BEYOND RESILIENT

“Rising Above Self-Limiting Beliefs!”
Pastor Ben Johnson – April 14, 2024

Don’t limit your life to your EARTHLY story

when Jesus is inviting you to step into a HEAVENLY story

that is infinitely better.

Living “Beyond Resilient” requires…

ALIGNING our beliefs about OURSELVES with

our BELIEFS about God.

Begin, by TRUSTING in a God who CAN.

Ephesians 3:20-21 – God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. Glory to God in the church!…

Believing in a God “who Can” CHANGES EVERYTHING.

Philippians 4:13 – For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

Believe that God can…

1.Get me back ON TRACK.

Exodus 3:7-11 – Then the Lord told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So, I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey… Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them. Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”

But, Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”

2. Overcome what is HOLDING ME BACK.

Exodus 4:10-13 – But Moses pleaded with the Lord, “O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I never have been, and I’m not now, even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.”

Then the Lord asked Moses, “Who makes a person’s mouth? Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear or do not hear, see or do not see? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go! I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say.”

But Moses again pleaded, “Lord, please! Send anyone else.”

3. My faith MOVES me and others to RISE ABOVE.

Exodus 4:18-20 – So Moses went back home to Jethro, his father-in-law. “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt,” Moses said. “I don’t even know if they are still alive.”

“Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

Before Moses left Midian, the Lord said to him, “Return to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you have died.”

So, Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to the land of Egypt…

I SERVE a God who can.

And, if He is FOR ME, who or what can be against me.

Romans 8:31