Friday - Believing In The Lord

[Music] you [Music] good morning class hello I'm Keith Moore and we welcome you to faith school with us we've saved you a seat right here on the front prominent spot and wants you to get your Bible get something to take notes on and come right on in and join us in this environment of faith and let your spirit get fed let you faith get built up and your spirit be strengthened and quicken you know the proverbs said the strong spirit of a man will sustain him even in bodily pain and trouble no matter what it is you're dealing with family problems physical problems emotional financial no matter what it is the answer the correct response is faith faith in God that no matter what it takes he will give it to you he'll help you he will cause you to come out and overcome and when the dust clears you'll be standing there with the answer giving him the glory and so what faith school is about is getting your faith fed and getting built up so let's receive some more right now today father we pray in Jesus name asking for utterance asking for the anointing asking for exactly what you would say to us now adding to us touching our spirit quickening our spirits strengthening us on the inside and allowing us to come up higher and to please you better in Jesus name and we say it'll be the sand so in Jesus name Amen go with me in our textbook again to Genesis the fifteenth chapter in all this week we've been talking about believing in the Lord believing in him we saw this with Abraham in Genesis 15 5 when the Lord brought him forth abroad verse 5 said and told him look now toward the heaven tell the Stars if you're able to number them and then he said to him so shall your seed be now we know from Romans faith comes by hearing if you'll accept it it's there available and so when the Lord told Abraham you're gonna have as many descendants as the stars in the sky he's looking for a response from Abraham and it's up to him whether he receives this or whether he doesn't but the reason he's in the book and the reason we call him the father of faith is because verse 6 immediately says he believed in the Lord he accepted it though he couldn't understand it he just said guess like Mary a vote be it unto me according to your word yes I accept it and we saw through our studies this week faith believing is a choice seeing is not believing you can see all kind of things and still choose to doubt and question and wonder in waver or you can not understand it at all and just choose to believe it when it comes to other people we don't just believe completely and immediately and blindly but when it comes to the Lord who's never lied to us never lied to anybody never failed and not only believing in his reality and in his ability but believing in his character who he is what he is his love for us we should immediately quickly believe anything he tells us somebody said out loud I'm quick to believe go with me to mark the night chapter and let's look at a few instances today of people who made the right choice we saw some people who made their own choice and who were slow to believe and absolutely unpersuadable but like John who made the choice to believe quickly this has happened too many other times and this is the count we want to be in mark 9 is the account where the men brought his son who had been having seizures to Jesus disciples and they failed to get the boy delivered and Jesus told him to bring the boy to him in verse 19 marked 919 and when he did the boy went into a seizure and verse 21 he asked the father how long is it to go since this came upon him he said of a child verse 23 jesus said if you can believe all things were possible to him that believes is that true all things are possible how many things well in the things that somebody told you was impossible are actually possible yes not to everybody but to those who believe straightway the father of the child cried out and with tears What did he say what did he say Lord I believe this happened just you know in seconds time we're talking about he he brought his son to the disciples they prayed for the boy they did what they knew nothing happened you know just because you pray and don't get results doesn't mean it's not God's will right our other people are well-meaning people anointed people good people even though they pray to lay hands on you and you didn't see results that doesn't mean it's not God's will it just means for whatever reason didn't receive and that happened here with Jesus own disciples but he said bring him to me the boys went into a seizure Jesus looks at the man's father of course this is a commotion the crowds you know bothered by this seizure and everything that's the disciples don't know what's going on Jesus looks at the boy's father and says if you believe all things are possible to him that believes so faith comes from here what would the Lord tell you today he never changes right he tell you the same no matter what was going on he'd say believe the answer to every situation is belief right believe in God believe in his help believe in his word believe in his faithfulness if you'll believe all things are possible to anybody that believes and what demand say immediately said I believe right I mean something about the words of Jesus can you imagine something about Jesus looking you square in the face and going to fuel believe all things are possible to him that believes the men said not believed I believe but then immediately he said help my unbelief what's going on here romans 10 10 10 9 and 10 verse 10 I guess it is says a with the heart man believes proverbs 3 says trust in the Lord with all of your heart don't lean to your own understanding so what's going on here is a heart head thing hmm I believe that's his heart that's his response to Jesus and he just chose to no matter about the disciples failure no matter about what's going on right now in front of his eyes no matter he just chose to he said I believe I believe and then his head kicks in come on everybody knows about this his head jumps in and goes yeah but everybody's tried and yeah but and yeah but and what about now come and yeah but but the good news is here when Jesus saw the people come running together he rebuked this spirit and he verse 27 he took him up by the hand and he was completely delivered and healed here is some marvelous revelation faith will work in your heart even with thoughts and feelings of doubt in your head Oh everybody say thank you Lord if I thank you lord faith is not a feeling believing is it's not based on reasoning or logic or your senses it's a decision it's a choice and the good fight of faith involves casting down imaginations and bringing into captivity every thought and the feelings that's where the fight comes in you make a decision in your heart to believe but then all this stuff hits your head yeah but what about and how come and what if but did the man's son get delivered or not he did got delivered completely delivered and healed even though he said help my unbelief huh why oh let me say it again faith in your heart will work hallelujah even with thoughts and feelings of doubt and unbelief in your mind if you don't choose to yield to what you're thinking and feeling if you choose to stay with your heart right if the enemy can get you over into the sense realm the seeing the hearing the touching the smelling the feeling the reasoning if he can get you over into that realm he'll defeat you but if you'll hold him in the heart realm the spirit realm the faith realm and and and not yield to your head not be moved by what you see if you walk by faith not by sight then even with feelings and thoughts you still get results thoughts and feelings come to all of us and like brother Hagin my father in the faith used to say he say you can't prevent a bird from flying over your head you can prevent him from building the nest in your hair right and you can't prevent thoughts and feelings of doubt and unbelief coming to your mind you don't have to let them stay right and just entertain them and focus on them until you get out of faith and change I believe help my unbelief let me say it again faith in your heart will work glory to God even with thoughts and feelings of doubt in your mind hold the devil in the faith arena you win every time don't let him hold you in the sense realm reasoning arena he'll get you out of faith go with me on over to the book of Acts the 27th chapter so this man he made the right choice and he got results even though he was real new to this faith stuff and he didn't know exactly how it's gonna work with all these thoughts and feelings but he just chose to believe in his heart and that was enough that's all the Lord needed to get his boy delivered and healed acts 27 and verse 20 is the account of Paul 27:20 of the book of Acts the account of Paul being on this ship as a prisoner being taken to Rome when they encountered this hurricane be warned the master and owner of the ship not to go but they didn't they they thought what does this preacher know and so they left and they've been in this hurricane for days and days and they threw out all the cargo they found throughout all the tackling and equipment of the ship that they needed to operate the ship they're just trying to stay alive another day or another a few hours and in verse 20 acts 27 it says when neither Sun nor stars in many days appeared and no small tempest lay on us all hope that we should be saved was then taken away now if you're walking by sight you are hopeless you have zero expectation of making it out of this alive when the Bible said all hope is taken away that they should be saved then it was hopeless but after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said sirs you should listen to me and not loosed from creep to have gained this harm and loss ciphered people so never say I told you so well Paul did I told you doctor not to leave and now I exhort you be of good cheer for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you but of the ship really nobody's going to die we just read a couple of verses earlier there was no hope none in the natural that we're gonna make it out of this well where is he getting this neither one of us is gonna drown for there stood by me this night the angel of God who's I am and whom I serve this is not what this is who come on can you see this I belong to God I serve God who's I am and whom I serve saying fear not Paul you must be brought before Caesar you've got an appointment at Rome and you've got to get there you know when you're doing something for the Lord and you'll commit to it nothing's bigger than him right if you'll commit to doing God's perfect will and plan for your life no disease can take you out before you get it done no accident no crime do you believe that nothing is bigger than God that's what was going on here he said no this will not be able to take you out because you got an appointment God has given you all them that sail with you now notice verse 25 wherefore sirs be of good cheer cheer up for what for what I believe God come on everybody's saying I believe God he said I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me praise God that sounds like similar to what Mary said right baby it unto me according to you according your word I I believe the Lord said it I believe it right can you see this is a choice he could have been wondering man what does that mean how I don't know where we're gonna make it out there's no way there's no way there's no way no if God says you're coming out quit talkin about no way right if God says you're coming out what do you say I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me yeah but who are we gonna get the money from I don't even know anybody's got that much money I mean how are we gonna get that money by the time with you need to hush talking unbelief right did the Lord tell you that he'd supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus and especially if you're doing something he told you to do it was his idea right can he finance his idea yes he can so we need to be quick to say I believe God come on somebody I believe God it shall be just as it was told me but I'm not from him in this case an angel of the Lord told him but that's the Lord telling him through the angel or whether it's through the book through a man or a woman through an angel through the spirit in you if it's the Lord immediately believe it and so I believe God I believe your Lord it blesses the Lord when we say that when we're quick to say I believe your Lord I trust you I believe you right I'm making it out of here right with long life he'll satisfy me show me I'm making it through this right we will be able to pay everything off and do what we need we will be able to I believe God it shall be even as it was told praise God praise God and they are looking when they're saying this it's in the face of gale winds and and waves hitting the ship and absolutely hopeless looking and feeling situations but when God's told you something else don't even pay any attention to it just push it out of your mind because he's bigger than hurricanes right later on he was bigger than snake bites right he was bigger than all kind of things go with me to the book of John the eleventh chapter looking at people that made the right choice that's what we do right we we make the right choice and that's the choice to believe quickly and fully whatever the Lord tells us John 11 this is the account where that Martha and Mary sent word to Jesus that Lazarus was sick he didn't come and for days he didn't come and Lazarus got sicker and sicker and died and so then Jesus and disciples came and in verse 21 John 11:21 Martha said to Jesus Lord if you'd have been here my brother had not died so they're not they're not feeling too warm towards him they said they're not but I know even now whatever you'll ask of God that God will give it to you that's faith in jesus said to her your brother shall rise again Martha said I know he'll rise again in the resurrection at the last day jesus said to her I am the resurrection and the life he that believes in me we'd sit like this chooses to believe in me though he were dead yet shall he live oh friend you you cannot overestimate the importance of believing people may wonder why do you have a faith school I just keep talking about faith day after day in class after class and week after week because it's the difference between resurrection and heaven our hell it's the difference between saved and lost it's the difference in this life between miracles and no miracles between needs meant not being met healed are not being healed it's the difference if you believe and verse 22 26 whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die glory to God the Lord tarries is coming we won't live down here on this earth and his physical bodies forever we will live out our life and slip out of them but we won't die what do you mean by that the Bible said Jesus tasted death for every man those of us who know him and are born again when we die our bodies will our spirits will slip out of our body but we won't taste death we won't even taste it we'll just be out of here hallelujah and even our body that was laid in the grave that's not the end event and when the trucks ounds it's going to be raised incorruptible and immortal so it is true if you believe in him you will never die notice what it goes on to say he said do you believe this do you believe this verse 27 she said yes Lord I believe oh you hear her response what do you believe this notice none let me back up a little bit how it starts out she said Lord if you'd have been here my brother wouldn't have died but even now I know anything you asked of God he'll do it for you Jesus said your brother's gonna rise again she said I know in the resurrection he rise again jesus said I am the resurrection he that believes in Me will never die do you believe this so just like when the Lord told Abraham you have all these descendants it's up to her response now come on can you see this do you believe this do you believe this what she say yes Lord yet not the correct response huh do you believe this what she say yes Lord I believe that you are the Christ the Son of God which had come into the world man the stage is set for resurrection right now come on can you see this didn't you see this the stage is set and even later on that uh verse 39 he told him to take away the stone and and Martha had said would Lord by this time he stinks but verse 40 the Lord had to remind her he said didn't I say to you that what if you would believe you would see the glory of God now here you see the exact opposite of what people say Wow seeing is believing nope not even close if you believe you'll see come on do you see that if you not know if I see then I'll believe we don't know if you will or not faith didn't come by sea it's a choice but if you want to see it's not show me in and I'll believe it'd be too late at that point in some cases for faith faith is evidence of things not seen no he said didn't I tell you if you believe you will see the glory of God another thought here they had not seen the glory of God in Lazarus being sick they had not seen the glory of God in him diane young' come on can you see this they had not seen the glory of God and everybody grieving around there and upset in questioning he said if you believe you will see the glory of God and they were about to to orthey so then they they must have believed they took away the stone and Jesus said father I think that you've heard me and I know that you hear me always verse 42 but because of the people that stand by I said it that they may want that they and all of this is about believing can you see this believing Zinner woven through it whether you do whether you don't and when he had said with a cried with a loud voice Lazarus come forth hallelujah and he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes his face was bang with a napkin jesus said to them loosen and let him go then many of the Jews which came to Mary and had seen two things which Jesus did believed on him but some of them apparently didn't went their ways to the Pharisees and told on him is it is it possible that you can see a resurrection and not believe well what did the leaders do I mean it wasn't hard to verify anybody could have come out to their house the next day right and there's Lazarus not in the tomb at home working in the yard right and yet these same people who saw this and knew this wanted to kill Jesus a choice a refusal to believe know like like John like Paul like Martha on this day let me say me too me too I'm quick to believe when the Lord says do you believe what we say yes Lord yes Lord we believe and that's what he says I told you if you believe you will see the glory of God and people are believers are still seeing the glory God today hallelujah praise God well that's it again for our time in faith school come back next time and we'll just pick up here and go from grace to grace and faith to faith and glory to glory set out loud I live by faith I walk by faith I overcome the world by faith I'm strong in faith giving glory to God hello everyone really enjoyed being in faith school with you again today and this week want to remind you that there's a lot of previous faith school that's available on the website won't cost you anything encourage you to go back and and from the very beginning if you haven't heard it and catch up to this week and then also there's just a whole lot of other materials there the reason we can offer it at no charge is because we have word sender partners that send into this ministry and so it's available to you don't feel like you need to pay for anything that you've received here that's not it but the folks that sent it to you at no cost they'll get reward and if you want to become a word sender partner you can there's information on the screen there and you can help send the same things that are blessing you to other people at no charge well we'll see you back in here soon going forward in faith school we're going to go up from grace to grace faith to faith glory to glory strong in faith giving glory to God we'll see you next time [Music] you [Music] you

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Published: Mon Oct 01 2018