Faith For Now - Part 2 - Pastor Philip Steele - October 4th, 2026

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And we're gonna briefly recap some things that we looked at this morning.

Dealing with faith for the now.

We want to welcome the Kansas location that's live streaming tonight.

God bless you guys in Kansas.

And uh God's good to us.

Glory to God.

Faith for the now.

Fe para la hora.

More is lost through indecision than no decision.

More is lost through indecision than no decision.

You've got to make a decision now.

I get up every day and make the decision not to waste time.

Right?

The indecision costs you more than no decision.

Right?

My pastor would say this.

I would rather step out and fail.

Than sit still and miss God.

I'm sitting still because of indecision.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

You know, Pastor Michelle was not in indecision.

When she looked at me and said, You're my miracle.

I was in no indecision when I said, Yes, I am.

I had a friend and we were out to dinner.

And he asked me.

He said, What do you think about Michelle?

He said, I've been thinking about asking her out.

I let the brother know some things.

And I had not been back with the Lord very long.

And I figured the Lord wouldn't mind if I whooped him just one time.

But here's the thing there was no indecision.

There was no indecision.

Why?

Because there was a church full of young men that were interested.

And the one that God said was mine.

No indecision.

Aren't you glad?

Amen.

Amen.

When you found the one that God said was yours, no indecision.

Amen.

It's me and you.

Hallelujah.

Somos tu y yo.

You can lose through indecision.

Amen.

Amen.

In 2 Kings, chapter 7.

2 Kings 7 · chapter mention

Capitolo 7.

And again, there's a famine.

The man of God has said, tomorrow, about this time there'll be surplus.

They're in a famine.

They have been in a famine.

They have nothing.

And the man of God says, Tomorrow, abundance.

Every word that God gives anybody requires action on the receiver's part.

I have to act on it.

When do I act on it?

I act on it now.

If it's nothing more than I receive that in Jesus' name.

But I have to act on it.

I've talked to people before and they've said, Well, the Lord said.

Well, where are you looking?

Well, you know, the Lord will bring it to me.

No.

No.

No.

No.

God has buildings out there.

We're currently looking.

Why will I find it?

Because I'm looking.

You look and God will lead.

But very often he doesn't start leading till you start looking.

Amen.

If I just sit in indecision.

Then I lose out.

And so he said abundance will be here tomorrow.

Then verse 3.

He says there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate, and they said to one another, Why are we sitting here until we die?

There's so much in that one verse.

These are leprous men.

They're outside the city.

And they say, let me ask a question.

Why are we just sitting here?

Waiting to die.

Right?

He said, if we say we'll enter the city, the famine's in the city and we'll die there.

And if we sit here, we die also.

So notice.

Come let us fall into the hosts of the Syrians.

If they save us alive, we'll live.

And if they kill us, we'll just die.

Let's make a decision.

Right?

Correct.

Because death in the city.

Death if we sit here.

If we go there and they let us live, well, we'll live.

But if they kill us, that's what we're looking for anyway.

That's what we're looking at anyway.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

See, God needed someone to move.

When you read on, as they begin to move.

God made the Syrians hear four armies.

But what if they never move?

Nobody in the city's moving.

Nobody in the city is listening to the man of God.

He said there's going to be abundance tomorrow.

If they were believing the man of God, they would have put their faith in gear and begin to believe God.

So some way, God prompts these lepers to begin to think.

We gotta make a move.

And as they begin to move, the enemy heard four armies.

And they took off and left everything they had behind.

And these four leprous guys just walk into all this abundance.

Why?

Because they got over into the now.

God would have done that for anybody that would have acted.

But these men needed someone to move.

God is in the now.

God's blessings are in the now.

What he desires for us is the money.

How much greater things were.

Oh, wasn't that a great time?

It's nostalgic.

But it's like anything.

We tend not to think about what wasn't so great when we're looking back at the past.

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah.

I'll see things at times people.

You know, growing up in the 70s, it was so carefree, it was so wonderful.

I lived through it and I think about that sometimes.

And I remember sitting in gas lines.

Because we had a fuel shortage.

I remember how bad the cars were.

They broke down all the time.

Right?

Correct.

I can look back and be very nostalgic.

But you know, 2026 is a lot easier to live in.

Many are looking and waiting for something that's coming.

God is in the now.

God is in the now.

I've heard my whole life, a move of God's coming.

And I've talked to preachers and said, when are we just going to be a move of God?

But what are we waiting on?

God is in the now.

Amen.

What was wonderful?

What's coming is powerful.

But what about now?

What about now?

What about what God wants you to do now?

What about what God wants to bring to us now?

We've got to put our hand to the thing God's ask of us.

And do it now.

I'm a firm believer of this.

People that just wait for opportunities rarely see them.

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah.

They asked Smith Wigglesworth one time.

He said he made this statement.

He said, if the Holy Ghost doesn't move in a service.

I move the Holy Ghost.

If there's not a move, I move him.

I step out and make the opportunity.

Jesus is coming.

And what we had was great.

But what do we do now?

You know, you've got people they're just sitting waiting on the rapture.

Just want to get on out of here.

Well, I want to go in the rapture too, but what about now?

I want to get raptured doing something.

I want to get raptured putting my hand to what God says.

I think the best way to get out of it is to be doing what God told you to do.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

What do we do now?

Look at John 4.

Now I'm going through this recap quickly.

Because there's some things we need to look at.

John 4.

And verse 34.

Jesus said, My meat, my desire is to do the will of him that sent me and finish his work.

Notice, to do the will of him now.

And then he said, we'll paraphrase some of this.

He said to the disciples, don't say you've got four months.

He said, Lift up your eyes, the fields are ripe now.

He went on and he made this statement.

He said, He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, that both he that sows and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Verse 36.

And herein is that saying true: one sows and another reaps.

One sows.

Those that went before us.

Their job was to sow the seed.

Our job is to reap the harvest.

They planted the seed.

We reaped the harvest.

Oh, glory to God.

He said, I sent you to reap where you bestowed no labor.

Other men labored and you entered into their labors.

Other men labored.

So I'm not just replicating what they did.

And reaping the harvest.

Oh hallelujah.

Amen.

We're not just replicating them.

See, there's a faith for receiving now.

Or Roberts made a statement popular.

Expect a miracle.

Expect a miracle.

Say out loud, expect a miracle.

Say expect a miracle now.

I expect things to change now.

Amen.

See, we're setting our faith on now.

Amen.

A lot of people have their faith to the same thing.

Eventually.

You gotta set it on now.

I say we gotta set it on now.

Have you ever tuned in a radio station?

And you can't really do it so much now.

But you know when you could turn the knob.

Right.

And you could hear a little bit of your station.

But you had to keep tuning it.

Until you got on that station.

Hallelujah.

We're gonna set our faith on now.

Tonight.

Right now.

I'm gonna receive now.

Hallelujah.

Tell your neighbor, I'm gonna receive now.

Amen.

Amen.

And he would tell people all over the world.

He wrote a devotional called A Daily Guide to Miracles.

And he taught seven things a miracle will do for you.

And we're not going to go through them, but he said it begins with you gotta get up today and expect a miracle.

In our circles, people kind of downgrade miracles.

Because we say, you know, we're not supposed to live from miracle to miracle.

And we're not.

But we should expect something from God every day.

When do I have God's favor?

Now it surrounded me as a shield.

Every day I try to do it.

See, when do you need favor?

I need it now.

Tomorrow might be too late.

When do I need the blessing?

I need to be full of the blessing.

I need to be surrounded with favor.

Right now.

It's just a change in mindset.

Because there's a faith for receiving now.

Look at Mark 11.

We're going to read a familiar verse.

Oh, Hallelujah.

Oh, Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

Mark 11.

And 24.

24.

Therefore, I say to you, what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive, and you shall have.

But you can see people look at it like that.

Believe you receive.

And you shall have.

And they'll say, Well, I believe I have received.

If I believe I have received, the receiving is coming in short order.

Because this believing you received is now.

The word receive means to take with the hand.

To take what is one's own.

To take possession of them.

The only person I've got to do is that the world is a good idea.

Gloria Copeland is Gloria Copeland.

That said, when you believe, you receive.

You say, I believe.

Take it.

It's mine.

It's me.

I have it now.

In the name of Jesus.

There's a faith for the now.

Receiving presently.

What many do instead of believing they receive presently, they say they believe they receive.

But they're thinking I'll receive sometime in the future.

Are you following me?

Now listen, we must believe we receive in spite of what we see.

But my brother, sister, eventually should change.

If I believe I have received.

Why?

Because there's faith for the now.

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah.

Do you see this?

There's faith for the now.

It's mine.

See, there's a ditch on both sides of the road.

There's things you believe you receive for tonight.

You might see it in a week or a month, the manifestation.

But why did you see the manifestation?

Because you believed you received it.

If I'm not receiving the manifestation, I need to investigate.

Do I really believe I have received now?

Or is that just word of faith jargon?

Well, I believe I received.

Then I will see it.

Is that right?

Hallelujah.

Pastor Caldwell would say, if you're calling things that be not as though they were.

What you don't see will show up.

If you're calling what isn't as though it is.

Amen.

Say it out loud.

I believe.

I receive.

See, it's not just a phrase.

It's not this.

Well, I don't feel any better.

But I believe I have received.

If I believe I have received, my feeling is not.

I believe I have received.

Then what happens?

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah.

I believe that we can get to the place with our faith that we're seeing manifestations as we believe God.

I believe that with all the coronavirus.

Say it out loud.

It's not.

Thank you, Jesus.

Gracias, Jesus.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Believe that you receive them.

Whatever it is I want to receive, I want to receive them now.

Hallelujah.

See, faith can get set in a future mode.

And very often people are not aware they're doing it.

My faith is in a future mode.

That's going to happen.

I believe I will see it.

That's different than I believe I received.

Pastor Michelle, one time.

We were talking with a couple.

And uh she was in the process of getting her first book printed.

And she was talking to them.

And she said, Oh, I have it.

It's done in Jesus' name.

And they said, Oh, you've got it printed.

And she said, In the name of Jesus.

We were a long way from having it printed.

We needed$10,000 to just do it.

And we didn't have$10.

Let alone$10,000.

Oh, hallelujah.

But you know, she said, I have what I believe I receive.

And Joe?

There was a little Filipino woman that went to our church.

Her husband didn't even like our church.

And he was sat there like his stomach was hurt.

But she loved it.

Michelle was alone at the office one day.

And this lady came by and pulled a wad of cash out of her purse.

And said, The Lord told me to come give this to you.

I was off doing something in my phone, I got a message.

And it was glory to God.

And it just had cash spread out all over the desk.

A picture of it.

I didn't know that.

I didn't know that woman had that kind of money.

Amen.

What had happened, what would have happened if Michelle would have kept putting that book off into the future?

We were sewing for it.

The people we were talking to understanding.

What she did was she moved her faith from the present to the now.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

Moved it from the future.

To now.

Am I helping you?

Hallelujah.

So the mindset very often is by faith I receive.

Meaning nothing's changed, but I believe I have received.

I have to believe I receive, but I must believe I receive now.

Hallelujah.

Look at Mark 5.

Mark 5.

Marco 5.

Verse 25.

And a certain woman that had an issue of blood twelve years and had suffered many things of many physicians spent all she had and was nothing better but grew worse.

But here's the thing, growing worse.

And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

Straightway means immediately, at once.

Because we don't like to admit we think this way.

Yeah, but she was touching Jesus.

So because Jesus isn't physically here, we should expect less from him.

This woman can touch the hem of his garment and be healed immediately.

And somehow I can get less.

Her mindset was not I'll touch him and then believe I receive, even if nothing happens.

We can condition our mind.

That regardless of whether I feel anything or not, I'm going to believe I receive.

I'm going to touch him.

I'm going to receive no.

Listen, whenever we get the manifestation, praise God for it.

But why don't you do it?

Why wait for a year if he wants to do it?

Hallelujah.

Jesus called what this woman did faith.

She said it.

She acted on it.

She received it.

Now.

Amen.

Amen.

The Lord told Brother Hagan.

If anybody do what this woman did, they can have what she had got.

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah.

Amen.

Amen.

See, there's a ditch on both sides of the road.

I have to believe I receive regardless of what I see or feel.

I believe I receive now.

Hallelujah.

If you don't believe you receive now, symptoms will knock you off your faith.

But when you believe you've received now, symptoms can't shake the move.

Why?

Because you believe you have received.

Oh hallelujah.

Do you see this?

And so believing you received is not a future thing.

It's a present reality.

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah.

Look at Mark 1.

Are you receiving tonight?

Now.

I'm receiving now.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

Mark 1.

Marcos 1.

Verse 30.

Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.

And on they tell him of her.

Hallelujah.

Now, once again, Luke in his account, Lucas in such us to know this was a chronic fever.

Not just a one-off kind of thing.

This was chronic.

She had fevers all the time.

So the first lady we looked at 12 years.

But in a moment of time.

But healed by the power of God.

Now we've got a chronic fever.

It's something that's gone on and on and on.

Verse 31.

And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered to them.

Immediately the fever left.

Luke says she he rebuked the fever.

And immediately it left.

What does that mean?

When you tell something to leave your body, it's got to pack up and go.

Why?

Because you're in charge.

But notice here's the here's the clave.

Immediately.

Immediatamente.

Immediately.

Immediatamente the fever left her.

Amen.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Notice something.

Jesus didn't say, now, sister, just believe you've received.

Hallelujah.

I told the Lord one time.

I'm tired.

People coming in the healing line.

And me laying hands on it.

And just happen to tell them that you believe you receive.

They can do that on their own.

They can do that at home watching TV.

And he doesn't have the power to immediately change people's circumstances.

Or with what you said.

Nothing wrong with what you said.

So it had to be a mindset change in my mind.

So I had to get to the point that I full well expect everybody to get healed that comes up in the line.

You can account for your faith.

But I can tell you something.

It throws the channel wide open for the healing power of God.

So I'm not expecting to just come and believe I receive.

But go back to my seat sick.

Or go back to my seat in pain.

Because I believe I have received.

My faith is set on now.

My hands are laid on me.

The pain will leave my body.

The sickness and disease will evaporate.

Because I believe I have to recibido.

Oh hallelujah.

Say it out loud, I believe.

No, he rebuked the fever.

He told it to go.

He expected it to go.

Hallelujah.

See, there's so much to be said for that.

When hands are laid on me.

I expect to be well.

I expect to be whole.

See, the laying on of hands is the point of contact.

This is important.

God Jesus said, I want you to go and I want you to lay hands on the sick.

Is that right?

That's the point of contact.

When I lay hands on the fluid, the healing power of God will save.

And you'll be healed now.

Oh hallelujah.

Amen.

Do you see that?

And because we've had such good teaching on our confession and on our words.

If you don't receive the manifestation tonight, just keep your confession right.

But how about this for a confession?

I'm going to leave without this tonight.

I'm going to be well in Jesus' name.

Brother Hagen was in Birmingham, Alabama.

He was ministering in a Coliseum there.

And my friend Scott Webb.

His church was helping out with that meeting, Scott's a Ramagrad.

And Brother Hagen announced the first night, Monday night.

There was a guy in that meeting.

And he had had his spinal cord injured in an altercation with the police.

For years.

And said Friday night's my night.

Glory to God.

Amen.

I know that doesn't have anything to do with anything, but boy, it sure feels good.

Glory to God.

It feels good.

Hallelujah.

He said, Friday night is my night.

He told the usher.

Friday night.

Came back Tuesday morning.

Amen.

Amen.

Went home in the afternoon.

Friday night.

Regreso in the target.

Came back that night.

Regreso is a noche.

Friday night.

Viernes in la noche.

Went home.

Guess what he said?

Friday night.

Went to every service, said that in every service.

Oh, Friday night shows up.

Amen.

Amen.

They got wheel, all the wheelchairs on the platform on the stage.

Brother Hagen started ministering.

Went to some other ones.

Laid hands on them.

Some of them made an intent.

They didn't get up.

He got to this man.

Laid hands on him.

Didn't even get his hand on his head.

And they said it sounded like thunder.

And that man jumped out of the head.

Penalized from the west for years.

For años.

Fell over on the usher.

But he hadn't walked in years.

Got his balance.

Pushed his chair home that night.

And told everybody.

And told you Friday night.

Glory to God.

It's now.

It's now.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Do you see that?

Glory to God.

I understand why we teach the way we teach.

Everybody's at different levels of faith.

Whatever what level you're at.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Do you see that?

Believe for it to work for you now.

Believe for it to work for you now.

Now.

Here's another example.

There's a man that taught at Rhema Bible Training Center.

He was near legally blind.

And he couldn't drive without his glasses.

He could not see anything.

And uh every day he would teach his class.

With his glasses on.

There was a clock in the back of the room.

Every day he would take his glasses off.

And look at the clock.

And couldn't see it.

And he'd say, I believe I receive in Jesus' name.

Put his glasses back on.

Come to school the next day.

I believe I received.

Put his glasses back on and drive home.

Amen.

One day on a Friday.

He was teaching.

Took his glasses off.

Glory to God.

There it is.

Walked, left his glasses and drove home.

When did he believe he had received?

He might have seen it a couple weeks later in the manifestation.

The manifestation to that person that does not believe they received now.

I gotta believe I received.

Oh glory.

Oh glory.

Look at Luke chapter 5.

Luke 5 · chapter mention

Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

You know those back issues are being eradicated right now.

Being eradicated.

Amen.

They shall not be an issue.

Well, Lord, I'll say that.

You paid the chiropractor enough.

No offense to chiropractors.

Luke 5.

Luke 5.

Verse 12.

It came to pass when he was in a certain city, a man full of leprosy, seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.

Meaning this.

The average incubation period of leprosy is five years.

Because leprosy is, it occurs on the bacterial level.

So that that that leprosy is incubating in that person's body for at least five years.

For some it's 20 years.

Over 2,000 years ago there would have been no early detection.

So this man had suffered with this for several years.

And he put forth his hand, touched him, saying, I will be clean.

And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

So he had suffered for years.

Immediately.

Set your faith to now.

Set your faith to now.

Not just for your healing.

If you need healing for you, you can use the breakthrough.

Let's not just slog it out.

Let's get that blessing that we need now.

So we can get this behind us.

And go on with what God wants us to do.

Oh Hallelujah.

Oh hallelujah.

Set your faith now.

Tell your faith.

I believe God.

I believe God.

I believe God.

I believe God.

I believe God.

Yo le creo a Dios.

Glory to God.

Glory to God.

Those symptoms will not just settle down, they'll leave.

You'll not just get some relief, you're gonna, it's gonna go.

Oh hallelujah.

Oheluya.

Oh hallelujah.

Ah, Samatia Masa.

Ah, come here, Denise.

Hallelujah.

Oh, Samaya, and even, and even the impossible shall be done.

And even the impossible shall occur.

And every time you look at that gift, every time, you will say there's nothing impossible to God.

And not only will your faith come to a higher level, those things that I want you to press into in every way, you will have already seen the impossible done.

And because you've already seen the impossible done, nothing shall ever again stand in the way of your faith.

Glory to God.

Oh glory.

Oh gloria.

Set your faith to now.

Pongan su fe en el aura.

Set your faith to now.

Pongan su fe en el aura.

Right right there in the spirit.

Just set your faith to now.

Hallelujah.

Say it out loud, Lord.

Now is the time.

Now is the time to do it.

I receive now.

In Jesus' name.

And take this step of faith.

Especially if you're believing God for finances.

Do whatever you got to do.

You got a wallet, a a wallet in your purse.

Hold it in your hand.

Hold it and say in the name of Jesus.

I prosper now.

I have overcoming ability in my finances now.

I shall be hindered no more.

Financially.

I receive it now.

Glory in Jesus' name.

Hallelujah.

I receive it now.

I receive it now.

Oh hallelujah.

Oh hallelujah.

Oh hallelujah.

Oh hallelujah.

Glory to God.

Glory to God.

But I've got to pray in just a moment.

The blind man came to Jesus.

He said, What do you want?

He said, Lord, that I might receive my sight.

Jesus laid hands on him.

He said, receive your sight.

And he says immediately.

He received his sight.

You know, he didn't want to see tomorrow.

He wanted to see now.

Hallelujah.

If you've got pain in your body, when do you want it gone?

Amen.

That's why when we go to the when we go to the pharmacy, we look for the fast-acting stuff.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Jesus went into the synagogue.

And there was a woman there bound 18 years.

One translation says Jesus said, think of it, 18 years.

Hallelujah.

It says he called her to him.

And said, You're set free.

And it says immediately.

18 years.

You know, this came so real to me one day.

We were at universal in Florida.

And I saw a man in the crowd.

And he was walking like this.

And he couldn't lift his head up.

I saw how miserable he looked.

The Bible says this woman was bent in two.

She wasn't just stooped over.

She could not lift herself up.

18 years she'd been going to church.

18 years.

Nobody helped her.

And Jesus said, You're free.

And immediately she was made straight.

Set your faith to now.

I can get used to saying, Well, I believe I receive.

None of these things move me.

Then we fail to properly serve the eviction notice to the thing that needs to go.

Get going.

Get out of my body.

Get out of my life.

Sal de mi vida.

Amen.

Amen.

Say it out loud.

My faith is set on now.

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh hallelujah.

Glory to God.

Oh, thank you, Jesus.

Oh, gracias, Jesus.

Amen.

Amen.

God is good.

I believe God.

There's a strong anointing here.