Faith: The Key to God's Miracles - Mark Hankins

Open your Bible to Mark 11, 22, 23,.

And we're going to talk about what Jesus had to say about the subject of faith.

How many think Jesus might be an expert on that subject?

Amen, mark 11, 22, 23.

So, if you want to bring a thrill to your life, learn how to live by faith.

You'll never have a boring life when you live by faith.

Amen.

And a lot of times people like extreme sports and flipping motorcycles and jumping off of cliffs and stuff like that, and I'll just say that ain't nothing.

Why don't you just try living by faith?

Amen.

And so what Jesus had to say about faith, mark 11, 22,.

Many of you know these scriptures, but Mark 11, 22, jesus answered and said to them to have faith in God.

Have faith in God, mark 11, 22.

Have faith in God.

So if Jesus was here today and he was going to give you a message, wouldn't it be interesting if he just gave you this one that, no matter what situation you're dealing with in your life, even uh, god is a faith god.

Without faith, it's impossible to please god.

It means it's not unlikely.

It is impossible please god without faith.

So you'd have to say god is what A faith God?

And so it says without faith it's impossible to please God.

He that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him, and I guarantee you can tell it when his rewards start hitting you Amen, amen.

So God is a faith God, which means that he's not primarily just moved by needs.

You understand that he's not just moved by needs, because if he was only moved by needs, then all the needs would always be met, but he is moved by faith.

He's looking for faith.

He's looking for somebody that will believe Amen, and so if God demands faith of us, he must have given us the means whereby we can for faith.

He's looking for somebody that will believe Amen, and so if God demands faith of us, he must have given us the means whereby we can get faith.

Let's try that again.

I said if God demands faith of us, wow, all right.

So while you're thinking about that, write down Mark, chapter nine, verse 23.

While you're thinking about that and this is a tremendous story in Mark, chapter nine, verse 23, and we know the gospel of mark is the favorite gospel.

It happens to be my first name, so mark, so I love the gospel mark, so easy to read.

You probably read it the whole gospel in 20 minutes, right?

It wouldn't be great if I could preach that long.

So, uh, mark, chapter 9, verse 23, jesus said what y'all know.

Mark 9:23

Mark 9, 23.

Jesus said unto him what, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believes, if you can do what believe.

So if you read the rest of the story, what's happening?

His son, he brought his son to the disciples and they could not heal him or cure him.

And and he said to the Lord, he said, lord, if you can do anything.

So he brought his son to the Lord, to Jesus, because the disciples couldn't do anything.

They're getting no results from the disciples.

So he brings his son to Jesus.

And Jesus, he said Lord, if you can do anything, have compassion on me and help me.

How many have ever been in a situation that you know the Lord loves you?

But you're facing a situation and you almost want to say, lord, if you love me, have compassion on me and help me.

So basically, the man is telling Jesus if you really love me, you would help me.

And what did Jesus say back to him?

Mark 9, 23 is what he said back to him.

He said if you can believe, all things are possible to him.

That believe Isn't that interesting.

So, basically, if you kind of look at Jesus standing there and the guy said, lord, if you can do anything, help me.

And Jesus turned around and says if you can so he's kind of putting it on Jesus, you need to do something about this situation.

And Jesus turned around and said you have a part to play.

In other words, we don't say it's all up to God what I have in life.

If what you have in life is all up to God, jesus would have never said Mark 11, 23.

We'll get to that in just a second.

So he said Lord, if you can do something, help me.

And Jesus said if you can believe, all things are possible to him.

That believe, amen.

And what's the next thing?

The man said Lord I believe, help my unbelief.

Lord I what believe?

But he said what helped my unbelief?

I think most of us could say that Lord I do believe, help me.

I got some unbelief, help me, get rid of my unbelief.

And you know Jesus can help you.

Let's try to get.

I said Jesus can help you get rid of unbelief, amen.

And so dad Hagen taught us.

There's only two kinds of unbelief, two kinds of unbelief, he said.

The first kind of unbelief is lack of knowledge.

Lack of knowledge, what does that mean?

Well, romans, chapter 10, verse 17, tells you where faith comes from.

Romans 10:17

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

So if you don't know the word, then you can't have faith.

Faith comes from the Word of God, and so if God demands faith of you, he must give you the means whereby you can get faith.

Where you're gonna get faith from you don't get it from the word.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

Are you could set this way?

Faith does not come by praying for it.

In other words, you can't say Lord, give me more faith.

He gave you his word, now look in his word.

And that's where faith comes from.

Not everything in the scripture is about the subject of faith, but there is faith for salvation, faith for healing, faith for the baptism and the Holy Ghost come on.

Faith for finances, faith for whatever you need.

You find scriptures that promise you the thing that you're believing for.

In other words, that's where faith comes from.

So dad Hagen taught us there's really two kinds of unbelief, two major categories.

Unbelief, first kind is what?

Lack of knowledge?

Lack of knowledge.

Is lack of knowledge curable?

All right, let's set this way.

First kind of unbelief would just be ignorance.

Is ignorance curable?

Okay, well, don't look at anybody right now, but I'm telling you, ignorance is curable.

The problem with ignorance is most people don't realize how ignorant they actually are.

So you know, you're quick to admit, I don't know everything.

You just don't know when you cross the boundary to things you don't know.

So dad, dad Hagen, said he was on a bed of sickness and disease when he is a teenager and he had seven incurable diseases.

And he said, while he, he was on a bed of sickness and disease when he was a teenager and he had seven incurable diseases.

And he said, while he was laying on that bed, you know he's got grandma's Methodist Bible and so he didn't want to die.

The doctor said you're going to die while you're a teenager.

He didn't want to die and he's laying in bed paralyzed.

And he said, lord, I don't want to die, I want to live.

So he started going through the scriptures and he read Mark, chapter 5, about the woman with issue of blood.

Mark 5 · chapter mention

And Mark, chapter 5, verse 34, jesus told that woman, daughter, your faith has made you whole.

Mark 5:34

So when he said, when he read that, because he had preachers come and pray for him, and there he's laying there, sick, seven incurable diseases, blood disease, and then he's paralyzed and he's about to die, and all the preachers that came and prayed for him did what they prayed Lord, comfort the family as this young man dies.

And he couldn't talk and he said, uh, and they say, just be still, won't be long now.

Because the preachers that he brought in said things like Healing has been done away with, it's not included in the atonement.

You know that your sins can be forgiven, but but you know and you go to heaven, but the healings not in the atonement.

So then he brought another preacher that said the day of miracles has passed away, right, and so all these preachers are praying for the Lord to comfort him while he dies.

But he didn't want to die.

So the Lord said to him all the preachers that come in, have any of them said that faith has been done away with?

He said no, none of them said faith's been done away with.

And Jesus said and never will you hear a preacher say that faith has been done away with, because if faith has been done away with, then nobody can be saved.

Well, if faith has not been done away with, then mark 5, 34.

If her faith made her whole, then your faith will make you whole.

Hallelujah.

All right, let's try this out over.

Come on, because faith is the same today as it was a thousand years ago.

Faith is the same as it was.

It's an eternal law of faith and so, once you understand how to live by faith, that's a supernatural way to live.

I live by faith.

Y'all still here.

So, laying on the bed, he's wanting the Lord to heal him, and he said this to the Lord.

He said, lord, I believe, but I'm not healed.

I'm laying here and I do believe.

So you can't tell me I don't believe.

He said, matter of fact, lord, if you told me my promise, I don't believe.

I'd say, lord, jesus, that's not the truth, because I do believe.

And Jesus said you do believe as far as you know.

All right, let's try this out over here.

I would like to just go ahead and shake somebody right now.

Come on, we're in a room full of believers here today.

But you cannot believe beyond your knowledge of the Word of God.

So you do believe as far as you know.

But when the Lord starts showing you the Word in a new light, what's gonna happen?

Faith coming, amen.

So there's two kinds of unbelief.

First is what?

Lack of knowledge, which means you just don't know any better.

How many think you can learn more, right?

So the second kind of unbelief, dad Hagan said is being unpersuaded to act on the Word.

Unpersuaded to act on the Word what kind of unbelief is that is being unpersuaded to act on the word.

Unpersuaded to act on the word.

What kind of unbelief is that?

Well, that means you know what the word says, you just don't want to do it.

All right, that's enough for today.

As I said, you know what the word says, you just don't want to do it.

You're unpersuaded to act on the word.

In other words, the simplest definition of faith is to act on the word of God, not just be a hearer, but be a doer.

So I like to say the moment you act on the word, god makes himself responsible for your results.

Until you act on the word, you are responsible for your results.

But the moment you take the word of God out and say I'm just gonna act like the word, you are responsible for your results.

But the moment you take the Word of God out, said I'm just gonna act like the Bible is true.

I'm gonna act like God is who he said he is.

I'm act like Jesus did what he said he did.

I'm gonna act like I am who God says I am.

I'm gonna act like I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus, no matter how I feel or how things look.

I'm gonna act on the Word of God.

Then we call that faith.

In other words, what God calls faith and what you call faith has to match.

It just can't be your, your definition.

It's got to match what God calls faith.

Once it matches, all things are possible.

So the second kind of unbelief is what?

Unpersuaded to do what?

Act on the word.

How many ever heard the word and you just said I don't want to do that.

Nobody in here, anybody over here, anybody here.

I know preachers.

I am a preacher.

We do have that problem.

We know what the word says.

We just don't want to do that.

So this kind of unbelief, unpersuaded act on the word, is also called disobedience.

You don't want to obey the word, so is unpersuaded act on the word?

Is that curable?

Sorry, I do laugh while I'm preaching.

It's not at anybody in particular, it's just my daddy said it's a mighty poor preacher that can't help himself.

So if you don't enjoy your own preaching and you have to do this for 50 years, it's a miserable thing to do.

So if you see me laughing, that means I'm enjoying what I do.

I like what I do, so praise the Lord, hallelujah.

It's helped me a lot.

Look at somebody and say he's been helped a lot by that.

So it's helped him a lot.

So you have to bring yourself to be a doer and to act on the word.

Come on.

So I like to say, how would you act if you believe you receive what the scripture says?

How would you act?

Come on, first thing you do is you change your countenance, you change the way you talk, you change the way you walk, you change the way you praise.

Come on.

In other words, your faith now has corresponding action.

So there's two kinds of unbelief and both of those are curable.

I know this goes.

So if unbelief is cur of those are curable, all right, now, let's go.

So if unbelief is curable, there's nothing that is incurable.

Let's try this out over here, because if you can believe, all things are possible.

So if unbelief is curable, whoo, I said, if unbelief is curable, there's nothing incurable.

There's no mountain you're facing, no situation you're dealing with.

That is permanent, that is stuck there and you cannot change it.

Jesus said mountains will move.

Come on, your body will respond and all things are possible.

Come on, your finances will change, your life will change when you start exercising faith in God.

Whoo, whoo, come on.

So you may not be the best looking one here, you may not be that impressive when we see you, but when you have faith in God you're an amazing person.

When you have faith in God, come on, people judge people way too much by external stuff.

But you got something on the inside of you called faith.

You have faith in God.

You have a measure of the God kind of faith.

And Paul says you have the same spirit of faith.

That's what you got.

So don't gripe about what you don't have.

Just know what you do have.

I know what I have.

I have faith in God.

So to cure unbelief.

Listen close to cure unbelief.

In Mark, chapter six, it says that Jesus marveled at their unbelief.

Listen close to cure unbelief.

In mark, chapter six, it says that jesus marveled at their unbelief.

Imagine if jesus was teaching.

You know, I mean you got the son of god.

You know you got the creator.

Here god manifests in the flesh and he's teaching and he wants to do mighty things.

But there it says he could do no mighty work.

And what's the next part say and he marveled at their unbelief.

In other words, he's like he marveled at their.

What unbelief?

Now I know the New Testament pretty good.

I mean I don't think I'm missing too much stuff.

But when I said he marveled at their unbelief, I looked at word marveled and from what I can tell in Matthew, mark, luke and John, jesus only marveled twice.

Jesus only marveled twice, two times.

As far as we can tell, in 33 years he only marveled twice.

So it says when he marveled, then the disciples were amazed because I was like he don't marvel that much.

You know they're listening to his teaching all the time, so he don't marvel that much.

So so when it says he marveled at something, did you see that he marveled?

They hadn't seen him marvel.

You know, in months he hadn't marveled, maybe in years, or like he marveled, because if he marveled he must have been looking like he's marveling.

I don't know what he looked like or something.

But it says he marveled.

So Jesus must have meant whoa, so they don't seem marveled.

He marveled at their unbelief and there he could not do any mighty work.

And a lot of times people think, well, god can just do anything he wants to because he's God.

He cannot.

According to Mark, chapter six, he cannot, he could do no mighty work because of their unbelief.

He wanted to.

How many believe God wants to do some stuff for us and we've limited him by our unbelief?

Amen.

So you have to say, lord, I believe, help me, get rid of unbelief, get rid of doubt, amen.

So he marveled at their unbelief.

So what's the cure for unbelief?

Read the next part of the verse, mark, chapter six.

It says and Jesus went about the cities and villages, teaching, teaching.

So jesus was a teacher, not just a healer.

So a lot of times people want you to quit teaching so they can get their healing, when really you need them to get their healing, so you can quit teaching.

So jesus was teaching.

Why was he teaching?

Because that's where faith comes from.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of god.

The moment you open your bible, come on, start reading it.

The devil knows he's in serious trouble, because that's where faith comes from.

Amen, in other words, to have faith in god.

But now, in the new covenant, because of the death and resurrection of Christ, we are told not just to have faith in God, but we are told to have faith in the blood of Jesus.

Believe in the power of the blood of Jesus, that it cleanses you from sin.

Come on, it opens heaven so you can fellowship with the Father God.

In other words, to have faith in God now, faith in what the blood of Jesus has done for you, but have faith that it does that in you and have faith that it actually causes the enemy and the devil to stop and his strategies against you.

Because your faith is in the blood redeemed, by the blood saved, by the blood overcome, by the blood blessed, because the blood I call it slinging blood everywhere.

In other words, I apply the blood by faith with my voice and my words.

So I faith in God, faith in the blood of Jesus, then I have faith in the name of Jesus.

Acts 316.

You can just speak.

The name of she, not just what, the way some people say Jesus, but his name, through faith in his name, has made this man whole made him strong.

In the name of Jesus, come on pain in your body.

Come on stuff coming against your mind.

You say Jesus, jesus, there's something about that name.

Come on that demons tremble when you say that name.

Jesus.

Come on, heaven opens when you say the name of Jesus.

So your faith in the name of Jesus Come on.

Spoken from the lips of a believer Woo, I said I tried to get.

I said spoken from the lips of a believer Whoo, I said I said spoken from the lips of a believer, when you say Jesus, jesus, jesus, come on, no matter what's coming against your mind or your life or your family.

In the name of Jesus, you have been given authority.

In the name of Jesus.

So in the name of Jesus, I plead the blood of Jesus to stop every strategy of the devil, every demon coming against my life.

In the name of Jesus, that fear has to go and sickness has to go, disease has to go.

Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I plead the blood of Jesus.

Amen.

Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I plead the blood of Jesus.

Amen.

Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

So faith in God, faith in God.

Come on now.

Have faith in God, have faith in God.

Have faith in God, I mean no, you can end a lot of conversations with just that phrase, right there, people keep talking.

That's my problem.

I'm here my job, I'm examine you go.

Could I say something?

Have faith in God.

Now, when I left home, went to my daddy, said there is a God and I'm not him, which basically meant he's not going to send me no money.

He's like you better go get you a job and you better get to work, because I ain't sending you no money.

Or he said you better learn how to have faith in God, because I will not be the source for the rest of your life.

Make God the source of your life instead of your daddy.

So, the El Shaddad, come on, get your eyes off the natural and look to your Heavenly Father.

Come on, come on, you got and look to your Heavenly Father.

Come on, come on, you got to know who your real daddy is.

Come on, god is my father.

I Said God is my father.

My natural dad is limited, but my Heavenly Father is unlimited.

Whoa Faith in God.

Smith Wigglesworth would say it this way my father, god, always takes care of me in grand style.

All right, let's try that one more time.

I think y'all already know this.

You've heard me a few times.

Everybody say my father, god, my father, god, always, always Takes care of me, takes care of me In grand style, me in grand style.

Lord, I believe.

Help me get rid of unbelief, because when you're talking lack and whining, you're basically accusing God of child abuse, but if you say he's my father, he always takes care of me in grand style.

Lord, forgive me for doubt.

Come on, when Peter was walking on the water, I mean that's a perfect story.

Matthew, chapter 14.

Matthew 14 · chapter mention

When Peter's walking on the water, that's a great story.

I love reading it to this day.

I still fascinated, because walking on the water is a real trick.

I mean you should try it sometime.

I mean I'd be pretty impressed.

Anybody could walk on the water.

I mean I'm like he's something.

I tell you that he walked on the water and so you know the storm's gone, lord, if that's you, and Peter jumps out of the boat, I think he probably jumped out before he thought about it.

You know he's like whoa.

What have I done?

So he's out there walking on the water and then what happened?

He saw waves and the storm, and the Bible says that he began to sink and he said what, lord, help me.

So you never pray long prayers.

When you're sinking like that, you never real.

Or father, although when you're sinking like that, you never go.

Or father, oh thou omnipotent, mighty God that has created the heavens and the earth, and that which all things are possible, my God, that the compassion.

And now they said, lord, help me.

How many ever said that?

I see a couple of y'all.

So, lord, help me, why I'm thinking man.

And so Jesus did what?

Of course he helped him.

He pulled him back.

So Peter actually walked on the water, try right.

And so he got him up and and, and here's what Jesus said.

Here's what Jesus said to Peter.

Y'all want to know what he said.

I mean, this is a great picture of Jesus, not really a religious picture, because a great religious picture is is, is Jesus, you know, like a good shepherd, and he's got a little lamb there and he's like but now this is another picture of Jesus, same Jesus.

And so Peter, then Jesus goes.

Why did you doubt?

I mean, you're like I'm the only one that got out of the boat.

I mean I should get some credit for that.

I'm the only one that got out of the boat.

And then you're like, could I at least have a hug or something?

I mean, could I have a hug, because it's very discouraging.

It's very discouraging.

And then everybody saw me sinking.

Can't you at least give me a hug?

I mean, can't you at least rebuke the other ones, because they didn't even get out of the boat?

Instead you say, why did you doubt, why did you die?

So Peter gives you a perfect picture of doubt, because Peter actually succeeded and failed.

So he gives you a picture of how to win and how to lose, right?

So he just took his eyes off.

Jesus started looking at the circumstances and the faith that was having him on top.

Now he's thinking what happened.

A lot of times, faith can just be defined by your focus, so the devil can distract you.

Then doubt comes in.

So when he was locked in to Jesus, man, he's walking.

But when he got distracted circumstances and feelings, whoa, come on and the doctor gives you a bad report.

And then you Google it.

That means some people have studied their disease.

Look, they'll name the disease after you if you would like that.

If they're like, we don't really have a name for this, what's your name?

Okay, we'll call it that, so they can name a disease after you.

You are a disease man, so a lot of times people study their disease more than they study their redemption, more than they study their redemption.

Are y'all still here?

You gotta get into the Word.

Come on and quit studying coronavirus.

I said you gotta in the Word and start saying ah, surely he has borne my griefs, my sicknesses, my diseases, and by his stripes I am healed.

Praise the Lord.

That's where faith comes from Hearing and hearing, amen.

Then to act on the word All right.

So have faith in God, faith in the blood, faith in the name, and then we have faith in the word of God.

Faith in God, faith in the word, and then we have faith in the indwelling Holy Spirit.

In other words, you've been born again, so the Holy Ghost lives in you, so you put him to work for you, so to speak.

How do you do that?

Have faith in the indwelling Holy Spirit.

In other words, you say Holy Spirit, I know you're in me, let's try this out over here.

Huh, yeah, I'm kind of quiet over on this side over here.

We need a couple of shouters over here anyway.

So you have, you have faith in the Holy Spirit.

So you have faith that the Spirit of God lives in you.

I said he lives in you.

He didn't come in and check in on Sunday.

Check out, you know, in churches over now.

He lives in you permanently, forever.

So you have faith that he lives in you.

So you say Holy Spirit, I know you're in me, you're my helper, my strengthener, my intercessor, my advocate.

Holy Spirit, you rise up on the inside of me.

Greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world.

Holy Spirit, I know you live in me.

Amen, amen.

So different scriptures help different people, but with my wife.

Romans 8, 11.

Yes, come on if you have a brain tumor that's inoperable and the neurosurgeon says you're gonna be paralyzed for the rest of your life.

But I got a word from God Come on, didn't come from the neurosurgeon.

I got a word from God.

Come on, didn't come from the neurosurgeon.

I got a word from God and it says the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of me and he gives life to my mortal body.

That was Trentus scripture.

Romans 8, 11 is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead Lives in me.

Come on, act like he's living in you.

Come on, he's living in you.

Come on, get a wild look on your face, like I got the spirit of God living on the inside of me.

I got the spirit of God, the Holy Ghost himself, living in me.

I got the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost himself, living in me and he does what.

He quickens my mortal body.

That means my blood, my bones, my liver, my kidneys.

Come on my heart, my lungs.

He quickens my mortal body, whoo, come on.

That means he heals my mortal body.

Praise the Lord Woo.

And the tumor disappeared.

Hallelujah, woo, woo, woo.

Go ahead and laugh for a minute, say ha ha, ha.

All right, let me try to give you a couple more scriptures here.

So you have faith in God.

Listen now, but not just in faith in God.

That's way up in heaven on the throne with angels flying around, holy, holy, holy.

Listen, because of the blood of Jesus and the new covenant.

You have faith in God.

That lives in you.

So your help ain't that far away.

Let's try that again.

I said your help ain't that far away.

Let's try that.

I say your help and that far away.

I said your help, your help a that far away.

Come on, just have faith in the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Now, why does it say Romans a 11, that he will quicken your mortal body?

Why does it say that?

I think it says that because many times people try to keep the Spirit of God in the work of God only in the spiritual realm.

Like he can help you in the spiritual realm.

But he don't just help you in the spiritual realm, he jumps in your body.

Once he quickens your body, you're like ooh, I'm wired man.

Come on, something's happening in my body.

I said something happened in my body, not just in my spirit, not just someday when I go to heaven, but right now.

Something is happening in my body, in my blood, in my bones.

Something's happening in my body right now.

Come on, life is flowing in my body.

Come on, healing is flowing in my body.

Come on, healing is flowing in my body.

Strength is flowing in my body right now.

My body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, amen.

Go ahead and laugh for me and say, huh, come on, look at somebody.

Something happening in my body right now.

Something's happening in my body right now.

What's happening in my body?

Not just in my spirit, not in just some eternal part of me, but in the me.

You see my body quicken.

Woo, all right, go to Mark 11, 23, because we're just now.

This is the introduction.

So when Jesus says to have faith in God in verse 23, jesus is gonna make it so simple that you need a theologian to get confused about it.

Say well, that guy, he got a PhD.

You know Well that means post-doctor.

Listen, care, whether he got a PhD or not.

Jesus got a PhD.

Come on, he created everything you can see.

So I heard what Jesus had to say about it.

Jesus said here is how faith works.

He said verily, I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass.

He shall have whatsoever he saith, whoo Amen.

Now, if you can get thrilled about that, I said, if you can get happy about that, come on, don't just leave it stuck in the Bible from 2,000 years ago.

Bring it out to your house and say let's put this thing to work around here.

So we call this the authority of the believer, which means you don't have to be a preacher.

You don't have to be a pastor, you don't have to be a bishop, you don't have to be a prophet.

You don't have to be a nonprofit.

You don't have to be a non-profit.

You don't have to be an evangelist.

You don't have to be on TV.

Come on now.

You don't even have to be good looking.

He said all you got to do is be a believer.

Do we have any believers?

I'm just wondering if I have any believers.

I mean, just being a believer makes you a pretty incredible influence in the world.

That immediately, when you have faith in God, you're no longer just a victim of whatever's going on around you, amen.

So Jesus said your authority as a believer operates through your words.

Or you can say through your voice.

Your authority as a believer operates through your voice or through your words, or you can say it this way if your faith is not strong enough to move your mouth, it will never move a mountain.

So a lot of times people have faith but they never release or exercise their faith.

So your faith has to be strong enough to do what Move your mouth.

So we call this the authority of the believer.

Now listen close On the authority of the believer.

I learned from Kenneth E Hagan, from Dad Hagan I've got big signs up in my office and my house that says go teach my people faith.

And it's a big sign at my office at house that says go teach my people faith.

And it's a big sign at my office at my house go teach my people faith.

I got that from kenneth hagen because he was healed of those diseases and then he learned how faith worked and so the lord jesus told him your assignment is to go teach my people faith.

And he said the lord actually told him don't preach on it, teach my people faith.

And he said the Lord actually told him don't preach on it, teach on.

He said I don't want you just hollering about it, I want you to teach people or explain how faith works so that anybody can do it.

So he would.

Dad Hagen would teach on faith so much I thought he ran out of sermon material because I mean I'm around a lot of preachers.

My dad's a pastor so we have hundreds of preachers coming through that church and the one I just liked the most was was kenneth, because he would just teach and he would teach you every day on a lot on faith and that was his assignment go teach my people faith.

And so dad hagan set me free from the fear of repetitionition is the mother of learning.

So repetition so many times.

Jesus would say didn't I tell you how many of y'all got kids?

Anyway?

Didn't I tell you, let's try this out over here, didn't I tell you?

Well, god's got kids, didn't I tell you?

So here's what Jesus said that whosoever shall say you know.

So Jesus telling you how faith works, we call this if are the believer.

Now here's what I learned from dad Hagen.

Y'all still with me here.

How many?

I'll give me?

Like five more minutes, no more.

How many I'll give me five minutes?

Are there's five, ten, fifteen, 15, 20, so all right.

So if y'all have to leave, we'll be back tonight at 6 o'clock.

If you have to leave, go get a sandwich.

You come back 6 o'clock tonight.

Is that right past 6 o'clock, all right?

So, so, so I'm have to listen to that, hey.

And I was 17 years old when I first started hearing him teach and he said if you're not happy with what you have in life, check out what you've been saying, not just at church.

You have whatsoever he says means.

Your words affect you every day.

So he said if you're not happy, what you have, check out what you think.

Well, I was 17.

I wasn't happy.

There's a lot of unhappy teenager.

I was 17.

I wasn't happy.

You don't have to wait till you're 40 to be unhappy.

You don't have to wait till you get married to be unhappy.

All the married people staring at me listen.

If you think marriage is gonna cure unhappiness, you have a few people you need to talk to Listen.

Only Jesus is going to cure your unhappiness.

So you better cure that yourself, because that woman or that man, he ain't going to cure it for you.

So the most difficult person I've ever had to deal with is myself, I think.

Well, was that President Roosevelt that said?

If you could find the person that's giving you the most trouble in life and kick them repeatedly in the seat of the pants, you would not be able to walk for a week.

So so the most difficult person you've ever dealt with, it's just look in the mirror and talk to yourself, say I'm, say I'm getting tired of your attitude, and then tell yourself don't look down while I'm talking to you.

Look at me and then say we have located the problem and it's you and it's right underneath your nose and it ain't your mustache, it's your mouth.

How many of you have get your mouth get loose on you?

Your mouth, your tongue, yeah.

And you said stuff.

And later on you're like well, I don't know why.

I said yeah.

And James, chapter 3, says your tongue is like no man can tame it, only God contain metal, right?

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Somebody said what good is it if you can talk in tongues and you're mean in English?

So so that one preacher.

He said we're gonna have all to call y'all, come and put your tongue on the altar, but Some of y'all train long enough for some of y'all anyway.

So so your tongue, your words, right.

And so Jesus said the speaking of the saying, part of faith, of the authority of believer, is not just an accessory, it is mandatory, right.

So if you don't learn your authority, believer, then you will be a victim of the devil.

And so I learned from dad Hagan this one thing and listen, it's amazing in his book called I believe in visions.

It's a book he had seven visions of Jesus and you can read the book and it says in one of those visions he's talking to Jesus about his life you know ministry and he's having a vision of Jesus and a demon jumps in the middle of that.

A demon, like he said, look kind of monkey like type of a demon, jumped in the middle of that.

A demon, like he said, looked kind of monkey-like type of a demon, jumped in the middle of it and started screaming and going, making all kinds of noise.

And so Jesus is still talking but he can't understand.

So he needs to hear what Jesus is telling him.

And that demon's screaming and making all this noise and he can't understand him.

So he's thinking why don't Jesus do something about that devil?

He said he kept waiting for Jesus to do something about that devil and he said I can't hear what he's got to say.

So Jesus didn't do nothing about the devil.

So finally Dad Hagin said I said to the devil you shut up and get out of here in the name of Jesus.

Demon fell down and ran off and now I can hear Jesus and he said Lord, why didn't you do something about that devil?

And he said the Lord told him, said I couldn't.

He said now, lord, I know you mean you wouldn't.

No, he said I couldn't.

He said after I was raised from the dead, I delegated my authority in the earth, to the church, to the believer.

So if you hadn't done something about that devil, I couldn't have.

So you have to get the book and read that chapter, because he said you have to give me four scriptures that prove that.

And so the Lord gave him four scriptures to prove it.

That if you hadn't done something about that devil, all right, let's try that again.

Let me just stand over here.

I need to stretch a little bit.

So y'all still with me here.

So a lot of us are waiting for God to do something about that, when he has delegated that authority to you, woo.

And so when Jesus teaches on the authority of the believer, he's just saying you have this authority, I've delegated it to you so that what you say to the mountain, the mountain will have to obey you.

So your words give you authority over devils and demons and evil spirits.

So when you resist the devil, he will run from you.

Come on.

Actually, when it says he'll flee from you means he will run in terror.

Come on, demons are literally afraid of you.

In other words, when you use your authority, come on now.

In the name of Jesus, in the blood of Jesus, through the power of the Holy Ghost demons tremble and run in fear.

Woo, come on, you don't have to let the devil dominate you.

You don't have to let the devil torment you and harass you.

In the name of Jesus, you have authority.

You gotta open your mouth and say something about it.

Woo, are y'all ready?

All right, let me try to finish this up, because this is an introduction here.

So tonight we'll try to give you point number two, all right?

So whosoever shall say, in other words, your authority, or you can say it this way if you're silent, the devil's just going to keep beating on you.

And when you get tired of it I said when you get tired of it instead of letting fear dominate you, come on Letting the enemy harass your mind with imaginations and thoughts, come on Anxiety.

But when you get tired of it, remember what you heard at church.

You don't have to put up with that.

In the name of Jesus, by the blood of Jesus, if you will say your voice or your words, by the blood of Jesus, if you will say your voice or your words, give you authority, he shall have whatsoever.

Whosoever shall have whatsoever.

Whoo, have whatsoever.

Whoa.

When you take God's Word and put it in your mouth, I call it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from God Jesus.

You take the Word of God put in your mouth and you sound just like God.

You know my older brother, his voice in my voice and my son.

Actually, they say there's a genetic connection between the sound of your voice, part of your identity, your voice.

I like to say your voice is your address in the realm of the spirit when you lift your voice, my, my perfect example is acceptor 16, verse 25.

So when you have and check out that video, act 1625, this is at midnight, paul, in silence, in prison, backed, bleeding, your hands down, feet down to, and at midnight, darkest hour, in pain, bleed.

This is a lifted their voice and began to sing praises to God.

And it says and the prisoners heard them and the power of God.

Anybody here believe in the power of God?

The power of God came down on their address, shook the whole prison.

Every door came open and the chains fell off and they walked out free.

I mean you wouldn't wanna be in the deepest part of prison and you start praising God and then you hear later that a prison across town had a breakout.

Now you're like God, you missed.

No, your voice is your address, in other words, the power of God came down to their exact location.

That power will come into your bedroom in the middle of the night, but come on, the power gotta come to your exact location.

And they lifted their voice, singing praises to God.

Thank you, jesus.

Imagine that.

Imagine what they could have been doing, complaining and whining and talking about how bad they felt and how they were hurt.

Come on, they could have done all that and sit at midnight they started singing praise to God.

Somebody said that's the highest kind of faith, right there, singing praise to God.

So I thought I imagine Paul and Silas.

And here we are in prison, hands bound, feet bound, dark prison, backs bleeding, and they could have said all right, devil, look like you did a good job.

You got me embarrassed, let me bow, I'm in pain, hands are bound, feet about.

But, mr Devil, you made one mistake.

You should have taped my mouth shut.

You made a big mistake.

You got my hands, you got my feet, you got me hurting.

But, mr devil, you made a big mistake.

You should have had some duct tape.

You should take my mouth shut, cuz long as I can move my mouth, I can move a mountain.

Long as I can move my mouth.

Come on, how many of y'all can still move your mouth?

Can you still move your mouth?

I said can you still move your mouth?

Surely you can move your mouth.

Come on.

When you can't move nothing else, you can move your mouth.

Ah, use your mouth, use your word, use your voice.

Start praising God.

Start singing praise to God.

Use your voice.

All right, stand on your feet and praise the Lord.

Come on, how many of y'all can still move your mouth?

Listen, if you're gonna live by faith and somebody said it this way God would not design a plan for your life that did not require faith.

And there's no such thing as unchallenged faith.

In other words, the enemy will challenge you as soon as you say it.

But if you'll hold fast, come on.

If you'll lift your voice, come on.

Speak in the word Giving praise to God.

Demons have to leave.

Amen.

The chains fall off.

Doors come open, come on, no matter what you're dealing with.

Amen Wigglesworth said any person can be changed by faith, no matter how they may be fettered or bound.

That means the devil cannot make a bondage.

Your faith cannot break off of you.

So when you have faith in God, everybody say this I have faith in God.

I have a measure of the God kind of faith.

I have the same spirit of faith.

I believe and I speak.

I believe and I say and I am a whosoever and I have whatsoever that I say I have faith in God, I have faith in the blood of Jesus.

I have faith in the blood of Jesus.

I have faith in the name of Jesus.

I have faith in the word of God.

I have faith in the indwelling Holy Spirit.

The greater one lives in me.

I will not be silent.

I lift my voice Jesus is my Lord.

I boldly declare Christ has redeemed me.

Jesus is my Lord.

I boldly declare Christ has redeemed me.

Jesus is my Lord.

Satan cannot dominate me.

Sin cannot dominate me.

Old habits cannot dominate me, sickness cannot dominate me.

Jesus is my Lord and I'm gonna say it.

I'm not gonna be quiet about it and I have what I say.

And demons have to flee and mountains have to move.

I have faith in God.

I am a believer, I'm not a doubter.

Come on, give the Lord a shout.