Turn over, if you would, to Isaiah Chapter 7, verse 9.
We're going to get the very latter part of this verse and
I'm reading out the Legacy Standard Bible, which is the New
American Standard 1995 that they have redone.
I like the the New American Standard.
I have heard through various sources that is one of the most
accurate translations trying to adhere to the original Hebrew
and Greek. Although I use a lot of
translations because a lot of other translations get it right
and communicate it in some terms that we can understand, you
know, so, But this one came out and I like the way it had read.
And so I'm reading it during my Bible reading plan this year.
Anyway, the latter part says this.
If you do not establish your faith in Yahweh, you surely
shall not be established. And that struck me today when I
saw that. And I want to talk to you about
Anchor Faith now. I'm not talking about the
church, I'm talking about faith that is anchored and we're
talking anchor faith. All right, because our faith
should be firm. It should hold and we need to
have that. I know when we fir when the Lord
first spoke to me about a church plant that we were going to come
here and that you know, the Lord was telling me you need to go.
At that point I asked him a series of questions because
again, as you've heard me say, I'm the Abraham type.
Get up and go to where you're going to show me and he can talk
to me and route. I will pack the bags and go.
I don't need the plan. I just give me a word.
Now that's a heading for me. I'm out, OK, I'm not Moses.
Moses like give me the plan. I'm on a plan here, you know,
and you know what? God has no problem with either
type of leader. Both of them were awesome
leaders, OK. However, I knew my pastor, and I
love my pastor, Pastor David Emma.
I love him. I have the distinct privilege
right now of being able to reprint his books, of which we
are working on them. I love him.
He has left a legacy and his voice needs to remain because he
was a great teacher of the Word, you know, And so my honoring him
and his life is that, you know, I've done a couple things.
One, I've picked up a missionary that he supported in Albania and
I have right now calling us a pastor in Africa, Kenya
actually, and is pretty persistent.
And I'm asking the Lord, do I need to continue on with what
Pastor David started because he's not in the earth anymore.
And I'm asking that question because, you know, God wants
something to be completed. Even if you're not here,
somebody's going to pick it up and keep on.
If you finish your course, you're going to pass a baton and
somebody's going to continue the course.
OK, so anyway, knowing my pastor honored that he heard God to
hire me and, and I wanted to honor him at all cost.
And so I, he knew I was going to pastor one day.
He trained me and for such. And so when I realized I was
going to go and I knew I needed to meet with him, I knew I
couldn't just go and say, hey, the Lord, I could have.
But at the end of the day, knowing him, I'm like, I want to
give him what I know how he operates.
And so I said, Lord, you know, Pastor David is visual.
He likes to see things and read things.
I would leave, I would tell him and leave with no instruction.
Lord, you know that. But I'm asking you for His sake
because I want Him to know. I've heard from God and I need
it to be in His gifting to receive it.
So would you give me the plan of which He did?
And He gave me some phases. The first 3 phases that we still
carry today, the 1st 2 are basically done.
And we even say that when we do vision partners.
Ship. And so I typed it all out.
I created my own logo because I was in Corel Draw and used to do
graphic designs myself as a youth pastor.
And so there was an Anchor Faith logo that no one's ever seen.
My first draft to give him, it never made it past Oklahoma.
When we launched, it turned into something different.
However, I sat down and when I communicated to him and then I
gave him that he was able to read on paper the words that God
had given me, which then I knew that plan was anointed and he
would sense that anointing. OK, of which he did and he was a
major blessing to my life. But as I was talking about to
the Lord Lord, what do you want to call the church, you know,
and I dialogue with him. I said, now I'm going into a
community. It's going to be a coastal
community, you know, be awesome if we could have some name that
even though we're new, it seems like we've been there for a
while. And through that anchor, faith
came into my spirit. You know, I just since I knew
that we live by faith, faith just seemed I was a byproduct of
faith, the Word of Faith. And as a result of that, Faith
made the cut. Must be in a coastal town.
Anchor showed up, which is obviously pretty easy with
coastal communities. And so here we are.
We're anchor faith. Now there are a lot of people
still say we're Anchor of faith, anchor faith, Anchor of Faith
Baptist Church. We are none of those names.
Just to let you know, we are anchor faith no of even in
Spanish. No Angela de Fey OK Oh no dos
dress OK anyway, so our faith should be anchored, right?
And this scripture did this phrase did not come because, you
know, we do not use the heat. The Hebrew scripture that says
he's an anchor of our soul, although he is OK.
We use it in context of faith that our faith is firm,
established. It holds, it does not.
We do not get pulled away and no matter what.
Current is happening in life no matter what.
The currents are doing no matter what storms our anchor holds,
because the Word never fails. Amen.
OK so with that being said again in Isaiah 79 he says to them, if
you do not establish your faith in Yahweh and that is God, you
surely shall not be established. Now I love this because this
scripture lets us know. That you can establish your
faith in something else. You can establish your faith in
something else. Faith is not a religious word.
Actually, when you define faith, it just means a firm persuasion.
Well, you know, the world is firmly persuaded about things.
So when we say faith, we think church or religion.
But the reality is when when God says faith, he's not thinking
religion. You know, religion, he's
thinking a firm persuasion and he's actually talking to a
couple of his tribes that listen, they were putting their
faith in things that other nations were doing and other
religious expressions or gods they were doing instead of
keeping their focus on the Lord. You understand what I'm saying?
So this is really important that we establish our faith in God.
He needs to be our firm persuasion because if we have
not established our faith in God, then we are not established
because what you actually firmly are persuaded in will fall away.
It's temporary. It's not going to stand forever.
It is. It can be shaken, but God's word
stands forever. It is eternal.
They Amen. So Isaiah is obviously the
prophet warning you got. You need to get your faith
established in God. Now, why is this important?
You start coming into today. When I say today, I'm talking
about tomorrow, a day that we haven't even arrived at that
that Luke gives an account of something that is said
concerning Jesus. And Jesus having this
conversation is that there's going to come a day that he's
going to show up. Now he gives a parable
concerning this particular woman who goes before an unrighteous
judge and is as looking for justice and she is so persistent
at coming to him even though he does not fear God or man.
He gives her what she wants. He concludes here in Luke
chapter 18 verses 7 and 8. I move that guys Luke chapter
18-7 and eight and it says this now God say now will not God
bring about justice for his elect who cried to him day and
night and will he delay long over them?
Verse 8, I tell you that he will bring about justice for them
quickly. However, when the Son of Man
comes, will he find faith on the earth?
Now what faith are we talking about?
We're talking about faith established in God.
So there's a day that's beyond us that the Son of Man is coming
back to the earth and will he find faith in it?
Now, it's important for us to define faith here because again,
faith is not a religious term. So it's not like will he find
religion here. We have to ask the question what
is faith? Well faith by definition we know
is a firm persuasion. Now faith according to Hebrews
Chapter 11 verse. Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things what not seen it says
Abraham and and Romans chapter 4 that he was firmly persuaded
that what God had said he was able to perform.
So he believed God even when the evidence in the natural was it
cannot occur. Now when I say that, that
doesn't mean there's something in the natural that cannot occur
and he's convincing God to do something he wants.
Well, this can't occur. So I'm going to believe God that
he can do it anyway. But if God's not authorizing,
you're not convincing him to do something he's not doing.
However, if something's away and God's like that's not really how
it is. It's this way.
Well, now you can believe, and when you do that, then whatever
situation you're in, in the context of Abraham, his wife
could not have any children. She was barren, but yet he
believed God, she's going to have a baby and he acted on
that. She did not have an Immaculate
Conception. I'm going to say that again.
She did not have an Immaculate Conception.
So when God says your wife's going to have a child, he didn't
say, well, I can't wait till it happens.
And they never slept with his wife.
He slept with his wife believing that at any time his sperm was
going to going to impregnate an egg.
And she was it was going to get it to the walls of her uterus
and it was going to come to pass.
I'm in with adults here. OK, All right.
He was believing this would occur because even though he had
years, decades of evidence, it's not so.
But God has now spoken. So now he's firmly persuaded.
OK, well, how did he get firmly persuaded?
Because faith is firm. Persuasion has to arrive
somehow. OK, so God is going to ask the
question, is there going to be faith in the earth yet?
Romans 117 says this for it. For in it the righteousness of
God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written.
But the righteous shall live by faith Now in our dispensation,
what we're in now current the age of grace or the age of the
church. We are righteous, been made
righteous because of the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus
and we called on the name of the Lord.
We became a new creature in Christ.
Behold all things became new which our spirit man now, not
the old one that was dead and separated from God.
It has been taken out of our bodies and he has replaced it
with a brand new spirit that is in the likeness of Christ.
It has made righteous and it wants to and can hear the voice
of God and it and this spirit that he gave us wants to obey
whatever God says and to just make sure that that spirit gets
it. He puts his own spirit inside
our body to bear with this, with this new spirit that we are a
child of God and we've been made righteous.
Now the righteous are to live not by your job, not by your
kids. Your life is not revolved around
natural. It is revolved around faith.
Now, that doesn't mean you're not going to interact with your
children and your spouse and you're going to have employment
somewhere or own a business. I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is all of those things are are being, are are
you're functioning in those relationships through faith.
We should be raising our children by faith.
We should be doing our jobs, our businesses by faith.
Everything we do should be by faith.
And what faith does is it does not lean on its own
understanding. Now, when I say faith, I mean we
the Bible tells us that we are to not lean on our own
understanding, but in all our ways.
What do we do? Acknowledge and He will because
when you acknowledge God then He'll give you His Word, which
that's how faith comes is from hearing Him.
And when you apply it, then you will live by the word of God in
that situation that you've encountered.
That's how we're supposed to live.
My living is not my occupation. My living is the word of God.
I just happen to be employed or I happen to own a business or
whatever the case may be. I'm, I just happen to be a, a
husband to a wife. I just happen to be a father to
children. I just happen to be a
grandfather, great grandfather. I just happen to be in whatever
relationship. But all of those are by faith,
because the righteous are to live by faith.
And that's what we're in now. And yet Jesus says, will I find
it here? So how could it be that there
could be a planet of righteous people that Jesus is questioning
when he returns? Will he even find them living by
it? Amen.
Hallelujah. The good news is it says the
righteous will live by faith, which tells us righteous people
can live by faith. Living by faith is obtainable.
Now the enemy would try to convince you that you couldn't
live by faith, that you have to do certain things like everyone
else. You know, you don't have to do
anything like anyone else. Now let me just pref it.
Let me just explain that a little bit.
God is not giving you something that no one else is doing.
What he's giving you is in context to his word, OK?
What I'm saying is, is everybody is doing it this way.
And we're even talking the lost. Well, you know, if the lost is
doing it. I mean, talking about those
outside of covenant, the unrighteous, if they are
amassing wealth or are are going after education a certain way
and there's a whole plan, that doesn't mean that's.
God's way. It could actually mean it's not
because the enemy, the devil, who has been whipped and
stripped of his power. OK, let's say that again.
Who has been whipped and stripped of his power?
Amen still has systems in the earth, and His systems are very
profitable to those who follow. Now, when I say profitable,
they're profitable to keep them in bondage because what
whichever way He knows to keep you in bondage, meaning keeping
you from fulfilling God's Word or wanting to do God's Word,
He'll put you on that path. And that could be that he strips
you of all your resources and you have nothing and puts you on
drugs and you're and you're just living this horrific life of
destitute. Or whether he's given you the
palaces, he knows the pathway to keep you so that you'll continue
to curse God because they're both there to kill, steal, and
destroy from 1. You know he stripped them of
everything and they curse God because they have nothing.
But on the other side, he's given them everything, and they
curse God because they think they are God.
And in both ways, he wins. Amen.
Because some people are just made by God in the womb to do
certain things that the devil knows.
I couldn't strip all this. Those people would just get up
and keep coming. He can see it in your
personality. He can see it in the way you're
bit a little bit. I mean, he is a master of
discovery of you and he knows your flesh.
I said he knows your flesh. I mean, we have these tools in
the natural where their personalities, you know, and
there's four common personalities that have
strengths and weaknesses. And then when you take that
test, you know, you can really identify a person in the flesh.
Every time I have one of our staff take it, I said.
I listen. Act like you're in the flesh.
When you answer some of the questions in the strengths, you
can get in the spirit, you're like, oh, yeah, that's me.
I'm this, I'm that. But then when you get after the
weaknesses, you know, like you you're angry or you're
impatient, you're like, oh, no, I'm not.
So yes, in the spirit, you overcome those things.
But let's say you were in the flesh.
What would be your response? That's how you need to answer
those questions, right? If I was in the flesh, which one
would come up first? I would definitely do that one.
OK. But I'm sanctified.
I'm set free. I don't.
But if I was right, OK, but that's how we take those tests
because they always get messed up when they're always checking
them by the fruits of the Spirit.
Oh, I don't do that. None of these apply.
Pastor Earl, what do you mean I would do none of these.
I understand in the Spirit. I get it.
You've overcome. However, we need to fine tune
because your personality actually allows us to and you to
understand how you process. And this is how you become
patient with people when you understand how they process.
Because God made us different. He didn't make us all the same.
The problem is, is each personality thinks we are of the
best and we want everybody to be ours.
Right. I mean.
If I gave you a personality test, you will find how many
people you gravitate that are like you and process like you.
And you're like they know. See, they get it.
How come you don't get it? Well, because they process it
like you do. That's all.
Are you hearing me? OK, so the enemy knows and then
he will move your life accordingly.
But the righteous live by faith, and the faith they live is
established in God, not in the world.
So is there anything wrong with going to a university?
No, but did the Lord tell you? Does your purpose require it?
And if it does not, more people could be damaged going to a path
that the rest do but yet cannot handle the actual environment
they're being thrust into. Many believers have left the
faith when they went to college because number one, they set in
the churches not growing, but mom and dad bring me here.
And they took none of their own personal responsibility.
See, parents, that's why you got to raise your children by faith,
because you need to look at them and say, I know you're
graduating, but you should wait a couple years before you go to
college. And recognize whether they are
mature enough to even how have they walked enough in their
faith to be able to withstand an onslaught?
You know, because sometimes in parenting, we protect our
children to the extreme that they don't even encounter.
And we're giving them the, the ability to navigate situations.
You're you're a safety net. You're recovering, but you're
allowing them to process how now you're not throwing them to the
wolves. I'm not telling you that, but
you're having conversations that allow them to realize I'm making
a choice either for God or not. And when you're training that in
the home, then when they get. Out it becomes a little more
successful. Let me say it that way.
The chances of success are better because they've already
done it under your covering. Because when they step out, they
do what they want to do and they can get full blown rebellion.
And you're like, I don't even know who my child is, but God
and you're praying for him, believing God and doing all that
now I'm not. Some are, some are.
Some has developed enough that they can be released.
I get it. This is why it's all by faith.
It's not cookie cutter is hearing the voice of God for
your situation, but the truths are going to be across the board
from the scripture. It's not a different word that
we've never seen in the context of Scripture, is what I'm
saying. OK, so the righteous will live
How? What are righteous?
Righteous are those. This is by definition of this
particular word. It means observing divine laws.
It means, in a wine sense, upright, righteous, virtuous.
We love those words. When we talk about righteous,
but this word righteous has these two contexts as well,
observing divine laws and keeping the commands of God.
So God made you righteous and right standing with God.
He gave you the spirit that says I'll obey God.
I want to that's what it means to be righteous and that's why
we say it's not a religious word.
It just means right standing with the governing authority.
You could not in your with your other spirit man ever get in
right standing with God because you were born in the sin.
You were a Sinner. Your nature was cut off from
God. But God being rich in his mercy
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
And when we called on his name, he gave us this new spirit that
is now in the righteousness of God.
It's in right standing. We didn't do it, He did it.
Now he's placed it US and that spirit wants to keep the
commands wants to he wants to. Now your mind does it.
Your soul realm still has challenges.
That's why the Bible tells us that we are to wash our mind
with the word because once you're born again, the Holy
Spirit becomes your great teacher and says guess what is
yours? Oh can't wait to take you to
class today. There are so many awesome
things. Now when I say class you
understand unfortunately we default to classroom
environments even like right here we default to this.
Now it'd be different if I was like, hey, we're all going on a
cruise tonight so let me give you what we're going to be in
enjoying. Now y'all have a totally
different demeanor right now we're going to be doing some
excursions. All right, Sharon, you and
Steve, we got an excursion for you all right, it's it's worth
$5000 already paid for. You see, I'm even like praise
God, don't even worry about tips.
It's all taken care of. All the food is all you can eat.
This is the Lord. These are the things the Lord
has given us in his word. But when we sit in here, we're
thinking, oh, we're in class, we're taking instruction and
we're taking it as knowledge when we're really getting the
benefits package of who we are in Christ.
He's an essence. Say, let me give you your all
inclusive trip that you now have in the earth and let me give you
all your benefits that you get to walk in.
Now. This is what these sessions
really are. These training sessions are now
again when we're navigating whether we're going on a cruise
and we're getting into some foreign territory.
There's some places you should avoid, but if you get in
trouble, we can rescue you, right?
So when we look at this this way instead, then we're like, OK,
the Holy Ghost in US is telling us all the great things that we
can enjoy and the things that are given to us to overcome
adversity. Let me get in and hear what the
Lord has for me and let me change the way I think to line
up with who I now am in Christ. So the righteous will live How
how they going to live? How are you going to live?
How are you going to live in 2025?
By faith. Let it be the best by faith year
ever. Amen.
OK, so how do we get faith? Since we're living by faith, how
do we get it? Romans 10/17.
So faith comes by and by and as you heard me say, because Isaiah
obviously kind of points this out, is that if your faith is
not established in God, then you're not established.
So you can have faith established somewhere else.
This scripture says. So faith comes by hearing and
and what Paul is saying is you're hearing in essence should
be from the word of Christ. He's making a general state.
Faith comes by hearing. All of us get firmly persuaded
because of something we've heard.
Some of you don't eat things because you became firmly
persuaded that it's not good for you and when it's offered.
No, no, no, thank you. No, go ahead, it's delicious.
No, I'm fine. You've become.
Firmly persuaded that you will resist.
Yes, that's right. Come on.
Right. Someone will tell all.
Don't even worry. You see in that movie, you
become firmly persuaded by them. You shouldn't see it.
And this happens all the time. You go to the doctor and they'll
and you're firmly persuaded what they said about you.
You have that condition and you so firmly persuaded that you
take your prescription. They give you, you go down to a
drug store that someone you don't know fills it with the
things that he said to fill it with and you have no idea what
it actually looks like. So you just trust that what they
put on the label and the pills in it are the exact thing that
they're saying and you have no concept of that or what
laboratory And there was no issues.
And it's not a messed up order from that laboratory.
I mean, I could take this a whole, but we just grab it and
we're like, oh, man, based almost like a praise God, I'm
fixing, I'm about to feel better.
And we put it in our mouth and we suck it and put it.
It could be, you know, arsenic, but you're firmly persuaded.
It is what the doctor said you needed to get better and you
don't even vet it. So firm persuasion or faith is
easy. Actually it's really easy
because again, the world is really good at them operating in
their faith. They're firmly persuaded, firmly
persuaded. There are people that are firmly
persuaded still today that wearing a mask protects them
still today. Now I don't have an issue with
that, but they wear them because of that reason.
They are firmly persuaded. How do we know they're?
Acting on it. Because a firm persuasion is an
action. But how did they get there?
They heard someone that they did not know personally stand up on
TV and say this is a way to protect you.
Anybody ever met Doctor Fauci personally shook his hand?
Anyone. Anyone ever go into the college
that he graduated from and see how many, how his grades were?
Anyone seen his personal degree? Any know anybody know anything
about his character, his lifestyle?
But now the Bible tells us the character and lifestyle of
Jesus, his educational experience.
I mean he only made the planet. Yeah, he has a really good
resume. I mean, he was, is and is to
come. And then we are like when the
Lord says. And we're like, man, I don't
know, but the world is easier to believe just because they heard.
But what Paul is saying, faith comes by hearing.
And listen, our hearing should be by the word of Christ.
So faith comes by hearing. So what we hear produces a firm
persuasion, and our firm persuasion should come by the
word of Christ. Because of Romans 10/17 we could
interpret. Romans 117 of the statement but
the just or but the righteous live by faith.
It could read this way, but the righteous will live by hearing
the word of Christ and that would be accurate.
But the righteous will live by hearing the word of Christ.
I'm hearing what Christ said. Well, what?
What does the Lord say? You know, and there's nothing
wrong with you being in a situation that you can take a
step back. Now, what I love about doctors,
because we have one here, is that our doctor actually listens
to the Holy Ghost. And so when she's examining feet
is Debbie, she's like, she's listening now.
Her natural training is there, but yet she can listen to the
spirit and determine is the symptom in your foot only foot
related or is there somewhere else?
This is what's so amazing about spirit LED people is because
again, they they're living not by their book learning.
They're living by what the word of God is saying.
In this moment, at this time, are you hearing what I'm saying?
OK, with that being said, then turn to James 122.
James 122. Wow.
Hallelujah. I better drive on.
James 122 says this. But be what doers of the word,
and not only so Paul says faith comes by hearing.
So hearing creates a firm persuasion.
However, if all you do is hear, you could have a deceived firm
persuasion, James implies. Even if you hear God's Word, if
you don't do it, you can have faith that has come from the
Word, yet you're deceived in your application.
And I have experienced these moments with with individuals
and I have checked myself to determine am I there?
I remember 1 very candid was purchasing them all and you
know, money is to go down. Are we supposed to do this?
Everybody's telling me do it. We I've already know.
I know the Lord wants us to, but you know, this is like real
deal. And I'm like, OK, I mean, I'm
all called up at the end of the day, but I need to, I need to
get something in my spirit about this more so because I'm ready
to act. And I do not want to act on
deception because my ACT, my acting outside of God's Word and
timing can get me into deception.
So, you know, I went down the road praying about it and the
Lord gave me a little scenario and through that the Lord said,
don't you think I can get you them all?
And that right there was my firm persuasion that at that point I
stayed on course period. Because the last thing I want to
do is think I've heard something.
It sounds like God. I've seen God do it with others,
but I need to make sure that's exactly what God is saying to
me. I mean, during the time of, you
know, when I would say the air of prosperity message, you know,
people would give a car away and then they would God would give
them a better car. They hear this testimony.
You know what? People just started giving cars
away, then they don't. They don't have a car.
And then they have to get a car that's not as good as the one
they gave away. And now they're upset at God
because they're saying faith didn't work.
Well, first of all, God never told that person to give a car
You're trying to. You coveted the blessing that
God gave to someone else when God told them to give a.
Car. Not you, but what we what do we
do? We try to make faith a formula.
The only formula about faith is what is God said to you that's
in line with his word and it is his word and you are to act on
it. That's the only formula about
it. And then you stay firmly
persuaded till it comes to pass. Outside of that, I cannot say,
well, you know this word for, you know, Stacy with her
business and you know, because she did, I'm going to do it that
way. Well, God may have her do this
business a different way. It's about you hearing God for
you and your situation. Now, the end results may be the
same successful business, but you may have gone about it 2
totally different ways just because people have a pattern.
Pastors fall in this huge when it comes to churches.
Oh, they go to church, look how they're doing it.
They go back home. They try to apply that.
God never told them to apply that.
Then they get upset because they're not getting the same
results. Then they get down on
themselves. I must not be a good leader.
Well, you're not a good hearer. Most.
All of us is not that we aren't
good leaders. Sometimes we're just not good
listeners because we're applying stuff that someone else has
heard God do, but God has not spoken to us, OK?
So he says be a doer. Of the Word, not hearers, only
deceiving yourself. The new American standard of
this particular passage says it this way.
But prove yourself doers of the Word, and not merely hearers who
delude themselves. You understand coming to church,
hearing the Word, and coming to church all the time.
Hearing the word doesn't make you a successful faith person.
It can actually make you worse because if God speaks to you out
doing something and you do not do it, you know, then at the end
of the day, you're going to get yourself called up.
And really what you'll do is you'll move over into religion
to where you're going to do God's word your way on your
terms and you expect God to honor you.
That's what religion is, and that's what is what they say,
the works of the law, meaning you're going to hear God's word
and you're going to say of my own merit I can do it.
And when I do it, you have to honor me, bless me, and accept
me. But you can't do it because your
nature's off, and no religion can do it outside of faith in
the Word to perform in you. OK, so another translation says
this. Keep on obeying, keep on being
obedient to the word and not merely being hearers who deceive
themselves. Because what happens is, is
that, you know, in our sphere, there's a lot of great teaching,
which means then you acquire knowledge, you acquire
revelation knowledge, and you apply it and it changes your
life and you have the fruit of it.
But if you get into a place where again, because you're not
the only one in the room, this is a body, right?
I mean, Steve, how many times have you heard these verses?
I'm preaching right now, bro. Hot thousands, I would venture
to say thousands of times, right Yet.
There's probably some foods you've eaten thousands of times,
like a good steak, a hamburger. Fish thousands of times you're
not like I've had that yet in and when it comes to the Saints
with the scripture, we do that. I've heard that, well, the
minute you push the plate like that, because somebody in the
room had had that plate yet and they're like, what?
I've never smelled it. This is amazing.
Oh my gosh, I've never. And we're like, we're needing to
serve this. And you know, it's a good plate
because when you first had it, you loved it and you've loved it
enough. You've come to it multiple
times. But then all of a sudden the
minute you're like, push the plate, well, guess what?
You do. You have the knowledge of the
scripture and you can go tell anyone, but you've lost.
Revelation of it. The minute you lose revelation
of it, even though you have knowledge, then this is what
they sound like. You know, Well, I'm having these
challenges with finance. I'm having this challenge with
my body, you know, but I know the Lord heals me and I'm
believe, but there's a lot of butts.
Again, talk to me factually, no problem.
But once you give me the facts, all I should ever hear out of
your mouth from them. I am the healed of the Lord.
I am the righteousness of God. I am this, I am that.
And if you're having a bad day, you should have some great faith
friends that you can call and say, tell me how I'm healed.
Not this is how I'm feeling today.
I'm just having a moment. I know you're having moments.
We all have moments. But it'd be better for us to get
off talking about our moments and get to someone who you
you're not in my moment. I need you to talk about how I'm
out of my moment because I can't talk about it today.
So get neutral or keep the switch of faith on by not saying
how you feel and let somebody talk to you about how you feel
till you can start saying how you feel like they're telling
you. So people know they're shield of
the Lord or they know that God's called them the project or they
know that he has given them joy yet.
And when you try to and you recognize and you try to tell
them the word, then they kind of put up this wall.
Oh yeah, I know. Oh, yeah, I know.
Oh, yeah. No, no.
What you should be doing is, oh, thank God, I'm pulling up the
table. Bring that plate over here.
I need to eat some of this right here instead of.
Oh, I know. Well, that person probably
sliding over into this, a deceived life.
They're quoting what to do, but it's not manifesting.
In their life. They've heard it, but they're
not a doer. They've not proven it.
So again, because of Romans 117, I'm winding down now.
Romans 117 we could say this concerning, but the righteous
will live by faith. If you take this verse with
Romans 10/17, it would sound like this, but the righteous
will live by being obedient to the.
Word they have heard from Christ.
And that's how the righteous live.
Well, I'm righteous. Well then, are you living by
being obedient to the word that you've heard from Christ?
Is that how you're living? Because you know what, we we all
can explain and justify our positions a lot.
We could. And again, we all go through
challenges. Don't get me wrong, we all go
through, we can all justify a lot of stuff, but I've been
justified. I've been made righteous.
So if I'm going to walk in my righteousness, then there's a
lifestyle or a way I am to live. And that is by faith or by
obeying the word that I've heard from Christ, which is the King,
because the King loves me so much that he wants to give me a
word. That has to come to pass.
Hallelujah. Isn't that good news?
So Matthew 2121, Matthew 2121 and we'll go down to verse 22.
I'll probably be using this a little bit more than Mark 11
only because the Lord spoke to me about this verse.
Matthew 2121. We live at we are our facility
is at 2121 US One South and remember we came on the property
and we were speaking to our mountain.
OK and didn't realize this was a 2121 verse in Matthew.
OK, but it goes on and says in Jesus answer and said to them
truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt OK so you
can have faith. And you can have doubt and he
said, how's that possible? You can have faith, meaning you
can have heard and in even in past times been a doer.
But in this particular situation where you can look back on the
faithfulness of God, of how He healed you last time, how He
brought the finances last time, how He restored the relationship
last time, whatever the case may be, in this particular
situation, you begin to doubt. Because of the size of it.
So I said, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only
do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to
this mountain be taken up, cast into the sea, it will happen.
And all things you ask in prayer, believing that's having
faith firmly persuaded anchor faith you will receive you what
not maybe not could be not if it's God's will.
We already know if it's God's will because you're not even in
faith. Faith comes from hearing him.
You don't it you've already answered the will question when
you're in faith. You've not answered the will
question. If you're asking Lord, if is is
this your will not There's no problem with that question,
Lord. Now, is this your will for me?
To take this job, marry this person, whatever the case may
be, right? Well, once you hear Him, now you
know His will, and now you're in faith, because faith comes by.
I've heard, and I'm acting on it.
I'm going to do it. And it doesn't matter what storm
comes against that word. Now I said it doesn't matter
because we're going to have it. And when do I have it?
The minute I prayed, which means now I'm just thanking Him for
it. And again, how do we know if
somebody is firmly persuaded in faith and they're obeying it or
keeping it is because they're thanking all the time after
they've received well, how are you doing today?
Thank the Lord, I am the healed of the Lord.
I'm so thankful that God has healed my body.
Now you may be a wreck on the inside, but you're calling it
that and you're thanking him. You're not really saying I
believe I have it and I'm thankful I have I have it.
Now, that doesn't mean you don't check on yourself or you checked
yourself along the way. Because again, when you're in
the process of certain things, you know you always want to make
sure nothing's getting out of alignment.
No doubt is what jumped in. Nothing's delaying anything that
needs to be delayed. There's check UPS but you're
staying firmly persuaded on the words you heard.
There's been a couple situations I've been in the last couple
years that I've heard very specific the word the Lord say
to me, a very specific phrase, very specific.
And anytime I've come back to that situation, I ask him and
he's in both situations. He was quiet and he was quiet
because he's already given me the word.
The last thing I heard is the only thing he is saying, which
means keep your course, keep your course.
I know with the mall, you know, right before we know we went to
buy it, There was a little bit of challenge trying to get back
to the owner after we raised the down payment.
And I was like, man, OK, you know, do we need to go another
direction? Do we need to do something
different? You know, I mean, have we gotten
in here? Is there another process?
Did I miss something? I'm always checking, you know,
you know, I'm firmly persuaded on this thing.
But you know what? It's not an idol to me to the
point that if you tell me to go purchase some other land, I
would do it Da, da, da, da, da, you know, because obviously I
had only heard we were going to have it.
And I'll never forget during that particular conversation,
the Lord said, son, you can do whatever you want to do.
Well, I knew what he was saying because I've not changed my mind
on what I said. And then he proceeded to go on
and say, 'cause you do what you want to do.
My plan hadn't changed. Which means I'll send a man or
woman to God that will believe for this property and put on
this property exactly what I want on this property.
And you'll be in this community driving by and saying it could
have been me. Well, I was like, forget that.
Why would you forfeit what you've been called to do, right?
Why would you do that? Especially when God is assuring
you? Look, if you want to pass this
up, you can. But that doesn't change me.
Well, let me just stay with you. You know, a lot of times people
pass up and then it comes through someone else.
And some people don't even realize that some things you've
had in your heart, you're seeing other people do it actually was
yours because God let you do something else.
Come on, that's good. Ecclesiastes 84 where the word
of the king is, where the word of the king is authority and
power, we have anchor faith, faith that is firmly planted
because we are righteous people who keep His word word.
We stay obedient to it, that which we've heard, because where
the word of our King is, there's authority and power.
And no matter how much I've grown in the things of God, I
know this without a shadow of a doubt.
I'm ever dependent on hearing him, ever dependent because, you
know, I've read through the Scripture enough now that I can
quote scripture to him. But the question is, is that the
scripture I'm supposed to be using for this situation?
I can navigate situation now your word says, your word says
your word says and what I'm doing is I'm not telling him.
You better do that. I'm saying this is what your
word says. So in my situation, I know
there's a victorious in which one are you talking to me about?
Which one am I hearing you say so that it's my word.
And again, sometimes he's saying not chapter verse, but it's the
concept of. A scripture and at that point
you're like, got it, I'm doing it and you never come off and it
comes to pass.