Most failure comes, not from a lack of talent or opportunity, but from a lack of determination. Babe Ruth said, “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” And just like Rizpah proved in 2 Samuel 2 when she refused to quit, your determination will get the attention of the king. You may be fighting to save a dream, fighting to defeat sickness or fighting to protect your family like Rizpah. What you have to get hold of is determination that says, “None of these things move me.” Even when there’s no fight left in me, I won’t let go!

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connection each week we received

thousands of prayer requests at the

ministry and we know many of our viewers

are facing difficult circumstances some

of you have health related issues maybe

you have troubles in your marriage some

of you are facing business problems and

many times when God doesn’t move

immediately we think that he’s given up

on us but today dad teaches us that with

faith and determination you can see God

move your mountain

I want you to go with me to the book of

Acts chapter 20 he says in Acts chapter

20 and verse 22 and see now I go bound

in the spirit to Jerusalem not knowing

the things that will happen to me there

except the Holy Spirit testifies in

every city that chains and tribulations

await me verse 20 for this is so

powerful but none of these things move

me

I know Chains and tribulation and

suffering is waiting for me where I’m

headed but none of these things move me

nor do I count my life dear to myself so

that I may finish my race with joy in

the ministry which I have received from

the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel

of the grace of God I’m going to finish

my race with joy none of these things

move me these are the words of a man who

was determined to do what God had called

him to do Webster defines the word

determination as being to reach a

decision about something to have one’s

mind made up to become unwavering in

one’s actions listen and attitudes I am

I have determined I have determination

I will not waver in my actions or my

attitude desperation produces desire

desire produces determination and

determination produces your destiny

I think of rispa one of the concubines

of king psalm and how that she had us

chopped to two sons that were hanged by

the gibbehhh’ nights and she spread a

call on a rock for three months she

lived there and she beat the

cackles she kicked the jackals away and

beat the beat the fowl of the air off of

the corpses of her children and they

were dead but she was so determined to

save her family and her sons were dead

if she was that determined to kick the

jackals and beat the fowl off of her

dead children how much more should we be

determined to see all of our children

saved and free and in the plan and

purpose of God

she had a determination about her family

and she held to it and the word reached

the king please understand if you’re

full of determination you can get the

attention of the king it is

determination that reaches the attention

of the king when you have the spirit

that is determined to live for God

determined to do what God has called you

to do and even though you’re facing

things and going through things you

don’t waver your determination is said

this is a powerful thing most men fail

not because of lack of opportunity not

because of lack of education or lack of

talent but because of lack of

determination Napoleon said

determination makes you invisible

invincible he said that determination

meaning trying and trying and trying and

trying again and again and again and

again makes you uncomfortable

Babe Ruth the famous baseball player

said it is impossible to defeat someone

who refuses to quit that’s why you pray

one more time that’s why you dream one

more time that’s why you try one more

time that’s why you ask one more time

Ludwig Beethoven was 5 years of age when

he played the violin masterfully by the

age of 13

this prodigy in music was an

accomplished pianist by the age of 20 he

had studied under Mozart and Haydn he

had written nine symphonies and many

musical music chamber music at the age

of 20 he began losing his hearing by the

age 50

he was completely stoned death he could

hear nothing and he was determined to

get the music out that was in him even

though he was totally deaf and what he

did was he solved the legs of his piano

off and laid the piano on the floor and

laid on the floor with it so he could

feel the vibration of his music and

wrote his greatest symphonies when he

was stoned death through sheer

determination one day they heard him

pounding with his fists and aggravation

and frustration on the keyboard and he

screamed out these words I will take

life by the throat I will not let life

defeat me I will win so it is in our

lives when we face all kinds of

struggles and all kinds of challenges

but you have to understand that you only

get strength in struggle you only get

advance from adversity and you change

the level of your determination when you

hit rough times and if you don’t change

the level of your determination then you

will give up and walk away from what God

intended you to have you have to at

times take life by the throat I will

I’ll take this sickness that has come by

the throat I’ll take this challenge

against my family by the throat we need

to quit whining and feeling sorry for

ourselves and having pity parties and we

need to stir up something in us called a

divine determination that says I take

life by the throat whatever comes at me

none of these things move me I’m going

to do what God said I could do David

lost his family lost his home lost his

resources at a place called Zen glad and

he went and said God what shall I do and

God said pursue pursue the supernatural

pursue restoration pursue them

Occulus if God tells you to go after

it’s because he plans on you getting it

he doesn’t tell you to go after and

pursue if he doesn’t plan on you making

it so he can just tease you with failure

God has told some of you to pursue a

dream to pursue deliverance for your

children to pursue a breakthrough in

your life to pursue things that are that

are greater than your even thinking

you’re capable of doing and the word of

the Lord to you is pursue the miraculous

pursue the supernatural pursue and you

shall doubtless God said recover it all

the Bible said when he got and pursued

and found the enemy they were having a

party with his stuff they were drinking

and playing and having a party having a

big party with all of the stuff they had

stolen from him you know the enemy

doesn’t care as long as you play Church

that doesn’t scare the devil he has a

party but when you decide to pursue when

you get determined and you say I’m going

to take life by the throat this attack

against me and my family my business I’m

not going to just lay here and take it I

am determined that none of these things

move me I know God said I’m going to do

some things and I’m going to do it

that’s what it takes it takes that kind

of divine determination

Jacob had that determination the Bible

said that he wanted a blessing he wasn’t

in line for he wasn’t the most qualified

he wasn’t the most talented he was not

the most good best looking but he was

the most determined and he wrestled

listen to this determination he wrestled

with an angel until the breaking of the

day and as soon as he started wrestling

with the angel the Bible said the angel

at the beginning of the wrestling match

reached over and touched the hollow of

his thigh that is the socket where your

leg and your hip bone connect and he

disconnected his leg from his hip bone

can you imagine the pain and that’s

where most of us quit and give up but

the thing that I want you to see about

Jacob is he

wrestled in his pain the rest of the

night he was so determined that he went

from fighting to clinging when he

couldn’t fight anymore

he cleaned hold of that angel and

wouldn’t let him go in the Angels get

off on me freak what’s wrong with you

and finally that the angel looks at him

and says will you relax a little bit I

hurt you I thought you would quit when

it got painful but I believe you’re

clinging if you will go from fighting to

clinging he said I will not let you go

until I get blessed that’s what it takes

you better listen to me teenager

life ain’t gonna give you anything

people aren’t gonna do anything for you

but if you have a determination you may

not be the sharpest knife in the drawer

you may not have what everybody else has

going for but if you have a

determination you’ll get it and you’ll

bring it home and you’ll stand in it and

you’ll say look what the Lord has done

none of these things move me his legs

out of socket but he’s determined to be

blessed he’s hanging on I’m in pain but

I’m hanging on I’m suffering I’m

frustrated but I’m hanging on this is

how you do it life doesn’t give any free

cards to anybody you got resistance you

got adversity you got problems coming at

you you need a new level of

determination that comes only from

grabbing hold of Jesus and clinging to

it and saying I won’t let you go until

you bless me failure shall not overtake

you as long as you’re determined to

succeed the Book of Jeremiah is a

picture of divine determination the clay

was marred in the Potters hand but God

is determined to finish what he started

in your life he’s determined to bring

out of your pain and out of your out of

your out of your sin and out of you

background and out of your mess he’s

determined to bring a vessel of Honor

and he will not give up on you and you

may get smashed down and you may have to

go back on the wheel and it may feel

like your life is going around in

circles and you’re not getting anywhere

but I promise you you have a God who has

divine determination and he’s gonna

finish what he started in the story of

the unjust judge in Luke chapter 18 the

woman who kept coming and the Bible said

she came continually and the unjust

judge said I’m not going to give you

what you want but she said over and over

and over avenge me of my adversary

avenge me of my adversary she had a

determination and finally the judge said

I’m telling you that normally I wouldn’t

do this but this woman because of her

continual coming she’s so determined

she’s gonna make me go on Prozac if I

can’t get her to leave me alone so give

her what she wants I’m saying to you

that our God is not the unjust judge and

he’s not holding back and he’s not

stingy with his blessings he just wants

somebody to get determined enough to

push through the headwinds and say god I

know you can bless somebody like me use

somebody like me open opportunities for

somebody like me I’m yours

I love Caleb the Bible said that came up

in Joshua when when they were ready that

possessed the promised land Moses sent

them in with ten spies and they came

back with a good report saying we’re

well able to take the land but 10 of the

spies said there’s Giants there we can’t

do it

I’m going to tell you what had to be

frustration is they missed the Promised

Land for the next 40 years they’re

marching in circles in the desert on a

death march because God said I’ll let

that whole generation die out and I’ll

let a new generation be born out in the

wilderness and they will in half

what you could have had because you were

not determined to do what I told you to

do and every day for 40 years I can see

Caleb walking in the Death March and one

dies and another dies and another dies

two and a half million over 40 years

died out and finally the last one dies

and now he was 40 when he started but

are 45 now he’s now he’s 85 years old

and the Bible said Caleb crosses over

the Jordan with the children of Israel

and Joshua and Joshua was handing out

real estate and property and inheritance

to different tribes and families and up

steps an old man with a cane in his hand

he says give me this mountain 40 years

ago I saw a mountain my eyes saw it and

all these years I’ve been determined

while I was March and I’m gonna get that

mountain I’m gonna get that mountain I

watched all these people die out and I

am more determined to have it now and he

said now there’s Giants on that mountain

he said if those Christians couldn’t

keep me from my blessing for 40 years of

wilderness marching in a death march

there’s no way a Giants going to stop me

give me my mountain and you know what he

got it he got it somebody needs to cry

out today give me my Mountain give me my

Mountain I don’t care how much time has

elapsed I don’t care how long it’s been

you if you quit and you give up then

that’s what you will have but there

comes a time when you have to go to

another level in your determination that

when life hits you you stand up and you

say give me this mountain give me this

mountain the syrophoenician woman cried

after them the disciple said send her

away she crieth after us she said my

daughter is sick I need a healing and

they said go away and she bypassed them

and went to Jesus and even jesus said to

her a powerful statement you’re in the

wrong dispensation the blessing the

bread

is-is-is for the israelites you you

don’t understand healing is the

children’s bread the Bible said that she

said yes Lord listen to this

determination but even the dogs lick up

the crumbs under the table I could

almost hear Jesus look at her and say oh

my who let the dogs out something’s

about to change the kingdom is going to

the dogs the big shots are sitting

around and they’re not asking for

anything but here’s a woman willing to

crawl under the table she’s got such

determination that she says if I can

just get a crumb if I can just I don’t

have to have the whole loaf just give me

a crumb and I know it’ll be enough to do

what I need

she received a long-distance miracle for

her child your children may not be here

but while you’re in this room right now

if your faith can go to another level of

determination you can send a

long-distance miracle to your child

wherever your child is they may be a

million miles away from God but that

doesn’t mean the Holy Spirit can’t walk

into the bedroom into the bar into

wherever they are and set them free

you can get a long-distance miracle her

son her daughter was a long ways away

but Jesus said o woman great is thy

faith be it unto you even as you have

said God healed her daughter that very

moment her determination listened

received a declaration o woman great is

thy faith be it unto thee Churchill said

success is the ability to go from one

failure to another without losing

enthusiasm Edison said I have not failed

I learned 10,000 ways that don’t work

we are not to let setback steal our

determination to live for God try one

more time get up one more time be

determined boy I I just marvel at how

quick we fold and how easy people break

down and abandon their dreams because

they were rejected or they didn’t make

the team or they didn’t get the

scholarship or this didn’t happen or

they got fired or something happened

that really messed them up and they just

throw in the towel so quick you have no

idea what it takes to be what God has

called you to be we’ll have to have a

steel like determination in your soul

that looks at life and takes it by the

throat and says I’m not a victim I’m not

somebody that just has to have a pity

party all the time but I’m taking this

thing by the throat

choke it he was crippled and totally

paralyzed from his waist down then he

became the President of the United

States FDR at 19 months she was deaf

dumb and blind from a disease but she

did not let it stop her Helen Keller

he was so severely burned that doctor

said he would never walk but in 1934 a

new world record was set in running by

Glenn Cunningham they were born black in

a racist society Booker T Washington

Martin Luther King jr. they had a

determination to do what God had called

them to do his parents survived the

Holocaust he was born paralysed from his

waist down but he became the world’s

greatest violin played player he saw

Perlman they told him that he was slow

and somewhat his name was

Albert Einstein don’t you let the devil

in the world tell you you can’t make it

and you can’t do it

none of these things move me none of

these things move me you don’t have to

be pretty you don’t have to be the

smartest you don’t have to be the

talented that one you don’t have to be

the most gifted one but you do have to

have a determination that when you get

knocked down you get back up and you go

right back at it and your grab life by

the throat and you say none of these

things move me I will get my family to

heaven I will do what God has called me

to do I will see that bless I will be

blessed like Jacob like the

syrophoenician woman I will get the

crumbs under the table because all it

takes is determination I wish somebody’d

let the dogs out at free chapel I think

God’s so sick and tired of people who

don’t want anything who come to church

bless me if you want to bless me I

really don’t care I don’t really need

you know why you don’t need anything cuz

you’re living less than what God when

you’re really living where God wants you

to live you have to get up every day and

pray God I need you today lord have

mercy where am I gonna get the money

lord I need you that’s a sign you’re

walking by faith I’m determined anybody

determined I’m gonna tell you something

when you get determined to live for

Jesus no temptation can take you out

no devil can take you out peer pressure

can’t take you when you determine you

can live it on a college campus when

you’re determined you can live it in the

middle of hail when you’re determined

you can be the only one in your family

that ever lives for Jesus but when

you’re determined you can do it

none of these things none of these

things move me hallelujah clap your

hands and praise God

come on shout I am determined shout I

will not quit I will not give up I will

not back up I will not throw in the town

there’s no quit in me I am determined

say it none of these things none of

these things all these setbacks none of

them none of these things move me now

isn’t the time to give up on your dreams

now is the time to say none of these

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