Hallelujah. So we're going to start in
Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 2 because this year, you know, and
if you have been in our corporate prayer, the Holy
Spirit gave me these scriptures in corporate prayer last week
and I believe it was the week before.
And so I know that this is something that He gave us
corporately through prayer so that the body can grab hold of
it and you need it for this year.
And so because I believe that he does want to do some new things.
He wants to do some new things in the new year, wants to do
some new things in the new year. And it's going to take faith.
It's going to take faith to get it done, to get those things
done that he wants to see in our life and get into places that we
have just been complacent with. Well, it is what it is.
Just like she said, you know if this don't change this year,
it's not up to God. God wants a new thing to change
in your life. Scripture clearly says it.
It's not up to God for those things to change.
It's up for us to believe Him and navigate in what it is that
He sees we need to do to accomplish the change.
Amen. You know, everybody sets their
goals for the year and everybody.
And I'm going to tell you change is happening.
Change is happening, period. And I'm going to tell you every
time God is trying to take people, His people into new
territory. Sometimes people can't change
and go in. And so change is happening all
around us. But we need to determine, are we
going to walk in the change and be together and doing what God
wants us to do together? Or are we going to step out and
do change on our own? Because change this way looks a
little bit bit different. And any times there's change, it
is a perfect opportunity for the enemy to come in and try to get
people because it's during transition when people are.
And we've been there, done that, seen it, and I'm telling you, we
are upon it again. And so we need to be locked in
into the throne room so that we can hear what the Spirit is
truly saying during change that is happening in each and every
one of our lives. Because change is inevitable.
Anything growing must be changing.
If you're not growing, you're not changing and things will
begin to die. OK, So we need to recognize, I
love what Pastor had been saying and teaching about the end times
these last few weeks at the end of the year is that we need to
recognize the time and the season that we're in, right?
They did not recognize their appointed time.
So even when there's change, when things are, we need to
recognize the time and the season and the things that God
is doing spiritually among his body, spiritually in the world.
It's not just recognizing the time and the season we're in
with what he's doing and wrapping this thing up, but what
is the time and the season of what's happening in the body of
Christ spiritually among us? Because if you don't recognize
the time and the season that you're in spiritually, this is
when the enemy will come in and get you off and get you
distracted and get you in a place lost in transition.
Lost in transition. And so this is this is a
prophetic atmosphere. And I'm not just saying this,
I'm telling you this by unction of the Holy Spirit.
So we need to be ever more diligent to pay attention to
what we are doing in this season of change.
Amen. So that we're not going to get
lost in the transition and that we're not going to get out of
place, but we're going to be right where God needs us to be
during it all. And then we're going to yield to
him. And whatever it is that he needs
us to yield to, to change, to grow, and to walk into the next
season, that's going to be upon us as believers.
Amen. Hallelujah.
So yes, I believe he is doing a new thing and wants to do a new
thing, but I do know that it won't happen outside of faith.
OK. And in Hebrews 12/2 it says
this, Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of what
faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, He sat down at the right hand of the throne
of God. He's at the right hand of the
throne of God. And guess who seats, sits with
him in that seat on the right hand?
We are already in the throne room.
We are in a fixed position. Come on, in Christ he, we are
seated, Ephesians says, right, We are seated with him in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We are already seated in the
throne room and have full access.
Hallelujah, Glory to God, glory to God.
But he says here, let's look at the Scripture.
It says fixing our eyes on Jesus, who is the author and
perfector of our faith. And when we were in corporate
prayer a few weeks ago, he said to us this that there are some
things that he wants to author in faith in your life this year.
What is author means there is some faith that he wants to
create within your life this year.
He wants to author it. He wants to authorize it.
Come on, glory to God. He wants to create a space in
you for faith to arise like never before.
Come on, what is the scripture said when the the the disciples
talked to Jesus, he they said to him increase our faith.
And there are some things that God wants to increase in our
faith this year. He wants to offer a new place of
faith to for us to walk into, for us to walk into.
Come on, so that's what that word author means.
Guess what else it means when you look it up in the Greek?
It is the beginner. There is some things by faith
that he wants to begin in you. We have not already obtained.
There's some faith, some new things that he wants to begin in
you. But if you're holding on to all
the other old things, come on, and you've not actually allowed
Him to complete in you some old faith projects, come on.
Because we are to go from what? Faith to faith, grace upon
grace, glory to glory. Come on.
That means there is a new place of faith that He wants to take
us corporately and individually. Hallelujah.
And so He wants to create that new space of faith within your
life. So that's what that means,
Author. He's the beginner.
You know what else it means? It means he's the originator of
your faith. He's the originator of your
faith. We've all been given the measure
of faith and measures can increase.
And so he's the originator of our faith.
But guess what? He also wants to continue to
increase our faith and our walk in the Kingdom of God.
And so it also means this author, he's the chief leader.
He's the chief leader of your faith.
Is he the chief leader? That means he's the one that is
allowed to lead me by faith into places that are uncomfortable,
come on, Places that I think I would never be able to walk into
by faith. But he's trying to create a
space within you, come on, to increase your capacity of faith,
to enlarge you into new territory.
Hallelujah. But we have to let him be the
leader, the chief leader in our life.
It also means the captain. All right, Lord, you're wanting
me to step out of the boat, come home by faith.
He's the captain. He's the captain of our faith.
It also means to steer. He's the one that's steering our
faith. So do we trust Him to be the
chief leader and the captain of our faith?
To steer us into a place of unknown or a place to create a
space of increase within our faith life?
Or are we just satisfied with where we're at?
We have enough faith just to believe God that when I die, I
get to go to heaven and believe. Come on.
Is that all the faith you have? No.
So he's the author. He's the one that wants to
increase and create a new space of faith for us to walk into in
this year. And then he says this the
perfector. He's the perfector of our faith.
So there are some things that God wants to do new within us
and create a new space for faith to arise within us.
But there's also a place with Him being the perfector that He
wants completed. That means enough is enough.
Let's finish what I started 10 years ago within your life.
Let's get some things completed that that's not going to keep
you bound anymore. Come on.
Or that addiction is not going to continue to rule over you
anymore. Or that mentality or attitude is
not going to reign in your life anymore.
That I'm actually going to allow God to complete within me the
things that need to be done once and for all so that I can move
into the new. But if you don't allow the old
to be completed, there will be no place for the new to arrive.
So there's some things He wants to complete or perfect within
you to say, listen, I started some things in you by faith, and
you're not allowing me as the chief leader to complete some
projects within your life. So the perfector is broken down
in this Greek word means completer, trans.
Some translation says he's the author and the completer, the
another Greek word is, how about this finisher, finisher.
One translation says he's the finisher, and the Greek says it
too, that there's some things that he wants finished in your
life. He wants you finished with this.
He don't want you to, you know, drag this on into 10 more years.
He wants it finished once and for all within your life.
He's the finisher. He is the one that can bring
something to its conclusion. Can we finally just get to a
conclusion in your life concerning this situation or
that situation because you've allowed God to just complete it
within you and bring to a conclusion.
I'm done with that. I'm never going back.
Goodbye yesterday. Come on.
And then it says this Hallelujah, the perfector.
He's the one that creates and sustains our faith from God, so
that Perfector is the one that's creating and sustaining.
So that means we should never be in a place that we're not in
faith. Because the minute He completes
something in you, there's going to be new room for Him to create
another space of faith. Hallelujah, the author and the
perfector of our faith, of our faith, and the way we're going
to do that is recognize, listen, that there are new things that
God wants to do in our life this year.
Isaiah 42, nine and 10. Indeed, the former things have
come to pass. Now I declare new things, new
things before they spring forth, I will proclaim them to you.
And then of course, if you were in our corporate prayer, I read
verse 10 because it says sing to the Lord a new song.
And I said he wants to do a new thing in your life and he wants
to put a new song in your mouth for this year.
He wants to do something new, and when he wants to do
something new, it can feel uncomfortable, it can feel
shaky. And what I've seen in the 30
years of pastoring people is that when God is trying to
complete something in someone and take them to a space where
he can create something new, that sliver of moment, people
begin to start getting shaky. And I like to call wiggy, they
start wigging out because this is the process.
OK, let's think about what Raphael said about the seed.
The seed has to what be planted has to die, and then it has to
what? Shoot forth?
What starts happening to the dirt when that little thing is
trying to pop forth? Come on, you start seeing the
the the dirt start moving. I mean, have you ever actually
been in a field and watched some new seeds start coming up?
You can literally start seeing the ground start to shake.
What is happening? The ground is shaking.
Your foundation is shaking and stirring.
Come on. Because God is trying to birth
something up out of you new. But it's in that shaking and in
that pushing through. People get lost and they get
distracted. They get distracted and because
they're not handling the, the anxiousness or the change,
something doesn't feel stable in my life.
That is God trying to do something in you.
That doesn't mean you've got to to, you know, quit doing what
you're doing and do something new because I'm going to tell
you if you start doing something that God is not asking you to
do. You can thwart or hinder that
new baby thing from growing up. You can abort it.
So that's why things don't get completed in you because you
can't handle the change of the process that God is doing within
you. And so you think I, I need to go
somewhere else. I need to get a new word.
I need you. And it's the worst time you
could ever, ever separate. It's the worst time because
that's how the enemy can come in and get you off and get you in a
wrong direction. During this time of uneasiness
or you know, a rocky stability in your life of not knowing
where you're supposed to go, you shouldn't move until you've
heard God. And through a a multitude of
wise counsel, Amen. Because that's going to keep you
safe in the midst of what God is trying to do within your life to
make sure that you're moving in the right direction and doing
the right things. And so anyway, so he says here
we're talking about indeed, I'm, I'm ready to do a new thing and
it's ready, right to spring forth.
But that's important in this timing when he's trying to do a
new thing within you. Again, we're going to have to
make sure we stay settled and set where we're at so that
everything that God needs to do within us during that process
and during that uneasiness and during that feeling of change or
whatever it is that God's doing within our heart.
How about this one where you just don't know, You can't
explain how you're feeling inside?
It's the worst time that you could ever do something
different. I've seen too many people get
off in that timing. No, you need to wait till you
have complete peace and let that thing get perfected within you
so that nothing gets uprooted outside of God's timing of what
He's trying to complete or birth new within you.
Amen. That's a word for some people,
if you'll receive it. Isaiah 43.
I had this down. Isaiah 43, which I think is the
scripture that Matt read. 18 and 19 do not remember the former
things. And again, this is where the
enemy wants to keep you trapped. He wants to remind you of all
the past, remind you you can't move forward because of all the
things you've done in the past. No, goodbye yesterday.
Come on, I'm moving in. Don't buy the lie.
Don't buy the lie from the enemy that you cannot move forward.
It says do not remember the former things.
Oh, ponder the things of the past.
Or ponder the things of the past that you know what that means.
Don't meditate on the things of the past.
Don't continue to think about the past and how the past was.
Don't continue to ponder on it. No, for you to move forward,
you're going to have to quit pondering and thinking on former
things or past things for you to move into a new place that God
has for you. So he says this, listen
carefully. See, during this time you need
to listen carefully. And what are we listening to His
word? What are we listening to His
Spirit? What are we listening to the
counsel of the Lord that God has put you up underneath to keep
you safe in this space. And during this time, listen
carefully. I'm about to do a new thing and
now it will spring forth. Will you not be aware of it?
This is why I'm telling you there's some shakiness happening
among people in this body. Will you not be aware of what
God is actually trying to do? Be aware of it, listen
carefully. You see this and I will even put
a road in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.
That means he is going to make a way where you feel like you are
in the wilderness right now. Come on, He is going to make a
way for you if you'll listen carefully.
Come on, if you'll listen carefully to what the Spirit of
the Lord is saying and, and if you will allow him to do that
new thing, he's going to put you on a road.
He's going to make a road for you in the wilderness.
Well, you know what? You can just look back at the
children of Israel and think about the wilderness.
What is the the wilderness is where they were for 40 years.
And he's saying some of you have been in a wilderness position
spiritually for years. Going around what?
You know what Joyce Meyers used to say going around that
mountain every year. Here it is again.
Here it is again, here it is again.
Why? Because we're not allowing him
to complete and perfect to take us into the promised land, the
new thing, the new thing. And so again, he wants to make a
road in the wilderness, but we have to be the ones that are
going to listen carefully during this time.
And then rivers in the desert. What does this represent?
A dry time. Maybe 2024 has been a dry season
spiritually for you. You've just felt dry.
You know what he's saying. I'm ready to give you rivers of
living water again. I'm ready to refresh you like
never before. I'm ready to spring up.
Come on some new fresh water from the Holy Spirit within your
life. Listen.
And the good thing is, is that if we are all filled with the
Spirit of God, we can just make a determination.
I'm going to stir up those whales.
Come on, I'm going to tap into that well.
I'm going to go deeper into stirring myself up in the Spirit
of God because the water had seemed stagnant, but you've got
a new fresh well of rivers of living water flowing, and I'm
going to jump in. Come on, I'm going to dive into
the river and of walking into a freshness of the Spirit of God.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. What is he saying?
Even though we have to do it, He's saying I'll be there to
give it. I'll be there to give you fresh
water if you'll just tap into it.
If you'll just tap into it, I'll give you some fresh water for
this season that it seemed as if it was dry.
If it's you've been living in a desert, come on for the last
year. But he's got some fresh new
water for you to tap into. Hallelujah.
And do you remember when you are so hot and thirsty and you're
out, you know, outside, say, and you take that first sip of fresh
water? Now, I don't know about you, but
I like ice water. I don't really care for room
temperature water because I feel like that's not as refreshing as
ice when you're in a desert, right?
I want ice water. And you drink that first glass
of refreshing ice water. I mean, just think it's
refreshing. And you know what?
Something else, a tradition which I'm giving away with my
family because my husband reminded me yesterday that
nobody said anything about it at the new year.
My kids and him always had a, what is that called tradition to
be the first one in the ocean for the new year.
And I hadn't heard, not one person say they've done it
because it's been a little cold this new Year, hadn't it?
Not like, you know, past New Year's in Florida, but it's been
extremely cold this New Year. And he reminded me yesterday, he
said I might go jump in that ocean because I hadn't heard one
of my kids text me and say they got in the ocean before me.
But when you jump in, you know, and y'all know, now they're
doing those, you know, the ice baths that really are popular,
you know, jumping in the ice. What is that called?
No. Yeah, the ice baths, it's really
popular now. It's but you're supposed to jump
in it. It's supposed to be shock your,
your nervous system, be good for your immunities and all this
stuff. And so, you know, go jump in an
ice bath to remind you of the refreshing that God wants to do
within you. Go jump in the Florida Ocean
over here. And you know how it feels when
you jump in and you come out and it's freezing cold and freezing
cold for me in May, right? And you jump out.
I mean, you feel, you know, when I give my dog a bath and I do it
with cold water, she gets all excited, you know, from that
cold water starts running around like a spring chicken, you know,
and she's 11 years old, but she'll take off and run around
the yard because it does something, it refreshes you.
It come on it, it wakes you up. And God wants to wake us up.
He wants to do a new refreshing thing within our life this year.
But we are going to have to do it by faith.
We're going to have to lock in and engage our faith to say I'm
going to grab hold of mine. I'm going to get mine right.
And so we are going to have to be those that will by faith
receive what it is that God wants to do.
So He's the author and perfector of our faith.
Psalms 138 and verse 8 says this.
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.
He will perfect or complete that which concerns me.
And that ought to be your faith this year and your confession
this year that God, whatever needs to finally be complete
within me, you will see it come to pass.
The Lord will perfect the thing that is concerning me, whatever
needs to be perfected within me. I am going to trust the Lord
that He will do it, that He will bring it into completion within
my life because He is all about completing something to take you
into another place, to take you in to another place.
And how are we going to be able to though during this time,
during this time for Him to get this accomplished within our
lives, we are going to have to fix our eyes.
He tells us the answer. We're going to have to fix our
eyes on Jesus. That means we're not going to
fix our eyes on what our circumstance looks like.
We're not going to fix our eyes on what reminds us of the past
or how maybe you're having marriage issues and you see the
same behavior. What do you do?
You see the same behavior, so you think there's no change.
So what are you doing? You're fixing your eyes on the
unchanged behavior instead of fixing your eyes.
Oh, Jesus, who is the author and finisher, my faith that I'm
going to be in faith that this thing is going to change within
my marriage. This thing is going to change
within my within this individual's life.
Now I'm no longer going to look at this.
I'm going to look at this and I'm going to stay in faith.
We have to be people that will fix our eyes on Jesus because He
lets us know in Second Corinthians chapter 5 that we
are to what for we are to walk by faith and not by sight.
We're going to have to fix our eyes on what the word of God
says, on what the Spirit of God has said.
We're going to have to fix our eyes, right?
We're going to have to say no. What?
I'm going to look at it, at Jesus.
I'm going to look towards his word.
I'm going to look towards what he has said because I am not
going to look at this situation in this circumstance and get
focused on it. I'm going to focus on Jesus.
Hebrews 12/2 in the Amplified. I want to read it, it says
looking away from all that will distract us.
Wow. And that's the problem is that
we get our eyes on the distractions.
We get our eyes focusing on the wrong things during situations
that are going on in our life instead of no fixing my eyes,
focusing on it, not getting distracted about these
situations and circumstances and the things that I see going on.
No, I'm going to lock in. I'm going to fix my eyes on
Jesus. Come on, I'm going to look at
him and I'm not going to be distracted.
So he says looking away from all that will distract us, focusing
our eyes on Jesus. So focus, think about that.
If you have a camera, if you have a telescope, right, what
are some other things you can look through?
When I go to the eye doctor, I have to look through those
things. And he's what?
Tweaking all those little things so that I can focus, right?
I'm going to have to tweak my lenses so that I can stay in
focus with my eyes on what the prize is or what it is that he
says. Instead of focusing on all these
other things that are just trying to pop up to distract us
and get us unfocused, get us distracted, get us on things
that we don't need to be focused on.
We need to focus our faith on Jesus, who is the author and
perfector of our faith. Amen.
Focusing so that we don't get distracted walking by faith and
not by sight. What is faith?
I want to remind you, I think it was, I don't even remember, I
did a whole four or five week session on faith and maybe it
was over the summer. I would encourage you to go back
on iTunes or whatever it's on whatever platform and go back
and re listen to all 66 teachings on faith because he's
telling us to get our focus on faith this year on faith.
So Hebrews 11/1 now. Faith is the substance of
things. What hope for the evidence of
things not seen. This is why he tells us to keep
our focus and to fix our eyes because when we are people in
faith, it's not seen. It doesn't look like what it's
supposed to look like. It's not changing and doing what
it's supposed to be doing during this time that I am now, what
exercise in my faith says it's going to be the opposite of what
it looks like. So faith, we want to remind you,
is a firm persuasion. It's a confident expectation.
This is how you know that you're in faith.
I'm firmly persuaded that this situation is going to change.
Period. It has to change.
It has to change because I'm going to stay in a position of
faith. I'm going to stay fixed and
looking to Jesus. Come on, who is the author and
finisher of my faith in this situation?
It's not just a one and done faith.
Faith is something we are to keep activated, to live by, to
obtain the promises of God within our life.
And we will never obtain all the promises of God in our life if
we are not actively walking by faith in every scenario or
situation that we're encountering.
So we have to ask ourselves, is our faith activated?
Are we firmly persuaded that what God has said concerning
this situation or that circumstance will come to pass?
Amen. So we are going to have to
continue to fix ourselves, fix ourselves in a position of faith
and fix ourselves, our eyes on the prize.
Isaiah 26 and three says this. You will keep him in perfect
peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.
So where he says that we are to fix our eyes or get our eyes
focused also this means to turn our mind towards.
So it's not just about focusing your eyes, it's about resetting
your mind to turn it towards what God says instead of what
you're hearing in your mind. So we're going to have to turn,
not just fix, not just our eyes, but we're going to have to turn
our mind set on Him. Our mindset, Come on, we're
going to have to turn our mindset on Him because it's
where this is the enemy's playground.
Remember, He's going to tell you in your mind the opposite of
what you are believing God for. He's going to give you a picture
in your mind that it's not going to work.
That's how the enemy works. He comes to your mind to get you
anxious and overwhelmed and worried, but He's letting us
know we're going to have to fix our eyes.
And then we're going to have to turn our mindset and get it set
on what He has said and what He is doing and what cast down
every thought that's tried to come to our mind and line it up
with the Word of God, right? Corinthians, Second Corinthians,
I believe it is. Take every thought captive and
line it up to what the Word of God says.
And this is how we keep ourselves fixed.
We meditate in the Word, we read the Word, we see what the Word
is saying, and then we set our mind to meditate on it day and
night. Come on day and night, that's
what I'm going to focus on. I'm going to meditate on it, and
then I'm going to have perfect peace in the situation that I'm
standing upon. You know why I'm going to have
perfect peace with my mind stayed on what God has said.
It's because then my faith is activated, and where there's
activation of faith, there's rest, rest, peace.
I don't have to be anxious. I don't have to be worried.
I don't have to care what everybody else thinks.
I don't have to be concerned if they are in agreement with me or
not. Come on, I'm in faith myself.
I'm at peace. I'm at rest.
I don't care, you know, about all these other things.
I'm going to keep my mind set and I'm going to keep my eyes
focused and fixed, right? Because that literally means
when it says whose mind is stayed on you, it means to lean
upon and to rest on committed and focused.
I'm committed to this thing to see it through by faith.
I'm committed to this thing to see it through.
But I'm only going to be able to see it through if I'm in faith,
resting and leaning on him, keeping my eyes fixed and
keeping my mind set. Amen.
I'm going to read US1 more scripture.
Hallelujah. Colossians chapter 3 Colossians
chapter 3 and verse 2 says this. Set your mind.
That's what that means. Set, get it set, get it in a
position and don't let it waver. Don't let it move.
Set your mind and keep focused. I'm reading out of the
amplified. So your mind and your your eyes
are one, so to speak. You're set in your mind and your
focus, your eyes as one. And so he says, set your mind
and keep focused habitually on the things above, the heavenly
things, not on things of this earth which are only temporal or
temporary or amplifies as temporal value.
So again, he lets us know we're going to have to set our minds
on the things above. We're going to have to fix our
eyes on Jesus, who is the author and finisher of our faith.
We're going to have to be people that by faith, if we are going
to walk into the new things that he has for us, we are going to
have to be people that will actually set ourselves like
Flint. We're not going to be moved.
We're not going to come off of it.
I was sharing this in corporate prayer this morning, and I want
to encourage you. You should be in corporate
prayer. 9:30 We pray for 30 minutes.
Be in here. Do you believe that our answers
come through prayer? Be here because God is always,
you know, here speaking to us, showing us things, giving us a
course, directions and things by the Spirit of God in prayer.
You know, I've had so many people come to me and say I
never knew how to pray until I came to corporate prayer and
started learning how to pray. Come to prayer, people of faith,
actually pray, not just about coming and hearing the word.
Why don't you come and activate your life of faith through
prayer and believe God for some things.
Amen. And so I encourage you with
that. Anyway, let me see what
scripture I'm going to talk about here and then we'll close.
I want to read James chapter 2 Faith, being firmly persuaded
that God is the author and perfector of our faith and that
there are some things that need to be completed within our lives
so that we can move forward. We're never going to move
forward if we don't allow Him to get some things completed in our
lives once and for all. And so James chapter 2 and verse
17 through 22 says this. And the amplified so to faith,
if it does not have works to back it up, is by itself dead
and inoperative and ineffective. I never want to be in a position
that my faith is inoperative and ineffective.
And it can be if we don't keep it activated.
And we have to be intentional about that.
It says, but someone may say you claim to have faith and I have
good works. Show me your alleged faith
without the works if you can, and I'll show you my faith by
works, That is, by what I do. So faith is not us just
believing that God died and God raised him from the dead, that
Jesus died and God raised him from the dead.
Faith is not just that. Faith has action.
We are resting in faith in the finished work of Christ, but it
will be inoperative in our life if we don't do something with
it, if we don't do something with it.
And so we must be people that are going to activate our faith
and actually do something with it.
He says I'm going to show you my faith by my works.
That is by what I do. And then he goes on to say you
believe that God is 1. You do well to believe that the
demons also believe that in shudder, in all feared terror,
they have seen his wrath. But are you willing to
recognize, you foolish, spiritually shallow person, that
faith without good works is useless?
Was our father Abraham not shown to be justified by his works of
obedience which expressed his faith when he offered Isaac his
son on the altar as the sacrifice to God?
Verse 22 you see that his faith was working together with his
works, and as a result of the works, his faith was what?
Reaching to it's what maturity when he expressed his faith
through what faith without works or obedience to what God is
saying to do in your situation or your circumstance is dead and
inoperative. And so He cannot complete some
things within us if there's no action behind us doing what it
is that we're hearing to do in the situation, to see it come to
pass in our life. If we're not going to be
obedient to do what He's telling us to do, we can fix our eyes
all day long. Oh Jesus, I love Jesus, I love
you. I love you.
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.
Come on, you can sing. I love you to Jesus all day long
and not have obedient works of faith.
You can come to the altar every service and tell Jesus you love
him and cry, but if you walk out and do nothing that he is
telling you to do, it is ineffective.
It's dead. I didn't say it.
James said it by the inspiration of God.
So we cannot fool ourselves or deceive our own selves that
God's done it all and there's nothing we have to do.
That is not faith. It's not grace.
We have to activate faith to live by it every day.
And by living by it every day, that means that we are actually
going to be obedient to what God is telling us to do in whatever
situation we are in. And we're never going to come
on, we're never going to go into a new place of faith if we're
not allowing this other place of faith to ever be completed
within our lives. Of what does that mean?
Things that you know, he's already spoken to you to do.
And if we don't do it, faith is not active.
And so therefore he can't complete a thing within you to
create a new space to move you into, to increase you, because
you refuse to do the very thing he's told us to do in the first
place in obedience. Because faith works by
obedience, works by obedience. Hallelujah.
Not just being able to quote the Scripture.
It's what is it that He's saying to me?
I'm going to obey that I'm going to do it by faith, even though
it may be seemingly difficult. Because nothing's too hard for
God. Nothing's too hard when we tap
into His strength, His ability, His grace to empower us to be
able to do the very things that he's requiring of us to do by
faith, then his grace is there empowering us to be able to
accomplish the very things that he needs.
I'm telling you, God wants to do some new things within some
people's lives, but He's ready to bring some completion to some
things. That's you just been taken to
yourself year after year after year after year.
And you're never allowing God to perfect those things within you
and complete them. And He's saying once and for
all, let's get these things complete within you so that I
can take you into new territory. Come on, so that I can take you
into a new song this year. Come on, so that I can take you
into some new refreshing water this year that I have for you.
Come on, so that I can take you into a place of increase in your
life. Hallelujah.