Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
Church podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the
church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.
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Pastor Terence, Pastor Julia, thank you for another
opportunity to declare the Word of God, to call forth the
blessing of heaven in our midst. Thank you for the trust.
And we thank you that we have pastors that hear God, that obey
his voice, that walk with, that walk with God.
We're going to try that again. We grateful that we have pastors
that hear God, that obey his voice, that walk with God.
How many of y'all? You've never really had a pastor
before until you got here, at least not to the depth you all
ought to be. The Lord is here to show God's
faithfulness, to give you a pastor, to pastor you that hears
God after his own heart. Come on now.
Great is our faithfulness. We thank you for faithful
pastors. Yeah, yeah.
You need to stay right there. I'm just going to talk.
Father, we thank you that we're talking about digging deeper
today, digging deeper, digging deeper, digging deeper.
Good fight of finishing faith. We're going to have some review,
but we're going to go deeper than we went last week.
There may be some impartation, but it's going to be some more
detail to allow you to anchor your faith a little bit better.
I want to start with this God is this comes from the word God
gave at the beginning of the year.
And Pastor reminds me, this is we talked about it.
See, God is doing a lot, but he's not asking us to do a lot.
There is a lot going on around us, but we don't have to do it.
We have to behold what and trust God as he accomplishes it.
Pastor said at the beginning of the year, the most key aspect of
us and our church family is the ability to stand.
But you have to understand that standing means standing firm.
It doesn't mean standing still doing nothing.
There is a standing faith that has activity to it.
There's a standing faith that has power to it.
There's a standing faith that has that still is moving and
activating what God is doing. God is calling us.
They have a faith that stands firm, but not one that stands
still. And in the midst of that, we
ought to have a focus singularly on what God is called where and
what God is called to stand on. What does it mean you can stand?
Firm. But not standing still.
David stood firm when he saw Goliath, When he ran, he stood
firm. When he stood his sleep shot, he
stood firm. He stood firm.
But he didn't stand still. Doing nothing.
The call to stand is not an excuse to disconnect, to back
up, to lay down, to get a lukewarm face, to sit back and
expect God to do what He's calling you, to partner with Him
in. Hey man, we want to finish up
this evening. In our experience, we talked
about a lot this morning, but we want to go straight to a part we
wanted to finish up see this, I'll do a little bit of review.
Since God is training a generation to finish, they have
strong hearts that won't fail when facing generation or
defining increased threats and difficulties.
The increase is in addition from the last time I shared this word
because God is going to release great increase in this time to
accomplish his purpose. He's releasing great in increase
to carry you over the difficulties that we will face.
In much the same way, God told Joseph there'll be seven years
of blessing and then seven years of famine.
Let your blessing prepare you to.
Keep you in your. Famine so you we need the wisdom
to steward the increase when we're faced with it and it's
going to be generational increase, something we haven't
seen. And why is it important to
understand that? Because when you receive money
like you've never had, you tend to get complacent.
You tend to forget God, you tend to lose your priorities, and all
of a sudden you begin to spin on all of the hidden desires of
your flesh that you hadn't checked.
It was just buried because you didn't have the money to do it.
Now that you got the the resource, now all of your
desires become begin to come up and what you find is the
resource God gave you for His purpose.
Begin squandered on what you desired, not for what God sent
it for you for you to do. You're going to, it's going to
take, it's going to. Take a lot of faith to walk with
God in the midst of the increases, wells of threats and
difficulties. Knowing God is not is necessary,
but not enough. Though Jesus is enough, knowing
him is not enough. Knowing is a means by which we
connect with Him. Knowing God is not is necessary
but not enough. Want to make that clear from the
last time. I'm not saying you don't have to
know God. I'm saying it's necessary but
not enough. Loving God is necessary but not
enough. Signs and wonders are necessary
but not enough. And showing up is necessary but
not enough. Doing your part is necessary.
Doing your part is necessary but not enough.
Praying is necessary, but it's not enough.
Community is necessary but not enough money.
Times. When people talk about
community, what they mean is a group of people that I can that
can serve me. I want a group that will help me
feel good about me. I want a group that will help me
do the things I like to do and help cultivate my interests and
help eat at the places where I want to eat.
It's very rare that people look at commute.
Community is a place. That I can serve with purpose.
God give me a group of people who I can pull my life out upon
in service to them, even if nothing comes back.
Most folks consider that to be slavery or bondage, not
community. The word community comes from
the roots. Common unity.
Common unity around the purpose. So if you're thinking about
community as being something that serves me and my emotions
and my loneliness. So you're missing the whole
point of community to begin with.
But even community and its best is not enough.
Worshipping is necessary, but not enough.
You must have a finishing faith. Jesus was at the wedding of
Canaan. He was there at the wedding but
they still ran out of wine. Him being there wasn't enough.
The people were asked to feel the with water and they did so
with excellence. It was their finishing faith to
do with excellence that triggered the miracle.
Not just Jesus being there. Jesus was there, His disciples
was there, and his Mama was there.
You need to. Have a finishing faith, All of
those things that I declared. Were not enough.
Were ways that we activate mature engage the Lord in what
He's called us to do present there.
It's all powerful. Jesus said this to one person
who was blind or sick. He said what do you want from
me. He still had to say I want to be
healed. It wasn't until his face cried
out to finish the thing that was binding his body that all of a
sudden the healing flow though Jesus was present and asked the
question Are you ready. The Bible says God knows what's
on our hearts before we ask. So God already knew what was on
his heart before he asked. But him knowing what was on his
heart before he asked was still not enough.
He had to have a faith that cried out to finish this
sickness of my body, and God responded in that regard.
A finishing faith rejects time pressure.
We're developing that a little bit.
A faith will fight time. Time tries to induce fear and
shortage. And many times we will put time
pressure in our faith at the beginning in a subtle fashion.
OK, so you can diagnose with a sniffle.
Do you believe God can heal that?
Yeah, I do. OK, let's keep it down.
Yeah, I do. You know why?
Because sniffle is going to take 5.
Years to turn into cancer. I got time.
So Can you believe Jesus can heal?
Stage eight start cancer. I don't know.
We have enough time. It's subtly laid in there, this
idea of time when we believe God OK by finishing faith resists
pressure for time. God is not bound by time.
He created time. God can do whatever he wants to
do, how he wants to do it. He's not limited in that regard.
And what time pressure comes to do is to get people into fear.
Time is designed to do that. The Bible declares that the
enemy knows his time is running out.
God put a clock on him so he would know your time is coming
up. And in seeing his time is up,
he's getting so greatly afraid. He's trying to pull out all the
stops, trying to deceive the very elect because he knows his
time is running out. So time is designed to in some
ways to create a sense of fear and urgency they lack.
I'm going to not have enough at some point.
A faith that finishes. Resist time pressure.
I don't care if there's .3 seconds left on the clock.
It don't matter to me. I'm not.
I'm trying to get a 5 point lead because I don't have to go down
to a last second shot. It doesn't matter to me.
I'll play 8 overtimes. It doesn't matter to me.
A finishing faith rejects time pressure.
Jesus with Lazarus, they came and told him.
Lazarus, the one whom you loved, is sick.
He stayed there two more days. Lazarus died.
Jesus was deciding to follow God more than succumb to the
pressure of time, and one of the things time does is try to
challenge your love for God. God, I'm running out of time.
If you loved me, you would do it.
God, I'm running out of time. I thought you loved me enough,
God. And these are things we don't
ever say, but can be sown as seeds in our hearts because
we've only known a love that's been conditional before we've
come to the love of God. Jesus was impervious to that and
was working the greatest strategy.
He stayed two days while he said, I'm not going to let time
pressure, he interrupt my finishing faith.
And at the end of it he went Lazarus got healed and raised up
from the dead. In Joshua chapter 10, it says
this. Then Joshua spoke to the Lord on
the day when the Lord gave the amber rights over to the
Israelites. And he said, in the sight of
Israel sun, be silent and stand still at Gibeon, and you moon in
the valley of Angelon. He's.
Speaking the time time you want to serve me, time will not run
out until I win. I'm going to finish and I will
finish in faith and I shall see the promise of God brought the
past. I will see for those that are
for my life. I will see it in my life for
those that are for the next generation.
I will see it at a distance and I won't wave it and by I'll wave
it. Come on, I'm checking out.
But you still got to keep coming.
And the 1st 13 says this, he spoke.
Now notice it doesn't say God told him to say this.
A finishing faith understands the character of a finishing
God, and from that relationship he speaks the heart of God to
finish. And the sun stood still, and the
moon stayed at whose command? At God's command, Joshua's
command. God is like, why you want me to
talk when your mouth is sufficient?
Stop asking me to do your job. You command your space, you
command your time, you command your destiny, you command your
context. I'll back it up.
After all, you, my son, as a father plays catch, will stand
behind his son. When the son or the daughter's
playing catch, it is right there.
The father will say don't worry, I got you backed up the ball.
Not going to get away. I got you.
You commanded and stood still. The moon stayed until the nation
took vengeance upon their enemies.
It stood still till I finished conquering all that the enemy
sent against me. It stood still till I finished
delivering my people. It stood still to all of me was
done. Everyone was healed, everyone
was safe, everyone was delivered.
Not just written in the Book of Jasher.
Out of the amount of two or three witnesses.
That's what's been written in the book.
We already know that, right? So the Son stood still in the
midst of the heavens, and did not hasten to go down for about
a whole day. When you command time, he gives
a testimony of God's eternal power and weight.
There was no day like it before or since.
People are still talking about it.
How you know I'm talking about it today when the Lord.
Heeded the voice of a man for the Lord.
Fought for Israel, Hughes need to have a finishing faith.
I mentioned before the Kingdom of God's looking to see if you
going to finish. So they're looking for you to
speak. How are you going to speak?
How are you going to talk? Do you really know who you are,
who you are, and who we are together in this?
He hated the voice of a man to stop time.
Where's the boldness, the bold sacrifice to say that?
Where's the bold sacrifice? No more people shall die from
this until we get a hold of it. Where's the boldness to declare
like what God has said here? If that's not enough for you, I
want to take you to a headline. October 30th, 2017 Joshua stop
the Sun 3224 years ago today scientists say this is the.
Power of God's ability to command time.
Now I've been talking about manipulating time.
Well, God move all the traffic so I can hurry up to my lunch
date. Why are you going to waste your
power on that? You really going?
You going to waste that on that? I'm not saying it don't matter
to God, but gain some patience. Leave earlier.
Why are you going to waste it on that?
You don't use it for anything else more significant.
Scientists say this is an article from the Times of
Israel. It's by David Sedley, October
30th. It says this Cambridge residuals
that just shows you how smart they are, right Cambridge?
Researchers announced declared Monday that they have pinpointed
the date of the biblical account of Joshua stopping the sun.
You don't say of God stopping the sun for Joshua.
They pinpointed the date when man spoke out of faith and trust
is saying I'm going to finish what God called me to do and
time is not going to pressure me out of it.
Claim was the day the oldest eclipse ever recorded.
In a paper published in the Royal Astronomical Society
Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics researchers explained
that what they were consequently also able to refine the dates of
of the reigns of two Egyptian Pharaohs of that era.
So Joshua was commanding the time in that day reset the
destinies of two kingdoms. Don't let faith, Don't let time
pressure you out of finishing in faith.
Unless your God's name is clock, you shouldn't be concerned about
what the clock going to do to your promise.
And if your God's name is clock, you got a poor God.
First Samuel says this when the men of Israel saw that.
They were in a tight situation, time pressure.
When they saw visual circumstance, they were in a
tight situation, for the troops were hard pressed.
They hid in caves and holes and rocks and dunes and pits or
sisters. The very places where they
poured Joseph to die, they're willingly going to hide in
because of time pressure trying to get them to stop finishing
their faith. Some Hebrews had gone over to
Jordan, to the land of Gad and Gilead.
As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people
followed him, trembling. This fear of time is pressuring
the entire Kingdom. Saul waited seven days according
to the set time. Samuel had appointed to offer a
sacrifice. But Samuel had not come.
He waited. He told me seven days, Samuel.
He waited, but he had not come. See, when you are resisting time
pressure, you think differently. What you think is, oh, not that
he's not going to come. What you think of is like, oh,
he may be on the way to my house to heal my daughter.
He may have stopped to heal somebody else because he has
more than enough power and more than enough time.
I'm good, he said. Saul, wait.
But Samuel had not come. And so Saul offered the burnt
offering, which he was forbidden to do, ready time pressure, and
just as he. Finish offering the burnt
offering Behold, Samuel Cain just.
As he. Finished behold Samuel Cain.
He was seconds away from finishing but let the pressure
of time. Let's focus on what people were
saying. Let's focus on people's hearts.
Fainting let's focus on the threats of what people were
supposed to be and what was going on.
You got to have a finishing faith.
I think it's important to note now I'm just going to say this
out of my. Spirit, I didn't check this, but
I believe probably at this point David has already killed
Goliath. What did I say?
Who did I say? Killed.
Goliath. David finished.
Saul didn't. Maybe.
Saul Sayed and seized the opportunity to finish in faith
Goliath. Is why he's succumbing to
pressure from time to not finish now.
God is building you testimonies to finish, just like He's using
this remnant project to give us a finishing faith.
Verse 12 says this. I thought the Philistines will
come down now upon me. Think about that.
Time fear pressure, and time pressure is always selfish.
What does it say? I thought the Philistines will
come down now upon me. Not my people, not your people.
I thought they want to come down upon me and I have have not made
supplication to the Lord, so I first forced myself to offer a
burnt. Offering.
I made-up my mind that I was going to do what I needed to do
anyway. I made-up my mind.
I was going to stop listening to what God has said.
I made-up my mind. I was going to stop trusting
God. I made-up my mind that I had to
do what I was going to need to do.
And Lucky says there, you have to convince yourself of that.
You never time never cancels your faith unless you've
convinced yourself of that. The only way time cancels your
faith is if you've convinced yourself.
I have no more time. It's over what you have to say
about the matter to yourself, Will.
Determine time's. Ability to put pressure.
On you and. You have to resist that
pressure. And it says in verse 13 and
Samuel said to Saul, you have done foolishly, you have not
kept the commandment of the Lord your God which he commanded you.
For the Lord. Would have established your
Kingdom over Israel forever, but now?
Your. Kingdom shall not continue
because He let time stop him. From finishing the difference
between a forever. Kingdom and it ends today was 3
seconds of time pressure that kept him from waiting until
Samuel got there to finish. Maybe just on the other side of
your standing firm but not still.
How do you stand Further but not still I stand.
Firm God I trust you. God I believe.
Your word God, I believe. Maybe sending your word to me.
God, you told me not to offer, so I'll not offer.
If it cost me my Kingdom, I'm going to be found standing in
faith. Haven't trusted you. 1st is me
creating my own solution, my own Kingdom, Thy Kingdom.
My Kingdom versus thy Kingdom. But now your Kingdom should not
continue. The Lord has sought out David, a
man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be
Prince and ruler over his people.
Because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.
It was so much bigger than just whether you offered sacrifice.
Is that you? Did you trust me for the nation?
Did you trust me that I was big enough and I cared enough and I
loved the nation enough to still answer even though in your view
time was running out? Faith that finishes does not
give in to time pressure. It resists time pressure, and
you have to resist it. If you are not actively
resisting time pressure, time is already putting pressure on your
faith. We live in an earth of time, so
time is always putting pressure on your faith.
So unless you are resisting it, it will eat away at your ability
to finish. You know who got that kind of
sense? Kids in the backyard.
This is my kid in the stands, right?
Yeah. Here I am.
I got the basketball. Betty, how many kids do this?
5. 4321 Boom. Championship.
What's a kid doing? He's telling time.
You better back off. Me, I'm practicing resisting
time pressure. Kids got enough sense and
delight to do that. They practice those moments.
How much more should we practice those moments?
Pick an opportunity to stand with the finishing fake stance
and resisting time. All those folks that want to be
married resist time pressure. All those folks that thought I'd
have it by now, resist time pressure.
All those folks that thought my ministry would be this
recipient, active and resisting time pressure.
How you do it, Praise, Thanksgiving, prayer, worship,
testimony of what God has done. That puts pressure on the
pressure. Another pop series.
Praise on your pressure. Anyway, A finishing faith
understands the nature of the race, so he can finish each
phase of the race. You have to understand the race
you're running, OK? You have to understand.
It because there's phases to the race and you not only have to
finish and if I finish each phase.
Then I will. Finish the race if I understand
the phases. And I'm focused on finishing
knows I will. Finish the course.
OK, so if I understand the nature of the race, so you can
finish each phase. Mark four says this.
The earth produces acting by itself.
First the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
See each of those stages, you got to finish each stage.
You got to have finishing phase for each stage, a finishing
phase says God, I don't want to leave this stage until we're
finished. So I'm not coming back once I'm
out, moving forward to the next place you have for me.
So God, I'd rather spend more time here finishing than seeking
to escape from it because I'm tired of doing the work,
finishing each phase in a Sprint.
We're in Olympics. See my French colors So, so my
wife said that's USA colors. No, it's not stripes.
There's no stripes. It's block colors.
That's the French flag anyway. So in 100m race there's faces.
There's the start phase, finish the start phase, get out of the
blocks well. Then there is the transition
phase. When you go from bowed over to
more of a upright position, when you begin to get your feet
underneath you a transition phase, then you got what you
call an acceleration phase or a top end phase.
OK, you got to know the different phases because what it
takes to finish in this phase is different than what it takes to
finish in that phase. In this phase you're starting
bowed over. In this phase you ought to be
upright. If you try to finish this phase
at the start upright, you will blow the phase and therefore
blow the race. How you to finish each phase can
change. Coaches will say things like
let's win the end of the quarter so we can have momentum going
into the next quarter. Let's win the end of the half so
we can have momentum coming out of the half time.
You have to understand the phases of your race.
You need revelation of that need God to speak to you about that.
So you can have a finishing faith for each phase because
what it takes to finish each phase we can differ.
We said a finishing faith fully commits with consistency.
One I want to really drive home because a finishing faith fully
commits to the word with consistency.
We're digging deeper here. Deuteronomy 6 says this and you
should love the Lord your God with all your.
Mind and heart and your entire being, and with all your might,
stop. Is that enough?
The scripture shows you that's not enough, otherwise I'd stop
there. But what does it say?
And these words which I'm commanding you shall be on your
minds and your hearts. You shall wet and sharpen.
Them so as to make them penetrate and teach and.
Impress them diligently. That's a full commitment with
consistency. Upon the minds and hearts of
your children. Why does he say you need to?
Teach these to your children because your children ain't
hypocrites, not that you are. Your children would say why, and
then you need to have an answer for why.
Children would challenge you. You would challenge the depth to
which you believe something. They would challenge your
understanding, your revelation about what you believe.
And when you get to the point of saying why, you say because I
said so. You've just set your children up
to fail. It's.
Better to say I don't know why it's all I have.
Then let us seek God together and see what He says to answer
the rest of your wives. That's a better position of
success. You shall and you shall talk of
them when you sit in your house and when you.
Walk, by the way. And when you lie down and when
you rise up. When you do your.
Word in the morning you miss him most.
Of the day, how much is the word of?
God on your lips. How much is the word of God in
your heart? God so wants us to be fully
committed to this word always. He gives us an example in
Abraham. Abraham's name.
Abraham's name was Abraham. He changed it to Abraham, which
means Father many nations. That means literally when
everybody saw Father many nations.
What's up? Every way he went, every part of
the day, when they called his name, they were given testimony
to God's promise. He was remembering the word that
God had. Given them Now imagine that when
your body is 79, no kid Abraham father many nations.
Body 80 no kid Abraham father many nations and all of that
keeps coming back to you. That's where he was able to have
the faith to stand and do what God needed him to do because he
committed himself to the word so much.
He made the word his name. You couldn't separate his
identity from the. Word.
If you want to know who I am, look at the word God gave me.
That's who I am. You commit to the Word with
consistency. In Psalm 138 it says this.
I will confess and praise You, O God, with my whole heart before
the gods. I will sing praises to you.
I will worship towards Your holy temple and praise Your name for
your loving kindness and for Your faithfulness.
For You have exalted above all else.
Your name and your word and you have magnified your word above
your name. This is what he's saying here.
God, you've demonstrated to me that your word is so, so
connected to your identity that for you to break your word would
mean for you to break you. That's how powerful God's word
is. That's that's why God, you can
commit to it. That's why the more you fully
commit to God's word with consistency, you wouldn't what
you're doing, You're not committing to a sentence, you're
not committing to a phrase. You're committing to a person
and a belief that he is everything that you're saying,
everything that you're studying. You're committed to identity of
your Father being good and being gracious and looking after you.
You're committed to it in such a way that no one can whip it out
of you, beat it out of you, shake it out of you.
You're committed to it in such a way that.
If you standing on the corner as a kid and and it's long past the
time for someone to pick you up. They say, do we need to take you
something? No, I'm standing here.
Why? Because my father's coming to
get me. How do you know?
Because it seems like the time has passed.
I'm not basing it on time. I'm basing it on my relationship
with him, on who he is. You will never leave me.
You will never forsake me. You will never abandoned me.
To be fully committed to the words, to be fully committed to
who God is, because God has put his identity in his Word.
And when you doubt the Word, you doubt him.
When you hold the word short, you hold him short.
When you believe the word don't work, you believe and then he
doesn't. And be watchful of those small
cheats. Most people in this room won't
say. I don't believe the word of God
doesn't. Work.
They was diluted down to 80%. They won't say God, no, you
won't do it. They'll say, well, God, I
believe you'll do it, but if you don't, but if you don't do it
all, I'll take this. You water it down.
That's like saying my daddy's faithful sometimes on a Tuesday
after six. Glory to God, you got to be
fully committed. A faith that finishes fully
commits to being discipled with consistency.
Everyone say being discipled. Mentorship is different than
discipleship. Most people come to church
wanting to get mentored or inspired.
What is the difference? Between mentorship and
discipleship, mentorship means I come to.
You to resource. Me from my agenda, mentor me and
how to do my business better, mentor me and how to accomplish
XYZ better. I set the agenda, identify who I
want to mentor me and I'm. There to get from them what I
need to become them or to accomplish my goal of my task.
OK, discipleship is I'm giving myself to you.
Leave me where you need to teach me.
Leave me where you need me to go.
I want to be the best ever. So teach me how to eat.
Teach me how to breathe. Let me partake of your life.
Let me see your thoughts. Let me submit to your
accountability. You have the right to speak into
my life in any way. And I present it to you for you
to do that. That's discipleship.
It's not about my agenda, it's about what you see and your
ability to bring God's best out of me, not based on what I know,
what I want. I don't want my timetable.
Are you committed to being disciple or do you want managed
mentorship? Do you want bucks?
Do you want better lifestyle? Do you want stuff?
From the Kingdom. You have to ask yourself, how
can you keep coming to church and not wanting to be disciple?
What kind of transactional relationship is that?
No, all I need is what I is, is that little message I get.
All I need is that I don't need relationship.
When you fall, who's going to pick you up?
Who's going to teach you how to get up?
When you fall, when nobody's around, discipleship is come and
follow me, come and live with me, come and walk with me.
The power of discipleship is that it multiplies your
effectiveness in your call. Elijah said to Elijah, I'm
getting ready, you know the part, what you want.
He said this. I think, I believe he said it
this. What do you want from me while I
am still with you, you won't always have time and opportunity
to be disciple by some people. Take advantage of it.
He said I want a double portion of what you got.
Double faith, double prayer, double power, double anointing.
I want a double portion of what you got.
Elijah said, OK, cool. Now notice God.
He doesn't say. God told Elijah to say this, but
this is the relationship. He said, all right, Elijah, this
is what you do. If you see me caught up, see me
leave. It was time to go.
You'll get a double portion. Elijah said, OK, cool.
Next day, I'm paraphrasing to kind of shorten it.
Next day Elijah says, hey Elijah, why don't you go give me
a sandwich, OK. Mentorship says no problem, I
get your sandwich, you come back.
Discipleship says I'm not leaving your side.
Either we go get the sandwich together or we just eat what we
got. I'm not going to leave your
proximity. I'm not going to leave your
life, I'm not going to leave your side.
That's discipleship. And when Elijah got caught up,
he cut and Elijah gave him a couple times to leave and every
time he said, no, I'll not leave.
And Elijah did get caught up and then his cloak for his mantle
fail and he grabbed a hold of it and he said, take me to the God
of Elijah, let me serve him. And he did twice the anointing.
Discipleship increases your capacity geometrically.
It multiplies your effectiveness and your ability.
Mentorship only gets you information.
Discipleship gets you. Impartation gets you.
Activation gets you a sense of the purpose and the call of God.
That's why if they say athletes, they call them dogs.
Folks that have grit. And determination on how to
finish. That's why players want to play
with dogs. Why?
Because I get something about a dog in me when I play with you.
I get a. Determination.
I get the subtleties of the game and how to fight and how to win.
I get the mindset. I watch what you say.
Watch what you eat. Watch how you practice.
Watch how you recover. Watch how you rest.
Watch how you say no. If you ask.
Me to mentor you. You will never ask me, but I'll
never. Many times you want to be as
concerned about my nose as my yeses.
You're trying to get a yes? From me, not how I say my nose.
And sometimes my nose have more to do with my outcome than my
yeses. Do If you serve one God, that
means you're going to. Be saying no to more things that
you say yes to. Mentorship is different than
discipleship should be that van. And then I want to go to one
other component to kind of go a little deeper on this.
This is the finishing faith. Probably look this way.
Yeah, there we go. A finishing faith knows how to
increase momentum because a finishing faith faces facts.
You increase momentum by facing facts, the good and the bad.
OK, then this is really important.
And the story from there in Romans says Abraham faced the
fact his body was dead and his wife's body was dead.
But he didn't. Give in to doubt, unbelief.
He continued to worship God and then through that worship His.
His faith was. Proven.
And he finished. OK, it was proven that he
finished. Got it.
So he faced the facts. Of his body not being dead.
OK, that's the bad part. A finishing faith is not afraid
of facts. If you're down 20, a finishing
face is we down 20. OK, let's get it down 15, then
let's get it down 10, Then let's get it down 5, then let's get a
stop. And before you know, we'll be
back in this game. A finishing faith is not afraid
of facing facts. And too often you want to duck
facts because you frayed, because you started in fear.
That's why you can't finish now. You started depending on no
resistance. That's why you're not finishing
now. That's why God had the people
don't know how to fight in the desert, because if you don't
know how to fight to get in, you don't get kicked off of it once
you get there. And at that point, generations
are going to be in line. Generations are going to lose
their inheritance if you don't know how to fight to keep it.
So, so to increase momentum, it's a few slides down.
It's a new slide. It says this.
You have to face facts, the good and the bad.
Why do you have to face the good facts?
Because that's the responsibility.
Many time we don't understand the responsibility of walking in
the fullness of God. We don't ascend the
responsibility of finishing. Solomon was called to finish the
temple. David gathered the resources and
God said David, you're not going to build it, your son going to
have. To build it Solomon was called
to finish the temple to finish the faith OK, but he understood
there's more than went with that there was a responsibility to
steward well because people's lives are on the line that's I
need to know how to face the facts of steward in great
abundance, not just face the facts of problems.
God, you're going to bless us and increase us.
The fact is that we only have 5 so God, how are you going to
expand our reach activate more people.
How are we going to do that? Because we're not going to have
any. May any be lost, God.
Now sometimes when you face the facts that way, a finishing
faith will have you give and not keep God.
I only have room for 100 lbs of fish and you're going to sit and
I believe you're going to send me £200.
God, what do I do? We'll catch the 100 and give it
away, then go get the other hundred.
Now you got room for the 100. You catch you.
Oh, oh, what does that mean? That means I'm the mindset.
I'm losing. I'm losing.
I'm losing out, right? A finishing faith says, listen,
I don't ever lose. All I do is sew.
I can't. You can't steal.
From me, man. Why?
Because what you would have stolen, I'm declaring.
I'm going to sew it to you anyway.
You know I would have. I sold this car to you at $5000
less. That's all right.
I just sold a $5000 profit into your life.
I'm getting the harvest of profit coming back to me.
You can't steal from me because I'm a sore.
A finishing face says it's impossible for me to lose
because I sold what I intentionally do.
I sold what I don't have. Pastor Julia came up here.
She had a great job. She didn't quit a job, didn't
leave a job. She sold her job, SOWED.
She sold her job and she's reaping harvest from it even
right now. A finishing faith faces the good
parts as well as the bad parts, and it's not selfish about the
good parts. We understand God's not enough
for you to increase us if we fail to do it to increase
properly. So the facts is we're going to
need more room. How are we going to do that?
The facts is we're going to need this God, it seems, or will we?
A finishing faith faces all of the facts, the good and the bad.
And then at the end of the day. Above all else.
A finishing faith finishes. A finishing faith does not
almost finish. A finishing faith does not get
close. A finishing faith doesn't say,
man, I've come so. Far.
Man, wow, I can just live on that.
Finishing faith is not satisfied until you break the tape and you
won't get through the finish. Matter of fact, I told you about
sprinters. One of the things they teach
sprinters how to do is how to finish.
OK. What they tell you as a sprinter
is you don't want to lean into the tape this way because now
you throw your mechanics off and you actually slow down.
What they tell you is. You run through the tape, you
don't slow. Down to after you've crossed the
finish line, pause finishing faith, runs across the finish
line, doesn't crawl across the finish line, doesn't roll up to
the finish line. Now I'm not saying you can't
have victory crawling and rolling.
I get that. But what I'm saying is, God
wants you to. Have the kind of faith that says
I will get stronger at the end. I will be bold at the.
End. I will be bold and going out
then I it was when I started. I'll leave more behind me than
all of that was gathered to me together.
The Bible says this about Samson.
So he went through all the stuff he went through Samson strong
man of God, left God, got into sin, but God never left him, got
blinded through a relationship with Delilah, but God never left
him and in his face of greatest need he came to a place of
repentance. He was raised up to overcome the
people that were terrorizing the people of God.
But he didn't had a character to walk fullness in the call.
He had a call, but no finishing character, no finishing faith.
In the midst of that part, he said God.
I got one more opportunity and they put them up between the
temple pillars and he said God one more time and he destroyed
the temple and then with it he destroyed more of the enemy in
his finishing move than he did. In all of his life together.
Finishing Faith finishes strong until the end, leaving a
testimony of greater things, not lesser things.
You have to decide to have a Finishing Faith worship team you
can come on up. You have to decide to have a
Finishing Faith before you start.
You will never finish that strong unless you start to
decide to start that strong. The thing about starting that
strong is you may have to break it down.
I used to bench press more than £300 but I want to finish my
race now so I go to a trainer, Matt Big Dog.
I go to a trainer and he tells me all your joints are
compromised, your mobility is compromised, so you got to start
with a broomstick. I used to bench press 325 lbs.
Like I start with broomstick, brother.
If you want to finish your life strong, sometimes you got to go
back and recreate and rebuild and restructure and renew
because that's not a weakening phase.
That's a decision to finish because I decide to finish my
race. I said bring on the broomstick,
baby. Let's start, resident.
Trying to move to the side and show you what I could do,
Father. I was going to pray.
Father, we thank you for this moment that we're finishers,
We're finishers, we're finishers.
You're making us a nation of finishers, a generation of
finishers. A place of finishers, Father.
So much so that when the world cries out, go find meet someone
who can finish. They're going to say, go to Lord
quest and you'll find one. We thank you God, that we have a
finishing faith and ability to accomplish all that you've asked
us to accomplish. We thank you, Lord God, for what
you're doing and are you imparting this in us and threw
us in these moments in this time.
And we thank you, God, that you are finisher and you're our
Father and we take after you in every way, including our ability
to finish. So whatever happens, we finish,
tragedy comes, we finish, trial comes, we finish, God, whatever
comes, we finish. Prosperity comes, we still
finish. We finish, we finish, We finish.
We finish. We finish.
We finish, We finish, We finish.
We finish for our generation, We finish for our family, We finish
for the the Kingdom, we finish for Wally, we finish for our
passes. We finish.
Yeah, we finish in Jesus name. Thank you so much for tuning
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