Just Enough Faith | Sarah Jakes Roberts

hey family this is pastor Toure Pastor Sarah we want to welcome you to this video we've got a word from God for you it's going to bless you we wanted to pause for a second before you watch this video and we want you to pray as you're watching this video about partnering with us to allow us to continue to meet the needs of people not simply spiritually but also practically it's such an honor to be able to serve people during this time and we as an organization are partnering to make sure that we're taking care of children that we're feeding the elderly that the homeless are getting the care and attention they need and you can be a part of helping us change the world so we invite you to come there'll be instructions on the screen partner with us pray with us we are doubling down on the generosity that our campuses have historically done we love you enjoy this word look for the instructions bless you I don't know about you but there's something about getting a reminder that we serve a God of miracles he is a God of miracles I just want that truth to rest in your heart for a minute that regardless of what's happening in the headlines regardless of what's happening in the economy we serve a God of miracles he specializes and when everything seems like it's going to be counted out he shows up with his supernatural strength and his supernatural power because that's just what he does God says if you would fix your eyes on me I dare you to just give me a moment to fix your eyes on me I'm glad you're tuned in to this message I'm glad you cleared the room so you could this word because God wants to show you that he is still in the business of doing miracles everything he touches is a miracle and I believe tonight that as we dive into this word that God is going to awaken he's going to bring back to your remembrance the miracles that you have experienced along the way and so I want you to get your heart ready I want you to get your expectation ready that you would create a hunger for miracles in your own life and I don't mean the kind of miracles that a check can fix I mean the kind of miracles that can only come when you say God there is a need down on the inside of me there is a desire down on the inside of me that only you can touch only you can feel and I believe that God's going to do just that tonight I've been praying man I'm so excited about this word I don't know if there's anyone out there when you just know that you receive something from God maybe it's a song maybe it's a message maybe it's a piece of art whatever it is when you just know it's from God and that it's going to bless people it makes you so excited so I don't want to delay this any longer I'm going to get right into the word I am going to be in Matthew Matthew 14 you guys know this text I know you guys you feel oh legends out there but for those of you who aren't theologians I think even you are going to be familiar with this text it's when Jesus begins walking on water towards the disciples in the middle of a storm and Peter Peter does something so strange and so odd in the middle of this encounter and it inspired me so much when I read this message that I wanted to share it with you I'm going to start in verse 28 so imagine with me if we may set the stage the storm is raging the wind is blowing the sea is boisterous and suddenly they see a man that looks maybe like a ghost had it in their direction and jeez says don't be afraid it's not a ghost it's me it's Jesus and Peter puts Jesus to the test he says and Peter answered him and said lord if it is you command me to come to you on the water so he said come and when Peter had come down out of the boat he walked on the water to go to Jesus but when he saw that the wind was boisterous he was afraid and beginning to sink he cried out saying lord save me and immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught him and said to him o you of little faith why did you doubt why did you doubt I think that that is a question I've been asking myself over and over again especially during this time is why are you doubting and God gave me an answer that I can't wait to share with you but first let's pray father we welcome you into our atmospheres into our home into the very core of our being and we say streches father when life begins to constrict us and restricting father we need a reminder that we are bigger on the inside than we are than the circumstance that is outside of us so father may this be a moment when you sit in the room and stretch us until we start to look like what you had in mind increase our faith father and as for me I executed remove any nerves any anxiety that this would just be a moment where you flow through me father this word has to be exactly what you gave me so there is no room for me only you I receive that impartation let's go to work in Jesus name Amen I want to talk to you guys tonight about the subject on the subject of just enough faith just enough faith that is a phrase that I've been hearing in my personal prayer and study time and if I'm honest when I think about having just enough faith it makes me feel a little bit less than like perhaps I'm failing because whether or not we like to admit it or not there are moments when we don't have this abundant faith right I don't have this super faith that I see everyone else having I know what it's like to have just enough faith I have just enough faith to get me through today I don't know what's gonna happen next week or next month if I start thinking about it I start getting stressed out and I start getting afraid but right now in this moment I have just enough faith and as I was studying I started looking at some of the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 they list all of these heat all of these heroes of faith there's Abraham there's Moses there's Noah there's Rahab there's Sarah and they talk about how their faith made them who they are how their faith stood out in the mind of God and as I was studying it I realized that there is a reason why they called those listed in Hebrews 11 heroes of faith heroes of faith if I'm honest when I was growing up I used to think about heroes like Iron Man and Superman right and I would say to myself if I could be any hero at all I would be Superman I would be Superman because I would want to know how to fly I'd want to learn how to fly flying over traffic okay flying over attitudes come on somebody I want it to have a cape so that I could fly right I want it to be Superman and when I was growing up all I thought a hero was was someone who had this superpower that allowed them to do something that otherwise humans would not ordinarily be able to do but as I got older and even honestly in this season I am beginning to realize that heroes have less to do with what ability they have and more to do with who they are to save you see I didn't want to be Superman because I wanted to save certain people the way that Superman did I just wanted to have what the hero had no one who ever has this conversation growing up says I want to be a hero because I want to be able to save this person and save that person it's all about what we think the hero possesses but when we focus exclusively on what the hero possesses we miss the true unique call of being a hero a hero is connected to who you are willing to save we need heroes heroes who are willing to save people who are in the inner city we need a hero for those who are dealing with homelessness we need a hero for those who are conquering racism we need heroes we need heroes we need people who are attracted to the victims we need heroes who are attracted to the marginalized and this text in Hebrews 11 proves to me that we don't just need heroes for people sometimes we need heroes for causes who could have known that faith needed a hero when God called Abraham he called Abraham not because of what Abraham had this superpower that he was able to exert but he needed a hero he needed someone who would take their responsibility in making sure that faith remained in the earth faith needs a hero we're streaming this service when other when our doors are closed down not because we didn't have anything better to do not because we just wanted to stay at home we're doing this because we recognize that faith needs a hero faith needs someone who was willing to stand in the gap and say I'm not going to let faith die on my watch I'm not going to let worship die on my watch when I see that something is in trouble I stand up to it because I am a hero I'm wondering what have you been called to do you recognize that you are a hero it's not just a calling it's not just something God place down on the inside of you to make you famous or to make you rich God gives you a vision for who you can be in the earth and who you can save in the earth because that group of people connected to who you are need a hero we need a hero in the inner city we need a hero in our churches we need someone who decides I'm not gonna let it die on my watch and I could have never known the importance of faith needing a hero until I looked at Hebrews 11 faith is still looking for Heroes I'm still looking for someone who will carry the mantle of maintaining faith and I know this because in Hebrews 12 they're gonna put it on the screen for me and he brews 12 verse 1 this is after the author of Hebrews who is also unknown some people believe that it was Paul but the author of Hebrews is unknown but they tell us about all of these heat these heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 and then we get to Hebrews 12 and they give us this mandate based off of all of the heroes who have come behind us Hebrews 12 then tells us therefore we also we also must be like these heroes since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight in the sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us heroes have to run races with endurance verse to continue says looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God not only does faith need a hero faith needs a hero that's willing to run with endurance I don't know if you're like me but the idea of running with endurance is not necessarily my strong suit I'm working on it it's what I want to aspire to have one day where I can just run and and run and not be out of breath and not feel like I'm going to die but if I'm honest I don't know how to run with endurance the way I need to run as a hero of faith because the truth is whether we like to admit it or not there are moments when we are running the race and we run out of faith the thing about running this race and what it says in Hebrews 12 and 1 it says that the race has been set before us the race doesn't wait until we're ready to run it before the race gets set the race doesn't wait until we have enough endurance the race has already been set and now it is on us to determine whether or not we're going to be able to run that race the way that God has called us to run the race or are we going to stay there and be stagnant what do you do when you are thrown into an unexpected race god help me there are some races that we have to run not because we feel ready not because we feel prepared but because the race has been set and when the race has been set we have no choice but to take off running as if our life depends on it because staying still when the race has been set means that there is something that is going to have victory if we don't start running our race I feel the presence of God on that if we don't start running our race with endurance and faith you understand a race is not when someone is just running by themselves a race means that there are other things that are running as well that fear is running that insecurities running that divorce is running that all of these things are running up against us as well so I have to run with endurance because I'm trying to outrun something my father says this all the time and it just hit me he talks about how everyone is running from something you've got to determine what you are in competition with what are you racing away from I'm racing from that broken version of who I used to be I'm racing from the statistics that they say about people who look like me I'm running my race I'm running my race because I recognize I am competition with the version of myself that would have me ensnared in relationships that don't look like me and opportunities that could fail me and so I got to run my race I don't know who you are and how long you've been running but I want you to take a minute and qualify are you running your race with endurance because you believe on what's on the other side has God's name written all over it or are you running because you just want to hear your name called and you want to be declared a winner and I want to speak to you tonight about running a race that you know God has set before you Paul is who they think wrote this text in Hebrews he's not talking about just running any old race he's talking about running the race that has been set before you by God there is a race that God has already assigned and there is a lane that has your name on it and God is looking for someone who was willing to run that race I'm not asking you to run Sarah Jake's Roberts race I'm not asking you to run to ray Roberts race I'm asking you to run your race I'm asking you to put on your shoes I'm asking you to get in your lane because while you're sitting there waiting for someone else to get in the lane God says that there are other things zooming past you that I've already given you the capacity to win I've already given you the capacity to pass that up we get so caught up in the races that other people are running that we want to get on other people's tracks I want to be like them when I grow up I want to be like them when I get married and God says as long as you're focused on their race you won't see that the race that I have set before you has already been fixed I've already given you the power to overcome insecurity but you cannot overcome insecurity running someone else's race you cannot overcome anxiety running someone else's race I got a race where you win I've got a race where you never fail I got a race where all you do is see my glory glory glory glory I got a race that has your name on it I hear God's saying that you've been standing still too long that you've been hypnotized by someone else's race but I hear God saying that I put the world on pause so that you can get realigned with the race that has your name on it who's gonna run your race who's gonna be the hero of fate that your generation needs that your brokenness need there's a race to be ran there's a race to be ran and you only become a hero in your race you only become acknowledged by God in your race and we got to be crazy enough to have just enough faith to run our race just enough faith to get in our lane and to run it because the race has been said the race has been said I see it in my head I feel like there's so many things that are racing past his fear is racing past as anxiety pressure all of these things are racing past us they're racing past us and if you aren't careful you'll start to feel stuck and you'll start to feel overwhelmed because you're in a race but I wasn't prepared to be in this race I wasn't prepared to be fighting for my health I wasn't prepared to be fighting for my marriage I'm in a race that I was never prepared for and sometimes we get angry that God sets us in these races that we weren't prepared for Father I wasn't prepared to transition like this over tonight overnight I wasn't prepared for the world to change overnight I got placed in this race and I feel like everything is zooming past me but I want to prophesy to you tonight that God does not set the race without giving you the endurance to run the race first I feel that for you I don't know who you are but I want you to know that God did not put you in the race without giving you the proper training and endurance so that you could win the race that has been set before you Paul doesn't suggest in this text that maybe we could read this race and win he says that if you would lay aside the weight and you would lay aside the sin that you could run this race with endurance that if you would be like Jesus and set your eyes on the joy of the Cross the joy that has been set before him he endured the cross that means that Jesus was able to see past the cross that means your race may mean you have to suffer for a little bit but you gotta be crazy enough to look past the suffering I got to look past the suffering I got faith that there's resurrection on the other side of this I have faith that there's joy coming on the other side of this I know it may not look crazy cuz I got it may look crazy because I need to run through the cross first but I hear God's saying if you'd be crazy enough to run through this season of persecution to run through this season of feeling like you've been counted out to run through this season where you feel like you've been looked over there is something on the other side of this cross there is something on the other side of this virus there's something on the other side of this pain on the other side of this divorce I hear guys saying just put on your shoes and start running just put on your shoes and start running I'm running towards what's already been done I'm running towards my power I'm running because Jesus doesn't just run his race so that it can be finished he runs his race because he recognized there's a another level of power waiting for me on the other side of this cross there's another level of Resurrection waiting going me on the other side of this cross and the same thing that was true for our Jesus it's true for you too there's another dimension of power waiting for you but you got a run through what your persecution looks like what is your cross what is your race what is that thing that feels bigger than you God says if you run through it I'm going to show you why I had to make you go through it it's ultimately so that you could receive more of my glory and more of my power you may not believe me but I'm going to prove to you in the next twenty minutes that you have already been prepared for the race that has been set before you I thought that in order for us to have the endurance necessary to run our race that we need to be able to run without growing weary that we needed to be able to run without getting faint of heart but when I saw this text and I saw Peter in this text I realized that Jesus trains us differently for faith races than he does for other things in our life or maybe he what he trains us differently than we think or suppose he should train us we think that we should have this enduring faith and then we should be able to run but Jesus doesn't do that he starts training us along the way and he uses these moments where we have just enough faith to show us that he can take that just enough and use it to give us the endurance we need to go the long haul when you're training one of my goals for 2020 was to run for a marathon that was before the coronavirus I'm trying to hang on to that goal in spite of having all these Quarantine snacks but that is one of my goals was to run and marathon and I started googling on how to run a marathon because that's just something that I wanted to conquer it's something that I wanted to accomplish and what I learned is the best way to build your endurance for the marathon is interval training there's something about interval training that builds your endurance for long distance running it seems counterintuitive that running for a short time gives you the endurance that you need for long runs but that's what the science is beginning to prove and that's when I realized that that's exactly how Jesus trains us to run our races with endurance when Jesus meets Peter he is a fisherman and he says to Peter I'm going to make you a Fisher of men and then he says I'm going to build my church on you he gives Peter this race that has been set before him this race that is going to require endurance in order for the church to be built on Peter he's going to have to have endurance he's going to have to be able to withstand persecution he gives him a mission in a car that seems so much bigger than him and he gives it to him but before he sets him into it that's what you have to understand that when God gives you your calling when he gives you the vision that he has for your life it's not like you received that word and step into it instantly because you have to go through a training process you have received a word and you're upset with God because you haven't stepped into what God promised and I hear God's saying you haven't stepped into it because you haven't built the endurance for it yet right now you're in a training season you're calling it isolation you're calling it rejection I'm telling you it is neither of those things that God is trying to get your endurance up he's trying to teach you how to talk to the banks he's trying to teach you how to budget on a certain level he's trying to teach you how they work in different industries and different genres and different sectors of the world I'm trying to train you I do have a vision I hear God's saying that prophetically for you I don't know who you are I still have the vision you still have the call just because you haven't stepped into it doesn't mean that you're not gonna run through it but before you can step into it I gotta train you properly and that's what we see Jesus doing with Peters he training him I'm trying to train you to become the person I can build my church on when Jesus meets you you are not the person who can walk into that marriage when he meets you you are not the person who can run that business I know you think because you read two or three books that you're ready for it but I'm telling you until you have experienced some failure until you've had some people walk away from you you're not ready to lay hold of their responsibility connected to who you are so Jesus says I'm gonna call you I'm gonna bring you in closer to me because when you're closer to me you're gonna see how I operate there are certain things you got to understand about how I function if I'm going to use you I want you to be used the way that I would use you I don't want you to be used the way that man would use you or the way the culture would use you so he draws you closer to him start paying attention when you start getting pulled into arenas and and back into secret rooms and back into relationships with people that you maybe shouldn't even be in relationship with that's God saying I'm pulling you close I'm pulling you close I'm pulling you closer closer so that you can get trained closer so that you can get the tools closer so that you can be exposed your information is limited based on where you are but God's not going to leave you with that limited information I'm gonna pull you in close I'm gonna bring you next to a man who knows how to be a husband so that you can learn to take care of your wife I'm gonna pull you in close I'm gonna put you behind the scenes I know you don't know anything about accounting but I want you to start listening because I'm going to teach you how to function on this level I'm going to teach you how to flow the way I have set up for you to flow and so Jesus pulls Peter in close and Peter starts getting excited because now that he has been pulled in close he recognizes that I can pick up on what I've been pulled into I can pick up what I've been pulled into when you get pulled into something there's a grace for you to pick up the overflow if there's any overflow connected to what's in the room you can pick it up because you got pulled in close enough so when we see Jesus walking on water in the middle of the storm we see why he chose someone like Peter to build his church on when everyone else would have said Jesus is that you make the storm stop Peter says if that is really you command me to come to where you are Jesus if it's really you you don't have to make the storm stop Jesus if it's really you you don't have to make the wind stop blowing but Jesus if it's really you I want you to call out a version of me that I don't even know that is down in there when you get desperate enough to start saying Jesus if this is really you there is a version of me that could lay low and be scared but if it's really you you could speak a word and pull out a version of me that can do things I never thought was possible I dare you to start getting crazy enough in the middle of the storm in the middle of all hell breaking loose in the middle of the wind blown to say Jesus if you're anywhere in the midst of this if you're anywhere in the midst of what's happening in this world then call out a version of me who can do things I would never think that I was able to do speak a word that calls me out of my comfort zone we could work that doesn't make the storm stream but makes me bigger than the storm I want you to know that you serve a God who can make you bigger than the storm if you see Jesus moving in the midst of the storm Jesus says you can be like me and move like this too don't ask me to make the storm stop ask me to make you bigger than the storm I can give you the same grace I can give you the same power that allowed me to walk on top of the waves that makes the wind move around me the wind was moving everything but Jesus walking through that water like I know how to run this thing and know how to operate this thing everyone else can be afraid but when Jesus came through there was no room for fear Jesus I'm not asking you to make everything stop Jesus I'm not asking you to make everything like it was I'm asking you to call out a version of me Peter doesn't if they ask me he says commands me Jesus if you're anywhere in this mess make it command on who is dev on the inside of me because the lesser version is trying to show up and it's trying to make me afraid and it's trying to make me bow down and strength but if you're anywhere in the neighborhood command me to come forth command me to come to where you are command me command me make it a man don't what you put down in me command me Jesus Jesus they're watching this video after the presence of God in this room Jesus they're watching this video and they see the wind blowing and they see the sea is roaring and they're about to get afraid but somebody just realized that their breakthrough is not in the storm stopping their breakthrough is in them asking Jesus to command me command me make a request I cannot refuse make a request I cannot deny give me no other option somebody can't move unless they tell God to command me because when God commands me I won't say no if God makes the way I won't say no if God says come out this way if God says write this book if God says strike this music I can't start it until he commands me and Jesus says I can't command you unless you ask me I can't command you unless you tell me that I have the kind of authority to call my what I know is in you Peter gives Jesus authority to call out what you know is in me he says I don't know what's in me but I trust what you know and if you command me it won't have any choice but to come out Peter says Jesus knows something about me that I don't know I thought I was just a fisherman but now I realize I can be a Fisher of men so now that I'm in this storm I could ask the storm to fit my fisherman's mentality or I could actually this what is it that you know about me in the story that is going to make me bigger than what I'm going through and then Jesus commands him by his request I don't know who you are but I hear God saying make a request make a request to make a request and make it requests make a request not for what you want not for what you want to see not for what you want to hold make a request for who you are command me to come to You Father that me that you know by the command me to come forth when is the last time you asked God to command you to come forth father I've actually to make the storm stop in the storm is still raging father I've actually to make things shift and change and they haven't shifted and changed in the direction that I thought that they would so maybe what I really need to ask you instead it's to command the version of me that you know to come forth bigger than this virus I'm talking about what's happening down on the inside of you who are you supposed to be in that marriage who are you supposed to be in that business who are you supposed to be at that school that's who we need to see come forth because you're purpose is still on even in the midst of this epidemic pandemic your purpose is still here if we get so caught up in this and I'm not saying that we shouldn't take it seriously we got to take it seriously we gotta heed to these warnings and these guidelines but you also have to remember that your purpose is not just to survive the virus that your purpose is to show up in the fullness of who God has called you to be and so while Peter is in this storm he says to Jesus command me to come to you and Jesus does it he says come and Peter he steps out on the water and he takes a few steps and he's doing what he never knew that he could do because Jesus commanded him to do it but then as we all know he starts to sink and we spend a lot of time talking about how Peter starts sinking and how he lost faith and we almost make it seem like why didn't he have enough faith he asked Jesus to do it how could he have ran out of faith when it was actually time for him to show up and that's when I realized that I think that we give too much blame on people who lose their faith when you lose your faith it seems like it's like a scarlet letter like you have to walk around diminished and inadequate because you lost your faith but maybe some people have lost their faith because they threw their faith at something and when they threw their faith it's something they had just enough strength to get out of the boat but they didn't realize how big and scary it was going to be but I'm telling you that there is something powerful at people who failed in faith I don't know about you but I would rather fail in faith and succeed in fear if I exhaust all of my faith on the way to what Jesus has called me to do there is a guarantee that I will not sink just because you ran out of faith doesn't mean that you ran out of Jesus just because you ran out of faith and headed towards what God had for you doesn't mean that you're going to lose all together as a matter of fact it means that you took all of the faith that God gave you and you threw it at something and I think that that is exactly why Jesus was able to use Peter because he needed to use someone who would throw all of their faith in the direction of what God was doing and I don't know who you are and I don't know what you through your faith had and I don't know what made you sad and what made you start crying and what made you give up but I hear God saying there is no shame and you throwing out your faith in the direction of what I was doing that God says that it suggests enough faith for Peter to step out of that boat and that means it took all of the faith that he had to get out on the boat and he didn't realize how the water was going to be raging and the wind was going to be blowing but he used all the faith that he had and because he used all the faith that he had he was learning how to run a race with endurance you can't run a race with endurance unless you start using all of the faith you have this season is going to require all of the faith that you have even if it doesn't seem abundant even if it doesn't seem like it's enough I hear God saying that you have just enough faith take that just enough faith in exhaustion take that just enough faith and throw it in the direction of what I'm doing why because if you take that faith that seems like it's not enough but it's just enough then God can show you what he can do with just enough faith no one will ever be able to take from Peter the fact that he stood on water even though he started sinking his faith took him further out there than he ever thought he would be and there is a promise and a guarantee that comes when you start throwing all of your faith in the direction of what Jesus is doing and that means you are just a reach away because when Peter begins to sink he's not outside of God's reach he's not outside of Jesus's hand because when you throw all of your faith towards what Jesus said you were supposed to do when when Jesus commands that version of you and enables a version of you to step out water to to start a business to go after a degree to go back to school whatever he's called you to do you've ran out of fumes maybe you've run out of faith and you're saying to yourself I don't know if I should have gotten out here in the first place and I hear God saying the only way I could build your endurance is if you through all of your faith in my direction and because you through all of my faith in your direction I'm not gonna let you think because just like Peter had just enough faith to say Lord if that's you command me to come to you when he begins to sink he has just enough faith to say lord save me I wonder what would happen in our lives and our homes and our finances in our marriages if we realized that running out of faith shouldn't make you silent maybe Peter didn't have enough faith to say Lord I'm thinking help me to walk on water again maybe that seemed too big and too scary for him but what he was able to say as Lord saved me sometimes we don't want to pray because we feel like I can only ask God to save me if I ask him to take me back to what it was but what if Jesus is saying you don't have to go and ask me for what it was all you have to ask me to do is save you do you have enough faith to believe that I can save you that I can help you start all over again that I can help you grow again that we can get back in this boat and figure it out together that God's not going to make you pick up right where that heartbreak met you but he says I can take you back a little bit and we can figure out how to do this again differently what's most important is that you have faith that I won't let you sink so the same faith that it took for Peter to say Lord command me to come to you he used the little bit of faith he had left and he said lord save me in this time in this season that we're in sometimes we don't have enough faith to ask God for the big things because it took all of our faith to keep our joy it took all of our faith to keep our head above water if you have that level of tape that's powerful but from day to day sometimes it feels like I have just enough faith to get through today I have just enough faith to say Lord I want to do something incredible and remarkable and then I started doing something incredible and remarkable and I start sinking and so instead of being silent all I need to do is have just enough faith to say lord save me this is when I realized that Jesus was preparing Peter to run his race with endurance he did it by giving him intervals interval training interval training it's how you're going to get to be able to run your race with endurance you're going to come to a place and a time in your life where you're no longer doing interval trainings of faith but faith has become your norm it has become the way that you eat breathe and live that you will not do anything unless you are doing it by faith but in the meantime in those in-between times between where you are now and where you know you're destined to be God's going to keep training you when I was reading this text in the last scripture it says that Jesus said to Peter o ye of little faith and when I saw little I thought it meant that Jesus that Peter had a small amount of faith and I thought that Jesus was reprimanding him for having a small amount of faith but when I studied this word and broke it down in the Greek I realized that he wasn't saying little like he had a little amount of faith but that that word means brief that he had brief moments of intense faith oh ye of brief faith why did you begin to doubt the faith may have been brief but as he began to exercise it and he as he began to use it and stretch it what started off as a brief faith would ultimately become the rock that Jesus built his church on I'm getting ready to close and pray but there's something that I want you to understand about having brief pockets of faith especially in times like this when it feels like men one day I'm up one day I'm down is that your brief faith does not disqualify you from being a hero of faith that as a matter of fact all of the people who are listed as heroes of faith in Chapter 11 of Hebrews have these moments of intermittent faith and yet they still became a hero I want you to stop and ighting yourself for having moments when you run out of faith that doesn't make you less of a person it doesn't make you less chosen it doesn't make you less caught it means that you're human and I want you to understand that the only way we get to enduring faith is if we have these pockets these interval trainings of brief intense faith and what you're going to see as you continue to read up with that little bit of faith you have left you got to be willing to read up with that little bit of faith you have left you're watching this video whether you're on social media or you're watching it on YouTube this is a clip of a message that is meant to help you understand that that brief little bit of faith still has some residue left over so that you can throw it at something again the first thing I think you should throw it at is simply saying lord save me Lord saves me from my doubt was Peter saying lord save me from the waves or save me from my doubt save me from my fear save me from my anxiety Lord Lord saved me Lord I got out here further than I thought I could ever get out here and and I thought I had it under control I thought I could handle it out in this world I thought could handle it in this relationship in this city god I thought I could handle it but I feel myself beginning to sink and so I'm not going to ask you to help me to stand because I'm not sure I'm brave enough to do that again but I'm going to ask instead is that you what saves me that you would help me to recognize and realize that I'm not out here by myself that no matter where I am and the mists of this sea in the mists of this storm that I'm just a reach away from your grass Peterhead just enough faith and I believe if you're watching this message that you too have just enough faith to ask Jesus to show up in your life show me how to be like you show me how to walk the way that you walk show me how to talk the way that you talk show me how to be dedicated and committed the way that you are Lord saved me not just from the storm but save me from my doubt right now you may not be able to with everything that's going on you may not have that abundant faith that allows Peter to walk on water in the beginning but maybe you do have the kind of faith that will allow you to simply say the words Lord save me fear is pressing in anxiety is pressing in but I got just enough faith oh I don't know who you are but I feel like maybe the enemy maybe your insecurities maybe your childhood religion has been telling you that you're not good enough because you don't have the abundant faith that we talked about Abraham having not realizing that Abraham grew into becoming the father of faith he didn't start there but he had moments where he had to put his faith on the line and I want you to know that there is still hope there is still a chance for you to use that little bit of faith and if the enemy or darkness or depression or whatever is trying to make you believe that your faith doesn't count let this serve as a reminder that it does matter how much faith you have my Bible tells me that it could be down to a mustard seed that it only takes a little bit for God to help you grow it that it only takes a little bit for you to be manifested into who God has called you to be and we see in this text how powerful a little bit of faith is and I want to prophesy as you're watching this message but it is watering that mustard seed of faith that you have I want to prophesy that as you're watching this message that your faith is waging war against your fear its waging war against your anxiety that your faith is being increased how could it be increased in the middle of the storm because I took the little bit of faith I had left and I stayed up late enough to watch the message and I sat here and watched a clip on Instagram and I thought that it was just gonna make me feel good but now that message is gonna stick with you I want to prophesy in this place that you think that you just were watching a message that would make you feel good for a minute and I hear God's saying that this message is the set up of a lifetime that this message is gonna change the way you view your faith it's gonna change the way you show up in the world and that's why you had to go through hell to get it and that's why you've been fighting all things to try and get this word to you and I hear not saying that now that you got the word that no weapon formed against you will prosper now that you recognize that I can use just enough faith that I can take that faith and maximize then you're going to see and recognize that when we partner with God failure is never an option I said it once someone say it again I would rather fail in faith then succeed in fear that is your portion you are no longer going to be successful at mastering fear your portion is to take all of the faith you have and to throw it in the direction of what God is doing recognizing that even when you grow weary that you'll never be by yourself because when Jesus lifts peter out of the water now he's not riding on his faith alone but he is connected to the author and the finisher of our faith I want you to come home home to where faith is in abundance I want you to come home or faith overflows I want you to come back to the core of who God created when he formed you in your mother's womb I want you to get reconnected to your faith and allow your faith to set the atmosphere for where you are I want to pray with you you're watching this message and as you were watching this message you felt like never before that it was your time to ask Jesus to make a command on the version of you that he knows or maybe you're watching this message and you're thinking to yourself you know what I really need I really need to lose my pride and I really need to ask Jesus to save me I need to ask Jesus to reach down in the middle of this storm and to save me my doubt is getting the best of me I'm going to pray for you because I believe with all of my heart that this is Jesus both calling you forward and lifting you from drowning I hear guys saying I'm not gonna let you sink on my watch I'm not gonna let you drown on my watch I'm not gonna let you cave into the pressure not on my watch I'm gonna send a word I'm gonna send a word you're not even supposed to be watching this message but I'm gonna send a word that pulls you from sinking the Spirit of the Living God and you are the one and only living God your word it breathes your word it changes and transforms father we're asking that your spirit would begin to permeate the depths of our soul the chore spirit father would look past our fear it would look past our anxieties it would look past our concerns and I were worried and that it would be your spirit father that speaks to us in the middle of the storm the spirit of fear has had the microphone for long enough now it's your turn and so father we're watching this message and I believe that we are giving you permission permission like never before to call us forth and to save us so father we ask that you would allow this word to take root in our lives that we would be reminded consistently that even faith needs a hero and if faith needs a hero we want to be the woman or the man for the job and that means that we're going to have to be training like never before to make sure that we can run our race with endurance but we want to do it because at the end of the day we want to be connected to the ultimate source of all faith so father we ask that you would transform our minds that you would uproot any thoughts that haven't come for me that you would uproot any fears that have been placed in our life not just by this pandemic that's happening in the world but also by what's happening in our life things are happening in our life that are making us afraid it's trying to make us begin to sink but as you spoke this word I feel like you were pulling someone up father keep pulling keep pulling keep pulling father keep calling keep calling keep calling your servants are listening and we want to do the will of our Father so we say speak Lord your servants are listening and as we listen we ask that you would continue to speak until we become everything that you had in mind grow us and to the people capable of running running running and never growing weary still this word father seal it in our heart seal it in our mind and may it never ever be uprooted in Jesus name I pray amen and amen again if that should worry I just want you to take ten seconds I just want you to take ten seconds to allow your worship to send up a praise I want you to take ten seconds we're almost finished but we cannot fill this word unless your praise is on top of it we can't feel this word unless your worship is on top of it Lord command me to come to you Lord save me Lord open up my heart that I may see you I dare you to start speaking against that fear to not let your pride stand in the way father we receive this word this is my truth this is my new beginning I'm ready to start over here I'm ready to walk into your presence father I'm ready to walk with you I'm sorry that I started sinking but I hear God saying I already forgave you now let's start moving like never before this is your word [Music] you

Channel: ONE | A Potter's House Church

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Length: 52min 20sec (3140 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 02 2020