1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:15,040 Now enjoy this message. Glory to God, say I have the 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:20,080 faith of God. Say I have the God kind of 5 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:23,280 faith. Come on, say it again. 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:29,000 I have the God kind of faith. Come on, Hallelujah. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,840 Do you have the God kind of faith? 8 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,920 That's what we've been talking about, Amen. 9 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:40,960 And I just believe we have to ask ourselves, do do we really 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:46,880 have the God kind of faith? Do we see our lives and the 11 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:52,560 faith working in our lives the way that he describes what faith 12 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,800 is through the Word of God, Amen. 13 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:00,480 Because we say many people think they have faith, but true 14 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:05,920 biblical faith can be found only through what the Word of God 15 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:11,480 says faith is, Amen. What does the word of God say 16 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,920 faith is? And last week we started our 17 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,160 journey talking about Kingdom faith and that we have all been 18 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,880 given the measure. Say I've been given the measure 19 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,400 and we talked about the fact that though we've been given the 20 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,560 measure of faith, each and every one of us are responsible, 21 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,880 right, to determine what return or what measure our faith will 22 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,960 become. Because we said last Sunday when 23 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,400 Pastor was, well, not last Sunday, but the Sunday before 24 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,600 when he talked about the seed of the word. 25 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,760 And we talked about the fact that there should always be your 26 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,560 face should always be producing something within your life that 27 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,920 you can tangibly see and what it's up to you whether that is 28 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:11,160 going to be 3060 or a hundredfold return, right? 29 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:17,800 And so the measures been given to us, the seed of faith or the 30 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,720 seed of the word has been given to each and every one of us. 31 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,840 And we talked about the fact that it came the minute we 32 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:30,880 believed in our heart and confess with our mouth that 33 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,360 Jesus Christ is Lord. The seed of faith was planted. 34 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:41,680 The seed of faith then can begin to germinate or grow or increase 35 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,000 within our hearts and in our lives. 36 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:49,400 But we see that there were several things that just as 37 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,240 Pastor said out of Mark Four, that try to come in and choke 38 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,200 the word out of our life. And so everyone of us have to 39 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:02,320 determine, are we going to let our hearts be a place where 40 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,080 nothing come on? Are we going to have good 41 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,120 ground? Because if we let the Word or 42 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,640 the seed of faith that's been planted within our heart, 43 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:19,000 planted in good ground, then we should be able to expect and see 44 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:26,320 3060 or a hundredfold return of our life producing that which we 45 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,720 believe. So we talked about last week how 46 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,960 faith came, and we talked about the fact that faith is the 47 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,200 exchange or the currency of the Kingdom. 48 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:46,520 So any promise that God says that belongs to us as a child of 49 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:52,000 God in His Word, how are we going to receive that promise? 50 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,960 We have to receive it by hearing what the Word says about it. 51 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,560 We have to then believe, believe that word that he spoke. 52 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:04,480 And the evidence of us believing the word that was spoke is that 53 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,200 we will speak it out. Not only will we speak it out, 54 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:18,279 we will act it out because faith without action is what dead. 55 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:25,680 And we went through all of these things, but biblical faith only 56 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,840 will come from the Word of God. Biblical faith. 57 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,360 This is why we have to ask ourselves, is our faith built 58 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,440 upon what Grandma and Mama has told us? 59 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:43,600 Is our faith built upon what religion has taught us? 60 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:50,280 Is our faith built upon our experiences or our opinions of 61 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:55,000 what faith is? Or is our faith true biblical 62 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,920 faith built upon what the Word says? 63 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,320 Faith is what faith looks like, and we gave a huge demonstration 64 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:10,560 last week of those that walked in faith in the Word of God, 65 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,840 Amen. Out of Hebrews 11, the hall of 66 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:18,240 faith is what it's called, Hebrews Chapter 11, and we read 67 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,200 verses one through 40. Yes, we did. 68 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,200 Yes, we did. All right. 69 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:34,560 And we saw a true picture of what biblical faith looks like, 70 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,800 OK. And the fact that a lot of times 71 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,920 what we saw with those who actually walked faith out in 72 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:49,600 their life, it was always putting them in a situation to 73 00:05:49,600 --> 00:06:00,160 where they were in the unknown. They were in, they lived in the 74 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,760 unknown. But the way American church and 75 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:11,000 Christianity looks today, nobody wants to live that way because 76 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:16,120 every example that I see through scripture of people living by 77 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:23,880 faith, they were in a peculiar situation or circumstance or 78 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:28,920 something was taking place that they would not be able to live 79 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,720 by. And we talked about this by 80 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:38,000 sight. God did not create us to live by 81 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:44,280 sight, He created us to live by faith and we read many 82 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:48,080 scriptures where he says the righteous should live by faith, 83 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,880 right? That those we should walk by 84 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:57,200 faith and not by sight. The just shall live by faith, 85 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,640 right? We read all of these scriptures 86 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:07,200 and so therefore we said this last week that true biblical 87 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,800 faith, and we have to say it that way because so many people 88 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,760 have what they say faith is, but it is in a lot of crazy 89 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:23,720 thinking, OK, we said this, that faith is a spiritual law in the 90 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,800 Kingdom of God. It's a spiritual law. 91 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,960 And that law started the minute we believed in our heart and 92 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:37,200 confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord. 93 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,280 The same way we we heard the word, we had to believe, receive 94 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,280 the word that we needed a Savior, that we had to believe 95 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,960 the word that we needed a Savior, and then we had to 96 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:57,520 confess Him as Lord of our life. That is a spiritual law in the 97 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:02,040 Kingdom or the law of faith. And that is how for the rest of 98 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:07,800 your life you will receive the promises from God through that 99 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,760 law of what we could call believing you've received, 100 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,320 speaking it out, and then acting upon it. 101 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:28,360 And so we saw last week as well that we have to be those that 102 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,200 live by faith. That means that we are going to 103 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,679 have to build our life upon faith. 104 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,480 To live by it means we build our life upon it. 105 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,120 And we said this, that faith was what? 106 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:50,120 A firm persuasion based upon what you believe and accept this 107 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:55,720 as truth because there's many people that believe Jesus Christ 108 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:02,320 is their Savior, but that's the only truth that they believe 109 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:08,120 about Him. So there's many truths within 110 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:12,440 His Word or promises within His word that belongs to every 111 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,640 believer, but you can only believe Him based upon certain 112 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,160 things that you want to receive from Him. 113 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,920 And many people choose not to receive healing from Him, even 114 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,280 though it's a promise that belongs to all who will believe. 115 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:33,800 Do you see what I'm saying? So it's based upon this firm 116 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,280 persuasion is based upon what you believe and what you accept 117 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,200 is truth. You know, we don't get to just 118 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:49,720 choose our own truth or live our own truth as a believer are the 119 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,920 truth is supposed to be formed in our life from the word of 120 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:58,920 God, not from what some psychiatrist says or what some 121 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:04,320 psychologist says or what some book says on how we are to raise 122 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,920 our children or all of these coaches that are now coaches on 123 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:17,200 Instagram, life coaches. My life coach comes straight 124 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,760 from the word of God. This is what I build my life 125 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,960 upon. So we saw that faith is a is a 126 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,320 firm for persuasion based upon what you believe, what you have 127 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,760 accepted as truth and that you adhere to it. 128 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,200 That you adhere to it so firmly that not only do you just 129 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:44,720 believe it and adhere to it, it actually you allow it to govern 130 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:50,400 your life, life, right? This faith is supposed to govern 131 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,600 what we think, what we say and what we do. 132 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,480 It's supposed to govern what we think, what we say and what we 133 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,360 do. So our lives and what we, how we 134 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:12,360 talk, what we're meditating on and the actions or the fruit of 135 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:18,600 our life will be evident. You will be able to see if 136 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:24,400 people are truly living by what they believe because there will 137 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,640 be evidence of it within their lives, right? 138 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,560 Every day. And so he says it this, we say 139 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:34,320 it this way too. It's an assurance. 140 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:39,040 It's the reality of your what you are believing. 141 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,960 It's confidence or conviction, right? 142 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,200 A firm persuasion or a confident expectation. 143 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:54,400 This is true biblical faith and we saw this out of Hebrews 11/1 144 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,160 and three, I want to reread it Hebrews 11/1 and three, it says 145 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,000 now faith is the substance or assurance. 146 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,960 I added King James and the SAB together. 147 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:10,400 So now faith is the substance, the assurance of things hoped 148 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:16,320 for, the conviction or evidence of things not seen, say not 149 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,040 seen. This is what we're going to 150 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:26,240 focus on this tonight. The not seen, the not seen. 151 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,760 So it's the conviction or evidence of things not seen. 152 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,640 For by it the men of old gained approval. 153 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:39,520 And by faith we understand that the world's listen to this. 154 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:47,640 By faith we understand that the world's were prepared by the 155 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:54,040 Word of God. By the Word of God we know in 156 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,600 the beginning in Genesis, what did He do? 157 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,000 He said in Genesis one, let there be. 158 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,560 And what was there? He created the world. 159 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:12,880 He created everything we see in this world by His word, we can 160 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:17,160 be assured, we can be firmly persuaded. 161 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:23,120 We should have the conviction that His word will form, will 162 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:28,440 create whatever world we see that we want to live in. 163 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,240 And if we want to see the promises of God, then we have to 164 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:38,280 base our faith on what the Word says about our marriage, what 165 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,040 the Word says about our finances, what the Word says 166 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,040 come on about healing and health in our body. 167 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,000 What does the Word say? Because that is what I'm going 168 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,600 to build my faith upon. That is the substance of what 169 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:59,040 I'm going to build upon and that is going to create the reality 170 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,200 in the natural, in this natural realm. 171 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:08,560 And to do that it will always be unseen. 172 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,520 To start, it was all. It was unseen to God before He 173 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:21,440 created the world, but then He spoke it and it came into 174 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:30,680 reality and he said in a mark we read this last week, Mark 11/22 175 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:36,480 to have the God kind of faith, the God kind of faith. 176 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:41,880 So if he says something and can create it, then what is He 177 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:46,840 saying that we should be doing? Saying something and what? 178 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,320 Creating it. But we have to believe what 179 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,920 we're saying. And that belief has to be based 180 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:58,160 upon what his word has said, right? 181 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,400 It's not just, you know, whatever. 182 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,040 No, it's what the Word has said belongs to us. 183 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:09,040 So by faith we understand that the world's were prepared or 184 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:13,760 created by the Word of God so that what is seen was not made 185 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,240 out of the things which are visible. 186 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:23,240 And he tells us this is the kind of faith that we are to have, 187 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,920 has given us the measure of that faith. 188 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:33,880 And therefore we are people that are not going to be able to live 189 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:39,080 by what we see in this natural realm or this natural world. 190 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,520 Period. We can't live by that. 191 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:50,000 True people of living by faith is not going to live by what we 192 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,080 see in this natural realm. We're going to live by the 193 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,280 substance of faith, that substance. 194 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:03,680 And we said that stop substance was to be the foundation or the 195 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,360 structure, that word substance. Let me find that again. 196 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:12,120 It means that thing that we're setting up under to support us. 197 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:17,920 It is concrete. Come on, It is the foundation, 198 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,120 the substance of faith. Get that? 199 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:27,120 The substance of faith is what we are to build our foundation 200 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:34,880 upon, not anything else. Not anything else. 201 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:47,680 And faith, before it is brought into reality, cannot be seen. 202 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:55,120 It cannot be seen. We know that there's wind. 203 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,720 You can't see the wind. You only see the effects of the 204 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:06,680 wind. So wind is not seen. 205 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,319 What you see is the effects of the wind. 206 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:15,599 So faith is not seen, but what you should see is the effects of 207 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:24,960 your faith within your life and whatever promise God says 208 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:30,400 belongs to you, right? So you should see the evidence 209 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,640 of that. That is the substance that 210 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,880 you're building your life upon. That is the foundation. 211 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:42,120 And we have to act, truly ask ourselves, is, is that my 212 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,560 foundation? Is faith truly the foundation of 213 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,360 what I've built my life upon? Because we know that many people 214 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:54,400 say they have faith. And this is great to reiterate 215 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,960 because they say, oh, yeah, I believe that there is a God. 216 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,040 I have faith that there's a God. But they don't know how to 217 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,480 appropriate that faith to where they live by it every day. 218 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:13,440 And he tells us that we are to live by this, right? 219 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:19,640 We're to live by it, not just believe that there's a God and 220 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:24,600 that he can do anything. But actually, what Pastor has 221 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:29,480 taught us, I believe that what he says that we can do and he 222 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,480 can do, he'll do through me, through me, through us. 223 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:39,440 That's where we have to be, OK? And faith we saw last week is 224 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:45,160 useless if it's not activated, if we're not acting on it or we 225 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:49,160 are not believing God. And the most of the time that 226 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:53,120 it's going to be activated is in the situations, the tests, the 227 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:57,280 trials, the circumstances where it looks like you're going 228 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:02,560 under, where it looks like your marriage is falling apart. 229 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,640 When it looks like, come on, you're not going to be able to 230 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:11,000 make your mortgage when it looks like these are in the unseen. 231 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:18,280 This is in the unseen realm that you are to apply your faith 232 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,640 within those moments and in those times. 233 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,600 And that is to really lives by faith. 234 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,040 I'm not going to live by what I see. 235 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,040 I'm not going to live by how I feel about the situation. 236 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:35,960 I'm not going to live by so we can sing about it, but I'm 237 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,680 finding a lot of people are actually doing it in the midst 238 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:47,720 of these situations. OK, So we have to stir ourselves 239 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:53,080 up in faith because we said that in Second Corinthians. 240 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,280 He says, test yourself to see if you're in faith. 241 00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:02,520 So this is a test of what true biblical faith looks like. 242 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:07,560 And we should test our lives according to what true biblical 243 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,680 faith looks, not not according to our imagination and what we 244 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:18,560 think or how we think, right? And this, this is always, always 245 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,840 a heart, always wanting to say, am I in faith in this situation? 246 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:30,840 Or have I responded differently and and I responding differently 247 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,640 in whatever circumstance I'm going to? 248 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,800 Or do I go straight to the word and do I believe the word, speak 249 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,800 the word, act upon the Word no matter what I see, right? 250 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,520 Do I act upon the word no matter what I see? 251 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,920 Am I firmly persuaded that my faith that's built upon him will 252 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,680 not fail? We said the Weymouth 253 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,840 translation. Read it this way out of Hebrews 254 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,760 11. Now faith means that we are 255 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:08,560 confident of what we hope for, and convinced of what we do not 256 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:13,040 see, say, do not see. Moffett translation reads it 257 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:17,160 this way. Faith is the title deed of 258 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:22,520 things hoped for, putting to prove the things not seen. 259 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,440 Faith is the title deed. The title deed, it is done. 260 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,440 I own it right. Hallelujah. 261 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:40,320 So faith will always operate in the unseen. 262 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:45,960 Let's talk about this tonight. Faith is the substance that is 263 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,280 unseen. Pastor had ministered a sermon 264 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,880 called the Unseen Principle a long time ago. 265 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,640 How many of you were here when he did that or remember that? 266 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,120 So we're going to just kind of read not, I don't have his 267 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:04,840 message. We're just going to be talking 268 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:10,640 about the unseen principle. So one of the greatest examples 269 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:18,960 and scripture that we see that lived by faith was Abraham. 270 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:26,560 Abraham, who is called the father of faith, also was called 271 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:33,080 the father of us all. He was our example, He was our 272 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,640 father. He was the father of faith, the 273 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,960 father of us all. And I would like to look at his 274 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:49,800 life and how he lived by faith and he lived in the unseen. 275 00:22:50,720 --> 00:23:00,000 OK, now let's go to Romans chapter 416 through 20. 276 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,640 Romans say my faith is out of this world. 277 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,080 Say it again, my faith is out of this world. 278 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,360 Say my faith is out of this world. 279 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:19,200 My faith is out of this world. Come on, it's out of this world. 280 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:26,840 It is not of this natural realm. It's not our faith is out of 281 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:32,840 this world. Hallelujah, which would be a 282 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,520 good title for this message, though it wasn't. 283 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:44,360 But so look at Romans, as I said, is everybody there? 284 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,560 Because we see here through Abraham's life. 285 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:55,400 It says, therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace 286 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,600 to the end, the to end the promise. 287 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:04,400 Excuse me, to the end the promise might be sure to all the 288 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:10,440 seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also 289 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,200 which is of the faith of Abraham, which is US, who is the 290 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,280 father of us all. As it is written, I have made 291 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:23,360 thee a father of many nations before him who he believed, even 292 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:29,640 God, who quickened the dead, and called those things which he not 293 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:35,880 as though they were, who against hope believed in hope that he 294 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,480 might become the father of many nations. 295 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,880 According to that which was spoken. 296 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,880 So shall thy seed be without becoming what? 297 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:50,120 Weak in faith, he contemplated his own body, now as good as 298 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:54,320 dead, since he was about 100 years old, and the deadness of 299 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,920 Sarah's womb. Yet with respect to the promise 300 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:03,600 of God, he did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in 301 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:10,000 faith, giving glory to God. Hallelujah. 302 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,520 So we know Abraham and Sarah, God promised them a child and 303 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,240 they were up of age, that they, neither one of them were in 304 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:25,600 child bearing age, right? They were old OK and we see that 305 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,400 God spoke this promise to him and said you will have a child 306 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:35,680 and you will be the father. What of many of of all these 307 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:42,520 people in the nation, many nations and we see here Abraham 308 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:49,200 he said this that he what called those things which be not as 309 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:59,600 though they were so faith did not go by what he saw in this 310 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:06,400 natural realm. Faith, the God kind of faith 311 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:16,280 will always defy natural laws. Always God's faith will always 312 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:21,000 defy natural laws. It can supersede it because his 313 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,240 faith is out of this world. So it doesn't matter how dead 314 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,000 your circumstance looks. It doesn't matter what's going 315 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,240 on in your life. If we would take up the faith 316 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:39,880 his what his word calls faith, a firm persuasion, a confident 317 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,680 expectation and begin to let it operate within our lives, then 318 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,920 we would begin to start calling those things that be not as 319 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,560 though they were. That be not as though he said 320 00:26:52,560 --> 00:27:00,120 his word would would be as though he said his word would be 321 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:02,960 in whatever situation you may go through. 322 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,760 And that is the substance of faith, his word. 323 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:14,920 It's the substance that we are to build our life upon, and it's 324 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,480 going to go against everything we see in the natural. 325 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,760 Everything we see in the natural. 326 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,440 Abraham had to believe. What did it say? 327 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:33,320 Hope against hope, according to that which was spoken by God. 328 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:40,600 His word is what He has said. So whatever was spoken in His 329 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:45,520 Word, that's what we are to believe in the midst of whatever 330 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,120 circumstance we're going through or whatever situation we're 331 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:51,400 going through. And what did he do? 332 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,680 He did not contemplate when translation said that the 333 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:01,960 deadness of Sarah's womb, He didn't contemplate it, right? 334 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,360 That means, guess what? He did not meditate on that. 335 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,800 But what he meditated on was what God had promised him. 336 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,720 And so his faith was in what God had promised him, not with his 337 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,200 circumstance or the evidence of what he was seeing in the 338 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,600 natural. Because faith will always 339 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,800 supersede it. Because our faith is to be out 340 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,880 of this world. It does not function like this 341 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,160 world system. Come on it doesn't function like 342 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,560 this world system. I want to reread James chapter 2 343 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:45,360 because James chapter 2 which is what we read last week and I 344 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,960 didn't elaborate on Abraham but they mentioned Abraham in James 345 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,840 chapter 2 and I want to read it again in James chapter 2 verses. 346 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,880 Actually we read last week 14 through 26 but I want to start 347 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,720 in 18 and listen to this. It says, now someone may argue 348 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,480 some people have faith, others have good deeds. 349 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,240 But I say, how can you show me your faith if you do not have 350 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,080 good deeds? I will show you my faith by good 351 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,040 deeds. Because we started, we talked 352 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,400 about the fact that faith will act. 353 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:24,840 Faith will do what it believes. Verse 19, you say you have faith 354 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,880 for you believe that there is one God. 355 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,200 Good for you, good for you. This is those people. 356 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,560 Oh yeah, I believe there's a God. 357 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:40,400 Well, good for you. OK, but do we live by it? 358 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,480 Because he goes on to say this. That's good for you. 359 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:53,920 Even the demons believe this. So you have the faith of demons. 360 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,760 It's all if all you do is believe that there's a God. 361 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:10,520 Good for you. Think about that, because does 362 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,480 this faith work in your life every day? 363 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,880 Because if not, you're no better than a demon. 364 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,680 Come on, let's just say it like that. 365 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,000 You have no more faith than what a demon has. 366 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:44,000 The demons believe this and they tremble in terror. 367 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,760 But I know believers that don't even have one ounce of the fear 368 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,280 of the Lord. But demons tremble because they 369 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,760 do believe there is a God. They know that there is a God 370 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:05,960 and they know that they will give answer to that God and they 371 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,480 have more fear of God than we do. 372 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,120 Just a side point. Because the American church has 373 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,760 lost all reverence and fear of God because they still want to 374 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,480 just live the way they want to live. 375 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,320 Look what he says in verse 20. How foolish. 376 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,840 Can't you see that faith without good deeds is useless? 377 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:37,560 Don't you remember that our ancestor Abraham was shown to be 378 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:43,920 right by God or right with God by his actions when he offered 379 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:52,920 his son Isaac on the altar? And aren't you glad that God is 380 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:58,560 not ever asking us to have to offer our children because He 381 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,760 offered His only Son in our place? 382 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,600 But how many of us say we have all this wonderful faith and go 383 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:13,840 to all these grand, wonderful faith conferences and can echo 384 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,560 everything that we're supposed to say Faith does, how faith 385 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,600 comes, what faith, how you to act upon it? 386 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,560 But yet we don't believe Him and actually do the Word every day 387 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:34,400 in our everyday life, in our everyday life. 388 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:44,760 To me, that is useless, right? And so he lets us know because, 389 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,280 you know, the American Church does not believe in sacrifice 390 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,560 any longer. Nobody wants to have to 391 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:57,120 sacrifice anything. They don't want to sacrifice 392 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,080 their time to serve. They don't want to sacrifice, 393 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:07,040 you know, their finances. They don't want to sacrifice 394 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,520 walking in love with somebody that may have done them wrong. 395 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,920 Come on. They don't want to sacrifice 396 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,120 their time. They don't want to. 397 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,600 They don't want to sacrifice any law, but they do want to say 398 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:25,120 they have faith in God. They don't want to sacrifice 399 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,200 anymore. And we're going to be a church 400 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:36,840 that's going to have faith that endures till the end because 401 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,000 we're seeing many people that are falling away from the faith 402 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,200 and not enduring, and they don't endure because they just simply 403 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:51,800 don't believe what His Word says that it is and that it can do. 404 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,640 It's just as simple as that. It's it's not some big 405 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,480 revelation, OK? It's not a big revelation. 406 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,600 This thing on how we, I wasn't even feel, I wasn't even, I had 407 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,320 not even been taught faith and was living a life of faith, 408 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:13,360 didn't even know that I was living a life of faith. 409 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,760 But you know what? I did know what his word was 410 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,360 telling me to do and I believed it. 411 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:25,440 And guess what else I did? I acted upon it had no 412 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,280 revelation of the AB CS of faith, had no revelation that I 413 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,320 have to believe and speak and and act. 414 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,199 But what I did know is what the Word was telling me to do. 415 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,560 And guess what I did? I obeyed that. 416 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:46,800 And every step of the way, God always took care of every single 417 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:51,760 need, every single thing. Hallelujah. 418 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:58,800 And the sacrifices that were made were done by faith and what 419 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,880 He was asking and requiring of me. 420 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,560 And there was always a sacrifice and there was always a 421 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:13,680 requirement to be able to do what He was asking of me to, to, 422 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,280 to do. And we, we said this, that when 423 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:22,840 he called pastor and I to ministry, we were living in 424 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:31,280 Georgia at the time and we're going to a Baptist Church, a 425 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,360 Baptist Church. That's where our faith was. 426 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:41,880 We had no idea. We picked up US and our two 427 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:46,680 children at the time, loaded up a pickup and headed to Georgia 428 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:53,960 because Pastor heard the Lord say go to Georgia, you know, and 429 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,200 live with my father because at the time he was not born again 430 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,320 and all these things and that he was going to get a job and we 431 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:02,960 were going to, you know, whatever. 432 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,800 He was coming off of a, a National Guard tour at the time 433 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:11,960 and we knew nothing. And actually my husband was 434 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:16,160 reading the Bible and he had picked up a little booklet from 435 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:24,040 Charles Stanley and in it he was talking about faith according to 436 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:29,880 Charles Stanley's faith, right. And that was the seed of faith 437 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,000 or the measure of faith that we were walking in at the time. 438 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,240 And all he knew is we are supposed to pick up and go, no 439 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:45,040 job, nothing. Well, that was a sacrifice 440 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,680 because I mean, you're asking me to just pick up and go with you. 441 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,480 And, you know, whatever. I don't even remember how long 442 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,200 we had even been married by them. 443 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,360 Only maybe four or five years. Not even that long. 444 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:06,600 And so we we sold everything, picked up and loaded up the 445 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,920 pickup and you know, you've heard the story. 446 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,000 It was on the 4th of July weekend when we were moving up 447 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:18,720 there and didn't even get out of what was at Lake City and a 448 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:22,280 overpass had collapsed, collapsed in the middle of the 449 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,280 highway. So 4th of July weekend still in 450 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,520 Florida in Lake City, the middle of right, no breeze. 451 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,920 I mean it's 4th of July and it's hot. 452 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,920 It's 90°. We're in line for. 453 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:43,040 We are in traffic for four hours with a child that hated the car 454 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,880 seat in the 1st place, which was Chase, Pastor Chase, who 455 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,680 screamed bloody murder every time you put him in a car seat 456 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:58,640 and got carsick all the time. And so he's screaming he's hot. 457 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,320 What happens? We are in this Interstate for so 458 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,600 long, car stop, just start pulling off the side of the road 459 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:13,360 because they're overheating. So everybody's overheating and 460 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:19,800 we finally get to a gas station. We cut our car off and it 461 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,800 wouldn't crank back up. And you heard the story where 462 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,760 the one guy showed up, put the pliers on one side of the jumper 463 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,680 thing and a tire iron on the other. 464 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:37,840 One Junior and with short shorts and it's his no shoes, no shirt. 465 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:46,240 It was welcome there at that Jiffy store and with the pockets 466 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:48,800 of the shorts, you know, the front pockets hanging out. 467 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:57,720 He was our Angel that day, junior, and he cranked our car 468 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:00,840 right up with his bare hands and those two things. 469 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:06,560 And we took off to Atlanta and, you know, the rest is history. 470 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,400 Maybe we'll get into some of those testimonies, but we had 471 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,320 nothing, you know, and here's my husband telling me I'm going to 472 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,040 get a good job. We're going to, you know, all I 473 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,960 wanted was a, a house with a white picket fence. 474 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,240 And you know, somebody that worked 9:00 to 5:00. 475 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:28,400 So he got a good job all right. And they were getting ready to 476 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:33,280 send him. He was working for like a DAPA 477 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,760 corporation or something. And he was doing mainframes with 478 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,720 the computer stuff and was get, they were getting ready to send 479 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:45,600 him so that he could see that he saw in the paper in Atlanta that 480 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,760 they could start making six figures. 481 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,360 So we're, we're going for it, right? 482 00:39:51,560 --> 00:40:01,120 The American dream. And but God arrested him on his 483 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:06,040 way to work one night because he was working shift work and he 484 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,080 had that open vision of him preaching. 485 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,040 To masses and was called into the ministry. 486 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:19,200 Came home the next morning and told me this grand vision. 487 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,960 And do y'all know what my comments were? 488 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:32,840 I did not marry a pastor. That's good for you, but that is 489 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:40,960 not who I am ever wanted to be, ever want to be right and said 490 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,320 you going to be doing this thing on your own. 491 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,400 And that's where I was spiritually. 492 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,000 OK. And you know, so all of these 493 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,960 things, I mean, we're living in my dad's house and you telling 494 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,400 me we call and going into the ministry. 495 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,400 I said I'm not pastor wife material. 496 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:06,000 I mean, don't you know, I was a teenage dropout pregnant girl? 497 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,880 I mean, you know, that's not pastor wife material. 498 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,560 You know, I had in my mind what I thought a pastor and then 499 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,240 every pastor wife I really ever had known looked miserable, 500 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,640 wasn't really raised in church, you know, or anything. 501 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,080 But it did not look like this grand life that you're, you're 502 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,160 telling me we going to make 6 figures. 503 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,800 And now we going into the ministry where they didn't wear 504 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,240 makeup and had buns in their hair and I cannot play the 505 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:41,040 piano. My mom didn't make me finish my 506 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:45,280 piano lessons. I mean, this is what I 507 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:51,240 envisioned, you know, and I said we might as well sign the papers 508 00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:56,920 now because that is not what I signed up for. 509 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,760 I didn't even know what I signed up for at the in reality, OK, 510 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:09,760 but anyway, but God had other plans And you know what I had to 511 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,160 do? I had to surrender my life to 512 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:17,720 His plans. I had to sacrifice my life to 513 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:21,000 His plans. I had to make a decision. 514 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:26,160 Am I going to live out the Word of God for my life and for what 515 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:31,200 He is saying or what He is requiring and begin to start 516 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:37,320 living by faith and not by all the circumstances and the 517 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:43,200 situations that I was encountering on a regular basis 518 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:50,520 with this husband of mine? So then, you know, he gets, you 519 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,000 know, so he's telling me he's called to the ministry. 520 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,880 We didn't know what that meant. We had no clue what that meant, 521 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,880 had nobody in the ministry in our family but a stepbrother. 522 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,280 And I said this last week that now doesn't even serve the Lord 523 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,600 and has a pot farm. OK, He's into the municipal 524 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:14,520 marijuana stuff and actually was the very first person that sewed 525 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,360 into our ministry when we started this church at Gamble 526 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:21,600 Rogers and gave us all of the sound equipment to start with, 527 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,200 but now doesn't even serve the Lord and has a pot farm. 528 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,320 So what does that tell me? His faith did not endure. 529 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,000 He was in Bible college and felt called to the ministry. 530 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,240 And that is the only person we knew. 531 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:41,320 Like, OK, so my husband's like, well, I mean, if God's calling 532 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,560 us, I guess we need to go to a Bible school, you know, because 533 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,360 I made good grades and everything, so surely I can go 534 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,440 find a Bible school. Well, that was the only Bible 535 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,840 school we knew of, which is where he was going. 536 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:59,320 And I said this last week and it was a living hell when we then 537 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,680 he tells me we weren't even in Georgia very long, not even two 538 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,920 years. And at the same time got 539 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:09,160 pregnant with Brianna and moved into an apartment in Rose, 540 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,000 Roswell, GA. And it was infested with 541 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,800 roaches. My dad was trying to talk us out 542 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,040 of moving into this apartment. Stay with me, stay with me, it's 543 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,920 fine. So we move into this apartment 544 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:29,240 and did not stay there two days, packed everything back up and 545 00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:31,520 move back it. How do you think that made me 546 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:38,200 feel? You know, I didn't want to have 547 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:46,520 to, you know, put down my pride and go back and live with him. 548 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,200 And, you know, now this new found, you know, thing of 549 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,440 knowing you're called to ministry and to be a pastor and 550 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,040 yet you can't even move into an apartment, be there for two 551 00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,320 weeks, whatever. I don't know. 552 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:03,480 But all I do know is in that night of sleeping in that Roach 553 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:09,840 infested apt, I had to take a pregnancy test and found out I 554 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:14,600 was pregnant with little old Brianna, right, Who's 30 now, 555 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:20,440 you know, so here we are, you know, in Georgia. 556 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,600 He's telling me he's called to the ministry. 557 00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,080 We moving having to move back with my dad. 558 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:29,360 This is all within like not even six months period of time, you 559 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,520 know, that all these things are transpiring and then tells me 560 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:37,760 we're going to pick up and move to South Carolina. 561 00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:47,000 Columbia, SC is where this seminary was that my stepbrother 562 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,200 was going. So that's all we knew. 563 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,080 So now he's telling me we're going to sell any little 564 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,920 belongings we had left and now we're going to move to, we had 565 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,800 to load up a U-Haul and move to South Carolina. 566 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:08,520 I'm pregnant, right? I'm all these things. 567 00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:13,040 Now he is jobless again because we're moving. 568 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:17,360 He couldn't keep his six figure, you know, job, which we never 569 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:25,000 obtained to believe me anyway. So we get to South Carolina and 570 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,760 now we're in a place where we don't know anyone other than the 571 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,800 stepbrother. It's still it's a Baptist 572 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:38,920 seminary at that, which is what we call cemeteries today, right. 573 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:50,960 Baptist seminary no job. I mean, was just miserable and 574 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:59,000 not knowing, having a clue what's happening and no money 575 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,040 until he, he started doing some side jobs with somebody through 576 00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,240 the church where my stepbrother was going to. 577 00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:09,280 But it was barely enough. You know, my kids don't even 578 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:13,760 know that that Christmas, the only Christmas presents that 579 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,400 they got was because someone knew we had moved there from the 580 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:22,640 other church we were going to in Georgia and asked if they could 581 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,160 their Sunday school class could bless our children with 582 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,880 Christmas gifts. I didn't. 583 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,920 My kids don't ever know that, but of course they got presents 584 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:38,400 from their grandparents and then this Sunday school class wanted 585 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,920 to send our children Christmas presents and thank God they did 586 00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,560 because we had nothing. They don't even know that when 587 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:52,160 we then God calls us to Rhema out of that cemetery and thank 588 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,560 God I prayed us out of South Carolina. 589 00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,320 I'm serious. My husband, I was still so 590 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,720 locked up. I had never told him that I was 591 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:05,360 actually filled with the Holy Ghost because he was a good old 592 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:10,040 Southern Baptist boy. And I was so locked up and 593 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,640 didn't trust people and didn't trust what he would have think 594 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,040 would have thought. And so I never told him that I 595 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,360 had gotten filled with the Holy Ghost at a Church of God. 596 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:27,040 And so during that six month span that we were in South 597 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:32,440 Carolina, I started praying in the Holy Ghost every single day 598 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:41,360 while he was at cemetery. And listen, I started praying in 599 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:45,160 the Holy Ghost. I mean, I was like, this is not 600 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,920 where I am supposed to be. This is not what my life is 601 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:55,120 supposed to be. We had no money, you know, I 602 00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:58,760 mean, just it was miserable. It was just miserable. 603 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:05,640 And and I told y'all last week I had like $14.00 to my name to 604 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,960 our name and had to make a decision whether I was going to 605 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,080 buy baby formula or pay my tithe. 606 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:19,240 Back then I didn't even know how the principles of faith worked. 607 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,600 All I know is his word said to tithe. 608 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:29,320 So I made a decision to buy her cow's milk which was $200.00, 609 00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,680 two dollars and something a gallon at the time. 610 00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:37,520 Put my tithe in the offering and that very week we owe I opened 611 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,600 up the door and there was groceries filled in bags on our 612 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:46,920 front doorstep. So because I'm praying in the 613 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,000 Holy Ghost and I'm crying out to God and saying this is not my 614 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,920 life. I don't want this life. 615 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,120 What have you? What are you doing to me? 616 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,000 What have you asked of me? What have I done to deserve 617 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,440 this? I mean, what have I done to 618 00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:05,680 deserve this, right? I mean, I was saying it all. 619 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:12,320 And you know, there was not really the only faith that I had 620 00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:16,000 was in what I knew in the word of God. 621 00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:22,920 And so he got us out six. I mean, one one day he walked. 622 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:24,560 Well, I'll tell you what happened. 623 00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:31,040 He was having to ride a bike to the cemetery every day, and 624 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,200 that's how he had to get there. He was riding a bike and in 625 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,960 South Carolina there's hills, guys, right up and down these 626 00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:45,520 hills. His wheel flew off of the bike 627 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:51,320 and he flipped and wrecked and had to get a ride on the side of 628 00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,520 the road with somebody, a complete stranger. 629 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,440 He shows up with this wheel in his hand and the bike in the 630 00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:04,360 other hand and some random car that showed up dropping him off. 631 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:08,280 And I walk outside and I'm like, what is up? 632 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:15,160 And he said, I think we need to move back to Florida. 633 00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:22,640 I said, I think you're right. I think you're right. 634 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:29,440 And so we loaded up the pickup again from South Carolina with 635 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:35,280 bald tires on our van and bald tires on this trailer from a 636 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:39,760 friend to help us pull this, whatever we owned at the time. 637 00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:47,720 And the tires were so bad, the friend that loaned us or the 638 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:54,320 yeah, that loaned us the trailer and ended up buying us new 639 00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:55,680 tires. He's like, you're not going to 640 00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,440 make it to Florida with these tires. 641 00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,320 And this is how poor we were, guys. 642 00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,560 And and so we get back to Florida. 643 00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,240 Well, he goes to work for Orkin and we're moving. 644 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:13,240 We moved in with his mother. So yay for me. 645 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:28,280 That was fun times with three kids, her, her other son, his 646 00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:33,520 brother that passed away and that was another whole scenario. 647 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:40,000 But anyway there's so many stories I could tell. 648 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:45,600 Y'all just want story night of how we had to live by faith. 649 00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:52,600 Hallelujah. And so anyway, let me see if I 650 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:58,520 can move on from here. Oh, glory to God. 651 00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:04,120 Is this helping anybody? Listen, this is called living by 652 00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,480 faith. This is called do you believe 653 00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,800 his word or do you not? This is called, there's going to 654 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,400 be things that he's asking you to do. 655 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,280 You're not going to want to do. You're not going to want to 656 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,080 sacrifice. You're not going to want to 657 00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:20,720 sell. You're not going to want to have 658 00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:24,440 to do this, to do that in which he's asking of you. 659 00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:30,520 But I'm telling you what? No risk, no reward. 660 00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:37,120 No risk, no reward. We would not be doing what we're 661 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,360 doing today if we had not risked it all. 662 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:47,080 Everything, spirit, soul and body risk it all. 663 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:54,120 Let it all go and completely trust in who he says he is. 664 00:53:55,000 --> 00:54:02,280 Apply it to your everyday life. Walk this thing out, carry out 665 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,920 what he tells you to do. And I'm going to tell you every 666 00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:11,840 time he will come through every single time. 667 00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:16,880 Because if there is no risk, there is no reward at the end. 668 00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:25,480 And he is not in. Listen, true biblical faith does 669 00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:30,840 not look like this mamby pamby, Sissy American stuff that we're 670 00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:34,320 seeing today across this nation in churches. 671 00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,720 I'm just telling you, it is not real faith. 672 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:46,800 It's not real faith. It is not comfortable to live by 673 00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,720 faith. It is not easy to do the things 674 00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:55,760 that he is requiring of you to cut people out of your life, to 675 00:54:55,760 --> 00:55:00,840 cut off this, to cut out that, to say I'll never take another 676 00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:04,240 look at that. I'll never do that again. 677 00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:06,400 I'll never. I mean, come on. 678 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:11,680 These are the things that he's asking of us to truly grow and 679 00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:17,880 mature as the body of Christ. There's going to be sacrifice. 680 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,960 There's going to be suffering, which nobody wants to hear 681 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:29,280 today. It's, I mean, I suffered, but I 682 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:34,720 suffered in the grace of God. I suffered in the rest of God. 683 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:45,320 I suffered in the plan of God, in the will of God, and the only 684 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:52,960 thing that really suffered was my flesh and my will to align my 685 00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:59,240 will with His. I mean, my kids don't even know 686 00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:02,840 that I had to sell blood platelets while we were at Rhema 687 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:07,000 to buy them Christmas presents 'cause you could go multiple 688 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:11,640 times during the month. And we didn't have the money to 689 00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,800 buy them while we were at Bible school. 690 00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,120 So we would. We found out that you could get 691 00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:21,240 20 to $40 every time you went to give blood platelets downtown 692 00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:25,560 Tulsa. So that's what we did. 693 00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:34,640 And yet we can't even give our time to serve His body. 694 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:49,320 There's requirements, guys, to live biblical faith, true 695 00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,120 biblical faith. That means He's going to ask us 696 00:56:52,120 --> 00:57:02,440 to give when it hurts. He's going to ask us to do 697 00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:06,640 things when it is not convenient, when it is not 698 00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:10,240 comfortable, and when you want to say no. 699 00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:17,920 But if you do it, come on, there's going to be real faith 700 00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,720 operating in your life. Hallelujah. 701 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,240 So we've all been given the measure of faith and he expects 702 00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:30,880 us to walk it out. And we have to be people that 703 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:35,000 listen in the natural. In the natural, there's no 704 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,560 groceries. This is what I'm seeing. 705 00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:42,880 No food for my children in the natural. 706 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:49,080 But my God is out of this world, so I couldn't look. 707 00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:53,360 Look at the empty cabinet. What I had to look at is that 708 00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:57,440 God, you said that if I tithe, that you would open up the 709 00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,640 windows of heaven and pour out upon me a blessing. 710 00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:04,760 Oh, Hallelujah. You told me that if I sowed my 711 00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:09,040 seed. Come on and put it in the ground 712 00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:15,400 that my God would supply all of my needs and I'm in a need right 713 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,960 now. And my need is is that I don't 714 00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,080 see anything that. But let me tell you something. 715 00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,320 And you know what else he said? That his righteous would never 716 00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:28,760 have to beg for seed. And I'm going to tell you we 717 00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,680 never had to beg for seed. We never had to beg for food. 718 00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:38,040 We never had to beg even though many a times, and I think maybe 719 00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:43,320 it was more pride than even faith sometimes because you 720 00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,280 know, all along I'm thinking I never got food stamps. 721 00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,520 And no shame on anybody that lived. 722 00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,160 Food shamps should not be your source and supply. 723 00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:56,440 As a child of God, you should not live on that. 724 00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:00,240 No, what you should live on is the word of God, the bread. 725 00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:04,080 Come on, every word that proceeds out of his mouth. 726 00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,680 We didn't have food stamps. And I thought to myself, well 727 00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:11,080 how stupid. All these years later, well how 728 00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:13,360 stupid, why didn't we go get food stamps? 729 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,760 I didn't know you could get WIC and milk for. 730 00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:22,040 I could have had formula for my baby, but really I was just too 731 00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:27,560 prideful probably. But in my pride, I learned how 732 00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:31,520 to what? Trust in God, Have faith in God, 733 00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,200 because this government is not my source. 734 00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,840 That's what I learned. But I learned it the hard way. 735 00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:43,040 And nobody wants to go through the hard way of true biblical 736 00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:48,560 faith to actually learn how to exercise faith and live by it. 737 00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:57,200 Hallelujah, I'm telling you this works every time. 738 00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:03,320 It works every time it works. Never had to beg for bread. 739 01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,840 He always came through. He always supplied because we 740 01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:13,400 always did what his word said to do and we believed it and we 741 01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,880 acted upon it and we lived by it. 742 01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:23,440 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So that your faith. 743 01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:31,400 The measure of faith can grow and increase in your life some 744 01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:37,120 3060 and 100 fold. If you don't exercise when 745 01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,840 there's nothing, guess what? It's not going to grow. 746 01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:46,040 It's not going to increase to where, as I said, Brother Hagin 747 01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,720 used to say, how can somebody act like they're going to 748 01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:53,880 believe God for $100,000 and can't even believe God for gas 749 01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:59,000 to put in their car? You see that? 750 01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,440 So you have to what? What do you have? 751 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:09,000 Start with the measure of faith that you have, just like the 752 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:12,480 widow woman. What do you have? 753 01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:17,640 You know what she said. All I have was this, a little 754 01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:21,000 bit of flour that I'm going to make for me and my son. 755 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,800 This was her confession so that we can die. 756 01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,840 Have you ever felt like you were going to die? 757 01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:36,680 I have, I have. We're going to die if this don't 758 01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:40,720 come through. I mean, you know, we're going to 759 01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:46,440 die if God don't come through. But what we do have is faith. 760 01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,760 We've been given the measure of faith. 761 01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:53,440 And therefore, I'm going to stand upon what His words said 762 01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:58,280 and believe God in the midst of these situations where you feel 763 01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:02,560 like you're going to die and that you have nothing else. 764 01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:09,120 This is true biblical faith. So Abraham, listen, this is what 765 01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,240 he he had to be a person that said, listen, I'm not going to 766 01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:17,080 look at the deadness of the womb, but I'm going to in hope 767 01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:24,960 against hope and belief in faith, I'm going to believe and 768 01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:30,240 call those things that be not as though they were because my life 769 01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,040 is built upon the promise of God. 770 01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:35,920 My life is built upon the word of God. 771 01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:40,560 Faith is the substance that I have built my life upon. 772 01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,160 So therefore you had to what, walk it out? 773 01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:47,240 And did it happen for Abraham overnight? 774 01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,080 And what if he would have shrunk back? 775 01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:54,720 Because Hebrew says, right, he has no pleasure in those that 776 01:02:54,720 --> 01:03:00,040 shrink back from faith. What if he would have quit? 777 01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,160 Believe it. What if he would have quit 778 01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:05,120 calling? Well, I can assure you we 779 01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:09,240 wouldn't see the things that he was able to see. 780 01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:11,720 So say my faith is out of this world. 781 01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:17,960 We are not to live by what we see in this natural realm. 782 01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:22,840 Hallelujah, glory to God. Now let's read Hebrews. 783 01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:35,230 We'll close with this Hebrews again about Abraham. 784 01:03:35,950 --> 01:03:38,550 Did I finish reading James about Abraham? 785 01:03:40,870 --> 01:03:49,360 OK, OK, let's read Hebrews about Abraham because I wanted you to 786 01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:52,320 see this. So starting in verse one. 787 01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,600 And it goes like this. Now faith is assurance of things 788 01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,840 hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 789 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,560 For by it men of old gained approval by faith. 790 01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:03,920 We understand that the world's were prepared by the Word of 791 01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:09,040 God, so that what is seen was not made out of the things which 792 01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:13,520 are visible by faith. Abel offered to God a better 793 01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:17,560 sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony 794 01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:21,360 that he was righteous. God testifying about the gifts, 795 01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:28,920 and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks by faith. 796 01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:33,480 Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death, and he was 797 01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:37,720 not found because God took him up, for he obtained the witness 798 01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:44,880 that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God and 799 01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:47,360 faith. And without faith it's 800 01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:52,920 impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe 801 01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:58,800 that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him 802 01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:03,600 by faith. Noah, being warned right by God 803 01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:08,200 about the things that were not seen, not yet seen in reverence, 804 01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:11,800 prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by 805 01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:16,120 which he condemned the world and became an heir of righteousness 806 01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,440 according to his faith. And Noah is a whole nother, one 807 01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:24,640 you could talk about. But by faith, Abraham, when he 808 01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:30,760 was called, obeyed by going to a place which he was to receive 809 01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:34,040 for an inheritance. And he went out not knowing 810 01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,840 where he was going. This is my life. 811 01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:40,680 Call pastor when next time you see him. 812 01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:44,120 If some call him apostles, some call him pastor. 813 01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:47,040 Why don't we start calling him Father Abraham, which is what my 814 01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:50,480 sons used to call him, because this was my life. 815 01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:54,960 We just going to go and we don't know where we're going, how 816 01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,920 we're going, or what we're going to do when we're getting there. 817 01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,040 OK? But God, it said. 818 01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:05,440 But by faith, Abraham, when he was called obeying and going out 819 01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:08,240 to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, he 820 01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:11,000 went out not knowing where he was going. 821 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:16,600 But by faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as 822 01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:20,640 in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac Jacob, fellow 823 01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:25,800 heirs of the same promise. For he was looking for the city 824 01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:32,080 which has foundation whose architect and builder is God. 825 01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:36,720 By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive 826 01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:42,760 even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered him 827 01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:47,800 faithful who had promised. Is he faithful? 828 01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:55,760 Hallelujah. He is faithful to His Word. 829 01:06:56,360 --> 01:07:02,200 So Abraham is a perfect example because there were many even 830 01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:04,640 tests that Abraham had to go through. 831 01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:10,640 He had to OfferUp Isaac, right? He had to go to a place where 832 01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:14,960 God had called him and he didn't know where he was going. 833 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:20,480 He had to call those things that be not as though they were to 834 01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:25,800 conceive a child. These were three testings that 835 01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:29,960 Abraham had to go through with his faith towards God. 836 01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:36,000 So again, this is an example of him not being able to live by 837 01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:40,400 what he saw. He had to live by faith. 838 01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:44,320 He had to live by faith, which is out of this world, out of 839 01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,040 this natural realm. And what did he do? 840 01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:50,360 He had to believe it. But not only did he have to 841 01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,800 believe it, he had to act upon it. 842 01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:59,200 And he's a perfect example of him believing well, receiving 843 01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:03,160 the promise of what God said, believing the promise of what 844 01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:06,920 God said, calling forth the promise of what God said, 845 01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,880 because he called those things that be not as though they were, 846 01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:15,480 and then acting upon what God had said to do by offering up 847 01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:20,479 his son Isaac. So Abraham's that perfect 848 01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:26,160 example of someone who lived by faith, who is the father of our 849 01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:31,680 faith, the father of us all, and actually walked it out and saw 850 01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:38,200 the reality of his faith in action, saw it in the reality 851 01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,359 after he had to believe in the unseen. 852 01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:46,120 Amen. He had to believe in the unseen. 853 01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:53,279 He had to believe that there would be a seed within him for 854 01:08:53,279 --> 01:08:58,560 his wife to conceive in the deadness of their womb. 855 01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:03,000 He had to believe it, and it was not seen. 856 01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:08,479 And how long did it take her to conceive the promise? 857 01:09:09,399 --> 01:09:14,640 And do we give up? Do we give up in the midst of 858 01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,279 the things that God's asking of us? 859 01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:23,720 Or are you one, that I'm going to walk this thing out so that I 860 01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:28,560 can see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 861 01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,120 I'm going to see what he promised me. 862 01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:34,680 I'm going to walk it out. I don't care how long it takes, 863 01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:39,760 look at Noah and his faith and listen. 864 01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:43,560 These people were not even born again. 865 01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:53,680 These people were not even filled with the Holy Ghost and 866 01:09:53,680 --> 01:10:02,040 God required of their faith to be put into action and to live 867 01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:06,280 by it. Noah having to build an ark when 868 01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:15,120 they had never seen rain and was mocked and ridiculed, called 869 01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:18,400 crazy. And some of us don't even like 870 01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:23,160 it when people talk about you because of what you believe. 871 01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:30,680 And he put up with it day in and day out, doing what God had 872 01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:36,640 said, building that ark, doing all the necessary things to that 873 01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:41,680 was required of him to be able to live by what God spoke over 874 01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:45,320 him that he needed him to do in the earth. 875 01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:52,720 And that is the same faith. This is true biblical faith. 876 01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:59,080 This is what he's still requiring of believers today. 877 01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:07,920 It is not this comfortable Christianity that America has 878 01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:12,160 made. It's not. 879 01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:17,520 There are things that are required for us to live by on a 880 01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:22,720 daily basis of sacrifice of of things that we're going to have 881 01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:34,650 to give up to be able to produce true biblical faith for people 882 01:11:34,650 --> 01:11:40,890 to see what the Kingdom really can offer people's lives. 883 01:11:42,010 --> 01:11:46,130 Amen. And I'm going to tell you, it 884 01:11:46,130 --> 01:11:52,120 don't ever stop. This is the faith law that 885 01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:56,400 whatever he's asking, whatever we're doing, we are going to 886 01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:58,880 have to receive it. We're going to have to believe 887 01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:02,000 it, We're going to have to speak it, and we are going to have to 888 01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:05,040 walk it out. If we are going to see the 889 01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:11,640 promises of God within our life, if we're going to see the the 890 01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:16,880 reality of the Kingdom in demonstration in our life, then 891 01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:19,400 we are going to have to walk these things out. 892 01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:25,160 That's being required of us. And the majority of it is us 893 01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:30,800 just, you know, him requiring us just to grow spiritually. 894 01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:35,800 And that's a sacrifice. I remember when I was having to 895 01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:40,120 grow up spiritually and grow in. And I'm not there because we're 896 01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:43,200 always should be growing until he returns. 897 01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:46,440 But we should be in a place where we've matured. 898 01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:51,960 And it's evident. But I remember, you know, having 899 01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:56,280 to cut friends off because there was a requirement that, you know 900 01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:58,160 what? I can no longer hang out with 901 01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:04,960 these that are partying. You know, that was a 902 01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,760 requirement. Oh, God forbid you tell people 903 01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:09,400 they have to cut people off today. 904 01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:15,880 Oh, you're a cult. Seriously. 905 01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:20,920 Oh, God forbid, you know, he say, you know, you really 906 01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:25,040 shouldn't be listening to that type of music because it's only 907 01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:29,320 promoting lust and it's only promoting anger. 908 01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:33,440 And it's only, I remember him speaking to me and say you can't 909 01:13:33,440 --> 01:13:37,680 listen to that any longer. It is not good for your 910 01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:43,720 spiritual growth. You're no longer going to be 911 01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:51,280 able to, you know, do this. I mean, because he was requiring 912 01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:56,880 more for us to grow spiritually. And therefore there was things 913 01:13:56,880 --> 01:14:01,200 that he is requiring to cut out of your life so that you can 914 01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:06,000 grow and that you can mature. And once you get to a place, 915 01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:09,240 he's not saying you can never speak to them people again, but 916 01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:12,760 you're not going to habitually hang out with them because they 917 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:16,120 want to party and drink. And God's trying to separate you 918 01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:23,120 out of this world. So there's requirements, there's 919 01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:31,080 things according to his Word so that we can grow and mature. 920 01:14:31,480 --> 01:14:38,120 And those things are sacrifices. And you have to put up with the 921 01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,920 people saying, oh, you just think you're better now that 922 01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:44,560 you, you know, you and Earl got married and, and y'all are 923 01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,160 living for the Lord. You think you're better than us 924 01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:51,040 and you don't want to come over and, you know, have a cookout 925 01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:54,240 and party and drink beer anymore. 926 01:14:55,160 --> 01:15:00,600 What is that? You know all these things. 927 01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:10,360 Well, who knew he actually wanted us to be holy? 928 01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:15,320 Who knew he actually was calling us into the ministry when I was 929 01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:18,920 having to do all those things? Who knew that I had to drive 930 01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:22,040 around in a $400.00 car because that's all we could buy? 931 01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:25,720 And I was embarrassed because I had drove way nicer ones before 932 01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:33,320 I met him. But guess what that was doing? 933 01:15:33,480 --> 01:15:43,000 Stripping down my pride. But guess if I wouldn't have. 934 01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,520 You know my son used to hide in the back of the seat when we 935 01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:53,520 pulled up to the school because of the hoop Dee we were driving. 936 01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:58,760 Literally $400.00. That's all we had because our 937 01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:07,630 van had gotten repossessed. You know what we learned? 938 01:16:09,790 --> 01:16:15,240 Completely surrendered everything. 939 01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:20,920 Everything. That's why I don't care what 940 01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:24,840 people think. They don't know where I've come 941 01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:27,960 from. They don't know what God has 942 01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:32,120 proven himself to do through my life. 943 01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:37,520 They don't know the sacrifices. They don't know the things. 944 01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:41,360 So they get up and they want to say what they want to say. 945 01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:44,280 You know what? None of them can live the life I 946 01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:53,410 lived. It was all by faith. 947 01:16:54,290 --> 01:17:00,250 It's still all by faith. To get beyond myself, to believe 948 01:17:00,250 --> 01:17:08,010 God for others, to pray for others, that their seed would 949 01:17:08,010 --> 01:17:14,480 increase, that their marriages would be blessed and prospered 950 01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:20,800 when all I knew was divorce. But yet I have heaven on earth 951 01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:33,040 now when He stays right. Just teasing, but I had to learn 952 01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:37,040 how to submit. And you know how I learned how 953 01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:44,280 to submit to my husband through submitting to God, submitting to 954 01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:48,120 his word. And I know many people that 955 01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:50,480 don't submit to the the word of God. 956 01:17:50,480 --> 01:17:54,880 And that's why there's a submission problem, because once 957 01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:59,080 you learn how to fully submit to the Word of God, you have no 958 01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:06,280 problem submitting at all to anyone, to anyone. 959 01:18:07,480 --> 01:18:14,120 Because I fear God, fear God, and I want to submit to what His 960 01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:19,160 Word says in every area of my life so that I can walk this 961 01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:26,080 thing out and see the promises of God and see a return of faith 962 01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:30,280 being produced in my life. Amen. 963 01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:35,200 And that's what He wants for you, every single one of you. 964 01:18:35,440 --> 01:18:40,640 We want to see faith arise in people's lives, people to 965 01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:47,480 overcome all the nonsense and just start living by faith and 966 01:18:47,480 --> 01:18:51,240 walking this thing out every day in your life. 967 01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:56,280 And you do it by simply believing what His word says, 968 01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:04,120 acting upon it, speaking it out, doing it every day, in every 969 01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:07,840 season, in every circumstance, in every situation. 970 01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:12,480 Let me tell you, there should not be any season that you are 971 01:19:12,480 --> 01:19:18,880 not living by faith. That means my faith is active at 972 01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:28,120 all times, at all times. Active faith, active faith in 973 01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:34,200 whatever it is, because nothing is impossible for those who will 974 01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:42,240 believe or have faith. And what God has said above, 975 01:19:42,440 --> 01:19:45,320 what we're seeing in this natural realm. 976 01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:52,200 Amen. Thank you so much for listening 977 01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:54,640 to this message. If you want more, subscribe to 978 01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:58,040 our message podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and 979 01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,040 SoundCloud. Rating and leaving a comment 980 01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:02,200 will go a long way with helping our messages get better 981 01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:04,480 circulation. 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