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Dr Charles Stanley - When Our Faith Wavers - Part 2
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When you're wavering your faith, you don't know Bay God and your family.
You don't do what God tells you to do.
Your children are going to suffer.
What we don't realize is that our disobedience and our wavering faith
and our unwillingness to obey God when He's challenged us to do something
that is, listen, that's taxing, that's challenging,
that doesn't fit human reason or whatever it might be,
when we don't ask Him and believe Him, listen.
It's costly to waver in your faith
because you and I don't realize what we lose in the process.
Nothing is as certain as God's faithfulness.
But when things don't work out as we expect,
we can feel haunted by the question,
where's God and why hasn't He done anything yet?
Today's edition of In Touch, the Teaching Ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley,
addresses those nagging fears
and looks at the consequences of doubting God
in part two of when our faith wavers.
Let's join Dr. Stanley for his message.
By faith, we're saved.
By faith, we experience forgiveness for our sins.
By faith, we have a personal relationship with God.
By faith, our prayers are answered.
By faith, we experience peace.
By faith, we experience the power of the Holy Spirit in our light.
And by faith, we face death fearlessly.
And by faith, we have the assurance of our salvation.
And so therefore, when you and I come to Him and we doubt Him
and we waver in our faith, we wonder oftentimes,
why is it God doesn't answer our prayer?
Why isn't we don't receive the things we're asking for?
Could it be that instead of having faith,
we have hope so's and maybe so's.
And I think so, rather than I'm confident and sure
that God is hearing and answering my prayer.
Now, there's some things we need not waver about.
There's some things that are just absolutely dead certain.
In March 11, listen to what He says.
What sort of things you desire when you pray?
Watch this now is what He says.
Believe that you have already received them, past ends.
And it will be granted to you.
You say, well, what I meant, that must be a mistake.
No, it's not a mistake.
Listen, what sort of things you desire when you pray,
He says, when you pray, believe that you have received them.
Already, that's the tenth of the verb.
You have already received them.
And what you believe is already yours will be granted to you.
That is perfect faith.
The Bible talks about little faith, great faith.
Jesus said, why are you of little faith?
And He talks about great faith.
And in James, He talks about the perfection of our faith.
The perfection of our faith is that I can walk away believing
that this good is done because God said it.
And I believe it and I have no real basic reason
for doubting that He's going to do what He says.
Would you not agree that an omniscient God knows
the exact perfect time to answer your prayer?
Yes, yes.
He knows exactly the right time.
So we have to be patient.
Wait upon Him to show us exactly what He wants to do.
Now, let's think about the consequences of wavering faith.
That is, what are the consequences?
Number one, you waver in your faith.
You make wrong decisions.
Make wrong decisions.
God tells you to do something and you waver in your faith.
I can't do this.
So your decision is I'm not going to do it.
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Listen, we camouflaged that I'm not gonna do it by saying,
well, I'll do it later.
That still means I'm not gonna do it.
Well, I'll do something that's equal to that.
So that's still I'm not gonna do it.
In other words, partial obedience is what?
Is disobedience.
Partial obedience is disobedience.
And so for whatever reason we tell him we're not gonna do it,
we don't do it, we make a mistake.
Let me give you an example.
God spoke to Abraham and told him to get up out of Heron,
leave his family, and go into the promised land.
That is King in the promised land.
But he says, I will show you as you go,
how to get where I want you to be.
So he goes, settles down, God provides the way,
provides for him, protects him,
and so everything's coming along fine.
Suddenly there is a famine in the land.
Now this same Abraham who trusted God
and God spoke to him right in the middle of a heathen culture
and he didn't have this book, the Bible.
And so God spoke to him.
He believed God, he followed God's leadership
and God blessed him and got him there.
Now famine comes to the land, what does he do?
He wares in his faith.
Now this omnipotent God who spoke to him so clearly
did exactly what he promised.
Now because there's less and less and less
and things are looking pretty bleak,
he decides on his own to go to Egypt.
And when he went to Egypt, he put his wife
in a terrible position because her to lie
and to have been greatly shamed because he was afraid
of his own life and he just messed it up badly.
Why? Because he met a wrong decision.
He wavered in his faith and did not do what God told him.
They stay right where you are and watch me provide for you.
So number one, we make mistakes.
You waver in your faith.
You back off from what God wants you to do
and what happens is you make a mistake.
The second consequence, listen,
now do we make mistakes?
It's costly.
It's costly when we waver in our faith.
Let me give you a good example in the scripture again.
All of us could give personal examples of these.
You recall that God had promised the Hebrew people
deliverance.
He raised up Moses, delivered him out of Egyptian bondage
across the Red Sea, down the side, not to receive the law,
and threw the wilderness up to the borders of a promised land.
And there they are.
And so Moses said, let's check it out.
Sent 12 spies over, they came back.
Two had a good report, 10 had a bad report.
10 said, we can't go over there.
They have walled cities and their giants in the land.
Well, it is just flowing with milk and honey
and huge vines of grapes and everything in the world
that God has promised, it's all there.
But their walled cities and there are giants in the land.
They would just eat us up.
They would just consume us and our families.
These are the same people who knew, who'd watched.
Moses simply take a stick and raise it up in faith to God
and the Red Sea opened up, allowed them to cross.
And then when they were all crossed,
the Egyptian cherished, plowed right into the same area
and God swallowing them up and absolutely defeated them
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What happened?
The whole nation waived in their faith at least most of them.
They said, oh, we can't do that.
Are we trusting God?
Yes, we're trusting God.
But listen, you know what?
We may lose our families, walled cities, fortresses,
armed men, biggest jobs.
No, we can't go.
Well, when I think about the cost of something,
I want you to turn back the numbers 14.
And I want to read this because it is so dramatic.
This is what it cost them to waver in their faith
when they were, listen, on the very brink
of the blessing God had promised them.
Oh, they've got to lose crossover.
And they waver in their faith.
And they listen carefully.
Sometimes we waver in our faith
in some crucial, critical issues in life.
And we miss it.
Now, I want you to see what they missed
because on the brink of it, they doubted.
Numbers chapter 14, beginning in verse 29.
Your corpses will fall in this wilderness.
Even all your numbered men, according
to your complete number from 20 years old and upward,
who have grumbled against me.
Surely you shall not come into the land
in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb,
the son of Jeffie and I, and Joshua, the son of none.
Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey,
I will bring them in.
And they will know the land which you have rejected.
But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.
Your sons shall be shepherds for 40 years in the wilderness.
And they will suffer for your unfaithfulness
until your corpses lie in the wilderness.
According to the number of days
which you spied out the land for 40 days,
for every day you shall bear your guilt a year,
even 40 years, and you shall know my opposition.
What a horrible, horrible price to pay
for wavering in their faith in disobeying God.
Now, I want you to listen very carefully,
listen and say, amen.
Dad, when you wavering your faith,
you don't obey God and your family.
You don't do what God tells you to do.
Your children are going to suffer.
Wife, mother, God tells you what to do,
challenges you in some area of your life.
You back off, some critical area, you back off,
you say no to God, your children are going to suffer.
And husbands and wives are going to suffer.
What we don't realize is that our disobedience
and our wavering faith and our unwillingness to obey God
when he's challenged us to do something
that is, listen, that's taxing, that's challenging,
that doesn't fit human reason or whatever it might be,
when we don't ask him and believe him.
Listen, when God challenges you
for something good he wants to do for you,
something that he wants to give you in your family.
You say, well, you're not, I suppose I feel,
I suppose I'm wrong and all this kind of stuff.
You fail everybody in their family suffers.
It's costly to waver in your faith
because you and I don't realize what we lose in the process.
It's very costly.
A third thing that happens is this.
We begin to be shaken by little things
and significant things.
When you begin to waver in your faith after a while
here's what happens.
It doesn't take much to cause you to doubt God.
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Real genuine confidence.
You don't endure.
You're not steadfastly going through life.
But it doesn't take much to, well, I'm not sure.
Well, I'm not certain.
It doesn't take much to get you to doubt.
You won't take the risk God wants you to take
and take the risk with God as absolute sure thing every time.
And what happens is you become unsteady.
And you see a person who's waving,
if that's the habit in your prayer life.
Listen, you will not do many things with certainty.
And secondly, you will not have the anticipation
and the expectancy and the excitement
about life that God wants you to have.
Because you have chosen to question him.
You've chosen to disobey him.
And you know what?
You're like a walking civil war.
That maybe you may feel like it's a little teeny
scarmish at times and then at times,
it's a raging civil war on the inside.
Well, I ought to trust him.
I know I should trust him.
I don't know who I don't trust him.
I want to believe him here, but you don't.
What kind of expectation?
How successful can you be in life?
If you do not walk with confidence and assurance
and boldness, listen, not in yourself,
but in the living God whom you are obeying
when he challenges you to do something in your life.
And you know, it's interesting that nothing
hinder the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was absolute God.
And so therefore, he could do anything and everything.
But it's very interesting in the scripture
when it comes to how Jesus worked.
Here, listen to what he says.
And he did not many miracles there
because of their unbelief.
Listen, do you know what keeps back the miracles
in your life?
You said, well, God doesn't want to do a miracle in my life.
How do you know that?
How do you know what God wants to do in your life
until you let him do it, until you position yourself
to be blessed?
What is that position?
God living and steadfast faith will get you
everything God has for you.
Now, I want you to listen very carefully
to this next statement so that you do not go away
misunderstanding.
So I want to ask you the question,
you're listening, say, man, this is very important.
This does not mean that every single time you waver,
God says, end of that.
Because remember, when you and I were saved,
we grew up knowing very little.
And so we learned to pray.
How do we learn to pray?
We sometimes asked the wrong thing.
Or sometimes we did just what we were talking about.
We'd say, well, God didn't answer my prayer.
Therefore, he must not be listening.
So what I want you to say is this.
And even after we come along in our Christian life,
and in Christians a long time, sometimes,
God may challenge us to do something
that at the moment, it's so big and so challenging for us
that we find ourselves saying, well, I'm not sure.
Well, I hope so.
I'll give an example in just a moment.
God, I'm trusting you.
What I want you to say is this, that there are times
when God sees us genuinely struggling to trust Him
because of the issue we are facing.
That He, not listen, not honoring our unbelief,
but He in His grace and mercy.
Listen, we'll bypass our struggling,
wavering faith in order to accomplish His sovereign purpose
in our life.
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We'll give us the desire of our heart,
what we're asking, even though at that moment we waive it.
Let me give you an example.
Probably the biggest challenge in my life in the ministry,
the biggest challenge to my faith
was back some many, many years ago.
We were asking God to help us to have three million dollars.
I told some property downtown.
And we had vowed, and I said publicly,
we're not gonna burn in money, we're gonna trust God.
Well, that's what I said,
because that's what I believed
and was absolutely certain,
that's exactly what I knew God was saying to me.
Trust me for this property,
which can't burn in money.
Well, I could get on my knees
and be absolutely certain God was gonna do it.
I walk out down Sunday morning
and look at both congregations,
first service and second service, and thank Lord.
It's a lot of money.
That's what I'd said to a lot of money.
And God, I don't see it here.
You know what the Lord said to me?
It's not for you to see.
It's for what I see, not for what you see.
So it came down to the time we had,
we had four days left.
We were lacking a million three hundred thousand dollars.
So that's Saturday afternoon.
I said, I'm gonna take a walk,
and I'm not coming home
till I'm absolutely certain.
You say, well, how long did you walk?
I'm pretty good a while.
Pretty good a while.
I walked and I talked to God,
and I reminded Him what I believed He'd said to me.
And I watched what He had done already,
and I recall that I know all those years of my life
at that point in the ministry,
in the Christian life, He never failed me a single time.
And I knew that this was the challenge of my faith.
It was the first big public challenge of my faith.
I knew that I could have been horribly embarrassed,
put the church in a very bad situation financially,
embarrassed us all over the city,
and probably a lot of folks that have lost faith
in me as their pastor,
I walked till I knew that I had to say, God,
I know what I heard,
and in spite of what else I've heard around me,
and what else I see when I look out there,
and how much money we need yet to receive,
and that we only have three days,
I'm gonna trust you no matter what.
When the time came, had every single penny of it.
Every penny of it.
Did my faith waver?
It was a little tough, I'll have to admit that.
So what do I want you to see is this, that's okay.
God understands there are some situations
and circumstances, listen.
When the challenge is awesome,
and sometimes it will be in your life and something
that with somebody else that may not be awesome at all,
but in your life, in your family, in your situation,
it's a big deal.
Don't discount it, don't discredit it,
don't try to belittle it, it's a big deal.
And you have to decide,
are you gonna listen to what he says?
Believe what he says, do what he says,
are you gonna back off and miss the blessing?
That was one of the most faith-growing moments of my life.
And not only did he grow my faith,
did it grow the faith of the entire fellowship at that time.
Because they saw God do what only He could have done.
We were committed not to borrowing any money
and trusting God for it.
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Ask me where I couldn't even tell you.
I could give you some suggestions of the few things that I saw,
but I knew that he had to change some people's minds and hearts.
So you cannot allow little things to cause you to start waving
because there's going to come a big issue in your life.
And if you've been in the habit of just saying,
well, I hope so, maybe so, I think.
So when the big issue comes, you've had it.
You're going to back off.
And you're going to miss an awesome blessing in your life.
And I want you to remember this.
When you and I back off with wavering faith,
and we don't do what God tells us,
I guarantee you, other people will feel the results of it.
It's, you don't even realize.
Because you can't live in a capsule.
It's not a cocoon.
We have the body of Christ, the church, your friends, your family.
They watch, they listen to see what God does in your life.
So what are the consequences?
Make mistakes, costly mistakes.
We begin to let little things bother us.
And you see the truth is, the longer you live the Christian life,
the stronger your faith ought to be.
And what I've noticed is, over the years,
some things that would have bothered me back
beyond I would have gotten on my knees and cried out to God
and been upset about, you know what?
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And I don't even know they're there.
Because I know that God is in control.
He works everything from my good, no matter what.
And listen, you should be growing in your faith.
Listen carefully.
There should be fewer and fewer things in your life
that upset you.
Fewer and fewer things in your life
that cause you to doubt God.
Fewer and fewer things in your life
that really challenge you.
Because as your faith grows, what happens?
Those little things that nod you,
oh, suppose this happens, suppose he does this,
suppose he does this, suppose this decision is made.
So what?
God is in control of your life.
He's taking care of that.
Is the foundation of your faith secure enough
to withstand the winds of adversity?
Today on In Touch, believers were challenged
to remember the basis of their faith.
It rests on God who is completely sovereign,
infinitely wise, and perfect in love.
We'll wrap up Dr. Stanley's message
when our faith waivers next time.
To learn more about how to trust God
when your world seems to be spinning out of control,
we'll stop by Intouch.org,
where you can go over what you just heard
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And to call or text us, the number is simply 1-800-Intouch.
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Today's message helped us understand
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Coming up in today's moment with Dr. Stanley,
you'll learn why believers sometimes hesitate to trust God.
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What causes a Christian's faith to be unsteady?
A moment with Charles Stanley addresses the issue
of doubting God.
I think we're intimidated by people, for example.
I think there is fear.
Suppose I'm making a mistake.
I suppose somebody thinks that I'm trying
to be pious and holy.
The truth is you have Christ and you are a holy person
in God's eyes.
And I think we lose our effectiveness
because of our attitude about ourselves.
When we ought to be thinking God,
here's a wonderful opportunity you've given me
to share my faith and to express who you are
and the wonderful joy and peace
and happiness I have in my life.
They know I'm going through this difficulty,
but they also see that I'm confident
that you're gonna see me through it.
The reason is because of something we think about ourselves
and rather than keeping our eyes upon Him and asking God,
what would you have me to do
and how do you want me to express this?
It's all self and that's our biggest enemy.
Because the truth is if you read the New Testament,
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He's left us here to do the very same thing.
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The Bible says to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus
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