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Now enjoy this message. Well, I'm on assignment tonight
and I'm thrilled to be with you. If you don't know me, my name is
Randy. They call me Reverend Randy.
And every now and then we'll have an opportunity to be
together. And I'm excited because like I
said, I'm on assignment. And I asked pastor, you need me
to administer on anything in particular.
And he looked at me and said yes.
And he gave me the subject. I think it's up.
Let's, let's see what it is tonight.
Are we ready? It's almost like a drum roll or
something. Don't leave home without it.
Kingdom faith. We're going to talk about faith
tonight. When he told me that, I said
that's one of my favorite subjects.
I want you to go with me as we get started.
Let's go to Romans chapter one. That's where we're going to
start tonight, Romans chapter one.
I think it's important that as we discuss faith, we've heard
our pastor over the last several years talk to us about faith
being the currency of the Kingdom.
Anybody remember him saying that?
Have we heard that before? There's a few of you that were
listening. OK, that's great.
All right. When we talk about currency,
let's talk a little bit about that, because when a society
decides that they've become too big.
Is Lord trying to get in? He should already be in here.
What? Somebody's knocking on the door.
Go ahead and stand around. Where?
Where's where's my, my team at? There.
They they're all leaving. OK.
When we talk about currency, one of the things that we need to
understand is why do we we term faith as the currency of the
Kingdom. Everybody have currency.
You know what currency is? We call it money.
Money over the years has taken a lot of different things, a lot
of different changes, a lot of different values.
But when we talk about a currency, basically it's when a
society has decided that we're no longer gonna trade eggs for
wagon wheels. You know, not too long ago in
our country, they're they, you know, a community was specially
designed to have different people of different trades come
in and they would trade their products and the different
things to each other, whether it was the grain, whether it was
the corn with whatever it was for services and different
things that they had. But when we talked about when
America basically got into currency and it it happened way,
way back. But as far as the currency that
we now have, we have, we have plenty of it, OK?
And I like one minister hurt say one time he said money hadn't
left the planet. You know, he said the problem is
it's a lot of people. They don't have the money, but
it hasn't left the planet. And as a matter of fact.
The Federal Reserve is printing more of it every day.
I mean since you know, since the 2008 and some of the challenges
that we had in some of our markets, they decided, you know,
let's just print it unlimited, let's go and they have.
But when we talk about the Kingdom of God, we need to
understand one little word in the Kingdom that makes all the
difference. It's the word exchange.
The Kingdom is based upon exchange and we're going to see
several different places tonight where that is in the Bible when
we talk about being an exchange. But that's what we do with our
currency. We exchange it.
We have we have agreed and long before any of us in here were
born that currency was created as a medium of exchange.
You know when we and but here's the thing about this medium of
exchange, we don't think about the money.
We think about what it is we want for the money.
Well, in the Kingdom of God the same thing needs to happen.
All right. And and we're going to look at
this particular verse. This is Paul writing to the
church at Rome. All right.
And he goes into. And if you look at verse 16 with
me, all right, he said, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
for it is the power of God unto salvation and to everyone that
believes to the Jew first also the Greek, he said, Therein is
the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.
As it is written, the just shall live by faith.
Now let me tell you, every time I see that it is written, I
always want to know where it's written.
Jot this down. It's Habakkuk 2, verse 4,
Habakkuk 2 and three. Talk about.
Write the vision. Make it plain.
Put it on a tablet or tables. That those that see it may run
by that. So in other words they're saying
make a vision of what it is you want to see.
But then the fourth verse says that it's someone that is high
and lifted up in their mind, in their soul, he said Their their,
their hearts. Not right, but he said the just
shall live. And in the King James it says.
By his faith. So he's telling us that what the
just is supposed to live by the righteous are supposed to live
by is faith. Could have said a lot of things.
The just shall live by going to church every Sunday.
He didn't say that even though you need to be here every
Sunday. He didn't say the just shall
live by treating your wife. Right.
You need to treat your right wife right.
Right. But he didn't say that.
He said the just shall live by faith.
Let me give you the definition of the word faith as you see it
in the In the New Testament, it's only mentioned.
The word faith is only mentioned a couple of times in the Old
Testament, but it it is multiple, multiple times in the
New Testament. It is the Greek word pistis,
PISTIS. All right, here's the definition
of that word, because it also comes from another word I'll
give you. But you need to know these two
words. The word pissed.
This means a firm persuasion or a conviction or convincing over
something you've. Heard.
So when God tells us that He needs us to live by faith, we
are to live and be convinced and and persuaded by something that
we've heard. Now the root OK of the Word.
Pisses comes from the word. Patho P/E ITHOPEITHO and it
means to persuade someone with words.
So there is something about faith that lets us know it is
going to be contained in. Words.
That's why we talk so much, preach so much, teach so much
about knowing God's words that if we will be people that know
his words, we will have faith when the time comes.
Now, I think it's interesting when we take a look at the
different different parts, because look what it said, it
said from faith to faith, all right?
So it's telling us that we go from levels of faith to another
faith Every time you are in a faith project, and we'll talk
about that in a minute. It should strengthen you to get
you ready for the next faith project.
Believe me, we will never, ever be without a faith project.
I mean, if you've been going here any length of time, we
celebrate 20 years in April the 11th.
I don't remember one time since I've been here that we haven't
had a faith project that we. Believe some words that we
heard, Pastor. Let us know what the vision is.
That's why we teach so much on vision, because that's what
you're really after. You're after the vision.
The faith will bring the vision. It is the currency that makes
the exchange in your personal life and in the life of our
church. Body.
It is faith that makes that exchange for what it is we're
trying to accomplish for him and we have to have faith.
So let's take a look tonight and and and what I does anybody have
a ADVD collection? I knew you would, Chris, for
sure, man. DVD collection.
Come on, Jesus comes tonight. Who's going?
Don't be lying. All right, You got ADV.
It's your favorite movies, right?
Well, we're going to look at some DVD opportunities here,
filmed in the Bible and it's the, it's the, it's the DVD
collection of faith. We're going to go to Mark.
Chapter 4. First, let's go there.
We're going to see what some of these different levels of faith
look like. Pardon me why I turn in my paper
Bible. There's way, way, way, way too
much. Thread of the grid.
Going down. Anybody heard any of that?
I'm I'm prepared right here. Don't leave home without it, OK?
Mark chapter 4. Jesus has done a lot of
teaching, all right. And in Mark four he tells them
in verse 33 he had a great day in ministry and we start in
verse. Let's go 35 he said.
The same day when the evening was come, he said unto them, Let
us pass over to the other side. You need to mark that down in
your Bible. You need to underline that.
OK, I'll tell you why here in just a minute.
Remember, we're convinced we're going to be doing something
based on some words we hear, he tells the guys, guys, listen,
let's pass it over to the other side, Said when they had sent
the multitude away. They took him even as he was in
the ship. And there were with him also
other little ships. And there arose a great storm of
wind, and the waves beat into the ship so that it was now
full. And he was in the hinder part of
the ship asleep on a pillow. And they awakened him and said,
master carousel, not that we perish.
And he arose. He rebuked the wind.
And he said unto the sea, peace be still.
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And he said unto them, Why were you so fearful?
How is it that you have no faith?
So here we have a DVD of some guys going on a little boat
trip. And the first level of faith
that we see in here, Jesus tells them they have no faith.
So what was the story? The story was, hey, Jesus said
let us go to the other side. I'm curious, did do we have a
record that Jesus ever let him down?
I mean, it'd be indifferent if he just said, hey guys, what do
you say we go over tonight and see if we can make it halfway?
We might drown. But Jesus said, let us go to the
other side. And he was so.
Concerned about it? What did it say that he did?
Yeah, so they took him. When he was in the ship, there
rose a great storm of wind and he was in the hinder part of the
ship asleep on a pillow. Now this this particular account
mystifies me a little bit because I'm thinking, all right,
you somebody is either exaggerating when they said the
winds and the waves beat into the ship so that it was now
full. So I got to thinking, well, not
only can he walk on water, he must be able to sleep
underwater. He was that concerned.
About it, though, you know why? Because he's God, The sun in
human flesh. And he speaks.
Things are created, things happen.
We have to depend upon what he says, he said.
Let us go to the other side. He had full intention.
His actions proved. It.
But in there notice what he said.
They they said, Master, carest thou not that we perish.
And he got up, took care of the situation and then looked at him
and he said, why were you so fearful?
How is it that you have no faith?
Let me tell you what no faith is the result of.
You need to jot this down. No faith is the result of
forgetting the word of God. You can't be a person that
forgets the word of God. He said, How is it that you had
no faith in the Greek? That's exactly what it no faith,
that's what it means. They forgot what he said.
Now I'm glad I wasn't in one of them other little ships because
they said there were other little.
Ships with him. I'm glad I wasn't in one of them
because I didn't have Jesus on my boat.
They had Jesus on their boat and they were scared.
I can't even imagine about the other little ships.
I mean, there's probably a lot of hooping and hollering going
on. Jesus calmed it all down for
everybody and then he turned back and asked them why they had
no faith. So we need to remember that
faith, No faith is a result of forgetting the word of God.
Let's look at another level. OK?
Let's go to Matthew. Chapter 14 seems like some of
the best tests. And the best instruction that
Jesus ever gave happened to be on the water.
When it comes to learning faith, I think I find that interesting.
All right. Let's let's start in verse 23.
OK? Now you got to understand this
is after they they came to him, he said this place.
Is and let. Me back up to 15, you'll say.
Bring them to me. And he took five loaves 2 fish.
Jesus had just fed over 10,000 people to be conservative, said
5000. Men, not counting women and
children, said that in and and in verse 23.
He said, when he sent the multitudes away, he went up into
the mountain part to pray, and when the evening was come, he
was there alone. But the ship was now in the
middle of the sea, tossed with waves, for the wind was
contrary. You need to make a note of that.
Said that in the midst of the sea it was tossed with waves.
The wind was contrary. In the 4th watch of the night,
somewhere between 3:00 and 6:00 AM, Jesus went unto them walking
on the sea. And when the disciples saw him
walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying it is a spirit,
And they cried out for fear. And straightway Jesus spoke unto
them, and said, be of good cheer it is I be not afraid.
Peter answered and said, Lord, if it's you really, Jesus just
told you who it was and Lord, if it's really you, notice what he
asked. He said.
If it's really you, bid me or allow me to come to you on the
water. Jesus said.
Hang on a second, Peter. You don't understand.
This particular little episode is only for the Son of God.
What was his response? Come.
Are you kidding me? He said.
Come. And they said.
And when? Peter was come down out of the
ship. He walked on water to go to
Jesus. See that period?
That was the end of the sentence, right?
Peter wishes they'd ended it right there.
Peter walked on water. And it does say he walked on
water. But notice what he says, that he
said. And when he saw the wind,
boisterous, he was afraid, and beginning to sink.
He cried, say, saying, Lord, save me.
And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, caught him, and
said unto him, Oh you of little faith, wherefore did you doubt?
So when Peter began to sink. Now notice this.
The wind was boisterous before Jesus ever showed up.
They were having a little trouble before Jesus ever showed
up way early hours in the morning.
Jesus, you know, he said, Hey, listen, don't be afraid, It's I
said Lord, it's really you. He said, Come, that was the word
of God. For that man that night, he
said. Come and he said.
He got out and went to walk in on the water.
But notice what Peter did? He looked around and noticed
that though everything. Was a little.
Bit in turmoil and he began to sink and he said, Lord save me,
I don't know if I'd have been Jesus.
I'd probably let him go down two or three times just to teach him
a lesson. It's all right.
I'd have got him and he reached down there.
And he said. He he pulled him up and began to
talk to him. He said, oh, you of little
faith, anybody in my class in Kingdom Institute, remember that
word, little faith. What it You know what it is.
I know you know it. Yes, it is.
Oligopistas is the word. You know what the word?
Oligos means puny, said. You have puny faith.
Does anybody in here want puny faith?
I mean, of all the kinds of faith they talk about in the
word, puny would not be one. I would want it to be known.
For oh, that's Randy. He's he's got puny faith.
Just puny. Insignificant is another.
Word, he told him. Listen.
You were walking on water, man. Why did you doubt?
We're going to talk about doubt here in a minute in the arena of
faith, but let me give you the what?
That's a result of beauty. Faith.
Little faith is a result of getting distracted from the word
of God. See, he was doing pretty good
when he heard the word. Come.
And he kept his eyes on Jesus. But then when he took his eyes
off and looking at the surroundings, kind of like
doctor's reports, bills unexpected in the mail.
See all that can distract people of faith.
If we want to see the exchange that we can have, we have to
stay with the word. All right.
But let's look at the level I want.
I'm sure you're going to want it to.
Let's go to Matthew Chapter 8, back up just a couple of
chapters. Matthew Chapter 8.
This is the level of faith that I'm looking.
For. I want to be known as a person
with this kind of faith. You ready?
Notice what he says? He said, when Jesus was come,
verse five, chapter 8, verse 5. And when Jesus was entered into
Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion beseeching him,
saying, Lord, my servant lies at home, sick of the palsy,
grievously tormented. And Jesus said, I'll come and
heal him. This in Tyrion answer, and said,
Lord, I'm not worthy that you should come under my roof, but
speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.
For I'm a man under authority, having soldiers under me.
And I say to this man, Go, and he goes to another man, Come,
and he comes, and I say to my servant, Do this, and he does
it. And when Jesus heard it, he
marveled and said unto them that followed, Barely, I say unto
you, I have not found so great faith.
No, not in Israel. I still don't think Jesus was an
exaggerator if he tells you that he has not found so great a
faith in all of Israel. I would bet that he has not
found so great a faith in all of Israel.
But think about that. This guy was a centurion.
He was a heathen, unsaved, no covenant.
And yet. Jesus said he had more faith.
Then all of the children of Israel who were supposed to be
children of covenant and children of faith, this one guy
and you have to ask you the question.
What was it about him and this little account that we have?
That Jesus? And you know what another word I
love in there? The word marvelled.
I don't know about you, but I've often wondered, How do you
marvel? Jesus.
I mean, how can you say something that he is so taken
aback he could hardly believe it.
I said I want, I want to work on that, maybe 2024.
I just want to. I just want Jesus just
marvelled. Whatever.
Just. Shocking.
And this guy did it. But here's the key.
If you want to be a person of great faith, you have to do
exactly what he said. He said, Master, I'm not worthy
that you come under my roof, but speak the word only and my
servant will be healed. If you want to be a person of
great faith, great faith is a result of speaking the word
only. If you're not speaking the word
only, and you don't all three of these accounts that I just gave
you it. Seems to me.
That faith is tested in crisis. In fact, most of the accounts
where the word faith is mentioned, you're going to find
out that it was usually something going on that they had
to believe God and in some situations or die.
That's how. Important faith is to you.
When we talk about it being the currency, it is the one thing
that God has set up in the Kingdom.
Telling us if this is what you want, if this is what you see,
in my word, is my will. If this is what you desire, all
right. In in the In the course of my
plan for your life, you are going to have to have faith to
get it. It's important.
I mean, it is the currency. It is the Great Exchange.
You know in in Luke 1818 is a parable that Jesus told and you
get down to about verse 8 and he he asked the question.
He said when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith in the
earth? I'm thinking to myself, when you
come back, you're telling me that's all you're looking for
because it asked the question. It said if you're coming, he
said. And he's asking the question, am
I going to find faith in the earth?
Faith is so important. And you know, I, I, I, I've
heard this and I've taught it for years.
That, you know, unfortunately, most believers.
Teach. Treat their faith like their
spare tire. Anybody check their spare before
they came? Do we do that every day?
You get up and do you get ready to go?
You go check that spare, right? Because you know what is the
most important thing in your life?
When that's fair, I mean when your tire goes.
Flat the spare. I don't know about you, but I
have pulled the spare. Out, only to find out you don't
have any air either. I remember one time Melanie and
I were we were in town in midtown Tulsa and and I had a.
Flat and we limped over into, unfortunately, a Ford
dealership. I'm driving a Chevy.
Them dudes in there. I can see them all licking their
lips. This guy's going to need a Ford,
I said. I'll change it.
Don't worry. I didn't have anybody come out
and heal me. Got underneath that thing, got
that little spare out only to find out the spare didn't fit.
It was for a four wheel drive and we had.
A2 wheel drive. Had to call tow truck at the
Ford dealership. But, you know, a lot of people,
they treat their faith just like that.
You know, they're not concerned about it at all until something
goes wrong. And then all of a sudden it's
where's that Bible? Oh, oh, oh, there it is.
You can't. You can't receive the things of
God. I I think Smith Wigglesworth was
the one that said this. He said if you have to get
ready, you're too late. So you need to be strong in
faith, need to be a person of great faith, so that when the
trials come, you know, you need to remind yourself, what did
Jesus say? Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 5,
Chapter 6, Chapter 7 of Matthew, End of chapter seven, he said.
This is the person that hears my word and does what I say.
He will be like a man that builds his house on a rock and
when the storms come, the rain comes, the crisis comes, the
house will be standing because of the foundation, the other
house, he said. They built upon the sand.
Same storm, same rain, same wind came and leveled that house.
Those are people that hear the word and they forget it or
they're distracted when things happen.
So we have got to be people that take our faith extremely serious
and not treat it like the spare tire I've.
Often said this, I've said that you know, once a person is born
again. You know one of the the most
important subjects to them is faith, because faith will do
anything for you according to the word.
Of God. Anything you have need of it can
be gotten by faith. All right.
So when we take a look at the those, let's go, let's go.
Over to Jesus's teaching. I mean these were responses that
Jesus had. The DVD series that I just gave
you picture in all of these. OK, these were Jesus responses
when people should have had the faith and only one of them did.
But think about that. He understood the authority.
What was it? Again?
What did I say? The definition was a firm
persuasion or a conviction or a convincing based upon something
you heard. What is he telling me when the
centurion told Jesus said Listen, he said.
I am a man under authority like you.
I recognize that you are following somebody's words, he
said and gave the illustration. He told us right there, this is
how it works, he said, Listen, I tell this centurion, go and he
goes, I tell this one, come and he comes.
I tell my servant, do this, and he does.
It with what words, he said. So when we come to.
God, we have got to be a. Person that understand and
here's the thing you need to understand.
About God. He's still talking today.
Yes, we have the record of the things that he said, and yes.
We are supposed to learn. From that.
But he's still talking today and we need that.
We need to put faith in the things that we hear him say
today. But let's go over and see some
of the teachings that he thought the guys would probably get
before they started dealing with the boat issues and the.
You know, healing issues and everything like that.
Let's go to Mark, Chapter 11. Let me give you the back story.
Jesus is walking through, you know, town, and at particular
time he says he was a little bit hungry.
Saw a fig tree, had leaves on it.
He went up to the fig tree, noticed that there was nothing
on it. Walks up to that fig tree and
it's interesting because Jesus, it says in here that he saw the
fig tree having leaves in verse 13 and then in verse 14 is
interesting, he said he answered.
And said to it I go, well, most of the time you don't give an
answer unless somebody says something or makes a statement.
But it said Jesus answered this fig tree and said to it.
No one will. Eat fruit of you hereafter,
forever. And said the disciples heard it.
So it wasn't just a thought Jesus had.
Jesus spoke it out, talked to this tree.
And we call it the. Cursing of the fig tree.
Now it goes on to say it says, you know that the time of figs
was not yet that tree said something.
Now if I'd have been in his fig tree.
And if I didn't even have one pig on, I'd have been popping
figs and tossing them to him. He didn't even have to come.
But he says in here that he cursed that tree and he said the
disciples heard it and wasn't till the next morning.
That our good old buddy Peter always wants to be the first to
respond and to say things, and he called to remembrance.
And we start in verse 21, Peter calling to remember, and said
unto Master, Behold, the fig tree which you cursed is
withered away. And Jesus uses this particular
event to give us one of the most profound teachings on faith that
we need to pay attention to. Verse 22 Jesus answered and
said. Have faith in God.
Let me give you a better translation.
I have studied this out in the Greek.
I have heard Reverend Kenneth, the late Reverend Kenneth E
Hagin say have the God kind of faith.
That is exactly what the Greek says.
In the tense that it's used. In the word theos, it means God.
In the Greek it is the word Theo and Theo means of God.
So he said, have the faith of God.
Now, Jesus wouldn't tell us to have something if we couldn't
have it, but he's going to begin to tell us what that kind of
faith looks like. So let's look at the next verse.
For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say to this
mountain, be thou removed, be cast in the sea, and shall not
doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which
he says shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he says,
Verse 24 Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever you
desire, When you pray, believe that you receive them, and you
shall have them. Now when Jesus told him, he
said, he, he lets them know. He said that whosoever shall say
in your Bible, if you've got a little program in your phone or
your iPad, whatever you're doing, and you can make a little
highlight, make a little highlight on the word say.
Because he goes on, whosoever say to this mountain, be thou
removed, be cast in the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that the things that he says.
Shall come to pass, he will have whatsoever he says.
So a major part of faith is ability to speak it out of your
mouth. Why is that important?
Because in Genesis chapter one verse 26, he said let us make
man in our image and he says and in our likeness.
The first. Introduction that we have of
God. Genesis 11 says in the beginning
was God created the heaven and the earth and then it goes on
you get to about verse 3 on and it says and God said first thing
he created with his words was light.
Then you guys said the evening and the morning were the first
day. Next three words you check me
out it's in there. Next three words and God said
every day God got up, he spoke into existence what he wanted to
see happen on that day. Which makes me think, what are
we saying when we get up? Oh my aching back.
Oh, got to go to work today. Oh, I got to go put up with so
and so today. Oh God spoke into existence.
All the things that we would ever need before man ever got
here. He said we were made in his
image and likeness. Likeness tells me
characteristics. If God has ability to speak into
existence the things that he wants to see, we have the same
ability. That's where faith comes in.
What did Jesus just say? Whosoever shall say to this
mountain be thou removed, and be cast into the sea, and shall not
doubt in his heart, but but believes that those things that
he says shall come to pass, He will have whatsoever He says,
that sounds like creation. To me, that sounds like speaking
and changing situations in your life by just your words.
But I don't always choose my words.
I want to choose his words, cuz somewhere in his recorded words
is something that'll fix the situation you find yourself in.
But let's look at the next verse.
In verse, he says. Therefore, what does that mean?
Therefore, because of what I just spoke to you about, he
said, I say unto you, that what things so ever you desire, when
you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have
them. I want you to listen to it
again. Whatsoever things you desire.
When you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have
them. Now.
I have taught this subject Kali, over 30 years now.
I know I look like a young man, but I've been round.
OK, this verse is the difference between.
Life. And death.
Any of you all know I've been pretty close to death.
I held on to this verse like a life preserver, because he says,
and therefore I say unto you what things so ever you desire.
When you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have
them. I just got through teaching
first year students for seven weeks on the subject of faith.
I want you guys to calm down. All right?
I'm going to ask a question I never fail to ask when I read
this verse, and I want you to answer me out loud, OK?
Not my first year students. Because if you say something
different than what I taught you in that class, I'm going to get
you stand up and you're going to go right on the board 10,000
times the answer. Listen it therefore, I say to
you what things soever you desire.
When you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall ask
them. I'm going to say it one more
time. Therefore I say unto you what
things so ever you desire. When you pray, believe that you
receive them, and you shall have them according to that verse.
What did Jesus say? You would have what sounds like
tongues up from up here. I don't get one.
I don't get one of them interpreted.
Give me a. Come on, give it to me.
What you believe. I heard that.
Who said that? Way to go, girl.
All right. What?
Who else? Any others?
What things soever you desire. When you pray, believe that you
receive them and you shall have them.
Miracles. Miracles.
Guess. That'd be in the things.
Well, so far none of those answers are right. #1 answer on
the board if we are playing Family Feud Bing #1 answer board
that I get from everywhere I teach it except here, right now,
this moment. Is the word desires Ding.
Next answer on the board is what you pray for Ding.
Next answer is what you believe for.
Somebody got it. Third answer on the board.
Let me tell you verbatim, if you're taking notes, you need to
write this down, OK? Because it's a difference
between life and death. The only thing Jesus said?
You would have? Let me.
Say it again. Therefore I say unto you, what
things so ever you desire. When you pray, believe that you
receive them and you shall have them.
The only thing Jesus said you would have according to that
verse is what you believed you received at the time you asked.
Did you hear me? The only things Jesus said you
would receive according to that verse is what you believed you
received at the time that you asked.
Listen to it again. Therefore I say unto you, what
things so ever you. Desire When you pray, believe
you receive them, and you shall have them.
There are so many people that are believing God for healing,
for better job, help to raise their children, wives help to
raise their husbands, he said. In there, the things that you
desire when you pray, you have to believe you received the
moment you asked for it. That's why so many people don't
get it. They'll come down to a prayer
line. I've seen it.
I've been in on the. Prayer side of the prayer line.
And then I see him in the next prayer line and I see him in the
next prayer line. Oh, what are you saying, Brother
Radio? You know, I'm saying, I'm saying
this, the reason we don't, we don't get what we're looking for
is that we don't believe we received it the time we asked
for it. We thank God's just playing with
us. You know, I have a a a a little
manuscript that I'm working on and one of the chapters in it is
the what to do before, during and after the prayer line
because I've seen so many people and they.
Talk, and they're not talking this verse.
All right, going back to 2007, I was diagnosed with cancer and
moved down here in 2009. I thought me and God had it
whipped, and only to find out I had some issues that I brought
down here with me, which I'll get to in this scripture here.
In a moment, and I had been greatly offended by someone in
Oklahoma and root of bitterness kind of sprung up, but I thought
I was good. Thought I was justified.
In the way I felt, didn't hate anybody.
I was disappointed. And I'll never forget, you know,
coming down here. The cancer kept growing, had a
place in my back I couldn't explain.
I thought I was out. I said give me a chiropractor,
he can pop me back in. Chiropractor wouldn't touch me.
Finally, after months and months and months and here.
Was the deal. I had the whole staff.
Mr. Barry, you're at the house. You two were at the house,
Pastor asked me a question, said Randy.
We've done everything that the Bible says to do, and it's
obvious that whatever's going on is not helping you, All right,
As far as prayer and believe in God and praying for you and and
everything, he said. Is there anything in your life
that you can think of would keep the healing power of God from
coming to you and manifesting? I said yeah, I said I have a
problem with and I had some other words and you know that I
was, I was talking, but I said the main thing was, is that I
had an offence with someone back in Oklahoma.
And it was it. Was interesting.
He looked at me and he said, you think we ought to get that taken
care of? Yeah, you ain't kidding.
It was one of them. Every head bowed, every eye
closed. Moments, everybody hold hands.
And I repented, and I absolutely knew that I was set free from
that, that night, that moment. It doesn't take that long to get
right. It was just.
Seconds, I gave God something to work with and he started
working. First thing that happened after,
Melanie said I can't take it anymore.
You know, all this pain that you're going through, I know
you're in great pain. And she said I'm taking you to
the ER. Well, deep in my gut I knew what
was going to happen once I got there and they started doing
tests and they started bringing the reports.
One of the reports was is that Mister Clay your your cancer is
metastasized into a mass between your kidneys and also it is
eating the front. Part of your T3.
In your back. That's why your back was
hurting, all right. And so you know, it just was
test after test, test after test, no good news.
And then the day came. After I'd had four cycles of
chemo. Melanie and I went into the
office. They wanted to talk to me, knock
on the door. Man comes in, has a business
card in his hand. They introduced him using the
life counselor. I thought I was in a full body
brace as far as well from from here because of my back.
And I was in a wheelchair because I couldn't get around
real fast. And sometimes you need to get
around real fast, especially when it's time to go to the RR
and see. I didn't know that we're going
to be in a church that had a bathroom 2 miles down the hall.
People said you can't walk. I said I can walk.
But not fast enough to get to the RR.
So I had, I sat back there where my son's standing right now,
That was my seat and that my wheelchair was right behind
that, that first chair on that aisle.
Well, I knew what they were talking about, and I believe
that I'd received my healing back in 2007.
I did this verse. Nothing came out of my mouth.
Contrary, I did not say I have cancer, Not one time I tell
people I say, what's the matter with you?
I look like I had cancer for sure.
But I said, listen, I've been diagnosed with cancer, but I
don't have it. See, that's the problem with a
lot of people. They'll come to the prayer line
and said I have diabetes, I have, I have, I have.
And they'll list all the things they have.
You know why you have it? Because you said you had it.
Quit saying that. Start saying what God said.
I believe that I received my handling at the moment that I
asked. For it.
And didn't manifest in a minute. It took ten years.
Some people ain't got 10 minutes you can't quit, but the Lord
did. Some amazing things.
I mean when you get the card from the end of life counselor,
you know what they're telling you?
I remember Melanie's pushing me down the hall and crying.
I can't turn around and say here I'm all messed up here.
And I said what are you crying about, baby?
And she says. That was the worst report since
we've been here. I said, Oh yeah, I know that was
bad. I said, but here's another
report. I will not die.
I will live, and I will show forth the glory of God and we.
Will come back to every appointment and tell their
report Lines up with my report. So me standing here tonight
should tell you what happened. See.
Faith is always to be active. I remember, I mean, when they
declared me cancer free, they said it was nothing that we did.
Said the chemo does not do what happened in your body.
I said that's great. I told him.
I said I've been believing for that for quite a while now.
All right. And see, here's the thing I
heard learn from Pastor Mark. Everybody know Pastor Mark can
tell us he preached one night one, I guess we were there in
the morning and he talked about what is the opposite of faith.
Somebody give me what do you what do you think the opposite
of faith is doubt. It's not a doubt.
It's sight. Now, when he first said that, I
said. What?
And then I got to thinking about it.
Faith is what you do until you see it.
So if you see it, guess what? You don't have to have faith.
And I remember we finally, eight months after I went into the
hospital, eight months later, I finally got to see neurology
about my back. But you know what?
My back wasn't hurting anymore. And they said and and everybody
thought it was because I was on drugs.
And man, I was on some drugs. Was pastor call me slobber an
idiot. That what he called me.
He said he was a slobber, an idiot.
I said, listen, man, I said I just.
Wish you'd you know. Sit down and had an interview
with me when I was on drugs. First thing I thought.
I'm getting off these drugs. OK, because it.
Does make you see stuff and thank the Lord every time I saw
something, I said. That ain't real.
Not go on. And then you know what I saw?
I always saw it out of the. Peripheral running along the
baseboard and I didn't go no. Did you see that?
I never did that. Not one time, because I in in my
spirit, man. I knew it wasn't real.
So I decided I got to get off these drugs, man, and I went
cold Turkey. And I'm telling you, it's worse.
12 days of my life, I mean, sweating, changing sheets.
I mean, it was horrible, all right.
But it got off them. All right, I know I I'm not
living like this. But it was strange.
My back didn't hurt. I get in the I get in the office
with the neurology. 8 months later they'd already talked and
he walks in and I looked at Mel and I go, I looked at him.
I said, man, I probably said Sir, didn't I, Sir?
How old are you? He goes.
I'm 35. I looked at Mel and I said he
hadn't shaved a day in his life and he said he said Mr. Clay, he
said, I see you're not on any painkiller.
And I said no, Sir, He said your back hurt.
And I said no Sir, not at all. He said, Well, he said that can
you do a few? Did you dress yourself this
morning? Look at Melanie, I said.
Don't look that bad. He said how about he said he
said did you come in here unaided?
And I said yes, because I wasn't in a wheelchair.
They'd already taken the brace off because I didn't know what
was going on. But they said, hey, yeah, he can
take his brace off now. And I thought, that's weird.
OK, so I get in there and they show me the MRI and I see the
first one. I recognized it my the front of
my T3 was eaten completely out and my T2 and my T4 were
touching. And it's excruciating.
I'd get up at. 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning before all this
started and I just let hot water until I ran the tank out, just
hit me in the back looking for relief and and and and that's as
long as it lasted. And so when he said, Mr. Clay, I
want you to see your next MRI so we can't explain it, he said.
Your back is completely grown back.
We've never seen this before. They said, and there's no
surgery we could do to make you any better than you are.
Thank you very much. I got to go.
But it seemed like miracle after miracle.
That he was. Performing.
But I know what it is because people had asked me, you know,
they said, did you ever doubt? I said no, I did not doubt.
I knew my purpose. I know why I'm here.
I've said for years, if cancer ever attacks your body, you
better have a purpose for being here.
Stronger than that. Cancer.
Or guess what? You're going.
I said I'm not leaving. I'm not done.
I'm just got down here, you know.
Devil tried to rip 10 years of my life off.
I'm behind, man. I am 10 years behind.
But he said he can make it up for.
Me he did. And let me give you that you
know. We read this verse. 24 Therefore
I say unto you, what things soever you desire, when you
pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
But look at verse 25 And when you stand praying, forgive, if
you have anything against any, that your Father also which is
in heaven, may forgive you of your trespasses.
But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father, which
is in heaven. Forgive your trespasses.
And it did not say unless you're born again.
Now I gave you some results tonight.
Result of little, you know, little faith and all.
I don't even want to know what the.
Result of that is when it says that God will not forgive you.
I don't want to know what that means.
I'm going to walk in in forgiveness for anything,
anything anybody says, anything, anybody does, anything.
I'm walking in forgiveness. It's that that that verse is
spooky. Because what is the result of
God not forgiving you? I don't even want to know.
I'm going to do what he says. Forgive, forgive, forgive,
Forgive as best as you can. Let it go.
Don't be bound up. So he tells us in there, he
says. He says in there.
But let's go over to James Chapter one, because I want to
talk to you about the the doubting quotient that you
cannot have and expect to receive from him.
James is 1/2 brother of Jesus. His mom and dad was Mary and
Joseph didn't know if you knew that or not, could have said a
lot of things. When he introduced himself, he
said hi, I'm James Jesus half brother.
But he didn't verse one. He said James the servant of God
and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was a servant of Jesus.
All right, so let's take a look at verses 5 through 8, James
says is if any of you lack wisdom.
Oh, no, no, no. Back.
I'm backing up. Bear with me, we'll get to that.
Let's just look at this. It said my brother and counted
all joy. When you fall into divers
temptations, testings and trials, knowing this, that the
trying of your faith works patience.
But let patience have it's perfect work that you may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
I heard a man say this one time, he said.
If you're prepared to stand forever on any issue, you'll
find out it won't take very long.
I'll be honest with you, 10 years is a long time.
But when I look back. At it, it, it just seemed like
that, he said. Let patience have his perfect
work. That you may be imperfect and
entire wanting nothing. That you know the lack of
patience is an enemy to faith. You can't have it.
You cannot have that Notice what he says this.
All right. Verse 5.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that gives us all
men liberally, and a brave do not, and it shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavers like
a wave of the sea driven with the wind and toss.
For let not that man think he will receive anything of the
Lord. A double minded man is unstable
in all his ways. So he's telling.
Us right here. The number one way to not get
your prayer answer is to doubt, said.
Don't expect to get anything. That's why people ask me, did
you ever doubt? I said.
No, you can't doubt and get it, he said.
Do not let that man think he will receive anything from the
Lord. So if you know one minute you,
you know you, yes, I you know me and God.
And then the pain hits, or a doctor gives you a bad report,
or something happens to the car, or you know something's going on
at. Work or whatever you When you
make that request unto God, you have to stay with it in the
arena of faith. It's the thing that gets the
exchange. Now when we talk about, you
know, that particular passage, he said.
Don't be like the wind. And I and I love as you go on
down there, you get down to verse 2122 in there, he said.
But be doers of the word and not hearers, only deceiving your own
self. A lot of people blame stuff on
the devil, and it ain't even his fault.
He said be a doer of the word. Here's the deal.
The word doer in the Greek is the word poetase, which means a
poet in other. Words.
He wants us. And and that definition of that
is to write with a creative flair.
So sometimes we may not know exactly what the steps are, but
he's going to give us the creativity to see it through
that it because, you know, sometimes it's not explained
exactly what the word says to do.
He said Man be a doer. He said seek the Lord for
creativity. Seek the Lord for wisdom that
upbraids not. In other words, God don't make
fun of you because you don't know.
He said he gives it to you liberally.
But he said. But don't ask.
Without having faith, All right. You got to have it all right,
you know, and and again, you know.
One of the points that I want to make in closing is that again,
scripturally speaking, it seems like faith is the thing
necessary when crisis happens. All right, Jesus promised us
tribulation is coming. Not the great tribulation for us
it is coming. OK, but he said in John chapter
16 verse 30. 3. All right.
And you can look at it, on it, guys.
I don't think I gave it to you. But he he said he, he, he in
there told us, he said to be of good cheer.
He has overcome. Basically he has overcome the
world. He said in the world you'll have
tribulation. But be of good cheer for I've
overcome the world. And then you go over to 1st
John, chapter 5, verse four, and he said, and what is this
victory that overcomes the world, even our faith?
So is faith important or not absolutely important?
You know, you and this next year I just encourage people start
finding out what God said about you and believe it.
You know, we do it every day. Anybody ever phone commercial?
Commercial airlines? None of y'all's flown
commercial. Let May I see your hand?
Goodness gracious. These.
I can't see the whites of your eyes with these lights in mind.
But let me ask you a question. You.
You now, it's all digital, right?
You get online, You know you get on there.
You're going to get your tickets.
You're going to get your tickets early.
You're going to take your tickets with you.
Let me ask you a question. What proof do you have?
That you're going to fly from here, Let's say Tulsa.
OK, That's a destination all of us know about.
All right. What does Tulsa look like,
30,000? Feet in the air.
You believe them at their word. They produced a document.
They said if you get on the plane at this time at this gate,
we're going to take you to Tulsa.
You were convinced based upon something you heard or basically
something you. Read.
But don't we have documented evidence that people got on a
plane thinking they were going to make it to a destination and
did not? Same thing we we have faith.
We are convinced and persuaded by the words that are spoken to
us. How in the world could we not
believe the one that hung in the sun, the moon, the stars created
everything that you can see with your natural eyes and say it's
too hard for him? We sang that tonight.
Nothing. It's too hard for our God.
And the currency to make that exchange with him.
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