022 - Don't Give Up #2 - Don Gossett

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't Give Up, That's my appeal to you today. Perhaps you've written yourself up as a failure. Please cease from doing that. From this day as you hear my voice, step into the new ranks of the conquerors, the overcomers, the people who put things over by God's grace. Our testimony is I can do all things through Christ who is our strength, our wisdom, our ability. Now, others may have heard you confess to God.

[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_00]: How weak you are, what a failure you are. How much challenge to you is let them hear you confess what God's ability is in you. I say to you, beloved, change your song and sing the song of a victor, how will you lose you?

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_00]: For every time you confess weakness you become weaker. Every time you tell people about your sickness you grow worse. Every time you tell people about your lack you have more lack.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: We begin to tell others that you are more than a conqueror through Christ, that you have no other testimony to give. So again, do you confess the ability of God to make good? I ask you, are you discouraged?

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_00]: For my word to you is, don't give up. Are you struggling with health issues? Please don't give up. You are you one who has given up on God you say, that you are back slid in from following Jesus.

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_00]: All listen, Jesus is waiting for you to return to Him. Now, the secret victory is action and persistence. Don't put it off and don't give up. Jesus declared in Matthew 1112, the violent shall take it by force.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: There's violent faith always takes things. You live now today never in tomorrow. Don't say what you would do if circumstances ring your favor or if you had the money, or if you had the education or if you had the opportunity is wipe out that miserable if and go on and conquer or see stringing about the good life that you may live next year or 10 years and now and begin to live at your best right now.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Be great for God now. Don't put it off. Forget what is now. Be bold and fearless now. Don't postpone positive and constructive living to some vague and indifferent future. Always expect the best always. Don't expect the worst ever. Expect God's miracles for your life.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_00]: For it's your attitude toward life that makes your life. I mean, God by His grace has just enabled us as I'm here in the studio to receive a continuous dream of awesome miracles for his glory.

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And so this is what God wants you to expect. Expect His wonderful working and I appeal to you again with these words. Don't give up.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you about the man that gave beautiful. The Bible says he gave heat and the Peter and John for he was expecting to receive something from them.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: However, he expected something and that man got it. So I say if you'd expect miracles for your life. Miracles may well be your portion even as it was for the hopeless cripple to get beautiful.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm so glad I can share the same today. And now we have the words of Jesus that we act upon. So you can be one who says, God can do things and God will do things through me.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Now that statement means unlike egotism, but it's 100% scriptural. He brews chapter 11 tells a man and woman who did things and you two can do things. What if the Lord wants done.

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Refuse be dominated of fear. The thing which you greatly fear will come upon you and that which you will be afraid to have come unto you.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you continually fear will likely come my says you give place to that ugly spirit. If fear ceases you don't blame it on bad luck miss fortune or other people.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: If you give place to fear you become your own biggest enemy or biggest trouble maker, but you can change all of that right now. But confessing God is not giving the spirit of fear, but a power and a sound mind.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And now I want to pray for the nation's father. I'm grateful that you by your calling has given us the opportunity to go to a many nations to share the gospel with dear precious people.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And I pray today for those people who have received a ministry in person and those who hear it by radio by the internet by our gospel books.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I pray you bless all of these dear people today in Jesus' name. Now in my list of all the nations and places where God is sent me, let me tell you about my going to the island of Anigada.

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a small island out in the Atlantic Ocean where our broadcasts have been released for many years. And when I arrived at that island, I was escorted from the house to house visiting the people, ministering personally through knees and I was greatly inspired is the Lord had minutes of blessing to those sweet people of Anigada.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: The last home I visited was that of an 83 year old seaman named Mr. Wallace Ventropoul. He warmly greeted me and said, as he pointed to his small transist radio, he said, when you leave the air each night, I always say good night done, gossip that touched my heart by his expression of the blessing our broadcast ministry had meant to him for all those years.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I've realized in a renewed manner that tremendous value of radio broadcasts and even on the far way island like Anigada.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: This retired seaman shared with me these words, he said, brother gossip, I bless the Lord, he's said that I've taken for his mercy toward me.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he wanted to share with me a bit so I listened to him, he said, you know, as a seaman all my life, I was stranded in three different times and the Lord each time preserved me and brought me to land safely.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Once we were three miles offshore of the Dominican Republic, when we came into the midst of a fierce cyclone, the winds were terrific, suddenly as our ship was tossed down into the heart of the water.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_00]: We struck our reef and the ship busted 54 men were drowned instantly, and 35 of us were saved. I ask him, brother, vendor, who will have was as you were saved when all around you men were drowning.

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: He said, well, when the ship broke up on the reef, all the other men were calling on one name, the name of the Lord.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And the captain called for the rescue boat, but there was no boat, it was already gone. Well, I said, how will you personally spared?

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: He said, brother, God's it is just like a miracle. I found myself there in the water, suddenly I cited a piece of wood and Lord used that to spare my life.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: There was a very fast tides sweeping toward shore, and it pushed me right to safety, even though we're three miles offshore seemed like only a few minutes till I was safe on the land.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, as I had the delight of meeting this man, what a great blessing inspiration to hear. His experiences have got mercy that it protected him through many years of selling the highest seas with all kinds of experiences.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And the conclusion of my visit with him that night, we both knelt together in his little home for a sweet time at prayer. My heart was humbled to realize how the people, in such a far-flung parts of the world, receiving benefits from my daily broadcast, and it was an inspiration to continue reaching and touching lies by radio.

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was thinking about the verse in Psalm 1, 7 verses 23 and 24. They did that go down to the sea in ships. They see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But that was an example of what my relationship with that man, Wallace, that was that night and I'm so grateful. I like to share with you a poem.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know who wrote it, but it really speaks to my heart. I pray you'll let it speak to your heart. It's entitled, it isn't fair. It isn't fair. It can't be right. I now protest with all my might. I lift my voice both loud and strong.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It's wrong my friend is wrong. It's wrong, it's wrong I say. Did it wrong indeed? And that's why I weeping big and plead.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a black and wicked sin to keep the light from dying men. I plead the cause for minifar, unsaved and loved and told they are. Why have we been so late in slow? Why have been the men so few to go?

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Unsaved unsought and still untold because we love and hoard our gold. How dare we show such selfish greed and keep the truth of minn and need?

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: My Christian friend can you not see it is wrong and ought not to be. They don't deserve their heath and night. It's wrong if we don't share the light. It's wrong at home each passing day.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been making the dollars more to pay to build a house of prayer. It isn't right, it isn't fair. As followed Jesus, last command, let's take the light to every land.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: The truth is plain that he does great. The time is short, the hour late. That's not linger restlessly. The rise and go and weep and quickly tell a dying race of Jesus love and power and grace.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_00]: For Jesus said in Mark 1615, going to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. That's our commission to go to all the world and thank God for the privilege we have to invest the one and only life we have to share Christ with people everywhere.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what both our commission is all about and I thank God for you. You know, I was saying on a previous broadcast that when I was at Babel School student years ago in San Francisco, one of my favorite courses in title, going with the gospel well.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That has been the theme of my entire ministry going with the gospel to all parts of the world. Yes, going in person, very taxing physically, constantly battling this interior and other trouble with diseases.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It's much easier to stay at home and enjoy the comforts of a choice environment, but the Lord's command is go into all the world and preach the gospel.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, by his grace, not only in person but by radio, by the internet, by gospel literature, we're going going with the gospel.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And as I have had this calling and I hope you'll hear these words, like I said, I heard the voice of Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us?

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Then said I hear my Lord send me. Well, I'm grateful that Jesus gave this wonderful promise. He said the harvest truly is great but the laborers are few.

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Prayed there for the Lord the harvest, he would send forth laborers into his harvest field for how shall they call him him who may not believe and how shall he believe in him who may have not heard.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except to be sent? It is written how beautiful the feet of them that preach the gospel peace and bring glad tidings of good things.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And to all these nations where the precious Lord has sent me do His work, I'm grateful for you to be in my partner, fruit-free.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And I praise God that He has opened a great door and a factual to us and we have had overcoming grace.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Now I wish I could have had the privilege of being raised in a Christian home but I was not. And I am still very grateful that I became a Christian.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: For I had I follow the natural course of events, I would have followed the example of all the gossets of previous generations that lived in sin and served the devil.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But by the grace of God the Lord brought the truth to salvation to my heart.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And by His wonderful love I made Jesus Christ my life desired to know Him for His love was very attractive.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so glad I accepted Him and I ask you my beloved friend if you can accept Jesus your Lord and Savior, I encourage you to do so for Jesus Christ me everything to your life.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm glad that He is able to devote much to my life to proclaim His message everywhere.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Father I pray that you'll touch the hearts of precious people with a love for the lost in desire to reach out and touch in Jesus name amen.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Join me as we simply say praise the Lord. Let's say it five times. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.