Keith Moore Greater Faith Conference 2014 Pt 2 Faith that gives

found and really good thank you brother raging hallelujah thanks be to God how many were not with us last night if you'd raise your hand let me see ok quite a few we're certainly glad that you're you're with us tonight we begin on something that I'm we're believing the Lord to continue this evening if you turn with me to two openings Romans chapter four and Galatians chapter 3 anybody know what kind of conference this is greater faith greater faith if you don't feel like you got much faith you at the right place right and if you feel like you got a whole lot of faith you at the right place - hmm greater faith and in praying and seeking the Lord about this I was impressed with this passage and the ones that are connected to it and as we asked last night if if I had to ask you I know I'm amongst faith people here word people and if I asked you who would you say was the father of the Faith Movement you hear it all all kind of what some folks were here last night too and but some people might say Oh Kenneth Hagin of course I am I highly esteem his place in these things but actually you have to go back further and some might say well II W Kenyon or Martin Luther or no you got to keep keep going keep going you know who's the father of those that live and walk by faith Abraham Abraham his faith has held up as an example for all that'll come after him and I'm more stirred up about the faith of Abraham than I have been before and I want you to join me you ready in Romans the the fourth chapter in about verse 1 here he says what shall we say then that Abraham our Father as pertaining to the flesh has found if you skip down to verse 11 it says that he that he might be the father of all them that believed though they be not circumcised that righteousness oh and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only but who also walked in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised verse 16 says it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that only which is of the law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all he talks about Abraham being the father of all them that believe and how that we also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham in Galatians 6 excuse me 3 verse 6 you see a similar thing Galatians 3 and verse 6 it says even as abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham are you of faith then you are the children of Abraham keep reading and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in you shall all nations be blessed so then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham hallelujah you walk in the same faith and you walk in the same blessing we need to understand sometimes people have said less than respectful things about the Old Testament and you'll hear people even saying you can hear it in their voice oh that's the law you know we're not under the law and that's Old Testament and that's not for us that that shows ignorance to talk like that the law never was the problem Romans reveals that the law is perfect and just and good did I lose somebody or not the problem wasn't the law the problem was people's inability to keep it and measure up to it and we're not justified by keeping the law but the Word of God revealed in the law is good and fair and perfect if you neglect your Old Testament you're missing out on all kind of thing and the writers of the New Testament assume you know the Old Testament they're continually referring to it it is the Word of God but now when you're talking about Abraham the last couple of weeks in Branson when I spoke on Sundays we've been speaking on tithing and man we're more stirred up on tithing than we've ever been around here and yet a whole lot of people will try to say well now you know that's that's the Old Testament well is is Matthew in the Old Testament is Luke in the Old Testament is Hebrews in the Old Testament no people are showing the ignorance by talking like this no tithing when you start talking we're talking about tithing from the book of Hebrews and it's amazing that there'd be a couple of chapters in the book of Hebrews devoted to something that's not for us nowadays and we we talked about Abraham tithing this is long before there was a law this is before the Ten Commandments there were no statutes there were no ordinances so why is Abraham tithing where did he get it and what is he doing he's not tithing to be justified before God by works how is Abraham justified by God before God by his faith exactly the same way you and I are and yet people want to pick and choose and say well yeah we walk by faith like Abraham but we don't tithe like Abraham no he tithe because he was acknowledging who his source was he was acknowledging who had protected him and prospered him and he was also opening the window so that the high priest could bless him what's tithing about it's about honor and blessing and this was this was not about any law this is not about keeping any rules this is not about trying to justify yourself with you works there were no works there was no law there's a lot of ignorance around oh don't speak disparagingly of the law or of the Old Testament did you hear me friends you show your ignorance no we're not justified by keeping the law but the law is good and right and holy and all the things that are revealed in all those statutes and ordinances they are beautiful types of redemption somebody say glory to God hallelujah beautiful types I know if you read Leviticus and some of it people get bogged down in and if an in for instance one occasion he said that if somebody had been a leper and they got healed they'd go to the priest they announced outside the wall they come examine them if they find that they are actually healed then they come and they take two birds alive and clean and they take running water in an earthen vessel and they kill one of the birds and they do this and they do that and people read detonate and a lot of folks just say well you know thank God we don't have to do that anymore I mean that's you know no friend listen it's a beautiful type two birds alive not not one - and one of them had to be killed over an earthen vessel and the blood ran down and there was blood and water in an earthen vessel you ever heard anything like this before in the New Testament and then the priest would take the remaining live bird with scarlet and hyssop symbolic of cleansing and righteousness and he would take that with cedar wood you ever heard anything about wood and he would plunge that living bird and that cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop into that earthen vessel Neath that blood and that water and then he would bring that bird out still alive blood washed and water washed and he would take it out and set it free hallelujah where he could fly away hallelujah don't speak disparagingly and mockingly about the law and about the Old Testament it's the Word of God it's perfect forever the law never was a problem it was people's inability to keep him there was a time when you and I were sick and diseased and Sinfield but we reached up and we called on our Lord and the mighty hand of God came out and took hold of us with the work of the cross with the washing of the water and the washing of the blood and our master who was killed in an earthen vessel and now we've been clean and set free hallelujah to rule and reign in this life if it's dull and boring to us it's just because we hadn't seen it we haven't understood it but don't don't speak ill of it don't speak disrespectfully of it and Abraham in his day and age in his time by revelation he walked by faith just like we do today by revelation he tithed just like we're suppose it's by revelation no law no rules by revelation and you and I are the children of Abraham walking in the faith of Abraham in the same steps of that faith of our father Abraham can you say Amen glory to God we read this last night it'll be a repetition Isaiah fifty one and one Isaiah fifty one and one it says hearken to me that follow after righteousness ye that seek the Lord looking to the rock whence you were hewn and to the hole of the pit which you are digged look him to Abraham your father and Sarah that bear you for I called him alone and blessed him and increased him he said look to the rock you were cut from you've heard of cut from the same cloth well we're cut from the same rock and when he says look to the hole of the pit you're dig he's talking about a mind he's talking about a shaft where precious stones are gold is mined and you and I are cut from the same rock and the same faith that Abram walked in we we walk in we have it in our bosom and it is precious I said it is precious Peter talks about the trial of your faith being more precious than gold that perishes and yet it's going to be found unto praise in time to come God is going to praise it of all the things that he could say what is it that it is impossible to please God without faith it's not everywhere in this world it's rare it's precious and the eyes of the Lord are scanning to and fro throughout the whole earth what's he looking for he's looking for those whose heart is perfect the scripture says that means wholehearted then what kind of heart see looking for a believin heart a fully committed heart I'm going all away with God heart and when he finds that he shows himself strong on their back did he show himself strong on Abraham's behalf yes he did and the scripture says we having the same spirit of faith do we have the same spirit of faith Abraham walked in same spirit of faith I believe therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak said out loud because you believe it I'm of the seed of Abraham like my father Abraham I please my God with faith faith that overcomes all isn't that the victory that overcomes the whole world even our faith I like what brother schambach used to say all the time you don't have any problems oh you need is faith in God huh don't you like that yeah there's some time I didn't tell you that to run tell somebody else what you need to do sometimes if you're not just feeling entirely spiffy and strong is looking in the mirror and do that to yourself look in the mirror y'all ready to practice now you you practice and looking at the mirror who you're talking to you talking to yourself come on you say that like you don't have any problems all you need is faith in God and then you need to answer yourself and go a bit and that's right that's right that's exactly right amen and you got you and yourself in agreement there go keister Genesis 12 with me let's pick up on where we left off last night as the Lord would allow some help us Genesis 12 I believe the Lord's doing many things for us in this meeting this week and spiritual things so many of these things you can't talk you can't explain them and you don't discern them all when they're happening there's spiritual and we're talking about the spirit of faith and we're not just talking about getting a head full of knowledge about faith or about Abraham's faith we're talking about having this faith in an increased way so open your spirit up real wide to it please II in Genesis 12 we read where that uh God spoke to Abraham and this is how all faith begins this is how all miracles begin is by God speaking and when he he said to Abram get you out of your country and from your kindred and from your father's house unto a land that I will show you now when the Lord told him this we must remember that Abraham Abram is a man he had to deal with the same kind of things you and I have to deal with I remember when the Lord dealt with Phyllis and I to leave our families leave our homes where we grew up and to go out to Tulsa Oklahoma to go school that brother Kenneth Hagins ministry it it seemed giant to us we didn't have the money we didn't know anybody you leave everything you know and I don't care who you are if it's Abraham or if it's me or if it's you you're going to face the same fears and you're going to face the same feelings somebody say fears and feelings and you know what can overcome those fears and those feelings the faith I said the faith of God and everybody that's gonna walk with God and take these steps of faith like Abraham did you're gonna have to overcome what is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith now that tells you you have to overcome something the victory that overcomes the world and these fears are real what do you think came to his mind we know Hebrews 11 tells us he went out not knowing where he was going what kind of thoughts came to him hmm enemies the same he's always been the same bringing pictures of failure right you're gonna leave here you're gonna get out there run out of money who knows libel get attacked by some renegade marauding band and you you know get out there run out of water run out of food hmm I mean these are wild and woolly times hmm right and everything from wild animals to robbers and everything else every every time every corner you came around and besides that this is the place where you grew up all your relations and fears and feelings are going to be there and like we talked about last night if you keep looking today and clinging oh I gotta leave that I got to leave that then you're not valuing what God told you he's given you you think the cost is too high to turn loose which means you think the value of what you're going to is not enough and that's how you can disqualify yourself but notice what the Lord told him I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you will be a blessing and I'll bless them that bless you and curse him that curses you and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed so Abram got out of there he left as the Lord had spoken to him what kind of faith is the faith of Abraham faith that obeys somebody say faith that obeys I know that's a simple phrase but all it says so much faith that obeys faith that overcomes the fears overcomes the feelings overcomes all the questions what-ifs what about how where from why pushes it all aside climbs over it packs its bags and goes that's Abrahamic faith that's the kind of faith that pleases God that's the kind of faith that gets you sinned to get you into the kind of places that it got Abraham in to say it out loud Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken to him and he said in LA went with him and Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran and so it tells that he took verse five he took Sarai his wife and lot his brother's son all their substance all that gathered the souls and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan there out to do it and into the land of Canaan they came what's he doing he's obeying he's doing what the Lord told him to do now without going into a whole lot of detail the Bible said verse 10 there was a famine in the land and Abram went down to Egypt and Abram had a pretty wife must have been remarkably attractive really if you look at the whole thing I mean she must have been quite the looker and he tells her you know I know you are he the thing about a pretty wife is that other people may think she's pretty to go the men and he knew that was a dealing in this country and in this day and age he needs somebody sees you've got a great-looking wife they just kill you and take her you know and so he told her you know that to say the thing about her being his sister because she was half-sister and so anyway the the Bible said that the Pharaoh the Egyptians beheld the woman in verse 14 and the princes of Pharaoh saw and commended her before Pharaoh and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house now it's easy for you and I all these centuries later to look at Abraham's life but wonder how you think he felt right now he's launched into his big adventure with God right and not too long after getting started he's lost his wife we know the rest of the story the promise is Isaac and the Christ through the sea well how's Isaac ever going to come and Sarah a eyes not even in his life anymore it's easy to look at other people that have walked by faith and in that you know and you just hear about the testimonies and you just hear about the high points and to think well man you know that's just I just basically believe God said on cruise control and and the blessings just keep falling on you but walking by faith means you don't yield nor succumb to the fears and the feelings they will come at every step at every juncture fears and feelings will come do you reckon Abraham had any fears to deal with his wife has got who's Goddard only the most powerful man in the in the civilized world right yeah and he thinks she's his wife now one of many but you know what faith won't fear even though everything tells you to faith won't quit even though everything tells you it's over you're done you're done for you started hmm what you know the enemy was trying to harass him you should have stayed at the house right like auntie and uncle and then told you to you know they told you don't you go rambling all over the country you know it's dangerous out there right you better stay over here with your own people with your own security but no Abraham faith man I'm going God told me to go and he did tell him to go but here is no wife what about his future what about well they're going but I know what faith does I've had enough of these challenges myself thank God I hadn't lost my wife to Pharaoh I thank you Lord but the same kind of thing will come up and you know what you know what you do in this scenario hmm wonder what's happening to Sarah wonder what wonder where she is wonder what's happening wonder what's happening wonder what's that you know what you do you cast all your cares over on the Lord and you go to the house hmm and eat a popsicle and taking that come on are you listen to me you you don't try to figure it out and you don't come on are y'all listening to me you don't pace the floor you look up even though you're tempted to cry you're tempted to be afraid you're tempted to yield to the feelings I mean from all apparently indications your life is gone the love of your life is gone the future you see don't walk together and god it's gone but faith won't accept that yes I said faith would accept that faith won't even get down over it faith won't even cry about it because if it's not the truth there's no need in crying about it if that's not the end there's no need and getting down and depressed right no need going through all that hole friends we could save ourselves so much trauma if we just would stay in faith and stay in the rest of God I know he had to had to stay in faith much as he knew he's holding on to his God what do you do when you don't know what to do you hold on to the one who does I said you hold you tighter you hold on to the one who does I like what David said my soul follows hard after thee what does that mean Lord if you stop quick I'm gonna hit you right there in the back because I am I'm right here on you my soul follow well did you hear my soul my soul follows hard after thee what do you do when you don't know what to do you hold closer to the one who does know what to do and you keep telling and you say Lord I trust you I trust you I don't I don't know what it's gonna take to fix this but I know you do and I'm here and I'm goin nowhere I'm holding on to you and I'm confessing and saying this is gonna turn out for my good and for your glory I don't know how but it's going to it's going to all these things are going to work out for my good and your glory and friend you can say that and mean it when you don't have a clue how it could ever work out well you know the story god entreated he well he revealed himself to pharaoh and next thing you know pharaoh calls abram and gives him his wife back and and she was fine she hadn't been harmed or mistreated otherwise she was there and God uses it to make Abraham richer adds a bunch of stuff to it and they send him on his way so crying all night would have been a waste of time huh packing a few bags and heading back toward the house would have been a big mistake hmm do you have the faith of Abraham inside you that's a little weak guys come on you I'm telling my to you you are a child of Abraham and you have that same kind of God pleases world overcoming faith in you it's a personal trust in your father you don't have to know everything you just know you trust him you know you trust him somebody say I know I trust you lord I know I know I trust you hallelujah I don't have to see how it's gonna work out I I don't have to know how everything can happen I trust you so on the road again Abram and Sarah right and lot back in the faith adventure its own in chapter 13 Abram went up out of Egypt he and his wife all he had he's got more than he ever had and lot was with him into the south and Abram was very rich in cattle in silver and in gold I'm glad the Lord put that in there because a lot of folks will say yeah he's rich in his heart he's rich well he was but he was rich in his pocketbook - he was rich in cows Minnie cows silver silver' he had lots of it somebody say Abram was loaded he was loaded who gave all that stuff to him come on Helmut God God has God changed no has faith changed in you and I should be blessed too didn't we just read in the New Testament in Galatians 3 there not only do we have the faith of Abraham we are blessed is that right we are blessed we are blessed with faithful Abraham any way says he went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning between Bethel and hey I to the place of the altar which he made there at the first and there Abram called on the name of the Lord now something you'll notice here more than once when the Lord spoke to Abram he memorialized it he would build an altar and this is also something that that just is true with any person of faith our faith is completely based on what he says to us faith is not just something you come up with on your own you can't just leave for anything and everything it crosses your mind you have to hear from him and so when he says something to us it should be a big deal right and we should make a big deal out of it and we should memorialize it we should put a pillar down and say God said this to me I was here and on this day and and God spoke to me and it should mean something to us I know you can be more in the spirit than you realize you are and things of the Spirit be more real to you at the time and then later getting the flesh and they're not have you ever had the Lord say something to you and you thought man that is so real I'll never forget that and and a half a day later you're trying to remember what it was has that ever happened to here you're trying to go what how'd that how could that happen it was so clear it was so real well what happened is you were more in the spirit then you realized you were you have to be in a trance to be in the spirit that just means you're more aware of spirit than flesh you can be more flesh aware or more spirit aware at any hour of the day are y'all with me you can be 60% spirit aware 40% the flesh away you could be most folks or about 98% flesh aware is this the truth and barely perceived some spirits of some time how many want to be a whole lot spirit aware and not so much flesh away that's being spiritual that's what it means to walk in the spirit doesn't mean you're in a trance it just means you're more aware of spiritual things than you are natural things I know one that that kind of things happened to me a number of times and the Lord you know like like you all has given me precious things and and not just for me to teach and to minister and to our people in to our churches and and it's to me it's so obvious that I didn't think it up he gave it to me I didn't come up with it and so it's a gift and I know years ago before I learned some of what I'm telling you now he'd tell me things and I'd let him slip and not lose him I know one time he gave me something really rich in the night and I and I thanked him and and then I was going back to sleeping and he said you're not even gonna write that down you don't value it enough to even try to keep it to try to hold on to it and so I made some adjustments and changes but should we memorialize when God speaks to us and gives direction just like Abraham he built these altars and he memorialized it now the Bible said verse five a lot also which went with Abram had flocks and herds and tents and the land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together for this substance was great so that they could not dwell together this is act the blessing of tithers Abram is a tithe that we know that we have more ample scripture for it and what does Malachi 3 say if you bring the tithe the Lord said he had opened the windows a window is an access point things can go through it from one area to another tithing allows God access to us and he said I will pour out blessing that there's not room enough to contain it isn't that exactly what has come to pass in their life they are so blessed that they do not have the room for it hmm cannot come to pass for you he well if you're tired he he goes on to say there was strife between the herdsmen of Abrams cattle and the herdsmen of Lots cattle because they're too cramped they're competing for the same pasture and the same water they just they got too many cows somebody say too many cows they got too many cows they got too many goats they got too many sheep they got too many camels they got too many donkeys yeah and who gave them the too many donkeys and sheep and huh now do you think that God knows exactly how many cows are sheep each one of those acres out there could sustain then why did he give them too many cows huh am I losing somebody is he the God who will run your cup over is it hmm he is a net breaking ship sinking too many goat too many cup running over God it's not his fault if your boats too little it's not his problem if you pastures too small go ahead and leave him get some more pasture right because if you tithe and you put him first he's gonna give you so many cows you're not going you're gonna run out of room and it's just time to say hallelujah and either time to sow some cows right or something but it's not a problem it's the blessing the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and he adds no sorry to it that's always been the case you've hurry back in Leviticus he said if you'll do what I tell you to do he said you'll have to take out the old store because of the knees what does that mean that means last year's clothes you still got tags on them but you got to take them out because you got so many new clothes coming in and you got that you got that two year old car sitting in the garage and you got to take it out because you got the new cars coming in is there right that is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich so they are experiencing this multiplication that the blessing brings and they are they have expanded and enlarged until their resources not enough and verse 8 Abram said to lot let there be no strife I pray you between me and you and between my Hartman and your Hartman for we be brethren now remember everything that Abram is doing and seeing and getting he doesn't have a New Testament he doesn't have the Ten Commandments none of that he's getting this all by revelation from walking personally with God and it it points to the day you and I live in and principles that are eternal and by revelation Abraham knew that the the enemy of faith is strife and unforgiveness and the failure to walk in love and he knew no matter what it cost you get rid of the strife why because we got to keep this faith thing going right we got to keep our faith in operation and so he is willing to make great sacrifice whatever it takes because he knows the spiritual connection is more important than the stuff he knows they wouldn't have all the stuff if it wasn't for the spiritual connection god is love and our faith works by love and he had Abram didn't have these scriptures how'd he know this same way he knew how to believe God same way he knew how to tithe all by revelation and so he said Abram came to lot and he treats him as an equal and he says let there be no strife between me and you between my Hartmann and your herdmen for we are brethren he treats him as an equal and this has been his being gracious to him but lot doesn't understand this he should he's been around Abel for years now back up with me a couple of verses here verse verse five why does lot have sheep and cows and tents the Bible is clear - that's one verse five is here his it wouldn't be necessary to have this in here except for among these reasons it's in slot also didn't just say he had flocks herds and tents lot what which went with Abram which lettin you know that's why Lots got the flocks and the herds and the tents because he's been with Abram you know Lots daddy died back in the old country and Abram took lot and basically treated him as as we did treated him as his family his immediate family and so he not having our son of his own yet he I'm sure he treated him in Barty mountain showed him how to do things and and so I don't know if he was when he was 16 or when it was but he let he let lot have a cow he let in a cab he let lot have a starter sheet kit and starter gold kit and a starter silver kingdom I know what I'm talking about maybe said my son you do what I tell you to you with this and it'll grow for you and so uh he let lot ride with him and he let lot sit in the tent with him when he did business with the the traveling merchants and what have you and so he's gonna buy X amount of this and he'd say Lots you're to get it on this Bayou Sun and so lot did everything Locke knows he learned at the side of Abraham and he doesn't realize it but he's been operating in this man's anointing and in this man's blessing but he's come to think he can do it just as well without him and he was sorely mistaken the reason I know that is because of his actions verse 6 can't keep going verse 7 and 8 when the Abrams said don't let there be any strife between us verse 9 it's not the whole land before you separate yourself I pray you from me if you take the left hand I'll go to the right if you depart to the right hand I'll go to the left now if this had been a lot of modern day modern day in 2014 Christians and ministers this would have been the beginning of years of lawsuits he right here first of all they wouldn't they wouldn't have done what Abram did and so they'd have gotten embroiled and who's going to get the good land hmm and it would have got heated and it would have got more than this and then lawyers would have been hired and you know why people do that because they don't have faith people do it because of fear fear somebody's going to take something from me fear I'm gonna lose something say that every one of these steps friends you're going to be faced head-on with fears and feelings and the enemy is going to tell you if you do that they will clean you out they will clean you out and it takes faith it takes the Abraham kind of faith to say what if they do what if they do I know where I got this I know how I got this and I'm gonna be fine no matter what they do and if you believe that you avoid the ulcers you avoid the migraines you avoid the lawsuits and all the money spent on that and all the time and all the lost opportunities and the filing up of your witness come on they're listening to me sighs why do people go into this mode why why do they go into this what are they gonna do what if and what if fear it's just plain old fear and if we're walking in fear we're not walking in faith faith is what we do instead of fear fear is not our thing come on somebody help me out let's let's do a little retro fly sir fear is not my bag man that's thing tell me what's your thing what's your thing what's your I'm a faith man in the morning I'm a faith man at noontime I'm a faith man when the Sun goes that faith man faith man we learned last night what kind of faith is Abrahamic faith it's a faith that obeys you know what you see here tonight what kind of faith is Abrahamic faith it's faith that gives how can they be so free hearted how can they clean out their accounts and not know where it's going to come from the rest of the week how can they do that exactly the way he did this he said like whatever it takes brother I'm telling you this strife is stopping today this is the end we not gonna have this none of this griping backbiting talking behind each other's back and our Shepherds and herdsmen out there almost in a fistfight that's not happening I'm stopping this today you tell me what you want and I will get out of your way I want you to practice that with me friends said it aloud tell me what you want and I will get out of your way did Abraham caused the strife and so lot let's let's keep reading what do you lot do lot sees this as a great opportunity how ignorant how stupid he thinks this is a great opportunity he lifts up his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan it was well watered everywhere before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because he doesn't know that's about to happen but it was like the garden of the Lord like the land of Egypt as you come to Zohar it was beautiful it was the best by far you know so so much out there arid and dry and desert but this is watered green lush and verse 11 then lot chose him all the plain of the Jordan and lot journeyed East and they separated themselves the one from the other and it was the worst mistake of his life y'all believe this or not not long after this this is chapter 13 chapter 14 begins describing how that the whole country now is embroiled in war for Kings against five I mean there this is like axis against allied I mean this this is a big deal and the whole country is full of war and and and the war got to Sodom and the Bible said that lot after he left Abram he pitched his tent towards Sodom and then by the time you get to chapter 14 he's living in sodden this is what's happening to him this is the the direction he moves without Abraham's influence so many times folks have none they've not realized the the curbing effects of leaders faith and anointings being in in in certain groups and certain churches and certain ministries and being in places where the Lord has sent you and joined you and under teachings and anointing and faith and prayer there are certain things that won't even come to you certain temptations you won't even experience coming are you listening to me certain things and certain things that will come to you provision and blessing and healing easier and quicker come on are you with me because you're in the environment they're with it you're just in it and and listen listen friend don't do what Locke did if you're in that environment for years which lot was you can get to thinking it's you just you see Locke became deceived into thinking he was as good a businessman as a it wasn't about being a good businessman I'm sure he was but it's because of the blessing is because of the empowerment that was on him and we are all equal as children of God we're all equally loved we're all equally redeemed we all have the same equal rights to being healed being filled with the spirit having your needs met but we are not all anointed the same and we are we do not have the same call that is not equal and the scripture said in Hebrews the Abram knew this and when he returned from the conquering of those the ones that took lot the Bible said he gave Melchizedek tithes of all and then Melchizedek blessed him and Hebrew says that without controversy the less is blessed of the greater the better now that didn't mean better as a human being doesn't mean smarter superior just by right of who they are it's the greater anointing somebody say greater anointing the greater call the greater place the greater anointing and lot let that go he didn't realize he's the beneficiary of a greater anointing in his life of a greater call and he does not have an equal anointing on his life he does not have an equal call and when he separates from it immediately he starts yielding to temptations he starts going down the road towards Sodom next thing you know they're living right in the middle of it next thing you know the judgment that happens to them happens to him [Music] proverbs 27 8 says as a bird that wanders from her nest so is a man that wanders from his place can you get out of your place Saints the scripture tells us in the in 1st Corinthians 12:18 that God has sent the members each of them in the body as it has pleased him a lot of folks think they can serve God the way they want to wherever they want to with whomever they want to and it's not true and are we reading New Testament scripture right here on the board read it out loud with me what does it say God has sent the members how many are you a member am I met every one of us he said them every one of them in the body as it has pleased him so then can you change what he said and set yourself in another place with another part of the body come on are y'all with me and and serve him the way you want to and be just this blessed no you cannot e people are trying it all over the place but it's not a that's why it's not working either people are frustrated man people change churches like changing you know the wash just know you know just pull up move across the country try this out of while go here try this out of while go over people really think that they can just serve God anywhere with anybody any way they want to do you think a lot of people believe that do you think it's right or not it's never been right the church has gotten away from it it hadn't been taught like it should be but friend we've talked about this before parents sometimes tell their children and none of them mean well huh well honey you're smart you're pretty you're talented you're gifted you can be anything you want to be when you grow up that's actually not true if you're a Christian it's not for you to decide what you want to be at what you want to do that's already been decided for you it's not for you to decide it is for you to discover it and follow it fully there's a place Saint I said there's a place in the body where it has pleased God to put you and you fit there like nowhere else and in that place you're in your grace and in that place and grace protection comes to you and nourishment comes to you come on are you listening cuz you're in the part of the body where you're supposed to be and in that part you are useful and you are fruitful and your Grace's help others and minister to others and if you get your little feelings heard about something and you decide well I'm getting I'm leaving I'm not gonna stay here and you unplug yourself and you try to go to another place and another part and try to put yourself in you're gonna experience problems problems problems these anointings these greater anointings apostle prophet evangelist pastor teacher lock the anointing on Abraham's life they're not just for him did you remember the Lord kept saying in you shall all the nations right be blessed it's these anointings are there for the benefit of those that are joined - hallelujah I know the Lord said this to me some years ago he start studying about the ministry gifts and the Lord said to me I was noticing that these these are gifts from the Lord to his people now because of love did you know you're preachers are gifts from the Lord to you there that's what he said and the Lord said to me he said many of my people are not deriving the full benefit out of the gifts I've given them because they're not giving them the full place in their life and I asked him to teach me about that and and over the years I've seen more and more so many churches have gotten away from what God ordained and their preachers are hirelings right they're hiring and firing and they change them every year - just for good measure just to keep things shaking up keep things fresh and these men and women do not have a place in their life and the Lord helped me to see I gave these gifts for protection and for provision and for feeding hallelujah when you got somebody that God has joined you to that's got 40 more years of experience walking with God that you do and has got all this anointing and grace on their lives you should benefit from it and you cuz you shouldn't just come tell them what you're doing you should come ask them come on Neha listen to me and see what the Lord would say and if you're right on track then their confirmation is a blessing and a help to you and if you're not on track then here's some major protection if you'll receive it to save you from messing up right now lot ceased to value who Abram was to him he forgot he wouldn't have had a father figure he wouldn't have any cows right he wouldn't have any sheep he you know what it was time for lot didn't realize it but I'm glad you and I are here tonight because we can get this you know what it was time for when Abram came so graciously delight and he said look we're brothers you tell me what you want to do I'm gonna get out of your way you pick what you want I'm gonna go the other way it was time for a Ruth's response preachers you know what I'm talking about a Ruth's response mr. Rufus but yeah yeah yeah Ruth responds Ruth 1:16 somebody say a Ruth responds if he could only hurt us in the background would have been saying Ruth Ruth don't do it like don't don't do it Ruth responds wait when Bruce mother-in-law was saying you can just go like your sister what'd you say entreat me not to leave you he she is that what lot should have said she he said no please please uncle April please no no where are you going I'm going no need telling me to pick a place because wherever you go I'm going way where are you going I'm going who are you Lodge I will Lodge your peoples my people your gods my god come on is that right where you die that's where I'm dying when you get your burial spot give me one too because that's where I'm gonna be buried the Lord do to me and more also if anything but death parts me and you somebody say Ruth responds Ruth responds he should have said no no no sir no sir we will have a cow sale tomorrow I mean no no no no sir friends are y'all with me tonight I know that you are some of these things you it's not a matter of explaining it to your head you have to discern it with your heart it's about honor and and to understand faith you have to understand honor because the faith of God's connected to the honor of God men and women of God like Abraham are not going to demand and tell you what to do on everything that's right and they will walk in love whether you do or not and they will be gracious to you are y'all with me friends can you see what Abraham's doing see I I know there came a point in Phyllis in my life we had served with the Hagins there at their ministry for close to 20 years and I felt released from teaching in the school and we had a lot of things going on in our ministry already and I talked to brother Hagin about it and he he said from one one things he says well you're not getting any younger he said you better get to it do what you gonna do and basically though he was kind to us he blessed us and so after uh I don't know just a couple of years not that long a year and a half or so out and Rodin's I was praying before a meeting one time and the Lord spoke to my heart he said I didn't release you from helping brother Hagin well I set up and I thought whoa like I had kind of equated the two that if I wasn't part of the ministry working for him there there now like most people had done I would go and he said no you assumed something I didn't release you one does not mean the other how many no we got to watch about filling in the blanks and about assuming things and so what we what we knew we needed to do I talk to Phyllis about it we prayed about it and then we we found them and we flew to where they were and after service Astin could have talked to him and we asked them could we help them and they didn't say yeah the South the Lord you should have already been helping us and but they said well they said yeah sure you can yeah and then those next several years was just wonderful so many of the things that we it was a valuable valuable part of our ministry and our training but what I'm saying is if we're to waited for them to come get us and tell us you're supposed to be doing this with me it would not have happened and I think a lot of folks don't understand that there's no one I've had people tell me as their pastor well if you think I ought to be doing something why don't you come and we'll see that's major disrespect right there I'm not supposed to follow you around come on here with me the the less is blessed of the greater you defer to that greater anointing you acknowledge it volitionally willingly they shouldn't have to come to you you go to them you ask and if God puts something on your heart even if it seems like they don't need it or want it right then you say well it's available I'm here right I'm ready I'm willing and if you need to keep on making that available but see that requires humility doesn't it and that's the problem in our society no who gets the grace those that humble themselves and with enough grace you can find that place where you're supposed to be where you fit so perfectly somebody say I have a place I have a place every one of us the Bible says have been put that the head of the church has put us in the place as it has pleased him but we must show respect to what God has joined us to we must show if it hadn't been for Abraham and his uh his faith in his covenant with God this would have been the end of lot and his family right here because we're in chapter 13 beginning of 14 all this war breaks out now you if you notice it none of it touches April he he don't live in Sodom and what if lot and his family had still still been with Abram safe right prosperous kept but no because Abram has excuse me lot is not where he's supposed to be he's left his place he's out from under this greater call and anointing then when this devastation hits this ungodly city that he's living in it hits him too and they come and they take him and his wife and his kids and every dollar and sheep and piece of furniture he's got and they're gone and and and nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand every other story in that part of the world this would have been end of the story that's it they never see each other they work for a short oppressed life is somebody's slave but uncle Abram it's a must say uncle Abram uncle Abram that lot thought he didn't need any more he lot thought he learned everything he need to learn from uncle Abe uncle Abram does he need to leave home and get shot at by strangers he he didn't miss God ain't that something though sometimes other people that won't listen to you missing God affects you right you have to do things you didn't want to do not because you missed it because they missed it but it's listen friend did do you suppose fears came here standing armies were defeated by the ones that got his kinfolks and left and now he has a thought that he can take his service and his neighbors and go get him old friend I like it I said I like it God has not given us a spirit of fear he has not given us the spirit that makes you cowards and slink back and hide at the house he's given us the greater one on the inside hallelujah and here this man of faith he sits there and he's checking his heart and he's asking his God and he's looking at what to do and he gets it in his heart I can do this with God's help I can go get him come on let's go get him let's go get him and it's a good thing he was rich come on think about it because he arms this whole bunch he finances this entire military expedition out of his pocket now that's not the time to decide you should have agreed more with the prosperity message it's too late then some things take time child of God when it comes to walking in the fullness of the material blessing that God has for us a lot of these things don't happen overnight or a year or two if we'll believe God and so like we're supposed to and give and and reap like were supposed to over a period of time he'll have us at a place like Abraham was that night old friend are y'all with me I'm about to get I'm about to get happy on this the in this 14th chapter do you have a minute I said it was good today broom was rich huh it was good that Abram was rich it's good for you to be rich huh it's good for faith churches to be rich faith ministries to be rich rich so that when something comes up we are in position we have the ability to finance it to launch it what do we need let's see we need we need 800 swords and shields and and buckler's and we need this you need that we need this neither and Abraham says get it get it buy get it going what's going cost six million get it get it get it get it now I want this thing ready in the morning he financed the entire military expedition whoo I'm cut from the same piece of rod [Applause] I come out of the same faith man it's my father Abraham [Applause] so anyway verse 15 14 15 he divided himself against him he and his servants by night and smote him and pursued him into Hoeber which is on the left hand of Damascus I guess it was night I guess they didn't know how many was against but they couldn't come down on so hard and so heavy and God was with them until they defeated them and brought back all the goods I mean they brought back Lots salt shakers you know what I'm talking about they brought back the hot sauce are y'all with me I got everything every stool every chair every shape and go glory to God now you do know a lot of folk would have never left the house don't you know that they'd have been in Abraham's shoes why I'm not an army I'm not a general I told that boy to stay at the house I told him I mean how's it gonna help him now me going out getting myself and my bunch killed wife doll for me how many understand how many people out of millions would you find like this man right here like this man it's wise in the book it's why he's a friend of God it's why it was imputed to him for righteousness and the Bible says you're just like him you are his seed you're just like it [Music] somebody receive it so I'm just I'm just like that I'm cut out of the same rock when other people are too scared to leave the house you will get up and take your ten million dollars kimono you listen to me and all the alliances and friends and stuff that God has given you and you will go and do what five armies and Nations put together to do five Confederated nations five armies couldn't do what dis men of faith they were defeated they were crushed nobody nobody in the country why do you think they Confederated because no one of them could take this on but they figured five against four but they were wrong they got crushed and so one man of God with what God's put under his hand is gonna do what five countries what five countries and their armies and their Treasuries could not do [Applause] [Music] which is why when they come a rolling back into town the king of Sodom verse 17 went out to meet him I guess so [Laughter] [Music] you know what the king of Sodom thinks he thinks he's about to meet the new king of Sodom that's what he thinks so perchance there's some maneuvering room to continue to be king he's gonna meet him first how many understand generally Kings don't come out to meet you when you come in they have you come meet them but he's out there with his crown in his hand to meet who God's manifest gods man of faith I said God's man of faith who did what five countries and their armies can do well I have preached this to myself to myself and he comes out don't you notice this notice this verse 18 and Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine he's preached the Most High God in verse 19 and he blessed him he said blessed be Abram of the Most High God possessor of heaven and earth and blessed be the Most High God which has delivered your enemies into your hands and Abram walked right by the king of Sodom and didn't say how do you do nothing he sees the high priest come on are you listening to me and he gives him tithes of all because Abram knows who his faith is in and he knows if not for God there's no way he's even standing here breathing right now muscle s got all his kinfolks back got all the stuff back such a victory people said tithing is under the law there's no law involved in this the man knows who his source is do you know who your source is he wants to honor the God who's given him such a victory do you want to honor the god who's given you Victor somebody say he gave him tithes of all come on say it again he gave him tithes of all and the response from the high priest we have a great high priest passed into the heavens Jesus the Son of God the response from the high priest when you tithe is blessing blessed be the Most High God which has delivered your enemies into your hand he gave him tithes of all verse 21 and the king of sodom came said to abram is he had to wait while all this is going to he had to wait on the side and he said give me the people and you can take all the stuff 22 Abram said to the king of sodom i've already lifted up my hand to the Lord the Most High God possessor of heaven and earth I will not take a thread I won't take a shoelace I'm not taking anything that is yours because you will never be able to say that you made abram rich I know who my God is I know in whom I have believed he made me rich where was the king of Sodom that night when he had to finance that expedition right where was anybody else I know who made me rich I know who has blessed Janna's I know why I'm standing here hallelujah and it's got nothing to do with you do you feel closer to your father Abraham did I come on to you have you have you moved on up a little bit huh do you feel closer to the rock you cut out of you got the same faith coursing in your spirit you've got the same kind of cause can you hear the spirit calling come come walk with me come do come do what men say can't be done come do what country's multiplied can't accomplish come come new with me dare to stand when others hide dare to step out when others run away dare to say I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me and so you too shall see the glory of God revealed in the earth Oh somebody say hallelujah somebody say stand up on your feet everybody Oh everybody's stand on your feet lift up your hands Oh give glory to God give glory to God give glory to God give glory to God oh praise you praise you praise you praise you praise you praise you praise praise you praise hallelujah

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