God Is Always Doing So Much More Than You Think He Is I Pastor Denny Duron I Social Dallas

Summary

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Podcast Summary: "God Is Always Doing So Much More Than You Think He Is"

Podcast: Social Dallas Podcast
Episode Date: December 7, 2025
Guest Speaker: Pastor Denny Duron
Host: Pastor Robert Madu

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Episode Overview

In this powerful episode, Social Dallas welcomes the esteemed Pastor Denny Duron, a seasoned leader recognized for his legacy in ministry, leadership, and faith. Centered around the theme that "God is always doing so much more than you think He is," the message unpacks biblical stories, personal experiences, and practical encouragements for those facing challenges in family, finances, and personal failures. With dynamic storytelling, scriptural insight, and an atmosphere thick with hope and faith, Pastor Denny calls believers to recognize God’s unseen activity in their lives, even when circumstances look bleak.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. [00:40] Introduction & The Role of Spiritual Fathers

• Pastor Robert introduces Pastor Denny Duron, highlighting the difference between instructors and true spiritual fathers:

  "You have thousands of instructors, but not many fathers... Today you're going to hear from a father." (00:53, Pastor Robert)

• Pastor Denny commends Social Dallas' leadership and the visible move of God in the community.

2. [05:25] Biblical Case Study: Joshua & Rahab

• Pastor Denny references Joshua 2, focusing on Israel’s uncertainty facing Jericho and Rahab’s role in confirming that God was preparing victory, even before the battle had begun.
• Key Insight: God works behind the scenes, orchestrating victory ahead of time.

3. [08:25] Main Theme Declaration

• Pastor Denny delivers the sermon’s central message:

  "God is always doing so much more than you think He is." (08:25, Pastor Denny)

• Audience participation is encouraged, reinforcing the message's urgency and hope.

4. [09:35] God's Greater Plan: More Than We See

• Using figures like Abraham, Joseph, Esther, and David, Pastor Denny illustrates how God’s vision for an individual’s life always surpasses human understanding.

  • Examples:
    • Abraham: More than becoming a father; he was to be the patriarch of faith.
    • Joseph: Beyond favored son and dreamer; he became a nation’s deliverer.
    • Esther: Not just a beauty queen, but a deliverer of her people.

• Notable Quote:

  “If you would have asked God, what are you doing in the life of Abraham, Father? He would have said, I will make him the prototype and father of faith.” (10:10, Pastor Denny)

5. [13:18] The Nature of Real Faith

• Faith isn’t just believing God will come through in favorable circumstances, but trusting Him when there’s nothing to work with:

  "Faith is believing when God has nothing to work with, the circumstances are wrong, and nobody is willing to help." (14:13, Pastor Denny)

• Real faith is needed most in three common battles:
  Family, Finances, and Failure (15:08, Pastor Denny)

6. [16:01] Family Struggles: Trusting God’s Hidden Work

• Pastor Denny addresses heartbreak in families—rebellious children, addiction, broken relationships—in connection to the story of the Prodigal Son.

• He shares personal family stories of struggle and breakthrough (e.g., his son's spiritual wandering, his daughter's painful rejection and transformation).

• Memorable Moment:

  "God interrupted me... and He said, 'Hey, will you settle down? I can handle this. You have a covenant with me... you will be saved and your house.'" (19:22, Pastor Denny)

• He outlines how unseen divine work is ongoing even in seemingly hopeless family situations.

7. [28:15] Financial Challenges: Divine Provision

• Pastor Denny details the anxiety and depression caused by financial pressures, noting faithfulness in finances even amid lack.

• He dismantles the myth that “provision always follows vision,” suggesting that God finances faith-filled action, not just ideas.

• Notable Quote:

  "God doesn’t finance ideas. He doesn't finance intentions. He finances faith." (31:36, Pastor Denny)

• Real stories:

  • Visiting a small fellowship at a university as an act of obedience led—years later—to an unexpected $6 million bequest that saved their church's school.
  • Obedience, even in small, unseen actions, triggers blessings far beyond expectation.

• Memorable Moment:

  "[The lawyer said]...This check is for a million dollars... Next is so you can get out of debt. This check is for $5 million." (38:37, Pastor Denny)

8. [40:09] Seed, Faith, and Generosity

• Pastor Denny announces his own $10,000 offering, stating he fully expects God to multiply it many times over.
• Quote:

  "There's not a chance that that $10,000 is not going to come back a hundredfold. ...God is always doing so much more than you think He is." (40:28, Pastor Denny)

9. [41:13] Invitation: Responding in Faith

• A call for those who feel this is their "one moment" to respond—regarding family, finances, or failures—to step forward and receive prayer.
• A prophetic declaration for the congregation to "rise from discouragement" and believe that God is working in unseen ways.

10. [43:23] Closing Prayer & Blessing

• Pastor Robert closes with prayer, summarizing the message of faith and declaring future generational impact due to today's steps of faith.

  "Lord, we receive this word today and declare that we are good soil for this word today. ...We are not defined by any failure, that you have so much more in store for us in our future." (43:20, Pastor Robert)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments with Timestamps

• "God is always doing so much more than you think He is."
  (08:25, Pastor Denny Jaron)

• "Faith is believing when God has nothing to work with, the circumstances are wrong and nobody is willing to help..."
  (14:13, Pastor Denny Jaron)

• "God doesn’t finance ideas. He doesn't finance intentions. He finances faith."
  (31:36, Pastor Denny Jaron)

• "If I had not obeyed God and gone to the prayer meeting..."
  (39:53, Pastor Denny Jaron)

• "There’s not a chance that that $10,000 is not going to come back a hundredfold. ...God is always doing so much more than you think He is."
  (40:28, Pastor Denny Jaron)

• "Lord, we receive this word today and declare that we are good soil for this word today. ...We are not defined by any failure, that you have so much more in store for us in our future."
  (43:23, Pastor Robert)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:40 – Intro & context, spiritual fathers
• 05:25 – Joshua, Rahab, and Israel’s unseen victory
• 08:25 – Main theme declaration
• 09:35-12:25 – Biblical figures: God’s greater plans
• 13:18-15:15 – Faith’s nature & common battles
• 16:01-24:58 – Family: struggle, stories & God’s hidden work
• 28:15-34:00 – Finances: faith, provision, obedience
• 34:09-39:53 – Miraculous provision story
• 40:09 – Seed, generosity, and expectancy
• 41:13-43:23 – Call to respond, final prayers and blessing

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Tone and Language

The episode carries a warm, direct, encouraging tone throughout. Pastor Denny is earnest, vulnerable, and emphatic, engaging the audience with both humor and urgency. Scriptural truths are paired with real-life stories, providing both comfort and challenge.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is a stirring, hope-filled call to see beyond the surface of your circumstances. Whether facing family strife, financial stress, or wrestling with failure, the message repeatedly affirms—through biblical history and modern testimony—that God is always active, plotting redemptive, restorative stories even in our darkest and most uncertain moments. The episode will bolster your faith, bring perspective, and give you practical encouragement to trust God more deeply, knowing He is always doing more than you can see.

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Transcript

[Pastor Robert]

Hey, family, before we get into the message, Taylor and I wanted to invite you into something big happening right here at Social Dallas. God has given us an incredible 90,000 square foot building, and we're believing for $6 million to break ground to make it home.

[Taylor Maddox]

Yes, and every dollar moves dirt. If this ministry has ever blessed you or spoken to you in any season, would you prayerfully consider partnering with us? Your generosity, it helps us turn this building into a home where people will meet Jesus for generations.

[Pastor Robert]

Absolutely. You can give.

Give, or click the link in the description because we are almost home.

Are you glad to be in God's house? You look good. You look planted in the house of the Lord. How many thankful that you're flourishing because you've been planted all year long. That is our word. Come on, y'. All.

We have this Sunday and next Sunday to declare our verse of the year. We've been reading it every single Sunday. So come on, let's give some last year enthusiasm. Y' all ready? Psalm 92, verses 13 through 15. Hold up. Before we read, how many of you got it memorized?

How many are still working on it? Lord help you. Come on. Year's almost over. We about to have a new word and verse. Come on, let's read it together. 1, 2, 3. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age, they shall be fresh and flourishing to declare that the Lord is upright. He's my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

You sound good.

You sound real good.

Social fam. Today I have an incredible privilege to introduce an incredible man. When the apostle Paul writes to the church of Corinth, he tells them in chapter four that you have thousands of instructors, but not many fathers. I think that could be said of a generation. Today. We don't have many fathers, but today you're going to hear from a father. You're going to hear from a man who his life preaches loud. If you've ever been blessed by the ministry of Pastor Don Cherie or Rich Wilkerson Jr. You have seen his legacy. You've seen the fruit of his life. My kids were having a moment today, especially my son, because they have watched the amazing documentary that Amazon prime has done. God, family football. He has pastored for decades. He is a general of the faith, and he's here at Social Dallas today. Social. I want you to put your hands together and help me welcome somebody I admire and respect, Pastor Denny Jaron. As he comes to bring the word. Come on social.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Well, the half has never been told. I couldn't wait to get here and see this for myself. I've heard about it, I've watched it online. Yes, it's 73 year old guy. I can still get online.

But I wanted to see it with my own eyes. And I want to tell you the glory of God has settled in the metroplex.

God has raised you up for such a time as this. The other thing is that I am the biggest fan of your leaders. I can tell you that Pastor Robert and Taylor Maddox are a force in the world for the kingdom of God.

Not only is their name known and respected, but I can tell you that.

[Pastor Robert]

They have been exalted to a place.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Of leadership and focus in the body of Christ worldwide.

[Pastor Robert]

God has given you the best leadership.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

There is available on the planet. And I want you to give your leaders a great, great round of appl.

I. I was gonna get up and say, you know that you have one of the greatest teachers of the word of God and your pastors and Pastor Robert isn't bad either.

But of course this is what we know about Pastor Robert is that he's the prince of preachers. You're just not going to hear a better word week in and week out than by coming right here to this place. He's always going to be a man who stands here, who sought God. I have heard him preach so many times and every time he's told me things I don't know. And I've been in the ministry 50 years. This year.

[Pastor Robert]

We're gonna get right into the Word.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

This morning and I'm gonna ask you to.

Turn in your Bibles to Joshua the second chapter, or if you use your phone for that, that's great. If you wanna just follow along on the screen, that's fine as well. I am not going to read this story today. I just want you to know where it is so that you can read it later. And I would suggest that you read the whole chapter through verse 11.

This is basically what has happened.

The children of Israel have come for the second time to the Jordan. They have now crossed the Jordan instead.

[Pastor Robert]

Of being turned back by fear like.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

The previous group had been. And now they stand before Jericho, this mighty fortressed city.

[Pastor Robert]

They're having pregame butterflies.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

They understand that this is a major challenge.

[Pastor Robert]

They don't know how many soldiers that.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Jericho possesses behind those walls.

[Pastor Robert]

They don't know the kind of weaponry.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

That they are going to be squaring off against.

[Pastor Robert]

All they know is that God has said, I'm gonna give you the city. And the plan, frankly, is one that doesn't seem too sound to the human intellect and imagination, but yet they're going to follow through with it. Well, in the days leading up, Joshua was able to deploy spies into the city. And there was a woman by the.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Name of Rahab who actually was a madam of a house of prostitution.

[Pastor Robert]

And they went to this house and she hid them because God had already spoken to her. Well, when she began to talk to them about how the people inside the city felt, they were shocked because the Holy Spirit had already been inside those walls before the children of Israel were going to be able to sound the attack. And this is what basically she said.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

All of us are in fear and trembling. We've heard about what your God has.

[Pastor Robert]

Done in the past, and we know that we are no match for you. Isn't that just like the Lord.

When you think a challenge is too great, that he is always doing so much.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

More than you think he is.

That.

[Pastor Robert]

He is always working behind the scenes, always running ahead of you. He is always one step, one thought beyond your own ability and intellect to grasp what the situation really is. And today I want to give you one thought that I pray will inspire you and bless you, strengthen you all week long.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

And here it is.

[Pastor Robert]

God is always doing. And when I get to that point, I want you to shout at me so much more.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

You ready?

[Pastor Robert]

God is always doing so much more.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Than you think he is.

[Pastor Robert]

God is always doing.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Than you think he is.

[Pastor Robert]

Father, I pray that during the next.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Few minutes that you will speak to us powerfully from your word. We need you in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated.

[Pastor Robert]

Throughout the word of God, we see this pattern. God is always doing.

Than we think he is. If you would have asked, Abraham, Abraham, what do you think God's doing in your life? He would have probably said, well, he told me we're gonna have a baby boy. And he said he was gonna make me rich. Don't know how he's gonna do that, but that's what he said. But if you had asked God, what are you doing in the life of Abraham, Father? He would have said, I will make him the prototype and father of faith. He will be the patriarch of all who call all on my name. If you would have asked, joseph, Joseph, what do you think God is doing in your life? He would have probably said, well, I think he's given me favor with my dad, and I've been having these amazing dreams. But if you would have asked God, what are you doing in Joseph's life? He would have clearly said, I will teach him the plight of Egyptian slaves. I will teach him the protocol of Egyptian royalty. Then I will place him in the palace of Pharaoh, and I will use him to preserve and advance my righteous remnant on the earth. If you would have asked, esther, esther, what do you think God's doing in your life? She'd have probably said, well, he let me win the king's beauty pageant, and the grand prize is I get to be the queen. But if you would have asked God what he was doing in Esther's life, he would have obviously said, I will make Esther the icon of the intercessor. I will make her history's most famous queen. I will use her beauty, her boldness and her brilliance to save my people from genocide. She will be a prophetic type and shadow of Messiah. If you were to ask, david, David, what do you think God is doing in your life? He may have said, well, I'm out here in the pasture writing all these songs. I think he might let me sing them to people one day. And not just these sheep. I think he might let me join my brothers in Saul's army one day. And who knows? God may even allow me to get out of the pasture and visit the big sacrifice city. But if you would have asked God, I believe he would have said, I will anoint David as a king after my own heart and as the commander in chief of my armies on the earth. I will allow him to conquer the Jebusite city of Jerusalem. And I will call it by his name. I will make him the hope of his people. And from his lineage will come Messiah, the son of David.

Say it with me this morning. God is always doing.

Than we think he is. I want to speak to your hearts.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

With this simple but profound truth today.

[Pastor Robert]

You see, I understand how tough it.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Is to fight for your faith. How many of you feel like you are in a fight right now for your faith? We are living in a world that is inundated with trials, trauma, and temptation. It is inundated with trouble.

[Pastor Robert]

It seems that everything is a challenge. Have you ever been through a period.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Like that where everything seems to be a challenge?

[Pastor Robert]

We know the word of God says.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

If we have faith as the grain.

[Pastor Robert]

Of a mustard seed, we can say.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

To this mountain, be removed and cast into the sea.

[Pastor Robert]

But we cannot seem for the life.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Of us even to muster the mustard seed. But today, hear me, faith is not believing. God can if he's got something to work with it's not believing God can. If the circumstances are right, it's not believing God can.

[Pastor Robert]

If he has allies, it's not believing God can.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

If the doctors think there's a chance.

[Pastor Robert]

It'S not believing God can. If we've been fiscally responsible, it's not believing God can. If the right party is in power, it's not believing God can. If the right judge is on the case, it's not believing God can. If it's logical, practical, feasible or possible. Faith is believing. When God has nothing to work with, the circumstances are wrong and nobody is willing to help that. God not only can, but God is always doing.

Than you think he is.

You know, in this audience this morning.

There are three major battles of faith, and they are the most common battles of every audience in every church meeting.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Everywhere in America and the world on this Sunday. Here they are, this Trinity trial. Number one, family.

Number two, finances.

And number three.

Our own failure.

[Pastor Robert]

If our families are fine, if our finances are fine, if we feel God's grace is covering our failures.

We'Re usually okay.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

But today, some of you are facing the toughest days of your life. In one or all of those areas, how many of you will raise your hand and say, you're preaching to me, Pastor, you're preaching to me.

You know, it seems so hopeless at times. You don't see any change. The only light at the end of the tunnel seems to be the next freight train of crisis that's headed your way.

But here's what you need to understand.

[Pastor Robert]

God is always doing.

In your family.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Than you think he is.

[Pastor Robert]

What does a believer do when his son or daughter is hardened to the Gospel?

What happens when you get a call.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

From the narcotics unit asking where your son is?

[Pastor Robert]

What do you believe when your daughter.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Is living with her abusive boyfriend and won't return your calls?

[Pastor Robert]

What do you hold onto when your.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Precious grandkids are living in the filth of a crack house?

[Pastor Robert]

What comfort is there when you come home to the verbal and emotional abuse of an addicted spouse?

What do you hold on to when you know the marshal is on his way to evict you and your three babies and there is nobody to call.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

And nowhere to go? This is what you hang on to.

[Pastor Robert]

God is always doing.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Than you think he is. You know, we miss some of the emotion and pathos in the stories that Jesus told. For instance, the story of the prodigal son, which should be named the story of the loving Father.

[Pastor Robert]

It is a story as up to.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Date and relevant as it can Be. Can you even imagine the pain of.

[Pastor Robert]

This loving father who did everything right but still watched his precious boy squander.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

His inheritance, his honor and his health?

How many sleepless nights, how many hopeless tears, how many days of disappointment and crushing condemnation did that father experience?

[Pastor Robert]

How many bartering sessions with God?

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

God, I'll lay down my life, my ministry, anything. Just bring him home. What he didn't know is that what he thought he knew wasn't the fact. In fact, he had no idea.

[Pastor Robert]

While he grieved and interceded and tried to muster enough faith to believe that one day.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

One day the boy had come home.

[Pastor Robert]

In a pigsty with no rabbi to.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Tell him he was unclean in a.

[Pastor Robert]

Foreign country with no family, friends or support network.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

God was working and a believer's kid was coming to his senses.

[Pastor Robert]

You see, God is always doing.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Than.

[Pastor Robert]

You think he is in your family. You know, my oldest son, De Rod.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Had a little wayward spell when he went off to California to college.

[Pastor Robert]

And I was driving down the road in Shreveport. He was not in the car, no.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

One was in the car.

[Pastor Robert]

But I began to have a very.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Articulate and heated conversation with my oldest son.

[Pastor Robert]

I was telling him about his heritage, about the fact that he was a fourth generation Holy Ghost man and he needed to straighten up. He needed to begin to do the things that he knew in his heart were right. And I was absolutely prolific. You should have heard my speech. And then all of a sudden, God interrupted me. And he spoke to me in a voice that was a loud thought in my consciousness, louder than audible. And he said, hey, will you settle down? I can handle this.

He said, you have a covenant with me. And that is, you will be saved and your house. I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I have come to social to say this to you. You may be despondent. You may be on the verge of giving up. Don't you give up on your family because you serve a God who is always doing than you think he is.

My daughter went through a tough, tough.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Time in high school.

It was a time of social rejection. This is not Dawn, Cherie. This is my oldest daughter.

I want to say this to you.

[Pastor Robert]

I was so angry because I had.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Part in starting this school.

[Pastor Robert]

I was ready to close the thing down.

You don't hurt my daughter. You don't reject my baby girl. She's the apple of my eye. She's the dearest thing to my heart. I was angry.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

I'll never forget walking in the house one night and hearing a little sob from her room because she was always the one who put on the brave face. Never talked about this, but I knew what was happening. And I just slipped into her room and sat down by the bed, and I said, baby, are you okay? And she looked at me and said, dad, maybe they're right about me. And I want to tell you. My blood boiled. I was so angry.

The lord spoke to my heart sitting there, and he gave me a word I didn't want to hear. He said, let her drink her cup of pain. I am preparing her for a work.

[Pastor Robert]

As a result.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Of that experience, my daughter came to SMU in Dallas. She didn't go to school with any of her high school friends. She chose her own charted path.

And there at smu, she distinguished herself. She graduated summa cum laude in two schools. They argued over where she would speak on graduation day. She.

Chose the School of Asian Studies over the School of Business.

Because she had fallen in love with the foreign exchange students at our high school. We had 20 kids from China that year. When she graduated, she became the liaison between those kids and the culture.

She taught them about all of our holidays, all of the special events at the school. I'll never forget coming home one day, and there she was, pulling out dresses out of her closet and allowing the girls to try on dresses because it was prom and she was gonna make sure that they looked the part. She not only fell in love with those kids, she fell in love with her culture.

She fell in love with her language.

At smu, they offered two years of Chinese. She finished those two years, they added two more years for her. And when she graduated from smu, she not only had a double major, but she also was able to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. She lived in China three different times, but probably the high point was when destiny had an opportunity to speak to some Chinese pastors. And everyone on the program that day.

Spoke, of course, in English with an interpreter. But when she took the pulpit to preach, she began to preach in Mandarin Chinese. And it was like those men were so overwhelmed by that gesture that a fresh anointing fell on that crowd.

[Pastor Robert]

I thought, dear God, thank you, because.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

You are always doing.

Than we think you are.

Here's what the word of God Sundays in Isaiah 40. And some of you need this, and I want you to take it to heart. He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have young. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord or instruct the Lord as his counselor? Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding? To whom will you compare me or.

[Pastor Robert]

Who is my equal?

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens.

[Pastor Robert]

Who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

One by one and calls forth each.

[Pastor Robert]

Of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say Israel?

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

My way is hidden from the Lord.

[Pastor Robert]

My cause is disregarded by my God. Do you not know? Have you not heard?

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.

[Pastor Robert]

He will not grow tired or weary. His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall. But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings of eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint. I'm here to declare that your God is always doing.

Than you think he.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Is.

[Pastor Robert]

Right now lift your hands. I declare this over you. Today you will rise from your discouragement, say Amen. You will throw off the torment of the enemy. You will believe again. For I prophetically declare to you that in the unseen, the realm of faith, God is doing more than you could ever ask or imagine. In your family you will be reconciled to your parents. You will be included in your son and daughter in law's life. Again you will see the plan of God in the restoration of your marriage. You will see healing and wholeness and victory over bondage, addiction and disease. In your family you will see the glory of God. Because God is always doing.

Than you think he is. Give him praise.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

I want to switch categories.

[Pastor Robert]

God is always doing.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

In your finances than you know. You know it's a fact that debt is the top indicator among Americans of depression, anxiety, stress and guilt.

Fact arguments about finances are the number one predictor of imminent divorce.

[Pastor Robert]

As believers, we're called to financial accountability.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

But we also have a covenant that gives us a faith edge.

[Pastor Robert]

Your covenant keeping God is always doing.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Say it with me. So much more than you think he is.

[Pastor Robert]

Remember when God got ready to deliver.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

His People from Egypt.

[Pastor Robert]

He already had the plans for his.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Worship center.

Moses Tabernacle, as it would be called.

[Pastor Robert]

So he moved the hearts of the Egyptians to give their silver and gold to the departing Israeli slaves. God is always doing.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Than we think he is. David Wilkerson, who is my mentor in ministry, said this to me one day. If you'll honor God, Denny, if you'll pray, live a holy life, God will always send you the money you need to do the work of the Lord. I pass that on to you, brother Robert.

Financially, in a crisis or a tough time.

It'S tough.

To ever get rid of that pressure. Do you agree?

It greets you the first thing in the morning. It's the last thing that you think about before you go to bed at night. We know that God finances vision, but the fact is, sometimes there is seemingly a lack of provision. A man said to me.

[Pastor Robert]

Provision follows vision. If you have vision, then you'll have provision. You know, I don't even believe that. I don't.

Because I have a lot of vision. And Shreveport would look a lot different if I had provision.

If I had all the money I needed. I'm just going to tell you I would do something.

About the kids that have no place to go in my city. I would do something about refurbishing dilapidated and decaying neighborhoods. I would do something about the disparity between suburban and inner city schools. I would do something about changing the way that people look at our city. I'm going to tell you, provision is something that all of us need to believe for.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Can you say amen? I want to tell you that God doesn't finance ideas.

[Pastor Robert]

He doesn't finance intentions. He doesn't finance dreams. He doesn't finance great plans. God finances faith.

Now, he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. When you act on a word from God, he will begin to do things that are beyond your ability to fathom. But he waits on you to act. God doesn't finance conditional promises. He finances the sower, the doer, the one who is already giving what he has in his hand. Next week, you have your special offering. God is providing you a first step out of financial crises. Your pastor's not just taking this offering to build the next building. Your pastor is taking this offering so that you have a way out of financial pressure, so that you are able to see God take what you give and multiply it exceedingly, abundantly. Above all that you're able to ask or think.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

The Bible says, give and you will receive.

[Pastor Robert]

Your gift will return to you in.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Full, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more running over, poured into your lap.

[Pastor Robert]

The amount you give, and this is.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

The phrase I want to point out.

[Pastor Robert]

The amount you give will determine the amount you get back. And really what that's talking about is.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

The container that you use.

[Pastor Robert]

In other words, if you give to God with the big scoop, he'll use.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

The big scoop to bless you.

[Pastor Robert]

If you give God with the little scoop, he'll use the little scoop to bless you. But don't you ever mistake this. We do give because God moves upon our hearts and because he's been so good to us. But we also give to get because God has built in a plan for his people to always have more than enough. And he says, if you will trust me with it, then I can promise you I will bless you.

I'm going to close with this.

There's always something God is going to.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Ask you to do.

In order to see him work in your life in any area. It's the same in finances. Something, and sometimes it seems unrelated. Let me tell you about a moment in my life. I got a call from Centenary University, which is a college in Shreveport, Louisiana, local college. Some of you remember the chief who played for the Celtics, he's from Centenary, that's where he played his basketball. And the call came from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

[Pastor Robert]

And they said, pastor, we were just calling to see if you would come.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

And speak to our fca.

[Pastor Robert]

And I said, well, how many normally attend the meeting?

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

He said, well, if we have a.

[Pastor Robert]

Good crowd, we'll have five.

And I said, well, let me tell you, I'll call my youth pastor and.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Let him make contact. You may want to have him. I got off the phone and the Lord reminded me a covenant I made with him at the beginning of my ministry.

[Pastor Robert]

And that was if he opened the.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Doors, I would step through them. And it didn't have to be a big door, it was just every door. And so the Lord spoke to my heart and just said, well, have.

The conditions of your commitment change, Denny.

I immediately, in the fear of God, called that kid back. I said, I'd love to come. I said, all right.

[Pastor Robert]

I showed up.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

It was a large crowd, five.

[Pastor Robert]

Four of those kids followed me back.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Home.

And all four of them went into full time ministry.

So you just never know what God's going to ask you to do.

A couple years later, our Christian school was in Trouble. And I'm talking about a lot of trouble.

We were $400,000 in debt and we were going in the whole $40,000 a month. And it was over for us. We were finished. And our school is really our outreach, not only to the community, but to our state. And now, as it's evolved, to the nation. We are in our fourth season of God Family football, this docudrama that started on Amazon and now is running on Fox Nation.

But we almost didn't make it.

We were done financially.

Got a call from a lawyer in Orlando. He said, do you know Ms. Margie Brown? I said, yes, I do. She visited our school. Said, well, she died. I said, oh, I'm so sorry to hear it. Said, but she left you something.

He said, I'd like to come give it to you. But he was so unemotional that I didn't think it was much money. I sure didn't think it was going to bail us out. So he arrives.

And, you know, I tried to, like, get a hint from him, but he was just, you know, being a lawyer.

And didn't give me any indication.

We went to Steak and Ale, where my mom, who was the founder of the school and her staff had gathered. These were people that didn't always get paid their salaries and often were asked to pick up bills themselves and pay them for the school. And they were faithful missionaries in this other side of the track private school that we ran.

So the gentleman asked, would you like to do this before or after the salad bar? And I thought, well, that's not going to be any money.

He's asking a question like that.

[Pastor Robert]

I said, well, let's just do it.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Before the salad bar. I thought, whatever it is, you know, we'll pay somebody if it's $10,000, you know, we'll pay the light people or something. And.

[Pastor Robert]

He said, well, here's the first check.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

And he reached in. We were meeting at Steak and Ale. I'll never forget it. He reached in and he took the first check out. And he said, this check is for a million dollars and it's so you can continue to help underprivileged kids.

We turned Steak and Ale into Shout and Yell.

We had a Holy Ghost benefit right there, all of us. And then he said, as he sat there stoically.

There'S another check. And we said, oh, there's another check. So we settled down and.

He reached in, he said, now this is so you can get out of debt. This check is for $5 million.

[Pastor Robert]

But how did this lady in Baltimore. Find out about us.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

At Centenary College, there were four young men, and then there was this cheerleader.

The cheerleader's mom was an intercessor and a personal valet for the lady in Baltimore.

And if I had not obeyed God.

And gone to the prayer meeting.

Here's how much I believe in. The offering next week is that Deonza and I are going to sow a seed of $10,000 into this offering.

[Pastor Robert]

You say that's so generous. Oh, no, no, no, my friend. I expect a return.

This is fertile soil. I know a good deal when I see it. There's not a chance that that $10,000 is going to come back a hundredfold. I understand what's happening here. And let me tell you, if you understand it, you will understand this. God is always doing.

Than you think he is. Stand with me, please, all over this place.

If this is your one moment to touch God.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Listen, for your family.

For your finances.

For your failures.

What would you do if this was your one chance? Here's what I'm gonna ask you to do. You say, pastor, if this was my one chance.

And this was it, this.

[Pastor Robert]

Was as close as I would ever.

[Pastor Denny Jaron]

Be to grasping the faith to get me where I need to be. You say, I cannot pass it up. I want you to step into that aisle. I want you to come right here, and I'm gonna pray for you right now, just without any delay. Hear? Faith. Come on. Come and stand right here. Come and stand right here.

Your family, your finances, your failures. You say, if this is my one chance, I will not pass it up. I will not pass it up. I want God to do something in me today. Today. I want it to happen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Pastor Robert to come, please.

Pastor, if you'll come. Praise God. Now, I want you to lift your hands just like this. I'm gonna just. I'm gonna just pray a short prayer, and then I'm gonna hand this over to Pastor. Lift your hands. Lord, you have seen the obedience.

And the hunger of your people.

Break through in the miraculous as only you can.

[Pastor Robert]

Thank you, God.

Father, we thank you today.

That you are doing exceedingly, abundantly, above all we could ask, think, or imagine. So, Lord, we receive this word today and we declare that we are good soil for this word today. God, we will not allow the enemy to make us doubt what you're doing. God, in our family, in our finances. And, God, I thank you that we are not defined by any failure, that you have so much more in store for us in our future. So God, I thank you today that we're getting our fight back, we're getting our faith back, we're getting our strength back. Because, God, we're not just doing it for us. Thank you that there are generations that are coming after us that will say thank you for believing. Thank you that you kept showing up. Thank you that you kept showing trust in God. And so we declare that it is so in Jesus name and everybody has faith to receive it today. Would you say amen? Amen. And give God the best praise that you got. Come on, Social, you could do better than that.