Dharius Daniels - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

We’re in a series called «Air Force,» and we’ll be sitting in this series until Easter. I am starting a new series, and I can’t wait to share it with you. We’re adding a couple of services for Easter. I don’t know if we will need them because you all have me confused after COVID; I don’t know if you all will come or not. Just in case, we never want to turn anybody away. We will have a service here at 5:00 PM on Saturday and 9:00 AM on Sunday. Does that make sense? So, we’ll be here at 9:00 AM on Easter Sunday, but we also have a service at 5:00 PM on Saturday before Easter. Typically, we always have a Saturday service on Easter to make room for people who only come on Easter to get into the church on Sunday. Does that make sense? So, I’m asking, as I do every year, for those of you who are spiritually mature enough or not tied to your preferences to say, «You know what? I can worship Him the same on a Saturday evening as I can on a Sunday morning,» to ensure that the person who is only coming to church once a year is not stuck in overflow but can get into this room and experience some of this Jesus. Okay? So, when you come on Saturday evening, you’re helping us make room for those people on Sunday morning because all it takes is one time for them to have the right encounter with Jesus. Thank you so much in advance for that; I’ll be speaking at all of them, so it’s the same message, and you won’t miss anything.

Luke 11, verse number 5, says this: «Then Jesus said to them, 'Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, „Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.“ And suppose the one inside answers, „Don’t bother me; the door’s already locked, and my children are already in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.“ I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity, he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.' So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.' This ends the reading of God’s Word.»

I want to tag a title to this text and our time together today. I want to talk from this subject: «Don’t Stop Until You Get Enough. Don’t Stop Until You Get Enough.» As we ease into this introduction today, family, I want to expose and address an emotional epidemic that I think has been extremely impactful yet frequently underemphasized. It’s an epidemic that has become a weapon wielded by the enemy to diminish our peace, destroy our productivity, and damage our purpose. It’s an epidemic that is ubiquitous, incessant, and often undiagnosed. Family, I’m simply referring to something called «settling.» Somebody say «settling.»

Listen to me, here’s a definition: it is intentionally or unintentionally accepting a state of existence that is inconsistent with God’s intentions. It’s when you look at Scripture, hear sermons, and get exposed to ideas that show you what God desires for you, but you refuse to pursue it because you don’t think you deserve it or believe it isn’t possible for you to achieve it. Settling—it’s accepting the wilderness when you could have Canaan; it’s accepting good when great is possible; it’s accepting surviving when we could be thriving. It is a state of existence that the enemy desires to keep us in because settling not only impacts us individually; settling also assassinates our assignment. Settling isn’t just about us being stuck and stagnant; it’s about us being ineffective in what we were called, created, and commissioned to do because fulfilling your purpose requires reaching your potential.

You can make a difference without reaching your potential, but you cannot make your difference. Did you hear what I just said? We can make a difference without reaching our potential, but we can’t make our difference without reaching our potential. Ladies and gentlemen, your purpose isn’t just about making a difference; your purpose is about making your difference, and we can’t do that by settling. I want to tell you that the same devil behind greed is the same devil behind settling. The same devil that causes people to want too much—are you all okay this morning? Online, put some fire in the chat and help me! I said the same devil that causes us to want too much is the same devil that causes us not to want enough. The same devil behind attitudes of arrogance is the same devil behind attitudes of inadequacy, and inadequacy has destroyed just as many destinies as arrogance.

When you look throughout Scripture and examine the lives of individuals that God used greatly, specifically those in the Old Testament, you will find that in order for them to accomplish their assignment, they had to allow God to talk them out of inadequacy. When God called Moses, I’m talking about the Moses who raised his hand, stretched out his staff, and parted the Red Sea; I’m talking about Moses, the infamous one to whom God revealed Himself and used in miraculous ways; I’m talking about the man Moses.