"Promotion Has A Process" - Touré Roberts

[Music] and we're gonna have a wonderful time and his presence here today I want to just get right into it because I've got kind of a lot of ground to cover today and and our thought for today and what I really want to speak around is this idea promotion has a process promotion has a process and there's some people in here right now and you're misinterpreting your season and you're in a season of promotion but it looks like trouble and I want to break something down we're gonna look at Peter and in fact let's go to first Peter chapter 1 verse 3 through 9 and I'm gonna show you that promotion as a process and we're gonna unpack these verses and I think we're gonna be blessed there by Peter says beginning in verse three of the first chapter of the first epistle of Peter it says blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again say again has begotten us again to a Living Hope say living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - and in to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away reserved in heaven for you to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and does not fade away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God say capped by the power of God this turn uh somebody say I'm kept I'm kept I'm Gloria I'm kept I'm kept who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time in this you greatly rejoice though now for a little while though now for in another translation though now for a season comma if need be you are you have been grieved by various trials I want to read that again in this you greatly rejoice though now for a little while if need be if need be I can't wait to talk about that you have been grieved by various trials that the genuineness of your faith the value of your faith the worth of your faith the purity of your faith the legitimacy of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire may be found to praise honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ whom having not seen you love though now you do not see him you believe you not though now you do not see him yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls let's pray unpack that father thank you so much for this moment that you brought all of us into and I sense Lord God from Colorado to California to Zimbabwe to Belgium to Germany to the UK to the Netherlands Lord to the uttermost parts of the earth you are doing something in the hearts and the minds of your son and daughters you're activating them you're making things plain and you're making things clear and you're gonna move in their lives you're gonna explain some things unpack some things I thank you for the spirit of wisdom and revelation God there will be revelation knowledge and prophecy and insight and truth that will seize your sons and daughters in a powerful and profound way that will bring light where there was darkness clarity where there was confusion and that it would give your sons and daughters the ability to run when all they could do was walk it's gonna give your sons and daughters the ability to walk when all they could do was stand it's gonna give your sons and daughters the ability to stand when all they could do was open their eyes all of us will receive an upgrade today because of the words that you speak to us we receive it in advance in Jesus name Amen amen I dare you to receive it in advance right now come on somebody God didn't bring you here for nothing he brought you here to give you something and I dare you to have to measure of faith can they hold up it before it even happens come on somebody pressing and get it let's talk let's talk a little bit please be seated let's have a conversation here this is written by Peter and and I love Peter for so many reasons and one of the things that I love love about Peter one things that I I just really really moves me concerning Peter is that Peter had been through some stuff and it's like the older I get the less I trust people who have been through anything are you tracking with me that the older I get the more I realize that it's not the person who has never been through anything that's the most valuable I think what manifests a person's value is not that they have avoided something but that they have walked through something come on somebody don't have any people in God's house come on Denver don't have any people in God's house and you you you it wasn't that you avoided everything it wasn't that you did everything so well it's that you survived do I have any survivors come on and October Breast Cancer Month do I have any survivors whether it was cancer whether it was a heartbreak whether it was a Dvorkin I have some if you are a survivor I dare you to take a minute and celebrate the one who gave you the strength to survive come on somebody some of you survived 2017 some of you are surviving 2018 some of you ever survived when people gave up on you when life threatened to wipe you out but you are still here where am I still here Saints that come on somebody there's something about surviving and I can't explain it it's just and I love everybody well everybody's cool I'll go to coffee with anybody but but the only people that can really sit at my table really really at my table table people have been tried people who've been through something because we're not gonna be able to connect if you don't have any scars we're not gonna be able to connect very deeply if life hasn't thrown everything it could at you in some sort of way you found within yourself to get up and stand up again and keep moving believing that the best is still yet to come and some of you are in the process of getting there and you don't like it and we'll talk about that I'm trying to stay on track today I'm trying to stay here but but I feel I feel the spirit of digression happening to me Peter I love Peter because Peter had been on every side of this faith thing you know Peter Peter you know when when he first started walking with Jesus Peter was talking big talk Lord even if everybody leaves you don't you worry about me I wanna be with you until the vamp telling you I'll be with you to the very end and Jesus is like mm hmm you gonna deny me and Peter was shocked at the notion that Jesus would even insinuate that someone of his caliber of integrity and faith and loyalty well one day turned his back on Jesus right Peter was a bug no seriously he would cut people's ears off like Peter was like you know Peter was something else and then and then Peter here is pinning about what we have to go through what we have to endure in order to develop the type of insides that are worth what God has promised to us hmm and Peter went through something it's funny as we look at this text there's so much in this text I pray I can get through all of it in the two hours that we have together here in this message but look at what Peter says I pointed out the word again because he says in verse 3 he says blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead what is he talking about he's saying that even Peter went through a very dark and difficult moment where his faith was tested unlike ever before Peter you know the story even after all that talk about not not ever forsaken Jesus not ever giving up on Jesus remember all that talk that Peter was doing you got to study your Bible it's really amazing stuff on all this stuff that that Jesus that he would not do because he was so committed to Jesus and and then he denies Jesus and I think one of the reasons why Peter is able to so masterfully talk about how your faith has to be tested is because when Peter went through that he did not lose his faith he lost his fire you see Jesus Peter had walked with Jesus he had seen all kind of miracles take place he had seen provision come out of no place he had seen when when people were hungry he had seen all these problems be met by Jesus right he saw when people were sick they were healed when when haters were we're trying to get them they escaped the haters they there was no poverty there was no scarcity and so his relationship with Jesus was only a relationship based on the expectation that as long as I walk with Jesus nothing negative will happen to me and then all of a sudden Jesus is removed from him Jesus has to go to the cross Jesus dies and now his mismanage expectation begins to rob him a faith so much so that his behavior changes he is no longer this ride-or-die disciple but he becomes ultimately a coward he didn't lose his faith he lost his fire and that's why in the text he starts talking about how how God how Jesus had brought him to this place where again he received the Living Hope he says who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a Living Hope and I thought about them like what does he mean a Living Hope and so you know me I like to look upwards it would have you and and it's two words that were translated Living Hope one word means alive so that's where they get the living from and the other word means expectation and so what he is saying was when he went through his dark season he didn't lose all of his hope he just lost the Living Hope what's the difference between hope and living hope hope is when you believe living hope is when you are on fire living hope is when you don't it doesn't matter what comes your way you will stand flat-footed and recognize that no matter what comes your way it is not bigger than you living hope is when there's fire on your hope there's fire on your faith and you cannot be stopped and and the tricky thing is oftentimes in life we get demoted internally from a living hope a living faith the faith that is alive a faith that is innovative a faith that is yet still creative of faith that still has vision a faith that believes that you cannot new lose to just faith and it's tricky because it's not that all of your hope and all of your expectation and all of your faith goes away it's just not alive anymore and it's tricky because as long as you have a little bit you think you have what you need I want to take my time it would almost be better for you to not have any faith at all because then you would recognize you don't have faith and you would go and try to get faith you would try to do something but what happens when your faith just gets a downgrade because what you expected see Jesus going to the cross was a death of Peters expectation Oh fill the Holy Spirit and God wants to mature us in such a way that we do not lose the fire of our faith when our expectations aren't met in life oh there's so much in this text he wants to get us to a place where we do not lose our faith in God when life deals with deals with us that is in our minds not within the parameters of what it means to have God on your side because all of us up to a certain point have our own perspective and perception about what it means for God to be with us and when it does not fit into that box when somehow trouble seeps into the box that we have have have established in our own mind about this if these things do not happen that means that God is with me can I talk to you for a second all of us right now have this thing I know God is with me when he keeps trouble out I know God is for me I know that the blessing of God is all my life when he keeps trouble at bay and the only problem with that mentality is that when trouble comes in to the borders or the parameters of what we believe is our safety then all of a sudden our faith goes from living faith to just faith because now we have mismanaged in that process we have mismanaged the borders and the parameters of where faith should live and now because it didn't happen the way we want it to happen because our expectation of what it meant to be covered by God was disappointed now we no longer have living hope we just have hope here's one of the things that I'm learning about God faith is not simply about what God keeps you from what I'm learning about faith is faith is believing that what God is believing in what God can can sustain you in I need to say that again because I was speaking in tongues faith is not simply about what God keeps from happening to you faith is about your belief in the fact that no matter what comes your way if it happens to you your faith in God will sustain you through it are you tracking with me so this is faith upgraded because a lot of times we think that if God was true believable if God was truly worthy of my heart if he was truly worthy of my faith then he would keep trouble out and God is saying you don't know how I work true faith is not in you believing in me because I tricky trouble out faith is in you believing in me that even if trouble comes your way I will be with you in the trouble you will go through the fire and not be burned you will go through the rivers and they won't overflow you that's real faith if you think about faith itself faith itself needs trouble to be itself let's talk about it for a second faith itself needs something that is opposing it in order for it to truly be faith the Bible says about faith in Hebrews chapter 11 you know this it says faith is the substance of things hoped for the problem is in the hope for faith needs a problem in order to be faith are you not ready for that faith needs a deficit it needs something to believe for or to believe in faith needs something to be absent in order for it to be itself faith needs trouble and faith also has to be proven because you don't know that you have faith oh god I feel it you don't know that you have faith and two it is tried and tested and guess what it's not even God testing your faith to show you whether you have it or not it is God allowing things to happen to your faith to manifest what faith really is are you tracking with me and one of the things that I've learned about God is that is that every new dimension requires a trial of your faith oh I feel holy spirit every new dimension requires a trying of your faith not a test from the perspective or trying or test from the perspective of pass or fail it is to manifest faith that is worthy of and necessary for the level that God has taken you to oh I feel it see all you got to do is live a little bit and you'll recognize that going from level to level and dimension to dimension necessitates another level of faith because the oxygen up there is a little different on the next level you want the next level not realizing that you need the next in size you need next level in size to even breathe on that level I love let me tell you what God does not do God does not promote unworthy vessels oh this is getting me uh you know you can you can in the natural realm people who don't deserve to be in position can be placed in position because of favoritism because of family because of finances because you you know it can just you consume you scratch my back I'll scratch yours that is how the world system works come on somebody casting couch type stuff you follow what I'm saying you just pick that up later all right you you do this for me and I'll secure you a promotion it doesn't work like that in the kingdom it doesn't work like that in the spirit God's not gonna promote you unless you are the real thing on the inside God does not allow for kissing up you can't kiss God's booty into position you have got to be the real thing you have got to endure whatever God to endure you've got to base something in order to be promoted on the next level are you tracking with me so so so under I got to calm down because I feel the Spirit of God so so so you have to understand God's process when God makes you a promise right it says there that we have we have this inheritance that is incorruptible that is undefiled that does not fade away it says reserved in heaven that word heaven literally means an elevated place and so I've given you something and let me teach today maybe I'll preach later but I want to teach you know I've given you something that is extremely valuable oh god the promises over your life are not little cute little little popcorn promises and Oh pink fairytale stuff and cute little Disneyland promises no he's saying I've got an inheritance for you that is incorruptible undefiled will not fade away it is valuable it is worth something I'm not playing with you I'm God I've really set you up but here is the thing it is too valuable for me to bring it down to where you currently are I will not demote the inheritance to meet you where you are what I do is I will allow situations and circumstances that will develop you and qualify you and make you worthy of what I've given to you in other words when I bless you hi it is to lift you high are you tracking with me you're not gonna be able to slick your way in here you won't be able to bribe your way in here you won't be able to brown you well knows your way into it you have got to be it in order to receive it you've got to be it in order to receive it you are feel God and the process of being it is to have your faith tested I thought I had faith because as long as God kept a hedge of protection around me allowing me to sing hallelujah oh Jesus is good but he's only good because he kept the hedge of protection around you he didn't have no financial trouble you didn't have any relationship trouble the jobs were always flowing and that's why he was good and that's why you praised him oh I feel the Lord you're good because I'm happy come on somebody you've been there he is good how God you know and something some wonderful happen to you in life and you know oh praise God he's so good let me tell you how good he is and you started naming off things that he has done as if he were not good or would not be good had he not done those things how many of us know that I don't care if God he can stop right now and still be good in my life for where I've come from and what I've been doing where I could be I don't need another blessing you are good no matter what you do you're good you can stop right now and I would still say oh thanks unto the Lord give thanks unto Him for he is good are you tracking with me see see a lot of us walk around with this fluffy faith and we don't know it we don't know it because it's never been tested it's fluffy faith everything's so pretty I live in California I live in Colorado the weather is so nice I see the four seasons my home is happy my job is so great I've got money everything that's wonderful I've got my health my six-pack has come back all these things and we think that we are in faith and that type of faith is not living faith it's situational faith it is conditional faith it's not real faith now God knows that real faith is in there and so what he has to do is he has to begin to target your faith oh I can't wait to get into this God has targeted your faith because your faith is more valuable to your life than you think let's look at a couple of things in that text real quick look at it a couple things and we go back to the text and in particularly in in verse oh let's look at verse four and so he talks about this he says we have an inheritance it's incorruptible its undefiled and it does not fade away reserved in heaven for you reserved in heaven that word heaven literally means elevated place not like this place that means elevate its it elevate its elevated which means that it's yours now right so this incorruptible inheritance is undefiled it doesn't fade away is reserved in heaven for you but then look at what it says it says who are kept by the power of God who are kept by the power of God through what oh oh wait wait wait hold on I saw that I'm kept by the power of God that makes me feel good because if I'm kept by the power of God I'm good I don't have to do anything to be kept Oh God I don't have to do anything to be sustained if I'm kept by the power of God but there is a a little little caveat in there it says I'm kept by the power of God through faith Oh Lord Jesus did see it so so I'm kept by God's power but God's power does not keep me without my faith I feel it that's why God is always going to be targeting your faith because your faith is what keeps you your faith is what keeps you from utterly giving up it is your faith and is always going to be under God's microscope oh I'm learning this you gotta catch this point you gotta catch it it's always gonna be under God's microscope because your faith is more valuable to you than you know let's keep reading look at it if we skip down it says in verse 5 it says we're kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time it says an issue greatly rejoice though now for a little while if need be though now for literally a season if need be if need be in other words God has calculated your times and your seasons and he knows when to try your faith and what not to so your faith will not always be under trial but it will be under trial when you are getting ready to experience the next dimension because God has times and seasons in his hands and he knows that in order to get where you need to get in a certain time in a certain season when your moment of harvest comes harvest comes he knows now that he needs to begin to target your faith because only according to your faith will it be unto you remember Jesus said that so often according to your faith according to your faith be it unto you which means that it cannot happen unto you unless your faith agrees o Holy Spirit it cannot happen unto you unless your faith is Co measure it with the experience that God wants to bring you into and you think it's your righteousness it's your faith faith produces righteousness and so you're working on trying to not do this and to not do that and all that's wonderful right we walk in integrity right that's all wonderful but at the end of the day he did not say according to your righteousness be it unto you he said according to your faith be it unto you and so God begins to in seasons where it is time for your harvest he begins to target your faith and it is not fun it is not fun it is not fun because God has an understanding that who you are as it relates to him at your core is who you are by faith oh Jesus Christ in his eyes where you are most valuable is in your faith look at it it says if we keep going are we tracking okay it says though now for a little while verse 6 if need be you have been grieved by what you are calling various trials and then he explains it he says that the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes though it be tested by fire may be found to praise honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ so he is saying that the most valuable thing that you have is your faith Oh hallelujah it is more important than gold it is more important that anything in life that you can mass in the eyes of God he is saying your faith is it and it must be tested and found worthy Oh hallelujah that's why I love this we can't get around God because God sees our heart he knows how much faith we really have he knows if we have faith on Sunday and the moment we get out of this building our life speaks to the fact that we are trusting in ourselves or we're trusting in things and not trusting in him and so when there's a call in your life and when you're called and you're chosen and God is desiring to make a deposit on the investment that he has in you the very first thing that he is going to do because it has to happen it needs to happen if need be is he's going to zero in on your faith to determine whether or not you have faith and God keeping you from something or will you have faith that even if something happened God keeps you in it I hear this for somebody the reason why you're in it you think it's a devil and it ain't is God and you're saying so you're misinterpreting the trial you're thinking that the trial is evidence that God is not is not with you that God is not on your side if God were on your side he would have put a hedge of protection around me to keep me from this pain that I'm feeling and God is saying you don't understand how I work I am a faith developer yes I am a faith builder because I understand that you are going to need some faith and here is the thing it's not that you don't have faith your faith just has to be purified Oh hallelujah your faith just has to be purified how does God begin to purify our faith he begins to kill things that were trusting in that we didn't know that we were trusted in until we are left at our core with nothing but faith oh I feel it Oh Jesus can't take my time can I talk to you like this see see there things that surround our faith that needs that need to be killed that we will not kill Oh God there's a passage in the Bible that says blessed are those who mourn blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted it says blessed are the mourners blessed all the mourners think about what a mourner is mourners typically are grieving something that has died and one of the things that I've learned is if you are really gonna be all that God has called you to be you are going to have to be a professional mourner in other words you're gonna have to sign up to kill things that are keeping you from your destiny are you tracking with me you're gonna have to sign up for it Paul says I present I beseech you by the mercies of God that you will present your body a living sacrifice that means that Paul is saying that worship is all about bringing something to the altar that needs to die that's keeping you from being everything that God has called you to be blessed are those who mourn God says for they shall be comforted in other words in order for me to be who I've got to be I've got to be a professional mourner I have to be willing to more today so I can celebrate tomorrow are you tracking with me but herein lies the problem we do not want to kill what God wants to kill are you gonna be quiet on me today that's good I hear you listening Denver we we either see there are things that we know we need to lay at the altar that are standing between us and the Lord there are things that we know but we don't have the sense of urgency about it we don't have the same sense of urgency that God has and the reason why we don't have the same sense of urgency about it that God has is because God is seeing the big picture and God understands times and seasons so while we're playing with something God is saying if this doesn't get out of your life today it is gonna ruin your destiny so since you won't do it voluntarily how much sin Dutch I'm gonna send the trial your way now I'm a sin to test your way since you won't kill it I'm gonna have to kill it and that's why it says now you are grieved by various trials if need be in other words if we don't become professional mourners if we don't get so desperate about our purpose in our destiny and I'll call it that we will lay anything down at the altar that stands in the way of it then God is gonna come and he's gonna begin to shake things up because God has got an investment in you he knew you before he puts you in your mother's womb and he also understands the timing and so it will feel like a grievous trial but it's really God developing your insides removing the dross from the silver removing the coal away from that which will show up as gold otherwise and it hurts and it doesn't feel good but it's not unto death God is doing it and you've got to embrace it because this is the process to promotion I feel the Holy Spirit faith is nothing without opposition we are shocked when our faith is put to the test we're shocked we can't believe it something strange just happened to me I actually had to believe God some some mysterious occurrence happened to me today I experienced opposition in the area that I was believing God in can you believe it and the purest faith recognizes that this is par for the course faith in itself in order to be faith has to have its nemesis it has to have something to manifest it Oh hallelujah and what some of you are experiencing in the season right now is that something to manifest it and you become better let's keep reading coz there's some good stuff in here good stuff in this passage it's helping me it's helping me I think everyone at least once in their life goes through a season where your faith is placed on trial how do you even know if your faith is ready for the next level if it's not tested the tricky thing about the next level huh I'm almost done I'm almost almost done the tricky thing about the next level is you know what's in it but you don't know what it's of I don't want to say that I said it differently you you could only see what you want in it what you cannot see or discern is the atmosphere of it next levels I'm learning this in my own life next levels and next dimensions have lions tigers and bears that there are issues and things that you must fight on that level that did not even exist in the level that you left and so God is not a negligent or irresponsible God who would put you on a level that would crush you upon entry before first developing you are you tracking with me God does not promote prematurely that their lions tigers and bears on the next level and we get intoxicated by what we think are the blessings not realizing that God's process is to prepare us I feel the Lord man I'm trying I'm off script and everything but I fill this with somebody sometimes you don't know what you're praying for and you're frustrated with God because instead of God in your estimation answering your prayers you are stuck on this level fighting and you're mad at God and you're like God wait you know I heard a word man you know PT you know impassive Serra man and she said this you know and and I knew was for me but why isn't it happening I don't I don't understand it I've got the word it was my word I confirmed its confirmation but I'm still where I'm at and not only am I still where I'm at I'm struggling where I'm at and I hear God's saying I need you to struggle there to get your strength there to fight and conquer and kill the devils on that level and to become something and when you become something you already be in that next dimension it's gonna be like that family I'm telling you today what you think today what you think to whom much is given you're not ready for that to whom much is given much is required and we want the give me much ignorantly not realizing the requirement of that dimension are you tracking with me but God knows God knows and God says look he told Peter this this this is this couldn't sum it up he told Peter he said Peter he says Satan has asked me for you he desires you Satan has asked me that if he has permission to sift you like wheat first of all just think about that for a second in order for our nemesis to do anything to us he's got to get permission oh come on somebody ought to give a liberator right there you think you're fighting the devil the devil this stop it before he can do anything to God's servants he has to go to your father and ask your father for permission to do it it was the same thing in the book of Job study it when you get a chance job went the Satan went to God and said hey you know I'm looking for somebody to to mess with and God said have you considered my servant job I need to upgrade his faith and so I'm going to use you as my pawn to do it because I'm going to take what you meant for evil turn it around for good and make him a giant in the faith and give him 10 times later on what he lost in the beginning but but so Satan comes to Christ and he says and Christ tells Peter about a conversation that he had and the conversation went like this it was it went like this it says say his ass for you he's asked for you that he might sift you as wheat and I'm sure Peter was very encouraged by that conversation and Jesus said he says but I prayed for you that your faith would not fail y'all got to read your Bible more that your faith would not fail in other words all you have to do is have the right type of faith and you will be able to fight and overcome every battle that you face promotion as a process and that process is going to always be zeroing in on your faith because we cannot in our own strength increase or enhance or purify our faith we can't do it wouldn't it be awesome and we just pray O Holy Spirit please Jesus purify my faith it doesn't work that way what he has to do is he has to put you in situations that draw perfect faith to the surface are you tracking with me and in the process of that perfect faith being drawn to the surface it kills things that choke out our faith and oftentimes the things that choke out our faith are things that we are relying upon instead of God and so he will attack those very things that's why finances get attacked that's why Finance get attacked a lot raise your hand if you're at a financial attack oh the whole doggone room let me see you Denver oh yeah why because we trust in them okay I'm gonna give you another one since we're being so honest in here raise your hand if you've ever experienced a relational attack Oh why because we have the tendency to trust in relationships all I need is you baby all I need is youth as long as you in my life baby you're the Sun the moon and the stars and as long as you are in my life I'm gonna be all right stop it that's only partially true I'm in love so I'm a little soft towards that but you know that but that's only partially true so these things that keep our faith in God from being pure and powerful which they have to be will always be under attack God if you were for me you would have put a hedge of protection around my finances and God is saying no I need you to trust me even when the finances get attacked because I am your Jehovah Jireh I will strip everything away from you that you rely upon to get your faith to manifest itself are you tracking with me I got a star landing this plane I feel it there's some of you right now and you think that God has betrayed you and I'm trying to stop you think that God has betrayed you he hasn't betrayed you he would betray you by not upgrading you that would be betrayal if he allowed your faith to stay at the level that it's on so that she would be unfit and unqualified for the next dimension that would be betrayal but he loves you too much I feel that right there he loves you too much so he's walking you through this desert he's walking you through this dark place he's walking you through this valley the same way Jesus was on the cross Jesus went through it too he went through too on the cross he's on the cross Jesus is full of faith he had living faith he that living hope but there is this moment on the cross where Jesus says something that's crazy and it manifests that even his faith had to go to another level he's on the cross and he says my God my God why have you forsaken me see he had to get that out of him before he could be a perfect sacrifice I wish somebody would catch what I just said that was deep down on the inside of him it just needed a situation and a circumstance to bring it out but you know what he didn't stay there he did say my God my God why how thou forsaken me but you know what he was raised up saying all power in heaven and earth is now in my hands are you tracking with me so he had to get that out of him so that he can say the real thing and even before he died he said into your hands I commit my spirit God's trying to squeeze some doubt out of you that you didn't even know what was there that's what's happening he's trying to squeeze some doubters poison to destiny I didn't even know it was there why does he put me in this situation and how come he didn't deliver me because he wants you to be the type of person that says I trust you and even if you don't deliver me things are still gonna be okay can I tell you a quick story before we close I'm thinking about the three little Hebrew boys and there's a story in the Book of Daniel where the King Nebuchadnezzar put a decree out there and the decree was any one that did not bow down and worship this image that he had set up would be thrown into a fiery furnace so Nebuchadnezzar creates this idol and he says anybody who does not bow down to it is gonna be thrown into a fiery furnace and put to death and that thing was set up to try to manipulate God's people into a idolatrous worship and so so the three little Hebrew boys they were confronted they were put in this difficult situation where they were supposed to they were trying to Nebuchadnezzar and his army was trying to force them to bow down and worship this Idol and they said something beautiful they said Oh King Nebuchadnezzar I know do you got this fiery furnace and I know you big and bad I know you're all that but let me tell you something he said my god well first of all we're not gonna bow down and he said my God my God whom I serve is able to deliver me from this fiery furnace he says but even if he doesn't I will not worship you in other words my faith is not fair whether faith my faith is not in just the good times my faith is even in the bad times even if I have to go into that furnace I will trust God to get me out of that furnace and you know what they were thrown in that furnace and guess what they weren't burned Jesus was right there in the fiery furnace with them and brought them out and they didn't even have the smell of smoke on their clothes what am I saying God is trying to get you to a place where your faith is not predicated by circumstance where you look at faith and you say God even if I have to go through it as long as I know you're with me I'm gonna keep on believing I'm gonna keep on trusting I'm gonna keep on going through it because my faith is what keeps me and I don't want fickle Fairweather faith I need the real thing I neither a thing you know that that that word that was translated kept I'm so out of time that word that was translated kept you know what it says I'm kept by the power of God through faith I looked up that word and that word literally means it has the idea of a guard being in an elevated place elevated place and he's in this elevated place and he's looking at the gates so that word that says were kept by God were kept through faith has the word picture of a guard in an elevated place looking out at the gates and that hit me I thought about that that's what real faith does real faith is not taken by present circumstances taken back by present circumstances real faith sits in an elevated place looking with expectation for the coming of what God promised it is not tossed to and fro and I think there's some people in this room right now complacent on landing I think there's some people in this room right now and what you need to do if you kind of sense that that maybe your hope went from living hope to hope or maybe it went from living faith to faith where you're just kind of getting by and you don't have that fire like you used to have I believe that first of all you're in a season like Peter is describing where your faith is being tested not tested to say pass or fail but test it to produce what it must be and I believe that God's instruction for you in this season right so now I understand the season but what do I need to do I think that God's instruction for you is to elevate yourself above what's going on and look at the gates what are the gates the gates are the promises that God has spoken to you if God says that you're gonna have victory I need you to come up out of the battle for a second and just set your mind on the victory of God says that I'm gonna heal you I need you to come up out of the sickness and and get to an elevated place and begin to look at the gates because the king of glory is gonna come in those gates with healing and he's gonna come in those gates with victory if you have a final financial situation that you need I think you need to elevate yourself because here's what God says God says weeping may endure for a night but joy will come in the morning and I understand that board more because I used to think that the morning was when the miracle showed up I used to think that that the morning was when the financial provision that gets me out of my circumstances shows up I used to think that morning represented when the healing comes so when the healing comes that's when my joy is gonna come that's not what it means you know when the morning Holmes the morning comes when your faith has elevated itself above the situation and now by faith you are imagining what God has promised are you tracking with me see here it is in the text here it is in the text at the very end of the text look at what it says it says after it says in verse 7 that the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire may be found the praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus washes it says whom you have not seen you love and then it says though now you do not see and that word him interestingly enough that word him in the text if you look at it in most manuscripts that word him is italicized and when you see a word in the Bible that is italicized that means that the author added that word to try to give you context but it was added which means that a better way to read this is whom it says though you do not see though now you do not see you got to take the him out of there because it's not there it was put there to give you context it works but not at this point it says though now you do not see yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible full of glory receiving the end of your faith fill Holy Spirit in other words even though you do not see what you are expecting by faith it says yet believing yet believing go back put it there it go back to verse right before that I want you to see it whom you have not seen you love though you do not see take the him out though now you do not see yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls did you get it in other words morning does not come because I saw the miracle morning comes because I believe the miracle is on its way are you tracking with me and so that means that joy is the evidence that your faith has been promoted God's gonna give you your joy back I filled that for some of you God's gonna give you your joy back he doesn't have to give you the miracle right now all he needs to do is elevate you bring you to an elevated place some of you I just feel this because you've been stagnant I'm done but you've been stagnated by this moment because you're misinterpreting the moment and I hear God's saying this is just the test I need you to endured I need you to say hallelujah anyhow I need you to say god I praise you regardless I honor you no matter what I celebrates you and when you can celebrate God in the difficulty your faith has been promoted and once your faith has been over fill God what your faith has been promoted your life is gonna be promoted life before he promotes your faith your bank has to go further if you are here and you say God give me some faith renew my faith do whatever you gotta do on the inside oh come on we're about to get this come on I'm not a Fairweather believer bring the trial I know it's not gonna kill me I like the three little Hebrew boys you know what my god is able to deliver me right now but even if I have to go soon for another six months because it's gonna be my life you'll get stopped work it out together my got promised me let's be its cover limit in fact accosted by me hi Stan the kids are boring whoo [Music] you and the cake you're bigger than it you're bigger than it you wouldn't be in it unless you're bigger than it you're bigger than it you're bigger tatted you're bigger than enough fill it you better than it it's that bigger than you you got a fight you gotta get your fire back Peter goes on to do incredible things for Jesus he goes on because everything that Jesus said he would do or be everything he said he would do or be he became but the heat but he had to get his faith upgraded he had to get his faith upgrading he had to get his faith upgraded he couldn't get there according to your faith they couldn't get there and you will not lay you won't lay it down you have no way of increasing your faith you don't even know what's in you you don't even know what's in you let me talk to you come here you don't even know what's in you come here come here you don't even know what's in you you don't even know what's in you you don't even know what's in you Denver I want you to be praying for him Denver stretch out your hands you don't even know what's in you so God has to send you through things to manifest watch this what is not you so that what is you can come forth you don't even know what's in you and the only reason why you're here is because if need be God is saying you're close to harvest if this is where you catch it you're close to harvest you're close to harvest and so what I've gotta do you think that I'm afflicting you but I'm not afflicting you I'm afflicting everything that's not you so that everything that is you can't come for so that you'll be worthy of the dimension that I'm bringing you into somebody better get up here Mercedes Mercedes [Applause] [Music] you don't even know what's in you hold on you don't even know what's in you [Music] don't be mad at God don't give up on God he loves you he knows what he put in you he knows what he put in you and there's only one way to get it out the testing of your faith which is more precious than gold we're chasing gold we need to be chasing real faith if need be it's not always gonna be like this if need be when it's necessary 4-dimensional breakthrough if need be you grieve but various trials that the genuineness of your faith being much more valuable than gold that perishes your inheritance is incomparable and so are you and so everything about you that is comparable is put under the pressure so that you and your inheritance are equal a one you and your destiny understand this I'm way past the target understand this understand this hear this please it's not about where God wants to take you it's about who he wants to take there did you catch it it's who he wants to take there it's who he sees when he looks at you and he knows the only thing that is keeping you from becoming what he sees is where you are in your area of faith faith has to do with eyes how you see how you perceive how you think how you move how you operate how you function how you respond to things that's faith a great poet her name escapes me but she said it's better to be born blind than without vision better to be born blind without vision better to be born blind with eyes of faith Helen Keller thank you your faith has everything to do with how you perceive the world how you perceive God how you perceive yourself it's how you connect to life that's why he says according in your faith if I see life a certain way if I see myself a certain way if I see God a certain way I am limited either I'm limited or unlimited by my capacity to perceive faith has to do with how you perceive and how you perceive makes a difference in how it makes the difference in how you connect to life I can't go past what I believe I can't go past how I perceive but so God says I know that I know that so i'ma work on it and you're not gonna like it and you're gonna have to cry and you're gonna have to grieve but what you're grieving is how you thought it was you're grieving a lesser perspective are you tracking to think you're grieving and lesser perspective Jesus had to grieve a lesser identity in order to become the one who has all power in heaven and earth and his hands he is in the garden he does not want to go he has done all these wonderful things but he's getting ready to go into another dimension and what does he say if it were possible let this cup pass from me let it pass if it were possible while wait Jesus you're talking like that yes because even Jesus had to go to another dimension there was another level of grieving there's another level of death even he had to go to it and then something kicked in nevertheless not my will but sure will be done he gained strength it's interesting because it says when he was in that process he wasn't wasn't just crying he was sweating blood that's death it was a death that took place in the garden even before he got to the cross something had to die right there something had to die so that something greater could live man I feel this for some of you I want you to understand what's going on oh what's getting ready to go on there's no escaping this if you're gonna be the real thing now if you're gonna be the one that ultimately turns and walks away and doesn't walk with it I can't do anything about that I'd be a saddest thing ever but I think you're here because you're that generation that will be everything that God put in you to be and then some and you're gonna do exceedingly abundantly far above what you can ask for or imagine in his name I want to pray for you I want to pray for you love you [Applause] [Music] I want to pray for you if you here and you say Holy Spirit you were talking to me I get it and I'm gonna embrace the living faith again I just want you to put your hand up I want to just pray for you father I thank you I thank you I see you in Denver I thank you for all those who have responded to your word you spoke to them they heard you they're your children they don't belong to anybody but you you know them you love them before you put them in their mother's womb you knew them father I pray that you would seal this word in their heart in their mind I pray that you would brand it in their spirit branded in their mind God and whenever they have a moment where it just seems unbearable that they will remember uh-huh this is about the trying of my face this is about manifesting the genuineness of my faith I thank you that there is significant greatness on their life and you're gonna do great things in them and through them and for them and for their children and for their children's children for a generation not yet born because of their commitment God to your process your process of promotion people will be blessed long after they're gone let's just pray God that your hand would rest upon each one sealing this word and their hearts in their minds in Jesus name Amen amen if you receive that just take a moment give God a praise [Music] you

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