Defiant Faith: The Power of Renewed Hope | Pastor Hart Ramsey, Sr.

in the scriptures I want you to go to Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 how many of you came to Bible study on Wednesday night did not the Lord speak to us my God in heaven listen the Lord spoke to us on Wednesday evening and I want to just spend some time dealing with this topic again in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 King James Bible everyone knows this scripture by heart but I want to look at it because I want to do a quick review before I go into the lesson Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 1 as soon as they get up they will get to rolling if not I'll go without them no okay okay everybody give the video Department a hand computer winning all right I want you to lift your voices I want you to read this out loud with me and then we're going to kind of unpack it for you everybody out loud you ready let's read now faith is faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen my attempt on Wednesday evening was to was to teach on the whole scripture teaching the whole scripture because we've been handy scriptures for a long time and many of us don't even know what it means that we've heard different creative teachings about faith it's my my cloud ok turn our monitors down just a little bit just a little bit not a whole lot ok so so and the reason I want because when I start to howl I want to holler comfortably okay yeah I just want to shout a little bit I think I'm was shot I want to make sure so the problem is what I when I was coming up in church um coming up as an adult because I was a raising church um the preachers that would teach us on faith will always start with the word now and they will use now as an adjective to say the Bible is not just talking about faith and storm but in our faith that is so inaccurate this statement is like you tell if it's like a conversation you have you say like now don't you do that okay you're not telling them now don't you do that you tell me don't do that that now is just a decorative ornament that you put in the sentence this scripture does not talk about it's not trying to locate faith what faith really is I could give you so many definitions but one of the definitions of faith is simply to trust God but but in in the language that the Greek word pissed is P is T is and it's cousin pistols that what pistols means to be confident that something is real say that out loud to be to be confident that something is real faith is the substance of things what so here's the reality that we work with on Wednesday evening I want to kind of read you in on this hope in the Bible is not like wishing when you say I wish something would happen what you're saying is it would be nice if that thing happened but it's not likely that it will so hoping what is now um wishful thinking is not like hopeful living you got it when I wish wishful thinking is I don't have a million dollars but it should be nice and mad at me now because I did I do that's wishful thinking hopeful living is taking the promise of God and Russia's not wouldn't it might affect the definition for the word Elpis which is what hope means confident expectation of good that is to come a confident expectation of the good that is to come and so the bible i will show you in the scripture in a minute the bible the only purpose the whole purpose of the bible is to reveal Jesus within in addition to that to show us the things that God has promised us that will come the Bible says here that faith is the substance of things hoped for before I define hope of substance for you I want to show you that if you're not hoping for anything it is impossible for you to have faith if you're not looking for the one who helped me so look forward with confidence if you're not looking forward to anything you want to have now here's the thing that bothers me if you suffer from depression chronic discouragement or random disappointment it means that the enemy has been attacking your hope the only reason people commit suicide is not because they drunk or not because no people commit suicide when they run out of hope when the enemy convinces them that every day is gonna be like today and today was a bad day when you have nothing in your mind you have nothing else to look forward to what the enemy does he he tricks you into seeing things in a negative way he puts a dark he puts a dark cloth or cover in front of your face or you could see his blackness and when after he does it that washes now he can't kill you if he could kill you had it been done it but God won't let him so what he does he tries to beat the hope out of you beat the expectation out of you beat your desire or your vision of a better future out of you then he comes to you tells you use the power that God gave you to take your own life but he doesn't say is because I can't do it I could tell you down I could block your sight but I can't kill you someone needs you to do it for me and what the enemy does he goes after you hope everybody say hope this issue of hope is a single most important thing now when I was being taught our taught about this they will say things like this I said um God is not into hope God is into faith if you've ever heard that before know that the person who was saying it did not know what they were talking about I am here to slay not not Baptist or Presbyterian or Lutheran types of sacred cows I'm here to slay word of faith sacred cows because the problem is is we've been taught faith improperly so much so that some of us have used our faith and it didn't work and we think that we messed up with God when really we've been taught faith improperly so I'm not interested in stirring you today I may get excited you don't have to but what I'm interested in doing is appealing to you I need you to understand what faith is you got it faith in and giving New Living Translation here's what it says it says my patients good faith is the confidence that what we come out like that where we work one more time that what we that we what we hope for will actually happen I want to insert again if you're not hoping for anything it's impossible to have faith if you can't articulate what you're hoping for if you can't speak it if you don't know what it is if you don't know if you don't if you can't if you can find something in the Word of God that that you are that you placed your hope in you can't have faith so I'm just believing God for what I'm just believing God that is not faith what that is is a security blanket to trick your mind into thinking that something better is gonna happen in the sweet by and by but really what faith is is honing in on something that God says he wants to give to you and watch it's not out of your mouth and with it with your words and with the works of your hand you begin to cooperate with God moving towards the picture he has shown you I'm gonna talk we gonna talk about hope today we don't spend the rest of this day speaking about hope I'm not gonna move from this day this whole church gets it thank you for those 15 hand clapping if you want clap clap don't play with me come on don't play if you go clap clap if you if you accept just leave it alone now watch this now I wanted to find this word substance faith gives substance to hope say that out loud faith gives faith gives substance to hope in the dictionary in your dictionary substance is defined as matter it's defined as shape it is weight it is something that's solid or tangible or material that is that is matter so when you and you look at this when you take that and put it into the definition get this it says faith makes hope matter faith makes hope real faith makes hope count this isn't for us to understand um when I express faith through the words of my mouth and the works of my head it makes my hope matter it gets my hope sheep it gives a weight to my hope it makes my hope solid faith makes my hope visible here's this now this is you tell you what's important and then you say pastor with you how did this work everything that people are people always challenge me when I teach them faith and I was laugh to myself because then we standing in the building that my faith produced and tell me why don't be I don't agree with that it doesn't work well um it kind of does preachers were coming to me saying how in the world are you guys doing what you're doing I'm like what do you mean he made a joke he says some of them say people that come to your church is gone to my church he said they ain't got no money he said so what are y'all doing and I said to him the problem with what you just explained to me is that you thought that money could fulfill vision I said no they don't have money but they had an untapped resource that you never touched you know the answer untapped resource what I said all I did was listen to the Bible says faith cometh by and hearing by the and all I did was teach them the Word of God and faith came watch us now and the money did they didn't have that listen they're faint attracted money to them every single building project that we ever were involved in mass occupation that's before your mind we were two million dollars cash in the sanctuary one before the bank helped us we were 1.5 million dollars cash into this project before the bank helped us you know why because once we find out what God wanted us to do once we saw picture of it in our minds versus now we began to talk to God how do you how should we go about doing it and he said you just walk well wasn't what you're missing is sitting still waiting forgot to show up with your gloves God said you walk with me if you if you walk to is what I'm showing you I'll meet you on the way come on here you sit now with no God I believe but every time you leave the house you look a fool come on no no no no no no no no listen listen to the words if you will believe in garden for a husband and you act like a wife no no shake no I'm trying to show you how faith works the way faith works is watch us now and we'll show you believe it or not you know why this is so apropos because whenever you hear the word vision you said I have a vision and you don't realize that vision and hope is the same word it's the same word but put on the sweet for me I want to give a bunch of Scripture I'm gonna be all over the place can I do that okay so I want you to go to Romans chapter 15 verse 4 this just review Romans chapter 15 verse 4 real quickly we gonna do this so fast video department I hope the computer could kept keep up with me Romans chapter 15 and verse 4 that Ezra says it's talked about it says such things were written in the scriptures long ago to do what so so we know now the Bible says whatever is written in scriptures written to teach us and the scriptures give us soccer and the scriptures give us shout it one more time in the scriptures give us what hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God's promises to be fulfilled this purpose of the Scriptures does it give you hope now your mind you said well what pastor how does that work I'm gonna show you something what's working was working against you right now is you have no vision of your future you don't know what it's going to look like it here's the crazy part God will speak a word to you to create a pitch on the canvas of the imagination why do you think he gives you an imagination the enemy uses your imagination against you the purpose of your image in nation that's what it is your imagination is to create images in your soul so the enemy watch is not what he's trying to get you the lust will create a negative out of Bounce image in your soul and use your own the power of your own imagination against you to keep you bound what he's doing is he's manipulating or hijacking an instrument that God gave to you so that whenever God speaks to you you see a picture do you not understand that every time you hear world you see picture I'm speaking words but your accident is you actually hear me but two pictures we don't even think about it I would love to do this exercise that we're about to do I've done it a thousand times in this church when God speaks a word none of us have ever seen heaven but each one of us have had we each one of us has the ability to dream or to visualize or to hope in a different way so when I say that heaven has streets not paved with but having a street that's that's through and through the streets are made of gold how many you saw that so that there 12 gates to the city pearly gates actually actually made of inlaid pearl real pearl full pearls you saw that suppose I told you that the gates are not ten feet high because the city itself is 1500 miles the New Jerusalem is 1500 miles high if the gate is gonna service purpose is got to be at least 700 I'm guessing giving God or some kind of creative props it has to be at least 700 miles high I'm just saying half the way up 750 miles in amazing how regardless of what you just believe I just shifted what you saw it words that the Jesus that air may argue what colors Jesus we recorded revelation he's the color of writ of the rain where he sits on there and he's flashing colors when John saw me he can even describe him properly you what we allow the enemy to do is to hijack the way we were created you're fearfully wonderfully made and God made you like that so he could speak words to you faith doesn't just come by hearing faith comes by producing hope in you and hearing it over and over again solidifies the way you see this thing that God has shown you the reason and it works either a high spiritual end or even a low natural end you could literally believe God for a house and you can't afford it well no I'm here to tell you you you can be living in when people I gotta help you I'm just using I'm using my life as an example can I do that when people come to my house they always go man nice house what they don't know is I didn't pay for the house what they paid for theirs I refuse to let me tell your story when I just first started to succeed people told me pastor you need to go live in because some took a driving because hey buddy no Boccaccio's and when I drove around up a car just some innocent some nights homes there's a house in the corner for sale I went I took they said it was a reduced price and I went to look at the house and when I went in the house oh I said man I got to have this house was 10,000 square feet I said man put a studio down here we got meetings up here we could whole house well what they were asking for the house was I think was 1.2 million so some members of the board were like pastor you know what we don't think that's too much for you all the churches doing well you've done a great job and I said hey I got two problems with that one is most a muffled live on the other side of town most of the people are past listen one point to meet you you didn't know what we could do at one point we we haven't built the dome yet here's my said instead of doing that I said what why do we do this I said won't you let me find some property and find a house I could renovate and it says up to you it's up to you support this little piece of property I loved it there with nice land 12 acres the house that I bought was 2,400 square feet when my bishop came down Bishop said to me Hardin you sit on there you need more space I said yes sir he said this is very modest of you he says I don't like you living here so you seem cramped I said yes sir but I had a plan got a plan I said Bishop you know I said working with this thing where where we'll be able and I gave him a vision for this thing I was working on and we're doing it now but my desire to just be a blessing was was the product of me reading the scriptures seeing a picture of Jesus helping people and I will show you this was crazy when the housing market crashed that summer brace yourself this church gave away $600,000 every morning my staff came to work people were lined up in front of the oak the little building across the street with babies on the hips needing help and we did not turn to start turning people away till we had given away over six hundred thousand dollars when we did the order they could not believe it why would you give away six hundred dollars head was the reason why number one day was indeed number two we could have fortune why because the pastor decided he didn't need a 1.2 million dollar house now I'm gonna show you something now I don't flavor you said what I see still no no no no since then since then the Lord sent a brother to us and he said man what you add on to the house I said well how would it be so he did this with a plan for us added added 2,600 square feet to the house four hundred and forty thousand dollars we're not done yet when he went addition he said once you resubmit you you could not only after the house is you could put a second floor in the addition add another several hundred square feet to the house the attic was undone he said pastor do you want to Theatre I'm not in here he said yeah he's a man go to going to internet and and piece together your Dream Theater and we'll build it out for you please to give them a little dream theater give it to myself one to look like that and now MIT people thought you're passed over the a the house you got fee you didn't even know the story it was free watch this now all that came about because of what God showed me the problem with you is you want to go the way of the one and get the way the world got it when God gives it to you as I write this down the value always exceeds the cost the value always exceed come on the value rows exceeds the car say it the value always sorry come to church to hear this yes you did you doesn't know the reason I'm using practical examples instead and then this is just practical faith works for your body faith works for your family what does that it works for you primarily for your spiritual growth you the first thing that God wants you to use your faith for watch this now is to see yourself the way Jesus made you the way Jesus wants you to be you grow spiritually through your faith so let me show you how it works is this helping anybody here the Bible says such things were written in the scriptures long ago to teach us and the Scriptures give us what the first thing the scriptures give us is hope go down now to Romans 15 and verse 13 Romans 15 and verse 13 he's the Paul says I pray that God the source of hope so here the Bible now Clause God the source of what you hope come from now you said past the world how is this relevant keep the statement in your mind the only number one the only cause of suicide is hopelessness hopelessness before depression depletes your serotonin it is its first start as a hopeless thought that literally drapes darkness over your whole soul it is it is by your body having to sustain the soul through that dark period that it depletes your serotonin from your body but by then they call you clinically depressed and they give you medication to try to boost your serotonin but hopelessness did it because you weren't designed to have nothing to look forward to you weren't designed to only see doom in your future you wouldn't decide to think that because you've lived like this for for so long your family pass it down to you you God did that design you to go through this generationally the will of God for you is to continue to see pictures what God is gonna do with your future he is the source of hope the enemy tries to keep it disconnected from him because he knows if you're properly connected to him you will have hope and once you have hope you can have faith and when your faith he can't stop you who am i preaching to I pray that God the source of hope watch this now we'll fill you completely with joy the word joy is a grace word as in the grace family and what it means it's literally the love of God in your heart tickling you that's the most practical is it's like whenever God shows you what he's gonna do oh your joy comes from Hope whenever you look at what God's gonna do you get so excited I'm going to show you an assist it says I present the garden the source of hope will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him what's this then you will overflow with confident word hope to the power of the Holy Spirit God said I need to get your hope revived I need to get you hoping to get remember hoping hopeful living is not wishful thinking it's not I wish things no hopeful living is I see what God is saying and you said what suppose what I'm seeing that what gotta show you you see what you missus this is what you're missing God partners with you three of us could read the same scripture when I just said heaven has streets that are made of pure gold don't take for granted everyone saw what you saw the way people perceive gold is may not gonna be the way you perceive go it's by point of reference you think God cares no if God says I will bless you and meet your needs and I'll give you a donkey to ride on he listened he documented in Scripture gosh I'll give you a donkey to rattle but let's say we don't ride on donkeys anymore we meet when we move from donkeys to horses right God it's God's that still said donkeys but now here we believe in God for horses and then we took the horsepower and we put it in engines right so what's this you wouldn't be sewing you hear you hear you read scripture says that God will bless you with a donkey to ride on and then someone standing say but you know we don't write donkeys anymore but we do drive cars if you see your car in God's mind you saw a donkey and God said oh you you know how you measure horsepower like it has one or whatever number give me a number for horsepower yes three hundred six hundred between a 60 horsepower God said okay my son needs 360 horses it's just a horse and you I just ran a bicycle if you saw a bicycle and God promised forces then God loves you believe God for your bicycle but don't hate me because when God tells me ego no no you're gonna say something when God said he'll transport me I saw a helicopter and I mean material stuff no material stuff becomes a reference to help you elevate the way you see because I'm gonna tell you something I save more than half the people in this room you don't need something material right now you don't you need you need God to come and Libby from the darkness that you see in front of you okay so how might I'm looking good I'm good give me another scripture real quickly let's go to first Thessalonians chapter 1 in verse 3 the Bible says as we pray to our God and Father about you we think of your faithful work your loving deeds and the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ I said pastor what is this about give me King James kind of want to show you something um whenever in the scriptures about 2 or 3 times the Bible always marries certain words together it says remembering without ceasing watches now your work of faith your labor of love and patience of hope whenever you read through scripture the Bible never divorces these words faith always works love always Labor's and hope is always patient whenever you study scripture listen to me you're gonna find that faith always works faith without works is dead love Labor's your labor of love God is not on righteous to forget your labor of love in that you have ministered to the Saints and do minister look it says it says blessed are they that are dead in the Lord for they were rest from their labors the word labor is the word corpus or corpora are you and what it means is it speaks of how when we in love apply ourselves to something we don't even realize the toll it's taking on us because we love it so much that people I had a hobby that you enjoy doing and you start doing it and look up and with the time go ever happened to you what about this you go to a job that you hate and you've been sitting there our look over there only two minutes past UsWe even sin that our ever happened to you because if there's no love in it there's no ability to labor labor is what is the toll it takes on you now watch this hope hope is always patient hope always now the word or hoopla Matt Hooper arm Meno in the Greek it's a word that means that I wait and I keep myself under the burden of this thing why because I'm looking forward to something the example I like to use is if our back in the day we used to catch buses you don't anything about buses today but if you live in a big city I used to go to Miami go down the Biscayne Boulevard um wait on the buses want to know Miami Beach and I was sitting there because the bus is gonna come at 11 o'clock if it's 10:30 I'm gonna sit there for 30 minutes why cuz the bus is gonna come at 11 o'clock I'm what I'm not just waiting I'm waiting because I have a picture of a bus coming down Biscayne Boulevard and pick me up take me to work not the buses five minutes late I become concerned but I realize that if that bus is lazy if there's another bus coming 11:15 see how it works because I have a picture what's gonna happen I have an idea what the future holds for me I'm willing to wait the problem you wake no God is that you don't trust that what he says what happens gonna happen because whenever you get antsy you move and so God has to stop but every had in place for you unbelievable okay so now you calm you get in the word you're gonna fill the word you get getting a picture of Jesus Christ in the life with him and you and then you somebody you are you tired of being alone you didn't realize you were alone cuz you were with the Lord your glory in God you're serving somewhere right you're doing it in faith faith was giving faithlyn's making your hope matter not all of sudden you're like well I'm alone and then the enemy sense wants to use that don't you lonely now all the sudden your eyes are off the things I've done and you are why am I alone how come she got a hug I look better than her I don't can't believe it I I don't fit myself i watch it's not obvious on you I'll go to the club are you in a club and God show up a church you God show up in church with your heart are you in the club come eat me a hug baby club you listen up I ain't like this mess okay it's okay go to first John chapter 3 verse 3 so what we see here is that is that hope gives us the ability to wait say that out loud say hope gives us the ability to wait now I want to show you something also that that that plays into this and I'm glad I'm glad the Lord gave me this gift now before I came to the Lord and before us God filled the Holy Spirit um two things number one I could not speak in public it terrified me number one in number two I wasn't smart no no I want to I want to explain something to you some people think that a gift of wisdom is the gift of intelligence it's not true um intelligence we can claim through learning or whatever or even through genetics but for me the is what I have is the gift of wisdom I'm glad God gave it to me because if it wasn't for that there's some things I would miss the gift that I gift to you is is the things I see in Scripture I want to show you this because the enemy would have you to pursue holiness without understanding how hope works as well scripture says and every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself even as he Jesus is pure give me another translation let's this see let's work another transition and all who have defiance hope this eager expectation like the Greek word is Elpis his hope will keep themselves pure just as he is pure give me an immature arm on passion translation let's see what that says and all who focused their hope on him will always be purifying themselves just as Jesus is pure what does that mean the word here there's a word family in the New Testament is the Hogwart family HHA gos is how he osmosis Hagios this one is harder needs Oh a hawk needs oh and what hawk nozomi's watches now to take the time to make sure you are together when it comes to the things of God and he says the only way you can take the time to make sure you keep yourself away from things that contaminate is if you have hope the enemy understands listen to me see what I'm trying to show you is this the enemy comes at you and we targets first is your hope I'm not pass I think the Bible say he comes out there faith ain't no faith of that hope faith is the substance of things so he goes he knows that once he gets your hope he got you he's got you if you have nothing to look forward to what just not if you have nothing to look forward to then you'll think that nothing matters if you think nothing matters and you think you don't matter if you don't matter you will do anything anything things you didn't think you would do you would do because nothing matters the enemy will keep that narrative going in your mind nothing matters you don't matter what are you doing tell me what you've done what have you done what about last year God was for some last day what'd he do last year what about a year before and he's trying to paint for your picture of an unfaithful God when the truth of the matter is God is waiting for you just to get in his word to keep the thing that you hear preach to you a lot of people don't hear preaching this clarifying things you take this thing personally review it review it and let it create a picture in your mind okay let me show you this put on the screen for me psalm 119 and verse 49 King James psalm 119 verse 49 David is writing the hundred 19th Psalm and all of the 190 Psalm is about the Word of God here's what he says to the Lord remember the word unto thy servant upon which thou has what has worked as me too what has what he said he told god he said remember now what you said to me cuz what you said to me caused me caused me now let's talk about causation for a minute causation if I'm standing here and you walk by and you push me and I fall who caused it let me just make it a little bit more so I'm standing here you walk by you shove me watch this now I stumble I try to kiss my balance I don't and I fall who calls the fall talk to me who did say that I'd like the person that what said it say that together the person that pushed you causation is about pushing I was doing we had a Bible school some years ago and I was the commencement speaker at one of our our graduations and I preached a message call who pushed me and the story the story's about some friends that were standing by this pool of water and data for that a friend among them that always talked junk he said there were alligators on the side and he's like I bet you I could swim from this side to that side and alligators when he messed with me and his friends like well do it is that and they like he like now I know I'm tell you I could do it and why he said they're talking one of his friends coming behind him just shoved them and he starts swimming for his life than alligators jumped in and he made over to the other side he he got he got another side breathing hard he goes who pushed me what God is going to do in your life this year is that he's gonna shove you into some waters that you think are dangerous it was it will manifest to you as something dangerous or something I never done it at my own that's that's what he did to me but a tournament caught myself I was headlong into ministry god I didn't like people people drained my battery I was three years into this thing before I stood guard you have to make me a pastor cuz imma kill your people are they gonna kill me you got it watch this now David said remember the word unto thy servant upon you what's you you pushed me into hope you made me hook here's the thing where the enemy wants to kill your hope he should get you to shut the Word of God down he gets you to close your Bible for the next twenty-one days you're gonna be in your word not just reading anything but you can be filling your eyes with the Word of God and talking to God and sin when you when you read something that grabs you you said God let let this hope be reeling me your future is at stake God is going to in this 21-day fast I speak by the Spirit of the Lord he's gonna break your mourning over the past the grief that you've been going through that doesn't seem to end it comes in waves and just won't end and this 21 days fast is gonna end now I'm gonna me warn you the spirit here's what the spirit of Lord is saying there's a cup of you you've been grieving so hard because you blame yourself it has not the Lord is saying to you the Spirit Lord is saying to you the guilt is going to go and when it does you cannot feel some kind of way because you'll feel bad anymore you're gonna let yourself off the hook so God can release you to your future say this I'll I say I I'm gonna let myself off the hook so God can send me to my future and so much the best you just know what I've done you don't know who God is I want it I want to so how many of you see here that the Lord is the one that gives you hope we're clearing that the God gave us hope I want to I want to go a little bit further I'm gonna go down to the same chapter gonna set to the 74th verse what's there I put it up there burden those there they that fear thee will be glad when they see me because I have what now in the 49th verse God David is telling God he said listen remember the word that you gave to me that caused this picture of hope to be painted on the picture of my imagination had I not read your word I've not seen what I saw now he's saying anyone that have deep respect for you and high honor for you he said when they see me they're gonna be glad you know why he said cuz I hope to past ends in your word and they're gonna see me walking in the thing I hope for and it gonna make them glad let me let me show you something this is important for us to understand important for us to understand in our journey with the Lord he will bring us across the path of people who actually lived by faith and got good results what is he trying to do to show you what it looks like do not be tempted to be jealous that's what the enemy's gonna do the enemy's gonna keep you to bad-mouth the people you should be learning from to be envious of the people that you should be using as an example you got it so what do you do is whenever whatever you see you ask the person what is come from the person me I just I just trusted God you should do can I get like five minutes of your time to tell me how that warped did you ever get discouraged or they tell you all the time did you ever run out of money not only did we run out of money we didn't know what anybody's gonna come from did the bank ever come send you threatening letters all the time what did you do I could tell you some stories I could tell you some stories of believing God and setting things in motion and money didn't come in what you had to do but I saying the same God showed me the picture here's what I realized regardless of what was happening around me or to me the thing that God showed me had to come to pass now you said what passed again suppose it wasn't God if you got the vision from the Word of God it is from God stop you he said what happened everybody let me you're not that special you're not so special that God would speak a word and give everybody hope but not you that is pride you don't know what up doing I'm just worried that is pride there's not humility for you to think that the Word of God can can show everyone the future but not you is Friday and faith does not begin to work even begin to be factored into the equation until you have a picture of Hope come ask you a question is there anybody here this believe God for family put your hand up leave it off for family okay I'm not gonna point anybody by Mercedes to the peoples believing God for family he even got for a family you need to get busy no no wait wait wait you see your mind's Jesus now that's involved but I mean okay but if if you believe in God for family watches now you you have to start saying it so we believe God for baby put a room together for the baby start putting pictures up of baby clothes start sending each other pictures start looking at little babies you think it's that game it's real that's a story in the Bible it's not where my nose but I gotta find it I need my scholars to find it it's the story of Jacob Jacob went to work for Laban Laban was cheating him out of his pain and the Bible says because Jacob had made a covenant with with God to give him a tenth of everything God signed on as Jacob senior financial partner so Jacobs being was being cheated and God said he can't go down like that so God did Jacob a dream here's what he said he said I want you to eat in the dream what he saw was um the cows were mating in front of spotted speckled and streaked um a popular plants popular plants and in what he said and as they as they made it in in a dream they will produce what they saw when he woke up when he woke up he went to Jake after late when I said Laban um listen ago renegotiate my pay and labor says sure he said what do you want and he said give me all the spotted speckled and street cows the problem with that is most of the cars are not spiral expect no street they the black brown Oh so labor was like this guy's an idiot okay that's a good deal they shook on it a good deal sign the contract well he didn't know was that God had shown Jacob a picture God showed Jacob a picture so what Jacob would do is he would he would take all the cards no matter what County had he what you he would peel the popular plant to the design he wanted cows to reproduce in and before long the Bible says most of labels cattle was spotted speckled and streaked and it became Jacob's cattle and he became Richard why because of what God showed him what is God showing you and you hear the word preach what do you see in the last 45 minutes I've been talking to you what pictures of God been showing you can you see yourself healed can you see yourself prospering so pastor I went to the doctor I still have it a friend of mine told me you see I mean I may die with it but not from it I mean I'm gonna live out the length of my days my questions can you can you see yourself recovering can you if you cannot see this then it was not gonna happen we don't we didn't get this from the world the world got this from the Word of God okay I got one more time almost is this blessing you yet cuz I'm gonna pay working hard Jesus I'm sweating the can off so I want to show you this picture and I believe it's appropriate to to give you this verse these verses so hope is a pictures of its vision everybody so hope is vision it's a vision of the future that God has in mind for you it's a blueprint or a rendering at safe harbor there's a picture of the building on the wall when you come in by the arm the understanding booth it's a picture of the building and will you cope when you go to Montgomery location is a picture of the building on the wall and when people most people come in these days they look at they go wow that's a picture of the building but they don't is that picture was there before the building looked like that really let me see what happen so when we're building the dome I met a guy in Utah and he was a renderer what he would do you can tell him what you saw and he would make a picture of it and he'll make it so picture like that you could frame it so when we finished the dome it was time to do say probably we bought a whole surface city building and it was time to renovate it and so I brought an architect in and the architect asked me says has the question he said so tell me what you see so I start getting the design the floor design of the inside we want to use this for the sanctuary we won't do this won't do that we wouldn't move we have some poles in there they were load-bearing poles I said battle I said you know it's crazy I see this space as a sanctuary but I don't see the poles how is it possible what's this in my mind I thought if we took the blood bearing poles down there woofle fall but when I saw this when God showed to me when I would walk through the seal I've seen this open spacing at the poles I kept telling architect I don't see these poles he's making notes he said okay he said dr. Ramsay what we're gonna do is he said we're gonna put your eye beam straight across here and we'll take all these opposed he said can we keep that last one here's what I did I went are you gonna wrap it in a wall he said yeah exactly he said how do you know I said yes let's keep the fault but he didn't know what I saw wall right there I'm not talking about something spooky and you know I'm talking about me just dreaming in concert with God and so at the end of it he says one more thing he said what are you gonna do outside I walked outside as God about witness there's a building across a building across the street called Max Federal Credit Union one of most beautiful buildings on the east side of Montgomery and I said I don't want our Billington look any different from that building point he looked around he goes okay he said what features of that building would you like and I said I want the glass I wanted I started to describe he started watch if he says he says he said he said I can't draw that he said can you give me a picture of what you see I said I have it for you in a week I called the guy Utah I said hey I wanted to send you a drawing I want you to turn into a rendering he said sure I sat down with a pencil and a paper and I drew it on a napkin but but it was a paper was like a big old napkin and I took a picture of it and and we actually literally back at him I mean we back in the day we scanned it and send it to him when it came back I went man that's beautiful the architect comes back to revisit the situation I said um I want you to see something he's okay I went I held up people I said can you do this he said can't we do that yeah I said how tell me how are you gonna do it and he said well we use this for that we use that for that what would he start to describe how he's gonna do it I said it has to look exactly like this he said we can do it I promise you he said now we have to match the color I said well the color doesn't make a difference you say although if you can make it exactly like that the color matters when I actually would I will tell Pastor Brian take a picture of what when they were doing the renovation take a picture and he was sent me these pictures I'm like that doesn't look like it's our drive up there and the guys like wait he say takes a minute to get it to look the way you want it to look then I come back and I said take a picture send me a picture getting the picture finally it started to take shape I said I'm coming up there I went up to see this I stood I drove into the parking lot got onaconda stood for my honest and oh my god it looked exactly like the rendering that I saw in my head and hazel the Lord spoke to my heart he said every part of your life is supposed to function just like this he said you have been speaking things you don't desire he says you he said you he said you've been you've been looking a situation and describing it is their defining it he was just saying what you saw you're not saying what you want and the Lord's that give me something to work with and that moment was so educational to me that when I took the rendering and I put it on the wall it had it in my office I'm moving from my office and I brought it out for everyone to see over the understanding booth so when people come in there's a talking piece I'll be standing with people in oh man picture you bid on set are the pictures of rendering is a difference everybody it's not a picture it's a rendering most a difference I need what's the difference this simple answer was a different kind of picture and a rendering here's a simplicity of it the rendering happens before it visualizes you could take a picture of something after it's done the rendering is the picture you draw to tell the Builder what its gonna look like here's my question to you what are you giving to God what are you saying to him when he speaks a word to you any cause used to hope what do you pray back to it what are you saying to him are you telling God God we don't have anything are you saying I'm so grateful that I have more than enough to fulfill all you've called me to do and you supply all my need according your riches and glory in Christ what's this are you saying to God don't nobody want me are you saying to God thank you and just saving me for the right person that you're hiding me in plain sight so whoever supposed to find me will find me and when the person finds me Lord they will meet your specifications what are you saying to God what are you saying to him I just don't have enough money are you saying God thank you that you supply all my needs according to Europe this business I don't know we gonna do it we don't have enough customers thank you Father that you send people from the north the South the East everything I just said to you it's in the Bible everything I've said to you these words I'm speaking I'm quoting scripture you say it back to God you speak his word back to me and there's nothing wrong saying God remember the useful to me and at times but it was same like you it like it's a long wait remember our hope requires waiting and what that do while I wait I thank him what did I do I began it thank you that the resources I need for this they're coming I think of the people they don't help me with this they're coming thank you Lord that when people walk with God thank you they want the right one with the right one it's tough you got your faith now because so confident of what God shows you and you refuse to let it go I'm gonna give you one more scripture we done almost good you put on a screen for me Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 11 my fact go to verse 9 Hebrews chapter 11 verse 9 so the Bible would overstate for context the Bible in this part of Hebrews chapter 11 tells the story of Abraham and Sarah this is by faith Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for inheritance simple word says he obeyed the world obeyed me he trusted God and he went out what's the next two words out loud what not know where he was going but the Bible says in verse 9 by faith he sojourned or he he settled down in the land of promise as in a strange country dwelling in Tabernacles or tents with Isaac and Jacob his son and grandson the ears of him is with him rather the same promise to the Burstein for he looked for a city which hath foundations whose maker whose make building makers God so if he's looking for City he's in this land he doesn't see the city let me he saw something inside of it that wasn't there yet you know what he saw he saw way down the road and he thought when God said it might he's gonna walk into that thing but it wasn't there yet become verse 11 through faith also Sara herself received what remember what faith is by seeing the picture first and becoming confident and it's gonna happen Sara herself received work strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was worked past age when she would must listen she was she was a late bloomer and the Bible says there's a reason for was a reason because she worked she judged him faithful who promised it wasn't that it was possible as a sheet is the way she how are you judging God today the question is how are you judging God she judged him faithful think of it she's judged she judged him fables problems with the verse 12 it says this therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead so many as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable look at the next next verse these are not when it says these are is speaking about Abraham and all the people that that's listed here so you should talk about Abraham Sarah Isaac Jacob they all died in faith having not having received the promises another was a God showed it was gonna happen he show them Christ but they died before it happened but where's my sense but haven't seen them notice the back said the back said they didn't receive him but they saw them and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed Edward has the thing they were persuaded of that they saw them number one number two they were persuaded of them number three they weren't embracing the before they what they confessed those four parts you see it you become persuaded by it now let me tell you the word persuasion is not convinced to be persuaded to be convinced two different things persuasion happens by argument let God argue you out of your position this will never happen to me get in the world let God argue with you they find faith says let's fight and the first fight of faith begins in you where God begins to show you a new version of you a new version of your future regarding begins to show you that what you see in your future what I seen your future are two different things you think because of where you've been you have no future I'm telling you I know the plans I have for you say the Lord I know what I have in store for you I didn't bring you this far I didn't braddock wouldn't go to all that I didn't keep you alive God said I didn't fight off your enemies you survived heartbreak and letdown and bankruptcy I've got you to this point how are you not gonna believe me now God said I will fight you for your future I will make sure that the thing I see for you is the thing that will come to pass do not give up on me now he says God has to persuade you and then you need to embrace it as your reality [Music] somebody said we never been around Billy before we don't even think around Billy could be built I saw a round building when I was watching Katrina that storm devastated New Orleans if that storm had taken her just a slight right turn it would hit Panama City Beach we would've gotten it when I saw that we were in a building progress in God we need to have a place for our people my son walked into my office he said that I've never heard of my our monolithic don't we showed me the dome here's the crazy part my son ray showed me the dog this was 12 years ago 13 years ago Rachel we're done now as we walk together it stands to reason they didn't in future he don't pass it in the dome they come on here don't tell me God doesn't see and he doesn't show you God knows every shot God knows exactly what he plans to do and he does dr. embrace come on I ain't done and you gotta confess it this time again right here gotta confess here but I gotta confess it when you start saying it at first you won't believe it I have more than enough for every knee after more than that for every deed when you first start singing God's been challenged he was gonna happen is God I would say I'm more than enough for every day that God said okay well gift to that person and I would say but I don't have enough God will challenge to see if you just saying it or even believe it such that I have more than enough for every need and God said I want you to meet that need right there when I start to see the pattern that every time I said I have more than enough dose of a give I start giving and I will do it so much first to show God I believe you then I will see the return it I realized God tricked me into his process God will trick you into his process God will cause you to fall in love with someone that needs you I'm not talking but romantic like I'm talking fall in love with a person that can't do for themselves fall in love with a homeless person fall in love with suck to minister to them so that he can bring his preference to pass in your life he will trick Emerson Lord trick me into your process it's but it's starting for you it's starting for you it's starting for you I'm doing it [Music] I say you know boy let me ask you this question who's softly Greg let me ask you scripture if you hear and it's a my heart really heavy you surpass you you have no idea the level of hopelessness that I'm swimming in right now he said a dangerous level I just I'm maintaining I'm making do but I can't see past this moment this season I mean I can't even see past it and I know I was in a I was sitting with my my arm my doctor the other day and my wife and I we went to you know in for my check I was go for my checkup someone make something good and Konev or they had us fill out this all mental health form I never done it before and I was asking these invasive questions like do you go through days of depression I might no no no no no so no I want it now I will talk to the doctor about some of the dark days I have sometimes I just feel a little down but then when the doctor gave me she had interns with her I was about to share my business from these interns so we left my wife goes she said now some days you get so down you get back in the bed I'm like that's I want to tell them that so I get it I'm gonna tell you something when you fight the good fight of faith some days the giant gets you and sometimes you get the giant but if you're facing consistent dark days where seems the enemy shuts you down you can't function you can't see a future you you keep telling yourself what is the use I need you to come to me right now I don't care who look and forget them I need you right here right now come come come come come come come right here

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Published: Mon Jan 13 2020