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Page 1: Dealing with doubt. doubt ✦ To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold

Dealing with doubt

Dealing with doubt

Page 2: Dealing with doubt. doubt ✦ To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold

doubt ✦ To question or hold questionable; to

withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust;

✦ A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.

Page 3: Dealing with doubt. doubt ✦ To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold

✦ Doubt and unbelief limit access to the promises of God for your life.

✦ Doubt and unbelief gives power to the natural and causes the supernatural to lie dormant.

✦ Doubt and unbelief causes the word of God to be ineffective in your life.

✦ Doubt and unbelief causes prayer and fasting to become irrelevant.

Page 4: Dealing with doubt. doubt ✦ To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold

✦ Matthew 13:58And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

✦ Hebrews 4:3-6 (King James Version)

✦ 3For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

✦  4For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

✦  5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

✦  6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

Page 5: Dealing with doubt. doubt ✦ To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold

✦ Belief is the master key into the doorway of Kingdom manifestations.

✦ You will only experience the power of God at the level you believe God.

✦ Your life is a reflection of what you believed it would be.

✦ Your belief will determine how hard you pursue a thing.

Page 6: Dealing with doubt. doubt ✦ To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold

✦ Mark 11:23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. (ESV)

Page 7: Dealing with doubt. doubt ✦ To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold

Overcoming Doubt 1. Revisit prior victories that you’ve won in

the past.

2. Know the truth and stand on the truth that you know.

3. Step out and try.

4. Don’t give doubters and unbelievers access to what your believing God for.

5. Continually build yourself up in the Spirit of God.