Believing God: Walking By Faith

[Music] this is activating message there by say activating activating me and activating we get another word from that the words actionable it means it's something that only works if you work it if you don't do anything with it it's just good knowledge so this thing that you're experiencing in your life where the enemy seems like he's coming through every open door and some of the close ones to where it seems like like you don't make enough money you run out of money before you run out a month and it seems like it just seems like god I need to get this right I need to give this together but it's just not working for me this is where we are and this is what the Lord is saying to us that we have got to learn a simple premise and the premises this the just shall live by faith this is not just a statement of smoking a mantra what this is it this is has to be your life code it has to be what you do if you understand nothing else in the Bible you must understand faith I must understand how it works and so I mean this lesson I've been taking my time and working this and I think it may be the will of the Lord I'm not sure I can't tell you that the screens and I'm not up because it's making me actually um focusing more on teaching you instead of showing you the first time that this statement is made in the book of Habakkuk is Man fact is mentioned four times in Scripture as I said in her back up to four Romans 1:17 Galatians 3:11 and Hebrews 10:38 four different times God used mouthpieces the Holy Spirit as he's dictating the Bible to his arm vessels four different times he interrupts what he's talking about and he's makes a statement that just shall live by faith and the first time according to the law of first mention if you study hermeneutics or biblical interpretation this is the law of hermeneutics tell us that the law of first mention is a critical law because the way something is first mentioned in the Bible is the way it tends to continue all the way through Scripture and what I what I'm really grateful for this law today because in the end in the Greek language when the three times that this statement is made the just shall live by faith the writers chose a Greek word that just simply means to exist in life or to persist to push forward in life and it gives us no meaning being alive is different from living you could be alive and feel dead you could be alive and doing nothing you can be alive and wish you were dead so you need to understand when the Bible I focus and every time I look at the scripture I my first or intrigue was with with the freight with the statement that just who are the just was my question I mean I found out that the just are the people that God has chosen everyone said the ones God shows your God the people that that God says to you hey follow me and you say yes Lord I'll follow you the Bible says you just and that is an abbreviated form of the word justified the moment I respond to the call to follow him he makes a record in heaven and says this person is justified and what it means is all my record of sin all my record of wrong past present and future is blotted and it's blotted and in the blood of Jesus Christ literally wipes it and what happens now ie forces me into this process called sanctification where he he begins to shape my life and change me from who I was to who I'm going to be sanctification takes my entire lifetime but what he does he forgives me on credit he dismisses the charges on on credit he charges what Jesus did to me and what I did to Jesus that's the great exchange my sin became his burden and his righteousness became my robe and what the Lord did what the father did was to say these are the ones I call this my family he calls us the just and he says now the just shall live by faith so I'll skip right over the world live I went straight to the word faith shriek by the word faithless I did a thorough study on it and I've been doing it for maybe the entire time I've been saved but I've never really taken a look at the word live and so when I find this word is the Hebrew word the pronunciation may be a little off but it's actually we in English would say hey ah H a yeh and that's actually hey yeh because both eggs are long and this word I wrote down some definitions of the word the word actually means um to flourish the just shall flourish by faith like a flower growing another another definition and I get these definitions from other interpretations of the same word in Scripture um the word means to be safe the Jeffster just shall be safe by faith another one means to revive that when something goes wrong and you are not in your best season he said on the restoration and revival comes to us by faith that just shall be revived by faith and then I was interested to find this word because it's not a usual word that's used for all Oh hiya is not a word is used for healing but the fourth definition is healing that just shall be healed by faith but the most important one to me is the fifth one it says the just shall be kept alive so they say this ain't dying and reviving this is God says I will keep you alive by your faith so so this is critical as matter of fact in Luke 22 and 31 turn there real quickly Luke chapter 22 and verse 31 and since we're turning pages and if you have a digital Bible you pull it out but don't just don't surf don't don't post anything make notes and post afterwards on social media we live in an age where everything happens on social media the two most important things you need to remember about social media there's just two words yet remember social media social media okay social simply means that it involves other people and media means it's being publicized be careful what you put out there be representing the way you want to be represented amen um in Luke chapter 22 Jesus has just finished the the Last Supper with his disciple and the Bible says that he pulls his disciples aside and he says to them they headed to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray but before they get the he says to them he says to them and speaking in plurality says Satan has desired to have you and the you in that verse is to plural literally in the Greek he says Satan has desired to have you all so he may sift you as wheat matter of fact that came on the heels of Peter promising Jesus that I'm ready for anything the devil throws at you the Lord was telling them this is the time the time has come for me to fulfill my purpose to lay down my life and Peter's like we got you thing and in doing anything to you we got you back on the Lord's like no no more this has to have but number two you just talking because you can't back that up and you know sometimes when in your relationship with people sometimes you know you have friends that talk all that maybe got friends that talk they just always talking and sometime you got to tell you know what you need to shut it up cuz he go do know y'all was talking know and sometime is good not not in a combative way but in a way where you turn listen men be about it man is you've been talking about it for what you know and get them to because Peter was checked by the Lord the Lord says Simon Simon behold Satan they desire to have you all that he may sift you as wheat and then he switches from plurality to singularity and here's what he says he said but I prayed for you singular I prayed he said one he wants all of you but I prayed for you and he said I pray for you that you fail I mean your faith rather fail not and when you are converted strengthen your brother another translation said but let me see the amplified says it something like this he said but I prayed especially for you Peter that your that your own faith may not fail and when you yourself have turned again to me strengthen and establish your brothers and so what the Lord says to me I want you pay attention to this about faith he said that it's possible for you to fall for you to fail in life for you to go through a season where you don't win but your faith remains intact the worst thing that can happen to you is you is you listen it's one thing to lose faith in people how many of you don't Carly trust people anymore let me see a show hand be honest I'm gonna tell you right now I'm just me man I mean you know it God We Trust all others I just I just got a check out thoroughly I just gotta check him out you got it I don't trust people whole lot people people I have some good friends and if you and if you interview my friends what they tell you is meant that my friends will tell you I'm a good friend you know why I'm a good friend cuz people not being good friends to me okay so I made up my mind I told my wife when we got married if I'm nothing else I'm a good friend I'm gonna be you if I say if I call you friend is a big deal cuz I don't call everybody for not gonna trust me but so you may go through a season of like well you don't trust people watch this you may even go through seasons before you entrust yourself you know you stop making promises you have been there come on anybody bid any who's there right now he's like listen youyou tell you the people that know you you tell straight it if I tell you i'ma see that means no you coming tonight well I'm gonna see that they're just taking it don't look for me anybody like that no no you know um you know I don't know cuz I don't know I know me I get to a place where my introversion would take over and before long instead of me keeping my I told you my betta but I'll call you see you know what I don't think no so you know I don't need some time I mean trust me when it comes to this thing but the moment you go through a season where you lose your trust in God the enemy has you and right now what he's working on in your life is your trust in God he does not want you to trust God this morning I saw someone wrote me this morning a member of some church I hope it's not my church I don't know it was someone wrote me this morning in diding God asking me what takes God so long why is he waiting so long I've been praying faithfully I've been doing God told me to do and I'm on purpose did not respond to it I'm not gonna defend God God does not need a public defender he does not need defense counsel you got it no one listened to one saying let's no I'm saying when you get to the place where you don't trust God anymore enemy's working on that and so what I'm gonna lay out for you this morning I wanted to throw that at the beginning to show you that this that the enemy is going after your faith what he wants is your faith because he understands that once you have faith then anything is still possible amen now in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 and verse 11 I've been reading this um from the New Living Translation because of the way it reads 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 11 if you have it or in the New Living Translation say Amen I want to work from there 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 11 do you have it how many of you have it okay I'm you still looking for it how many not even going to it alright so listen to what Paul says in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 11 he said so we keep on praying for you asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call now this is the scripture we've been working from he said may he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do listen to the scripture may he may he may he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do and so from that week we started talking about this issue about how faith prompts you many times when you hear people say the Lord told me it wasn't God at all that spoke to them and they're not making it they're not dishonest people what happens is when you hear word from the Lord when you read your Bible when you hear preaching or even sometimes you hear testimony it was stir your faith and according to the way God designed faith to work in us when your faith is stirred you become stirred to the word prompt is a word that means to move it means to incite to inspire or to remind and so the word the word it means to move someone into action when I say I'm nothing prompted me it means that it moved me to act it also means to incite and we talk about this term insight because many times we get we were very discouraged when we're up doing something that people are not excited but you have to understand people must be incited before they can become excited sometimes turned inside of them not effective if you go to a public demonstration and and that the crowd is armed otherwise peaceful and you decide you decide to cut a food you decide to raise your voice you decide to all to start throwing stuff you don't do that but you decided that just be out of out of sorts then when when they look at the footage they got they coming although they may have been two three four thousand people there they come and get you why would they arrest one person one four thousand people misbehaving because they're gonna charge you with inciting a riot because here's the logic the logic is had you not start to misbehave have you not gotten a lot had you not cut a fool everybody will been fine but that's the way inciting works faith unless much does not God understands that without faith you will sit there and do nothing he understand that you will live your life wait on him for everything he understands you never try anything he will die with your gifts in you he wondered he understand that he'll make deposits in you that you will never even try to activate so what God does God would put Romans 12:3 says that God has given to every man the measure of faith so God gave us this is this small amount of faith and then he causes his messengers to speak to us say words to us um people will testify you see something in the scripture and it would absolutely just stir you on the inside and then when the stirring occurs ideas creative thoughts start coming to your mind the problem is most people don't act on those because they're not sure where they're coming from well that's called the prompting of faith may God give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do may God give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do may God give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do everybody not only based on that water just spoke of you say to say God has given me the power to accomplish all the good things my faith prompts me to do say is worse in my faith prompts me all the time it's time for me to respond now now I wanna I want to remind you and this is a quick review from from was a night Bible study that God never told David to kill Goliath matter of fact there's no biblical record where God told David to approach Goliath or even fight him every person that saw David or heard David speak of fighting Goliath try to talk him out of it they thought it was a bad idea King Saul said to him he said her life has been fighting from ever since he was a youth and you are but a youth his experience has you as you beat his height his stature his armor-bearer his armor he has he's just no way you could win this battle and David looked at saw kind of leaned his head to the side has what he said he said I watched my father's sheep and and in in Sunday school here's what you were taught in Sunday school you were taught that one time a lion came and he fought the line another time a bit but that's not what David said if you read this read the scripture that's what David said he said in any time a lion or bear would come and run off with one of these oh one of my sheep he said I would go get him and he said and if the lion or the bear will rise up against me he said kill it that's what that's David's testimony here's what he said the same God that protect me from the paw of the lion and the part of the bear will deliver me from the hand of Goliath he saw the part of the lion the part of the bear and the part of girl of the hand of Goliath has one and the same he said there's no difference between the common : his cancer the problem with you is you think it takes more power from God to give you the loaf of bread so you just acts 4 slice it takes the same amount of faith to get to believe God for the loaf as it does for listen if I'm to this right now you're not was believing God for a driver to go back and forth initially when we start the church above everything but man listen I found this easy enough to believe God my helicopters it to believe God for a car and a driver this what I'm what I'm teaching to you is not economics I'm not speaking to you about corporate or give you a corporate mentality this is your spirituality at its core it works listen it works for stuff you need but it also works for you when you're trying to overcome some attack of the enemy when demons have been assigned against your life and it seemed that you can't get out of this cycle of sin and you don't know what to do you you keep promising god I'm gonna do better and used to the place now where you don't even trust yourself because you tell God I'm gonna do better than you know you can't he said you can release your faith and faith can only be released two ways by the words of my mouth and by the works of my hand and in Russia sometimes we learn from James chapter 2 verses 14 through 20 that sometimes it's not enough to just speak my faith sometime I just got do something so plus I've been I've been speaking it there's nothing to happen that means it's waiting for you to do time for you to do something you got it the word do um the word do do determined obedience defying odds declaring openly make up your own acronym make up your own words this is what I've done with this is I've given action to it you got it and when it comes to faith you've got to do something talking about the business prophesy my business by this time next year are you researching it are you are you are you getting counsel for it you got it because if you're not it's not gonna happen somebody'll just gonna give it to me oh no normally it doesn't work like that you got it I'm gonna talk about me form on the place I'm in life is if if if someone wants something from me the rule mount the ruler I operate by is that I only help you that means in order for me to do it I have to do it with you I'm not gonna do it for you if I do it for you it's mine you got it but if I do it with you it's yours does that make sense and the problem with a lot of us is you come you ask people what can you help me and the first question that should ask you is what are you okay if someone walks up to you and a person using work clothes and I come up to you and say um can you help me the first person who asked okay what we doing I don't mind helpin what we doing and I said well no not me I need you to pick up that ladder dude so the question is can you not carry the ladder no it takes two people okay so you want me to do it yeah cuz I can't do it what Kim can you help me well I just want you can you do for me no the answer is no if you want someone to help you then you got to be deep and the problem the problem some of us is the one lady you are call and help meet if he doing nothing there's nothing to help I just caught him marry him and hopefully he start doing something no let me get let me get back to the scriptures come to maps tonight we got saucer though the word prompt is a word is a verb that's used means to move to incite to inspire to remind and so many times your faith prompts you when faith arises in your heart it prompts you to do something David David was not told to kill Goliath Hannah was not told to offer her son Eli I'm our son Samuel to Eli no Moses Moses his mother Jacques the bed was not told to mikta make her our basket and put him in a now River you've nowhere in scripture you see what the Lord told her to do it the Lord did not tell Moses when he was come of age to leave the house of Pharaoh's daughter the Lord did not tell Moses arm to run for his life that that was inspired totally by his faith when you read scripture there's some things that the people listed in Hebrews 11 were told to do but for the most part many of them weren't talking do anything Rahab was never told to hide us hide the spies in Jericho the Bible says by faith she did have faith prompting her based on her belief system being altered and shifted based on something she heard she was moved into action to do this by her faith and here's the crazy part the Bible says the scripture I just had you confess over your life may God give you the power to accomplish all the things your faith prompts you to do watch this look at the order of it God gives the power after your faith prompts you and you move and so we used the analogy last week of a GPS system in a car the oneness that in my Infinity qat um operates a certain way I don't know about yours but once I put the address in the destination in and I hit a navigate what happens is if it's estin it says a message it calculates it and it says proceed to the route and if I don't move my car if I if I don't if I don't proceed around it will just say nothing so be like a staring contest I'm waiting on it and it's waiting on me I perceived that many of us are in the same position with God where he speaks his word to you you get the word every time not just in church not just for me but you get from other preachers to a word is spoken stirs your faith but you do nothing you type the destination in you may speak it a few times that's me I praise God I'm we mad this time next year but it's on I see you looking fool that's daddy stuff right there if you believe that by this time next year you can be somebody's bride then faith moved into the future before it gets there so if you believe that this time next year you can be a bride I'm gonna need you to start looking like one and if you believe that guy this time next year you can be somebody's bride you can't have a bunch of boyfriend's and be some nun you see the people this is the world yes see what happens is sometimes we I give you too much credit I expect you to to pick up on what the Holy Spirit is saying and sometime we just got to say right so take this as a prophetic directive sometimes when it comes to faith is so pragmatic it's pragmatic father thank you for saying so we need help God thank if it's any help well start accepting resumes set aside a budget to pay a new stuff you see I'm saying what we do is we expect spiritual things to be very very different from natural things and most they're not although God is gonna give you the victory you may need to fight in the battle you can't use your host of fat story and put choirs in front of you every time the only reason they put a choir in front of them that time is because that's what the director of the Lord you will need to fight but if we're not gonna fight we might as well sing but you're gonna be singing in every battle some battles will take a book we'll need you to pick up weapons why in the world would God give you armor and the sword if you're not gonna fight right so my faith watches now so my faith has to do with me I'm gonna deal with this issue of some more and please do not let me offend you but by the by the things I pick out to address I'm not throwing stones with anybody what I'm trying to show you is if you keep saying the same thing and not doing what you need to do then the enemy will come to you and tell you that God cannot be trusted and the moment you stop trusting God the enemy has you the moment just I don't care the Bible says the just shall live by faith in Hebrews 11 said that it says we die in faith it means when I'm on my deathbed I'm fighting in faith I'm trusting God I don't know I'm dead till I open my eyes armor I'm on the other side I listen I live by faith but I die in faith that's dope and here's what the map says the righteous have hope that just has hope even in their death you got to get your faith activated we got to be got to get your faith activated all right now so another thing to let me make this statement it's not in my note and this is critical if we're Grace Church and I want you to understand this you don't grow your faith looking at your faith when the Bible presents Jesus to us as the author and finisher of our faith we have a simple directive is what it says consider him consider him everybody said consider him in every situation in Proverbs Solomon said it like this he said acknowledge him and so what we begin to do watches now how my faith grows is the more I know that God God loves me the more I know he could be trusted the more I know that he does not play when it comes to his promises that then the more I see him for who he is and see the reality of his love for me God does not love you because you're good at or because you do good he doesn't love you because you please say more than other people no Moses told the children Israel it wasn't that you're bigger and better than other people he said the Lord put his Lord focuses love on you he loves you because he's God he loves you because he's but not because you're good there's nothing special about you you're the least he said of other people but God chose to love you and so you want your faith to grow you gotta focus on his love you gotta focus on the fact that he can be trusted God is not a man that he should lie if the matter of fact there's a reality God cannot lie when he speaks it it becomes reality when he declares anything it becomes truth so I have to focus on the grace of God I have to focus on the goodness of God I have to focus on God's love for me I have to keep telling myself God loves me even in this even when I'm losing even when I'm struggling even when if it's not even when I'm just being selfish in my situation and I know it I am I'm not I'm messing up I gotta tell myself I can't keep doing guard like this he loves me too much okay I want to let us move quickly so I so um the Word of God I want I want to talk to you about hardness world work so the Word of God decrees outcomes it decrees outcomes and when God's foot first spoke to her back up in are Habakkuk to her back it was complaining because he had been prophesying this thing for the Lord he's been prophesying against Israel what was gonna happen and it wasn't happening when the Lord shows up to him the lost system basically he says he says on right division make it plain he said put up on tablet so that did it really run and then he make this statement for the vision is for an appointed time and we take this and we make it Seoul or 20th and 21st century prophetic and what he was actually saying in the Hebrew was this he said I am talking about we said the vision I gave you is for the end of the thing that's what he was saying he was saying the the picture I showed you is how it's going to be I'm speaking about the outcome ready for this not the journey the Word of God declare or decrees outcomes and declared it decreased the end of the thing how the journey goes is up to my faith something my faith how the journey goes and I'm gonna tell you what I've learned over the last couple of years now you know we started church the congregation in Atlanta we started Peachtree City and what we would do we will fly the UM we had a Cessna 421 we were fly that up there or the helicopter and it's easier to do a straight-line flight on this to arm to it like Atlanta area have someone pick you up go preach and fly back there was no wear and tear at all the journey everybody said the journey the the end of the outcome of my flight was always short of a room full of people I thought Lord of God I mean that's what I do there's a mint watch it's not there Simon is not the flight the assignment is the teaching you got it so regardless of how I get there I gotta be prepared to teach I gotta teach right so here's the crazy part so for the last several years when we got rid of the 421 we kept the helicopter I decided you know what I'm gonna do the i'ma drive to Atlanta because um when the helicopter takes off that's too much of an expense um I'll enjoy that you do ride up there let me tell you something you know enjoying the ride up there when you have to drive three and a half hours one way teach and interact you to have miles back ain't no enjoyment in that I don't care who you're right anybody is so the journey could be laborious it could be taxing it could age you you know for real when I start driving and have grade no I'm kidding okay so really I didn't I mean not like this so you see how it works mark your faith determines how what kind of text the journey puts on you you can believe God and let God get in there with you and add power to accomplish anything your faith prompts you to do or you could just say well I just do fashioned way and sometimes a good old-fashioned way will get you to your destination but you'll feel like doing what you're supposed to do you got it now I want to read to you another is this helping you first of all I got up early today because I needed the time to work with this now now the Word of God decrees outcome but so we but we are directed and I washes now when God speaks he's speaking to the end he told her back up he said he said that the vision is for an opponent time is for the end of it this is how I was gone looking the end now leading up to it he said you gotta wait he said he did do it Cary's he said wait for it if it was just now he said if it seemed to be long coming a long time coming he said wait for it because I don't show you what the end is gonna be the reason that God speaks the end from the beginning is to give you courage to wait when God gives you a promise when Gus I'm gonna heal you he didn't say that the sickness won't try to rip the skin off your body he didn't say that you won't go through a season where you have to learn to trust him although everything on you hurts he did not say that sometimes you will have to walk this road by yourself what are you saying at the end of it you'll be bit you'd be the better for it right now here's the thing here's what I want to inspire you with we have got to learn to do it God to speak in declare the outcome if God decrees it then I can declare it whatever God decrees I can declare you not foolish to tell your doctor I'm healed by the stripes of Jesus it may seem stupid to the doctor but God decreed it already I can declare anything he decrees over my life for me to say my God shall supply all my need a conscience riches and glory in Christ you I can say that you know why because God said it if the Lord said you'll make my anything enemies my footstool heal you prepare table before me in the presence of my enemies I can say that hate me if you want you but guard by the prepare table it gonna be right where you are stop chasing them away they need to see this okay so in Ephesians 5 and verse 1 because God decrees outcomes you should also I'm gonna tell you why because in fusions 501 is a simple scripture it says this it says be therefore followers of God as daily the children let me read it from the amplified it says therefore be imitators of God be what it said the images of imitators of God copy him and follow his example as well beloved children imitate their father listen to that Scripture be imitators of God copy him follow his example as well beloved children imitate their father if your father declares the end from the beginning then you did if he decrees the end from the beginning you declare it just mimic him just say what he says that's what the word the actual word in the Greek is do is a Greek word mimic that we borrowed from them and brought to English it says mimic him everybody say mimic God and what God does he will call those things that be not as though they were he was speaking and speaking why because he knows in the end it will be most of the time what happens to us look there's two folk that we have when it comes to walk in the faith number one will declare a thing and then do nothing we're speaking but we're not working other times see that we're speaking so long and nothing happens so we change our speaking watches now we move from prescription to description and when I share with you this is a critical thing I'm gonna keep saying it to you - you get it you can't change any situation by describing it we use the example of the thermostat on the wall you walk into the room the room is hot you walk up the thermostat oh my god is 80 degrees in here you you acknowledging or describing the fact that it's 80 degrees and that does not change the temperature until you say you know what it needs to be by 7:00 in here and grab that stick and move it down and nothing starts to work you got a big ol unit outside they will not even start to generate cool air until you decide until you decide and when you decide you prescribe how do I prescribe it in his prescription I grab the stick I move it to our work that's a prescription that's me prophesying is about to be 70 degrees in this room in a minute now how long it takes is up to the unit you got it if you got you're a little cheapo unit enemy ticker may take a minute but you got a big old robust unit outside that's waiting to do battle with some heat like your God is waiting somewhere to just do battle but you're saying listen if you set that thing glossy that's all I need you to do something you know do you know that God is waiting on some of you to just get in the game you God is like what are you doing you said I'm so depressed you are describing I'm gonna show you at the end of this lesson today you surpassed me you know that's good for people that don't have this emotional bird that they're carrying I'm gonna prove to you from Scripture it so simple scripture you read it before that the time that God needs you to declare the outcome the most is when you are in the most where you're in the most trouble when you're in the deepest ditch when things are most contrary when foldleft - they talk bad about you when you feel you're worse when you look fool God wants you to say it then don't wait til you see what you be you you playing games you see some let me say something some of your glory hogs you want to wait and look like you're gonna win - Sam will win no no no no you need to put God on the spot you know I would tell you funny story that I get back to scripture this is funny so so about it well we weren't sanctuary when we were at a Tuesday night prayer and the Spirit of God spoke to me and really the truth be told my faith was stirred my faith prompted me and I told all the saints you know what split up into groups walk down the street and prophesied that this land belongs to us after the saints walked outside it was I would hope my God was cold I thought to myself what did you just do that was dumb I was having this conversation with myself you boot claiming landed other people on what's wrong with you that's the conversation I start having in my soul and it wasn't until a couple of days later that the Lord started to show me that it was him that had my faith to stir me like that so pastor did y'all get it you sitting in it that's how we got this property and it wasn't me it wasn't the elders in the Deacon no this wasn't this were regular church folk God I saw I saw people was just like this is a crazy part know people who had no land were living in apartments hardly had any money they were walking up and down this big row claiming like this I ran in Jesus name and they always bothered me as I was at myself after we got the land after God supernaturally move us to get the land why did you not turn around and use the same principle for your old house why don't you declare Jesus name I will not be living this apartment any longer why didn't you do that what is wrong with you no will kick me out today I need you stirred why didn't you do it in your old house what what do it now and I need to dismiss y'all y'all need to go claim some stuff the problem you think God just want to do for the church God wasn't good for you the only reason he did it was because he was to show you I got a house I do a better house didn't had a house I don't live here I don't if he's up to me man I mean we are ma'am I've get us a smaller placing so we could be and I'm saying if it's up to me but this is what God gave us this is what I'm faith produced and it wasn't my faith it was you it was you what who was on that those teeth where's your head if you were here yes sherry you were here that's it yeah I see y'all made these foot what if I faith why are you still fighting the same battles when your faith produced so much Scylla so I want to show you from Isaiah 46 and verse 9 in the King James Version so we're totally fusions find that we have to imitate God imitate God everybody imitate God and he in his what he says he says as children who beloved of their father God loves us so here's what God says in Isaiah 46 verse 9 he says remember the former things remember the former things of old for I am God and there is none else he said I am God there's none like me listen to the statement declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that had not yet done he said my counsel shall stand and I will do as I please federal God says if we're imitating him then don't talk about I mean the journey is wonderful talk about the journey of you want to but make sure you don't forget to listen the enemy could be ahead on points right now I saw a weird thing how many of you follow soccer at all you follow soccer okay I don't know the rules but but I know good play when I saw one so the score was tied in this soccer game in Europe and somehow the ball was at midfield now soccer field is like much bigger than a regular football field and this guy comes right and he's there trying to get there they're fighting for the ball that scores tied the game this isn't on the last seconds of overtime and this guy looks up and he looks way down at the goal and I realized that that other team's goalie had come up close so you know he decided to take a shot he took a shot from half field he came and he thought you know pastor his friend he just squared up I just kicked him and everybody's stopping a look and the goalie is backtracking back track and they finally try to jump and he fail the ball went right over his head into the goal and I think I watched that thing back a hundred times this morning that's how I prepare to preach to you today that's how God spoke to me I kept look at this video all over again he kicked it it was improbable to some impossible so some people but if you only got a few seconds set up a play but not him he saw something down the road you got to see what's coming down the road and sometime you gotta take a shot at it you wouldn't if you don't shoot at anything you will hit the target every time y'all need to get my screen back so I could teach because I feel like preaching when they are on the screen now I'm gonna show you this this this is this okay I think I found the problem your faith has to determine the kind of journey you would experience you your plan your perseverance your trust in God his love for you you're on the willingness to remain the same and your refusal to to go down without a fight this gives God something to work with you can't keep giving up every time it gets hard can't keep changing goals every time that goal seems impossible to reach now I'm gonna show you this I go to mark chapter level we talked about this and I want to read this from the arm New Living Translation again mark chapter 11 we were there on Wednesday night but I want to point something out again mark 11 and verse 12 the Bible says you know the story Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem they going through Bethany and the Bible says in the distance he's hungry now I want to point this out because there's a critical thing for you to understand um the Bible says that he saw a fig tree in the distance and so he changed his course and the King James says if happily he will finally prune it now when fig trees and this is a very very involved explanation that alone I don't have time to get into but technically when a fig tree has leaves no matter what the season is if it has shown you leave that mean it has fruit at least the first fruit the premature fruit and so Jesus was that hungry that he is willing to eat premature fruit the word for hunger in this verse is not a word that means he was just a little hungry it means literally he was famished he was famished one want one transition or in Greek he was starving he was he was the place was looking forward to something he was longing and when he got to the tree the Bible says there was no fruit on it um in the New Living Translation it says the next morning as they were leaving Bethany Jesus was hungry he noticed a fig tree in full leaf a little way off so he went over to see if he could find any figs but there were only leaves because it was too early in the season for fruit then said Jesus unto the tree may no one eat your fruit ever again now Jesus said something that was interesting jesus said I do nothing unless I see my father first do it so the principle here is our Eman granted verse 20 when the disciple they're coming back through and they looked at the tree was dead from the root the disciples said said master the fig tree that you cursed is dead from the root well how did he tell was dead from the root it was dying from the ground up and Jesus turns to them as just simply says have faith in God or literally have the faith of God now I'm gonna show you why this is critical he did not crush the tree because God told him to it's nothing the biblical record you know I curse the tree I took I told you one that I want to repeat this I don't forget this the single reason he cursed that tree is because he was hungry only hungry people who refuse to tolerate a dead victory victory been dead for so long I used to tolerate me well you know one day no notice to me you've got to say something to it either you speak of life and so you need you bring forth food oh you say you know what I'm done with that fig tree but you can't keep dancing around the same fig tree and then Jesus used to teaching the principle of three things about faith he taught in the principle of faith you taught them the prayer of faith and he taught them the problem of faith and as he did this as disciples eyes were open to see how faith works you got it what's important for you now you say pastor I think I'm getting it but what I need to do here's the rule of faith you find out for you faith begins where the will of God is known so you don't just do something because you think is a good idea what does God say but what is the what is the biblical record on this what does God say about it and listen it has going to do it to how you feel about it has nothing to do what you've experienced in the past what does the word of God say about it you got it I got people all the time to say I'm someone wrote me I said well I'm pastor what is your position on same-sex marriage it was a position of certainty listen listen um my position is simple I'm a representative I'm an ambassador I don't speak for myself I love people and I wish the world wasn't the way it is but I don't get to make the rules the god of the universe created things exactly the way he wanted them and because things seem hard for us we don't get to change how things are that make sense to you so my faith cannot be outside of the realm of what God has already spoken and because society is going a certain direction I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna be clear about this someone made a joke they call me a pacifist you know I take that if that's what the Lord wants me to be if I think I think he calls it a peacemaker but have you call me a pacifist you know um you know it's more like I'm a moderate a bird needs both wings to fly but any bird that's predominant on one wing one wing will crash where there's a right or left wing and when Jesus said Jesus said this he said when the blind lead the blind they both fall into the ditch notice the road is here and the ditches are always on the extreme right or extreme left you don't become blind till you start drifting off in the ditches that's just my political stance and you got in that did you get that okay so your faith has nothing to do with what's in government you have nothing to do what people think your faith is between you and what did God say you you find out what God says and you go with that faith will work in any climate further work in any country faith we work in any situation your circumstances can I dominate your faith it's not big enough to snuff it out it can't your faith in God is the trump card no pun intended now I will show you something watch this it's important I want to end with this I want to end with this I have to skip over next week you won't get it because the swing will be back by the grace of God I'm just gonna get a pen just start teaching we may worship saying one worship song let me get a pin and t-shirt and jeans sitting on a stone just teaching for three hours and I'm kidding you now this is this a critical lesson so in Luke chapter 8 verse 22 another one more scripture faith begins with the word from God send it with me now here's one would you understand but that word at some point will be tested and during the test description will not be enough for you to be able to articulate fully and clearly what's going on for you to be able to say you don't understand this is the way it is that's gonna be it not gonna be enough I want to show you in Luke chapter 22 and verse Luke chapter 8 rather than verse 22 Luke 8 and 22 it's our last scripture did you get blessed today and I thank you for allowing me to have some levity to joke around and to play some when you're teaching sometimes it helps so sometime we can go too far I went too far charge it to you know your lack of sense of humor no I'm charge it sergeant's in my head and I'm a heart in Luke chapter 8 verse 22 we know this story the Bible says now it came to pass on a certain day that when he went into the into his ship with his disciples he said unto them he said unto them let us go over unto the other side of the lake What did he say let us go over unto thee say it again now what he's doing is room how God speaks Jesus Jesus is speaking to his disciples he said to them let's go to the other side of the lake he's not talking about the journey what he's telling them is when all is said and done we're gonna get in this boat and the bow we don't end up under other side of the lake whenever you hear a word from God that's the moment your faith kicks into gear so based on the Word of God the Bible says they all got into the boat literally in the King James II said and they launched forth and they launched forth you're launching forth is an act of faith listen to what I'm about to say everybody I need you paying attention to this because once I teach was a releases to you the enemies will try to hold you accountable for this you're launching forth is an act of faith that always draws the attention of demonic forces the moment you when the Lord speaks are you launched forth immediately whether they show up just then or not that the strategy goes into play because what they're trying to block is you have to understand on the other side of this lake there's a man that's been bound in a graveyard for almost the entire life the Bible says no one could free him he was dangerous but he was called if you fast forwarded you if you have Time Machine and you went to the future this menace in the graveyard today the Bible says that he is he has a ministry in a place called Decapolis let me explain to you what it means the capitalist means the ten city regions what attorney gets freed and delivered the Lord dispatches him with anointing to go shares testimony in it he he had 10 campuses that's how profoundly known this man was gonna be this man was gonna be delivered and he can get people delivered just by his testimony alone but in this moment before they good they launched forth he is naked and bound and trying to kill himself with stones in the graveyard he's filled with so many demons that when Jesus cast him out those demons will fill 2,000 pigs and from over a cliff his soul the capacity of his soul house 2,000 demons but he was bound his ministry was before him so the Lord says when the Lord says to them let us launch he said let's go to the other side of the lake and they launched forth and immediately over the hills of Galilee this storm that had been waiting for the moment when the demon said we need it just the weather stirs changed that the disciples of fishermen they looking at the gone this is not good and the Lord when he sees the weather change and what he did he goes down into the bottom of the boat he closes the little door and he goes to sleep on a pillow and the next verse says this it says but as they say as they say they fell asleep and they came down a storm brewing on the lake and they were filled with water the word filled here's a powerful word that several words in the New Testament for full this particular word for full means this the word means they were almost to the Bremen now think about this if on top where they were was almost filled don't you think Jesus was sleeping in water he had to be he was they went down into the bottom of the ship and he goes to sleep the water has to be there on him but he sleep let me show you this story this is right here the Bible says and they came to him and awoke him magno go to verse 23 they said as they sail you fell asleep and they came down a storm of the lake and they were filling water and they were in jeopardy I wish had a different transmission because a one translation said they were in in real danger who's reading the New Living Translation is that what it says it says that they were in real danger by said real danger real danger listen and when you launch forth in faith sometimes you're gonna find yourself in very real danger [Music] real danger but Jesus was not moved the captain of your salvation the Lord that loves you the one that calls you his the one that they listen to one who who's who breathed into property said he said my people are like the apple of my eye he said their names are written on the part that one that one that came and took on bodily form to take all your sin the one who knew you before here's the thing he was he was calm and collected as he understood come hell or high water if we had to go to the bottom edition of this galaxy of Galilee and and listen we gone to the other side alive look at this in verse 24 the Bible says they came to him and awoke him and said master he said master we perish then he listened oh give me the other way give me your arm let's trade for him we do this every Sunday Malcolm is the last time write your whole mouth when you all see Malcolm said say prophet Malcolm just when you see Magnus the elements the Prophet Malcolm you gave us the word of the Lord if it doesn't come to pass we're coming after you okay I like this better which side is the right or left side right side the disciples went and woke him up shouting master master here's what they said they said we are going to drown here's a crazy part in the thick of a storm they choose instinctively to describe the situation instead of prescribe the outcome because the natural thing for human beings to do we do that all the time is whenever we're in a tough situation we feel the need to describe what we see but what you need to understand is even you default to that even if you default to saying many little things are hard there's no we're gonna do after you get it all out then you catch yourself and say I've described the situation now it's time to describe the outcome may every time may every time you describe a situation in the next week coming up may the Holy Ghost put you but I'll punch you on the inside poke you in the side and say to you you've described now prescribe what just now the Bible says the bap says when Jesus woke up he rebuked the wind he verily wants one on account I think it was Mark on Luke said he spoke to the wind and said peace be listen to this your faith is so dynamic your faith has such power that you could speak the things that don't have ears your jurisdiction is not is not limited to people you can you can speak you can speak to money yes you can know it for myself I I've seen it happen so many times it's not magic it's not some weird this is not name it claim it grab it grab it what this is a relationship with God where you would God give you authority is in your mouth life-and-death earn the love your tongue and they that love it the rest of the verse are there that love it will eat the fruit of it you got to stop describing stuff the Bible says Jesus got up here we built the wind and the raging waves suddenly the storm stopped and all was calm I love this part then he turns to them ask them where is your faith as if to say I showed you mine where was yours he was setting what he was telling them was all you had to do is speak to it why do you have to wake me up when you could the disciples were terrified the animes they say who is this man listen to what he said who is this man that they asked each other when he gives a command even the wind and waves obey Him now let me show you this let me I must send you home with this saw so in the storm anybody in the storm you don't know did you battle depression that comes in waves one moment you glorifying God in next moment you can't even get out the bed do you know completely clear one mom I'm forgiven by God and the next moment condemnation is so heavy on you that you'll need to feel like a Christian you tired of nothing being easy it seems like the simplest thing become so hard to the point where sometimes you just give up I said just let it do what it does you look at your connections and wonders is this how people are you go to a job you give your best and you say the Acela watches a yuna storm when Jesus awakened from his sleep and came into a step on deck of a situation that was a very real and present danger the Bible says he spoke to inanimate things he spoke to weather and then he turned his disciple and said that's what you should have done and they couldn't easily audience didn't know but we were afraid and it was dangerous and and and God's thing is let's I know where you are but before we left I told you exactly how this was gonna turn I told you I spoke the end from the beginning I told you we're going to the other side at all you have to say if you didn't know you can speak to whether all you have to keep saying is the Lord said we're going to thee and you have to keep speaking that that both would have to flip over or we'll call to thee I challenge you today to begin to prophesy to you all situation do it now stop right now be silent about it begin to open your mouth and say this is not the way this is gonna end I'm not going out like this my children are like this I have more than enough resources to do not call me to do there's no way in the world that God loves me and I'm going down they all know but then for the doctors say I'm gonna die didn't lift your head and say God thank you you're gonna show off in me because they don't know they talk about you said I will live and not die [Music] the same just meet listen is this wonderful mute I've no clever no clap because of the word you mean if you're gonna plot or do it because you heard from God and because goddess arrest is something in your soul use your mouth to declare it you gustas I can't do it for you you gotta speak it out your mouth my children I turn up like this this is not the will of God for my life I speak over my own life we have more than enough resources we don't have any money today but by the by the time the bill is due the money will come in doc thank you you give me favorite creditors got a praise and thank you listen this is for my little Smurfs single people if you want any man I'm gonna be married by this time next year the right person will be my life speak the word [Music] sometimes you know over time I'm gonna tell you this before I'm gone I remember when I was in my sabbatical I was I think that was my sabbatical year the story I don't under me but I remembered you know my mouth my fate my prescription was I will go into my time of wisdom with God there was no congregation there's just me I turned the water on as hard as I could take it I leaned against the wall and I say to God you love me and I'm grateful that's all I could say was that's all I see but then I come in and I hear these words of my spouse revive your work in the midst of his years then I come back so nothing that's a perfect that which concerns me O Lord thy mercy endures forever for sitting out the work of that own hand then I know time I come in he that began a good work in me shall perform it until the day of Jesus Christ and what I ended up doing was prophesying my way back what was happening was I was cutting a trail I don't care if you fail don't kill you bid through open your mouth and be gonna say about yourself what God has already said about you the devil's a liar you will not listen you listen at the end of you [Music] you [Music]

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