You Have a Chance: The Watch Letter

Think about your favorite movie, song, restaurant, store, etc.

It probably only took one experience with these things for you to be convinced that they were good and that you liked them.

Think about an elevator or a car. It probably only took one ride and your successful arrival at your destination for you to be convinced they worked.

This is a great correction to us all. And a call to repent.

Why does it take so many experiences, messages, and deliverances from God for us to be convinced to love and listen to him? And for some of us, nothing has been able to convince us about God to this very day.

In August 2025, Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn was preaching, and he said to the church, “God wants to convince you to follow him.”

Think about that. It didn’t hit me how concerning that statement is until going back over the notes today.

He was talking to “Christians,” “churchgoers,” “believers,” “choir members,” “testifiers,” “ministers,” and “deacons!”

Why do we come to and participate in church and ministry if we are not convinced? And after all we have seen and experienced in the church, how are we still not convinced?

Why does it take so much for God to prove his realness, love, and majesty to us, who are mere wretches without his forgiveness?

He has shown us — with evidence and throughout history — that he is our creator, protector, provider, deliverer, healer, and so much more.

A person can be kind to us one time, and we are convinced they are a good person. A person can give us a gift one time, and we are convinced they are generous. A person can sing one song well, and we are convinced they are talented. But God can send his only son to die for humanity, part the Red Sea and set slaves free, return sight to the blind, make time stand still, and resurrect the dead. Yet we are not convinced.

Does that make us like atheists and pagans? No matter the evidence of one sovereign, creative, holy, and loving God in the earth and in their lives, they convince themselves that he does not exist.

Are we choosing not to be convinced? So we don’t have to be accountable, so we don’t have to live beyond ourselves, so we don’t have to take our devotion away from people, places, and things and give it to God?

When Jesus saw Matthew in his tax collector’s booth, he told him to follow him. And Matthew dropped everything and followed him, just by looking into his eyes, feeling his spirit, love and presence, and perhaps knowing the testimonies he had heard of his power.

Jesus did not have to coerce Matthew, nor did he have to experience a downfall or tragedy to be convinced to devote his life to the Lord. Matthew believed that following the Lord was the right thing to do and gave up his lifestyle, career success, financial stability, and much more after just one encounter (Matthew 9:9-13).

During that August message, Chief Apostle Gunn said, “The devil has no chances.”

He can’t repent. He can’t go to heaven.

So, “he strives to destroy us and seduce us” to not want heaven and to desire sin, and not to want to repent, and not to value and be persuaded by God. Why? Because … misery loves company.

But as Chief Apostle Gunn said, “You have a chance.” “

You don’t have to lose!”

Romans 4:

20 (Abraham) staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Listen to this week’s FORREAL RADIO BROADCAST with Chief Apostle Gunn, a replay of the message “Fed by Faith” here.