Hallelujah. Well, the Bible says, in first
John chapter 5. First John chapter 5 starting in
verse 13, says, these things I have written to you.
Who believe, in the name of the son of God, that you may know
that you have eternal life. Amen.
You can know it. Then he goes, in verse 14, he
says this is the confidence. Say this is the confidence.
This is the confidence, which we have have before him that if we
ask anything, According to his will that's a conditional
statement. You cannot ask him anything, you
can ask him something that's not according to his will.
So the requirement here in order for you to have confidence is
that you're asking him something, but not just asking
him anything, you're asking it in accordance to his will.
So, if we ask anything according to his, will, he what what's he
do? What's he do?
And often, you know, we'll find ourselves saying this often all
of us are, you know, have probably said this at some point
in time in our life where we said, God are you hearing me?
It's like God's not even listening to me.
It's like, he can't even hear me.
I'm talking to him. But, you know, as even hear what
I'm saying, well, I'm telling you, if you're asking him
according to his will, then he hears you now he's not obligated
to answer you to let you know. Oh yeah, I heard that actually.
He's already answered it from his scripture, so you
understand. He don't have to say so that you
hear him in your spirit man, or give you an audible voice to
say, Hey, I just heard you because you prayed, thanks for
praying to He's not obligated. He's already given his word that
if you ask me anything according to my will I hear you.
Are you with me? I hear you.
So when I go to prayer, I'm always conscientious.
Okay? A Michaels guys, I've gone to
prayer sometimes and I feel like saying something I feel like it
but I know if I say that, God's not going to hear it because all
of a sudden the Holy Ghost will give me a scripture and I'll
know how I just can't say that I'll find myself praying to the
Lord saying I'm father, you know, and I'm talking this and
I'm Play in this, and I know that and I say, okay yeah, I
know, cuz I know your word says and I'll have to go to that.
And I've even said I know, I'm just running off at the mouth
and you're not hearing any of that.
Let me get to what? I know you here.
I'm the only one who I guess. I'm the only way to Tulsa, God,
I guess. I mean, I'm talking to the Lord,
and I know when I'm saying stuff that he's not hearing because
the Bible tells us, he hears this, what does he hear?
hear anything we ask according to his will, so if I want God's
undivided attention, then all I have to do is speak what he will
hear and it's his will are you with me?
So this is the confidence which we have before him.
So again, if you're in a place where you'd like mayonnaise God,
listening to me, all you got to do is examine, what are you
saying? What are you asking?
Because if you're not asking for that, which is God's will, then
the chances are that point. The chances are 100%.
That he's not listening to that. Now, what he will do is he will
give you instruction on what to say Okay, they're saying
something but I'm not connecting because it's not, my will.
So let me get them something to say so we can have a
conversation. Are you with me?
Let's go on. So we know, he hears us verse 15
and if we know that he hears Us in whatever we ask now, it's not
a whatever, not a whatever you want, it's whatever he is,
according to his will. Well, Lord.
Now I just want to have a whole month off.
Well, is it God's will for you to have a whole month off?
Are you with me? You know?
Lord, I want to have this. This this is that God's will
because you can ask God for anything.
But the only thing you have confidence that he's hearing is
the things that are in line with his will, Hallelujah.
You could be a single person. Let's take Chelsea stand up.
Chelsea, Chelsea is over here singer.
She can be saying God, I want that guy to be my husband but
he's lost. He doesn't even know.
Jesus Christ. As his Lord, he's living in the
world and the Lord can't Of that prayer because the Lord's was
says, literally do not be unequally yoked with
unbelievers. So the Lord is not going to
answer, but the devil would say, I can accommodate that Chelsea.
I'll bring that guy right by your path.
I'll bring that guy and he'll, he'll he'll wine you.
Hildine, you he'll seduce you. He'll get you to where you can
say. I do so that he can thwart the
plan of God for your life. Are you with me?
Thank you, Chelsea and be seated.
So we have to understand that God hears us when we pray
according to his will I'm always amazed when I get into certain
places. I say amazing, I'm not shocked.
It's just like I guess it's that moment where I'm like, you know,
kind of like man where you get around people say, hey will you
pray and they're lying. No.
Why that it's a number one indication they don't know how?
That they are not habitual enough in a prayer life with God
that they can pray. See, if you come on Wednesday
morning, your subject that I might say, hey, close in prayer.
I don't always close in prayer. So come get ready to pray, I get
around people, my wife's been around these, they come up,
Monica my wife spree can pray. My wife has an anointing in this
area prayer and God uses her in this capacity.
And people come under say, oh man, I pray pray, but they never
show up at prayer. Ever.
They never come to any corporate prayer, which me butts tells me
most likely their private prayer is a miss.
Is a Miss. In fact, James says, you have
not because you ask not, but the problem is you're asking and you
ask the Bible says you ask amiss, meaning you ask me only
for things for your own personal pleasures and desires.
Well, when you ask for a selfish ambition, God's not listening to
that. The devil will listen to that
and accommodated You don't want to hear.
Will the devil answer your prayers?
Yes, every prayer that's outside of God's will he wants to answer
you so that you'll think God Did It For You.
Because he'll give you the world at the expense of your soul.
Well, I got it, I asked for it, you know, there's things in the
spirit realm, though, word to try to get things to pull you
out of God's plan and purpose for your life.
Amen! All I got to do is go to
scripture and I'm going to find out whether or not I'm straight.
I'm in alignment. I'm doing exactly what God needs
me to do. Are you with me?
So again, if we know he hears us and whatever we ask and we know
that whatever's tied to verse 4, in the whatever is anything we
ask according to his will we know that we have The request
which we have asked from him. When do we have it?
When do we have it?
At the moment we asked, Hallelujah, come on, say, Amen.
We have it, the moment we ask now turn over to Mark chapter
11, Mark chapter 11 Mark, chapter 11, we've seen this
passage of scripture. Jesus said this, when he was
teaching a particular Moment In Time, concerning the subject of
faith. And he said, this in verse 22,
he said have faith And God. One translation says, have the
god kind of Faith verse 23. Truly, I say to you, whoever
says, to this mountain be taken up cast into the sea and does
not doubt in his heart. But but, but believes that what
he says is going to happen, it will be granted him or he'll
have what he says. One translation says, then verse
30 24, therefore I say to you, Jesus is talking all things for
which you pray and ask now what What are the things you're
praying asking? They're not, whatever you decide
to pray is the prayer of cording to his will see.
This is how context gets involved because if we don't
watch out, we read scriptures because Jesus another time says,
you not ask anything of the father in my name but whatever
you ask, the father in my name, he will give it to you.
Now, he'll only give you what's in alignment in accordance to
his will. You cannot ask God for somebody
else's spouse. Can't happen.
You can't ask God for somebody else's Ministry.
You can't ask God for somebody else's house.
I mean cuz the you got covetousness involved there, you
know, you got lust, involves certain in places, there are you
with me. So those prayers are not in
accordance to his will but the devil will accommodate trying to
bring something by to keep you deceive.
That God is answering you. How do we know we're here?
We're praying God's prayer is in alignment with his will, and if
you're not in his word, then you will not know his will.
And if you do not know his will, you will not be able to pray.
The prayers that God ordained for you, to pray to bring his
kingdom to to pass through your lives.
Now, I understand right here at this point because I just heard
it in the spirit. I just heard somebody say well,
but I mean, I've prayed prayers before and God's answer them and
they were good. You What God answers?
Tom's to just show you his goodness but won't let you
remain there in order to continue to navigate your life
that way. God healed people, that weren't
even born again, but let them know.
I love you and this is what I want for you.
When he healed the man at the pool of Bethesda.
He was letting him know. I want you whole but then later
found him and says now, listen, don't you go sin anymore.
Something worse to get on you. That doesn't mean he could go
sin some worse. Come on.
And then turn around. Say God, heal me now Gods like
grow up. There's things we do for our
children when their babes but it becomes unacceptable later on.
Come on. Are you with me?
There's a process of growth that we are to grow from Faith to
Faith, glory to glory, and if we don't watch out the minute, God
answers us, when we are an infant, we want to apply infant
Faith, too, mature to Tom that we're supposed to be mature.
And the Lord saying, I don't do that for you anymore.
Come on. How many you have children that
are five years old and older. Great awesome.
How many you still clean their bottoms when they go to the
bathroom? I mean, there comes a season.
It's over, right? I mean your teenager ain't going
to call you say, mom, what's up? Can you come white me?
You know, the proverbial. They grab your knees, you know.
While they're on the toilet, right?
No, you're like, nah, you're old enough now.
Does that mean you don't love them?
Oh, does that mean you don't love them, you can't expect them
to do something you to do something for them.
That you've trained them, how to do themselves.
And God has given us his whole word, left it in the planet that
we can pick up and read. And then put himself inside us
to cause all these truths to come alive.
So that we can live the most successful, we can as Believers
in the earth, and we want God to do it without not taking the
responsibility to read. And to know, when to grow, My
faith can help you along for a season.
Because I'm showing you, God loves you.
He cares for you, I can lay hands on you and you can be
healed. They'll come a point though that
God says get the healing yourself.
Because now you're at a capacity that if you would have kept
growing and going, I can pay for your bills for season to show
you. God wants to provide for you,
but they'll come a time that God says star sowing into this
Kingdom, so you can start reaping.
Hallelujah. You know, our children, I
understand when they were born, they didn't know how to
articulate their words. So what do they do when they
need something? What did they do?
They Cry. Wow.
That's how they do it. Why, but you come there comes a
point that Y is unacceptable response.
Right? I'm not going to have the
teenager. Come on, get way.
What are you doing? What do we say?
We tell Harvey PK students. Use your speaking words right
now. Use your little words, talk to
me. What do you want?
Don't cry. Cuz I don't even hear that.
I think I mind. My daughter is VPK, I don't even
hear that right now Shield to, I don't even hear that speak to
me, I don't hear that. Why?
Because if you're a baby, I'll put you in, with the infants.
Hey man, we want them to articulate.
What do you need? Ask well God's the same way when
you're a baby you know he's here and you just cry out to him
anyway. But once he starts to grow you,
he expects you to start using your words, because look what he
said, he said this, he said have faith in God.
Truly I. So let's put it this way.
Jesus says to April, Jesus says to Marcus.
Jesus says to Brad. Dulli Jesus says to Vicki.
Jesus says so you implant you. Jesus says to you whatever, says
to you, whoever and whoever us says to the mountain, not Jesus
saying you're saying be taking them cats in this and does not
doubt in his heart, God doesn't doubt, God doesn't have doubt in
him, God's not the one who has a doubt problem.
God only believes in fact, Jesus, when he was going to
gyrus his house after they came to him and says, hey man, your
daughters died. Leave the teacher alone.
He said, look at your eyes. He said, only believe.
These circumstances don't move me or move my word from being
ineffective because my words going to come to pass, it's
going to do exactly. I said, I'd come, I said I'd
healer is that way. In that what Jesus told jar has?
I'll come and healer doesn't matter.
She slipped off doesn't matter that her body has quit.
The her pulse is quit pumping in her.
Her lungs have quit breathing doesn't matter cuz the gods word
goes everywhere. But there comes a responsibility
that we have to, but he who believes what he says, that's
what I say. That's what you say is going to
happen. It will be granted to you.
Therefore I say to you saying to you, Jesus says to you all
things will Rich. Who praise you?
Pray? and ask believe that you who you
have received them past tense, And they will be granted you,
Hallelujah. So when we have confidence, that
we know God's word, amen. Let's quit, treating God as a
mystery. Let's do what he says and
actually seek his kingdom and discover him.
God has not hiding from you. He's not hiding from you.
If you listen to certain things, you think that God is so
elusive. The minute you think you got it?
He jumps around like a man. No God wants you to be with him.
He wants to talk with you. He wants to carry on a
conversation with you. He wants to reveal his truth to
you. Jesus said there's many more
things I'd like to say to you but you're not able to receive
but when he comes now, he's going to reveal some things and
if you will seek me and diligently seek me in abide in
me, then he's going to reveal to you, he's gonna teach you all
things, he's gonna you're gonna do he'll guide you in all truth.
He'll call. Things that come to your
remembrance can heal disclose things to come.
That doesn't mean the Holy Ghost will hide from you?
The Holy Ghost will say oh you thought you caught me here?
All you think, you know that truth?
No I'm not gonna tell you, I'll just jump over here because I
need you to come and catch. Me know the Holy Ghost abides in
you. He's like come on, can we have a
conversation? So I can reveal the will of our
father so you can bring it to pass in the planet.
God. So much wants his kingdom to
come. His will to be done on Earth as
it is in heaven. Well, God's in control, God gave
you control? Because he gave you Authority.
He gave you Dominion. He gave you the right to be sons
of God and to live by faith. Amen.
Now what is faith? Well, the Bible tells us in
Hebrews 11:1 now, Faith is the substance of things hoped for
the evidence of Things Not Seen, how do we acquire faith?
Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God,
according to Romans 10:17. So we acquire Faith by hearing
God's word, Well, what's so significant about?
God's word? God's word never fails.
What did Isaiah say about God's word?
In Isaiah chapter. 46 verses 10 and 11.
The Lord says this declaring the end from the beginning and from
ancient times things which have not been done saying my purpose,
say my purpose, that's his purpose, not your purpose, but
his purpose, whose purpose, the Lord's purpose, my purpose will
be established. And I will the Lord speaking
accomplish all my good pleasure, then we get the verse 11,
calling the bird of prey from the East.
And a man of my purpose from a far country.
Truly I have spoken, truly, I will bring it to pass, I have
planned it. Surely, I will do it.
The Lord is not a man that he should lie.
Yet if we don't watch out, we could have conversations with
people who confess Jesus Christ as their Savior and they would
make God out to be a liar. As if he said something he
didn't do it. So he changed his mind and said
she changed his mind concerning that it's not his will for their
lives and they're an exception to the rule even though his word
says something, totally different.
God is not a man that he should lie.
What he says he'll do, and why is this so significant?
Because he's the king. He has all authority.
All authority. I said, all authority has been
given Jesus in heaven and on Earth, and Paul fur went a
little further and said he had all authority in Heaven and
Earth, and under the Earth. There's not a place that his
authority doesn't Rule and reign in exist.
And then Jesus said, I'll give you my word.
Now, Jesus is word is not like a man's word who can change his
mind and not do it. Be a liar, swindler a cheat.
God, can't lie. So if the Lord said, this is how
it is. The only reason it would not
manifest in your life is because you choose not to believe it.
You choose to not be firmly persuaded that.
The plan God has for me, we'll come.
In fact, you thwart that plan, you stop it.
The Lord said I sent my word to heal them.
He said, when I send my word it will I did not send it to be
void but it shall accomplish that which it was sent to do.
Hey men and whatever it is goddess on.
For you desired for you to do, had his plan and purpose before
the foundations of the earth, before you even in your mother's
womb, that plan is still in effect and it's your
responsibility to discover it. Your responsibility to discover
it. So what we've seen so far is
that in first John chapter 5 that we can have confidence in
our prayers, when we ask according to his will his
purpose. And we know when we're doing
that, he hears us. He hears us every time.
Not only do we know he hears us but we have it.
And as ours at the time, we pray, according to Mark chapter
11, when we believe would no doubt in our heart calls, doubt
will hinder the plan of God to come to pass.
Not because God can't do it, but because you won't allow him to
do it through you, through your unbelief.
And most of the time unbelief are doubt, is associated with
how you view yourself. When you identify yourself with
someone who can't instead of identifying yourself with who
you are now in Christ, you will not be able to accomplish if you
keep identifying yourself. As this rotten individual that
needed saving. Well you were a rotten
individual that needed saving but once you're saved you're not
writing anymore, you're not that person anymore.
So you need to quit thinking like that person.
You're a new creature in Christ. You're a Believer.
You're a Of God and God does not have junk kids.
Well, you know, that's that's, you know, you know, the little
terminologies we used to say, you know, they're kind of the
outcasts of the family, you know.
They're, they're not the, you know, the run at a family.
Those those types of little derogatory words that people
grab their own little labels and say they're this is who I am,
I'm not like every like, you know, No, you're a child of God.
So identify yourself. They're the only reason why a
generation from twenty years old and upward in the nation of
Israel, did not make the promised land is because they
identified themselves as slaves instead of seeing themselves as
a delivered, people free from the bondage.
How do I know they still saw themselves as slaves because
when they went into the promised land aspire?
Out and actually saw the evidence of God's word cuz they
said it is just. As God has said, it is truly a
land flowing with milk and honey, up to this point, they
don't even know if that's true. Till they saw it.
Even though they saw him work miracles.
Saw how he routed the Egyptians saw.
Their enemy literally die. In the Red Sea.
So it all with their eyes. And now they go into here and
they see that it's just as God said, but what else did they
see? God didn't tell him about the
other things. They would see because they were
irrelevant to God. It's irrelevant to God because
God had given them a word prior to its a land flowing with milk
and honey. What did he give them before?
He said, I have given you the land, which means it's done.
So who's ever? There can't stay.
But what did they do? They view themselves as slaves.
When they saw giants, they didn't see themselves as
conquerors. They saw them as ones that are
submitted to those types of people.
And they came back with a testimony, we can't do it for.
We are like Grasshoppers and because they didn't identify
with the Covenant, God, they had doubt unbelief.
They say they hardened their And they died in the wilderness and
never accomplished God's Destiny for their life.
They wandered. Mama.
It's amazing. What?
One day a do? You hear what I'm saying?
We're not going. We can't do it.
They come back and say fun. Moses got the Lord says you're
right. You're not since you're going to
be like this, everybody, 20 and older, you're gonna die out here
and he's going to take your kids in what they do the next day.
Okay, we're gonna go. We going.
Now we going and what did Moses say?
He ain't widget. You're not going but they went
anyway. And what happened?
People died? People died.
So you can't hear was God's will yesterday.
But because you refused to identify with that God, if
yesterday, the god of today, says we going to have to wait
now. And now you're gonna take it in,
you don't see you, they were taking it in their own hands
when they didn't believe because they were Grasshoppers and they
did the same action. Took it in their own hands.
Now, we'll go, well, you can't go without the Lord.
Our life must be planned by God and we must walk out his steps
for our lives. Now why is this significant?
Because we talking about believing God at his word and we
know everyone can say, this my gosh, aren't you convinced that
God will do what he says? I mean, I bet I could go through
and do a personal interview with every one of you and the
majority of you would say, yes, yes, saying that and living that
are two entirely. Different things.
So today I want to encourage you and help strengthen you because
sometimes we misunderstand what God is saying and in doing.
So we apply things in areas that do not work for that word.
Faith comes by what hearing and hearing from the word of God.
Number one, you can't even begin to have access to Faith.
If you're not in his word to here, period can happen.
Number two, you can't have faith even if you come to a church
where there's the preaching of the word, if the preaching of
the word is not rightly divided. That's why I say don't believe
what I say. That's why I have this whole
congregation every year. I challenged them read the Bible
and we have Bible reading plans from Genesis to Revelation.
Let's read the word together. That's why I require our staff
that we pay here at the church to read the Bible and I check it
every year. And those who are in our Elevate
supportive Ministries, no matter where they're at in Ministry
coming. We say if you're going to be a
part of the team, you're going to have to read the word because
You're not helping anyone. If the word is not in you
because there's a spiritual law of principle of the Kingdom.
That's in place, what's in? You is what you, what you have
is, what you'll give. That's why Peter said silver and
going to have none. Not that he didn't possess
silver and gold. He just didn't have any on him.
Just like, I don't have any money on me right now.
I don't have any cash to give you nine pull a card out, but it
ain't gonna do you any good if you can't scan it, right?
Okay, so I could go by say silver and gold.
I have none. But what I do have so What you
have is what you give and you can't give something you don't
have. So if the words not in you, you
can't give the word. if the war is not rightly divided coming
out of you, then you'll give a not rightly divided word You'll
make an excuse well. Now, in this case, you know, his
ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts are higher than
us. So, we, you know, we just really
can't explain don't say that. Discover something find out
what's going on. Amen.
So people here and you have to here and you must study for
yourself so that it becomes a part of who you are because I
know where my firm persuasion is but I don't always know where
yours is. And I know if my faiths attacked
your face attacked. I know if what I'm believing had
manifested yet and I'm getting false said it won't.
Then you're getting false too. Amen.
But we must then see how Faith Works because Faith does work
that manifest because Faith won't stay faithful forever.
What I mean by that is now if the definition of faith, we say
this. Now, Faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of Things Not Seen.
Hope means a confident expectation, which means I'm
confident that it is. And why are you confident?
Because you're saying what God's word is, you have no confidence.
If you're asking God and you don't even know, there's no,
When our Lord, if you are, there's not confidence there.
God has to give you an answer to get you confidence.
This is what happened with the man that was healed with Leprosy
said Lord if you're willing there's no confidence so the
Lord has to give him confidence. I am He gave his word on.
I am touched him. He was healed.
Now, that was without that man's Faith, because he wasn't
believing, he wasn't even sure but God lets him know, my will
is to heal. Then others that came with an
expectation. If I just touch him, I'll be
healed. Just speak the word only and my
servant will be healed. God called those two
individuals, the woman with the issue of blood in the Centurion
had great faith. Why?
Because what I said is settled, I've spoken it, will surely
bring it to pass. They believe it and it happened.
I said it happened now. They believed and were acting
before it ever manifested the woman with the issue of blood.
She's saying, I believe that if I just touch him, which means
she left her house to go, get to Jesus.
Most people want Jesus to come to the house.
Nobody wants to do their part and seeking.
Yeah. Jesus says, listen.
There's things about me, but you got to come to it.
See, listen, when you are lost. This is what we get wrong, guys.
When you're lost, you can't go to God.
The Bible's very clear. What's the scripture say?
No man goes after God, no, not one.
You don't go after God. Don't do it.
The only way you're born again because the Holy Spirit went and
found you and Drew you to Christ sent a labor by your F began to
speak to you about some things begin to talk to you about stuff
and then Eustace I did. But then the minute you leave
the domain of darkness and you get over here into the kingdom
of his beloved Son. God, quits pursuing.
He says, then draw near to me and I'll draw near to you
because I don't have to pursue, you know, more you're in the
house. I put my love in.
You, you should be so overwhelmed by my love and the
Forgiveness that I just applied in your life and the new nature.
You are, you want to come and run to me?
Worship me fall at my feet, 14 and talk.
And sup with me and spend time with me, that is the attitude of
the believer. Come on God.
A real person who's truly committed to God, man.
When they first get born again. I mean, true conversion, truly
have been different. It's you can't keep him out of
church. I'm Different.
I got to be there. I get concerned when people come
down and pray and then they don't show up for weeks on end.
Unfortunately most of them trying to receive Jesus, just so
when they die, they don't go to hell, that's not what God
intended. He wanted you to have life.
Now life more abundantly and for you to walk in the fullness of
God today. So we then understand that we
have to pursue God. So, we have to hear.
We have to subject ourselves to the word.
We set up underneath the fivefold ministry that God
placed in the church body so that it can help raise us up.
Equip us so that we won't be carried by every wind and Doctor
thrown around. We can actually rightly divide
the word of Truth and actually build the body up to itself in
love. So in simplicity, Faith comes by
hearing that's God's word. The minute you hear God's word,
that's God's will when you pray God's will, you can have
confidence that whatever you ask according to that will it will
happen and it happens the minute you prayed in the spirit by
faith. The question is when will it
manifest And that's the proverbial question because now
Faith is now. Faith is the substance of things
hoped for that means confident expectation.
I'm confident because I know God's word, the substance of
things, you know, the evidence of Things Not Seen.
Faith is when we believe God's word, even though we don't see
it, Let's go. See, Jesus was in faith.
When he said on the third day, I'll be raised up.
Well hand him died yet, but he's confessing believing that.
What God said about him would happen, man?
When he's in the garden, praising, the Lord.
If there's any other way for this to happen, let this cup
pass yet. Not my will, your will be done
because I'm sold out to your purpose because the only plan
that's going to work as yours. He says that's the only plan,
there is no plan B son. you going to the Cross, you have to
shed your blood for all Humanity because there's power in the
blood I said there's power in the blood and so Jesus, humbled
himself to obedience to death on the cross, but while he was
there, he knew in faith. I'll be back on the third day
and he spoke this out. Now, the day he rose, he was no
longer in faith for Resurrection because he was there.
It's manifested the minute it manifests.
You're not in faith anymore because you have it.
Faith is why you're buff. Definitely believing it is as it
is. Until it manifests.
The best way I can describe, this is like if you order
something online from Amazon, Okay, you go Click.
Put it in your little cart right and you pay you cash.
Are you with me the minute you do that?
Then they say, okay, they give you like maybe a little tracking
number something for your stuff. You now because you've given it
at shipping, you are what firmly persuaded that.
You've paid the price. That even though you don't see
it, you suck, you saw it. Just like the word.
This is my digital word copy. Got a lot of translations here,
you can look at that thing and oh I see it.
And so now you make payment, well what's the payment?
The blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus made payment for that.
So okay, you click. Now I'm a drag that over here.
Put it in my little box clean. I got it.
Now every day I'm expecting depending on how big it is.
I recently ordered something for my truck and I was out of town
and I said, Gary, they say according to their word that my
stuff will be there on Thursday. I need you to get it.
So, I mean, confident and did it arrive on Thursday, just, as
they said, it did not fail, to come to pass I was convinced.
I would have it and he I said and he took a picture and there
it is. Then I have this other one that
I ordered paid for it. Paid for it.
And he came here date range. A date range.
Now I have this expectation between this date and this date.
Hallelujah. So I would be back between that.
So I didn't tell Gary, hey I said now I've ordered I don't
think that want to come in, you know, but obviously this one to
be here. So you need to make sure you go
home and get it in the house, okay.
Get in the house. Don't need nobody coming up on
my doorstep, taking my stuff. I don't need the devil to come.
Steal kill and destroy. It's mine.
All right, we've paid the price for it.
Well, when I got back home, the the other thing I ordered was
sitting there on the front porch, how I rejoiced now, what
came earlier than I expected, why?
Because God is exceedingly, abundantly far beyond while I
can think, and imagine sometimes I'm asking but yet, then he
overwhelms me and does something bigger than I even ask because
he's just a good god, like that. But he didn't bring me it
something, or the abundance of without me first asking,
according to his will, My point is every day, I knew I was in
faith, but the minute is on the door, I'm not believing anymore
cuz I have it, it's in my possession.
There it is. I'm not waiting tomorrow
believing God for the things I've ordered there at my house.
I'm not in faith for them. I have them.
Are you with me? What happens in this walk of
faith, is that sometimes people, Miss appropriate.
God's word and the expectation of how your faith works.
Again, according to Mark 11, it says, we believe we receive and
any and, and the man that had leprosy in Matthew 8 is said
Jesus touches hand and immediately.
It said the Centurion said, just speak the word only and my
servant be healed at says, at that same hour, the servant was
healed yet. There's this other passage of
scripture concerning faith, that can throw a wrench in the whole
constant context is found in Matthew.
Hebrews chapter 6, starting in verse 10 says for God is Not
unjust. So as to forget your work, James
said this, you tell me you have faith without works.
Basic, he says, ha. I'm going to demonstrate my
faith by works. Meaning I'm going to act on the
word. I acted on the word.
That I received from the website that said, my package would be
there on a certain day. You know what, my action was, I
prepared someone to receive it. Well I sure hope against in the
house I hope they just did take my money.
I don't know if I'll get it. I'm really worried that it won't
show up. I'm just so worried.
I actually, on my last thing that I ordered I had a little
issue ordered it. Okay.
It was a set of mats and running boards and so ordered.
It says, your order is complete great.
Well, then I went to my email and my credit card, said, fraud
department, Did you do this particular purchase?
Because I've never used that card for that website.
So basically they were trying to safeguard means somebody take my
number right? So it gave me an option,
everything's okay. I didn't do it or something's
wrong with what it said? Something's wrong.
So I could hit something's wrong but I said everything's okay.
Well, my car to says pending And I did not get a confirmation
email from the website because I used a separate car to do
another order. And I got a confirmation for
those items in my confirmation, you know it's like the Holy
Ghost confirming, the word. Are you in me?
Okay. And so I got cough, so I'm like,
what's up with this? So I said, I'll let it go 24.
We'll see if it actually, because they were saying, hey,
there's a little statement. Says this said, you know, if
there was a problem or your transaction was denied York, Are
is free to be used basically with this vendor at this point,
I don't even know if it got it. Well, I sure didn't want a
double order, right? So, it's patient, I waited 24
hours to see something would change with that transaction.
Would It Go, hot? You know, I'm saying, like it's
they took the money still pending.
So at this point, I need to get out.
Of doubt, I need to know what's going on.
So I went back to the source I called them.
I said I didn't order on one card.
I got a confirmation. I didn't on the other one and
they call it says you've ordered him listed off all the items.
I had to include the two. That didn't give me a
confirmation at all. I said, so, okay.
So it went through. Yes.
And the next day, one of the items was here like, well
obviously, I got it them but the other one had the time frame.
So what I did is I went and I got my self confident pulls up
at this point. It says I have it but then I had
a word come, that made me wonder is it?
So I had to determine I got to get back in confidence.
Most people just throw it to chance.
You can't do this with the things of God, but the things of
God you can't throw it the chance because the minute I got
that I created doubt in me, I was not confident that it
actually happened. So I had to get back in
confidence. I had to go to the source and
they had to tell me it's as it was written and it confirmed it
just like the Bible about a two or three Witnesses.
Sometimes you got to say, okay, I know that but let me find some
other examples. Why I got to get out of down
this thing I got to restore my confidence because it's only
when I'm confident to declare God's word in my prayer.
Is it going to come to pass? So know that God is Not unjust
to forget your work. So what did James said he said
faith without works is dead? But if you are working, faith,
mean you're being obedient, you're acting on it, then God
won't forget this. And we don't want to become
people that all of a sudden, think God forgot our prayer of
faith. And that he's not going to do it
now. Because that's not our god.
Let's go on. He says, he's not forgot your
work and the love, what you've shown towards his name and
having Minister and still ministering to the Saints and we
desire that each of you show the same diligence as so as to
realize the full Assurance of Hope until the end.
So that you will not be what sluggish, we don't want to be
sluggish but imitators of those who how through faith how
through faith and patience inherit the promises.
But now, that's like a curveball to our belief system.
What I mean by that is that according to scripture, you can
be in faith and immediately, something change.
NaturallySpeaking, it manifests immediately.
Yet, there's other things in faith, it cannot be immediate,
it will be through faith and patience.
And if you apply faith and patience, in your prayer of
faith, when immediate can be the expectation, you're really not
in faith. Vice versa, if you apply in the
prayer of faith, immediate and it requires faith, and patience,
you'll not stay in faith. Now, what do I mean?
The best way for me to give this example is being born again.
We are born again, how, by grace, through faith, and to be
born again. It is a confession of faith, not
Lord. I ask you to accept all the
things I do in life that are good and you measure those to
all the things I've done wrong. And based upon that measurement,
surely you'll see that I'm worthy to come into your
kingdom. So, I'm thankful That you hear
me today? When I pray, you're going to
always acknowledge everything. I do good that I'm doing to try
to please. You, you're going to acknowledge
it so that when I die I know I'm going to be there with you now
is that person born again after they?
Pray that prayer? No, because it's not of any
Works. Lest any man should boast God.
How could you couldn't? You couldn't separate me from
you. I'm a good person that prayer
does not get salvation. What prayer get salvation.
The prayer of faith that Christ Alone is the only way to the
Father. The Bible says that if we
acknowledge Jesus Christ is Lord that he, what is Romans 10?
Say that when we recognize that he died and on the third day was
raised from the dead. We confess him.
As our Lord, we will then be Saved.
That's the prayer that brings salvation.
Now, here's the question, what would you do or what would you
think? If I had will come down and say,
well, I'm going to pray with you for salvation.
Okay, let's pray this prayer. Will you pray with me will says
y'all pray with you. I said, okay, pray repeat after
me. Say dear father, I believe that
Jesus Christ came died on the cross for my sins.
I Repent of my sins and I accept Jesus as my savior, that his
blood is enough to Eradicate my sin.
And right now, I confess him as the Lord of my life I am saved.
How many believe that that could get him in the kingdom of God?
Sure. Okay, now if I then said no,
will, I don't know when, but because you prayed this prayer
of faith, it is happened, but this new creature in Christ is
going to show up sometime. I don't know when, but it's
going to happen. But know this through faith and
patience you'll inherit the new Are in Christ.
The old man that you are will pass away.
It may happen when you get to the parking lot, it may happen.
Next week, it may happen a month from now, but all of a sudden
you're going to wake up and Bam, you're going to be a new
creature in Christ and the Holy Ghost is going to be there and
you want to say, wow it worked. Don't let anyone tell you, you
didn't get born again today even though you don't feel like it.
Now we can apply faith and patience there.
They're born again immediately. Yes, right.
Then immediately, they believe they have it.
So there are Promises of God that are immediate, you can't
apply faith and patience there because it's not applicable.
Well, what else? The baptism of the Holy Spirit
would evidence of speaking in tongues when his first
communicated Jesus said Terry in Jerusalem till I send the
promise but once the promise hit the planet you can have it
because if you go on and read Acts chapter 19, if all those
Nations just would have went and kept reading past Acts 2, and
God to Acts. 19 cousin, Acts 19. Paul walks up to disciples from
Ephesus and says, did you receive the Holy Ghost?
Once you believed but they could go before, then, I'm just giving
it like literal terms. You know, did you receive once
you believe? Because if they would just go to
Cornelius house, what chapters at eight or ten, ten, maybe ten
ten when you get a Cornelius house.
Corniness isn't trying to worship God.
The best he can. Because he knows in the angel
comes down and says, sinful Peter.
He'll come preach, the gospel. So he goes gets Peter, Peter
shows up, he goes in the house of a gentile.
Carnitas has got his whole family there, he begins to tell
them the story of Jesus, the message of Jesus, the life of
Jesus, the the saving power and Grace of Jesus.
And in his time teaching all of a sudden Cornelius and his whole
household said, we believe they didn't articulate it to where
they stopped. Giving altar call.
They were like, I believe and how did Peter knew they had
received salvation? Because the minute they were
born again. They got filled with the Holy
Ghost began speaking in other tongues.
And Peter says, how can we deny water baptism?
They got the same experience, we got back in Acts chapter 2.
Those guys didn't have to wait none you can receive immediately
so you can't apply. Oh Lord, give me X.
Give me X. Give me tons.
Well I guess it's not that. They through faith and patience
inherit it. You will not inherit it that way
because That's not how it is. It's immediate I would submit to
you personal healing for yourself is more immediate than
you want to believe. If you actually read the context
of the Bible, if you personally would get in faith for yourself,
you'll see when the word got on anyone, they were healed.
There are more instantaneous healings than progress, but
there were progress, but the majority of the progress
happened within a 24-hour period.
Now, that's not to condemn. If you've been dealing with
stuff for some time. I'm just saying, we've got to
rise up to the level of faith and don't allow faith, and
patience to get involved in our healing.
Let's go ahead and get immediate to manifest.
Amen. Now, there are some things that
are working of Miracles and there's nothing you can do to
believe at that point. Because things weren't formed
right, one done, right? That's a whole nother ball game
but when you get a cold or you get a sniffle or cancer hits
your body or you get a tumor, my gosh, man, you can get you, the
word. You can confess that word.
You can speak that word. You can make a demand on that
word and you can pull that thing in a lot faster.
Don't apply faith in pain. I'm just being patient.
I'm going to get it. Get it and make it manifest.
But then there's other areas that it will just take time,
guys. And most of those have to do
with purpose, Destiny. What happens?
Is we receive salvation immediately?
We receive healing Amina. You know what else?
We receive quick Joy. You don't have to wait around
for a job. Well, I wish I could just feel
happy. The joy of the Lord is your a
menu. Pray in the Holy Ghost, you keep
stirring yourself. And, and stirring yourself up in
the Holy Ghost, you'll get full of joy.
Because the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy.
Holy Ghost, how fast can you get righteous?
One prayer. First John 1:9, if we confess
our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and
cleanse us from all unrighteousness, how fast can
you get forgiveness immediately? How fast can the fruits of the
spirit manifest in you? Immediately, if you yield to it.
Right through faith and patience, I'm working out this
anger issue. Why don't you immediately apply
self control? Allowed to spring up.
Come on, you know as well as I do not one of us got in that
place where angry that we're not hearing the Holy Ghost, say
don't do it. And you're thinking, yeah, I'm
going there. Don't do it.
But man, I'm thinking I'm going there.
Alam and your dwelling on the thought, that's taking you
there. You're not taking it captive,
kassadin it down because the Holy Ghost, take it captive,
cast it down. I don't, you really just don't
feel like it. You can't apply well, through
faith and patience. I'll get there.
No, you can immediately get there.
I said you can immediately get there but then there's other
things that we do with God that is not Again, I use this did.
I already use you in the service about the marriage?
Good, don't matter? What service were in.
Okay, I'll go back to Chelsea. Stand Up Now.
Chelsea, she wants to be married.
That's just say, okay, here's the thing.
Faith and patience is involved. Father, I believe I receive a
Godly Man. Well, does God want her to have
a Godly Man? Sure, a man that loves you
passionate about? You seeks you first once you
first. That's who I want, right?
That plan and purpose for your life, right?
You don't want that to be disrupted.
Do you do want to bring some, sorry, slothful thing that's
going to want you to tend to him and you can't do nothing for
God, right? Okay.
Well, how old are you? I'm 26.
I'm too old. I'm getting too old.
Oh my gosh. So many people are so much
younger men. Already married, where am I
going to get mine? So, what happens is they?
They avoid faith and patience. They, I believe I received my
God, man, right now. And the next person they see
say, holla, do you think all? That's my man and they say, you
know, we fall head over heels for people that aren't even our
God because God knows your guy happens to be in another state
has to bring down whatever and get you cuz there are plenty of
times. There are some that's not your
season to be merry but then God brings the right one.
It becomes your season. Through faith and patience.
All of a sudden, you get the best guy you ever could have
had. If you would have married too
early, you wouldn't have them. Now God can work out those
things. What the devil meant for bad,
God can turn for good, but I don't want to be living life or
God's always having to work out the bad stuff devil was doing
Can we live beyond that? You can be seated.
Same thing with the job, you know?
I believe I received my job, you know.
Then you don't get it in a week and you're mad at God.
Does God want you to work? Yes, says if a man don't work a
man. Don't eat.
He wants you to work. Not so you get paid.
He wants you to work so that you can influence those that are
you're working with and then he'll pay you to do that.
Hallelujah. I know of an individual.
They got a word from God about a promotion.
Do you know sometimes God will give us a word?
That doesn't mean it's going to manifest the next time it comes
up. But the minute you get it.
Stay with it. Because I got it and it's
forever settled in heaven. The minute you prayed it's done.
You've received it. It's finished.
But can this one be an immediate?
Person went up for promotion was denied.
Because they were given a word that they would get it and
believed it. But then didn't get it.
Got mad and got away from the church.
Started talking about it. And then died.
And they gave the promotion. In their casket.
That's not how you want your promotion.
You understand, the devil wants to stop God's plan, but that's
what I loved about Joseph. Joseph gets a dream.
You going to be there guy. And he didn't let the
circumstances stop. He stayed in faith and patience
and he inherited. The dream.
You know, I got a little nugget about that that I hadn't seen
before Joseph is exalted to prime minister in Egypt.
When his father died later on, he asked the Pharaoh permission.
Could he go back and bury his dad in his land and he gave him
permit? He had favor with Farrah, don't
you? Joseph could have said in year
six of the prosperous years, Pharaoh I have a family that I
don't even think they know I'm alive.
Can I go back and see them? He never asked to go.
Because he knew his vision was. If I go back to my home that's
not well, they'll the the dream can come to pass.
They are going to have to come to me.
Because in this place that I am is where the authority is.
Wow. He wasn't so emotionally
connected to his dad. That, oh my gosh.
My dad's got to know. He was more connected to the
plan. I can't leave dad's.
Got to come to me. Because I'm in a 40 here and
they've got to come to me. And through faith and patience
instead of him, trying to do it on his own and restore his
family. And his brothers instead, he
stayed put and the family came to him.
I wonder how many people have 40 God because they left to go to
family. And get out of their place of
authority. Through faith and patience guys,
there are certain things that we're going to go through, so I
don't want you to get delusional.
I don't want you to get discouraged, I don't want you to
get, you know, hung up on things.
There are certain things that it just takes Tom.
For God's plan. You know what?
Abraham was looking for the return of Christ.
Any Enoch was looking for the return of Christ.
Moses was looking for the return of Christ.
David was looking to the return of Christ, Isaiah prophesied,
and Daniel of the return of Christ.
They were all looking for it and they all spoke about it coming
to pass, but it never came to pass in their life.
But Galatians 4:4 says, in the fullness of time Christ came
That means that God always plan to bring Jesus then and no
matter how much the generation of nation was believing for that
moment, it couldn't come in here earlier and there's things that
God puts in our hearts. They can't come any earlier.
But he lets us know ahead of time.
It's coming. It's coming.
Maybe you get a word. You know, you're going to have
your own business. Well, maybe it takes five years
before you have it. Don't let go of the word through
faith and patience, you'll get that just like them.
All God gave me a word occupied. I'm moved by Nothin.
Nothing. It has to come to pass.
So there has to be some Divine appointed.
Tom, here's the thing though, whether it's an immediate or
through faith and patience, you must check yourself to see if
you're in faith. Because some of the biggest
challenges is that you don't want to be in faith and patience
winning media, it's required. That's why you go to the word.
What's the word say on? What I'm believing?
And what's the time frame? And what's the response and how
did that happen? And then you get yourself.
That's why the Bible tells us in second Corinthians 13:5 says,
this says, test yourself to see if you are in faith, examine
yourselves, I'm always having to examine myself because here's
the thing. The Bible says, no one knows the
spirit of man, except the spirit of the man himself and no one
knows the spirit of God, except the spirit of God.
So know this, we really know if we are, you've heard me testify
before before we got into this whole thing about the mall, I
knew I knew I was saying it with my mouth, but I knew my heart
was not attached to those words. I knew it.
I was like, this is a big deal. This is a big deal.
First of all, they don't even want to sell it.
I mean, you're asking me to attach something that they
weren't even want to sell. Then turn them, they change
their mind, all kinds of stuff. But I remember it was a
Wednesday, my wife and I were going to go camping on Thursday.
I said I'm gonna go ahead and take the camp camper down and
I'm going to pray. So I went down was down to mocha
actually to mocha Springs Tomoka State Park and I was driving
down a 1A and I'll never forget I saw those huge homes you know
just passed you know, around the hammock, you understand.
Huge homes, and the Lord said to me, see see that house because I
was praying. I said, yes, Lord.
So how much you think that cost? I said millions easy.
He said you think anyone's in? I said well no I mean you can
see that it's closed off, you know, he said yeah that's
someone's vacation home. Yeah.
He said if man can do that do you think I can get them all?
I said, Lord, I believe, but I had to have that I was not lying
to myself. I want trying to put on some,
are I knew I can't go here until I know here.
I can't go here until I know here.
And then another pivotal Point came with the whole deal with
the mall. And I went off and prayed and
fasted for three days. I think it was and I say, God, I
need a word that's all I need. I I need to know how I don't
need to know when. I need to know a word that I can
stand on and I heard him say this concern in this mall
whether to stay with the dealer to go, he said occupy, and I
knew when he said that, that word occupy means to do business
and we as a business part that will do with this mall, he told
me to set up camp, I'm going to give that to you and you're
going to occupy and I knew then doesn't matter.
It's ours. Then on January the 25th 2016 at
And Faith Crusade. I was over here praying and
worshiping God. And all of a sudden in the
spirit, I knew it had broken through.
I had it. It was ours.
It was done is done as a Promised Land.
But I also knew this, I can't get it alone.
Moses could not single-handedly take the nation into the
promised land. That's why we can't grow weary
and our well doing, that's why you can't get hope deferred to
get your hearts. You gotta know, I heard nothing
else matters. You don't want to be the one
that God has to move out, so they can have the group that's
here that believes to move in. You want to be the one who says
I believe. And how do you believe you
believe by action? My wife and I believe by action,
we confess it every time. Gary can tell you, he's been
living with me for now about four months.
Every time we come on, I say, thank you, Lord, for I don't
pray for this mall. I thank him for it.
I said Thank you, Lord, for 2121 US1, South.
I'm sure many of you but I've gone beyond that.
I've sewn towards it. I keep sewing towards it cause
you know what, what we've got to do for a down payment with this
agreement is nothing, compared to what we got to do, to remodel
all kind of. I mean, it's just, it's all good
and we go from Faith to Faith, but know this, it will come to
pass and you'll hear You're going to hear this well that
church did take them all and it's not because we did it
independent of a word, but God working with us but we did our
part. So whatever it is guys, you've
got to examine yourself. Say my Lord, am I out of Faith
because I'm waiting on you to do something though.
I believe yet. I Expected immediate help me to
see it immediately. So, way to be done because in
this moment, according to your word immediately, just like
salvation, I should have it in what Jesus said, he said which
is easier to heal this man or to tell him his sins are forgiven.
Help me to see heal and easy. Help me to see this.
That can come immediately easy. So I receive it, bring it in.
I'm not waiting anymore. I'm not going to apply Faith to
pay. Many have fallen away from the
faith because they misappropriated their faith.
God didn't heal them in the time frame.
They thought he should. He's dragging on, and they're
keep waiting and keep waiting and keep waiting, and they just
give up on the word when God saying it wasn't a weight.
You should have had it. But on the other side, you know,
God I was believing you to come in and bring you know, this
particular deal to take place and this promotion or this, you
know, spouse or, you know, this thing and I prayed and I
immediately received an I said I had and I was thinking you but
you know what? It's been five years now and
I've not seen that come to pass, you know?
Forget about which most winning. Wait, five years, anyway.
That's just say a month. I'll give you a month. 30 days.
It ain't hear. Your word doesn't work.
You can't apply mediate there. This is where you persevere. but
know, this whether immediate or faith and patience is in play,
in both cases it manifests, It manifests, let me close with
this thought. In July. 2003.
No.2. Pastor Mike and Angie, my wife
and I were in Tulsa correction. Juvenile Corrections in
Oklahoma. Pastor Marcus was there and I
was preaching. The whole time, I'm preaching,
my wife is talking to somebody. a friend, a person that Angie
had brought And so we loaded up the truck you know, load up
everything we were done with the prison Mission.
I was driving home. I said Marcy so who was that
person you were talking to me. You know funny thing that person
there they were born in st. Augustine we were talking about
st. Augustine really?
Wow, that's awesome. You know, just talking we're
just carrying on all that. They were saying you know people
they knew da da da. Then my wife said that she know
she said something funny. I said yeah what's that?
She said, if we ever start a church in st.
Augustine to give her a call in the minute.
My wife said that Bam, the Holy Ghost spoke to me and said
that's where you'll plant the church.
I mean it hit me hard. I was like Now, we've only been
in this location for two years and I had this mindset will be
there till 2005 on my oldest son graduates.
So I was a little shocked by I. So consumed with the vision that
I was in that the think of that which I knew I would eventually
do God's talking to me about it. I didn't say nothing to my wife,
but for three days. It was just like it was there.
It was like, right there was like, I wanted to say something,
you know, so on the third day after praying and stuff, I said
Marcy I believe And I know where God wants us to plant the church
that we're supposed to start. Instead she pulls out the
demographics of st. Augustine she'd been looking
them up for the last three days. There was no church associated
with the school. I graduated from here.
No one to my knowledge was praying for me.
No group was asking me to come be their pastor.
This town didn't even know. I existed.
But I had a word from God and then he told me when to come.
And what shocked me because I thought it would be later, but I
obeyed him. I obeyed him and didn't have a
job. And had three kids left came
here. And 14 years later.
We run two services in this location, going to buy them all,
have another church in Valdosta, are ministering to other Rhema,
churches, because we've been given oversight have ministered
at Raymond fact, in an April, and May next month.
I will be the commencement speaker for the school.
I graduated from. Wow, wow.
My wife can tell you, we said in class.
They can we want to do stuff for Rhema, but it didn't happen
overnight. Pastor Hagen didn't immediately.
Say the Lord said come with me, and let me make you a director
and let me do this for you and you're going to preach and camp
meeting and you're going to do a commencement fee and your wife's
going to do Kindle, the flame, didn't hear that.
But through faith and patience of doing the call of God, the
gift was recognized. There's no telling what's in
store for everything. We have to do as a body when we
come together and do it. So learn from the word, what you
can have immediately and make a demand and don't settle for it
to get off and don't don't play around with stuff and let it
linger in your life. When he immediately, you can get
rid of sin immediately, you can cast off the flesh immediately.
You can get rid of sickness immediately, you can have joy,
immediately. You can walk in peace
immediately. You can have the righteousness
of God in Christ, received it walk in it, But then the things
that through faith and patience don't quit in the process, don't
give up because it's going a little bit longer than you
thought. Don't think.
Oh wow, this never, I mean, I'm this old, my gosh man.
You're not old enough. There's a reason why it had come
to pass yet. It's okay.
And it will your best days are ahead of you.
Because there's not one word that he spoke concerning you
that he'll fail to bring to pass if you only believe.