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#684: The Proof of Faith

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  1. It's touch people's lives today.

  2. It will touch people's lives today as they grow in your grace.

  3. I ask for your anointed Father upon this vessel of clay now.

  4. In Jesus' name.

  5. Amen.

  6. You can be a city.

  7. God bless you.

  8. Let's go to Luke chapter 1 today.

    Luke 1 chapter mention

  9. Oh, yeah.

  10. Thank you, Lord.

  11. Well, I'll get to it in just a minute, alright?

  12. I'm saying one thing, God's saying something else to me.

  13. But I'm going to read verse 37 in Luke chapter 1 today.

    Luke 1 chapter mention

  14. We'll try to get started on time.

  15. All right.

  16. So, no church last weekend, so today it's double portion time.

  17. Right?

  18. Will it be what it'll be?

  19. For with God nothing shall be impossible.

  20. Say it with me.

  21. Are you ready?

  22. Go.

  23. How many believes it?

  24. Praise God, hallelujah.

  25. We've got to remember a few things as a church.

  26. Remember who we are and whose we are.

  27. And I'm learning that God stretches our containers before he puts in the overflow.

  28. Did you hear that this morning?

  29. He's going to stretch our capacity to receive the blessing.

  30. Stretch marks are not easy.

  31. And I discerned last week, and it's been going on for some time, but now it's it's it's stepping up the pace.

  32. There is a shifting going on in the spirit realm.

  33. Do you understand?

  34. It shows up in the natural second, but I assure you, there's something big coming down the road.

  35. And we are chosen for increase.

  36. And many are in preparation right now in this congregation, and those that listen over in Africa, they tell me all the time.

  37. We watch your live stream, then we go to our church, and then we preach off what you've taught and preached.

  38. Before I uh I get to this, uh Jonathan has got 30 pastors down there, and they need uh a TV and uh Wi-Fi screen and this and that.

  39. Uh$800 is what it'll take to do it.

  40. But if the pastors do not get educated a little bit, the government will shut the churches down.

  41. And so they've started college classes there according to their concept.

  42. And they're wanting uh some teachings at least once a week.

  43. And so if God speaks to you, you see, I would be sinning against you if I didn't give you an opportunity to sow.

  44. Now, the best ground is to sow into pastors that duplicate and teach their congregations.

  45. And so we'll let it go with that and uh see what the Lord Lord does.

  46. All right.

  47. He uses people.

  48. And I said a while ago, we're chosen for increase, and uh I need to have Isaac and Caitlin to come to the front.

  49. Just stand here.

  50. Because I have a word from the Lord I have to deliver to you too.

  51. Because the Holy Spirit sees something in you too that he can use, and you're in preparation right now, because one day, saith the Lord, you will preach the gospel.

  52. It shall come to pass, the Lord says.

  53. But don't get in a hurry because it takes time for God to stretch your borders so you can receive what he has for you.

  54. But it will come to pass.

  55. So just walk with the Lord, love the Lord, serve him in the best way you know how, get in the word, and in the process of time, you will find that what this little prophecy has said will come to pass because God's told me to give it to you.

  56. And there it is in Jesus' name.

  57. Thank you.

  58. You go back soon.

  59. You see, everything comes by faith.

  60. Everybody say faith.

  61. Faith is the only thing that pleases God.

  62. Nothing else.

  63. Nothing else pleases God except faith.

  64. And God assigns certain qualities according to certain callings that He puts in the congregation.

  65. And during the process of preparing for what the Lord has for you two, and also others here in the church, all of you really, expect provisions to come along the way to help you as you're in preparation for his purposes.

  66. That's faith.

  67. And God puts it in a place where it's impossible for man to do it.

  68. Yeah, I know.

  69. That's where faith kicks in.

  70. Not until.

  71. Did you catch that?

  72. Because if we could do it, we don't need the Lord.

  73. So we hesitate in a place where we always need him, no matter what growth we are in the spirit realm.

  74. But we're learning, I've learned also that it's a wonderful thing to receive the manifestation of the provision.

  75. But the greater miracle is God's doing something to get the provision to you to start with.

  76. Don't ignore that fact.

  77. That's the real blessing.

  78. That God's doing something for you and for me right now.

  79. All it requires is trust and faith.

  80. Amen.

  81. And now let's go to Luke 18 and verse 8, please.

  82. We're going to get right to it, whatever that might be today.

  83. We welcome our visitors too, all the way from the great state of Texas.

  84. Maybe it's Arkansas, I don't know.

  85. And others fell on good ground and sprang up and bear fruit a hundredfold.

  86. Everybody's saying hundredfold.

  87. And when he had said these things, he cried.

  88. He cried.

  89. That's Jesus crying.

  90. He is he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

  91. There are those that have ear to hear, and those that do not.

  92. That's not my function, is to decide who that is.

  93. You just fish, throw out the bait, and see who we you catch.

  94. Then you bring it in for a drought.

  95. That's the ministry.

  96. That's how that it works.

  97. So if you're going to be saved, we're going to throw the drought, we're going to throw the net out, and catch you and bring it to Christ.

  98. It works that way, even in the giftings and callings and everything.

  99. It all comes with a function of the ministry.

  100. It just requires faith.

  101. Now, I want to say this now.

  102. There's a need to enlarge our field of ministry.

  103. There's a field.

  104. And even the Bible teaches us that God would enlarge our borders.

  105. We need to understand that there is a field of ministry, and God wants to enlarge that.

  106. Do we have any faithers in here?

  107. So faith then hangs on the impossibilities.

  108. I don't know how we're going to do it.

  109. Man can't do it.

  110. Works can't do it.

  111. Only one thing can do what God wants done on this earth.

  112. And he brings us to a place where it's impossible except we have faith in God.

  113. For all things are possible for those that have faith in God.

  114. Amen, somebody.

  115. And that's the only thing that's going to please God.

  116. He doesn't care about what all you're doing or not doing.

  117. He's looking for faith.

  118. The just shall live by faith.

  119. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God.

  120. But then faith needs to be activated by action.

  121. So today the title, Billy, I never give you a title, but today, after one week of wrestling with this, is the proof of faith.

  122. The proof of faith.

  123. How many want to know?

  124. I'm just going to delve into one aspect of it because it'd take several days to do it.

  125. Now here's the deal.

  126. Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, isn't that right?

  127. Remember Matthew 4.

  128. But God was testing Jesus in the wilderness.

  129. Now I want to say it again.

  130. Satan was a tempter.

  131. He was tempting Jesus in the wilderness.

  132. But at the same time, God was testing his only begotten Son in the wilderness.

  133. So the Lord God was using Satan to bring about the test.

  134. Cheer up, everybody.

  135. It's going to get worse.

  136. Not really.

  137. It's going to get better.

  138. Because we will pass the test if we have faith in God.

  139. Our faith is going to be tested.

  140. And if we do not express faith, then I suggest we have none.

  141. Not word to shout go here.

  142. To repeat faith as action, and that's the only thing that pleases God.

  143. And I've learned this as you go into 1 Corinthians 3.7.

  144. You know, this is elementary, but so complex that only the Holy Spirit can really bring it to your heart what I'm trying to say.

  145. I don't have adequate words to explain the depths and heights and breadths of the mysteries of God.

  146. The Holy Spirit is the teacher anyway.

  147. We're just the one being used at the moment.

  148. Amen.

  149. 1 Corinthians 3, 7.

  150. Thank you, Lord.

  151. So then, neither is he that plants anything, or he that waters, but God that gives the increase.

  152. God gives the increase.

  153. God gives the increase.

  154. God gives the increase.

  155. Ha! I like the way that God multiplies.

  156. 30, 60, and then he jumps to a hundredfold.

  157. I like that.

  158. Praise God.

  159. I'm really speaking along the lines of prosperity message today because God wants us all to prosper and be in good health, even if our soul prospers.

  160. But the quality of the prospering depends upon your faith action.

  161. Now keep this in mind, we have to enlarge our field of ministry.

  162. Field of ministry.

  163. Every one of us, but I'm mainly speaking about what God has put me into.

  164. I didn't want to go to Africa and ride an elephant.

  165. I joked about it 30 years ago.

  166. But 20 years ago I found myself on a plane going to Africa.

  167. So don't say what you're not going to do.

  168. Don't joke around about what God might have you do.

  169. He will always ask you to do something that you can't do without him.

  170. And so it takes faith.

  171. And that's really what the Lord looks for.

  172. He gives the increase.

  173. Now here's point number one.

  174. Faith triggers the blessing.

  175. Faith triggers the blessing.

  176. I could be a cheerleader today.

  177. Faith triggers the blessing.

  178. How many want to be blessed of the Lord?

  179. Well, all of us, right?

  180. But how many will be?

  181. Because faith triggers the blessing.

  182. For an uplifting scripture, and then we're going to hit rock bottom here, probably.

  183. But that's alright.

  184. The shoe fits where it, right?

  185. That's the way it should be.

  186. But he that sows sparingly shall reap sparingly, and he that sows bountifully shall reap bountifully.

  187. How many would like to reap a bountiful blessing overflow?

  188. Then we've got to sow bountifully by faith.

  189. And we sow to the Spirit in faith.

  190. Every man according to his purpose and his heart.

  191. So there's not a rule, a regulation, a law about this.

  192. It's between you and God as you purpose in your heart what you're gonna do.

  193. I say, take the limits off of God.

  194. All things are possible to those that believe.

  195. We belong to the Lord, and He wants us blessed so that we can be a blessing to others.

  196. Every man, according to his purpose in his heart, let him give.

  197. Not grudgingly of necessity, but God loves a cheerful giver.

  198. God loves a cheerful giver.

  199. And the reason that we can be cheerful is because we're gonna cast our bread on the waters and not many days it's gonna return.

  200. We're gonna sow and we're gonna reap more than we sow.

  201. That's the rule.

  202. But it's up to us what we're gonna do about it.

  203. There was a time I didn't want to receive any funds for ministry, for support of this vessel in any way, because, well, pride, you know.

  204. But I've learned that if we don't give God's people an opportunity to invest in their field of ministry, nothing's gonna change.

  205. And so it's really a blessing in disguise.

  206. And God is able in verse 8 to make all grace abound toward you.

  207. Shall I mean somebody?

  208. All grace means no end to it.

  209. Having always having all sufficiency in all things.

  210. Make abound to every good work.

  211. I tell you, when we're living in the overflow blessing, we can do the work of God in style.

  212. Praise God.

  213. Hallelujah.

  214. And it'll be effective because the Holy Spirit's approval is on the faith that's being exercised.

  215. Everything else, the Lord, oh well.

  216. Do it yourself.

  217. No, no, no.

  218. Mm-mm.

  219. So then we must expand.

  220. Oh God, now we're gonna get to something.

  221. Now, you farmers, you know what a field is.

  222. But the devil has got us hinned up in this corner of the field.

  223. Oh, we're saved.

  224. We go to church, you know.

  225. We we tithe maybe or give an offering every now and then.

  226. We'll we'll witness sometime, but but the devil says, that's enough.

  227. Is that a fact?

  228. No, it's not.

  229. The devil's got you hemmed in.

  230. Good little church mouse.

  231. And the Holy Spirit's saying, break in, break out of it.

  232. We've got a field.

  233. I'm not content with being over here in the corner with God's chosen frozen anymore.

  234. Are you?

  235. The Holy Spirit's the one that brings us dissatisfaction to our souls.

  236. He talks to us that way, also.

  237. I tell you, time is short, and we've got to get busy about the Father's business.

  238. Yvonne, you will go to Zedbuch, so quit wrestling with him.

  239. Scott could take a flight.

  240. You hear what the Spirit's saying?

  241. I'm just the messenger boy, but when I get the prompting, I'm gonna give it.

  242. You can do what you want with it.

  243. If I didn't love you, I'd just keep quiet all the time.

  244. That's true.

  245. So the devil has got us in this corner.

  246. The opposition is always gonna be present.

  247. Isaac, always have opposition.

  248. But do you want to break out?

  249. And I'm talking to everybody.

  250. We're gonna have opposition.

  251. That's why we're in the corner.

  252. And the devil wants us to be pacified, good little Christians, and never do nothing for God.

  253. I mean, how selfish can we be?

  254. And so we need a change today.

  255. This is the best message you will ever hear in the month of January.

  256. Unfortunately, this is February the first.

  257. Faith simply trusts God in spite of all impossibilities.

  258. That's where I'm at.

  259. Glory to God.

  260. It's a good thing.

  261. Because God begins to move because we're trusting him.

  262. That's all it is.

  263. Trust.

  264. Can you trust God?

  265. In Luke 6, 38, then.

  266. Hallelujah, thank you, Lord.

  267. I hope I can get this across without doing harm to what the Spirit's really wanting to say today.

  268. He's already talking to you without words.

  269. Verse 38 says this.

  270. What's the first word?

  271. Give.

  272. Now, the Lord is going to deal with us.

  273. Right where it hurts.

  274. This is a pocketbook of mine.

  275. I'm going to let it shine.

  276. This is a pocketbook of mine.

  277. He's going to deal with us right where it hurts.

  278. Because it's right next to our heart.

  279. You got it.

  280. Now you just said you could trust God.

  281. Oh God.

  282. We're not saying this to chew down horn because but I've decided I haven't even told my wife about it yet, and she may make me eat cold beans.

  283. It'll be all right.

  284. But this year, now you can do what you want, but I'm breaking out.

  285. And one of the main ways we break out is because God deals with us where it hurts.

  286. Where it hurts.

  287. I'm making it pledge to the Holy Spirit right now that this vessel is going to tithe 20% on my meager salary all year long.

  288. And it seems like it's impossible to do.

  289. Yeah, I know.

  290. Satan says, Well, now, how are you gonna do this and that?

  291. Pay this and that, and the light bill, and the it's a coal, it takes a lot of gas, and you know, shut up, devil! I'm tired of being hemmed in the corner.

  292. Now, what happened to the shout?

  293. You can do what you want.

  294. This is the main way we can break up, is to believe God for the impossible.

  295. That's all I'm gonna say about it all year long.

  296. That's between me and God.

  297. But God's gonna deal with some of you to step this thing up.

  298. We got a church to build.

  299. We've got missions work to be done, souls are in the balance, and we're in the corner.

  300. Oh, we got a breakout.

  301. Given it shall be given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, shall men give unto your bosom.

  302. Uh-huh.

  303. For with the same measure that you meet withal, it shall be measured to you again.

  304. That's the promise of the Holy Spirit right there.

  305. Can't be changed.

  306. But then we can get into the hundredfold return, which is what I'm expecting, because what God has really laid before me cannot be done in the natural.

  307. It cannot be done by a small church, but God is a big God.

  308. All things are possible to those that believe.

  309. And I dare us to come together and believe God for miracles.

  310. You see, despite a logical choice, it's despite what Satan says.

  311. We must make a logical choice in faith.

  312. I must choose to do what I just said, or I'm not gonna break out.

  313. I don't have gimmicks and you know, you're not under some law that you've got to do this and that.

  314. We're in grace.

  315. But are you content with being in your little corner?

  316. No.

  317. But yet we owe this and that.

  318. Don't you think God knows this?

  319. Don't you think that you need a raise on your job?

  320. Don't you think God knows that?

  321. But God will give us favor, and we can break out of this thing if we'll just exercise a monster seat of faith, please.

  322. If we knew how important this was, you'd be fucking me down here for to take this offer.

  323. What's going on?

  324. The first one, take a moment.

  325. Yes, I'm working, Doctor.com.

  326. Now, it's powerful methods with Dr.

  327. Well.

  328. Now, if we're not we if we're not challenged to examine our faith, if we're not challenged to exercise our faith, are you challenged?

  329. Yet, you will be.

  330. But if we if we don't receive the challenge to exercise faith, then how can we expect different results?

  331. I'm gonna have to listen to this message again.

  332. There'll be no different results.

  333. So God gets us into a place, like I said, it where it hurts, and that's our pocketbook.

  334. That's where we come down to.

  335. Because we're selfish.

  336. But Isaac discovers something in Genesis chapter 26, verse 1.

    Genesis 26:1

  337. Back in the seed book, the great seed book.

  338. There was a famine in the land.

  339. And the devil says, Oh, you can't afford to step out on the water, just stay where you are, and everything's fine.

  340. But the devil's a liar.

  341. There was a famine in the land.

  342. Besides the first famine, that was in the days of Abram.

  343. So there was a famine, hard times hit that country.

  344. But Isaac had faith.

  345. Everybody say faith.

  346. Now drop down to verse 12.

  347. And so, in spite of the famine, in spite of the ex, in spite of the excuses, in spite of the opposition, Isaac sowed in the land and received the same year a hundredfold of the Lord.

  348. And the Lord God blessed him.

  349. Shut a hundredfold some of the baby.

  350. In the same year, that's what I'm going to call a fast return.

  351. Can God do that?

  352. Can God use a mule?

  353. I won't look at anybody.

  354. Can God use a rooster?

  355. Surely God can use this vessel of clay to bring reality to us in our field of ministry so we can break out of that little rut we're in called a corner.

  356. Come on, some of you have to let you get electrical electric fence around your little corner.

  357. No, we got some wires, right, that'll cut electric, electric wire.

  358. It might be sucking, but we're gonna break it out.

  359. We're gonna snip that wire and break it out, praise God, and take them off running like a wild hand from the loose.

  360. You like that, Justin?

  361. Sustant said, I'm not gonna get my mother preacher for preaches and cusses every night.

  362. Well, you heard a Christian cuss word right there, so I've seen wild donkeys breaking up, man.

  363. You can't catch them.

  364. Rabbit them in the highway, cars are gonna hit them.

  365. They're crazy.

  366. Man, we need to get so on fire for God.

  367. We're like cabs and both all, jumping in and kicking and having a good time in the Lord becomes the blessing of us.

  368. Come on! Praise God, hallelujah! Sow your way out of the mess.

  369. Glory to God.

  370. Sow your way out of the mess and praise at the same time.

  371. Child of God, you just can't be defeated.

  372. The only way is to hold on to what little you got.

  373. So if we expand our corner, God will increase our field.

  374. Our field of blessing is what I'm talking about today.

  375. But God wants to enlarge the borders of it.

  376. Are you getting that?

  377. Nothing's gonna happen until we faith.

  378. And this increase in the field of blessing is yours and mine.

  379. And it will continue until the overflow hits us.

  380. What Satan says, okay, that's enough of the blessing now.

  381. That's over with.

  382. Shut up, you lying devil.

  383. It's never over with.

  384. I said it's never over with.

  385. There's no end to it.

  386. Where's the faith now?

  387. There's no end to it.

  388. I mean, you can only eat so much, drive so many cars, have so many houses, and so many beds, and so many dogs.

  389. That's it.

  390. Wear so many shoes.

  391. Well, some of you got quite a few shoes, but I mean, what's the purpose?

  392. God wants to bless us and be a blessing.

  393. Praise God.

  394. Hallelujah.

  395. Now, let's look at Luke 8.8.

  396. Did I say to go there a while ago?

  397. Did I?

  398. Oh, okay.

  399. Well, we'll skip that one, that one then.

  400. And uh I want to talk about something that happened in Guatemala many years ago.

  401. And John Edvazini, I think he's still alive, one of the greatest prosperity preachers that I know about.

  402. He was always preaching about the hundredfold.

  403. So he goes down to Guatemala and they rent this uh soccer stadium.

  404. 30,000, 40,000 people there.

  405. It was evening time, and the preacher was preaching on the hundredfold.

  406. And suddenly this white dove came down and began to fly around the inside of the stadium.

  407. And the spirit began to fall and move.

  408. And the people began to shout, hundredfold, hundredfold, hundredfold.

  409. And they were throwing watches and shoes and money and trinkets and gadgets and everything out there on the field.

  410. Hundredfold, hundredfold.

  411. And it went on and on and on.

  412. And the preacher finally got up and said, Stop the giving.

  413. Stop the giving.

  414. Can you get a hold of that?

  415. And then the miracles hit.

  416. This one guy was about 400 pounds.

  417. And the preacher said, You up there in the balcony, hold on to your trousers.

  418. God's going to cause you to lose some weight.

  419. And that guy, I don't mean to be gross here, but he held on to his overalls and he began to break wind like a horse.

  420. And he lost a bunch of weight, and there he stood, normal, with his pants like this.

  421. Folks, another one, gold teeth.

  422. The feelings were gold.

  423. Things begin to happen because they sowed for the hundredfold return.

  424. True story.

  425. These things happen in third world countries.

  426. Why not here?

  427. Because we're not challenged to really get serious about this thing.

  428. So we'll just write it out.

  429. Just hope someday we'll get in the corner of Glory Land by the skin of our teeth.

  430. Throwing all the little cabbage in the glory land.

  431. Are we faithers?

  432. What do you need to sew for?

  433. You need to name your blessing, I think.

  434. Tell the Lord, I'm sewing for this.

  435. I'm gonna prove it by what I'm giving.

  436. Well, have your purpose in your heart, and you're not gonna get away from this.

  437. Maybe not today.

  438. We've already received the offering, but once a week it's it.

  439. But you won't get away from this.

  440. I couldn't get away from it.

  441. Oh God.

  442. Because I've learned that when the preacher enlarges his field of ministry and breaks out of the corner, then your field of ministry will also enlarge and you'll break out of the corner.

  443. You know why?

  444. Because there's an under-shepherd that has to set the example.

  445. And it isn't necessarily for me, but it's for you.

  446. And when your borders begin to enlarge and you begin to sow more into the work of God, then you're blessed, and I'm blessed in the process.

  447. And then we can do more for the kingdom of God.

  448. That's what it's all about.

  449. Because we're all going to leave one of these days, and we need to have a good report with those that knew us.

  450. It's about who we need.

  451. Harry knows what we need.

  452. But actually, he's the one that we need.

  453. Because when Jesus is in the boat, folks, you're going to the other side.

  454. Glory to God.

  455. There's no getting out of it.

  456. But we get out, we gotta get on the old bandwagon here.

  457. Look at Galatians 6, 8 and 9.

  458. Hallelujah.

  459. Galatians 6, 8 and 9.

  460. He that sows to his flesh shall reap corruption, but he that sows to his spirit, the spirit shall the spirit reap life everlasting.

  461. So let us then not be worrying in well doing.

  462. For in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

  463. Once you make the faith move, then there's a time period that takes place.

  464. There's a lot of sowing, then time, then reaping.

  465. But if we sow, we're gonna reap.

  466. If we don't give up and cave in and faint and believe the devil's lies.

  467. But it's up to us to hold on like a junkyard dog and not be denied when Satan says, Well, I knew God wasn't gonna do it.

  468. He lies.

  469. God will always do what he said he's gonna do.

  470. I said we gotta test God.

  471. He tested Jesus and the willingness, but in Malachi he said, Prove me and see.

  472. That means you put me to the test.

  473. Praise God.

  474. Luke 10, 10.

  475. The last verse today.

  476. The last part of this verse, we know the first part, but the last verse is what I want to look at.

  477. The last part of this verse.

  478. I am come that you might have life.

  479. You might have it more abundantly.

  480. Everybody say more abundantly.

  481. That's not only spiritual, that's material, physical, social, occupation, family.

  482. All of it.

  483. Abundance means abundance in every way.

  484. In health.

  485. Hallelujah! Why do we let Satan handcuff us year after year?

  486. I've had enough.

  487. So I'm gonna take the step of faith for myself, for myself and for you.

  488. Because there's a lot of truth to the under-sep thing.

  489. When we enlarge our field of ministry and blessing, yours will come along speedily after that.

  490. Praise God.

  491. And so you should want your pastor blessed in every way.

  492. Like the old timers, oh God, you keep this preacher humble and we'll keep him poor.

  493. That's not faith, it's foolishness.

  494. I don't need some golden stool to sit on.

  495. That one the toilet stool.

  496. I don't need eighty thousand dollar Cadillac to dry.

  497. I'm content with rust over rust.

  498. Long as it's functioning.

  499. Amen.

  500. So we've got to have some common sense about this.

  501. But you know, they didn't stand at the altar, or part tech is with the altar.

  502. You understand that?

  503. Glory to God.

  504. And so we're gonna take a portion of the funds that come in.

  505. How do you think we give eleven thousand dollars to missions?

  506. I've got the church finances all figured out now.

  507. We had a really good year last year.

  508. Some of you are really selling.

  509. But now this has come up for all of us.

  510. Let me repeat, you don't have to give a penny because they're not gonna make pennies anymore.

  511. But what if you decide in your heart as you purpose to God and faith and worship?

  512. You see, he deals with us right where it hurts.

  513. Sacrificial sometimes.

  514. Well, always really.

  515. Now, 30% don't make you righteous.

  516. But if you're right before God, see, God's a giver.

  517. God so loved the world that he gave his only son.

  518. God's a giver.

  519. And if we're Christ-like, finish the statement.

  520. We should be givers.

  521. Cheerfully, because payday is coming.

  522. Don't give up because it's looking rough.

  523. We walk by faith and not by sight.

  524. But we got to get seed in the ground, everybody.

  525. And nothing's gonna change.

  526. God's challenging this church now.

  527. Don't exclude yourself, child of God.

  528. Because God's got a blessing and a miracle with your name on it.

  529. But it's up to you to claim it.

  530. That's what we want.

  531. And how do we move in this abundant life?

  532. We realize as I close here, Satan has got us immobilized by getting us to believe, but there are no butts.

  533. You get that, Justin?

  534. No butts in the house of God.

  535. All goats do is just butt and kick.

  536. Get nervous like a goat on a tin roof, like some of you are on Sunday morning when I preach this way.

  537. Just nervous and said, Oh God, no.

  538. No, the Holy Spirit Spirit's talking to you.

  539. Like one guy said, Culpit said years ago, he said, some of you can't give, well, start out small.

  540. Can you give a pair of socks?

  541. Praise God.

  542. Then after a while, you're rich enough to give somebody a car.

  543. Heard about these mega churches down south that took up an offering and bought the pastor a brand new car.

  544. Well, I can't.

  545. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

  546. I mean if you needed it, but you know.

  547. It's none of my business.

  548. But look.

  549. Satan's telling us now.

  550. For years, that's good enough.

  551. That's all.

  552. You got it all now.

  553. No.

  554. Nobody's got it all.

  555. Even Abraham went out and looked for a city's builder and maker is God.

  556. He took the limits off.

  557. He broke out.

  558. Of paganism.

  559. That's what it is.

  560. A form of witchcraft and paganism, and we're breaking out of it.

  561. We're the children of faith or might as well go home.

  562. No devil, no more.

  563. There is more blessing to be received from God.

  564. But Satan says, Oh.

  565. Now you Christians, just be content with the crumbs that fall off the master's table, and you'll make it.

  566. Is that a fact?

  567. So what are we gonna do about this?

  568. I gotta stop before I get stoned here.

  569. What are you gonna do about it?

  570. This is the challenge.

  571. And some of you are already turning deaf, you're already right now.

  572. I don't want no offering right now.

  573. But next Sunday's coming.

  574. You just preach for money.

  575. No, I don't.

  576. Mr.

  577. Big Bucks walk out the door when I preach on hell and stuff like that.

  578. I don't care.

  579. The word is a word, and that's it.

  580. Now, what are we gonna do about this message?

  581. Because I have to deal with it just like you.

  582. I've told you what I'm gonna do.

  583. Didn't even tell my boss.

  584. Now she knows.

  585. I want to know who's in faith in this church.

  586. Because faith is the only thing that's gonna please the Father God.

  587. And when we exercise faith, the Lord Jesus is paying to the Father.

  588. Look at that down there.

  589. Yeah, we've got to bless him.

  590. We got to bless Him.

  591. We've got to bless Him.

  592. We're bound to our word.

  593. Some of you don't even believe.

  594. We've got an oil well up there on the land.

  595. Well, I don't know what's gonna happen.

  596. I'll leave the results to God, but I'm believing for the best.

  597. And if not, we're gonna go on anyway.

  598. But what if that land set there 30 years for us to come along, didn't have any more sense to buy that land and step out on a limb and believe God, but it's all paid for so far.

  599. It doesn't matter what you think.

  600. I'm breaking out of this rubber call of the corner.

  601. Are you?

  602. I like the word came to message.

  603. If you two young people will just keep God first in your life and just symbol to the Spirit like you're doing, these traits are gonna increase in your life, and you will preach the gospel and see people saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, and healed because you got enough gifts to step out on the water and believe God by sowing your entire life a hundred percent to the kingdom of God.

  604. That's what it's gonna require, everybody.

  605. A hundred percent or just go home.

  606. Now that separates the boys from the men right there.

  607. I've delivered the message.

  608. Let's stand up now.

  609. Praise God, hallelujah.

  610. Let's stand up right now, praise God, hallelujah.

  611. Stand up in faith, stand up in faith.

  612. Stand up in faith and dare to believe God.

  613. Praise God for Him to begin to work in our mist and bring us out of the corner and set the captive free in the name that's above every name.

  614. Glory to God in heaven and on earth.

  615. And we'll see more than just people getting off of dialysis.

  616. We'll see people even raised from the dead if we'll just get on fire for God and break out of this thing.

  617. That's what it's gonna take.

  618. You hard heads are never gonna get it.

  619. But I'm looking for those that are serious about serving God and want to make their life count for the kingdom of God.

  620. That's who I'm looking for.

  621. When I go overseas, that's the way it is, and that's the way it is right here.

  622. If you don't want to go along with the bandwagon, we'll just set off to the side.

  623. Be a good little church mouse and stay in your corner.

  624. But I'm telling you what, God's looking for some people that's gonna exercise the muster seed faith today and step out.

  625. And one way we can show it is by a big offering next Sunday morning.

  626. I mean big.

  627. It's for you.

  628. It's for you.

  629. Glory to God.

  630. First thing you've got to sow your life 100%.

  631. If you're not saved, give your life to Christ before you wind up in hell.

  632. You can do that today.

  633. That's the greatest treasure there is in the universe is to receive eternal life.

  634. But after that, now we're walking the straight and narrow.

  635. We want the abundant life, don't we?

  636. Now sin's already lied to some of you.

  637. Your job is not the source.

  638. God is your provider.

  639. God is your source.

  640. Not Mr.

  641. Boss.

  642. God can move them out through prayer, and you'll be the boss.

  643. He'll make you the head and not the tail.

  644. When are we gonna wake up and realize God's word is the final authority?

  645. I'm on note today as an under shepherd.

  646. Who's gonna take a step of faith in this church?

  647. I can't do it.

  648. Well then don't.

  649. But all things are possible to those that believe.

  650. I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.

  651. Thank you for listening to the Zion Word Ministries International Podcast.

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