The God of the Impossible - Dr. David Gibbs Jr.

we delight and honor to have you tonight where the Gibbs God bless you as you come to preach for us to see thank you pastor again what a privilege to be here thank you for all the kindnesses that you've showed my son and my grandson and myself the beautiful room you had my great fruit in our room and you had my favorite fruit you had Snickers and Reese's and Hershey's fruit that is just endures forever so thank you for all of that and boy have I enjoyed your music here now I've said this everywhere I go I believe in America it should be perfectly legal to shoot the bad choir you say why would you say such a thing because a choir can dig a hole that no preacher can get out of when a choir sings half-hearted all it just buries everything but boy your choir here saying so phenomenal and all the musicians and like your pastor I'm an old trumpet player from way back and I always tell the young people well you want to check out all the trumpet players because they make great kissers later in life they do phenomenal I don't marry a tuba player they'll blow your brains out all right you don't want to do that no thank you for all this music you've touched our hearts it's been a great great blessing turn in your Bibles please to the book of Matthew the book of Matthew chapter 14 Matthew chapter 14 tonight for the next few moments don't ask you this question why would you waste your life why would you waste your life merely doing something great for God you say what why would you waste your life doing something great for God well I thought be phenomenal if I did something great no no people that don't have God or his power do great things all the time that doesn't call you to do great things God calls you to do impossible things pick up any Business Journal people that make no pretense of having not or Jesus in their life do great things but you have the very power of God and the God who wants to do not just great things through you you have a God who wants to do impossible things through you if you could do something impossible what would it be maybe it would be some exploit for God something that God's laid on your heart maybe if you could do something impossible it would be in the realm of a relationship have you ever seen relationships get so shattered so banged up and mercilessly pulled apart that you can't even remember how they got started and you can't even figure out how did it get to where it is and you say boy to put that relationship back is going to take something impossible maybe it's in the RAM of health the trip to a doctor can be a terrifying thing when the doctor says these tests are showing stuff that's not good what would it be that you'd like God to do that's impossible well I have wonderful news for you tonight God wants to do the impossible for you his child listen to these few quotes I love them dearly aw Tozer God is looking for those who through he can do the impossible I love this next sentence what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves George Mueller the man with all the orphans to feed faith does not operate in the realm of the possible there is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible faith begins were man's power ends the great missionary Amy Carmichael to India when you're facing the impossible you can count on the god of the impossible I love this quote from Warren where's be our faith is not really tested until God asks us to bear what seems unbearable to do what seems unreasonable and to expect what seems impossible do moody if God is your partner make your plans big and impossible we say prayer the gifts those are the words of men well listen to these verses Jeremiah 22 17 Oh Lord God behold thou us-made the heaven and the earth and by thy great power stretched out thine arm there is nothing nothing too hard for thee Jeremiah 32 27 behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there anything yes that's too hard for me Matthew 19:26 but Jesus beheld them and said unto them with men this is impossible but with God all things are possible have you ever noticed we stopped talking about the impossible and yet we serve the god of the impossible mark 11:24 therefore I say to you whatsoever you desire when you pray believe that she shall receive them and he shall have them and Luke 1:37 for with God nothing shall be impossible what tonight would you like God to do that's impossible I've got good news for you you're not limited to one thing would be wonderful we're in the Bible but it's not if God said it's my child you get five impossible requests that would be great but that's not in the Bible do you know what the number is in the Bible for you to do the impossible it's unlimited there is no limit on it I want you to look in Matthew chapter 14 God says you want me to do the impossible he gives us a lesson here it's the story of Peter walking on the water and how many of you think walking on water is impossible hold your hand up would you if you don't think so just go out here on this River and take a crack at it but he said I want you to understand I am the god of the impossible and I don't know what God wants you to do that's impossible all I can promise is he wants each and every person here to do the impossible in Matthew chapter 14 Jesus has just fed 5,000 men plus women and children now in that day they only counted the men but there would frequently be two to three times that number of women and children so Jesus out of nothing his just fed somewhere in the neighborhood of fifteen to twenty thousand people and he did it with one little lunch that a boy brought five loaves and two fish and out of nothing he fed all those people and then when he was done there were twelve baskets of food leftover more food at the end then at the beginning he wanted to teach the disciples I can create out of nothing now please catch this your God does it need something to fix something your God has the ability to create out of nothing and fix it the word used in scripture is the word ex nihilo it's the word found in Genesis 1:1 in the beginning God created how to nothing I love these scientists today that say well let us explain to you it all started with a big bang yeah but what went bang well we don't know but it started with a big bang well who saw the bang nobody listened our God didn't start with a big bang our God started with himself and by his word he created your God can fix everything ex nihilo out of nothing now he's put the disciples in a ship and he's sending them across this lake and for them to cross the lake was no big deal they were fishermen they were experienced Mariners but look at what it says Matthew chapter 14 we're gonna start at verse 22 and straightway Jesus constrained the disciples to get into a ship and to go before him unto the other side while he sent the multitudes away and when he had sent the multitudes away he went up into a mountain apart to pray I'm not preaching on this but boy if the Son of God thought it was critical to get away and pray when's the last time you got away to pray to pray boy have been negligent on that in my life Jesus did it and when the evening was come he was there alone but the ship now the disciples in verse 24 was now in the midst of the sea tossed with waves for the wind was contrary the disciples are in a ship Jesus has put them in it and they are in a hellacious storm a fierce storm a storm that has these disciples including the Mariners terrorized because the wind was contrary every Mariner knows man when you're in a storm put the bow into the wind but what do you do when the winds come in from all sides what are you doing it's coming from front back side to side this storm has them terrorized and they are caught in this storm for over nine hours now look at what happens verse 25 and in the fourth watch of the night a police marked this down that's 3 a.m. in the morning that's the fourth watch of the night I had this story all messed up in my mind all messed up I thought that Jesus walked in the water on a flat sea and I thought he did it in daylight and you know why I thought that because that's how flannelgraph showed it how many of you understand what I just said right that's how finally I showed it this was the middle of the night and they are in a storm that is going to unravel these disciples and in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them walking on the sea as somebody says how does he walk on the sea anyway he wants to boy your God is all-powerful the God who wants you to do the impossible regularly does the impossible and when the disciples saw him verse 26 walking on the sea they were troubled saying it's a spirit and they cried out for fear and the word cried out there was the word when somebody literally lost it they have just screamed like teenage girls they've lost it but straightway Jesus spake in of them saying be of good cheer it is I be not afraid now that be of good cheer means literally get happy there in the middle of this incredible storm Jesus is walking in the dark on that storm his presence has terrorized them they think it's got to be a spirit nothing human could do that and yet Jesus who was very God and very man is doing it be of good cheer it is I be not afraid now somebody is gonna ask God for the impossible Oh they've seen the impossible that's how we fed the 5,000 but now they're gonna ask for the impossible verse 28 and Peter answered him and said lord if it be thou bid me come unto thee on the water now if you want down to do the impossible there are four steps lined here and I want you to jot these four down because I promise you how many of you want you had to do something impossible in your life then listen carefully to these four they're not complicated and they're all in this story here's the first key you gotta ask you gotta ask for the impossible you see what Peter did Lord bid me come unto thee on the water now all the disciples were in that boat all of them there could have been twelve water walkers that night but only one asked now it was not a good night to stand up this was not a night you would pick to go water walkin and I can just see Matthew Mark and Luke and Andrew and the others saying Peter would you sit down what in the world are you talking about you don't want to get out of the boat tonight but because one man asked God did the impossible when's the last time you asked specifically but in James or it says ask and ye shall receive it's the word for asking what specificity when's the last time you asked for the impossible brother how I struggle with that I have trouble just getting it I mean God what I'm asking for is ludicrously impossible and God says asking his shall receive but then he says you have not because you asked one man in the boat asked people come to us with troubles all the time and they say brother Gibbs what should we do we so a number one praise God for the problem in everything of thanks but number two what are you asking for I say what do you mean what do you want God to do you have got to specifically ask a young evangelist called my dad and he said I understand you have semi-trucks my dad said I do he said well I've just come to town and I got a big tent I want to put up and he said my trucks are so shot they don't have the power to pull the tent up I wonder could I have you come out and bring some of your trucks and help me get my tent up my dad said sure I'll be glad to do that he said how many trucks do you need he said I think probably somewhere between 8 or 9 and my dad said I'll bring nine trucks nine semis no problem well I was just a little kid but I loved to ride in those trucks and man I'm in the truck riding along with my dad we're gonna go pull this tent down and we got to this big field where this tent was laid out my dad got out he's walking around looking at this tent and my dad said to this evangelist I don't know how to tell you this but your tent is shot do you realize you got as much patch as you do tent and the Evangelist said that's not accurate mr. Gibbs I got 80% patch and 20% tent he said my tent is super shot and my dad said well we're never gonna get this thing up in the air he said we start tugging on it it's just gonna come apart like you can't imagine he said I'll wreck your tent he said nope nope nope I know it's impossible but we're gonna get this tent up and my dad said well when you say impossible you're right we cannot get this up he said let me tell you what I'm gonna do this young evangelist said I'm gonna walk over there and he went a distance about from us to where that sign is that says be strong he laid down on his face on the ground and started crying out to God he said I'm gonna ask God for the impossible he said I don't start tugging on this tent till I tell you because it'll all come unraveled but I'm gonna ask God and he walked over laid down and then he started crying out loud to the Lord now my dad's truck drivers who were not safe man came over they said what in the world is he doing my dad said he's praying I said man we never heard nobody pray like that and one guy said you understand he's asking God to do what can't be done my dad said I'm aware of that by the way the world ought to see us ask for what can't be done all the time remember it's only impossible with man it's never impossible with God I'm just a little shaver standing there waiting to see what's gonna happen what couldn't believe it finally after about 20 minutes he's done praying out loud he sits up waves up my dad he's still on the ground he said I'm gonna keep praying but pull it up it'll go my dad said you won't be mad when it's all in pieces he said pull it up boy they did up that temp went up man it creaked it groaned like nothing I ever heard and when it was up in the air the guy came over and he said you see I told you I served the god of the impossible I serve the God if you ask he'll answer this was for him I did this I by the way be careful God says you ask and receive not because you ask amiss that you may consume it on your own lust you want to get God out of the picture just start asking for selfish things my dad told him he said wear this amazing what you've done here he said but if I were you I'd get me a new tip he said nope this is the last time I'm gonna use it last time because I'm gonna start a church here my dad said really he said yep he said I'm gonna rent a little abandoned movie theater that seats 80 people and he said i'ma start a church there my dad said well good for you and then he said these words he said and I'm gonna put the gospel on television my dad said you're gonna want my television was brand new most people didn't have a television we didn't to see television we went to my grandparents farm and they had one most studies had no TV and was only on from late afternoon until early evening he said I just think we ought to have the gospel so that people can get saved off a television my dad said you have any experience at this he said no no my dad said you have any educational credentials to do this he said nah I never graduated from high school so when I was a senior in high school my father died and I had to go to work to feed my brothers and sisters and my mother my dad said what makes you think that you can hit the gospel on TV he looked at my dad and he said because I asked because I asked what are you asking for what impossible thing do you want to see God do well he started that little church and then he started going up to Cleveland Ohio there was one station there at the time never forget he walked in by the guy and he said I want you to put me on TV for free I think I said why in the world would I let you on for free when I got people standing in line to pay me he said because I asked God nobody else in that line has asked God but I have the man taught insulting he said listen number one I'm not putting any religion on my TV station never ever and he said number two I'd never put you on do you realize your pant legs don't even match each other do you realize you got two black shoes on that are not the same and who in the world cuts your hair you think I'm gonna put you on TV he said mister you're right but I have asked and my God says ask in faith believing and he shall receive do you understand it's not you who's gonna do the impossible it's God through you who's gonna do the impossible if you think it's you who's gonna pull it off then you've got a vanity problem that creature every week he'd show up there and he'd say are you ready to put me on I want to be on your station for 15 minutes just so I can give the gospel the guy said no and the guy got nasty with him he said look I'm gonna start cussing you out and he did well that young evangelist was up there asking him to go on TV one Saturday morning and when the guy had finished cussing him out a lady sitting there at a desk said would you do me a favor II said sure she said my sister's dying and she's not saved would you come try to lead her to the Lord he said well I'd be honored to I'd be honored she said we'll follow me in your car now he thought she meant they're gonna go to something in the area what he didn't understand as the sister was 250 miles away so he's following the lady in her car and pretty soon he's running out of fuel now he's blinking his lights and they pull over and he said look I'm running out of fuel and I know how to tell you this I don't have any money for fuel she said that's okay we'll get you filled up she fueled them and on the way they went when they got there this lady was in her last days but preciously she trusted Christ as Savior he led that lady to Jesus Christ when they're walking out of the house this secretary who'd been following she said I want you to come next Saturday and I'm gonna put you on television she said well that's a very kind thought but the guy that owns and runs that he he's not too thrilled with me she said he don't own the station I do I'm his wife she said he just acts like he owns that my family owns it it's my station and I'm not put you on for 15 minutes I'm giving you a half an hour and what I want you to do is repeat the message twice I want you to do exactly what you did with my dying sister said now here's some money I want you to buy a suit I want you to buy some shoes and I want you to get a haircut and you be up there next Saturday well up there he went at the end of that half hour he said if you trusted Christ if you prayed that prayer with me I need you to write me and I remember this pre-internet free anything like that but he said I want to get you in a solid fundamental church we got to get a Bible in your hands you got a lot to learn I need you to write me well that first week 60 some people wrote him and said I prayed that with you the lady said I not only on this station I own two others and I'm putting you on him and she said I know people who own other stations and within one year's time he was on a hundred and sixty stations what makes you think I'm gonna put you on I asked do you understand how powerful your ask is or has the devil bankrupted your faith got you believing that your ask isn't gonna make a lick of difference ask in faith believing and ye shall receive whoa boy you want God to do the impossible that preacher before he was done was on 1,600 stations and every week when he'd say if you prayed that sinner's prayer with me I need you to write they would get between 26 and 30 thousand letters a week saying I prayed that with you what do you want God to use you to do it'll be different from person to person and remember you're not limited to one you should have a list of impossible things you're asking for but you gotta ask right the second key down you want God to do the impossible number one you gotta ask number two you gotta eat your eyes off of the storm now catch this if I'd have been in the boat I think I just said Jesus I want to go water walkin but could you stop this storm could you get the circumstances better please God's not gonna fix the circumstances that's what man does okay brother Howell here's what we want to do now how do we fix this mess that says once you leave the mess in my hands you got to get your eyes off of the storm I can just hear the guys in the boat boy that's crazy Peter here we are stuck in this storm for nine hours now he wants out of the boat if there was ever a night you shouldn't go water walking it's tonight can I help you you will have no problem getting people around you to tell you tonight's not the night whoa you want to see people say what are you talking about that's impossible just start asking God for the impossible and and I wish I would say what people are just gonna say oh that's great that's great that's not what I find they want to focus on the storm and they want you to focus on the storm the storm in your life is no reason to not ask God for the impossible no reason at all whoa Peter it's a night that howls you guys have been paralyzed out here for nine hours he said I know but I'm going water walking you gotta ask and you got to get your eyes off for the circumstances yeah but brother Gibbs I've messed up how many in this room I've ever messed something up hold your hand up would you how many of you like me or thrilled everybody doesn't know about everything you've messed up you know what the devil says yeah he may do the impossible for her or him but you and you got your eyes paralyzed by the circumstances get your eyes off of the storm well yeah it maybe another time man I read all those things that people have done in the past but that's a bygone age no no get your eyes off of the storm the storm does not control the power of God God's power controls the store you gotta ask and then you got to get your eyes off of the storm off of the circumstances you're too young you're too old it amazes me nobody is the right age minjun founds me how people want to say it now in the bible all these men that did stuff at 80 and older and then we look at teenagers being used in the bible but we somehow think the god of the impossible is eliminated is limited by the age of his child listen God wants to use you now you gotta ask you got to get your eyes off of the circumstances right number three down we're almost done you got to get rid of a plan B you got to get rid of a plan B now I just cannot make this one any clearer because boy it troubles me further willette we're going water walking Jesus we want to go water walkin but could you come this way a little closer what I want to do is get you a closer to the boat now I believe in you Jesus I believe you're the god of the impossible but just in case you don't come through I want you a little closer because if somehow I start sinking I want to grab the boat the boat is my plan B boy do I love a plan B oh yeah but brother Gibbs without a plan B we could have egg on our face yeah like a young evangelist whose trucks are too shot to pull a tent up say I'm asking God for a television ministry get rid of your plan B you gotta ask you got to get your eyes off of the circumstances and you got to get rid of your safety nets now wonderful people who love you will say boy this is challenging but whatever you do don't don't throw away all your safety nets listen you can trust him read Hebrews 11 not one of them had a safety net not one of them we say man I want God to use me not one person in Scripture had a safety net what they had was God God wants to fix your situation right number four down and we're done you gotta ask you got to get your eyes off of the storm off of circumstances you got to get rid of your plan B and then number four you got to get out of the boat you got to step out look at what it says there verse 29 and he said come and when Peter was come down out of the ship he walked on the water to go to Jesus you realize God could have levitated him right up and over but he didn't Peter had to step out what would it take for you to step out and do all of this my dad celebrated his 80th birthday and I said dad what would you like for your 80th birthday my mom was already in heaven he said you remember the Evangelist that I said yeah he said I wonder if he could come I just like to see him again I said sure I'll try to track him down I found he was living in California now and he was not in good health but I got him on the phone and I said it's my dad's 80th birthday and I don't know do you remember me he said yeah I remember you you were the boy in the truck I said that's me I said anyway you'd come across country we were in Florida at the time and be here for my dad's 80th birthday he said I wouldn't miss it well he came and but for my dad's birthday those two men just sat there and cried told stories about all the impossible things they watched God do they couldn't stop crying and they couldn't stop talking and finally I said to my dad it's getting late he said leave us alone boy it was great for him well I told this evangelist tomorrow morning I'll pick you up at 7:30 at your hotel I said now we're cutting it a little close I don't want you to have to be at the airport too long but don't miss this flight and he said I won't well I got to the hotel that's seven o'clock I couldn't find him anywhere I went up to his room I walked all around I'm asking people have you seen this guy he's always walking around carrying a Bible like this under his arm have you seen him anywhere they said no no no finally a chambermaid came up to me and she said you know I saw a guy with a Bible leading a group of men down a hall and they're down this hall over here and I think they're having a prayer meeting I said serious she said yeah I walk down there do you know what had happened he's standing out front waiting for me at ten to seven and a bus pulled up with all these executives from out of town who were there for a meeting with a fortune 100 company and they're all getting off the bus and as they're getting off the bus he said to him you guys here for the big meeting they said yuh-huh he said good I'm supposed to take you to it follow me and he got them all to follow him right off the bus down the hall and he gets them in this conference room he finds and he said this is the biggest meeting you've ever been in in your life I'm gonna tell you how you could go to heaven before it was done he led 14 people to Christ I said preacher you're gonna miss your flight he said what does that matter he said this is eternal stuff I said Wow how'd it happen he said when I left California I asked I said god I don't want to fly across country without a harvest of souls God you got to help me you know how hobbled up I am now and he said I asked God to bring a group of men to me and he said I'm standing out front and that bus door opened and here they come and he said when I said are you ready for the meeting they said yeah he said God did that that evangelist turned to me and he said David you're asking for too little he says you're going through life and you're not asking for enough you serve the god of the impossible but you gotta ask and by God's grace all this is critical you gotta get your eyes off of circumstances it's never the right time to do the impossible never well let's wait a year it'll still be impossible and circumstances don't govern the power of your God number three you got to get rid of your plan B Lord I don't need a plan B I got you and then you got a step out of the boat out of the boat I went back and told my dad what happened he said ya know I said what do you mean you know last night he asked me to pray for a harvest and he said I've been fasting and praying all day for him he said you need to understand something David we may be 80 plus but our God is still the god of that book and by God's grace we asked and God answered you want the god of the impossible now the devil doesn't care what you just heard as long as you don't do anything with it what he wants is for you to leave your challenge saying oh that's right that's right but not to do one thing about it it's time for you to ask you have the god of the impossible ask and you shall receive bow your brows Father thank you forgive me with how many times I struggled on work to pull it off myself when we have the god of the impossible heads bowed eyes closed how many of you say brother Gibbs God spoke to my heart tonight I want the god of the impossible my heart's been touched hold your hand up right now hold your hand high you've got your hand up get down to this altar right now it's time to ask the piano is going to play it's time to ask nothing can take the place of asking you have not because you've asked that oh I promise you I don't know what it is ever one of us has got impossible things for our kids our grandkids our lives our ministries our nation our church [Music] God forgive us for not ask you summon us and tonight were fixing we're asking specifically I don't know it's in the hearts of these dear people but you intimately and Father by your grace we want to see the god of the impossible the God with who all things are possible here are cry pastor

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Length: 43min 58sec (2638 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 20 2018