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You know, sometimes things happen to you that
test the reality of that truth.
And we had one in our house today.
My wife worked at the office today and
so my mother was visiting us from Texas
and so my daughter spent all afternoon preparing
a lovely meal for my mother.
Had all the best dishes out and everything
ready and so grandma came up from up
the elevator and fell out of the elevator
and fell down and she's in the hospital
now.
Perhaps twisted or broke her ankle.
So my wife and sister Gwen are with
her right now.
So we're going to pray for her and
the Lord will touch her.
But I'm sure if she were here she
would say it don't matter.
God still, we still rejoice.
This is a day the Lord hath made.
God still has everything under control.
And we're going to take that need and
ask the Lord to touch her and minister
to your need tonight as well.
I trust as Pastor David said if you
came in discouraged I pray it's lifted.
If it isn't lifted yet as I pray
I pray the Lord will lift it even
now as I pray.
Hallelujah.
Lord we thank you.
We do rejoice.
We rejoice in you Lord.
Hallelujah.
This is the day you have made.
Lord we're glad to be alive at this
hour to serve you.
Glad to be here tonight in the house
of God.
Thank you for the praises of God's people.
Thank you for hearing our prayers tonight in
behalf of the many needs that we've lifted
before you.
Lord if there are others that are sitting
here even now that the spirit of discouragement
or whatever it might be that be upon
them has not lifted from them Lord lift
it right now in the name of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
And Lord as we address the need of
the hour in this message anoint it we
pray.
And I also pray for mother that you
would touch her Lord right now that you
would heal her bones or whatever this is.
Lord that you would touch her in her
body strengthen her we pray.
And Lord give her a speedy recover whatever
it is in Jesus name.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Turn with me if you will to the
book of Matthew.
First of all I want to go through
about three different verses in Matthew and then
we're going to go to 1 Samuel.
I want to talk to you tonight about
the danger of little faith.
The danger of little faith.
And Jesus used this term several times and
I want to read a few of them
here in Matthew.
And then we'll illustrate it in the Old
Testament.
The danger of little faith.
Matthew 6 verse 30.
Jesus in answer to some questions relative to
concerns about the future.
Concerns about practical needs.
Jesus said wherefore if God so clothe the
grass of the field which today is and
tomorrow is cast into the oven.
Shall he not much more clothe you?
And then he uses that statement oh ye
of little faith.
Little faith.
Go to Matthew the 8th chapter.
And verse 26.
In the midst of a storm.
Jesus said in verse 26.
And he saith unto them why are you
fearful?
Oh ye of little faith.
Then he arose and rebuked the winds and
the sea and there was a great calm.
And then again in Matthew the 14th chapter.
Again he uses the same term.
Matthew 14.
And verse 31.
He's addressing Peter this time.
And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand.
And caught him, caught Peter.
And he said unto them oh thou of
little faith.
Wherefore didst thou doubt?
Alright now go with me to 1 Samuel.
1 Samuel and chapter 27.
And I ask you just to leave your
Bible open there.
We'll deal with the story of David here.
1 Samuel 27.
Verse 1.
And David said in his heart I shall
now perish one day by the hand of
Saul.
There is nothing better for me than I
should speedily escape into the land of the
Philistines.
And Saul shall despair of me to seek
me any more in any coast of Israel.
So shall I escape out of his hand.
Now there's an interesting parallel between the behavior
of Peter.
The disciples.
And the future king of Israel.
In that Jesus addressed them as men of
little faith.
And David demonstrates the same kind of little
faith.
In an incident here that we'll look at
in a moment.
But I want to say this.
Do you know that doubt.
Doubting God.
Having doubts.
Doubts works for the devil.
Almost as well as any other of his
devices.
You may as well go on drugs or
be on drugs or commit some other gross
sin as to doubt the Lord.
Now David says here he said I've got
to run or Saul is going to kill
me.
And so he went down to find a
safe house.
What we would call a safe house in
Gath.
And he said perhaps Saul will get tired
of me.
He'll leave me alone and I will escape
out of his hand.
And that's exactly what happened.
In verse 4 of the same chapter.
And it was told Saul that David had
fled to Gath.
And he sought no more again for him.
You see the devil will leave you alone
temporarily.
If he sees that you are operating in
unbelief and running away in doubt.
You see Saul had been chasing David up
and down the coast for months.
But he quit chasing him when David was
being chased by his own fears.
By his own uncertainty and by his own
doubts and his little faith.
You see the devil loves to see a
child of God in that position.
His work is made easier.
You see doubt is brother devil to despair.
Now doubt is what I might call I
would call it a self-inflicted wound.
And it is a sin as clearly as
any sin.
Because the Bible says whatever is not of
faith is sin.
Now it's true that the devil does sow
seeds of doubt.
Especially in young Christians.
But doubt are often they're often the cause
of our own making.
Jesus said to Peter wherefore didst thou doubt?
Now my message tonight is drawn primarily from
the life of David.
During his battles and his trials with Saul.
And I want to demonstrate how David went
through the valley of doubt.
But praise God he came out on the
mountain of faith and trust.
And if you're in a valley of doubt.
Or if you're one who seems to quickly
fall into doubts and fears.
Then that's the topic of my message.
But I want to talk to you about
the dangers of it.
And let's see how David came out of
that and ended up on the top of
the mountain of faith.
But first of all a little historical background
on the events leading up to David's confession
of little faith.
And that's what it was it was a
very very negative confession.
Now this period of doubt followed a time
of great personal victory.
In chapter 26 of 1st Samuel is the
account of when Saul located David in one
of his hideouts.
And on one side of the mountain was
David and his small band of men.
Who were fleeing from Saul.
And on the other side of the mountain
was Saul with an impressive army of 3
,000 chosen men of Israel.
Saul had the elite troops.
David had the ruffians.
Saul was the pursuer.
And David was the pursued.
But on this particular occasion David had the
CIA at work for him.
That's called Celestial Intelligence Agency.
And late one night David and Abishai snuck
into Saul's camp undetected.
Because supernaturally the Lord had blinded or put
to sleep or caused them to be deaf
and dumb.
And so he was able to sneak in
completely undetected as Saul and his army slept.
And David was able to take Saul's spear
and his jug away from him while he
slept.
Now Abishai who went with David wanted David
immediately to take the spear and put it
into Saul and kill him.
But he refused to do that.
Instead he returned back to his own camp
with the spear and the jug and he
hauled it over into Saul's camp.
When Saul awoke he realized what David had
done and had not done.
And he was embarrassed, he was humiliated, and
he was outwardly repentant.
Saul knew that David could have killed him.
And the fact that he didn't was a
measure of David's godly character.
Now the last thing that Saul says to
David in this midnight conversation across these two
mountain passes.
The last words that he says to them
are found and you can see it there
the last verse of chapter 26.
Saul hollers out and says to David, Blessed
be thou my son David, thou shalt both
do great things and also shalt still prevail.
So David went on his way and Saul
returned to his place.
Now it's immediately after that that it's recorded
here that David cries out in great despair.
He said I shall now perish by the
hand of Saul and he takes off into
foreign territory.
Now why?
Why did David run away?
How was it that he fell into a
state of doubt and what Jesus addressed or
said to his disciples as little faith.
Saul had said to David, Blessed be thou
my son David, thou shalt both do great
things and also shalt prevail.
Now whether Saul meant that or not I
don't know because Saul was very deceptive, he
had a deceptive heart, he had a deceptive
mouth.
But one thing is for sure, David did
not believe it.
And why did he not believe it?
Why did David seemingly give up?
Well I think for one reason he was
worn out.
David was going through what is now popularly
called burnout.
He had gone through a long ordeal, a
long trial, not just for weeks but for
months.
He was hunted like a partridge on a
mountain.
And no matter where David turned, things were
against him.
For example, we go back a few chapters,
don't turn there but in Samuel 23, David
goes to a place called Keilah.
Where he and his men fight against the
Philistines and won a victory.
This is what the Lord had said.
He said, Arise, go down to Keilah, for
I will deliver the Philistines into thine hands.
So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
And do you know what thanks he got
for it?
Somebody, perhaps even a resident of Keilah or
a trader, squeals on David and tells Saul
where he is.
And in chapter 23 verse 7 it says,
And it was told Saul that David was
come to Keilah.
And Saul said, God hath delivered him into
mine hand, for he is shut in by
entering into a town that hath gates and
bars.
But David got out of that.
He was able to get out of that.
He then fled to the wilderness of Zeph.
But there the Zephites betrayed David and this
is what it says, Then came up Zephites
to Saul, saying, Doth not David hide himself
with us in strongholds in the wood?
Now therefore, O king, come down according to
all the desire of thy soul to come
down, and our part will be to deliver
him into the king's hand.
And so no matter what David did, even
when it seemed God was with him, things
did not turn out.
It seemed like everything was against him.
And Saul had wanted posters, as it were,
out all over the land.
And people, in order to endear themselves to
Saul, would look for David and spy on
him.
It's no wonder that David was suffering with
what we might call burnout.
Now there are those who will say that
I don't believe in burnout.
Well I don't either.
Burnout is not befitting to a child of
God, but the fact is, even a man
of godly character like David, as David was,
had to battle against doubt because of the
heat of the battle.
You see, even champions face moments of doubt.
Was it not David, who in better times
had stood with his foot upon the top
of Goliath, and upon his dead body, holding
a sling in one hand and Goliath's sword
in the other, a testimony to the power
of God in using that little shepherd boy.
But David, like us, you see, was a
man of passions.
Remember it is said of Elijah that he
prayed that it would not rain for three
and a half years, and it did not.
And again he prayed, and then it rained.
And Elijah, after that, defeated the major cultists
of the day.
He literally wiped them out, and he shut
down them in one great display of mighty
power.
And yet right after this, Elijah is afraid
of Jezebel, who hunted his life.
And he cries out, he says, let me
die, I am better than my fathers.
And like David, he runs and he hides
himself.
And you see, if Elijah and David felt
the effects of human passion manifested in fear,
and in doubts, and despair, think not that
we also, as we go through this race,
will not face the same kinds of struggles.
Some old preacher said this, he said, doubts
and fears are like the toothache.
Nothing more painful, but never fatal.
Well, I don't know about that, but one
thing is for sure, the strongest of saints
at times get toothaches.
And face the very fiery trials that will
fling you into periods of questioning God, or
doubting God.
And that's exactly what happened to David.
Now, when you face such trials or struggles
as David, don't listen to your heart.
This is what we should learn from David's
experience.
David listened to his own heart, to his
own emotions.
The Bible says, the heart is desperately wicked,
who can know it or rely on it.
The scripture says here, and David said in
his heart, all the things we say in
our hearts and minds that we're sorry for
later.
Be careful what comes out of your heart
when you're under pressure and when you're under
attack.
A lot of times it's not the language
of faith, it's the language of little faith.
And you see, it's at that moment that
it's important to hold up your statements of
doubt, up to the light of God's word.
And to see just how false and untrue
they are.
Note in David's case what he said and
how false it was.
He said, I shall now perish by the
hand of Saul.
The disciples in the storm used the same
language and said, Lord save us, we perish.
And tonight I say to you, if you
go through those same kinds of periods, and
you say things out of desperation or under
pressure.
Or if you have an attitude of heart,
if you're in a doubt tonight and have
fears and doubts that come over you.
If we will but bring the attitudes of
our heart into the supreme courtroom of God,
they will be thrown out for lack of
evidence, hallelujah.
You see, the Holy Spirit is a lawyer,
and he wants to expose our doubts and
our fears and our unbelief.
And he wants to throw them out for
lack of evidence.
Take David, for example.
Sure, he was threatened by Saul, but Saul
never prevailed.
When David was holed up in the city
of Keilah, and Saul was looking his chops,
expecting victory.
Listen to what happened.
It's in 1 Samuel 23, 13.
Don't turn there, I'll read it to you.
It
says, But God delivered him not into his
hands.
Saul sought him every day, but God delivered
him not into his hands.
Let me tell you tonight, whenever your heart
tells you, or the devil tells you, or
somebody else tells you that you're going to
perish, that you're not going to make it.
Bring those feelings, bring those doubts into the
courtroom of God.
Hold them up to the light of God,
and they'll be thrown out, hallelujah, for lack
of evidence.
Especially if you're walking in covenant before God.
1 John 3, 19 and 20 says, We
shall know by this, meaning that if we're
walking in covenant, if we're walking in righteousness,
we shall know by this that we are
of the truth, and shall assure our hearts
before him in whatever our hearts condemn us.
For God is greater than our hearts, and
knows all things.
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us,
we have confidence before God, hallelujah.
David had to but look at God's history,
and God's track record with him.
It's true that he was exposed to a
variety of personal attacks by Saul.
David had been betrayed, he had been belittled,
he was befuddled, and yet with every trial
also came a way of escape.
There were no wounds in David's body, there
was not a spear that had come close.
David could pull out his warrior's log, his
daily log, and he could say, look here,
God did not forsake me at any moment.
Here's evidence that God never let me down.
Saul sought him every day, but God delivered
him, delivered him not into his hands.
And you know, I want to encourage you
tonight to look back over your life as
David had, if he could have just looked
back over his life and remember when he
cared for his father's sheep and a lion
and a bear came and God was with
him.
The Philistines came and God was with him.
And he could not present to God one
solid fact that God had changed his mind
that David would someday reign as the king
of Israel.
Somebody has said this, never doubt in the
dark what God has promised you or told
you in the light.
Never doubt in the dark what God has
said to you and promised you in the
light.
And that was why David was in despair.
He hadn't seen what God had promised him.
He forgot it, he didn't see it in
the dark.
And so what applies to David applies to
us.
You see, we don't condemn a man without
evidence.
And should we condemn our Lord without evidence?
There's a beautiful old song that says, never
failed me yet.
Never failed me yet.
This one thing I know, that where'er
I go, Jesus' love never failed me yet.
Let God be true and every man a
liar, even if that man is yourself and
your own doubting mind and heart.
You see, the highest pinnacle of spiritual life
is not joy in unbroken sunshine, but it's
absolute and undoubting trust in the love of
God.
When David was in Keilah, Saul said, David
is now mine.
He even thought that God was on his
side.
And this is what he said, he said,
for he's shut in.
He's in the city of Keilah, he's shut
in.
And I don't know about you, but you
might be here tonight and feel shut into
something.
Saul said, I've got him, he's in Keilah,
it has bars on the gates.
It has walls around the city and I've
got him shut in.
And some of you may feel exactly like
that, seemingly in an impossible situation.
And Saul said to David, for he is
shut in by entering into a town that
has gates and bars and walls.
In other words, David is walled in, I've
got him in a corner.
Now that's what Saul said, but listen to
what God says.
Isaiah 49, 15 to 17 says, can a
woman forget her nursing child and have no
compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not
forget you.
Behold, I have inscribed you on the palm
of my hand.
Your walls are continually before me.
Hallelujah.
Excuse me.
Will you stand with me?
Will you stand please?
I'm struggling.
There's a wall right here.
I feel walled in as I'm preaching.
And I just want to pray and I
just want to break it right now.
There's a wall.
I've never done this before.
But there's just a wall and I've got
to finish this message.
And I know God's given me a word
for somebody here tonight.
And some of you are sitting on the
meeting.
Some of you, I've told you about my
grandfather.
There's people that come in and they're sitting
on the meeting.
Most of all, I feel the enemy sitting
up.
We're going to break it right now.
Hallelujah.
We're going to pray right now.
Lord, I pray right now.
Lord, in the name of Jesus, I break,
Lord, every barrier.
Lord, there are people here tonight that have
doubts.
And we come against them in the name
of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Lord, we come against it.
Hallelujah.
We break it, Lord.
Hallelujah.
In the name of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Lord, we break it.
We bind the enemy.
That would want a wall in a meeting.
Hallelujah.
That would want a wall in a meeting.
But Lord, he can't do it.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
You may be seated.
Now I can continue.
I started to read to you Isaiah 49.
I want to read it again because it
climaxes in a beautiful truth.
He said, can a woman forget her nursing
child and have no compassion on the son
of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not
forget you.
Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms
of my hands.
Your walls are continually before me.
And listen to me.
The one who inscribes us in his nail
-scarred hand is able to break down the
walls that wall you in and to deliver
you.
And especially if that's a wall of doubt
or fear.
The verse goes on.
It says, your builders hurry.
Your destroyers and devastators will depart from you.
Hallelujah.
Isaiah 54.10 says, the mountains shall depart
and the hills be removed.
But my kindness shall not depart from thee,
neither shall the covenant of my peace be
removed, saith the Lord that have mercy on
thee.
And you see, every time the enemy attacks
you and brings doubts, you hold those up
to the light of God's word.
And they'll disappear.
Hallelujah.
David didn't do that.
Now, the serious thing, and here's the tragedy
of it.
Here's the effect of David's lack of faith
and trust in God.
Look again at verse 27, chapter 27, verse
1.
He said, there is nothing better for me
to do that I should speedily escape into
the hand of the Philistines.
You see, the very first effect of little
faith or of doubting God is that you
make a great big mistake.
Can you imagine David's reasoning when he said,
there is nothing better for me to do
than to escape to the Philistines?
Nothing better?
David, you could come up with something better
than that.
Nothing better than to go down to the
Philistines, the very ones over whom he had
prevailed by the hand of Jehovah during his
youth?
You see, doubt and unbelief will cause you
to do some very foolish things.
The reasonings of a natural mind and an
unbelieving heart cause one to say, there's nothing
better to do.
In other words, where am I going to
turn to?
God is not coming through for me, therefore
I've got to come through for myself.
Or I've got to do this, or I've
got to do that.
David had already acted the fool and had
gone down to Gath previously and acted like
a madman.
And now he's about to do the same
thing again.
You see, some people will never learn.
Some people will never learn.
They always seek man-made help instead of
waiting on God.
And let me warn you tonight, let me
say that if we continually distrust God and
doubt Him rather than trust Him, He will
bring us to the very brink of disaster
to get your attention.
And the very last effect of David's doubt
in going to Gath is that he almost
lost everything.
When David settled in Gath, he had to
show his loyalty to the king by going
out into battle.
And so he took his army out.
And while he was out fighting, an enemy
came into his own city where his own
soldiers' family, his family and his soldiers' family
were living, and attacked them.
And when they returned from battle, this is
what they discovered, 1 Samuel 30 and 3.
So David and his men came to the
city and behold, it was burned with fire.
And their wives and their sons and their
daughters were taken captive.
Now they saw that and they were devastated.
Then David and the people that were with
him lifted up their voice and wept.
This is the end of side 1.
You may now turn the tape over to
side 2.
You see, before David went down to Gath,
he was afraid for his own life because
of Saul.
But now because of doubt and unbelief, he
has to fear for his own people.
He was better off just facing Saul.
There was only one with Saul in his
army, but mainly it was Saul.
But now his very own people are turning
against him.
That's the price, you see, of unbelief.
That's the price of little faith.
Ah, but here, as I said in the
beginning, David went through the valley of doubt.
Ah, but he came out on the mountain
of faith.
What did David do to overcome little faith?
Well, for one thing, he recognized the troubles
that he was having was the rod of
God to bring him back to where he
should have been all the time.
1 Samuel 30 and 6.
It says, for David was greatly distressed.
It's talking about when he came back to
his city and found their families were taken
captive, his sons and his daughters.
He was greatly distressed for the people spake
of stoning him because the soul of all
the people was grieved, every man for his
sons and for his daughters.
But David encouraged himself in the Lord.
Now, that part of the verse, that last
part of the verse, David encouraged himself in
the Lord, is familiar to many of us.
We often quote it, but most often we
don't get the full impact because we don't
quote it understanding its context.
You see, David in a time of suffering
was suffering because of his doubts.
But finally, God brings him back to the
place where it all started.
And David said to Abathar the priest, I
pray thee bring me hither the Ephod.
And Abathar brought hither the Ephod to David
and David inquired at the Lord.
And David inquired at the Lord.
Now, go back again, look in your Bibles,
go back to chapter 27 and verse 1.
And David said in his heart, I shall
now perish by the hand of the king.
You see, there was no turning to the
Lord.
There was no Ephod there.
There was no looking to the Lord.
Do you know something?
David was 14 months in Gath.
14 months he had gone there and was
living out of the will of God.
No praying, no turning to the Lord, no
direction, no faith.
And all that happened at Gath, all the
troubles his family suffered at Ziglag, all that
could have been avoided if David had turned
to the Lord in his moment of physical
and spiritual weakness.
Somebody has said, and I've quoted this before,
that if you feed your faith, your doubts
and your fears will starve to death.
But too often we feed our doubts and
we starve our faith.
And you see, when David began to inquire
of the Lord, he recovered the ground that
he had lost because of doubt and because
of little faith.
Verse 8 of 1 Samuel 30, again, it
says, And David inquired of the Lord, saying,
Shall I pursue after?
In fact, look at it if you will,
chapter 30 and verse 8.
I want to read it to you.
1 Samuel chapter 30 and verse 8.
And David inquired at the Lord, saying, Shall
I pursue after this troop?
Shall I overtake them?
And he, the Lord, answered him.
I want to stop right there in the
middle of that verse.
It says, And he, the Lord, answered him.
It had been 16 months in which David
was out of God's will.
16 months of not inquiring of the Lord.
16 months of lost time, of all kinds
of troubles and so forth, and losing ground.
But I want to tell you something tonight.
Lost ground can be recovered.
And he answered him, the Lord answered him,
and said, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake
them.
And without fail, and without fail, recover all.
Oh, how strong I feel that this is
a word from the Lord to some of
you here tonight.
The word is this, pursue.
The only way that you can be lifted
up out of your doubts, the only way
to encourage yourself in the Lord, is to
ask for the ephod.
That's turning to the Lord, that's turning to
his word.
That's inquiring of the Lord.
And if you do, God will answer you
back and say, Pursue, go for it.
Get back on track with the Lord.
Call upon him, turn in faith towards him.
And here's the promise to David, which is
a promise that you can bank on tonight.
And without fail, you will recover all.
Hallelujah.
And tonight I want to say that I
want to speak to doubt that's here tonight.
In the name of the Lord, I speak
to doubt or to fear or anxiety and
little faith.
And I say to you tonight, as was
said to David, pursue.
For thou shalt surely overtake them, and without
fail, recover all.
But also, let me also say this.
Here's the danger if you don't.
If you don't do it, if you don't
come out of little faith.
I read this this week by one of
the early Puritan writers, and let me, it's
a long quote, but let me read it
to you.
Some of you are always fashioning fresh nets
of doubt for your own entanglement.
You invent snares for your own feet and
are greedy to lay more of them.
You are mariners who seek the rocks, soldiers
who count the point, excuse me, soldiers who
court the point of the bayonet.
It is unprofitable business, this business of doubt.
Practically, morally, mentally, and spiritually, doubting is an
evil trade.
You are like a blacksmith, wearing out his
hand and making chains with which to bind
himself.
Doubt is sterile, a desert without water.
Doubt discovers difficulties which it never solves.
It creates hesitancy, despondency, despair.
Its progress is a decay of comfort, the
death of peace.
Believe is the word that speaks life into
a man, but doubt nails down his coffin.
And tonight, if you're in a coffin, I
want to tell you that as David did,
you can do it.
He burst out of that coffin, hallelujah.
He burst out of the coffin of doubt
and so can you.
Let me just give you a few verses
in closing.
Listen to a few things that David wrote
after coming out of his doubts.
Apparently, he never forgot those 16 months living
in a desert of doubt.
Because later, he would pen these words.
For example, and don't turn there, I'll read
it to you, Psalms 56, 3 and 4.
He said, what time I am afraid, I
will trust in thee.
In God I will praise his word.
In God I have put my trust.
I will not fear what flesh will do
unto me.
What a contrast from when he said, I
shall perish one day by the hand of
Saul.
Psalms 86 and 7, he says, in the
day of trouble I will call upon thee,
for thou will answer me.
C.S. Lewis said this, he said, relying
on God has to begin all over every
day as if nothing yet has been done.
Every day is relying on God as if
nothing had been done and that God will
meet you for the need of the day,
hallelujah.
And then Psalms 57, 1 says, be merciful
unto me, O God, be merciful unto me.
For my soul trusts in thee.
Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will
I make my refuge until these calamities be
overpassed, hallelujah.
David went from I shall perish to I
will trust in God.
And there are some wonderful, we could go
down a whole list of over and over
again where David said, I will trust in
God, I will not be afraid, I will
call upon the Lord.
And tonight the Lord wants to lift you
if you're a person who's beset by doubts
and by fears.
If you have little faith, then God wants
to lift you tonight.
Let me give you one, let me go
back to one last thing.
It's Matthew the 14th chapter.
I was reading this again today and it
blessed me.
This is when Peter, Peter was walking on
the water and when he, he had, he
had, he had said, Lord, if it's you,
bid me come.
And he said, come, and when Peter was
come down out of the ship, he walked
on the water to go to Jesus.
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he
was afraid and began to sink and he
cried, Lord, save me.
Now here's, here's what I like.
And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and
caught him.
And then he said, O ye of little
faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
In other words, he didn't rebuke him until
he had lifted him.
He said, all right, I understand.
All right, I understand your doubt.
But he took out his hand, he lifted
him up and he, and he met his
need, he heard his cry.
And then he reminded him that he had
little faith.
And if you've got little faith tonight, you're
just like that.
The Lord wants to reach out his hand,
he wants to lift you up.
And while he's lifting you up, he wants
to say to you, you don't have to
do that again.
You don't have to have little faith again.
You don't have to go back at it
again.
He wants to lift you out and keep
you out.
Hallelujah.
Let's stand together.
This is the conclusion of the tape.