Victor Marx of All Things Possible Ministries joins us to share how God has used his painful past of abuse and rejection to prepare him for rescuing women and children traumatized by ISIS. Our brokenness doesn’t mean we are useless; rather it allows God to use us in his way, for his purposes. We can’t allow fear to hold us back from fulfilling God’s calling for our lives.
I'm really a trophy of God's grace. I should be low functioning. I struggle at times, but his strength is made perfect in our weakness. – Victor Marx
Kids without dads is an epidemic here in our country. It's never too late to be a dad, no matter how much you've blown it. – Victor Marx
When I got saved, the Lord actually broke me of some of my martial arts skillsets, which ended my competitive career. I didn't want anything to do with martial arts after that. The Lord said, "No, you're not done. You're just broken and ready to be used by me, the way I want.” – Victor Marx
Looking back, I thank God, that what I thought what was horrible ended up turning out to be great. – Victor Marx
American Christian kids aren't any more valuable in the sight of God than Arabic or Muslim children. – Victor Marx
Feeling fear is normal, but it's not right because God has not given us the spirit of fear. – Victor Marx
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. - 2 Timothy 1:7
The safest place you can be is in God's will. – Bob Ditmer
Gary Wilkerson is the President of World Challenge, an international mission organization that was founded by his father, David Wilkerson. He is also the Founding Pastor of The Springs Church, which he launched in 2009 with a handful of people. He has traveled nationally and internationally at conferences and conducted mission ventures such as church planting, starting orphanages, clinics, feeding programs among the poorest of the poor and the most unreached people of the earth. Gary and his wife Kelly have four children and live in Colorado Springs, CO.
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God, and He didn't come through-You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
— Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) April 5, 2018
For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God. - Hebrews 4:2
God's favor is always there but it won't profit us if we don't enter into it by faith. – Gary Wilkerson
Faith is the key that unlocks God's favor in the reality of your life. It's not twisting God's arm and saying, “Please show me favor.” He's already doing that. It's up to us now to say, “Okay, by faith I am going to believe that.” – Gary Wilkerson
But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.” – Acts 10:15
God wants to prosper and bless us, but we don't live for materialistic goods. – Gary Wilkerson
Ultimate favor is saying, “God, take the silver, gold, and everything else. I want you most. I want you more than anything.” – Gary Wilkerson
Take the whole world but give me Jesus. – Gary Wilkerson
As fathers we probably have all experienced that time when our kids said, “Daddy I love you not because of the stuff you give me but just for who you are.” – Gary Wilkerson
Once you realize that God of all wisdom—the God who knows everything perfectly—loves you and chose you, then you know there must be some value that he has created in you. He cast a favorable eye upon you and is working things for your good. When you know that it brings peace and contentment. – Gary Wilkerson
There's power in you, a godly warrior that doesn't cower to the enemy's onslaught. – Gary Wilkerson
Build your life on the solid rock. Let God construct something that is sound, healthy, alive and has his favor. – Gary Wilkerson
I've not met anybody pain free, who has everything all together, or not suffering in some realm or another. If you are not, just hang on, you will. It doesn't mean be defeated by it. Engage faith in the midst of these storms and the chaos of life, believing something good can come out of it. – Gary Wilkerson
I want to shake people's hearts up to come out of the spiritual funk of unbelief, doubt, and despair, and awaken in them the knowledge that God is there for them. – Gary Wilkerson
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. – Romans 10:17
Faith comes by hearing the word of God, but most of us are hearing the word of the enemy. We're hearing the devil say, “You're worthless, you're no good, you're a failure, you'll never make it, your kids are lost.” We start believing the lies, rather than believing what God says. – Gary Wilkerson
The power of positive thinking in itself is very limited, but the power of godly thinking, or God's favor instructing your thoughts, is having what the Bible calls the mind of Christ. It gives you a confidence that comes from the finished work of Jesus Christ. – Gary Wilkerson
Gary Wilkerson is the President of World Challenge, an international mission organization that was founded by his father, David Wilkerson. He is also the Founding Pastor of The Springs Church, which he launched in 2009 with a handful of people. He has traveled nationally and internationally at conferences and conducted mission ventures such as church planting, starting orphanages, clinics, feeding programs among the poorest of the poor and the most unreached people of the earth. Gary and his wife Kelly have four children and live in Colorado Springs, CO.
Pastor and president of World Challenge, Gary Wilkerson, paints a brighter and more biblical picture of God’s favor. In this week’s podcast, he digs down to the root of our expectations for ourselves and our Christian walk that often cause us to despair as we compare ourselves to other believers. He highlights the following three areas where comparison stems from:
Woven throughout, Gary builds a case for the confidence that we should have in who God has made us to be and how Christ will grant us greater favor than we could ever manufacture on our own as we pursue his purposes.
If we see God as He is—the God of love, grace, and favor—that will change the way we live our life. – Gary Wilkerson
Pass me not, O gentle Savior, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. – Fanny Jane Crosby
Many of us have an image of God, as a one who will pass us by if we're not behaving well…if we're not walking in perfect holiness. It's a perfectionism that destroys your life. – Gary Wilkerson
When we are stuck in self-hatred we're not going to love other people well. – Gary Wilkerson
Knowing the nature of God and His favor causes us to be free to do exploits, and we can really love other people well. – Gary Wilkerson
If we expect our life to be problem free, crisis free, trouble free, then when we get hit with trials and tribulations, we're going to have a poor view of God again. We're going to say, where are you? Why have you abandoned me? What am I doing wrong? Again, it will put us in that performance trap. – Gary Wilkerson
These are the nations that the LORD left in the land to test those Israelites who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. – Judges 3:1
We are not outside of God's favor when we are facing trials and tribulations in our life. Part of His favor is to leave those things there to grow us up, make us strong, give us power, faith, confidence, boldness, and teach us how to step on the head of the serpent. – Gary Wilkerson
The favor of God is powerful. It gives strength, boldness, and confidence that no matter what happens in my life I know God is for me. – Gary Wilkerson
Without a sense of God's favor engaging in our life it's hard for us to continue on in the midst of the pain and suffering. – Gary Wilkerson
God, if this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so few. - St Teresa of Avila
A lot of us ask Jesus to come help us build the idolatrous life we believe will make us happy with ourselves. – Gary Wilkerson
People that impact the world know who God is, know his favor is on their life, know who they are, and know what they're called to. They have a sense of confidence and peace and rest in the Holy Spirit. – Gary Wilkerson
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. - John 14:27a
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory… - 1 Peter 1:8
God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. – 2 Timothy 1:7
Gary Wilkerson is the President of World Challenge, an international mission organization that was founded by his father, David Wilkerson. He is also the Founding Pastor of The Springs Church, which he launched in 2009 with a handful of people. He has traveled nationally and internationally at conferences and conducted mission ventures such as church planting, starting orphanages, clinics, feeding programs among the poorest of the poor and the most unreached people of the earth. Gary and his wife Kelly have four children and live in Colorado Springs, CO.
God designed us for spiritual, mental and physical health within our relationship with him. While our choices can have negative effects on all three of these areas, our God is a healer. He can always correct and restore the damaged areas of our lives that cause us to feel hopeless.
In Christ, you can live a better life, thrive, grow, and develop. You can make a difference. You can make a better world. – Gary Wilkerson
God in ten years could do more in your life than you could do on your own in a hundred years. – Gary Wilkerson
Things can change. Things can be different. One, because you know who God is. Two, because you know he's calling his promises to be fulfilled in your life. – Gary Wilkerson
You can have a great prayer life, go to church, read your bible, but if you don't have friends, you're not going to grow. – Gary Wilkerson
The great promises that God has for us, part of the condition of that is that you do that in community. You don't do that alone. – Gary Wilkerson
I believe we need to let faith touch every area of our life. – Gary Wilkerson
The major shift in my life has been a shift from wanting to live life trying to be successful to trying to help other people become successful. – Gary Wilkerson
The world is in dire need of people who walk into the room and say, "There you are." Because it's so full of people who are walking into the same room saying, "Here I am.” – Gary Wilkerson
True ministry, when you look at scripture, is based out, "There you are. I'm here for you." – Gary Wilkerson
I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. – Philippians 4:12
God wants to bless you. He puts favor on your life. He cares for you. He cares for your children. He wants them to be blessed. He wants them to prosper. He wants them to grow. He wants them to be healthy. He wants to bring healing, hope, restoration, life. – Gary Wilkerson
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. – Matthew 6:33
And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? – Mark 8:36
Faith is easy when things are going well. It’s not really tested. It’s just there. It's when things don't go so well that you begin to question God's goodness, incorrectly. Does He really care? It's God's everlasting, long-suffering love that brings you through the good times and brings you through the bad times as well. And it's hard to learn that lesson, even after all of these years. – Bob Ditmer
A true father is less inclined to look for their own interest but for the interests of others. This generation needs some spiritual fathers. – Gary Wilkerson
Be a voice, not an echo. – Albert Einstein
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God’s Favor by Gary Wilkerson
Gary Wilkerson is the President of World Challenge, an international mission organization that was founded by his father, David Wilkerson. He is also the Founding Pastor of The Springs Church, which he launched in 2009 with a handful of people. He has traveled nationally and internationally at conferences and conducted mission ventures such as church planting, starting orphanages, clinics, feeding programs among the poorest of the poor and the most unreached people of the earth. Gary and his wife Kelly have four children and live in Colorado Springs, CO.
Pastor and president of World Challenge, Gary Wilkerson, paints a brighter and more biblical picture of God’s favor in this opening podcast. Here the discussion ranges from strategies the enemy uses to distract us from God’s goodness all the way to how exactly God wants our lives to show His unearned grace to a hurting, unbelieving world. The following are a couple points he touches upon:
This warm and personal conversation explores the issues God has laid on Gary’s heart for those who are struggling with the idea of God’s favor in their lives. Only an active pursuit of God’s presence and guidance will grant each of his children the peace to stand unmoved in the midst of life’s storms.
Gary Wilkerson is the President of World Challenge, an international mission organization that was founded by his father, David Wilkerson. He is also the Founding Pastor of The Springs Church, which he launched in 2009 with a handful of people. He has traveled nationally and internationally at conferences and conducted mission ventures such as church planting, starting orphanages, clinics, feeding programs among the poorest of the poor and the most unreached people of the earth. Gary and his wife Kelly have four children and live in Colorado Springs, CO.
Hopelessness is borne out of an incorrect view of God and that’s where Satan comes to kill and destroy our view of God being good and for us. God being powerful, being available, being present to us at all times and even being with us in the storm when the storms don’t cease. - Gary Wilkerson
I learned from my father, David Wilkerson, that poverty, gangs, and drugs are opportunities to glorify the name of Jesus Christ. – Gary Wilkerson
Jesus really is the answer for everything. – Gary Wilkerson
To be the spiritual man or woman who draws near to Jesus is going to be a battle. There's going to be Satanic distraction to pull us away from that intimacy with Jesus. – Gary Wilkerson
The Holy Spirit penetrates the walls of self-interest and says, "That's not what your heart was built for. You weren't built for yourself. You were built for others. You were built for God.” – Gary Wilkerson
The spirit is striving against the flesh. What for? So that we might have intimacy with Jesus. So that we can have the victory that Jesus wants us to have. – Gary Wilkerson
There is a deeper joy in Jesus that is not based on circumstances. – Gary Wilkerson
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain… - C.S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain
Our goal is audacious. It's to bring poverty solutions within reach of every poor community in the world. – Gary Wilkerson
Long- term solutions to poverty change nations. – Gary Wilkerson
The lack of hope causes people to be immobilized, to be lethargic, to lose confidence and energy. You sit back and let life happen to you when you're hopeless. – Gary Wilkerson
Hopelessness has all kinds of talons that destroy our life—despair, depression, discouragement, or manipulation. – Gary Wilkerson
The root of hopelessness is not knowing the nature and character of God. – Gary Wilkerson
