Positive Christian Motivation

Rising Above Fear to Fulfill Your Purpose - Powerful Christian Motivation

Make God's word your ultimate source of daily motivation as you tune in to this impactful episode filled with motivational messages, empowering life advice, inspiring teachings, and stories. Enjoy this remarkable blend of spiritual insights and empowering inspiration that motivates you to become the best version of yourself and nourishes your spiritual connection with God.

Duration:: 10m
Broadcast on:: 07 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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So here's the deal, if you and I continue, if you continue to live and fear your family, your friends, your church, and the world will miss your unique contribution. Now let me say it a little bit more theologically and a little bit more strongly. You and I will rock God of his glory if we remain in fear and I don't want to be a glory thief. But imagine if you will being on your deathbed and standing around your bed, the ghost of the dreams, the ideas, the abilities, the talents given to you by life and you for whatever reason. You never pursued those dreams. You never acted on those ideas. You never used those gifts. And there they are standing around your bed and looking at you with large, angry eyes, saying we came to you. And only you could have given us life. And now we must die with you forever. And the question is, if you die today, what dreams, what ideas, what leadership, what books, what gifts will die with you? Very good friend that I lost recently, Miles and Rose said, "The wealth is placed in the planet. "It's not in the fore, "it's where there's oil in the ground. "It's not in South Africa where there are diamond mines. "It's that the wealth is placed in the planet. "It's the cemetery. "There you find potential never realized. "There you find dreams never pursued. "There you find people allow themselves "to be imprisoned by fear "and living a small life." Maybe that's why one woman asking a moment of anguish. What if you live your whole life only to discover? It was wrong. Maybe that's why Henry David throws an old God to reach the point of death, only to realize that you've never lived. Only to realize that you've never scraped the surface of your potential. - Are you tired of being stuck in fear? Well, God wants to give us courage to face our fears. I grew up as a compulsive stutterman. One of my greatest fears in life was talking in front of people, because when you stutter, it doesn't go so well and people laugh at you. Got laughed at a lot. I had to go to a little special class for people who couldn't talk real good and other kids knew and they'd walk by the class like, "Hey, hey, hey, hey, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo." Didn't want to talk. I remember in 10th grade leaving a French class 'cause I had to stand up and give an oral examination. I left the class. It was too painful. I didn't want to be laughed at it. The teacher was very merciful and let me come in. I have to class and everybody else left to give my message. In 1998, played one last year of professional football, then in the fall of 1999, I was a brand new Christian and I was invited to go speak at a youth event. It's like former NFL player who loves Jesus, give him a microphone to speak. And I really wrestled with God. I said, "God, why would you send me to go?" I'm a compulsive stutterman. I'm a brand new Christian. Why would you send me to go? And all of the memories and everybody making fun of me and I could see myself being on stage like stuttering and not knowing what to do and embarrassing myself again. And I was arguing with God, "God, why would you do this? "Why would you have them call me? "Surely there's somebody better "who can actually put words together. "Why would you send me?" I was afraid. I remember I was in a shower, just wrestling with God and praying to him. And a couple of things happened, not an audible voice, but the first thing was this. Derwin, if I can raise my son Jesus from the dead, I can move your tongue to talk. And Derwin, I put something in you, a message of grace. And I want you to unleash it, but you've gotta trust me. Fear became a friend because it pushed me to my daddy. Let me say that again. Fear became a friend because it pushed me to my daddy. So when the enemy knocks on the door, I let Jesus answer because he takes me to my daddy. How about you? Where does fear take you to? A bottle, prescriptions. So I went down there and I preached and note cards were falling out of my pocket and shared my story and at the end of it, a bunch of people came to Jesus. And God was like, "See, I got this." What's your lo and behold moment that fear is right there, but you're paralyzed because you're afraid of your fear more than you love the glory of God. Maybe it's a broken marriage. If you let people know that you're actually human and there's cracks and fractures in your life, but being afraid that people will actually know that you're human, that's why Jesus went to the cross because he knows that we're broken. If you're hurting here today, we have a savior who longs and loves to tarts hurting people with his grace. Maybe it's an addiction. Maybe your wife keeps telling you, you know, sweetie, I think you got a problem, a bottle, a wine, every night is a problem. Maybe for some of you, you're coasting through life and not really challenging yourself because you're afraid to fail. (gentle music) I'd rather try and fail than to never try. What you waiting on tomorrow's not promised. For some of you, God has some fantastic things right in your midst. Oh my gosh, what if I would allowed my fear of stuttering to prevent me from going to Columbia, South Carolina in the fall of 1999? How many lives would not be impacted? I want you to feel the weight of this. What is God putting on your heart? What is that beautiful song in his symphony that he wants you to sing and you have that special note? Maybe some of you are afraid. Well, I like what you said, preacher man, that was good. He got me going, but if I do something like that, I'll have to give up this stuff. Guys in America, we've proven that we can get a lot of stuff. But have we proven that we can actually live? Stuff does not equate to life. Maybe right now you're thinking, you know, Pastor Derwin, I feel what you're saying, I really do. But if I had this, I could. If I had this, I would. If I had this, I should. Don't live a woulda coulda shit a life. You've got the Lord. You got everything you need right now in Jesus. Everything you need right now in him. I don't know what your giant is, but you have it. Attack your fear by trusting Christ. That's gonna look very different and very unique in all of our lives. But in God's providence, that will be the case and God doesn't want us to be paralyzed by fear. He wants that fear to move us to press into him so that he can fight our battles for his glory. Today, the Lord will conquer you. Today, God will heal my marriage. Today, God will touch the deepest and broken parts of my life. Today, the Lord will do. Today. (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) [MUSIC PLAYING]