Hope & Faith with Pastor Darrell Huffman

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Amen. Amen.

Amen. You can be seated.

Praise God. Amen.

Bonnie and I are excited to be here with you.

Hallelujah. We had actually planned on just

not doing anything after Thanksgiving and Pastor, or gave

me a call and threaten me. If I didn't come, praise God but

But we're excited to be here with you.

Praise God, and excited about what God is doing here at anchor

Faith. Amen.

Glory to God, well, we're going to set ourselves in agreement.

We're going to administer a few messages to you.

That's going to help you in your faith.

Anybody want their faith to be strengthened?

Praise God. Well, right now just say this

after me, Lord Jesus, I confess, you are my Lord, You Are The

Living Word and you've given And to me the written word that I

might know you this night, I set my faith to receive the word as

the truth. That will set me free.

I set myself to be good ground to hear the word to receive the

word, and to be a doer of the word and I thank you.

Lord, for confirming your word and producing fruit in my life.

And for these Things that give you all the praise.

Amen. Amen.

Praise God. You can turn with me.

If you will to Hebrews chapter 11, And we're going to read

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verse one here. And I want to minister to you

along the lines of Faith and Hope and minister to your faith.

You know, it's so important that we learn how to live by faith

and somebody said, why is that so important?

Well, you know, the Bible teaches us in Hebrews 13 that we

have been blessed with all spiritual blessings.

In Heavenly places in Christ Jesus and somebody says, but

those are spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ.

Jesus, yeah. Well, they went In the second

chapter in verse 6 and said he raised us up and seated Us in

Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Amen.

So we are possession, Lee spiritually, seated, where the

blessings are. Amen.

And then in Colossians 1:12 Paul writing to the Church, of course

Colossians 1:12

he said, giving thanks unto the father who has qualified US and

made us able to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints.

In light, glory to God. That's good news in it.

Amen. So so God has blessed us with

every spiritual blessing. Somebody says, well those are

spiritual blessings. Do you know the healing is a

spiritual blessing? Everything that starts with God

is spiritual first and natural second Amen.

Because God works from the inside out.

The world will attack you from the outside in but God always

works from the spirit out, even Paul writing to the

Thessalonians. He said may God sanctify, you

wholly, Spirit soul, and body knows.

He started on the inside and work his way out.

Most people say Body, Soul and Spirit.

But you see you got to become Spirit conscious.

Amen. You got to realize that you are

a spirit being created in the image of God.

A new creation in Christ Jesus and that now you're to live by.

Walk in the spirit. Amen.

But also we find in the scriptures in Ephesians 2.

He says that we now have our citizenship with a Saints in the

household of God. In other words, our citizenship

is in the kingdom of God. Amen.

And all these spiritual blessings are in the kingdom of

God. Amen.

And Jesus is the king over the kingdom.

He's Lord over all these things and we're seated in Heavenly

places in Christ Jesus. So we're seated under his

lordship so that we have access to all these things that we need

in our life. Amen.

But you see, once you get born again, you get filled the

spirits. You get into the kingdom of God.

Now you're setting yourself and your learning.

You got to understand in the kingdom of God, there is a

currency just like there is a currency In the natural Realm.

And the currency of the kingdom of God is Faith.

Amen. Everything operates in the

kingdom of God, through faith. Hallelujah.

That's why the Lord Jesus said, Mark 11:22 said, have faith in

Mark 11:22

God, or have the god-kind of Faith.

You have to have faith. Amen.

We're going to look here in Hebrews 11:1.

Hebrews 11:1

I haven't left my subject. I'm just working up to it.

Hallelujah. But, you know, he said, in

Hebrews 11:6, but without faith, it's impossible to please him

Hebrews 11:6

him being God for. He, that comes to God, must

believe that he is. And that is every water, then

that diligently seek him, you know, that means, that means

I've got to believe that God is who he says he is, God, will do

what he said, he will do. And that, if I come to him in

faith, God will do for me what he said, he would do for me.

He will reward my faith, just like if you go to the grocery

store and they ring up a certain amount and, you know, of course,

we'll use a car, but it represents cash, it represents

money. Amen.

And if it's $100, the moment, you give them the hundred

dollars. A transaction is made and

therefore you get to take the goods home with you and they

keep your money. Amen.

Well, when we go to God, the way we make, the transition

transaction between God and his healing.

And and my health, praise God is I release my faith.

God receives my faith and gives me his healing.

Are you hearing me that go to God believing?

He is my rewarder and that he will supply all my need

according to his riches, in Glory by Christ Jesus.

Based on Colossians chapter 4, and therefore I go to God in

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faith believing, he'll meet my knees and God receives my faith

and then Is the provision in a my life.

Amen. And that's how we operate in the

kingdom of God. We had to live by faith.

In fact, in Galatians 3:11, the Apostle Paul writing to the

Galatians 3:11

church over there said the just shall live by faith.

So Faith isn't just something I do on Sunday.

It's not just something I do. Whenever I have a need, faith is

a lifestyle. Faith is me, walking in a

lifestyle that says, I believe, God, is I believe, God is for

me. I believe God is going to take

care of me and I have total trust in God.

That he's going to get me through this situation.

Amen. I get up in faith.

I go to bed in faith. Hallelujah, are you hearing me?

I mean, we ought to walk in faith to the point that we blink

our eyes in faith. Hallelujah.

Everything about us. Has a has a, has a place of

faith in it because we're doing it understanding that I'm

walking under the covering of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And I'm walking under the anointing of almighty God, and

I'm walking in the kingdom of God.

And I've been delivered from the power of an authority of

darkness. And now I belong to God.

Jesus Is My Lord and my citizenship is in heaven, and

God has qualified me to be a partaker of his inheritance and

I can do it. But the, how I'm going to

partake of that inheritance is I do use my faith.

And somebody says, well, if I'm qualified, why do I have to use

my faith? What if I came up to you?

And I said, okay, here is a card and there's $100 on this card.

And and what we, what we've done is this, we've told the people

down here and this place that we have secure this car for you,

you can go in there and you can get things up to $100, just hand

them this card, and they'll give it to you that card, qualifies

you to walk into that place because they've already been

told when they see the card. Give you what you came for amen.

Now here's the thing. You can sit at home all day long

as they glory to God this card. Qualifies me to go down to the

store and get my needs met and you can sit there and starve to

death with the card in your hand.

Because if you don't use the card it don't matter how much it

qualifies you to get. You ain't never going to get it.

Are you So that's why we have to live by faith.

We have to act on our faith, we have to learn how to transact

between my faith, and the situation I need.

And then when we go into that situation, we go into it knowing

that Jesus has already paid the price and qualified me to have

that. So I don't have to earn it.

I don't have to go in and be good enough to get it.

I just have to make sure that I've got myself in a position of

Faith where I can trust God and believe God and walk this thing

out. Amen.

It does we get to Hebrews 11:1 and he says this.

Hebrews 11:1

Now, Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of

Things Not Seen, Hope and Faith are two spiritual forces that

work together to bring forth. God's will did hear me Hope and

Faith, work together. There's two spiritual forces

that work together to bring forth God's will in our life.

You can't have faith without hope.

You cannot bypass hope to get to Faith to try to believe God and

get what you want to have. Because everything you're going

to get from God. Starts with hope.

Are you listening to me now? I'm not talking about worldly,

hope I'm just hoping and praying.

That's all you're doing. You need to get somebody else to

use their faith for you cuz you're gonna you ain't gonna

make it, okay? No.

We're talking about biblical hope and Bible.

Hope is the word. Hope can be translated, joyful,

confident, expectations. Now, Faith is the substance of

the things that you are joyfully confidently expecting God to do

for you. Amen.

Joyful, confident, expectations. In other words, hope isn't just

sitting there wringing. Your hands are going to know.

Hope is you just join now, you got to understand something when

he says joyful that doesn't mean happy happy.

That means a spiritual Force down on the inside of you that

no matter what it looks like on the natural on.

Inside you choose to walk in the fruit of the spirit of joy and

you're counting it all joy and you're having a good attitude

about it, no matter what it looks like joyful, confident,

expectations. I don't care what the devil is

saying. I don't care what other people

are saying, don't care what the circumstances are saying.

I have a confident expectation in my God, to do this for me.

Amen. Now, what is faithless?

Give a definition of faith. Faith is belief.

Faith is a conviction. Faith is the assurance and faith

is a firm persuasion. Hallelujah.

Now, Faith is a belief that God will do for you.

What he said he would do. Now, Faith is a conviction that

have that God is going to come through for you now.

Faith is the assurance. I don't see anything out here,

but I'm assured in my heart, that God is going to come

through for me. Faith is a firm persuasion.

I am fully persuaded that. What God Said, God is going to

do a men but you see. Faith always is second.

Hope is always first. And it takes both Hope and Faith

working together to get God's blessing in your life.

Amen, let's let's look at Hope just for a moment here before we

go into it because we got to build hoping and Define.

Hope hope again. Is that joyful covid expectation

that God will do for us what he says, amen.

Now, notice Hebrews 11:1 again. He says now, Faith is the

Hebrews 11:1

substance of things hoped for things, hoped for Hope is a

thing. Did you hear me?

Faith gives substance to things. Hoped for Hope is a thing that

you are expecting God to do for you.

Well, I don't believe in God while you believe in God for

well, whatever, no you aren't, you can't get in the faith

because you don't have any hope yet because Faith gives

substance to the things hope for.

So hope is a thing. Amen.

Hope is an expectation of God doing something for you.

Amen. So you got to get a hold of

this. Look at you.

Just hold your place or there in Romans chapter 15.

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I could quote a ballistic. Let's read it.

They can put it up on the on the thing there for you.

What is Hope built on, how do I build my hope?

How do I get hope like this? That that was is going to help

me to get through these things in Romans chapter 15, And verse

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4. Listen what the Apostle Paul

says, over here for whatever things were written before were

written for our learning, you know what he's saying here?

He's saying everything that's been written down was written so

you could learn how to trust God.

It was written for you and me. Amen, it was written for our

learning. It's written for us to learn how

to live the Kingdom Life. Are you hearing me?

It's written. So, Been God is written, so I

can learn how to use my faith. Let's go ahead and see what he

says, for whatever things were written, before were written for

our learning that we through the patience.

And comfort of the scriptures might have hope So hope isn't

built on a whim, hope isn't built on an emotion hope.

Is it built on a need hope is built on the word of God.

The word of God, paints a picture in my heart as to what

God will do for me. And I begin to expect God to do

that in my life and I'd become so real.

That I get joyful about thinking about what God said he would do

for me that I start getting hard excited about it.

And before I can even sit. Hallelujah.

Someone 1981. He says this.

He says he will. Let's just go over and look at

it. Praise God.

Amen, it's good to turn to it even if you got to, have you

going to do it? Amen.

It's good to see it in your Bible or on your instrument of

scripture. Hallelujah.

Psalm 119 verse 81, says my soul faints for your salvation.

Psalms 119:81

You know what he's saying? He's saying my soul is getting

to the place where I just don't know how I'm going to get

through this. I just, I mean, is anybody ever

been? There were you, it's just been

so hard and is pressing in that. You're just your soul, your

mind, your thoughts. Your emotions are just almost

frazzled. How am I going to get through

this? Listen, what the next part is,

but I hope in your word. When everybody says it's not

working, I hope in your word. When everything a Ripley looks

like it's going wrong way. I hope in your word.

When every thought that's hitting my mind says, I'm not

going to make it. I hope in your word.

Hallelujah, I have joyful confidence in your word.

Now why is it that I have such? Hope in God's word.

Look in verse 8089 forever, O, Lord, your word is settled in

heaven. Hallelujah.

Woo, glory to God. Why did David say no matter.

What's going on emotionally or naturally or whatever my life?

My hope is in God's word because God's word is forever

established in heaven. Now, let me tell you something,

folks, the word of God is settled in heaven, but you've

got to settle it in your life and you will not have hope until

you have a settled it in your heart that God is who he says he

is, and God will do what he said he would do.

Amen, because she see hope is out here in a future hope.

Is that thing is that you don't have But God said, you can.

I tell you, I got so thrilled, whenever I read and I had some

people begin to share some things with me that that Jesus

was my healer. And I got into the word of God,

and I tell you what, I got, so excited about God, healing, me

and taking care of me that I just got thrilled with it.

Praise God. Didn't know how to get it but I

accepted it right away. Glory to God.

Later on I got into the word and figured out how to make it work.

Praise God. But you see will never have

faith for something that you don't have hope in.

And you will never have hope in anything that you don't have the

word for. And your hope isn't really hope

until you can have joy right in the midst of all the struggle.

And you can operate out of your expectation of God.

And you refuse let anybody talk you out of it.

Amen. Come on.

I'm building something. I want you to stay with me,

because we're going to show you how this thing works.

Now, notice that he said over here in Hebrews 11:1 now, Faith

Hebrews 11:1

is The trust conviction assurance and persuasion of what

you're hoping for and then amazing.

Now hope is future tense. Hope is looking forward to that

thing that God said he would do for you.

And hope is built upon God's word.

That's why I hope for it because God's word says it and

everything that was written was so I could learn how to Hope in

God. Amen.

So, I'm building My Hope on the word, not only emotions and I

don't feelings not on whether somebody else got hurt or they

didn't get it. My hope is built upon the word

of God and what God said he would do for me men.

But now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the

evidence of things not seen you ever notice.

When you take the first three words of Hebrews 11:1 now, Faith

Hebrews 11:1

is anyway. You say it is always present

tense. Now, Faith is Faith is now.

Now he is faith. You can ask a question is Faith

now? Yes, now his faith.

Hallelujah. Not as he's trying to get a

point across here. He says, hope is this thing out

here in the future? And is to set your goal.

Hope is to set. The course, hope is to set your

expectations. Hope is to set your desire.

Hope is to set you in a place. Where you say, I am not going to

stay where I'm at, because God says, I can have better.

God says, I can do better. God says, he will get me through

this. God will bring me out of this.

And so hope begins to set an entire image, an entire

different look in my life. Amen.

I'm setting it. Rape and Bonnie now We got hold

of healing, we'd gotten filled the Holy Spirit, praise God.

And we were talking in tongues and worshiping God, and we

didn't have enough money to pay attention with, and we were

living, you know, hand-to-mouth believe in God, hallelujah.

Take a little odd jobs here. And there, doing what we could

to just survive. I still have to pray through

about your pastor having his year pay for but anyway, praise

God. Now, I'm happy for him.

Amen. But you know, we we we just and

we just yeah we were just doing that mean we've been raised

poor, you know. And we didn't see any different,

you know, and we just we were learning.

And I remember sitting in a class and the teacher, actually,

his name was Bob hand. And he was our teacher there,

and he was teaching, and he said, the Lord spoke to me this

morning to tell the class. That Isaiah says in 1:19, if you

be willing and obedient you eat the good of the land.

Now that doesn't mean you have to graduate and go from Rhema to

get involved in that. If you're willingly here at

God's Will and your obedient to be here in God's will then

you're in God's perfect will and that means you can eat the good

land even while you're a student.

And I'll tell you what, lights went on glory to God the house

lit up. And hope sprung into my heart

because of what I had just heard because it was written in the

word and it was written. So I can learn how to Hope.

Praise God, I kicked the desk in front of me.

Hallelujah, his chair. They turned and looked at

message. Whoa Glory that God.

I don't know how I'm going to get there but I am not being

pull Nomo, Hallelujah. And we started getting in the

word and changing how we saw ourselves because hope is me

changing the way I see myself in my situation to line up with

what God says, about me and my situation.

And hope becomes that Vision that thing that I believe in God

to do in my life. Amen.

And so we begin to learn and grow and get a hold of these

things. But then, once you get into

hope, now, you've got to have faith because hope will never

produce anything for you if you don't attach Faith to it.

Are you hear me? See, hope is this thing that God

said you can have, but faith is the route that you had to take

to get it. And when we operate in the

kingdom of God, we get a revelation to what the kingdom

of God has for us and what God will do for us and what he says

about us. But then we have to learn how to

use our faith to bring that from his room into our realm.

Amen. I got to get it from the spirit

realm to the Natural realm. I got to get healing from God

into my body. I got to get finances from God's

hands into my hands. I've got to get my family

deliver from all the junk that God says, you'll deliver from

from the spirit into the natural and see God lining things up.

Amen. How do I do it?

Now, Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of

Things Not Seen. I got to get over in faith to

make these things come to pass. Amen.

Now, look in Rome, has the fourth chapter, Romans chapter

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4, let's let me show you the Abraham kind of faith. well, you

and I can operate in because Romans 12:3 says, God has dealt

Romans 12:3

each and every one of us. The same measure Faith.

Amen. So we are Faith people of a

faith. God, hallelujah.

And we live in a kingdom that's operated through faith.

In fact, Hebrews 11. If you read down a couple more

verses, he said we understand that God through faith frame,

the world's they amen. God used his faith to make

everything an amazing. The spirit of God was hovering

over the over, the face of the Earth, and it was just void and

nothing was going on. And if nothing happened until

God, said, and God formed everything after the All of his

own will. That means God had a hope.

God had a vision. God had a plan for all of this

to come together, but it was nothing happening in the spirit

of God was ready to work. Everything was in ready to go

into motion, but he didn't happen till God released his

faith. And when God released his faith

and said, light be blessed. Be God, light was, amen.

The Holy Spirit went right to work when Faith was released.

Whoo. Glory to God?

No. No, if I'm helping you.

I'm preach me. Happy.

Hallelujah. See, we are learning how to get

back into this. Praise God.

We got to learn how to make this thing work in our glory to God,

but now, let's look here, Romans chapter 4.

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Abraham is the kind of Faith as pleasing to God.

So I want to learn how he did it, because if Abraham could use

his faith to bring his hope into reality, I can use my faith to

bring my hope in reality. They amen.

So let's look at Romans, 4:17. Listen, what he says as it is

written. There are again going back to

the written word. Notice that you can count on the

word. Hallelujah.

If you don't know what to do, get in the word of God and find

out what God has written down and said for you.

Amen, glory to God, as it is written.

Notice it says, as it is written, he didn't try to change

How It Was Written. He didn't try to put his own

interpretation upon it, amen? No, he looked at it as it is

written, just like God said it. And folks, you ain't going to

have hope and you're not going to have faith if you don't

receive it as it is written. Amen.

Well I do. We don't believe it that way in

our church. Well, you're not in your church

tonight so you can believe it. Our way, praise God.

Just, just get delivered and set free.

Amen. No, let's go back.

Let's read it again. As it is written.

I have made you a father of many nations in the presence of him

whom he believed God, who gives life to the dead and calls those

things which do not exist as though they did well.

Hallelujah. One translation, brings it out

and says as it is written. I made you a father of many

nations even as it is as I said. And it goes on, he says, as

written, he says, and, and he goes and he says, and God who

calls those things that he had already planned and laid out as

though they are even before you can see them.

Hallelujah. You know what God says before

you're healed? He says you're healed.

Because see God operates on what is written, not on what it looks

like. Remember Faith and Hope are both

built on the word of God. Amen.

She say how do you say that Pastor Bo?

Get we already showed you. There owns 15, the hope is built

on the written word and Romans 10:17 says that faith comes by

Romans 10:17

hearing hearing by the word. So your faith, and your hope is

both built upon the word of God. Amen.

And God releases everything. He does based on what the word

says, and not what it looks like.

Even the Lord Jesus showed us that same example whenever he

was here. Remember in Matthew chapter 4

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after, you know, he had fasted and prayed and Mentor stirred

and you know, in the wilderness are for 40 days.

He was a hungry. And and the Devil comes up and

says, well, you know, if you are the Son of God and they have a

play on words there because the devil actually, if you stood out

in the Greek friend of mine, who is a Greek.

Scholar said, it says, actually there, if you be the Son of God

and you are Because the devil knew he was the son of God,

demons knew who he was and started member and he told him

shut up. But if you would be the Son of

God, then command these Stones be made bread and Jesus turned

to him and did what it is written man.

Shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds

out of the mouth of God. What was he saying?

Just like the the bread or food is to your natural man, the word

is to your spirit man, and if you want to live in the power of

God, you got to feed your spirit, man, the written word of

God, and get it in you because I tell you going to build a hope

and a dream and a vision. And the thing that God wants in

your life but then you're going to get in faith.

Amen. But let's look at, let's look at

Hope first. He says, they give God calls

those things of his be not as though they were who contrary to

Hope or one translation, says, who against Hope, in Hope

believed. So that he would become the

father of many nations according to what was spoken.

So, shall your descendants be notice this that when Abraham

had nothing to pin his hopes on in the natural and when it

didn't look like, it was going to work at all instead of

allowing the natural, determine what his vision of his life and

what God Said was going to do for him.

He hoped in Hope based upon what God had said.

You know what he did? He went Went right back to the

word of God and said, no, this is what God Said.

I joyfully confidently, expect it to come to pass.

Hallelujah, are you hearing me? And folks I'm going to tell you

they're going to be times when you're walking this thing out

and trust in God. That is going to look like

everything. But what God Said is going to

happen in your life, you have people come against you, you'll

have situations come against you.

The devil will throw things at you and it'll take and you

cannot be a creature of time. And you can Cannot be taken

captive by time, or doubts or fears or what other people say.

You got to remember, God spoke this to Abraham and it was a

long time before he saw that boy born.

Amen. And all during that time, what

did he do? He just continued to Hope in

God, he just stayed faithful to what God Said, would come to

pass. Amen.

He kept the vision of being a father of many nations in his

heart. He refused to let it go and

listen to me. If you will refuse to let go of

your hope, your faith will eventually reach out and get a

hold of it. Amen.

Because if God said it, it's his will for it to come to pass in

your life. And remember this if your faith

isn't working, go back and check up on your hope.

Because Faith gives substance to the thing that you're hoping

for. And if that thing isn't real in

your heart and mind, then the enemy stolen your hope.

And if he's got your hope, your faith can't get anything done

for you because Faith gives substance or brings to reality,

the hope that you have in your heart.

Amen. So if my faith is struggling,

I'm going to go back and rebuild my hope.

I'm going to go back and rebuild in me.

The thing that God said he would do for me.

I'm gonna go back and rebuild my vision.

See me with it. Praise God.

If I'm fighting off sickness and I'm having a hard time with it,

you know, what I want to do instead of me, just run around

here, just trying to speak my face.

Speak my faith speak, my faith. I'm going to go back and

reinforce my hope. And reinforce the thing that I'm

believing God for in my heart, till I see myself.

Well, And then I got something that I can use my faith to get.

Amen. So he against hope believed in

hope he hoped. According to the word of God, he

said his Hope was built upon that which was spoken.

So shall your seed or your descendants be so Abraham kept

total, hope in God all during this time.

And what did he keep his hope build on the word of God?

Amen. Now let's read on and being not

weak in faith. He did not consider his own body

already dead. Since he was about a hundred

years old. And the nor the deadness of

Sarah's womb that word consider there in the Greek means to

observe fully. Now here's where we get in

trouble and a lot of people fuss because some people get off in

faith and they teach it wrong and, and they just say, well,

you know, you Faith people, y'all just deny everything, it's

kind of like, you know, mind Matter.

You just don't act like it's no, no Abraham didn't look at the

situation and say, oh no, she's not bearing.

Oh no. He refused to be fully consumed

with his situation. I don't deny sickness.

I denies right to live in my body.

All right, here, me, I don't deny there's oppression, but I

didn't. I oppressions, right to live in

my mind, come on Church, Abraham, refused to let the

circumstances determine his attitude, his actions, or what

he believed. Amen.

Listen Jesus is still just as much the Healer when you're sick

as he is. When you're well Philippians

Philippians 4:19

4:19 is just as real but my God, shall supply all your need,

according to his riches, in Glory by Christ Jesus.

When you're broke and can't pay, you don't have enough money to

pay attention, let alone pay your bills.

That doesn't change God's word. And it doesn't change.

God's will. And so if you're having a

struggle in believing that, then what you got to do is you got to

get back in and build that as a hope it back in your heart,

until it becomes the thing that you believe God, for because

your faith gives substance to the things you're hoping for.

And if it's not a thing in your life, you can get it.

Hey man. And once again, how am I going

to shore up my faith and reaffirm my faith?

I'm going to short, My Hope and reaffirm.

I hope based on what God has spoken to me in his word?

Amen. Well, I don't know if God spoke

to me and his word then get in the word until he speaks to you.

Quit running all over creation. Trying to get a word from

somebody. Go get your Bible Out, close the

door, get in the presence of God and get a word from Heaven.

Hallelujah. I went God speaks a word in your

heart. I'll tell you what's so funny, I

just give you some. So, I've been in this 46 years,

it's been a few years. I've been doing this now and

over the years, I've seen people come to me and I've learned

never to discourage their faith, but I've had people come to me

and, and, and say, God gave me the, I prayed spent time with

God, I was in my, in my bedroom for six hours and God spoke this

word to me and I'm going to stand on this.

To get my needs met and I said, okay, great.

And they said, let me give you, let me tell you what the word is

and they would read me a scripture of the Bible had

nothing to do with what they're believing God.

For one time I started. Oh, but that and God says, shut

up. He said it may not be a word to

you, but they're using that word to believe me and I can work

around that word to get to them because his goddamn over in

faith. Amen.

Come on. They weren't leaving something

crazy. They just got a word.

I thought I'd have probably not chose that word if it had been

me. But that's alright.

Praise God to give God a god work through that.

Hallelujah. Amen.

And I've watched him get there. Get there.

Need men. And then after they got their

needs met. I said, now, the next time you

get to pray about something, let me give you a few scriptures to

go along with that. Hallelujah.

Amen. And I'd help them out a little

bit more, but you know what God did in their initial Steps of

Faith, because these are usually baby Christians.

They had found a word that really spoke to their heart and

paint a vision on the inside of them that they could get it.

And it sprung up in the hope. And then they heard me teaching

on how to turn, hope into faith and they use their faith and

they got it. Hallelujah.

Now, as we grow god'll, expect us to get a little bit more to

the point. Hallelujah.

Amen. Specific, but get in the word,

find out what the words Abraham built his Hope on on the word of

God. And then it says this and not

being weak in faith. He did not consider or be

consumed with, or have his whole attention on his body already

dead. Since he was about 100 years old

and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

In other words, he didn't walk around looking at how hard it

was going to be to make it happen.

I've been around people and they're believing God for

healing and all they want to do is tell me about their sickness.

The thing that's got the biggest part of their life is the

problem. But now Faith is not the

substance of problems. It's the substance of things

hoped for amen. And you got to take your

attention off of the need and get your attention over on the

supply of God. Hallelujah, and what God says

about that situation and get your faith work and so he was he

refused to let his situation determine his attitude, his

confession, or his actions. Amen, somebody came to me one

time said, but brother Hoffman, what?

If you know you're speaking your faith and you die said glory to

God. You get to a good be with Jesus.

I mean how great is that your faith?

Just Hallelujah. And I said, besides that, if I

die, I want to go out in faith. Hey man.

I want to make sure I'm going in the right direction.

Hallelujah. But then I turned to him and I

said, what if you using your faith laying there on that

deathbed and you get a vision of you being healed, and your faith

is working, and God touches you right there where you're at, and

you're raised up from that deathbed, you walk in Victory.

Hallelujah, I said you see, you're looking at what?

If it don't work and I always look at what if it does.

Same in and you're sitting there fretting hoping that you have

hope. And I'm sitting there rejoicing

because the word says I can have this and I'm praising God

because of the word. I still feel bad.

I don't look very good and things around me or not.

Really, really great at the moment, but my Faith and Hope is

not built upon. What I'm seeing or feeling my

faith and hope is built upon the what the word says.

And against all things that's going to guess me.

I refuse to be consumed with it. I refuse to be beat down with.

I refuse to have a bad attitude with it.

My hope, my A joyful, confident, expectation is still in God and

I'm going to act like God's going to come through for me.

Amen. See, now, I'm operating as a

citizen in the kingdom of God and I'm operating in the way he

wants me to operate. Amen.

Now this continuous read on. He did not waver at the promise

of God through unbelief. See got to fight unbelief

unbelief is opposite of belief. And God says here through the

word, he says that Abraham refused to waver at the promise

of God. See you get to the place where

sometimes you know, enemy will just just just fight you and

fight you. Fight.

And what he's doing is this remember?

Mark chapter 4 when Jesus taught the parable of the sower?

Mark 4 · chapter mention

And he said the solar sews the word and these are they that

hear the word and it goes down in the heart and Satan comes

immediately to steal the word out of the heart.

You know, the devil, try to come and steal the word out of your

heart, anybody had the enemy, try to get the word away from

you, why? Because he knows if he can get

the word out of your heart, he can stop your hope and if he can

stop your hope he can kill your faith.

Amen. So be wise, Hallelujah.

Now is read on. He goes on, he says this and

being fully convinced or fully persuaded that, what God had

promised he was able also to perform and therefore it was

accounted to him for righteousness, but let's let's

let's go back up here, verse 20. Again he did not waver at the

promise of God, through unbelief, but was strengthened

in faith, giving glory to God. He was strengthened in faith,

giving glory to God, you know, sometimes you need to do.

sometimes when you're in a faith fight, And Paul said in first

Timothy 6 fight the good fight of Faith.

Didn't he? Amen.

He also said, hold fast to your confession, you know there's

sometimes a faith fight. That you've just got, go ahead

and start praising God by faith. Amen.

No, she said, and not being in weak in faith.

He grew strong in faith, giving glory to God.

You know, sometimes you just need to lay your Bible down.

You need to quit praying for God to do it.

And you just need to lift up your hands to the Lord.

I'm going to live by faith, I'ma walk by faith and not by sight

and my hope is built upon the word of God.

And the word is for ever established in heaven.

I'm going to establish it right now in my heart.

I'm just going to praise you. I'm going to give you glory.

I'm going to worship you and thank you.

Hallelujah! Amen.

There have been times. I want to be honest with you.

Folks there have been times that God spoke to me and, and, you

know, I have to grow just like you I remember one time I was

praying for this situation and about the fifth day in the

prayer, God spoke to me and said, what are you doing?

No, I've been praying for about 45 minutes.

I said, Lord, I'm praying. He said really I knew I was in

trouble, right? That at that moment.

He said what you think about that?

So you know I've been telling you about the situation.

I've been praying believing you He says, you've been telling me

about it. But I haven't seen a whole lot

of believing. He said, when you going to

receive it, I said, what? He said to you been telling me

about this problem for the last five days and asked me to take

care of it and praying the same prayer.

When you going to believe your receive He said did not say mark

Mark 11:24

11:24 that whatever things you desire, When you pray believe

that you receive them and you shall have them.

He said until you get out of the asking stage and get over into

the receiving stage, I can't do much for you and he said,

actually, you've been wasting my time and yours for the last four

days. First day was okay, but the last

four has been pretty bad. He said, so why don't you do

this instead of asking me again, why don't you just go ahead and

say, father, I believe I receive that done now in Jesus name and

in, just begin to thank me and give me, praise and glory for

it. Hallelujah.

You know what I did? I quit print off.

Ask God. Forgive me for doubting.

And getting caught up into religious prayer and then stood

have Bible praying. And I just started giving him

glory, you know, I praise God for about an hour and just all

of a sudden Anointed God filled in that room.

Hallelujah, I was praising God. And, and then, you know that

next day, I got a call on the very thing that I've been

believing God for somebody called me and said it was all

taken care of, hallelujah. Amen.

Because you see I stepped away from praying and asking to

believing in receiving and Faith gives substance to things hoped

for it gives substance to. In other words, Faith takes it

from home. Hope to reality.

So that means what I have to do after start, praising God for

it. Before I see any difference

before, it looks any different. I've got to start praising God

for amen. And look what it says, let's

read on finish this up. He says this and being fully

convinced that he had what he promised he was able also to

perform and therefore it was accounted to him for

righteousness, verse 20, let's read on, he says that was not

written for his sake alone that it was imputed him but also for

us, you know what he's saying here?

He's saying this was written in the Bible, so you and I could

learn from Abraham's trials, and tests and struggles.

And so we can learn the steps of going from Hope to Faith to

Victory men. So what am I going to do?

I'm going to realize that I'm a New Creation in Christ Jesus.

I'm a citizen of the kingdom of God.

I have been raised up and seated in Heavenly places in Christ

Jesus. God has already called me out of

darkness and brought me into his arms and made me to be qualified

to partake of The Inheritance. And then God has given me.

The means of which I can take my inheritance and bring it into my

life now. And that is, I'm going to get

into the word of God. I'm going to let that word.

Become a spoken word to me. God speaking to me the word

right out of the written word, and I'm going to take it as a

word from God, will let it paint a picture of vision in my heart

and mind of what I know that God wants to do for me.

And then I'm going to take that and I'm going to build my faith

into it and I'm going to start believing God.

I'm gonna start praising God will get my eyes off the

problem. I'm going to walk around with

joy. Amen.

If I catch myself walking around with a frown on my face, I'm

going to say, no, no, no. You start smiling right now

because the blessings on its way.

Hallelujah, I'm giving substance, I'm given reality to

the thing that I have been believing God for Hallelujah.

And if God said it, that settles it, I believe I receive it.

Amen. And you see folks that is the

fight of faith. That is putting Hope and Faith

together, so you can walk in the victory Of God.

Amen. Now, here's the thing.

James 1 says you got to do. You got to get absolute with

this? Amen.

He says if any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who

gives to all men liberally and upbraideth.

Not and and then look what he says but let him ask in faith.

Nothing wavering. For he that waivers is like wave

of the ocean tossed to and fro and let not that double minded

person. Think that he'll receive

anything from God. See what the saying is this?

Once you've made a commitment to do this, stay strict and stay

consistent. Don't be joyful one day and

praising God for the Victory. And the next day back sled and

we can't find you. Amen.

And don't be saying the word one day and then somebody comes

along and says something to you that discourage you the next

day. You know, you walk around

pouting and gloomy and defeated because because that's not how

it's not how Abraham got the victory.

When all hope was gone, he put his hope in the word.

Why? Because God's word is forever

established and settled in heaven.

And God will always watch over his word to perform it.

Amen. And he took hope off of a time

clock. If I have is God, I'll have it

by Friday. Listen, I've worked for people.

They didn't even pay me every Friday and you're putting God on

a Time. Clock to, you know, I worked all

this week. Now you getting back under Works

instead of faith. See my part is to Hope then use

my faith to turn the Hope in reality.

God's part is to do what he said he would do.

Amen. And when I do my part, god will

do his part. Amen.

God taught me that one time. Early in my Ministry, I'll be

real honest with you. I tell you when it was is in

February of 1979. It's few years ago in it, praise

God. But anyway, I was holding a

healing service on a Saturday night.

We'd started doing that in January and we were building it

up. Praise God.

And and we are crowds, were get a little better, a little

better, a little better. And this Saturday night, you

know, that day. I just kind of had gotten busy

and things will legitimate busy. But I hadn't got to pray like I

normally would of and I didn't get in the word as much as I

would have and stuff. And so I went up there to the

surface at night and the church. We had to have a little prayer

room off to the side. Elf the platform and and I, you

know, about 10 minutes before the service, I thought.

Well, I'm going to peek out and see you always here.

So, I picked out, man, we had the biggest crowd we've had in

the last six weeks. So I close the then I went back

and oh God, I finally got a crowd.

I'm not anointed Jesus. Lord I hadn't prayed a lot

today. Lord I've been in the word

today. Oh God, what am I going to do?

Oh God. What?

And yellow? Got Senpai went straight out of

Hope and Faith right back into works and religion based on what

I did or didn't do. So God speaks to him and he says

turn to Mark chapter 16, verses 15 through 20 and read it.

Mark 16:15–20

I said Lord I don't need to turn over there.

I can quote it to you. And Jesus said unto the go to

all the world, preach the gospel and he said, no, I didn't say

quoted. I said read it.

So I got my Bible and open it up and read it went right down

through it, got to verse 20 and the Lord working with them and

confirming the word with signs following.

I wouldn't, that's it, that's it.

I need some signs following her. They won't come back next

Saturday, literally help me Jesus.

He said just read Mark 16:15 through 20.

Mark 16:15–20

I said I just read it. He said read it again.

So, I read it again, going. All the world, preach the gospel

to Every Creature. He, the believes be baptized

shall be saying, he believed not shall be condemned, and these

signs shall follow them that. Believe I said, that's it.

I need some signs. He goes keep reading.

So I kept reading. Hallelujah got down then, I

said, Lord, I need this. I need some annoying.

I need the anointing. You to help me.

He said, read Mark 16:15 through 20.

Mark 16:15–20

He didn't amazing until we listen to God.

He'll keep saying the same thing.

I don't tell you something, folks.

God has a whole lot more time that he can say the same thing

than you do. So God said, read Marx, I said,

Lord, I've read it twice and apparently I'm missing

something. I said, yeah, I may not be the

smartest person. I'm not dumb, it'll slow, Maybe.

What am I missing? You know, until you ask God, he

won't tell you. See, a lot of us aren't getting

answers to why is not working because we haven't asked God,

why? It's not working?

But what I need to fix this. I said, Lord, I'm missing

somewhere. What am I missing?

He said reverse 15. They're going all the world and

preach the gospel to Every Creature.

He says he's going to do the preaching tonight.

I went me. He said, that's right.

You got that right? God complimented me?

Hallelujah. Then he said, read on down here,

he says. And, you know, and he says, and

and you know, and these signs shall follow them that believe

in my name. They'll, you know, castle

devspeak with time to take up serpents of drink things, I

heard verse 17 and they shall lay hands on the sick and they

shall recover. He said, who's going to lay

hands on the sick tonight. I want Me, I'm going to let my

hands. He goes right again.

He said, Maori verse 20. And the Lord working with them

and confirming the word through signs fall.

He said, who's going to confirm the word and do the healings

tonight? I went you he goes.

That's right again. He said now then, do you believe

I can do my part? I said yes sir.

He said, if you'll do your part I'll do my part and we'll

partner in this thing and do it together and we'll get some

people healed tonight. Amen.

And you know I learned something from that time on that.

If I'll do my part I can always count on God doing his part.

And what I got to quit doing is trying to get God to quit trying

to do God's part myself. Amen, I just have to follow him,

see Abraham. Never initiated any of this.

You go back to Genesis 12 in the Bible says that God spoke to

Abraham and called him out and told him to go to a certain

place. The Bible says Abraham obeyed

and did what God asked him to do.

Then as Abraham was following God and another, you know, you

go a little bit farther past that and God speaks to him says

I'm El Shaddai. I'm the god.

That's more than enough walk. Before me and be holy and I'm

going to create a covenant and I'm going to give you a seed and

I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that.

And once again Abraham's just following God and Abraham looks

up to it. Praise God.

He begins to walk and go where God's tummy and Abraham is not

perfect. He makes some mistakes and he

goes along and everything. But all during this time of

following God, he just kept trusting God and then he got to

the place where he he just praise God.

And he looked at his wife and he goes ain't no way.

He looked at himself and he went ain't no way.

God be God. Hallelujah, God to be God.

So God, I'm going to tell you what I've learned right now,

just by looking at my wife and look at me at my age and her

age, it's not going to get done by works.

It's going to get done by trusting you to do what you said

you would do. And the Lord showed up when

Abraham got to that point said, this time next year, she'll have

you son and it happened folks. What God is wanting each one of

us to do right now is to come to that place where we look at

ourselves. Look at our situation, say, I

can't make it change, but I can trust God to.

So, Lord, I'm putting it in your hands.

I'm going to just praise. You open you and I'm going to

keep my faith in you. I'm going to trust you and

you're going to do. This for me because Lord, you

always work with your word and you always confirm it with the

signs and the Miracles that walk with it.

Amen, my parts just to believe. God's Parts.

Bring the pass. What's your hope tonight?

What do you hope in God for? What is that thing that God is

speaking into your heart? What hope do you have in your

heart tonight? Because you see, if you don't

have a hope, you don't have anything for your faith to work

on. You can't skip hope.

Stars with hope and hope is built upon what God says

everything that you're ever going to get from God, is going

to start with hope. A joyful, confident, Revelation,

and expectation, that what God said he will do for you when

Bond. And I started, we had nothing.

We had nothing. I mean, literally nothing.

But we had a faith and a trust in God, and God has spoke to our

hearts that we were going to do certain things.

And when we started off, it was a walk of faith.

And I had to feed my hope all the time because discouragement

was around the corner of every step that we took But you know

what? I've seen God do.

I've seen him before, faithful and true to his promises for a

long time. Now, I've watched God healed me,

I got the revelation of Jesus, my healer and I've had to fight

off sickness, I was at a winner seminar and got attacked and

ended up in the hospital for a night and and he told me that it

would affect me the rest of my life.

And the two weeks later, I had total healing and did a healing

service in the church. Now, you can find a symptom.

Let me say that we had Faith like it don't come by wishing it

comes by having a full vision. That Jesus is your healer and

your hope is in him. And then whenever the enemy

comes, you use your faith to bring into reality in your life.

What God Says is yours. Amen.

Let's stand. Hallelujah.

Thank you. Lord.

Jesus. Once again, I want you to look

in your heart. Once you answer this question,

what are you hoping for? What are you hoping for?

Because it takes Hope and Faith to get you to where you want to

be. Amen.

What are you hoping for? And your hope is built upon the

word of God. I hope when it doesn't look like

it. I hope because the word says so

I expect it because God said, so and God cannot lie.

God is faithful to his promises and what God did for one.

He'll do for another because he's no respecter of persons.

Amen. And it's not by my might, it's

not by my power, but his, by his Spirit, his anointing, his word

operating in my life. Amen.

And you say, Pastor? I mean, why did you come here

on? This Wednesday night to teach us

this because we're heading into December and into a new year and

things around us. They're crazy and we need to be

people of Hope and Faith. Amen.

We need have a vision of what God can do for us and not be

moved by what's going on around us and not by what the world is

saying about us or anything else.

And then, we need to learn how to use our faith to bring What

God Says, into the reality of our life.

Amen. Because I choose let God create

my reality, not the world. Amen.

So once again, bow your heads, close your eyes look in your

heart because that's where hope and Faith operate then operate

any flesh. A don't operate.

Any of mine, the operate in your heart.

What's your hope? Because if you got hope, you've

got something for your faith to bring to pass.

What are you hoping for right now?

What are you hoping for? What's your scripture?

You're standing on. What what what word has God

spoken to you out of this written word that you will stand

and say, God, my hope is built upon the word.

My expectations are built upon the word.

And I use my faith to believe. I receive what you have promised

me because your God, your God. Hallelujah.

Father I thank you right now for the word of God lord.

We just thank you for the anointing.

We thank you right now. Holy spear for just speaking to

each and every one of us. Lord, we thank you right now, we

choose to be men and women of Hope.

Lord, we choose to be people of faith.

That brings those things which you say into reality in our

lives. And we refuse to allow the enemy

to determine who we are. What we have, And what we do.

We are citizens of the kingdom of God and we operate in the

currency of the Kingdom, which is Faith and Hope.

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