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Reigning Faith p.2 with Ap. Marci Glisson

Anchor Faith Church

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  1. Hallelujah, glory to God. Well, we've been starting a

  2. journey on talking about reigning faith.

  3. How many of you were here last Wednesday?

  4. Amen. And we started out of second

    2 Peter 1 chapter mention

  5. Peter chapter 1 and verse 11 or one through 11.

  6. Hallelujah, the Lord is good. Amen.

  7. Haha y'all need to get a smile on your face.

  8. Everybody just smile. Don't turn your head.

  9. Smile. Smile on a brother and a sister.

  10. Look to somebody else and smile. Amen.

  11. Hallelujah. There's nothing to be sad about.

  12. Not when we know what he's given us, Amen.

  13. Hallelujah. Not when we know and we have to

  14. remind ourselves of these things.

  15. Amen. And so just as Paul was

  16. reminding them in second Peter, was it Peter or Paul that

  17. reminded them Anyway? One of them reminded them, said,

  18. it doesn't bother me to remind you of these things.

  19. Amen. We have to be reminded of things

  20. so that we don't forget what's been given to us.

  21. Amen, What's been given to us because there's there's times

  22. that, you know, things talk so loud that those things start

  23. getting real and you have to start reminding yourself, wait a

  24. minute here. We don't have to deal with this

  25. because we know who we are in Christ.

  26. Amen. Hallelujah in second Peter

    2 Peter 1 chapter mention

  27. chapter 1. I want to read it and we're

  28. going to remind you of some things we talked about.

  29. You know, if we are going to be a reigning church, then we're

  30. going to have to operate, operate in reigning faith.

  31. And so in Second Peter chapter one, it says this Simon Peter, a

  32. bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have

  33. received a faith of the same kind of ours, say the same kind

  34. of faith. Any person that's born again,

  35. come on, who's called on the name of Jesus Christ will have

  36. the same kind of faith. And so he said, you've received

  37. a faith of the same kind of ours.

  38. By what? The righteousness of our God and

  39. Savior Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to

  40. you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

  41. Verse 3. Seeing that His divine power has

  42. granted to us everything pertaining to life and

  43. godliness, Amen. And we said that last week.

  44. This divine power that's been granted to us is dunamis,

  45. Dunamis working power, which is where they get the word dynamite

  46. from, right? And so this dunamis working

  47. power's been granted to us, this dunamis power, and it literally

  48. means absolutely everything necessary.

  49. You need to live a dynamic spiritual life in him.

  50. Hallelujah, everything. The minute you got born again,

  51. you received the same faith, come on, the faith of God, and

  52. you've been given the measure of faith.

  53. Every single one of us that got born again.

  54. And when we got born again, everything, everything that we

  55. would ever need in this life, come on to live in this life and

  56. to live a godly life. I don't want to just live life.

  57. I want to live a godly life. It's already been put inside of

  58. you to be able to do with His divine power and His divine

  59. nature that He put within us everything to be successful, to

  60. do exactly what He wants us to do.

  61. We began a journey with Him and He put everything in us to be

  62. able to walk it out according to Scripture, according to

  63. godliness. Amen.

  64. Hallelujah. He put it in and said, He put it

  65. in me. Oh, He put it in me.

  66. Say He put it in me. Hallelujah.

  67. Don't let me get Mama on you. You know when you tell your

  68. child to say something and they now you say what I just said and

  69. then they and then you say no, say it again.

  70. So I know you heard me. That wasn't good enough. 3 * a

  71. charm always. You get 3 strikes, that's it,

  72. right? Hallelujah.

  73. So remember, we're engaging our faith as we sit here to hear.

  74. Amen. Say hearing is good for me.

  75. Yes, it's good for me. So everything he's already put

  76. within us that we're going to need to walk out this dynamic

  77. spiritual life in him. And we've been given dynamite

  78. power. Come on, supernatural ability.

  79. Come on. That power is residing on the

  80. inside of us. Amen.

  81. It's residing on the inside of us, and all we have to do is

  82. pull it up. Hallelujah, you are a well.

  83. Just think of yourself, as does any does.

  84. Y'all new school people in here know what a real well was where

  85. they had to go out in the freezing cold water with snow on

  86. the ground and pump up the well to get water to boil to put in a

  87. hot tub. Does anybody know what I'm

  88. talking about? Raise your hand.

  89. Now, if you've never seen one, raise your hand, all right?

  90. See, there's a few people that's never seen one anyway, you have

  91. to go out there and prime that. What?

  92. That pump, You have to prime it. You have to.

  93. There's water in there somewhere.

  94. Come on, There's power in you somewhere, inherent power, and

  95. we have to go prime that pop to pull up the whale of power so

  96. that it can flow. And the more you pop it, what

  97. happens? The more it will flow.

  98. You let it sit. What happens if you let that

  99. sit? Even in the natural with a

  100. whale, it could what, dry up? Come on.

  101. So we have to constantly prime the pump of the on the inside of

  102. us with the power that is dwelling within Hallelujah, so

  103. that we can walk out this dynamic life of faith.

  104. This is what we're calling reigning faith.

  105. Reigning faith. If we're going to reign in life,

  106. if we're going to reign over circumstances, over situations,

  107. over our problems, over our finances, over our rebellious

  108. teenagers, oh, come on. If we're going to rub, you know,

  109. reign over these things, then we're going to have to realize

  110. that we're going to have to reign in our faith.

  111. Hallelujah. We're going to have to reign in

  112. our faith. We cannot do this without faith.

  113. We cannot do it and fall back. Who so easily bewitched you?

  114. You started this thing out by the Spirit, but you've gone back

  115. to the what flesh, the works, trying to work it out yourself.

  116. And believers can't do that. And so you have to remind

  117. yourself, wait a minute, I have the Spirit of God, the power of

  118. God on the inside of me, and I'm going to have to pump and prime

  119. that well. Come on to be able to overcome

  120. these situations and circumstances that we are

  121. encountering. And then he lets us know that

  122. we've been given this divine life of God.

  123. Zoway life flows through your veins.

  124. Amen Zoway life, eternal life. And so in that it will produce

  125. everything that we need. There is a full supply.

  126. None of us who are born again and spirit filled are lacking

  127. anything. We're not lacking anything.

  128. We may not have knowledge of some things, but guess what?

  129. He lets us know. We're supposed to get knowledge.

  130. You may not know what all belong, what all is on the

  131. inside of you yet, but He's always going to lead you to

  132. where you will discover those things and you'll discover them.

  133. If you're hungry, He says what those that hunger and thirst

  134. after righteousness will be what?

  135. Filled or satisfied. If you're not satisfied with

  136. your wall, go get in. Come on, go get in to the

  137. knowledge of God's Word, Amen. Go get into the knowledge of

  138. God's word. And so we talked about faith.

  139. You know, we have been taught faith.

  140. I mean, there are some we set up underneath the best faith

  141. teachers in our lifetime, in my lifetime, and I've heard a lot

  142. of faith teaching, but I don't believe there's been very much

  143. faith teaching in the direction of Second Peter.

  144. There's lots of faith teaching in confession for what finances

  145. believing God for this and for that, for that.

  146. But I don't hear much faith teaching talking about adding to

  147. our faith, the principles and qualities of character.

  148. The only one character that I ever hear preached about with

  149. great faith teachers is love, because see, your faith won't

  150. work outside of love. But do you know there's other

  151. things that this scripture says that are to be a supply to our

  152. faith? And this is what we're talking

  153. about today. We know that faith is a firm

  154. persuasion, a confident expectation.

  155. According to Hebrews 11, right now, faith is the substance of

  156. things. What hope for the evidence of

  157. things not seen. And we'll quote that scripture

  158. all day long for our bill to be paid.

  159. Come on now. We'll quote that scripture all

  160. day long for that vehicle, that jet, that house, all the things.

  161. But I don't hear a lot of people quoting that scripture for them

  162. to have self-control, for them to have perseverance, for hit

  163. them to actually have knowledge and wisdom.

  164. According to scripture, for all the other qualities, there's

  165. seven qualities that he talks about here in second Peter, one

  166. through 11. Let's look at these because I

  167. believe that we're going to have to take our faith and shift it

  168. to these qualities that are going to be a supply to my faith

  169. so that when I'm having to stand to believe God for something,

  170. self-control is going to be there.

  171. Perseverance is going to be there.

  172. Knowledge is going to be there on how to believe for and call

  173. those things. OK, and so much of this is

  174. lacking here and we see that we're going to have to get some

  175. adjustments here because again, the scripture says when I when

  176. he returns, will he find faith in the earth.

  177. So how in the world US that's been taught through the Word of

  178. Faith and been taught by great faith teachers, think to myself,

  179. how in the world would he not return and find faith in the

  180. world because they've not supplied their faith with the

  181. qualities of the character that's going to keep them in

  182. faith? We're talking about reigning

  183. faith, reigning faith. And I came up with this because

  184. of what I've, I was reminding myself of what I was taught

  185. faith was from one of our faith instructors.

  186. And he said this, that faith is a what firm persuasion, a

  187. confident expectation, but not just a confident expectation.

  188. It is a confident expectation that is acted upon because

  189. without action, you can say it all day long, but it's not your

  190. reality unless you act upon it. That means you're going to have

  191. to step out when you see nothing.

  192. You're going to have to believe God when you see that your

  193. marriage is on the verge of divorce.

  194. Why don't you call those things that be not Come on and use your

  195. confession to create your reality of what you want

  196. according to the word of God. You see what I'm saying, Amen.

  197. And so I like to read it like this.

  198. Reigning faith is the substance or the assurance.

  199. And we've heard it said the title deed of the things hoped

  200. for and the evidence of proof or conviction of the reality of

  201. things not seen by the physical senses, the title deed.

  202. We've been taught that faith is the title deed.

  203. It's as if you already own it. It's already yours.

  204. A person that is in faith knows that it already belongs to me.

  205. If I'll stay in a position, come on, of calling those things that

  206. be not as though they if I'll stay firmly persuaded, if I'll

  207. stay in a position and act upon what it is that I'm hearing by

  208. faith, come on, it will be done. It will be done.

  209. Hallelujah. OK, here's a good one.

  210. You need to write this down. Y'all should be taking notes.

  211. I don't even know. Reigning faith anchors itself in

  212. God's reliable promises, not circumstances, making it a

  213. powerful force to manifest the unseen.

  214. Remember, we said faith is the currency of the Kingdom, and

  215. it's faith that brings what the unseen into the scene.

  216. So remember, faith is to be that tangible reality in your life.

  217. That means you're going to you're going to see what he says

  218. in his word come to pass in your life.

  219. If you'll stay in a position firmly sweat persuaded, come on,

  220. you'll see it come to pass in your life.

  221. So let me read that again because I saw some of you taking

  222. a note. I mean, I went back and read my

  223. notes from 20 years ago. Come on.

  224. This is reality to me. This is what I live by and this

  225. is what God wants everyone that has his faith to live by.

  226. He says the righteous say what? Live by faith and we're to go

  227. from faith to faith. So it's perpetual, perpetual

  228. faith, perpetual reigning faith. Come on to reign over.

  229. Let me read it again. Reigning faith anchors, aren't

  230. you thankful that we have anchor faith?

  231. Hallelujah. I'm anchored in my faith,

  232. Hallelujah. It is my anchor and my anchor

  233. holds. Come on when the winds and the

  234. waves and the everything's blowing and and going against,

  235. you know, my anchor is holding because I have faith,

  236. Hallelujah, in the word of God and who he is, His anchor holds

  237. and he is the anchor of my soul. Hebrews.

  238. It's the anchor of my soul. You better have an anchor on

  239. your soul or either your soul's going to go everywhere, and

  240. that's what the word will do. It will keep you anchored when

  241. all the world's going crazy. No, I have an anchor.

  242. I have faith. Hallelujah.

  243. So reigning faith anchors itself in God's reliable promises, not

  244. circumstances, making it a powerful force to manifest the

  245. unseen, Hallelujah, to manifest the unseen in your life.

  246. So we're supposed to live by this faith, Amen.

  247. We are supposed to be people that know how to operate in

  248. faith and have a reigning faith. Amen.

  249. If we are going to be the reigning church.

  250. Now let's go to back to the qualities of the scripture that

  251. he's talking about here that needs to be added to our faith.

  252. I hear a lot of people talk about Romans.

  253. Faith comes from what hearing and from hearing from the word

  254. of God and and you won't have faith outside of the word, but

  255. faith alone is not just all that is going to get you over outside

  256. of these qualities that he talks about here in second Peter

    2 Peter 2 chapter mention

  257. chapter 2. So let's read them.

  258. It says this now verse 5 for this very reason.

  259. Also apply all diligence in your what faith?

  260. He doesn't say. Now just sit there and confess

  261. and confess and confess and confess and confess.

  262. No, there's some things that need to be added to your faith

  263. that needs to be put together with your firm persuasion, your

  264. confident expectation. So this word add says applying

  265. all diligence. First, let me tell you what

  266. diligence is. Diligence is something.

  267. Diligence is something that you make an effort to do.

  268. To be diligent, then you are making an effort to supply my

  269. faith with some things. I'm going to make an effort,

  270. right? I'm going to.

  271. It also means to exert oneself. That means it's going to take

  272. you putting the effort or putting the work in.

  273. Just like we hear teachers tell their students, you need to be

  274. diligent to do this and to do that to get your homework done.

  275. You're not being diligent. You're not putting any effort in

  276. it. And he says, listen, you are

  277. going to have to be diligent by applying some things to your

  278. faith, not just your confession, not just reading the word cause

  279. faith comes from hearing. But actually he says here, exert

  280. yourself also strive after make an effort endeavor.

  281. It also means this to be diligent to be prompt to study,

  282. to be prompt to study, and to labor.

  283. See, everybody just thinks faith just happens.

  284. No, it doesn't. The only way it just happens is

  285. when you call on the name of the Lord, faith.

  286. The mustard seed of faith gets deposited within your spirit and

  287. from there it's up to you if it will remain just a little bitty

  288. seed or if that seed is going to grow and going to blossom and

  289. going to come to its fullness. Come on, it's up to you.

  290. It's up to you if you are going to be like the centurion that

  291. says just speak the word only and my servant will be healed.

  292. And Jesus, what he marveled at his what great faith, his great

  293. faith. And so to walk into great faith,

  294. reigning faith, there's going to be some things that we are going

  295. to have to be diligent to put to work in our life.

  296. Amen. And so he says, add this to your

  297. faith. What does it mean to add?

  298. It says applying all diligence in your faith.

  299. One translation says add to your faith.

  300. One translation says supply your faith.

  301. So all of these have that same context, context that we are

  302. going to have to bring something to supply to our faith.

  303. And when you look up that word supply in the Greek, it means to

  304. furnish, oh, I love this, to minister to, to minister,

  305. nourishment to. So your faith needs minister to

  306. and nourished. Wow.

  307. So when he's saying you be diligent to minister, bring

  308. nourishment to your faith, furnish, it means to furnish

  309. your faith. Hallelujah.

  310. So he's saying there's this. Listen, your faith needs to be

  311. nourished. It needs to be ministered to.

  312. And what did he say here? Number one, there were 7

  313. qualities that he listed here, Godly qualities.

  314. And let me just make this before we get into the qualities, I

  315. want to talk about what he said. When you continue to read that

  316. verse, If we will add and do all these things that He tells us to

  317. do, and he tells us that it should be, these things should

  318. be growing and increasing in our life #1 He says that they will

  319. keep you from being idle and fruitless.

  320. So people that are fruitless, maybe it's because they've not

  321. nourished their faith, people that are idle, maybe it's

  322. because they haven't nourished their faith, they haven't

  323. brought a supply to their faith in these qualities in their

  324. life. So it says this it, it will keep

  325. them from stumbling. We talked about this.

  326. Oh, you just think you never make a mistake.

  327. Oh, you just think you're better than everybody.

  328. No, I actually believe the Scripture that if I'll increase

  329. in some qualities that God listed here, I can be assured

  330. that I will never stumble. That's not prideful, that's not

  331. arrogant. That's actually having faith,

  332. trusting, relying in God's Word, that if he said that if I do

  333. these things and that to my faith and continue to grow and

  334. increase these qualities in my life, that I can be assured I

  335. will never stumble. What does this word stumble

  336. mean? When you look it up in the

  337. Greek, it means to error. It means to make a mistake.

  338. Yeah, I never have to make a mistake.

  339. I'm not saying that I can do it, but me adding to my faith, doing

  340. what the word says, Come on, then I can be assured that I'm

  341. not going to make a mistake. I'm not going to error.

  342. I'm not going to stumble. It means to fall.

  343. I'm not going to fall. It means to, you know, fall into

  344. sin. I'm not going to fall into sin.

  345. Amen. That's what it means.

  346. Look it up, dare ya. It also means listen to this,

  347. which I believe is one of the greatest things, that it's not

  348. going to cause me to offend someone else to sin, because

  349. what we do matters. What we say matters, how we live

  350. matters. And I don't care.

  351. You can say you have faith to move these mountains and faith

  352. to do all these things. And yet I've seen people that

  353. fall on their face because they have not brought a supply of

  354. nourishment to these qualities and this character in their life

  355. and they're falling left and right.

  356. So, oh, and if you actually, I'll get over onto the side

  357. note, if you actually look up that word stumble, it brings you

  358. over to James where he actually talks about if you've matured

  359. enough to where your words, you don't stumble by your words.

  360. So God's concerned actually about every idle word.

  361. He's concerned about every word and he don't want you even

  362. stumbling there. But I'll move on.

  363. So he says 7 qualities that he wants us to.

  364. I'm glad I have another week to teach this.

  365. Not this Wednesday but the next one when we come back from the

  366. holidays. He says this supply moral

  367. excellence. What is moral excellence or one

  368. translation virtue? Right virtue means moral

  369. excellence. What are we doing?

  370. This literally is talking about aligning your thoughts, your

  371. feelings, and your actions with the righteousness of God or

  372. right living. So we are supposed to supply our

  373. faith in our thoughts, our actions, our behaviors, our

  374. emotions. All of those need to be in

  375. alignment with righteousness. Moral excellence, right?

  376. It means choosing His way of doing things instead of ours.

  377. So if someone does you wrong and you want to lash out, what are

  378. you going to do? I'm going to choose to do it his

  379. way. I'm going to choose to let them

  380. slap me in the face and turn the cheek. 7 * 70 So see, that's

  381. choosing his way of doing it, His moral excellencies, no

  382. matter what people are saying, you choose to do it his way,

  383. right? Because these qualities matter

  384. to my faith and I'm not going to be able to operate fully in the

  385. faith of God that he tells us to have in Mark 1123 and 24.

  386. Because I do still teach faith out of Mark 1123 and 24, Have

  387. faith in God or what translation and have the God kind of faith.

  388. And I'm not going to have the God kind of faith outside of

  389. these qualities operating in my life and adding a supply to my

  390. faith, right? So I'm going to choose his way

  391. of doing things instead of my ways.

  392. And it means to actually practice living by what the Word

  393. says instead of how you want to do things or how you feel about

  394. things. Because it all has to do about

  395. your thoughts, your actions, your emotions, all your be, all

  396. of these things. And he wants them all in

  397. alignment to the way he responds and the way he does things.

  398. And that's going to bring a supply or nourishment to my

  399. faith. Hallelujah.

  400. Look at Second Peter chapter 3 and verse 14 and then in verse

    2 Peter 3 chapter mention

  401. 18 it says this. So beloved, since you are

  402. looking forward to these things, be diligent.

  403. Here's that word again. And make every effort to be

  404. found in Him at His return, spotless and blameless in peace.

  405. That is the inward calm with a sense of spiritual well-being

  406. and confidence, having lived a life of obedience to Him, but

  407. grow spiritually and mature in the grace and the knowledge of

  408. our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  409. To Him be the glory, honor, majesty, splendor, but now, both

  410. now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

  411. And this should be our our motto as well, that we want to live in

  412. such a way. Come on.

  413. That we are spotless and blameless.

  414. Hallelujah. And confidence that I have lived

  415. a life of obedience to His word and I have allowed myself to

  416. grow spiritually and mature. Remember, he says, if these

  417. things grow and increase in you and that word is active when

  418. they are actively growing, when they are actively increasing in

  419. you, come on, then that is going to bring a nourishment to your

  420. faith, a confidence to your faith.

  421. Amen. Philippians chapter 2 and verse

    Philippians 2 chapter mention

  422. 12. So then, my dear ones, just if

  423. you have always obeyed my instructions with enthusiasm,

  424. not only in my presence but now much more in my absence,

  425. continue to work out your salvation.

  426. Remember, the minute you get born again doesn't mean you are

  427. fully mature. No, there's things that you have

  428. to grow in your faith. You have to grow in your faith.

  429. You have to increase in your faith.

  430. You have to mature as a believer.

  431. You are the one that has to work out your salvation.

  432. You are the one that are are are now responsible for the journey

  433. that you are following through with him.

  434. Not in your own effort, only by the grace and the knowledge of

  435. God. Come on.

  436. But there is an effort. There is an effort, but it's not

  437. the effort for me to be born again.

  438. I'm already born again, but there is an effort for me to

  439. work out my salvation and to add to my faith and to mature and to

  440. grow. What does it mean here in the

  441. amplified? Work out your salvation that is

  442. cultivated. Bring it to full effect.

  443. That means it's a baby seed in you and you have to be the one

  444. now to nourish it. Feed it.

  445. Come on you feed your what faith.

  446. How do you feed your faith on the Word of God, but not just on

  447. the Word, just hearing the Word, but also what?

  448. Doing the Word, walking it out, practicing it, that's what

  449. cultivates it. Bring it to full effect.

  450. Actively pursue spiritual maturity with fear and

  451. trembling, using serious caution and critical self evaluation.

  452. Isn't that interesting? We have to allow the Lord to

  453. critically evaluate you. A critic, What does he say?

  454. I mean, you've heard Pastor Angie say it for years.

  455. Judge my heart, Lord. See if there is anything unclean

  456. within me. That's what we're saying.

  457. Allow him to critically look at you and say, hey, you need to

  458. tweak this and then be willing and obedient to do it.

  459. And that's when it's real to you.

  460. But if you resist it and you don't do it, it's not you,

  461. you're not it's not for you. You're not going to grow, you're

  462. not going to mature, you're not going to fully have effect of

  463. this spiritual life, right? Hallelujah.

  464. Critical self evaluation to avoid anything that might offend

  465. God or discredit his name in Christ.

  466. Amen. And I read Philippians 48 to

  467. you, right? Finally, brethren, whatsoever is

  468. true, remember all these things you're to think on.

  469. This is what we are to meditate on.

  470. And when we are thinking on these things and meditating on

  471. these things, and when we are acting these things in and

  472. pursuing these things and acting them out in our life by faith,

  473. come on then. It is bringing a nourishment to

  474. our faith. It is supplying our faith.

  475. We are able to grow in our faith.

  476. Amen. Hallelujah.

  477. Kim, do you have time for one more and then we can do the rest

  478. the next time we come together? What was the next thing he said

  479. that we need to add to our faith or nourish our faith or minister

  480. to our faith with knowledge, knowledge, knowledge or moral

  481. wisdom and application of God's Word, right.

  482. So outside of His Word, if you're not a person that reads

  483. the word every day, then guess what's not being applied,

  484. supplied to your faith? And we wonder why so many

  485. believers are anorexic. They are not reading the Word.

  486. They're not meditating in the Word day and night.

  487. They're not spending time. Come on.

  488. Feeding their faith, supplying their faith with the nourishment

  489. that it needs, and then when something happens, you see them

  490. fall apart. Why do they fall apart?

  491. Because they have not fed their faith with the proper nutrients

  492. that they need. The knowledge of God's word,

  493. right? The moral wisdom and application

  494. of God's Word. Hallelujah.

  495. And it means this, that not word knowledge means moral wisdom,

  496. application of God's Word such as is seen in right living.

  497. Every one of these qualities, the seven that we're going to

  498. discuss, must be seen and evident in a person's life.

  499. Every time you read it and look it up in the Greek, it's about

  500. it being what there is going to be fruit in your life, there's

  501. going to be fruit in your life. And I've seen some stinking

  502. fruit in people's lives that say they're full of faith.

  503. But the the fruit that I want to see that will become tangible

  504. and evident in their life are these qualities.

  505. I don't care if they have a jet, but they have come on no moral

  506. excellence or they don't live right.

  507. They smoke a cigar and drink bourbon.

  508. Right. So again, these are things that

  509. when he talks about knowledge, he's talking about the wisdom

  510. and the application of God's Word being applied to your life

  511. in such a way that it can be seen and right living, or what

  512. we like to call the fruits of what righteousness, the fruits

  513. of righteousness should be able to be seen in your life.

  514. If you're applying these qualities and you're living this

  515. out according to His word, not your own opinions, not your own

  516. thoughts about what the Scripture says, know what his

  517. word clearly states, right? And so it's not hard, say it's

  518. not hard 2 scriptures and we'll close Colossians 1 to align with

  519. this knowledge. Colossians 1 and 9.

  520. For this reason, since this day we heard about it, we have not

  521. stopped praying for you, asking specifically that you would be

  522. filled with the knowledge of His what?

  523. His will. What is his will?

  524. The Word, the Word of God is His will for your life.

  525. It's His will and we call that His general will for every

  526. believers life. Is that we would align ourselves

  527. with the qualities of Scripture, the general will of God for

  528. every believer. And then then and only then as

  529. you are operating in the general will of God of his Word.

  530. He will begin to what speaks specific plans and purposes and

  531. pursuits that he has for you to fulfill his will for your life

  532. and so many people you still hear as believers.

  533. I don't know what God wants me to do.

  534. It tells me then you're not a person of the word.

  535. You cannot be in the word and not know the will of God can't

  536. won't happen, can't happen. It's not possible.

  537. You will know the will of God and many know the will of God

  538. and just choose not to do it. OK, so the knowledge of His

  539. will, what in all spiritual wisdom with insight into His

  540. purposes, you see that and an understanding of spiritual

  541. things. None of us should be ignorant of

  542. His Word and of spiritual things as a believer.

  543. Every single one of us should have the knowledge and wisdom of

  544. God's Word and God's will flowing and operating in our

  545. life if we are being students of the Word, if we are being true

  546. disciples. Amen.

  547. And last Scripture and we'll close Ephesians chapter 1,

    Ephesians 1 chapter mention

  548. Ephesians chapter one, verse 17 and 18 out of the amplified.

  549. I always pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the

  550. Father of glory, would grant you a spirit of what wisdom and of

  551. revelation that gives you a deep and personal and intimate

  552. insight into the true knowledge of Him.

  553. For we know the Father through the Son.

  554. Verse 18. And I pray that the eyes of your

  555. heart or understanding, the very center and core of your being,

  556. would be enlightened and flooded with light by the Holy Spirit,

  557. so that you'll know and cherish the hope, the divine guarantee,

  558. Hallelujah, the confident expectation to which He has

  559. called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the

  560. Saints, God's people, Hallelujah.

  561. We have been given and granted come on divine power, the divine

  562. nature of God to live this life fully dynamic spiritual life and

  563. have a faith come on a faith that is raining and flourishing

  564. in our life. If every day and we will see

  565. that happen when we begin to add and bring a supply to our faith

  566. through these qualities in Second Peter.

  567. And the same way that we call those things that be not as

  568. though they are for the resources for our lives needs to

  569. be the same way you call those things that be not for these

  570. qualities to flow and to operate in your life every day.

  571. For moral excellence, Father, I thank you, I thank you.

  572. I thank you that you said, oh, that I could walk in moral

  573. excellence and virtue and in my thoughts and in my come on and

  574. in my actions and in my mind and in my will and in my emotions.

  575. I thank you, Father, that my thoughts will be your thoughts.

  576. And I thank you, Lord, that you said that I could take every

  577. thought captive and line it up to the word of God, to the will

  578. of God. And so listen, I call that, come

  579. on, are we being diligent to say, Father, I thank you that I

  580. have the knowledge of your will, that I have the mind of Christ,

  581. that I can know and have spiritual insight and revelation

  582. to the knowledge of your word, to apply it to my life, to line

  583. myself up to your will and your way of doing things so that I

  584. walk in the fruits of righteousness in my life to

  585. bring faith, bring a nourishment to my faith.

  586. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. And I'm telling you, our faith

  587. will begin to flourish if we'll nourish, if we'll nourish it

  588. with these qualities and be diligent to focus on some of

  589. these things in our lives. Our faith, Hallelujah, is going

  590. to go to another. Come on from faith to faith.

  591. And we're going to see us walking out a dynamic spiritual

  592. life. Oh, Hallelujah.

  593. Because I still believe that the best is yet to come and I'm

  594. going to be smack right dab in the middle of it.

  595. And I'm not going to let anything come on, pull my faith

  596. so that I, in these last days, would want to fall away from the

  597. faith. No, I'm going to be fully

  598. supplied and nourished in my faith to stay focused and

  599. diligent. Hallelujah.

  600. And I'm telling you, He wants every single one of us to

  601. evaluate where we really are, Hallelujah.

  602. So that we can bring another come on another bit and piece of

  603. nourishment so that we can have a reigning faith.

  604. Amen.