Back to the Basics of Faith | Mark Brazee | World Outreach Church

Um, it'll be really good. We We got a

general idea of what direction things

are going to go. But, but this is who we

are.

This is this is who World Outreach

Church is. This is, you know, when when

uh

God began to deal with us in oh 98,

>> 97

six. He started dealing with us in 96.

It took him to 98 to get me talked into

it. Uh, I kept saying, "Lord, this is

great, but you got the wrong guy. I I

need to be on the road. I do not need to

be in one city." Um, and here we are 27

years later. So, anyway, um, but, you

know, going back through there and and

uh, you know, sincerely, I I really went

when when I realized God was leading us

to uh, pioneer plant a a church here in

Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I I said, "Lord, I

don't know how to do this." My wife grew

up in church. She knows all about

churches. Her dad was a pastor all of

her life. I just wasn't around church

that much. When I was, I wasn't paying

attention. Um, and so I don't know. I

don't know what I don't know what a

church is supposed to look like. And

honestly, we'd been to

uh we'd been at that time, we'd been to

churches in probably 45 nations. We'd

been to churches. We'd been to Bible

studies. We'd been we'd been all over.

We we'd been everywhere, man. We'd been

just everywhere. and um you know just

really just didn't honestly know what to

do. And I I said Lord if you would just

I I said I can't look out there and see

a church that looks like I mean they're

great ones but I can't look at anything

that looks like what I would say that's

what I think we're supposed to be

patterned after. Couldn't do that. I

couldn't see anything there. I go yeah I

think that's it. So I said, ' Lord, you

would really help us if you wouldn't

mind giving us some kind of an idea of

what we're supposed to be doing and

looking like and carrying out and all

that and you but you know you have not

because

>> you ask not ask and you shall receive

that your joy may be full. So I thought

well I'll just do that. So I said Lord

we just I just I need some direction on

this. And um

when I did that, it wasn't but a few

days before the Holy Ghost just

supernaturally led us over to Acts the

13th chapter. Acts chapter 13:1 says,

"Now there were in the church." Now, I'd

studied this for a number of years

because because this is who we were.

Acts 13:1. Now there were in the church.

Acts 13:1

I had really never noticed that. I never

saw the church part in there. I'd

skipped over that a lot. But it said,

"Now there were in the church which was

at Antioch certain prophets and teachers

such as Barnabas and Saul and names

three other men said as they ministered

to the See there it is right there.

That's what it was all about. As they

min yeah they preached. Yeah. Did they

teach? Yeah. They they actually had a

school going there. They had a lot of

things going on but said as they

ministered to the Lord they didn't they

didn't minister about him. They didn't

ask him to do a lot of things for him.

said, "Now there were in the church

which was at Antioch certain prophets

and teachers such as Barnabas, Saul,

names about three about three other men.

Um, and it said as they ministered to

the Lord, the Holy Ghost said, and I

began to realize that a local church is

a place where the Holy Ghost can talk if

he wants.

>> He can lead. He can guide. He can

direct. He can give us information. He

can he can guide our steps." I began to

see things in that one little verse that

I'd never seen before. As a as they

ministered to the Lord and fasted, the

Holy Ghost said, "Separate unto me

Barnabas and Saul for the work for unto

I've called them." When they'd fasted

and prayed, they laid their hands on him

and sent him forth. And they being sent

forth by the Holy Ghost departed unto

Seucia. And that was the beginning of an

outreach to where Paul planted uh

there's a lot of different um theories

on this. But the ones I've been able to

come across the most often are when

people say we don't know for sure, but

the best we can tell the Apostle Paul in

the middle of being beaten, stoned,

shipwrecked, left for dead,

beaten outside the city, the disciples

came, gathered around him, he got up,

they went out of the city, he got

better, and then he came back in the

same city and preached there again. You

could not, you can't keep a good man

down.

>> He was beaten. He was stoned. He was

shipwrecked. He was left for dead a day

and night in the deep. He was

shipwrecked on uh Malta. He all these

different things, everything he went

through. And in the middle of all that,

he finished up and he said, "I fought

the good fight. I ke This is when he's

finishing his race." He's talking to

Timothy. I fought the good fight. I kept

the faith. I finished my course. I'm

ready to be offered. Said all that. But

in the middle of all that, best I can

tell, he planted over 40 churches, 40

different nations, and every one of them

was in a region where nobody else was

going. He didn't go where something was

going on. He went where there was

nothing going on, and he made sure

something was going on. And so, uh, you

know, going back through there,

um,

going going back to where that that

seemed to be, uh, when I said, "Lord, I

don't know, you know, I I can tell you

what a good church ought to look like

and what it ought to have happening, but

what should we be like? What what should

be our what should be our forte? What,

you know, we may be kind of a splinter

group? I don't know what we're going to

be like. I don't know. Don't know if

people going to like us, not like us. I

don't know anything. All I know is we

supposed to be doing something. If you'd

let us know what it is, we'll be glad to

do it with your help. And the Holy Ghost

took us to Acts the 13th chapter, just a

few verses in there, and showed how a

local church can do its job and touch

the world.

>> And so anyway, so that's just, you know,

this is to to be able to come in like

this and just follow the leading of the

Holy Ghost. What were they doing in Acts

13? as they ministered to the Lord. They

weren't having a Bible study. Maybe they

were. They weren't having a a prayer

meeting. Maybe they were. They just got

together and ministered to the Lord.

Well, you know, I really believe that's

a major part of where the church world

needs to be today is we need to be an

entity of people. When we get together,

we minister to him and then we see what

him wants to do back.

>> That's right.

>> Okay. Sometimes he just wants to go,

"That's just all I wanted. I just wanted

you to minister to me. I just wanted I

just want you to come into the throne

room, magnify, glorify, and minister to

me. Sometimes that's just all he wants.

If that's it, then he's well worthy of

that. But anyway, um you know, as I

said, we're uh

that's how I kind of got launched off

into that. coming into um Fire for the

Nations. Our first one, I think it was,

let's see, we started in 1998

and I think our first fire for the

nations was

99 or 2009, one of those two. We we had

to we had to rent a room in a local

hotel here and have that. But um anyway,

that's just that's just uh when we

started out, we knew we knew our call

was to have a local church that would

touch the nations of the world. Okay?

And we can't, you know, we we can't God,

one time I was praying over a globe and

the Holy Ghost said, "You're thinking

too small." I said, "Lord, that's a

globe. [laughter]

I don't think I can get it any bigger

than that." I was I I can still remember

sitting in my office. We're at 412 West

Miami and Broken Air. I was sitting in

my office. I had a globe. I don't know.

I got it at a at a yard sale. I'm

sitting there holding a globe and I'm

praying over the globe and I'm just I'm

yearning over the globe and the Holy

Ghost said, "You're thinking too small."

And I said, "Well, Lord, I'm thinking I

I said, "Name four or five countries

that we were praying over." He said,

"You're thinking four or five. You need

to be praying over the the the world,

the globe." And so, we know we know a

part of our our call is the world. But

we do know within that, we can't do the

whole world. We've just got the part we

need to be doing. And so anyway, that's

what we've been doing since really about

1998, 1999. Been having um fire for the

nations. And this is about what was that

phrase we had, babe, about

uh

>> what is it?

>> Consume

the church. That was a phrase we got a

couple years ago. Consume this.

Consuming the church with missions

>> and and ambassadors with fire. consuming

the church with missions and consuming

the ambassadors with fire. So, that's

what this is all about. So, I said all

that to say, um, hope you can make it.

If you can't make all of it, make some

of it. Put it on your calendar if you

can. We'd love to have you in here. We

got plenty of seats. As far as I know,

if we run out, we'll, you know, we'll

we'll dig up some more. We'll borrow

them from the neighbors or something. I

don't know. But anyway, um, anyway

anyway, Fire for the Nations is is all

about who we are. It's about what WOC is

to do. Every church has something

different. There's couple churches down

the road from here, great churches. I've

met the pastors of the pastor of one of

them, great guy. They've got their plan.

There's a church across the street from

our neighborhood. They are another

church. Great church. Never met the

pastor, but they're doing a great job.

Got churches all over all over the

state, all over half of America doing a

great job. We're just doing what we do.

Can't do it all. We can just do what

we're supposed to do. So anyway, anyway,

>> anyway, I was going to jump in the

middle of something here. Let's just

take a few minutes. All right, you know,

you never you never get it all done. You

just get done what you can. But if we go

over to 2 Chronicles or 2 Corinthians

the uh 2 Corinthians the

how about the

let's let's go with the fourth chapter.

2 Corinthians chapter 4:13.

We can kind of jump off have a jumping

off place here. If you go back to Joel

chapter 3:10, Joel said uh said back

there, "Let the weak Let the weak do

what?"

>> Say what?

>> Didn't say let the weak say, "Man, I'm

really weak."

>> Didn't say, "Let the weak say, man, I'm

having a really bad time. I'm getting

beat up, beat down, I'm sick, poor,

sorry, everything." No. Let the what?

>> Weak say I'm strong. Even back under the

Old Testament, there was a great

understanding of the power of our words.

You know, I remember I don't know, some

of you probably don't remember because

you probably weren't around at the time,

but I remember right [clears throat]

around 1974

when I moved to Oklahoma, moved to

Tulsa, Brother Hagen had just started

Rama and I was in the about two weeks

late, but I got in on that. And I

remember um I can still remember they

they had regular guest ministers coming

in. I mean every couple weeks they'd

have another guest coming in for about a

week and then brother Hagen would come

in for a week and then we'd have another

another couple guests and the first one

that came in was a pastor from uh Texas

and he just taught Hebrews 11. And he

came in and for a solid week, you know,

from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

Thursday, Friday, he taught on he taught

on uh faith and he taught on really and

he taught on the power of our words.

Nobody had ever told me that before. I'd

never heard that before. Never knew that

our words made a difference. But I can

remember being in those classes for one

week's time. Changed the very course of

my life. 1974, we're a couple years down

the road. And I remember because

somebody took the time to explain that

the power of our words. [snorts] Joel

Joel 3:10

3:10, let the weak say I'm strong. went

back through there and of course back in

in uh Mark the 11th chapter when Jesus

had cursed the fig tree and had died

from the roots up and they came by the

next day and the disciples said master

the fig tree that thou cursed they spoke

King James I know this the fig tree that

thou cursed is withered away and he said

have faith in God or have the faith of

God or have the God he said you have not

go get it you have the God kind of faith

>> you have the that's what he's trying to

get across to humanity to the church

particularly, we're not trying to get

it. We have the God kind of faith. Jesus

just talked to the fig tree and it

obeyed him from the roots up. And so the

next day, his disciples are going,

"Master, the fig tree that you curse is

withered away." And he said, "Verily I

send you have the God kind of faith."

Verse 23, for verily I say unto you that

whosoever,

this isn't just for his group. This

isn't just for the 12. This is for

>> whosoever

>> whosoever.

That's the same whosoever as you get

over in John 3:16. Whosoever shall call

John 3:16

upon the name of it's the same whoso

whosoever means whosoever.

and he's talking to his disciples and he

said he says over there in in uh uh Mark

chapter uh 10 verse uh 23 and he says uh

uh excuse me Mark 11:23 he says over

Mark 11:23

there uh for uh whosoever have the God

kind of faith for whosoever shall

>> say whosoever shall notice that when

he's teaching them on the subject of

faith and he said I'm going to tell you

how this works I'm going to first tell

you you got it and then second I'm going

to tell you it works. It wouldn't be

fair to say, "You got it, and I'm not

going to tell you how it's going to

work. You're on your own." Here it is.

He said, "Whosoever shall say," Markap

11:23, "Whosoever shall say unto this

mountain, be thou removed, and be thou

cast into the sea, and shall not doubt

in his heart, but shall believe that

those things which he

>> saith shall come to pass, he shall have.

Whatsoever he

>> saith, therefore I say unto you, what

thingsoever you desire when you pray,"

Well, to pray, you got to say,

>> when you pray, when you say, believe you

receive them, you shall have them. And

when you stand praying, forgive if you

have ought against any and so on. But if

you go back through there, Jesus is

teaching his disciples about walking in

the God kind of faith. And he starts out

saying, "Whosoever shall

>> say." Joel 3:10, "Let the weak say, I'm

Joel 3:10

strong." Amos 3:3, "Can two walk

Amos 3:3

together except they be agreed, except

they be saying the same thing." God's

been trying to get this across to the

church world. A lot of us got hold of

it. And boy, back in the

in the 197475,

we were dangerous. We were confession

monitors.

>> We didn't pay as much attention to what

we said as we did what everybody else

said.

>> Say, if I if I was you, I wouldn't say

that anymore. You know, man, we

corrected everybody. It was pretty wild.

You couldn't say anything. It was like,

I'm not even going to breathe. I tell

you what, cuz if I say anything, I'm

going to say it wrong.

Man, when I was in school, I I was a

little aggressive driving and um you

know, I used to joke about the fact the

way I drive, I'll never live to be 30.

And then I found out you can have what

you say and I thought I better change

that. So I started saying the way I the

way I drive I'll live to be about 100,

you know, because I'm I'm going to

change my driving habits. But and and I

did.

But going back through there, the the

the concept

that there's so much truth in in the

power of our words. Our words are loaded

with faith. We put faith in our words.

And Jesus said, "Whosoever shall

>> say." And if you go back through, we've

talked to about about it before, but

Jesus when he's talking about operating

in the God kind of faith, he talked

about believing one time and saying

three times. Apparently, saying is three

times as important as believing.

Everybody believes, but not everybody

says.

>> I've heard people over the years, well,

so and so, I don't know why. I just

don't know why that didn't work because

I know they were believing God. I know,

you know, they they should have lived,

but and they were believing God, but you

know, it didn't work. They they should

have their their needs should have been

met, but I know they were believing God,

you know, I know they were believing

God. I know I've heard people tell me

that lots and lots of times. And I

finally I got to where I would at least

ask them and say, "Well, I that may be

what they're believing, but my question

is what were they saying?"

>> See, a lot of our problems are not in

the believing part. Most of the time, if

Jesus talked about saying three times as

much as he talked about believing,

apparently, if our faith isn't working

like it should, probably about three

times out of four, it's in the

>> saying part. So, anyway, we'll just

we'll just hurry on through just part of

this. We'll pick up. We'll pick up

another time. Next week, we're going to

be a whole whole different direction.

We'll be at fire for the nations. After

that, we'll probably pick back up on

this. But there's just been a stirring

working on the inside of me because I go

back through there 197475

for, you know, a number of years after

that. And the simple truth of have the

God kind of faith. When that got on the

inside of me changed the course of my

life. And looking down the road here, a

few years, how many years is that? 50.

Somebody said 50. I rebuke you. Anyway,

[laughter]

I'll be nice [laughter] because I think

it was. But

but you know, you get back through there

and and uh finding the the difference in

there and and going back 50 years that

changed the course of my life. It

changed it. It was a move of God that

changed the body of Christ. We call it

the word of faith teaching revival. But

when that move of God came into the body

of Christ, it changed a lot of us.

Anybody else in here? Just that simple

teaching of have the God kind of faith.

Anybody else in here have that changed

your life?

>> I mean, look at this. Some of you

didn't. Well, stick around. It will. But

what happened was we got we got so good

at it and we got so seasoned at it that

we left it behind and started looking

for what was next.

And if we don't watch it, we start

looking for what's next and we leave

behind what we're what got us where

we're at. What was it? Somebody said one

time, "You need to dance with the one

that that rung you." It wasn't me. It

was somebody else. But sometimes we left

all these things behind that changed the

very course of our lives. And and

sometimes you got to go back and pick up

what got us where we're at, lest we let

these things slip slip out like a

leaking vessel. And really the part

about what the thing that changed again

I to me and I can say this you've heard

me say it before I don't I don't drop

brother Hagen's name just to drop a

name. He's over in heaven been there 22

years so I'm not doing that but that was

just the one I was around most of the

time. Pastor Janet and I were around him

off and on for about 30 years in some

capacity. And I I couldn't tell you how

many times, you know, and and again,

we're doing five, six services a week,

you know, in his meetings and so on, but

I couldn't tell tell you how many times

he would he'd be ministering. Uh he'd be

teaching on healing in the nights, but

boy, in the mornings he'd teach on

faith. And when he's teaching on faith,

you might as well hang on because he's

going to be talking to you about the

power of your words.

>> Yes.

>> And and we get that day after day, week

after week, month after month. And it

just got on the inside of me and it

changed the very course of my life. And

if I don't watch it, you know, I don't

know about you, but if I don't watch it,

some of that slips away.

>> Sometimes you'll find yourself saying

stupid things.

>> Do I need to repeat that?

>> I think everybody got that. Say, well,

why would you use that? Because if it

doesn't line up with the Bible, it's not

smart.

That's right.

>> Now, I know none of you had issue with

that,

>> but I've been at this 50 years, and if I

don't I and I notice if I don't watch

it, if I don't watch it, my my what I

know about the word is not necessarily

always what's coming out, even though

that's what I believe, that's what I

know, that's what should be coming out

all the time because I get busy with

things.

>> And sometimes you just got to you just

got to rear back, pick up where you

were, and and get back to what got you

where you're at.

>> Yeah. What got you? Somebody goes,

"Well, I'm not in a good place." Well,

stick around. We'll help you with that.

But the truths are so simple in here.

Jesus said that. Now, where was I? 2

2 Corinthians 4:13

Corinthians 4:13.

The Apostle Paul, like I said, beaten

stone, shipwrecked, left for dead, taken

out, beaten, left for dead. His

disciples gathered around, picked him

up, took him out of town, raised him

back up. He went back into town,

preached to the same bunch again. That

is a stalwart guy. He's going to go,

"You you beat me the last time. I dare

you to try it again." I mean, he's going

back into the same town there. When he

goes back in there and the Apostle Paul,

he's he's writing here. 2 Corinthians

chapter 4:13. He's writing to the

Corinthian believers. And it really is,

it belongs to all of us. It's the simple

basic truth that will get you not only

where you are, it'll get you where you

need to go.

And if it's if Jesus talked about it

three times as much as he talked about

the believing part, then probably we

ought to be looking at the saying part

three times as much as we do. Believing

is important. Yeah, absolutely.

But sometimes we're doing all the right

believing, but we're not doing all the

right talking. I've seen more people

that can do all the right believing, but

if you listen to them talk, you go,

"What are you talking about?" Because

their words are not lining up with what

the Bible says. And a lot of times it's

lining up with what they believe. And if

it's what you believe and say, it's what

you're going to get. And then you got a

real issue going.

>> So he says there, Paul writing to the

Corinthians, 1 Corinthians chapter 4, 2

1 Corinthians 4 · chapter mention 2 Corinthians 4:13

Corinthians 4:13, he said, "We

>> he puts you and I in the same place as

him."

>> That's pretty good. If Paul said, "You

know, you guys are kind of a mess. I

probably can't help you, but I'll give

you a few good verses that'll help you

thousand years down the road." No. He

said over there we having not getting

going to get some way somehow. He said

we having having that's current. We

having we having it's right there. We

having the same spirit of faith.

>> Yeah. I mean we know we we talk about

people back in the days when the there'd

be a spirit of prayer that'd come in the

church world. People sitting in the

church power of God come in. Folks would

fall to their knees begin to pray.

They'd pray a move of God down. There's

what we call spirit. It's not a

different spirit other than the Holy

Spirit, but there's um

there's uh um it's an attitude of

prayer. Church ought to have a spirit of

prayer. There ought to be something on

the inside of us where we know if we

pray things going to change.

>> There ought to be something on the

inside of us. We know if we pray, God

hears, God answers. You have not because

you ask not. Ask and you shall receive

that your joy may be full. If we pray,

God will he will hear. He will answer.

He's not a man that he should lie. Not

the son of the son son of man that he

should repent. He said it. He'll do it.

He spoke it. He'll make it good. So we

know we there ought to the church ought

to have a spirit of prayer.

>> That just ought to be ought to be ought

to be ought to be. Heard from somebody

the other day. they were in another

country and they said I was in such and

such a place and there's a group of

people there in a Bible study and man

they had a spirit of prayer on them and

I thought I love hearing that halfway

around the world but there's people that

have got it's the same Holy Ghost but

it's directed toward prayer but now Paul

writing here and he says we having he's

talking about the church you and I got

he's you got something he said I'm

telling you what you got and I'm going

to tell you how it works we having

>> what do we got

the what

>> you and I got the same faith the Apostle

Paul had beat stoned shipwrecked left

for dead he did dealt with all that but

when he got to the end he fought the

good fight he kept the faith he finished

his course ready to be offered he he

rose up and finished what he was given

to do but then he writes to us and says

we having the same spirit of faith you

got what the apostle Paul had that's

pretty good deal

>> I used to read after and thinking that

was so great and then I read that one

day and I thought I got that

didn't know it, but I got it. We having

the same spirit of faith. And then he

goes on says, I'm not going to leave you

hanging. I'm going to let you know how

this works. This is the basic of how

this whole thing works. And we're not

going to get any further this morning.

We're just going to have to pick up in a

couple weeks. But but when he makes this

statement, we having the same spirit of

faith according as it is written. Now,

he quotes an Old Testament scripture out

of the Psalms. According as it is

written, I

>> believed and therefore therefore

>> I believed in therefore have I spoken.

We also believe in therefore speak.

Somebody said years ago, anytime you

find a therefore, see what's stop and

see what it's there for.

>> I believed in what?

>> Therefore, I spoke. I also believe in

there. Why am I speaking? Because I

believe.

>> I'm not I'm not just speaking to trying

to get something to happen. It starts

out with what I'm believing on the

inside. But off if I believe it on the

inside and speak it out here. And that's

what Paul's writing.

We having the same spirit of faith

according as it is written. I believed

and therefore have I spoken. We also

believe and therefore speak. That's how

this whole system of life works. This is

how this is how the life of faith works

in the church world. If I will just take

it and believe it and say it, I will get

it. It may not happen instantly, but it

will come to pass.

>> I've got it. I've working. It's been

working for me my entire life for 40

years or whatever it did. It's been

working for me. And if you'll do it,

it'll work for you. If you'll take it,

believe it, and say it, and stick with

it. Somebody goes, "How long do I say

it?" Until you get it.

>> How long do I say it? Until it comes

into full fruition. How long do I say

it? Until what you believe comes out to

what you are saying.

>> And it's just such a simple truth that

God, I believe there's a stirring right

now. God is stirring this back up in the

body of Christ for you and I to get hold

of what what got us where we're at.

>> I'm grateful for what got my life to

where it is. I'm grateful. I re vividly

remember the week this started working

on the inside of me. It was in September

to early October 1974. It started

getting on the inside of me and and you

know, yeah, do I need to brush up on

that? You haven't found anything yet.

You don't have to brush up on a little

bit.

But I'm going to brush up on it now

because I don't know where we're going

in the future. We need this working in

our lives. We need to have the same

spirit of faith working in us.

>> There ought there ought to be people

looking at us going, "They're that that

group that turned the world upside down

have come hither also."

>> The people in the world out there ought

to look at us and go, "These people are

really strange, but they turned the

world upside down. They're now they're

coming after our neighborhood.

>> Hang on, cuz we are." Amen.

>> We know how this works. This is not some

new newly devised fable. This is just

how it works. It's just so simple. It's

so simple God could get the kids to get

it and teach the rest of us.

>> Hallelujah. Glory to God. Well, we we've

got a number of other things. We won't

have time to get to it today. We'll pick

up probably in a couple weeks time. But,

uh, if we go back through, that's what

Jesus said. And if you go to Romans the

10th chapter verses 6-10, that's what

the Apostle Paul wrote to the uh Romans.

Isn't that what he said? Sixth chapter.

But the righteousness which is of faith

speaketh on this wise. If it ain't

speaking, it's not faith.

>> Do I need to say that again

>> in modern English? If it's not speaking,

it's not faith.

>> What I'm believing? Good. Keep

believing. Don't quit that. But don't

just stop with believing. Make sure what

you say lines up with what you believe.

Don't stop with believing. Grab the

believing part. Mix the saying part with

it. Believe it and say it. And you will

see it come to full fruition in your

life. Yeah. Well, I've done that before

and it didn't work. Well, there's that

going part. There's that saying part

again. I did it. Didn't work. Didn't

work. Didn't work. How about you turn

that over and go, it always works for

me.

>> It always works for me. Joel 3:10. Let

Joel 3:10

the weak say I'm strong. I say I'm

strong. I say I'm healthy. I say I'm a

victorious. I say everything I set my

hands to prosper. I'm just going to keep

saying it.

>> Somebody says, "What if it never comes

to pass?" If it doesn't, it will not be

my fault.

>> I got to get stopped. Let's stand to our

feet.

The simple basic truths of have faith in

God. If you stop and think about it,

Mark the 11th chapter when Jesus taught

his disciples about that. of all the

teaching we've got old and new testament

the the the most concise message we've

got on the subject of faith most concise

thing we've got in the Bible in the New

Testament is where Jesus it's written in

red and Jesus himself says I verily I

say you have faith in God when my

redeemer says I'm going to tell you how

this works the least I can do is say I'm

going to listen

>> we there's all kinds of books on faith I

got a library full books on faith, but I

got the one from the author.

>> He said it, he'll do it. He spoke it.

He'll make it good. And I'm going to try

one more time. Father, in the name of

Jesus, thank you so much. Thank you,

Father. What a privilege. What a

privilege. What a privilege. What a

privilege to be born again, bloodbought,

redeemed. What a privilege to know that

you you told us in your word how to get

this God kind of faith working. You

didn't say we got to go find it. You

said it's already it's already residing

and abiding in us. If we'll just get it

working for us. If we'll just o open our

hearts to receive and open our mouths to

release, we will open our lives to have.

>> So, I thank you for that, dear Father.

And I I'm just I'm just reaching out

with this ahead of time because it just

seems to me we need to go further with

this in the days to come. I uh I believe

you want a faithfilled Bible believing,

Bible talking, faithfilled church, body

of Christ.

anywhere you can get us. But it's

specifically I know in this place if

we'll do what you said to do, we'll have

what you said we could have.

>> You made it so simple for us. If it's

difficult, it's because we made it that

way, not because you made it that way.

So we thank you for it in the wonderful

name of Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah.

So while heads are bowed and eyes are

closed and you maybe maybe this is all

new to you today, that's okay.

For most all of us, it was new at one

particular point. We're just we're just

swinging back around to what got us

where we're at and is going to keep us

going better. If you're here and you

just say, "Pastor Mark, I I don't know

anything about this, but number one, I

my life's not right with God. I'm not

walking in a place with Jesus where I

need to be. I've maybe been in church,

maybe haven't been in church, maybe grew

up in church, maybe didn't grow up in

church, but if you'd say, "Pastor, I I I

uh

I I just don't know anything about all

this." And my the problem is I'm not

right with God, and it's not his fault,

but I want to get that right. I want to

know when I walk out the doors of this

place today. I want to know when I walk

out of here that I will never again have

to question where I stand with God.

Never again have to wonder where am I at

with him? Where's my relationship with

him? Where do I stand with almighty the

creator of the universe? Where do I

where am I with him?

That's my choice. All I need to do is

say, "Jesus, I make you lord of my

life." If I'll do that, I open heaven's

gates up and my life from that point

through eternity will be connected with

him. If that's you, wave your hand at

me. If you'd say, "Pastor, I need to

make Jesus Lord of my life." I know what

it's like to be away. I know what it's

like to be away from God. It's

miserable.

It's miserable. But that was my choice.

I made a decision one night, said enough

of this. Prayed a simple prayer, came

back, and I've been walking with him

ever since. It's a growing process.

[snorts] But if you're here and say,

"Pastor, I do not know Jesus as my

savior." Things are not right between

God and me. Say, "Well, I grew up in

church. Maybe I prayed a sinner sinner's

prayer at one point, but but I'm away

from God right now. Things are not good

between God and me, and it's my fault.

It's not his." If that's you, wave your

hand at me. I want to pray for you.

Hallelujah. Glory to anybody here.

Give you lots of time. Oh, Father, in

the wonderful name of Jesus, thank you

so much. Thank you for your uh wonderful

goodness and your blessing. God, my

you're my God. Early will I seek you. My

soul longeth for thee. My flesh

thirsteth for thee. In a dry and thirsty

land where no water is. to see your

power and to see your glory as I've seen

you in the sanctuary. God, I I pray in

this house. I can't speak for everybody

else, but I can speak for this place.

We're pursuing your presence. We're

going after your worship. We're going to

spend time where you are, and we're

going to invite you in anytime you ever

want to come. We're going to we're going

to invite you anytime anytime we're

coming in here. If there's one of us or

more, we're expecting your uh the

invitation for you to be in here. And

we'll we'll rejoice in that and be glad.

We thank you in Jesus name. Hallelujah.

>> In Jesus name. Amen.

>> Amen. Well, we ought to give him thanks.

>> Father, thank you. [music]

>> Thank you. Faithfilled, Bible walking,

Bible talking.

a house full of people walking in your

word, walking in your power, walking in

your might, walking by faith and not by

sight.

>> We thank you in Jesus name.