Some of you have been given God-given dreams in the past, and you never had the guts to go get it.

Why? Because you didn't trust God.

Dr. Tony Evans is the fact that opportunities come with obstacles

shouldn't keep us from pursuing them.

If you're waiting to see them with no problems before you go get it,

you're not going anywhere.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas,

and president of the Urban Alternative.

When life presents us with a problem, we try to fix it with the tools we have on hand.

Nothing wrong with that, except we don't always use all the tools available.

Today, Dr. Evans reminds us that God has given believers access to His tools.

And when we make use of them, we can get on with the life He has called us to live.

Let's join Dr. Evans in Numbers chapter 13 as He explains.

I want to talk to you for a few minutes about conquering your grasshopper complex.

You are a grasshopper or have a grasshopper complex.

If you have a perspective that keeps you from taking the risk of faith in order to claim the promises of God

because of the problems you see.

You are a grasshopper in your thinking.

If every day your problems get bigger and you get smaller, what causes a grasshopper mentality?

Well, let's look at a few factors of Israel's situation.

Number one, they had a history of whining.

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