Love a good underdog story? Pastor Jeremy DeWeerdt draws parallels from history making champions to one biblical underdog with the odds stacked against him. What’s the one thing they had in common? They were not slated to succeed and yet they overcame. So who do you listen to? The naysayers and critics? Discover how God uses unlikely people to achieve extraordinary things. This message will remind you that your future is in God’s hands—and He sees the hero in you.
Notes 📓✏️:
What Tone Do You Own? – Pastor Jeremy DeWeerdt
The God inside of you is bigger than the opposition in front of you.
God doesn’t consult your past to determine your future.
1 Corinthians 1:26-29 NIV; “Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him.”
Judges 6:11b-12 (NLT); “Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites. The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “Mighty hero, the Lord is with you!”
“Mighty hero, the Lord is with you!”
Isaiah 46:10 (NIV); “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’”
God does not call the qualified but qualifies the called.
Romans 4:17; “The God who gives life to the dead and speaks of things that don’t yet exist as if they are real.”
Your future is in the hands of a loving God, who gives you strength to overcome life’s challenges to achieve His purpose.
But here’s the problem… You can’t see it yet.
We have limiting belief systems and are surrounded by others who reinforce those limiting beliefs.
What tone do you own?
You become what you believe.
Do YOU see YOU the way God sees YOU?
What does it look like to declare the future God has for you?
God will speak it, but it takes a while for you to walk in it.
Discussion Questions 📝❓:
- How does the story of Gideon illustrate God’s ability to see potential in underdogs?
- Why do you think God often chooses to use underdogs instead of people society would consider more qualified?
- What does it mean to own the tone of God’s word over your life?
- Why is it important to shift our focus from our present circumstances to the promises and declarations of God’s word?