Faith Foundation :: Expect Effect (Part 1)

this message is from our series the expect effect pastor Michael explains what happens when we get the revelation of expectation I'm so excited about this series that we're going into today I want everybody to say the dis title with me say expect effect expect effect okay now I begin to get this title almost it probably was six to seven months ago um then I begin to say Lord what do you want to talk about in 2016 he said Michael if you are going to see he was talking to me personally he said if you were going to see the amazing things that I have for you in 2016 he said it's not going to be able to happen without you expecting it many of us are living this que sera sera life what that means is whatever will be will be we deal with circumstances we deal with situations but we don't expect for the great things that God has for us and I begin to allow God to speak to me I said alright god it's it's go time see when we talk about expecting something this is a sermon series about faith and expectation somebody say faith and expectation these two things are your key to everything you ever want to see and many of us in different seasons have one of the other but rarely do we have both working at the same time in our life many of us have faith to see something happen but we don't expect it some of us have expectation for something but we don't have faith to believe it and so what we're gonna do in the next five weeks the entire time of January we are about to go through a series that is about to empower you to a place that you have never been before I am so pumped to teach this series this is my thing I couldn't sleep last night I literally was rolling in my bed saying faith faith expect effects faith it's fake I woke up at one moment because I know this is about to unlock somebody's future I literally got up at 5:45 before my long went off this morning and I begin to walk around my house and pray I said God get him up get him here let him see it because I'm telling you today you're about to get a key that unlocks everything in your life starts with the expect effects so I'm gonna give you a principle that we have here at transformation Church it's what we call one of our culture codes at transformation Church we have 12 principles that we call our culture codes and it's the thing that dictates how we do what we do and why we do what we do and one of those things is faith and if you've never seen this culture code you can look it up online and get all 12 of them or you can get one of the magazines out there and get them but I want you to know this because this is being a part of this local body it's what we do so this culture code of faith says this we have faith in God we have faith in people and we have faith for miracles I want everybody to say that with me we have faith in God we have faith in people and we have faith for miracles I want you to say it one more time we have faith in God say we have faith in people we have faith for miracles this is how you have to live your life faith in God faith in people faith for miracles the reason that we set that as one of our culture codes at this church is because we are not going to see the amazing thing God wants to do in our lives if we don't have faith and many of you I can look at your faces I can see your situations I can look at your Instagram posts and I can see that your faith has waned your faith is at a place where it's kind of low or no you know how your your car if you have gas in it but it's getting to that place where the gas is on empty and some of y'all y'all know how much further pass II your car can actually go before it stops and you praying and you wishing and it's putting and put put put put put put that's where a lot of people's faith are right now you can't believe God to go anywhere because you don't have the fuel of faith to get there you can you can want to see a destination but the faith has not been filled up to the point where you can get to that place and today you're coming to a filling station and some of the faith that you've been lacking to take the step some of the faith that you've been lacking to start the business some of the faith that you've been lacking to step away from situations you're about to get it in this series because the eyes of your understanding are about to be opened and you're going to see that faith is the foundational thing that you need we will have faith in God faith in people and faith for miracles somebody just needs to declare that one more time over their life for 2016 in 2016 I will have faith in God faith in people and faith for miracles some of y'all got to faith in God part but the faith in people part now they don't hurt me too many times now I've seen I've seen how they act now in this church and my last church I was only and I was serving I was doing everything but I got hurt so i'ma stay in the back God says that what's happened to you is not what's going to happen to you and some of us in this room are cheating on our future with our past you your future is the thing that God wants to take you to but every time he tries to show you it you look back to see what your past is and so your future is always delayed by your past it's time to let that go this year you're gonna have faith in people well pastor I don't want to be ignorant and go back into that same situation again baby girl you so closed up right now darkest in the right person and you'd still say no but it's time for our faith in people to be ignited but that's only gonna come through God and faith for miracles this is that thing that church people say and it's a cliche and people will live their whole Christian life and never see one miracle not me and not this church when we read in the Bible of people's limbs going back that Jesus touching people's eyes and their sight being restored when we read about him meeting resources to pay the government taxes and he said he got the money in it and he literally picks up something and pulls out money out of it why don't we see miracles like that today number one cuz you don't expect it number two because you don't have faith to believe God can do it what do you mean pastor that stuff don't happen no more is because you don't believe no more anywhere in the Bible where God healed somebody the woman with the issue of blood she literally had been through every doctor in the u.s. let's say and nobody could heal her but her face and her expectation mixed to a place where she convinced herself nobody gave her a word if I just press my way and touch the hem of His garment I know not I think not it'd be nice I know I would be healed that woman crawled scratched tugged push bleeding the whole way uncomfortable no pads or tampons go in to the thing of God oh I'm for real now get the picture in your head you think you got a circumstance she pressed her way and after moment her faith and expectation met she was delivered healed and set free she saw a miracle in when she was so cold with her faith and expectation that God wasn't even looking at her and he said oh shoot some just left me he looked at his disciple and said who touched me and there was like everybody is touching you Jesus your celebrity for inner MOSFET he said no there's a lot of people around but there's somebody with faith there's a lot of people in this building there's a lot of people that claim to follow me they're following it but there's somebody here with some faith and they touched me with their faith and their expectation see I'm trying to get you to understand that there is nothing that you will ever see in this life that is too big for God to deliver into your hands a healing he can completely eradicate your body of any disease that it is filled with at this very moment any STD any terminal disease and any cancer but see we have more faith in what the doctor says then in the faith of what Jesus Christ did on the cross for us and so what happens is faith works no matter what you put it in when you apply your faith to a negative report your faith begins to grow in the negative report some of you have heard all your life that you'll be broke that you'll be on welfare and then something happens to reinforce it and your faith gets strengthened in it I thought I was going to school on a full-ride now I got all these student loans I got to my third year of my degree and now I had to drop out because I got pregnant it just seems like I'm a being the system forever it just seems like I'm the devil as a liar I'm coming in to declare to you that if you can get the faith the size of a mustard seed Jesus said I don't even need a lot of it I just need you to have some and don't doubt that little bit and if you can have that amount of face some of y'all so scared to step out in business like you even got something to lose think about everything you got right now could you get that back in your lifetime yes you ain't even got nothing oh god I just don't know come on step out in faith and believe God to give you ideas and put face with your works and see something amazing happen stop sitting on what God has given you to show himself strong imma say it again cuz you missed it stop sitting on what God is giving you to show himself strong if you could do it in you you would have done it but he knows you're gonna need him put your faith in Him and he'll begin to show himself strong is that's the person that used to work at Taco Bell that now owns three years later a multi-million dollar communication company yeah and I don't even know how to work my cell phone but I have not put y'all on hear me but I put my faith we stopped believing we we've heard what what has been presented to us and we take that as face value and before we ever get to the expect effect we have to have a foundation of faith so today before I go into the four weeks of the the actual expect effect next week I'm going to talk about expectation revelation and how when you did an expectation and you get a revelation of it it'll change everything in your life but before I go there I have to first make sure you have a foundation of faith because faith and expectation are the wings of the same bird it's the wings two different wings of the same plane and what happens is many of us have taken flight with only one wing we have a hope we have a dream and that's the body of the plane and then we get our faith out there I'm about to take off and I'm gonna see a whole new you get out tells you you think you're gonna fly and you start speeding up and you go and what happens is because you don't really expect what you have faithful it's a short flight to the ground then you get discouraged and you hobble back and many of our dreams and plans are sitting in hangars they're sitting on runways waiting for somebody to come and fix us now submit to you that God through his word and through revelation is about to give some of y'all another wing today that things you tried last year that that literally weren't able to go cuz you just didn't have faith and expectation he's about to give you both of them and literally it's gonna be easy to fly this time cuz you're gonna believe it you're gonna hope for it and then you're gonna expect it somebody say faith foundation okay so I want everybody to just think for a second close your eyes just get focused on all the things you desire to happen in 2016 come on just think about it some of y'all want your homes paid off some of you want to be promoted on your job some of you want to walk free from the addiction come on the things you desire the things that you want in this year some of you wanna get marry some right now when I walk in abundance where they can bless other people be generous okay open your eyes now I ask you what you desire and we could have spent the next 30 minutes talking about what we desire but now my question is how many of you expect those things to happen now after my pep talk some of y'all like yes Amen but for many of us that list would have gone down considerably because we want it to happen we don't expect it to happen we think thoughts like this it'd be nice if it would man that would be great but we don't expect it and what God is telling all of us in this place that we have to go back to a place that all of us were at one time you had a level of faith and expectancy that was outmatched to anything you've ever experienced as an adult it was when you were a child when you were a child just go back with me for one second does anybody remember Christmas as a child or the day before your birthday when you was young before your dreams got shattered before you knew how much stuff costs before you understand what I'm saying before your parents heard you get a job do you understand what I'm saying before all of that do you remember your birthday your Christmas and landing your bed at night and so much exhilaration and an anticipation for what was about to happen that you could barely sleep you literally were looking at presents trying to figure out what they were you lose something amazing was gonna happen to you the next day you heard any noise and you wake up and start looking you couldn't wait until you weren't even hungry the next day they're like we're gonna eat breakfast I'm not hungry I just want to see what had a tech spec tation and my question is when's the last time we felt like that concerning anything that God promised us when's the last time that we woke up and said I can't do anything else except wait to see what God has for me in this day that means we've lost our expectation and God tells us this in Matthew 18:3 he says I tell you the truth this is Jesus talking unless you turn from your sins and become like little children you will never get into the kingdom of heaven when he's saying that he's not saying if you if you don't turn from your sins and become immature he says if you don't become like little children in your faith and expectation you'll never get all that I have for you why is it that when you were a baby believer God spoke more than he does now you've been saved for 10 years it's because somewhere along the way we started believing doubt we started well it didn't happen for them the devil is a liar but yes there'll be times that because of God's sovereign this some things won't happen in the season that don't mean stop don't stop believing I think about my daughter Isabella she's too and she believes everything her daddy says I mean literally if daddy says we're gonna have a popsicle she begins not only to believe it but she goes and declares it to other people look what a child does she says daddy can have a popsicle yes baby you can have a popsicle mommy daddy said I can have a popsicle no need daddy said I can have a popsicle Nana daddy said I can have a popsicle she hasn't seen it yet and she doesn't even know where it's coming from but she believes what daddy say that's the level of faith we have to have when it comes to everything in our life what is daddy promised you he promised that I'd be the head and not the tail why are you the last on that job why are you always getting no no no no no no no no my daddy said that I would be the head I'm coming for your job boo see what you don't know is why you treating me wrong you might want to treat me right because daddy called me that there's no way I can stay at this place at this job because my daddy called me the head and not the tail see y'all playing but we don't got faith like that we'd rather just deal with the circumstance we would rather crown our circumstance King and worship that will bow and submit to our circumstance well they did tell me this and they did take that and they did said I wasn't qualified enough and they did say the devil is a liar what did daddy say about you what did God tell you he said that you will be the lender so how can you stay broke if daddy has promised you something else the only way you can't receive a gift is if you deny it and many of us have been denying what daddy's already saying I'm here to encourage you your faith and your expectation that God wants you to take you take you to a place individually that you will be able to stand and not declare the word you will be able to stand and you will be living the word no I want everybody to hear me I want people to look at my life and see the Scriptures walking in a six-foot-two suit and be able to say that's a man that's blessed in the city blessed in the field blessed when he comes blessed when he go oh that's what it looks like that's a family that says that as for him and his house we will serve the Lord that's a man that will stand and say his children's children will stand up and call them bless oh that man is walking with the proverbs 31 woman did you understand I don't want me to have to tell them the scriptures look at my life watch me watch me ooh watch me dearly say what I'm saying I want them to be able to watch me but that only happens when our faith can take us to a place that we really believe God Church I want you to understand that if you don't have a foundation of faith nothing else you receive will be able to last I'm gonna make this very plain faith is the most fundamental thing of your Christian life and it is the most important thing that you need to invest in you need to invest in your faith I'm gonna say it again you need to invest in your faith intentionally what do you mean Pastor Mike you have to put things in your view in your hearing in your atmosphere that encourage you to see beyond what you see right now hear me if you do not you will be at the same place for a very long time mad at God cuz he didn't move but God says I'm sitting here with everything you need I'm just looking for the faith to pay for it money doesn't move God faith moves God so God showed me illustration he said Michael everything you need is behind my back all I'm asking for just for the sake of the analogy it's $30 worth for faith well god only have $3 worth of thing and it was enough to get me saved and I haven't done anything with this $3 of faith I'm save st. that's why I feel with the Holy Ghost with the evidence as ringing in tongues but I'm not seeing miracles I'm not seeing anything and God says if you just get around the right people and the right atmosphere every time you open the word you get an another dollar of faith see see you missed it the reason why some of you are so low in your faith is because you get paid every time in faith every time you open the Bible if you knew you was getting $10 every time you read the word some of y'all be reading a word all the time some of y'all what I'm saying is you're getting faith every time you read the word and God's saying I got a whole business for you but you gotta get your faith up will you be able to pay for with faith not money not experience not not qualification with faith what I have for you so our foundation of faith has to be the bedrock which everything is laid on so I'm just gonna talk to you a few scriptures I want to give you an equation and I want you to write this down because you'll see at work in this entire series faith plus expectation equals miracles I want you to write it down just like it would be an equation faith plus expectation equals miracles this can be applied in every area of your life if you get faith in something and then you did an expectation with it will end up in result in miracles in your life this is the key to your whole 2016 but I don't understand well i'ma break it all the way down for you if you can begin to get a visual of what God wants for you or what you even desire this is the beautiful thing about faith is faith don't even have to have permission for God it's a principle in the world some of y'all just got scared over that there are people that do not serve God who have faith in something oh you you plant their faith in something enough to put an expectation with it and it turns into facebook something that wasn't seen he called those things that were non-existent and he put an expectation in the next five years everybody will use my sub now a miracle has happened in that baby the church everybody begging that baby for money why cuz a miracle happened when he put faith in expectation together I want you to see that believers get an added bonus that when we put faith in expectation together then God gives a supernatural insight to stuff we can't see with our natural eyes you're walking to a business meeting and God don't say this ain't the one won't even say a word and I said we're excited about doing business with you so you know what I have to leave we're not even going see you get so you get CIA agent Holy Spirit on your side and so what ends up happening is you get to mix faith expectation and foresight see when you're not saved you gotta run into every wall when you are saved the word says that good step built the steps of a good man our move to the left move to leave that job take that job they get ordered and so what your faith does is it starts to produce a life that you get to reap the benefits of living a saved life see miracles happen be an example for God and you get to do it while looking good look at you I'm trying to help somebody see that faith plus expectation equals miracles now let me bring this clarity to you faith and expectation are not the same thing but they were always meant to go together they were meant to go together like peanut butter and jelly and I say like Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen they were meant to be together like jasmine and Aladdin they were meant to be together like sriracha and anything else maybe that last one was for me but they were meant to be together okay so I want to talk about expectation and real bad the Holy Spirit rang me back he said tell him about the faith foundation someone give you six things about faith that you need to know as we move in this series number one faith in God comes first faith in God comes first if you don't believe that it's the will of God for you to be healed delivered walk in abundance be set free you won't expect God to heal you deliver you and set you for you won't expect it if you don't believe that God can you don't believe that he will Point Blank period let me give you another analogy you never expect anything from somebody you don't believe in if you have a deadbeat dad okay and he says I'm gonna be here on Saturday and I'm gonna take your family is separated and you said I'm gonna be here on Saturday and Saturday comes and they're not there the first time you like okay well maybe you'll come next one next Saturday I'll be there the next Saturday comes he won't be there and so then you just give up and then by the time you're 18 then they want to make another charge back into your life and at that point you say I'm coming to give you your graduation gift and in your mind you like graduation gifts I don't expect anything from somebody I don't believe in that's why we have to make sure that our faith is really in God not this church irreligious I believe your God I'm talking about in your heart because until you believe him you can't expect nothing from me when a situation in a circumstance happened you don't turn to God you turn into whatever one that you believe in that's why believers can come to church but they get in a tight situation they believe in alcohol more than they believe in God so they expect that the alcohol will relieve their pain instead of God giving them peace so they turn to the alcohol does everybody that's why we have to have a faith foundation that's why you think that your relationship with God is is it's just a good relationship to have it's the relationship to have because everything you need is found in God but what we do in this earth suit is we walk around and we try to feel God holes only places that he can feel with things that feel good for a moment but they never last us and so what happens is it begins to wear on our faith and so we stop believing in God we start believing in other things and we still left empty at the end of the day how many people have tried it your way and still felt empty at the end of the day here's what I'm saying to you if you don't have faith in God first you won't expect God to do anything for you okay does everybody understand that go to mark 11:22 and I want you to see this because it's funny because this is how we do a lot of time let me set the backstory Jesus and His disciples are leaving a city and going into another city and Jesus was hungry and this just makes me excited I say this every time I talk about this scripture because it just lets you know the humaneness of Jesus Jesus like man I am hungry and there is no McDonald death around anywhere this smug I want to make doubles and I don't I can't find one and so what he says is he walks up to this fig tree and he was like okay I'm gonna give me some figs off this tree and the fig tree was not producing fruit and Jesus y'all know you can't be called the fig tree and not producing no fruit he said I curse you fig tree you will never ever produce any more fruit wither up and die and this was on a Tuesday and he walked into the city on Wednesday he came back and they was just walking past because they were going on their journey and Peter said robot yo yo check this out yo Jesus this fig tree actually died and then Jesus looked at Peter like he looks at many of us when we find out his word is true you you're shocked that what I said I did and this is where we pick up on the conversation mark 22 verse of mark 11 verse 22 it said then jesus said to the Stifel look at this have faith in God this is first the first thing he says to them is have faith in God he said I tell you the truth and this is God speaking to you you can say to this mountain may you be lifted up and thrown into the sea and it will happen but you must really believe it will happen and have no dark doubt in your heart I tell you you can pray for anything did it say some things you can pray for anything and if you believe that you've received it it will be yours but when you are praying first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against so that your father in heaven will forgive your sins to what Jesus is saying to us is I'm always gonna do what I said I'm gonna do all you gotta do is have faith in God believing don't doubt see this is the thing that I have been um I'm gonna say obsessing over but continuing bringing before the Lord because I know this is the key to everything that God wants to do in my life if I just believe him and don't doubt there is nothing impossible for God and so many of you this word is having to wash over you because I'm coming against yours disappointment I'm coming against years of broken promises yeah I'm coming against years of you stepping out and feeling like nobody was with you listen this faith walk I do this alone me and Natalie have been believing God for things that people are aged and people that have our qualification haven't believed for in years and let me tell you what God has done for me he said because of your audacious faith to believe I'll take you to places people can't even think of this is not a group decision can I just be real with you if y'all don't get this I don't care cuz my faith is that God as I put my trust and my belief in him for me and my household he's gonna raise us up to a place that will be able to be said that nobody gets the glory except God do you know that this is where hating comes in the church cuz some of y'all just got mad when I said that right there how to pass that out that he don't care listen Pookie cuz you hear me because you don't want this it's available to you but you're gonna have to sacrifice something again it's available to every one of us but our faith in God comes first everybody say first and then Paul gives us more insight to this in 2nd Corinthians 5 chapter 5 verses 6 and 7 it says and and this is how we know that we have to have faith in God but not just for heaven we have to have faith in God on this earth okay so many people just trying to make it to heaven we're gonna be there for all of eternity guys there's no rush for that we're gonna be there but enjoy life I'm not talking the world standards of enjoying life I'm talking about the life that God tells us that he said I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly that the fruits of the spirit would abound in your life that you would walk in joy love he's kind of those are the things that will allow you to join like listen heavens coming and if you want to go okay you know Mary Mary had I want to go to him I skip that song every time no I'm not I'm not ready yet I want to see my kids you understand what I'm saying honor I want to see some things when if he comes I'm ready but um okay anyway and many believers all the world is going down the word is going to hell in a handbasket you ain't doing nothing to change it God sent us here to be ambassadors of heaven we're supposed to be reflecting what's happening up there here on earth and you're trying to get there anything I need you down there okay so this scripture Paul tells us that we're supposed to trust in God and walk in faith on this earth 2nd Corinthians 5 verses 6 & 7 it says so we are always confident knowing that while we are at home in the body in the body we are absent from the Lord so we're not in heaven we're on earth now what does it tell us to do on earth for we walk by faith and not by sight Paul is trying to give us a key of how to live this life you don't live it by sight you live it by faith can can I help you let me let me paint a picture for you when you see how you walk naturally is you see where you want to go and you begin to move that way that's how we naturally walk we see if there's if there's an obstruction in the way we see it and we move there and then we walk where we want to go Paul is saying in the spiritual on this earth we don't use how we see we use our faith so we faith where we want to go and walk that way my nitro site will tell me one thing but my faith tells me another thing so I got a doctor's with support that said I have a chronic disease but my faith says that I am healed delivered and set free so I do not walk by this doctor's report I walk by faith and I head that way see the problem with most of us is that we would rather believe what we see than what our faith says and so we walk by what we see see the thing is when a situation arises in your life you're supposed to respond first with faith not fear if they call you right now as soon as you got out church we are sorry to tell you this mr. Johnson but you have lost your job some of y'all just right there if your last name is Johnson your heart started beating fast because automatically we start to think what that means for what we see our house kids think I know I have a family I was about to pay off this loan did that I doubt it out of that I'm at the moment tribulation comes to me you say what who did what they take him wet cool god I remember your promise to me and you said there would be no thing in this world that I would have to lack because I trust you and I honor you so I know what I see but my faith sees me whole prosperous and walking in abundance so I'm gonna make this next step not in fear but in faith so I'm gonna face my way into this next move and I'm going to see it y'all better not mess with me because I'll faith my way into a promotion I'll faith my way into a new home see what you don't understand is you're waiting for your money to line up and God is waiting for your faith to line up hear what I'm saying the relationship you're looking for is not gonna come by just you going to counseling your face has to begin to believe that God is about to move on this situation you that you got to faith your way into some situations that's why that's why your faith in God has to come first can I tell you a real-life story God begins to show me he said Michael cuz I used to when I was he God worked this in me at a very young age I've been believing God big for a long time like I can remember when I was eight and nine believing for stuff that was just stupid no see am i telling the truth always at fourteen years old I got a dream that I wanted a brand new drum set and boy uh you know I could have had any type of drum set but I wanted a custom made now I'm 15 with no job some of y'all just y'all tell your kids shut up and sit down but I'm thankful for my parents cuz they never crushed my dream not one time I'm thinking about it there is nothing that I ever said that they said that's impossible parents hear me don't crush your kids dream because you didn't have the faith to believe it no hear me no don't don't diminish what God's trying to birth in them and actually it was supposed to happen three generations ago but they got it cuz everybody passed it up don't crushin them what God's trying to build I begin to believe God at 15 years old for a drum set and I didn't have money this drum set cost ten thousand dollars fifteen just want you to put the equation together fifteen Dave Eiland fifteen ten thousand dollar drum set and he said well believe God son that's all the license I needed so word tells us that faith without words is what I have no money couldn't get a job so what did I do I drew the drumset I took ten days to get a protractor y'all member with a protractor is I got a protractor out a ruler shading pencils and I can't draw no I'm serious and I had one sheet of paper good erasers and I spent time drawing every detail of that drumset and I hung it up in my wall in my room and I told everybody some people went to school with me I had it in my binder as a picture people would literally be looking at my binder my father never like what is that I said that's the drum set I'm about to give and see some of y'all so confused right now she's like that is too much when our drum set you don't have to be in my face okay this ain't about you boo but this is what he said if I asked for anything I want you to bring this down to the most basic a drum set do I need a drum set to be saved no but I wanted it see God is not interested in just meeting your needs he wants to give you the desires of your heart but you scared the dream you scared to ask God for anything but other than your bills being paid I'm sick of seeing the church so oppressed and depressed over some wack little bougie sleaze like that beating Carla's to be poor he called us to reach the poor and help the poor but it's gonna take your faith going to another level I begin to draw that thing I put it on display I told people listen I had enough faith to ask people for money I'm 15 years old walking around for my birthday don't give me nothing just give towards my drum set I have friends at school giving to my drum set back then I was still you know a little player player so I would be talking to the girls like girl this drum set it's drug sales down trying to get it to be able to play I had them giving me a little lunch somewhere I ain't care God was still working on me you understand but listen he won't even work to your stuff if he sees faith y'all long story short the drum set that you saw me play for the little drummer boy that was the drum set that I got on my 16th birthday that was my faith in action now hear what I'm saying to you it didn't come just cuz I wanted it it came because I believed and I had faith that would believe in God first I knew if it was going to happen God had to do it even if he was going to use my parents see some of us act like it's not God because you see who it's coming from Tommy and Brenda did not have eight thousand extra dollars sitting around my faith attracted money to their account you missed it see you think it's them but it's my faith bringing money to a conduit to get me what I need I'm telling you believe in your faith God will attract money to the business so you can get the raise day you need God will use anything to meet his children at the level of their faith he'll use anything okay so I want you to know that your faith in God is first go to Hebrews 11:1 this is a familiar passage to everybody but but I'm about to hope to give some revelation some revealed truth in it right now um it says now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen okay now that just what happened is how I hear it every time I say now faith is the substance of things to--for my momma said uh-huh it's the evidence of things not seen and what happens is that's what it becomes in our mind is a cliche if we can't it become something that we've heard and we realize but it's become powerless over time because we don't really know what it means so I'm gonna take those two things and show you what faith is point number two we have point number one with faith and God comes first point number two faith is a result of hope it says now faith is the substance it's a matter it's a thing that comes from you hoping for something my question is what are you hoping for what are you desiring what are you anticipating in this year the sad thing about it is most of us have stopped hoping for God to do something we'll take whatever you got God just let us get through the year and he's saying once you realize your faith in God is solidified now start hoping for something I hope that your house gets paid off this year for some of y'all when I said that even though I'm only in the second year of debt fine take the 30 years that that don't bother God but he has access for you to get something different see he is asking us to start hoping for things today prophetically I'm taking the limit off of your hope I believe by the spirit that you're gonna begin to see things in your dreams you're gonna begin to see things that you desire and you're going to begin to everybody say hope if you don't hope for the business to be successful if you don't hope for multiple locations if you don't hope no one had happened yet but that will stop me from hoping but some of us are so feel fearful and we're fear I'm fearful of failure and we're so concerned about what people think of us that it will cut us from hoping and God says your hope and your faith is a product of your hope the reason you ain't got more faith because you ain't hoping for nothing that's what the scripture says faith is the substance the byproduct of things that you're hoping for God why is my face so low cuz you're not hoping for anything and I release you to begin to desire I release you to begin to hope for things well what if it doesn't happen what if it does well what if it does what if it doesn't manifested the way I want it to what if it does manifest the way you exactly you want what you wanted to listen my thing is in God my hope is in him that's what the word tells us that we put our hope in God and so once we do that we can begin to hope for other things we can hope that our attitudes change I've been this way for 15 years but you can hope to change it and this is what I want to let everybody know is that your faith then begins to increase because it's the byproduct of you hoping for something look at first Peter 1:3 says praise be to God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ in his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a Living Hope God wants your hope living again I literally see you know when somebody's dead and then they bring the ambulance and they rub the things together and they say clear that's what God is doing to some of your hope this morning he's waking it up hope for the things that seem impossible hope for the things that are out of your reach think big everybody say think big stop thinking small that's why when I talk about this church I'm hoping that the doors built off of this place with people look at ya I'm on ya I don't care cuz there's a visionary of this house God gave me faith in hope to believe yourself I believe I am come fully convinced that this trucks will have doubled by this time next year thank you for the four people of faith here but this is the great thing about faith and hope that all of that can work just on my hope in my face I don't need your agreement I've got enough to believe that God can do what he said he would do because he said it to me and I faith to believe it stop looking for agreement and look for faith I want somebody to see that your hope will produce faith in your life look at Romans 8:24 25 it says we are given this hope when we were saved you got it when you got saved you got a Living Hope when you got saved now watch a doc this is NLT version it says if we already have something we don't need to hope for it how many y'all in the car that you driving to me like I hope for this car that I'm driving you're always hoping for the new year the better mileage is the bet you understand what I'm saying look the word knows everything it says but if we look forward to something we don't yet have it gives us criteria of how we hope we wait patiently and confidently see these are two things that really become the the testing of our faith either we wait patiently but we started getting doubtful or we wait confidently and we want it to happen right now and God says I'm gonna give you two things that go and kind of work against each other but they're gonna work for your good I need you to wait patiently so that means it may take some time but I need you to be confident the whole time you wait that's why your hope is so important last one that I love Romans 12:12 it says rejoicing in Hope see member hope produces faith patient and tribulation there gonna be some trials but be patient in them and continually steadfastly in prayer that's what we're doing in this 21 days of fasting and praying tomorrow I want you to come hoping for something I don't want you to push away your plate and and come for prayer on a wheel you better have some specific hopes I'm believing that my business will trip I'm believing that my son or daughter that far from God is coming back to Christ I believe you better see some of us we try to give God room so in case he doesn't do it how we think that he's still God Oh y'all know the prayers I'm talking about God just changed my situation and make it better however you want to do that God says to come to his throne of grace boldly I'm specific god I need a twenty thousand dollar increase in my income this year and I'm hoping for it look some of y'all oh my god I will never come to God like that you'll never have it never will happen I'm trying to encourage you that God is not intimidated by your prayers he's not intimidated by your plans he's not intimidated by the dreams he placed in your heart when he told Noah build the ark I bet know was like okay I'll build a little boat and he started seeing the supplies come and he started to say hold on this plan is bigger than what I thought he'd say yeah cuz you got to put two of every animal on this month what I'm thinking is way bigger than what you're thinking and what God is saying to us today I need you to start thinking big cuz then that's when I get to come in because I want to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think or even a man if you don't take the limits off of your thinking and of your hoping you tap God and you just get the bare minimum of what he's giving you in this Christian life okay so so we know that faith is the result of our hope 0.3 it says in that scripture it says it's the evidence of things not seen point number three faith is evidence of my future faith is evidence of my future can I break it down for you on faith anytime you need evidence they ask for evidence when you need proof if you're in a court case they say is there any evidence that they're saying is there any proof that this is happening this is the beautiful thing of God about God that he gives us something that we can obtain at any place in any state in our life and we don't have to have education to do it we don't have to have a certain amount of money we don't have to be married into a certain family we don't have to have this status or nots that we don't have to have anything all we have to do is believe and God says that your faith is proof of things that are not yet seen so when you get faith you get proof that something is happening in my future that's not in my hand I'm going to show you this again when our faith to believe for that drum said I saw it before I saw it okay it's it's it's the thing that I saw in the spirit in my imagination and in my thoughts before I ever laid hands on it and what happened is because I had faith in that moment it was proof to me not to everybody it was proof to me and God me and God knew that we had a transaction on the way he knew that everything in the cosmos was beginning to line up around my faith and it was being attracted to me because I have faith he said that's your receipt son let me give you an example faith is like the receipt for an online order some of y'all shop online if you don't you need to okay I hoped for pair of shoes I got in the atmosphere where I could find them I put my faith in works together and purchase them and I get faith as a receipt it's not yet in my hand but I know it's on the way that's what your faith does for you it proves you know what I don't see this situation changing but I have faith and so that's proof that my future is there something what I see right now I want everybody to understand that as you walk in your faith if you increase your faith it gives you hope for the future your hope is encouraged your future is encouraged that's how you can walk through a situation right now and still be smiling cuz I know where my faith is it's not in what I'm seeing it's not in what I've experienced saying what I know I've already purchased by this faith and it's coming to pass for me fourth point faith pleases God Hebrews 11:6 it says but without faith it is impossible to please him for he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him do you even think that he'll reward you if you'll seek him that's the faith that has to come from this and you say it's impossible to please God yeah why cuz faith is in his DNA it is a core characteristic of who God is and so that's why it has to be a core characteristic of who we are Hebrews 11:3 it says by faith we understand that the worlds were framed he made everything by faith and it was by the Word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which are visible I want you to understand how big faith is to God it's the whole thing Galatians 2:20 some of you know this I'm just giving you scriptures to build your faith it says I've been crucified with Christ it's no longer I who live but Christ in me that lives and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Ephesians 6 16 it says above all taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one 1st Timothy 4:12 one of my favorite ones and this is for all the young people in the house it said let no one despise your youth but be an example to all believers in Word and conduct in love and spirit in faith and impurity those are the areas that the enemy attacks our generation the most I want you to look at those he makes sure that we talking crazy he makes sure that our conduct is is iffy he makes sure that we love people conditionally he makes sure that our spirit men is dead he makes sure that our faith is low and that our purity is non-existent it's time to reverse that faith is important everybody gets that now and forced to expect something we have to have faith so how do I increase my faith Pastor Mike I'm glad you asked my fifth point faith grows by the word what happened to you in this place today is your faith group what happens to you when you get in your Bible tonight and tomorrow on this fast your face is gonna grow what happens when you go to our podcast and listen to the messages or you listen to other preachers and other things your faith begins to grow by the word Romans 10:17 it says so then faith this is another formula faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God Church it's a big topic but it's a very simple answer read your Bible be ible yes that's the books for me stand up on the Word of God to be ible if we looked at your life do you do it is that's what's actually happening is it I stand up on the Word of God you only can stand on something if it's a foundation in your life you got to read the Bible some of y'all are leaders and don't read the Bible you got enough skirt I got enough scripture you better get in that word again it's life it's Revelation well I used to but in my schedule I'm busy now make time do you know I took all that I timed myself on all the time I spent scrolling in a day and it was over three hours all the time I spent texting scrolling up Facebook and Instagram it it's a test yourself see how much time you're looking at people say praise the Lord on the Instagram me with my cousin all those other thing your faith is not growing at all does everybody understand and so then when God tries to get you to believe for something there's nothing to pull on okay you got to read your word and can I submit this to you that faith works in Reverse too so faith comes by hearing and it's giving you the right answer to the test you need to hear the word of God but faith also comes by whatever you hear watch so if you are hearing things about lack poverty and and and and just being broke your faith will increase in those things if you're hearing faith come by hearing if you're hearing things about lust and perversion and you listen to Chris Brown all day and you and Trey Songz is the this is what you're going for Teddy Pendergrass whatever you want to listen to something like that ain't me okay we'll go orphan and fire on you if you're allowing those things to continue to permeate in your mind faith come by what are you listening to what are you allowing into your gates some of y'all have more faith in what cookie and and lucious Lyon do on Empire than you do on what the Word of God does they're building a kingdom that was made up and he's building a kingdom that's everlasting I'm not coming against you for watching that but what I'm saying is is your faith stronger and that than it isn't this some people had a connection when they canceled one series one show they canceled a show for the world series and people's like ah you cannot come to church for a year and be okay what's your faith in see faith comes by and it's giving you the right answer hearing the Word of God lasting faith is priceless I want you to hear me say this so clearly that you have to start investing in your faith and get a foundation of faith that's strong because it's price less I want you to look at this scripture in 1st Peter chapter 1 verses 4 through 9 and it says and we have a priceless inheritance inheritance that is kept in heaven for you pure and undefiled beyond the reach of change in decay and through your faith God is protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see verse 6 so be truly glad there is a wonderful joy ahead even though you must endure many trials for a little while many trials for a little while many trials for a little while many trials for little I want to save that that's part of the plan many trials for a little while some of y'all should be encouraged and take joy because it's almost over it's many trials that 2015 some of us had a lot of trials but it was many trials for a little while I want everybody to see that why these trials will show that you're don't you love the Word of God so this is happening to me on purpose this is not just so that I can suffer and go no it's just trying to make sure that your faith is genuine that when you lift your hands in the presence of God and say God you're all I need that's not a cliche that's what you truly mean when it say father God I don't care who leaves me if I walk through the valley you were there if I'm on the mountaintop you were there he's just trying to make sure when you say what you say what you post is genuine so many trials for a little while does everybody get it it's on purpose he says so your face will be genuine he said it's being tested it's fire tests and purifies goals washes though your faith is far more precious than mere gold so when your faith remains strong remains strong through many trials it will bring you much praise and glory and I see those are the things that that we really want to see they don't mean bring much praise glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world time for us to invest in our faith because it's priceless the effective expect it can't start in your life until you have a foundation of faith next week I'm gonna talk about what expectation will do what it will bring what comes I'm so excited to give you this but if you don't ask give me a fresh revelation of having faith in you then everything you built will be built on sand and you'll be frustrated the thing that I'm finding about a lot of Christians is they were taught wrong and so they'll do one step without the other and they'll be like what happened but you can't bake cake without mixing the ingredients if you just put the ingredients in a pan and put it in the oven it's not gonna come out like the picture and what happens is many times we miss steps and what's happening then we get frustrated we like forget it but I'm trying to give you step by step line upon line precept upon precept how are you gonna get to the miracle part first you have to have faith because once you get faith then you get expectation it's going to produce miracles in your life right now I want you to put your Bibles down and I just want everybody to close your eyes just for a second and we're going to do as we do at the end of every service if you're watching online we want you to do this as well I want you to just close your eyes not in a religious act but we just want to ask the Holy Spirit what are you trying to say to me in this mess come on you ask him right now God what are you trying to say to me and then actually listen to you because I believe God is trying to speak to each one of us individually we know that there's areas in our life that we need more faith we need our faith in God to be first we need to know that when we get faith it comes from our hope we need to know that our faith tells us about our future that faith pleases God and our faith is priceless God today as a church we desire for you to strengthen our faith your word says that you'll take us from glory to glory and from faith to faith I declare that every person will be able to experience another level of your faith the faith of God and this year speak to us individually Lord even as we start this fast thank you Father God that we will begin to hope for some things that no there's nothing outside of the scope of what you want to provide for us but we have to believe you without doubt God I break off fear to believe you God and I thank you Father that we will walk in faith like never before we walk by faith and not by sight if you're in this room right now and you've never put your faith in Jesus Christ you've never put your trust in him today is your amazing opportunity to do that I'm so excited because this was the single greatest decision of my life to say you know what I'm not gonna do it myself I'm not gonna live this life alone I'm gonna live this life in constant relationship with the one who sacrificed everything for me that even though I didn't acknowledge it he died on the cross for my sin for my mess ups for my mistakes and now he wants to help me live but all I have to do is put my faith in God and receive it it's grace like a flood available for every person in this room I don't care how far you've messed up I don't care how many mistakes you've made I don't care how much stuff you've been doing behind closed doors God's saying I'm available I'm here and I'm ready to help you off this out but you have to receive it today if you're in this place and you want to make the greatest decision of your life you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior I want you to pray this prayer in your heart with me according to Romans 10:9 it just tells us that if you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord and you confess with your mouth then you're safe it's two easy steps and if that's you I want you to pray this prayer in your heart with me I just want you to say God I need you I need you to come and change my life I believe you sent your son Jesus to die for me today I asked you to be Lord of my life come on if you pray that in your heart God knows I don't have to know but he knows he searches the heart he knows mean that with your heart say I renounce sin and I make you Lord of my life change me renew me transform me I'm yours from this day forward we pray you were blessed by today's message if you like more info about our church please visit us online at transform Church not us

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Published: Mon Jan 04 2016