Bulldog Faith - Part 1

hello everybody I'm Gloria Copeland and welcome to the believers voice of victory we got some more good money news we got some prosperity going here we got pastor George he's prosperity man prosperity Pierson's this year today to help us well Gloria I am so excited about being with you here you know I I enjoy the preparation part of this but I really enjoy coming in here and and being in a position to hear what you have to say about it we are we are going to be talking about a topic that was born a long time ago when when this topic first took place and I'll get into the details about it here in just a moment but it was actually at your house where this this series was born and it was many years ago bulldog faith bulldog faith is what you and I are going to be talking about these next it's so exciting I'm so excited about this I'm eager to be reminded of the story we are we are in a time Gloria where so much is going on around here in the ministry we're believing for so many different things our faith needs to come up to the next level and it can come up to the next level I mean Jesus talked about little faith he talked about no faith then there was a place where he talked about great faith yes and I like in when you look up the word great in the Greek it is the word mega mega mega faith so we are we are developing our faith up to the mega faith level to where we are able to receive everything that God wants us to have and so I want to talk about this bulldog faith by the way all of these outlines are available to you all you have to do is go to KCMG org and you can click on there and you can go to all of the outlines actually Gloria all of the outlines that you and I have done over these last six years day 241 this is day 241 of our prosperity broadcast 241 broadcast and every one of the outlines are available to you on KCMG org isn't that exciting and so that's that is something that we want to make available and I want to start this series off with looking at this scripture in Luke 22 let's take a look at Luke 22 it says here in verse 31 the Lord said Simon Simon behold Satan has desired to have you that he may sift you like wheat I have prayed for you that your faith fail not and when you are converted strengthen your brethren here we're seeing this scripture when it says here the the devil's plan is to sift us that word sift there Gloria it means to separate to break into pieces shake to shatter and to discourage and there's a wow that shifting it really is and that sifting is an inward agitation to try one's faith to the verge of overflow so the plan of the devil is to try to drain us and to discourage us and to to weaken and yeah beat us whip us we're down our faith and he does that through continual pressure through disappointments the discouragement lies lies of the devil and really what he wants us to do glory no no I'm good there is no truth in him so when he lies to you you know it's all good you know it's a lie that's right that's what he does that's right so when he tries to discourage us about something it's a lie it's a lie dude you lying devil that's what he is well we got him pegged he wants us Gloria to back down from using our faith he wants us to back so he can have control so he can take control it's all about control with the devil he wants control that's right and he can only have control if you let him have it yeah that's exactly what he has to life it was the truth it wouldn't be a lie and if he can figure out some way for us to lay down our faith yeah to not believe and to quit and you know through the years this is this is my 40th year with Kenneth Copeland ministries 40 years you should get a prize and they they the ministry was nine years old when I came on board we had 12 people on staff twelve people on staff when I first showed up and I have seen so many different things through these years I've seen it was nine years old mm-hmm and now it's 49 years old 49 years oh we're headed for 50 years next year Jubilee Jubilee year hallelujah but I've watched through the years so many opportunities for the devil to try to discourage you in Kenneth about really laying down your faith backing off of things when the finances would get tough when things would happen that's called opportunity that's right that's a faith opportunity right there it's a failure if it's a faith it's a failure opportunity it's a faith opportunity yep and you get to choose and I have watched you and Kenneth through these years the devil tried to sift you and he couldn't do it could not do it and that's why here we are today all of these years later we're still producing the gospel it's still going out there this time it's going out on a much broader scale being on Dish television every available voice you did not quit and lay down your faith but I want to tell you something there's so many that are watching us right now that the devil is trying to get you to lay down your faith and get you to quit and that's what that's what these two weeks with glory me is all about you are not going to quit you're not going to lay down your faith you're going to keep on going you're gonna keep on believing God you're gonna keep on standing and you're gonna see those debts you're gonna see those you're gonna see that financial situation dissipate before you're gonna see that IRS situation bow its knee that's right we are not going you're not going to let the devil take over your life this is the victory that overcomes the world that's it for our faith even our faith and this is the way this is the way I'll say that Scripture during these broadcasts it this is the victory that overcomes the world in every situation in it even our bulldog faith bulldog face bulldog faith and that's what glory and I are talking about and let me let me just share with you Gloria I was in that's not let go it doesn't let go it doesn't let go a bulldog I did a lot of study about Bulldogs and Bulldogs their their jaw extends their noses are indented they are the reason for that is that they can bite down on something and keep breathing oh sure until it belongs to God something good so we have we have to get to that place where you bite down on the word and you keep breathing and you keep standing and you keep believing and Dolan we've had to do that a lot of times yes ma'am I've seen it I've watched it and I'll tell you something the thing that so inspires me about Kenneth and Gloria and I if I could if you were to ask me pastor George what have you learned from Kenneth and Gloria Copeland over all these years give me one thing that you've learned from them I would say one thing that you've taught me is how to take the Word of God stand on it walk it out to victory not give up not quit and use your faith you guys have taught me how to use my face it's an art it has worked it has worked but the devil tries to sift us and discourage us with the different situations that go on and Gloria that's the position that I was in what can he do anything but lie right and if he can make you believe the lie right and he can get success and there was a lie that he was trying to get me to believe in 2002 it was the year let me and this is where this series was born let me let me share this with you okay in in 2002 we were over living in another powder of town we sold the house over there and we had to move four times that year we moved we moved out of the house that we were we moved out of the house that we were living in we moved into an apartment for a month because the the house that we wanted to move into we were renovating and we thought we thought we were going to get into it sooner so we move from the house that we sold to an apartment for a month we were in that apartment for a month and then we moved to another house a rent house and that rent house was so bad it turned out to be it was a faulty septic system and the the fumes were coming up in through the house mm-hmm and it was so bad one night and Terri kept saying we can eat we got to get out of here we got to get out of here and I'm like well let's give it another day we'll give it another day and it was on a Saturday night Terri and I were in bed and we literally pulled the covers up over us because it was so bad and we're under the covers and I said to Terri let's get out of here now so we what we did Laura that's what well the only thing we can think of at 10 o'clock that night was your house did you come to my house yeah we did you and Kenneth we're on the road somewhere and you're coming home the next day you never know who's coming to see you while you're gone and we just we just moved into your house and we were with you for six weeks until we could find another place to live and you were so gracious to us Jeremy was out of the house by that time Aubry was with us she was still in high school she had one of the rooms that Terri and I had the the room right next to the kitchen down there and I gotta tell you I was so frustrated because I with all the moves that we made I got to that place where the devil was just trying to drain me of my faith and I'm laying in bed that first night and Terri she's thrilled to be there beautiful home soft bed it's great to be there I'm laying there I am so frustrated i am i took my fist like this and I pounded another excuse me I punted it on the bed because I said I'm 49 years old and I'm living with my in-laws and Terry was like she said this is the first piece that we've had in about two months here let me enjoy it which house was it notice the the house no no the new one the new house and we're at we're in the room off to the sunroom and oh yeah and so the next day we had to get up we went to church took care of church got home and I was just I was just frustrated Gloria I was just frustrated with the whole thing and I could tell that my attitude was slipping and it was slipping bad that's no time to let heaven see it was not at all and I'll tell you there's a little desk in that room that we were staying in and I was sitting there and I just sat at that desk and I just began to pray and the Lord began to talk to me and he started to literally shake me out of that complacency and Gloria this is what he said I'll read this to you okay he he began to minister to me and as I have it in the notes here he really let me have it I mean he really really let me have it and I sat down at this desk I began to pray and I took I took a little notepad that you had and this this notepad Gloria I'm gonna give this to you this is a copy of what I wrote in the note pad and the these things that I wrote on this paper was the birth of what we're talking about today in this series in these two weeks he started talking me at the very top you can see a box yeah I had up there and I don't know if you remember this notepad had a little bumblebee on it but you just had a notepad sitting there I started writing and the Lord started talking to me and he said I want you to get more aggressive about your faith that is aku right there Laidback faith is slow we need a grassy face laid-back slate faith is slow it is and the Lord said to me my attitude was not very good it was really slipping and the devil was trying to sift me yeah and he said I want you to get more aggressive about your faith and I believe this is a word for you right now in these two weeks together Gloria and I are going to be teaching you how to walk in an aggressive faith we're gonna be teaching you how to walk in a bulldog faith and Gloria these notes that you see on this little pad of paper here the this I took all of this and that's what we are going to be talking about in these these two weeks and aggressive toward the Lord no no aggressive toward the systems of circumstance exactly and you've got an aggressive faith we're going after this we're going after yep we're gonna take it right back young you've decided we're gonna have this where you stand on the scripture we're gonna take it that's it Gloria that's it and that's exactly and that's exactly what happened and when the Lord said that to me and I wrote down all of those notes and I'll tell you something else that I wrote down if you want to go to your second page there God had a half-time locker room talk with pastor George that's how I describe it and Gloria I wrote it all down here I want I want to share it with everybody he had a locker what happened in the locker this is what happened in the locker room at halftime when I was just so dejected and we seemed to be losing and couldn't get a grip on things and were frustrated I was Terry was just glad to be at your house but I was just frustrated with the whole thing and listen to what the Lord said to me and again these are available to you online or you can get the package that we're offering I want you to have every bit of this because I know glory there people out there that are struggling right now with their faith but this is what the Lord said to me and go to the let's see the second page on that on this one here go to the sec Paige on that one this is the halftime locker room talk okay he said yeah there we go George I'm gonna get after you about your sorry attitude you're letting the devil beat you up out there and I want you to listen to this right now as if as if God were talking to you ugly word yes so take this right now I'm getting after you about your sorry attitude you're letting the devil beat you up out there get a hold of yourself and get this straightened out I want you to answer these questions right now are you maintaining or are you pursuing that's good are you dry docked are you launching out into the deep are you huh are you just holding the fort or are you taking new grass taken are you settled into the status quo are you reaching up to the next level are you throwing in the towel or going in for the next round are you passive or pressing are you surviving or thriving are you circling the wagons or leading the charge are you behind the eight-ball or are you staying ahead of the curve are you protecting what little you have or are you aggressively possessing all that rightfully belongs to you good stuff this is what the Lord saying to me he said then he said well what is it are you gonna back down and lose or are you gonna get up on your Bulldogs faith and win the good fight forgive me if I'm yelling in here I'm not yelling at you I'm excited about this he said are you gonna get back up on your Bulldog faith and win and then this is the instruction the Lord gave me and this is what he's giving you I want you to get more aggressive about taking what is rightfully yours in Christ I want you to aggressively reach out with your faith and take what you need commend it to come demand it to come he said I want you to become more aggressive with your faith he said then now put your helmet back on get back out in the field and go fight and win amen and that's what the Lord did with me Gloria that's what in that in that guest room that you have at your house you know every us often when we come over and visit with you and Kenneth and and there been times when we've sat in the sunroom next to it there are times when I'll just walk up and I'll go into that room and I'll look at that desk that's what that's I have not come down since that day I have not I have remembered that day as a memorial and what God said to me about getting on my Bulldog faith yes and and everything everything that I wrote down at that desk that they were covering in these broadcasts we we we are expounding on everything that God said to me and the scripture that he gave me in will this will be the last scripture we don't have any time after this but look at this glory in Hebrews 10 38 and 39 this is a picture of who you are this is a picture of who you are becoming listen to this now the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him well the reason God takes pleasure in our prosperity that's what Psalm 37 27 says God takes pleasure in the prosperity of this service but the wonderful things the things that God has given us blessed us with so wonderfully by His grace we have to take it with our faith we have to be aggressive about it in our faith absolutely and it says here now the just shall live by faith because he's not he's not honest he's not fair he's not good he has to be controlled yeah yeah that's right he's a thief and we have to take our authority yeah yes destroy that's it somebody comes in your house to kill you you're not gonna just namby-pamby I'm saying here I ain't know what what did I do wrong what did I do wrong what yes and Gloria considering where we are financially in in the world what's going on out there the things that are taking place have to be more aggressive about our faith you can't you can't sit on the fence with this and that's what you taught me Gloria that's what you and Kenneth taught me all of these years really what I'm teaching on this broadcast is is everything that you all have brought into my life you have taught me to be aggressive with my faith you have taught me that faith takes what what belongs to it in this scripture right here now the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him but listen to this we are not of them who draw back we're not we're not we are not of them that draw back unto perdition but we are of them that believe to the saving of the soul we are faith people and we take our stand on the Word of God we do in glory Oh Bulldogs faith good George first John 5:4 our Bulldog faith is the victory that overcomes the world bulldog faith is faith that does not quit doesn't give up hesitate it does not quit and and what we're gonna be talking about out well was that can't wear it out I just can't weird it out well you can't weird it out either but you can't wear it out Gloria we are going to become aggressive persistent and determined that now those three words right there over the course of this study we are gonna look at each one of those in Scripture and we're gonna see people who were aggressive aha they were determined and they were persistent okay Lauria I'm so excited about doing this with you today is Bulldog face dog face under pressure you can't no man you can't and that's why that's what that's why this has so much to do with our prosperity we are we are actively believing God around here like I have not seen us believe God for things you know usually we'll have a project here or project there we've got multiple projects going on around this place I mean we're believing for every available voice we have we have things that we're believing for in the church but you know what there is no limit to what you can believe for based on the based on the development of your faith George oh I wouldn't really listen out thinking about I was thinking about they're so ugly you know Bulldogs yeah you're convincing convincing boy are they really a little Bulldog just not letting coaches mhmmm yep just knowing down on it and will not let go will not quit will not give up won't say anything different and that's a perfect example of our faith it is now are you listening to me I'm now you've got my full team well met faith faith can be developed it has to be developed yes because Jesus talked about where is your faith they had no faith they had little faith they had great faith you know I want to be like remember yeah when we had no fun no faith yeah little fight and great faith yes yes and you can get it you can start it you sure can telling you the development of our faith is something that I want started believing for groceries in the grocery store that I could pay my bill and I wouldn't have to put anything back that's right that's right and you were started you have to start wherever you are wherever you are in this world have to start right at the level where ever you are and Jesus will help you develop your faith but the development of your faith comes by hearing the Word of God that's that's the beginning point of the development of our faith they sing in hearing because you have to put it in your eyes that's true glory that's absolutely true your heart didn't come up talk to you but you have to see it and get it in your eyes go and get it in your ears and it gets in your heart yeah it comes out your mouth and it goes to work that's it right there I mean in the nutshell that's how it works and that's how we have to be we we cannot lay down our faith we cannot take a faith vacation no you can't it as opposed to the physical body which the physical body and I workout in the gym we have a great gym here and I trained in the gym I have won you've heard about this yeah well I go to the gym I go early in the morning and I meet one of the security guys here he's been training me for two years he's been training me but Gloria there is there's a limit to how big I can get I can't get as big as this room the physical body was not designed to be that way but the spirit of man the spirit of man has absolutely no limitation on how develop the spirit of man can become and I've watched you in Kenneth you've done this over the years you've developed your faith you've developed your faith from little airplane well let's go back you've developed your faith from from automobile yes to little airplane to medium-size airplane when I came on the scene you were flying a 421 that's what you and Kenneth flew you were thrilled to have it and I was so I was new to this and I was so excited and so impressed because what one of the first meetings I went to is the Anaheim meeting not in the convention center but in the California room that was the meeting that I was in and I remember when the meeting was all over we drove you in Kenneth to the airport we were gonna drive back in the van but we took you guys to the airport and I remember it was a bright sunny California day and I remember you and Kenneth climbing aboard that plane and I just stood there watch the two of you and I thought to myself that's what faith can do that's exactly that's what faith can do and then you grew from that point to the next level to the next level well you can do the same thing as well you can have the house in any area you can have the house that you're believing for and have the car that you're believing God for you can you can grow and develop in your faith but as I shared with you yesterday I got at the point of discouragement some years ago when we had to move several times and and we were not in the house that we wanted to be in and it just was a discouraging time and the Lord said I want you to get aggressive about your faith get a grip George get a grip I want you my my attitude was sinking fast and he had that he had that that halftime locker room talk with me about getting back up on my faith and in developing a bulldog faith a bulldog faith gloria they're ugly but they won't let go they won't let go they won't give up they won't but they're determined they're persistent and that's exactly the way we have to be now let's talk today about the nature of faith the nature of faith is is as a bulldog I mean you can describe faith as a bulldog aggressive determined won't quit it won't quit in the scripture that we have here is first John that has to his grouse yes it does you if you ever try now we have a poodle a little there's a little difference there's a difference there but if that poodle gets hold of something and she does not want to let go of it she'll bite down and she'll growl or well that's not very scary that's really scary but but you get a bulldog like that that will bite down on something and you try to take it away from you and that bulldog will fight you for it we have to and I've done this with the church you literally have to take the Word of God bite down on it and don't because the devil is gonna try to steal it from you and you just bite down on it and you don't let go you don't quit you don't give up and there are some things that we learned you just have to determine well how bad do I want this do all that see a wimp don't want to quit come on I want to greet you that preach it keep living in this place I'm living or moaning I want a new house that's having this old jalopy do I want a new car it'll pretty it will produce Bulldog faith will produce anything that you stay in bulldog faith far that's right Gloria we've been at it a lot you have been and I've been privileged to watch and learn and apply saronite Irina have applied this word that we've watched you and Kenneth teach and we've seen that faith is not it's not a wimpy thing it's not I looked up the word the scripture that we had that I wanted us to read was first John 5:4 it says whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world this is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith so faith is the victory that overcomes the world but I'm not a preacher I'm I'm just you know I just work in a this that place here and I will put gas in cars and it doesn't matter where you work that's right matters what you do with your faith that's exactly right I know I've had as a pastor all of these years I've done hospital visits and you know when I go to a hospital I I take some advice that that brother Hagin gave many years ago and that was you sit in your car and you pray in tongues before you go into that place and you hear from the Lord and you know glory when you go into a situation you're not quite sure what you're gonna walk into what kind of family you're gonna be dealing with but there have been occasions where I've walked into a room and glory of faith was in that room faith was in that room tell a difference you can tell a difference and that person was laying hold on their healing and taking their deliverance that's the way we have to be we we have to have yet that that overcomers taking what belongs to us being aggressive about it and having the attitude of a bulldog faith it is bulldog faith that overcomes the world that bulldog faith that's working on the inside of us believe we receive it when we pray that's right that word in the Greek receive is too tight take it we take it if you pray and ask God for a new car yeah our car and you leave that place and then you say I sure would be glad to have a new car I wish I had a new car I'm gonna I'm gonna I sure would like to have a new car you didn't take him you just just bounded off something I believe when you leave that place and say I have it yeah I have that cause you'll have the perfect car for me right now I have it I take it and I have it and you talk like you have it and you act like you have it and you be thinking about where am I gonna put it when it comes home yes yes you plan for yeah well I'm sitting here right now listening to you say this and faith is growing in my heart because of what your what Gloria is demonstrating to us right now is what's going on in her heart what's on the inside of us comes out of us from the abundance of our heart the mouth speaks and you have faith in your heart yeah tell me I wanted a house ken could live you know where if you got an airplane but I wanted a house and so the longer I believe for that house and I started drawing off stuff mm-hmm mm-hmm this is what I'm gonna have this one well the longer it went the bigger at God but you know there came a day when I moved in that house that's right paid for glory to God that's right I'll come a day when somebody will get in that new car turn the ignition on and go to town exactly exactly you stay with it if you stay with it that's the key words yep in faith you have to keep saying faith words you can't quit if you're believing for healing you can't give up oh you had a sharp no I'm not moved by that I believed I received this Jesus himself bore my healing and I bore my sicknesses and carried my diseases and I am healed that's it that's it somebody asking how you are I'm healed I'm healed that's an aggressive stand and you know you don't hear that in in a lot of circles out there you don't hear that that that confident faith stand where you take what rightfully belongs to you and I believe that it pleases the Father for us to have this kind of an attitude he is set before us a table in the presence of our enemies we need to come to that table and take what belongs to us take it with a bulldog grip and and I'm doing this Terry and I are doing this right now it seemed it seems as if when we crossed over into this new year everything ramped up around here I mean I look at you I look at brother Copeland I hear him teaching now about faith going back to the foundational principles of faith something's going on here folks that we carry at a time when somebody might think well they're reaching their 50th year of ministry maybe it's time to back off a little bit there ain't no backing off around here I'm telling you the truth would you back to we maybe we can slow down a little bit there's no slowing down around here everybody's believing God faith is at an all-time high around this place and that's what you have to do in this day in this hour faith is an aggressive force now let me read this it's an aggressive force I looked up the word faith here from this first John 5:4 and faith in the Greek I'll give you a couple of definitions it's in your notes which they're available on KCMO org faith is a force that is forward directed and aggressive it's aggressive yes this is the Greek definition of it it's never passive it never retreats it's never backward it's never backward moving and it always it's always reaching 12 tain a specific target or a goal it's growing it's reaching it's an active force and I like the amplified translation of the scripture this is the victory that conquers the world even our faith our faith is the victory that conquers the world that's the amplified translations good and Gloria I happen to be what's it what does that cover everything in the world everything everything and you know what even as I'm sitting here with you right now my faith I can feel I feel my faith heart pumping harder I got I mean it just the more you talk about it and that's why like husbands and wives you you have to have faith conversations with you in the face of whatever is going on around your household you have to have faith conversations Terri and I we were talking about something the other day something that was that was going on in the in the church and and I could feel the conversations starting to spiral downward so I took the initiative and I just said Terry we need to get in faith about this one and you know what we pulled out of that spiral the dive we pulled out of the dive and that that faith conversation we're sitting in the garage with the car running we just got home and we're talking about this and we just activated our faith and we just began to believe God for that situation and Lauria it turned everything around that's what faith does that's what Bulldog faith does and listen here's a definition you need to get the notes if you want this definition because I'm not gonna slow down but this is a definition a brother Copeland gave to me this is December of 2008 about faith and he said faith is a spiritual power born in the human spirit at the new birth it is the spiritual substance of things all things it is activated by the mouth and followed with corresponding action it is fed by the word of God when that word is acted upon as quickly as you would a word from your doctor a lawyer or your best friend you could say it is fed by the Word of God and it is maintained fed and maintained and maintained by the world you can go at it but it won't be strong you got to keep it going you have to keep it gas in the tank that's right I filled up last week but you have it if you down there you don't have any power that's right that's right and you and I have seen people depleted of their faith and you just have to go in there and just start feeding them a word and getting them back up but the key is to not get depleted the key is to stay strong the key is to watch Dish TV be vov and 24 hours a day I mean get that it's Total Immersion in the Word of God and when you totally immerse in the word it builds your faith muscles amen it builds faith muscles Gloria I know that there are things 10 years ago that we were having a hard time believing for that our faith muscles have developed and grown to such a degree that that's like nothing to us now changes your capability does it increases that's good you can take off believe God for a house changes usually God for a jet airplane you know - I know man brother colt was the way to go he's believing for he's believing together the spaceship yet we're getting there we're getting there he he called me on the phone the other day he called me on the phone I don't know why he called me in particular but he called me he said he said I want a new TV studio okay and he was down here he was preaching he was doing he said but he was down here preaching and he was changing his clothes in between broadcasts and he called me he called me on the phone and he said he said George we're gonna need to have a new studio ok brother Copeland I am believing God with exercising my faith for a brand new he called it a production center ok ok we're believing we're believing God for he came back from his trip in 2015 from Africa after being at david guetta post church yes believing for his inspiring a fifty thousand seat facility and when he got to Rhema college search he was telling the people about it and I heard him because I was online listening and I had just got online listening to him talk about this when he said and we're believing and I just came from David I you know post church he has a fifty thousand seat auditorium he said I'm gonna get me one of them and he said Eagle Mountain International Churches is growing rapidly and the church is gonna build a fifty thousand seat facility and so we but he and I've been talking about it together and he said George what you need to do first we need to build a 10,000 seat facility that's what we need to do first he said dig a hole do you get a show I must say Gloria thank you for reminding me because I need I just need to go out on the property and dig a hole I'm gonna find me a spot and thank you for reminding me of that I take him literally he didn't say how big oh he didn't he didn't say I'm thinking oh he said dig a hole well faith aggressively sees if you can see it you can have it and there there are a number of things brother Copeland said to me the other day we're sitting around a table he said we said we need another and feet on the runway he's looking at me I thought to myself well have you talked to John yet but but why is he doing this why is this happening because our faith is coming up to that aggressive place where it's being developed it's being strengthened it's being empowered and let me leave that might be because time is short I think you're right I think you're absolutely right and I've got to read this scripture to you let me just read this scripture to you the aggressive nature of faith we're not aggressive with each other we love each other but we're aggressive when it comes to taking what belongs to us hebrews 11:32 through 30 for the faith chapter and what more shall I say for time would fail me to tell of gideon and barack and samson and jefra and of david also in Samuel and of the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness they were made strong they waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens that's the aggressive nature of faith Ephesians 616 above all taking the shield of faith wherewith all the fiery darts of the wicked and then first Timothy 6:12 we are told to fight the good fight of faith above all above all would be the first importance but it also could be whatever it is you need above everything it was faced over and that everything over it glory to God glory cause faith works in every area above all most important things glory to God hallelujah pastor George is back and he's loaded today than ever today it's Bulldog face well dog faith hold up Bulldog faith we arts don't quit that's right there they're aggressive they're determined and I believe glorious since we started this serve series a couple of days ago I believe that that our folks are getting aggressive out there with their faith I believe that the some of them may have been discouraged about some things but their faith is getting built on Assad you have to have aggressive faith you really do because the devil you're fighting darkness your fight that's right good spirit that's right and the devil you were fighting doubt and unbelief people around you right and if you don't stay strong you'll give in to it people are fighting symptoms and their physical body they're fighting payments that are due that may not look like things can be done get your scripture mm-hmm put it in your eyes and your ears in your heart put it in your mouth and don't change don't change I'll be like God don't change don't change so that's what we're doing Laurie we're talking about Bulldog faith we're talking about getting back up on your faith getting strong encouraging yourself in the Lord faith is a force it's a creative force it is a force that moves mountains it will it will remove that mountain when you activate your faith and faith can be developed it can grow it can get stronger and stronger and stronger you know all all of the fruit of the Spirit is that way Gloria you can become stronger in love and stronger in patience and stronger and long-suffering and so in this aggressive faith all of these notes that we're teaching and like what happened yesterday we only got halfway through those notes all of these notes are available to you online all you have to do is go to KCM dot org the information is there for you George and researcher oh well I've researched you that's what I've done you and Kenneth have been at the forefront of my research for this project and you know Gloria as I shared the other day we Terry and I were in a place of frustration or I was that year that we had to move several times and the Lord got on me about it he got on me about it and he said get back up on your faith and get aggressive get aggressive about it and all of that that took place in 2002 all of what I'm teaching you right now came out of that time it's been developed over the years but this is really the first time I've ever taught this on television that we we have to get aggressive about aggressive faith mm-hmm Satan has come not to build you up but to steal kill ya steal and destroy that's his MO that's he thinks that's his job cuz he thinks we've got what belongs to him when you get right down to it he lost it he lost it yeah he wants it back you tellin that yeah well you lost it you get out of my my place out of my no he it says in Peter that he goes about as a roaring lion we need to be as the lion of the tribe of Judah to the rest of it yeah seeking whom he may devour for the weak yep and I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna be it I'm not gonna be that weak link either here I may devour thee that he may devour I'm gonna read that that scripture just jumped up on the inside of me I'm gonna read that one to you it's it says I can find it here yes I can it says in 1st Peter 5 it's oh this is good it's good talk about casting all of your care now that's good we can back up and say humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time casting all of your care over upon him for he cares for you be sober be vigilant why because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour whom you resist steadfast in the faith bulldog faith that's exactly what it takes that's it we need to resist the devil we need to maintain that that's not gonna just be every once in a while right right Christmas that's right no year that's right he's desperate yeah if he can't steal it he doesn't have it you know I've heard brother Keith teach this I've heard brother Hagin teach this and that one of the reasons why people lose their healing is because they're not strong enough to keep it their faith they're not they're not strong enough yeah that's right because be weakness yeah it would be a weakness so all that we're saying here is that there is there is an aggressiveness about our faith that we need to have and that you may be in a position right now where you've been discouraged about something or or the devil's tried to bring something into your house on you you can literally feel the devil sifting you that scripture we read in Luke 22 you can literally feel yourself going down on the inside get back up on your faith right now get aggressive about your faith and that's what we're talking about today that's what this outline is about aggressive faith yes first Peter 5:6 and this the Amplified Bible oh good I'm glad you're reading it yeah lower yourselves in your own estimation under the mighty hand of God in other words don't obey Him do what he says to say what he says that in due time he may exalt you casting the whole of your care yes oh and I'll not have any care that's not already cast it already be cast casting the whole of your care all your eggs anxieties all your worries all your concerns once and for all it's good on him for he cares for you affectionately this is faith this is what faith does cares for you affectionately and cause and cares about you watchfully be well-balanced temperent of mine be vigilant don't be lazy in other words hmm be cautious watch what you're doing watch what you say right watch what you think cuz what you think about your mouth if you don't do something that's right for that enemy of yours the devil runs around like a lion roaring in fierce hunger seeking someone That's not me I mean no seeking someone seeking some weak person with their guard down saying the wrong things seeking someone to seize upon and devour here's what we're supposed to do yes to be strong withstand him that's good be firm in faith Oh Old Glory that's how they moved about what's going on yeah by what you see by what anybody says by what you feel be firm and you're okay George here yarn you're having a pain you don't say Oh what is it what am i catching yeah what if I got no you be firm in faith you say I'm healed by stripes I'll not have any deficiency in my body that's right in the name of Jesus withstand him be firm in faith against his onset rooted established strong this is you Joyce rooted established strong immovable determined knowing that the same suffering are appointed to your Brotherhood it's not something that is throughout the whole body it's not something that's uncommon man in other words yes you can handle this yeah you can do this George yes you can be strong tell that pain that disease that lack let's get out Laurita guys God hallelujah glory that's good thank you thank you that's really good amplified translation is so amplified it really is it's marvelous I've had this one redone a couple of times well you're talking there about this aggressive faith and let's hit a couple of things together in faith it's not gonna produce it won't it won't go it won't cut it if you don't let it go it's still operating that's right you know again you liken it to the development of a muscle that if if a person trains and works out when they begin maybe they couldn't pick up that thing over there or that particular weight but the more they trained yeah then that heavier weight they couldn't pick up they're able to do it there are things that we are able to pick up like for instance we talked about yesterday a 10,000 and a fifty thousand seat facility well we've changed in 50 years in for the 40 years that I've been here and you literally pick up something by faith and when your faith is developed it doesn't look hard you know that God will provide you've seen him do it over and over and over again and you stand on word of god and you see that it's going to get you through there's no question about it the the nature of faith is aggressive it is aggressive and one of the scriptures that we use has to be strong it has to be the devil and all this host and most of people around you're trying to talk you out of it it's telling you fanatic that's so true or whatever that's so true is like killing what they used to call us but it kind of fanatics yeah extreme extra that's it extreme stream and I I I remember I remember brother Copeland talking about the time he was driving brother Roberts and brother Roberts turned him said people you tell people will tell you you can't do it that's right and then he told him the three things to do that he needed to find out the will of God confer no longer with flesh and blood and get your job done at any cost at any cost it faith is an aggressive force listen to this this is hebrews chapter 11 and we read this yesterday but it bears repeating again this is the nature of faith in verse 32 of hebrews chapter 11 it says and what shall i more say for the time would fail me to tell of gideon barak samson jephthah david samuel and of the prophets who through faith did what subdued kingdoms glory they subdued kingdoms to faith they did righteousness through faith they obtained promises through faith they stopped the mouths of lions they quenched the violence of the fire they escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness they were made strong they waxed valiant in fight and they turned to flight the armies of the aliens all of this took place by faith yes it did it by faith and we found out i looked up the word aggressive glory you can see it there in your notes the word aggressive means an all-out effort to win it is bold its boldly and relentlessly assertive aggressive faith that's what aggressive faith is really if it's not aggressive faith it's not doing much that's true who is a thief a killer he's come to steal kill and destroy and that's his only job that's right and he wants what you've got yeah and he wants you yeah so if you're not if you're not does if you're not having any having to stand you're probably not much of a threat that's right well that's true and and I think what you're saying here is that we have to stir up our faith we've got we've got to stir ourselves up in these things to be able to get over and above the that attack that lie whatever the devil is putting to you and at you we we've got to wake up our faith and be aggressive about this and and take what God has already done for us let me read to you what George has the definition George has for aggressive and all-out effort all in or that says it says it boldly and relentlessly assertive old you don't quit forward pushy militant forceful yeah who are we forceful and pushy to the devil and circumstances yes yes that he's creative ready to fight tough violent that's it that's it that's it a person who is developed in their faith they're ready they are ready for anything that comes at them because they know who they are they know who they are in Christ and you know I think about that story that brother Copeland tells about a nily Haley and how she was she was in the hospital and they were saying you need to come you need to come right away at least i ali's dying and brother Koch Rankin brother Copeland went into low slow yeah you know and he he was with Vanetta his mother at that time you I guess you guys were over there at the house and and he said mother make me some eggs ain't Ali's the done and he's mine he's wanting a well what he's doing is he's going into that place of faith and I'm saying the faith mode well he went the long story short he went to the hospital and and ain't I'll II lived yeah but you know that happened to me the other day somebody called him there was something urgent and and terry was was like come on we need that we need to and I went into low slow I went down into that faith gear and I just sat for a little bit and just said Lord what do you want us to do about this that's how faith does its it faith is in command at all times faith is in control at all times show me somebody who has a bulldog faith developed on the inside and I'll show you somebody who cannot be moved I'll show you somebody that looks like the hundred and twelfth psalm evil tidings may come their way but their hearts are established they shall not be moved faith mode when I think about the other side of face mode mm-hmm I think about our family hmm if well if a member to our family like one one somebody who was diagnosed with some serious serious right or if they have you know if they had an accident but this woman that I'm thinking about was something in the middle of the night came to one of the kids and they had to take them to the horror or him I think it was her did the hospital and so we all troop down there you know we might have put our raincoat over our pajamas or whatever but we've got true that's true maybe ten of us we're out there in the waiting room believing God praying I think it was was it what was it meningitis that was Lindsay with the minute Christmas that time yeah many years ago and so so think about if something comes up don't panic don't start saying unbelieving things that's good go into faith mode get on the scriptures mm-hmm lay hands on whoever to get the healing scriptures lay hands on price farm that's it out of the hospital I'm telling you there's no room for anybody else in that waiting room when if one of us is down there I like that Gloria go into faith mode yeah and we should really we should always be in that faith place but on standby yeah exactly well you know when when the phone when a phone call comes in you're you're not thrown for a loop you're not you throwing your hands up and getting all upset that's a really good that's a real it I try to monitor myself you know like a heart monitor monitors the heart I try to monitor myself and and you monitor yourself to see if you're in faith yeah and and you can really see if a person is in faith when the bad news comes and they lose it they go completely berserk and run around the house and say we're gonna do this we got to do that as opposed to a person who's developed this Bulldog faith that just is solid as a rock Gloria I want to be that person I want to be the person who is solid as a rock and I'm not moved I'm not shaking you cannot shake me you can't devil you can't do anything that would shake us now if we're if somebody say in our family I'm thinking about an incidence where there was a very serious disease I thought one one of the younger children and word went out so-and-so has got has been diagnosed yes yes what did the family do they got it and she's in the hospital we got it in gear we don't know that's a waiting room get your faith in gear we stayed down there your hours and I was praying and believing God right she came out of that flame out of it oh well so you know you gotta be have aggressive faith when you're challenged hmm we believe we won't be challenged but when we are challenged we have to have aggressive faith we do we do you know Gloria we've got a few moments left and this and we I'm just so enjoying we're not even on our notes but I'm just so enjoying this but let me read something let me let me just kind of just lightly go over this with you faith faith mode in Samuel we were gonna talk about this David was aggressive and this is how we should be where the devil is concerned it says in 1st Samuel 17 48 it came to pass when the Philistine this is page 2 okay when the Philistine arose and came and drew nigh to meet David David Haye stood and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine that's what faith does faith runs head-on instead of running away from the situation it runs head-on into the back to win the battle and I am so inspired by what David did the word hasted in the Hebrew suddenly he went headlong with great speed I mean that's what faith does it runs headlong into the lacks situation it runs headlong into the physical situation it runs headlong into whatever the challenge is David had that faith and I wrote this down here and again look what it says on number two your note read there the Hateley suddenly suddenly he went headlong with great speed headlong to victory that's what we have to do David knew his covenant and he ran aggressively toward the army and and I wrote this down here this is what we have to say devil get out of my way I will either go past you or I'm going to run through you either way I'm gonna possess everything that rightfully belongs to me in Christ Jesus bulldog faith does not roll over and play dead bulldog faith attacks the problem headlong and like I said I think it was yesterday somebody's going down today and it ain't gonna be me that's good ain't gonna be me and then this last part that I had here aggressive faith is relentless it's absolutely relentless in the scripture that the Lord gave me was Hebrews 10:23 let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering scripture right there the amplified let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess our acknowledge of it for he who promised is reliable and faithful to his word we have to be constant relentless we have to keep this relentless pressure on the devil and we do it with our words our thoughts our actions our entire being we do not allow the situation to put pressure on us you know George we've got I forget now how many children grandchildren parents we have but it's 30 plus I bow thank ya and we've had very few times where we've had an emergency situation mm-hmm but when we have yes we get it in gear it's a good way to put it we get it in here your word passes around you if somebody's had to go to the hospital I only remember once or twice when somebody was in the hospital but there could have been more and we waited to send up only to say we fill up OS right there's no room for anything when when when babies were born all the babies we would just we would just take over the waiting room and sit and eat and if there's anything and it's been a couple of times a couple of times with with babies that there were some issues that we just prayed them through yeah that's and we stood in our faith and we just we didn't just go oh woe is us and put our head in our hands and what are we gonna do and you've you've never seen these to do this we've never we have never seen that happen it's always been an aggressive faith and you know something we've taken we've taken a the clue from you and Kenneth that whenever we've called you about an issue or something no matter what you're doing you may be watching TV or something you guys just get on it and get in prayer over it and you know Terri and I do the same thing the other day we were sitting we had a long day at the office we got home and you know now that we're we're in our latter great-great- latter years great are you greater years because we don't have kids there anymore sometimes we come home we'll be home at seven o'clock we put our pajamas on we sit on the couch we may watch TV but the phone will ring something's going on somebody needs prayer I mean we sit there pause that thing and we're always we're always in faith mode but there are times when when the challenge hits and I mean you roll up your sleeves and here we go and and we are always ready always prepared and we are relentless where the devil is concerned you know I don't think this is a coincidence we're out of time but I don't think this is a coincidence that doesn't happen very often it doesn't knows he's been in his wheels that's right that's so true that's so true and I believe we get after him there is at Kenneth Copeland ministries right now faith momentum yeah like I have never seen before Gloria I've never seen it quite like this right I've never seen your husband quite like this he's like a man from another planet you know brother Copeland as you well know he will be 80 next year next year in 2017 flying jet and I believe what we're seeing right now give me that sign give me that sign I want to show them that sign that says we're out we are seeing a man we're seeing a man on the premise that precipice precipice of his 80th decade and he's practicing what he preaches a man who has 80 years of faith experience and I'm seeing it and I'm taking it and we are alive I know I know and he's learning how he's learning how to fly is learning how to fly a seaplane Gloria I guess we better wrap this one up Gloria we're talking about Bulldog faith oh yeah I like that I like it Bulldog faith is a faith that is aggressive it's persistent it's determined it lays hold of what belongs to it and does not let go it's like that Bulldog we're talking about a bulldog how Bulldog show me cuz they're ugly they're ugly they gotta have something outstanding and it's because they won't let go they won't let go and that's what that's why they were designed that way they have a protruding jaw indented knows because snout because they bite down on something and they keep breathing until it's there's no you can't you can't pull it from them you can't take it from them and that's the kind of attitude we should have we should have a bulldog faith attitude about the world is gone try to stop it he'll try to kill steal and destroy and we and against that now before we get into the word in Luke 18 that we're talking about today and today we're going to talk about persistent faith I want to make a correction of something that I said yesterday I said that brother Copeland is turning 80 next year he's turning 80 this year this is he know that he I don't think so but what the you know the point that I was making yesterday was the fact that he has been preaching about living to 120 and the reason for that is that with every decade that goes by with every year that goes by there's more revelation that comes so we are I can't do it without me no he can and he won't and you know the fact that there's so much going on there's such I have to tell you this is my 40th year with the ministry and I have never seen it like this before I've never seen such momentum such we are believing for so much at the same time not just one project it's short and we need to get things done and that word that that the Lord told her brother Copeland he told that word to him in 1976 get this uncompromised Word of Faith on every available voice and we had he told me himself he said he had let that word go and the Lord corrected him got back on it and that's when Dish TV opened up so we are going on every available voice as a matter of fact Lauria and this is something that Kenneth was interested in because the church the church services are now being broadcast on shortwave radio and that goes around the world and there are you'd think that shortwave radio was kind of going out of style but it's not that's primarily how many nations listen to their the input and that is the shortwave radio millions millions of shortwave radio Wow so that's just another voice so point being is I believe that we're seeing brother Copeland entering into a new phase of his life this new this this this Caleb like phase give me that mountain I want that mountain and I'll take it right now and that's encouraging you know Caleb said he said I am more he basically said I'm morph on fire now I am I am as strong now as I was at 40 years old and he was 85 when he was saying that so that's an inspiration to everybody look face that's caleb kind of faith I like that Caleb - well today and we'll see just how much we do stick with the notes Gloria this has been so much fun but I will remind you that you know whatever we don't cover on our notes on this broadcast you can go you can download these notes you can get everything that we're talking about here yeah study them out and just get them down on the inside of you we're talking today about persistent faith and I want to use this example in Luke chapter 18 let's take a look at Luke chapter 18 and let's do this Gloria you have it written down on your page there let's just read it from the page because I have little comments that I make as we go through but this is an example of persistent faith and I'm going to do something a little backward here if you would Gloria look at your second page I want to give them the definition of persistence okay persistence Bulldog faith faith is a force and it is a determined force it is a aggressive force it's a persistent force and the word persistence is defined as a firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of dip of difficulty or opposition so that's what that's what faith is it's persistent it is firm and it has an obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of the difficulty in other words that at obstinance word when when you're obstinate about something you're you're not going to give up until you get what you want that's that's an OPS that's the dis definition I'm saying it that's means hard-headed it means hard-headed I'm not changing obstinate well that's the thing we love about you Gloria you are you are determined you are persistent you you're aggressive I remember the time you came to preach at to the staff a few years ago and you know I was just having one of those really long long days and you came in to preach and she preached a message of faith i sat there and I could literally feel the words going down on the inside of me and when I was through when we were through that chapel that day I had the Lord had corrected me and said up you've gotten off your faith you need to get back on your faith again so faith is is persistent faith will not give up faith will not throw in the towel faith will not lay down and let the devil walk over it it is persistent and I like this in in this second definition here persistence applies a non-stop constant continual steady relentless pressure on the situation it's nonstop you don't give up that's right in faith you just don't give up Bulldogs are ugly but they're persistent they're not they're not pretty but they're persistent and they keep pressing on and that's what we have to do persistence does not let go or give up until all resistance is broken and the desired result is attained and the battle won in the battle one day yeah I like so there there's a persistence about what we're doing you know Gloria this is very interesting but we've been we have been persisting and and being obstinate really in our faith about a move of God in our church and it hit it hit in 2014 in August of 2014 I was in South Africa and I was getting ready to speak to some pastors the next day this was the last of our two weeks there and I was just I just gone before the Lord and I said Lord what do you want me to say to these pastors you know I had notes I brought things with me but it just didn't seem right and the Lord spoke a word to me like he's never spoken a word to me he said I want my church back he said you tell them I want signs wonders yeah demonstrations of the Spirit the gifts of the Spirit I want that back in it does it does and so we came back from that trip in that August of 2014 and Terry and I have just been pressing into this and pressing into this by the time we got back a move of God had already started and Gloria here we are at the time of this broadcast were we're into now 2016 and the move of God has not let up Christ it has continued and our service just last Sunday our service went three hours we had manifestations of the infilling of the Holy Spirit we laid hands on the sick we worship God we preached the word I mean this thing went on for three hours and the people just stayed right where their work well one of the things about it though is that the Lord instructed me to take the clock down so there is no clock there is no clock that was in it well that's what he said to me he said take the clock down and I did day that I took the clock down Gloria it's hard to describe the relief that I felt on the inside when we when they the pressure the pressure was because for 23 years basically I had I had lived by a clock telling me when to stop and the Lord said to me after we took the clock down he spoke up inside of me and he said now I can train you when I want the service to be over okay I want to tell you what to do I want to tell you when to lay hands on the sick I want to tell you how to do this and Gloria we've just had a continual move of God all that to say we've been persistent about it for all these years we've been seeing a time when this is when this was going to happen that we were gonna see revival break out in our church and it just seemed like there were times when I got discouraged and it just seemed like it wasn't working and the numbers started going down but we just stayed with it and we stayed with it and now we are enjoying the fruit of persistent faith it's happening it's on and the same thing will happen to you if you're persistent in faith and I want to take a look at this example oh we've got a book title tell me what the book title is the day the clock came down the claw came down Wow Wow that's exciting and you know it's really it's really wonderful to be able to do that when we have a guest speaker yeah that comes in and they'll say when do you when do you want me to quit and we'll tell them we have no clock we have nice and we just opened ourselves but let's take a look at this Gloria and let's go back to our first page there you are Luke chapter 18 I want to talk to you today we want to talk to you about persistence in faith it says okay it says in verse 1 and I'm reading to you from the amplified translation reasoning the amplified on this one so it's it's it's there on your page 2 if you want to follow okay I'll use that so it says also Jesus told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn coward oh yeah faint lose heart or give up so that's an instruction to us right there glory that we are to not give up at all it is vital it is sometimes it takes people years to get and like say the financial condition right now right and they want out in two weeks yeah it's just probably not it could happen it could however long it takes you have to stay with it one of the things that Terry and I learned about this was the the house we bought a house from your sister and we had it we renovated the house we were going through we wanted to enlarge some things anyway Gloria we did it by faith and we did it by cash and it took five years to do it and there would be times when we go over to the house and those stain the same beams were still there that were there the last the framing was still there on that room that was there last week in the week before and we just had to keep ourselves stirred up but you know something as we did that there was a momentum that built and the money started coming in and it started flowing and I'm so excited that we actually the Lord told us in the house wasn't totally finished but the Lord said it's time for you to take the ground move in think about how long would it have taken you to pay it off if you debarred the money we be paying right now - you know it would be lots more money I think about that now we've been in that house for 10 years and I walk around that house especially on Saturdays what I'm getting ready for church and I just thank God I'm living in a debt-free and it's a beautiful home and it's it's just the Lord did that but we had to be persistent at times when I wanted to give up Terry would be persistent and she'd be the Bulldog in it when she wanted to give up I'd be the Bulldog in it that's exactly right - bye - and when Terry and I both would get discouraged we'd called brother Copeland and he say aw kids just roll the care of that on to the Lord he was so good to us during those times especially when we were you know around the third year we're still living in a rental property and we're renovating the house and thanks passion it does well you know what the Bible says let patience have her perfect or perfect work that's why you get things perfected yeah and he said do it and this will be an encouragement to you that in the midst of all of that I remember we call brother Copeland one day we just told him that we're still standing through this he says kids you need to look at the progress you've made look at the progress you may see how far you've come and don't give up don't quit on this and I remember the day that we we moved into the house it wasn't totally finished we moved into that house Terry had a preaching trip that she did in that December of that year Kelly who at that time lived right around the corner from us she came and got all of our Christmas stuff up and she put up all the Christmas for us when Terry came home Christmas was up in her new table and it just was such an encouragement to us but we had to be persistent we couldn't give up we had to keep going and that's what the scripture says do not turn coward faint lose heart or give up you cannot give up on your faith you cannot quit on your faith in verse 2 let's look at this he said in a certain city there was a judge who neither reverenced or feared God nor respected or considered men verse 3 and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him saying protect and defend and give me justice against my adversary the New Living Translation there says she came to him repeatedly now what we're talking about here Gloria is persistence repeatedly repeatedly and that's what when when we're talking about coming to God repeatedly we're not talking necessarily about coming to God asking him the same thing over and over again no what we're talking about is not not laying aside our profession of faith that we say it we declare it there are things that Terry and I say every single morning we declare the glory of the Lord over our day we say that we are expecting our greatest blessing every today because great grace is upon us all and we go through week we we speak over our physical bodies we talk about our finances and we say that and we say it and we declare it and we declare it and you know what that does it puts pressure on the devil it takes the pressure off of us and it puts the pressure on the devil there's your path to mm it sets that's right and the last thing the last thing I normally say when we're making our confession our declaration every day is that our steps are order of the Lord and that we did step a good man's to good man steps are ordered by the Lord and I also say that we declare the end from the beginning of this day and it works it works it works but you have to be persistent about it you can't do it for a while then say oh I don't want to do this anymore no you have to do it you have to do it every single day because there are going to be opportunities that will come to you whether there are there world-shattering events that take place or things that go on in your family you have to stay strong and that's one of the things that Terry and I say every day we are strong in the Lord and in the power of his mind you're walking by faith and not by side that's right that's exactly right and we are we are persistent now in verse in verse 4 we are blessed glory we are blessed in verse 4 it says and for a he would not talking about defending her but later he said to himself though I have neither reverence or fear for God no respect or consideration for men he says yet because this Widow verse 5 continues to bother me I will defend and protect an Avenger lest she give me intolerable and intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her continual coming or at the last she come and rail me rail on me or assault or strangle me woman I like the New Living Translation of this it said this woman is driving me crazy this woman is driving me crazy I'm gonna I'm gonna see that she gets justice because she's wearing me out by her constant requests now listen to this state this is a statement that the Lord gave me persistence where'd wears down resistance that's right persistence wears down resistance that's a and we have to decide who's gonna wear down is it the devil that's gonna wear us down with persistence are we gonna wear him down are we gonna wear the situation down and take command of it is it our circumstances that are gonna change mm-hmm or am I gonna change that's right I'm not I'm not gonna change and he said this woman is driving me crazy I'm gonna see that she gets justice she's wearing me out by her constant request what happens is when we confess the word declare the word stand on the word believe the word we are resisting the devil that's right look I says resist resist the devil and he will flee one translation says he'll flee from you yeah yeah so we have to be persistent in this then in verse 6 it says then the Lord said listen to what the unjust just judge says verse 7 and will not our just God defend and protect an avenge his elect his chosen ones who cried to him night and day will he defer them or delay in helping on their behalf now that word crying their night and that doesn't mean Oh God Oh God you got to help me you got to help me with this know that crying out is speaking the word by faith in faith yes in faith Lord we thank you right now you are the provider you are the supplier you are the one that's right you are the healer by the stripes of Jesus I am healed I am whole I am delivered now what am i doing I'm demonstrating persistence right there no matter what it looks like no matter what it feels like no matter what is going on faith is not moved by what it sees faith is not dictated to by what it sees you dictate to the situation by your constant persistence in the Word of God and I and I look back at certain situations that have gone here times that we've been in in financial got behind in our finances and Gloria honestly I wasted a lot of time at night now sleeping or walk-in the floor worrying about it and you know eventually the Lord would just really get a hold of me and I get back on my faith about it and now I know now I know that that when we run into a situation that we we automatically kick that faith into gear we get persistent about it we've been persistent about the church's income over the last few years because we reached a level a cap we wish to reach a plateau and we would just declare the word Terry and I our staff we would declare the word we were persistent with it and what happened was and in the year of 20 in the year of 2015 we we we are 47% ahead of where we were in 2014 wow that's awesome it's miraculous right but we've gone down in in 2007 and just kind of it was just but we were persistent Gloria we didn't give up we continued to declare the word and we had a breakthrough I mean we had a breakthrough and we're having breakthroughs in this ministry we're believing God we're believing God brother Copeland is declared over us we're believing for we're believing for an income of 300 million dollars a year the church runs about percent of the the ministry so we're hooking our faith up we're believing for 30 million of dollars of that what are we doing we are persistent with it it does not matter what it looks like it doesn't matter it doesn't matter how many people pastor are in your church believe God for the wealth transfer stop standing in your pulpit and counting the heads and figuring up how much each one is going to give forget that that's ridiculous you need to move on over into the supernatural and be persistent about it and stand on the word and all of us need to do that and so verse 8 I'm going to finish up with verse 8 it says I tell you God will pretend and protect and avenge them speedily however when the Son of Man comes will he find persistence in faith on the earth I say yes - I say yes Gloria there will be persistent there will be persistent great we've had a great week Gloria this is but I have so enjoyed doing this with you this is a wonderful enjoy you're easy to preach with well we are talking about Bulldog faith and we're talking about how people can how you can build up your faith develop it to such a degree that no matter what the devil brings to you you are strong you're determined you're aggressive you're persistent and we're not talking about consistent it's consistent well I remember a woman of God saying inconsistency lies the power not in not inconsistency but in consistency so when we are constant and that's the thing that I observe about you and Kenneth all of these 40 years I've known you 41 years but but I've worked for the ministry for 40 years and just watching the consistency of the two of you just watching them be a life style it doesn't gets easy but it gets to be a habit first of all you decide good I'm not talking any unbelief there you know saying any unruly we're not saying anything that we don't want to come to pass and you have to have certain things that you lay out like that yeah I'm staying I'm gonna get in the word every day and keep my faith strong that's right certain things that you do to stay and you can be persistent you can be full of faith the rest of your days in the earth that's exactly all do the right things and I've watched the two of you you really have never backed down from this it's just gotten stronger and stronger and stronger around here and we called we call brother Copeland the other day he was on the treadmill he said he said let me turn brother Hagin off here yeah he was he was feeding on the word and and with the two of you you just inspire us to do that and in this discussion that we're having about about Bulldog faith I'm telling you no matter what is going on in your life you get back up on your faith right now you believe God you get in the word you hear the Word of God you listen to the the materials that we provide from Kenneth Copeland ministries and you get your faith strong because in this day in this hour that we in it is vital it is important and you know you see things in the stock market and things that go up and down with with God there is no change in the kingdom the kingdom is on a constant rise and it says the violent take it by force we take the kingdom of God we take everything that God has for us and in this Friday this Friday broadcast we're talking again about persistent faith and we started yesterday Gloria by talking I've got something notes thing here come so much that I wanted to share with you we we were talking yesterday about the the widow woman oh yeah the persistent widow woman and if I can just kind of go back through that again in Luke 18 there was an unjust judge that he he did not give in to this woman that was coming to him and asking him that was his first mistake and in verse 3 of Luke 18 there's a widow that in the city that kept coming to him saying protect and defend and give me justice against my adverse adversary and then it says in verse 4 for the time he would not but then later he said to himself I don't have reverence or fear for God or respect or consideration for men but yet because this woman continues to bother me in today's vernacular we could say she's driving me Christ driving me crazy he said because he keeps bothering me I will protect an Avenger lest she give me intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her constant coming or at the lash she shall come and rail on me or assault or strangle me and you know we we talked about the phrase yesterday Gloria about persistence wears down resistance and we have to be the persistent ones and so the unjust gave in to her judge gave in to her and we read we're picking up with verse eight from yesterday I will tell you he will defend and protect and avenge them speedily however when the Son of Man comes will he find persistence in faith or you could say there will he find persistent faith in the earth yeah and I'm still here yeah he will he will he will we have to determine that so if you look on your paper there we're going to this persistent faith part two which is that's right there persistent faith part two and I wanted to rhyme mind remind all of you that all of these outlines are available online for you right now information it's all where are we now two hundred and forty forty four days forty-five go somewhere in there of outlines that are available on prosperity alone and we need this to prosper you've got to have you have to have a faith determination and act on it be doers doers of the word so in persistent faith here we're just kind of reviewing what this woman said she did not take no for an answer you do not take no where the Word of God is concerned you bite down on that word you bite down on your healing you bite down on your prosperity whatever it is you get aggressive about it and you don't take no from the devil that's right the devil says you'll never be debt-free he's come to talk yeah that's exactly right belongs to him so if he can't get what's yours he doesn't have any that's right we say you're not and you're not touching that's right he tried to do that with Jesus in the wilderness when Jesus was there he just kept trying to offer him him this and Jesus would say it is written it is written it is written he finally said it is said and it said the devil left him for another time he just but jesus persistence wore him down this woman did not take no for an answer she was relentless she was insistent she did not stop until she got what she wanted to do that women can do that women yes that's right and we have to be she refused to give up I'm telling you today refuse to give up I don't it doesn't matter what kind of situation you're in the middle of refuse to give up you get back on your faith you get back in the Word of God you get these materials that we're offering here or you go online to KCMO org there's a lot of free material on there that you can order or listen to but you get the word down on the inside and you stir yourself up and do not you refuse to give up her persistence wore down her persistence wore down the resistance of that Judge he didn't get to her she got to him and everything changed she tenacious tenaciously stubbornly and persistently kept coming and she would not quit and now yesterday Gloria we talked about this definition of persistence it's a you read the definitions their persistence what's that telling our obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty our opposition mm-hmm you just don't quit nope persistence applies non-stop constant continual steady relentless pressure to a situation persistence persistence does not let go or give up until all resistance is broken and the desired result is attained persistence in the faith persistence in the fear believing for something didn't come when you thought it ought to you don't quit unless you don't want it anymore that's right you don't quit you never quit don't quit I watched you in Kenneth when the Lord spoke to you and said believe for the citation 10 I don't know exactly how many years it was from the point that he spoke to you it was a while it was so we were not borrowing money we're paying cash that makes a big difference exactly and there was in a lot of ways we don't talk borrow we didn't pay for it two or three times so interest no and I remember year after year would go by when brother Copeland would would play the video of the cetacean tent and in that video remember it was amazing grace singing the song Amazing Race and watching the plane we did that year after year after year and I remember one particular convention I was sitting in the partner meeting and I was watching this again and the thought crossed my mind I thought Lord when is that gonna come when is that gonna come and I sense the Lord just inspired me he said keep going just keep believing keep believing and then of course we were all here the day that we we acquired that airplane and flew it here on the property and landed that plane and and celebrated with our partners the fact that that thing was overcome and you know you'd think that the world would be really excited about an entity believing God for an airplane debt-free okay they get upset well why not why are they upset because they don't have money get the thousands of dollars in interest that's right that's exactly right that's exactly right and the point that I'm making about the ten Citation ten was you stood in faith believing God and you we were persistent about it we did not give up over it I remember when we had another a smaller jet here and we could have sold that jet and put the money towards the ten but the Lord spoke to brother Copeland and said so that into another ministry and it was a seat it was a seat so you have to really you you you know how times when you're doing brother Copeland you just have to hold your breath and say yeah that's right but it's you know he's guts I must say he works he has he has and he has the most inspiring faith I've never seen anything like it and it's something that I I aspire to I do I aspire to that kind of faith I like to I like to say things to Terry that you know she's usually the one she's very much like Kenneth she is sometimes she'll look at me and I see that face he's Owen and the eyes but and she'll she'll challenge me with something George let's believe for this or let's let's give our house and I must say Gloria I'm not walking in pride over this but I had there have been several times when I've I've said things to her that she'll go hmm I'll have to think about that yeah but we we must be persistent in this we cannot let go we cannot give up we cannot throw in the towel and we have to have that that obstinate continuance in that course of action that we do not give up and I'll give you a couple of examples here here's one in point see down there this is Luke 11 in the amplified translation it said Jesus said which of you has a friend who go to him at midnight and say to him friend lend me three loaves of bread for a friend of mine who's on a journey has just come and I have nothing to put before him and from within will answer do not disturb me the door is now closed and my children are all in bed I cannot get up and supply you with anything I tell you although he will not get up and supply him anything because he's his friend yet because of his shameless persistence and insistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs now isn't that something shameless and an insistence in this we go to the next page there Gloria here's the here's the situation with bartemaeus bartimaeus was persistent about his healing and it says in the New Living Translation in mark 10 47 through 48 when bartimaeus heard that Jesus of Nazareth was nearby he began to shout Jesus David have mercy on me and then it says be quiet many of the people yelled at him but he only shouted louder son of David have mercy on me what was he doing Gloria he was persistent he was persistent he was tenacious he did he wanted his sight and it says in verses 51 quiet he was not going to quit and in verses 1 and 52 jesus said what do you want what do you want me to do for you and the blind man said my rabbi he said I want to see and jesus said to him go for your faith has healed you instantly the man could see and he followed Jesus down the road he wouldn't quit he wouldn't give up and Gloria that's inspiring to me it is that's not when you start out to believe for something big like jets and houses and even cars you have to just decide I'm here for however long it takes I believe it won't take me but I'm not waiting I'm not giving that's I hear that's what you do don't you believe you receive when you pray that word take it we know that that helped me a lot if I want something that you know where it's a situation you'll have to believe for I take it when I pray not keep it till I get it mm-hmm so it's manifested if it's a car that's right that's right I'm living in it I'm driving it I'm flying in Jesus name you don't quit hurry to God say yeah but it's so slow how long does it take to pay off a 40-year mortgage for 240 years yeah yeah so it's it's here's a that comes away in life here's some interesting revelation that the Lord gave me about time time can you can even there you can decide whether or not time will work for you or against you and when a period of time goes by what are you going to do with that time let's say you are believing for that house and time is going by what are you doing during that time are you complaining are you griping are you feeling sorry for yourself are you being like I was when we were when we were frustrated we didn't have we had to move out of the the house that we with a rental house and move into your house and I was frustrated with that not that we came to your house it was a wonderful experience but I'm like I want ya and the Lord got omnis is I want you to get aggressive about your faith what are you doing with your time and and here's what the Lord showed me he said that if you will use your time wisely you can use it for your benefit if you'll take that time that you're standing and that's what it is it's a stand of faith it's a it's a persistent determined stand of faith that you don't get off but you stand firm and you just stand there and you don't move you stand there and don't let the devil intimidate you at all and ease don't give up so whenever there is a time lapse that's going by I've made the decision I'm gonna get in the word I'm gonna listen to the messages I'm gonna use that time I'm gonna confess the Word of God say I'm gonna declare it and I'm gonna use that time it will be a faith builder for me that's shot as opposed to happen figure you out and he's gonna say if I forgive ya he's just gonna get stronger and he's gonna eventually get it anyway this is a losing situation with George that's right that's right he did it he did it where the devil was concerned Jesus was so tenacious and persistent he just kept saying the devil would say something just looking and saying well it is written it's right it is written it it is written and that's what we have to do devil it is written by the stripes of Jesus I'm healed ain't devil by the stripes of Jesus or by the Word of God it is written that he meets all of my need to the full according to all of his riches and glory and you just get downright obnoxious in the spirit that's right you know have you ever been have we ever been around somebody that's been obnoxious and they just they just same thing over we can be that way you can be that way where the devil is consistent I think we're persistent and where we got two minutes left here I'll read it of things okay in in the incident with the widow woman and with bartemaeus he got up he got fed up with being blind you know there's just a point where you have to get fed up I am fed up with this car situation I'm fed up with this money situation I'm fed up with whatever it is that is standing in my way and and the same thing with these two they got persistent with their faith yeah that she was persistent he wouldn't take no for an answer he didn't care who was standing around Jesus and he didn't care that he was yelling either I'm getting to that man I'm getting to my need and he was not about to shut up until he got what belonged to him and this we have to be that way well we start out with one thing that is absolute truth when we believe we receive based on the Word of God we're going to get it now the devil might talk Congress try to talk us out it might look like it's taken too long but if you don't move off of it you're going to have a manifestation yep and you said something very important the phrase you said based on the Word of God whatever you see in the word you can have whatever you see in the word you can be whatever is in the word belongs to you we just have to access it by faith that's right declare it and receive by faith from God take what belongs to us I started believing God for a house and we live well I don't know when I started but I remember we were in Tulsa in the little rent house mhm I really got behind you know and at that time I had to I mean I went I had so much I had enough money this is all I had I had this certain amount of money and I was praying when I went to grocery stores praying tongues that I didn't have to put anything back I mean I'd pray now this is what I started believing from your house mm-hmm so well you can't even buy groceries in your faith but it I tell you I wouldn't let go of it I wouldn't let go and it came to pass well it took a few years but how long does it take to pay off a forty-year ma oh that's right I'm so glad we didn't borrow money on any of these buildings which we'd still be faxed to this thesis Laurie the Garth provider he is our provider we're out of time George okay well we'll have to be right back then okay in a moment he said I want you to become more aggressive with your faith how do we develop progressive faith with the Bulldog faith package the broadcast messages on audio or video the full study notes with bonus material audio files of Kenneth Copeland's faith series and the corresponding study guide will help you learn how to build your faith to overcome any obstacle and receive the results you need you can take a firm stand and never back down the world says it will never happen but the spirit of faith says all things are possible to them that believe doubt says you'll always fail God's Word says there is victory in Jesus other voices you let go back down give up old all faith responds I am fully persuaded and I will not quit the Bulldog faith is bold assertive relentless forceful persistent and determined your faith can become that unstoppable force that succeeds in every faith endeavor bite down on God's Word and don't let go use your Bulldog faith request your FREE copy of the Bulldog faith package today from Kenneth Copeland ministries call 800 600 700 just free TV offer Kenneth and Gloria Copeland are making this extensive study package available team free so you can have fully persuaded faith and receive what God has promised you request your free bulldog faith package today remember one per person please the way you begin your life of faith is by making Jesus the Lord of your life glory that's where it all begins isn't it that's what happened to you that's what happened to me and what gets you out of the cursed into the blessing well there you go where you can receive the rest yeah yeah that's the rescue that's the rescue mission and I'll tell you if you never made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life today is your day and it's so simple all you have to do is confess Jesus as Lord and he moves in on the inside of you say this after me Heavenly Father Heavenly Father thank you thank you jesus is my lord jesus is my lord take my life take my life and do something magnificent with it something magnificent he is my healer he's my deliverer and I receive him this day and I receive him today receive right now yes in Jesus name Jesus himself and he will fill your life thank you listen if you've done that we've got some materials that we want to send you a great book by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland he did it all for you we have brochures how to study the Bible reading through the New Testament in Proverbs of the Psalms and proverbs in the New Testament in a year all of these things are available to you all you have to do is ask for them and they we will send them out to you I'm Krista NIR and this is my wife Kathy NIR we have been married for 26 years now this is coming week it's been attending the leaders conditions every year for police myself for 26 years with Cathy's 30 I get every new book that comes out that Kenneth has and when they send you the partner letter sometimes I put little bookmarks in there but they have confessions on them so that's something like in the morning I get up and I I just read through all my confessions I mean it's not like it's I'm just reading I mean my heart isn't this I pray over the horses before I get on him and that's just what I do all day long I'm praising the Lord and repeating all these things I've learned this horse was young she wasn't ready to be out on trail rides or anything all I was getting on here for maybe 20 minutes at the most and then I was putting her away and for some I have no idea either I touched her wrongly with a foot or something and next thing you know I was on the ground but I went to get up and the bottom of my leg was not moving and I went oh something's wrong here and I thought okay Here I am not in the pasture so I just started dragging myself to the barn I kept thinking okay if I can get to the barn there's a farm there so I just started dragging myself but the bone kept trying to pop up so I was holding the bone down and dragging myself took me about four and a half hours to do that just to go 125 feet Cathi near was in that field for several hours with the broken and twisted leg bone until a neighbor finally heard her cry for help so he called 911 you call Chris and plus all that time I was saying body you will not go into shock my blood pressure is gonna be a perfectly normal and for me that's 110 over 65 and my resting heart rate will be 65 you know but I'm gonna be fine so then the paramedics came and they're doing all what they do you know taking your blood pressure and your temperature and he went oh my gosh and I went what do you mean oh my gosh he said we have blood pressures normal your heart rate is normal your oxygen level is great you're not in shock I said well of course we're not I'm healed by the stripes of Jesus well most people that have that type of injury and lays in a rural area in the field for four hours music yeah as a rule for four and a half hours being out there she was being washed our surgery was performed to repair the traumatic break and the hand of God was evident to Cathy and Chris throughout the procedure and the recovery even the surgeon was well pleased with the results after the surgery he said now you're really perfect and he said but I could not have done done that to your leg if it hadn't been that your move your bones or an excellent condition your muscle tone was an excellent condition your arteries are in excellent condition that's what he told me he said I couldn't have done what I did if that hadn't been that way and you know I've been lifting weights and working out for 30 years and claiming my users renewed as the Eagles but see I learned all that from KCM and all the teaching and coming to the conventions I'm not gonna leave this earth one day sooner and God wants me to because it's taught me how valuable I am it's taught me how to change my words to think differently about renewing your mind and that life and death is in the power of the tongue what can you do today how are you well I can walk my three four miles again I can use my treadmill I can use all my exercise equipment I have started riding a horse again I can wear my high heels again and go to church dressed the way I like to go to church and people go you're wearing high heels I said well of course I'm healed that is so amazing to know that Kathy after she was thrown from that horse it took hours for the paramedics to get there and then it took a long time for the rehabilitation but she stood on the word she literally stood on the worst she was persistent she was determined she had that Bulldog faith and Gloria that's an inspiration to all of us we got to think about yes she already had that faith in her oh she did yeah she was thing that came she had the faith in her she wouldn't have been able to yeah slightly but we we stay faith Doug that's right that's just like Marilyn Hickey told Terry and me one time she said that it used to be like the peaches that they would can and put down in the basement and her grandmother would say go down and get some peaches yeah from the summertime and in the winter you down and get some peaches she open it up it has smelled just like it was the day she candidate she said you have to can the word that's good that is explore whenever you need that word oh you know you need for it every day every day every day listen we are so thankful for all of our partners by the way who's who support this ministry we thank God that you are involved with us and all of the projects and the things that we are doing and I just want to let you know today that the Word of God works and when the word when you do the word as you have been doing and you sow your seed and you sow your seed today listen to the result of this in second Corinthians chapter 9 verse 8 the amplified God listen this is a word for you God is able to make all grace every favor and earthly blessing come to you so that you may always under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient possessing enough to require no aid or support furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation doesn't make a good book title always having oh let me write that one down always having so father we pray over our partners and friends right now and thank you as they sow seed today and as they have always always having all sufficiency in all things that are furnished and every good work and Lord we are we are have bulldog faith on this scripture together we agree with them right now every bill paid every debt removed and every need met according to your riches and glory by Christ Jesus Lord we thank you for it in Jesus name Amen now Gloria that go around saying that I always have I'm always I always have I'm always having always always having and I'm furnished in abundance yes for every good work okay go ahead okay well the Chicago victory living victory meeting is going on starts today brother Copeland is going to be there preaching preaching preaching and so we encourage you to be a part of that listen we're looking for to seeing you on Monday we know that Jesus is Lord over everything that we're doing this is Gloria Copeland and George Pearson is reminding you that Jesus is Lord build your faith in the word daily watch the believers voice of victory at KCMO org be sure to download your FREE copy of the study notes at KCMG org slash notes and receive all the scriptures prayers and key teaching points from each broadcast use the notes for your own 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