Faith - The Believer's Servant

Let's wave our bibles, lift them up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad.

And let's say this together say heavenly Father, we're so glad to be here today.

This is a strategic time.

Thank you for allowing me to be born and to live in this time.

We're committed to reaching our generation and we've got fresh revelation today about how to do that, how to walk with you and bear increasing fruit in Jesus' name, amen.

Let's turn to two places, both of them the gospels, mark, chapter four, and Luke 17.

I hope you enjoyed the series on El Shaddai, the God who's more than enough because he is.

And Mark, chapter four.

We'll start with verse 26.

And this is Jesus speaking.

He just got through delivering the parable of the so or so is the word, and in verse 26, he said so is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up.

He knoweth not how, for the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself.

First the blade, then the ear and then the full corn in the ear.

For when the fruit is brought forth or is ripe, my margin says immediately he who's?

He.

Is that God, no, the one that sowed the seed.

He put it in the sickle, for the harvest is come.

The whole kingdom operates on the seed sowing principle.

All right, and Luke 17,.

We pick it up in verse five.

Jesus is speaking to the apostles and what they said to them caused them to say.

In verse five the apostles said unto the Lord, increase our faith.

He must have made a demand on them that they could, didn't think they could do.

Lord, increase our faith.

And the Lord said if you had faith, as a grain of mustard seed, you might or you would see.

The word might is not really correct.

See, sometimes I have to tell you in the Bible you have, you have to dig in and there's really no English translation for that word.

That's there.

So it really means could.

You could say.

In other words, he's saying he's suggesting that they've got power to do something.

You know.

He said speak to the mountain, it would remove.

It didn't say might, said it would.

So you read this verse with that in mind so you don't don't get all confused like oh well, he might and he might not.

Well, it might not.

No, it's not.

It doesn't mean might, it would or it could.

You could say to this sickle mind tree be thou plucked up by the root and be planted in the sea, and it should know it would obey.

You Say let's read it correctly.

I mean, I know it says might and should, but that's not correct.

I'm telling you, read it for yourself.

Look it up.

You have to delve into the word.

You have to.

You can't just I can hear some preacher going on about the word of faith and saying I see it doesn't work all the time.

Yes, it works every time when you believe in your heart and speak with your mouth.

It worked for you to get saved.

So this is Jesus responding.

Lord, increase our faith, he said, if you've got faith in the grain of mustard seed, you say to this sickle mind tree be plucked up by the roots and be planted in the sea, and it will obey you.

Which of you having a servant now he goes into something that sounds looks like he's changing the subject, but he's not which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he has come from the field go and sit down to meet.

Go ahead, honey, go ahead and eat.

You've been working hard all day.

You're my servant, you sit down and eat, but would you not rather say unto him make ready wherewith I may sup and gird thyself, put on an apron and get me some chicken fried steak right now, and don't forget the gravy.

And I want a big old yeast roll about the size of a softball.

Mashed potatoes, green beans while you're at it, and don't forget the apple pie.

And if you're serving roars, put a big old piece of cheddar cheese on top of it.

He likes the sweet in the sour, you say.

Now you'll get the picture.

This is Jesus talking, not me.

He said if you got a servant, you're going to, you're going to, you're going to, you're going to prefer the servant.

No, you want the servant to serve you and then, after he has, after I've eaten and drunken, and afterward you shall eat and drink.

Does he think that servant?

Because he thinks?

Does he think he because he did the things that were commanded him?

I tro not.

That's one of the reasons I like the King James.

I tro not.

In other words, I don't think so.

No, he doesn't thank you.

No, he did what he's supposed to do.

He did what he was commanded to do.

This servant, everybody say the servant.

And who is he talking about me?

Well, partially, but let's, let's get into it.

So, likewise, when you have done all these things which are commanded you, you say we're unprofitable servants.

We have done that which was our duty to do.

So today, I wanted to share a message entitled faith, the believer's servant.

Faith, the believer's servant, boy, that's.

How did you get that out of that?

Well, I'm about to teach it to you, because we have a servant that God gave us, that will work for you, that will provide for you, that will feed you.

That I'm telling you.

You've got a servant.

Now, yeah, the servant does eventually have to get fed, absolutely.

I mean, what good?

I mean, you know, if you don't feed your servant, what's gonna happen to him?

Well, he's in the middle of the gravy.

I mean he's gonna faint.

He's got the chicken fried steak going and he faints because of lack of food and water.

And I mean you know, then you got a burnt steak.

No, you've got to keep him fed and hydrated.

But the point is he's working for you.

So when his disciples said and I'll tell you what it was in relation to they said Lord, increase our faith.

You've asked him to do, you told us to do something.

We don't have faith.

Lord, increase our faith.

Our faith isn't big enough to do that.

Lord, increase our faith.

He said no, you don't need any more faith.

You need to plant the faith you've got.

You need to use what you've got.

If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, now you know we get hung up on the mustard seed and the size of the seed.

And I just let's not get hung up on the size of the seed, because any seed is small compared to the trouble that you're speaking against.

It's small compared to the circumstances that have attacked you.

It's a seed, the bottom line of what Jesus is saying.

Faith is a seed planted with words.

He just got in Mark, chapter four.

That's what he taught them.

The sower soweth the word, the sower soweth the word.

So the whole kingdom operates in the seed sowing principle.

What was it that they were so upset about?

They didn't think they had enough faith to do.

He told them you know, if your brother offends you, forgiving, rebuking.

If he repents, forgiving.

See a communication.

Sometimes people don't know.

They stepped on your toe.

Why don't you tell them?

Somebody hurts your feelings, why don't you say so?

And if they say well, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that.

Well, okay, no problem, it's good.

Is it good between us?

Yeah, it's good, see, we just let things go, we don't do anything.

Well, that's not God to do that.

Have all this covered up, phony baloney.

Our love should be without dissimulation, without fake, and love is not an emotion, love is a decision, love is a spiritual force.

God is love.

We talked about that last week and so.

And then he said you know, if your brother offends you seven times in a day and repents, you, forgive him Seven times in a day.

And one gospel says 70 times, seven, 490 times in a day.

Same thing.

And they said Lord, increase our faith.

He said, no, you don't need any more faith.

You need to plant the faith that you've got.

You need to speak, you need to say the word.

Are y'all with me now?

Yes, you know, without Satan, this natural world would operate the same way.

I mean, one seed would produce forever.

One seed, see.

But the devil is here.

The devil has taken over.

The devil is over all of the lost people, and I think we've been redeemed and we've been transferred out of his kingdom.

We're no longer under the heel of Satan.

But the rest of the world is all those people attacking Israel.

They're under the heel of the devil.

They're doing what their father does.

Their father hates Jews, their father hates Christians.

It's the antichrist spirit.

We're here to stop that or to hinder that, and that's what we're going to do tonight.

We're going to have a prayer meeting about it.

Same spirit and so.

But one seed would produce forever.

You know I like the story about the man, the retired guy.

You know he lived in a subdivision, had a vacant lot and you know how it happens.

A lot of times the homeowner association is real big on you and not flying an American flag or real big on you.

I don't know if you live in one of those kind of subdivisions.

We've got a bunch of crazy people in charge of homeowners associations and I mean they don't let you do what you should be able to do in your own home.

You know they're nuts, but anyway I digress.

So he, you know he had this vacant lot and it was overgrown with weeds and you know thorns and it was ugly.

You know, when you got varmints living in there, I saw a dead deer on the side of 1960, right up against the champion's golf course wall.

The other day we got animals running around out here.

Somebody hit that deer.

I bet it wasn't a blessing.

It wasn't a blessing to the deer either.

But he decided to take out on as a project.

He cut all those weeds by himself, he whacked on it and worked on it, you know, and finally over a period of time he turned it into a beautiful English garden.

It had hedges, it had rose bushes, it was just manicured.

I mean he'd take his scissors out there and clip, and you know it was just beautiful.

And he was standing out there by the sidewalk one day just got through, finish, you know, finishing, maintaining it, because it took a lot to maintain the thing.

He's doing it by himself.

He just loves his neighborhood.

He's out there, and so these two ladies are standing on the curb and, oh, look at this beautiful English garden that God gave us.

And he turned and said well, you should have seen it when he had it by himself.

It takes action to change things because of the devil and demon powers.

I mean, if it weren't for that, I mean one seed would just all you'd have to do is speak one time and that would be the end of it it would produce.

But no, he's here, he's trying to steal, kill and destroy.

You know, that's what Jesus said.

There's the stolen word, there's the.

You know all those different cases of the crop failures.

The devil comes immediately to steal the word out of your heart.

You sow it in there, but you don't really sow it.

It just throw it out there and you don't bury it, you don't plant it.

And then you have the scorched word.

The heat of circumstances bakes it out and it just becomes unfruitful.

The strangled word.

It grows for a while it's looking really good.

And then the cares of this world, of the seedfulness of riches, the lust of other things, entering in, entering into what your heart chokes, the word, the strangled word.

But finally you have the successful word that produces 30, 1600 fold.

So he's saying to them you don't need more faith, you need to put, you need to plant the faith you've got.

Now.

Faith has been given to every believer.

In fact, it's worth turning over to Romans 12, romans 12, verse three.

This is Paul preaching to the church and he's telling the church, you know, to do three things.

First of all, he said present your bodies.

You've got a body, you've got to do something with it, present it, in other words, make it obey the word.

You've got to discipline your flesh.

Then he said be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Every one of us has got a mind and you've got to do something with your mind.

It's not going to happen automatically.

You've got to discipline your mind to think the thoughts of God, renew your mind to God's way of thinking.

That's one of my job descriptions is to inform your thinking about things that are going on.

Plus, in the word and in the world, they'll let you see a worldview that's biblically influenced.

There's a lot of pastors and churches that are off the rails.

They don't think about these things.

I think about them constantly, especially when I wake up or when I went to bed last night with all this going on in Israel.

So verse 3, romans 12-3, and he's pretty bold in what he says.

He says, for I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man or every person that is among you, and no exceptions, in the church, every church, every person that counts themselves as a believer, in other words, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, or to sobriety, or to think accurately According, as God has given to every person, every believer, the measure of faith.

We were all given this gift.

When were we given it to?

When we got saved.

We couldn't have been saved except God gave us the faith to get saved.

That faith was a seed that we spoke and we said Jesus is the Son of God.

I believe Jesus is my Lord and we believe that God raised him from the dead in our heart.

And you had to have enough faith to get saved and you didn't have it.

God gave it to you.

So every believer has that measure of faith.

I don't know how big it is or how small it is, but I know one thing the new birth is probably the greatest miracle you'll ever see.

So you can see.

Then it's kind of silly to worry about how much faith you've got.

Let's plant the faith we've got.

We know we've got that much faith.

Do you constantly?

Are you constantly concerned about whether you're saved or not?

No, I mean, you know you're saved.

You know down in your knower you're saved.

I mean, if I were able to beat you into a greasy spot, the greasy spot, and say I'm saved, I'm on my way to heaven, glory to God.

In fact, I'm going there right now Amen.

Well, we need to be equally developed in all the other things.

We need to be equally developed in our faith for healing and for deliverance and for safety and for provision All of those things that Jesus blood is equally paid for.

We need to get our faith involved and then when we have success, we shouldn't be tapping ourselves on the back and saying, man, I've got it all together.

Man, I have some kind of motor scooter.

Now we ought to have a testimony, but the testimony ought to all be about praising God and giving God all the credit and all the praise for the things that we have been able to do with the faith he gave us.

When we serve God acceptably, we serve God successfully.

And you know, things work.

I mean, yeah, we rejoice, but not because we've been successful, because he gave it to us.

That's what he's talking about.

Do you think the servant deserves a bunch of thanks for doing what he was commanded to do?

See, jesus thinks about things a little differently than we do.

We want a participation trophy.

You know how your kids go, and they play these sports especially.

You know if you waste your time with the YMCA, it's almost a waste.

I mean, they don't even teach kids what the rules of the sport are, they just oh, we don't care about who scores, we don't care about who wins the game.

Really, why are you out here?

Don't get me started.

But we every child gets a participation trophy, whether they were last place where they every game, they got beat 55 to nothing.

I mean, you know the T-ball team.

You know run after run after run after run, and they don't score anything.

They can't even hit the ball off the tee.

I know none of you have ever seen a game like that, but I have.

I've seen games like that.

It's no fun to go watch it.

You know why?

Because there's a winner and a loser, but the losers get a participation.

Oh, I got a trophy for losing.

Oh, raise the Lord, I got a trophy for just showing up.

You know, give me, give me a lot of praise.

No, jesus said no, I don't think so.

I don't think so.

No, he's expecting us to bring forth fruit.

He's expecting us to do what we've been commanded to do.

He has set us in this earth right now, at the time of that we're witnessing, to make a difference.

Amen.

Turn to your neighbor and say I'm making a difference, praise God.

So, throughout the gospel, jesus is looking for faith.

He's going around, you know, in his own hometown he could there do no mighty work.

Why?

Because they had, you know.

He marveled that they're unbelief.

He noted that they had unbelief, he marveled at it.

But then, the other place where he marveled, he marveled at the centurion.

He said I have not found so great a faith.

No, not in Israel.

This centurion was just fine, with Jesus speaking.

Just speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.

Oh, I marvel at that.

I have not found so great a faith.

The syrophoenician woman I, a woman great as thy faith.

The devil's gone out of that daughter.

How is it that you have no faith?

Where is your faith?

Oh, ye of little faith.

You know Jesus is measuring faith.

He's looking for faith all the time.

So, yeah, there is such a thing as little faith, big faith, great faith.

But I'm telling you, no matter what you're facing, don't be worried about how big or little your faith is.

Plant the faith you've got.

It's a seed that will bring forth.

Are you with me now?

So he said it's not the size of the faith in the beginning, it's whether you plant the faith you have as a seed, and so faith is a seed planted by words.

Faith is a seed dug up by words.

You can dig your faith up.

You planted it.

You planted it, but then, five minutes later, you dug it up.

Now what?

Well, it means you got to start over.

Don't quit Just because you don't know how to manage your mouth.

Welcome to the club.

I mean, there's a lot of people don't know how to manage it.

It takes a long time to get the hang of speaking correctly according to the word.

James said that in your tongue he called your mouth.

A tongue, he said in your tongue, is a world of iniquity.

You can set a forest fire with a tongue.

Burn everything out, burn it up.

Well, if there's that much power for the destruction, just think about how much power there is for construction.

Let's look at it on the other side of that same coin.

Are y'all getting this now?

Faith is the believer's servant.

Each one of us have been given the measure of faith.

We all have faith in our heart, and all we need to do is plant it toward the thing that we're facing.

Speak to the mountain.

So I talked about when the seed is planted.

You know, the Bible says that it you sleep and rise night and day and the seed should spring up.

You know it not.

How See, they didn't know the mechanics soil mechanics, seed mechanics.

They didn't go to A&M and major in agricultural science.

I went to A&M and I didn't major in agricultural science.

I planted a garden one time and I planted watermelon's neck to cucumbers and all my watermelon's tasted like cucumbers.

I didn't know any better.

Talk about useless.

I mean I took them out and used them for target practice.

It's kind of fun shooting a water.

No, you haven't, I know you haven't.

But when it's planted it goes down in the ground and it germinates.

That seed is got.

You've got to have moisture in there, and if you've got enough moisture in the soil, that seed I mean it's amazing it shoots roots downward and little blade upward.

First the blade.

You see the blade, but you don't see the roots.

The roots are down there.

You dig that thing up, you'll see it.

I mean it's darting to grow after just a little while.

Different seeds take a little different time germination First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn, and then you watch, is it ripe?

I didn't have.

I had corn in that garden and I mean they were about six inches, little, old, bitty, measly little ears.

That was too much shade in my backyard.

It wasn't enough sun back there.

I knew zero as a college graduate about gardens and so I proved it out that I didn't know what I was doing.

So they look pretty good.

I peeled one.

I had three ears of corn on this stalk of corn.

One stalk of corn, that's all.

I had One stalk of corn With three ears on it.

That's my crop.

I pulled.

I couldn't wait.

I said, oh, I bet it's got to be, it's got to be.

I pulled it off, shucked it and it's green slime.

I waited another week and I pulled the second one off.

That leaves me one.

Now, see, I'm down to two.

I pulled the second one off, opened it up and it's just kind of a little better but not worth eating.

And finally, after another couple, I waited another two weeks so that's a whole month and I peeled that third one off and it wasn't any good.

I had a complete crop failure because I didn't wait for what.

I didn't wait for it to be ripe.

I didn't know when it was ripe.

But the kingdom operates the same way.

Listen, don't get in a hurry.

I mean God won't let you know when you've got a harvest coming.

Now I mentioned having to hydrate and feed your servant.

What do you do?

I mean you know, otherwise a servant faints or dies.

So what do you do with your servant?

Faith, where your faith can be fed the Word of God and can be watered with the same seed.

Isaiah 55 said as the rain from heaven and the snow comes down and waters the earth, that it may bring forth and bud, so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth, it'll accomplish what I please, it'll prosper in the thing where too, I sent it, isaiah 55.

So the Word is both seed and water.

Maybe you've heard this message before because I have preached it before.

It's been a while, but I've preached it before.

You might have heard it.

Well then it's water, for what you heard, it's water in the seed that's already in there, and then it might be new information.

You might get something a little different out of it.

Well, now it's seed.

Now Are y'all getting this now?

So you're feeding your faith.

Faith cometh by what Hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

Hearing means understanding.

I mean sometimes it takes over and over before someone understands what they're hearing.

A lot of times it just goes in these ears here.

It doesn't ever make it down in your heart.

Your faith is only fed by getting the Word down in your heart where you planted.

It's not planted up here, it's planted down here.

So, fed and hydrated properly, your faith will work 24 seven to bring to pass those things that you said.

As I said, don't get all puffed up.

When things work for you, don't get all puffed up.

That doesn't mean you don't testify, absolutely testify.

Bragg on God, bragg on what he did, and testify and encourage other people.

I faced a similar situation a few years ago and God gave me the victory, see, I mean, let's not be embarrassed to brag on God, brag on the Word, but be careful about bragging on yourself and how skillful you are.

So you know, one time I was in Galveston.

I go there several times a year to just get away and pray.

I ran a hotel room, look out over the gulf, and sometimes I know why I'm there, Sometimes I don't.

And God has a habit of speaking to me and showing me things you know out there that I've never seen before.

It's kind of a running sort of a tongue in cheek joke with me and the Lord.

I said what you gonna show me this time?

And he doesn't do it every time, especially now, after it's been so 30, almost 35 years, I've been doing that several times a year.

I used to do it once a year and then God said you need to be here at least every quarter.

So I've been trying to go four times a year, tougher and tougher, to make the time to go four times a year, but I try to.

Anyway, this particular time I was sitting on the seawall, which is 15 foot above sea level, looking out over the gulf and just praying in tongues and just looking at the waves.

This particular day it was rough and wind was blowing out of the south, right in your face, and the surf was brown and white Caps and foam.

I mean big waves hitting, you know, and rough out out.

There had some white caps out in the gulf, which is pretty rough.

And here's this guy and I'd never seen one before.

But this guy was sitting on the beach right in front of me, to my right kind of right there, and I'm sitting here, I'm above him, you know, 15 foot, looking down on him to his back and he's getting ready to launch his kayak into the surf.

I thought, kayak in the surf?

Are you nuts?

Are you from the Great Lakes or something?

Where are you?

I mean, maybe Lake Conroe, but the gulf, like today.

And so he got it all you know, launched it and got out there with his little paddle and starts paddling.

Well, you know, the waves hit, came breaking over the bow and hit him full in the face.

Bam, you know.

And he just kept going and I'm kind of chuckling watching the guy.

I wondered when he's gonna quit, when is he gonna turn and figure out?

This was not the greatest idea, but he didn't.

He just kept on going, bam, bam.

And I couldn't see that he had goggles on.

He was facing the other way but I couldn't tell that he had goggles on me.

You know, salt water hits you in the face.

I mean, after a while it burns and it's you know.

You taste it and it's in your nose.

It's just not very pleasant.

But anyway, he just kept on.

He got out even with the edges of outward of the jetties and it started just moderating a little bit as far as breaking.

He was going more like this and I thought surely he'll quit.

I mean, cause this dangerous out there.

It's got all kind of tides and you can get in a rip tide and that thing could take you out miles out of the Gulf.

They go straight out, rip tides do, and if he unfortunate enough to get on one, he's liable to wake up in Tampico.

In fact I wondered if that's where he's headed.

You going to?

You know, you going to Mexico?

I mean, where are you going?

Veracruz?

I'm headed to Veracruz and he'd get out there and he would disappear and I was watching.

You know, further out he got than the flatter that is.

You know I'm 15 foot above him but he get way out there.

It's really looked like he's even with my eyesight he's not, but it looks that way and I'll all side of him.

He'd go down in the bottom of the trough and then he'd pop back up, go down the bottom and pop back up.

He's still going, never stop.

And I'm laughing, I'm just laughing.

When is he going to quit?

I kept thinking about when's he going to quit and the Holy Ghost spoke to my heart.

He said that's a picture of your faith.

Your faith is working 24 seven.

It doesn't pay any attention to the tide, it doesn't pay any attention to the waves, it doesn't pay any attention to the wind.

It works 24, seven, until it brings you results.

Oh, come on, lift your hand.

I mean when you sleep.

You don't have to, you don't have to stay up all night long.

You're if you spoke against that mountain, I'm telling you those words are working all night long, all day long.

Yeah, when you're awake, add to it.

I mean hydrate your servant.

Yeah, go ahead and keep.

See.

The speak means a systematic discourse.

You're going to have to keep on speaking.

Are y'all with me now Talking about faith and believer server Glory to God.

Jesus put it this way in John 15, seven.

He said if my words abide in you, first of all, he said, if you abide in me, if you abide in me, well, legally we are in Christ, aren't we Minute?

We were saved.

The Holy Ghost baptized us into Christ.

We became one with him.

That's legally.

But legal has the other side, is the vital side or the functional side, and I mean, how are we in Christ?

Or when we're conscious of being in Christ?

That would tell me that you need to be in the word.

If you're not in the word, you're legally in Christ.

But you're not really functioning like it.

You forget, you tend to just live your life in the natural.

You tend to live your life by feelings and emotions.

You tend to live your life in response to circumstances.

I'm not saying you shouldn't respond to them, but I mean, if you're really in the word, you're kind of ready for anything that happens anyway.

It doesn't shock you when the devil throws a hand grenade.

Oh, it's you, devil here, I'll throw it back If you abiding me.

And he said my word abides in you.

Well, his word abiding you is the measure of your obedience to it.

So he was commanded the disciples to forgive when their brother offended them and they said, lord, increase our faith.

They did not.

They did not.

They did not, they did not.

They didn't feel capable of obeying that.

You know, sometimes we just tend to think when we face a giant, when we face a trouble, when we face something coming at us you know, when we face a doctor's report or we face a financial report, or we get a bill from the IRS, we tend to think, oh, how is this going to work?

We feel like we don't have the faith to overcome it.

We start trying to cram for the finals.

You know what I mean by cramming for the finals.

That's when you go to school and you don't look at the book, you don't crack a book, you don't prepare yourself, and when the finals come up, then all of a sudden you spend all day and all night two or three nights trying to cram all the information that you missed all semester so that you can pass the final.

And how did that work for you?

I can tell you it didn't work for me very well, especially in math Forget about it Organic chemistry.

No, you can't cram for the final if you haven't been keeping up all semester.

So we need to keep up.

In other words, we need to abide in him and his word abides in us.

Then we will ask what we will and it shall be done for us.

The word ask means to make a demand.

We can make a demand on our covenant and say God, I have head, said, coming on this subject.

The doctor says this, but he said, said I'm healed.

Oh, come on, lift your hands.

Right, your faith is your servant and if you'll feed your say, you can't wait till the trouble happens.

Start trying to feed your faith.

You ought to be feeding it every day.

You ought to be watering your faith every day.

Your servant needs water and food.

Give your servant food and nourishment and water hydration every day, so that when things come up, oh, your servant is ready to go to work.

Glory to God.

I hope you're getting this now, Hallelujah.

So three things before I close, this little encouragement Just think about El Shaddai.

Think about how great he is and he's given you the means by which you can access this power, this power.

You turn the switch of faith on and the power of God flows.

Think about the power of God.

Think about the power of God flowing through Abraham and Sarah.

Think about the power of God flowing toward Mephibosheth.

Brought him out of Lodibor, set him at the king's table, fed him with the king's meat, gave him all the wealth of his grandfather and his father.

Oh, talk about power.

All right, three things.

Number one doubt your doubts.

Your brain is going to have doubts in it.

You're going to have doubts when you face any kind of trouble.

I mean whatever it is, whether it's health, whether it's a bad doctor's report, a bad diagnostic report, whatever it is, you know, financial report, trouble in your marriage, trouble with your children, trouble in your home, trouble in the nation, trouble in Israel, I mean there's all kind of trouble, and we can start to doubt and listen.

Faith will work in your heart.

With doubt in your head, don't.

And when that doubt starts coming, do you cast it?

No, I don't believe that.

I believe it'll be just even as it was told me.

God told me this right here.

I believe it will be even as he said.

Number two believe in your heart that what you say comes to pass.

Now I want to say that again, because we're told in the Bible to believe what God said.

Believe in our heart what God said will come to pass.

But what we're saying is what God said.

So God's Word in your mouth will do the same thing as God's Word in His mouth.

It will prosper in the thing where to it is sent.

It will accomplish what you please.

So believe that what you say comes to pass.

Believe it in your heart.

When you believe it in your heart, you're going to do what You're going to act like it comes to pass.

Act like what you say comes to pass.

Wait a minute, that's not.

I'm supposed to act like the Bible is true?

Well, yeah, but you're speaking the Bible in your mouth.

You're speaking that Word, faith is your servant.

You need to believe that your servant is going to bring things to pass for you.

You need to act like it's so, because you're speaking what God said.

But then also you know it'll help you talk right when you listen to yourself speak and you check up on your heart.

Do I believe what I just said is going to come?

No, I pray a crop failure on what I just said.

Children of Israel said we be not able to.

The giants are too big.

The walled cities are too high.

They walled the cities way up to heaven.

We be not able.

See, they dug their faith up and they didn't go in.

And they made God mad and they said you're not going in.

Then they tried, they changed their mind, tried to do.

It Doesn't work.

Are y'all with me now?

Doubt your doubts.

Believe in your heart that what you say comes to pass.

And number three hydrate your faith.

Hydrate your crop.

See, you got a crop growing right.

Jesus said when you speak, your seed goes in the ground and it starts to grow.

So hydrate it, water it.

Praise God before you even see the blade come up.

When you see the blade come up, praise God for the full corn.

Praise God that it belongs to you because you've spoken it and you believe it'll come to pass.

So you start praising God for the results.

Hallelujah, glory to God.

Your servant will produce.

Amen, faith of believer.

Servant, you get anything out of this today.

Come on, lift your hand and receive the word today.

Glory to God.

Thank you, lord, that you've given us the measure of faith.

And Lord, for certain, you know when you know that you need to grow in faith.

Well, we ought to be just doing that all the time anyway.

You don't have to wait to attack the problem with your faith that you have.

That's my point.

Don't wait.

Start speaking against it right now.

Amen, glory to God.

Thank you, lord.