
Speaker: Stephen Dufresne
Theme: A call to pursue a life of bold faith for miracles, refusing to settle for comfort or fear of failure, and to never let go of the pursuit of God's supernatural power.

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Episode Overview

In this dynamic and heartfelt session, Stephen Dufresne encourages listeners to reflect on their lives and ask: "Was it enough?" He challenges the church to forsake complacency, push beyond the boundaries of comfort, pursue miracles, and act boldly in faith, regardless of fear, reputation, or the risk of failure. Drawing from biblical accounts, personal testimony, and practical illustrations, Stephen calls believers to push for greater expressions of God’s miraculous power.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Ministry Values & Stewardship

• Team Effort and Efficiency: Stephen opens with anecdotes about the ministry's operational values – everyone doing what's needed without being confined to titles, ensuring efficiency and unity (01:21).
• Impact of the Ministry: Testimonies of people learning that healing is for them, and the importance of reaching more nations with the message (02:08).
• Aviation as Ministry Tool: Details about the new plane—a gift—used for ministry outreach, its reliability, and the faith journey required for future expansions (05:55).

The Core Message: "Was it Enough?"

• Imagining the End of Life: Stephen asks listeners to visualize themselves at old age, sitting on the porch, reflecting: "Was it enough, or could I have done more?" Challenging them not to settle (07:42).

  "I don't want to get to the end of my life, and say, you know what? I could have done a little bit more. I wish I would have believed a little bit harder." (08:42)

• Fear of People's Opinions: The primary hindrance to stepping out in faith is worry about what others think, not actual limitations.

  "None of you are held back by anything except what people think about you." (09:03)

• Value of Taking Risks: Using football (the "Hail Mary" play) as a metaphor: bold actions with the game (or life) on the line are preferable to playing it safe and having regrets (10:20).

Lessons from Moses

• Numbers 20 & Deuteronomy 34: Moses, though a man of great miracles, missed entering the Promised Land because he defaulted to familiar methods (striking the rock) instead of speaking as God commanded—comfort hindered his faith (12:19–15:53).

  "Because you did not believe Me, you will not go into the promised land." (Deuteronomy 34:4, paraphrased at 13:32)

• Application: Comfort and habit can block us from advancing in faith; God requires us to speak faith, not just use the tools/methods we’re used to.

Dealing with Failure and Reputation

• The Fear of Failure: Defining moments come when we push past the possibility of failure in faith.

  "I would rather fall on my face chasing miracles than not try." (17:10) "If you don't care what people think about you, it's amazing what you can accomplish." (17:55)

• Faith Not Shaken by Setbacks: Using wife’s attitude towards losing football teams as a humorous illustration, Stephen notes the need to pick up faith again despite setbacks (19:25).
• Continuing After Disappointment: He addresses why we may see people not healed or prayers not answered, stressing that God’s command is to keep believing and pressing forward (20:47).

Bold Examples of Unwavering Faith

• Paul & Silas (Acts 16:18): Even at the risk of imprisonment and public humiliation, their faith led to miraculous outcomes because they refused to give up (22:11–24:13).

  "Because we refused to give up. Even in the face of what people thought about them...they refused to give up." (24:13)

• Stephen the Martyr (Acts 7:55): Faithfulness unto death; the world’s opposition cannot deter someone fully surrendered to God’s call, even if the price is high (26:10).

  "He was still able to say: it was enough. I did what I was supposed to do." (28:16)

The Importance of Testimonies and Desiring More

• Sharing Miracles: Boldly share testimonies of miracles—these are the most powerful witness, more irrefutable than arguments over doctrine (29:02).

  "One of the greatest witnessing tools you can ever do is tell people about miracles." (28:31)

• Innate Desire for the Supernatural: Every human being has a longing for more than the mundane; miracles fulfill this God-given desire (29:15).

Comparing Faith to Valuables

• Regret Over Lost Treasures: Stephen uses the illustration of selling a beloved truck to show the regret of letting go of what is truly valuable due to temporary pressures (30:55–34:57).

  "I don’t want to ever get to the end of my life and say, 'Did I sell it because I didn't believe God was going to fund it for me...?'" (34:44)

• Parallel to Miracles: Don’t let go of your pursuit of miracles, even if it seems easier or “safer.” The world will mock or criticize, but that doesn’t matter in light of God’s opinion (35:04–36:48).

The Risk and Reward of Pursuing Miracles

• Smith Wigglesworth Story: Sometimes, obeying God’s prompting for a miracle can look foolish or even risky in front of others, but only persistent faith exemplifies true obedience (37:03–38:50).
• Four Steps of Miracle Faith:
  1. Believe
  2. Receive
  3. Act on it
  4. Expect it (38:52)
• The Miracle Door: "The miracle door is never locked, but it’s only opened with continuous faith." (39:32)
• Miracle Faith Requires Practice: Just as with any skill, you must “practice the miracle flow” by repeatedly stepping into new realms of faith (40:44–41:06).

Personal Testimonies: Practicing Faith for Big Miracles

• Praying for the Impossible: Stephen recounts ministering to a young man left in a vegetative state after a car accident, choosing to believe and see healing by faith even with no immediate transformation (41:06–43:21).

  "I saw him back there and I said, that's the guy I've been waiting for—because I'm telling myself that's not too big for God." (41:19) "I refuse to give up and believe that this man... is not too big for God." (42:16)

• Don’t Dismiss Desires for Miracles: Keep talking, believing, and acting on the miraculous—never become complacent or too rationalized to see God’s works (47:03–47:22).

  "Miracles are the dinner bell for the world. Hands down." (47:23)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Future Regret:

  "I don't want to get to the end of my life, and say, you know what? I could have done a little bit more. I wish I would have believed a little bit harder." (08:42)

• On Pushback from Others:

  "None of you are held back by anything except what people think about you." (09:03)

• On Faith Risks:

  "I would rather fall on my face chasing miracles than not try." (17:10)

• On Missed Opportunities:

  "Because you did not believe Me, you will not go into the promised land." (13:32)

• On Real Witness:

  "One of the greatest witnessing tools you can ever do is tell people about miracles." (28:31)

• On God’s Method:

  "He didn't tell you to pay for it. He told you to believe for it." (40:12)

• On the Nature of Miracle Doors:

  "The miracle door is never locked, but it’s only opened with continuous faith." (39:32)

• On Miracles as Evangelism:

  "Miracles are the dinner bell for the world. Hands down." (47:23)

• On What Matters:

  "At the end of my life, they're going to call us crazy. That's alright. That's not a problem." (36:05)

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Important Timestamps and Sections

• Ministry Stewardship & Impact: (01:21–06:14)
• Setting up the Main Theme: “Was it Enough?”: (07:42–11:45)
• Moses and Comfort vs. Faith: (12:19–16:36)
• Facing Failure & Overcoming Opinions of Others: (17:00–19:32)
• Paul & Silas as Examples: (22:11–24:13)
• Acts 7 and Stephen’s Martyrdom: (26:10–29:02)
• Personal Regret Story (the Truck): (30:55–34:57)
• Practical Application of Faith for Miracles: (37:03–41:06)
• Testimony: Healing for the Impossible: (41:06–43:21)
• Final Encouragements: (47:03–47:44)

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Conclusion / Takeaways

• Don't settle for comfort; stretch your faith for greater miracles.
• The opinion of others is the most common hindrance to acting on faith.
• Make sure your life is marked by pursuing everything God has for you, so that at the end, you can say, “It was enough.”
• Practicing and testifying about miracles is essential for evangelism and for satisfying the heart’s deep desire for the supernatural.
• Miracles, not just good preaching or church attendance, are what really draw people to God’s reality in the world today.

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Final Words:

"Never dismiss the desire for miracles. Never dismiss telling people what God could do for them. The more we desire it, the more we talk about it, the more we have it." (47:03)

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For more information, testimonies, or ways to get involved, visit dufresneministries.org.

Transcript

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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message.

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Praise God.

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Praise God. Well, are y' all blessed this morning?

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Praise God. Praise God.

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Well, you may be seated.

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Can say hi or. No, you don't want to say hi, that's fine, too. It don't matter to me.

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Maybe you don't want to talk to.

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Nobody in the morning. I don't blame you.

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Don't even look at me. Just leave me alone.

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Praise God. Praise God. What a blessing to be here to.

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Give y' all the word this morning.

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You know, it's. It's a blessing to do these with my wife. My wife just turned 40 yesterday, and, man, I don't know how old do you really look?

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Do you think she looks 40? Oh, y' all are so nice. What about me? Do I look 40? Yeah, there you go. Yeah, see? 50, 60, 49.

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So, yeah, she looks like she could be on, like, a High School musical or something, you know? She looks so young, huh? Well, you can't sing, but at least you look the part, right? So. Praise God. Praise God.

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Well, I want to share with you.

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A little bit this morning. It's not part of my sermon, but I want to just talk about. For a minute or two is about being a partner with us, and I want to tell you what we're doing and how we're doing it. One of the things about us is we run a very efficient ministry. What I mean by that is we don't have waste in our processes. One thing about us is there was a time when we didn't have much of anything and we don't have nothing. You learn how to make everything just go a little bit further. You know, you learn how to make.

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Tires go a little bit more.

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You learn how to just milk everything for what it's worth.

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And we. We learned how to.

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At least I did. And we learned how to be doers of everything. What does that mean?

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We had the finance lady, we had.

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The pastor, we had everybody paint in the hallways because that's what had to be done.

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So there's nothing that nobody in the ministry won't do. Now.

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I can't see that I would be good at social media. I'm not saying I could do that, but what I'm saying is we don't have people that only do one thing. Everybody serves a purpose and they fill a role.

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If I said, hey, we're all going.

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To go pick up trash, what do they do? They go, okay, let's go pick up trash. And I think that's such a blessing because there's not a lot of places that would do that. They're very title based and we don't have titles in that way. We're very efficient on how we travel. We are efficient on how we do things. But one of the things that we're doing is reaching people with miracles, signs and wonders, and mom is giving them the gospel to live on. I can't tell you how many people I met yesterday that have been changed by the broadcast that said, you know what? I didn't know I could be healed. I didn't know that healing belonged to me. I didn't know I had to stand in faith. I didn't know I had to fight sickness. I thought I had just had to accept it. And that's priceless. I think we could say that that's priceless and that's what we're doing every day. And when you're a partner, you help to reach those people that we're reaching to tell them that the power of God belongs to them, that they can walk with their mind completely free. They can walk in healing.

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And.

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But as I just want to tell you, we are going to be pushing soon to get into different countries, to get into where different dialects, you know, whether it's French or Russian, whatever, we're going to push a little harder. And so I just want to tell y', all, that's what the future is. And you know, one of the biggest, the newest things is mom's plane. One of the things that, you know that brother Jerry and them gave that to mom, and that's such a blessing. One thing about that plane, which I found out yesterday, is that plane, the airframe, never expires. That plane is a lot of planes. You have to replace the wings and stuff after a certain time frame. That one you never do. And so what really is neat about that plane is it's redundant. This is a total sidetrack. But basically, if you have a hydraulic pump fail, you're kind of in a pinch. This one has like three of everything. If one fails, you have another one, and you have another one. You have a motor fail, you have two more. And that's the great thing about the Falcons is they're just very safe. And it has never. They've never had one go down due to a plane problem. It's always been a pilot error. They've never had one crash. So they're very safe. And they're very. Just. Just an amazing plane. And your giving helped to support mom going to those places. Mom, once she gets here, she's going to Ohio, and she'll be preaching this Sunday, Friday night. And your giving helps her to fulfill that. And it's just such a blessing to be part of that. Wouldn't you say so? Whether it's fuel or pilots or something, your giving is fulfilling that. So what you're hearing, other people get to hear. And you know, and we're giving God a job. Like brother Jesse says, give, give God a job. And that's what we're doing. We are giving God a job. And we're already off to our next plane. Once we got this one, we knew it was time to push for the next one.

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I don't think it's going to take.

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10 years for the next one. I'm pretty sure it's not. This plane is stateside comfortable, but it's not worldwide comfortable. It's very nice and it will go across the world, but it's not worldwide comfortable, if that makes sense. So we're gonna get the next one. And a lot of times these go down for maintenance. I know Brother Keith's is down. His has been down for like seven months, and he can't fly it, so he's got a different plane. But they can go down for maintenance and they tear the whole thing apart. They take the panels off and they inspect the wiring and they do all this stuff. And that can take many, many months. So that's why we want to get another one. But I didn't ask you to pay for it, and I'm not paying for it. He didn't ask us to pay for it. He asked us to believe for it. And that's what we're going to do. And it's such a blessing to be able to believe for such a wonderful tool. Amen.

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Well, do you have your Bibles here today?

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This morning, I want to minister on miracles. And I want to take you to a place, though, that you may not have seen before. I'm not going to talk about. Shut about. You need to shut up today. You know, the Rambos came up and they're like, are you going to preach such an aggressive message tomorrow? Because it's hard to write a song with such an aggressive message about sit down and shut up.

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You know, I said, well, that wasn't really my message, but I kind of.

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Got sidetracked there, so I'm going to try to give them some. Some stuff today.

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If they don't, then that's fine too.

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I really don't care, but they're such a blessing, you know? Yeah, it's funny. So I got to behave myself for the Rambos. I gotta say. Okay, Stephen, you gotta calm down. So this morning, I want to minister on. Was it enough? Was it enough? One thing that all of us should do, a wise man will always predict his future and look into his future about when he's old. And I want you to use your mind for a minute and go with me to a place. And this is the way I look at my life. I'm an old person. I'm 83. It's not funny. This is serious business. I got to give the Rambo something here, you know? But I'm an old man.

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I'm 83.

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It's a beautiful morning, and I go out on top of my porch, and it's a brisk morning. My coffee is steaming, and I'm sitting out on the porch and I'm looking, and it's a beautiful day, and I'm sitting down and I'm drinking it, and I'm just thinking about my life. I'm an old man. I'm coming to an end, and I'm thinking to myself, was it enough or could I done more? Could I believe for more miracles, or did I get comfortable? Did I believe for arms to come out, or did I just become comfortable in that moment and I don't want.

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To get to the end of my.

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Life, and said, you know what? I could have done a little bit more. I wish I would have believed a little bit harder. I wish I would have believed for those things that were told to us. I don't want to get to the end of my life and go, I messed up. And I think we all need to have that conviction for our life, to say, you know what? And some of you go, man, I'm 83. Now, that's fine.

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But I'm telling you where I'm at.

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I'm 40, and I don't want to get to an age and go, I got comfortable, and I got to a place where I didn't push anymore. Was it enough? And I said, well, why wouldn't I push? It's because I thought about what people would think about me. None of you are held back by anything about except what people think about you. You can believe for the greatest things that the world has ever seen, but why wouldn't you? Because people would think a certain way about you if you fail. Nobody likes failure. But it's not the people that are cautious that get the Trophies. One of the things. Let's go to a sports term, football. It's the fourth quarter, 10 seconds left.

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The only chance we have is to.

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Do a Hail Mary. Is that true? Because if we're safe and we try to run the ball, we may not get it.

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So what do you have to do? What do you have to lose with.

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10 seconds is that maybe you lose the ball in throwing it. It can be taken by the other team and ran the other way. But on the other hand, what do.

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You have to lose? Because you're already behind six points, you.

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Can'T kick it, you got to run it.

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So you got to do a Hail Mary.

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And if you lose, you can say it was enough. We tried our best because you'd hate.

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To live in a moment to say.

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If we did a Hail Mary, imagine we could have won that, but we were too cautious and we decided to hold the ball and we just didn't get anywhere.

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So we know that even in sports there has been games that have been lost and that you go back into.

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Their life and they go, if we would have just tried something else, if we would have just pushed a little harder, possible we could have got it.

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And I would rather live with that.

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Than live with safety.

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Wouldn't you agree that you gave it.

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All you got instead of giving up and saying, was it enough? I want you to go to numbers 20 and 7. 20 and 7. And here is Moses. And the Lord is speaking to Moses here, and he says, moses, I want you to take your. Take the rod, you and your brother, gather the people together.

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And I want you to what, speak.

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To the rock before their eyes, and it will yield to you the water. Thus you shall bring forth for them from the rock and give drink to them and their animals.

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So what was he told to do? Has he seen all the things that.

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God could do for them? Yes, he has seen multiple things that God has done for them. They he has parted the sea. He's done the plagues we've seen.

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They walked away with all the riches. They walked with everything.

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But he still lacked to believe.

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And he says, then Moses lifted up.

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His hand and he struck the rock twice with what his rod. Water came out abundantly and they all drank. And then he says this. Then the Lord spoke to Moses and he said, because you did not believe me, you will not go into the promised land that I've given you. Because he wouldn't believe what God told him. And he wasn't able to see the fulfillment of what he was called to do. And if we go to this, let's go to Deuteronomy 34:4. 34:4. And he says this. Then the Lord said to him, this is the land which I have sworn to give you. I will give it to your descendants. I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there. And it says in verse seven, Moses was a hundred and twenty years old, and then he died. And his eyes were not dim. So that means because of his unbelief, he wasn't able to go into the place that he was meant to go. Because he got to an age in his life where he got comfortable with the way things were, and he got comfortable in using the methods that he was comfortable in using. And he said that God told him, I'm going to teach you faith, but you can't rely, because he associated miracles with the staff. And he says, I'm taking you to a place, and you have to use your voice from here on out.

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And he said, because he was of.

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Great knowledge and he knew what he was doing, he doubted God. And think about this. He took him up to a panoramic view of the promised land, and he showed it to him and said, because you won't believe, you will not enter this place. And I don't want to get at the end of my life and look at all the things that I could have had because I refused to, because I doubted. And I gave up on it because of comforts and the way people thought about me. Because nobody likes to fail. And obviously he didn't want to fail either.

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But if he told him to do.

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Something, he should have done it.

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What did he have to lose by doing what God told him? He didn't have anything.

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But maybe he thought about the way people would think about him or the way he looked or something. But he doubted. And therefore he could not go into the things that God had for him.

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So it's so important that we ask.

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Ourselves, was it enough, or could I push a little harder?

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So I want to encourage you today that never give up on what God has shown you. Never give up about what people think about you. Never worry about what people think about you. Never worry, is it going to happen?

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Trust me, I've had that thought.

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What if nothing happens? But what if something does happen? But I have to keep trying.

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I wrote this down. Let me see if I can read it right. I would rather fall on my face chasing miracles than not try. But at least I can say I tried.

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I want to get to the End of my life.

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And they say, brother Stephen, man, that man never gave up on miracles. He never quit doing that. He never stopped believing for arms and legs to grow out. He never stopped talking about cancer, diabetes, being healed.

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Because it's so important that I never give up. Why would I give up? It's because I'm concerned about what people think about me. If you don't care what people think.

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About you, it's amazing what you can accomplish. Amen.

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Nobody likes failure.

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Nobody.

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I don't like to fail, but it's not in my place to say if it fails or not. He told me to lay hands on the sick, and they shall.

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What?

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He told me to believe. Oh, ye of little faith. So I have to continuously, every time I lay hands on something to I see them completely healed in my spirit. Well, how come they walk away the same? I don't know. But he didn't tell me to think about that. He told me to speak. So therefore I lay hold of that, and I say, I'm not going to get to the end of my life and sit on my porch and say, I could have pushed a little bit more. You guys can push with me. Is that right? That we can believe to go to a place that we've never been before. Don't care what people think. Don't care what it looks like. Don't care what. What people say in the comment section. That we believe that God is who he says he is. And when I get to the end of my life, we said that I can get to the end of my life and say while I'm drinking my coffee on my deck, I can go, it was enough. Think about that word.

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It was enough. It was enough. Amen. Paul and Silas. Acts 16, 18. Acts 16, 18.

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I don't like failure. No coach likes to take a.

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Take the L, right?

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But it's somebody. My wife is a sorry loser if her team starts to look like they're going to lose. She just turned the TV off.

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Right?

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And she just gets to the point where she just. Her nerves can't take it, so she just turns it off and she's like, I just can't handle it. But that's a true feeling. But she turns the game back on next time and believes that it's going to get better. The Gators haven't been good in 15 years since Tebow left. Once Tebow left, they've been.

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They're not even ranked right now, you know, so she's pretty upset about that.

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But one thing about a coach with all the players in the room, in the secondary coaches and all these things, they have to pick themselves back up and say, but next week, we'll get them next time. And that's what faith does. Nobody likes to take the L in faith. Nobody likes to see someone that we prayed for die. And then it's discouraging, but it's somebody of faith to say, and people go, well, why did they die when you prayed for them?

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I don't know.

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But he didn't tell me to meditate on those things. He said, just keep going, just keep believing, keep pushing forward, don't give up. Because I want to get to the end of my life and say, you know what? That one person died and it altered.

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The rest of my believing. And I never believed after that.

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So all of us need to have that thought process. Well, sister died and you believe for her. Well, I don't know what happened, but he's told me to just keep going. So I'm going to the next person that comes up, I'm going to believe that they're going to live just like I did with her. So it doesn't matter. But it takes somebody that says, I don't want to get to the end of my life, the end of my.

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Life, and have to tell myself it wasn't enough. Nobody wants to do that. Amen.

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How many times have we seen a.

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Hail Mary and they caught it in a moment, transform that game. We've seen it. So it takes those times of faith that you don't give up and say, you know What? We have 10 seconds. We can make this play. We can do this thing. We can do this. All right, Paul and Silas here.

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And it says, and this she did.

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For many days, talking about this woman, and she would cackle, and she was owned by a person, and she was doing all these things, women. No, I'm not going to go down that road. She was giving these guys a hard time. She was celebrating. Women like to celebrate by giving their husbands a hard time.

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She goes, amen. And Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the Spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus to come out of her. And he came out in that very hour. He had an option here because he knew the consequences of this action that.

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Was about to happen.

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This was bait for these two men because they. Because the owners and the people knew if we get this woman cackling at.

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Them enough, they're going to cast it out and then we can prosecute them. Okay, so they knew.

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So then that we know that they Made up all these rules and they got him butt naked. That will really drain your faith and really drain who you are in a man that they have removed you to a place of your birthday suit and tooken you down to the lows of the lows. And they laid many stripes on them and they threw them into the prison. And we know the story. And then.

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But they had a decision to make. What do they have to lose? Was it enough? At midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing and we know that the prisoners were listening, things like that. And it says that it was shaken and immediately all the doors were open and the chains were loosed in the prison of the keeper.

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Let's go here.

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And we know that in verse 29 then he called for the light and ran and fell down trembling. And he brought him out.

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So we know that this whole story.

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If we take this story, we know this story after this whole thing happened. They're sitting around the campfire, this is all made up.

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But I'm thinking they're sitting both of.

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Them and they're sitting around the campfire weeks later. And they said, what if we gave up? Imagine what would have happened if we didn't do that. Imagine if we worried about what people thought about us. Imagine if we didn't get naked. Imagine if they didn't beat us would at the end of their life. What would they have given up? So they're able to say it was enough, it was enough. Because we refused to give up. Even in the face of what people thought about them, how things went, they refused to give up. Amen. Acts 7:55. Acts 7:55. And here is Stephen in the Bible we know that Stephen was a helper in the church. He was loved by the church and he did great miracles. I'm going to back up here. Let me see if I can find it. I'm going to just read this. And it says here, and Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs amongst people. And it says that they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke. And it says that all who sat in the council looking steadfast at him, saw his face as the face of an angel. And we know the whole story. That they couldn't receive what he was of what he spoke and the truth. And he, being full of the Holy Spirit, glazed into heaven and saw the glory. And Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father. And he said, look, I see heaven opened and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God. And they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and they ran at him with one accord. In this moment, was he able to ask himself, was it enough? He was able to say, it was enough. I did what I was supposed to do. I didn't give up, I didn't quit. I don't care what they think about me now. We don't live in a time where this is necessarily happening like this, but it shows you that people's hearts are always hated towards the truth. People hate the truth. So in the face of all that, he didn't give up. And we know that he was able in these moments to look up. Was his life cut short? It was. But he was still able to say it was enough. And I so appreciate this man for doing this because he didn't give up and fold to the pressures and what people thought about him. And we know that they stoned him and they killed him in a tremendous way. But I don't want to get to the end of my life and say, was it enough? And I want to answer myself, it was enough. Every pastor or if you help people around here, don't be afraid to talk about miracles in your churches. Don't give up because it's easier not to. We have Jesus. He preached and he taught, and then he laid hands on the sick and he commanded the lame to walk. Many, many things. And it's so important as Christians that we don't give give up on miracles.

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Because one of the greatest witnessing tools.

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You can ever do is tell people about miracles. Because no matter which way they fold it, they can never fight it. They can't. You can fight prosperity, you can fight cults, you can fight religion, but miracles, you can't. You say we had a girl completely, her ear completely healed. She can hear now. What are they going to say? That they don't believe it, that's fine.

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But it's still truth. And no matter what they do at.

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Night, I guarantee you that lives with that person. Man. What about those miracles? Because there's something in every human that desires miracles.

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Don't we all desire to have something.

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Different than what we're seeing in front of us?

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We desire for there to be miracles that we've never seen before. And that's instilled into us as human beings. We always want more.

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We want to see more.

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Nobody likes to fail.

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Nobody likes to not do what the things that we set out to do. But at the end of the day, I can't give up, because if I do, then the devil has won. A great victory. And we can't do that.

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How many of you have.

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Now this probably is with a lot of men. Me, myself, I only have one occasion.

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But I could say, every man in here, you have sold something in your.

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Life, whether a car or something that you regretted selling. Is that not true?

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That every man has had something in.

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Here that we go, Man, I wish I never got rid of it. My situation was I don't have that necessarily, but I do, and I'm going to explain it.

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My dad, we restored stuff, we did things.

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And I had a beautiful 1942 Dodge Power Wagon weapons carrier.

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And my dad and us rebuilt it.

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I mean, we built it from the ground up.

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But my dad loved to build things.

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And sell them at a loss.

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And we would rebuild these things, put 25k into him, 30k and sell it for 16 and go, look what we did. We are winning today. And he. So towards the end of his life, he said, I'm going to sell that thing.

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And it wasn't selling. And man, I really wanted that truck. That truck. One thing I didn't like about it.

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I didn't realize this because when we.

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Got it, it didn't even ran. We never even ran the thing when we bought it. It was, you know, it was old and we had to get it going. And when I rebuilt that thing at top speed, I mean top speed, you would hit 25 miles an hour going down a hill.

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I mean, that was as good as.

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You were ever going to get.

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And I didn't realize that. But boy, the first gear, it would go, woof, woof, woof. I mean, it pull a house down in first gear, not even touching it, the gears were so low.

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And I thought, man, I wanted to pull this chassis out of it and slide on like a modern day chassis, you know, and do it that way and keep it all old.

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And so he had given me this.

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Truck during this time and he said.

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This to me, he said, stephen, I'm going to give this to you because.

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I know you won't sell it.

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My dad would get something, look at that, look at that.

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Let's get rid of it.

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You know, he's just gone. Me, I look at something and I.

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Go, that's valuable to me. I don't want to get rid of that. Why am I getting rid of that? To pay a bill. Because before long it'd be another bill and then you'd be back in the same place.

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And so I'm the type, I really.

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Process things before I just start selling things.

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So he said, steven, I'm going to.

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Give this to you because I know you'll never sell it. I said, you're probably right. I probably keep it forever because that's valuable to me because we built it, you paid for it, now I get to have it. Things like that. Couple months go by, and me and my wife are going to go buy a house. And he says. He goes to my wife and says, morgan, I gave your husband that power wagon. Have him sell it because it'll help with the down payment on the home.

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And I said, he can pound sand. I'm not going to sell it.

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I'm going to keep it.

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And Morgan comes up and says, your.

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Dad says, sell it. We need the money for a down payment.

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I said, is that the last conversation we ever had? Is that the last conversation they ever had was them trying to sell my truck that they gave me? And so that's what he told me. I'm going to give it to you because I know you won't sell it. Then goes behind my back to my wife to have me sell it. And so I put it up for.

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Sale because I had all these people fighting me. Well, during that time, he passed away. And in that, we did get it sold. And I was able to help pay for some of my dad's stuff when he died. So that kind of floated for a while. So it did sell, and I got rid of it.

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And you know, one thing I think.

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I thought I would like to have that back.

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And there's not a man in here.

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That doesn't have a car or something that we regret getting rid of. Is that true? Women, I don't know about you, it may not be the same.

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You hold onto your stuff. Women hold on to their stuff, but they make the men sell their stuff. Hypocrites go into the woman's jewelry box and just dump it in a box and take down the swap meet, hey, we're going to go sell stuff. Let's go. All of a sudden, the rules have.

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Changed.

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But there's not a man in.

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Here that doesn't have regret about selling something. Is that true? I didn't sell mine in a way that is normal. It was forced on me. I was forced.

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And so in that I don't want to ever get to the end of.

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My life and say, did I sell it because I didn't believe God was going to fund it for me, or did I do that? If I want to keep it, I'm going to keep it.

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Don't ever get rid of Stuff because.

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You feel like you have to sell something to get something.

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Because I learned. What are you saying this for? I learned. Every man I've talked to said, I.

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Used to have a car like that, Man, I wish I didn't sell it.

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And so I took my learnings from.

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This and said, I'm not going to sell anything unless I really don't want it.

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I'm not going to sell it for a financial reason. There's not a man that hasn't sold.

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Something for a financial reason.

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Right, Patrick, Debbie here, right? I mean, your husband. We're going to sell this, we're going to sell that. And they get to the end of their life and they see someone else.

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Had the car that they had, and they go, I wish I never sold it. Because those times passed. The hard times passed, and they could have kept it. So what?

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I'm telling you this.

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What are you saying? I'm saying don't give up on miracles. Don't give up on signs and wonders. Don't give up that blind people can see. What do we have to lose? They're going to call us crazy. That's all right. That's not a problem.

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The comment sections is full of hate.

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That's all right. That's not a problem.

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Well, they say, you guys are too prosperous.

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You shouldn't have this and that. That's fine. That's not a problem. Because at the end of my life, they'll be dead. Right.

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Most of them are probably fat keyboard warriors that sit in their house with a tray on top of their belly and just comment all day long.

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Keyboard warriors. Amen.

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So it matters. It matters that when we get to.

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The end of our life, that we never say, man, I wish I would have pushed a little bit more. Faith takes risks of one's reputation. There's a story of Wigglesworth, and he was. There was a woman, and they brought her up in a wheelchair. And the tumor was so big, it hung out from underneath her skirt onto the floor. And they held it up with a cloth, and it gave her such tremendous pain. When she would stand up, it was a tremendous amount of pain. And he said to the ushers, he said, I want you to get that lady up. Think about this. They would stand her up. He would curse it. He would. I think he would hit it. I'm not sure about that. And then he would hit it, and it was. And she would start screaming and fall back into the chair. And the ushers were. The whole place started to really step back and say, whoa, this is too much. This is too much. And he did that multiple times to where the people and the congregation now said, you need to stop this. This has gone too far. And he said. I said, get her up. And he got her up again and hit it. And the thing fell off on the floor. And from that moment, she was completely healed. And I asked myself, I said, stephen, if God told me to do this in front of everyone, in front of me, in the congregation, believers supposedly, would I be able to do what God told me to do? Could I get to the end of my life? And said, you know what? That congregation, they altered me. And I stopped. And I wish I would have just done what God told me to do.

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So I don't want to ever regret.

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Those things in life. Write this down. Number one, you believe. Next, you receive.

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Three, act on it.

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And four, expect it. Believe, receive, act on it. And expect it. I'm almost done. It says here, I said this a couple days ago. And it will be given to you that seek and to you will find. Knock, and it will be opened.

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So that means there is a door.

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In front of us, and it's not open, so you have to knock at it. And he said this to me. The miracle door is never locked, but it's only opened with continuous faith.

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So what do we have to lose? We have more teaching, more videos. We live in a time.

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You can Turn on Nancy DeFrain, brother Copeland, dad Hagin, people that have been dead for many years and fill yourself with the word of God all day long. But what is it supposed to get us to? Just full word and that's it?

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Are you supposed to get to a place where you step out in faith.

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That you've never been before and say, I'm ready to believe. I'm ready to do the things that God told me to do. I'm ready to believe for a building that we could never afford. He didn't tell you to pay for it. He told you to believe for it. And that's what I tell myself every day. I said, stephen, he didn't tell us to pay for it. He told us to believe for it. Now, that's Brother Jesse. I'm just taking what he said.

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Faith must be practiced.

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The more you work it, the better you get at it.

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So miracles have to be practiced.

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Think about that.

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You have to practice the miracle flow. You have to practice by stepping into that place you've never been before. And if they criticize you for failing, how can you practice? If you don't go there, you have to step into that place. You have to start doing the things.

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That God told you to do. I prayed for a young man was in a car crash and they brought him up completely. What's the word? Crippled. I would say from the old time, you would say retarded. You would say, I don't know the new current word. My dad would say vegetable. I'm not saying that to be mean, but completely slobber coming down his face. He's got tubes, he's got all these things. He was perfectly fine. He got into a car crash completely made him unresponsive in life. And he was on some type of bed, like a wheelchair bed. And they brought him up and I saw him back there and I said, that's the guy I've been waiting for. Because I'm telling myself that's not too big for God. It's not too big. It's not too big. And they brought him up and she told me this story. And this was his mom. And I said for her, I said, I know this man has altered your life because now you're a servant to him. Because of the situation. She had to do everything for him. Complete the feed him, bathroom, shower, everything. And I thought to myself, I thought, this is big. What do I do in this time? How do I do this? And I had to go to a place in my spirit and use my imagination to bring miracles to life. And I said, whether or not they push him out here completely healed or not, I refuse to give up and believe that this man. I told the mom, I laid hands and I said, I see your son in my spirit. You've just woken up one morning and he's standing in the kitchen and he's making his breakfast. And I said, I see it in my spirit. I said, can you see it? She said, I can see it. I said, then that's it. If I can get you involved. And to this day, that was a couple years ago. And I said, you, son is healed. I see it. Lay hands on the sick, they will recover. Therefore, I believe it, I receive it. And I believe your son is completely healed. From this moment forward. He's healed.

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In that when I get to the end of my life, what I just kind of hopefully steer away.

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From this type of problem because it's so big. I'll stay with people with the flu, I'll lay hands, I can do small things, but what about the big things? And I say, those are the people I'm waiting for.

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What if you fail? What if I do what If I do fail, but it's not about me. He told me to lay hands on the sick. So anytime there is something like that, don't ever hold something accountable to your pastor or hold something. Because we're all learning. We're all pushing forward. The world's already given that man a death notice, Rip. It's over. But for the Christians, we say there's more to this. The story doesn't stop here. Mom gave a testimony a couple nights ago about that young man that didn't have feet. She drug him around the house. We know the story for one year and never gave up. Because she said, think about that. If she got to the end of.

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Her life and said, I'm grateful I didn't give up. I'm grateful that I didn't stop. I didn't stop believing.

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So I ask you, what have you.

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Let go that you should have never let go of today?

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What miracles can you believe for? Why wouldn't you say that Jesus could heal that?

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Why wouldn't you say that to somebody? Because we're nervous that nothing will happen. Trust me, that happens to me, too.

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I'm nervous, too. I don't like. I don't like failure.

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I don't like to mess up.

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No. No business person likes to make a mistake on clients.

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Nobody likes to have a reputation go south.

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But when it comes to faith, you have to step out on uncertainty, the place you've never been before, because that's where miracles are. They're not in comfort.

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They don't live there.

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They live in a place that doesn't.

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Exist in the human realm.

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That's why he told Moses, you need to go to the next step in faith. And to do that, you can't use a physical item.

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You have to speak to it. He refused to believe it.

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And he said, because of that, at.

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The end of your day, you're going to say, I wish I would have said it. And that's what happened. Amen.

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Have y' all been helped today?

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Zacharias, we know, was a priest, and he was believing for John. Think about this. Here's a man that is believing for something that he couldn't physically get. He was believing for a miracle, and an angel appeared to him and said, you're going to have a son named John, and we know the story. And he says that he couldn't believe it. And he said, I have to shut your mouth until the child's born because you're going to mess this thing up. Because the miracle that you were believing for is coming And I can't imagine. At the end of his life, he said, I regret not rejoicing at that moment. I regret that, like mom said, it's recorded forever, that an angel had to shut my mouth because I refused to believe what I was actually believing for. So in that, I encourage us all today. We're all believing for miracles, right? We're all believing for things that are greater than we've ever seen before.

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So never dismiss the desire for miracles. Never dismiss telling people what God could do for them. Never dismiss a testimony of a miracle. Never stop talking about it. The more we desire it, the more we talk about it, the more we have it. The world is sicker than it's ever been. With all the medications we've ever seen, it's sicker than it's ever been.

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The world needs miracles. Miracles are the dinner bell for the world. Hands down.

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Not churches, not good preaching. We have good preaching everywhere. Wonderful preaching.

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But it's amiss without the miracles. Amen.

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Have y' all been blessed today? Thank you, guys. What a blessing.

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