The Way I Live

This is Ronald Hopkins, and thank you for joining the Life Center Church.

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Yeah, I am fired up.

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Cause uh, you know, I've after coming back from Nigeria and seeing the spiritual disciplines over there, I've been stepping my game up, and it's and it's a big difference, so it might come out today.

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All right, let's get into the word.

Let's get into the word this morning.

Um, the title of my message is The Way I Live.

The Way I Live.

Faith is the way I live.

So that's what I want to talk about this morning.

The way I live.

Faith is the way I live.

The Bible is full of promises of what God will do for you.

God has no problem bringing his promises to pass in our lives.

He only has a problem with our sin and unbelief.

Doubt is a form of unbelief, and sin is a form of unbelief.

God has uh no problem committing us.

Uh the problem is we don't commit to him, which stops his commitment to doing things for us.

We gotta do our part.

God has no problem doing anything, y'all.

Literally anything.

The problem is we have not met his faith demands for doing it.

You must stop the opposition, uh, and sometimes that opposition is us.

Sometimes we get in the way of it.

Supernatural manifestation is always ever present and available every moment of the day.

What is not ever present and available every moment of the day is a person's faith to receive what is ever present.

It is the prayer of faith that heals, not prayer for days.

Every day is God's day.

Say that.

Every day is God's day.

Why are we waiting for stuff?

I'm getting, I'm, wait, I'm not there yet.

Let me get there.

The day you truly believe is your day.

This is about belief, confidence, trust, persuasion.

That's what we're talking about.

All right, God will heal you by different methods.

God can heal us by uh, you it's really three different methods.

Number one, he will repair you.

Y'all know how that works.

You know, your car breaks down, you get it repaired, right?

He will replace it.

Your car can't get fixed, you just go buy a new car, right?

Make sense?

And he he will completely recreate.

So he will repair, he can do that, he will replace, or he can completely recreate.

Now, you know, we hear the stories in Nigeria, y'all, this ain't just for Nigeria, but we hear the stories of how people who had no arm prayed and believed God, and they had an arm.

That's not a joke.

That same God that did that in the Bible times is doing that today.

So he can recreate it if it's not there.

He can replace it if it's not there.

You know what it is, y'all?

A lot of times we don't want to take the time and the effort because you know what God requires of us is time.

When we take time in the word, take time and prayer long enough to see the manifestation of the results that we want in our lives.

That's what it's about, you all.

And a lot of people just give up.

Lord, you you you mean to tell me you want me to get up at three in the morning every single day for a year and a half before you give me an answer?

If that's the case, that's the case because I want the answer.

I think that would be worth it.

But a lot of us, we don't know that.

I didn't know that.

And I'm learning that it's extremely important that what God wants from us is our time in his presence, his relationship, our relationship with him.

All right?

Uh you are too patient with sickness.

I don't, man.

You are too patient with sickness.

Y'all know we got authority, right?

That is why it makes a patient out of you.

Faith is quick to respond to opposition.

The more beggardly you are, the more defeated you become.

There is no mercy in the devil's nature, so the more you beg, cry, and complain, the more he turns it up because he knows it's working.

You keep looking for people to help you instead of looking for help from above.

This is why a lot of people are struggling.

We're looking at the wrong thing, looking to the wrong people.

Every man is limited except God.

God is the only one that has no limitations.

There is a reason he is called the great physician.

He's a great physician.

What is faith?

All right, let's get into this.

Uh what is faith?

It's the way I live.

Faith is the way I live.

Faith is a mystery, you all.

Faith is a mystery.

And uh, 1 Timothy 3 9, it says, they must be committed to the mystery of the faith now revealed, and must live with a clear conscience.

They must be committed to the mystery of the faith now revealed and must live with a clear conscience.

Faith is the way I live.

That word mystery, hidden things, secret, religious secrets, confided only in the uh, excuse me, if uh only to initiate and not an ordinary mortal, a hidden or a secret thing not obvious to the understanding.

The secret counsel which governs God is dealing with the righteous, which are hidden from ungodly and wicked men.

Faith draws on the power of God to create the impossible.

Luke 8, 45 through 48 says, Who touched me?

Jesus asked everyone, denied it, and Peter said, Master, this whole crowd is pressing up against you.

But Jesus said, Someone deliberately touched me, for I felt healing power go out from me.

When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of him.

The whole crowd heard her explain why she had touched him and that she had been immediately healed.

Daughter, he said to her, your faith has made you well.

Go in peace.

So faith draws the power of God to create the impossible.

It's faith, it's God's power, and it draws the impossible that's in our lives.

We all know this story.

This lady said, she said, I don't even need to touch him.

But if I could get the fringe of his garment, I know I'll be made whole.

Y'all, this the word is living.

This is what cultivates and develops our faith.

It's when we recognize where we can draw it from.

We gotta draw it from somewhere.

And the word is the best place to get any type of hope, any type of confidence, any type of boldness is from the word.

It requires a sacrifice.

We gotta sacrifice what?

Time, y'all.

It's time.

Time.

Faith is an invisible force within you that determines the reality around you.

Faith is an invisible force within you that determines the reality around you.

Hebrews 11 3 says, Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.

So that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Hmm.

So faith, y'all, we it's not what we see.

So, so so some people in here might be believing God for a house.

Some people might be believing God for a car or a better job or whatever.

You may not see it, but what do you do?

You believe it.

You you you put God's word in your heart and in your mouth until that thing manifest.

I said it earlier, all.

Sometimes God requires our time, and we want it right away, but he wants to spend some time with us and he wants to give it to us, but do we want to sacrifice that time?

Faith partners with the invisible God to make things not seen seen.

2 Corinthians 4.18, listen to this.

So we don't look at the trouble we can see now, rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen.

For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

Faith looks at the invisible things that last forever and brings it into the presence to be experienced now.

You know, when we as believers come into church, y'all, nobody wants to just come here just to be coming here.

I want something to change in my life.

And if God's word is that, I'm gonna allow that to take place in my life.

Now, look, y'all, some things take time.

It don't happen overnight.

Some people are not mature.

In most cases, we're not ready.

So God prepares us for a thing.

How many people, if God just dropped a billion dollars in your account right now, you would know what to do with it?

We got a couple of people, a few people say they they would know what to do with it.

But we we all know people that won a lotto, y'all.

Y'all know people that won a lotto?

Two to five years, all the money gone.

Because they don't know what to do with it.

So there has to be some type of maturation process, a development process in our lives so we can handle stuff, y'all.

Does that make sense?

Faith is being fully persuaded of the truth.

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded that what uh he had promised, he was able also to perform.

So God is always with us, you all.

And if we just are confident in the truth of what God has said about us, we can stand on that thing.

Y'all know the story when Abraham and Sarah, when he said that y'all are gonna have a baby, they was they laughed.

They said, How is this gonna happen?

Y'all, at a hundred years old, how is this gonna happen?

But they stood strong in faith because God made a promise.

And we fix our eyes on a promise and what God said he was gonna do for us.

Faith is not a belief system.

Faith is not a belief system.

Bible faith is a spiritual weapon.

That's one of the weapons, y'all.

There are many types of weapons: knives, swords, guns, missiles, explosives, but the nuclear bomb is above all.

We know if you nuke something, they say nuke it, it's through.

It's all done, it's done.

Ephesians 6.16 says, above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Bible faith is a spiritual weapon.

1 John 5.4 says, For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world.

And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

To develop this spiritual weapon, it comes through the word of Almighty God.

And why I'm stressing this, you all, and I got a bunch of scriptures on purpose, because the more we activate God's word in our lives, yeah, I'm telling y'all, I'm I'm reading the Bible in 90 days, y'all.

So I'm I'm the whole Bible in a year.

So um I don't know if y'all know this, but if you read four chapters a day, you can read the Bible in a year.

If you read eight chapters, you can read it in six months.

If you read 12 chapters, you can read it in 90 days.

So I'm on that.

So I'm I I just made a commitment.

I said, Lord, well, let me just, I wanna, I wanna do it 12 chapters a day.

And because I was convicted, y'all.

I'm just being truthful.

I'm telling y'all, I'm being convicted.

Because the first time I said, I'm gonna just do four chapters a day.

And straight up, that's being lazy.

Straight up, it's just being lazy.

I'm like, why can't I just, I said, I can read 12 chapters, 12 chapters in the morning and 12 chapters at night, or try to do all of them in the morning.

That way, if I don't make it at night, I done read all of them.

But but you all, I'm gonna tell you this.

When you read the Bible, it might seem like nothing is happening.

You might see no fruit, you may not feel any type of way, but guess what, y'all?

Something is happening.

Y'all notice when you eat a banana, you don't know that the potassium is helping you.

Because it's potassium in a in a banana.

You know, in an orange, when you eat an orange, what?

It's vitamin C.

You don't see the vitamin C, but it's doing something on the inside.

You feel me?

So if we got the word, know something is happening.

Know it.

Know something is happening, and in spite of what people say or do, read the word.

Because y'all notice, y'all ever notice, like when you try to read the Bible, even with me, yep, you be like this.

Uh in the beginning.

Like, what happened?

I was energized, but something happens.

Y'all know that's the enemy.

He doesn't want you to read the word at all.

But it's easy, y'all.

We was tracing and I was talking about this.

Like, you can like when Netflix comes on, you can binge watch shows straight up for hours.

Like, oh, I'm gonna get through this, I can get through this series.

And it's just like, I mean, you wire, you don't go to sleep.

It comes to the word, bro.

It's like praying in tongues, bruh.

Y'all, I've been stepping my game up too, praying in tongues.

But like, I'm that that look, y'all, it's the craziest thing.

It's like, yadda, yadda.

You going to sleep because that's the the trick of the it he don't want you to do it.

But you know what happens, y'all?

You get weight.

Yep.

You get power.

Yep, the Lord give you direction.

So the things that matters most, that's what we should focus our time on.

We should we should fight, claw, whatever it takes to put time in the word of Almighty God.

To pray in the spirit.

Because that's gonna separate us, y'all.

And when the time comes, when something comes up, you got something on the reserve, you got something on the inside that'll keep you, that'll hold you.

Amen.

Faith is the most dreaded weapon to the devil.

Faith.

Because it can stop all of his attacks and extinguish any weapon he throws at us.

Therefore, it is always the target of destruction from the dark side.

He don't want us to do this, y'all.

The spirit of fear is the main weapon released against the spirit of faith.

I don't know if I could do it, Lord.

I'm afraid.

That's the biggest qualm that the enemy tries to do to stop our faith.

Faith, watch this, y'all, works by love.

So Satan also focuses on tainting and destroying your love walk.

He's targeting us, you all, the enemy.

He wants us to be in fear.

He doesn't want us to love our brothers and sisters, he just wants us to be isolated by ourselves.

That is a trick of the enemy.

And that's why we come to church, y'all.

We get the word so we can address what the enemy is trying to do in our lives.

So we can combat it and know how to do it by faith.

Amen.

Bible faith is of the heart, not of the head.

Bible faith.

Romans 10, 10 says, For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it's by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.

So we don't believe in our heads, we believe with our hearts.

I was listening to Bishop David O'Eidipo the other day, and he was talking about when you pray, engage your heart.

And a lot, I don't know if y'all read the Bible, if you read the Bible in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, it it when Jesus was on his earthly ministry, he was talking how hard the hearts of the people were.

Not just the religious leaders and the Pharisees and Sadducees, but the people, their hearts were hard.

We we can go all the way back to Exodus when when Pharaoh's heart was hard.

You you you see, when you have a hard heart, what happens, y'all?

You can't get nothing through it.

You can't say anything to that person because their heart is hard.

So we gotta we we gotta make sure that we engage our heart.

And and you know, this life on earth should be magnificent for everybody as a believer.

Magnificent.

It should be wonderful.

If it's tough, if it's a struggle, if you seem like you're not, your needs are not being met, that's why we go back to the word and we go to prayer and say, Lord, where am I missing it at?

And sometimes it's a heart issue.

It's our heart.

Somebody offended us, somebody did us wrong, somebody hurt you.

Somebody did something that wasn't right.

But you got to forgive that person because our hearts is connected to Him.

And we want Him to move in our lives.

Amen.

You can cry from here to tomorrow, but what you don't believe, you will never be empowered to become.

Everything starts with belief.

What do you believe God for?

What are you believing God to do in your life?

I got some big stuff that I'm believing God for.

Huge stuff, y'all.

And you know, I ain't even afraid to say it.

I want a plane.

I want a plane here.

Go ahead.

I literally want a plane.

I've been looking at the golf streams.

You got to believe it, y'all.

Because I'm like, Lord, you know, I want to be able to get to Nigeria as fast, go all over the world and do things like that.

You got to believe first.

If it's not in your head, if you haven't had a thought about it, how can it be manifest manifested?

So that's the biggest thing, you all.

Y'all know?

God proud of me because I want to plane.

He's proud.

I told the Lord I want to be a billionaire too.

He's proud of that.

Most people don't, they don't want to believe, they they believe God for little stuff.

Lord, can you just I just need just enough to make it?

That's what what what that's that y'all know that offends God.

I just because it's all about you.

But being a billionaire, I can help somebody else.

A say billionaire?

I'm just trying to get us a stretch a little bit.

Just a little bit.

John 1 12 says, but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on his name.

It's something about believing.

We have to believe.

You will never experience what you don't believe.

The written word of God will never become what it says about you without your faith.

Faith is the ingredient that pulls what is on paper into the planet.

Faith is the ingredient that pulls what is on paper into the planet.

Faith makes what you read a reality.

I'm just helping me.

Y'all here, I'm just saying this.

So that there was a couple of things there.

Maybe we should write some things down.

Write it down.

Vision board, things that I want to happen in my life, and then I could check it off.

It's ascribing to God, letting God know, hey, I want something out of this life.

I'm telling you, God didn't just make us, you know, to live here, eat food, go to work.

Don't even talk about going to work.

Look, God made us for an even greater purpose.

And y'all, we can be the ones.

Say, I'm one of the ones.

I'm one of the ones that people say, I want their God.

I want what's that God?

I want to live like that.

That's what we have, you all.

Alright, y'all, how do we build faith?

How do we build faith?

2 Corinthians 3.5 says, Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine.

Test yourselves.

Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you.

If not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.

We gotta examine ourselves.

Y'all, who who like nobody likes criticism, no one likes scrutiny, no one likes, most people don't like to be corrected, right?

But I mean when when people have experiences and they know things, they've been around for a time and they know better than you, sometimes it's beneficial to listen.

When people have things that you don't have and things that you desire, listen to that person because they got what you don't have.

How you know more than them and you don't have what they have?

I I'm not going, I'm not going there.

Anyway, no.

You you you y'all notice how some people they they they can criticize, oh, they don't need this, that, and the other.

That house is too big.

Why they got all this and then that?

They don't look look, y'all.

Um when we when we went to Nigeria, uh we flew first class from Detroit to Atlanta, and we uh flew first class from Atlanta, Delta One to Nigeria.

So I was in the Sky Lounge.

Now I done flew first class before, but it so that's that's cool.

But this experience was a completely different because I I I hadn't been in Sky Lounge before.

So I got in the Sky Lounge, I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

All right.

Plus cheers, food, right?

I can relax.

So I said, okay.

I said, I don't have to be out there with the common folks.

I'm in here.

I'm I'm back off in the room, Kev.

I'm in the room.

So that that experience, and then, you know, when they you you it's time to get on your plane, you get on the in the first class seat.

Y'all know how the people they you sit in first class because you zone one.

So they gotta walk past you.

Like you looking straight.

Anyway, but but but and then and then and then you know, you know, Delta One, y'all.

Delta, I'm 6'3.

I laid that whole bed down, y'all, and went to sleep.

And I this is what I said.

When I got back, I said, Tracy, I know we we've traveled first class before, I, but it was sporadic.

And and because we would go sit in comfort plus.

I said, never again.

Well, we sit back there.

I'm not playing.

I I said, I said, every time we travel, I don't care if I'm going from Michigan to Florida, we're traveling first class.

It's a standard, y'all.

I believe it.

I believe it.

Who cares, y'all?

It's money.

Why why these are the joys and the pleasures that God put here for us?

Why y'all wanna sit in the back, y'all, and be in zone five, waiting to get on the plane?

Who wanna do that, y'all?

Look, y'all, let's just let's just raise our standards.

Let's raise our standards as believers.

Because we're gonna do it in love, y'all.

Right?

We're gonna do it in love.

We ain't gonna be arrogant, parasitical with our nose in the sky.

No, we're gonna do it right to let other people know this is the way you live.

This is the way I live.

I live this way.

This is the way I live.

Hey, look, y'all, it might not be right now, but I'm believing for it.

And it's gonna manifest itself.

Whatever it takes, God, show me how to get to first class and stay there.

Y'all know he'll answer all of our questions.

He'll give us all the answers.

It's something, man.

I'm I'm I'm fired up, y'all.

I'm fired up about Jesus.

I I want us as believers, y'all, I want the value gap to be so big that they know it's Jesus.

When the value gap is that big, they they you he couldn't have done it.

He he not that smart.

It had to be Jesus.

It had to be.

Watch this, y'all.

Because this might help.

Uh uh, we were in Nigeria, and I'm I asked a lot of questions.

I'm in another country.

I need to know how this stuff works.

And Jerry, the guy on the ground there that was that was uh you know taking care of us, he was telling us how he said, Mike, there are four people that attend Winter's Chapel.

Um they they they have planes, they fly to church every week.

Where they do that at?

I said, I'm I'm I'm I'm y'all, I'm analytical.

I I break, I said, Jerry, how much that costs?

Oh, he's like, Mike, it's a thousand dollars.

A thousand dollars to fly every week, y'all, to church.

And he said, watch this, Mike.

He said, Michael, one of them is the usher.

You wouldn't know it.

They ushering.

Shout out to the ushers, y'all out here, low-key flying to church every week.

I mean, y'all, that's the God we serve.

Man, that that stretch me.

There, there are people that own oil, oil, what you call it?

The oil billionaires, y'all.

Cleaning the bathroom.

That's crazy.

Y'all, I'm I'm talking about a value gap.

When you know who the God you serve and how big and how you can live.

Y'all, I'm I'm getting happy.

I'm getting happy.

It's time.

You put the time in, he'll give you the answers.

I'm putting the time in.

Y'all, I'm I'm 43 years old.

The first 43 years was nice.

But the next 43 years, watch God.

Watch this, y'all.

Okay.

Oh, what am I doing?

I shouldn't normally be done by now.

Uh fasting, fasting and long hours of prayer do not build faith.

Fasting and long hours of prayer do not build faith.

Reading books about faith and about men of faith and their exploit stirs in the heart a deep passion for faith, but does not build faith.

The word alone is the source of faith.

I told y'all, bananas, potassium, oranges, vitamin C.

I don't see it, but it's doing something.

Romans 10, 17.

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

The word alone is the source of faith.

Got that?

How to build, we're talking about how to build our faith.

Hebrews 4 12 says, For the word of God is alive and powerful.

It is sharper than any the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow.

It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.

The word of God that's alive, that's powerful.

Faith is in degrees and is a growing force.

The capacity to believe must be built.

You must build your faith to the capacity of what you desire.

I'm going to encourage everybody in here.

Let's stretch our desires just a little bit more.

No faith, little faith, great faith, spirit of faith.

No faith, little faith, great faith, the spirit of faith.

Your faith does not need another person's support.

You must fill your heart with faith so that there is no room for doubt.

That's the time, y'all.

It takes time because you got to push out the negative stuff.

Y'all see what we deal with in America, on TV, in this life.

We gotta push that stuff out so that there's no room for doubt.

Proverbs 4.7 says, Wisdom is the principal thing.

Therefore, get wisdom, and with all thy getting get an understanding.

Knowledge is not transferable, it must be personally acquired.

Knowledge.

John 8 32 says, And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

When his understanding came alive, he had faith to be saved.

So the purpose for study is to get to the point of understanding.

Faith does not come by reading, it comes by understanding.

You listen, you read, and meditate until you understand clearly.

Now, y'all know in the Old Testament, when you get to numbers and all that stuff, and you're trying to say them names and all that kind of stuff, don't be discouraged, y'all.

Just just try to say the names as best as you can.

But the more, the more you read the word, the more you engage, the clearer it becomes.

I'm learning that.

Y'all, like these last four years have been incredible.

And I grew up in a church.

It seemed like my mama went from the hospital to choir rehearsal when I was born.

I've been in church my whole life.

It's one thing to just be in church, but it's another thing to start getting understanding.

And there's a lot of people that are not getting understanding.

They just getting a whole bunch of nothing.

And nothing is taking place in their lives.

I'm sick of it.

I want there to be transformation.

I want there to be breakthrough in the lives of God's people.

That requires faith to have the power, the capacity to see through any type of situation or circumstance.

You are responsible for building your faith to the level where anything God says, you can believe.

What if?

What if God says to you that He wants you to be a multi-billionaire?

Y'all, we don't have to get that big.

A lot of us, there are symptoms in our body that we can just speak to.

We have authority, you all, over our body.

And if it ain't acting right, make that sucker act right.

You got authority, y'all.

Hebrews 10, 35, 36 says, Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.

For you have need of patience that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

You can have a crowd of thousands of people, y'all, but it is the individual that have faith that gets healed.

That one individual.

Another man's unbelief cannot affect your faith.

If you develop your faith, you will be surprised at the level of command you will gain.

Let's go to another level, y'all.

Faith is triggered by hearing and understanding the word of God.

You say before you read the scripture, Lord, help me to understand what I'm reading.

Help me to understand this, Lord, because this is your word.

He's honored by that.

Word lazy people can't grow faith.

Pray for me.

Pray for me, people, don't go far.

Wait a minute.

We have a level of authority.

And if we not, Pastor, can you pray for me?

Pray for yourself.

Straight up.

Like literally, pray for yourself.

If you really want it, if we have a dependency on a pastor or a person, that's not good, y'all.

We thank God for their gift and their instrument that God blessed them with to be a vessel in our lives, but we bear some responsibility.

I ain't being too tough, am I?

I I just we just like straight up straight up in the in the body of Christ, there's a laziness.

And y'all, I'm fighting that.

I'm I'm being transparent because I I want all of God for my life.

I want the value gap.

I want like people, I want to say stuff that sounds so outlandish.

Like, yeah, Tracy and I, we want, we wanted, we wanted lunch, so we flew to Paris on our private plane and came back the same day.

Who do that?

Weird, like I y'all, I want it to be so outlandish, but it's so big, is God.

Not me, it's God.

This is what God wants to do for us.

Okay, every miracle is according to the faith of the one receiving.

Every miracle is according to the faith of the one receiving.

Every miracle, ask your faith questions.

Every miracle, ask your faith questions.

Do you truly believe?

If you don't grow your faith, you will be faking it.

How do I grow my faith?

The word, y'all.

The word is a source.

We can use biographies and things of what other people did as resources, but the source is the word.

The truth of every scripture applies to whosoever believes, not whosoever goes to church.

We thank God that you all come to church.

But we thank God that you take time outside of church developing who you're supposed to be.

Because all of us have a purpose.

You have a purpose for your life.

God has designed you for a very specific reason in this earth.

There is an assignment read for your life.

There is a purpose for your life.

And if I don't know what that is, God will tell you, and we gotta discover it.

How do we do it?

Through the word of Almighty God.

How to know if you're in faith.

Strong faith removes all fear.

Can't be in fear.

Gotta remove fear.

Destroy all doubts, Mark 11, 23.

Provokes the supernatural at will.

We need to see more of the supernatural here in America.

We don't see a lot of that.

And that's that's a part of my prayer and what I'm believing God for is more of the supernatural.

I want to see people get up from the dead.

I want to see people with deformities be made whole.

I want to see those things supernatural at will.

And guess what, y'all?

We're gonna see it.

It waxes valent in a fight.

This is how you know you're in faith.

Those who know God, uh, they don't beg men.

You know, I don't I ain't worried about no man.

Believes all things.

Uh it's unconscious unconsciously believes.

Just because you uh say you believe doesn't mean you believe.

Many say they believe but are actually hoping and wishing something happens in the future.

Hoping and wishing something happens in the future.

We can tell how you believe by your actions, your posture, your confession, and your emotions.

The emotions of your faith must show that you believe.

Because it's gonna be tested, y'all.

Just like Jesus was tested, we are gonna be tested, but all we got to do is put God in remembrance of his word.

So, I want to wrap up here.

The way I live, the way I live is I put confidence and trust in the word of Almighty God.

I I don't I don't sway to the left or to the right.

I just put God in remembrance of his word.

When I don't know what to say, I speak his word.

When doubt tries to creep in, I say his word.

When my mind seems to drift away, I say his word.

Y'all got it?

Every head bow, every eye closed, Father God in heaven, we bless you, we glorify you, we magnify you.