Charis Daily Live Bible Study: The Source of True Faith - Barry Bennett - September 24, 2021

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thank you julian good to be here again yes and uh looking forward to sharing with you all and uh i hope this word will bless you i want to share a word today uh and i was telling julianne before we started that i'm i'm sharing things that i want to hear amen so hopefully you'll enjoy it too but i want to talk about the the true source of faith uh it's good to go back and review certain subjects many times really and faith is a subject that i am going back into right now in my own personal life and just digging in and getting more and more blessed i want to know as much as i can possibly know about uh having faith in god and so i want to start there mark 11 22 well-known verse i'm not going to read 23. i just want to stop in in 11 22 and jesus is speaking and he's just gone through the issue of cursing a fig tree and the disciples are questioning how that happened and uh and so mark 11 22 jesus says to them have faith in god and just right there is uh quite a bit to meditate on to think about to consider to ponder have faith in god and so when we think about this we're thinking about having faith in god the person of god and everything that involves everything that means what does it mean to have faith in god he didn't say have faith in and so many of us today maybe without even thinking we have faith in a certain political figure or we have faith in a certain political system or we have faith in a certain economic system or we have faith in what science is discovering or we have faith in something faith in culture faith in whatever and so a lot of people perhaps have more faith in certain things and or people than they do in god and yet they're christians and jesus is saying have faith in god and yet for for many god is a mysterious unknown uh we may have a certain idea of what we think god is like but how can you have faith in someone that you don't know and how can you have faith in in someone whose nature is is perhaps mysterious to you that people say well you know god moves in mysterious ways well immediately how can you have faith in that yeah how can you have confidence how can you have absolute assurance or as it says concerning abraham in romans 4 that he was fully persuaded how can you be fully persuaded if if you immediately define god as being mysterious yeah and so when jesus says have faith in god i don't believe he he's pointing us towards something that is mysterious something that is unknowable go with me if you would ii timothy 1 12. ii timothy 1 12. and paul i'll read the whole verse but i just there's one phrase in here that i want to emphasize paul says for this reason i also suffer these things he's suffering persecution nevertheless i am not ashamed for i know whom i have believed and i'm persuaded that he is able to keep what i have committed to him until that day but the phrase obviously that i'm i'm looking at here i know whom i have believed i know whom i have believed i know him the one i have believed i have faith in god he doesn't say i know what i have believed yeah i i know the doctrine i have believed i know what they taught me in church and i believe that he's that's not what he's saying he's saying i know whom i have believed and when jesus says have faith in god he's saying have faith in a person in whom you can have total confidence be fully persuaded and your faith is not in a doctrinal system or in five steps to this or eight steps toward that your faith is in the person of god himself amen and when paul says i know whom i have believed he's talking about a relationship that goes deeper than just a doctrinal study or just having your mind renewed which i'm not putting down whatsoever i teach that too but it's more than just a renewed mind the renewed mind is a platform in which you can use to get into a deeper knowledge of god himself and so when we're talking about the source of true faith the source of true faith is god he is the author and finisher of our faith but we have to know him and not just about him or not just the doctrinal issues that we find in the new testament but do you really know him and so let's let's go on now and and try to develop this some more to know him you need to know his nature you need to know his character you need to know if you can trust him people that you know well and for example my wife and i have been married for 43 years i know her yeah no one can come up to me and and deceive me about my wife i know her she knows me and so we have had many years of knowing each other i don't think there's anything we don't know about each other so i know my wife and i want to know god as well as i know my wife or better amen amen and so to know him is to have a revelation of his true nature and his purpose for your life so let's look at a few verses here uh james 1 17 we'll start there james 1 17 says every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning praise god no variation or shadow of turning is referring to the to the immutability of god to the permanence of god that he doesn't change that he's not mysterious he doesn't do one thing one day in a in a different thing the next you can't have faith in that have faith in god god every good gift comes from god there's no changeableness in god he is a constant he is constantly good he is constantly love he is constant he has permanently revealed himself we could say through jesus jesus said if you've seen me you've seen the father and so it's not really legitimate to say today well god is mysterious and who can know him and he who knows what he's going to do next that's that's not a true statement and as long as we stay in that kind of mysterious world of foggy god you can't have faith in him and yet jesus said have faith in god and paul said i know whom i have believed not what i have believed i know whom i have believed i know the person of god and so god is good every good gift comes from god he's not changing he's not changing on and doing a good thing for someone and a bad thing for someone else that is not god let's go to john 10 10 very well known passage jesus is speaking in john 10 10 he says the thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy i have come that they might have life and they might have it more abundantly and so now jesus is pitting that which is evil that which speaks of darkness of loss of suffering of even death he's speaking and pitting that against himself the revelation of god if you've seen me you've seen the father he says i have come that they might have abundant life there is no changing in me every good gift comes from me and so now when jesus says have faith in god he's pointing us toward truly himself because he is the manifestation of god in the flesh and that if we are going to walk by faith and we're going to have to walk by faith in something that we know is solid that we know is secure that we know doesn't change that we know we can have and be fully persuaded in we know whom we have believed uh i i i feel like i know god to the to the degree that i know god yeah we can all there's always more to know but i have an unswerving confidence in the goodness of god and in his desires for my life for his plan for my life let's do hebrews 11 6. let's go to hebrews 11 6. here the author of hebrews says but without faith it is impossible to please him so now we have a new ingredient thrown into the mix have faith in god is what we read in mark 11 22. he says without faith in god it's impossible to please him for he who comes to god must believe that he is and that he is and here we go with his nature he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him every good gift comes from him jesus said in matthew 6 33 seek first the kingdom of god and these things will be added to you the things of life and so god is a good god but without faith it's impossible to please him which corresponds with what jesus said have faith in god have faith in someone you can know his nature you can be sure of you can be fully persuaded of his goodness and without faith it's impossible to please him because he's a rewarder if you diligently seek him praise god and so these things begin to build on one another so we're talking about absolute confidence in god's goodness towards you now some of you will say uh he i don't think he's been very good toward me but it's not god that has created messes in your life uh it's often we who have created these messes in our lives and it's god that has offered us his grace and the ability to know him so that we can escape the messes of life amen but many times we don't know him we have a very fuzzy concept of god we don't know in whom we have believed we might know some doctrines and some of the doctrines may be wrong doctrines they may be bad teaching and so we have a very uh bad we'll say knowledge of god and therefore how can we walk in true faith how can we receive from his goodness if we're not even convinced he's good yeah it's all it's an impossibility yeah but without faith it's impossible to please him jeremiah 29 11. i'm going to give you a lot of scriptures today jeremiah 29 11. it says for i know the thoughts that i think toward you says the lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope this is god this is he's a rewarder he is a giver of good things he doesn't change he wants us to have abundant life i understand he that jesus promised persecution i understand that there are hard times i understand tribulation i get it but none of those things kept jesus from making promises in other words a promise and persecution are not contradictory yeah the promise can still live in the environment of persecution right paul wrote promises from prison he was still living the abundant life even in prison and so these things aren't contradictory the nature of god isn't going to change the nature of god is goodness towards you men may come against you the enemy may come against you but that doesn't change the goodness of god toward your life and we can go through the storms of life if we have faith in god have faith in god have faith in someone you know i know in whom i have believed amen amen all right so we've kind of set the table here where does true faith come from where does true faith come from and it says in romans 10 17 romans 10 17 says so then faith comes by hearing and hearing and you could add comes in a sense it's comparing two things and hearing by the word of god so faith has a source and the source is hearing spiritually hearing not just naturally hearing but spiritually hearing god speak the word of god so now we we open up a whole lot more to consider because we're saying that we have to have faith in god jesus said have faith in god he said without faith it's impossible to please him where does this faith come from that pleases him it comes from hearing him or we could say it comes from having a genuine fellowship a genuine relationship with god the father in which we are expecting to hear him and he speaks to us he quickens us by his spirit he reveals things to us you know i was thinking as i was driving up here this morning i have never had trouble believing anything that god has quickened to my spirit that's that's rock solid things that i know that haven't been yet quickened to me i may struggle more to believe them i know they're true it's not that i doubt them but to apply them to my life and to have full be fully persuaded might be a little bit trickier but when god has quickened something to me when i have heard him speak to me and i when i use that word speak i'm using it in the sense of a light bulb moment or a quickening or a revelation or unknowing something of that nature i've never had trouble believing anything that has been made real to me in my spirit man amen those things in other words it's just if you will second nature to believe that which god says and when when jesus says have faith in god and without faith it's impossible to please him he's saying the faith comes from hearing god or in other words you've got to be in a true relationship with the father in which you expect to hear him matthew 4 4 says man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god i get from that that that's an ongoing continual daily yeah thing because bread is an ongoing continual daily thing we eat three meals a day or some of you perhaps more [Laughter] but uh it's in the same way that we eat daily we should be hearing from god daily it should be an expectation and that's how i live i i live with an expectation of being quickened of having versus jump off the page at me of new understanding coming into my life of having direction i've received very specific direction in my life before uh when moving from one city to another when we were missionaries and the lord showed me three specific things that would happen in order and they happened just like that i could go through many many many many many times that the lord has quickened me about direction or about issues i was facing the most recent issue being life and death and the lord spoke to me and said you will not die from this you will make it through it and that was what sustained me through everything that i went through over the past year i had a word from god amen so i have no trouble believing when i have something quickened to me but it's when it's something that i might know mentally but it's not alive in me yet there i may struggle to believe i know it's true but it's i'm trying to work up my own faith and i haven't found that to work at least in my life i need to hear from god and when i know that god is speaking his word is alive and active it's never it's not it's not that he's not speaking it's just that i'm sometimes double of hearing yes that's the problem that's it so never think why doesn't god speak to me no he is but we're dull of hearing oftentimes dull of hearing so that's why we struggle with this so the one that gives the faith the author of our faith activates our faith by quickening his word to us but the quickening depends upon us being sensitive to the quickening i mean how many times has god tried to probably get through to me and i was busy with other things and so i no doubt have missed words from god that would have been a blessing to my life it says in john 10 27 john 10 27 says my sheep hear my voice amen and i know them and they follow me praise god so we are to know in whom we have believed and he knows us and he says our my sheep hear my voice and they follow me and so again we can we can develop this to where we have the capacity to hear him and we know we're hearing him if we're following him amen and we're following him with a certainty with a being fully persuaded that whatever god is leading us into it is for our own best interest because he's a giver of good gifts he wants us to have abundant life he know we know the thoughts that he thinks toward us peace and not evil and so i can walk in full assurance of following god because i know he has my best interests at heart i was sharing in chapel the other day here in school and one of the things the lord spoke to me a few years ago about three years ago was barry i'm not done blessing you praise god and he gave me hebrews 6 14 which says blessing i will bless you and multiplying i will multiply you it starts with surely blessing i will bless you and i know that was spoken to abraham specifically but contextually i'm a child of abraham amen by faith amen and so that's for me and god said i'm not done blessing you and i went through a whole bunch of stuff where i thought god [Laughter] i could use some of that blessing right now but now here i am i'm back and and i'm in health and everything is good and i'm looking forward to years if not decades of fruitful service uh to the lord being fully persuaded because i know whom i have believed not just what i have believed but whom i have believed he loves me he's for me he wants to bless me yes so romans 8 16 was a key verse in my in my journey to understand faith romans 8 16 says the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of god so the first part of that verse the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit and then i realized the second part of the verse you could you could erase that and put in almost anything that that aligns itself with his will the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the righteousness of god in christ amen the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that by his stripes we were healed the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we can do all things through christ who strengthens us and to the degree this is what i mean by hearing god to the degree that the spirit bears witness with your spirit or that you are not dull of hearing but you are expecting these things to to to take place in your spirit man that is where faith comes from praise god and that's where he says have faith in god or in other words pay attention listen be open to hear the father because that's where faith comes from amen amen and you can't be shaken from that when the spirit bears witness with your spirit of something you can't be shaken and i could go through a hundred different examples of that in my own life when i know god has quickened something to me what cometh by hearing faith faith cometh by hearing yeah amen and so when i know something's been quickened to me or let me put it this way i know something has been quickened to me when all of a sudden faith is there yeah and i'm ready to tackle whatever it is that god has put in my life or or whatever the enemies put in my life i can tackle that i can resist the devil he will flee why because something has been quickened to me by the spirit of god praise god and this is not an exceptional thing in the sense that it's not just for me or for andrew for greg moore dwayne sheriff this should be our daily lifestyle that we should be in the word we should be praying in the spirit we should be pondering and meditating on the things of god because that creates the environment for something to be quickened to you and things get quickened to me when i least expect it in other words i've created the environment for years and years and years and yet i'll be driving or mowing the yard or taking a shower or something and i like i'll have a light bulb moment and i'll think wow now i understand this or wow now i know what god is going to do about this something will be quickened to me and i don't know any other way to live i mean my my sheep hear my voice man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god and so this should be our daily expectation and this is where true faith comes from the source of true faith is hearing god or having something quickened by the spirit to your spirit and it comes alive within and then what happens out of your mouth comes that positive declaration or that agreement or we call it that confession or whatever see if so many people are confessing things and i'm not against that but they're doing it hoping that it will be quickened right right and that's i'm not against that that's that's one way to hear the word evidently but when it's been quickened and it comes out of your mouth it carries the life and the authority of god amen and that's where things begin to change when something gets quickened to you no one has to tell you say this say that no you know what to say because it has been made alive within you you know that you know that you know and and there are so many cases of this i probably will do a study here soon on on when your spirit is agitated within you uh i've i've had instances where the spirit of god came and quickened me to say no to negative reports i was getting from doctors or what have you no and that was the spirit of god quickening me because what they were saying was conflicting with what the what the the the revelation of god within me was yeah and so when i when something came against what i knew to be the will of god no came out of me and that was the quickening of the holy spirit and miracles ensued so this is we're talking about what is the source of true faith we have got to desire a relationship with the father over everything else i could put it this way what what do you value what is of the most value to you in your life and i'm not trying to put anybody down here i'm hopefully trying to inspire you but you need to value your your fellowship with the father over anything else you need to be expecting to hear him expecting to be quick and expecting to have things revealed to you the questions you have in the word the holy spirit can show you those things a lot of people write me with their questions i wish they would talk to god about their questions i don't mind trying to help but but the real answer is going to be it it will be made real to you when it's the holy spirit speaking to you amen rather than my email amen amen okay let's let's talk a few more minutes about this uh let's go to second corinthians 4 13. second corinthians 4 13. and it says and since we have the same spirit of faith according to what is written i believed and therefore i spoke we also believe and therefore speak what leaps out at me here and there's a lot here i don't have time for but it's called the spirit of faith why is it called the spirit of faith where does it come from well it comes from god we know it comes from hearing his word well jesus said my words are spirit and they are alive and i think that's john 6 63 i don't have that in my notes but my words are spirit and they are life this is called the spirit of faith and so when the spirit quickens something to your spirit it's because the word which is spirit is being quickened to you in some way and it may be a word that you've read many many years ago but the spirit quickens it it draws it back up and makes it alive inside your heart and then you speak with your mouth and and the power of god is released into that situation into that circumstance so faith can come am i going too fast no not at all all right no this is good okay i need to breathe are you do you think you're going through this all right we can we can have things quickened while we read or we can the bible or we can read the bible and things not be quickened yeah we're reading the same bible but some people are reading expecting things to be quickened by the spirit we can hear a message two people can be listening to the same message in in bible school or in church and one person can be utterly transformed by the spirit of god and the other person well that was good or i wasn't really paying attention what they talk about yeah and they miss it they completely miss it because so many of us are dull of hearing and we're not even expecting to hear god many times i challenge the students every speaker you listen to whether you think you're going to like them or not make a vow to yourself i am going to hear god say something to me from this message amen and that all of a sudden puts you on the edge of your seat taking notes because you're expecting to hear from god don't be dull of hearing be excited about this is an opportunity for god to speak to me whether the topic sometimes it's not even the topic that they're talking about and god will speak to me something else yeah and i get messages from other speakers all the time and it's not even their message it's something that god spoke to me while they were speaking their message and then so you i just expect to have this uh inner interaction with the father all the time you know greg fritz told a story one time well he i heard him teach this and he was saying how you know you see people go to a baseball game and they bring like their glove because they're expecting to catch a fly ball right and it's like thousands of people and the odds of them catching a fly ball but they are so excited and they are expecting and it's like that's how we need to be in every single service and every single teaching and every single bible study god can speak to us just like that right exactly and it's interesting when you watch a ball game how many people with gloves catch catch foul balls yeah because they came expecting her other people are ducking but they are prepared they're like don't worry i got this god praise the lord so it again it's not what you believe though that's important i'm not trying to put down what you believe but it's who you believe do you know him do you believe him do you have fellowship with him are you hearing his voice is the spirit quickening things to you that's where faith comes from and so many people think well i have faith well you you have the ingredients for faith but until things are made alive to you you're not going to have true faith true faith is going to be a living thing you don't have to ask people what they think or what their opinion is you're going to be moving into a different dimension you'll know what to say you'll know what to do because god the father has spoken to you and that to me puts the whole christian life on a different dimension uh to me it's exciting it's it's i don't know how else to live i need to hear from god and i expect to hear from god daily amen i probably have more here but we'll just stop because we're into the question time okay well that is amazing and it's uh so so good so okay so let's get to your questions please continue to keep submitting your questions and we'll get to as many of those as we can so um this is a great question practically from your opinion rockin asks what are the ways we can diligently seek god like what does diligently seek god mean to you practically well diligently to me doesn't mean that i'm working at something it means that i am enjoying a relationship a fellowship with the father and so even when i'm like my wife and i play play games every night we have board games and different different games that we play we spend time together but even then though i'm involved in the game i can still be thinking about verses i've read that day or concepts i'm meditating on i can still be pondering and meditating on the things of god no matter what i'm doing i'm always thinking about something that has to deal with a book i'm reading about the god or the bible or things i've read that day i'll rehearse things that i've shared in bible college and think okay this i i have i need to get more light on this i know what i shared but i think i'm missing something so i'm always turning things over in my mind and in my heart and expecting more light to come praying in the spirit praying in your native language praying in english in my case these are ways that we just are continually in fellowship with the father worshiping thanksgiving just loving loving the father is is the only answer i really can give you is that you want to spend time with him yeah in that constant fellowship that's great um so ann says ask this question and it's about knowing in whom you've served is how i'm taking it i know we are to we are in a new covenant but i still struggle reading the old testament sometimes how can i overcome that because i think sometimes god appears different in the old testament how can we overcome that well we need to understand the revelation of of god through jesus once you understand the revelation of god in jesus if you've seen me you've seen the father then you can go back into the old and you can glean those same characteristics uh from the promises that were given to israel all of the promises of god are yes and amen second corinthians 1 20. and so what when i read the old testament i'm not looking for the judgments and i'm not looking for the the confusing things i'm looking for the promises that revealed jesus as he's revealed himself to us in the new and so any promise i find that reveals god's heart toward his people i take that for me because i'm his people amen so we can we can go back and read the old testament but i read it through the filter of jesus and i read it looking for the nature of god as revealed in the new testament and i look for the promises of god that i can apply to my life amen that's really good so or you can check out keras bible college better still you can go to discovercares.com and um you will be you will have a strong foundation in knowing the old covenant versus the new covenant man and that's powerful it'll it'll settle some things in your heart about who in whom you believe amen praise god so ann has another question what does dole of hearing mean dull of hearing means that the cares of this world have choked the word in our lives we are more concerned about our favorite tv shows the news uh bills that we have to pay all of the cares of life which i understand are real but how you approach those if you let those consume you if you let those uh put anxiety in your heart worry fear you're what you're doing is you're closing down your spiritual sensitivity to the voice of god and so it's going to be much much harder it's like listening to music if i listen to music in my living room where everything else is quiet and i'm i can hear every every note every every sound every instrument but if i take that same recording and go to a major city street on the corner and sit and try to listen to the music i can't hear it because of all of the noise of the cars of the people of all of this so the distractions that 10 let me put it this way distractions tend to make us though of hearing that's good drowns out that still small voice right praise god uh so michelle says when i'm not in faith is god disappointed in me well not disappointed in the sense he still loves you as his child but disappointed me maybe in the senses that you're not getting all that you could be getting from from that relationship uh and so it's the same way as a parent with a child i will never be disappointed in my children for in the sake of that they are my children and i love them dearly and 100 and and all of that but if they never seek me out for advice if they never come to me if they never want to hear what i think about anything well there's a little disappointment there i don't know if that's a great example i have great kids and they do come to me for advice but just trying to help us understand this but the relate the relationship with the father in john 5 19 jesus said i can only do if you could put john 5 19 up for me my first person may be [Laughter] uh i'll gone paraphrase well you think there it is okay then jesus answered and said to them most assuredly i say to you the son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the father do for whatever he does the son also does in like manner what jesus is saying here is that he was limited to the same relationship i'm talking about he couldn't just make stuff up as he went he had to see or hear from the father what the father was going to do we'll say the next day jesus went off to pray and i think he's getting his revelation for the next day of i'm tomorrow we're going to feed thousands tomorrow i'm going to heal multitudes and he's getting this from the father but he can't go beyond what he gets from the father in other words he can only minister to the to the limits of what he's getting from his father i forgot the question the question was um when i'm not in faith is god disappointed in me well when we're not in fellowship we're limit we're limiting ourselves amen to what what is possible the possibilities from fellowship are limitless the possibilities when we're dull of hearing and out of fellowship with the father we're living by our flesh and it's going to be a very limited life right right i just had a picture of you know like a parent giving a child this wonderful amazing toy that you can do 1500 different things with it and the child opens it and just plays with the box and the parents going but the toy is so amazing the toy would bring you so much more joy and so much more fulfillment but you're just settling with the box that's good isn't that good just kidding me thank you lord so don't just play with the box enjoy the whole pro the whole thing and be in faith that's how you can do that bug says when we suffer from a chronic illness i know we command the symptoms and disease to go away in jesus name but how do we ask for patience when we don't see that instantaneous result i have faith but feel like i am not praying the right way for the disease and symptoms to cease okay there's multi layers to that question first of all you don't ask for patients you have patients that came with the package when you got born again one of the fruit of the spirit is patience and long-suffering and self-control so those are all part of what's in you already so you already have all of that uh but hebrews 6 12 says by faith and patience and if i recall right patience means cheerful endurance i'm not sure i like that definition but cheerful endurance is patience by faith and cheerful endurance we inherit the promises and so not everything is instantaneous in the kingdom of god i know that's what we would like that's what i would like but sometimes there is a battle to be fought when the children of israel were told to go into the promised land and they sent in the spies and tim came back with a bad report god had already told them it was their land and when they eventually did 40 years later go in and take the land the giants were still there the fortified cities were still there they still had to drive out the inhabitants of the land in other words just because something has been promised doesn't mean there will not be a battle things have been promised healing is promised but sometimes there is a battle that we have to fight amen along the way i just have come through a battle i knew the victory i knew the end from the beginning but i had to go through the battle because of that uh or in spite of that amen my ipad is dinging i apologize it is coming through the battle and it's that patience of through the battle so i want to encourage you bug i don't think you are praying incorrectly you are just in a battle and once again i'm gonna this scripture has been ministering to me so much in luke 21 19 jesus said in your patience possess ye your soul so don't get underneath the circumstances because i believe you are praying correctly to your symptoms and that disease and you you stand in that battle you don't back down and be like am i praying wrong no you know in whom you in whom you believe that's good very good thank you yes okay so uh i was gonna ask this question from bob this is a great question and i would like your view on it barry um what is the best way to test a word that comes from another person like a prophetic word how do we know if it's from god well what comes by hearing god faith faith and so if you get a word from someone and it doesn't provoke faith activate faith stimulate faith in you if it creates more questions than it does faith then i just put it on the shelf yeah i've gotten words before uh that were well intentioned and it was what someone thought they saw in my life or in my future and they have been absolutely wrong but i don't get offended at that i just they didn't spark faith in me at the time they didn't create a vision from god they didn't confirm anything that god was speaking to me and that's another good way is that is this confirming something that god has already spoken to you yeah or is it just out of the blue and sometimes things are just out of the blue and so if they are and they don't provoke faith in me then i'll just set them aside and see if they ever do uh if god ever does confirm that to me but i need to hear from god for myself amen amen well that's great so we're coming down to an end and so barry i just feel like there's some people out there that were really encouraged today would you mind praying for amen i hope i hope so praise the lord father we thank you lord and i pray that all of us would have this insatiable desire to know in whom we have believed we want to know you we want to hear your word we want to live by your word daily we want to be inspired we want our spirit to be touched we want your spirit to bear witness with our spirit father we want this relationship because that is the only way we can live by faith we can't live by doctrinal principles we have to live by hearing your voice we have to walk in the reality of of your nature of your purposes of your promises for our lives that they not just be things we've learned but they would be the reality of what the spirit has spoken to us through your word and through our time of fellowship with you hallelujah i pray for those listening especially for those that might be suffering some physical affliction father we just speak your healing word right now that that you sent your word and healed them and by your stripes they are healed and we receive that father in the name of jesus amen amen amen i know some of you guys you have been quickened in your face today i would encourage you to give our prayer ministers a call and share a testimony of what's happened in your heart today and i know there's some of you watching as well i feel like you're you've you've heard a word from god and it quickened that faith that barry was talking about today but you're allowing the enemy to talk you out of it and that is a lie and so i know just be encouraged give our prayer ministers a call 719-635-1111 they can agree with you on whatever you may be going through make sure and tune in on monday at 10 a.m for live bible study once again and barry thank you so much thank you message and uh i look forward to hearing more from you you probably will okay good good and you guys have a great weekend have a great weekend barry and we'll see you all on monday bye on october the 4th through the 8th at our facilities in carris bible college woodland park colorado we're going to have our 2021 ministers conference and i tell you this is for people that are in full-time ministry you have special needs we are going to be ministering specifically to you and it's just going to be an awesome time we've got our regular speakers myself bob nichols bob yandy and carrie pickett greg moore dwayne sheriff and this year our guest is jesse duplantis and so i encourage you to make plans to join us it's going to be a great time at our charis facilities woodland park colorado october the 4th through the 8th our 2021 ministers conference [Music] you

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