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The Time Of Faith

Anchor Faith Church

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  1. Hallelujah. Well, the Bible says, in first

    1 John 5 chapter mention

  2. John chapter 5. First John chapter 5 starting in

    1 John 5 chapter mention

  3. verse 13, says, these things I have written to you.

  4. Who believe, in the name of the son of God, that you may know

  5. that you have eternal life. Amen.

  6. You can know it. Then he goes, in verse 14, he

  7. says this is the confidence. Say this is the confidence.

  8. This is the confidence, which we have have before him that if we

  9. ask anything, According to his will that's a conditional

  10. statement. You cannot ask him anything, you

  11. can ask him something that's not according to his will.

  12. So the requirement here in order for you to have confidence is

  13. that you're asking him something, but not just asking

  14. him anything, you're asking it in accordance to his will.

  15. So, if we ask anything according to his, will, he what what's he

  16. do? What's he do?

  17. And often, you know, we'll find ourselves saying this often all

  18. of us are, you know, have probably said this at some point

  19. in time in our life where we said, God are you hearing me?

  20. It's like God's not even listening to me.

  21. It's like, he can't even hear me.

  22. I'm talking to him. But, you know, as even hear what

  23. I'm saying, well, I'm telling you, if you're asking him

  24. according to his will, then he hears you now he's not obligated

  25. to answer you to let you know. Oh yeah, I heard that actually.

  26. He's already answered it from his scripture, so you

  27. understand. He don't have to say so that you

  28. hear him in your spirit man, or give you an audible voice to

  29. say, Hey, I just heard you because you prayed, thanks for

  30. praying to He's not obligated. He's already given his word that

  31. if you ask me anything according to my will I hear you.

  32. Are you with me? I hear you.

  33. So when I go to prayer, I'm always conscientious.

  34. Okay? A Michaels guys, I've gone to

  35. prayer sometimes and I feel like saying something I feel like it

  36. but I know if I say that, God's not going to hear it because all

  37. of a sudden the Holy Ghost will give me a scripture and I'll

  38. know how I just can't say that I'll find myself praying to the

  39. Lord saying I'm father, you know, and I'm talking this and

  40. I'm Play in this, and I know that and I say, okay yeah, I

  41. know, cuz I know your word says and I'll have to go to that.

  42. And I've even said I know, I'm just running off at the mouth

  43. and you're not hearing any of that.

  44. Let me get to what? I know you here.

  45. I'm the only one who I guess. I'm the only way to Tulsa, God,

  46. I guess. I mean, I'm talking to the Lord,

  47. and I know when I'm saying stuff that he's not hearing because

  48. the Bible tells us, he hears this, what does he hear?

  49. hear anything we ask according to his will, so if I want God's

  50. undivided attention, then all I have to do is speak what he will

  51. hear and it's his will are you with me?

  52. So this is the confidence which we have before him.

  53. So again, if you're in a place where you'd like mayonnaise God,

  54. listening to me, all you got to do is examine, what are you

  55. saying? What are you asking?

  56. Because if you're not asking for that, which is God's will, then

  57. the chances are that point. The chances are 100%.

  58. That he's not listening to that. Now, what he will do is he will

  59. give you instruction on what to say Okay, they're saying

  60. something but I'm not connecting because it's not, my will.

  61. So let me get them something to say so we can have a

  62. conversation. Are you with me?

  63. Let's go on. So we know, he hears us verse 15

  64. and if we know that he hears Us in whatever we ask now, it's not

  65. a whatever, not a whatever you want, it's whatever he is,

  66. according to his will. Well, Lord.

  67. Now I just want to have a whole month off.

  68. Well, is it God's will for you to have a whole month off?

  69. Are you with me? You know?

  70. Lord, I want to have this. This this is that God's will

  71. because you can ask God for anything.

  72. But the only thing you have confidence that he's hearing is

  73. the things that are in line with his will, Hallelujah.

  74. You could be a single person. Let's take Chelsea stand up.

  75. Chelsea, Chelsea is over here singer.

  76. She can be saying God, I want that guy to be my husband but

  77. he's lost. He doesn't even know.

  78. Jesus Christ. As his Lord, he's living in the

  79. world and the Lord can't Of that prayer because the Lord's was

  80. says, literally do not be unequally yoked with

  81. unbelievers. So the Lord is not going to

  82. answer, but the devil would say, I can accommodate that Chelsea.

  83. I'll bring that guy right by your path.

  84. I'll bring that guy and he'll, he'll he'll wine you.

  85. Hildine, you he'll seduce you. He'll get you to where you can

  86. say. I do so that he can thwart the

  87. plan of God for your life. Are you with me?

  88. Thank you, Chelsea and be seated.

  89. So we have to understand that God hears us when we pray

  90. according to his will I'm always amazed when I get into certain

  91. places. I say amazing, I'm not shocked.

  92. It's just like I guess it's that moment where I'm like, you know,

  93. kind of like man where you get around people say, hey will you

  94. pray and they're lying. No.

  95. Why that it's a number one indication they don't know how?

  96. That they are not habitual enough in a prayer life with God

  97. that they can pray. See, if you come on Wednesday

  98. morning, your subject that I might say, hey, close in prayer.

  99. I don't always close in prayer. So come get ready to pray, I get

  100. around people, my wife's been around these, they come up,

  101. Monica my wife spree can pray. My wife has an anointing in this

  102. area prayer and God uses her in this capacity.

  103. And people come under say, oh man, I pray pray, but they never

  104. show up at prayer. Ever.

  105. They never come to any corporate prayer, which me butts tells me

  106. most likely their private prayer is a miss.

  107. Is a Miss. In fact, James says, you have

  108. not because you ask not, but the problem is you're asking and you

  109. ask the Bible says you ask amiss, meaning you ask me only

  110. for things for your own personal pleasures and desires.

  111. Well, when you ask for a selfish ambition, God's not listening to

  112. that. The devil will listen to that

  113. and accommodated You don't want to hear.

  114. Will the devil answer your prayers?

  115. Yes, every prayer that's outside of God's will he wants to answer

  116. you so that you'll think God Did It For You.

  117. Because he'll give you the world at the expense of your soul.

  118. Well, I got it, I asked for it, you know, there's things in the

  119. spirit realm, though, word to try to get things to pull you

  120. out of God's plan and purpose for your life.

  121. Amen! All I got to do is go to

  122. scripture and I'm going to find out whether or not I'm straight.

  123. I'm in alignment. I'm doing exactly what God needs

  124. me to do. Are you with me?

  125. So again, if we know he hears us and whatever we ask and we know

  126. that whatever's tied to verse 4, in the whatever is anything we

  127. ask according to his will we know that we have The request

  128. which we have asked from him. When do we have it?

  129. When do we have it? When do we have it?

  130. At the moment we asked, Hallelujah, come on, say, Amen.

  131. We have it, the moment we ask now turn over to Mark chapter

    Mark 11 chapter mention

  132. 11, Mark chapter 11 Mark, chapter 11, we've seen this

    Mark 11 chapter mention Mark 11 chapter mention

  133. passage of scripture. Jesus said this, when he was

  134. teaching a particular Moment In Time, concerning the subject of

  135. faith. And he said, this in verse 22,

  136. he said have faith And God. One translation says, have the

  137. god kind of Faith verse 23. Truly, I say to you, whoever

  138. says, to this mountain be taken up cast into the sea and does

  139. not doubt in his heart. But but, but believes that what

  140. he says is going to happen, it will be granted him or he'll

  141. have what he says. One translation says, then verse

  142. 30 24, therefore I say to you, Jesus is talking all things for

  143. which you pray and ask now what What are the things you're

  144. praying asking? They're not, whatever you decide

  145. to pray is the prayer of cording to his will see.

  146. This is how context gets involved because if we don't

  147. watch out, we read scriptures because Jesus another time says,

  148. you not ask anything of the father in my name but whatever

  149. you ask, the father in my name, he will give it to you.

  150. Now, he'll only give you what's in alignment in accordance to

  151. his will. You cannot ask God for somebody

  152. else's spouse. Can't happen.

  153. You can't ask God for somebody else's Ministry.

  154. You can't ask God for somebody else's house.

  155. I mean cuz the you got covetousness involved there, you

  156. know, you got lust, involves certain in places, there are you

  157. with me. So those prayers are not in

  158. accordance to his will but the devil will accommodate trying to

  159. bring something by to keep you deceive.

  160. That God is answering you. How do we know we're here?

  161. We're praying God's prayer is in alignment with his will, and if

  162. you're not in his word, then you will not know his will.

  163. And if you do not know his will, you will not be able to pray.

  164. The prayers that God ordained for you, to pray to bring his

  165. kingdom to to pass through your lives.

  166. Now, I understand right here at this point because I just heard

  167. it in the spirit. I just heard somebody say well,

  168. but I mean, I've prayed prayers before and God's answer them and

  169. they were good. You What God answers?

  170. Tom's to just show you his goodness but won't let you

  171. remain there in order to continue to navigate your life

  172. that way. God healed people, that weren't

  173. even born again, but let them know.

  174. I love you and this is what I want for you.

  175. When he healed the man at the pool of Bethesda.

  176. He was letting him know. I want you whole but then later

  177. found him and says now, listen, don't you go sin anymore.

  178. Something worse to get on you. That doesn't mean he could go

  179. sin some worse. Come on.

  180. And then turn around. Say God, heal me now Gods like

  181. grow up. There's things we do for our

  182. children when their babes but it becomes unacceptable later on.

  183. Come on. Are you with me?

  184. There's a process of growth that we are to grow from Faith to

  185. Faith, glory to glory, and if we don't watch out the minute, God

  186. answers us, when we are an infant, we want to apply infant

  187. Faith, too, mature to Tom that we're supposed to be mature.

  188. And the Lord saying, I don't do that for you anymore.

  189. Come on. How many you have children that

  190. are five years old and older. Great awesome.

  191. How many you still clean their bottoms when they go to the

  192. bathroom? I mean, there comes a season.

  193. It's over, right? I mean your teenager ain't going

  194. to call you say, mom, what's up? Can you come white me?

  195. You know, the proverbial. They grab your knees, you know.

  196. While they're on the toilet, right?

  197. No, you're like, nah, you're old enough now.

  198. Does that mean you don't love them?

  199. Oh, does that mean you don't love them, you can't expect them

  200. to do something you to do something for them.

  201. That you've trained them, how to do themselves.

  202. And God has given us his whole word, left it in the planet that

  203. we can pick up and read. And then put himself inside us

  204. to cause all these truths to come alive.

  205. So that we can live the most successful, we can as Believers

  206. in the earth, and we want God to do it without not taking the

  207. responsibility to read. And to know, when to grow, My

  208. faith can help you along for a season.

  209. Because I'm showing you, God loves you.

  210. He cares for you, I can lay hands on you and you can be

  211. healed. They'll come a point though that

  212. God says get the healing yourself.

  213. Because now you're at a capacity that if you would have kept

  214. growing and going, I can pay for your bills for season to show

  215. you. God wants to provide for you,

  216. but they'll come a time that God says star sowing into this

  217. Kingdom, so you can start reaping.

  218. Hallelujah. You know, our children, I

  219. understand when they were born, they didn't know how to

  220. articulate their words. So what do they do when they

  221. need something? What did they do?

  222. They Cry. Wow.

  223. That's how they do it. Why, but you come there comes a

  224. point that Y is unacceptable response.

  225. Right? I'm not going to have the

  226. teenager. Come on, get way.

  227. What are you doing? What do we say?

  228. We tell Harvey PK students. Use your speaking words right

  229. now. Use your little words, talk to

  230. me. What do you want?

  231. Don't cry. Cuz I don't even hear that.

  232. I think I mind. My daughter is VPK, I don't even

  233. hear that right now Shield to, I don't even hear that speak to

  234. me, I don't hear that. Why?

  235. Because if you're a baby, I'll put you in, with the infants.

  236. Hey man, we want them to articulate.

  237. What do you need? Ask well God's the same way when

  238. you're a baby you know he's here and you just cry out to him

  239. anyway. But once he starts to grow you,

  240. he expects you to start using your words, because look what he

  241. said, he said this, he said have faith in God.

  242. Truly I. So let's put it this way.

  243. Jesus says to April, Jesus says to Marcus.

  244. Jesus says to Brad. Dulli Jesus says to Vicki.

  245. Jesus says so you implant you. Jesus says to you whatever, says

  246. to you, whoever and whoever us says to the mountain, not Jesus

  247. saying you're saying be taking them cats in this and does not

  248. doubt in his heart, God doesn't doubt, God doesn't have doubt in

  249. him, God's not the one who has a doubt problem.

  250. God only believes in fact, Jesus, when he was going to

  251. gyrus his house after they came to him and says, hey man, your

  252. daughters died. Leave the teacher alone.

  253. He said, look at your eyes. He said, only believe.

  254. These circumstances don't move me or move my word from being

  255. ineffective because my words going to come to pass, it's

  256. going to do exactly. I said, I'd come, I said I'd

  257. healer is that way. In that what Jesus told jar has?

  258. I'll come and healer doesn't matter.

  259. She slipped off doesn't matter that her body has quit.

  260. The her pulse is quit pumping in her.

  261. Her lungs have quit breathing doesn't matter cuz the gods word

  262. goes everywhere. But there comes a responsibility

  263. that we have to, but he who believes what he says, that's

  264. what I say. That's what you say is going to

  265. happen. It will be granted to you.

  266. Therefore I say to you saying to you, Jesus says to you all

  267. things will Rich. Who praise you?

  268. Pray? and ask believe that you who you

  269. have received them past tense, And they will be granted you,

  270. Hallelujah. So when we have confidence, that

  271. we know God's word, amen. Let's quit, treating God as a

  272. mystery. Let's do what he says and

  273. actually seek his kingdom and discover him.

  274. God has not hiding from you. He's not hiding from you.

  275. If you listen to certain things, you think that God is so

  276. elusive. The minute you think you got it?

  277. He jumps around like a man. No God wants you to be with him.

  278. He wants to talk with you. He wants to carry on a

  279. conversation with you. He wants to reveal his truth to

  280. you. Jesus said there's many more

  281. things I'd like to say to you but you're not able to receive

  282. but when he comes now, he's going to reveal some things and

  283. if you will seek me and diligently seek me in abide in

  284. me, then he's going to reveal to you, he's gonna teach you all

  285. things, he's gonna you're gonna do he'll guide you in all truth.

  286. He'll call. Things that come to your

  287. remembrance can heal disclose things to come.

  288. That doesn't mean the Holy Ghost will hide from you?

  289. The Holy Ghost will say oh you thought you caught me here?

  290. All you think, you know that truth?

  291. No I'm not gonna tell you, I'll just jump over here because I

  292. need you to come and catch. Me know the Holy Ghost abides in

  293. you. He's like come on, can we have a

  294. conversation? So I can reveal the will of our

  295. father so you can bring it to pass in the planet.

  296. God. So much wants his kingdom to

  297. come. His will to be done on Earth as

  298. it is in heaven. Well, God's in control, God gave

  299. you control? Because he gave you Authority.

  300. He gave you Dominion. He gave you the right to be sons

  301. of God and to live by faith. Amen.

  302. Now what is faith? Well, the Bible tells us in

  303. Hebrews 11:1 now, Faith is the substance of things hoped for

    Hebrews 11:1

  304. the evidence of Things Not Seen, how do we acquire faith?

  305. Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God,

  306. according to Romans 10:17. So we acquire Faith by hearing

    Romans 10:17

  307. God's word, Well, what's so significant about?

  308. God's word? God's word never fails.

  309. What did Isaiah say about God's word?

  310. In Isaiah chapter. 46 verses 10 and 11.

  311. The Lord says this declaring the end from the beginning and from

  312. ancient times things which have not been done saying my purpose,

  313. say my purpose, that's his purpose, not your purpose, but

  314. his purpose, whose purpose, the Lord's purpose, my purpose will

  315. be established. And I will the Lord speaking

  316. accomplish all my good pleasure, then we get the verse 11,

  317. calling the bird of prey from the East.

  318. And a man of my purpose from a far country.

  319. Truly I have spoken, truly, I will bring it to pass, I have

  320. planned it. Surely, I will do it.

  321. The Lord is not a man that he should lie.

  322. Yet if we don't watch out, we could have conversations with

  323. people who confess Jesus Christ as their Savior and they would

  324. make God out to be a liar. As if he said something he

  325. didn't do it. So he changed his mind and said

  326. she changed his mind concerning that it's not his will for their

  327. lives and they're an exception to the rule even though his word

  328. says something, totally different.

  329. God is not a man that he should lie.

  330. What he says he'll do, and why is this so significant?

  331. Because he's the king. He has all authority.

  332. All authority. I said, all authority has been

  333. given Jesus in heaven and on Earth, and Paul fur went a

  334. little further and said he had all authority in Heaven and

  335. Earth, and under the Earth. There's not a place that his

  336. authority doesn't Rule and reign in exist.

  337. And then Jesus said, I'll give you my word.

  338. Now, Jesus is word is not like a man's word who can change his

  339. mind and not do it. Be a liar, swindler a cheat.

  340. God, can't lie. So if the Lord said, this is how

  341. it is. The only reason it would not

  342. manifest in your life is because you choose not to believe it.

  343. You choose to not be firmly persuaded that.

  344. The plan God has for me, we'll come.

  345. In fact, you thwart that plan, you stop it.

  346. The Lord said I sent my word to heal them.

  347. He said, when I send my word it will I did not send it to be

  348. void but it shall accomplish that which it was sent to do.

  349. Hey men and whatever it is goddess on.

  350. For you desired for you to do, had his plan and purpose before

  351. the foundations of the earth, before you even in your mother's

  352. womb, that plan is still in effect and it's your

  353. responsibility to discover it. Your responsibility to discover

  354. it. So what we've seen so far is

  355. that in first John chapter 5 that we can have confidence in

    1 John 5 chapter mention

  356. our prayers, when we ask according to his will his

  357. purpose. And we know when we're doing

  358. that, he hears us. He hears us every time.

  359. Not only do we know he hears us but we have it.

  360. And as ours at the time, we pray, according to Mark chapter

    Mark 11 chapter mention

  361. 11, when we believe would no doubt in our heart calls, doubt

  362. will hinder the plan of God to come to pass.

  363. Not because God can't do it, but because you won't allow him to

  364. do it through you, through your unbelief.

  365. And most of the time unbelief are doubt, is associated with

  366. how you view yourself. When you identify yourself with

  367. someone who can't instead of identifying yourself with who

  368. you are now in Christ, you will not be able to accomplish if you

  369. keep identifying yourself. As this rotten individual that

  370. needed saving. Well you were a rotten

  371. individual that needed saving but once you're saved you're not

  372. writing anymore, you're not that person anymore.

  373. So you need to quit thinking like that person.

  374. You're a new creature in Christ. You're a Believer.

  375. You're a Of God and God does not have junk kids.

  376. Well, you know, that's that's, you know, you know, the little

  377. terminologies we used to say, you know, they're kind of the

  378. outcasts of the family, you know.

  379. They're, they're not the, you know, the run at a family.

  380. Those those types of little derogatory words that people

  381. grab their own little labels and say they're this is who I am,

  382. I'm not like every like, you know, No, you're a child of God.

  383. So identify yourself. They're the only reason why a

  384. generation from twenty years old and upward in the nation of

  385. Israel, did not make the promised land is because they

  386. identified themselves as slaves instead of seeing themselves as

  387. a delivered, people free from the bondage.

  388. How do I know they still saw themselves as slaves because

  389. when they went into the promised land aspire?

  390. Out and actually saw the evidence of God's word cuz they

  391. said it is just. As God has said, it is truly a

  392. land flowing with milk and honey, up to this point, they

  393. don't even know if that's true. Till they saw it.

  394. Even though they saw him work miracles.

  395. Saw how he routed the Egyptians saw.

  396. Their enemy literally die. In the Red Sea.

  397. So it all with their eyes. And now they go into here and

  398. they see that it's just as God said, but what else did they

  399. see? God didn't tell him about the

  400. other things. They would see because they were

  401. irrelevant to God. It's irrelevant to God because

  402. God had given them a word prior to its a land flowing with milk

  403. and honey. What did he give them before?

  404. He said, I have given you the land, which means it's done.

  405. So who's ever? There can't stay.

  406. But what did they do? They view themselves as slaves.

  407. When they saw giants, they didn't see themselves as

  408. conquerors. They saw them as ones that are

  409. submitted to those types of people.

  410. And they came back with a testimony, we can't do it for.

  411. We are like Grasshoppers and because they didn't identify

  412. with the Covenant, God, they had doubt unbelief.

  413. They say they hardened their And they died in the wilderness and

  414. never accomplished God's Destiny for their life.

  415. They wandered. Mama.

  416. It's amazing. What?

  417. One day a do? You hear what I'm saying?

  418. We're not going. We can't do it.

  419. They come back and say fun. Moses got the Lord says you're

  420. right. You're not since you're going to

  421. be like this, everybody, 20 and older, you're gonna die out here

  422. and he's going to take your kids in what they do the next day.

  423. Okay, we're gonna go. We going.

  424. Now we going and what did Moses say?

  425. He ain't widget. You're not going but they went

  426. anyway. And what happened?

  427. People died? People died.

  428. So you can't hear was God's will yesterday.

  429. But because you refused to identify with that God, if

  430. yesterday, the god of today, says we going to have to wait

  431. now. And now you're gonna take it in,

  432. you don't see you, they were taking it in their own hands

  433. when they didn't believe because they were Grasshoppers and they

  434. did the same action. Took it in their own hands.

  435. Now, we'll go, well, you can't go without the Lord.

  436. Our life must be planned by God and we must walk out his steps

  437. for our lives. Now why is this significant?

  438. Because we talking about believing God at his word and we

  439. know everyone can say, this my gosh, aren't you convinced that

  440. God will do what he says? I mean, I bet I could go through

  441. and do a personal interview with every one of you and the

  442. majority of you would say, yes, yes, saying that and living that

  443. are two entirely. Different things.

  444. So today I want to encourage you and help strengthen you because

  445. sometimes we misunderstand what God is saying and in doing.

  446. So we apply things in areas that do not work for that word.

  447. Faith comes by what hearing and hearing from the word of God.

  448. Number one, you can't even begin to have access to Faith.

  449. If you're not in his word to here, period can happen.

  450. Number two, you can't have faith even if you come to a church

  451. where there's the preaching of the word, if the preaching of

  452. the word is not rightly divided. That's why I say don't believe

  453. what I say. That's why I have this whole

  454. congregation every year. I challenged them read the Bible

  455. and we have Bible reading plans from Genesis to Revelation.

  456. Let's read the word together. That's why I require our staff

  457. that we pay here at the church to read the Bible and I check it

  458. every year. And those who are in our Elevate

  459. supportive Ministries, no matter where they're at in Ministry

  460. coming. We say if you're going to be a

  461. part of the team, you're going to have to read the word because

  462. You're not helping anyone. If the word is not in you

  463. because there's a spiritual law of principle of the Kingdom.

  464. That's in place, what's in? You is what you, what you have

  465. is, what you'll give. That's why Peter said silver and

  466. going to have none. Not that he didn't possess

  467. silver and gold. He just didn't have any on him.

  468. Just like, I don't have any money on me right now.

  469. I don't have any cash to give you nine pull a card out, but it

  470. ain't gonna do you any good if you can't scan it, right?

  471. Okay, so I could go by say silver and gold.

  472. I have none. But what I do have so What you

  473. have is what you give and you can't give something you don't

  474. have. So if the words not in you, you

  475. can't give the word. if the war is not rightly divided coming

  476. out of you, then you'll give a not rightly divided word You'll

  477. make an excuse well. Now, in this case, you know, his

  478. ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts are higher than

  479. us. So, we, you know, we just really

  480. can't explain don't say that. Discover something find out

  481. what's going on. Amen.

  482. So people here and you have to here and you must study for

  483. yourself so that it becomes a part of who you are because I

  484. know where my firm persuasion is but I don't always know where

  485. yours is. And I know if my faiths attacked

  486. your face attacked. I know if what I'm believing had

  487. manifested yet and I'm getting false said it won't.

  488. Then you're getting false too. Amen.

  489. But we must then see how Faith Works because Faith does work

  490. that manifest because Faith won't stay faithful forever.

  491. What I mean by that is now if the definition of faith, we say

  492. this. Now, Faith is the substance of

  493. things hoped for, the evidence of Things Not Seen.

  494. Hope means a confident expectation, which means I'm

  495. confident that it is. And why are you confident?

  496. Because you're saying what God's word is, you have no confidence.

  497. If you're asking God and you don't even know, there's no,

  498. When our Lord, if you are, there's not confidence there.

  499. God has to give you an answer to get you confidence.

  500. This is what happened with the man that was healed with Leprosy

  501. said Lord if you're willing there's no confidence so the

  502. Lord has to give him confidence. I am He gave his word on.

  503. I am touched him. He was healed.

  504. Now, that was without that man's Faith, because he wasn't

  505. believing, he wasn't even sure but God lets him know, my will

  506. is to heal. Then others that came with an

  507. expectation. If I just touch him, I'll be

  508. healed. Just speak the word only and my

  509. servant will be healed. God called those two

  510. individuals, the woman with the issue of blood in the Centurion

  511. had great faith. Why?

  512. Because what I said is settled, I've spoken it, will surely

  513. bring it to pass. They believe it and it happened.

  514. I said it happened now. They believed and were acting

  515. before it ever manifested the woman with the issue of blood.

  516. She's saying, I believe that if I just touch him, which means

  517. she left her house to go, get to Jesus.

  518. Most people want Jesus to come to the house.

  519. Nobody wants to do their part and seeking.

  520. Yeah. Jesus says, listen.

  521. There's things about me, but you got to come to it.

  522. See, listen, when you are lost. This is what we get wrong, guys.

  523. When you're lost, you can't go to God.

  524. The Bible's very clear. What's the scripture say?

  525. No man goes after God, no, not one.

  526. You don't go after God. Don't do it.

  527. The only way you're born again because the Holy Spirit went and

  528. found you and Drew you to Christ sent a labor by your F began to

  529. speak to you about some things begin to talk to you about stuff

  530. and then Eustace I did. But then the minute you leave

  531. the domain of darkness and you get over here into the kingdom

  532. of his beloved Son. God, quits pursuing.

  533. He says, then draw near to me and I'll draw near to you

  534. because I don't have to pursue, you know, more you're in the

  535. house. I put my love in.

  536. You, you should be so overwhelmed by my love and the

  537. Forgiveness that I just applied in your life and the new nature.

  538. You are, you want to come and run to me?

  539. Worship me fall at my feet, 14 and talk.

  540. And sup with me and spend time with me, that is the attitude of

  541. the believer. Come on God.

  542. A real person who's truly committed to God, man.

  543. When they first get born again. I mean, true conversion, truly

  544. have been different. It's you can't keep him out of

  545. church. I'm Different.

  546. I got to be there. I get concerned when people come

  547. down and pray and then they don't show up for weeks on end.

  548. Unfortunately most of them trying to receive Jesus, just so

  549. when they die, they don't go to hell, that's not what God

  550. intended. He wanted you to have life.

  551. Now life more abundantly and for you to walk in the fullness of

  552. God today. So we then understand that we

  553. have to pursue God. So, we have to hear.

  554. We have to subject ourselves to the word.

  555. We set up underneath the fivefold ministry that God

  556. placed in the church body so that it can help raise us up.

  557. Equip us so that we won't be carried by every wind and Doctor

  558. thrown around. We can actually rightly divide

  559. the word of Truth and actually build the body up to itself in

  560. love. So in simplicity, Faith comes by

  561. hearing that's God's word. The minute you hear God's word,

  562. that's God's will when you pray God's will, you can have

  563. confidence that whatever you ask according to that will it will

  564. happen and it happens the minute you prayed in the spirit by

  565. faith. The question is when will it

  566. manifest And that's the proverbial question because now

  567. Faith is now. Faith is the substance of things

  568. hoped for that means confident expectation.

  569. I'm confident because I know God's word, the substance of

  570. things, you know, the evidence of Things Not Seen.

  571. Faith is when we believe God's word, even though we don't see

  572. it, Let's go. See, Jesus was in faith.

  573. When he said on the third day, I'll be raised up.

  574. Well hand him died yet, but he's confessing believing that.

  575. What God said about him would happen, man?

  576. When he's in the garden, praising, the Lord.

  577. If there's any other way for this to happen, let this cup

  578. pass yet. Not my will, your will be done

  579. because I'm sold out to your purpose because the only plan

  580. that's going to work as yours. He says that's the only plan,

  581. there is no plan B son. you going to the Cross, you have to

  582. shed your blood for all Humanity because there's power in the

  583. blood I said there's power in the blood and so Jesus, humbled

  584. himself to obedience to death on the cross, but while he was

  585. there, he knew in faith. I'll be back on the third day

  586. and he spoke this out. Now, the day he rose, he was no

  587. longer in faith for Resurrection because he was there.

  588. It's manifested the minute it manifests.

  589. You're not in faith anymore because you have it.

  590. Faith is why you're buff. Definitely believing it is as it

  591. is. Until it manifests.

  592. The best way I can describe, this is like if you order

  593. something online from Amazon, Okay, you go Click.

  594. Put it in your little cart right and you pay you cash.

  595. Are you with me the minute you do that?

  596. Then they say, okay, they give you like maybe a little tracking

  597. number something for your stuff. You now because you've given it

  598. at shipping, you are what firmly persuaded that.

  599. You've paid the price. That even though you don't see

  600. it, you suck, you saw it. Just like the word.

  601. This is my digital word copy. Got a lot of translations here,

  602. you can look at that thing and oh I see it.

  603. And so now you make payment, well what's the payment?

  604. The blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus made payment for that.

  605. So okay, you click. Now I'm a drag that over here.

  606. Put it in my little box clean. I got it.

  607. Now every day I'm expecting depending on how big it is.

  608. I recently ordered something for my truck and I was out of town

  609. and I said, Gary, they say according to their word that my

  610. stuff will be there on Thursday. I need you to get it.

  611. So, I mean, confident and did it arrive on Thursday, just, as

  612. they said, it did not fail, to come to pass I was convinced.

  613. I would have it and he I said and he took a picture and there

  614. it is. Then I have this other one that

  615. I ordered paid for it. Paid for it.

  616. And he came here date range. A date range.

  617. Now I have this expectation between this date and this date.

  618. Hallelujah. So I would be back between that.

  619. So I didn't tell Gary, hey I said now I've ordered I don't

  620. think that want to come in, you know, but obviously this one to

  621. be here. So you need to make sure you go

  622. home and get it in the house, okay.

  623. Get in the house. Don't need nobody coming up on

  624. my doorstep, taking my stuff. I don't need the devil to come.

  625. Steal kill and destroy. It's mine.

  626. All right, we've paid the price for it.

  627. Well, when I got back home, the the other thing I ordered was

  628. sitting there on the front porch, how I rejoiced now, what

  629. came earlier than I expected, why?

  630. Because God is exceedingly, abundantly far beyond while I

  631. can think, and imagine sometimes I'm asking but yet, then he

  632. overwhelms me and does something bigger than I even ask because

  633. he's just a good god, like that. But he didn't bring me it

  634. something, or the abundance of without me first asking,

  635. according to his will, My point is every day, I knew I was in

  636. faith, but the minute is on the door, I'm not believing anymore

  637. cuz I have it, it's in my possession.

  638. There it is. I'm not waiting tomorrow

  639. believing God for the things I've ordered there at my house.

  640. I'm not in faith for them. I have them.

  641. Are you with me? What happens in this walk of

  642. faith, is that sometimes people, Miss appropriate.

  643. God's word and the expectation of how your faith works.

  644. Again, according to Mark 11, it says, we believe we receive and

  645. any and, and the man that had leprosy in Matthew 8 is said

  646. Jesus touches hand and immediately.

  647. It said the Centurion said, just speak the word only and my

  648. servant be healed at says, at that same hour, the servant was

  649. healed yet. There's this other passage of

  650. scripture concerning faith, that can throw a wrench in the whole

  651. constant context is found in Matthew.

  652. Hebrews chapter 6, starting in verse 10 says for God is Not

    Hebrews 6 chapter mention

  653. unjust. So as to forget your work, James

  654. said this, you tell me you have faith without works.

  655. Basic, he says, ha. I'm going to demonstrate my

  656. faith by works. Meaning I'm going to act on the

  657. word. I acted on the word.

  658. That I received from the website that said, my package would be

  659. there on a certain day. You know what, my action was, I

  660. prepared someone to receive it. Well I sure hope against in the

  661. house I hope they just did take my money.

  662. I don't know if I'll get it. I'm really worried that it won't

  663. show up. I'm just so worried.

  664. I actually, on my last thing that I ordered I had a little

  665. issue ordered it. Okay.

  666. It was a set of mats and running boards and so ordered.

  667. It says, your order is complete great.

  668. Well, then I went to my email and my credit card, said, fraud

  669. department, Did you do this particular purchase?

  670. Because I've never used that card for that website.

  671. So basically they were trying to safeguard means somebody take my

  672. number right? So it gave me an option,

  673. everything's okay. I didn't do it or something's

  674. wrong with what it said? Something's wrong.

  675. So I could hit something's wrong but I said everything's okay.

  676. Well, my car to says pending And I did not get a confirmation

  677. email from the website because I used a separate car to do

  678. another order. And I got a confirmation for

  679. those items in my confirmation, you know it's like the Holy

  680. Ghost confirming, the word. Are you in me?

  681. Okay. And so I got cough, so I'm like,

  682. what's up with this? So I said, I'll let it go 24.

  683. We'll see if it actually, because they were saying, hey,

  684. there's a little statement. Says this said, you know, if

  685. there was a problem or your transaction was denied York, Are

  686. is free to be used basically with this vendor at this point,

  687. I don't even know if it got it. Well, I sure didn't want a

  688. double order, right? So, it's patient, I waited 24

  689. hours to see something would change with that transaction.

  690. Would It Go, hot? You know, I'm saying, like it's

  691. they took the money still pending.

  692. So at this point, I need to get out.

  693. Of doubt, I need to know what's going on.

  694. So I went back to the source I called them.

  695. I said I didn't order on one card.

  696. I got a confirmation. I didn't on the other one and

  697. they call it says you've ordered him listed off all the items.

  698. I had to include the two. That didn't give me a

  699. confirmation at all. I said, so, okay.

  700. So it went through. Yes.

  701. And the next day, one of the items was here like, well

  702. obviously, I got it them but the other one had the time frame.

  703. So what I did is I went and I got my self confident pulls up

  704. at this point. It says I have it but then I had

  705. a word come, that made me wonder is it?

  706. So I had to determine I got to get back in confidence.

  707. Most people just throw it to chance.

  708. You can't do this with the things of God, but the things of

  709. God you can't throw it the chance because the minute I got

  710. that I created doubt in me, I was not confident that it

  711. actually happened. So I had to get back in

  712. confidence. I had to go to the source and

  713. they had to tell me it's as it was written and it confirmed it

  714. just like the Bible about a two or three Witnesses.

  715. Sometimes you got to say, okay, I know that but let me find some

  716. other examples. Why I got to get out of down

  717. this thing I got to restore my confidence because it's only

  718. when I'm confident to declare God's word in my prayer.

  719. Is it going to come to pass? So know that God is Not unjust

  720. to forget your work. So what did James said he said

  721. faith without works is dead? But if you are working, faith,

  722. mean you're being obedient, you're acting on it, then God

  723. won't forget this. And we don't want to become

  724. people that all of a sudden, think God forgot our prayer of

  725. faith. And that he's not going to do it

  726. now. Because that's not our god.

  727. Let's go on. He says, he's not forgot your

  728. work and the love, what you've shown towards his name and

  729. having Minister and still ministering to the Saints and we

  730. desire that each of you show the same diligence as so as to

  731. realize the full Assurance of Hope until the end.

  732. So that you will not be what sluggish, we don't want to be

  733. sluggish but imitators of those who how through faith how

  734. through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  735. But now, that's like a curveball to our belief system.

  736. What I mean by that is that according to scripture, you can

  737. be in faith and immediately, something change.

  738. NaturallySpeaking, it manifests immediately.

  739. Yet, there's other things in faith, it cannot be immediate,

  740. it will be through faith and patience.

  741. And if you apply faith and patience, in your prayer of

  742. faith, when immediate can be the expectation, you're really not

  743. in faith. Vice versa, if you apply in the

  744. prayer of faith, immediate and it requires faith, and patience,

  745. you'll not stay in faith. Now, what do I mean?

  746. The best way for me to give this example is being born again.

  747. We are born again, how, by grace, through faith, and to be

  748. born again. It is a confession of faith, not

  749. Lord. I ask you to accept all the

  750. things I do in life that are good and you measure those to

  751. all the things I've done wrong. And based upon that measurement,

  752. surely you'll see that I'm worthy to come into your

  753. kingdom. So, I'm thankful That you hear

  754. me today? When I pray, you're going to

  755. always acknowledge everything. I do good that I'm doing to try

  756. to please. You, you're going to acknowledge

  757. it so that when I die I know I'm going to be there with you now

  758. is that person born again after they?

  759. Pray that prayer? No, because it's not of any

  760. Works. Lest any man should boast God.

  761. How could you couldn't? You couldn't separate me from

  762. you. I'm a good person that prayer

  763. does not get salvation. What prayer get salvation.

  764. The prayer of faith that Christ Alone is the only way to the

  765. Father. The Bible says that if we

  766. acknowledge Jesus Christ is Lord that he, what is Romans 10?

  767. Say that when we recognize that he died and on the third day was

  768. raised from the dead. We confess him.

  769. As our Lord, we will then be Saved.

  770. That's the prayer that brings salvation.

  771. Now, here's the question, what would you do or what would you

  772. think? If I had will come down and say,

  773. well, I'm going to pray with you for salvation.

  774. Okay, let's pray this prayer. Will you pray with me will says

  775. y'all pray with you. I said, okay, pray repeat after

  776. me. Say dear father, I believe that

  777. Jesus Christ came died on the cross for my sins.

  778. I Repent of my sins and I accept Jesus as my savior, that his

  779. blood is enough to Eradicate my sin.

  780. And right now, I confess him as the Lord of my life I am saved.

  781. How many believe that that could get him in the kingdom of God?

  782. Sure. Okay, now if I then said no,

  783. will, I don't know when, but because you prayed this prayer

  784. of faith, it is happened, but this new creature in Christ is

  785. going to show up sometime. I don't know when, but it's

  786. going to happen. But know this through faith and

  787. patience you'll inherit the new Are in Christ.

  788. The old man that you are will pass away.

  789. It may happen when you get to the parking lot, it may happen.

  790. Next week, it may happen a month from now, but all of a sudden

  791. you're going to wake up and Bam, you're going to be a new

  792. creature in Christ and the Holy Ghost is going to be there and

  793. you want to say, wow it worked. Don't let anyone tell you, you

  794. didn't get born again today even though you don't feel like it.

  795. Now we can apply faith and patience there.

  796. They're born again immediately. Yes, right.

  797. Then immediately, they believe they have it.

  798. So there are Promises of God that are immediate, you can't

  799. apply faith and patience there because it's not applicable.

  800. Well, what else? The baptism of the Holy Spirit

  801. would evidence of speaking in tongues when his first

  802. communicated Jesus said Terry in Jerusalem till I send the

  803. promise but once the promise hit the planet you can have it

  804. because if you go on and read Acts chapter 19, if all those

    Acts 19 chapter mention

  805. Nations just would have went and kept reading past Acts 2, and

  806. God to Acts. 19 cousin, Acts 19. Paul walks up to disciples from

  807. Ephesus and says, did you receive the Holy Ghost?

  808. Once you believed but they could go before, then, I'm just giving

  809. it like literal terms. You know, did you receive once

  810. you believe? Because if they would just go to

  811. Cornelius house, what chapters at eight or ten, ten, maybe ten

  812. ten when you get a Cornelius house.

  813. Corniness isn't trying to worship God.

  814. The best he can. Because he knows in the angel

  815. comes down and says, sinful Peter.

  816. He'll come preach, the gospel. So he goes gets Peter, Peter

  817. shows up, he goes in the house of a gentile.

  818. Carnitas has got his whole family there, he begins to tell

  819. them the story of Jesus, the message of Jesus, the life of

  820. Jesus, the the saving power and Grace of Jesus.

  821. And in his time teaching all of a sudden Cornelius and his whole

  822. household said, we believe they didn't articulate it to where

  823. they stopped. Giving altar call.

  824. They were like, I believe and how did Peter knew they had

  825. received salvation? Because the minute they were

  826. born again. They got filled with the Holy

  827. Ghost began speaking in other tongues.

  828. And Peter says, how can we deny water baptism?

  829. They got the same experience, we got back in Acts chapter 2.

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  830. Those guys didn't have to wait none you can receive immediately

  831. so you can't apply. Oh Lord, give me X.

  832. Give me X. Give me tons.

  833. Well I guess it's not that. They through faith and patience

  834. inherit it. You will not inherit it that way

  835. because That's not how it is. It's immediate I would submit to

  836. you personal healing for yourself is more immediate than

  837. you want to believe. If you actually read the context

  838. of the Bible, if you personally would get in faith for yourself,

  839. you'll see when the word got on anyone, they were healed.

  840. There are more instantaneous healings than progress, but

  841. there were progress, but the majority of the progress

  842. happened within a 24-hour period.

  843. Now, that's not to condemn. If you've been dealing with

  844. stuff for some time. I'm just saying, we've got to

  845. rise up to the level of faith and don't allow faith, and

  846. patience to get involved in our healing.

  847. Let's go ahead and get immediate to manifest.

  848. Amen. Now, there are some things that

  849. are working of Miracles and there's nothing you can do to

  850. believe at that point. Because things weren't formed

  851. right, one done, right? That's a whole nother ball game

  852. but when you get a cold or you get a sniffle or cancer hits

  853. your body or you get a tumor, my gosh, man, you can get you, the

  854. word. You can confess that word.

  855. You can speak that word. You can make a demand on that

  856. word and you can pull that thing in a lot faster.

  857. Don't apply faith in pain. I'm just being patient.

  858. I'm going to get it. Get it and make it manifest.

  859. But then there's other areas that it will just take time,

  860. guys. And most of those have to do

  861. with purpose, Destiny. What happens?

  862. Is we receive salvation immediately?

  863. We receive healing Amina. You know what else?

  864. We receive quick Joy. You don't have to wait around

  865. for a job. Well, I wish I could just feel

  866. happy. The joy of the Lord is your a

  867. menu. Pray in the Holy Ghost, you keep

  868. stirring yourself. And, and stirring yourself up in

  869. the Holy Ghost, you'll get full of joy.

  870. Because the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy.

  871. Holy Ghost, how fast can you get righteous?

  872. One prayer. First John 1:9, if we confess

    1 John 1:9

  873. our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and

  874. cleanse us from all unrighteousness, how fast can

  875. you get forgiveness immediately? How fast can the fruits of the

  876. spirit manifest in you? Immediately, if you yield to it.

  877. Right through faith and patience, I'm working out this

  878. anger issue. Why don't you immediately apply

  879. self control? Allowed to spring up.

  880. Come on, you know as well as I do not one of us got in that

  881. place where angry that we're not hearing the Holy Ghost, say

  882. don't do it. And you're thinking, yeah, I'm

  883. going there. Don't do it.

  884. But man, I'm thinking I'm going there.

  885. Alam and your dwelling on the thought, that's taking you

  886. there. You're not taking it captive,

  887. kassadin it down because the Holy Ghost, take it captive,

  888. cast it down. I don't, you really just don't

  889. feel like it. You can't apply well, through

  890. faith and patience. I'll get there.

  891. No, you can immediately get there.

  892. I said you can immediately get there but then there's other

  893. things that we do with God that is not Again, I use this did.

  894. I already use you in the service about the marriage?

  895. Good, don't matter? What service were in.

  896. Okay, I'll go back to Chelsea. Stand Up Now.

  897. Chelsea, she wants to be married.

  898. That's just say, okay, here's the thing.

  899. Faith and patience is involved. Father, I believe I receive a

  900. Godly Man. Well, does God want her to have

  901. a Godly Man? Sure, a man that loves you

  902. passionate about? You seeks you first once you

  903. first. That's who I want, right?

  904. That plan and purpose for your life, right?

  905. You don't want that to be disrupted.

  906. Do you do want to bring some, sorry, slothful thing that's

  907. going to want you to tend to him and you can't do nothing for

  908. God, right? Okay.

  909. Well, how old are you? I'm 26.

  910. I'm too old. I'm getting too old.

  911. Oh my gosh. So many people are so much

  912. younger men. Already married, where am I

  913. going to get mine? So, what happens is they?

  914. They avoid faith and patience. They, I believe I received my

  915. God, man, right now. And the next person they see

  916. say, holla, do you think all? That's my man and they say, you

  917. know, we fall head over heels for people that aren't even our

  918. God because God knows your guy happens to be in another state

  919. has to bring down whatever and get you cuz there are plenty of

  920. times. There are some that's not your

  921. season to be merry but then God brings the right one.

  922. It becomes your season. Through faith and patience.

  923. All of a sudden, you get the best guy you ever could have

  924. had. If you would have married too

  925. early, you wouldn't have them. Now God can work out those

  926. things. What the devil meant for bad,

  927. God can turn for good, but I don't want to be living life or

  928. God's always having to work out the bad stuff devil was doing

  929. Can we live beyond that? You can be seated.

  930. Same thing with the job, you know?

  931. I believe I received my job, you know.

  932. Then you don't get it in a week and you're mad at God.

  933. Does God want you to work? Yes, says if a man don't work a

  934. man. Don't eat.

  935. He wants you to work. Not so you get paid.

  936. He wants you to work so that you can influence those that are

  937. you're working with and then he'll pay you to do that.

  938. Hallelujah. I know of an individual.

  939. They got a word from God about a promotion.

  940. Do you know sometimes God will give us a word?

  941. That doesn't mean it's going to manifest the next time it comes

  942. up. But the minute you get it.

  943. Stay with it. Because I got it and it's

  944. forever settled in heaven. The minute you prayed it's done.

  945. You've received it. It's finished.

  946. But can this one be an immediate?

  947. Person went up for promotion was denied.

  948. Because they were given a word that they would get it and

  949. believed it. But then didn't get it.

  950. Got mad and got away from the church.

  951. Started talking about it. And then died.

  952. And they gave the promotion. In their casket.

  953. That's not how you want your promotion.

  954. You understand, the devil wants to stop God's plan, but that's

  955. what I loved about Joseph. Joseph gets a dream.

  956. You going to be there guy. And he didn't let the

  957. circumstances stop. He stayed in faith and patience

  958. and he inherited. The dream.

  959. You know, I got a little nugget about that that I hadn't seen

  960. before Joseph is exalted to prime minister in Egypt.

  961. When his father died later on, he asked the Pharaoh permission.

  962. Could he go back and bury his dad in his land and he gave him

  963. permit? He had favor with Farrah, don't

  964. you? Joseph could have said in year

  965. six of the prosperous years, Pharaoh I have a family that I

  966. don't even think they know I'm alive.

  967. Can I go back and see them? He never asked to go.

  968. Because he knew his vision was. If I go back to my home that's

  969. not well, they'll the the dream can come to pass.

  970. They are going to have to come to me.

  971. Because in this place that I am is where the authority is.

  972. Wow. He wasn't so emotionally

  973. connected to his dad. That, oh my gosh.

  974. My dad's got to know. He was more connected to the

  975. plan. I can't leave dad's.

  976. Got to come to me. Because I'm in a 40 here and

  977. they've got to come to me. And through faith and patience

  978. instead of him, trying to do it on his own and restore his

  979. family. And his brothers instead, he

  980. stayed put and the family came to him.

  981. I wonder how many people have 40 God because they left to go to

  982. family. And get out of their place of

  983. authority. Through faith and patience guys,

  984. there are certain things that we're going to go through, so I

  985. don't want you to get delusional.

  986. I don't want you to get discouraged, I don't want you to

  987. get, you know, hung up on things.

  988. There are certain things that it just takes Tom.

  989. For God's plan. You know what?

  990. Abraham was looking for the return of Christ.

  991. Any Enoch was looking for the return of Christ.

  992. Moses was looking for the return of Christ.

  993. David was looking to the return of Christ, Isaiah prophesied,

  994. and Daniel of the return of Christ.

  995. They were all looking for it and they all spoke about it coming

  996. to pass, but it never came to pass in their life.

  997. But Galatians 4:4 says, in the fullness of time Christ came

    Galatians 4:4

  998. That means that God always plan to bring Jesus then and no

  999. matter how much the generation of nation was believing for that

  1000. moment, it couldn't come in here earlier and there's things that

  1001. God puts in our hearts. They can't come any earlier.

  1002. But he lets us know ahead of time.

  1003. It's coming. It's coming.

  1004. Maybe you get a word. You know, you're going to have

  1005. your own business. Well, maybe it takes five years

  1006. before you have it. Don't let go of the word through

  1007. faith and patience, you'll get that just like them.

  1008. All God gave me a word occupied. I'm moved by Nothin.

  1009. Nothing. It has to come to pass.

  1010. So there has to be some Divine appointed.

  1011. Tom, here's the thing though, whether it's an immediate or

  1012. through faith and patience, you must check yourself to see if

  1013. you're in faith. Because some of the biggest

  1014. challenges is that you don't want to be in faith and patience

  1015. winning media, it's required. That's why you go to the word.

  1016. What's the word say on? What I'm believing?

  1017. And what's the time frame? And what's the response and how

  1018. did that happen? And then you get yourself.

  1019. That's why the Bible tells us in second Corinthians 13:5 says,

    2 Corinthians 13:5

  1020. this says, test yourself to see if you are in faith, examine

  1021. yourselves, I'm always having to examine myself because here's

  1022. the thing. The Bible says, no one knows the

  1023. spirit of man, except the spirit of the man himself and no one

  1024. knows the spirit of God, except the spirit of God.

  1025. So know this, we really know if we are, you've heard me testify

  1026. before before we got into this whole thing about the mall, I

  1027. knew I knew I was saying it with my mouth, but I knew my heart

  1028. was not attached to those words. I knew it.

  1029. I was like, this is a big deal. This is a big deal.

  1030. First of all, they don't even want to sell it.

  1031. I mean, you're asking me to attach something that they

  1032. weren't even want to sell. Then turn them, they change

  1033. their mind, all kinds of stuff. But I remember it was a

  1034. Wednesday, my wife and I were going to go camping on Thursday.

  1035. I said I'm gonna go ahead and take the camp camper down and

  1036. I'm going to pray. So I went down was down to mocha

  1037. actually to mocha Springs Tomoka State Park and I was driving

  1038. down a 1A and I'll never forget I saw those huge homes you know

  1039. just passed you know, around the hammock, you understand.

  1040. Huge homes, and the Lord said to me, see see that house because I

  1041. was praying. I said, yes, Lord.

  1042. So how much you think that cost? I said millions easy.

  1043. He said you think anyone's in? I said well no I mean you can

  1044. see that it's closed off, you know, he said yeah that's

  1045. someone's vacation home. Yeah.

  1046. He said if man can do that do you think I can get them all?

  1047. I said, Lord, I believe, but I had to have that I was not lying

  1048. to myself. I want trying to put on some,

  1049. are I knew I can't go here until I know here.

  1050. I can't go here until I know here.

  1051. And then another pivotal Point came with the whole deal with

  1052. the mall. And I went off and prayed and

  1053. fasted for three days. I think it was and I say, God, I

  1054. need a word that's all I need. I I need to know how I don't

  1055. need to know when. I need to know a word that I can

  1056. stand on and I heard him say this concern in this mall

  1057. whether to stay with the dealer to go, he said occupy, and I

  1058. knew when he said that, that word occupy means to do business

  1059. and we as a business part that will do with this mall, he told

  1060. me to set up camp, I'm going to give that to you and you're

  1061. going to occupy and I knew then doesn't matter.

  1062. It's ours. Then on January the 25th 2016 at

  1063. And Faith Crusade. I was over here praying and

  1064. worshiping God. And all of a sudden in the

  1065. spirit, I knew it had broken through.

  1066. I had it. It was ours.

  1067. It was done is done as a Promised Land.

  1068. But I also knew this, I can't get it alone.

  1069. Moses could not single-handedly take the nation into the

  1070. promised land. That's why we can't grow weary

  1071. and our well doing, that's why you can't get hope deferred to

  1072. get your hearts. You gotta know, I heard nothing

  1073. else matters. You don't want to be the one

  1074. that God has to move out, so they can have the group that's

  1075. here that believes to move in. You want to be the one who says

  1076. I believe. And how do you believe you

  1077. believe by action? My wife and I believe by action,

  1078. we confess it every time. Gary can tell you, he's been

  1079. living with me for now about four months.

  1080. Every time we come on, I say, thank you, Lord, for I don't

  1081. pray for this mall. I thank him for it.

  1082. I said Thank you, Lord, for 2121 US1, South.

  1083. I'm sure many of you but I've gone beyond that.

  1084. I've sewn towards it. I keep sewing towards it cause

  1085. you know what, what we've got to do for a down payment with this

  1086. agreement is nothing, compared to what we got to do, to remodel

  1087. all kind of. I mean, it's just, it's all good

  1088. and we go from Faith to Faith, but know this, it will come to

  1089. pass and you'll hear You're going to hear this well that

  1090. church did take them all and it's not because we did it

  1091. independent of a word, but God working with us but we did our

  1092. part. So whatever it is guys, you've

  1093. got to examine yourself. Say my Lord, am I out of Faith

  1094. because I'm waiting on you to do something though.

  1095. I believe yet. I Expected immediate help me to

  1096. see it immediately. So, way to be done because in

  1097. this moment, according to your word immediately, just like

  1098. salvation, I should have it in what Jesus said, he said which

  1099. is easier to heal this man or to tell him his sins are forgiven.

  1100. Help me to see heal and easy. Help me to see this.

  1101. That can come immediately easy. So I receive it, bring it in.

  1102. I'm not waiting anymore. I'm not going to apply Faith to

  1103. pay. Many have fallen away from the

  1104. faith because they misappropriated their faith.

  1105. God didn't heal them in the time frame.

  1106. They thought he should. He's dragging on, and they're

  1107. keep waiting and keep waiting and keep waiting, and they just

  1108. give up on the word when God saying it wasn't a weight.

  1109. You should have had it. But on the other side, you know,

  1110. God I was believing you to come in and bring you know, this

  1111. particular deal to take place and this promotion or this, you

  1112. know, spouse or, you know, this thing and I prayed and I

  1113. immediately received an I said I had and I was thinking you but

  1114. you know what? It's been five years now and

  1115. I've not seen that come to pass, you know?

  1116. Forget about which most winning. Wait, five years, anyway.

  1117. That's just say a month. I'll give you a month. 30 days.

  1118. It ain't hear. Your word doesn't work.

  1119. You can't apply mediate there. This is where you persevere. but

  1120. know, this whether immediate or faith and patience is in play,

  1121. in both cases it manifests, It manifests, let me close with

  1122. this thought. In July. 2003.

  1123. No.2. Pastor Mike and Angie, my wife

  1124. and I were in Tulsa correction. Juvenile Corrections in

  1125. Oklahoma. Pastor Marcus was there and I

  1126. was preaching. The whole time, I'm preaching,

  1127. my wife is talking to somebody. a friend, a person that Angie

  1128. had brought And so we loaded up the truck you know, load up

  1129. everything we were done with the prison Mission.

  1130. I was driving home. I said Marcy so who was that

  1131. person you were talking to me. You know funny thing that person

  1132. there they were born in st. Augustine we were talking about

  1133. st. Augustine really?

  1134. Wow, that's awesome. You know, just talking we're

  1135. just carrying on all that. They were saying you know people

  1136. they knew da da da. Then my wife said that she know

  1137. she said something funny. I said yeah what's that?

  1138. She said, if we ever start a church in st.

  1139. Augustine to give her a call in the minute.

  1140. My wife said that Bam, the Holy Ghost spoke to me and said

  1141. that's where you'll plant the church.

  1142. I mean it hit me hard. I was like Now, we've only been

  1143. in this location for two years and I had this mindset will be

  1144. there till 2005 on my oldest son graduates.

  1145. So I was a little shocked by I. So consumed with the vision that

  1146. I was in that the think of that which I knew I would eventually

  1147. do God's talking to me about it. I didn't say nothing to my wife,

  1148. but for three days. It was just like it was there.

  1149. It was like, right there was like, I wanted to say something,

  1150. you know, so on the third day after praying and stuff, I said

  1151. Marcy I believe And I know where God wants us to plant the church

  1152. that we're supposed to start. Instead she pulls out the

  1153. demographics of st. Augustine she'd been looking

  1154. them up for the last three days. There was no church associated

  1155. with the school. I graduated from here.

  1156. No one to my knowledge was praying for me.

  1157. No group was asking me to come be their pastor.

  1158. This town didn't even know. I existed.

  1159. But I had a word from God and then he told me when to come.

  1160. And what shocked me because I thought it would be later, but I

  1161. obeyed him. I obeyed him and didn't have a

  1162. job. And had three kids left came

  1163. here. And 14 years later.

  1164. We run two services in this location, going to buy them all,

  1165. have another church in Valdosta, are ministering to other Rhema,

  1166. churches, because we've been given oversight have ministered

  1167. at Raymond fact, in an April, and May next month.

  1168. I will be the commencement speaker for the school.

  1169. I graduated from. Wow, wow.

  1170. My wife can tell you, we said in class.

  1171. They can we want to do stuff for Rhema, but it didn't happen

  1172. overnight. Pastor Hagen didn't immediately.

  1173. Say the Lord said come with me, and let me make you a director

  1174. and let me do this for you and you're going to preach and camp

  1175. meeting and you're going to do a commencement fee and your wife's

  1176. going to do Kindle, the flame, didn't hear that.

  1177. But through faith and patience of doing the call of God, the

  1178. gift was recognized. There's no telling what's in

  1179. store for everything. We have to do as a body when we

  1180. come together and do it. So learn from the word, what you

  1181. can have immediately and make a demand and don't settle for it

  1182. to get off and don't don't play around with stuff and let it

  1183. linger in your life. When he immediately, you can get

  1184. rid of sin immediately, you can cast off the flesh immediately.

  1185. You can get rid of sickness immediately, you can have joy,

  1186. immediately. You can walk in peace

  1187. immediately. You can have the righteousness

  1188. of God in Christ, received it walk in it, But then the things

  1189. that through faith and patience don't quit in the process, don't

  1190. give up because it's going a little bit longer than you

  1191. thought. Don't think.

  1192. Oh wow, this never, I mean, I'm this old, my gosh man.

  1193. You're not old enough. There's a reason why it had come

  1194. to pass yet. It's okay.

  1195. And it will your best days are ahead of you.

  1196. Because there's not one word that he spoke concerning you

  1197. that he'll fail to bring to pass if you only believe.