The Cost of a Compromised Vision | Pastor Sheryl Brady

but i want to lift up just a couple of verses out of chapter 14 14 and verse 11. i'll go back and get some more in the middle of of our message today but let's just lift up chapter 11 i'm sorry chapter 14 verse 11. the bible says and the lord said unto moses how long will this people provoke me and how long will it be air that they believe me for all the signs which i have showed among them here's the verse i want to really get to i will smite them with pestilence and i will disinherit them and i will disinherit them that's how i'm gonna stop right there just the a clause of verse 12. and i will disinherit them now i i want to take just these few moments that we have together today and i told you last week we were talking about you have to see you have to see what god is is is going to do in your life you have to have a glimpse of it you have to look through eyes of faith and not through eyes of fear you have to do that that's what that's why moses sent them in over to the promised land so that they could get a little bit of a advance uh uh what's the word at advance notice of what god was doing there and bring it back to the people which would you know god wanted it to motivate them to move toward the promised land but here's what i want to say to you that when you cannot see or when you refuse to see there is always a cost of a compromised vision whenever you compromise the vision it is always going to cost us something so today that's what we're going to talk about father i love you and i i honor you for this word it's a lamb to our feet of light to our path and today there is something that you want to say people have not tuned in today by accident or by chance lord they are here because there is a word for them now say it through me lord just use me to speak to every heart every home every family and every nation that might be watching today say what you want to say because your god and it's your voice that we need to hear we thank you in jesus name amen and a man so i just want to pick up where i left off last week and i was i was talking to you and i was talking to you about what what moses did i just repeated it to you so we should have that down pat he sent them he sent 12 spies over to canaan land just to kind of scope it out and you know it you know what they said that they found that the land was flowing with milk and honey and they had a cluster of grapes that was so big that they had to put it on a pole and it took two of them to carry it back and i told you that uh out of the 12 men that god sent over there 10 of them saw the land that god was going to give them through the eyes of fear and only two of them were able to see the land through the eyes of faith of faith and so therefore when they returned back to moses to give moses uh their individual perspectives of what they saw when they went to the promised land 10 of the 12 reported that they actually saw the promised land as more of a place of defeat uh a place of obstacles a place of impossibilities a place that would be challenging a place that uh that actually had giants that lived there and while all 12 of them agreed that the there was fruitfulness in the land and that there was milk and there was honey and that there was a provision there the majority of them felt as though that they did not have what it took to possess the promised land themselves the promise of the lord to their lives never mind that god had made this promise to them never mind that he's not a man that he should lie never mind that god promised that he was he was going to be with them as they possessed the land and never mind uh that god had told them i'm going to give this to you as an inheritance and so all of that should have had them looking through the eyes of fear but instead they looked at the situation through the eyes i mean all of that should have had them looking through the eyes of faith but instead they looked at the situation through the eyes of fear the bible says that because of their perception and because of their fear because of their unbelieving and suspicious attitude that an entire generation had to die in the wilderness without inheriting the promised land now they had uh and all of that had to happen because they had an attitude of fear and not an attitude of faith and it ultimately cost them their their destiny for the bible tells us that for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he so uh your attitude and my attitude will either lock us in to the promises of god or it will lock us out of the promises of god so periodically we need to call ourselves on the carpet and do a checkup from the neck up or do a checkup in in the way that we think or do a checkup in the way that we perceive things because we don't want our attitude to lock us out of anything that god has given us permission to walk in and inherit so when they got to the land they saw they saw giants that were there they saw the sons of anak and and uh the sons of anak were huge big people somewhere between nine and 11 feet tall so what that symbolizes to us is that in the promised land they saw some obstacles now somebody thought well if i ever get to the promised land the last thing i expect to see is an obstacle but that is precisely and exactly what they had to see and based on what they saw they said we were in our own site as it were we were grasshoppers and because of that that's how we saw ourselves and because of the way that we saw ourselves that is how the people saw us as well could i tell you today that it really doesn't matter how big that the obstacle is it doesn't matter how big that the mess up is it doesn't matter how impossible it may seem it doesn't matter how other people feel it doesn't matter what other people say it doesn't matter how other people see it all that really matters is how you see it because how you see it is how it really is and if you cannot see yourself making it then you can't and if you cannot see yourself defeating it you can't if you cannot see yourself possessing it i don't care what god has said to you if you cannot see yourself possessing it if you cannot see yourself owning it then you will never possess and own it own it because if if you think in your heart that it is too much for you if you think that it will be too much for you to obtain it if you think it will be too hard for you to obtain it if you think that it is way too much for your mind to understand it then we will never change anything whenever we never possess it but if we ever learn to change our mind then that is going to cause our perception to change too so god sent these twelve men over into the promised land ten of them saw the problem and two of them saw the promise ten of them were looking through the eyes of fear and two of them were looking through the eyes of faith now it's important for us to know that when we look at the future with the eyes of fear what we do and i talked about this a little bit last week what we do is we start uh underestimating our abilities we start underestimating our promises we start underestimating that the talents that god has given us and uh the bible says to us that that's exactly what they began to do and the ten uh the ten that were over there looking through the eyes of fear they came back and when moses was asking them what they saw they were saying man this we cannot do this we cannot defeat these people they are bigger than us they are stronger than us and before you knew it fear had swallowed up their future because of their perception i'm going to say that again i said fear had swallowed them up and swallowed up their future because of their perception now not only did it swallow up them and their future but it swallowed up everybody that heard them talk about their fear it also uh it swallowed up everybody who heard their inaccurate report and believed their inaccurate report they here's what they said they said we are grasshoppers in their sight and and and now why did they say it why did they say that like that and what what what what was the result of that i'm gonna tell you what the result of that was when they opened up their mouth and they said it what they immediately began doing was projecting their fear on everybody that was around them and and that that is a terrible terrible problem that's one of the problems that happens when you have a fear-based vision you start projecting your fear on everybody that is around you and let me tell you something about fear and i'm sure you know it fear and and negativity are very contagious i said fear and negativity are very contagious verse 32 says and so they spread a bad report one translation says that they spread false lies uh they spread uh uh lies they spread negativity they they spread a bad report about the land that they had explored they they spread it okay they didn't keep it to themselves they spread the negative report and this is what happens when you start looking at things things through the eyes of fear when you start looking at things through the eyes of fear you start talking trash and you start talking negativity and you start complaining and you start whining and you start crying and you start becoming a a critic about everything and this is why proverbs tells us over and over again that we should not hang out with scoffers and we should not hang out with cynics and we should not hang out with complainers and those who are always criticizing and and i'm not sure if if it's just me maybe it's it's you and me and maybe it's all of us but one thing that i have noticed within this pandemic and and i i would say especially through the election uh uh one thing i've noticed through through all of this is just how much negativity is being spread just how how many uh conspiracy theories uh that are that are just going like crazy they popped up throughout throughout this whole pandemic you got a conspiracy about that you got a conspiracy about this and and actually i feel like i've seen more uh conspiracy theories in um in this last year that i've seen in the last decade maybe even the last two decades and the problem the reason it's a problem is because we got too many christians who are falling for all of these conspiracies and they're not only falling for them but but they are guilty of spreading them their selves well i'm not really i i'm not i'm not really uh i'm not really spreading it pastor and why are you as a pastor talking about that i'll tell you why i'm talking about it because it's harming us and it's hurting the body of christ and it is hurting our nation and it is time for somebody to step up and say come on now y'all let's just let's call it what it is but at the same time if we don't know what it is then let's put an end to that because when conspiracy theories uh become weapons that the body of christ start using against one another that causes harm it does not please god and somebody needs to stand up maybe maybe it's you standing up in your family maybe it's you standing up somewhere on your job but somebody needs to stand up and say you know what enough is enough christians it's blown my mind that christians good god loving fearing christians are so disproportionately engaged in all of these conspiracies and i'm telling you right now that it needs to stop and we need to call these things to an end we are we are called to be discerning but we are not called to sow discord i said we are called to be discerning but we are not called to sow discord and christians shouldn't be uh we should be known as people who speak truth we speak truth we speak truth not as people who bear false witness against other people i can't hear you all saying amen but it's all right i'm going to preach it anyway uh and and i will tell you that as long as the church continues to being disproportionately involved in spreading all of this this fake news here uh it's going to affect our witness so if you were here i would tell you to look at your neighbor and say stop the spread stop the spread and and yes i'm i'm talking about the coronavirus spread but more right now i am talking about stop the spread of all of these false conspiracy theories if we would put our head into the word of god if we put our head into prayer if we would put our attention into worshiping god as much as we have into trying to prove this and that and that and this and then take and make a weapon out of out of it and shoot it at people that don't think like we do i'm telling you we would be much further along than we are well i'm not spreading it pastor i'm i'm just thinking i'm just thinking no you're not you're lying because you are you're not just thinking you're spreading it you're getting on facebook and you put just enough of it out there to see what other person might pick up and start talking about it as well we are called to spread truth hello and jesus the god that we serve identified himself personally as the way as the truth and the life let's start spreading the truth of his word truth comes from trusted sources and you don't know and you can't always count on everybody around you to be a trusted source but let me tell you today who is a trusted source his name is jesus i am the way i will always be the way i am the truth and i will always be the light and it's time for us as the body of christ it's time for us to stop spreading false false and unhelpful information about those things that have public health consequences it's time for us to be careful what we say and if you find yourself in a circle that is spreading false theories and negative and and they're and they're spreading them from negative sources you need to shut it down how do i shut it down i'm so glad you asked we're gonna give them the truth out of isaiah 8 and 12 and here's what it says isaiah 8 and 12 says don't say that everything people call a conspiracy is a conspiracy and do not fear what they fear and don't let it terrify you oh that's a good verse right there isaiah 8 and 12. i'm reading to reading it to you out of god's words god's word translation don't say that everything everything everybody is calling a conspiracy is not a conspiracy and do not fear that the whole bottom line is it wants to attack you and it wants to cause your vision to be blurred with fear and god is saying i don't want you to fear and i don't want you to allow this stuff that's going on to terrify you because it is a trap and when the enemy traps you he makes your life miserable i said he makes your life miserable and whenever i look at my life and whenever i look at my future through the eyes of fear then what happens my life becomes miserable and when the spies return and they came back with their fear-based report the bible said in numbers 14 1-2 then all the people began weeping aloud and they cried all night their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against moses and aaron if only we had died in egypt or even here in the wilderness are you kidding me all of these people they are having a pity party they are having a meltdown they would have rather died in the wilderness as a slave than to face their future that goes to show you right there that they are looking at their future through the eyes of fear and not through the eyes of faith now here's what i want you to write down today i'm always giving you something to write down i want you to write this down uh that verse that we just read to you one and two that that that verse has got you know when you your car is is about to mess up you got these warning lights that that come on check engine or check this or or that or the other well let me tell you something uh there that particular verse gave us four warning signs that let you know that the way you're looking at your future is through eyes of fear and not through eyes of faith because here's what it said it said that they cried all night so number one here's here's the warning sign sadness increases in your life whenever sadness increases out of nowhere i mean just sadness and it is because it's there is it's trying to warn you what the reason that they cried all night was because that they were afraid so whenever sadness comes up you need to adjust your lens and say i refuse to be sad i'm going to trust in the lord yes there's a time to grieve a time to mourn but i cannot allow this to dominate my life and so that's that's just a warning sign for us the second warning sign um they began the bible says that they began they raised their voices in a great protest so so they began to murmur and they've been began to complain so here's the second one complaining increases not only does your sadness increase as a warning sign that you're looking at the future through the eyes of fear but but now you're complaining increases has your have your children told you lately or has your spouse told you lately man you are complaining about everything well let me tell you what that is that's a warning sign that says i need to change the lens that i am looking through the third thing that is a warning sign is now the bible said that they started second guessing their leaders moses and aaron they said we wished you would have never brought us out here you are doing a lousy job at being a leader so now not only has their sadness increased and not only has their complaining increase but now they're second guessing the very leadership that god put in their life and the fourth warning sign that you are looking at the future through eyes of fear is number four you would rather go backward than go forward because here is what they said they said it would have been better for us if we would have just died when we were out there in the desert now the truth is i don't believe that they really wanted that and and i don't believe that that's what we really want but these are signs that warn us that we are not looking at the future through the eyes of faith and guess what neither were those ten spies or the people that were persuaded by the rhetoric that they kept going oh but let me tell you something what the bible says the other two spies you all know who they were joshua and caleb those two spies were persuaded that they were going to take the promised land in spite of what the other 10 said they were going after it and the bible calls those two men of another spirit joshua and caleb had a complete different spirit they possessed a different kind of spirit joshua and caleb were survivors they were faithful they were men that served diligently under moses they had seen a lot of people come and a lot of people go but they remained consistent and when their constituents had the audacity to say oh no we can't possess the land it's too difficult for us the odds are against us caleb interjected and say hey wait a second i beg to differ with you it can be done and it will be done and we got this because he was not about to allow their negative words to be the last word spoken in the room and so he opened his mouth and declared oh absolutely not that no and we'll tell you something about about caleb that does not surprise me because caleb's name y'all ready for this his name means a dog yes dog d-o-g and that's why caleb had the tenacity of a dog because if he ever sunk his teeth down into something he had a bulldog fierceness about him that said i will not let you go and sometimes what we need in in 2021 is we need that to the tenacity of caleb sometimes we need to sink our teeth down into what belongs to us and tell every devil in hell you will let go of what's mine you will let go of my son you will let go of my child you will let go of my husband my wife my money my grandkids you will let go of my vision you will let go of everything that god has promised to me caleb had the tenacity of an animal and i'm gonna tell you something moses so appreciated having somebody that was following him that was so full of faith that moses said whenever you come into the promised land make sure that you remember caleb that he might inherit what he believed for that he might inherit what he believed for is there anybody watching me today that has enough tenacity to sink your teeth down into the promises of god and say don't you slay me i'm oh hold on till he does what he said he's going to do in my life i don't know who might be watching me today but i want to tell you if you can believe it that you have the ability to receive it it might take some time it might take prayer it might take tenacity and it might take holding on with everything that you got but if god said he was going to do it you better hold on to your promise lord have a mercy i'm already preaching joshua caleb they thought different than everybody that was around them they saw things different than everybody that was around them because they were men of another spirit they were men of another spirit they decided i'm not going to die in what everybody around me has died in i'm not going to be limited to what everybody around me is limited by i refuse to think like they thought i refused to die and be buried because this is where they died and they were buried i refuse to be prejudiced because somebody else in my family is prejudiced i refuse it with all that i've got in me why because i got another spirit i may look like you i may have some of your genes in me i might have eyes like you but at the end of the day my spirit ain't like that because i refuse to settle for anything less people of another spirit are willing to be controversial they're willing to refuse to be intimidated by fear and they will run head-on into the very thing that other people will run away from and i'll tell you why they do that because they know how to mix the word with faith i said they know how to mix the word with faith and because of that they possess the promises of god immature people murmur they complain they listen to and they believe lies and as a result according to the scripture they died in the wilderness never possessing their possessions the immature people couldn't stop focusing long enough on why they shouldn't go over there why they shouldn't go after what god had promised them fear caused them to forget how good god had been fear will mess you up fear will cause you to forget that and it caused them to forget that whenever he sends you into something he won't just send you by yourself but he is with you they forgot that god was with them they forgot that they were not alone they forgot that they weren't doing it in their own might in their own power they forgot all that they no have known about the faithfulness of god of how god has brought them a mighty long way miracle after miracle after miracle god led them he led them out of slavery he led them out of pharaoh's he led them out of bondage he led them out of chains he led them out of their limitations he led them through the wilderness when they got hungry what did he do he fed them when they got thirsty he became water for them when they were sick he healed them when they were cold he warmed down when they were hot he sheltered them when they were lost he found them he fulfilled every promise and he led them every step of the way and now that they are on the brink of that one last step of faith they get there and refuse to take that step fear had made them forget their resources they forgot the promise they forgot who promised it they forgot who they were they forgot who was on their side they forgot who was with them somebody that's listening me to today you are listening to me because god wants you to be reminded that i've been with you i've walked with you i've brought you thus far when everybody else walked out and said you were over i was there with a new beginning for you and i am the same god that's there now and i will watch over you i will bless you he that keepeth israel will not sleep nor slumber somebody better grab a hold of that right now you've been on the verge of being disobedient to god and god sent me here today to tell you don't allow fear to cause you to be disobedient they forgot they were under the protection of the almighty god the god that is above all that is in all that is through all that is in charge of all their greatest obstacle could have become their greatest opportunity because anytime you find yourself facing an obstacle bigger than you've ever faced before it is only an indicator y'all better hear me today i said it is only an end it's an indicator that your life is at a turning point that your life is about to move and it will tell you what fear made them miss their turn don't allow fear to make you miss your turn just say oh god listen whatever you say wherever i am whatever i'm going through whatever i am facing i will trust in you i will put my hope in you i'll put my confidence in you i'll put my trust in you and i will not get to the brink of a fresh blessing and miss it because of fear yes i am being challenged but the god i serve does all things well yes i'm in a fight but he does all things well i've been provoked but he does all things well i'm not making the money that i used to make but he does all things well i've had to downsize but he does all things well they don't even like me on my job but i trust god because he does all things well i'm not as brave as i used to be but i do know that you do all things well and i'm just crazy enough to believe that in spite of what i am facing something good is about to come out of this something good is about to come out of your deliver out of your problem out of what you're looking at out of what you feel like has swallowed you up god said quit crying quit complaining quit moaning quit murmuring quit groaning and start thanking me and when you do i will work all things together for your girl god have mercy i don't know who's listening to me today but god is saying to somebody i am setting you in situations that you have never seen before because i'm going to give you a victory that you have never known before oh hallelujah but how you perceive this whole thing that you are in how you perceive it will determine how you get out of it how long you stay in it and what you learned while you were in it so if you don't see yourself taking the land if you don't see yourself possessing the land if you don't see yourself overpowering every enemy if you don't see yourself overcoming every obstacle and breaking through every barrier and bringing down every deterrent i gotta tell you this morning that you will do none of that but if you will barely look through the eyes of faith i'm telling you that the god you serve can bring you through all of this the ten that said they couldn't didn't those that said they couldn't take it they didn't and neither did the people that listen to them you got to be careful who you listen to i said you got to be careful who you listen to you got to be careful who you let advise you you got to be careful whose advice you adhere to because i'm telling you it's one thing for people's words to get in your head but it is another thing altogether when those words start getting deep down into your spirit you might get out of a trap when those words are just in your head but if you keep leaning your head in long enough if you keep leaning your head in deep enough you'll start getting words into your spirit and some of you right now you are hanging on to words you're hanging on to thoughts you're hanging on to suggestions you're hanging on to conspiracies conspiracies you're hanging on to other people's opinion opinions that you were never meant to hang on to opinions that were never meant to be a part of your life i don't know why i'm preaching like this today but i'm telling you god said you got to let that go because if you don't let go of those things you're going to miss the purpose of god for your life and you gonna miss it just like the people who put all of that mess in your spirit missed it they miss it and you're gonna miss it too but i declare to you i am not gonna miss anything god has for me simply because i've been having my ear in the wrong place i let it go look at somebody in your house right now and tell them let it go it's time to course correct it's time to correct your course it's time to say i love you but i can't listen to you anymore it's time to say i appreciate you but i ain't got time to talk to you all day because ever since i've been listening something has went crazy in my spirit and i cannot i refuse to move so far away from what i know to be the center in my life and that center is the voice of god and i came to tell you today that it's gonna cost you more than you will be willing to pay let go of negative voices negative influences negative words negative people negative let me tell you what it means negative means a word or a statement that expresses denial disagreement or refusal it means to reject to refuse to accept it means to render ineffective or to neutralize and when somebody has been neutralized it has it what that means is that you've been damaged and you've been deactivated and you've been disapproved and you've been invalidated and you have been rendered in effective and that's where some people are at today because you got your ear in every conversation every door is not your door every conversation is not your conversation that being neutralized your your favor becomes neutralized your influence becomes neutralized and god said i didn't bring you through everything i brought you through just for you to get to this point and let everything i've taught you and given you and how i've shined on you to be neutralized don't let it happen that's not the position that you want to be in stop listening to lies stop opening up your spirit to everybody stop absolutely turn it down and tell the devil i ain't having none of that let go of all of that mess because if you don't you end up believing a lie and being damned damned there means disillusion and i'm in your life today to tell you that god has some blessings that he wants to give you that he wants to release on you he's i'm in your life today to tell you those grapes that you saw on the other side they are for you the fruit that you laid hold of the fruit that you've tasted god said it is yours i'm here today to tell you that there is a purpose up underneath all of your problems i'm here today to tell you that you've got to hold on hold to his hand god's unchanging hand hold if you gotta cry hold if you gotta press oh if you gotta reach i feel like preaching this morning hold if you gotta pray all night long hold if you gotta wrestle hold on if you gotta go back to school hold on if you gotta go through some counseling hold on if you gotta clean up your credit hold on if you gotta face some things hold on if you gotta confront some things hold on if you gotta endure some things and hold on maybe even if you're embarrassed over some things but if you will hold on somebody ought to holla hold on if you'll hold on and go through whatever you got to go through if you'll pay the price if you'll do the tie if you confront the giants i'm telling you something good is coming out of this there is fruit on the other side that's got your name on it stop looking at the giants and start looking at the fruit stop looking at the obstacles and start looking at the fruit stop looking at the opposition and start looking at the fruit stop looking at the mistakes and at the failures and at your weaknesses and start looking at the fruit that god has designed for you stop looking at your tomorrow through the eyes of fear and start looking at them through their eyes of faith stop talking about how far i've got to go and start thanking god for how far he's brought you from i don't care how bad your situation is i don't care how bad your bills are backed up i don't care how loud and how how strong the winds are howling around your life threatening to take your peace threatening to take your joy threatening to take your house threatening to take your marriage threatening to take your reputation you open up your mouth and tell the devil you can take it all but the one thing you can't take is my perception and with my eyes i've seen the glory of the lord and i will come out of this and i'm not coming out of this empty-handed i'm coming out with spoils 2020 i'm coming out with spoils pandemic i'm coming out with spoils oh god i want the devil to know if i lose it all i still got joy on the inside i still got peace on the inside i can lose it all but i'll never be a loser do you hear me today i said i may lose it all but i will never be a loser i shall live and not die i'm going to keep my head up i'm going to keep my head up and you better watch out cause i'm gonna keep on kicking i refuse to lay down and die instead i'm gonna keep on kicking somebody oughta kick your foot right now you might be in a struggle but keep kicking you might be in a storm but kick your way through it you might be at an all-time low i tell you right now right now right now right now in your house pick up your foot and kick the devil out tell him i don't know whose house you're going in but i know whose house you're getting out of some of you are borrowing from peter to pay paul but kick your way through it some of you are facing unimaginable feelings and grief and sickness but kick your way through it some of you are outside of your comfort zone some of you feel like you have hit the bottom but i came to tell you today make sure you keep on kicking because if all you can do is lay there and wiggle your toe somebody is watching me today and you feel so sick and you feel like you don't have any strength i dare you to wiggle your toe you may not be able to kick but wiggle your toe and tell the devil i'm wiggling it cause i'm still here i'm wiggling it because i'm still here there's an inheritance that's got my name on it and i know some of you might look at me and think oh it doesn't look too good for you some of you might say you aren't enough oh but let me tell you you're right i am not enough but when i got jesus i am more than enough somebody says you don't look like you can conquer anything well you know what in my own strength i can but let me tell you i can't but let me tell you in history i am more than a conqueror i may look like i'm half dead to you but you know what that means to me that means i am half alive i've got some issues but i ain't missing my moment i've got some problems but i'm missing my moment i got y'all ain't clapping you're only hearing today y'all ain't celebrating today i've got some enemies but i ain't missing my moment yeah there are giants over there but if they're gonna be over there i'm gonna face them cause this is what god has promised me i got some big things that i gotta get over but i ain't missing my moment i've got some big things that i gotta get through but i ain't missing my moment i'm gonna kick my way in i'll fight my way in i'll holler my way in i'll dance my way in i'll believe my way here and i will worship my way in because god has promised cheryl brady some things and i will seize them with all without you hallelujah lord have mercy i didn't know let's go preach like that this early i'm going to tell you something ten men gave every reason as to why they wouldn't even try but joshua caleb they just waited for their chance to speak up they're listening to everybody murmuring complaining caleb had had enough he said give me that microphone get me the microphone i don't know what y'all saw but i'm gonna tell you what i saw i saw opportunities i saw opportunities he said there's no reason in the world that we should be afraid of those people they'll pray to us they are pray to us they are helpless to us they have no defense when it comes to us they have no protection when it comes to us they are bread for other they are bread for us that's what the bible says they are bread fast in other words what do you say he said when you look at them you you're looking at trouble but when i look at them i'm looking at lunch i'm looking at supper i'm looking at breakfast and another thing have you forgotten that the lord is with us did you forget that the lord is on our side and if god before us if god before us he is more than the world against us i'm telling you today this battle is one or it is lost based on your perception and when you get sick and tired of being separated from what god has promised you something will snap in you and when it does you won't care what anybody says you won't care what anybody thinks you won't care who believes in you you won't care who is there to support you who is not there to support you when you really get ready to go for your promise to go for the glory when you really get ready to go after the grapes the fruit that god has promised you you will not allow anybody or anything to stop you from going for it why because mine eyes have seen the glory and i'm going for it those giants they were just distractions and i'll tell you something the devil still uses giant distractions to this very day he uses them to exhaust you he uses them to wear you out he uses them to break you down because he doesn't want you to have the strength to go into the enemy's camp and seize your inheritance here's what i want to say and i'll close those who thought that they couldn't didn't those who thought that they could they did joshua and caleb's thoughts were not rooted in their abilities hear me today other folk might have had their thoughts rooted in their abilities and at least they were honest to know that they didn't have the ability but their thoughts shouldn't have been rooted in their abilities it should have been rooted in their faith and in closing today i'm gonna tell you everything that god has promised to you must be seen through the eyes of not your ability but through the eyes of your faith god said see see i've given you the land you might be discouraged but you've got to see hear me you might have giants in your face but you still got to see yourself possessing the land you the odds might be completely against you but you have got to see not seeing is not an option because when you don't see you will not possess there is always a cost that is associated when you compromise your vision because of your fear you

Channel: Sheryl Brady

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Length: 53min 44sec (3224 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 14 2021