Fear Into Conquering Faith

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Prayerfully as a church and we as family and the

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we pray together in unity, and that we just cooperate

in unison with our leaders and those that are giving

us direction, and we will see this plague begin to subside.

I said, we will see this plague begin to subside.

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If you haven't noticed, fear is everywhere right now, maybe

you've witnessed it firstthand I know some in our staff

have witnessed it out in the store's firsthand. Emotions are

flying very high, opinions, speculations. Everywhere you turn, someone has

something to say in regards to this. And we, as

the Body of Christ, we as believer, must get to

a place of balance and rest. I'll say it again,

we must get to a place of balance and rest.

We are witnessing firsthand the rapid shutdown of large gatherings,

sporting events, colleges, schools, anything where people would be grouped

together in any type of number whatsoever. Unfortunately, it hinders

the Body of Christ at Victory, as well as all

the other churches and our region, and our state and

our whole nation right now from gathering to limit the

transfer of any type of disease. I saw a really

neat posts this week that someone sent in a picture.

It says where two, but no more than ten are

gathered in his name. You know you've got to find

humor where you can, so make sure you are laughing

through this. Have you ever lived in anything quite like

this before. Never in my lifetime have I seen our

whole nation brought to a standstill and have something of

this type of invasion in our land. This is not

an invasion of a foreign government coming in with violence

and trying to destroy your life or your family. This

is not a literal war with weapons, but a pestilence

that's causing much fear, much concern, and it's unable to

be detected by the naked eye, you.

Know, if you think with me.

Besides nine to eleven and some other terrorist attacks upon

our land, we've not had to deal with much opposition

within our borders until now, I said, until now, Well

it's here, and what will we each do? What will

we do as the body of Christ. So let me

begin by saying we must cooperate with our leaders. They

need our prayers. It's scripture that we pray for those

that are authority because they're thinking of our well being

and how to secure our safety and our health. So

let me show you a few scriptures that will remind

us of our responsibility. Tied Us three one and two

remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities.

So I'm reminding the people. I'm reminding you as Victory

and others that are watching, to be obedient, to be

ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one,

to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle

toward everyone. Jeanette has noticed this week when she's been

out at the store, how people have been helping and

been considering and helping reach to help people out that

need assistance. That is so good as inconvenient as this is,

and maybe the restriction scene right now, we're not being

asked to deny Christ.

Are you with me? We're not being.

Asked to do something horrible like go have an abortion

or deny scripture. We're being asked to limit our personal

in person connections right now. Social distancing. That's the word,

or that's the phrase that's being used.

So that's what.

We're going to do. We're going to cooperate. Hebrews thirteen,

verse seventeen brings up something else. Have confidence in your leaders.

So we need to have confidence in those that are

trying to help us and submit to their authority because

they keep watch over you. They're keeping watch over you.

If we cooperate, is those who must give an account

do this so that.

Their work will be a joy, not a burden.

And let me assure you our leaders locally, state and national,

they are under a burden, so they need our prayers

and support for that would be of no profit to you.

So we need to be profitable. Well, So we're going

to cooperate in Jesus' name, Amen, I want us to

be a witness that makes our leader's responsibility in all

capacities easy because I cooperate and I pray for them,

and I help them, and I don't slander in any way.

Hysteria and pandemonium right now just feel right beyond the

shadows of our life. So many don't know what to do,

what they're going to do next, their food, their work,

their finances, their business, on and on. If you had

any type of plans of travel, of anything that was

going to be of expansion beyond this point, they've been

brought to a halt. So we're all facing this. So

let me as your pastor. I just want to have

a conversation with you today. I know you can't talk back,

but you can cheer me on from your house. Okay,

I'm going to give you some points and some sub

points under it.

It'll move real quick. But take note of this and

write it down. Number one.

Intelligent caution is healthy. I said, intelligent caution is healthy.

A point under that common sense, that's point number A.

Examples those of you that are familiar with the area.

We have one main road, Highway twenty seven. I know

better than to try to cross the road blindfolded.

That's intelligent caution. It's healthy.

I know better than to drive my vehicle one hundred

miles per hour in a forty five mile per hour

speed zone. Foolishness and presumption are not examples of faith.

They're not God has st laws in motion, which Satan,

the god little g of this world in second Corinthians

four to four, has corrupted. Point B under intelligent caution

is healthy. Sin, disease, bondage, depression, deception, and other hosts

of melodies are the result of Satan's rule over the earth.

Because Satan is operating right now on the earth. Jesus

dealt with this through his whole ministry.

This is what he did.

Let me read the story of the Ladies set free

from the spirit of infirmity in Luke, chapter thirteen. On

a sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,

and a woman was there who had been crippled by

a spirit for eighteen years. Now, I'm not implying that

every sickness is demonic from a spirit, but we know

disease as a whole is not God's plan. So we

do walk through this, whether it's just something our bodi's facing,

or we've not been a good steward of our health.

But for this woman, it was a demon. She has

been old and could not straighten up at all. When

Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, woman,

you are set free from your infirmity. Then he put

his hands on her. They didn't have social distancing at

this point, okay, And immediately she straightened up and praised God.

Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue

leader said to the people, there are six days for work,

so come and be healed on those days, not on

the Sabbath.

The Lord answered him, you hypocrites.

Don't each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox

or donkey from the stall and lead it out to

give it water. Then should not this woman, a daughter

of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years,

be set free on the Sabbath day.

For what bound her.

Jesus said, Satan has bound this daughter of Abraham for

eighteen long years. It is Satan who comes to steal,

kill and destroy. But Jesus said in John ten, I've

come to give you life, and give it to you

more abundantly or to the full. Point c under intelligent caution.

And then there's a practical way we need to avoid corrupted,

polluted atmospheres here on Earth, wherever it crosses our path

or my path. I am not ignorant, and you aren't either.

Germs are real and how they can travel. We need

to use intelligent caution. If you had a big dumpster

in your neighborhood and it was full of breathe and

garbage and flies were everywhere, and suddenly you saw all

your children and neighborhood children climbing into that thing thinking

that was fun, you would immediately go and reprimand them,

correct them, clean them, bathe them, sanitize them. That is

healthy caution. And this is what our leaders are trying

to do, is keep us from spreading anything that would

hinder or hurt Point Number two irrational fear is unhealthy.

Intelligent caution is good, but irrational fear is unhealthy. So

a point under that point, aim, as long as I'm

doing my best to avoid contact with disease, with demons,

with disaster, with depressive alignments of thought in my head,

and that's the whole subject.

We will get on eventually.

I've got tolloid depressive alignments of thought in my head,

living obedient to authorities. Listen, I have nothing to fear,

and you have nothing to fear as long as you

do this example, Paul, he was caught in a violent storm.

Let's call it a hurricane, because that's what it was.

And they're in that thing for two weeks. It had

to be one of those storms that just stalled, and

there they were in it. And if you're prone to

motion sickness, can you imagine the agony the people were having.

Now listen what he told the other two hundred and

seventy five passengers and Acts twenty seven. We're going to

start in verse twenty two. But now I urge you

to keep up your courage. I want to urge you, family,

body of Christ, those watching today, keep up your courage,

because not one of you will be lost.

Only the ship will be destroyed.

Last night, an angel of the God to whom I

belong and whom I serve, stood beside me and said,

do not be afraid.

Don't be afraid, Paul.

You must stand trial before Caesar, and God has graciously

given you the lives of all who sail with you.

That is great, great news. Choose to take heart, not fear.

You can then hear a word from the Lord in

the Word.

If you choose to take heart.

Are as you're in the Word, you will receive a

revelation in your spirit. Are someone else encouraging you with

a revelation from the Lord that God speaks to your

heart and you begin to choose that that becomes faith

over your fear because all of us are having to

make the same choices right now.

Faith over fear. You don't fear.

Your way into courage. You will have to faith your

way into courage. If you think courage is going to

come because you keep identifying with fear, you will be

stuck right there.

You will be encouraged as you allow your faith to expand.

Number two or be people will lose hope with fear

when fear becomes your foundation, you begin to picture the worst.

Please hear that if fears your foundation, you will constantly

picture the worst. Then a person bound by fear begins

to act irrational, to survive and to make you through

the day. And again, maybe you've witnessed that at the

stores recently or out in public, when people begin to communicate,

Faith doesn't come across fear, a worry, and so forth.

Now here's the thought. Listen to this.

Fear does not change the situation. It only clouds my

path forward. Fear does not change the situation. It only

clouds my path forward. Here's a great example. You know what,

I believe your Bible reading is going to come alive

like never before. If you think about it, when you

read the Bible, almost every page is dealing with some

world or national or local confusion or conflict or turmoil

or disaster going on. We've been so secure in our

nation all these years. Now we find ourselves in situations

similar to people in the Body of Christ. Think about

Paul and Silas. You know, poor Paul, he kind of

lived from trauma to turmoil, to confusion to this, and

he'd always come through triumphantly. But in Acts sixteen he

and Silas are in prison and they're facing execution.

Okay, they weren't going to be released.

This wasn't a temporary don't get around people and stay

in your home until we tell you it's safe to

come out.

They're getting ready to be killed.

And about midnight, this is what Paul and Silence were doing.

They were praying and singing hymns to God. And it

wasn't the hethaw song of woe and agony. It was

they were singing praise to God. And the other prisoners

weren't listening to them. Listen, people are listening to you.

Jenny made mention of it. Your children are listening to you.

Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations

of the prison were shape at once. All the prison

doors flew open, and everyone's chains came loose. Could it

be as a body of Christ praise? We continue worshiping,

we continue praying that the foundation of this academic going on,

this pandemic that's trying to bring havoc in our nation,

it's just shaken. It breaks and it's destroyed. And what

seemed as bondage it's broken off.

So let's continue praying.

Let's continue our praise going forth, we must begin to

recognize the lie of fear from the devil and align

our heart.

With faith instead of fear.

It's a choice I have to make, a choice you

have to make. It is a spiritual discipline that requires

personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and allowing the

Holy Ghost to walk real close. Jesus is praying for us,

but the Holy Ghost is here on earth wherever he's welcome,

and Folks, I need him close right now, I need

him right next to me.

I want to hug up.

Close to the Holy Ghost because I want to hear

what he has to say. And when we do that,

it causes scripture to come alive, It causes praise to

come alive. It causes prayer to be real. Faith in

is the substance things hope for the evidence of things

not seen.

So your faith.

Becomes evidence and if you have faith, it will be

evident to those you talk with. It becomes something real,

It becomes something secure, which leads us.

To the third point. One more point. Faith sees the rescue.

Faith sees the rescue.

You might not know when or how, but the faith

you are standing on becomes your substance. The Word of

God that you read every day and that you would

meditate on and think about, becomes substance. We are believers,

which means we allow our faith to be grow and

we allow it to be solid. Okay, here's a point

under this about faith. Caesar rescue. Paul continued his conversation.

He's on the deck of the ship in Acts twenty seven,

and he says this Acts twenty seven, verse twenty five.

They're going to bring that verse up for me.

So keep up your courage, church, believers, family friends, keep

up your courage. Keep it up men, because they're all

men on this ship for our faith in God that

it will happen just as he told me. Nevertheless, we

must run aground on some island. In other words, there

wore be some obstacles, there would be some things that

take place. Paul would have an interruption in his journey.

Have you noticed we are all having an interruption right

now in our journey.

They would not.

Reach the destination where they were intended to or thought

they would be going, but they would be rescued. And

you know what, We're going to be rescued. Now, get this,

write it down, think about it. Pray about it. Often

the interruption leads to a new appointment. Often your interruption.

If you allow the Holy Ghost real close here his voice,

it will lead to a new appointment. The rescue led

to purpose for Paul Acts twenty eight, verse seven through ten.

Now this is after the shipwreck and everybody gets on

shore safely.

There was an estate nearby.

They belonged to a pubulist, the chief official of the island.

He welcomed us into his home and showed us gracious

hospitality for three days. His father was sick and dead. Okay,

the leader, the fisheral of the island, suffering from fear

and dysentery. Now Paul could have just been consumed with

his need, the men's need where they were at the moment.

But Paul went in to see him, and after prayer,

placed his hands on him and healed him.

We know he didn't personally do it. God did it

because of obedience.

When this had happened, the rest of the sick on

the island came and they were cured, so everybody else

got a healing. They honored us in many ways, and

when we were ready to sell, they furnished us with

the supplies we needed. See when you step into purpose

and you're not hiding full of fear. I believe the

supplies you need they're going to be there.

Point b under this about the rescue.

Anyone can see the fear. Only those with eyes of

faith can see the finish. What do you see fear

or the finish? Fear or the finish Second Corinthians four,

verse eighteen. So we fix our eyes not on what

is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is

seen as temporary. All this that's going right now, please

realize it is a temporary situation. We don't know the

length of it, but it's temporary. But what is unseen

is eternal. Even if all this temporary stuff were solved

next week, it's temporary. What's unseen Your faith, your walk

with God, that's.

Eternal, or it canvy.

Hebrews twelve one through three says this. Therefore, since we're

surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, people who

are doing it right, living by faith, family that have

live by faith or with the Lord, people in the

word of God that did it right, let us throw

off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.

And let me tell you.

If fear becomes your identity, that becomes a sin. Let

us run with perseverance. Okay, we're gonna need perseverance through

this race. Run with perseverance. The race marked out for us.

See right now. We don't know how far we're running.

We don't know the length of this marathon.

But let's do it.

How fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfector

of faith.

How did he do it? Why did he do it?

This is how we're gonna do it.

For the joy set before him, the joy set before you.

He endured you and I are gonna endure.

He had to endure the cross. We're having to endure inconvenience.

And he was scorning as shame, and he's now setting

down at the right hand of the throne of God. Listen,

this plague is going to end. I said, it's going

to end. We're going to be rescued. God is with us,

and you and I we will survive if you do that.

Let me say this, Now you're thinking clearly, I said,

now you're thinking clearly.

Let me give you.

Five practical applications as a pastor, as a father, as

a grandfather, as a friend.

Real quick.

Number one, do what the health authorities are advocating. Okay,

wash your hands frequently, keep a healthy distance from others

if possible.

Keep your immunity built up.

With the red alert. You say, what in the world

is a red alert? Well, you're going to see bring

it up. The red alert, A rest e, exercise, d diet.

I'm gonna encourage you when you go to bed at night,

say Lord, thank you.

My mind's going to stop. I'm going to rest well, exercise.

You know what.

Many of you have those treadmills and things in your house,

stationary bikes, and all you do is you hang your

clothes on them. Okay, dust them off, plug them in,

get some exercise.

It'll be good for you.

And then diet, try to eat healthy appropriately and so forth.

If you violate the red alert, you're not taking care

of the temple of God. Two cast down thoughts of death, doom,

and the end of the world. We are inconvenience, yes,

but we're not incapacitating. We're inconvenience, but we're still functioning

Tewod Corinthians ten three through five. Far though we live

in the world, we do not wage war as the

world does the weapons we fight with are not the

weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine

power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension

that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. And

we take captive every thought. I said, every thought. We're

going to take captive every thought, make it.

Obedient to Christ. And we can do that.

Number three, anchor yourself in God's word. I recommend read

Psalm ninety one slowly every day, or other scriptures that

you think about, meditate on that speak to your heart.

Just do this every day until this storm passes, and

after it does.

It will be a good thing to continue anyway.

Number four, avoid hysteria from any source.

Please do that.

The endless interviews you can watch or listen to, the

different opinions, the commentaries and the reporting that keep us

just uncertain and worried and so forth and have fear

and paranoia. Just just turn it off. Some that's not God. Yes,

we need to be informed, we need to know what

we need to do. We need to be aware of

some things, but not everything. Sometimes it does this better

just to turn it off. Go about your life each

day with joy. That's a choice. And lastly, number five,

don't become self centered. Don't begin analyzing how you feel

every moment of the day. Reach out to others in need,

especially if someone is elderly. Are they if they have

a compromise health condition? What can you do for them?

Speak positive to those you come in contact with. Let's

offer hope, prayer, encouragement, and lift anyone up who's living emotionally,

are spiritually lower than you see, we're to be living

higher and those that are down here, we're to bring

them up. Give them a hand and bring them up.

It's not a time to point at them, but literally,

anybody bring them up.

Because you're living close to God.

So family, friends, let's stay in touch a lot, call, text, email,

share good reports, stay in touch with others in the

body of Christ. Pray for one another. Let's stay connected.

I know we're going to make it through this. Let's

pray for the virus to be contained with all our

cooperative efforts, and that lives are saved literally and listen,

lives are gonna be saved spiritually.

God can turn this around.

Something powerful can happen through this that gets the tension

of our whole nation.

So make your decision fear or faith.

I believe you're gonna choose faith, turn your fear into

a conquering faith. I'm gonna pray in a moment. But

next Sunday I want to share on communion. I want

to share on different elements about protection and healing through communion.

And I want you to get some elements at home,

bread or cracker, whatever, juice or coke, something, and just

prepare for communion. And we're gonna take communion together via

the Internet.

Okay, let's do it. So let me pray over you.

If anyone is not serving the Lord, I'm prayer and

if you would just agree with that in your heart,

God's going to save you today. So just bow in

your homes wherever you're listening, and let me lead us

in a prayer. Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus Father.

I thank you that through technology we're able to stay

in touch with each other right now, and you're knowing

and can go across the airwaves and through televisions and

phones and bring a conviction and bring hope. So, Father,

I pray for anyone right now who's listening that you're

not their Lord, they've not bowed their heart in their

life and their will to you, if they've not confessed

their sin to you and their separation from you, that

they're doing that right now and they're allowing you into

the ciner of their life. That they would be empowered

by the Holy Ghost and have the power they need

to live for you, and that they will get connected

right now. It's got to be connected through internet and

phone calls, but they would just begin to get connected,

are connected to people and family that know you and

begin this journey with you. So I pray that for

anyone listening today, and Father, I thank you that all

those that are listening and all those that have been watching,

they're going to allow their fear to be turned into

a conquering faith. Father, that we're stronger today than we

were yesterday. That we're stronger because of the Scripture. We're

stronger because of relationships. We're stronger because we purposely connect

and we stay connected. So I pray a blessing over

the family. I pray a blessing over everyone listening right now,

And I thank you Lord. They're going to conquer and

they're going to win, and they're going to come through

this victorious for them and their whole household, and we

will be careful to praise you loudly. And the next

time we're able to get together corporately, there will be

such a shit out from the house that there will

be an earthquake and any bondage or anything holding people

in bondage will be broken off of their life. So

we thank you for it now in Jesus name, and

would you say an amen with me wherever you are.

Yes. Wednesday night will be live streaming at.

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