This sermon emphasizes the importance of unwavering faith in God's ability to fix any problem, highlighting the need for absolute conviction in God's power to restore and heal. It addresses the common tendency to give up when faced with overwhelming challenges, stressing the vital role of belief in God's miraculous intervention. Through powerful examples from the Bible, the sermon encourages listeners to trust in God's ability to resurrect dead situations, whether in relationships, family issues, or financial struggles.

And face me if I don't if I'm not fully convinced that no matter what they tell me no matter what their problem is I'm fully convinced that God can fix it that God can work it out that nothing is impossible I don't care what kind of bitterness I hear from them. What kind of anger? I don't care if they tell me well Well, usually I get this and in any counselor will tell you the same thing Well, you just don't know what I've been through. You don't know how I'm hurting You don't know the issues, you know, if you really knew you wouldn't be talking as you do You wouldn't have as much hope as as you seem to have but folks I can't help anybody that ever comes face to face with me with a problem or something overwhelming their life I can't help them unless two things happen. I have to be Absolutely totally convinced that I cannot give up that I have got to fight for the marriage. I've got to fight for the victory I've got to believe God in my heart that he can and that he will and Furthermore anybody that comes into my office if you're going to go to any pastor here for counseling If you're going to the go to Pastor Rhodes and his wife if you're going to go to any of our counselors in our office in the annex You're going to come to me and you want to sit down with me I want I want to know the first thing the first question I ask anymore Do you really? Believe that God can restore. Do you really believe God can fix this? And if they hesitate, I know that I'm not going to be able to give them anything that's going to work There's got they have to be convinced what first of all that God is able that nothing Absolutely, nothing in their life is impossible with God nothing and secondly, they have got to want God to do it Oh, I meet a lot of people to bring to me their marriage problems and it's not more than a half hour into Conversation when I know they really don't want it fixed. They just want me to side with them They they've made a good case and they they they want the pastor's Approval on the direction they've already decided on You can't be helped by any counselor Anywhere Unless you are absolutely convinced by the Word of God that nothing in your life Is beyond God fixing it? And if you tell me otherwise, you really don't want it fixed You've already made your choice and you're going to go your direction no matter what anybody says Praise God All over the nation's today I see Christians I as I told you we have Last account, I think we've done some cleansing about 800,000 people Between seven eight hundred thousand people in the mailing list and the letters pour in sometimes fifty thousand a month and it's My wife and I are so shocked and heartbroken The Christian marriages that are breaking up. I mean all over this nation folks I I've had a mailing this for 35 years, but it has never been like it's been the last two years It is absolutely frightening and it's overwhelming Many of my friends in the ministry are divorced or in the process of getting a divorce Calls Friends that have my personal phone number shock us time and time again Because they say we just can't make it and when I talked to them, I Suddenly find out they really don't believe that this can be fixed. They don't believe their marriage can be healed They really don't honestly have this this heart conviction That no matter how bad it's got no matter what kind of Horrible things have been said and the hurts and the wounds that God is able to restore Everything the canker worm is eaten That which is impossible with man is possible with God a Pastor's wife wrote this past week about her husband who's a habitual liar He lies in the pulpit. She said And his lies are so outrageous He's been caught in them and he's been confronted with the evidence right in front of him and still is in denial His children have no confidence in him. She said I'm ashamed of him He stands up and he preaches and powerful message, but the man is a habitual liar. He can't tell the truth He doesn't know the truth and then she says I I think I'm going to leave him Now here's what I wanted to hear from that woman I wanted to hear from that pastor's wife Yes, I know that this man needs a miracle. I know that there's shame in my heart and my family's Has errors of dysfunction now because of it, but I wanted to hear from her Just something like this. I know that my husband is a liar And I know the church knows it and I know he's probably going to lose his pulpit over it But I serve a God who is able to humble that man I serve a God who is able to fix this marriage and to save this church And I wanted to hear the woman that would say I'm going to hold on from my husband no matter what it cost I'm going to breathe that what God says is true that nothing is impossible with God. That's what I want to hear In Mark the ninth chapter we come against a ghastly situation and one that seems absolutely impossible to fix You know the story it's in a found in Mark 9 I'm not going to read the text But you remember the story father brings a demon-possessed son to the disciples to be healed Now this was not just a dysfunctional child. This was not a child with a chemical imbalance This was a demon-possessed boy. And this boy is probably known all over the region I'm sure I feel confident that the disciples had heard about him. I'm sure That parents who saw the father coming with this child hid their children took them into the house They didn't want this child near them. This child was considered absolutely hopeless The devil would throw him into fires Into waters to try to drown him and kill him He would Satan would manifest he would foam at the mouth. He would he would be contorted and All he was emaciated had no appetite evidently the Bible said that he was in first that he was near death and What a terrible thing it must have been for the father to full-time job just to hold on to the boy because you go through a Neighborhood and the nearest open cooking fire He wants to leap into the coals and how many times did the father have to leap into a pond and pull him out? resuscitate him and What kind of horrible nights and days because this father loved this boy or he would not have brought him to the disciples as he did because You you you find him Broken-hearted over the situation. What if this was your son? If you're not married, it was your little brother To see the burn marks and the bruises on this child and then to stand by helplessly where nobody can help him when The devil the demons in him are manifesting and this is what the disciples face now They're looking face to face into a hopeless Situation as far as man is concerned here They are being asked to heal this son to cast the devil out of this boy They prayed and nothing happened, I'm sure they prayed again They may have prayed a long time But the devil manifested right in front of the disciples and the boy is contorting and he's foaming at the mouth. He's both he is deaf and he's speechless and only guttural sounds out of his mouth most likely and You talk about a hopeless situation This is in the eyes of man. This can't be fixed. It's impossible. There's been no doctor There's been nobody can fix this boy. Now. This is a simple word But I want you to see why God included this in a canon of Scripture. Why would God repeat these stories? Why would he move in the hearts of godly holy men to tell these stories? because what other applications can it have other than to teach us and Because it's not just a history book. This is this is the book that's showing us who God is and Jesus comes on the scene and he describes now or Questioning is this too hard for you? Is your master able to handle every situation but that which is Under the influence and power and control of the devil himself. They surely knew this was the devil they recognized it as did the father and all the neighborhood and everybody else and Jesus comes on the scene and What a sight this must have been And Jesus asked what's going on and they they said well we brought him to your disciples and they couldn't heal him They have it. Just it's a hopeless case And I'm sure some of them had already walked away because nothing was done. Jesus comes on the scene and He turns to the father. He said father if you can believe All things are possible to him that believe it totally said if you can believe all things He's talking about his son This that's under the control of the devil this that this harassment in your life There's nothing impossible with God if you can believe it can be fixed Folks all it took was a word from Jesus All it took was a simple word and the boy fell is dead before that congregation and they said he's dead he's died What a fix that is but suddenly the boy Answered the cry of the master stand up rise and the boy. I'm sure ran and embraced his father Can you imagine the joy in that scene God fixed it? Now why does Why is that in the scripture that story it is God it is the Lord saying to every parent listening to me now who has a child that's gone astray a Family member that is under the manipulation of the devil himself He's saying if you can believe All things are possible This can be fixed. This can be restored How many mothers that are here right in this church I know at least a dozen of you here right now that I've talked to You get on the bus and you go upstate New York and you visit your son and your daughter in prison some of you in the annex you admit and you know the pain of that trip and you know the agony of sitting there and Talking to a boy that was once a tender little boy that you raised and now Because of drugs and because of robberies in jail And you have prayed and the devil's trying to tell you to give up it can't be done because you don't see any evidence I'm telling you now This is here because God's saying if you'll keep on believing if you'll keep trusting me I can save that boy He's saying to every one of you mothers that are here You never in your lifetime could have dreamt that your daughter could ever turn to drugs She got in with the wrong crowd in high school She started running these streets and she became rebellious Maybe she's had an illegitimate child But you've seen the changes in her and you can't handle it anymore because she's out half the night You've had to tell her to leave the house because you didn't want your other children to follow in her footsteps And you have been on the streets at times and you've seen her get in a car To sell her body to prostitute to Support her habit and you've gone home and cried a river of tears and the devil's told you this is hopeless It can't be fixed. This daughter of yours is gone. It's finished folks I'm telling you wherever you make this this video and this audio goes all over the world wherever you will be I'm telling you. I don't care how low your son your daughter's gone. I don't care how far gone you think they are They're not too far gone from God. He can fix it I've known of fathers that asked what to do I said go if my son go after him and I've had fathers just do that They'll get in the car and they'll go down into the slum somewhere. They'll go down into the ghetto They'll go to a burial and they'll ask around until they find some pusher who knows That boy's name and he'd go and the father once told me he went in there He walked into a shooting den His son didn't even want to talk to him. His son was emaciated And he pleaded with his son come out Please I'll stand with you. I'll help you. We'll do anything Give us a chance and To see that father come out Heartbroken out of that shooting gallery Because that boy has turned away and says I don't even want to talk to you get out of the place This is my life now And to hear that father say I lost him it's hopeless that boy folks We've got a young man in this service today From Arizona, where are you son? Stand up right over here. Just turn away the crowd say hello On the streets Given up by society. Everybody said he was hopeless. I Remember the day I met him He was still skinny at the time But there was something I saw and I said son you're going to Bible school you will preach the gospel God's gonna pick you up and change you he's pastoring now and head of a drug program in Arizona Phoenix correct. Yes, sir Hopeless God fixed him Hallelujah, Oh Say your husband is hopeless. You can't get him saved you say your wife is hopeless. She goes out and parties Oh, I know a dear man that was here last Sunday And he prayed so long for his wife and God has finally answered the prayer, but he wouldn't give up How many times? Men have told me I had to stay at home and watch my wife come home drunk and God just told me to hold on that somehow he would make it up to me if I would believe and trust him and one Day, God broke through and God saved my wife. God saved my husband folks Don't give up on anybody don't give up on anything. Nothing. Nothing is impossible with God nothing Let me go a step further God can bring back to life anything you gave up for dead Yes, he can in Mark 5. There's another story of Jairus Ruler of the synagogue and he comes to Jesus fell at his feet and weeping He said would you come to my house and lay your hand on my 12 year old daughter? She's near death and Jesus agrees to go with the ruler of the synagogue to his home to heal the child but on the way He has stopped temporarily because a woman with a blood disease touches the hem of his garment and he just stops He said virtues gonna where are you and and and he's ministering this woman and while he's ministering this woman Jairus Jairus standing beside him The messenger comes and says to Jairus Your daughter just died Don't bother the master anymore. It's too late And in Jesus must have seen the fear grip that man that father who said if we could have only Been there 15 minutes ago If we could have just it's just Oh God just a matter of timing and we missed it on timing and Jesus Turns to the man. He says don't fear Don't fear don't be afraid Fear not he said only believe Jesus goes with the man and he approaches the His residence and there's a wailing and a weeping and a mourning of neighbors and friends and family and Jesus comes on the scene now. Can you imagine weeping and wailing in the presence of Almighty God there? He is in flesh Jesus was caught in flesh He can you imagine? the unbelief of Weeping and what they're saying and what we say when things have gone too far we think beyond possibility What we're saying is God you can handle anything. It's still got a little life in it, but when it's totally dead You don't need to call on Jesus anymore Many of you've quit calling on Jesus now because you think your situation is beyond possibility You've already given up some of you on your family given up on your husband praying him through giving up on your marriage Given up on on something that God told you to hold on for And and you've just given up and Jesus came on the scene and paraphrased. He said what's the fuss? What's all this weeping and wailing? They said well, she's dead if you know if you had been here And that's what Moses said God if you had just done it on time. I Believe in Holy Ghost timing. I certainly do I believe in Holy Ghost timing, but it's not my time We always are giving God deadlines Lord, I believe you I want it done in the next two weeks Jesus Goes into the room merely speaks the word and that little child comes to life You tell me your marriage is dead I Tell you what God is Put it in my heart. I am I am laying hold of God for all my friends that are that are on the verge of divorce Breaking up and I am fighting. I am laying hold of God They may have given up but I have not given up and I'm not going to give up and that should be in you Divorce should never be an option never be an option unless your husband's a beater or if you've been beaten or something There's a different case. You have to escape that situation and I'm sure there are other circumstances, but Why can't you take the hurt Take it to Jesus and believe what he said. I'm God. I'm your God and I can fix it Now I want everybody hearing me now and the jumbo screens of stairs and here wherever you are On video or audio I want you to listen to me now the Holy Spirit put this in my heart again this morning before I came to this church to preach I'm telling you God's fighting for your marriage. Why aren't you God is fighting for you. God is on your side He's trying to heal if there's something in your heart That's that that is hindering ask God to take it out And if it's going to be healed it's going to be you that God uses because you're here You're listening to it and God's delivering the message to you. You'll be the one You say well it takes two Yes, it does but folks marriage is not 50-50 when marriage is about to break It's a hundred to nothing you get nothing out of it, but faith in God and let God do it You don't expect anything in return. You don't expect anything in return. You don't expect to be blessed You don't expect to be loved you and expect anything but to do God's Word obey him and believe God Help us this incredible divorce rate in even in Pentecostal churches and Baptist churches Evangelical circles and ministry God help us But we're saying God's a liar we're saying God's a liar God can't fix it You that's what this good let me read it to you he that believeth not God hath made him a liar You can find that first John 5 10 That's why the Holy Ghost included this little story in the scripture To show you that what you think has died he is able to resurrect Some of you given up looking for a job Said I've tried and I've finally given up I got a letter yesterday from the man I'm ending list is that I've tried everything in his areas a lot of unemployment So I can't he literally has given up No, no, no. No God can fix it. God can do it One word from Jesus and life springs up again I'm gonna close in just a few moments, but I've got I want to talk about money problems You've got money problems You got financial problems You can't pay your bills Well, I know so he's old brother Dave give me something here now that I can lay hold of Did you know Jesus had money problems Tax collector came they didn't have the money And Jesus sends his best fisherman Peter out to fish in the sea And he said tell you what Peter you go get your fishing rod You go down the sea where you usually fish and the first fish you catch Open his mouth and you're going to see a coin. They're valuable enough to pay all our taxes And I can you see Peter who's fished all his life he said this I gotta see Tax money out of a fish's mouth I've seen worms. I've seen hooks I've never seen a coin a gold coin or whatever it was. I've never and I'm sure it was great curiosity He went fishing There's a nibble and He wills in this first fish, I don't know the size of it or anything else I don't I don't know if God created that coin or whether somebody Was there a week ago and God said I'm going to need this coin and he Rolls off a dock right in the fish's mouth God can do it naturally he can do it supernatural any way he chooses All I know is that this was a miracle when Peter opens the mouth of that fish and looks at that gleaming coin He said well, how about that? Isn't that something what a miracle what America this to a fisherman this had to be a great miracle It's a miracle when I read it, but why would God include a little fish story? Why didn't Jesus I got to thinking about this this past week Why didn't Jesus take an offering among all those disciples and teach them about giving because the Apostle Paul did? Why didn't he send all his disciples out for day work for a day they could have raised that in one day of day labor No, because you see that's all within the realm of possibility God wanted to do it miraculously to show you and me that there are times in our life that only a miracle Will answer the need only a miracle answer the need I? I Know what you're thinking right now. I need an angel. I Need somebody sent an anonymous $50,000 check in the mail I've got to have that miracle brother David Jesus can do that for to pay the taxes if he can get money out of fishes mouth if our God can feed five thousand and four thousand a few fish and and a few loaves of bread if He can cause a widow to pour gallons and gallons of cooking oil out of a little pint jug if he can cause a barrel never to go dry and in the The oil never to go dry for the widow if if that's the kind of God and if God can do anything then God I need that miracle. I need a financial miracle. I Have to tell you a story, I think I may have told it years ago in this church, but it fits the story here right now Years ago when I was a young pastor in my 20s. I got in debt for a stupid thing I did I thought it was God and In those days, I didn't consult the Lord. I just did it because there was a need and it was a good project But I just got $5,000 in debt and and today that that's like $25,000 or more in today's money and and The money was due and I I was desperate and so I Started reading those scriptures with God. Nothing is impossible God supply all your need and I was reading these very stories about how angels fed Elijah with a Raven and all these miracles that God did I said Lord I need a miracle and in my desperation I folks please don't ever go into God's presence and let your mind go blank You open yourself to every conceivable kind of deception Don't ever do that if you're there just worship him But give him your thoughts give him your mind And I just went back and I heard the most beautiful Voice I ever heard David the downchester Street tomorrow at noon and Walk on the left side Between third and fourth and there's gonna be a man come towards you with an envelope He's gonna be an angel He's got $5,000 in his hand He's just gonna put it in your hand and I thought oh glory to God My angel God you're faithful Next day at noon. I'm walking down the street looking every direction Folks It's a town of 1,200 people. Nobody walks the streets ever There's nobody there everybody's at work and there wasn't a soul in sight I walked it for a half hour up and down up and down And I said Lord, where is he? And and then a guy comes and and he goes when I knew he wasn't a smoking and an angel wouldn't smoke And after about 40 minutes, I said Lord these neighbors are gonna think I'm a robber Look the note over and trying to Check their houses out Finally in despair I went home And I was so downcast Lord now, what do I do I Was hurt was wounded and most of all said how could I be so deceived? But I said Lord, I'm gonna trust you I Can do I'm gonna put it in your hands and a day or two later a man in the church came to me He said they've I've heard about that Need you have he said I I have a friend Another town you're here who has a bank. He's a Christian. He's a banker Why don't you go there and tell him I sent you? Okay, and I went over and I told the banker My problem and he said I'll tell you what I'm gonna give you an unsecured loan for $5,000 You're gonna pay it back $50 a month Folks God met it, but I walked out God said no, I could have sent you that angel I could have put that pocket. You never learned your lesson. You'd be doing this rest of your life