(Music) JERRIANN: Hi. I'm Jerriann
Savelle and I want to welcome you to the show today.
You may be sitting there right now thinking, "I have done
everything I know to do. I'm using my faith. I'm tithing. I'm
going to church. I'm in the Word, and it looks like nothing
is changing in my life." If you're sitting there thinking
that right now, then I believe that I have a Word for you from
God, to help you get to the place that you need to be in
your life, that you're not feeling overwhelmed, stressed
out, frustrated, or impatient. The Lord always deals with me
either what I've been through or what I'm going through, and the
last several months I've been dealing with this very thing
that you're feeling. I've been doing everything I know to do,
and there have been times I'm like, "Lord, what else do I do?"
You know what? Hebrews 6:12 says "That with faith and patience
you will inherit the promises of God." It's going to
take patience to get you to where you need to be to
experience breakthrough and victory in your
life. Faith and patience work hand in hand, and
that's what we're going to talk about the next several
weeks. We live in a society where we want instant
gratification. We want things now. We don't like to wait for
anything. We want to take a pill to make us skinny. We don't want
to have to change our diet or work out. We want things
to happen now. I live in this little town called Granbury,
and it's on the lake, and it's a little small town. There's a
courthouse, and the little town square, and it's a really cute
place to leave, but one of the things I don't like about the
town is everybody drives so slow there. I'm a mama of six, and I
got places to go, I got things to do, and I'm driving fast, and
I'm trying to get past all these people. You know what happens
often times, is that I pass all these people, and then I get to
a red light, and they get right next to me. I've accomplished
nothing, but today I'm talking to you beyond just that kind of
patience. I'm talking about a soul patience, where your mind,
your will, and your emotions are in patience, and in peace
because you're staying in faith knowing that God is faithful to
His promises, that what His Word says is for you, that you don't
get off your faith, and you believe and trust Him, and wait
until the breakthrough comes. It's going to take faith and
patience working hand in hand. We don't like to wait for
anything. You know what? The enemy wants us to get impatient.
He wants us to get over and impatience, getting frustrated,
and eventually getting mad at God because why is it taking so
long? I'm doing everything I know to do. Why is it taking so
long? You know what? The definition of impatience is
having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or
provoked. Irritation with anything that causes delay,
restless, and eager, so that's what the enemy is ultimately
hoping will happen, is that you get out of faith, you get
impatient, and you get mad at at God. That's not where you're
going to get results when you get over an impatience. You've
got to stay patient and in faith. He wants us getting so
frustrated that we start taking things on our own. We start
trying to figure out things on our own. We put things on our
time frame instead of God's time frame, but Galatians
6:9 tells us that "there's a due season
for everything we're going through." There's a
due season. There's a set time for your breakthrough,
but when you start taking things into your own hands, then you
allow compromise to come in. I've learned in my life that
when I allow compromise to come in, then I start trying to make
decisions on my own, and those are flesh-led decisions. When
you let your flesh decide what you're going to do, then you
create delay in your life for what God had for you. You start
trying to make things happen that God didn't have set for
you. He's got a set time. Compromise is not God's best for
you. I think the biggest example of compromise in getting ahead
of God, and trying to do things on our own is the story of
Abraham and Sarah. We all know that story, but they had a Word
from God that he would be the father of many nations. In the
natural, it looked impossible. They could not see how that was
going to happen. In fact, Sarah started laughing. She just could
not see how that was going to happen, so she comes up with
this great idea, and she says, "I think that I'll give my
handmaiden Hagar to Abraham, and they can conceive a child." They
take it into their own hands, and they create Ishmael, as you
know. My dad always says, he says, "You don't want a Ishmael
job, you don't want to drive a Ishmael car, and you certainly
don't want to marry a Ishmael spouse, because it's not God's
best. It was created from the flesh. It was created from
frustration, compromise. You don't want Ishmaels in your
life. You want Isaacs in your life, so I'm challenging you
today that if you're in that place of frustration, you're in
that place of impatience, then get back in the Word, get
focused on what God promises you in His Word, and stay in faith.
Stay patient and in faith. It says this, Hebrews 6:12, "That
faith and patience inherit the promises of God." Galatians 5:22
tells this, that one of the fruits of the Spirit that we're
given is patience. Patience means simply to be able to
endure. If you're full of the Holy Spirit, then you already
have patience down on the inside of you. You've just got to call
on it, cultivate it, and stir it up, and bring it out of you
so that you can accomplish everything that God has set for
you. I believe it's Colossians 3:12, it says "To clothe
yourself in patience." You're going to have to make a decision
every single day when you get up, beyond just driving in
traffic, but that you're patient in your mind, your will, and
your emotions, that you don't get over into compromise, you
don't get over into frustration. Again, if you go there in your
thought life, if you begin to dwell on why God is this
not happening, then ultimately you're going to get over into
anger, and that's where the enemy wants you, getting off
your faith and trying to figure out this thing on your own. When
you decide to do something on your own, and you go out of
God's will, and you compromise, what you're really saying is
God, I don't trust You. Ouch. I know that hurts, but that's
the truth. When we decide to do things on our own, we're saying,
"God, You really must need my help because it's not happening
fast enough." You know what? God does not need your help. He just
needs your faith. That's all He requires of you, is that you use
your faith, that you trust Him, that you believe him. That's
what faith is, is resting in the finished works of Jesus. Hebrews
12:2 tells us, "Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith," so when you're got your eyes on Jesus, not on
the circumstances, not on what's not happening, but you've got
your eyes on Jesus, then it's just a matter of time before
that breakthrough comes. Again, faith and patience. You have to
make a decision in your life that you're in this, this faith
walk, for the long haul, that no matter how long ... If it's a
year from now and you're still standing, and you're still
believing, and you're not seeing any change, that you're saying,
"I will not get off my faith." That I'm in this for the long
haul. I will not quit. I love that about my dad in this
ministry. He's been ministering all year on the faithful shall
flourish, and for you have to faith flourishing in your life,
you have to be faithful, and that's one of the things I
appreciate about my dad in this ministry, is that he's faithful.
Even back in the day, when there was no money in the bank, they
had nothing. My dad was preaching prosperity. He was
preaching abundance. He was preaching the favor of God
because he was just patient and faith, steady. Psalms tells
us the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. That's what
it's going to take is faithful, daily steps, staying in this.
I wish that we could pray and things just happened like that,
and sometimes they do, but most of the time, it's the daily
faithful steps that we take every single day. I've watched
that in my dad's life and in this ministry, is the daily
steps of faithfulness. Therefore, he's flourishing.
This ministry's flourishing because of the faithfulness of
God and because of my dad's faithfulness to stay in faith
and stay patient. Listen to this scripture. This is James 1:3
through 4 in the Amplified. It says, "Be assured and understand
that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance
and steadfastness and patience, but let endurance and
steadfastness and patience have full play, and do a thorough
work, so that you may be people perfectly and fully developed
with no defects, lacking in nothing." Let it have its full
play. Listen to the Message translation. It says, "You know
that under pressure, your faith life is forced into the open and
shows its true colors, so don't try to get out of anything
prematurely. Let it do its work so that you become mature and
well-developed, not deficient in any way." You want to be mature
and well-developed, not deficient in any way. You want
to go to full term. You want full term in this. I think of my
six kids. I've had six babies. I'm given a due date with all of
my babies, of when they're going to be due. In the natural, those
first few months, I can't even see any change in me. I wasn't
one of those that hard morning sickness. There was no change in
me, but you know what? Something was happening down on the inside
of my body, but I couldn't tell a difference, but you know what?
I had a set time. I had a due date, and I was patiently
waiting for that due date. You have a set time in your life.
Whatever you're going through right now, there is a set time
for breakthrough, but you can't get impatient. You can't get
frustrated. When I got the due date of my children, the next
month I wasn't mad, and upset, and say I quit because my baby
didn't come the next month. No. I knew there was a set time, and
I patiently waited for that set time. I'm encouraging you today.
There is a due date. There is a set time. No, we don't know the
date. We don't know the time, but God's Word says that there
is a due time, and a due season for you. When you hold that Word
in front of you, then it can get you through every single day
knowing that God has a set time for me, and I'm not going to get
off my faith, and I'm going to stay in patience, and not be
impatient. It's easy to say, "I trust You, Lord. I trust You.
You're my Lord. I trust You," but can you still say that when
a year or two has gone by and nothing's changed? Can you still
say, "I trust You, Lord?" It's easy to say it, but it's walking
through it every day. I say this all the time. The only way that
you can stay stirred up in your spirit is getting in the Word of
God. Your natural self, you want to go by the circumstances and
what's going on in your life. You wanna go by what you can
see, but faith doesn't go by what we see in the natural.
Faith goes by what we see down in here. Like I said earlier,
we're looking unto Jesus. We see out there what Jesus says that
we can have. That's what faith is looking at, and that's what
can keep you patient while you're walking this thing out.
You're going to find out what you're really made of, like that
scripture says. Your faith life is going to be forced into the
open to show its true colors. Do you really believe this? Do you
really believe what God says that you can have, or are you
just quoting a bunch of things? Dad has been talking about the
faithful shall flourish, and you can quote that over and over,
but if you don't have faith behind it, it's not going to
happen. Faith and patience work hand in hand together. Like I
said earlier, impatience causes compromise, and when you
compromise, it causes you to do a flesh-led decision. When you
go in a flesh-led decision, then you always bring delay in your
life, and you don't want delays you want God's perfect timing
in your life. You may be single right now, and you've started
dating this person. They say they're a Christian. You start
dating them, but they're not God's very best for you. You
started to compromise because you've gotten lonely. Or you've
settled. I'm encouraging you today, don't settle. You
don't want to settle with just somebody. You want God's very
best for you. You want Ephesians 3:20 in your life, "Exceeding
abundantly above all you could ask or think." Maybe it's a job
you just kind of settled for this job, and you're not going
after something that God really wants you going after. Don't
settle. Don't compromise. Don't get impatient. Stay in faith.
Stay in faith. Compromise causes us to be unstable. It causes us
to go to the left, to the right, looking for solutions and fixes,
but there's no quick fixes in faith. It's steady steps of the
faithful one, steady steps. James talks to us about a
double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, and compromise
causes you to be unstable. Again, the only way that you
stay stable, stay steady, stay rooted and grounded in the Word
is staying in the Word, so that you can be patient for all
things that come up. We don't know what life brings us. Life
can bring us different things at different times. We don't know,
but if you stay full of the Word, then you can stay patient
through anything. You also can have joy in the midst of what
you're going through. You can still have a smile on
your face. You can still be believing God, and it's not
that you're faking it. You're faithing it. You're faithing it
through this journey of faith that you're in, believing that
God has a plan and purpose for you. You're expecting Ephesians
3:20 in your life. James 1:8, like I said, tells us that "A
double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." When we're not
patient, we're saying that God's timing is not perfect, we have
the perfect timing, and we know what's best for us. I don't want
to be in that place. I don't want to get ahead of God and
think I know what's best for me. I've tried that in my life, and
it doesn't work. Jerry does not make good decisions without
Jesus. I need God's perfect timing in my life, so again,
it's the faithful, steady steps that will get you to where
God wants you to be. Listen to Hebrews 6:11 and 12 in the
Passion translation. It says, "We long to see you passionately
advance until the end," until the end, and you
find your hope fulfilled, so don't allow your
hearts to grow dull or sluggish, but follow
the example of those who fully receive what God promised
because of their strong faith and patient endurance. There we
are. There's those words. Strong faith and patient endurance.
That's what it's going to take to receive the promises of God,
that you're strong in faith, and you're patient in endurance. You
keep Jesus in front of you, you keep His Word in front of you,
you keep His promises in front of you, and it's going to
happen. It's going to happen. You're not looking at the
circumstances. You're not looking at what's going around
you, but you're looking at Jesus. You have to stay patient
and of faith. Faith is not moved by the circumstances. Listen to
this, Second Corinthians 4:18. It says, "While we look not at
the things which are seen, but at the things which are not
seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the
things which are not seen are eternal." We're not looking at
what's happening around us. When you decide to look at Jesus,
then patience develops on the inside of you. It grows on the
inside of you, that you're able, as Colossians says, to clothe
yourself in patience, and get you through every single step of
the way. Patience is down on the inside of you, like I said. It's
part of the fruit of the Spirit. It's just your responsibility
to develop it, to grow, and to become all that God's created
you to be. You don't want to go through life just struggling,
just impatient and frustrated and worried all the time.
You want to have a confident assurance that God is a God that
cannot lie, that His promises are for you, and that you're
patient and steady on this walk. It's going to take patience to
flourish in your life, so I'm challenging you today to get
ahold of this, and begin to clothe yourself every morning in
patience, and know that I can get through anything God's
called me to do for today. I will do it well. I will stay
in faith, and I will stay in patience. We'll be right back in
just a few moments. TREY: My name's Trey
Johnson. This is my partner story. I grew
up in Andrews, Texas in a great family, but as I got
into high school and college I started
hanging out with the wrong people. The Bible says that bad
company corrupts good character and so I started making wrong
decisions. Just a little while into junior college I ended up
quitting college, and I moved to another town, living with this
girl. I went home one weekend, and I never will forget it,
because as I was getting ready to go, my dad came out the back
door, had tears running down his face and he says, "Trey, the
Lord's shown me that you're going to die if you don't get
your life right with the Lord." I just thought he was just being
a normal parent. I was like, "Yeah right Dad, whatever."
Went on about my business. Sure enough, two weeks later I was
going from one rodeo to another rodeo in the middle of the night
and the guy that I was roping with was asleep in the passenger
seat and the girl that I was dating at the time was asleep in
the back seat. I ended up going to sleep while I was driving and
I woke up and I was running 70 down a four lane highway, and I
was in the median. When I woke up I tried to get the rig back
onto the highway, but I saw that I wasn't going to make it so I
pulled it back in the middle because there was a big water
culver in the middle, and I straddled it perfect with the
truck, and the truck jumped it, but the trailer hit it right on.
Of course, when the trailer hit it, it separated the truck and
trailer and spun us across the highway. The trailer just went
end over end over end. Once we came to a halt over here and
I saw everybody was okay I took off running for the trailer. I
crawled in the top of the horses because we were waiting for the
jaws of life to get them out. They're kicking and they're
pawing and there's blood everywhere. I get down there and
I'm petting them, and I remembered my dad. I knew that
God had spared my life that night. In that horse trailer
with blood everywhere, and by the way, the horses did end up
being okay, but in that moment I called upon the name of the Lord
and I asked him, I said, "Lord, I want to know that you're real.
I want to know you're presence. I want to know your power." From
that day forward I've been a man after the heart of God, and I'm
the same way today. When you stay hungry, God'll open up
doors. When you stay hungry, God'll bring freedom into
your life. I discovered Matthew chapter six verse 33 which says,
"To seek first the kingdom of God in His righteousness and
everything else will be added unto us." I began to just simply
put Him first. As I put Him first He began to open up
opportunities. He began to bring freedom from this addiction and
that addiction. Somehow, I got a hold of Dr. Savelle's partner
letter, and at the time I was kind of secluded. I didn't have
a church. I didn't know the importance of a church, but I
started memorizing his partner letters and started applying the
Word that came from him in my life, and as I gave my attention
to it, a desire began to build to know God, to be my best, to
discover my gifts and abilities and passions. I began to
discover that God was a good God and He wanted good things for
me. Which lead me to where I am today, going all over the world
doing leadership conferences, personal development, roping
schools, roping clinics, competing at the highest level
simply because a man was willing to do what God had called
him and created him to do, it empowered me to be who God has
called and created me to be. I want to encourage you, if you'll
stay hungry, no matter where you're at or what you're going
through, God will begin to move heaven and earth to reveal His
heart and His plan and His will for you, so don't you back
off from being hungry, and keep growing and keep
going. God bless you guys. ANNOUNCER: Hebrews
6:12 says, "Be not slothful, but followers
of them who through faith and patience
inherit the promises." In the powerful CD teaching Faith
and Patience, Jerriann Savelle shares on two of the key
principles it takes to see God's plan for your life come to
pass. If you develop faith and patience, you will inherit all
the promises of God. Many people misunderstand how faith works,
or how to make it grow. In the revealing book, The Nature of
Faith, Jerry Savelle gives an in-depth study on what faith is,
and how to live a life of faith. In its pages, you will discover
how faith grows and decreases, how to determine your level of
faith, how to see through the eyes of faith, and how your
faith can move mountains. By understanding faith and how to
use it, you can experience the life God created you to live.
Don't wait any longer. Call or go online now to
JerrySavelle.org and request this powerful combo, including
the CD teaching Faith and Patience by Jerriann Savelle,
and The Nature of Faith by Jerry Savelle. Discover the keys to
faith and patience today. JERRIANN: Welcome back. I want
to encourage you to go to the website right now and order this
package that we're offering. I did this message that I'm
sharing with you now, but I did it a whole lot more in detail at
EMIC Women's Meeting, and this is Faith and Patience, so that's
what this CD is. I encourage you to get this, put it in your car,
and listen to it over and over. Faith comes by hearing and
hearing, so I encourage you to get this. Also, my dad's book,
The Nature of Faith. This is such a good book, just the
basics 101 on faith. It's really easy to read. It's how faith
grows, how faith can decrease, how to determine your level of
faith, how to see through the eye of faith. It's just a really
good book to refresh you. If you're new in faith, then it
just gives you a good foundation of what faith is. I want to read
to you a couple of testimonies we got here at the ministry. I
love hearing testimonies. This is from Donna. She listened to
my dad's message on suddenlies, and Dad's been talking about the
faithful shall flourish. She said that they had some land for
sale, and they both suddenly sold. She had two pieces. One
sold in May. One sold in August. She said that is suddenly and
that is flourishing. She said God is truly faithful. Another
lady wrote in, Veronica. She said that her and her family
wrote a prayer of petition so that they could go on vacation.
She said that they wrote down the amounts and everything, and
they were believing God to go to Orlando. They got the tickets to
go to Orlando for only $76. She said they got an amazing hotels,
pennies on the dollar, staying at a brand-new hotel. She said
it was because they wrote their prayer of petitions, as a
family, they agreed. I love hearing these testimonies. If
you're interested in becoming a partner with this ministry, I
encourage you to get online. The information is there, and hook
up with a ministry that's doing awesome things around the world.
I just want to encourage you. I have this one scripture I want
to leave you with, and it's Colossians 1:11. It says, "We
also pray that you will be strengthened with all His
glorious power, so that you will have all the endurance and all
the patience you need. May you be filled with joy." I pray that
over you today, that you have all the endurance and all the
patience you need, and that you will be filled with joy today. I
hope that you'll come back next week and join
us. Have a great day, and know that your faith
can overcome the world. (Music) ANNOUNCER: Next week.
JERRIANN: You're going to have to get up every day
when you don't see anything changing in the natural. Your
circumstances are staying the same, but you're going to
have to put on that patience coat. You're going to
have to clothe yourself in patience, and believe that God
is a God of His Word, that He cannot lie, and that whatever
He's promised you, that it will happen in you're
life, but you're going to have to walk it out,
and walk it in patience. (Music)
