Stop Considering What Can’t Stop God

I’m excited to get this into your hands today — because this one truth, if you’ll grab a hold of it, will change the way you fight forever.

We’ve been walking through the recipe of faith — what Abraham actually did to receive from God, step by step, ingredient by ingredient. And today we land on one of the most practical, most powerful pieces of the whole thing. It’s tucked right there in Romans 4:19, and it tells you exactly what separates strong faith from weak faith.

It all comes down to what you consider.

Weak faith and strong faith are determined by what you look at.

Romans 4:19 says this about Abraham: “And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.”

Did you catch that? The Bible is telling you how to have strong faith. Not in a vague, spiritual, inspirational way — it’s telling you the actual mechanism. What you consider determines how strong your faith is.

If you consider the problem — the diagnosis, the bank account, the body that isn’t working, the situation that looks impossible — you will weaken your faith. But if you consider the promise of God, your faith stays strong.

That’s it. That’s the switch.

You can’t pretend the problem isn’t real. But you can decide it isn’t the deciding factor.

Now I know what some of you are thinking. “That’s easy for you to say, Pastor. You don’t have to deal with what I’m dealing with.”

And I want to meet you right there. Because Abraham wasn’t dealing with something trivial. He wanted a child. And the two things that are absolutely essential to having a child — his body and Sarah’s body — were both dead. There was nothing more real to him every single day than those two facts.

He wasn’t pretending the problem didn’t exist. He was deciding it wasn’t the deciding factor.

In the natural, yes — your body is the deciding factor in childbearing. Your test results are the deciding factor in your diagnosis. The economy is the deciding factor in whether businesses succeed. That’s how it works without God.

But once you have a promise from God, the promise becomes the deciding factor. Not the problem.

The recipe of faith isn’t a checklist. It’s everything working at once.

Here’s something I want you to understand. I’ve been calling what Abraham did a recipe — because it’s not a one-time, linear set of steps. It’s ingredients that all work together, and at some point you’ve got to have all of them going at the same time.

You start with the Word of God. That’s the main ingredient — the promise. From there, you get to know the God who gave you the promise. You make a decision to believe Him. You stir up your hope — your positive expectation. You call things that don’t exist as though they do. And you keep doing all of it, especially on the mornings when nothing feels like it’s working.

Because those mornings are going to come. You’re going to wake up and your mind is going to tell you, “Nothing good ever happens to you. Why did you ever think this was going to change?”

And that is exactly the moment you apply the piece of the recipe that says contrary to hope, in hope believed. You say out loud: “I expect this. I have a promise from God. And I choose to believe it’s working.”

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.— Romans 4:19 (NKJV)

He looked at a dead situation and decided it could not limit God. Can you do that today?

Jesus is the only deciding factor in your situation.

What are you staring at? The doctor’s report? The layoff notice? The empty bank account? The person who walked out?

Those things are real. I’m not asking you to pretend otherwise. But I am telling you they are not the final word. They are not what decides whether the promise of God comes to pass in your life.

Jesus is the deciding factor. And He gives life to dead situations. He calls things that don’t exist as though they do. And He’s given you His Word — which means He’s made you a promise, and His promises are yes and amen.

So here’s the question you need to sit with today: what are you going to consider?

God is still doing miracles — and one of them has your name on it.

I want to tell you about a single mom I met in Spain. She’d been divorced for a couple of years. Her ex-husband had court-ordered support obligations — and he had simply disappeared. A year and a half without contact. Not one payment.

She came forward during a miracle service. I laid hands on her. She went back to her seat. And while she was sitting there, her phone buzzed. It was a text from her ex-husband — the first contact in eighteen months — with a digital payment. More than he’d ever sent before.

She came and found me after the service. She said, “I already have my miracle.”

That is what happens when somebody stops considering the impossibility and starts expecting the promise.

Stop letting what can’t stop God stop you.

Your situation is not bigger than your God. Your diagnosis is not bigger. Your debt is not bigger. The person who walked away is not bigger. God gives life to the dead. That’s who He is.

Feed on the Word. Stir up your hope. Choose — deliberately, out loud, every morning — to consider the promise and not the problem. Keep all the ingredients of the recipe going. And expect your miracle.

It’s on the way.

Fight To Win. Start today.