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Wow hi y’all the privileged to have an

opportunity to be with you from Dallas

my family and I love love love this

incredible church and we love this

gathering of women together I am so

blessed and encouraged and stirred and

challenged about what it is that Miss

Debbie just shared with us because she

basically gave us a different vantage

point with which to look at our trials

but it doesn’t mean that after this

conference is over we’ll all be out of

our trials it means that even while

we’re yet in them we can look at them

differently and we can be different

while we’re in them I was thinking about

this while she was what pastor Debbie

was speaking I was thinking about the

fact that my three boys I think they do

travel together with me a lot we hang

out together a lot and when they come on

ministry trips with me I’ll be honest

with you and telling you that the last

thing they are really concerned about at

this stage in their lives is ministry

what they want to know is does the hotel

have a pool so they want to know they

love swimming it’s their thing and so I

remember a couple of summers ago they

were swimming my little one had just

learned really how to be under the water

for an extended period of time so they

were really all enjoying being under the

water all three of them being able to

swim and I noticed that their eyes were

closed while they were under the water

and and so what my husband said to them

hey guys you know me give you some

goggles so you can feel comfortable

opening your eyes up ER or seeing

underwater so you can see underwater and

so we gave them these goggles that we

bought on sale at the local Super

Walmart down the street anybody believe

in the power of Walmart can somebody say

Amen but we gave them this gave them

these goggles they put the goggles on

they went under the water they were

swimming under the water and one of them

came back up and said I

really still can’t see my husband looked

at him and said did you open your eyes

my son said oh he went back down under

the water this time eyes open came up

and said I can see I can see it wasn’t

that he couldn’t have seen underwater

before he had exactly what you need he

was fitted with the right equipment to

be able to see he just had to open up

his eyes pastor Debbie just helped us

open up her eyes each and every one of

us that have placed faith in Jesus

Christ we have been given the equipment

you have got the power of the Holy Ghost

living on the inside of you and when you

are in over your head when you are in

deep waters when the trials and troubles

of life come your way my friend all you

have to do now is activate the equipment

that you’ve been given just open up your

eyes and you’ll be able to see it all

from a different vantage point in a

different perspective which is why I

could not wait to get up here because I

wanted to share with any of you and that

is all of us who are in trials in our

life by the way every single one of you

under the sound of my voice are in one

of three places you need to know that

even if you’re not in a trial right now

first of all we would like to tell you

we are happy for you but every single

one of us is one of three places you’re

either right smack dab in the middle of

a trial on your way into one on your way

out of one because the nature of the

world in which we live Jesus said John

16:33 in this world you will have

trouble you don’t have to go looking for

it just keep living and the trouble will

come and find you can I get one witness

snows on him Joseph but in the midst of

that we can believe in the truth that is

told to us in two of my favorite verses

in all of Scripture I was sitting there

listening to pastor Debbie still mulling

over in my mind what I might share with

you and as she started talking I knew

for sure that I wanted to encourage you

with these two verses from Ephesians

chapter 3 verse 20 and 21

now unto Him who is able to do

exceedingly abundantly above and beyond

all that you can ask or even think

according to the power that works within

us to help be the glory in the church

and in Christ Jesus throughout all

generations forever and ever

somebody ought to say amen to that

that’s so good I think I’m gonna read it

again now unto Him who is able to do

exceedingly abundantly above and beyond

all that you can ask or even think

according to the power Holy Spirit that

is at work on the inside of all of you

to that Great God be the glory

from generation to generation in the

church and in Christ Jesus both now and

forever somebody ought to say amen to

that

that means there is no trouble that you

are facing there is no difficulty that

you’re in there is no pit you have done

for yourself there is no situation or

issue or drama that is currently

unfolding at any of our lives the hips

power is not greater still

you may feel overwhelmed what you need

to know that your God does not I love

these two verses so much they are a

doxology a doxology means basically an

outpouring of praise and worship to God

this is one of the pinnacles of all of

Paul’s writing Paul the Apostle that

gave us the majority of the Old

Testament scholars say that of all Poe

gave us really it seasons is the creme

de la creme of all of his writings and

of all that he gave us in the book of

Ephesians where he talks about the

lavishness of God’s grace toward us and

all that we have inherited at daughters

of the Most High King they say of all

the beautiful language that he gives us

in the

he gives us any visions really the

cherry on top of the cake is this

doxology this outburst of praise and

worship to God and here’s the thing

y’all when he wrote the book of

Ephesians he was in prison he was

basically on Roman house arrest he is in

a situation he does not particularly

care to be in he is in a trial and right

there in the midst of the trial he has

an outburst of praise and worship to God

two verses a doxology where he extolled

and worshipped just like you did just a

few moments ago some of you stood you

beaten you said I’m just like Paul I’m

in the middle of a trial but in the

middle of your trial you get exactly

what Paul did pastor Debbie had a stand

up and worship God anyway it’s one thing

to have about solid you while you’re not

in a trial it’s a whole nother thing

capture God’s attention in a whole

nother way when you are in a trial and

yet you choose to have an outburst of

praise and worship to our great amazing

God that’s what Paul did he gave us this

doxology kind of seems like he’s off

track a little bit he’s been talking

about so many other things in the book

of Ephesians and all of a sudden out of

nowhere he seems to just kind of start

talking about how great God is about his

amazing power and he can barely find the

right word did you notice that it’s like

he keeps just piling more big words on

top of more big words on top of other

big words because he can’t seem to find

the exact right word that he wants to

use he builds a huge picture for us

about how great and grand and amazing

and magnificent the power of God is to

every single one of us in our lives I

want to walk with you through these

verses because if you can walk out of

here and if I can walk out of here

seeing with our eyes open seeing our our

trials and tribulations with a brand new

perspective it will literally change all

of our lives I want you to look at these

verses like a pyramid

except the pyramid is turned upside down

so you’ve got the smallest layer on the

bottom then another that builds the

foundation for another and then another

and then another this is how Paul gives

us these verses the very beginning he

saw just a little nugget and then that

little nugget lays the foundation for

the next and then the next and then the

next until he has built for us a

monstrosity about the greatness of God

we’re going to take that journey right

up that pyramid I want you to see the

progression the journey that Paul takes

us on in these two verses he says now

now unto Him now unto Him who is able to

do it now unto him who is able to do

exceedingly abundantly above and beyond

now unto him who is able to do

exceedingly abundantly above and beyond

all that you can ask and if you can’t

ask you because your brain can’t even

figure out the right words to verbalize

what you’re trying to ask

he says that’s all right just think it

and I can do pass back

now unto him who is able to do

exceedingly abundantly above and beyond

all that you can ask or think according

to some power that’s supposed to be

working on the inside of you now unto

Him who is able to do exceedingly

abundantly above and beyond all that you

can ask or think according to the power

that’s supposed to be working on the

inside of you

to him be the glory in the church that’s

us and in Christ Jesus both now and

forever somebody say Amen all right

we’re going to take every single one of

these steps together are you guys with

me the very first step in the

progression through these two verses

that are going to change our perspective

the way that we look at our trials just

like pastor Debbie described to us a few

moments ago the very first step seems

like the most significant but it really

is the hinge on what’s the rest of it

turned and it hears the word now

somebody say now Paul says I want you to

start thinking about the greatness and

the power and the amazing ability that

God has toward you that he wants you to

experience in your regular everyday

living as a single woman as a wife as a

mother of a person working in corporate

America as a person working in full-time

ministry as a volunteer as a parent at

the school as a teacher as an accountant

as a lawyer he said I want you to start

thinking about God’s power and I don’t

want you to have thought about it

yesterday we’re not talking about

yesterday he said I don’t even want you

to think about it in your tomorrows he

says there is a time to consider how

great God’s power is for you and that

time is when he wants you to think about

it right now while you’re sitting in

this room while you’re at this

conference exactly what the Lord has

allowed to happen in your life in the

days leading up to this conference he

says now is

time for you to make a connection

between what’s happening in your life

and how God wants to express his power

to you in that specific situation

yo this is important because if you’re

anything like me sometimes there is a

disconnect between my reality and my

relationship with God sometimes I forget

that the stuff I’m learning on Sunday is

supposed to apply to Monday sometimes I

forget that all the stuff I gathered

from the Women’s Conference that the

encouragement that I gleaned that the

Word of God that was spoken over me that

the fear that was prayed out of me that

the salvation that I received when I

came down the altar sometimes I forget

that this is not supposed to be

compartmentalized in some little corner

of my life saved for a rainy day but he

wants to be involved on my Monday and

then at work on my Tuesday and then at

home on my Wednesday and then while I’m

trying to figure out another way to cook

chicken on my Thursday and then on my

Friday and on running errands on my

Saturday that this is supposed to apply

to my right now Paul says would you

please make the connection a woman came

and stood up on this platform at the end

of the evening a woman to happen to have

a little car accident and then that car

accident led to there being an extra

ticket that was so graciously given by

the woman who got hit in the other car

and so she gives her a ticket and jams

up here last night and she comes forward

to accept Jesus Christ as her Savior

Paul says would you know that what

happened to you yesterday means

everything in your today that it’s

connected that I planned it or I allowed

it but I fully intend as pastor Debbie

said to walk with you through it but the

only reason why I allow circumstances in

your life is because sometimes when we

are flat on our back that’s the only

time we ever take a breath and look up

and see him for who he really is

and so no all the circumstances of our

lives

obviously they are not good a car wreck

not good

but somehow he works all things together

for our good my mom my mom is a master

chef actually she’s not she’s not she’s

just my mom and she’s a really good cook

and you know there’s just no cooking

like your mama’s cooking right I admire

my mother so much for many reasons one

of them is that you know she’s a great

cook and I remember on Sundays when I

was growing up y’all there was none of

this go out to eat dinner business after

church on Sunday that was like a treat

but I grew up in the kind of house where

you ate at home on Sunday does anybody

know what I’m talking about like that

was the best meal of the whole week my

mom started started planning for it on

Saturday sometimes she was cooking like

the roast all night on Saturday and we

would just smell it all night then the

yeast rolls would be rising and you know

she might do a couple dishes the night

before so she didn’t have to worry about

it all that you know all this home cook

stuff I mean we would smell all night we

would wake up we hadn’t even been to

church yet we were already ready for

Sunday dinner we were just hungry

I remember that we would have this huge

wonderful dinner on Sunday and now as a

mother of three I know how much work

that was I appreciate it even more I

still even can’t figure it out honestly

I cannot figure out how was one oven

because I only have one other my mom had

one oven I cannot figure out for the

life of me how you get all that stuff on

the table hot at the same time I can not

figure it out for the life of me so I

appreciate her now even more and now I

also understand why on Monday and

Tuesday she didn’t cook nothing

too much work but what she did do was

going to the refrigerator and she would

see what was left over so she’d have a

little leftover chicken leftover

macaroni little leftover broccoli

whatever she pull it all out she’d start

chopping and dice and put everything

together stir it all up pour a little

cream of mushroom soup in there cuz you

know that makes everything better right

she’s stir that in there and then she’d

sprinkled some grated cheese on top you

know put it in the oven for about an

hour or so maybe less at 350 degrees and

she would bake it she’d stand there and

just the right time she’d pull it out

she’d set it on the table and she’d give

it a French sounding name we thought it

was something brand new and spectacular

but it really wasn’t it was just

leftovers in the hands of a master let

me tell you what God does with your life

he takes this piece and that piece and

and this little leftover piece and the

part you thought would be valuable for

absolutely nothing in this season of

your life that you just wonder why you

even went on that detour in the first

place and he takes all of this stuff and

he chops it and he dices it and he

reconfigures it nice turns the cream of

the Holy Spirit in it and then he

sprinkles a little grace and mercy on

top because grace and mercy make

everything better and then yes he puts

you in the oven of fire and trial for

just a little while but like any good

master chef he’s standing there watching

not to allow you to overcook not for

just even one minute and at just the

right time he pulls you out and listen

to me he gives you a brand new name and

he serves you to a lost in a dying world

that needs to see that he is mmm good so

when you’re in the trial when you’re in

the fire when you find that things are

difficult that you’re having issues that

there is a surprise a something that has

met you in your year that

you were not planning for when you find

that that has happened just know that

the master chef has got his eye on you

and he wants you to know that right now

was the time now is the time that he

wants you to begin to consider don’t

disconnect connect the present tense

mess of God’s ability with your current

circumstances not for yesterday not even

necessarily for tomorrow Paul says today

I want you to think about the fact that

now is the time for you to make the

connection so we said there is a time

and the time is now and if this is the

time for us to do some turning and the

turning is unto you now unto Him because

I’m going to tell you exactly what to do

right now in the middle of your trial

I’m going to tell you he says to divert

your attention to turn it 180 degrees

away from focusing on your trial to

focusing on him he says you’ve got to

turn your attention you have got to

discipline yourself instruct yourself

not to concentrate on and nurse and pay

attention to the issue you’ve got to pay

attention to God here’s the one that

deserve your attention not the problem

and if you’re anything like me you know

how difficult this is because when you

are having a little drama in your life

somebody say drama I love what I’m

speaking to women because if I say drama

everybody in this room knows exactly

what I’m talking about does yes when we

have drama that unfolds in your life if

you’re like me your tendency is to stay

up a few extra minutes or a couple of

hours at night going over the issue that

you are facing or you walk through the

bookstore and it seems like every single

book you’re passing on the Shelf has to

do with your drama and so you pull those

books off and you take them up to the

register to buy them so you can read

more about your drama and then you walk

through the magazine stand and they’re

on the magazine stand every single

feature that is on the cover has to do

with your drama and then dr. oz is

talking about it too and so is

your fill and then you know Oprah’s not

on anymore but she still got that

Network and she’s talking about it –

everywhere you look

you are face to face with your issue so

you give it inadvertently we don’t mean

to but we give it the attention that is

supposed to be given to our God

you know what worship is don’t you

worship is attention and some of us are

worshiping our issue instead of

worshipping God we are giving to the

drama what’s supposed to be reserved

only for our God so we do what miss

Debbie just had us to do not just

corporately with 7,000 other sisters

what we do in our bedroom when we wake

up in the morning and the tears are

about to form in our eye or the sweat is

about to form on our brow we’re just

about to get concerned because we feel

that discouragement welling up on the

inside of us we do the exact same thing

in our bedroom to an audience of one

that we did in this room with 7,000

other sisters we stand up to our feet or

down on our knees or prostrate on the

floor or you lay there still in the bed

sometimes can I tell you that I know

once my feet hit the floor it’s over the

boys are going to know I’m up people are

gonna know I’m up it’s over so sometimes

I lay on that bed and I say Lord today I

present myself a living sacrifice to you

this bed is the altar Lord and I’ll lay

myself upon it and today Lord I fix my

eyes on you Paul says now is the time to

do some turning you gotta turn your

attention unto him Jesus had to do it do

you remember when he went to the cross

y’all he wasn’t particularly fond of

that idea

he didn’t go to the cross looking at the

cross it says that for the joy set

before him he endured the cross he

didn’t endure the cross looking at it he

was looking past it to the joy of

knowing that there would be women

gathered in Springfield in the year 2014

and

there would be an opportunity for them

to have a relationship with the father

through him he looked past the trial to

you and the joy set before him it

allowed him to be able to endure the

challenge that was on his plate to

endure and the same is true of you and I

you know when you’re watching when

you’re watching a movie and there’ll be

something in the foreground you’re

paying attention to this person or this

conversation or this thing that’s

dynamic that’s happening and then all of

a sudden in cinema cinematographer what

they will do sometimes does not

necessarily show you an entirely

different different screen or a

different shot what they will do is

simply blur what was in the foreground

and then all of a sudden something comes

to life in your eyes that have always

been in the background you just didn’t

see it because your perspective had not

been changed positive wasn’t it’s all

about perspective it’s not that the

issue is not there anymore it’s just you

command it to be word in Jesus name and

you look past it to what the joy is that

is set before you now is the time to do

some turning unto him and he says the

reason why you can do this turning is

because of that third step and it’s the

truth and the truth is this he is able

to do it

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I’m giving that one a little time to

sink into the heart of somebody that is

here today and you’re just about at the

end of your rope because you’ve been on

your knees a long time about that one

and you have started to wonder whether

or not it can be done the Holy Spirit

says to you today through this little

simple one phrase in this passage God

can

listen to me whether or not she will is

a question of his sovereignty it is not

a question of his ability believing that

he can that’s our business whether or

not he will that’s his business

pastor Debbie did not come up here on

this platform and say I prayed for

healing and the next time I went to the

doctor the reports that I was free and

clear that’s not what she said she came

up here and even said to us at the end

of the message I’m still walking out my

healing I’m still trusting God with the

completion of my healing so whether or

not he will do exactly what you’re

praying for him for do that’s his

business but believing that he can

putting a stake in the ground and saying

to the enemy who seeks to speak fear and

discouragement over her over over our

lives or like David just encouraging

yourself in the Lord you know sometimes

you got to just encourage yourself you

got to look in the mirror and say you

know what I don’t care what’s going on

sister today you serve a God who’s got

your back he can do it y’all there are

not many things that you can count on

anymore in this world there just aren’t

everything is changing everything around

us change our bank account statements is

going to take are going to change our

job positions or status is going to

change just when you think you know your

husband he goes and changes your kids

you’ve got their schedule figure out

then they grow up one more year and got

to prefigure it out again

everything changes there’s little you

can count on anymore Paul says I want to

give you one thing that third step that

no matter if there’s anything else in

this world you can count on there is one

thing you can take to the bank and that

is that your God can do it

he can do it I’m saying to you that your

God can fix your marriage I’m saying to

the one who has got the diagnosis your

God can turn that diagnosis around I’m

also saying to you that when you get the

diagnosis that your God can come in like

a flood and give you such a anchor of

peace and hope and his presence with you

while he walks you through it he can do

that too

you need to know that your God can lifts

the depression that the addiction that

you’ve been wondering whether or not

you’ll ever be able to be free from that

addiction you have tried everything you

need know to try and you’re wondering

now but even once that you need to know

today the Holy Spirit says to you

through a man that wrote a passage 2000

years ago he wants you to know that your

God can loosen those shackles today he

wants you to know mother that that adult

towels of yours that is breaking your

heart he wants you to know he can bring

that child back home he wants you to

know for the one who is searching for a

job you have not your spouse has not

been able to find a source of income you

need to know that he is the God that can

cause the write resumes across the right

desk at the exact right moment that

there is the exact right position open

he can do it you know need to know that

your God is a God of masterful miracles

that he is pulling off stuff that your

mind cannot even imagine he can do it in

the original language there is one word

that Paul used that is translated is

able to do in our in our English

language that word is Dunamis somebody

say Dunamis I want you to see how much

that sounds like what we’ve derived

later our English word dynamite it’s

almost like we need to be clear on what

kind of power that we are talking about

that it is not some weakling feeble

power it’s not the same power you have

or that the strongest person in your

life has it’s not that kind of power

because even

their power is not able to get you out

of that issue but you need to know that

the power he has is a dynamite power

that in an instant it can completely

change or alter the structure of a thing

in one fell swoop swoop it can

completely alter the molecular structure

of an object it can make and form and

produce and bring about and caused and

restructure and flatten an arrest and

rearrange and accomplish anything in the

blink of an eye that’s the kind of power

that our God has and you need to know

about this universe power y’all that the

way paul used it in the in this

particular verse that the way it’s used

in the sentence implies that it is an

inherent power let me tell you why this

is important because then it tells us

that power is not something god has

power is who he is it means that he does

not have all power in his hand he is the

all-powerful one this is good news

because it means when you see your

girlfriend who got god’s power released

in her life because a miracle came into

her circumstances we don’t have to kind

of quietly internally feel a little

insecure that maybe now that God gave

something his power away there’s a

little bit left left for us we don’t

have to be a little bit jealous or

envious that God gave it away over there

so there might not be enough left for

the 6999 others of us who were left in

the through we don’t have to worry about

that because when he gave the power away

he is now was no less powerful than he

was before he gave it

y’all God is not just how big up he’s

not a big version of us he doesn’t need

a good nap before he can handle all of

us we don’t have the capacity to where

God out all the power that you will have

on need to be dispensed to your life to

live the victorious Christian life that

he has called you or I to live all power

is always available to every single one

of us all

the time and that’s the truth Paul says

you can hang your hat on take it to the

bank he can do it but he doesn’t just do

it he doesn’t just do it in some regular

normal kind of way Mack he does it

exceedingly abundantly above and beyond

he does it big go big or go home that’s

the way he does it he does it beyond

your wildest imagination I wrote down

some different translations of this

segment of the verse the New Living

Translation says he can accomplish

infinitely more than you ask her think

the English standard version says he can

do far more abundantly than you ask her

things

the Amplified Bible says abundantly is

not good enough he can do super

abundantly far over and above infinitely

beyond our highest prayers desires but

hopes or dreams and then the good old

message Bible says God can do anything

you know far more than you could ever

imagine or guess or request in your

wildest dreams any translation you read

it however you slice it the bottom line

is God is able he doesn’t big very

interesting to me because didn’t it

sound like when you when we when we read

those different translations and we hear

them

it sounds like Paul can’t really find

the right words to you

he’s trying I want you to picture him

those 2000 or so years ago as he is

sitting there in a Roman prison and he

is over the parchment paper and he’s

there with his quill and ink and he is

trying to figure out when he gets to

this segment of the birth how do I

describe to

people for generations to come the power

of God and he tries one word that’s not

goodness he writes another word huh that

one doesn’t cut it either

he gives us another I want you to see

the sweat pouring down his brow as he

gets that writer’s block that any writer

always gets when they’re trying to find

the right word or the right combination

of words to correctly describe something

and he tried word combination after word

combination but he can’t quite find the

words that are big enough grand enough

huge enough lavish enough extravagant

enough to really help us to get how

magnanimous the power of God is so he

takes a whole lot of big words and puts

them together when he gets all these

huge Greek words and I will not even

begin to try to describe or to pronounce

for you when he gets them all put

together he stands back looks at them

and realizes that they are still not

doing a good enough job of describing

how great the power of God is that is

available to believers in Jesus Christ

so he does one more thing he takes this

little prefix in the Greek language the

prefix is hyper somebody say hyper hyper

basically means beyond he takes two

hyper and he puts them on as a prefix to

two of those long words hyper basically

means I’m trying to say this but that’s

not good enough so what I really mean is

beyond this hyper means beyond it’s kind

of like how you can extend your elbow or

you could need to go to the hospital

because you hyper extended your elbow

right you can go to the grocery store

you can buy white light bulbs or you

actually can buy hyper white light bulbs

that means they’re like for real light

some of us in the room have active

children

others of us have hyper active children

it means beyond the norm postive I want

you to know that what your God is

capable of doing in your life is not

just what you ask because honestly Paul

said you would be selling yourself short

if God just did what you asked that your

brain can’t even come up with a prayer

request a solution it can’t even devise

something that even touches the fringes

of God’s capability so he says I want

you to know that God does not just do

what you ask he does beyond it and then

just when you thought that God had done

more than you could ask or imagine God

doesn’t just do one level of beyond

remember he put Hyper twice God does

beyond what you would have already

thought was beyond God does way past

your way past

he takes what your brain can’t even

begin to imagine and he does beyond that

and then in his incident glory and

sovereignty and omniscience and

omnipresence looking at the generations

that are to come looking and considering

and strategizing of him entire kingdom

agenda he does beyond the you’re beyond

way past your way past which is why when

we pray yes we make our prayer request

known but let me tell you the smartest

prayer we can ever pray Lord yes here’s

what I want please do it or do something

better

it’s relinquishes our selves to his

sovereignty can I just tell you guys

that one of the things I’m most grateful

for in my life is unanswered prayers

because if God had given me half the

stuff I had begged him for in my life

I’d be in a world of trouble right now

can somebody say Amen I’m so grateful

that in His grace and in His sovereignty

he looked beyond all my begging in

almost two years and all my lord this is

what I really need right now he looked

all of that – what was to come and he

did this what we don’t even know we mean

he does beyond your beyond way past your

way past I want to describe this to you

because when you get a handle on this it

does change the way you pray it causes

you to stop praying some kids meal snack

pack number one McDonald’s kind of

prayers it causes you to take God to the

best steakhouse in town and say Lord I

want to because you know that when

someone has what it required to take

care of it then it changes what you

request mix your prayer life bigger so

God does beyond the beyond way past the

way past if you were when you left here

or when you left home rather you came

here let’s say you have a teenager at

home and you told your teenager before

you left the house listen when I come

home I want your room clean that’s the

expectation that’s the request so when

you go home tomorrow night or Sunday

night whenever you’re going home you go

home and you walk into the house you

haven’t gone to the bedroom yet you just

walk into the house and the smell of

cleaning product is assaulting you on

every side you look over to the kitchen

the kitchen is completely clean and the

dining room is completely clean and the

living room is completely clean the

whole house has been cleaned by your

teenager I’m just saying it could happen

which is talking in hypothetical

situations I’m saying it can happen so

now your teenager did not just do what

you asked they did they did beyond what

you asked

you’re already impressed cup size done

beyond it so you are just smile on your

face you’ve already given him a hug a

big hug yourself excited because they

just did more than what you could have

even thought they would do and so you

walk into your bedroom

and if you walk into your bathroom to

just start unpacking it when you walk

into your bathroom there is a hot bath

that has been drawn for Mama don’t laugh

it’s possible is what I’m saying

possible a hot bath there but no right

there by your sink that’s his mom enjoy

your bath and after you’re finished I’m

going to have a hot meal for you that

I’m going to serve for you in bed

tonight I’m saying it could happen so

now your teenager didn’t just do what

you asked and they didn’t just do beyond

it they did beyond the beyond okay I got

another one for you get another one okay

so Jerry and I live in a fairly rural

part of the dallas-fort Worth area we

like it that way because we got three

boys they need to kind of run around

have room to play outside I love that

kids can still play outside in this day

and age I make I’m one of those mean

mothers that make them stay outside and

I put water bottles outside and then I

lock the door and I look at it through

the window any time they come to me and

say have the nerve to say to me that

they are bored I say oh no you not you

see that tree right there go play with

it you can eat it you can play tag with

it I don’t care what you do with it but

you are not coming in to play video

games today we’re not on my watch not

today so they play outside we like it

that way out in the country behind our

house is a big backyard and then there

is this kind of steep drop-off to a

creek it’s one of the reasons why I

almost didn’t want to buy that little

house it’s a little small house we like

the yard and almost in whereby it comes

in that Creek at the back Jerry said

don’t worry about it we’re just just

like a man don’t worry about it we’re

going to put up this little knee-high

you know chicken wire fence we will tell

them till since they’re little and it

works great we just told them that fence

line you just don’t go past that fence

line we’ve never had a problem 6 years

that we’ve been there they know the

fence line is the expectation if I were

to look outside of my window one day

while I’m washing

dishes and see that one of the boys have

gone down into the creek they’re

standing up on the other side waving at

me now my boy has not just gone to the

expectation he has gone beyond it now on

the other side of the creek there are

tons of trees there’s a neighbor’s house

back there actually my sister lives back

there now and I can’t even see my

sister’s house in the springtime or in

the summer because all the leaves are on

the trees but in the fall in winter when

all those leaves come down you can kind

of get a little view of the house back

there and if my sister called me one day

and said hey are you missing one of the

boys don’t worry about it he’s over here

sitting on my front porch we’re just

having some lemonade well now my boy

it’s not only going to get us thinking

but my boy has not just gone beyond he

had gone beyond the beyond way past what

I already thought was way past ok I got

one more for you one more got a friend

named Maria her husband’s a great

husband but he’s not the most romantic

guy ever just not she said to me last

year she said Priscilla you know what

for my birthday if that man can just get

me like a real good car not one he just

ran through the drugstore a real quick

and picked up but one he read he knew it

means something to me and he writes in

it that would just be what I want that’s

the expectation she said she came home

there on her pillow there was a card and

a box she didn’t even have to know

what’s in the box just by the mere fact

that there is the box he has already

gone beyond the expectation good thing

it didn’t matter what was in the box

because she opened it up and it was an

umbrella

wah-wah but it didn’t matter because he

has gone beyond so she opens up the

sweet card that was a great card and she

she read all the things that were

printed in there and then read all the

things that he wrote right at the bottom

of what he wrote to her he said oh by

the way I hear it rains a lot in Paris

[Applause]

oh I knew y’all would get that one now

he hasn’t just done what she’s asked

he’s done beyond what she would have

thought was already beyond this is what

God does he hears your request then he

takes into consideration stuff that your

brain can’t even imagine and he does

beyond what would have already been your

wildest dream and so we have his

daughters in our trial we trust him as

the God who is able to do exceedingly

abundantly above Japan to beyond now

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unto Him who is able to do exceedingly

abundantly above and beyond according to

our in regards to all that you ask or

think I just got to take a quick second

to tell you about this all business all

that you asked for think we’ve got we’ve

got the truth but he can do it

transcendently above all you ask her

think and it is about the totality all

this power of God that we’re talking

about it’s about the totality everything

that concerns you all of it because when

we start talking about the grandeur and

the greatness of God’s power sometimes

we’re thinking about such big big issues

we forget that he also cares about your

little issues as pastor Debbie said if

if your problem is if your drama is

really not little to you is it never

compare what you’re going through with

somebody else and think well God’s too

busy doing that to be concerned with

what I’m going through he can be cares

about everything that is on your plate

everything that’s in your heart

everything that is on your mind

I’ll close by telling you guys this that

I’m two days ago we were driving

somewhere I had my laptop with me was

doing some work Jerry had his iPad some

other things and cell phone things like

that we as we do we got out of the car

we put our things underneath seats

places where they would not be easily

detected we thought we did a good job we

went and ran our errand came back to the

car to realize someone a couple of days

ago broke into the car took my laptop

took his I pad took whatever was

valuable in the car took everything out

and actually didn’t obviously it’s

unsettling but it didn’t bother us too

much because my husband’s got these

codes he’s locked his computer down so

you got to know the code to be able to

get to all the information our personal

information my computer is the only one

that doesn’t have a code so all of our

family pictures around any manuscripts

they’ve been writing anything it’s just

completely available for anybody to see

everything and my prayer request

yesterday morning at 8:15 was Lord when

you hope that person whoever has got it

could you just help them at the very

least Lord to just logon for Wi-Fi

because see if they connect to Wi-Fi my

husband’s got it set up that immediately

the Apple people somewhere will lock the

computer down so that now the folks

can’t get into all of our personal stuff

that was my request lord I just need him

to log on just need him to want to get

on Wi-Fi so that at least all of my

personal information isn’t exposed gosh

I feel so much better about that I

prayed with the girls in our office

drove back home after praying I walked

in the door into the kitchen Jerry said

oh I just got an alert computer’s been

locked down while you were praying about

it God was already up to doing it

[Applause]

and y’all in that moment can I tell you

what I thought I thought I should have

praise bigger so my next prayer was Lord

you know that little message that came

up that when it’s lockdown that message

comes up this of hey this computer’s

been stolen here’s here’s a phone number

you can call to return it my next prayer

with Lord would you forgive me for

praying so small I’m praying but that

person that stole it will have a change

of heart call the number and return it

because God can do what you think is the

most unbelievable unreasonable

irrational things you would never pray

because how could that ever happen God

doesn’t pray that one I’ve got your back

Lord Jesus I pray over my sisters today

I am playing over every single one that

is in a trial specifically today but all

of us are are in the midst of life Lord

and that happens and God I pray that you

would help us to be women that believe

in your power that know you are able to

do beyond what we ask for things and

then Lord would you help us to trust you

with your help of God not to to be

satisfied with a mundane relationship

with you that doesn’t trust to believe

or have faith or step out on water Lord

in the midst of the struggles in the

midst of the battle would you help us to

be a army and women that stand firm on

the great grand power that our God has

Lord we trust you today somebody say I

trust you