We have a Bible full of things that we know clearly to be the will of God, but our first instinct when it challenges some of our comfort zones and some of the things we really want, our personal desires, our first instinct

is to try to come up with a plan B.

If anyone ever needed a plan B, it was him.

Hello, and thanks for stopping by for today's Destin for Victory, where we feature the preaching

ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard.

Peter had stepped outside his comfort zone before. He'd walked on water. He identified Jesus as the Messiah,

but he was about to face the biggest challenge of his life. God had a plan for Peter that Peter

would never have expected or believed possible. As you follow along today, think about the things God might be asking you to do.

We hope you'll stay with us, but if your schedule won't allow it today, remember you can

always visit Pastor Paul.net, where you can listen to any recent message on demand, including

this one.

That's Pastor Paul.net.

Now, let's listen closer to Pastor Paul's destined for victory message when growth

requires change.

Growth requires change. I made the point in the early part of the message that some of us have

clothes in our wardrobe right now in our closets that are there not because we can wear them,

but we have some articles because we either once wore them or because we bought them

hoping that we would be able to wear them because the reality is until

something changes growth requires change of wardrobe and sometimes you are hoping against hope

you can wear something but right now it simply doesn't fit and And so growth sometimes requires change on our part.

And as it is in the physical and natural, so it is in the spiritual.

And in some ways, God wants the church to grow.

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