Special Guest: Mark & Trina Hankins, Sunday AM

Let's just welcome Pastor Mark to come up and do whatever God has put in his heart to do.

Thank you, pastor.

You're coming down.

Praise the Lord, love you too.

Good morning everybody.

While we are glad to be back, this is kind of one of our favorite places in the world to come, and we love your pastors, pastor John and Gladys.

They're two of the finest pastors in the whole world.

Hey, man, teaching the word, preaching the word, and so we're very honored to be back here with them.

Praise the Lord.

And what a blessing.

Praise God.

Wow, let's see how y'all doing this morning.

You all, okay, amen.

I saw some of y'all rejoicing and dancing and some of y'all smiling, some of y'all just staring, some of y'all hadn't woke up yet.

Wow, praise the Lord.

We flew in here last night.

I think we were preaching in Tulsa.

Wow, we had an explosion in Tulsa and Kenneth Hagin camp meeting.

And then tonight we'll fly to Fort Worth Kenneth Copeland's camp meeting.

We'll be preaching there at Southwest Believer.

Then where are we going?

After that?

Virginia, after that.

Before that we were in New Mexico.

So I'm glad to be in Texas.

I finally made it.

You know there's two kinds of people, right, those who are Texans and those who wish they were Texans Amen.

One guy said I'm not a Texan, but I got here as soon as I could.

There you go.

So we love Texas, praise the Lord and this church and your pastors, very, very kind and generous to us as we travel around the world.

And just about two weeks we are going to Turkey and do a pastors conference in Istanbul, turkey, and we will be having pastors from Iran, from Iraq, from Afghanistan and from Turkey.

So we have two of our books, one translated into Turkish, one into Farsi.

They've already been distributed in Iran and Iraq and so they've had this pastors conference, you know, going on for a year or two and kind of been small.

You know less than 100 pastors, but this year they're expecting over 500 pastors to come from Iran, iraq, afghanistan, and well, that's a good way to shut the devil down.

It doesn't get pastors full of faith and full of the Holy Spirit.

And so we'll be going there to Turkey just a couple of weeks and wow, praise the Lord.

So I've been to Istanbul before but not been there to do a pastors conference.

So it'll be our first time to do a ministers conference in Turkey, praise God.

And Trenna said, you know, the people groups that are coming from Iran, iraq, afghanistan and from Turkey are the original people groups that were there on the day of Pentecost.

Alright, that's right, one of the original people groups that were on the day of Pentecost that were there.

I mean, we'll have another day of Pentecost there.

And I ran Iraq and wow, wow.

So the leaders there that have been there for a while, you know they just had a terrible, terrible earthquake.

They just totally leveled cities and hundreds of thousands of people were killed, just probably what less than a year ago maybe, had a terrible earthquake, and so they're believing God for really the gospel of Christ, the name of Jesus, and people are hurting the way that they're hurting, that there'll be a great, great time for the Word of God and for the Holy Spirit in Turkey.

So y'all can pray for us.

Amen, and your partnership and your giving today will be a part of that conference.

Amen.

So we thank you.

Thank you for what you've done many times and what you still do.

Praise the Lord.

Thank you and your pastor.

I noticed his shoes this morning and he got looks like a little more comfortable pair of shoes.

They're kind of like blue with a little bit of brown on the back.

And then I saw he had a new car that was like purple.

I must say I've never had a purple car in my life.

I'm kind of boring.

Most of my cars or trucks are either white or they're black.

It was like white, black, white, black.

And then he pops out he says I would never want a white or black car, I don't know.

I hope they don't start making them in pink.

I think he would show up with a pink Cadillac.

Just don't start selling Mary Kay, anyway.

But well, you got a story.

Well, you got a smart pastor.

I'm telling you he's really smart I mean, I don't go much for some of his choices in shoes, but smart and not only preaches the Word of God but takes a stand for what is right in America.

Come on, what is right in America in the scripture.

It don't matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat.

You got to agree with Jesus, amen.

You got to agree with the Bible, no matter what you are, amen.

And so I really appreciate his boldness doing that.

And Jay and Selena, and what a blessing.

Praise the Lord.

Well, you know, let me tell you about these books real quickly.

Here we brought a bunch of books and CDs and stuff like that.

Everything's half price.

While we're here, this is the newest book we have called Feed your Faith, and this is 50 years of quotes.

50 years mainly of my quotes.

50 years of quotes on faith and who you are in Christ, on redemption, on the blood.

50 years of quotes.

So it's really easy to read.

All you got to do is open it up, you know, and you'll find one page.

And here's a quote right here.

This is one of the quotes the Lord gave me years ago and it says the Word of God, the Word of God Was spoken before it was written.

And where I got that from is it says you should not live by bread alone, but everywhere the procedure out of the mouth of God.

In other words, the Word didn't come out of God's pen, it came out of God's mouth.

When you take God's Word, put it in your mouth, we call that mouth to mouth resuscitation.

They may put the word in your mouth, breathe in the faith of God, you know, in the life of God.

So here's one of the quotes.

The Word of God was spoken before it was written and it's written to what could be spoken.

All right, let's try it again.

Word of God was what Spoken before it was written and it was written so it could be spoken.

In other words, the Bible or the Word of God works better when it has a voice.

All right, we'll try that.

I said the Word of God works better when it has a what Voice?

In other words, in the beginning God said and then he saw.

In other words, sound came before sight.

All right, we'll try that again.

In the beginning, god said, then he saw.

Then he said, then he saw.

Then he said, then he saw.

A lot of times people want to change a scenery, but God says you have to have a change of sound.

Are y'all still here?

In other words, people want to change your scenery, but sound came before sight.

If you change your sound, it'll change your scenery.

All right, we'll try that one more time.

Some of y'all just stare.

I said if you change the sound, it'll change your scenery.

In other words, the authority of the believer is in your voice.

Jesus said you say and you say and you say, and you have what you say Amen.

So the Word of faith, the Word of God, will take the whine out of your voice.

All right, it'll take the whine out of your voice.

It'll take the complaining out of your voice.

It'll take the victim out of your voice, the word of faith.

It'll put victory in your voice.

Come on, put praise in your voice.

When you lift up your voice and start praising the Lord, it will change the scenery in your life.

When you change your sound, amen.

And so lifting up your voice, speaking the Word of God, but also praising God with His Word and speaking that Word, and so your faith in God, if you want to live by faith, you know we've been saved by faith, but the Bible says that faith is the victory.

So you overcome by faith, amen.

So if you want to live by faith, the initial act of faith is the speaking part of faith.

In other words, if your faith is not strong enough to move your mouth, you'll be saved by faith.

I said, if your faith is not strong enough to move your mouth, then it'll never move a mountain.

In other words, the initial act of faith is the saying or the speaking part of faith.

That's actually how you got saved.

Come on, the word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart, the word of faith that we preach.

That, if I shall confess with your mouth, jesus is Lord.

Believing your heart, god raising from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart man believes under ice.

With the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.

In other words, your confession actually precedes the experience of salvation and the law of that confession is a man or a believer confesses they have a thing before they consciously possess it.

All right, we'll try that one more time.

I said the law of confession or the law of faith is that a person confesses they have a thing before they consciously possess it.

Matter of fact.

God will call you things that there's no evidence it exists.

All right, we'll try this.

I said God will call you things there's no evidence it exists.

He'll call you saved, he'll call you healed, he'll call you blessed, he'll call you victorious, amen.

And he even called Gideon a mighty man of valor when he was the greatest defeat failure you've ever seen in your life.

But God said you are a mighty man of valor.

If God says you're a champion, then you are a champion.

If God says you're victorious, you might as well just start agreeing with God and put the word in your mouth, open your mouth and just say I'm agreeing with God, and so the saying or the speaking part of faith is what you would call the initial act of faith.

All right, we're going to try that one more time, because some of y'all just kind of staring at me.

All right, that's all right.

I'm looking right back at you.

The law of that confession of faith where Paul said to hold fast to your confession, don't turn loose of it.

Dad Hagen said even if failure is walking in front of you and is on all four corners, you hold fast to your confession of faith.

What is that confession?

I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus.

I've been washing that blood.

I'm a new creature in Christ.

Old things have passed away, everything is new.

Jesus is my Lord.

Come on now.

Victory is mine.

Come on, I'm blessed coming in, blessed going out.

I'm redeemed by the blood.

In other words, the saying part of faith.

All right, we're going to try to make this real simple, because actually Jesus said anybody can do it.

Let's try it one more time.

I'm going to make this real simple because Jesus said what Anybody can do it.

I met some ignorant people in my time, but Jesus said anybody can do it.

So I'm telling you I've met some difficult cases come on, the most difficult cases.

But Jesus said whosoever.

That means you don't have to have a million dollars in the bank, you don't have to be good looking, don't look at anybody right now.

I said you don't have to be, you don't have to have a PhD.

Jesus said whosoever.

Anybody can do this, whosoever shall.

What say so saying is what the initial act of faith, his mountain beer movie cast.

They should not doubt it.

I believe those things.

He's Seth, he'll have whatsoever.

He says so, whosoever shall have whatsoever.

Whosoever shall have whatsoever.

Amen.

That means your faith in God, your faith in the Word of God, your faith in the blood of Jesus, your faith in the name of Jesus, your faith in the power of God, your faith in the indwelling Holy Spirit, your faith in God.

Faith works the same in every area of life Amen.

Once you understand how faith works, it works the same.

It'll work the same in your body.

It'll work the same on your finances.

It'll work the same on your family.

It'll work the same in every area of life.

That whosoever shall have whatsoever.

He says Amen, amen.

So once your faith is strong enough, no matter how you feel, let's try it again.

I said no matter how you feel, faith comes first, then feelings will have to show up later.

I said faith comes first, feelings have to show up later, no matter how you feel, your voice of faith, your faith in God, your faith in the blood of Jesus, the moment that moves your mouth, it is that confession that always produces possession.

I said it will always bring you to a possession.

In other words, in the kingdom of God operates by certain spiritual laws, and one of those laws is the law of faith, and a part of the law of faith is the law of confession of faith.

Our words of faith are the same part of faith.

So the devil can't kill you anytime he wants.

He doesn't have that kind of authority.

Come on, he has to get ahold of your mouth before he could whip you.

But if you say devil, you ain't getting my mouth.

I'm gonna say the Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want Hallelujah, amen, in other words, a saying part of faith.

And really there's something about your voice, your voice, that is your identity, In other words, your fingerprint, your eye print and your voice print.

Let's try it one more time.

I said your fingerprint, come on.

Your identity, your eye print and your voice print are unique to you as an individual.

So when you lift your voice, you just showed up on God's radar.

When you lift your voice, god said I got you, I know where you're at right now.

In other words, the power of God comes to your address.

That your voice is your address in the realm of the Spirit.

All right, we're gonna try that one more time.

I said your voice is your address in the realm of the Spirit.

When you lift your voice, come on.

The book of Psalms, chapter five, says in the morning I will lift up my voice to God, amen.

That's why we do more than clapping.

In other words, praise comes out of your mouth, come on.

Praise comes out of your mouth.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, come on.

So the saying part of faith is you lift up your voice, that's your address.

So the illustration I've used for years Acts, chapter 16, when Paul and Silas were in prison.

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Acts, chapter 16, verse 25,.

Acts 16:25

Paul and Silas were in prison.

And what happened At midnight?

At midnight, dark in the inner prison.

At midnight, their backs are bleeding.

You know they're in pain, you know they're suffering.

Their hands are bound and their feet are bound.

But at midnight, the darkest hour.

At midnight.

It says what they began to pray and sing praises to God, and the other prisoners heard them.

So it was not a silent prayer meeting, it was not a silent praise meeting.

It's the prisoners heard them as they lifted their voices to God.

Anybody want to know what happened.

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

Their chains fell off, the doors came open and they walked out free.

So I thought, man, when I get to heaven I'm going to check out that video.

I mean, if you can check out videos that you get to have and say, you know, put it in there.

I want to see Acts, chapter 16.

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God says I got it on video and they started praising the Lord, amen.

So I imagine them at midnight.

Their backs are bleeding, their hands are bound, feet are bound.

At midnight, in their mind they said now, mr Devil, it looks like you did a good job.

You got my hands, you got my feet, you beat my back, you got me embarrassed.

But, devil, you made one major mistake.

You should have taped my mouth shut, because long as I can move my mouth, I can move a mountain.

So they just started moving their mouth.

Come on, how many of you?

When you're in pain or you're suffering or you're facing challenges, and you refuse to be silent, all right, let's try it one more time.

I said when you're suffering and facing challenges and you refuse to be silent, let's try this side over here I don't know if anybody's awake over here I said when you're suffering and you're facing challenges and you refuse to be silent, all right, let's try it.

You're facing a challenge.

Come on.

You're suffering, maybe even embarrassed, and wondering why things have happened the way that they've happened, but you refuse to be quiet about it.

You say I'm going to lift up my voice and sing praises to God.

Thank God for His goodness, thank Him for His mercy, thank Him for His faithfulness, thank Him for His loving kindness.

I'm going to praise Him in the midnight hour.

Come on, now, when everything else is in trouble, I'm going to praise the Lord.

Whoo God, god ordains strength to come out of your mouth.

Praise the Lord.

Let's see if they're awake over here.

I said God, y'all heard of God, right, this is church, right?

God?

God ordains strength to come out of your mouth.

Come on, right here.

Right here, that's where your strength come out of your mouth.

Come on.

Your strength ain't coming out of your brain, it ain't coming out of your biceps.

Come on, now, your strength is going to come out of your mouth.

That's where your authority is, that's where your victory is, that's where your blessing is.

Come on, that's the strength center of your life.

I said the strength of your life is your mouth.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

I know it's still morning, you know Y'all just counting, but you at least, in the morning, y'all say praise the Lord, hallelujah.

Thank you, jesus.

I'm washing the blood.

Thank you, lord.

The Lord is my light and my salvation.

Whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the strength of my life.

Of whom shall I be afraid?

You do not have the right to remain silent.

All right, that's right.

I said you do not have the right to remain silent.

I said you do not have the right to remain silent.

Come on.

As a believer, you cannot be silent.

If you're silent, you will lose by default.

Come on, when David met Goliath the giant, come on.

He's 17 years old, whatever, and Goliath is half or 10 feet tall.

Come on.

When David met the giant, he refused to be quiet.

He said what did he do?

Goliath said nobody else had talked back to Goliath since he was in the third grade.

Come on, I heard about that guy.

I heard this from John Osteen, probably 40 years ago, about that guy that was at school, you know, and he had a.

He's a bully, you know, at school he's a rough guy, mean guy, bully.

And he was walking around school and he had a piece of paper and his friend asked him, said what do you have on that paper?

And the bully said I got the names of everybody in this school that I can whip.

His friend said let me see that.

So he looked at it and he said hey, you got my name on here.

He said you can't whip me and he said oh, let me take your name off.

How many like to tell the devil take your name off of Liz?

Say you ain't whooping me.

How many like to tell the devil take your name?

Say, take my name off of Liz, you can't whoop me.

In other words, if you'll resist the devil, he will run from you.

Come on, he's afraid of you.

He will run from you.

If you resist the devil with the word of God in your mouth and say it is written, god said it, I believe it.

That settles it.

In other words, your voice, your voice, have I said voice, amen Is your address, that's your GPS.

In other words, the goods will be delivered to the voice.

Calvation, healing, blessing will be delivered to the voice.

Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord.

So Hebrews 13.15 says this by him.

Y'all know Hebrews 13.15.

Y'all know this verse Well.

Smart people come to church today.

By him.

It's talking about Jesus.

Hebrews 13.15.

By him, because of him, because of Jesus, because of what he's done for us, because of his blood, because of who we are in him.

By him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.

Come on, you can't take Saturday off.

All right, let's try that.

I said you can't take Monday off.

I went to church on Sunday.

You can't take Monday off.

Your faith can never take a vacation.

Let us offer what?

The sacrifice of praise to God continually.

When it's continually, come on, you have to stir yourself up on purpose.

I'm just waiting on the Lord to do something.

He's waiting on you to say something On Hebrews, chapter 3 in verse 1, says that Jesus is the apostle and high priest of our profession.

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Our confession means that Jesus has already done everything he's going to do about your salvation, your healing, your victory, your blessing.

He did it so good, he just went and set out, that's right, that's right, that's right.

Let's try that one more time.

I said Jesus has already done everything he's going to do about your salvation, about your victory, come on.

About your healing, about your blessing.

He did it so good, he went and set out, and now he is the apostle and high priest of your profession same word as confession.

In other words, seated there.

Now he wants you to say something.

He's waiting on you to say something.

He actually wants you to say something about what he's already done for you with his blood.

He needs you to say something about that, come on.

So you're saying well, lord, when and why and how, and he's going to say I need you to say something about that.

And so if you read Hebrews 3, 1 of the King James, it says consider him.

Aren't this Young kind of quiet over there?

Y'all all right, we need to bring out the coffee tray or something there.

I mean, I guess, by him, by him, come on.

Hebrews 13, 15,.

Hebrews 3, 1 says consider him, consider him.

Do you know?

The word for consider?

There Means to study him.

It literally means to meditate on him.

In other words, your confession doesn't make you confession conscious, it makes you Jesus conscious.

In other words, turn your eyes away from your problem, your mind, your thoughts, turn it away from your problem and consider him.

Praise the Lord.

It means study him, come on, he is endless, his ability, what he's done for us.

Consider him, Study him, look to his word.

Amen.

Y'all know numbers 21, 8, 9, don't you Praise the Lord?

Y'all know numbers 21, 8, 9, don't you?

I mean, I tell this to preachers all the time.

They'll say no.

I said all right, well, let me tell you what it is Numbers 21, 8, 9,.

You know this story, don't you?

The children of Israel were out traveling through the wilderness and a bunch of poisons, the snakes, came out and started biting them and it says many of them died.

And Moses cried out to God and he said Lord, what should I do?

And the Lord said take a serpent of brass, put it on a pole and hold it up high, and everyone that looks at it will live.

Amen, that's actually the symbol for what we call medical science a serpent on a pole.

Y'all see here.

And that's from numbers 21, 8, 9.

And in the Gospel of John, 3, 14, 16,.

It says Jesus said if I'm lifted up amen, referring as Moses who lift up the serpent on the pole he said I'll draw all men unto me and whoever believes in me will be saved.

In other words, believe there means you turn your eyes to Jesus.

Why is it a serpent on a pole, y'all see here?

Why, well, because on the cross Jesus took our curse.

He was made a curse for us.

He took our poison, he took our sickness, he took our disease, he took our sin, he took our shame.

He died in our place.

And the serpent on the pole?

He hold it up and it said whoever looks at it will live.

But that's a mystery, isn't it?

Everybody say mystery.

You can't fully figure that out with your brain or your intellect.

The mystery is serpent on a pole.

And so he said just hold that up and everybody that looks at it, it will neutralize the poison that has bitten them and they will not die, they will live.

So what Moses did?

He just followed instructions.

He got a serpent of brass, put it on the pole, held it up and he said look, look.

Now they must have snakes all around them.

People are dying all around them.

But it said anybody that will take their eyes off of the snakes and put their eye on the serpent on the pole, he said, then they will live.

Come on, that's kind of a mystery, isn't it?

I mean, how is me looking at that going to keep that poison from activating in my body?

Well, you don't have to know how.

Let's try that one more time.

I said you don't have to know how, about everything?

You just got to believe the Bible.

I mean, you just got to believe the Word and the serpent on the pole.

And he said you look at it and you will live.

Well, you sure don't want to have attention deficit disorder.

Come on, when you got a poisonous snake biting you and you're checking everybody else out and looking on Facebook and Instagram, come on and see who died lately.

Come on, you want to get your eyes off of what's happening around you and get your eyes on Jesus and look unto Jesus.

Come on, he is the author and the finisher of your faith.

And look.

Come on and look Now.

Look.

So if you have an amplified Bible, amplified classic, now they call it amplified Bible, which we call the women's Bible because it has more words.

The amplified Bible Numbers 21, 8, 9.

If you look, look, y'all sit with me here.

All right.

Amplified says look and keep on looking.

The Bible says look with a steady, attentive, absorbing Gaze.

All right, what does it say?

Expectant, expectant I left that one out.

Four different words, that's what's got, more words.

So whoever looks, all right, ready, all right.

Whoever looks with what Steady, absorbing, attentive and expectant gaze.

I feel like when I met Trina for the first time in the cafeteria I mean there were no distractions around when I saw her I was like I'm fixing to take her out on a date.

Come on, the first time ever I saw your face, felt, the sunrise in your eyes Sounds kind of like that.

So I look.

Forty-seven years ago, I'm still looking, baby.

So you look, look, look With what Steady, attentive, absorbing, expectant gaze.

Whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty All right, let's try that again, because we're still looking at the word consider right now.

Whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues therein, amen will not be just to forget for here, but will be a doer of the word, and that's the one that will receive the blessing Amen.

I'm looking, my attention, my expectation, looking, amen.

So when you look to Jesus and you look into the word and you look at the promises and where it says surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.

Yet we did esteem Him, stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed.

Whoo, I mean believe there's power right there.

When you look, come on, you look and say, surely he has carried and lifted off of me my griefs, my sorrows, my sicknesses, my pains, all depression, lifted off of me.

Jesus, come on.

He lifted it off of me, everything to do with the curse.

He redeemed me from the curse of the law.

Praise the Lord.

Y'all should be getting happy already.

I mean I'm having to work with y'all.

I'm having to work a little extra hard this morning.

I mean, listen, surely he has born.

The word for born there is the word NASA.

It's where we get the space program.

It means born means lift off and carried far away.

Come on.

Whatever kind of sickness or disease come on, or whatever come on your mind or your life.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse and Jesus lifted it off from us and he carried it far away.

Come on, and by His stripes we are healed.

Amen.

So you can see that clearly in the Word of God.

But he said you're going to have to look what you're looking at.

You're going to have to look.

Y'all know Proverbs 4, don't you?

20 through 22?

Y'all don't know that either?

Huh, what's the name of this church?

Anyhow, y'all been using the Bible in here.

No, I'm just kidding.

Y'all know Proverbs 4, 20 through 22?

My son Proverbs a lot.

It says my son is the instructions from David to Solomon, but on a bigger scale, the inspired Word of God.

Was God inspiring that Word so that when Jesus became a human being, the son would look into Proverbs and would not make the same mistakes that fools do?

All right, let's try that again.

I said you don't have to make the same mistakes that fools do.

Come on, either you're simple, or you're a fool or you're a wise person.

Simple just means you're ignorant.

Simple means you're stupid and the devil can't whip you in either one of those categories.

But once you get the wisdom of God and the Word of God, the devil can't whip you.

Life cannot whip you.

Come on, jesus is your wisdom.

Helen.

Praise the Lord.

All right, y'all know Proverbs 4, 20.

You ready?

I wasn't planning on going this long, but apparently somebody must have needed it.

There we go, my son.

Attend to my words.

What does that mean?

Attend, I mean pay attention, though.

Pay attention, Attention deficit disorder.

My daddy always said ignorance is expensive.

You see, well, I didn't know.

That's why you broke.

You need somebody to teach you so you won't be ignorant.

It's like Andy Griffith told Ernest T Bass Y'all never watch Andy Griffith.

I mean Andy Griffith told Ernest T Bass.

He said, ernest T, you're just ignorant.

And he said thank you, andy.

I mean, when you're that ignorant, you don't even know what ignorant is.

Thank you, andy.

I appreciate that Ignorance is curable.

Don't look at anybody right now.

I said ignorance is curable.

Come on, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

In other words, there's no ignorant faith.

Faith means you know what the Word has to say about that.

Amen.

So he said, my son, do what Attend, attend to what?

Oh, they put it up there.

It's easy for you now.

Now, y'all are that good, smart, right?

Attend, my son, do what, pay attention.

Some of y'all haven't been able to pay attention this whole morning.

That's why I'm still on the same subject right now.

Some of y'all have been to Disney World.

You've been back at the house.

Come on, you've already been shopping.

Come on, you thought about 38 different things and you can't pay attention.

You can't have no faith if you can't pay attention.

Come on, you have enough pain and struggle in your life and you will learn to pay attention.

Come on, y'all got kids.

I got kids.

I got kids and they're very successful.

You know what I taught them.

You better pay attention to what I'm talking to, right?

I brought you in the world and take you out and make another and dislike you.

I said you pay attention, I'm talking, I'm your daddy, I'm paying for that car you drive.

Anyway, it won't go too far there, but I'm going to say my son, pay attention to my words, incline that an ear to what my saying.

Let them not depart from where I say.

My eyes, my eyes, come on.

Jesus said if your eyes single, your whole body will be full of light.

He said but if your eyes dark, you're looking at dark, your whole body be full of darkness.

And if you turn your eyes to Jesus and to His Word and your eyes single on that Word.

He said then that light will fill up your body, man.

That means your liver come on.

Your pancreas, your stomach come on.

That means your heart, your lungs, your kidneys come on.

That means your bone marrow come on, your bones come on.

Your brain Come on now.

Your blood come in your circulation of your blood.

Your whole body will be full of light.

Darkness cannot overcome the light.

So he says, my son, let them not depart from before your eyes.

Your eyes, your eyes Did you know you got two sets of eyes?

You got these eyes, but the Bible says you have the eyes of your heart can be flooded with light and that's where faith comes in.

Right there, the eyes of your heart, or what light comes into your heart or into your spirit, and that's when faith is ignited.

Right there, the moment the light comes on, faith is there.

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

Y'all all right on this side over here.

The moment the light comes, faith is there.

The moment faith is there, that's where your victory is, the moment the light comes on, when you open your Bible and the light comes on, amen, let them not depart from before your eyes.

Keep it where, in the midst of your heart, in your heart.

Come on, it's got to get beyond your head.

So there, what Life to those that find you.

And there, what Health to their, what it affects your body.

I said, what you're looking at affects your body.

Come on, your heart, your lungs, your flesh, life and health to your flesh.

And the word for health there is what Medicine?

Other translation says it's medicine.

So you would call the word what God's medicine.

So, while you're, come on, how many of you ever had a doctor tell you to take so many pills a day, take them so many hours apart, and how many of you did exactly what they said?

That's a couple of smart people here.

I mean, if he's giving you a prescription and he says you need to take it, you know, by mouth, that means it ain't going to work if you rub it on and when you can't put it in your hair, it ain't going to work.

It's got to get inside you to work.

And then he said we want a consistency of that medication inside you.

Every six hours or every eight hours, you say well, I'm gonna take them all at the same time.

Don't work that way.

Eight hours, eight hours, eight hours, 24 hours, every day, amen.

And sometimes they'll tell you, if you don't take it, the full prescription, for at least two weeks, then that disease will be backed off.

But it will not be gone until you take the full two weeks.

You know what I mean.

You can take it for three days.

You know, I feel better already.

I feel better already.

And some people that go to church say, well, I'm feeling better already.

They won't take no medicine on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday, and then they'll wonder why that disease or that situation just keeps on working.

But I'll tell you something that'll stop it from working.

I'll tell you something that'll make it get out of your body and out of your mind and out of your life that if you'll take that medicine every time, the word says take it every day and feed your faith on that word.

He said you look into the perfect law of liberty and you keep on looking, yeah.

So somebody says what are you doing?

You say I'm on medication right now.

Where'd you get it from?

God guaranteed to work.

Are y'all still here?

So he says consider.

Everybody say consider, consider.

What are we looking at?

Consider?

We're looking at Hebrews 3.1, right, consider him, the apostle, high priest of your, what your profession or your confession Consider, study him, consider him.

Yeah, all right, one more thing.

Let me give you one more scripture here.

Praise the Lord.

Romans, chapter four.

Romans, chapter four.

It says that Abraham became strong.

Romans 4.17, 18, 19, longer Romans 4.17,.

God called Abraham.

God calls things which be not as though they were.

Amen, abraham agreed with God.

Then it says that Abraham called the next verse, verse 18.

And it says who against hope?

Believing in hope that he might become the father of many nations because of that, which folks?

Those shall I see be Verse 19.

And it says and being not weak in faith.

All right now, most of us here, you came to church.

Most of you came to church because you already have faith, that's, it's your faith that brought you to church, or your mother or one of the other, but you know your dad.

But your faith has got you out of the house and said I need to go hear the word of God, I need to go worship God.

Now you can have faith and still be weak in faith.

Some of the people can't tell you don't have no faith.

You said well, I do have faith.

I've been in church, you know, 40 years.

I have faith, but he says being not weak in faith.

He considered not his own body now dead, when he was a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.

And here's what it says he staggered not the promise of God through unbelief, became strong in faith.

Doing what?

When he says giving glory to God, other translations say confessing God's power.

So Abraham started doing what Giving glory to God, confessing, declaring God's power.

He staggered not at the promise of God.

All right.

Now go back up to where it says he considered not, which is what.

Verse 18, there it is.

He considered not what, all right, now.

I went to Bible college for four years and did graduate.

I met my wife when I was a senior.

She's a freshman, so she got her MRS degree.

You know what that means?

That means we got married.

So that's her degree, as she became a Mrs MRS degree, see, all right.

So it says be not weak in faith.

He did what?

Considered what?

Not his own body.

In other words, if you just keep considering, thinking about focusing on your own situation, all right, let's try this out over here.

In other words, you keep studying your situation and Abraham considered not his own body, all right, well, I went to Bible college for four years.

So my professor said in the original Greek it actually says he considered his own body.

I said, well, let me study that.

So I studied it in some other commentaries and it said it said actually it says he considered his own body and after he considered it he considered it not.

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

In other words, you ain't stupid.

You know what I mean.

You can think about what the situation is, but after you have considered it, then consider it not.

In other words, don't keep studying the impossibilities.

Come on and the circumstances.

You've already seen that.

Now consider that not.

In other words, don't know more about your disease than you know about your healing.

Come on, don't know more.

Don't know more about your problem than you know about your answer.

So after he considered it, he considered it not.

So one translation says he turned his eyes away.

Come on, you're not stupid.

You can see the situation.

You can see the mountain, you can see the giant, you can see the problem.

But once you look at it, quit looking at the problem and start looking at the promises of God.

Come on, start looking to the Word of God and consider our study that and out of that consideration, make the confession that Jesus is my Lord.

I'm redeemed by his blood.

I'm what.

I'm holding fast to my confession of faith without wavering.

He is faithful.

That promise, woo.

Somebody ought to shout about that.

Ah, I'm holding fast, woo, hallelujah.

Come on, look at somebody and say I see how that works, I know how that works, I know how it works.

Go to the next verse.

You see how that works.

He staggered not.

You think the Lord will hear he staggered not.

He staggered not.

You may not be an astronaut, but you can be a staggered not.

Do we have any staggered nots in here today?

You say but I ain't no astronaut, but I am a staggered not.

Now, this is a very interesting scripture here that says that Abraham is a father of faith and we walk in the same steps today.

He staggered not at the promise of God.

Through unbelief, he staggered not at the promise of God.

Interesting, isn't it?

Because he staggered not at what?

The promise of God.

Can y'all see what I mean?

A lot of times people stagger at the problem.

In other words, they see how big the problem is and they're like, oh, and they stagger.

But some people stagger at the promise, they see what God has to say about it and they look at that promise and they're like how could that ever happen to me in my life?

I don't know how that could ever happen.

That's a really big problem exceeding great and precious promise.

How could that ever happen in my life, where I'm redeemed from the curse and I'm blessed coming in and blessed going out?

I'm the head and not the tail, above and not beneath.

I got the promise and I am redeemed by his blood.

So now my confession brings me into agreement with God.

Glory, glory, glory.

Just go ahead and smile, show your teeth or your tooth.

Yeah, yeah, you know you're a lot better looking when you're happy.

You need to tell somebody you might consider that I said you're a lot better looking when you're happy.

So when you're happy, people forget you ugly.

But anyway, let's keep going.

Staggered not, staggered not at the promise.

But what did he do?

Well, finish reading it.

He staggered not because of unbelief.

All right, now listen closely.

There's two kinds of unbelief.

There's really two kinds, but unbelief is a thief of God's best blessings.

Only two kinds of unbelief.

I learned this from Dad Hagen.

Two kinds of unbelief.

Number one is lack of knowledge, because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word.

So if you don't know, then you can't have faith in that situation.

So the first kind of unbelief is what?

Lack of knowledge or you could say ignorance you just don't know.

Ignorance is curable, right?

So number one kind of unbelief is lack of knowledge.

The cure for that is the Bible says Jesus went about the cities and villages teaching.

Do you know?

Jesus was a teacher.

Most people think he just came and started healing everybody.

No, he was teaching.

He would teach for hours, maybe for a day or two.

He would teach.

All right, listen closely.

Why?

Because that's where faith comes from From hearing, receiving the word.

So I prayed one time.

I asked the Lord.

I said Lord, how come you teach so long?

How many of you ever wonder why the preacher preached so long?

I don't know what time it is here, but I've got a few more minutes, but how many of you ever wonder why the preacher preached so long?

Well, sometimes it's unnecessary, but sometimes it might be.

I don't know, you decide.

But Jesus wasn't necessarily short-winded, because if he didn't give him fish sandwiches, the Bible says they would pass out.

So he must have been teaching like all day.

How many of you would dare get up and leave while he was teaching?

How many of you would be looking at your phone while he was teaching?

How many of you would be distracted while he was teaching?

Amen, in other words, you have studied the ministry of Jesus.

He would do teach and then he preached and then he would heal.

And TL Osborne said some of you wanted me to quit teaching so you can get your healing.

And I'm waiting on you to get your healing so I can quit teaching.

You understand All right.

So I asked the Lord.

I said why did you teach so much?

And here's what he said to me.

He said while I was teaching, I was never working on the giving part of God.

I was always working on the receiving part of man.

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

In other words, you never have to talk God into giving.

You never have to talk God into healing.

So he said while I was teaching.

I wasn't teaching to try to get God to do something.

I wasn't teaching to work on the giving part of God.

He said while I was teaching, it was so that men would be able to receive from God Someone you don't receive from God.

Accidentally, he said while I was teaching.

He said I was teaching them laws of operation to receive from God, to receive their healing or their deliverance or their blessing.

So he would teach a long time.

Amen, praise the Lord.

Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word.

Y'all still with me?

So two kinds of unbelief.

What's the other kind?

First kind is ignorance or lack of knowledge, right?

The second kind of unbelief is called unpersuaded to act on the word.

You know what that means.

That means you've heard the word, you know the word, but you're not persuaded to do the word.

You're unpersuaded to do what Act on that word.

Or you could call that disobedience.

In other words, you've seen the word, somebody showed you the word, in whatever area.

You just say I can't do that, I don't want to do that, I don't feel like doing that.

Let's try it again.

I don't feel like doing that, I don't want to do that, don't feel like I have to do that.

Well, excuse me for being a smart other, but if God said it's necessary, come on by him.

Therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.

That is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

I don't want to do that, don't feel like doing that, and I'm not even going to do it while I'm at church, matter of fact.

I ain't going to do it tomorrow.

So he said well, I don't want to do that.

But for your confession of faith to work, he says that that, that that word's got to be in your mouth and you're persuaded and you start lifting your voice on Monday saying thank you, jesus, praise the Lord, glory to God.

I'm washing the blood.

I will not be silent.

I'm lifting my voice.

My confession of faith is I believe God, amen.

I will not stagger through unbelief, but I become strong in faith, giving glory to God, fully persuaded.

What God has promised, he is able to perform it.

Go on, lift your hands and thank me.

I said what God has promised, he is able to perform it.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

Come on, use your voice.

Use your voice, praise the Lord.

Thank you, jesus, glory to God.

Come on, I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus.

I'm washing the blood of Jesus.

Come on, I'm more than a conqueror, through him who loved me.

That's who I am.

My confession of faith Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

Thank you, jesus.

Glory to God.

Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

And somebody said well, I just don't think that's necessary.

Jesus just said it's necessary.

My daddy would always say it's not necessary unless it's necessary.

Well, if it's not Father, trying to figure that out, you know you better just keep praising the Lord, not just on Sunday when you go home, watch your confession of faith.

You got to lift up your voice.

Your voice brings you into agreement with God and strength comes out of your mouth.

Praise the Lord.

All right, put Hebrews 13, 15 up there, and then I'll finish with this.

This is like somebody said well, that's an awful long offering message.

This is the message.

Now, tell me one time you said that's an offering, long offering message.

I said who said it's an offering message?

It's the message.

Just pay attention.

I am therefore, let us offer the sacrifice.

See the word sacrifice.

You see the word sacrifice.

Can y'all see the word sacrifice in the book of Hebrews, the word sacrifice, the perfect sacrifice in the book of Hebrews, talking about Jesus.

Your sacrifice of praise connects you to his sacrifice.

Oh, y'all, come on, let's try it again.

In other words, it's not really just saying praise when you don't feel like it, that's okay.

You can use it that way if you want, but really he's saying your sacrifice.

When you lift your voice and praise and magnify the Lord, your confession of faith, your sacrifice of praise connects you to his sacrifice.

Praise the Lord.

I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus.

Come on.

I said I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus.

Come on, he's the perfect sacrifice.

Amen.

His blood cleanses me from all sin.

I'm washing his blood, no matter how you feel.

When you lift your voice, say thank you, lord.

Because of your blood you purchased my freedom.

Hallelujah, you redeemed my life from destruction, I lift my voice.

I will not be silent.

Praise the Lord.

Thank you, lord.

I dare to declare and agree with God.

Thank you, lord.

Because of your blood, the precious blood, praise the Lord, come on.

When you do that on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, not just in church but in your kitchen, come in the house and you just lift your voice, praise God.

Thank you, jesus.

Glory to God.

Come on.

I stagger not at the promise of God.

I lift my voice and give him praise.

I set my eyes and my attention on what Jesus has done for me.

Whatever poison has tried to invade my life, come on.

That poison is neutralized by the power of the blood of Christ and the perfect sacrifice.

Because of his blood I am redeemed hallelujah.

Because of his blood, I'm looking unto Jesus.

He is the author.

Come on, my confession brings me into this consideration.

Jesus is Lord.

Come on, give the Lord a shout right now and say praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

Go ahead and laugh for me and say huh.

The law of that confession is what you confess and agree with God.

When you confess, you have a thing before you consciously possess it.

It is your confession, come on, that brings you in to your salvation, your deliverance, safety, healing, preservation, silence.

All right, let's read this one more time.

Ready, you want to read it out loud?

If you can't read, just move your lips.

All right, y'all ready?

I am.

Therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.

That is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.

Come on, lift your voice.

Thank you, lord.

Thank you, jesus.

Come on.

The fruit of my lips giving praise and thanks to God.

Thank you, Lord.

Jesus, come on.

You're my redeemer, you're my righteousness, you're my healer, you're my physician.

Buy your stripes.

I was healed.

Thank you, lord.

Surely you carried away my sicknesses, my pain, my griefs, my sorrows.

You lifted it off from me.

Thank you, jesus.

While I'm looking, come on, I keep looking.

Thank you, jesus, praise the Lord, my eye will open.

I don't know how you're raised, but I was raised.

My mama, she's a woman of faith man and you got up if we stayed at their house.

You know you get up in the morning and she's going to be with her bathrobe on.

She had a pink one.

Maybe that comes from Pastor John's faith.

You know he wore that pink tie.

Got to be a real man to wear pink anyway, so he's wearing a pink tie.

My mama had a pink bathrobe.

She put that on.

She's sitting here reclining.

You can see her sitting in the recliner every morning with her Bible open on her lap.

She'd be looking in the word and then you could hear her.

She had lift her voice.

Y'all still with me.

I said looking.

Then I lift my voice.

Thank you, jesus, praise God.

Glory to God.

Becoming strong in faith, giving glory to God.

Thank you, lord, praise the Lord.

Come on your voice, lift in your voice and see where it says giving thanks to his name, where it says giving thanks.

Well, I have kids, I got grandkids and I got a staff employees and I enjoy doing extra nice things for them Grandkids, employees, even other folks and if there's anything that irritates me, it's an unthankful person.

You do something they did not deserve.

They know they did not deserve it and you just do something special for them and you get no thank you.

Jesus was a little ticked off by that.

He said where's the other nine?

Only one person came back to give thanks.

Come on, we live in an unthankful world.

They think they deserve everything.

You know, but when you're thankful so the Lord said to me one time he said there is no such thing as unexpressed thanks.

I'll say it one more time there's no such thing as what Unexpressed things.

In other words, a lot of times people think they're thankful but they don't express it very well.

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

I said I'm a pretty thankful person.

I'm like how come I never got to thank you for me?

I'm talking about my staff.

I never got to thank you.

Well, I felt like I was thankful.

I don't care how you felt, you never expressed your thanks.

And I said there is a cure for being unthankful.

It is you do without.

You do without long enough and you'll get thankful.

God is pretty strict on being thankful.

Let's try that again.

In fact, you'll receive easier from God the more thankful you are.

I know it's not November, but I'm just telling you you don't have to wait until November to get thankful.

Turkey or no turkey, you could be thankful.

Lord, I want to thank you for all that you've done for me.

I want to thank you that I'm still alive and I'm still breathing.

I want to thank you, lord, for all you've done.

I want to thank you for the blood of Jesus.

I want to thank you.

Come on, give thanks under His name.

Giving thanks to His name.

Praise the Lord.

Come on, are you a good person at expressing thanks?

All right, when it says giving thanks, the Greek word for giving thanks is the same word as confession.

See that giving thanks.

It's the same Greek word as the word confession that's used in Romans 10, 9, and 10.

Same word as the confession in Hebrews 4, 14,.

Hebrews 10, 23,.

1 Timothy 6, 12.

Same word as the confession.

In giving thanks is the same identical Greek word.

The translator is just determined to put giving thanks here, but other translations say confessing to His name.

Well, come on, let me talk to you about your confession of faith, confessing to His name, lifting your voice and saying and agreeing with God.

Your confession precedes your possession.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord, come on.

You do not have the right to remain silent.

Come on, what are you going to say?

Amen, what you going to say about that?

That's the initial act of faith.

Is the saying or the speaking part of faith.

Come on, I walk by faith and not by sight.

Amen, I fight the good fight of faith.

Once I learn how to fight the good fight of faith, then that's how I win.

Hallelujah.

I win by living by faith.

Faith is the victory that overcomes the world.

Come on.

Even Nacho Libre said don't you want to win?

Don't you want to win?

You get tired of losing, don't you want to win?

Faith is a victory that will cause you to win.

Hallelujah.

Give the Lord a shout.

Praise the Lord, amen.

Praise the Lord, come on.

I'm looking into the perfect law of liberty and I keep on looking and Jesus walked right off the pages.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, come on, jesus is alive, he is Lord.

Amen.

Thank you, lord.

Jesus.

Everybody say this.

I boldly confess Jesus is Lord.

I believe in my heart.

God raised him from the dead.

I confess with my mouth.

Thank you, lord Jesus.

I'm washed in your blood, cleanse from sin.

Thank you for your blood.

I have boldness.

I am redeemed.

I overcome by the blood of Jesus.

I will not be quiet about it.

I lift my voice.

I boldly confess.

I agree with God.

I put His Word in my mouth.

Jesus is my Lord.

Sin cannot dominate me.

Satan cannot dominate me.

Old habits cannot dominate me.

Jesus has set me free.

Well, give the Lord a shout.

How has it?

Jesus has set me free.

Praise the Lord, ok.