Don’t Let Doubt Take You Out: Pastor Todd Mullins on Standing Strong in Faith
About this episode
Pastor Todd Mullins, senior pastor of Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida — one of America's top-10 churches — joins Philip Cameron to unpack the message behind his powerful new book, "Don't Let Doubt Take You Out." Todd opens up about his own unexpected struggle with doubt, sharing that even as someone gifted with faith, he found himself paralyzed by self-doubt when stepping into the senior pastor role his parents had built. Drawing on three key areas where doubt attacks believers — self-doubt, relational doubt, and doubt in the supernatural — Todd delivers a message that is both raw and redemptive. He recounts preaching with John Maxwell and Reinhard Bonnke in the front row, and hearing the Holy Spirit say, "You're right, you're not enough — but I am." He also shares the deeply personal journey of raising his son Jefferson through an autism diagnosis, infertility, and a season of crisis, declaring the word of God over his family until breakthrough came. "Listen to what you know, not to what you fear," became a turning point. "Don't Let Doubt Take You Out" is available at mycharismashop.com and on Amazon. If doubt has been silencing your calling, this conversation is for you.
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Quotes worth sharing
“I was expecting affirmation, 'I am with you as I was with Reinhard and your dad.' I didn't get that. In response to my, 'I don't think I'm enough,' what I heard the Holy Spirit say was, 'You're right. You're not enough.' And I remember sitting there going, 'Wait, wait, wait. Is there anything else?' And the Holy Spirit continued to say, 'You're not enough, but I am.' More than enough. 'You don't have what it takes, Todd, but I've got exactly what you need.'”
“That T-shirt said, 'Listen to what you know, not to what you fear.' And in that moment, the Holy Spirit said, 'Todd, you've been listening to your fears, and you've been echoing your fears about what could possibly not go right for Jefferson and his future.' And in that moment, our spirit shifted.”
“When you step out in faith, you also step out in doubt. You don't have all the answers. You can't see everything. So don't wait till the doubt's gone before you step out. Take it with you. Your faith is stronger. What you know about God is more true than what you don't know.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Todd Mullins of Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida discusses his book 'Don't Let Doubt Take You Out,' born from his personal struggle with doubt despite carrying the gift of faith. He identifies three primary arenas where doubt attacks believers: self-doubt rooted in childhood wounds, relational doubt that erodes trust and friendship, and doubt in the supernatural — the arena where doubt does its greatest damage. Todd shares how the Holy Spirit redirected his insecurity before a congregation that included John Maxwell and Reinhard Bonnke, and how declaring God's word over his son Jefferson through an autism diagnosis led to breakthrough. He challenges listeners to step out in faith without waiting for doubt to disappear first.
- Why Todd Mullins Wrote This Book
- Three Areas Doubt Attacks Believers
- Self-Doubt Rooted in Childhood Words
- Relational Doubt and Broken Trust
- Doubt Attacking the Supernatural
- Holy Spirit's Answer to 'I'm Not Enough'
- Declaring God's Word Over Jefferson
- Step Out in Faith — Doubt and All
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, my friends. Welcome to "Daily Faith." I am so glad you are with us. And this is not my fault, this is beyond my control, but we have an Irishman on the program today, and that is a terrifying thing for a Scotsman to have an Irishman. I made a terrible mistake years ago.
Philip:My sons, as a gift to me, gave me one of those test your ancestry things — you spit in the wee jar and send it away. So it came back, and they laughed at me for weeks because I discovered I was half Irish, and I've been trying to live that down ever since.
Philip:So today, we have a bonafide Irishman here, Todd Mullins, pastor of the great Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. And he's written a brand-new book called "Don't Let Doubt Take You Out," and that's what we'll be talking about today.
Philip:And while we preamble, just to kind of gather you and let you get time to know that we're on the air, we have a word from the Lord for you today. You may be standing at the biggest breakthrough of your life. And not only does God know it, the devil knows it,
Philip:and he shows up at the last minute to try to cast doubt in your mind and spirit to stop you from accomplishing what God has ordained you to do. Let me tell you something. You're not here out of chance. God has ordained you from the foundation of the Earth to do what He's called you to do.
Philip:And the only person that can stop you is you. And I'm excited to hear what Todd has got to say today. I believe God's going to use him to break through into your faith world, because the doubt world is not where you want to live.
Philip:And if you could help us by sharing the broadcast, we are so glad to have you. We started this program a number of years ago during the COVID. Pastors were calling us asking what on earth is going on. And because we speak in churches, we kind of had a broader view of what's going on. I was spending hours on the phone every day.
Philip:My son says, "Do a program. Get a pastor on." And that's how we started. And we're growing. You can catch us on some of our different networks that we're on — Journey Network, CTN, TCT, all of these other places.
Philip:And be watching Integrity Network, some more WDGS Network. And so all over the country, we're glad to have you with us today. And I suggest if you can, call someone. If you love your pastor, call him right now and say, "Pastor Todd Mullins is on and he's going to be speaking about doubt."
Philip:Because many men of God that I know struggle with doubts, and that's one of the quickest ways to get at you, to stop you, and make you compromise and pull back from your destiny.
Philip:So we're excited to have Pastor Mullins with us today. Listen, we're glad you're here. I believe God has set you in this program today for a purpose. And you can watch us on YouTube also, youtube.com/dailyfaith. All of our programs are there.
Philip:And the main base for what we do is dailyfaith.tv. And you can go there and you can follow up all the stuff we're doing. I'm so glad you're with us. I believe God's ordained us to be together. Don't you move. Our rhema's coming to you. I'm glad you're here. Welcome to "Daily Faith."
Philip:Talk about destiny. God has a plan and purpose for your life, and He will move you to where He wants you to be. Many, many years ago, my dad called me. I was in America, he was in Scotland, and he'd been watching the revolution that was taking place in Eastern Europe.
Philip:And in particular, he was very moved by what was taking place in Romania. And one day he called me up and he said, "There are babies dying." And I said, "What are you talking about?" And he was watching orphanages with hundreds of thousands of kids abandoned,
Philip:mothers being forced to have kids that they couldn't afford, and then the state raising them. And that began a saga that has been going on for 35 years. He made me go. He was sick. He'd had melanoma cancer cut from his back. The wound had burst. And he says, "If you won't go with me, I'm going to go by myself, and if I die on the way, it's your fault." A good Scottish father that can put the guilt on you like nothing else. I went there, found a wee boy in an orphanage, and we ended up adopting him, and that's what started us.
Philip:There's always a trigger point in your life. Listen to me. God will maneuver you to a point, and then He launches you. And how you react, whether you react by doubt or faith, it determines where you go. And for the last 35 years, we've been
Philip:caring for kids that are at the point of being trafficked. We have an amazing place called Vatra Village. It's a village on the largest lake in Moldova. And instead of these kids being trafficked, every girl you'll see in these videos, if caught by a trafficker, will earn
Philip:$300,000 a year for the trafficker. And instead, they come to that village that we have, and we put them back in school, tell them, "If you're born, God has a plan. You're not a mistake." And these kids that have been despised and rejected and abandoned, hearing faith
Philip:and hearing the word of God, finding Jesus, are turning from orphans to sons and daughters into missionaries. And our kids are out there right now doing the most amazing things. One of the things they did was they made a video team,
Philip:and that video team documents all the stuff they do. And we just got a video the other day about one of the girls that just came in recently. Her name is Aliona, and she's got quite some testimony. You watch this and see what grace can do to a broken heart. Watch this.
Aliona:Every day, my mother would prepare our clothes and place them outside, just in case my father came home drunk. That way, we could quickly grab them, get dressed, and run. My name is Aliona, and I am studying to become a baker. My dream is to build a successful career in pastry.
Aliona:Growing up, my home was never truly safe. My father would always come home drunk, and every time, my heart would pound with fear.
Aliona:I knew what was coming. My mother would be beaten again. And each time, we had to flee, running through the night, knocking on neighbors' doors, begging them to take us in. I remember one night when we couldn't escape in time.
Aliona:My father came home drunk and attacked my mother. Somehow, she managed to break free, and we, the children, ran with her as fast as we could, terrified. But he started throwing stones at us as we fled,
Aliona:and the pain of that moment left a deep scar in my heart. The few times he didn't drink felt like stolen moments of happiness. In those rare days, our home wasn't filled with screams, and I clung to those moments, hoping they would
Aliona:last, but they never did. By the time I turned 15, we had lived in five different places trying to escape him. Yet, no matter where we went, he always found us, always
Aliona:dragged us back into fear. But now, thank God, he doesn't come anymore. I am incredibly grateful to the Orphan's Hands family for giving me this opportunity to stay here in such a wonderful home, for giving me the chance to study and have a future. Thank you.
Philip:Aliona is one of the miracles at Vatra Village. She is the epitome of the person who is destined to be trafficked. Broken family, poverty, and someone will offer a job that doesn't exist, and she'll get in a car and go away, and she'll never be seen again. They use them 30 to 50 times a day, and one girl can earn the trafficker $300,000 a year. And God has allowed us over these years, now 35 years.
Philip:We have a home in Odessa, in Ukraine. Been there nine years, long before the war broke out. We were there caring for kids. And our kids depend on someone like you to give a dollar a day. You can change a whole life for a dollar a day.
Philip:And if you feel led to be a part of what we're doing, I invite you to go to an address. It's real simple. It's PO Box 25 in Clinton, Tennessee 37716. And folks, just like you sitting in your home watching this program, God speaks to your heart,
Philip:and you respond. And we are just growing. We have something really exciting to share with you. We're building, or we've just bought two new homes. A horrible thing happened to us a few months ago. We took a young girl in called Maria. She was underage.
Philip:We can take girls 16 years old and up. Maria's home life was so desperate that we took the risk of taking her in at 14, and the authorities found out, and we had to put her back. And she went back into this hellacious home, and within a week or two
Philip:of her going home, she was gang-raped, and her mind broke under the torture, and she ended up in a mental home. And it's so broken us in this ministry that we've been trying to figure out what to do, and the Lord has allowed us to buy a property in a town called Ungheni.
Philip:There are two houses that will house together 50 kids between the age of four and 16. That's my wife and my daughter, Melody, walking around it. And so we're going to transform these two homes into love homes where we can take these kids at four and
Philip:six and 12 years of age and share the gospel, transform their lives, and then when they get older, they can go to Vatra Village and get higher education. There's also a great big barn there. It was a farm, and that barn is going to be turned into a Disney World for Jesus in Moldova. We're going to make the best kids camp you've ever
Philip:seen so our kids can minister to other kids all through the year at our camp. And we just need you to be a part with us. And in fact, Aliona is part of a church in Texas called Elevate Life, who sponsored that house, and she
Philip:was rescued by Elevate House. And so we just ask you to pray with us that God will speak to folks in the next few months because we want to get this thing opened as fast as possible, and every home we open takes about 300 new sponsors, and thus you
Philip:need to be a part of the dollar a day. We are just so excited to see what God is doing. Be a part of the answer. Don't curse the dark. Do something spectacular. We are excited today to have a great pastor, a great man of God, a great leader in our
Philip:country, and he pastors Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens. I'm just a wee bit jealous of where he lives, I must confess. We live in Tennessee, and it's just still chilly. And I was down in Florida preaching last week, and it was magnificent. And I drove my way back up to
Philip:Tennessee, and I'm thinking, "Lord Jesus, there's got to be a better way than this." So he pastors one of the top 10 churches in America, and he's written a book called "Don't Let Doubt Take You Out." And if ever we need this in the church today, we
Philip:need this message, and I am honored and delighted to have an Irishman on the program. I never thought — if my dad could hear me, he would turn in his grave. And anyway, we've got an Irishman. Brother Todd, thank you so much for being on the program with us today.
Why Todd Mullins Wrote This Book
Todd Mullins:Yeah, Philip, it's so good to be with you and with the Daily Faith family. And I'm sorry about the Irish thing, but I can't help it, so we're brothers in the Lord. That binds us together more than anything else, right? Thank God for the blood of Jesus that takes over Irish blood and Scots blood and meshes it all together under grace.
Philip:That's right. I'm so glad to have you with us on the program, and you've written this brand-new book called "Don't Let Doubt Take You Out." And boy, if ever there's a book that I should have written, this is the book I should have written because it is so apropos as to what's going on in the church today. If the devil can't fight us one way, he'll make us doubt ourselves, and by doubting ourselves, he'll make us compromise the call of God in our lives. What caused you to write the book?
Todd Mullins:I wrote the book out of my own struggle with doubt, and I really am a person of faith, and as a pastor, I believe God gave me the gift of faith, and people were actually surprised that I wrote this book about doubt. And I said, "Well, wouldn't you think that the Holy Spirit would give you gifts in areas that you need it the most?" And I think God just knew, "Man,
Todd Mullins:Todd's going to struggle with some doubt, and I need to give him a gift of faith so he can push through it." And what I've discovered, Philip, was that everybody struggles with doubt. Everybody. There's not one person that any of us see or come in contact with every day, even the most confident people, the most accomplished
Todd Mullins:people — we can sometimes look at them and think, "Well, they must not be struggling with what I'm struggling with." But the truth is, we all have to deal with doubt, but if we learn to deal with it, it doesn't have to take us out of the game. And in my own life, and then as a pastor pastoring people for so many years, I've realized there are three key areas where the devil uses doubt to attack us and try to take us out.
Todd Mullins:The first is what you just mentioned — self-doubt. I think long before we ever doubt God and His abilities and if He's going to come through, we doubt ourselves.
Three Areas Doubt Attacks Believers
Todd Mullins:Do I have what it takes? Am I as good as everybody else? We're seeing everybody else doing all this, and so we start dealing with self-doubt, usually at a very young age. For me, it was in school. I remember back in elementary school, some kids said some things to me, and their words stuck
Todd Mullins:with me all through my life, even though my parents spoke the word of God over me and helped me know that God had a purpose and a plan and a destiny for my life. I still was listening to those words of self-doubt, thinking I didn't measure up to everybody else. And the problem is, if we carry that with us and we
Todd Mullins:listen to that voice, we'll never step out and be who God has created us to be. And the devil amplifies it, doesn't he? He's got a way of hitting on that thing all the time. It's like a drum that he beats in your head all the time. Something that was said 20 years ago can affect you from flying today.
Todd Mullins:Absolutely. And the definition of doubt is just having moments of uncertainty. And who doesn't have moments of uncertainty in life? And as a kid, you have so much that you're uncertain of because you don't know
Todd Mullins:things. But if people laughed at you or made you feel foolish because of something you didn't know, moments of uncertainty can lead into lifelong insecurity. And we carry that with us all through life, and we end up like Gideon, staying in the hole and never getting out of the hole and becoming the mighty
Self-Doubt Rooted in Childhood Words
Todd Mullins:warrior we're created to be. That is the first place I see that doubt attacks all of us. The second place is I'll see doubt will attack our relationships. Somebody that we're close to says something or does something that hurts us, or we question it. We begin to doubt their motives, to doubt their loyalty, to doubt their
Todd Mullins:commitments. And it makes us push back from the relationships. And if we listen to that voice of doubt, it takes us out of something that God created us for — life-giving, wonderful relationships. And I've had that happen in my own life many times where I've played out scenarios
Todd Mullins:in my head that didn't even exist. I've walked into a room, and I've been convinced that he saw me, but he didn't want to talk to me, and why didn't he want to talk to me? What have I done wrong against him? Well, let me tell you something. If that's what he thinks about me, I'll tell you what I think.
Todd Mullins:And you weave this ridiculous tale that is not real in any shape nor form. And I blame my Scottish — honest to goodness, this is true — I blame my Scottish background for that, that we
Todd Mullins:tend to be skeptical people and, "Well, we'll see. Well, let's see." And what it does is the devil uses it to hinder you and stifle you from seeing beyond the now into where God wants you to be. And it destroys relationships
Relational Doubt and Broken Trust
Todd Mullins:and friendships, all because we listen to that voice of question. We end up letting suspicion and doubt and anxiety and fear of acceptance from them destroy the very thing God created us for. But the third area, which really, Philip, is where I want to talk for just a minute, is really where doubt does its greatest damage.
Todd Mullins:And that's — I believe doubt shouts the loudest when it comes to the supernatural. And in fact, doubt is a natural, earthly, carnal response to the supernatural. If something is supernatural, it's above the natural. And so it's hard for us to get our minds around some things that are the things
Doubt Attacking the Supernatural
Todd Mullins:of God and things we can't touch or maybe easily, logically, at times, quantify — the supernatural things. Doubt will creep in there and begin to make us question God and question our faith. And as a pastor, I went through several seasons where I was
Todd Mullins:stuck in not only doubting myself, but doubting God and doubting God's call on my life. And all of it began to take me out of the game. I grew up in a... My parents started our church when it was very small. Went off to college. Wasn't planning on being a pastor. I was planning on being a doctor, but I felt the call of God to come back home and
Todd Mullins:start helping my parents with this church. And so the church was small for a long time, but then it grew, and about the time it was time for them to pass the church off to me and my wife, Julie, the church was large. There was, at that time, over 11,000 people every Sunday.
Todd Mullins:And 100-some staff members. And I had not been preaching very much. And so my dad said, "Todd, you've got to get preaching more." I was being more the executive pastor. And so he was coaching me up how to preach. And I remember at that time when I was trying to learn to preach, John
Todd Mullins:Maxwell, the great author and leadership guy, had just moved down to Florida to be a part of our church teaching team, and he was living here. And I was up preaching, and John's on the front row. Talk about intimidating and doubt. I'm thinking, "Why is John Maxwell on the front row?
Todd Mullins:I shouldn't be here." And then one Sunday, I'm out preaching, trying, and I look out and Reinhard Bonnke, the great evangelist, is sitting in the congregation listening to me. And I remember thinking, "Why is Reinhard Bonnke here of all
Todd Mullins:people? This great man of God hearing me preach." And I remember in the days and weeks after that, I went home, and I was whining to God, going, "God, I can't do it. I don't think I can do it. I can't be the senior pastor. I can't step into this. I don't have what it takes." And I remember when the Holy Spirit spoke to me,
Todd Mullins:and it wasn't the response I was expecting or the response that I wanted. I was expecting affirmation, "I am with you as I was with Reinhard and your dad." I didn't get that. In response to my, "I don't think I'm enough," what I heard the Holy Spirit say was, "You're right.
Holy Spirit's Answer to 'I'm Not Enough'
Todd Mullins:You're not enough." And I remember sitting there going, "Wait, wait, wait. Is there anything else?" And the Holy Spirit continued to say, "You're not enough, but I am." More than enough. "You don't have what it takes, Todd, but I've got exactly what you need." And in that moment, I realized the benefit of self-doubt.
Todd Mullins:If you lean into it, it actually drives you to a greater dependency on God. It makes you desperate for God. "I'm not enough. Oh, God, I need you." And that applies to everybody. You don't have to be a preacher. You can be a business owner. You can be a stay-at-home mom, a parent, a worker.
Todd Mullins:Whatever you're in, you have got to stay desperate and dependent on God. And so the benefit of going, "I may not be enough," is keeping you on your knees so that you know that God is enough. His Spirit in you is more than enough. You can be who He's called you to be. He's got gifts and abilities and callings on your life, but you've got to step
Todd Mullins:into it. You've got to take hold of it. You can't listen to the voices of self-doubt or what other people might say. You've got to listen to what God says.
Philip:Amazing. When I was 13, the Lord helped me learn music in a night. A lady, a woman called Sally Bills — I'm writing a book just now, and I tell of... It's called "The Moments," in the moments of your life that define for all time. The negative ones in school that we talked about. And this woman called Sally Bills. I wanted to sing and play. My dad preached, and I was so desperate.
Philip:And she'd prayed for someone else, and they'd been given the gift of music. And she prayed for me, and I learned to play and sing in a night. And so I ended up leading praise and worship in a little church in Scotland when I was 12. And at 13, my dad took me out of school to go to
Philip:America with him and sing for him to preach. Now, the gift that had brought me to that point, I didn't see that. I only saw the fact that I'd left school when I was 13, therefore, I'm not as educated as all the people I'm with. So I've been sitting with Oral Roberts and thinking, "Why should I be here?" Or
Philip:Jim Bakker, "I shouldn't be here." And what the devil does, he takes the positive things of your life, the things that made me exceptional to get to that point. When you get there, he'll say, "Ah," and he'll cast those demonic doubt seeds into your
Philip:mind. And I've learned — the Bible says, "Agree with your adversary quickly." So if the devil comes to me and says, "Philip, you're worthless," I'll say, "Yep, you're dead right. I'm absolutely worthless." "You're not qualified to do this." "Yep, that's true. I'm not qualified to do this." And by taking the sting out of his
Philip:argument and allowing myself to say what I am — the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I'm written in the palm of His hands. No weapon formed against me is going to prosper. And I've turned my doubt into a faith point by agreeing with, I'll never be good enough.
Philip:I'll never be smart enough. But my God is. And I know there are folk watching just now who may be a pastor in a church and you're thinking, "It's getting so big, I can't handle it anymore." No, no. God's ability and His gifting in
Philip:your life has brought you to this point, that the church is growing to this point, and there's more in it. You have higher hills to climb. Get going, get back to work, and don't be afraid of doubt in your life.
Todd Mullins:Fabulous stuff. I think it's really important for us to come into agreement with the word of God. When Paul says, "Take up the sword of the Spirit," which is the word of God — that word in the Greek is rhema word, which means spoken word of God. And so we have to come into agreement.
Declaring God's Word Over Jefferson
Todd Mullins:We've got to get our mouth in agreement with what we know to be true. Phil, we went through a tragic situation with our son when he was little, and he was on the autism spectrum, diagnosed that way. And when we got that diagnosis, we said, "That is not going to describe our
Todd Mullins:son. Only God can describe our son." "Our son is wonderfully and fearfully made. Our son is gifted. He is called. He is chosen. He is anointed. God has a purpose on his life." So it wouldn't describe, but it would prescribe a journey we'd have to go on.
Todd Mullins:A journey of prayer, fasting, and a journey of working and getting him in therapy. And so we were on this journey, still are with him for a long time. But in one of the darkest seasons of our lives — he's an only child, we had years of infertility to even have our son, Jefferson — and so
Todd Mullins:it was dark. He had lost his will to live. We were desperate. We were stepping in to be the senior pastors of this church at the same time our son couldn't leave the house. One day, we pulled him out of the house. We went walking on the beach to pray because when you live in South Florida,
Todd Mullins:hallelujah, you get to walk on the beach and pray to God, right? And as we're walking, this guy comes walking towards me in a T-shirt. And I wouldn't normally encourage anybody to get their theology from a T-shirt on a beach in South Florida, but that day, God was speaking to us.
Todd Mullins:And that T-shirt said, "Listen to what you know, not to what you fear." And in that moment, the Holy Spirit said, "Todd, you've been listening to your fears, and you've been echoing your fears about what could possibly not go right for Jefferson and his future as an only child." And in that moment, our spirit shifted.
Todd Mullins:We had been praying, of course. We had been quoting scripture, of course. But that day, we never spoke — we never came into agreement with our fears ever again. We spoke the word of God over Jefferson. We declared the word of God over our house. And that day, it still took a while. It was months and months
Todd Mullins:of walking through that. But every day, remembering God's goodness. I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. I will see it in my home and in my family, or with your business, or with whatever you're struggling through. God is faithful. He'll come through. And Jefferson came through that season.
Todd Mullins:And you've got to understand, God can work a miracle in a minute, but He also sometimes likes to take you on a journey of miracles. Little, tiny miracles along the way. You just got to know which route you signed up for. Because if you think — I was only praying for the big miracle.
Todd Mullins:God, heal him, deliver it, make it go away. And God can do that. I've seen God do that. But most of the time, God sends you on a journey of little miracles because on the journey, on the long way around, more people get in on the miracle. Because Jefferson wasn't healed at two, he was healed at
Todd Mullins:22, or whatever age it was. 20 years of people getting in on his journey, and our faith, and our prayers, and seeing God provide and do the miraculous. And it has built faith all along the way, and it's built my faith. It's made me, again, more dependent on God
Todd Mullins:than on myself. Sometimes we like to be self-reliant, figure it out, and God wants to keep us God-reliant.
Philip:Well, I'll tell you what, you're talking faith into my spirit because there are things that we are fighting just now and facing in our ministry in Moldova. Just you look at it, you think, "How can all these bits come together?" And I hear Him talk in my ear, "Have I ever failed you yet? Have I brought you thus far?" One of my sayings is, "He would not have taught me to trust in His name and thus far have brought me to put me to shame." And if you're watching today, God's been faithful to you over the years
Philip:of your life, through failures, through disappointments. He's always been there for you, and He's not going to start this year quitting on you today. This book, "Don't Let Doubt Take You Out," is a book that you have got to get, and you can get it on mycharismashop.com, mycharismashop.com, or on Amazon, I believe. And so please, I urge you. Let me suggest something to you. Buy one for your pastor.
Philip:Buy one for your pastor because he stands up in that pulpit and he's so brave, and you think, "Boy, he's got all his ducks in a row." And I'll bet you he's battling and fighting with all his might just to get up onto the platform to speak something to you, and you can minister to him by getting him this book.
Philip:Pastor Todd is a highly successful pastor, and my mom used to say to me, "If you're going to shoot for the moon, aim for something higher than a haystack." And that's a good Scottish saying for you. But you need to get this book, and I
Philip:want to thank you for coming on today. I know you're a very busy man, and I appreciate your kindness to be with us, and I pray that folk will get this book. Christ Fellowship Church is in Palm Beach Gardens in Florida, one of the most gorgeous places in the whole of
Philip:America, and I'm going to talk to my kids, and we want to be moving down. Thank you for being with us. Give us one last wee thought before you leave.
Todd Mullins:Okay, one last thought. We always talk about taking a step of faith or stepping out in faith, but the truth is, when you step out in faith, you also step out in doubt. You don't have all the answers. You can't see everything. So don't wait till the doubt's gone before you step out. Take it with you. Your faith is stronger. What you know about God is more true than what you don't know, and so hold onto
Step Out in Faith — Doubt and All
Todd Mullins:that and take the step and be who God's called you to be.
Philip:Absolutely perfect. Thank you for being with us today, Brother Todd. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Get this book. Don't let doubt take you out. We'll see you again. Bye-bye.
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Common questions
Why did Todd Mullins write a book about doubt if he's known as a person of faith?
Todd wrote the book out of his own personal struggle with doubt. He believes God gave him the gift of faith precisely because He knew Todd would need it — pointing out that the Holy Spirit often gives gifts in the areas where you need them most. He also found that everyone, even the most confident and accomplished people, deals with doubt.
What are the three main areas where Todd says doubt attacks people?
Todd identifies self-doubt, relational doubt, and doubt about the supernatural as the three key areas the devil uses to take people out. Self-doubt often starts young — for Todd it was words spoken to him in elementary school. Relational doubt causes people to question others' motives and pull back from life-giving relationships. And doubt about the supernatural is where he says doubt does its greatest damage, because the things of God are hardest for our natural minds to grasp.
What did God say to Todd when he told Him he didn't think he was enough to be a senior pastor?
Todd was expecting affirmation, but instead the Holy Spirit said, 'You're right — you're not enough, but I am.' That response shifted everything for him. He realized that leaning into self-doubt actually drives you toward a greater dependency on God, keeping you desperate and on your knees rather than self-reliant.
What happened with Todd's son Jefferson, and how did it shape his faith?
Jefferson was diagnosed on the autism spectrum and went through a dark season where he lost his will to live — right as Todd and his wife were stepping in as senior pastors. A turning point came when Todd saw a stranger on the beach wearing a T-shirt that read 'Listen to what you know, not to what you fear.' From that day, they stopped agreeing with their fears and only spoke the word of God over Jefferson. Todd says God didn't deliver a single big miracle but instead took them on a 'journey of little miracles' over many years, which built faith in everyone who witnessed it.
What's Todd's final advice for people who are waiting until their doubt is gone before they take a step of faith?
Todd says don't wait — when you step out in faith, you step out in doubt at the same time. You won't have all the answers or be able to see everything clearly. His advice is to take the doubt with you, because what you know about God is more true than what you don't know, and that's enough to take the next step.
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