Keith Moore Faith in God Pt 1 Faith in Him

and turn please to mark the 11th chapter we've been on a series for some weeks around here called Thanksgiving victory and if you aren't here with us we are startup about it and I highly recommend it to you and your watching by the internet you can download it for free just go to the appropriate area or you're in the house here you can go home download it for free you can contact the office and they'll send you a copy and you can go back here if you're in the room to the word supply and something the Lord said to us a while back was no charge means no excuse so these are some really important things I believe it's one of the more significant teaching one of the most significant teachings that the Lord's given me period and so if you haven't gotten into that we we talked about being thankful and we talked about the danger of self-pity and a whole lot of things are there and I just know it's there are a lot of answers and there there's victory in thanking God right there's a way no matter how bleak or how bad it's been you can begin to come out tonight just by in faith thank stop feeling sorry for yourself and by faith start thanking God for the even though you don't have a clue how or where or why you know what way he would do it you don't have to figure all that out just begin to thank him by faith before you see and feel for you healing for your deliverance for your provision and how many can testify you've done that and he brought you out you you when you first started thanking him you didn't know how to do it you didn't see work come from and you just kept thanking him in the face of you know obstacles and contradiction and here you are tonight you made it through he he taught you he showed you he brought it so it's faith and it works and it's right it's right to give thanks to him who's done so much for us well I'm felt like that we got to a place where we could conclude that and in seeking the Lord about what to do next I was impressed with this go to mark please the 11th chapter like we said mark 11 got any scriptures marked in mark you got verse 22 marked mark 11:22 jesus answering said unto them have faith in God everybody said that last phrase out loud have faith in God say it again have faith in God have faith in God so I wanted to begin a new series and for now we'll just call it faith in God we are a faith Bunch around here you should expect to hear about faith sometimes at faith Life Church right and faith life refers to faith of the faith of God he refers to the life of God and it refers to the life style of faith a way of living did in the scripture say the just shall live by faith not just get out of calamities by faith right not not just get delivered in emergency situations by faith but what live another place that talked about the just walking well was the second Corinthians 5:7 we walk by faith not by sight so we walk by faith we live by faith but I know just in the few years that I've been involved in some of these things and in my opinion had the privilege like many of you to sit under some of the best teaching on the subject on the planet period ministries like brother Kenneth Hagin in fact that was his commission the Lord told him go teach my people faith I believe he did it don't you I believe he fulfilled his commission and there there is no greater thing than to do what you were born to do glory to God to finish your race and finish your course I'm gonna say me next how about you do you believe you can that you can run your race that you can finish you of course that you can be and do what you were put here to be and do well I assure you this you'll have to do it by faith yeah it'll take faith to find out about it it'll take faith to receive it it'll take faith to do it do you think so and the subject has been taught on a lot in a lot of circles and I'm thankful for it and we don't need less teaching on it we need more but we need it rightly divided we need truth that makes free we don't need confusion and there there have been some things that some folks have been confused about concerning faith and that's not the Lord because he's not in confusion did you know that he's not in confusion and when you know what you're talking about you're not confused and you're not confusing now you agree with that but but let me give you an example to to talk about how it comes across we live in a heady generation intellectual did you know it intellectual and knowledge puffs up didn't the scripture say and so a lot of times people think it's a sign of superior intelligence that you can ask a question that they can't answer not realizing they don't know the answer either just asking a question and people are actually impressed with somebody that can go on and on about something and be very complicated and complex and people are prideful that they are and they'll tell you quickly well I I'm a complex person I'm very complex let me translate that for you you're a confused person I know people don't like that but when you get it right it's simple when you get it straight when you get the junk removed and the truth remains and the light is there it's not confusing it's not complicated if our first parents would have just kept it simple don't eat the fruit of the tree eat the fruit you will die is that confusing is that complicated don't eat the fruit but I'm telling you I don't care if it's two words the devil can confuse it if you let him oh he can make it he can you know he'll twister that is his specialty he's making something simple complicated and trying to make you feel like you're smarter because you're confused now well it's not an easy subject it's a lot more complex and it's much more involved and there's so many different tangents and there's so many different things to consider no you just are in darkness you don't know what's important and what's not you throw out everything that's irrelevant and all you got left is this it gets real simple hmm no you shall know the truth and the truth will make you void make you go mmm it's a lot to think about No what will they do to you it will make you absolutely free it'll free mind it'll free your soul it'll free your body it'll free your life it will make you free What did he say here does this sound confusing to you have faith in God let's say it again have faith in God sometimes after certain teachings people have gotten confused they're saying well now is that common faith is that special faith is that my measure of faith is that where Emma everybody go over again with real slow with me have faith in God hmm where's my word level hmm I've heard people go into great you know debates about the difference between believing and faith and you know get all try to get all in depth about the difference between believing and faith and the spirit and the mind and the soul and think they're really doing something but if it's light it's simple I said it's simple and don't let somebody bog you down with stuff the Lord gave me a statement the other day I want to give it to you it's revelation have you ever seen somebody that they're doing something that's violating the word and somebody tries to talk to him about it and they bring up another verse that they don't understand huh or maybe that you don't understand and they imply that well if you can't if you don't understand that verse and I don't well then this one don't apply either who said that lack of understanding of one verse doesn't exempt you from walking in the light of a verse you do understand because God holds you and I accountable for the light that we have and see people are trying to do that they're trying to convolute things they're go back under the law and they'll talk about you know something comes up they're in sin in their life they're in sexual sin or in their there is some other kind of sin and they know it's wrong and they don't want to try to talk and debate about that but they'll say what about these concerning women's uncleanness and what about so-and-so in in their multiple lives and what about this what about it what's that got to do with you in this verse you might know what I'm talking about people try to act like well because I don't understand this that exempts me from being accountable for their all no honey it don't the the ones you don't understand and you don't see he doesn't hold you accountable for it's the light that you have that you're held accountable for and a lot of times you and I both use these need to say I don't understand that I don't know and if it's true then he'll give you some grace in that area because you really don't see it and know it but when you know something and you understand it don't you start hollering about some other verse you don't understand you better walk in the light of this because you are accountable for that because you do see it you do know it somebody said out loud it's not complicated read it out loud again what Jesus say have faith in God say it again have faith in somebody got some answers just then didn't they go into God have faith in God how faith in God go to second Timothy the first chapter second Timothy the first chapter and the 12th verse second Timothy 1:12 he's talking about the things that he was experiencing the bondage the persecution he said nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed will see heaven faith in God notice he didn't just say I know what I believe What did he say I know whom I have believed I know in whom referring to the person of the Lord what did the master say have faith not just in this principle or in that principle or in this truth or in that truth or in this teaching or in that teaching have faith in God I know in whom I have believed or you with Milnes and I'm persuaded this is faith isn't it I'm persuaded that he's able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day the title of our series I said is faith in God faith in God faith in God people have branched away from faith in God faith you can have faith in all kinds of things and it not be God you can misplace your faith people have emphasized things I believe to their own hurt the me view little short list of people having faith in things that's not the same as having faith in God faith in your self is not faith in God right Jesus didn't say have faith in yourself y'all are quiet in here tonight well I thought maybe you'd teach some of the other teaching in faith like you did before well you don't be thinking like that just then you want the truth you believe with me then right what are we talking about tonight do you know already what faith in God should you be big on that real big hmm yeah what's the victory that overcomes the whole world it's our faith but Katta faith our faith in God our faith in God our faith in Him not just in what but in him we know in whom we've believed were persuaded fully that he he is able and faithful to us faith in yourself faith in you family your people say things and and you think it was a scripture verse well I believe in family you ever heard that we strongly believe in family well okay but that's not faith in God and if you say well I believe if a family really really is a family and they stick together you can make it to anything you're wrong I said you're wrong without God you can't I don't care how much you think you love each other it's not enough hmm faith in your kids faith in your grandkids it's good to have confidence in them and believe in them but that's not the same thing as faith in God you don't just want to believe in your kids you want to believe in God for your kids come on y'all with me now is it the same thing believing in your kids believing in God for your kids no see there's sinners that don't even go to church believe in their kids that's not faith in God but it's a form of faith but it's not faith in God faith in prayer you hear people talk about that we believe in prayer we we really really believe in prayer around here that's not the same thing as faith in God there are millions of people all over the world that pray pray pray pray pray don't him believe in God don't even leave in Jesus they pray to something else and they believe in prayer the same vain repetitions counting beads spinning wheels they believe any when they get in a terrible situation they go spin that wheel all day long they go count beads to their fingers or bloody they believe in prayer and you can perish believe it in prayer jesus warned us didn't he about vain repetitions didn't he warn us he said you can even pray in tongues didn't he say didn't the word say through Paul dear to God say first Corinthians you can pray with the tongues of men and of angels and if you're not praying from a place of love right you're you're just like a symbol just like somebody beating on a pan well that's what good praying is that hears you praying all night and hears somebody beating on the pot all night same thing what good is that know we believe in the God who hears prayers and answers prayers and I'm not trying to be technical this is a big difference we don't just believe in prayer we believe in God what Jesus tell us come on what do you say have faith in God have faith in God faith in works faith in what you do faith in work there's a lot of people they believe well if you'll work hard you can get anything you want if you work hard enough you can be anything you want to be if your work work that is not true there are people that have worked five jobs their whole life and worked themselves into an early grave and never achieved their goals and was broke now the Bible teaches diligence and teaches work but our faith shouldn't just be in work that we're going to be a success because of our work ethic then what I'm talking about is a lot of stuff from the world has gotten in the church and the same thing that the world is believing that it's going to enable them to make it through and be a success you got Christians talking and leaving the same thing and people have been so blind and so undeveloped that means seen it semester's what eyeball we believe in in work that I mean that's what's gonna get us through we believe in this we believe in there and bells and whistles ought to be going off with us cuz man you can do all that you want and without God it's not gonna happen right unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain faith in money that's what happened with the rich young ruler wasn't him he was a good man in a lot of ways and the Lord looked at him and he loved him and he said one thing you lack well any bad one two or three but it was one big one he said liquidate sell out invest into the poor come follow me he's sad wouldn't do it why Jesus put his finger on the issue his faith was in his money right he didn't believe he could live or live like he wanted to or be like he wanted without that money and so he wouldn't do it faith and money what Jesus tell us to have faith in God somebody say faith in God faith in God the list goes on I won't try to name every possible one but you you have to watch thing after thing in life you know I working in healing school I saw so many people that had faith more faith in the doctors than they did in God by far more faith their faith was in the medicine their faith was in the doctors and we believe in doctors we thank God for him but doctors can't heal you they can help in some things and a lot of folk in this room wouldn't be here tonight if it wasn't for some doctors help get us through things and we're thankful for it but the problem is when you pay you put more stock in what they tell you than what the word tells you you can see people they're shouting about by stripes I'm healed and with long life he'll satisfy me and they go in and get a bad report and say well you're not going to make it and their feathers just follow what does that mean they believe more in what the man told them than they do people put more faith in attorneys they put more faith in the government they put more faith in mama and aunt Minnie they put more faith in their education the bottom line is what or who are you counting on for you to make it through I mean you can go in church and say hallelujah Amen you can take notes but what it really by matters it's when you're facing something when you need something what are you counting on who are you counting on what are you really counting on what are you really looking to really depending on to make it through if it's anything other than him you're in peril because the best meaning people can fail you people that love you with all their heart can fail you the strongest companies can fail the richest people can fail the best doctors can fail did you know it the best attorneys can lose cases right the best doctors can lose patients they do it all the time right and if you put all your hope and all your faith in them and you're looking to them your own sandy ground shaky ground Jesus said have faith in God do you have faith in God do you believe you faith in God could grow could increase could become greater that's what we're about in this series that's what we're all that's what we're pursuing would you believe with me and let's examine ourselves whether we be in the faith like the scripture said and if we've been putting too much faith in this person let's believe God to get our faith out of that person and in God if we've been putting too much faith in that company or in that thing or in that machine or in whatever it might be help God will help us to see it and get our faith out of that and in him that doesn't mean we can't use these things or he can't use them to help us but we must not let our eyes get on him and trust in them and rely on them and have our faith in them there's only one I said there's only one who is fully worthy of your complete trust there's only one who's fully able and worthy for you to completely look to and rely on and say well mister what do you count known to get you through God and you're not just talking religious talk you mean it your eyes are on him how you going to make it through this you don't hesitate God he's getting me through he's the one and he won't fail me he can never come to me and say I'm sorry mister so-and-so we've done all that we can do that's not going to happen with him it could happen with anybody else and everybody else but not him he's not gonna come to me and say I'm sorry but you know times are tight right now and we weren't going to get that money to you but it's not they're not no he supplies according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus can't happen that he's not able and then what Paul was saying I know in whom I've believed I'm persuaded that he is able to keep what I've committed to him against that day somebody said I am persuaded that he is able and faithful to me praise God praise God let me give you some definitions and again I'm going to give you several words but I'm not endeavoring to complicate them endeavoring to simplify the words are accurate and a little different but they really say the same thing what is faith what is faith if you look up the words in the Hebrew and agree let me read some of them to you to be firm to build up to support to be stable to be certain to be quiet to be established to be permanent all these words painting a similar picture what are they painting foundation what can you do with the foundation you can build on you can live on it hmm if stuff is sinking if stuff is flooding if stuff is collapsing where do you need to be you need to get somewhere where it's firm where it's stable where it'll support you where it's established where it's permanent and on that you can trust you can rely you can be okay there you're gonna be safe there that's what faith is and read some other words to you those were Old Testament words these are New Testament words confidence again and again you see that word somebody say confidence confidence another word is convinced convinced you also see the word persuaded persuaded convinced another word is reliance to rely on I like vines translate of definition he says firm persuasion persuaded rely I'm gonna give you one word that agrees with and ties into every one of these words trust trust that's my say trust if you trust somebody you got confidence in them right if you trust somebody you count on them you rely on them if you trust somebody it's because they're trustworthy they're stable right the word truth comes up in these things let me read this to you from from some of the gospel accounts the Bible talks about no faith it talks about little faith and it talks about great faith which category you volunteering for well in the no faith category Jesus well first of all 2nd Thessalonians we don't turn to these let me just read them to you 2nd Thessalonians 3 verse 2 in the NIV says not everyone has faith not all men have faith I'm reading the scriptures John 20 and 27 when Thomas said I'm not going to believe it you know until I can put my finger in the hole in his hand and put my hand in his side jesus said will reach your finger here and behold my hem put your hand right here put it in my side be not faithless but believing was the Lord pleased with him because he was being like that he was refusing to believe he said I'm not going to believe it till I see it in Mark 4:40 he asked them on occasion why are you so fearful how is it that you have no faith and in Luke 18 and 8 he said when the Son of Man comes shall he find faith on the earth faith in God what we're talking about here now and faith in God is precious and it's not as common as many would like to think it's implied that we got people all over the place who have faith in God we have social and political questions what faith are you and what most people should answer is none or almost none are very little well we're having a big time already tonight oh come on now examine what the scripture said when the Son of Man returns shall he what shall he find didn't say will there be at least half the world full of faith no fine song now everybody has the capacity to have faith until my faith in God and a lot of people are having faith like we've already said but they're having faith in all this other stuff they believe in this they believe in that they're counting on this they're relying on this but not faith in God and Peter calls this like precious faith do you remember that faith is precious somebody say precious is your faith precious don't take it for granted don't assume that you've got all this huge amount of faith don't assume people around you have I'm telling you real faith is precious and real faith is powerful very very powerful and reason I'm talking about this is because you've got so many people that go to church even people that call themself eighth people and there's such little faith really there and so they're trying to go into other categories to try to figure out what's wrong and solve their problems say well you know well I got faith I know about faith I'm a faith man I'm a faith woman why do you say that because you've got 40 series on faith in your closet because you go to the church it's got faith on the door that doesn't make you a faith person that doesn't give you faith always because I know what I'm talking about I don't know what the times in endeavoring to minister to the sick especially years ago when I did more of this you know on a daily basis I'd have people say you know could you go see someone so could you go see my nephew could you go see my my brother this one you know they have a lot of faith but could you go pray for and you get there and they got no faith to be healed none none and yet here's their a whole family says they had a lot of faith and they had no faith to be healed no faith to come out there's obviously some confusion about what faith is isn't there people think it comes by osmosis there's some people think that they're a person of faith because they were born in the US oh yeah I'm US citizen Christian yeah I grew up in a Christian home I'm a person of faith what does that mean so many times nothing nothing that there isn't faith we should be desirous of real faith we should understand it's precious and the Lord treasures it have you had enough scripture to realize the Lord treasures real faith in God doesn't he how many times he'd remark I mean not all the time do you see him impressed turning around look at his guys going not that I hadn't seen faith like that through this whole country looking at the one with a woman great is your faith girl you are doing it you are believing God and your baby is healed go to the house and see this faith please God does it please Jesus it's even possible for him to be impressed now that's a big thought it's even possible for him to be impressed with you and your faith there's so many things people are trying to get to God and impress God somewhere another with what they're doing and they're ignoring what he said faith is it it's precious some I say precious and powerful say it again precious and powerful they tell me what we're talking about real faith which is faith in God not just faith in myself and my family and my friends and prayer and and teaching and principals and no faith in Him the person God real faith in God go to Luke please and look at the 17th verse we were quoting from chapter seventeenth chapter we were quoting from the 18th chapter but let's back up to the 17th chapter we read verses that said shall he find faith on the earth 2nd Thessalonians 3:2 said not everyone has faith several verses Jesus referred to his own disciples as having little faith do you remember that little faith and if you look up the word little the Greek literally means puny you could set like this literally puny confidence I don't know about you but I don't care for anything puny do you I do not like puny cars and trucks do you I don't like puny airplanes I want them to go when you're supposed to go go I don't like these cars you get to the light and you put your foot on the floor and count to five and it eventually pulls with Oh Lord deliver me from that step I'd always had big dogs for Phyllis and I well and even after we got married I had a Doberman man he was hefty and we and we the family at one point had some Rottweilers and man I like a dog when he barks he shakes the windows you know what I'm talking about and so Phyllis wants this Shih Tzu it's about that big is interesting because we got a Rottweiler and the shits at the same time little puppies and one of the Rottweilers for my my dad and mom but we kept him for a few days - we could get him to her and we brought him to the house and the first thing the Rottweiler did was attack one of the plants and he ain't that big and he shook the leaves off of it and then the Shih Tzu went lay down under the sunlit corner but I have to say we know we kept that dog this - how many years like oh I mean she lived a long long long time and before it was all over with I had to give her deer I said well she's not very big but she's all the dogs she can be six seas and that's all you can ask him anybody right now just be all you can be do you think the Lord is pleased with you and me and puny faith puny why would he bring this up - then let me read a couple of them to you he said why are you so fearful o ye of little faith this is when the winds and waves that he calmed him and they woke him up you know one time in the ship when there was a storm and he said where is your faith and Jesus you know when Peter began to go down in the water walking on the water he said o thou of little faith puny confidence why did you doubt puny in talking about their needs being met he said want to take thought for this for that o ye of little faith puny confidence I don't want to be identified with puny confidence do you I reckon having some is better than having none but why stop there when you don't have to why shouldn't we have strong confidence in our God how many like the sound of Abraham huh he wasn't weak he was strong in faith giving glory to God being fully persuaded some I say strong in faith strong in faith strong in faith that's what we're believing for in this series he for you and I to become strong in faith it's not so hard it's a choice it's a way of life did you find Luke 18 or 17 not puny faith strong faith Luke 17 now though you're not running the house right now but we're laying a foundation and this is important how many foundations important that's the description of faith it's foundational Luke and 17 some things you don't shout so much about in the beginning but when you do them then you really shout later Luke 17 Jesus disciples how to request of him Luke 17 and 5 what they say the Apostle said to him Lord increase our faith he's talking to him about forgiving their brother many times a day and they said oh man I need more faith to do that and I don't know what else they were looking at but they got the revelation our faith is not where it needs to be it needs to come up increase would you say that - Lord increase my faith increase our faith well we are we've already got the answer to it in the next verse how many know he's the same yesterday today and forever whatever he told them what he's telling us what's the answer to the cry the prayer the desire Lord increased my faith what's the answer Jesus said alright be good and I'll give you some more as soon as I get around to it be good no what'd he say put it up on the screen folks please the Lord said if you had faith don't you stop right there what they did not they didn't say give us some faith what'd they say that sounds like our Bunch oh man we've been in the word now for decades faith people that's us oh yeah we faith we God we know you could always have more and so Lord yes we would like to have some more and he said well if you actually had some am I making this up or not What did he say if if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed so how much faith you reckon they think they had is this a revelation for him should it be a revelation for us can we handle this can we take this huh there are reasons why things are not happening like we know they can be and should be and the book of the answer is right here right here how many times did Jesus own disciples come to him and say Lord if why couldn't we do that why couldn't we cast him out well why couldn't we get this why didn't this happen what would he tell him because of your unbelief wouldn't he tell him and how many times would he say where is your faith why are you so full of fear why are you doubting where is your faith and it's easy to come to church and sit up and take notes and assume well faith we got we just need to learn some other stuff it's not true I said it's not true the Lord's been dealing with me as we go out on the road we'll be going up to Pennsylvania this week in having some meetings and nearly every time we've gone out and last year too the Lord will have us to have a miracle night and we've had some miracles sooner but it's been some of it's been challenging because the Lord has deal with me now here's what you do you preach on this and then you get the people to believe with you for miracles right here right now and you can tell with group after group after group it's like a brand new thing to him I'm told my faith churches and we're not all that hot at ourselves right here and that's as much me as you I hadn't talked to you as much on it or done it as much endeavoring to do what he tells us to do you know he can't do everything at the same time but I can you can tell when you go to do this you say okay everybody let's stand up okay everybody let's believe God right now for miracles right here let's believe God people stand there and look at you they'll clap reminds me of a seal at the zoo this ain't got nothing to do with believe in God this is how green we are as the church let's all stand up and leave God you see people stand up with their notebook and they're taking notes people looking at each other they're looking at you like do some folks don't know how to believe God faith is real I said faith is real is precious and it's powerful and sometimes it's taken us a few minutes and and thank God there has been enough teaching on it and enough people know a little bit about it do you get maybe not 100% but you get a good group of people actually start they close your eyes and forget about you they start believing and expecting right now and you can feel it you can feel it when it kicks in and just like that the Lord will begin to show you things he'll begin to do things healings begin to happen miracles begin to happen well we had been waiting on God for him to do that he's been waiting on us do you believe God would train us and show us how to believe him and have real faith well we got to quit pretending and calling stuff that's not faith faith we've we've live in an entertainment society and church has been too much like entertainment people come sit and just watch and listen and do nothing see everybody's supposed to be believing God right now hmm not just waiting on me to say something clever or enlightening because I can of my own self do nothing I I can't do a thing I don't have a thing unless he gives it to me and if it was something good I didn't come up with it it came from him right and all of us you and me are to be believing God together right now for utterance for direction using our faith not just sitting and looking and yawning and looking at the watch waiting and wish he would pep it up step it up a little bit or okay this is not a concert this is not a movie this is not a TV show this is church we're supposed to all of us have our eyes on him look into him expecting from him actively believe in using our faith we're coming into the era of this on an increasing level I believe it more and more groups not just here all over the world are going to learn how to believe God as one man whole house is full and whole buildings full of people don't you remember the book of Acts when they were in one place one mind one Accord what would they do it they expect in their bleed in their actually in some faith and all Mahan's Spirit of God begin to manifest things begin to happen miracles happen it's not complicated but it does require faith What did he say what Jesus say if if you had faith in the scripture right here if you had faith as the grain of mustard seed now I don't know how big they thought their faith was but I'm pretty sure they thought it was big than that don't you how big is your faith well I'll have to do is look at our life look at our results if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed so here is a confirmation of what we've already learned faith is precious isn't it it's not as common as people might think it's not as plentiful and abundant everywhere we've seen too many scriptures the Lord kept telling people lies your faith so little puny faith puny faith no faith when the Son of Man comes will he find faith these things paint a picture for us faith is precious there's not an overabundance of faith but here comes the next part faith is powerful how much do you have well how much do you need cuz look here if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed you might say to the sick of mine through tree how much faith hmm so how much faith do you need powerful powerful pile of precious and powerful if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed you might say to this sick of mine tree be thou plucked up by the root and be planted in the sea and it would obey you we're talking about tree ripping up transporting hundreds of miles or more through the air planning into the ocean power mustardseed it's a must a potent potent potent powerful powerful precious so can you see though that it's also a confirmation that these folks don't have all this amazing great vast faith and still are not able to get what they need and need some help it's no no it's just not true people are calling a lot of stuff faith that's not faith if you had just a little bit of real faith amazing things can happen in your life right just a small amount of real faith I want you to get this in your eyes and in your mind I want you to see as you leave here tonight as you go back home I want you to see just a little bit of faith kind of like an atomic particle I want you to see it on the inside of you and discuss the things moving around on the outside you know and it's glowing huh potent powerful amazing you don't take much doesn't take my coming understand if mustard seed caliber faith would rip up a tree and propel it through the air over a great distance and secure it in a giant body of water then that much or less let's say a kin of a mustard seed could sure fix your liver hmm touch your kidney I mean you kidneys already right there and got to propel it very far we don't want to rip it out just needs a little tweak how much faith would it take not much small small small amount but yet the real thing real faith and real faith in God real faith in God how many have a hunger the desire to learn about real faith real faith real faith and not play games and not pretend and then talk a bunch of talk and code a bunch of quotes no no set out loud old Father I know real faith in you pleases you I desire to know more about this show me what's real faith what's not show me how to develop and have real faith in you correct my thinking illuminate my darkness guide me teach me and I'll pursue it I'll embrace it I'll receive it I'll hear it I'll do it be honored by our faith in you hallelujah hallelujah thank you lord he said if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed you would say now there's a revelation isn't there what is an indicator of real faith in God saying saying not just thinking not just to position out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks if it's really in there your confidence in him your trust in him your reliance in him it'll come it'll come up in you if it's in you strong enough it'll come out of your mouth right it's just the most natural thing you get to dwelling on how faithful God is how good he is how true his word is how powerful he is in your situation it'll come up in you and like the scripture said in fact turn there and look with me second Corinthians the fourth chapter 2nd Corinthians 4 put it up on the screen for us if you would verse 13 2nd Corinthians 4:13 he had said if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed you would say and here in 2nd Corinthians 4:13 he says we having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I what spoken we also believe and therefore speak every person that really is born again and a child of God do you know how they got that way how'd they get that way they had real faith in God didn't they real faith in Jesus no other way to get born again no other way to become a child of God and Romans 10 tells us exactly how it happened hmm for with the heart man believes right not your head not your intellect not your body your heart and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation if that's true and the most important thing in your life being born again is true concerning every other thing and walking by faith you believe in your heart you say it with your mouth you believe in your heart you say it with your mouth it's no wonder religious folks that are confused make fun of people like me and you because the devil despises this oh it's one of his greatest fears that the church is going to rise up and realize how to believe in their heart and say with their mouth it will actually absolutely change their world all around them won't it because you begin to operate like God that's how he operates he conceives and believes in his heart and he says light be things change right yeah but that Scott yeah but you're his child you're made in his likeness and image you're a little chip off the big block right and in time to come you're going to be more and more and more and more and more like him it won't stop with this life this is just the beginning we're going to operate like him function like him and the intends that we learn how now not when we get to heaven but then we begin learning now and he'll just add to it and take us on up from there past this life it's why he left some demons and disease and curse to practice on let me think about it what if you had the breastplate of righteousness and shield of faith and Hellmann's salvation and feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace Loren's Girt with truth and sword of the Spirit all dressed up and nothing to fight nothing to do no he left some stuff to overcome and anything that's an obstacle or a challenge in your life you need to look at it and go oh this is time for me to use my faith yeah this is just something for me to exercise on use my fan of opportunity for God to show how big he is how faithfully is how powerfully and for me to prove that I trust him without seeing and feeling I believe him and trust him right now and it's qualifying you and I for permanent places in his eternal Kingdom past this life Oh what pleases God helped me out faith pleases God are you interested in faith it pleases him go to Hebrews 11 and maybe we can close with this we'll see I could have used some extra time tonight maybe I'll just take some you give me 10 minutes and I'll take another 10 minutes and we're not quite done can you take some more Hebrews 11 did you find it I think we were to go one more thing at least past that so you can take it take it by faith so I'm gonna use my face even if I'm tired I'm gonna use my faith to get something good out of this hmm Hebrews 11:1 what does it say now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen I would say to you this is not a complete all-encompassing definition because what is the rest of the chapter talk about not have you didn't like that he still not one aspect of faith is a living thing and it is so powerful and so fast and so far-reaching he's given us a side of it to look at but that's obviously not enough because the whole rest of the chapter is showing us different sides of it come on can you see that don't just grab verse one and say I got it this is what faith is not read the rest of the chapter and that's just to get you started faith is the substance of things hoped for I've heard a lot said about substance and if you look up the weather words translated throughout the New Testament I don't know if it all bears out the word is other places translated confidence that agrees with what we've already read and then the idea is that of a foundation that sits under faith is the confidence of what did it lose somebody the confidence of what things hope for it is fly you are confidently expecting because you have faith thought you told me you could take this don't take my word for any of this now do your own study and get in the book and don't assume you have to watch you about just taking what somebody else said and building whole doctrines out of it where did they get it from substance look it up more often its translated confidence faith is let me read this to you from some other translations including Young's literal it's uh it's real good in that faith is of things hoped for for a confidence of matters not seen a conviction that's Young's literal you know the author of Young's concordance he ought to know a thing or two about the language right faith is the things hoped for a confidence of matters not seen a conviction these two words are I believe are very accurate confidence and conviction the ne T says now faith is being sure of what we hope for being convinced of what we do not see the NA s says faith is the assurance of things hoped for the conviction of things not seen keep hearing the same thing Weymouth says now faith is a well-grounded assurance there you see him bringing in that foundation idea don't you well grounded assurance for that for which we hope and a conviction of the reality of things we do not see can you tell we've got a lot to learn about faith the danger is thinking you know a lot about it thinking you have so much and but it's good to find out if you were thinking something wrong right it can be a revelation you realize well that's why that hasn't been working we'll just change this and get some results now right that's good news that's good news hope is not desire hope has to do with expectation and faith is what you're standing on that gives you a right to expect how do you know that it's really there that it's real faith is the conviction that it's there you don't see it you don't feel it how do you know it's going to happen why are you expecting it to happen faith is the assurance of what I'm expecting and it's not complicated it all comes back to a simple trust in the one who told you it was that way in the one who told you it was happening simple simple simple simple one of the greatest examples in the Bible is Abraham the Bible said go with me to Genesis 15 this was the second one I said maybe we could close after that Genesis 15 what did Jesus tell us to do have faith in what in who in God with the Bible in Galatians three six you're going to Genesis 15 in Galatians three six says even as abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness verse 7 know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham is that you is that me are we the children of Abraham we're that we're his children by faith was Abraham a real faith man did he have real faith in God yes he had real faith in God Jesus said how faith in God Galatians here says abraham believed God so we know Abraham wasn't confused about what he was doing we know for several reasons the Bible said he believed God we can look and see he got results it worked miraculous amazing with no faith was at work here real faith and we're told exactly how it happened Genesis 15 you have to start waking watch carefully because it's so simple you can just run right over it and yet it's so powerful it could change your life and those round about you Genesis 15 verse 1 after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision tell me how faith comes comes by hearing hearing by the anointed word came in a vision and said fear not Abram I am your shield and your exceeding great reward I'm getting excited right now mmm put up Hebrews 11:6 on the screen you hold your place right there in Genesis what does Hebrews 11:6 say anybody know what without faith it is impossible to please him to please God for he that comes to God must what he must believe that he is that he's real that he exists that he's God when we talk about real faith with the real item that like that mustard seed can rip stuff up and transport it and plant it and change it this is it's no more difficult than this how many in here would say without any double mindedness you'd believe that God is that he exists that he is real nobody can talk you out of it nobody can argue you and convince you of otherwise somebody said out loud he is God is he exists he's real Abraham already believed this before this encounter with God notice the revelation God gave him though flip back over to Genesis there on the screen y'all got it Genesis fifteen what did he tell him he said Abraham don't be afraid is he is he won't labor him to get ready to believe him yeah it's fear the enemy here yeah don't fear Abram I am your shield and I am your exceeding great reward Abraham didn't have Hebrews he couldn't read Hebrews 11:6 and see that it's impossible to please God without faith and he that comes to God must believe that he is and he must believe that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him but this is all he needed he got the word now he can believe it now too many so-called faith people have got a wrong idea that they can take their faith and do all kinds of things with it and their faith is in their faith and people have they've had some success because it was in line with what God said and then they've had failures because the Lord never said anything about it they just decided they gonna believe it and they gonna do it and their faith was not in God their faith was and what they could do with their faith anybody with me or not tonight but the truth is you can't have faith in God until and unless you have heard from God faith comes not just because you decide to have some faith comes not just because you need some or cuz somebody asked you won't you or need you to do something faith only comes by by hearing from him hearing from him you can't just off the top of your head say I'm gonna believe it brother Keith come most my grass tomorrow well did he say he's gonna come mow your grass no but I have a lot of faith and my faith works and I'm just going to believe that he comes you've got no basis for your faith how can you believe it well I just believe that it is the only way you can beat it is if Keith told you that Keith would come and do it now you could believe what I said that's the only way in ordered you could have faith for it and we're not just talking about running off on some random tangent we're talking my faith in God and the only way you can have real faith in God is that you've really heard from God Abraham's a man of faith no question about that but he couldn't believe that God was his reward until this day but on this day o the almighty spoke to him oh come on now and let me know it belongs to you as a child of Abraham it belongs to you you got it in the New Testament you got it more than one place how many believe not only that God is but you believe oh this is big this has been you believe he is a rewarder let me read this to you from some other translations the basic English says it's necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him the NCV says anyone who comes to God must believe that he is real and that he rewards those who truly want to find him now there are millions that go to church and they believe God is but they don't believe that last part do they they don't believe that they believe you might seek God and him never show up for you it may not happen it may it may not probably won't this is the thing that'll make your faith able to lay hold of his goodness and see miracles where others don't he is a rewarder and he rewards you when you seek Him when you reach for him he responds to you when you draw near to him he draws near to you come on now when you seek Him he causes himself to be found of you and when you ask you receive when when you not he opens it up oh come on do you believe he opens it up when you believe you receive you shall have come on do you believe it do you believe it all things are possible to him that believes he is a rewarder he is not an unattached god whose mighty and all-knowing and way off are off and he created this thing and he gave it a spin and we just got to do the best we can while he watches from a distance in amusement no you got to believe he is you got to believe he's God you got to believe he can do anything he's all-powerful you also got to believe he loves you he loves you he cares about you and he will respond to you and he'll reward you and this is the part people have been weak weak weak weak oh they haven't used their faith in this area some folk have touched on it just a little bit they've dared to believe that God would do something good for him and the people that have have been pleasantly [Laughter] enlightened and sometimes surprised and how quick and how much he responded because he is good and he loves you and he wants to do so much more go back to Genesis we know abraham believed God we know he had an operated in real faith and we're his children by faith he said fear not April I am your shield you're exceeding great reward Abraham said Lord God what will you give me seeing I go childless the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus and and you've given me no seed and one born in my house it is my heir this is weighing heavy on his heart he said well Lord out no matter what you give me I don't have anybody to leave it to you're my exceeding great reward that's great that's neat but I'm old and I've got no child tell me how you get faith how can you have faith comes but is he about to hear something else his his faith is about to shoot up from right there in desert Ville where he was in childless town where he had been living his little life his little family his little stuff his faith is about to soar throughout the universe his faith is about to soar from where he was all those centuries ago and touch me and touch you and our kids and our descendants and eternity friend do we know how big this is what's what's about to make the difference right now how can his how can his faith leap up like that hmm he's not he's not happy about this he said we're gone that's great but I don't have anybody leave this to the Lord said this shall not be your heir but he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir and he brought him forth abroad and he said look toward heaven tell the Stars if you be able to number them he said to him so shall your seed be are you awake hey Brabham said I appreciate it God you've been real good to me already you my exceeding great reward oh that's good but I ain't got nobody leave it to I'm old I won't be around much longer the Lord said no that's not gonna be your heir your own child it's gonna be your heir and come here and look come on put yourself there put yourself there it's nighttime right now look up in the sky he said yes sir he said can you nut can you count can you number all those stars how many are there he said no it's too many I don't know it's big it's more than a million it's more than ten million it's more than ten billion it's more than a hundred million quadrillion billion I don't know God no he said that is how many children you will have Abraham didn't get in his head he didn't say two times three plus one and over the next 20 years and 40 years and if you did this and if he added this and even if you did this and how many how many and my my child and he did none of that he did come on read the next verse what'd he do come on help me out what'd he do what'd he do and he for something to be so amazing and so powerful and so eternity life-changing it doesn't take long to say it right here he he believed in Oh friends are y'all awake are you are you he didn't say he believed it was mathematically possible he believed it was physiologically socially possible he believed in the Lord oh come on come on he believed when you believe in some body you don't have to understand the figures or the how come on you don't have to understand the ins and outs or the ways or you don't have to have the answers the angel said you're going to conceive a child to Mary she said how can this be I don't have a husband I've never known a man he didn't try to explain that to her on a molecular level a physiological level how do you explain the spiritual supernatural word becoming flesh how do you explain that even if you happen to college how you gonna get there you know what he says the power of the highest is gonna come on you we told my somebody somebody somebody did you believe in him and she said we'll be it to me according to your word behold handmaiden of the Lord that's me I'm your girl I'm your woman I'm Laura and she was you can see one of the Lord picked her didn't you so many people thinking they're so smart they want to argue they want to ask a thousand questions they want to tell you why I can't be and how come this and how come that and it's not because they're smart it's because they're full of unbelief and it'll choke you off and it'll hold you out and it'll keep you out of the miraculous keep your answers away from you Abraham didn't understand how all this could ever be and he didn't have to he's looking up in the sky I'm sure his father first thought when the Lord said can you count all those he's thinking no he said that's how many children you will have will be your children his first thought was probably wow he said he has to turn his head to look through the night sky and the sea and that's just the ones he can see with his naked eye and he knows there's a lot more out there that he can't see any thinking and without any delay what did you do come on help me what did it what without any delay without any more explanation what did he do what did he do he believed what does that mean he believed what does that mean come on help me is it complicated is it hard what did he do he said if you say it that's it cuz you're God you can do it if you say it there's no way you're lying to me you can't lie there's no way you can't do it you're God you can do it and you told me you're my reward so I know you love me I know you want to do it for me he believed the love that God had for him he believed the graciousness and faithfulness that God is extending to him and his family throughout eternity it was giant it was huge it was beyond his understanding but it wasn't beyond his faith mm-hmm he believed God and immediately it pleased God and God counted him righteous in his sight before him and said that's my friend mmm friend this is available to every one of us every one of us can live like this don't make it complicated it's very very simple you want to have an ear to hear what he would say to you right it came up in my spirit just a moment ago everybody stand up the reverence to the Lord here for just a moment real softly real softly close your eyes focus on him for just a moment Oh hallelujah hallelujah this came up in my spirit helped me to say it right lord help me to say that Riedel I've been wanting to say things to you but you were not able to hear them you were not able to bear them I knew you would have rejected it and cast it down as impossible as too big as too hard but now your faith will grow your faith will begin to increase and rise up in the nurture of the spirits presence and the nurturing words of faith and I'll begin to say things to you that'll open up your spirit and open up your mind do not think how can it be how could it ever be do not say in your heart it's impossible for then you would disqualify yourself from the precious things that I desire to do for you and in you and through you and by you but say with my servant and my friend and your father Abraham say I believe Lord you are faithful and I believe Lord you're well able and I believe Lord you'll surely do it I believe Lord all that you say will surely come to pass nothing's too hard for you and you love me truly and all you say you will do you will do I believe hallelujah oh thank you lost your hands and praise himself holes of the candy Prix in of the jothee pray in the spirit son pray my land blemings OD cuff Lamon diana circle tafoya's here creator for Maalik long feet obama initiative laboratory mighty eggs in and gangs enclave at the bone nine neck [Music] g9g9z ning on the sole korovin me Anna Mundek louvered Oh Jung Joo Darla or zoo de banane e manga the so phony Mary great Anand Rajaram privalov posted Sheila DC praise Allah for mother NASA Katie praise of Allah calm blame as leader Jannetty or save it ajar oh praise the fan on Carly bears living on our calmly man is 84 man B&E Bhavana common is Jackie save an embosser fungone abandom angela flame baba society hallelujah hallelu hallelu what key in there brother let's go up a couple of notches here go to see Australia [Music] only believe only believe all things are possible all things are possible we sing it again on baby oh we believe all things are possible oh really Oh Oh things are possible Oh sing Lord I believe things are possible [Music] be [Music] I believe Oh basil [Music] Oh hallelujah just worshiping son he's speaking the hearts right now whatever he says to you believe it do it hallelujah whoa thank you for speaking to your people [Music] telling us what to believe thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord singing again lord I believe [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] beebee [Music] Lord I [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] let's just close your eyes let's believe for God to speak to his people in this room in their hearts and outside all over where people are joined by internet speak to them just like he spoke that word to Abraham the word that they need what to believe about this situation right now don't just pray and believe for yourself believe for your neighbor believe for somebody in front of your behind you right now let's let's use our faith actively we pray Lord speak to your people give us the word the word for right now the word for the individuals our brothers our sisters what we're to believe right now in this situation the word that brings faith the word that brings victory the word that brings glory hallelujah come on believe right now just expect just expect okay Livan also don't name [Music] shut up and I'm on the song cater pie come on keep leaving God speaking to Pete expect please or Lord we believe in you to speak to your people just what each one needs to hear things that you've already said say it again please Lord it's your word that gives us faith it's your word that gives us victory yes thank you I'm saying Lord keep on believing why you say always are possible Oh Lord I believe [Music] I believe possible No sing it again same ball but I believe [Music] I I believe a Oh [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] glory to God thank you praise You Father thank you thank you thank you thank you praise just just thank you receive that word receive that word and thank him be thankful thank you praise praise praise praise glory to God [Music] glory to God glory glory glory to God glory to God there's still people receiving we don't want to rush we don't want to rush we just prayed for our brothers and sisters praise you praise You Lord praise you oh thank you for answers thank you thank you for people believing in you in your answers [Music] thank you for deliverance being made free thank you thank you thank you praise praise you them praise you Lord and sing that again [Music] [Applause] [Music] glory to God thank you thank you thank you thank you praise you praise you Lord praise you Lord glory to God glory to God well when you leave here tonight devil tries to steal your faith just look up at the stars right just look up at the stars you'll remember you'll remember you'll though you'll see and you'll remember Abraham he could do that for him he did it for us glory to God you can't steal it we're gonna keep it y'all gonna keep it we'll keep it together glory to God glory to God glory to God well we're gonna go like this they're gonna sing we're gonna be dismissed if you're here tonight and you're uncertain about your salvation or you have any questions concerning your salvation there's gonna be people along the front standing here and as people are going out as they're singing you come down let us love on you let us pray with you let us let us make you certain before you leave here and rejoice that Jesus Christ is your Lord don't leave here with questions glory to God hallelujah well let's let them sing we'll be dismissed as as they do have a good night keep what you got glory to God [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Tue Mar 27 2012