1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:17,480 Now enjoy this message. The spirit of faith you need to 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,000 you need to connect this morning and grab hold of the spirit of 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,640 faith. Because it doesn't matter if 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,760 you're in church. It doesn't matter if you're 7 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,440 serving. It doesn't matter if you read 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,320 your Bible every day, If you're not doing it and you're not 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:35,240 getting hooked up in the in the spirit of faith, then you're not 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,680 getting it and the devil's defeating you. 11 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,840 And we need to grab hold of this spirit of faith because it's 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,800 something that you catch by doing it every day, by doing it, 13 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,480 not just going through the motions. 14 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:51,720 But I'm talking about no matter what hits you in life that you 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:56,480 can say ha ha ha, I'm not moved by that. 16 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,080 So let me not get ahead of myself and let me go ahead and 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,720 jump into this. So believe God with me. 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,600 And the way you hear is super important because the Bible says 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:12,280 take heed how you hear. And why is it that some people 20 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:17,720 can sit here and not get a thing and walk out just as locked up 21 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,120 as they were when they came in? And one person can walk out of 22 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,840 here free indeed, and get more revelation. 23 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,360 Why does that happen? It's how you hear. 24 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:33,040 And so you got to hook up with the spirit of faith, hook up 25 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,680 with the Holy Ghost and say I'm going to draw, I'm going to suck 26 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,480 everything out of this 50 year old. 27 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,000 I don't care. 50 year young suck, suck me dry. 28 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,640 Just just say I'm going to get everything I can get this 29 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:48,640 morning from the word of God. Amen. 30 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:53,320 All right, First Corinthians Chapter 9, verses 24 through 27 31 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:58,400 says, do you not know that in a race, all the runners run, They 32 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,000 all run. OK, so we're all running. 33 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,000 We're all trucking. I'm not the fastest runner, but 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 we're all running and everybody that runs doesn't get the prize, 35 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,480 doesn't get it. Why don't they get it? 36 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:14,040 Because a lot of them stop running. 37 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,360 A lot of them, You know the song that we were just singing said 38 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,480 that I will, I will maintain, I will do this. 39 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,560 I will believe you. I will trust you. 40 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,760 I will, I will, I will. You know pastors been talking 41 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:31,200 about this is your choice. God is not in control, right. 42 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:36,600 This is our decision every day. The the the Lord says he sets 43 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,600 before you. Life and death every day. 44 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,600 Every day today I've said before you life and death, choose life 45 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,480 so that you can live and prosper and be in health and and do 46 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,040 everything that he's called you to do. 47 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,720 Every day you make that choice. So it's so all the runners are 48 00:02:54,720 --> 00:03:00,400 running, but it says run that you may obtain it, run that you 49 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,720 will actually win the prize, Run that that you will take 50 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,560 possession of the prize that you will conquer. 51 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,560 And we're going to talk a little bit about conquering today, but 52 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,320 I want to read to you in the Amplified. 53 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,960 It says in First Corinthians, I do not flail around. 54 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,960 I do not flail around like one beating the air, just 55 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,560 shadowboxing. You know, I'm concerned that 56 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,520 some of us are just shadowboxing a little bit, that we're 57 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,120 fighting the wrong fight, that we're fighting things in the 58 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,720 natural, we're fighting off the symptoms, we're fighting off the 59 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,840 bills, we're fighting off our emotions, we're fighting all 60 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,320 those things, but we're not actually living and getting it 61 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,440 and living in the spirit of faith. 62 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,080 You got to quit fighting this. Same fight. 63 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:54,960 You got to quit thinking. I got. 64 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:56,240 I'm. I'm healed. 65 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,960 I'm healed of the Lord. I got to get these symptoms off 66 00:03:58,960 --> 00:03:59,840 of me. I got to. 67 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,600 You're you're fighting the wrong fight. 68 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,560 You got to know that you know and get it on the inside and 69 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,880 know that God is your healer. God's your Redeemer. 70 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,720 God's the one that sets you free. 71 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,480 Did he say it? Will he not do it? 72 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,680 Is he not faithful? You got to get everything within 73 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,720 you. It's got to be in your 74 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,200 bloodstream. It's got to be in you that you 75 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,800 know that you know that he is able to perform. 76 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,720 He is able to do that. So, So what are we fighting? 77 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,920 What are we conquering? What is this good fight of faith 78 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,560 that we're in? The Bible says fight the good, 79 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,760 fight. Fight this good. 80 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,160 Fight of faith. No more Shadowbox. 81 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,280 Yeah, I want you to walk out of here today and say I'm not going 82 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:49,120 to Shadowbox anymore. No more shadow boxing. 83 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,240 I'm not going to be hitting the air. 84 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:55,120 I'm not going to be flailing, flailing around, just swinging 85 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,960 at stuff. Just just trying to get that off 86 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,640 of me. And you know you're not trying 87 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:05,160 to get anything from God. Quit trying to get healed. 88 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,920 Quit trying to get faith. Quit trying to get provision. 89 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,480 Quit trying to get that stuff. You don't have to try to get 90 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,160 anything. You already got it. 91 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,600 And when you realize you already got it, then you can just kind 92 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,200 of take a step back and sit in your little seat next to Jesus 93 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,880 where the Bible says that you're supposed to be seated and you 94 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,760 don't have to worry about a thing. 95 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:34,640 You can just sit there. And when those, when those fiery 96 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,760 darts come, you can say that's under my feet. 97 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,040 I know I've got it. I'm not waiting to see the 98 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,200 manifestation. I'm not waiting for the report 99 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,240 from the Lord, from the doctor. I know the report of the Lord. 100 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,360 I'm not waiting on the doctor's report. 101 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,360 You got to get it and know that you got it. 102 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:56,000 And my prayer for you early this morning and last night is that 103 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,800 we would capture this spirit of faith, that we would get this 104 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,040 spirit of faith. The Bible talks about different 105 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,440 spirits, you know? And I'm not talking about 106 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,240 familiar spirits. I'm not talking about evil 107 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:11,920 spirits. I'm talking about your spirit, 108 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,600 OK? Our year is about, is about 109 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,640 having a what kind of spirit? A reigning spirit. 110 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,560 A strong spirit, a powerful spirit, a conquering spirit, a 111 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,680 spirit that overcomes. The Bible talks about a wounded 112 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,600 spirit. The Bible talks about a broken 113 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,600 spirit. The Bible talks about a weak 114 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,600 spirit. We can faith. 115 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:43,240 We can spirit broken in spirit. How do we know? 116 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,440 How do you know that you have a strong spirit. 117 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,360 And I'm going to give you some indicators today that you know 118 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,560 that I'm strong in my faith, that I know that I'm strong in 119 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,360 my spirit. Let's get the prize. 120 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,360 Let's don't just run aimlessly today. 121 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,240 Let's get the prize. But let's not just get the 122 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,040 prize. Let's keep the prize. 123 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,400 Let's get the prize every day of our lives, all the time. 124 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,480 Because I can honestly say in 50 years, I don't know where I 125 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:17,040 would be if it wasn't for him. He has been so faithful and so 126 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:23,120 good to take us from faith to faith and from glory to glory, 127 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,240 just by doing the Word. And so I can look at his 128 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,800 faithfulness on my life, on my husband's life, my family, our 129 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,480 church, and go, wow, God's been so good. 130 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,200 It's not anything that we did, but it's what he did because we 131 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,840 obeyed the word of God, because we just were doers. 132 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,160 When everything looked like it wasn't happening, things weren't 133 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,160 going through. We said, God, you're good, 134 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,760 you're faithful, We trust you will not be moved. 135 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,600 And you got to learn to live your life like that. 136 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,480 You got to learn to laugh. We had a a moment. 137 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,400 They took me out of town for my birthday and and my husband, I 138 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,920 went out in Orlando. I would not want to live in 139 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,240 Orlando. At all. 140 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,080 And the traffic is horrible and you think it's about here. 141 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,520 It's so much worse there. And so we went out for what we 142 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,920 thought was going to be a quick. We left the girls at the hotel. 143 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,200 We were going to go out for a quick. 144 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,920 Run to the store and run get some ice cream and you know do a 145 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:24,160 couple of things and so we go out and the traffic was horrible 146 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,840 and and one thing after another I spilled the shake in the car 147 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:34,400 and and it was just one one little furry dart after another 148 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:39,919 and and and we got in our hotel and and had a moment at the 149 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:44,080 elevator and I just said I just started laughing just first of 150 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,080 all by faith and then just started laughing and then we 151 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,440 were laughing and we were laughing in the elevator because 152 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,320 you can't be moved by that kind of stuff. 153 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,440 Get your emotions and your little stuff all in A twist and 154 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,000 you got to learn to not let it quit. 155 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,520 Be quick about it. Be quick about not letting stuff 156 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,880 get to you, Be quick about not living in the scene realm. 157 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,320 Be quick about not yielding to your emotions because they 158 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,120 shouldn't be sitting on the throne anyway. 159 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:18,560 So let's talk about indicators that you have a strong spirit, 160 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,160 that you have a reigning spirit, Ways that you can know that you 161 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:28,000 have that this spirit of faith, number one, that you're fervent 162 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,160 in spirit. You're fervent in spirit. 163 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:38,840 Romans chapter 12 verse 11 says be diligent and be fervent in 164 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,240 spirit serving the Lord. What does that mean? 165 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:50,080 What is fervent in spirit mean? It means hot like white hot like 166 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:55,120 built up like on fire that you have an on fire spirit. 167 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:56,720 You know what it makes me think of? 168 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,680 It makes me think of when revelation says and all the 169 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:07,360 angels constantly, day and night say holy, holy, holy is the Lord 170 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,480 God Almighty. And you know, I believe when we 171 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,280 all are together in that day that there's going to be such a 172 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,680 trickle effect when somebody says holy, it's just going to 173 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,280 holy. Glory to God. 174 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,160 Like you can't contain it. It's it's you're hot in your 175 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,320 spirit. We should be living that way 176 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,280 right now. Where where when things are 177 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:33,560 happening in the spirit it's a quick glory to God that that we 178 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:39,000 don't just look and go what are they doing, what's happening in 179 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,160 them. But then we believe that God is 180 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,400 faithful. Do we want to start seeing more 181 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,400 gifts to the spirit and healings happening and and things 182 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,800 changing in people's life? Well, you better get fervent in 183 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,680 your spirit. You better get hot on the 184 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:56,640 inside. And the way that you do that is 185 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,600 by building yourself up in your most holy faith. 186 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,960 I know Pastor Marcy ministered on ways that you can have a 187 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,880 reigning spirit and a strong spirit. 188 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,600 You've got to build yourself up in your most holy faith by 189 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,800 praying in the Holy Ghost. You got to be in the Word, but 190 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,920 you got to pray in the Spirit, and it's not. 191 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:20,120 When you feel like it and it doesn't matter what your 192 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,280 circumstances are saying, what your emotions are saying. 193 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,440 You just everywhere you are. And I'm not talking about being 194 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,040 weird and I'm not talking about going out in public and acting 195 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,320 all spiritual. There's a big, big difference. 196 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,960 And someone who wants to be religious and act like they're 197 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,280 spiritual and someone who's really got it on the inside. 198 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:43,360 And you know the difference. You know the difference when 199 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,120 people are really living it and when people are just putting on 200 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,200 a show. And Jesus was super clear with 201 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,600 those religious leaders who did everything according to the law 202 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,400 perfectly. He said y'all are dead man's 203 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:00,360 bones. You're whitewashed tombs, you're 204 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,880 hypocrites. And he said, let's let your let 205 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,360 my righteousness exceed that of those guys. 206 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,800 Because even though outwardly they did everything perfectly, 207 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:19,880 inwardly they weren't right. And so you know the Scripture 208 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:21,600 says you know your. Heart. 209 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:26,000 You know where you're at, and I I would admonish you today. 210 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,960 If you don't know where you're at in faith and you know that 211 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,680 you're trying to get stuff and you're laboring for it, then get 212 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:38,520 yourself in a position of faith by reading the Word and praying 213 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,560 in the Holy Ghost and meditating on whatever that area is that 214 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:46,480 you're believing him for. So Revelation Chapter 3 verses 215 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,800 15 and 16. Says I know your works, that 216 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:54,360 you're neither hot nor cold. I would wish that you were hot 217 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,800 or cold. So then, because you are 218 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,560 lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my 219 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:07,560 mouth. Some of us are lukewarm and 220 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:11,440 we're not hot. And you need to be hot in your 221 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,240 spirit. And I'm going to tell you that 222 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,640 when I go through these indicators, you're going to know 223 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,960 if you're fervent. You're going to know if you're 224 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:19,680 hot. You're going to know if you're 225 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,360 built up in the spirit. Because I can look at some of 226 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,720 your faces and tell you maybe not. 227 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,480 You've got to be the one that says I'm getting everything that 228 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:35,720 I can get today. God, Holy Ghost, give it to me. 229 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:38,720 Everything that I can get. I receive it. 230 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,600 Anything you want to say to me, I hear it. 231 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,880 My heart is open. My the eyes of my understanding 232 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:46,600 are open. You've got to be in that 233 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,360 posture. Or are you just here so that you 234 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,080 can check a box? Are you just here so that you 235 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,440 can say I did my duty and I feel pretty good about myself Now, we 236 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,560 don't like to think of ourselves that way. 237 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,640 We don't like to think. But honestly, sometimes we do 238 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,640 appease our conscience by coming to church, by doing these works 239 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,960 in our own flesh, and God never wanted you to do that. 240 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,880 You should be here because you love Him and you trust him, and 241 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,080 you want to be part of a body that he's called you to. 242 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,720 That's why you should be here. You should read the word of God 243 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,720 because you love him and you trust him and you want to get 244 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,880 everything you can get from Him. You should pray in the Holy 245 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,480 Ghost because you love the Holy Ghost and you want to hear from 246 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,280 him and you want him to reveal things to you, not so that you 247 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,520 can just. I feel good about myself today. 248 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,680 Now, you know, if that's what you're doing and it's not that 249 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,760 we make, it's not that we wake up and go, I'm going to actually 250 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,080 check my boxes. But you know, in your 251 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,680 conscience, if you just feel a little bit better because you 252 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:57,040 did something, you just feel a little bit stronger because you. 253 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,960 Checked off your boxes on your Bible reading plan? 254 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:05,840 Where's your heart at? What's your motive? 255 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:11,600 Because in Daniel it says those that truly know God, he will do 256 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,960 great exploits through those people and we want to really 257 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,240 know him, really love him, really trust him. 258 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:24,200 OK, so hot fervent built up. That should be your first 259 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,600 response no matter what happens. Like the angels that we say holy 260 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,200 glory, thank you father. I'm not moved. 261 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,760 When when stuff hits you, what is your first response? 262 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,560 What is your default page set on? 263 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,560 What do you do when a trial comes? 264 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:47,320 Is your first response to go, Oh my God, what am I going to do? 265 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,640 How are we going to handle this? If that. 266 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,400 If it is, you got to change it. I'm tell you this is faith. 267 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,880 This is not fake. This is not putting on a show. 268 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,400 This is how you do it. This is how we do it. 269 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,680 This is how you do it. This is how you live it. 270 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,160 You want to live it or not. You can't be worried about what 271 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,520 people think when stuff comes at you. 272 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,600 You got to get down deep and say, God, I believe you. 273 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,280 I'm not going to be moved. Ha ha ha. 274 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,800 I'm not moved by this situation. You're my provider. 275 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,480 You're my healer. You're my Redeemer. 276 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,320 You're the one that sets me free. 277 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,800 I'm not going to be moved. You got to be that confident. 278 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,200 You got to have it in you where nothing can move you off. 279 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,560 Of that. God so good. 280 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,120 He's so faithful. The ministry of the Holy Ghost. 281 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,040 Faith is a spiritual thing. This is not something that 282 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,040 you're that you're doing in the scene out here. 283 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,480 You're not trying to get it. Faith is in your spirit. 284 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,800 This spirit of faith is what you've got to catch. 285 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:59,600 Second Corinthians chapter 3. I am surely yelling today and 286 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:06,359 spitting verse 7. But if the Ministry of Death, 287 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,319 written and engraved on stones, was glorious, what is that 288 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:14,160 talking about? The law, the 10 commandments? 289 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,000 If the Ministry of Death, written and engraved on stones, 290 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,920 was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not 291 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,560 look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of 292 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,280 his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the 293 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:33,080 Ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 294 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,400 If that was glorious, if they couldn't even look at Moses's 295 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,440 face, can people look at your face? 296 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:49,640 I'm just saying. How much more glorious should 297 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:55,800 this Ministry of the Holy Ghost be in your everyday life? 298 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,360 Not when you're here. Not that I can look at you right 299 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:04,360 now and go. The anointing's on you, and we 300 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:08,360 can all jump in it here. This is easy when we all add our 301 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:11,480 measure of faith here. Awesome things can happen. 302 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,800 Awesome things can happen. But what are you doing out 303 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,320 there? What are you doing in your 304 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,200 everyday personal life? This is where the rubber meets 305 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,040 the road. This is where you're either 306 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,440 living in faith or you living in doubt and you can't think that 307 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,800 you can just come up in here and just get faith. 308 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,800 Like like Saul did every time David played and he got peace 309 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,240 and he got relief and he felt so much better. 310 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:44,520 And then and then David left and he was no different and he was 311 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,720 not changed. We have to ask ourselves, is 312 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,280 that us? Do I is this is this Is nothing 313 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,840 wrong for you longing to come to church and be in this 314 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,240 atmosphere, but do you walk out of here and do it? 315 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,040 Do you walk out of here and live it? 316 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,400 Do you walk out of here and you actually are different. 317 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,520 You actually are free. You actually can do a dance in 318 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,240 your house. You actually can say glory to 319 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:16,200 God in the shower wherever you are, that you can actually 320 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,720 praise him and thank him no matter what you're going 321 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,040 through. Just internal questions to ask 322 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,280 verse. 12 Therefore, this ministry of the Spirit we're 323 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,760 talking about, you know, this is the dispensation of the Holy 324 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:33,240 Ghost. This is his time. 325 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:39,400 This is his time for you. And we have it way, way greater 326 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:44,760 than the Old Testament prophets and priests and kings way 327 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,680 greater, because we have Him within us and upon. 328 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,520 Us. They had the Holy Ghost, the 329 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,920 Spirit of God, come upon them at certain times. 330 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,920 We have a minute. How much more glorious should 331 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:04,480 our everyday lives be? Should we be at home wrangling, 332 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:10,720 flailing in our mind, tossing and turning all the time, double 333 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:18,760 minded and everything we do, tossed to and fro all the time? 334 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:25,000 At home, when you're in your bed at night, anxious thoughts are 335 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,480 coming. The fiery darts of the evil one 336 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,120 are coming. The Bible says be strong in the 337 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:36,240 Lord and in the power of his might. 338 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,440 In the spirit of faith, you got to catch this spirit of faith 339 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,440 and get it. You ought to leave out of here 340 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,840 today and go, oh Lord Jesus, I want to walk in this spirit of 341 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,680 faith where I know that I know that I've got it and I'm living 342 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,960 it, and I can do it on my bed. I can do it in the shower. 343 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:01,000 I could do it in my car. I can do it everywhere I'm at, 344 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,840 not. Just right here, verse 12. 345 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,920 Therefore, since we have such hope of this ministry of the 346 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,640 Spirit, we use great boldness of speech. 347 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,440 Now jump down to verse 17. It says. 348 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:21,040 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, 349 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:26,160 there's liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, 350 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,880 beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being 351 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:37,680 transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by 352 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,080 the Spirit of the Lord. So it says, because of this 353 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:45,840 ministry of the Spirit, we have great should have great boldness 354 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,320 of speech. And if you understand and we'll 355 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,160 and I'll talk about righteousness here in a minute. 356 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,680 If you understand who you are in Christ, then you should be able 357 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:59,600 to boldly approach the throne of God at any time, any day, 358 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:05,920 anywhere, all the time, and use great boldness of speech. 359 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,160 Meaning, I can say God. You said God. 360 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,160 This is what you said. You know the devil is always 361 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,480 trying to get you to reason in your mind and always trying to 362 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,080 keep you in doubt and guilt and condemnation. 363 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,760 You got to get free. The Bible says you either live 364 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,080 in this ministry of righteousness or you live in the 365 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:34,760 ministry of condemnation. One of the two, Where are you? 366 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,560 You're not straddling the fence, I promise. 367 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:43,280 You're living in the ministry of righteousness or the ministry of 368 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,040 of condemnation. You're in one or one or the 369 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,080 other. And if you're living in this 370 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,400 ministry of righteousness, the Bible says the righteous are as 371 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:56,160 bold as a lion. So that means I can use great 372 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,000 boldness of speech. I can approach the throne of God 373 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,120 and I I can say, Father, you're my healer God. 374 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:08,320 This is what you said. And I'll not be moved by snot 375 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,920 coming out my nose. I'll not be moved by how I feel. 376 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,520 You can't be moved by any of that God. 377 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,800 You said you meet all my needs according to your glorious 378 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,360 riches in Christ Jesus. Thank you, Lord. 379 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,160 Every bill is paid. Now this this is not kooky 380 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,800 stuff. This is not where I'm saying 381 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,400 that don't balance your checkbook and don't pay your 382 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,960 bills and don't work a job and say, God, you meet all my needs. 383 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,880 It doesn't work like that. Just so you know, you got to 384 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:45,440 actually really do it. You got to actually know that 385 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,160 the state of your flocks take care of your stuff. 386 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:50,640 Be responsible. Get a job. 387 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,320 Do the word actually be? Mature believers. 388 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,800 Right. And then when you are, you can 389 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,440 stand boldly before God and say God. 390 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,320 This is what you said, and I believe it, you know, he said. 391 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,080 Keep me in my in remembrance of my. 392 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,680 Word. It's not because he forgot it, 393 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,960 it's because he's saying just say it. 394 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,960 Just say it. Just speak it out. 395 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,080 By faith, he's the eyes of the Lord are roaming to and fro, 396 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:28,080 looking, looking for someone whose heart is right, someone 397 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,560 who's living this spirit of faith so that he can do great 398 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,600 and awesome things, Ephesians says he wants to show. 399 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:40,160 Out through you. He wants to do great and mighty 400 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,200 things through each and every one of us. 401 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,120 Verse 17. I just read it. 402 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,560 Where the spirit of the Lord is, There's liberty, and with 403 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,400 unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord. 404 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,480 We're being transformed. If you want to get this spirit 405 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,600 of faith, you got to actually, day by day go from glory to 406 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,200 glory and faith. By faith you got to do it every 407 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,600 day. You got to live this same day 408 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,680 and night, day and night, night and day all the time. 409 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:12,240 Romans chapter 4 Let's talk about Abraham for just a minute. 410 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,840 Romans chapter 4, verses 19 through 21. 411 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:22,000 Fervent in spirit, capturing the spirit of faith, verse 19 says 412 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,480 Listen to Abraham and not being weak in faith. 413 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:32,160 He did not consider, He did not consider. 414 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:37,520 Let me say it again. He did not consider his own body 415 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,760 already dead since he was about 100 years old and the deadness 416 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,760 of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise 417 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:51,640 of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving 418 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,000 glory to God and being fully convinced that what he had 419 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,960 promised God was also able to. Perform He did not reason, he 420 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,840 did not consider, he did not hesitate, he did not doubt. 421 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,760 Do you think any kind of doubt tried to come to his mind? 422 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,320 And he didn't even have the Holy Ghost within him. 423 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,040 He was 100 years old. And it says not being weak if he 424 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,680 cannot be weak. In faith, we should not be weak. 425 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:31,680 In faith, we should be strong in faith, reigning in our spirit. 426 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:38,080 Man strengthened by the Holy Ghost he did not consider. 427 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:46,120 Sometimes we consider too much. We consider our our situation, 428 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,840 our our circumstances, our job, our relationships. 429 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:56,040 We consider those things. We take all those things into 430 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,000 account. We reason in our mind why, Why 431 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,720 this is happening to me, why I I'm going through this. 432 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:08,080 This is such a hard season, so it will be for you. 433 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,120 It'll be that. If that's what you believe. 434 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:15,000 Do not consider you got to get, you know Brother Hagan got to 435 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,040 such a place where he said, you know, I don't even sometimes 436 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:23,920 realize they even have a body now I'm not there yet but but we 437 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,280 got to get to that place where we realize I'm I'm thinking 438 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,040 more, I'm more in the spirit. I'm more thinking about God 439 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,800 first. That's my first default. 440 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,080 That's my first go to that's my first response. 441 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,400 That's my first word. That's the first reaction. 442 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:47,480 That's the first everything. Seek first the Kingdom of God 443 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,640 and his righteousness and all those other things we want, all 444 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:57,320 those other things we consider all those other things first. 445 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,960 When he says, just seek me first and stand in that position of 446 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,720 righteousness that I've put you in. 447 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,640 And then you can just call those things out and they'll come to 448 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,000 you. And that's how he wants us to 449 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,200 live. But Abraham did not consider. 450 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,200 You know, when you're a kid, you sang that song, Father Abraham. 451 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,000 Many sons, many sons have father Abraham. 452 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,600 You know, Can you really sing that? 453 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,680 Because are you weak in faith or strong in faith? 454 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:31,520 Is he your daddy or not? If he is your daddy, then you 455 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:36,440 should be strong in faith. Then you should be considering 456 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,840 not all those things that are hitting you right now in your 457 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,520 life. And it doesn't mean you ignore 458 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,160 them. It doesn't mean you deny them. 459 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:52,760 Denying stuff is not faith. It is not faith for snot to be 460 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,200 running out of my nose and me to say my nose is not running, my 461 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,120 nose is not running, My nose is not running. 462 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,480 That is not faith. That is denial. 463 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,320 My nose is running. It's really not running, but my 464 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:11,720 nose is running. But God, you said, Father, you 465 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:17,200 said, make sure you understand and have a clear picture of what 466 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,080 faith is so that you can be strong in it. 467 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,680 And so that you can actually say Abraham is my father because I'm 468 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,880 strong in faith and I'm not considering. 469 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,680 And the Scripture says he was strengthened in his faith 470 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,920 because he did not allow unbelief in. 471 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:41,360 Every time you allow unbelief in, it weakens your faith, It 472 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,200 weakens it. Do not give unbelief. 473 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:53,200 Not one second, not one minute, not one consideration at. 474 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,000 All be fervent. Don't give your flesh an 475 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 opportunity. Don't give your flesh an 476 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,960 opportunity. Your body, your bills. 477 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,160 Your finances, your situation. This is life or death. 478 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,400 I'm telling you this is life or death, faith or doubt. 479 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,240 Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 13. 480 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:21,360 And since we have the same spirit of faith, the same spirit 481 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,880 of say, I have the same spirit of faith. 482 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:31,080 According to what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke. 483 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,440 We also believe and therefore we speak. 484 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,360 And David. David in Psalms 116 also said, I 485 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,880 believe, therefore I spoke. You know, David was going 486 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,920 through some trials, just like if you go back up in 2nd 487 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,160 Corinthians 4. It says we're hard pressed on 488 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,760 every side, but we're not crushed, We're perplexed, but 489 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,160 we're not despair, We're persecuted but not forsaken, 490 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,840 struck down but not destroyed. It's not like stuff is not 491 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:05,520 coming at you, but you got to be so convinced and so solid that 492 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,720 you say, I believe, therefore I speak. 493 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,400 It doesn't matter what's coming at me. 494 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:16,280 I believe, therefore I speak. I'm so convinced I'm not putting 495 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,480 on a religious show. I'm talking about true faith, 496 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,360 the spirit of faith. We don't look at things that are 497 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,440 seen ever. We look at the things that are 498 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,720 in the unseen Revelations, chapter 12, verses 10 and 11. 499 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,200 Let me get through this, Verse 10 says. 500 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,080 Then I heard a loud voice saying In heaven. 501 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:41,360 Now salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the 502 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,440 power of his Christ has come for the accuser of the brethren who 503 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,880 accused them before our God. Day and night has been cast 504 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,240 down, and they overcame him. Now if he can. 505 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:58,880 Accuse you day and night, if he can accuse you day and night all 506 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,880 the time. Do you think you ought to be 507 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,640 living by faith day and night all the time? 508 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,000 You think you ought to be speaking out boldly day and 509 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,240 night all the time. You think you ought to be 510 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,280 singing praises and Thanksgiving to him day and night all the 511 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,960 time. So day and night has been cast 512 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:21,920 down, and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the 513 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,680 word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to 514 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,880 the death. Now that that scripture is not 515 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,960 talking about your testimony like what God delivered you out 516 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,480 of. It is not talking about that 517 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,560 when it says they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb. 518 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,280 And the word of your testimony, that word of your testimony 519 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,920 means that you're speaking prophetically, the word of God 520 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,280 every day that that whatever comes to you, let's say it's a a 521 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,280 symptom. This symptom comes, I can say I 522 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,600 overcome by the blood of the lamb. 523 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,880 And because God, you said by your stripes I'm healed. 524 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,360 God, you said That is the word of your testimony. 525 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,280 It is you speaking prophetically, what God said. 526 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,840 So if you want to overcome, you got to overcome by declaring the 527 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,600 word of God and not consider and love your life. 528 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,880 More than that, you got to be laying your life, your life. 529 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,280 Down. Not, not considering your life 530 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,360 be fervent. Be strong, be quick, you 531 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,520 believe. Therefore you speak. 532 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:34,480 Now let's go to #2. #2 An indicator that you have a strong 533 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,840 spirit, a reigning spirit, is that you have victory. 534 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,440 Spirit of faith is a spirit of victory. 535 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,280 Now we can walk around here and I can look at some people and go 536 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,240 you got victory and some people I go you got defeat. 537 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,200 There's. Something else going on? 538 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,160 You If you have victory and we're going to talk about it, 539 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:08,320 you ought to have joy and you ought to have peace no matter 540 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:14,040 what, no matter what. And if something knocks you 541 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,960 down, the Bible says the righteous man gets back up. 542 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,600 He keeps getting back up. If it knocks you down, you get 543 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:28,080 up and wipe your brow and wipe your mouth off and say God, you 544 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:35,560 said I'll not be moved. You've got to have this victory 545 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,080 on the inside first. John chapter 5, verse four says 546 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:46,080 for whatever is born of God overcomes the world and this is 547 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:50,679 the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 548 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:55,880 This is that spirit of faith. It says whatever is Are you born 549 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,760 to God? Whatever is born of God 550 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,800 overcomes the world. And this is a victory that 551 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,080 overcomes the world. The spirit of faith. 552 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,240 I want to read it to you. In the Passion translation, it 553 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:12,840 says you see every child of God overcomes the world. 554 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:18,280 For our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the 555 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,040 world. It's your faith, your faith. 556 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:26,200 You conquer, you prevail. You run to get the prize because 557 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,000 you have this. The Spirit of faith on the 558 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,200 inside. First John 4/4. 559 00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:36,640 It says You are of God, little children, and have overcome them 560 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:42,320 because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the 561 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,360 world. He who is in you is greater than 562 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,840 he who is in the world. You got to ask yourself, when 563 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,000 you get up every morning, do you look in the mirror and go, oh, 564 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:57,800 or do you go? Do you see in the Spirit 1st and 565 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:03,280 go greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. 566 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,240 This is the day that you've made God and I rejoice. 567 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,480 I'll be glad in this day. I trust you. 568 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,120 I trust you. Holy Ghost, you've conquered 569 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,880 the. World in the spirit. 570 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,440 That's why you've got to get in the spirit and stay in the 571 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,200 spirit. Live in the spirit, Second 572 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,840 Corinthians chapter 10 verses 3 through 5 says. 573 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,640 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the 574 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,640 flesh. For the weapons of our warfare 575 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:42,960 are not carnal but mighty. They're mighty in God for the 576 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,600 pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments, and 577 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,480 every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of 578 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,120 God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of 579 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,520 Christ, the Scripture says, for we don't war against the flesh. 580 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,680 We don't war we. Here's what the Scripture says. 581 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,920 Let me just read it. For though we walk in the flesh, 582 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,880 we do not war according to the flesh. 583 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,160 We do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of your 584 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:22,720 warfare are not carnal. But what are they? 585 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:27,440 They're mighty. They're mighty in God for the 586 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,040 pulling down of strongholds. This spirit of faith is 587 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,920 happening on the inside of you, and if you're not pulling down 588 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,920 those strongholds and pulling down those fiery darts that come 589 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,520 at you constantly, then you're not going to conquer. 590 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,280 You have mighty weapons in the spirit. 591 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:52,920 The word of God is the sword of the spirit. 592 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,720 When those things come at you, be super quick to say no. 593 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,240 God, you said when thoughts of defeat, when thoughts of 594 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:08,160 depression, when thoughts of lack, when thoughts of worry 595 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:14,280 come to you. You got to be so quick to take 596 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:19,960 take captive that thought and say God, you said my weapons are 597 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:25,720 mighty in you Holy Ghost, this is what you said, this is how 598 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:30,040 you overcome in life. This is how you sit there and 599 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,560 not be sad. Everybody smile. 600 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,200 Good job. OK, first John chapter 2, verse 601 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:44,040 14. It says I have written to you 602 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,480 fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. 603 00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:50,560 And I've written to you young men, because you are strong. 604 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,760 And the word of God abides in you. 605 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,880 And you have overcome the wicked one. 606 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,560 You have overcome the wicked one. 607 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,760 Do you have victory? I don't you? 608 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,200 You can answer me right now, but I internally want you to ask 609 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,280 that question. Do you have victory no matter 610 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,280 what? No matter what's coming at you? 611 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,320 Are you living in a state of victory when it comes? 612 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,480 Do you know I've conquered this? And the Spirit. 613 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:21,720 So let me get over in the spirit. 614 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:25,000 Let me get over into God. What you said. 615 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,400 I've conquered this. I have the victory. 616 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,200 And you've got to remind yourself when those things come, 617 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:32,600 go. I have the victory. 618 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:34,800 What? What could this church 619 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,640 accomplish if all of us were really on the same page? 620 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,360 If we were really in unity? Because that's where the Bible 621 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:49,880 said God commands the blessing. He commands the blessing. 622 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,280 When we're all unified and that's that doesn't just mean 623 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,720 that we can all come up in here and be unified. 624 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,680 Because just getting us unified in here sometimes is hard 625 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,840 because some of you are hooked up, some of you are drawing, and 626 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:10,440 some of you are going. So just getting unity here is 627 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,320 one thing, but Can you imagine what we could conquer? 628 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,960 As a church, please just let me be your coach right now. 629 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,480 Can I come down and slap a few of you? 630 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,720 I would love to do that right now. 631 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,280 It'd be totally love. It would be totally love. 632 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,920 It really would be. What was I saying? 633 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,040 Yeah, unity. Unity. 634 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:48,960 If we go, oh, what could we do as a team, as a body, if we all 635 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:57,360 got in unity, not just here, but can we start here, can we start? 636 00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,840 And you bring, you know, when you come in here, you bring a 637 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:06,840 supply of faith or you don't. It's one or the other. 638 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,080 So when you come in here, are you just like sliding in? 639 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,920 You know, just like, oh, I got to get here and get set, sat 640 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,480 down, find my seat and you know, we. 641 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,720 Live in this culture of entertainment. 642 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,120 We we scroll, we watch, we stare. 643 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,960 We zone out. We want to be entertained. 644 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,080 We want things to come to us. We want to, you know, we want to 645 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:34,960 sit back and go. Come on, Pastor Angie, what you 646 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,680 got? Show me something. 647 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,440 What you got? You got anything? 648 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,760 We're conditioned that way. You got to get out of that. 649 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,080 You got to get out of that. You got to quit coming in here 650 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:53,400 and sitting and expecting to be entertained and expecting for 651 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,720 somebody to to come out and grab your spirit man and say come on, 652 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:03,680 you got this, get out of that. Be a team player. 653 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,760 Be somebody that comes in here and brings your spirit of faith. 654 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,680 Be somebody that comes in here and says, I'm believing God for 655 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,880 a word. I'm believing for people to get 656 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,520 delivered. I'm believing God that you're 657 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,080 bringing people from the north, east, South and West. 658 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,000 I'm believing you, Lord, that you're speaking to me. 659 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,720 I thank you, Lord, that you supply everything that I need. 660 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,320 Come in here and bring something. 661 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:35,480 Quit being dead weight in here. I'm not saying you are. 662 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,840 I'm just, you know. Just trying to tell you 663 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:44,120 something for a minute. OK, #3 let's try to wrap this up 664 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:52,560 #3 Joy and peace in believing. These are indicators. 665 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,600 These are indicators. You're fervent. 666 00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,640 You're you're a conqueror. You conquer things right away. 667 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:06,080 You're quick to speak the word of God. #2 was you've got the 668 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:11,280 victory, you got the victory, you've got the greater one on 669 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:12,960 the inside of you got the victory. 670 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:19,640 And #3 is Joy and Peace in believing Romans chapter 14 671 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,720 verse 17 says for the Kingdom of. 672 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:27,640 God is not eating and drinking. It's not the same stuff. 673 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,040 It's not just talking about right here, food and drink. 674 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:37,640 It's talking about the scene. Realm for the Kingdom of God is 675 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:43,080 not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace and joy in 676 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:48,760 the Holy Ghost, in the spirit, the spirit of faith. 677 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,640 You're not going to have peace and joy in the Holy Ghost if you 678 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,920 don't understand your righteousness, if you don't 679 00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:58,920 understand. This is a gift. 680 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,720 You know Righteousness is a gift. 681 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,360 It's not anything that you did on your own merit. 682 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,600 It is a gift. That is why in Romans chapter 5 683 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,000 it says that you can reign in life because of the gift of 684 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,320 righteousness. He literally did not just take 685 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:21,080 all your sin, he did not just take everything for you. 686 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,600 It's not innocence that gets you in the Kingdom of. 687 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,400 God. He He not only took all that, 688 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:33,280 but he actually imputed or transferred to your account his 689 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:39,320 righteousness. That's why you can stand boldly 690 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,920 before him, before the throne of God, because you're in him. 691 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:49,480 You're literally hidden in him. The Bible says you died with 692 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,600 him, you rose with him, You're buried with him, you rose with 693 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:58,120 him, you're in him. And so you should walk. 694 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,800 Around all the time it's in him that I live. 695 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,160 It's in him that I move. It's in him that I have my 696 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:10,200 being. It's in him I'm I'm hidden. 697 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:15,000 It's no longer I that live, but it's Christ that lives in me. 698 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,600 If you understand that position of righteousness, you'll have 699 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,680 peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. If you're living in the spirit 700 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,280 of faith, if you have a reigning spirit, if you have a strong 701 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,960 spirit, you'll have peace and you'll have joy in the Holy 702 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:40,360 Ghost Romans. 1513 says Now, may the God of hope fill you with 703 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:47,560 all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by 704 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:52,560 the power of the Holy Ghost. It says that he may fill you 705 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,400 with all hope and all joy. And peace and believing it. 706 00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,840 Should you have joy and peace in your believing? 707 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,880 I'm going to tell you, if you think you're believing and you 708 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,000 don't have joy and peace, you're not in faith. 709 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:11,080 You are not in faith if you do not have peace and. 710 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:15,280 Joy and the minute you discern. I'm going to read Hebrews 711 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:20,360 chapter 10 in just a minute. The minute you discern that that 712 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:26,120 anxiety is trying to hit you. You got to have enough maturity 713 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,520 and enough strength on the inside of you that you can 714 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,960 recognize that right away and say, I will be anxious for 715 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,000 nothing. Not one thing. 716 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,720 But through prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, 717 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:44,240 I make my request known to you. And the peace of God that 718 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:47,960 surpasses all understanding guards my heart and my mind. 719 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,880 You got to be mature enough in your faith and have this spirit 720 00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,960 of faith that you can recognize those things when they come. 721 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,960 God's first covenant people when He established the feasts and He 722 00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,600 and and He established them when they were bringing their tithes 723 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,960 and offerings. There's multiple places where He 724 00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:12,520 commanded them to rejoice. I want to read one to you, 725 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:16,680 Leviticus, chapter 23, verses 40 through 43. 726 00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,120 It says. And you shall take for 727 00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,600 yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, 728 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,160 branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and the 729 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:29,280 willows of the brook. And listen, you shall rejoice 730 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,920 before the Lord your God for seven days. 731 00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:36,800 He literally told them they were going to rejoice. 732 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:42,520 So if I walk down here, if I walk down here and said, Sabrina 733 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,400 Indolent, I need you to rejoice right now, I need you to do it. 734 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,080 You don't have to do it, but but I need you to rejoice for seven 735 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,680 days straight. OK, I like the response. 736 00:47:54,920 --> 00:48:00,440 But I could walk to some of you and say I need you to go rejoice 737 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,120 for seven days right now. And you'd be like, don't tell me 738 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:07,720 what to do. Tell me. 739 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:12,240 What to do? God told them to rejoice. 740 00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:13,920 He didn't ask them how they were feeling. 741 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,720 He didn't ask them what their circumstances were. 742 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,920 He didn't ask them if they had conquered anything yet. 743 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,320 He didn't ask them any of those questions. 744 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,160 He said, Now here's what you're going to do. 745 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:31,640 You're going to rejoice for seven days. 746 00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,880 This is not the only place where he told them to do that. 747 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,200 And in the New Testament, he tells us to do that. 748 00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:40,920 This is a choice. God's not in control. 749 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,320 It's not about when you feel like laughing. 750 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,200 It's not about when you feel like being thankful. 751 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,440 It's not about when you feel like rejoicing. 752 00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:53,960 It's not about when you feel like it. 753 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,760 You've got to do it. You've got to just choose every 754 00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,840 day. When our girls were little, we 755 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,720 didn't give them a choice of whether or not they wanted to be 756 00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:05,240 happy. They didn't have a choice. 757 00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,880 We literally told them you're going to have a thankful heart. 758 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:17,720 We didn't ask them. We didn't give an option if they 759 00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:22,440 got pouty or teary or whatever. I said get yourself together. 760 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,680 You have a thankful heart and you have a happy heart. 761 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,160 Be glad for what you have. That's an easy way to start. 762 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,360 It was a veggie tale song. We used to sing it. 763 00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:35,800 And that was it. That was, that was their only 764 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,920 choice. And that's how some of our our 765 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,160 parents here, that's that's a nugget for you. 766 00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,160 We should be that way with our kids. 767 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:47,640 We let our kids decide way too much, way too much. 768 00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,320 Let them choose how they want to feel. 769 00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:53,080 What's this little gentle, soft parenting? 770 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,880 I'm telling you, that's not our parenting class. 771 00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,280 That will not be our parenting class at all. 772 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:03,720 It's no different with your father God, though. 773 00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:08,160 And it's not mean. It's life. 774 00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:12,560 It's life for you. So when you wake up in the 775 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,320 morning, you ought to go. I'm going to rejoice. 776 00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:23,400 I don't care how I feel. That's how you get the victory. 777 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,720 And that's how you go from strength to strength. 778 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,600 And that's how you go from faith to faith. 779 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:29,880 And that's how you go from glory to glory. 780 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,720 That's how it happens. I don't care what you think 781 00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:36,760 about it. That's how it works. 782 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,760 That's how the spirit of faith works. 783 00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:44,040 You choose to rejoice. You choose to believe. 784 00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:48,480 You choose every day whom you're going to serve. 785 00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:55,040 Either you're going to serve yourself or you're going to 786 00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:59,520 serve him. A lot of people in our culture 787 00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:04,600 today serve themselves. Whatever they want to do, they 788 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,360 do, Howard. They want to feel. 789 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,640 They feel we should not be that way. 790 00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:15,240 We've overcome the world. And if you look the same as the 791 00:51:15,240 --> 00:51:18,960 world, you should not, you should not look the same as the 792 00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,720 world. So he required them to rejoice. 793 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:26,160 And that word rejoice means to be cheerful and to brighten up. 794 00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:31,680 Get happy. Don't wait till you feel like 795 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,080 doing it. Just do it. 796 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,760 Just do it. You know we're supposed to have 797 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,120 faith like a child. What is it? 798 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:44,360 What is a child do when when a song comes on, they dance. 799 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,320 They don't take them anytime and take them anytime to dance. 800 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,400 Don't take them anytime to sing. Don't take them anytime to jump. 801 00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,960 Don't take them anytime to do that. 802 00:51:55,120 --> 00:52:03,440 How come we're so dignified? How come we can't just quickly 803 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:08,200 jump in? How come we can't just quickly 804 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:12,720 respond? The scripture says You foolish 805 00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:17,360 Galatians, You foolish anchor Faithians. 806 00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:23,360 How come? How come you started this thing 807 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,880 out in the Spirit and now you want to continue in the flesh? 808 00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:32,200 How come you got to get out of you? 809 00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,600 It's not you. It's not about you. 810 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,080 It never was about you. I'm not trying to hurt your 811 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,560 feelings, but it's not. It's not about you. 812 00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:48,880 And you got to just every day make a decision that you're 813 00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,040 going to live in this spirit of faith, no matter what. 814 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:56,520 Proverbs 1722. Everything the Lord tells us 815 00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:00,760 requires a response. Everything that He tells us. 816 00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:06,720 A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit 817 00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:11,360 dries up the bones. It literally affects your 818 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,840 health. If you don't have joy and peace, 819 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,880 it happens in your body. Your chemicals get off. 820 00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:24,520 Things happen in your brain that throw every chemical off in your 821 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,640 body and cause you to be unhealthy. 822 00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:32,840 When you are sad, when you are worried, when you are anxious, 823 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:38,360 when you are depressed, when you allow the spirit of fear to come 824 00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:43,320 in your life. It changes what happens in your 825 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:47,360 physical body. It doesn't matter how often you 826 00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:51,600 go to the gym. It doesn't matter how healthy 827 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:56,120 you eat. That is part of it, and you need 828 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,200 to do that. But it's about where you're at 829 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:05,520 on the inside, what you're believing, what you're trusting, 830 00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,680 what you're putting your faith in. 831 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:13,040 Every single day, James, chapter one, verses two and three, says 832 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,200 my brethren. Here we go. 833 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,160 In the New Testament, he's telling us what to do. 834 00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:22,480 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various 835 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,920 trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces 836 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,760 perseverance or produces patience. 837 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,400 Count it, joy. He didn't give you an option. 838 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:39,320 He didn't ask you. He didn't ask you how you felt, 839 00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,680 he said. Brethren, sister. 840 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:45,600 And when something comes at you, count it, joy. 841 00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,200 Count it, joy. You got to get good at this. 842 00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,960 I'm telling you, you got to get good at it. 843 00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:57,560 It's not a personality thing. It's not a pastor Angie thing. 844 00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,280 It is not that. It is a faith thing. 845 00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:06,200 It doesn't matter what you're feeling, what your personality 846 00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:11,440 is, You've got to choose to count it joy all the time. 847 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:14,080 Emotions are always. Going to be there. 848 00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:18,800 They're always going to hit you. They're always going to come at 849 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,720 you. Deuteronomy chapter 31, verse 850 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:25,400 six. Before we go there, let me read 851 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,520 Proverbs 2128 real quick in the world. 852 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,800 You will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. 853 00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:37,600 Be of good cheer. Deuteronomy 3126 says. 854 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:43,920 Be strong and of good courage, and do not fear nor be afraid of 855 00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,520 them. For the Lord your God He is the 856 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:51,120 one who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake 857 00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,440 you. He will not leave you or forsake 858 00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,880 you. Can you realize that God? 859 00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,560 It's in him. Everything was made. 860 00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:01,520 You were made. You were created. 861 00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:06,880 He formed every one of your days out before one of them came to 862 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,600 be, and that you're just supposed to walk this out by 863 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:15,160 faith and yield to him Revelations 27. 864 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,720 I'm going to just give you these references. 865 00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:22,840 These are multiple references in Revelations that says to him who 866 00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,920 overcomes to him who overcomes to him who overcomes. 867 00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:30,600 It's your choice whether you're going to overcome. 868 00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,600 It's your choice whether you're going to live in this spirit of 869 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,320 faith. Or a spirit of doubt. 870 00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:42,400 Revelation 27 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit 871 00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,600 says to the church. To him who overcomes, I will 872 00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,440 give to eat from the tree of life which is in the midst of 873 00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:53,560 the paradise of God. Revelations 211 He who has an 874 00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,160 ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 875 00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,760 He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death. 876 00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:04,440 Revelations 217 He who has an ear, let him hear what the 877 00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:08,680 Spirit says to the churches. To him, whoever comes, I will 878 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,440 give some of the hidden manna to eat, and I will give him a 879 00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,680 whitestone. And on the stone a new name. 880 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,800 We We sing that song, a new name written which no one knows 881 00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,280 except him who receives it. Revelation 226. 882 00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:28,720 And he who overcomes and keeps my works until the end to him I 883 00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:33,520 will give the power over the nation's Revelations. 3/5 He who 884 00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:37,600 overcome shall be clothed with white garments, and I will blot 885 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,520 out His name from the book of Life. 886 00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:42,000 But I will. I will not blot out His name 887 00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,600 from the book of life, but I will confess His name before my 888 00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,760 Father and before his angels. Revelations 312. 889 00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:50,680 To he who? Overcomes. 890 00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:54,160 I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall 891 00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:56,720 go out no more. I will write on him the name of 892 00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,280 my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, 893 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,760 which comes down out of heaven from my God, and I will write on 894 00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,360 him my new name. Revelations 321. 895 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,680 To him who overcomes, you see the the consistent thing, this 896 00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,920 consistent theme here To him who overcomes, I will grant to sit 897 00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,920 with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my 898 00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,160 Father on his throne. Revelation 21, Seven and eight 899 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:27,960 To him who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will 900 00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,720 be his God, and he will be my son. 901 00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:36,760 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, 902 00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,120 murder sexually immoral sorcerers, idolaters, and all 903 00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:44,120 liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire 904 00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:47,720 and brimstone, which is the second death to him who 905 00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:52,440 overcomes. Whose choice is it to overcome? 906 00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,040 It's ours. Whose choice is it to have a 907 00:58:56,040 --> 00:59:01,280 strong spirit? Whose choice is it to reign in 908 00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,920 your spirit? Ephesians Chapter 6 be. 909 00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:09,000 Strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 1st 910 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:14,640 Corinthians, 1613. Watch Stand fast in the faith. 911 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:19,320 Be brave and be strong. I want to read it to you in the 912 00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,200 Amplified. Be on guard. 913 00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:25,960 Stand firm in your faith in God, respecting his precepts and 914 00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:29,320 keeping your doctrine sound. Act like mature men. 915 00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,360 And be courageous. Be strong. 916 00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,720 I'm telling you the spirit of fear is just that. 917 00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:40,600 It is a spirit, and you better recognize it when it comes. 918 00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:45,320 When that spirit of timidity and fear comes to you, you better 919 00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,760 take authority over it right away, because you'll live in 920 00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:51,560 doubt. You'll live in anxiety. 921 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:55,040 You'll live in fear if you allow it in. 922 00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,480 Anything that you recognize that you've allowed a spirit of fear 923 00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:04,280 to gain access, you better get strengthened in your spirit and 924 01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,680 take dominion. Take authority over that. 925 01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:15,760 Thing Hebrews chapter 10 and I'll close with this. 926 01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,440 For though by this time you ought to be teachers. 927 01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:24,920 You need someone to teach you again the 1st principles of the 928 01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,280 oracles of God. And you've come to need milk and 929 01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:31,240 not solid food. For everyone who partakes only 930 01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:37,400 of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a 931 01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:41,760 babe. But solid food belongs to those 932 01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,160 who are of full age. Please listen to this. 933 01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:48,000 Please listen to this. Solid food belongs to those who 934 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:54,040 are of full age. Who, that is by reason of use, 935 01:00:54,480 --> 01:01:02,080 have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. 936 01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:07,800 First of all, it says if you don't understand who you are in 937 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,480 Christ. If you don't understand that 938 01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,160 you're the righteousness of God in Christ, you're a baby. 939 01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:21,600 And it says if you're mature, then you can by reason of use. 940 01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:28,720 By practice, you're able to discern clearly between good and 941 01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:32,880 evil that you have full discernment. 942 01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:37,240 When things come at you, you can easily discern because you're 943 01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:40,360 mature. You're strong in your faith. 944 01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:42,760 I can go. Nope, That's evil. 945 01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,680 I recognize that, and I take dominion. 946 01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:53,320 I take authority over that. By reason of use, we take 947 01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:57,080 authority. We recognize we discern those 948 01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:02,520 things that try to come against us having a strong spirit. 949 01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:08,360 Proverbs 1814 says the spirit of man will sustain him in 950 01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,240 sickness. Not just sickness, everything, 951 01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:16,400 everything in life, but a broken spirit who can bear. 952 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:22,440 Hebrews chapter 10 verses 38 and 39 says the just shall live by 953 01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:28,040 faith, and if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure 954 01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,400 in him. But we are not of those who draw 955 01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:36,560 back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the 956 01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:40,960 soul. You've got to be like David, you 957 01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:42,880 know, in in the Psalms, David said. 958 01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:49,000 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why are you so distraught within 959 01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,000 me? You got to talk to your soul. 960 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:57,600 It's OK to talk to yourself. In that kind of way. 961 01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,120 You got to say why? Are you downcast? 962 01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:07,440 Oh my soul? Why are you worried about many 963 01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:12,120 things? Why are you flailing around? 964 01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,840 Why are you shadowboxing Oh my soul? 965 01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:20,760 Why? Are you trying to get things 966 01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:25,480 from God? Why are you trying to figure 967 01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,200 things out? On your own. 968 01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:32,000 You got to be like David and say, why are you doing that? 969 01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:34,680 Oh my soul, Why are you downcast? 970 01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:39,080 O my soul, put your hope in God. That's what he says in the 971 01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:42,880 scripture. Why are you downcast, O my soul, 972 01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:47,200 put your hope in God, for despair is a waste of time, 973 01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:51,000 don't you know? Put your hope in God. 974 01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:55,880 You got to talk to your soul. You got to take dominion. 975 01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,080 And Luke, it says in your patience or in your 976 01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,320 perseverance, you possess your soul. 977 01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:05,560 Nobody's going to possess it for you. 978 01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:09,720 You've got to do it. And I'm going to end with this 979 01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:11,880 scripture. Psalm 2714. 980 01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:18,360 Wait on the Lord and be of good courage, and He will strengthen 981 01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:22,120 your heart. He will strengthen your spirit. 982 01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:28,920 Wait, I say, on the Lord. You've got to internally ask the 983 01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:34,920 question with these signs or these indicators, do I have a 984 01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,360 strong spirit? Am I fervent? 985 01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,720 Do I? Quickly default to the. 986 01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:46,640 Spirit of God, do I quickly speak the word of God? 987 01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:52,200 Do I quickly jump over in faith, or am I more quick to side with 988 01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:55,680 the scene realm? Am I fervent? 989 01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,720 Am I hot? Am I stirred? 990 01:04:57,720 --> 01:04:59,800 Up? Am I built up on the inside? 991 01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:04,000 That's one indicator that you have a reigning spirit, a 992 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:08,400 strong. Spirit, do I have the victory? 993 01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:14,240 Do you have the victory? Do you live in victory? 994 01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:19,160 Do you live conquering? Do you conquer on the inside? 995 01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,800 Is the greater one on the inside of you? 996 01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:24,520 Can you conquer anything that comes at you? 997 01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:29,520 That is an indicator that you have a reigning spirit. 998 01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:34,200 And then the last one was joy and peace and believing. 999 01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:40,760 You better recognize if you have joy and if you have peace in the 1000 01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:44,520 Holy Ghost. Because if you don't, then I 1001 01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:47,360 would, I would venture to say you're not in a position of 1002 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:51,040 faith because faith sees it done. 1003 01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:55,280 The spirit of faith has victory and knows it's already taken 1004 01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:59,080 care of. Doesn't matter what I see, all 1005 01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:04,760 those things are under my feet. I can stay positioned in my seat 1006 01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,320 of authority. I can yield to what the Word of 1007 01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:13,000 God says and what the Holy Ghost is telling me about every 1008 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:17,280 situation. Oh, my prayer for you today is 1009 01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:23,360 that you be strengthened in your faith, That you capture this 1010 01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:28,320 spirit of faith on the inside that we leave out of here, 1011 01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:30,920 Father God. And we ask ourselves the 1012 01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:37,080 question, do I have joy? Do I have peace? 1013 01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:44,280 Am I fervent on the inside? Am I quick to boldly speak the 1014 01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:48,400 word of God? Do I walk around like I have 1015 01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,680 victory? That we ask ourselves these 1016 01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:55,680 questions and we do an inventory and we don't walk out of here 1017 01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:59,760 and just walk right back into our everyday situations and the 1018 01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,120 heaviness and the anxiety and the cares of life. 1019 01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:06,400 But we're quick to cast those things. 1020 01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,880 Off. We're quick to get the victory. 1021 01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:13,080 We're quick to speak what you said, Father. 1022 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:18,080 We're quick to choose joy. We're quick to choose peace. 1023 01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:21,280 We're quick to live this thing out. 1024 01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:25,560 And I thank you, Father. God, as this church gets in 1025 01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:32,600 unity, Hallelujah. As this church gets in unity and 1026 01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:40,000 the Spirit unity, not when we're just in this building, but when 1027 01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:44,240 we're in our homes. She's speaking it over there and 1028 01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:48,400 he's speaking it over there. And I'm speaking it in my home. 1029 01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:53,680 And there's a there's an anointing that begins to build 1030 01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:57,120 and begins to to draw people into this church so that 1031 01:07:57,360 --> 01:08:02,080 sicknesses can be broken off of them and and heaviness can come 1032 01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:06,040 off of them because we're in unity and we're in unity in our 1033 01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:09,840 homes, not just here in the church. 1034 01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:14,840 And I just thank you, Father God, that we'll do this thing 1035 01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:16,800 that we're. 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