I think it's time for you to refuse to give up I'm gonna give you some things
that I think it's gonna help motivate you and encourage you you're gonna love
this video coming up next
hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with Crystal I'm Crystal Sparks I'm so glad
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it's time for us to refuse to give up I heard this story of a while ago but I
think it's so powerful and I think about it often and some scientists got
together and they were curious what would happen if they sent some bees into
outer space so they loaded them up and sent them into outer space where they
were gonna be in a weightless condition to see if they would survive what they
would do and they summed up the experiment with these words they enjoyed
the ride but in the end they died that's really sad right they were curious what
would happen if they just gotten away listed to situation in the truth was
they didn't make it they didn't make it at all you know I was driving down the
road the other day and I was really frustrated with God you know we are
seeing God do so many amazing things our church is thriving we launched our
second campus we're renovating a building getting ready to move into that
I mean just so many things and I was just asking God for all these things and
finally I asked God this question God is there ever gonna be a point where I
don't need a miracle to get us to the next thing that you have for us and I
felt God very clearly tell me this crystal the goal of your Christian life
is not to need me less but to rely on me more and in that moment I realized that
so often we want to give up because we feel like what we're facing seems
impossible and the truth is is that God did not make us for average mediocre
substandard kind of lives he created us to be continuously going into great and
wonderful things that he has for us so I'll just put it this way
that if you feel like giving up then that means that you're doing something
big for God because people that live average lives don't
need God but people who are continuously pressing into the new things believing
God for everything that he's promised those are the people that need God I
think in our lives that we begin to look to the horizon and say god I declare
that I'm not gonna give up no matter how long and no matter how hard it is I
refuse to tap out on the journey that you have for me
see effortless living is never effective just like those bees I think so many of
us are praying for things to get easier and God's will for us is that we become
stronger we're praying that things just magically all turn out and God's saying
do you have the faith to be steadfast through the situations that I placed you
in there's three people we're gonna look at in the Bible that I think are gonna
inspire inspire you and the first one is found in Luke chapter 18 first one it's
the widow woman who went to the unjust judge and the Bible says Jesus said that
she did not give up in Luke 18:1 it says also Jesus told them about a parable to
the fact that they were ought that they ought to always pray and to not turn
coward faint lose heart and give up see Jesus told him the story about the
unjust judge in the widow woman the widow woman came to him day and night
she did not give up in what she was praying for and I think the first thing
that we can see out of that story is that do not give up even when
authorities in your life tell you it's never going to happen
maybe it's writing a book and somebody you thought was an authority somebody
that you thought was really good told you nobody's ever going to read this
maybe you tried out for a musical position and they told you that you
couldn't sing maybe you went after it on whatever it is and somebody that you
said was an authority in your life told you that you're not gonna make it and
it's never going to work out I want to tell you that we've got to keep pushing
forward even with authority figures in our life
tell us that it's not good enough I remember whenever I was in English in
high school had an English teacher read my writing aside
and she told me she said crystal the problem with you is that you write like
you talk and those words rung in the back of my head because she was an
authority figure in my life and and those words rang in the back of my head
all the way through into my 30s and when I sat down cuz God had called me to
write a book all I could think about was don't write like you talk and so I every
time I go to start writing I was like I don't even know what to say cuz the only
way I know how to say this is how I would say it right I the only way I know
how to write it is how I would say it and so I went to a friend of mine who
edits for all kinds of people and big famous authors major speakers and I went
to her and asked her what to do and she said crystal if you didn't write like
you were like you talk nobody's going to read the book they want you to write
like you talk see here's the thing is I let that authority in my life keep me
from years of writing years of putting out what I felt like was in my heart and
now my books go all over the world people reading them God doing amazing
things in their life and here's the thing it wouldn't have ever happened if
I continued to listen to that authority figure in my life that came to tell me
now some of you need to get back your dreams you need to quit letting
authority figures in your life disqualify what God has placed in your
life just recently I was talking to a pastor and he's reaching so many people
and he told me about how the first time he got it to preach a pastor that he
loved in his life told him you'll never make it as a speaker you are terrible
you can never do anything great and as far as platform ministry and that like
kept him from years of speaking and now he has a church with so many people in
attendance people getting saved every single week now just think if he would
have let that one negative voice keep me keep him from God's promise so many
people would have never heard about Jesus what authority has taken away your
dreams number two the woman with the issue of
blood is found in Matthew chapter 19 and the Bible tells us that there was a
great crowd pressing around Jesus and so she would
through the crowd pressing through the crowd and telling herself if I could
just touch the hem of His garment I'll be made well I think what we can learn
from that I'm not giving up is our second thing is don't worry what people
say see here's the thing is if she would have let that entire crowd keep her from
what Jesus had for her then she would have never walked in the fullness of
what God had available for but so often we let other people keep us from what
God has and and so many times I love this that in my own life that I've
learned that somebody else's opinion I love Rachel Hollis says that somebody
else's opinion of you does not matter to you it's none of your business and I
love this because that woman with issue of blood if she would have been found
out that she was in the crowd she could have been stoned to death
she was ceremonial unclean and so at that point of her pressing through the
crowd she was declaring it doesn't matter what
other people say it doesn't matter if other people say I'm not qualified it
doesn't matter if other people think that I will get my miracle it doesn't
matter if other people seem to be closer to Jesus than I am and so often we look
at everybody else and we feel like everybody else is closer to God than we
are everybody else has a closer prayer walk everybody else can hear God better
and we let those things keep us from the pursuit that God has for us see it
doesn't matter what people say it just matters that we are gonna press through
even when it seems impossible the third thing I want to highlight is that kiyose
Zakia story is found in Luke chapter 19 19 and I love this it says that he
didn't focus on his shortcomings so that he was too short and he couldn't see
over the crowd see what I did there can you see that little pen but he was too
short you couldn't see over the crowd so what did he do he found another way he
got up in a tree to see Jesus and I love this because I think what we can learn
out of this is that what you don't have kids keep you from all that God has for
you see so often we're good at taking inventory of our shortcomings of our
weaknesses of what we don't have in fact whenever Jesus got ready to be
the multitude he told them that he wanted to feed him in the disciples
immediately started talking about what they don't have and some of you have a
dream to start a book but you're thinking about what you don't have and
that's the publishers approval you're thinking about what you don't have and
that's time to write a book but I love this that you write a book five minutes
at a time and you don't need a publisher to do it in the age and time we live in
you can self publish so easily quit letting what you don't have keep you
from doing what you can't and here's that kiyose was he couldn't make himself
any taller but he could use what he had in his situation and that was a tree and
so for some of you you can't make yourself and offset the things that you
are born with or the talents or the abilities that you were born with but
you can utilize everything that you do have to the best of your ability I love
in Hebrews 12:2 it says looking away from all that will distract and to Jesus
you know I love that because it's letting us know that there's going to be
a lot of things in our life better distractions
maybe it's disqualifications from authority figures maybe it's what people
have said about you or maybe for you it's what you don't have that's keeping
you and here's the thing is that God's called us to not give up when all those
things happen he wants us to keep pressing forward one of my favorite
scriptures is when Jesus says to the disciples when the Son of Man comes
again will he find anybody continuing in their faith and that tells me this that
when Jesus comes back again he's looking for people who will refuse to give up
he's looking for the people that didn't give up even though the circumstances
were hard people that didn't give up even when people said they couldn't do
it people that didn't give up even when authority figures told him they would
never make it and here's the thing I believe you're watching this and
you're listening to this because you're that kind of person and so let's be the
kind of people that don't give up hey thank you so much for being here with me
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