From Failure to Fullness IV, Shoes, Faith in Motion

Chapter 15. Once again, I had an experience this week of what I have to describe as the goodness and severity of God. It says that in Romans 11:22, the goodness of God to me this week was that I just had an abundantly rich time of fellowship and the Lord opening new things into my own heart. The severity was that he said to me, now start living in it. Ever had that happen when you study the word? And boy, this is really good. He says, now start right there, live in it. But if you have not been with us before, perhaps have come in and out at different times. We are near the very conclusion of about a five week study of forgiveness. And the title of the series that we've been developing is From Failure to Fullness. Looking at the life of the prodigal son. And we have seen him go all the way from the extreme blessing and privilege of being a special son of a very wealthy and loving father, all the way into the pigsty of despair and then coming back. And in verse 20 of Luke chapter 15, we picked up the story of the father's response, Luke 15:20, when he saw the son afar off. And the Bible says, and he arose and came to his father, but while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him, and he had compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed him. Remember that? How exciting to examine the Father's heart toward the Son reaching out. And we developed that theme and then we looked at the son's response to that. The Son said to the Father, verse 21, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But before he could say, treat me as a hired slave, the Father cut him off. And then we look at the provision of the Father. The Father said to his servants, verse 22, bring quickly the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes in his feet, and bring the fatty calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry for my son. This my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found and they began to make merry. Ken Hobbs, who has been fellowshipping with us for the last couple of months, comes all the way over from Wilkinsburg area. And it's a blessing that God has given gifts to his people. As I've said so many times, Ken knows a song and shared with me a song that puts this, this scene to music in a very beautiful way. And I don't know if you want to add anything to your introduction, but just imagine the Father Seeing the son, embracing him and saying these very words. Ken, would you share? Is it on? Oh, the switch makes a difference. Just a word. That this song is almost a testimony of mine. Because 30 years I strayed. And even though my father and mother passed on, When I came back to the Lord I know they were rejoicing in heaven as well as many other. People have prayed for me. Rejoice, rejoice My son is coming home again. Praise me. Rejoice, rejoice My son is coming home again Rejoice, rejoice Go kill the fatted cat Rejoice, rejoice My son is coming home again Rejoice, rejoice, Rejoice on his behalf the day has come the day for which I've wept and prayed the time to shout my joy has now arrived My son's come home his face on the horizon and my joy is full. Cause he is alive Alive, alive, alive Bring out the purple garment the one from foreign land Bring out the jewel ring for him to place upon his hand Give him shoes for his feet for the news is complete There'll be dancing in the house tonight There'll be feasting on the lawn tonight I rejoice within my soul tonight my son is coming home Rejoice, rejoice My son is coming home again Rejoice, rejoice Go kill the fatted calf oh, rejoice, rejoice My son is coming home again Rejoice, rejoice Rejoice on his behalf now the hills bells ring out they can't contain my joyful heart My voice will sing my gladness to the sky My boy is here he's coming ever closer and I see him now Though tears are in my eyes I know they dare not lie Bring out the purple garment the one from foreign land Bring out the jewelry for him to place upon his hand Give his shoes for his feet for the news is complete There'll be dancing in the house tonight There'll be feasting on the lawn tonight I rejoice within my soul tonight My son is coming home oh, rejoice, rejoice My son is coming home again Rejoice, rejoice Go kill the fatted calf Rejoice, Rejoice My son is coming home again Rejoice, rejoice, Rejoice on his behalf Rejoice, Rejoice Rejoice. I must be right there. Huh? Amen. As we were studying this passage, the Lord had quickened my heart in the first week. As you might recall that it's not just the prodigals who have been off wandering in blatant sin that the Lord was speaking to in these parables. But it was the ones who had come to hear the Word, and God was calling them on to a fuller walk, and they just despaired of doing it. They despaired of following Him. And so it was not only the ones that the Lord was calling from the pits of sin, but also the ones who had come but couldn't find it in themselves to fully obey what he's called them to. Those were the ones that many of us identified with that knew that the Lord had for us a full life, but couldn't find it in our own hearts to answer to that call. Today, as I was preparing, or this week rather, as I was preparing for today, the Lord clearly impressed me in a fashion that sometimes I find really beautiful and other times kind of awesome. But I knew that I was to share with this congregation today on the theme of unbelief, that I was supposed to speak to you from that. And yet I also had it in my heart to finish this series on the Prodigal Son. And I said, lord, I don't know how this is going to happen. I don't know how you're going to link the two together. Not too long ago, I was changing a tire for somebody using a Japanese car, and it had a different kind of a jack. And the person brought out one piece, and I didn't recognize what to do with it, and then brought out the other. And I knew that I had the two pieces, but I sure didn't know how they fit together. And then there was sort of a bracket or a clamp that fit the two pieces together, and that made the whole thing work. Well, that's what the Lord did for me this week. He showed me the two pieces, and I didn't know they were going to fit together. But then he brought the bridge together. And I want you to turn with me to numbers 13. Put a piece of paper or your thumb in Luke 15, preferably a piece of paper. Turn to numbers chapter 13 with me. So that you have a brief establishment in your mind of what we're looking at here. This is an expression of the life of the Israelites after they left the bondage of Egypt and had been delivered and were following Moses through the wilderness, and they'd come to the edge of the Promised land. And the Lord ordered Moses to send out the spies into the Promised Land. The beginning of Numbers 13 he sent one from each tribe for 40 days. Now, before we read the report I want you to keep in mind something very important. Don't miss this. In the Bible, Israel represents or is a symbol or a type, it's called, of the New Testament Church. Israel is a type of the New Testament Church. And what we see here is an illustration of God speaking to the church today through the representation of the church that Israel represented or symbolized. To us, the deliverance from the bondage of the Egyptians is symbolic of our salvation from Satan and sin and death. And then the wandering in the wilderness has a symbolism to us, and especially the going into the Promised Land, which is not, by the way, heaven. The Promised Land is not heaven. And the type of the Bible, the Promised Land is the fullness of God, the living Christ. Beginning in verse. Well, for the sake of time, I'm just going to highlight things beginning in verse 25. Let's make it 25. At the end of 40 days, they returned from spying out the land, and they came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the people of Israel, the wilderness of Paran and Kadesh. And they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. They had these giant slings of grapes that they had brought back a very fruitful land. And they said to him, we came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. And yet the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there, and he lists their names, verse 30. But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it. Then the men who had gone up with him said, we are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, the land through which we have gone to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. In the King James, I believe it says giants. Maybe not, but that's what the word literally means, giants. And there we saw Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who came from Nephilim. And we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers. And so we seemed to them, not only in our eyes did we look small, but in their eyes I know we look small, he was saying. And then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. And all the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. What else is new? The whole congregation said to them, would that we died in the land of Egypt or that we had died in this wilderness. Why does the Lord bring us? And on they went. Now, what we have here is a graphic illustration of the sin of unbelief. A very clear message to the church today of the danger, unbelief that faced the Israelites as they were seeking to fulfill the command of God and take the promised land. Do you see that the potential is there for deliverance without the completion of the salvation? Do you see that these people had been saved from the bondage of Egypt? But what happened to them in the wilderness? Because they defied the commandment to take the land? Because they believe the majority report, brothers and sisters, God's purposes are always through the minority. Remember that they defied God's command. What happened to them? Does anyone know? I'm sure many of you do. Not only did they disinherit all the promised land, but do you know that the entire generation saved? Two people and their families died in the wilderness? Destruction. Delivered and then destroyed. Saved but then squandered. And there's a very real expression here of a danger that faces the Church of Jesus Christ, the Northway Christian community, and you and me. It's a strong exhortation. It's a strong word. But what does this have to do with the shoes on the prodigal's feet? And I said, lord, I just don't understand. I began to do a study through the Scripture, turned to some resources and so on. And, you know, I found in my studies that in the Scriptures that feet and shoes deal with the appropriation of the things of God. Appropriating the things of God. I'm going to show you how that links together. The prodigal son had returned home and the Father had given him the welcome and the love. And then he put on first the robe of acceptance. Remember that you've put on the first robe. And we talked about the fact that you have not only been welcomed by the Heavenly Father, but given the robe of acceptance. And then the Father put on him the ring of authority. And we talked about the fact that that ring, when embossed on a paper, gave you the authority to enact and to transact business for your Heavenly Father. Kingdom business. But do you know that the prodigal could have come and received that acceptance? And he could have taken the robe and he could have put on the ring and begun to deal, but then found Himself squandering it all, doubting it all, questioning it all. And the Father says, that won't happen to you. You put on the shoes of appropriation. You put on the shoes that I give you that you might act on the things that I've given. That's what appropriate means to. Appropriate means to. Appropriate means to put into practice that which you know and have been given. And we're going to see how the shoes that were put on the prodigal's feet spoke to or addressed the three sources of unbelief that we see listed here or outlined Here in Numbers 13. Three principal sources of unbelief. Here they are. Preoccupation with the past, present fears and circumstance, and paralysis toward the future. Preoccupation with the past, present fears and paralysis toward the future. And in it, brothers and sisters, we're going to see how God would speak to us and address us. You see, the danger is there for us to have the things of the Lord and yet not move on and do what the Lord said. And that is take the promised land. And God says to us, I've given you this, and I've supplied that for you, and I've called you a son and daughter, and I've put the robe on you and the ring on you, and now you're choosing to hang back and not do that which I've called you to do. And it's sin. It's unbelief that would say to God, thanks for saving me, but don't ask me to do anything. It's sin that would say, well, God, I appreciate my salvation that you won for me on the cross, but don't ask me now, God, to go ahead and give my life to you and your service. It's unbelief that would say, lord, thanks for all that you've done and preparing eternal life for me. But I'd just as soon run this part of the show until I get there. And I'll tell you, beloved, it is in our hearts to resist God in this thing. It's a slap in the face of God to say, save me, but don't bother me until I die. And I know those are harsh words, but that's true. Many people filling churches today believe basically that I'm saved and I'll be fine when I get there, Lord, you'll take care of me. In fact, God doesn't see me anyhow when I sin. He sees Jesus and we get this little shield that we put up and figure I'm okay. So we don't even seek to become like him, but we kind of rest on the laurels of what we feel like we've won because we've been saved. You say, well, I never say that to God. But do you appropriate the promises? Matthew 6:33. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Well, that's not for 1981. I'm out in the real world. You ministers don't understand anything about the real world. I'm out in the real world. I've got to scratch and claw my way. And that's why we have ulcerated Christian businessmen, because somehow they don't believe that when Jesus said, if you seek me first, I'm going to supply your needs. And there's so many scriptures with promises that God will supply if you'll give to him. He who seeks to save his life will lose it. But he who loses his life for my sake in the gospel, he will find it. Amen. But do we believe that? Chances are we plan and we put our life out there and we kind of map our steps and we say, well, Lord, just as long as I know you're there beside me. And we as a church stand that same danger. Do you know that? The same thing God's brought us forth, we've been by his grace, called together as a people. Some of us would feel, I would say most certainly that it's been like a new thing, a fresh breath, new excitement. And now the Lord is saying, now go on and take the promised land. Go on and receive the fullness of life that I have for you. But we hang back. We want the blessing, but God, don't put me on the line for it. There are giants out there and we're going to see how that chokes us out. Let's look at these three causes of unbelief today. Three things that would choke out the life of God's people. And remember what is the end result? It's destruction in the wilderness. Remember that. The first thing was preoccupation with the past, the days of glory. These are people for whom their favorite song is the Way We Were. I was struck. I don't know how many of you watched the royal wedding. Go ahead. How many of you got up at 6 o' clock or before to watch? Come on, Lord, do you see those hands? These are the ones that can't have quiet times. Lord, How many of you get up at 6 o' clock for your quiet time? But the royal wedding we were there. Well, it was a beautiful event, wasn't it? And, you know, it was. I mean, there's. I didn't watch it. I heard about it. And there was a great deal of pageantry and beautiful music and all the rest. And the cathedral, wasn't it lovely? And, you know, the mass choirs and the beautiful symphony. It was just terrific. And all that was there. The rich tradition of the Church of England. And it was a fairly biblical wedding ceremony and so on, a good message. And I sat there and I looked at all that, and I recall a statistic I read not too long ago that 1% of the people of England go to church the way we were. It's a shell of life, tradition, meaningless, empty tradition. And all of its beauty can choke out the life of God's people and keep them from going on into the promised land. But for many of us, there's another kind of preoccupation with the past that can also breed death. It's a preoccupation with the things that weren't so good, the things that were in our history, in our past, something that we really would wish never had taken place. The negative things, the hurts, the failures, the ones who let us down. And for many of us, we cling to those skeletons in the closets, as it were. And it's right here that the shoes and the prodigal's feet come in. In Ezekiel 24, you don't need to turn there, but it says something very profound. The Lord appears to Ezekiel and says, ezekiel, your wife's going to die, but I want you to put the turban on your head and the shoes on your feet, and I don't want you to mourn. And then Ezekiel tells the people the same thing. And in the Scriptures and in the culture of the Near Eastern area and that time, going barefoot was a symbol of mourning. Going barefoot meant that you had had a loss of a loved one. And the Lord told Ezekiel, put the shoes on your feet so that the mourning period would be over, in your case, Ezekiel, even before it started, because I'm going to supply for you. And you see what the prodigal's father was saying to him was, son, forget all that has gone behind you. Forget the past and the bondages and the failures. Forget what you didn't become for my sake, and put the shoes on your feet. The time for mourning has passed. The time for rejoicing is at hand. And I find such liberty in that, beloved. For a lot of us feel that our lives have been wasted For God, we're 30 or 40 years old and never really knew what it meant to walk in the fullness of life. And we say, God, I've wasted so many good years. And the Lord says, put the shoes on your feet. Don't mourn anymore for what you haven't been. Outside of Jerusalem, there's a shrine for the people who died in the Holocaust. It's called the Shrine of the Holocaust. Some of you may have seen it. I never have, but I've heard about it just right outside the walls of Jerusalem. And that shrine is kind of sunk down in the ground. It's sort of dark. And in the shrine are just numbers and numbers of stone tablets with a plaque engraved in it set inside of it. On those plaques lined up against the wall from floor to ceiling, wall to wall, are names. And on each of those plaques, as I said, there are names. And those names are not of individuals who died in the Holocaust. Not of whole families, but of entire villages, hundreds of them that were annihilated in that darkest moment in the history of mankind. And in that shrine of the Holocaust, as you come out of it, there's a courtyard, and there's a fountain in there called the Fountain of Tears. And it's not a fountain that's gushing up and bubbling over as we think of fountains, but it has a very small surge coming over and then a pool, so that the. At the end, it's just like tears coming off the side of the fountain. And at the base of the fountain, there is a scripture, and it's In Jeremiah, chapter 31, I believe, verse 15, it says that Rachel wept and mourned for her children were no more. And it stands as a symbol forever of what happened and what would have to be, I guess, in most estimations, one of the greatest atrocities of humankind. And in the Six Day War in 1967, when the Israeli soldiers came in and recaptured the city, a song became popular that sort of symbolized the spirit of that whole retaking of Jerusalem for the first time in 2300 years. And part of that song was a phrase that said, rachel, weep no more, for your children have come home. You see, God in his wisdom and mercy, says those same things to us. Weep no more, for you've come home. There are shoes on your feet to remind you that what has been behind you will not keep God from working in you what he wants to work. Joel 2 says that the Lord will restore the years, that the locust of Eden, if you're here today and you Find yourself haunted by the past, weep no more. For the Lord would put the shoes on your feet and say, your time of mourning has passed. Now there's another root of unbelief, and that's the present fear and circumstance. Back in Numbers, if you recall, well, numbers, we won't go backwards, but numbers 14, 1, 2, and 3 talks about the way it was in Egypt. I didn't refer to that, but there it is. And then back in numbers 13, look at verses 33, 34, 35 in there. Well, beginning in verse 32 and the quote of the evil report, the land through which we have gone to spy it out, it is a land that devours its inhabitants. Pretty graphic. Devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature, literally giants. Unbelief rises up in a people when they see what God has called them to. But between you and that fulfillment, whether it be a specific promise from the word, a specific item that he is going to supply you with in your life, a relationship to be restored, whatever it might be, there is something between you and that fulfillment. And it's a giant. It's a circumstance, it's a person, it can be anything. And what becomes one of the greatest decisions that you face day by day is what will you do with that giant? Will you, as the people of Israel did, choose to see the giants and act according to your fear of them? Or will you, as Caleb and Joshua had said, seek to put your eyes in the Lord? Look at his words there, verse 30. Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it. And then 14, 8. If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us. A land which flows with milk and honey. You see, it wasn't the fact that they would go in and slay all the giants in their own strength. If the Lord delights in us, then we'll go in and take the land. And many of you right now, today, I believe, face decisions where it's either the word of God or the giants in the land. It's either what the Lord has said to you about your life and your future and your growth and your fullness and your completeness. Or it's the giants. It's the boss that doesn't understand you. It's the wife that you haven't been getting along with. It's the teenager who doesn't want to hear what you have to say. God will deal with those circumstances. Beloved, if you'll delight in him so that he might give you the land. Those circumstances are not greater than God. I've had the privilege in the last week and a half or two to read the biography of a man by the name of Charles Studd, or C. T. Stud, you may have heard of him. He was a missionary pioneer in the early 1900s. He was a man who was the premier cricket player in all of England in 1880. And that cricket, I guess, to the English is like football would be to us today, or baseball perhaps. And he was the number one man in all of England in his two years in college, last two years at Cambridge. And he met Jesus Christ in that period. And God called he and six other men to follow Hudson Taylor into inland China to be missionaries. And he left everything, this great sports reputation that he had a wealthy family, the whole thing was out there. And became as one of the Chinese took on their whole culture. But that wasn't the most remarkable thing that happened to him. Ten years, 11 years later, he came back, which no one expected he would. And after some time of ministering to students all around the United States, he went back to England. And in the midst of basically, health that he had sacrificed in China, in the midst of a strained physical condition, no real financial backing, against the counsel of his own Family and friends, CT. Studd returned to Africa and founded the Heart of Africa mission, where he gave himself for the next 18 years, the last 18 years of his life. And the thing that struck me about his testimony, and I really want to urge you to get the book and read it because it is so inspiring. Young people, if you are wondering what you are giving up for God, how can you ever do it? Read this man's biography. It will really help you to see what's what in God's eyes. But the thing that struck me was he had mountains, he had giants galore. His body was. The doctor said he wouldn't last the trip to Africa. And he lived 18 years. And something that I can't really quite understand yet, but even his wife didn't think he should go. But he said to her, God has put it on my heart. I must go. And he forsook the giants of health. And of all the voices that said, don't do it. Going into the darkest part of uncivilized Africa and finding there the glory of Jesus Christ. And out of that has come World Evangelization Crusade, which right now today has 1000 missionaries all over the world. What are the giants in your life today that would keep you from Finding God's fullest purposes and destiny. Unbelief rises up when you look at those circumstances and take your eyes off the word. Finally, unbelief comes. I need to say this too. I'm sorry. I didn't talk about the shoes in relation to that. How do the shoes speak to this thing of unbelief because of present fears? Look in Ephesians 6:15, Ephesians 6:15. It's there that the Bible says, talking about our armor. Having shod your feet with the equipment of the Gospel of peace. Here we find that part of the armor to cause us to stand against the attack of the giants is the equipment of the Gospel of peace. Now, when Paul wrote this in the Roman culture, you know what the Roman shoes looked like of the Roman soldiers? They were sandals that tied around the ankle and over the instep, but on the bottom, rather than being smooth like the things we have today, they had embedded in them nails, not this way up. Somebody said that would be funny the other way. So the flathead was in the heel, but those nails were there so that the Roman soldier could take a posture of defense. Do you see the picture? So that when he took a blow, he didn't get knocked back and lose his footing, but he stuck those nails down in the ground. Paul is saying here that the Lord God has equipped you, having shod the past tense, your feet with the equipment of the Gospel of peace. You see, there is confidence in those shoes. Do you see that? Confidence. When you know that you have the shoes on of the Gospel of peace, you have confidence to stand against the enemy, against the giants. Confidence that what they're going to do to you is not going to knock you off your feet. Confidence. That's what the shoes stood for in the eyes of the prodigal son. When the Father gave him the shoes, he realized that he would be able to stand against the doubts and all the temptations to go back. The shoes gave him confidence. Recently, I bet a number of you do some jogging and running. Recently I got a new pair of jogging shoes. And this is a bit of a confession. It may sound a little bit strange to some of you, but some of you will identify. I got those new shoes and my other ones were really worn out pretty badly. Put the shoes on my feet and I ran out and I got on that road and I'll tell you, I could have gone 20 miles. How many of you know what I mean? You know, boy, just feel like you got rockets down there, you know what I mean? Some of you are smiling like, you know, some of you have not had tennis shoes on in 30 years. You don't know what I mess with. But you get out there and you feel like just these shoes, but they're springy and there's life there. I shot out to go around this little course I have over my house. Well, I fell a little short of the 20 miles course, but the confidence was there that the shoes would make it if only the rest of me would. But you know what I mean. Listen, Florsheim makes a lot of money selling confidence with shoes, don't they? You get this whole thing. But anyhow, the point is that when God equips us with the shoes of the gospel of peace, we can stand against the enemy. Finally. What about the paralysis of the future? The paralysis of the future. Let me ask you to turn the air conditioning back on back there. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm starting to get all. There's a sense in which we look into the future and we see only that which is out there that would resist us. There may be in us something that would desire that we go ahead, but there's a fear of what else is out there and it's different from the fear of the giants. Now, what I want to say to you is that in the Bible, when the Bible talks about feet and shoes, it's talking about being in motion. Would you say those words with me? Being in motion. And I'll tell you why it's important to grasp this. All through our walk as Christians, God calls us to be in motion. Feet, literally. In the Greek, the word has implicit in its meaning one who is moving along. If you think about your Christian life, beloved, you're never called to come and sit. Jesus didn't say, come and sit with me and I will make you fishers of net. He didn't say come and lie down. What did he say? Come and follow me. Now, what does that imply? It's a journey. And the first indication that you're in trouble as a Christian is when you haven't moved and you can look back in your Christian life for the last year and you're basically at the same place. There is a danger that we think because we're comfortable, we're right. But God says, keep moving, keep in motion, keep going ahead. Now, when the Egyptians released the Israelites, God moved them right out. What was the first thing that happened to them? They were chased, weren't they, by the Egyptians in numbers 13, 14. It tells about that. And then when they get to the Red Sea, what do they do? Their backs against the wall. They had a choice of just sitting there and being slaughtered. Or doing what? Going through the Red Sea. Moving. Moving ahead. It's always that way. When they got the other side, what did they do? They had to move. They had to follow the pillar. When they got to the promised land, what did they do? Just camp down. When finally Joshua led them in, what did they do? They went and fought battle after battle. Do you see that? We will never get to the point where we're not moving. Never. We'll always be moving to follow the Lord. And that's what the shoes and the feet are for, to keep you in the posture of motion. Now, paralysis comes in when we see the circumstance there, or we see things happening so quickly around us that we don't know what to do. How many of you have ever heard of the stories of people who were crossing the street and a car came down and they were frozen in their tracks? Has that ever happened to any of you? Or just before an accident, you can't move, even though you might have been able to get out of the way. You're so frightened by what you see. Well, that happens to us as Christians. God calls us into something, but we're so frightened by what it may mean that we don't respond, we don't move. That may have happened to some of you here in this community. You know, you come in here and you say, wow, this is really different. And you're paralyzed. It's kind of funny, some of you get paralyzed. I'm not much in home movies, but you could talk me into it sometime. But get the pictures of some of you who are still learning. And please don't receive this as some put down, because it's not but just an illustration of the paralysis. When we sing, sometimes the paralysis sets in right about here. It's a fear that something is going to happen. God's asking me to do something, but I can't do it. And we get paralyzed. And it happens in all different kinds of things. We start to move, and then whammo and unbelief, unbelief. God's not going to fulfill