Faith that Works pt 1 | 2.28.24

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It's a new, it's a new, it's a new Wonder Wednesday.

And Lord, just bless us and keep us tonight.

Give us new ears. Lord, may we not hear how we

heard I'm. Going to say it again.

May we not hear how we heard. I thank you that this is a brand

new Wednesday with fresh revelation, fresh word available

to your children. So my heart is ready.

My ears are ready. I declare, Father, that the

Spirit of Revelation. Is in this room.

So enlighten my heart, Lord God, the eyes of my heart illuminate

them. Flood my soul with revelation.

And I thank you Lord, that we just won't have revelation, but

we will have understanding. Jesus name.

So tonight I want to start. New series for Wednesday

evening, and it will only be Wednesday evening.

And it is called Faith that works.

Faith that works. So, man, we get all this freedom

and deliverance and promises and everything that God has for us.

Is obtained through faith. But what I do find out is most

believers do not walk by faith. This is a fact.

Most believers don't walk by faith.

We walk by sight. Before we walk by.

In other words, we walk by senses.

We walk by what we see, what we sense.

Oh man, I I gotta get a A. Sense and and some of those

sensors that God give us is not to be used alone.

So if I got a feeling in my belly, it's not that.

The feeling, the feeling alone is bad, but the feeling without

counsel is not good. The feeling without wisdom is

not good. You you don't move off.

Just a feeling. Feelings have tricked every

person in this room at one point or another in your life.

Anybody ever been tricked by their feelings?

And when hey, hey and your feelings was like, God said it,

right? Your feelings was real, like

legit. Like couldn't nobody.

Your feelings was so your feelings was so real, you found

scripture to back it up, right? Because you're smart enough to

know I need, I need, I need a word.

So you turned your feelings into a prophecy and found out later

that it was just your feelings. And you do have a voice, right?

You do have a voice, OK? And we are more dealing with

feeling LED believers and feeling process leaders.

You process with villains versus by faith, right?

You discern by feelings and then you got the nurse to go get

wisdom from feelers, not seers. So you, you, you, you, you.

We we are attracted to people who gives us emotional

engagement. So we want somebody that's going

to be like, wow, uh huh, They can't do that to you.

Sometime I don't need you to be like on my team.

Sometime I need to hear. Now calm down.

How do you know they meant it that way, right.

Because some people help you go further down the trail.

And I need some time, people. That's going to be like, OK,

we're not going to leave the trail, but here's a bench over

here. Let's go sit down on this bench

and let's process for a minute. Now tell me what they said.

Tell me exactly what you heard them say.

Now, Are you sure they meant it that way?

Right. Is this the first offense?

Are you just upset? Have you eaten anything right

here? Here you go.

Here you go. You ready?

You ready now. This has to be a skillful, A

skillful question when someone is helping you process.

Because the timing of this question could be could cause

some very bad responses and reactions.

But here's a question. What did you do?

That's the part we don't want to talk about.

Did you talk to them disrespectfully?

Did you clean up your room? Oh well.

Yeah, I did this, but he did. Or she did that.

Oh, but does that dismiss your responsibility to respond godly?

Right? We need people around us that is

going to allow us to sift through by faith and with

spiritual eyes to see. To help us really get to a God

result, not an emotional need, right?

We got to get more. Faith is for God results.

Understand that faith is for God results, and everything in the

Kingdom of God is obtained by what?

I just had you. OK you get until this.

Can you you can go to the first slide till I get my oh, we're

training tonight, dude. Just let me know we're training

tonight, OK? Dear friends, do you think

you'll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words?

But never. Shout it out?

Do anything? Does merely talking about faith

indicate that a person really has it?

For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and

half starved and say good morning friend be clothed in

Jesus name, be filled with the Holy Spirit and you walk off

without providing so much as a coat for a cup of soup.

Where does that get you or your friend?

Isn't it obvious that God talk without God acts is outrageous

nonsense. God talk.

No, go back. That's good.

That's good. You're working with me.

You're working with me. God talk without God acts is

outrageous. Nonsense.

I, I, I, this is very important. Not God talk without Terrance

acts. God talk always requires God

acts. God talk requires God do's and

don'ts. It can't be a mixture because

then that's not faith. It's not God talk and it's not

God said. But you did.

It's God talk with God acts. I got a word from the Lord and

guess what Comes with a word from the Lord.

Actions from the Lord. We left that part out.

All right, I got a new couch from IKEA.

Guess what comes with a couch from IKEA?

Instructions. I don't like using those

instructions. I think I can put it together

right, but somehow I'll always have extra screws.

Or not enough. One or the other in IKEA did not

package this right or I thought I was smarter than the details.

I thought that I was smarter. Than the details.

And I was willing to listen with a couple screws.

I was sorry. I was willing.

I needed that to come out right. I was willing to live with a

couple screws loose. And how many of us are willing

to live with a couple screws loose?

Everybody in here been there because you also.

Hang out with people. They got a couple crews cause so

everybody has a couple screws loose.

So don't nobody know that they got screws loose.

And everybody else is the ones with the screws loose.

And you and your screws loose crew is the same ones.

And so you find yourself gathering with people who think

is US versus them. I can already hear one of you

agreeing by saying thank you, Grace.

Sounds good. You take care of the faith

department. I'll handle the works

department. Not so fast.

You can no more show me your works apart from your faith.

Then I can show you my faith apart from my works.

You can't be like Man PT Nem or Elder John them or Deborah them,

or lending them that that man. They got so much faith.

That's good for them. I'm going to go out here and

make it, make it happen. No of you, you can't.

Separate the two. Faith and works.

Works and faith fit together hand in glove.

Do do I hear you professing to believe in the one and only God?

But then I observe you complacently sitting back as if

you had done something wonderful by believing went to church.

Today, how many people happy when they leave church?

They happy they went to church, but your boast is in I went to

church today instead. I got the details and I'm

excited to go chew on these details so I can apply them.

Most of us are happy for church attendance, he says.

That's just great. Demons do that, but what good

does it do them? Use your heads.

Do you suppose for a minute that you can cut faith and works in

two and not end up with a corpse on your hands?

Wasn't our ancestor Abraham may write with God by works when he

placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar?

Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners?

That faith expresses itself in works?

We must give our faith expression.

OK, here, here it is, people. This is why being busy could be

very deceptive. Busy doesn't mean fruitful,

right? We got to get to a point where

we purge our busy so we can lean down to fruitful.

What I understand is that I was a man, a young man who was

active but doing things based on what I thought, based on the the

world's information, what success is based on what pastor

says, based on what Bible school says, based on just because it's

good doesn't mean it's God. And just because you have a

scripture does not mean it supports your details.

All scripture. If you use Scripture out of

season, just because it's truth doesn't mean it supports your

season. And what we do is we manipulate

the word to fit our doing. And when things fail or fall

short, we're like God's proving me.

Nope, He's not proving you. And what you want to stop doing

is training your ear to hear wrong every time you move on

what you claim God. This is why I've been very

careful when I talk to people not in fear, but to say, look, I

can't say it was Thus says the Lord, and when it's thus says

the Lord, I'll tell you as thus says the Lord.

But there's some stuff that God gives me options.

It's OK to say God just dropped this in my spirit as an option.

But he didn't say go. He just says son or daughter.

If it's if it's something you want to do, let's try it.

So then you take ownership for you wanting to do it versus God

telling you to do it. It's a huge difference, and it

impacts your hearing with God when you don't differentiate

what He's giving you permission to do versus what He's blessing

you to do. And it's not always God.

I want your blessing. No.

What you got to understand is I'm the blessing.

I'm blessed. God bless me more than he

blessed the work. And you want more of the

blessing for the work than you want the blessing on you to

accomplish it, right? It's not.

Bless the dry bones. It's annoying me to talk to him.

And so we're always just looking for God to bless a work versus

knowing he's anointed us. I'm anointed.

I'm anointed enough to go somewhere and if it don't work

out, come back. Ain't lost no time, only earn,

only gain education. Peter was anointed to step out

the boat. Peter didn't say, Lord bless the

waters so I won't fall. He said no, I'm stepping on the

impossible to meet you, not to merely walk on water.

He wasn't like, oh God, I want to walk on water, Please tell me

to come, he said. No, if that's you, tell me to

come. And most of us are looking for

assignments we are gifted to do versus God, who we're ordained

to be with. See Are you looking for Jesus in

the assignment, or are you looking for your gifts being

used? And too many times we go where

our gifts are needed versus where God needs us.

And it's a huge difference, people.

And I'm sorry, we got way too many people out of place.

And what you miss is God's going to use you because it's his

work. It's not failure 'cause you're

doing his work, but it's also not necessarily obedience or

progress. And when we're looking for

assignment, we're looking for the wrong thing.

God will never give you an assignment, Never give you an

assignment that you aren't going to get to know him.

You don't always got to get to know God through an assignment

going wrong. You can get to know God by

sitting your butt down and waiting.

We want our gifts used. You don't understand how much

you can learn. You're waiting that you can't

learn by going see when you go. A lot of times, sometimes,

sometimes when you go, you learn a lot about you and your gift.

But when you wait, I'm sorry. When you when you go, you learn

a lot about your gift. But when you wait, you learn a

lot about you and God. And here's the question.

Who do you want to know the most?

Every Christian would be like I want to know God.

Do you? Well, then why you always got to

be used? Why do you always have to have

an assignment? Why do you always have to go

from here to go to there? And why do you always have to

feel important, right? We're looking for works.

Here's not talking about just stay busy.

There's God works, God activity. And let me tell you sometime

works is being still in doing the Monday.

Sometime works is doing what you actually not gifted at but

you're able to do. Can you just do what you're able

to do versus what you gifted at? Be faithful over able.

Don't underestimate Abel. There's a lot of people who

aren't able. You weren't made just to

exercise gifts. You are a tool in God's hands.

Wasn't wasn't our ancestor Abraham made right with God by

works when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar?

Isn't it? It's obvious that faith and

works are yoked partners. That faith expresses itself in

works. I want you to see Abraham didn't

just work. Abraham did what God told him to

do specifically. He didn't just go sacrifice his

son anywhere, he sacrificed him on the exact location, right?

God will never lead. Us to an assignment that will

bring division within my soul. God will not ever have me

serving 2 masters. He will never have me there.

God is not up for it. Sometimes we have to know that

God knows best Why I'm in a season where something in me is

not being met. A desire not being met does not

always mean I need to look for it to be filled, and I think way

too often we get spiritually antsy and then we move out of

position and the very thing the depths of our soul really is

looking for, we miss out on it because we went somewhere.

That could help us fulfill a gift need, but couldn't fulfill

a soul need. You see, we how we care about

that thing want to be used with, right?

But all works aren't God works. This isn't talking about faith

Without busy, it's dead. No faith with too busy.

You did? That the works.

It says that the works are works of faith, the full meaning of

believe. In the scripture sentence.

Abraham believed God and was set right with God includes his

action. Bless you.

It's that weave of believing and acting that God Abraham named

God's friend. Do you know sometimes how hard

it is to believe to stay still like we think faith.

I always say this, we think faith is just get out the boat.

Sometime it takes faith to. Sit in the boat.

I know what kind of person I am. I got faith to get out the boat

buddy. I do not mind getting out the

boat. I've gotten out the boat a lot

of times and and you get what I'm saying and and brought water

back in the boat so word Lord had to exercise.

This is what people don't understand Deb like.

Deborah. Deb, I'm sorry I called you Deb.

I don't know. Like, that's like my buddy right

there, honey, man. Guess we like that now.

Are you there? I forgot what I was about to

say. So.

Oh, it was so good. I saw it quarterback in a vote.

It is very important to know where your faith is strongest if

if you're a person who is not afraid to move around and go

places and see the world and. Boom and boom.

Guess what God might challenge you to do?

Sit your butt down. Sit still.

Like you're the person with the backpack.

You just like. Wait, where we going?

We hiking? All right.

See you guys. And you just hike all over the

world. You in the spirit realm.

This is how everybody see you. Spirit realm, right?

So you only hear God when you hear go.

But if you're going to develop into a well-rounded faith

person, then you got to be willing to live in seasons where

you tame your go. There's got to be a season.

If you always shooting right-handed, you got to spend

some time working on your left hand.

You have to understand that your ability to sit still is a

weapon. And if you haven't, if you

haven't sharpened that weapon, then the enemy knows he can

always creep up on you by telling you to what?

Go. He could just preach, present

you with something that pulls you because you don't mind.

But boy, when you start getting that that weapon of steel and

go, it's harder to fool you. Because I don't mind sitting, I

don't mind waiting. I also don't mind going.

I know how to go. But I know how to stay as well

as I know. I know how to stay as well as I

know how to go. And some people I know.

Most people in here, you only know one way.

You a goer or you're a stayer. Some of you got to hear go 30

times. You got to be pushed out the

boat. You don't need God's voice.

You just need somebody to push you out the boat because you

love sitting still. You're like, Nah, y'all going to

swim. I'm.

I'm good. I I'll have some sandwiches

ready for y'all when y'all get back.

I'm good like me and the Lord going to spend a lot of time

right here. I hear the Lord best right here.

Right. So it irritates you to be around

stairs if you're a goer, and if you're a goer, it irritates you

to be around stairs. And the most dangerous thing you

could do when you're walking with God God's people, is try to

make a stare, A goer and a goer A stare.

Because. You came.

Rest. Sometimes God brings the two

together because you have to be a pacemaker.

And sometimes I've I've learned this like me and my wife tease

all the time. So you'd be like, Buddy, we

wouldn't be half the places. If it was up to me, we wouldn't

be half the places that we are in right now if it was up.

But praise God for you, right? But look look.

She had to learn how to let me go, but I also had to learn how

to wait. So times where it can seem like,

you know, as we develop trust, when she like, I'm coming at her

with like, hey babe, God dropped this in my spirit, it was like

boom, boom, boom. And we can go next week and we

can go yesterday, oh, how we going to get the money?

I don't know. By the time we get there, the

money is going to be there. And then she'll be like, babe,

like, I think we should boom, boom, boom.

I think we should do this. And I'm like and everything in

me is like, but you don't understand how God then blesses

you. The.

Goer when you submit to the stare because the stare is not

trying to make you stay, They actually want to go.

If you're a goer. That don't train people how to

go at a healthy pace. You're dangerous.

And if you're a stare and you get frustrated with people and

manipulate them because they won't sit, they butt down,

you're dangerous. There has to be this healthy

dance between the leaper and the person that don't mind chilling.

There has to be this healthy dance because when you could

walk in both you're you are you are a very armed and dangerous

person. Because what you got to

understand is both of those paces represent seasons and any

one of those paces out of order or out of season can activate a

season, right? Being hasty can start a season

and you like. You're gonna go again, but he

gonna work everything together for my good.

No, no, no. We can't keep using scripture to

clean up, clean up, right. We use scripture as custodians.

That's what we do. And so whenever we make a mess,

we just like. I'll put that one.

What the enemy meant for evil. God gonna turn around for my

good. Watch all things work together.

Right. Can't just be broke and just

like my God shall supply all of my needs.

That's not how the scripture works.

Can't go lose. Gamble your money all away and

just be like, my gosh, he'll supply watch, watch, right.

Trust me. I'll admit I didn't did it.

I didn't did it. I got the word in me and I stood

on it too. You going to be standing for a

long time. It's going to come around

though. The word is going to come true,

but it's going to take a long time.

When the word is not on faith, when it's not, and when it's not

built on the principles to go with it.

Right. You can't.

You can't. You you just can't.

You can't just go on, like live in the wrong way and say count

it all joy when you fall in to die of its temptations.

No, no, no, no, you didn't. No, no, no.

That's not what that scripture mean.

You don't can't count it all joy.

You you disqualified from count it all joy.

Because what that scripture simply is saying is when you

fall in or when you come across these diverse trials that are

going to come to the person walking the right way.

I can count it all joy when I step out the boat on Jesus.

Word. But I can't count it all joy if

I'm just like, is that a ghost? I think that's Jesus.

Fool. No, I need a word.

I need a word. Come on, say I need a word.

I don't care if it look like Jesus.

That's the dangerous part. We'll start dating because he

look like he know Jesus, you know what I'm saying?

We'll sow our money and stuff because it looked like good

ground. But Peter said, if that's you,

you got to tell me to go. You ready?

In other words, what's the flip side of that?

Elder John is Peter also. Said.

If you don't tell me to go, I'll stay.

Full meaning of believing. We read that God's friend, Is it

not evident that a person is made right with God not by a

barren faith, but by faith fruitful in works are we going

to get? Into that over the next few

weeks, the different measures of faith you got to know what kind

of faith you got. Little faith, great faith,

Shipwreck faith, strong faith. What are these measures of

faith? The same with Rahab the Jericho

Harlot. Wasn't her action in hiding

God's spies? And helping them escape that

seamless unity of believing and doing what counted with God.

The very moment you separate body and spirit, you end up with

a corpse. Separate faith and works and you

get the same thing, a corpse. Faith without works.

He is dead and works without faith.

Is delusional. Welcome to wonder.

Wednesday 2024. Hallelujah.

I hope y'all get missed. We we gonna be strong

Christians. God's gonna do everything,

remember? Are you gonna do everything?

King tide, go time. All the times.

All the ghost green lights. God's doing everything.

We're in 2024. Build your church.

Build your church. Build it from the ground up.

You get what I'm saying? God's gonna do it, but your

corresponding. Actions.

These are this is how it works. Faith is the hinges like you.

You can't, you can't walk in the Kingdom things without proper

faith. Sometimes you got to be married

in faith. I didn't say get married by

faith. That's a big thing, but if

you're in it sometime, you're going to have to do it by faith,

OK? Faith without works is dead.

Works without faith is delusional.

Everybody say that with me. Again, faith without works is

dead, and works without faith is delusional.

Wow, here we go. For indeed we have had the glad

tidings the Gospel of God proclaimed to us just as truly

as they the Israelites of old dead, when the good news of

deliverance from bondage came to them.

Same news say, Same news but say, but the message they heard

did not benefit them. Sunday after Sunday after Sunday

after Wednesday after Wednesday, we hear the same message.

But the word that you heard or they heard did not benefit them

because it was not mixed with faith.

The enemy is working overtime during a service to get you to

misunderstand the word, to get you distracted, to get you.

Critical There is so much activity happening during the

releasing of the word to cause you not to hear properly.

With the leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute

trust, absolute no doubt and confidence in his power is very

important. Mix it with faith.

Take the word and then lean on God with your everything.

I don't care how much doubt comes your way.

Take that word and lean in to the Lord and trust.

If he said it, he will do it. So then my actions have to

correspond with the faith and belief that I have, that it is

done and he will do it. Understand.

I can't. I can't say God you, I know

you're going to do it. You did it before we sang all

these songs. You do it again, saying God

right now. And then something happened.

It's just like we're we're saying God right now, saying God

back when all the lyrics change in the song, when, when, when,

when pressure comes. But the point here is, is I'm

not leaning on them when it's easy to lean.

The more pressure comes, the more I'm leaning.

I'm dependent on his power, not mine's.

I'm dependent on his resources, not mine's.

I'm depending on his word, not mine's, he says.

Confidence in his power, confidence in his wisdom and

confidence in his goodness by those who heard it, Neither.

Here it is. This is very catchy right here.

Neither were they united in faith with the ones who heard or

with the ones who did believe. Do not underestimate the power

of corporate faith. And a lot of people, they're

here word and they go out there and make it.

But God gave a word to the house.

You going to take that same word and try to apply it to your

project on the side, to your other friend group?

Right. There's a light faith.

There's a light, precious faith that is imparted when the word

is imparted. This is why I love coming

together. What's happening right now is

God is uniting our faith. You hear what I'm saying?

That your faith is not alone. That's why you need to apply

what you got. When we say, hey, we standing

with you, What does that mean? It means that I'm.

In other words, I'm lending you my faith.

I'm not just. Hey, you got a buddy here,

right? I'm in the boat next to you in

the storm. No, no, no.

I am throwing you the raft from my boat.

But then you get my but my raft. And you like Nah, uh uh uh that

that that ain't good. It.

Blue Stripe. What's Blue Stripe?

For? Now I need AI.

Need AI. Need a smaller raft.

What you trying to say? I ain't that big And now you're

getting offended because I threw your big raft and so you throw

the raft back. Now you're on your boat with no

raft. Rather take oversized raft.

Then no size raft. So when we come together in a

body, that's why it's very dangerous for people to walk

around and say this is my church.

Well, if that's your church, there's a faith there for you

that you are called to unite around.

And you got to be careful where you split your ears because

other people faith ain't for the same thing.

And other people's faith ain't for the same word.

See, you might get a word from God here, but then go somewhere

else and use they faith. But they they faith is for the

word in their house. And This is why when we're

moving, we're moving together is why the children of Israel

didn't make it. It wasn't just because they was

complaining, but their faith was divided.

This is why the fight for unity is very important that we got to

keep the people together, right. The little bison or the little,

the little, the little, the little with the gazelle.

That's like, Nah, I got my own faith.

I'm about to go up over here y'all think y'all know all

everything over there. Y'all y'all clicked.

No, no, no. So then you get the little, the

little, the little, the what you got the Gazelle that want to hop

over here because he think he see another way out.

The one gazelle always like we got to go over here, and then

the one gazelle always run into that lion because he had his own

faith. He didn't run into the group of

lion. No kind of protection.

Because you just want to do it your way, your time, and your

pace. So I'm going over here and I'm

going to complain over here. Here.

You ready? You know what pulls you away

from the pack? Your little secret complaining,

hey, complaining will pull you away from the unit, the, the,

the, the corporate faith quicker than anything.

Look at look at what the Bible says.

They're murmuring and they're complaining.

Why do you think complaining caused them to not see the

promised land? Because they pulled them away

from the ones who said we can go.

It says they didn't have the same faith.

They weren't united with Joshua and Caleb.

Faith. Hold on, hold on.

So it wasn't even about them having faith.

Whatever measure of faith they had, they didn't unite it to the

ones that did believe. So it doesn't matter how much

doubt you got. Can you latch on to someone that

does see it? And so many people I've talked

to counsel through some tough times in their life and I know

they faith was done. But why they call PT?

Why they call PT? Why they call the elders?

They know we're not the healer, but they know our faith in the

One. It might get them to keep going

just one more day. What do they do?

Or they can get off the phone and see you always talking that

hope stuff. You always you always

optimistic. I didn't call you to be

optimistic. I called you to just hear how

sick I am. I just need somebody to hear how

sick I. Am well then you called the

wrong one. I do hear how sick you are.

That's why I'm saying what I'm saying right now.

You want me to say by stripes you got an option to be healed?

They're saving faith and there's living faith and I think we get

the 2 twisted. There's the faith that it took

you to receive Jesus, but then there's a faith that's required

to see Jesus in your life. Are you here?

That there? There's a there's a faith

required to see the salvation of the Lord, not just be saved from

eternal death, And we stop. At saving faith.

And then we go back to the world system and our salvation is

merely insurance, not heaven on earth.

For us, it's just a means to secure an end versus a means to

live out of now saving faith. It knows and comprehends the

facts about the gospel of Jesus Christ and also trust in the

person and work of Jesus Christ alone for salvation.

My my faith. My faith is in the gospel, the

truth of the gospel. It saved me, OK?

It's a faith that saved me. Saving faith is surrendering to

it and being changed by it. It's not.

It's is not accepting the truth and then never thinking about it

again. It's not it's it's not just

accepting, it's sorry. It is accepting the truth and

not going back and forth about it.

So no, Jesus is Lord. You know he is the only way

truth in the life, right? The people that walk away from

the faith. The question is, did you really

get saved in the first place? Feces 2 says it this way, for it

is by free grace God's a merit favor that you are what save

here. It is delivered from judgment

and made partakers of Christ's salvation through your what?

Faith. You are saved by grace through

faith. Your your your your faith is in

the work of grace. You are saved by grace.

Grace saved you. Here's what you got to get.

It goes forward to say not by works.

So works don't get you saved, but our works get us to see our

salvation. The day I received Jesus by

faith I was saved. But from that point forward, if

I'm going to see Jesus not just be saved by Jesus, I'm going to

need to live a life by faith in Jesus in his word.

Philippius, too, says it this way.

Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed my

suggestions, so now not only with the enthusiasm you would

show in my. Presence.

You know when I'm there, but much more because I am absent.

Workout, workout, workout, cultivate, Carry out to the goal

and fully complete your own salvation.

Your salvation should be worked out.

And how should it be worked out? Ready with reverence and awe and

trembling self distrust with serious caution, tenderness of

conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking

from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Jesus

of that keyword. Reverence holy all fear of God.

It takes faith because we are constantly working on our

salvation from faith to faith, Glory to.

Glory, I'm here to tell 100% of you, you ain't seen the half of

what Jesus has in you. And for you.

And the more consistently you walk by faith, the more

accelerated you'll show up. The one you're looking for will

show up sooner if you stick with it by faith and stop all of

these by emotions or senses. Experiments stop being driven by

need to be used. Charles Spurgeon says it this

way. Do not treat God's promises when

it when it pertains to appropriating.

Appropriation is basically taking on something as if it's.

Yours, like you are taking it on as if it's yours.

Jesus says, I bequeath to you my peace here, my courage here.

Do you want to know what faith is for?

Why you not having peace? No, no, no, no.

No, I'm not. I just got paid today.

Peace. Not, not, not.

Oh, I just got this peace. Oh, oh, the sun is out.

Oh, they like me. Oh, they showed up when I needed

it to show up. Not that kind of peace, he says.

My peace. Not the kind the world gives

you. Well, guess what to.

Appropriate that peace. It takes faith.

To actually walk in his strength, it takes faith.

To actually walk in his courage, It takes faith to actually walk

in his joy while people are persecuting you, it actually

takes faith. So in in a moment of

persecution, I'm taking on his joy by faith.

That's the only way I can access his joy is by faith.

I can't access it by my feelings.

In the moment when people walk out on you and when when people

betray you, when people lie to you, when something hurts you.

You can't look for joy in the absence of the thing.

The only way you can find joy is not in the absence of the pain,

but in the presence of his goodness.

So it's where you shifting your mind to so the same energy you

put in the God take this. You can put it in God.

Here I am, Lord, I love you, and he inhabits the praise of his

people, so I put my faith to work by praising Him.

I don't. I don't go put my face.

I'm not looking for joy where I could buy some joy where I can

get get that one strand of weed from.

No, I'm putting my faith and he has what I need.

Therefore I will worship him. And as I worship him, guess what

he does? He expands.

Heaven expands within me. And everything I need.

Ephesians 1/3 is being given to me in heavenly spaces.

Right? So I don't need to go get this

job or get this boyfriend or girlfriend or go had a sex or go

join this. I don't need to do none of that.

I did. I just.

I'm what am I running? Why am I so anti?

Why can't I sit in the boat? Why can't I sit here?

What if Jesus says no? I'm I don't need you to get out

the boat. I want to get in the boat.

What? What if Jesus says I want to get

in your boring season, not get you out of it.

What? What if the Lord says while

you're walking around looking for something to do, the Lord

says no, you're leaving the place I was on my way to.

And you think Jesus has found wherever your gifts are being

used, or wherever people accept you, or wherever you're

affirmed, that's where God is. And so many people go from place

to place and move from church to church and job to job and

relationship to relationship because they think God is

wherever they're accepted or wherever there's space for them.

And there's so much power in the waiting, He says.

We, he says. He says.

Do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a

museum, but believe them and use them.

We appropriate God's promises by learning them through reading

and memorization, by seeing our need for them through meditative

prayer, and by giving God time to work them, giving God time to

work them out. God's manifested promises have a

location to show up, he said. Hey, Isaac, go sow in the land

that famine. Go, go, go sow over there, he

said. And guess what?

In that same land there's famine 1000 times going to show up.

Do you know what if I told you that the promise was going to

show up where boring is? What if I told you that the

promise you're waiting for going to show up where you want to get

out of? I'm not talking about abuse.

I'm not talking, but I'm talking about in in the season.

I'm not being used in the season.

I'm not on platform in the season.

My education is not being used. Oh, wait a minute.

I didn't come to this. Church to not be.

Like because at the other church.

Everywhere I go, they need me. Maybe that's why you still got

some bondage because your gift was needed and you finally came

somewhere where they like sure we might need you but we need

you healthy and then you offended because somebody

actually you ran into somebody that cares about you he like

they do not have eyes to see. They they don't do not see.

Do they know do they do they know what they overlooking see I

found out that if we're looking for.

Healing and satisfaction in places where all of our needs

are met, All of our philosophies are agreed with.

All of our doctrines are in alignment.

There's some things that God just can't get to us if we run

from things that don't align with us.

Sometime you might be in a stupid situation, but God needs

you to walk in love, not be critical and actually get with

the pace of that thing because he's preparing you for something

down the line. And there's lessons.

When you take your eyes off of how you would do it right, just

think about it. If everything's done how you

would do it, then you're you're not really growing, you're just

executing you. But there's there's there's

expansion in diversity, even when diversity is challenging,

right? No one learns how to win a

championship without going through adversity.

No one goes through it. No one wins a championship

without having a few trades made.

But they had to go through a season where they had to play

with somebody who wasn't championship material.

But instead of complaining, they let the front office handle it

and they just LED it was a good teammate.

There's some stuff that you're not called to, to do.

Some stuff is for the front office.

So then you pray for the front office that they get eyes to.

See, in the meanwhile, you love who you labor with because your

growth is in the labor. Not in the change.

Your life doesn't get better because.

Somebody because the front office makes a trade.

Because guess what? Any team you go to, you go find

out that the same problem will arise.

James Harden. Y'all wouldn't know.

Y'all wouldn't know who? James.

Sorry James. OK, I'm just talking to my

hoopers. My hoopers in here by seeing our

need for them. All right, listen.

A living faith say living faith. A living faith is an act of

faith. A living faith is alive.

Faith is heaven's currency. OK, you got to get this

principle. Faith is heaven's currency.

The world operates off of what? Buying and selling heaven and

earth. Heaven works with us on earth by

faith. Faith is the kingdom's currency.

OK, Hebrews 10 says what? But the just shall live.

We should live by faith. That's how we.

Move. Therefore, we don't necessarily

count going forward based on having the money to go forward.

We count going forward based on the vision that's been given.

I told Elder John this a long time ago, We do not look for

expanding or spaces based on we need more seats.

So we can have 50 people in a 300 seat auditorium, but the way

we base moving into another space is what do we need for

ministry? So for us, we need a bigger

altar. We need a bigger stage because

of the sound that God's called us to produce.

We need an altar space big enough because of the anointing

and how we move in this house. We need another another building

because we need the studio and different.

So when we're looking for space is not based on we're growing

out of it because we don't. We only got standing room.

No, it's based on when we run out of space to do ministry

Vision drives, not provision doesn't mean be negligent.

It doesn't mean you you don't need money.

It doesn't mean no, but sometimes you don't need money.

Sometimes you believe in for a building and because you put

vision out front, somebody went one say, hey, I got these keys

for you, show me the vision. But when you put a financial

need out front, then you don't move until resources show up.

So what if we would have did that here?

That's why next door I can tell the man.

Yeah, we need next door building.

I ain't got no money, but we need it.

You didn't ask me. Do I got money right now.

You asked me would we like the next door building?

Yes. Sir, I answered your question.

Now if he would have been like, can you pay us forward today?

I would be like no. But he didn't ask that.

That's a whole different conversation.

Not knowing that the building we just was looking to for parking

was going to be the building we needed to be in for two years

because we couldn't get next door.

In my mind, God honored my faith because I told people we going

to be in that building in four months.

God's like, I love him. I loved him.

I can use this guy right here, this dude right here.

I'm telling you, this guy right here, he really, really

believed. Like he's really.

Trying to advance his Kingdom with me, so no wonder, he then

says. Gives me eyes to see the backup.

See, when you partner with God, he'll let you in no more.

He's like, no, you keep on believing some because that

ignorance is what's going to. Compete for This is what's going

to drive us through. I still think we're going to get

over there in four months. I'm still think we there in fact

that been two February's ago tell me I was like how does how

does that work how does how does that work.

The same faith that I had said and looked at them people when

they face that will be next door in four months two years ago.

It's the same faith I'm standing on.

The faith has not changed, but that same faith.

For four months there. Got us next door in four months.

You see what I'm saying? Those details are up to God.

God needs me to release faith for where he told us to go, says

the just shall live by faith, 2nd Corinthians 5 says.

For we walk by faith and not by sight, or living our lives in a

manner consistent with our confident belief in God's

promises. So we live by faith, not by

sight. Romans 117 On down after it

tells us faith, springing for for, for springing from faith,

and leading the faith and and and and it says the just and

upright shall live. By faith, Habeka too, says the

just, or I think it's for the just shall live by faith.

Just like your body needs water, just like your body needs blood

or it does not live. The believer is not living until

it's living in faith. Living faith is now faith.

Faith is always now. We don't.

Live in this bad boy. Faith.

Faith. Living faith is now Faith.

Living faith is not. Maybe faith.

Here's how Hebrews. Slice it up for you.

Now faith is now. However you slice it take off.

Now you can say faith is and is is when?

Now. But it says now faith is the

what substance of things. This for the for the King James

lovers, New King James Version. OK, now faith is the substance

of things that's going to really bless you all today, OK?

The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not

seen. Faith is not hope.

Faith is the substance of what I'm hoping for.

You got to get this because what faith says is I have it, and if

I have it, then my corresponding actions is if I.

So take yourself down to the future and if you had your

healing, if you had XY and Zed, how would you act?

What choices would you make now? Come back to where you are now

and then put the same response on the moment.

So, man, if I had a little bit of strength, I would give them

praise. Now you know what it would look

like if you had strength. If you're believing for

strength, bring what you would do if you have strength to where

you don't have strength, and bring what you would do to where

you are and do it. You got to put your future

actions to your now you ready and you got to stick with it.

You can be weak and you can be dancing.

You know about the fall, but hey, you going to fall and get

back up and you going to dance and before you know it you going

to see strength coming in your body as they went.

That's the part they went. Now faith is some things hoped

for ready and the evidence of the things not seen.

So for one, you got to be careful who you share your faith

with. Oh my God.

I see this building. We going, Oh my God, I see we

going to this place. Oh my.

There's some of the biggest lessons that I've learned

because I see it and I'll share it.

And sometimes I'll share it too early.

I've learned that lesson. I'm being transparent with you,

right? And I understand that what I see

verbalized to people who can't see it, You ready?

I actually need those people on the journey with me, but sharing

what I see could cause them to faint.

Be careful sharing what you see with everybody who is called to

see it with you but not see it. Now everybody not going.

They don't have the capacity to see what you see.

But when you share it, you make yourself susceptible to

discouragement. And when you're when when, when

you're in faith, you you, you can't afford discouragement.

Because hope deferred. So you have to understand when

you're standing in faith, you also have to take position of a

soldier, and you have to protect your faith more than you share

it. Share your faith through your

actions, not the details. Faith now Faith.

It's the substance of things hoped for, evidence, things not

seen. This is why you got to be

careful what you expose your eyes to and what you expose your

hearing to. This is why sometime when God

needs you to. Be in a place long enough to sit

down because he's trying to impart something to you and you

just want to be used right now. Use me.

Use me. Use me, Lord.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm ready. I'm so ready.

I'm so skilled. And there's an arrogance that

comes with your readiness 'cause you think you so ready.

God should be using you right now.

What if he's using you by you not being there?

Who says you showing up is being used?

What if he's using you by not showing up?

Let me tell you, you ever tried something with?

Some of you chefs in here with no bakers, with no.

Have you ever made something? It was good.

But then the next time you left the recipe, you left, you left

like something out of it, right? And then you're like, oh, OK,

I'm not going to put that much zest in and I'm not going to put

that much salt in it. Next time, like you, you you

decrease the presence of a recipe or of an ingredient, you

got to understand you're nothing but an ingredient in what God's

cooking. And sometimes you showing up

make stuff a little too salty, a little too zesty, a little too

sweet. And.

And God keeping you out because this is, this is you get what

I'm saying? This is oatmeal Raisin, you

chocolate chip. Don't show up.

All right, where we going to land, Elder John Love when I say

where we going to land? Let go, Hebrews.

Yep. Yep, Yep, Yep.

Thank God for more Wednesdays. Got it Now.

Faith is substance so far. I want you to say things.

Not saying say things. I want you to understand these

scriptures right here. Seek me first in His Kingdom.

All these what things. Come on, say things will be

added unto you. These things OK.

Once you understand faith is to get things in the earth.

OK thanks so so the evidence of things and then you go to

scripture it says eyes have not seen, ears have not heard,

neither has it entered into the heart of man.

The things that God has in store for right.

How if I if faith? Comes by hearing.

How am I going to receive things that I don't hear?

You know, he's seating abundantly above all that you

ask, Think or imagine. I'll understand how I'm a

received when I seek him. First, there's a reciprocation.

When I delight in him, there's a he'll give me the delight.

You get what I'm saying. But how do I obtain the things

that I haven't even set my eyes? How do I obtain the things that

I've never seen someone go before?

How do we How do I get impregnated with something

there's no blueprint for? How am I ever, How are we ever

going? How is God ever going to write a

new blueprint for a new generation?

How am I going to do so? How am I going to be a dad and

and and how am I going to be a husband and didn't see my father

be husband? How do we get to the things that

we have no exposure to? Faith.

This is why the word of God is so vital now.

Faith is the assurance Confirmation.

It's the it's the receipt. It's the title.

DK tonight if you go home and book a a hotel for February

twenty 20th 2025, you book it. They send you back a what?

Confirmation number. OK, you going to Hawaii February

20th, 2025. OK, listen to me.

Listen to me. Listen to me.

Listen to me right. You show up February 20th, 2025

with a what? Confirmation number.

I don't care if it's sold out. They got to find a room for you.

Why? Because you have a what?

Confirmation. Come on, you have a what

confirmation number. So faith.

Faith is. The.

Confirmation. It's the I have it.

In other words, when I book a hotel, I move on with my life.

I don't call a hotel. Every day until February 20th,

2025. Excuse me.

You know, I called the other day and I had a room with a king

size bed and right. I wanted a Bayview.

I wanted a Bayview. You guys have it.

Awesome. All right, talk to you guys

tomorrow. Oh no.

So then God tells us to stop worrying, cast our cares.

You can't worry and have faith, because when you have the

confirmation number, then you move on with your life.

So here you go. Your responsibility is to stand

on the word. Until.

You have the title deed within your spirit.

The moment I. Got it right this.

Is why you should. Don't ever let me see it.

God for the last. Since I moved here, almost.

Even for the last six years, we've noticed a theme with God.

Wherever we lived, we saw things being built.

From the foundation, from houses to condos, we were right next

door. Every day, without even thinking

about it, I am recording building.

My mind sees it, but I'm not even thinking about it.

So to build my faith for it, I got to get a word first, then I

got to get around people who have faith that fuel my faith,

and then I got to see it. I got to.

Go visit a building. I got to go, I got to go.

Test drive the car. I got to, I got to go overseas.

I got to go find a conference that's speaking the same

language, 'cause if you're around people who don't speak

the same language, eventually your faith for it will diminish.

So I got to find books, I got to go talk to people who are

confirming the word. I don't just need opinions about

the word. And then there's a point where,

boy, I got it so I can be over here without worrying about next

door. I've moved on with my life.

I haven't lost sleep at all about next door for one.

I know God told us to do it. Other people may not understand,

but I'm standing. And that's a part of your faith

being tested. It's Can you stand while others

walk away? Can you stand while others

murmur? Can you stand while other people

don't see it? And then God is so cool, He'll

send people around you that just believe him but also believe

you. And you know why their faith

increases in you as well is because you've been testing.

Publicly. Your leadership and your faith

will have to be proven, James, One says.

Your faith is on trial. So whatever you're believing

for, my question is have it been tried?

If it hasn't been tried, then you're a little ways off from

seeing it come. Your faith has to go on trial

about. That thing do you?

Really believe it when my daughter said Nah, y'all going

to make a mistake by coming here.

OK, we got to stand. When your husband don't.

Believe in it. When your children don't believe

in it, when your Co workers don't believe in it, do you

believe God? It is being proof of the things

you do not see and the conviction of their reality.

Faith carries conviction. It's faith perceiving as real

fact what is not revealed to the senses.

And this is what we going to get to next week.

Just because you don't feel it, don't mean it ain't God.

It says what's not revealed to the senses.

You can't even detect it. All you got is a word, and God

is not putting nothing around you.

To prove he said it, except he said it.

How long can you stand when all you?

Got is a word. No confirmation, no evidence.

Your faith can get jacked up. I'm talking about a good way.

Pumped up beefy like. Big robust, gargantuan swole

cut. Come on, lift your hands right

where you are. We will obtain next week.

We're going to look at Abraham. We're going to look at the

heroes of faith. They use their faith for stuff

they knew they would not see. You know when they saw it, they

saw it far off. You ready?

It is going to blow your mind when you see this next week.

But the stuff we obtain now that Abraham fought for, then we

would not see it without latching our faith on to what he

believed for. So your faith is not merely

believing in what you want. Your faith is your Your faith is

latching on to what God told him because you don't understand.

So when we're believing for healing, when we're believing

for territory, when we're believing to advance the gospel,

it's not just this new thing God's asking us to believe, for

we're latching on to someone he promised it to.

So whatever he told my grandmama about the next generation, my

faith is latching on to her and her part she played.

Maybe her part was only to pray it over me.

You're healed. You're whole.

That's not just something new. That's not something PT saying.

That's something that Ben said. We're latching our faith to the

fathers of faith. We're latching our faith to

those that have went ahead of us.

And guess what? The ones who didn't touch the

promise, they're the ones interceding and cheering for us.

When I declare over these next few weeks, your faith gets

upgraded. If it's been weak faith, I

declare it goes to strong faith. If it was strong faith, I

declare it goes to great faith. If it was ship shipwreck, I'd

just breathe life back into it. If it was barren, I'd speak life

into your faith right now. And I say faith, come alive,

Come alive. Come on, faith, come alive.

Come on, Lord. We believe your word.

We shall not be moved. We shall not be shaken.

We shall not be displaced, Lord God.

But we stand on your word. Faith, come alive.

Come on, Faith, Come alive. Come on.

Speak over yourself. Come on.

Like the one with the issue of blood.

She It says that she told herself and she reminded

herself. She encouraged herself that if I

could just touch the hem of his garment, I know I can be healed.

If I could just get up another day, I know I will be restored.

My faith is alive. My faith is living.

My faith is moving. My faith is active.

Come on. My faith is alive.

My faith is moving. My faith is active.

My faith is moving. Come on.

My faith is alive. My faith is active.

My faith is living. My faith is moving.

My faith is working. My faith is working.

My faith is working. My faith will materialize what

God has promised Jesus. Name Jesus name Jesus.

Name. Hey man, if you received

anything. Just give God a hand.

Awesome. That's it.

That's all. I don't know about you, but my

faith has. Grown.

Now what you gonna do is you gonna go home and you gonna hold

on to this faith. You gonna hold on to this word.

Faith comes by here throughout this series.

You're gonna learn. What faith is?

How do you grow your faith? You don't grow your faith by

asking for faith. You grow your faith for specific

What do you want faith for? What do you believe it for?

Then you need to. You need to.

You need to get your your gates on that thing.

You need to hear word about it. You need to find scripture and

you need to declare it. You need to meditate on it, and

you need to build your faith. And faith doesn't just come by

hearing me or hearing someone else.

Faith comes by hearing you say the word.

So you got to speak, You got to talk.

You got to declare. I don't care if you got to get

sticky notes in your car. Do what you got to do to build

your faith for what you believe in for it.

And then you have to have corresponding actions, right?

You want to be healthy. Then you got to do certain

things to be healthy. You can say you want to be

healthy all you want to, right? You can say, oh, I want a speedy

recovery. Well, Advil can only help you so

long. OK, Cold plunge.

I keep telling, you know saying you look all that's crazy,

that's crazy. Well there's there's there's

beneficial those facts there. That's very beneficial, right.

So, so for me, I have a goal. I want to be super healthy.

I want to get healthier as I get older.

I want to be healthier. I don't want to be.

I'm active. I got a call on my life and if I

don't take care of my body, God not going to override that

because I'm neglecting what he's put around me to make me last

longer. But then guess what happens?

I get around healthy people. You can't stay around unhealthy

people and be like I'm I'm going to be healthy in Jesus name.

No, that burger going to rub off on you?

You can only hang out with people that eat like that for so

long before they because you know they'd be like try this

girl, they good. Just try this one time right?

So what is God? What is God?

What is God challenging you to? What I will say is do not waste

your faith on just mere stuff. Start off using your faith for

joy, for peace, for confidence, to get rid of procrastination,

whatever. Start off you spend your faith

on your soul. Because here's what he says.

I pray that you prosper. Even as boy, if you get this

prospering, all that other stuff is coming.

So spend your spend your faith on you.

Don't forget prayer this Saturday, either 7:30 here or

10:00 AM in Vancouver. Bring it down really quick.

Do not forget to register for the conference.

We already had a nice handful of people register and we haven't

even really start pushing it, pushing it, but go register for

the conference. We had our first round ball game

this past Friday and it was good.

I'm telling you like. It is such a witness.

It's it's it's such a witness to the guys that's standing on the

side, like teams can't wait to play us because of y'all they

actually love playing against us.

You get people there by yourself cheering against us just because

they want to cheer against us. We had this there's this big

money tournament happening in Abbotsford in a few weeks and

they reached out because they they reached out and asked us to

put a team in just because they heard about our team.

But they also heard about when we show up, what shows up with

us. And so man, it's a trust me,

your church is buzzing. Just for being competitive and

being out there. So this Saturday, this Friday,

we play at 9:00 PM again. I know it's late for some people

I guess, but 9:00 PM this Friday, come on and support and

leave moms March 2nd at 5:00 PM for testify.

I'm making an executive decision right now.

I made it on the way here. So EJ, listen up.

And those that are, I think I want to do Triumph Tuesdays once

a month for right now till the summer comes, but just for the

winter and the fall. What I don't want to do is have

the same team show up to everything.

I'm not going to do that. Our team works really hard and I

also on the flip side, I get that people want to be there

but, and you got some every Tuesday, there's some every

Wednesday there's something Saturday you then you got to

start choosing and picking. I figure for what Triumph

Tuesdays is worth and what we're trying to offer and get going in

the city is worth maximizing our potential right now.

And the best way to do that over the next few months is once a

month on Tuesdays and then in the summer when we can roll up

the Bay doors and do do expand. And when the weather is not

unpredictable then we'll and we have some momentum with you know

the building and different things like that.

But I I just don't what I it's it's the it's the goal and the

state thing. There's some people that really

struggle with goers, but here's the thing.

But why you here is because you love the go about us.

But then you get in the race with us.

Then you like, oh, I didn't realize my right leg is is.

I ain't gonna even say what I was thinking.

Amen. Hallelujah.

You get what I'm saying. So.

I I think it's just leadership wisdom to to make sure we we're

not slowing down but once a month comes really fast at Love

Quest and so this Sunday we'll announce announce which Sunday I

am thinking about. I mean which Tuesday I'm

thinking about. First Tuesday is just easier to

remember but we'll see. I'll announce it on after I talk

to the team. And then in the summer we'll

pick pick up. Yeah.

All right. We good.

We good. Love you guys so much.

Super proud of you. Love quest.

You're an amazing church. You're an amazing group of

people. Get here on Wednesdays.

You do not want to miss faith. That works.

You enjoy yourself tonight, you get anything.

God bless you, Father. Bless them and keep them in the

mighty name of Jesus. Until next time I'll see you on

Sunday. Get your.

Love fixed, man. If you're a man with all of the

faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do,

He's not alive. Just like the way they can do.

He's gone. Move.

He's gone. Move Thank you so much for

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