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Bonnie and I are excited to be here with you.
Hallelujah. We had actually planned on just
not doing anything after Thanksgiving and Pastor, or gave
me a call and threaten me. If I didn't come, praise God but
But we're excited to be here with you.
Praise God, and excited about what God is doing here at anchor
Faith. Amen.
Glory to God, well, we're going to set ourselves in agreement.
We're going to administer a few messages to you.
That's going to help you in your faith.
Anybody want their faith to be strengthened?
Praise God. Well, right now just say this
after me, Lord Jesus, I confess, you are my Lord, You Are The
Living Word and you've given And to me the written word that I
might know you this night, I set my faith to receive the word as
the truth. That will set me free.
I set myself to be good ground to hear the word to receive the
word, and to be a doer of the word and I thank you.
Lord, for confirming your word and producing fruit in my life.
And for these Things that give you all the praise.
Amen. Amen.
Praise God. You can turn with me.
If you will to Hebrews chapter 11, And we're going to read
verse one here. And I want to minister to you
along the lines of Faith and Hope and minister to your faith.
You know, it's so important that we learn how to live by faith
and somebody said, why is that so important?
Well, you know, the Bible teaches us in Hebrews 13 that we
have been blessed with all spiritual blessings.
In Heavenly places in Christ Jesus and somebody says, but
those are spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ.
Jesus, yeah. Well, they went In the second
chapter in verse 6 and said he raised us up and seated Us in
Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Amen.
So we are possession, Lee spiritually, seated, where the
blessings are. Amen.
And then in Colossians 1:12 Paul writing to the Church, of course
he said, giving thanks unto the father who has qualified US and
made us able to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints.
In light, glory to God. That's good news in it.
Amen. So so God has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing. Somebody says, well those are
spiritual blessings. Do you know the healing is a
spiritual blessing? Everything that starts with God
is spiritual first and natural second Amen.
Because God works from the inside out.
The world will attack you from the outside in but God always
works from the spirit out, even Paul writing to the
Thessalonians. He said may God sanctify, you
wholly, Spirit soul, and body knows.
He started on the inside and work his way out.
Most people say Body, Soul and Spirit.
But you see you got to become Spirit conscious.
Amen. You got to realize that you are
a spirit being created in the image of God.
A new creation in Christ Jesus and that now you're to live by.
Walk in the spirit. Amen.
But also we find in the scriptures in Ephesians 2.
He says that we now have our citizenship with a Saints in the
household of God. In other words, our citizenship
is in the kingdom of God. Amen.
And all these spiritual blessings are in the kingdom of
God. Amen.
And Jesus is the king over the kingdom.
He's Lord over all these things and we're seated in Heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. So we're seated under his
lordship so that we have access to all these things that we need
in our life. Amen.
But you see, once you get born again, you get filled the
spirits. You get into the kingdom of God.
Now you're setting yourself and your learning.
You got to understand in the kingdom of God, there is a
currency just like there is a currency In the natural Realm.
And the currency of the kingdom of God is Faith.
Amen. Everything operates in the
kingdom of God, through faith. Hallelujah.
That's why the Lord Jesus said, Mark 11:22 said, have faith in
God, or have the god-kind of Faith.
You have to have faith. Amen.
We're going to look here in Hebrews 11:1.
I haven't left my subject. I'm just working up to it.
Hallelujah. But, you know, he said, in
Hebrews 11:6, but without faith, it's impossible to please him
him being God for. He, that comes to God, must
believe that he is. And that is every water, then
that diligently seek him, you know, that means, that means
I've got to believe that God is who he says he is, God, will do
what he said, he will do. And that, if I come to him in
faith, God will do for me what he said, he would do for me.
He will reward my faith, just like if you go to the grocery
store and they ring up a certain amount and, you know, of course,
we'll use a car, but it represents cash, it represents
money. Amen.
And if it's $100, the moment, you give them the hundred
dollars. A transaction is made and
therefore you get to take the goods home with you and they
keep your money. Amen.
Well, when we go to God, the way we make, the transition
transaction between God and his healing.
And and my health, praise God is I release my faith.
God receives my faith and gives me his healing.
Are you hearing me that go to God believing?
He is my rewarder and that he will supply all my need
according to his riches, in Glory by Christ Jesus.
Based on Colossians chapter 4, and therefore I go to God in
faith believing, he'll meet my knees and God receives my faith
and then Is the provision in a my life.
Amen. And that's how we operate in the
kingdom of God. We had to live by faith.
In fact, in Galatians 3:11, the Apostle Paul writing to the
church over there said the just shall live by faith.
So Faith isn't just something I do on Sunday.
It's not just something I do. Whenever I have a need, faith is
a lifestyle. Faith is me, walking in a
lifestyle that says, I believe, God, is I believe, God is for
me. I believe God is going to take
care of me and I have total trust in God.
That he's going to get me through this situation.
Amen. I get up in faith.
I go to bed in faith. Hallelujah, are you hearing me?
I mean, we ought to walk in faith to the point that we blink
our eyes in faith. Hallelujah.
Everything about us. Has a has a, has a place of
faith in it because we're doing it understanding that I'm
walking under the covering of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I'm walking under the anointing of almighty God, and
I'm walking in the kingdom of God.
And I've been delivered from the power of an authority of
darkness. And now I belong to God.
Jesus Is My Lord and my citizenship is in heaven, and
God has qualified me to be a partaker of his inheritance and
I can do it. But the, how I'm going to
partake of that inheritance is I do use my faith.
And somebody says, well, if I'm qualified, why do I have to use
my faith? What if I came up to you?
And I said, okay, here is a card and there's $100 on this card.
And and what we, what we've done is this, we've told the people
down here and this place that we have secure this car for you,
you can go in there and you can get things up to $100, just hand
them this card, and they'll give it to you that card, qualifies
you to walk into that place because they've already been
told when they see the card. Give you what you came for amen.
Now here's the thing. You can sit at home all day long
as they glory to God this card. Qualifies me to go down to the
store and get my needs met and you can sit there and starve to
death with the card in your hand.
Because if you don't use the card it don't matter how much it
qualifies you to get. You ain't never going to get it.
Are you So that's why we have to live by faith.
We have to act on our faith, we have to learn how to transact
between my faith, and the situation I need.
And then when we go into that situation, we go into it knowing
that Jesus has already paid the price and qualified me to have
that. So I don't have to earn it.
I don't have to go in and be good enough to get it.
I just have to make sure that I've got myself in a position of
Faith where I can trust God and believe God and walk this thing
out. Amen.
It does we get to Hebrews 11:1 and he says this.
Now, Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of
Things Not Seen, Hope and Faith are two spiritual forces that
work together to bring forth. God's will did hear me Hope and
Faith, work together. There's two spiritual forces
that work together to bring forth God's will in our life.
You can't have faith without hope.
You cannot bypass hope to get to Faith to try to believe God and
get what you want to have. Because everything you're going
to get from God. Starts with hope.
Are you listening to me now? I'm not talking about worldly,
hope I'm just hoping and praying.
That's all you're doing. You need to get somebody else to
use their faith for you cuz you're gonna you ain't gonna
make it, okay? No.
We're talking about biblical hope and Bible.
Hope is the word. Hope can be translated, joyful,
confident, expectations. Now, Faith is the substance of
the things that you are joyfully confidently expecting God to do
for you. Amen.
Joyful, confident, expectations. In other words, hope isn't just
sitting there wringing. Your hands are going to know.
Hope is you just join now, you got to understand something when
he says joyful that doesn't mean happy happy.
That means a spiritual Force down on the inside of you that
no matter what it looks like on the natural on.
Inside you choose to walk in the fruit of the spirit of joy and
you're counting it all joy and you're having a good attitude
about it, no matter what it looks like joyful, confident,
expectations. I don't care what the devil is
saying. I don't care what other people
are saying, don't care what the circumstances are saying.
I have a confident expectation in my God, to do this for me.
Amen. Now, what is faithless?
Give a definition of faith. Faith is belief.
Faith is a conviction. Faith is the assurance and faith
is a firm persuasion. Hallelujah.
Now, Faith is a belief that God will do for you.
What he said he would do. Now, Faith is a conviction that
have that God is going to come through for you now.
Faith is the assurance. I don't see anything out here,
but I'm assured in my heart, that God is going to come
through for me. Faith is a firm persuasion.
I am fully persuaded that. What God Said, God is going to
do a men but you see. Faith always is second.
Hope is always first. And it takes both Hope and Faith
working together to get God's blessing in your life.
Amen, let's let's look at Hope just for a moment here before we
go into it because we got to build hoping and Define.
Hope hope again. Is that joyful covid expectation
that God will do for us what he says, amen.
Now, notice Hebrews 11:1 again. He says now, Faith is the
substance of things hoped for things, hoped for Hope is a
thing. Did you hear me?
Faith gives substance to things. Hoped for Hope is a thing that
you are expecting God to do for you.
Well, I don't believe in God while you believe in God for
well, whatever, no you aren't, you can't get in the faith
because you don't have any hope yet because Faith gives
substance to the things hope for.
So hope is a thing. Amen.
Hope is an expectation of God doing something for you.
Amen. So you got to get a hold of
this. Look at you.
Just hold your place or there in Romans chapter 15.
I could quote a ballistic. Let's read it.
They can put it up on the on the thing there for you.
What is Hope built on, how do I build my hope?
How do I get hope like this? That that was is going to help
me to get through these things in Romans chapter 15, And verse
4. Listen what the Apostle Paul
says, over here for whatever things were written before were
written for our learning, you know what he's saying here?
He's saying everything that's been written down was written so
you could learn how to trust God.
It was written for you and me. Amen, it was written for our
learning. It's written for us to learn how
to live the Kingdom Life. Are you hearing me?
It's written. So, Been God is written, so I
can learn how to use my faith. Let's go ahead and see what he
says, for whatever things were written, before were written for
our learning that we through the patience.
And comfort of the scriptures might have hope So hope isn't
built on a whim, hope isn't built on an emotion hope.
Is it built on a need hope is built on the word of God.
The word of God, paints a picture in my heart as to what
God will do for me. And I begin to expect God to do
that in my life and I'd become so real.
That I get joyful about thinking about what God said he would do
for me that I start getting hard excited about it.
And before I can even sit. Hallelujah.
Someone 1981. He says this.
He says he will. Let's just go over and look at
it. Praise God.
Amen, it's good to turn to it even if you got to, have you
going to do it? Amen.
It's good to see it in your Bible or on your instrument of
scripture. Hallelujah.
Psalm 119 verse 81, says my soul faints for your salvation.
You know what he's saying? He's saying my soul is getting
to the place where I just don't know how I'm going to get
through this. I just, I mean, is anybody ever
been? There were you, it's just been
so hard and is pressing in that. You're just your soul, your
mind, your thoughts. Your emotions are just almost
frazzled. How am I going to get through
this? Listen, what the next part is,
but I hope in your word. When everybody says it's not
working, I hope in your word. When everything a Ripley looks
like it's going wrong way. I hope in your word.
When every thought that's hitting my mind says, I'm not
going to make it. I hope in your word.
Hallelujah, I have joyful confidence in your word.
Now why is it that I have such? Hope in God's word.
Look in verse 8089 forever, O, Lord, your word is settled in
heaven. Hallelujah.
Woo, glory to God. Why did David say no matter.
What's going on emotionally or naturally or whatever my life?
My hope is in God's word because God's word is forever
established in heaven. Now, let me tell you something,
folks, the word of God is settled in heaven, but you've
got to settle it in your life and you will not have hope until
you have a settled it in your heart that God is who he says he
is, and God will do what he said he would do.
Amen, because she see hope is out here in a future hope.
Is that thing is that you don't have But God said, you can.
I tell you, I got so thrilled, whenever I read and I had some
people begin to share some things with me that that Jesus
was my healer. And I got into the word of God,
and I tell you what, I got, so excited about God, healing, me
and taking care of me that I just got thrilled with it.
Praise God. Didn't know how to get it but I
accepted it right away. Glory to God.
Later on I got into the word and figured out how to make it work.
Praise God. But you see will never have
faith for something that you don't have hope in.
And you will never have hope in anything that you don't have the
word for. And your hope isn't really hope
until you can have joy right in the midst of all the struggle.
And you can operate out of your expectation of God.
And you refuse let anybody talk you out of it.
Amen. Come on.
I'm building something. I want you to stay with me,
because we're going to show you how this thing works.
Now, notice that he said over here in Hebrews 11:1 now, Faith
is The trust conviction assurance and persuasion of what
you're hoping for and then amazing.
Now hope is future tense. Hope is looking forward to that
thing that God said he would do for you.
And hope is built upon God's word.
That's why I hope for it because God's word says it and
everything that was written was so I could learn how to Hope in
God. Amen.
So, I'm building My Hope on the word, not only emotions and I
don't feelings not on whether somebody else got hurt or they
didn't get it. My hope is built upon the word
of God and what God said he would do for me men.
But now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the
evidence of things not seen you ever notice.
When you take the first three words of Hebrews 11:1 now, Faith
is anyway. You say it is always present
tense. Now, Faith is Faith is now.
Now he is faith. You can ask a question is Faith
now? Yes, now his faith.
Hallelujah. Not as he's trying to get a
point across here. He says, hope is this thing out
here in the future? And is to set your goal.
Hope is to set. The course, hope is to set your
expectations. Hope is to set your desire.
Hope is to set you in a place. Where you say, I am not going to
stay where I'm at, because God says, I can have better.
God says, I can do better. God says, he will get me through
this. God will bring me out of this.
And so hope begins to set an entire image, an entire
different look in my life. Amen.
I'm setting it. Rape and Bonnie now We got hold
of healing, we'd gotten filled the Holy Spirit, praise God.
And we were talking in tongues and worshiping God, and we
didn't have enough money to pay attention with, and we were
living, you know, hand-to-mouth believe in God, hallelujah.
Take a little odd jobs here. And there, doing what we could
to just survive. I still have to pray through
about your pastor having his year pay for but anyway, praise
God. Now, I'm happy for him.
Amen. But you know, we we we just and
we just yeah we were just doing that mean we've been raised
poor, you know. And we didn't see any different,
you know, and we just we were learning.
And I remember sitting in a class and the teacher, actually,
his name was Bob hand. And he was our teacher there,
and he was teaching, and he said, the Lord spoke to me this
morning to tell the class. That Isaiah says in 1:19, if you
be willing and obedient you eat the good of the land.
Now that doesn't mean you have to graduate and go from Rhema to
get involved in that. If you're willingly here at
God's Will and your obedient to be here in God's will then
you're in God's perfect will and that means you can eat the good
land even while you're a student.
And I'll tell you what, lights went on glory to God the house
lit up. And hope sprung into my heart
because of what I had just heard because it was written in the
word and it was written. So I can learn how to Hope.
Praise God, I kicked the desk in front of me.
Hallelujah, his chair. They turned and looked at
message. Whoa Glory that God.
I don't know how I'm going to get there but I am not being
pull Nomo, Hallelujah. And we started getting in the
word and changing how we saw ourselves because hope is me
changing the way I see myself in my situation to line up with
what God says, about me and my situation.
And hope becomes that Vision that thing that I believe in God
to do in my life. Amen.
And so we begin to learn and grow and get a hold of these
things. But then, once you get into
hope, now, you've got to have faith because hope will never
produce anything for you if you don't attach Faith to it.
Are you hear me? See, hope is this thing that God
said you can have, but faith is the route that you had to take
to get it. And when we operate in the
kingdom of God, we get a revelation to what the kingdom
of God has for us and what God will do for us and what he says
about us. But then we have to learn how to
use our faith to bring that from his room into our realm.
Amen. I got to get it from the spirit
realm to the Natural realm. I got to get healing from God
into my body. I got to get finances from God's
hands into my hands. I've got to get my family
deliver from all the junk that God says, you'll deliver from
from the spirit into the natural and see God lining things up.
Amen. How do I do it?
Now, Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of
Things Not Seen. I got to get over in faith to
make these things come to pass. Amen.
Now, look in Rome, has the fourth chapter, Romans chapter
4, let's let me show you the Abraham kind of faith. well, you
and I can operate in because Romans 12:3 says, God has dealt
each and every one of us. The same measure Faith.
Amen. So we are Faith people of a
faith. God, hallelujah.
And we live in a kingdom that's operated through faith.
In fact, Hebrews 11. If you read down a couple more
verses, he said we understand that God through faith frame,
the world's they amen. God used his faith to make
everything an amazing. The spirit of God was hovering
over the over, the face of the Earth, and it was just void and
nothing was going on. And if nothing happened until
God, said, and God formed everything after the All of his
own will. That means God had a hope.
God had a vision. God had a plan for all of this
to come together, but it was nothing happening in the spirit
of God was ready to work. Everything was in ready to go
into motion, but he didn't happen till God released his
faith. And when God released his faith
and said, light be blessed. Be God, light was, amen.
The Holy Spirit went right to work when Faith was released.
Whoo. Glory to God?
No. No, if I'm helping you.
I'm preach me. Happy.
Hallelujah. See, we are learning how to get
back into this. Praise God.
We got to learn how to make this thing work in our glory to God,
but now, let's look here, Romans chapter 4.
Abraham is the kind of Faith as pleasing to God.
So I want to learn how he did it, because if Abraham could use
his faith to bring his hope into reality, I can use my faith to
bring my hope in reality. They amen.
So let's look at Romans, 4:17. Listen, what he says as it is
written. There are again going back to
the written word. Notice that you can count on the
word. Hallelujah.
If you don't know what to do, get in the word of God and find
out what God has written down and said for you.
Amen, glory to God, as it is written.
Notice it says, as it is written, he didn't try to change
How It Was Written. He didn't try to put his own
interpretation upon it, amen? No, he looked at it as it is
written, just like God said it. And folks, you ain't going to
have hope and you're not going to have faith if you don't
receive it as it is written. Amen.
Well I do. We don't believe it that way in
our church. Well, you're not in your church
tonight so you can believe it. Our way, praise God.
Just, just get delivered and set free.
Amen. No, let's go back.
Let's read it again. As it is written.
I have made you a father of many nations in the presence of him
whom he believed God, who gives life to the dead and calls those
things which do not exist as though they did well.
Hallelujah. One translation, brings it out
and says as it is written. I made you a father of many
nations even as it is as I said. And it goes on, he says, as
written, he says, and, and he goes and he says, and God who
calls those things that he had already planned and laid out as
though they are even before you can see them.
Hallelujah. You know what God says before
you're healed? He says you're healed.
Because see God operates on what is written, not on what it looks
like. Remember Faith and Hope are both
built on the word of God. Amen.
She say how do you say that Pastor Bo?
Get we already showed you. There owns 15, the hope is built
on the written word and Romans 10:17 says that faith comes by
hearing hearing by the word. So your faith, and your hope is
both built upon the word of God. Amen.
And God releases everything. He does based on what the word
says, and not what it looks like.
Even the Lord Jesus showed us that same example whenever he
was here. Remember in Matthew chapter 4
after, you know, he had fasted and prayed and Mentor stirred
and you know, in the wilderness are for 40 days.
He was a hungry. And and the Devil comes up and
says, well, you know, if you are the Son of God and they have a
play on words there because the devil actually, if you stood out
in the Greek friend of mine, who is a Greek.
Scholar said, it says, actually there, if you be the Son of God
and you are Because the devil knew he was the son of God,
demons knew who he was and started member and he told him
shut up. But if you would be the Son of
God, then command these Stones be made bread and Jesus turned
to him and did what it is written man.
Shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God. What was he saying?
Just like the the bread or food is to your natural man, the word
is to your spirit man, and if you want to live in the power of
God, you got to feed your spirit, man, the written word of
God, and get it in you because I tell you going to build a hope
and a dream and a vision. And the thing that God wants in
your life but then you're going to get in faith.
Amen. But let's look at, let's look at
Hope first. He says, they give God calls
those things of his be not as though they were who contrary to
Hope or one translation, says, who against Hope, in Hope
believed. So that he would become the
father of many nations according to what was spoken.
So, shall your descendants be notice this that when Abraham
had nothing to pin his hopes on in the natural and when it
didn't look like, it was going to work at all instead of
allowing the natural, determine what his vision of his life and
what God Said was going to do for him.
He hoped in Hope based upon what God had said.
You know what he did? He went Went right back to the
word of God and said, no, this is what God Said.
I joyfully confidently, expect it to come to pass.
Hallelujah, are you hearing me? And folks I'm going to tell you
they're going to be times when you're walking this thing out
and trust in God. That is going to look like
everything. But what God Said is going to
happen in your life, you have people come against you, you'll
have situations come against you.
The devil will throw things at you and it'll take and you
cannot be a creature of time. And you can Cannot be taken
captive by time, or doubts or fears or what other people say.
You got to remember, God spoke this to Abraham and it was a
long time before he saw that boy born.
Amen. And all during that time, what
did he do? He just continued to Hope in
God, he just stayed faithful to what God Said, would come to
pass. Amen.
He kept the vision of being a father of many nations in his
heart. He refused to let it go and
listen to me. If you will refuse to let go of
your hope, your faith will eventually reach out and get a
hold of it. Amen.
Because if God said it, it's his will for it to come to pass in
your life. And remember this if your faith
isn't working, go back and check up on your hope.
Because Faith gives substance to the thing that you're hoping
for. And if that thing isn't real in
your heart and mind, then the enemy stolen your hope.
And if he's got your hope, your faith can't get anything done
for you because Faith gives substance or brings to reality,
the hope that you have in your heart.
Amen. So if my faith is struggling,
I'm going to go back and rebuild my hope.
I'm going to go back and rebuild in me.
The thing that God said he would do for me.
I'm gonna go back and rebuild my vision.
See me with it. Praise God.
If I'm fighting off sickness and I'm having a hard time with it,
you know, what I want to do instead of me, just run around
here, just trying to speak my face.
Speak my faith speak, my faith. I'm going to go back and
reinforce my hope. And reinforce the thing that I'm
believing God for in my heart, till I see myself.
Well, And then I got something that I can use my faith to get.
Amen. So he against hope believed in
hope he hoped. According to the word of God, he
said his Hope was built upon that which was spoken.
So shall your seed or your descendants be so Abraham kept
total, hope in God all during this time.
And what did he keep his hope build on the word of God?
Amen. Now let's read on and being not
weak in faith. He did not consider his own body
already dead. Since he was about a hundred
years old. And the nor the deadness of
Sarah's womb that word consider there in the Greek means to
observe fully. Now here's where we get in
trouble and a lot of people fuss because some people get off in
faith and they teach it wrong and, and they just say, well,
you know, you Faith people, y'all just deny everything, it's
kind of like, you know, mind Matter.
You just don't act like it's no, no Abraham didn't look at the
situation and say, oh no, she's not bearing.
Oh no. He refused to be fully consumed
with his situation. I don't deny sickness.
I denies right to live in my body.
All right, here, me, I don't deny there's oppression, but I
didn't. I oppressions, right to live in
my mind, come on Church, Abraham, refused to let the
circumstances determine his attitude, his actions, or what
he believed. Amen.
Listen Jesus is still just as much the Healer when you're sick
as he is. When you're well Philippians
4:19 is just as real but my God, shall supply all your need,
according to his riches, in Glory by Christ Jesus.
When you're broke and can't pay, you don't have enough money to
pay attention, let alone pay your bills.
That doesn't change God's word. And it doesn't change.
God's will. And so if you're having a
struggle in believing that, then what you got to do is you got to
get back in and build that as a hope it back in your heart,
until it becomes the thing that you believe God, for because
your faith gives substance to the things you're hoping for.
And if it's not a thing in your life, you can get it.
Hey man. And once again, how am I going
to shore up my faith and reaffirm my faith?
I'm going to short, My Hope and reaffirm.
I hope based on what God has spoken to me in his word?
Amen. Well, I don't know if God spoke
to me and his word then get in the word until he speaks to you.
Quit running all over creation. Trying to get a word from
somebody. Go get your Bible Out, close the
door, get in the presence of God and get a word from Heaven.
Hallelujah. I went God speaks a word in your
heart. I'll tell you what's so funny, I
just give you some. So, I've been in this 46 years,
it's been a few years. I've been doing this now and
over the years, I've seen people come to me and I've learned
never to discourage their faith, but I've had people come to me
and, and, and say, God gave me the, I prayed spent time with
God, I was in my, in my bedroom for six hours and God spoke this
word to me and I'm going to stand on this.
To get my needs met and I said, okay, great.
And they said, let me give you, let me tell you what the word is
and they would read me a scripture of the Bible had
nothing to do with what they're believing God.
For one time I started. Oh, but that and God says, shut
up. He said it may not be a word to
you, but they're using that word to believe me and I can work
around that word to get to them because his goddamn over in
faith. Amen.
Come on. They weren't leaving something
crazy. They just got a word.
I thought I'd have probably not chose that word if it had been
me. But that's alright.
Praise God to give God a god work through that.
Hallelujah. Amen.
And I've watched him get there. Get there.
Need men. And then after they got their
needs met. I said, now, the next time you
get to pray about something, let me give you a few scriptures to
go along with that. Hallelujah.
Amen. And I'd help them out a little
bit more, but you know what God did in their initial Steps of
Faith, because these are usually baby Christians.
They had found a word that really spoke to their heart and
paint a vision on the inside of them that they could get it.
And it sprung up in the hope. And then they heard me teaching
on how to turn, hope into faith and they use their faith and
they got it. Hallelujah.
Now, as we grow god'll, expect us to get a little bit more to
the point. Hallelujah.
Amen. Specific, but get in the word,
find out what the words Abraham built his Hope on on the word of
God. And then it says this and not
being weak in faith. He did not consider or be
consumed with, or have his whole attention on his body already
dead. Since he was about 100 years old
and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
In other words, he didn't walk around looking at how hard it
was going to be to make it happen.
I've been around people and they're believing God for
healing and all they want to do is tell me about their sickness.
The thing that's got the biggest part of their life is the
problem. But now Faith is not the
substance of problems. It's the substance of things
hoped for amen. And you got to take your
attention off of the need and get your attention over on the
supply of God. Hallelujah, and what God says
about that situation and get your faith work and so he was he
refused to let his situation determine his attitude, his
confession, or his actions. Amen, somebody came to me one
time said, but brother Hoffman, what?
If you know you're speaking your faith and you die said glory to
God. You get to a good be with Jesus.
I mean how great is that your faith?
Just Hallelujah. And I said, besides that, if I
die, I want to go out in faith. Hey man.
I want to make sure I'm going in the right direction.
Hallelujah. But then I turned to him and I
said, what if you using your faith laying there on that
deathbed and you get a vision of you being healed, and your faith
is working, and God touches you right there where you're at, and
you're raised up from that deathbed, you walk in Victory.
Hallelujah, I said you see, you're looking at what?
If it don't work and I always look at what if it does.
Same in and you're sitting there fretting hoping that you have
hope. And I'm sitting there rejoicing
because the word says I can have this and I'm praising God
because of the word. I still feel bad.
I don't look very good and things around me or not.
Really, really great at the moment, but my Faith and Hope is
not built upon. What I'm seeing or feeling my
faith and hope is built upon the what the word says.
And against all things that's going to guess me.
I refuse to be consumed with it. I refuse to be beat down with.
I refuse to have a bad attitude with it.
My hope, my A joyful, confident, expectation is still in God and
I'm going to act like God's going to come through for me.
Amen. See, now, I'm operating as a
citizen in the kingdom of God and I'm operating in the way he
wants me to operate. Amen.
Now this continuous read on. He did not waver at the promise
of God through unbelief. See got to fight unbelief
unbelief is opposite of belief. And God says here through the
word, he says that Abraham refused to waver at the promise
of God. See you get to the place where
sometimes you know, enemy will just just just fight you and
fight you. Fight.
And what he's doing is this remember?
Mark chapter 4 when Jesus taught the parable of the sower?
And he said the solar sews the word and these are they that
hear the word and it goes down in the heart and Satan comes
immediately to steal the word out of the heart.
You know, the devil, try to come and steal the word out of your
heart, anybody had the enemy, try to get the word away from
you, why? Because he knows if he can get
the word out of your heart, he can stop your hope and if he can
stop your hope he can kill your faith.
Amen. So be wise, Hallelujah.
Now is read on. He goes on, he says this and
being fully convinced or fully persuaded that, what God had
promised he was able also to perform and therefore it was
accounted to him for righteousness, but let's let's
let's go back up here, verse 20. Again he did not waver at the
promise of God, through unbelief, but was strengthened
in faith, giving glory to God. He was strengthened in faith,
giving glory to God, you know, sometimes you need to do.
sometimes when you're in a faith fight, And Paul said in first
Timothy 6 fight the good fight of Faith.
Didn't he? Amen.
He also said, hold fast to your confession, you know there's
sometimes a faith fight. That you've just got, go ahead
and start praising God by faith. Amen.
No, she said, and not being in weak in faith.
He grew strong in faith, giving glory to God.
You know, sometimes you just need to lay your Bible down.
You need to quit praying for God to do it.
And you just need to lift up your hands to the Lord.
I'm going to live by faith, I'ma walk by faith and not by sight
and my hope is built upon the word of God.
And the word is for ever established in heaven.
I'm going to establish it right now in my heart.
I'm just going to praise you. I'm going to give you glory.
I'm going to worship you and thank you.
Hallelujah! Amen.
There have been times. I want to be honest with you.
Folks there have been times that God spoke to me and, and, you
know, I have to grow just like you I remember one time I was
praying for this situation and about the fifth day in the
prayer, God spoke to me and said, what are you doing?
No, I've been praying for about 45 minutes.
I said, Lord, I'm praying. He said really I knew I was in
trouble, right? That at that moment.
He said what you think about that?
So you know I've been telling you about the situation.
I've been praying believing you He says, you've been telling me
about it. But I haven't seen a whole lot
of believing. He said, when you going to
receive it, I said, what? He said to you been telling me
about this problem for the last five days and asked me to take
care of it and praying the same prayer.
When you going to believe your receive He said did not say mark
11:24 that whatever things you desire, When you pray believe
that you receive them and you shall have them.
He said until you get out of the asking stage and get over into
the receiving stage, I can't do much for you and he said,
actually, you've been wasting my time and yours for the last four
days. First day was okay, but the last
four has been pretty bad. He said, so why don't you do
this instead of asking me again, why don't you just go ahead and
say, father, I believe I receive that done now in Jesus name and
in, just begin to thank me and give me, praise and glory for
it. Hallelujah.
You know what I did? I quit print off.
Ask God. Forgive me for doubting.
And getting caught up into religious prayer and then stood
have Bible praying. And I just started giving him
glory, you know, I praise God for about an hour and just all
of a sudden Anointed God filled in that room.
Hallelujah, I was praising God. And, and then, you know that
next day, I got a call on the very thing that I've been
believing God for somebody called me and said it was all
taken care of, hallelujah. Amen.
Because you see I stepped away from praying and asking to
believing in receiving and Faith gives substance to things hoped
for it gives substance to. In other words, Faith takes it
from home. Hope to reality.
So that means what I have to do after start, praising God for
it. Before I see any difference
before, it looks any different. I've got to start praising God
for amen. And look what it says, let's
read on finish this up. He says this and being fully
convinced that he had what he promised he was able also to
perform and therefore it was accounted to him for
righteousness, verse 20, let's read on, he says that was not
written for his sake alone that it was imputed him but also for
us, you know what he's saying here?
He's saying this was written in the Bible, so you and I could
learn from Abraham's trials, and tests and struggles.
And so we can learn the steps of going from Hope to Faith to
Victory men. So what am I going to do?
I'm going to realize that I'm a New Creation in Christ Jesus.
I'm a citizen of the kingdom of God.
I have been raised up and seated in Heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. God has already called me out of
darkness and brought me into his arms and made me to be qualified
to partake of The Inheritance. And then God has given me.
The means of which I can take my inheritance and bring it into my
life now. And that is, I'm going to get
into the word of God. I'm going to let that word.
Become a spoken word to me. God speaking to me the word
right out of the written word, and I'm going to take it as a
word from God, will let it paint a picture of vision in my heart
and mind of what I know that God wants to do for me.
And then I'm going to take that and I'm going to build my faith
into it and I'm going to start believing God.
I'm gonna start praising God will get my eyes off the
problem. I'm going to walk around with
joy. Amen.
If I catch myself walking around with a frown on my face, I'm
going to say, no, no, no. You start smiling right now
because the blessings on its way.
Hallelujah, I'm giving substance, I'm given reality to
the thing that I have been believing God for Hallelujah.
And if God said it, that settles it, I believe I receive it.
Amen. And you see folks that is the
fight of faith. That is putting Hope and Faith
together, so you can walk in the victory Of God.
Amen. Now, here's the thing.
James 1 says you got to do. You got to get absolute with
this? Amen.
He says if any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who
gives to all men liberally and upbraideth.
Not and and then look what he says but let him ask in faith.
Nothing wavering. For he that waivers is like wave
of the ocean tossed to and fro and let not that double minded
person. Think that he'll receive
anything from God. See what the saying is this?
Once you've made a commitment to do this, stay strict and stay
consistent. Don't be joyful one day and
praising God for the Victory. And the next day back sled and
we can't find you. Amen.
And don't be saying the word one day and then somebody comes
along and says something to you that discourage you the next
day. You know, you walk around
pouting and gloomy and defeated because because that's not how
it's not how Abraham got the victory.
When all hope was gone, he put his hope in the word.
Why? Because God's word is forever
established and settled in heaven.
And God will always watch over his word to perform it.
Amen. And he took hope off of a time
clock. If I have is God, I'll have it
by Friday. Listen, I've worked for people.
They didn't even pay me every Friday and you're putting God on
a Time. Clock to, you know, I worked all
this week. Now you getting back under Works
instead of faith. See my part is to Hope then use
my faith to turn the Hope in reality.
God's part is to do what he said he would do.
Amen. And when I do my part, god will
do his part. Amen.
God taught me that one time. Early in my Ministry, I'll be
real honest with you. I tell you when it was is in
February of 1979. It's few years ago in it, praise
God. But anyway, I was holding a
healing service on a Saturday night.
We'd started doing that in January and we were building it
up. Praise God.
And and we are crowds, were get a little better, a little
better, a little better. And this Saturday night, you
know, that day. I just kind of had gotten busy
and things will legitimate busy. But I hadn't got to pray like I
normally would of and I didn't get in the word as much as I
would have and stuff. And so I went up there to the
surface at night and the church. We had to have a little prayer
room off to the side. Elf the platform and and I, you
know, about 10 minutes before the service, I thought.
Well, I'm going to peek out and see you always here.
So, I picked out, man, we had the biggest crowd we've had in
the last six weeks. So I close the then I went back
and oh God, I finally got a crowd.
I'm not anointed Jesus. Lord I hadn't prayed a lot
today. Lord I've been in the word
today. Oh God, what am I going to do?
Oh God. What?
And yellow? Got Senpai went straight out of
Hope and Faith right back into works and religion based on what
I did or didn't do. So God speaks to him and he says
turn to Mark chapter 16, verses 15 through 20 and read it.
I said Lord I don't need to turn over there.
I can quote it to you. And Jesus said unto the go to
all the world, preach the gospel and he said, no, I didn't say
quoted. I said read it.
So I got my Bible and open it up and read it went right down
through it, got to verse 20 and the Lord working with them and
confirming the word with signs following.
I wouldn't, that's it, that's it.
I need some signs following her. They won't come back next
Saturday, literally help me Jesus.
He said just read Mark 16:15 through 20.
I said I just read it. He said read it again.
So, I read it again, going. All the world, preach the gospel
to Every Creature. He, the believes be baptized
shall be saying, he believed not shall be condemned, and these
signs shall follow them that. Believe I said, that's it.
I need some signs. He goes keep reading.
So I kept reading. Hallelujah got down then, I
said, Lord, I need this. I need some annoying.
I need the anointing. You to help me.
He said, read Mark 16:15 through 20.
He didn't amazing until we listen to God.
He'll keep saying the same thing.
I don't tell you something, folks.
God has a whole lot more time that he can say the same thing
than you do. So God said, read Marx, I said,
Lord, I've read it twice and apparently I'm missing
something. I said, yeah, I may not be the
smartest person. I'm not dumb, it'll slow, Maybe.
What am I missing? You know, until you ask God, he
won't tell you. See, a lot of us aren't getting
answers to why is not working because we haven't asked God,
why? It's not working?
But what I need to fix this. I said, Lord, I'm missing
somewhere. What am I missing?
He said reverse 15. They're going all the world and
preach the gospel to Every Creature.
He says he's going to do the preaching tonight.
I went me. He said, that's right.
You got that right? God complimented me?
Hallelujah. Then he said, read on down here,
he says. And, you know, and he says, and
and you know, and these signs shall follow them that believe
in my name. They'll, you know, castle
devspeak with time to take up serpents of drink things, I
heard verse 17 and they shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover. He said, who's going to lay
hands on the sick tonight. I want Me, I'm going to let my
hands. He goes right again.
He said, Maori verse 20. And the Lord working with them
and confirming the word through signs fall.
He said, who's going to confirm the word and do the healings
tonight? I went you he goes.
That's right again. He said now then, do you believe
I can do my part? I said yes sir.
He said, if you'll do your part I'll do my part and we'll
partner in this thing and do it together and we'll get some
people healed tonight. Amen.
And you know I learned something from that time on that.
If I'll do my part I can always count on God doing his part.
And what I got to quit doing is trying to get God to quit trying
to do God's part myself. Amen, I just have to follow him,
see Abraham. Never initiated any of this.
You go back to Genesis 12 in the Bible says that God spoke to
Abraham and called him out and told him to go to a certain
place. The Bible says Abraham obeyed
and did what God asked him to do.
Then as Abraham was following God and another, you know, you
go a little bit farther past that and God speaks to him says
I'm El Shaddai. I'm the god.
That's more than enough walk. Before me and be holy and I'm
going to create a covenant and I'm going to give you a seed and
I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that.
And once again Abraham's just following God and Abraham looks
up to it. Praise God.
He begins to walk and go where God's tummy and Abraham is not
perfect. He makes some mistakes and he
goes along and everything. But all during this time of
following God, he just kept trusting God and then he got to
the place where he he just praise God.
And he looked at his wife and he goes ain't no way.
He looked at himself and he went ain't no way.
God be God. Hallelujah, God to be God.
So God, I'm going to tell you what I've learned right now,
just by looking at my wife and look at me at my age and her
age, it's not going to get done by works.
It's going to get done by trusting you to do what you said
you would do. And the Lord showed up when
Abraham got to that point said, this time next year, she'll have
you son and it happened folks. What God is wanting each one of
us to do right now is to come to that place where we look at
ourselves. Look at our situation, say, I
can't make it change, but I can trust God to.
So, Lord, I'm putting it in your hands.
I'm going to just praise. You open you and I'm going to
keep my faith in you. I'm going to trust you and
you're going to do. This for me because Lord, you
always work with your word and you always confirm it with the
signs and the Miracles that walk with it.
Amen, my parts just to believe. God's Parts.
Bring the pass. What's your hope tonight?
What do you hope in God for? What is that thing that God is
speaking into your heart? What hope do you have in your
heart tonight? Because you see, if you don't
have a hope, you don't have anything for your faith to work
on. You can't skip hope.
Stars with hope and hope is built upon what God says
everything that you're ever going to get from God, is going
to start with hope. A joyful, confident, Revelation,
and expectation, that what God said he will do for you when
Bond. And I started, we had nothing.
We had nothing. I mean, literally nothing.
But we had a faith and a trust in God, and God has spoke to our
hearts that we were going to do certain things.
And when we started off, it was a walk of faith.
And I had to feed my hope all the time because discouragement
was around the corner of every step that we took But you know
what? I've seen God do.
I've seen him before, faithful and true to his promises for a
long time. Now, I've watched God healed me,
I got the revelation of Jesus, my healer and I've had to fight
off sickness, I was at a winner seminar and got attacked and
ended up in the hospital for a night and and he told me that it
would affect me the rest of my life.
And the two weeks later, I had total healing and did a healing
service in the church. Now, you can find a symptom.
Let me say that we had Faith like it don't come by wishing it
comes by having a full vision. That Jesus is your healer and
your hope is in him. And then whenever the enemy
comes, you use your faith to bring into reality in your life.
What God Says is yours. Amen.
Let's stand. Hallelujah.
Thank you. Lord.
Jesus. Once again, I want you to look
in your heart. Once you answer this question,
what are you hoping for? What are you hoping for?
Because it takes Hope and Faith to get you to where you want to
be. Amen.
What are you hoping for? And your hope is built upon the
word of God. I hope when it doesn't look like
it. I hope because the word says so
I expect it because God said, so and God cannot lie.
God is faithful to his promises and what God did for one.
He'll do for another because he's no respecter of persons.
Amen. And it's not by my might, it's
not by my power, but his, by his Spirit, his anointing, his word
operating in my life. Amen.
And you say, Pastor? I mean, why did you come here
on? This Wednesday night to teach us
this because we're heading into December and into a new year and
things around us. They're crazy and we need to be
people of Hope and Faith. Amen.
We need have a vision of what God can do for us and not be
moved by what's going on around us and not by what the world is
saying about us or anything else.
And then, we need to learn how to use our faith to bring What
God Says, into the reality of our life.
Amen. Because I choose let God create
my reality, not the world. Amen.
So once again, bow your heads, close your eyes look in your
heart because that's where hope and Faith operate then operate
any flesh. A don't operate.
Any of mine, the operate in your heart.
What's your hope? Because if you got hope, you've
got something for your faith to bring to pass.
What are you hoping for right now?
What are you hoping for? What's your scripture?
You're standing on. What what what word has God
spoken to you out of this written word that you will stand
and say, God, my hope is built upon the word.
My expectations are built upon the word.
And I use my faith to believe. I receive what you have promised
me because your God, your God. Hallelujah.
Father I thank you right now for the word of God lord.
We just thank you for the anointing.
We thank you right now. Holy spear for just speaking to
each and every one of us. Lord, we thank you right now, we
choose to be men and women of Hope.
Lord, we choose to be people of faith.
That brings those things which you say into reality in our
lives. And we refuse to allow the enemy
to determine who we are. What we have, And what we do.
We are citizens of the kingdom of God and we operate in the
currency of the Kingdom, which is Faith and Hope.
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