The Spirit of Faith is Tough | Mark Hankins Ministries

hi welcome to the program faith for every nation i'm alicia hankins moran i'm pastor mark and trina's daughter and we are just so honored that you're joining us for the program today where my parents are talking about faith i know you're going to be strengthened i know you're going to be encouraged don't go anywhere wait right there and come back at the end and i'm going to tell you how to get a free gift now let's get right into the work [Music] it's now time for mark hankins faith for every nation mark and trina train and equip leaders in every nation through church services leadership conferences mission trips and media get ready for a direct and joyful message about how to grow in your faith and learn more about who you are in christ now let's join mark and trina so today we're going to cover second corinthians chapter 4 verse 13 so if you have your bible turn to second corinthians chapter 4 and verse 13. second corinthians chapter 4 and verse 13. and it says here the apostle paul says we having the same spirit of faith the apostle paul said that's what we have we having the same spirit of faith i like that he said we having it's present tense it's not we did have you know one day back there but it's something that continually yeah and maintained actually he says it later on down there he said for which cause we faint not uh though our outward man may be going through adversity yet our inward man is renewed day by day so verse 16 would tell you that the spirit of faith has to do with your inward man and it has to do with a daily renewing in other words you don't just get it on sunday and wait till the next sunday try to get it again he says every day my inward man is renewed so the spirit of faith is not something i had it's literally something i am having every day i'm having it all right then it gives you another characteristic in verse 18 while we're in the neighborhood here and he says second corinthians 4 16 and then 18. he says while we look not at things which are seen but at things which are not seen for things that are seen are temporary and things that are not seen are eternal so he tells you something else about the spirit of faith we are not focusing on the scene but we are focusing on the unseen so the spirit of faith literally believes that unseen the unseen is greater than the scene that's why paul said we walk by faith and not by sight so he says and he said things which are not seen are what eternal so what he's saying is the spirit of faith keeps an eternal perspective an eternal perspective so we're going to look at several ingredients in the spirit of faith but if you ask the apostle paul what is it that you have that keeps you from collapsing that makes you productive as a christian right what is it that you have that keeps you going forward in adversity and paul wouldn't say well i have a good education he had agreed he did have a good education he didn't look to that uh he didn't say well i've got a cute face it really works out well he didn't have a cute face no i don't know he got stoned several times so that can that can make a bad impression on you but so he got beaten with 39 stripes well there's hope for all of us in there five times and they'll say one beating's enough to kill most people he was beaten with 39 stripes five times when they said one one of those kind of beatings would kill most people five times so if you're the apostle paul if you would have seen him and seen his back it wouldn't be a tattoo on there that said jesus loves you [Laughter] mother's been on his back stripes where he had been beaten so his back would have been loaded with scars and so all those scars on his back and then paul said he was shipwrecked three times left for dead once and so the apostle paul so this is one of the things i like to write down about the spirit of faith that the spirit of faith is not fragile all right let's write that down in other words you're not easily offended come on you don't quit you're not a quitter you don't give up when things are not working out right the spirit of faith is tough so some people you just need to tell them toughen up don't just toughen up come on toughen up you say well i didn't know they was going to do that or they wasn't going to do that plan on it they are going to do that listen write it down in your book i said a lot of times when you meet people you ought to shake hands with them and say i forgive you they say i just met you say well you hadn't done nothing yet but you probably will i just want to go ahead and forgive you right up front so in other words people can disappoint you people can let you down but the spirit of faith is not fragile come on and uh i use that song the patsy cline saying i fall to pieces yeah you wish every time you walked by it every time because he likes country's music except he sings uh uh he stopped loving her today uh don't sing that one don't sing that all right that's one of my favorite songs when we're riding in the truck and uh and i know trend is resting or something i put on that song uh he stopped loving her today and she goes why did you put that song on there no no all right who sang that song george george jones come on george jones and you know george jones got saved yeah because they said actually when he went to be with the lord when he had he uh looked up and he said they said we know he saw jesus because he just got saved and he said hello i'm george jones boom he took off and he met jesus amen that's why i hope marlon brando got saved before he died i hope i mean i'm just hoping because that would have been when the godfather met the father god well i don't know i think these things sometimes anyway she heard he heard patsy cline singing that song on television you know how they give them yeah well you do like the old songs from the 60s or 70s so she was singing and so you were humming along yeah i was in the house and i thought she had a great voice and she's singing i fall to pieces but you didn't say i'm quite like [Music] each time i remember your name all right i see your face right so i thought so i was just singing it and the holy ghost spoke up on the inside of me and said you do not fall to pieces and so i changed the words i don't fall to pieces come on i don't all the pieces so well you say what's the point well i've preached like a fat man caught in a barbed wire fence which is a point here and a point there all right so now uh the point is sometimes you get stuck and i have gotten stuck that that's why you need your four crazy friends yeah i mean get you out i'm like help me brother put your foot down and pull that thing if you go deer hunting you gotta go now unless eddie where's eddie at i mean eddie eddie's got a mule that will jump a barbed wire fence most of the time but [Laughter] now i saw pastor david sharon brighten up when i mentioned abuel he lit up he's like i love horses and he does but not as much as vicky his wife and so if you see david up here like with his arm and stuff like that he has to do these exercises because he the horse threw him off landed on the street and broke his arm and so now you know he's back to believing god again and learn how to pray he's singing identified to pieces he's singing i did but i don't but i'm not going to no more another verse i saw him lighten up when i talk about eddie's mule he's like that didn't exactly happen to me that way so i was laughing about david at his church one time we were telling some funny things you know and so i talked about when david's horse got loose and was running and running and david was bouncing and started screaming help me somebody help me and i heard him and i ran up there and unplugged that thing from the front of walmart so that he y'all this is dangerous cause david's sitting right down there we're gonna be picking on david keep him on humble anyway so so he can receive from the lord so we're just glad to be in church again you know isn't it great to be back in church again you know wow praise the lord so uh somebody said well what if they tell you can't have churches it's too late we already have in church we go to jail they don't want us in there because we'll get everybody saved and so so the apostle paul if you ask him what kept him from falling to pieces and really it says in timothy paul said at one time all men forsook me that's a terrible feeling yeah with friends like that i mean who needs enemies so but paul said paul said everybody abandoned me when i needed help he said everybody live he said but the same night the lord jesus stood by me and strengthened me amen so that he could finish his course with joy she shows you how jesus is to you he knows when you need somebody he knows when everybody or somebody and sometimes people fall to pieces when just one person leaves them yeah amen maybe two leave me like duh i can't believe we're just leaving just walking off like that paul said everybody left he said but the same night the lord stood by me now that's what you call the spirit of faith in other words it's not dependent upon what people do it's dependent upon who you are in christ so paul said in acts chapter 26 he stood before king agrippa and i loved three times in the book of acts that paul gives his testimony so you need to write that down three times in the book of acts that paul gives his testimony i think it strengthened his faith yeah when he realized how supernatural that was to be knocked off his horse by this light and hear the voice of jesus talking to him and calling him yeah and so the the spirit of god chose to put one man's conversion in the book of acts three times three times so that led pc nelson quoted from another theologian said that the two major pillars of christianity are the resurrection of christ and the conversion of the apostle paul you say why because the apostle paul wrote over half the new testament and so in the middle of all that adversity paul was the one who takes the the revelation of christ and uh preaches it and then writes it for the next 2 000 years so paul's a testimony of how he got saved is in the book of acts three times so you could read acts chapter 9 acts 22 and acts 26 one of my favorite ones is acts 26 where paul stood before king agrippa and he said i think myself happy interesting i've read that years ago i underlined it this is the king james version where paul said i think myself happy how many know you can actually think yourself happy and you can look at some people you can tell what they're thinking about they ain't happy or you can pause it i think myself happy and one translation says i have been congratulating myself you say why well because what's happening in acts 26 is paul is standing in the place amen that jesus told him 30 years before that he would testify before the king and the leaders of the roman empire and he's standing before king agrippa and he's standing before the governors and the leaders and he said i am a happy man he was right where god had talked i thought yeah he was right so i called him the way he wanted to get there yeah i call that the trajectory of faith it didn't look like he was the trajectory of faith it may start moving but then if you'll stay in faith it'll get you to your destination so i always use the example of air and pastor aaron here on the front row and when when uh when he was much younger if we watch a sporting event we happen to watch um uh golf i personally do not care for golf i mean i was rage in texas you didn't play golf unless you had something wrong with you in texas in my school you either play football basketball baseball you only play sports that make you bleed and so if you don't play golf so so we kind of like didn't like who played golf i mean you know little ball so i didn't care for her but uh i played it a few times and me and david sharon actually played golf one time on one of our vacations well you said you remember david club like a baseball bat so we've had a time where they they from the headquarters they sent a special golf cart and said y'all are going too slow you're backing up the whole line of golfers well what had happened was when i got to a a a pond or a lake and you have to hit the golf ball over well it didn't always go over so they would say just skip it take a stroke you know and let's go and i said no we will not skip it we will be here until i hit one over the lake do you understand that second one went to lake third one went in the lake fourth one went to lake you used up a whole box of bottles actually when me and dave were playing we actually used uh i used two dozen 24 golf balls in nine holes by the time we got to the end i said i don't have no more can i borrow yours in other words i could hit it hard you just couldn't ever tell where it was going to go the only only reason we go to the golf course but we had a lot of fun stay in a nice room or eat in the restroom yeah walk around you know the golf course and dodge when there's somebody's at four but anyway so uh we had so much fun and um uh we laughed i just you know if you take sports too serious you just can't enjoy it so what somebody said golf is a way to to ruin a perfectly good walk in the country especially if you're not good at it right so we would just laugh and have a good time but when me and aaron were watching we were watching the best golfer in the world at that time who happened to be tiger woods yeah and so i kind of started liking the sports i'm seeing some guys that are really good and so so tiger woods was was putting uh like on the 18th hole you know the final and uh he was putting you know for like 10 million dollars whatever they make a lot of money so he was fixing the putt and so we're watching everybody's real quiet he walks around the golf ball down to the wither hole as you walk around he looks he got down on his knee he looked we're watching he walked back around the other side he he looked and we're like look man i got time to get a coca-cola hell are we going to be doing this so he walked back around he looked and then he went over and he looked straight on the line and then he like moved a little something between the ball and the hole we're like oh lord please but you just put the ball and so we were watching so so the ball's right here in the holes over here and when he finally did putt he putted it that way so when he did i was laying down on the floor or something it looked like the opposite direction yeah the hose over there he put it over that way and i'm like i could have done that i'm pretty good at that and i was just laughing i said hey anybody you can't put them all that way but from where we were sitting we could not see the hills you know on the lay of the land and so i had a little bit of a hill there and we couldn't see that and what he did is he putted the ball uphill so we couldn't see the trajectory necessary to get to that hole right nor how hard it need to be put right and so they say you miss a hundred percent of short putts that's right annette that's our she goal that's deep kenneth and lynette sitting over there she missed you miss a hundred percent of short putts how many all understand that see there that's why we need explanation that means if you don't put it hard enough it ain't gonna make it to the hole then if you plant it too hard it's going to go past the hole right and so you got to get the right pace everybody say hey so you got to get the right trajectory and the right pace and so when he put it the wrong way i laughed and i said well i could have done that and then i kept watching and i watched that ball curve curve and go right into the hole and he went like that i got it and everybody's like that's how he plays and he made 10 million he planned it out that way yeah it's amazing actually uh so the lord said to me he said do you believe i can putt better than tiger woods i said well i don't know i mean that might be close but the lord said to me you believe i can putt better than tiger woods i said well probably and we can check it out when we get to heaven but but do you believe i can putt better than tiger woods and i said well well yeah then the lord said then don't get upset when it looks like i'm putting you the wrong way he said if you'll maintain the spirit of faith if you'll keep believing and keep speaking in the middle of that situation it may look like you're going the wrong way but it will turn and you will turn because i'm still working on your case and things will turn and i'll get you to the exact destiny that i planned for you before you were born i believe god can get you to the right place at the right time with the right people and so that's what the spirit of faith does you keep the switch of faith turned on even in the face of adversity so the spirit of faith is tough so that's what paul was talking about when he said i think myself i am a happy man in front of the king he said the lord putted me a long way around but i'm right where he planned three shipwrecks actually uh they said the fourth one happened there after ii corinthians written so so paul in the shipwrecks and all the beatings when the soldiers tried to kill him all of those things and paul said i am a happy man that means the devil couldn't stop me the whole roman empire couldn't stop me every circumstance couldn't stop me because i have faith in god amen and so paul said everybody cheer up i believe god it shall be as he told me so everybody cheer up i still believe god it shall be as he told me amen and so that's when the lord said to me with the spirit of faith the word that is spoken to you must be spoken through you all right let's get going go back second corinthians 4 13. that's that's how paul got to where he was going he kept on speaking i've been crucified with christ as little as i live in christ not i but christ is in me i can do all things through christ who strengthens me forgetting the things that are behind i'm confident the good work god has begun in me he will bring to a full completion it's god that's working in me wow vote that will endure and all the while he's getting in the right yeah yeah and then he got to the destination uh where god had told him 30 years before in acts 9 acts 22 acts 26 and if you just study paul's conversion first thing that happened is the the presence and the glory of god knocked him down the glory of jesus and so um paul was radically changed and he said who are you lord and what do you want me to do two things you will be finding out for the next 50 years is revelation of who christ is who he is to you and what he wants you to do and he will tell you both i said he will tell you both in other words he will reveal himself to you and he will tell you the next step of what he wants you to do and even if it looks like you're getting put the wrong way you keep the spirit of faith turned on and you'll get to the exact destiny that god planned for you to get to [Music] you're watching mark hankins ministries faith for every nation anytime god wants to change someone's life he touches their mouth one act of faith will open up the supernatural and cause the glory of god to come in when you hold fast to your confession of faith you're connected to jesus's victory in this book faith opens the door to the supernatural you'll learn how believing and speaking opens the door to the supernatural in your life god has given every believer a measure of overcoming faith the spirit of faith will take the victim out of your voice and put victory in your voice it doesn't matter what you may be going through failure is not an option with the three cd set the spirit of faith is tough you'll learn to walk in victory every day you'll also get the free book never run at your giant with your mouth shut the bible story of david and goliath gives us a picture of how faith in god is released through faith-filled 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Published: Mon Aug 03 2020