Yes You Can

Numbers 13:1-3

1. And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, everyone a ruler among them.

3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

Numbers 13:30-33

30. And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Listen, those that said we couldn’t, had no proof there were giants.

But Joshua and Caleb brought back the proof, God said there was milk and honey and fruits and they had the proof.

Just because someone else is afraid to step out in faith to see what God wants him or her to do doesn’t mean that we have to be afraid.

Just because someone says there are big problems or this city can’t be won to God they have no proof of that;

Look around you look at who is here right now, some of you the unbelievers said you would never be saved,

Numbers 14:1-2 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would God we had died in this wilderness!

As we study the scriptures we find that there were some great men of God who all fell into the same trap.

· There was Moses who tried to disqualify himself from the call of God because he had a speech impediment.

· There was Jeremiah who tried to run from the call of God, saying that he was just a child and that he was not ready for such a great responsibility.

· Then there was Gideon who argued with God that he was the least qualified of anyone to deliver Gods people.

They all had different excuses, but they were all saying the same thing (we can’t do it).

But in our text we are not just looking at or listening to the excuses of one man, it is an entire nation.

10 spies returned with a negative report and their negativity and unbelief infected and poisoned the spirits of the whole nation.

Those who didn’t believe God died.

As a result; in the place and at the time when they should have broken through and they should have birthed their promised destiny. (They had a breakdown; they left the promise of God)

What was it that caused this spiritual abortion, this death of a dream, this denial of their destiny?

1. (Was it the devil? Was it the giants that conquered them and killed thousands of them and left them beaten and bloody from the conflict?)

What was it that had the power to reach into the hearts and minds of over one million people and strip them of their faith and rob them of their destiny?

It was four words (4 words separated them from their promised blessing and stole their destiny from them) We Can’t Do It!

It’s not just the words; it’s what is contained in those words.

Words are containers (You either fill them with faith and courage and confidence, or you fill them with fear and doubt and unbelief).

When Israel spoke those words they excluded God their words were full of unbelief and fear (their words were void of the God factor).

But I came to this house tonight to fill this atmosphere with the God factor.

1. The words I’m getting ready to speak today are pregnant with possibility,

2. Pregnant with potential,

3. Pregnant with power and pregnant with life.

Because they are filled with faith, they are filled with God.

· These words can move you from sickness to health, From weakness to strength, from loser to winner,

· From worry to worship, from stressed to blessed, From fearful to fearless,

· From lack to abundance, From sorrow to joy, from poverty to prosperity,

· From bondage to liberty and from weak and lowly to high and mighty.

I want you right now to lift your hands and ask God to open your spirit and give you ears to hear what he is saying right now.

I believe these words are going to penetrate your spirit and somebody hearing this message is never going to be the same again.

1. I don’t care what the critics are saying, I don’t care what the skeptics are saying,

2. I don’t care what the economy is saying,

3. And I don’t care what religious folks are saying

All I care about is (What is God Saying?) All you need is a word from God.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear…. Hebrew 11: 3

When God got ready to create this world and this universe we live in, (he just spoke) and it came into being.

He just spoke his word and it happened!

· I don’t know what impossible situation you are facing tonight;

· I don’t know what your problem is, but I do know your answer

· (It’s the word of God)

One word from God will drive cancer out of your body, One word from God can put meal in your barrel and oil in your cruse,

A word from God will deliver you and set you free from any drug habit or addiction.

A word from God can restore your marriage and heal a broken heart.

Tell yourself: All I need is a word from God. His word said (Yes You Can)

Your friend’s maybe saying: That’s impossible (but his word said Yes you can.

The natural law of Physics said: You can’t walk on the water (but his word said) Yes you can.

And with One Word Peter stepped into the supernatural and Peter went where they said he could never go and did what they said he could never do.

Some of you hearing this word need to get ready to step into a realm with God

a. A place you’ve never been, See things you’ve never seen and do things you’ve never done.

Here are three things you can count on because it is the word.

1. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens You.

2. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

3. All things are possible to them that believe.

The word Can’t doesn’t even exist in the vocabulary of God.

God lets you to you need to stop comparing yourself with other members and Stop measuring yourself to someone else and (use what God gave you).

What you have is enough– God has given you exactly what you need to fulfill your destiny. And I just going to go ahead and tell you: God has given you enough.

1Kings: There was a little widow woman who thought she had nothing of any value, but the prophet said: It’s enough just use it.

Put it to work, start pouring, as she poured it multiplied and delivered her from debt and made her prosperous.

· God wants every child of God to function on a higher level.

· When we were born again, we weren’t just born out of sin,

· Sickness, disease, poverty, and lack.

We were born into the Kingdom of God; we were born into the realm of the supernatural and the miraculous. We were born into the realm of signs wonders, and miracles.

The atmosphere of the child of God is the realm of supernatural peace, joy, power, prosperity, wisdom and manifestations of the power and glory of God.

The devil is so afraid of what will happen when you take your place in the spirit that he does everything in his power to strip you of your wings.

a. He knows you can walk on water,

b. He knows you were created to live and function in the realm of miraculous

c. He just doesn’t want you to discover it.

He knows that Jesus gave you power to cast out devils and heal the sick; he knows that you are now the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus;

He knows that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.

He knows that the same spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead lives in you.

And the devil knows that is normal for the child of God to have signs and wonders and miracles in their lives.

He just doesn’t want you to know it. The majority of Gods people today are stuck in a pit of I can’t.

We can get to familiar, too comfortable to the normal, the predictable, the expected, and the natural.

We can get stuck on (Religion) (Tradition) What keeps people in the church?

One of the things that hold people back from doing what God says is (Pride)

a. Pride is a killer, Pride is a thief

b. Pride is a deceiver, Pride is an enemy to the power of God

Proverb 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

Proverb 16:5 every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD:

Pride has robbed multitudes of their miracles, and stolen destiny from many of Gods people.

It’s easy to blame the devil for missing your blessing, but the truth is more than we want to admit it; it’s pride that keeps us from stepping out and stepping in.

Then there’s fear of what people might say Fear: of making a mistake, fear of failure Fear: of the unknown.

To move in the supernatural you have to be willing to step into the unknown zone

Joshua said you must follow the ark that you may know which way to go, for you have not passed this way before.

In order to walk in the supernatural you have to get out of the natural and step into the supernatural.

To take hold of the power of God you have to let go. Let go of religion, Let go of tradition,

Let go of the past, Let go of Pride Let go of fear, Let go of self-preservation.

If you are going to walk on the Supernatural, you have to be willing to take a risk

(You have to be willing to look crazy)

1. Moses looked crazy hitting a rock to get water out of it, but it worked

2. The children of Israel looked crazy walking around the walls of Jericho, but it worked

3. Elijah looked crazy upon Mt Carmel, building an altar and pouring twelve barrels of water on the sacrifice, then asking for God to send the fire, but it worked

Elisha looked crazy when one of his student prophets lost a borrowed axe head in the water and Elisha cut down a stick and threw it in the water where the axe head sank, but it worked (The axe head swam)

(We are never going to live like Jesus until we think like Jesus) we are going to have to lose our minds and get the mind of Christ.

Peter had crazy faith, he made up his mind he would rather be a wet water walker, than a dry boat sitter.

I know it’s a hard pill for some of us to swallow, because we’ve come a long way and we’ve got things pretty comfortable now. But I’m just gonna stop right here and thank God.

I’m just gonna stop right and thank God for some crazy people in my life, who didn’t care what anybody said about them, who didn’t have to understand it all, and who were willing to jump out of the boat and look crazy.

I wish I had some people in here that had some crazy faith, is there anybody in this house who has some crazy faith? Is there anybody in this house who knows how to praise God like you lost your mind? Make some ugly praise

Some of you will never experience the power of God, because you’re too worried about looking pretty,

You’re too worried about your hair falling down, you’re too worried about your dignified reputation.

I’m going to tell you something, when you get desperate enough reputation don’t mean a whole lot,

When you get desperate enough it’s not about emotions, when you get desperate enough nobody will have to pump and prime you to praise God.

I’m looking for some desperate crazy people in here tonight.

Satan doesn’t care for you coming to church and sitting and praising with your pretty praise.

When David had obeyed divine order and had the blessing of God on his life and was bringing the ark of the covenant back to Jerusalem (He danced with all his might, He danced like a crazy man, he danced like he’d lost his mind).

All I’m trying to say to you is this (if you’re going to fly, if you’re going to walk on water, if you’re going to move in the supernatural glory of God,)

You might as well settle it right now (Somebody is going to call you crazy)

I don’t want to offend anybody, and I don’t want to label anybody, but I just wonder is there any crazy people in the house?

· I’m talking about the kind of crazy that can believe God regardless of what the doctor’s report is.

· The kind of crazy that can praise God in the middle of your pain,

· Right in the middle of that divorce, right in the middle of that court battle,

Somebody can come out of depression tonight

Somebody can come out of a trial that’s been going on for a long time

You were created to fly but you got to flap your wings.

The rest of Peter’s life he had this testimony: I walked on the water with Jesus

The rest of those disciples lives they had a testimony too: We watched, we saw Peter walk on the water with Jesus.

I don’t want to say I saw, — I want to say I have experienced all that God has for me!!

I just have to believe that I’m talking to somebody who can’t be satisfied to just have a testimony that they watched somebody else walk on the water

I watched somebody else do what I could have done, I should have done.

Tell someone I’m getting ready to praise God like I’ve lost my mind, because I’m getting ready to move into the miraculous

(There are some things that I need in my life) and the only way to get them is to get out of this pew and get it).

Come on and stand up right now, and move your feet, stretch your arms, lift your voice to God, shout with a voice of triumph.

Your life can change forever right now; somebody is never going to be the same again.

You are never going to fit into that religious mold again, you are never going to fit into that traditional mold again, and God has called you to glory.