Youth With A Mission Disciple Training Course (青年使命团使徒培训班) 43

TCA-YWAM Austin

December 29, 2019

Topic: God gives YOU grace to do the impossible

(Compiled by Jon Dorris – permission granted to use this info freely)

Intro

-Q Do the promises of God seem impossible?

-Q Even hopeless?

YOUR DISCUSSION Q – How will I adjust my life to receive God’s blessings?

Start new in 2020 believing in God that gives abundance of grace

Hebrews 4:16 (AMP)  Therefore, let us [with privilege] approach the throne of grace [that is, the throne of God’s gracious favor] with confidence and without fear, so that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find [His amazing] grace to help in time of need [an appropriate blessing, coming just at the right moment].

Tell our story of 1209

-moved to farm, which was last LOCAL phone line and was 1209

-saw 1209 everywhere and asked God WHAT IS THIS ABOUT

2 Corinthians 12:09 but He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you [My lovingkindness and My mercy are more than enough—always available—regardless of the situation]; for [My] power is being perfected [and is completed and shows itself most effectively] in [your] weakness.” Therefore, I will all the more gladly boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ [may completely enfold me and] may dwell in me.

1209 Story continued

-1986 real estate recession

-God gave us Jubliee Tent Rental Idea

-God gave us 5K to buy 3 tents and box of business cards

2 Corinthians 8:9 (amp)  For you are recognizing [more clearly] the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [His astonishing kindness, His generosity, His gracious favor], that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich (abundantly blessed).

-God was re-fathering me out of self-reliance and total trust in Him for everything

-Self-reliance = 1 mess after the other

EX – expanded JTR with loan = 7 years of bondage to trying to do it myself. MESS!!!

-God’s loving sovereignty allowed me to go through 7 long hard years

-So that I KNOW the best way is to rely on him.

-His love was so wonderful during the 7 years

-You all remember my June 27, 1998 story

-DON’T fear and worry over finances – TRUST GOD INSTEAD

-DON’T worry over your precious family – TRUST GOD…

-Tanya’s cardinal/red bird story every time things looked bleak

-DO YOU SEE GOD’s SOVEREIGNTY here – He did not relieve financial circumstances during the 7 years.

-He did something much better – GAVE US GRACE TO TRUST HIM

EX. Graham Cook – God said for a whole year you will not need 1 dollar

-DO YOU SEE WHY GOD is allowing evil during this age?

-So we never go there again!!!

-So we NEVER go the SELF-RELIANCE path again.

-God is re-fathering us out of that and into a peaceful, grace-filled trusting Him for everything.

Matthew 5:3 amp - “Blessed [spiritually prosperous, happy, to be admired] are the poor in spirit [those devoid of spiritual arrogance, those who regard themselves as insignificant], for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [both now and forever].

2 Corinthians 9:8 amp - And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity.

Q-CAN AND WILL YOU LET GOD RE-FATHER YOU THIS WAY?

-From now on can you trust Him for grace for everything you walk through?

2 Corinthians 1:20 For as many as are the promises of God, in Christ they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

Q-Can you see how God’s grace can keep you out of life-devastating temptations?

James 4:6-8 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” ⁷ Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Jesus will help you by giving you GRACE – Cry out to Him

Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize and understand our weaknesses and temptations, but One who has been tempted [knowing exactly how it feels to be human] in every respect as we are, yet without [committing any] sin.

God re-fathered David and turned him into a giant-killer King David

-Listen what David learned

Psalm 34:4-8 NASB - I sought the Lord, and He answered me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
⁵ They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces will never be ashamed.
⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him,
And rescues them.

⁸ O taste and see that the Lord is good;
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

Psalm 37:5-7 AMP - Trust [rely on and have confidence] in the Lord and do good;
Dwell in the land and feed [securely] on His faithfulness.
⁴ 
Delight yourself in the Lord,
And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart.
⁵ 
Commit your way to the Lord;
Trust in Him also and He will do it.
⁶ 
He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light,
And your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun].

⁷ 
Be still before the Lord; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him;
Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Q-CAN AND WILL YOU LET GOD RE-FATHER YOU THIS WAY?

-From now on can you trust Him for grace for everything you walk through?

Q – How will I adjust my life to receive God’s blessings?

Start new in 2020 believing in God that gives abundance of grace