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Now enjoy this message. The spirit of faith you need to
you need to connect this morning and grab hold of the spirit of
faith. Because it doesn't matter if
you're in church. It doesn't matter if you're
serving. It doesn't matter if you read
your Bible every day, If you're not doing it and you're not
getting hooked up in the in the spirit of faith, then you're not
getting it and the devil's defeating you.
And we need to grab hold of this spirit of faith because it's
something that you catch by doing it every day, by doing it,
not just going through the motions.
But I'm talking about no matter what hits you in life that you
can say ha ha ha, I'm not moved by that.
So let me not get ahead of myself and let me go ahead and
jump into this. So believe God with me.
And the way you hear is super important because the Bible says
take heed how you hear. And why is it that some people
can sit here and not get a thing and walk out just as locked up
as they were when they came in? And one person can walk out of
here free indeed, and get more revelation.
Why does that happen? It's how you hear.
And so you got to hook up with the spirit of faith, hook up
with the Holy Ghost and say I'm going to draw, I'm going to suck
everything out of this 50 year old.
I don't care. 50 year young suck, suck me dry.
Just just say I'm going to get everything I can get this
morning from the word of God. Amen.
All right, First Corinthians Chapter 9, verses 24 through 27
says, do you not know that in a race, all the runners run, They
all run. OK, so we're all running.
We're all trucking. I'm not the fastest runner, but
we're all running and everybody that runs doesn't get the prize,
doesn't get it. Why don't they get it?
Because a lot of them stop running.
A lot of them, You know the song that we were just singing said
that I will, I will maintain, I will do this.
I will believe you. I will trust you.
I will, I will, I will. You know pastors been talking
about this is your choice. God is not in control, right.
This is our decision every day. The the the Lord says he sets
before you. Life and death every day.
Every day today I've said before you life and death, choose life
so that you can live and prosper and be in health and and do
everything that he's called you to do.
Every day you make that choice. So it's so all the runners are
running, but it says run that you may obtain it, run that you
will actually win the prize, Run that that you will take
possession of the prize that you will conquer.
And we're going to talk a little bit about conquering today, but
I want to read to you in the Amplified.
It says in First Corinthians, I do not flail around.
I do not flail around like one beating the air, just
shadowboxing. You know, I'm concerned that
some of us are just shadowboxing a little bit, that we're
fighting the wrong fight, that we're fighting things in the
natural, we're fighting off the symptoms, we're fighting off the
bills, we're fighting off our emotions, we're fighting all
those things, but we're not actually living and getting it
and living in the spirit of faith.
You got to quit fighting this. Same fight.
You got to quit thinking. I got.
I'm. I'm healed.
I'm healed of the Lord. I got to get these symptoms off
of me. I got to.
You're you're fighting the wrong fight.
You got to know that you know and get it on the inside and
know that God is your healer. God's your Redeemer.
God's the one that sets you free.
Did he say it? Will he not do it?
Is he not faithful? You got to get everything within
you. It's got to be in your
bloodstream. It's got to be in you that you
know that you know that he is able to perform.
He is able to do that. So, So what are we fighting?
What are we conquering? What is this good fight of faith
that we're in? The Bible says fight the good,
fight. Fight this good.
Fight of faith. No more Shadowbox.
Yeah, I want you to walk out of here today and say I'm not going
to Shadowbox anymore. No more shadow boxing.
I'm not going to be hitting the air.
I'm not going to be flailing, flailing around, just swinging
at stuff. Just just trying to get that off
of me. And you know you're not trying
to get anything from God. Quit trying to get healed.
Quit trying to get faith. Quit trying to get provision.
Quit trying to get that stuff. You don't have to try to get
anything. You already got it.
And when you realize you already got it, then you can just kind
of take a step back and sit in your little seat next to Jesus
where the Bible says that you're supposed to be seated and you
don't have to worry about a thing.
You can just sit there. And when those, when those fiery
darts come, you can say that's under my feet.
I know I've got it. I'm not waiting to see the
manifestation. I'm not waiting for the report
from the Lord, from the doctor. I know the report of the Lord.
I'm not waiting on the doctor's report.
You got to get it and know that you got it.
And my prayer for you early this morning and last night is that
we would capture this spirit of faith, that we would get this
spirit of faith. The Bible talks about different
spirits, you know? And I'm not talking about
familiar spirits. I'm not talking about evil
spirits. I'm talking about your spirit,
OK? Our year is about, is about
having a what kind of spirit? A reigning spirit.
A strong spirit, a powerful spirit, a conquering spirit, a
spirit that overcomes. The Bible talks about a wounded
spirit. The Bible talks about a broken
spirit. The Bible talks about a weak
spirit. We can faith.
We can spirit broken in spirit. How do we know?
How do you know that you have a strong spirit.
And I'm going to give you some indicators today that you know
that I'm strong in my faith, that I know that I'm strong in
my spirit. Let's get the prize.
Let's don't just run aimlessly today.
Let's get the prize. But let's not just get the
prize. Let's keep the prize.
Let's get the prize every day of our lives, all the time.
Because I can honestly say in 50 years, I don't know where I
would be if it wasn't for him. He has been so faithful and so
good to take us from faith to faith and from glory to glory,
just by doing the Word. And so I can look at his
faithfulness on my life, on my husband's life, my family, our
church, and go, wow, God's been so good.
It's not anything that we did, but it's what he did because we
obeyed the word of God, because we just were doers.
When everything looked like it wasn't happening, things weren't
going through. We said, God, you're good,
you're faithful, We trust you will not be moved.
And you got to learn to live your life like that.
You got to learn to laugh. We had a a moment.
They took me out of town for my birthday and and my husband, I
went out in Orlando. I would not want to live in
Orlando. At all.
And the traffic is horrible and you think it's about here.
It's so much worse there. And so we went out for what we
thought was going to be a quick. We left the girls at the hotel.
We were going to go out for a quick.
Run to the store and run get some ice cream and you know do a
couple of things and so we go out and the traffic was horrible
and and one thing after another I spilled the shake in the car
and and it was just one one little furry dart after another
and and and we got in our hotel and and had a moment at the
elevator and I just said I just started laughing just first of
all by faith and then just started laughing and then we
were laughing and we were laughing in the elevator because
you can't be moved by that kind of stuff.
Get your emotions and your little stuff all in A twist and
you got to learn to not let it quit.
Be quick about it. Be quick about not letting stuff
get to you, Be quick about not living in the scene realm.
Be quick about not yielding to your emotions because they
shouldn't be sitting on the throne anyway.
So let's talk about indicators that you have a strong spirit,
that you have a reigning spirit, Ways that you can know that you
have that this spirit of faith, number one, that you're fervent
in spirit. You're fervent in spirit.
Romans chapter 12 verse 11 says be diligent and be fervent in
spirit serving the Lord. What does that mean?
What is fervent in spirit mean? It means hot like white hot like
built up like on fire that you have an on fire spirit.
You know what it makes me think of?
It makes me think of when revelation says and all the
angels constantly, day and night say holy, holy, holy is the Lord
God Almighty. And you know, I believe when we
all are together in that day that there's going to be such a
trickle effect when somebody says holy, it's just going to
holy. Glory to God.
Like you can't contain it. It's it's you're hot in your
spirit. We should be living that way
right now. Where where when things are
happening in the spirit it's a quick glory to God that that we
don't just look and go what are they doing, what's happening in
them. But then we believe that God is
faithful. Do we want to start seeing more
gifts to the spirit and healings happening and and things
changing in people's life? Well, you better get fervent in
your spirit. You better get hot on the
inside. And the way that you do that is
by building yourself up in your most holy faith.
I know Pastor Marcy ministered on ways that you can have a
reigning spirit and a strong spirit.
You've got to build yourself up in your most holy faith by
praying in the Holy Ghost. You got to be in the Word, but
you got to pray in the Spirit, and it's not.
When you feel like it and it doesn't matter what your
circumstances are saying, what your emotions are saying.
You just everywhere you are. And I'm not talking about being
weird and I'm not talking about going out in public and acting
all spiritual. There's a big, big difference.
And someone who wants to be religious and act like they're
spiritual and someone who's really got it on the inside.
And you know the difference. You know the difference when
people are really living it and when people are just putting on
a show. And Jesus was super clear with
those religious leaders who did everything according to the law
perfectly. He said y'all are dead man's
bones. You're whitewashed tombs, you're
hypocrites. And he said, let's let your let
my righteousness exceed that of those guys.
Because even though outwardly they did everything perfectly,
inwardly they weren't right. And so you know the Scripture
says you know your. Heart.
You know where you're at, and I I would admonish you today.
If you don't know where you're at in faith and you know that
you're trying to get stuff and you're laboring for it, then get
yourself in a position of faith by reading the Word and praying
in the Holy Ghost and meditating on whatever that area is that
you're believing him for. So Revelation Chapter 3 verses
15 and 16. Says I know your works, that
you're neither hot nor cold. I would wish that you were hot
or cold. So then, because you are
lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my
mouth. Some of us are lukewarm and
we're not hot. And you need to be hot in your
spirit. And I'm going to tell you that
when I go through these indicators, you're going to know
if you're fervent. You're going to know if you're
hot. You're going to know if you're
built up in the spirit. Because I can look at some of
your faces and tell you maybe not.
You've got to be the one that says I'm getting everything that
I can get today. God, Holy Ghost, give it to me.
Everything that I can get. I receive it.
Anything you want to say to me, I hear it.
My heart is open. My the eyes of my understanding
are open. You've got to be in that
posture. Or are you just here so that you
can check a box? Are you just here so that you
can say I did my duty and I feel pretty good about myself Now, we
don't like to think of ourselves that way.
We don't like to think. But honestly, sometimes we do
appease our conscience by coming to church, by doing these works
in our own flesh, and God never wanted you to do that.
You should be here because you love Him and you trust him, and
you want to be part of a body that he's called you to.
That's why you should be here. You should read the word of God
because you love him and you trust him and you want to get
everything you can get from Him. You should pray in the Holy
Ghost because you love the Holy Ghost and you want to hear from
him and you want him to reveal things to you, not so that you
can just. I feel good about myself today.
Now, you know, if that's what you're doing and it's not that
we make, it's not that we wake up and go, I'm going to actually
check my boxes. But you know, in your
conscience, if you just feel a little bit better because you
did something, you just feel a little bit stronger because you.
Checked off your boxes on your Bible reading plan?
Where's your heart at? What's your motive?
Because in Daniel it says those that truly know God, he will do
great exploits through those people and we want to really
know him, really love him, really trust him.
OK, so hot fervent built up. That should be your first
response no matter what happens. Like the angels that we say holy
glory, thank you father. I'm not moved.
When when stuff hits you, what is your first response?
What is your default page set on?
What do you do when a trial comes?
Is your first response to go, Oh my God, what am I going to do?
How are we going to handle this? If that.
If it is, you got to change it. I'm tell you this is faith.
This is not fake. This is not putting on a show.
This is how you do it. This is how we do it.
This is how you do it. This is how you live it.
You want to live it or not. You can't be worried about what
people think when stuff comes at you.
You got to get down deep and say, God, I believe you.
I'm not going to be moved. Ha ha ha.
I'm not moved by this situation. You're my provider.
You're my healer. You're my Redeemer.
You're the one that sets me free.
I'm not going to be moved. You got to be that confident.
You got to have it in you where nothing can move you off.
Of that. God so good.
He's so faithful. The ministry of the Holy Ghost.
Faith is a spiritual thing. This is not something that
you're that you're doing in the scene out here.
You're not trying to get it. Faith is in your spirit.
This spirit of faith is what you've got to catch.
Second Corinthians chapter 3. I am surely yelling today and
spitting verse 7. But if the Ministry of Death,
written and engraved on stones, was glorious, what is that
talking about? The law, the 10 commandments?
If the Ministry of Death, written and engraved on stones,
was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not
look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of
his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the
Ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
If that was glorious, if they couldn't even look at Moses's
face, can people look at your face?
I'm just saying. How much more glorious should
this Ministry of the Holy Ghost be in your everyday life?
Not when you're here. Not that I can look at you right
now and go. The anointing's on you, and we
can all jump in it here. This is easy when we all add our
measure of faith here. Awesome things can happen.
But what are you doing out
there? What are you doing in your
everyday personal life? This is where the rubber meets
the road. This is where you're either
living in faith or you living in doubt and you can't think that
you can just come up in here and just get faith.
Like like Saul did every time David played and he got peace
and he got relief and he felt so much better.
And then and then David left and he was no different and he was
not changed. We have to ask ourselves, is
that us? Do I is this is this Is nothing
wrong for you longing to come to church and be in this
atmosphere, but do you walk out of here and do it?
Do you walk out of here and live it?
Do you walk out of here and you actually are different.
You actually are free. You actually can do a dance in
your house. You actually can say glory to
God in the shower wherever you are, that you can actually
praise him and thank him no matter what you're going
through. Just internal questions to ask
verse. 12 Therefore, this ministry of the Spirit we're
talking about, you know, this is the dispensation of the Holy
Ghost. This is his time.
This is his time for you. And we have it way, way greater
than the Old Testament prophets and priests and kings way
greater, because we have Him within us and upon.
Us. They had the Holy Ghost, the
Spirit of God, come upon them at certain times.
We have a minute. How much more glorious should
our everyday lives be? Should we be at home wrangling,
flailing in our mind, tossing and turning all the time, double
minded and everything we do, tossed to and fro all the time?
At home, when you're in your bed at night, anxious thoughts are
coming. The fiery darts of the evil one
are coming. The Bible says be strong in the
Lord and in the power of his might.
In the spirit of faith, you got to catch this spirit of faith
and get it. You ought to leave out of here
today and go, oh Lord Jesus, I want to walk in this spirit of
faith where I know that I know that I've got it and I'm living
it, and I can do it on my bed. I can do it in the shower.
I could do it in my car. I can do it everywhere I'm at,
not. Just right here, verse 12.
Therefore, since we have such hope of this ministry of the
Spirit, we use great boldness of speech.
Now jump down to verse 17. It says.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there's liberty. But we all, with unveiled face,
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by
the Spirit of the Lord. So it says, because of this
ministry of the Spirit, we have great should have great boldness
of speech. And if you understand and we'll
and I'll talk about righteousness here in a minute.
If you understand who you are in Christ, then you should be able
to boldly approach the throne of God at any time, any day,
anywhere, all the time, and use great boldness of speech.
Meaning, I can say God. You said God.
This is what you said. You know the devil is always
trying to get you to reason in your mind and always trying to
keep you in doubt and guilt and condemnation.
You got to get free. The Bible says you either live
in this ministry of righteousness or you live in the
ministry of condemnation. One of the two, Where are you?
You're not straddling the fence, I promise.
You're living in the ministry of righteousness or the ministry of
of condemnation. You're in one or one or the
other. And if you're living in this
ministry of righteousness, the Bible says the righteous are as
bold as a lion. So that means I can use great
boldness of speech. I can approach the throne of God
and I I can say, Father, you're my healer God.
This is what you said. And I'll not be moved by snot
coming out my nose. I'll not be moved by how I feel.
You can't be moved by any of that God.
You said you meet all my needs according to your glorious
riches in Christ Jesus. Thank you, Lord.
Every bill is paid. Now this this is not kooky
stuff. This is not where I'm saying
that don't balance your checkbook and don't pay your
bills and don't work a job and say, God, you meet all my needs.
It doesn't work like that. Just so you know, you got to
actually really do it. You got to actually know that
the state of your flocks take care of your stuff.
Be responsible. Get a job.
Do the word actually be? Mature believers.
Right. And then when you are, you can
stand boldly before God and say God.
This is what you said, and I believe it, you know, he said.
Keep me in my in remembrance of my.
Word. It's not because he forgot it,
it's because he's saying just say it.
Just say it. Just speak it out.
By faith, he's the eyes of the Lord are roaming to and fro,
looking, looking for someone whose heart is right, someone
who's living this spirit of faith so that he can do great
and awesome things, Ephesians says he wants to show.
Out through you. He wants to do great and mighty
things through each and every one of us.
Verse 17. I just read it.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, There's liberty, and with
unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord.
We're being transformed. If you want to get this spirit
of faith, you got to actually, day by day go from glory to
glory and faith. By faith you got to do it every
day. You got to live this same day
and night, day and night, night and day all the time.
Romans chapter 4 Let's talk about Abraham for just a minute.
Romans chapter 4, verses 19 through 21.
Fervent in spirit, capturing the spirit of faith, verse 19 says
Listen to Abraham and not being weak in faith.
He did not consider, He did not consider.
Let me say it again. He did not consider his own body
already dead since he was about 100 years old and the deadness
of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise
of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving
glory to God and being fully convinced that what he had
promised God was also able to. Perform He did not reason, he
did not consider, he did not hesitate, he did not doubt.
Do you think any kind of doubt tried to come to his mind?
And he didn't even have the Holy Ghost within him.
He was 100 years old. And it says not being weak if he
cannot be weak. In faith, we should not be weak.
In faith, we should be strong in faith, reigning in our spirit.
Man strengthened by the Holy Ghost he did not consider.
Sometimes we consider too much. We consider our our situation,
our our circumstances, our job, our relationships.
We consider those things. We take all those things into
account. We reason in our mind why, Why
this is happening to me, why I I'm going through this.
This is such a hard season, so it will be for you.
It'll be that. If that's what you believe.
Do not consider you got to get, you know Brother Hagan got to
such a place where he said, you know, I don't even sometimes
realize they even have a body now I'm not there yet but but we
got to get to that place where we realize I'm I'm thinking
more, I'm more in the spirit. I'm more thinking about God
first. That's my first default.
That's my first go to that's my first response.
That's my first word. That's the first reaction.
That's the first everything. Seek first the Kingdom of God
and his righteousness and all those other things we want, all
those other things we consider all those other things first.
When he says, just seek me first and stand in that position of
righteousness that I've put you in.
And then you can just call those things out and they'll come to
you. And that's how he wants us to
live. But Abraham did not consider.
You know, when you're a kid, you sang that song, Father Abraham.
Many sons, many sons have father Abraham.
You know, Can you really sing that?
Because are you weak in faith or strong in faith?
Is he your daddy or not? If he is your daddy, then you
should be strong in faith. Then you should be considering
not all those things that are hitting you right now in your
life. And it doesn't mean you ignore
them. It doesn't mean you deny them.
Denying stuff is not faith. It is not faith for snot to be
running out of my nose and me to say my nose is not running, my
nose is not running, My nose is not running.
That is not faith. That is denial.
My nose is running. It's really not running, but my
nose is running. But God, you said, Father, you
said, make sure you understand and have a clear picture of what
faith is so that you can be strong in it.
And so that you can actually say Abraham is my father because I'm
strong in faith and I'm not considering.
And the Scripture says he was strengthened in his faith
because he did not allow unbelief in.
Every time you allow unbelief in, it weakens your faith, It
weakens it. Do not give unbelief.
Not one second, not one minute, not one consideration at.
All be fervent. Don't give your flesh an
opportunity. Don't give your flesh an
opportunity. Your body, your bills.
Your finances, your situation. This is life or death.
I'm telling you this is life or death, faith or doubt.
Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 13.
And since we have the same spirit of faith, the same spirit
of say, I have the same spirit of faith.
According to what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke.
We also believe and therefore we speak.
And David. David in Psalms 116 also said, I
believe, therefore I spoke. You know, David was going
through some trials, just like if you go back up in 2nd
Corinthians 4. It says we're hard pressed on
every side, but we're not crushed, We're perplexed, but
we're not despair, We're persecuted but not forsaken,
struck down but not destroyed. It's not like stuff is not
coming at you, but you got to be so convinced and so solid that
you say, I believe, therefore I speak.
It doesn't matter what's coming at me.
I believe, therefore I speak. I'm so convinced I'm not putting
on a religious show. I'm talking about true faith,
the spirit of faith. We don't look at things that are
seen ever. We look at the things that are
in the unseen Revelations, chapter 12, verses 10 and 11.
Let me get through this, Verse 10 says.
Then I heard a loud voice saying In heaven.
Now salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the
power of his Christ has come for the accuser of the brethren who
accused them before our God. Day and night has been cast
down, and they overcame him. Now if he can.
Accuse you day and night, if he can accuse you day and night all
the time. Do you think you ought to be
living by faith day and night all the time?
You think you ought to be speaking out boldly day and
night all the time. You think you ought to be
singing praises and Thanksgiving to him day and night all the
time. So day and night has been cast
down, and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the
word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to
the death. Now that that scripture is not
talking about your testimony like what God delivered you out
of. It is not talking about that
when it says they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb.
And the word of your testimony, that word of your testimony
means that you're speaking prophetically, the word of God
every day that that whatever comes to you, let's say it's a a
symptom. This symptom comes, I can say I
overcome by the blood of the lamb.
And because God, you said by your stripes I'm healed.
God, you said That is the word of your testimony.
It is you speaking prophetically, what God said.
So if you want to overcome, you got to overcome by declaring the
word of God and not consider and love your life.
More than that, you got to be laying your life, your life.
Down. Not, not considering your life
be fervent. Be strong, be quick, you
believe. Therefore you speak.
Now let's go to #2. #2 An indicator that you have a strong
spirit, a reigning spirit, is that you have victory.
Spirit of faith is a spirit of victory.
Now we can walk around here and I can look at some people and go
you got victory and some people I go you got defeat.
There's. Something else going on?
You If you have victory and we're going to talk about it,
you ought to have joy and you ought to have peace no matter
what, no matter what. And if something knocks you
down, the Bible says the righteous man gets back up.
He keeps getting back up. If it knocks you down, you get
up and wipe your brow and wipe your mouth off and say God, you
said I'll not be moved. You've got to have this victory
on the inside first. John chapter 5, verse four says
for whatever is born of God overcomes the world and this is
the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
This is that spirit of faith. It says whatever is Are you born
to God? Whatever is born of God
overcomes the world. And this is a victory that
overcomes the world. The spirit of faith.
I want to read it to you. In the Passion translation, it
says you see every child of God overcomes the world.
For our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the
world. It's your faith, your faith.
You conquer, you prevail. You run to get the prize because
you have this. The Spirit of faith on the
inside. First John 4/4.
It says You are of God, little children, and have overcome them
because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the
world. He who is in you is greater than
he who is in the world. You got to ask yourself, when
you get up every morning, do you look in the mirror and go, oh,
or do you go? Do you see in the Spirit 1st and
go greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world.
This is the day that you've made God and I rejoice.
I'll be glad in this day. I trust you.
Holy Ghost, you've conquered
the. World in the spirit.
That's why you've got to get in the spirit and stay in the
spirit. Live in the spirit, Second
Corinthians chapter 10 verses 3 through 5 says.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the
flesh. For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal but mighty. They're mighty in God for the
pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments, and
every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ, the Scripture says, for we don't war against the flesh.
We don't war we. Here's what the Scripture says.
Let me just read it. For though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war according to the flesh.
We do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of your
warfare are not carnal. But what are they?
They're mighty. They're mighty in God for the
pulling down of strongholds. This spirit of faith is
happening on the inside of you, and if you're not pulling down
those strongholds and pulling down those fiery darts that come
at you constantly, then you're not going to conquer.
You have mighty weapons in the spirit.
The word of God is the sword of the spirit.
When those things come at you, be super quick to say no.
God, you said when thoughts of defeat, when thoughts of
depression, when thoughts of lack, when thoughts of worry
come to you. You got to be so quick to take
take captive that thought and say God, you said my weapons are
mighty in you Holy Ghost, this is what you said, this is how
you overcome in life. This is how you sit there and
not be sad. Everybody smile.
Good job. OK, first John chapter 2, verse
14. It says I have written to you
fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning.
And I've written to you young men, because you are strong.
And the word of God abides in you.
And you have overcome the wicked one.
You have overcome the wicked one.
Do you have victory? I don't you?
You can answer me right now, but I internally want you to ask
that question. Do you have victory no matter
what? No matter what's coming at you?
Are you living in a state of victory when it comes?
Do you know I've conquered this? And the Spirit.
So let me get over in the spirit.
Let me get over into God. What you said.
I've conquered this. I have the victory.
And you've got to remind yourself when those things come,
go. I have the victory.
What? What could this church
accomplish if all of us were really on the same page?
If we were really in unity? Because that's where the Bible
said God commands the blessing. He commands the blessing.
When we're all unified and that's that doesn't just mean
that we can all come up in here and be unified.
Because just getting us unified in here sometimes is hard
because some of you are hooked up, some of you are drawing, and
some of you are going. So just getting unity here is
one thing, but Can you imagine what we could conquer?
As a church, please just let me be your coach right now.
Can I come down and slap a few of you?
I would love to do that right now.
It'd be totally love. It would be totally love.
It really would be. What was I saying?
Yeah, unity. Unity.
If we go, oh, what could we do as a team, as a body, if we all
got in unity, not just here, but can we start here, can we start?
And you bring, you know, when you come in here, you bring a
supply of faith or you don't. It's one or the other.
So when you come in here, are you just like sliding in?
You know, just like, oh, I got to get here and get set, sat
down, find my seat and you know, we.
Live in this culture of entertainment.
We we scroll, we watch, we stare.
We zone out. We want to be entertained.
We want things to come to us. We want to, you know, we want to
sit back and go. Come on, Pastor Angie, what you
got? Show me something.
What you got? You got anything?
We're conditioned that way. You got to get out of that.
You got to quit coming in here
and sitting and expecting to be entertained and expecting for
somebody to to come out and grab your spirit man and say come on,
you got this, get out of that. Be a team player.
Be somebody that comes in here and brings your spirit of faith.
Be somebody that comes in here and says, I'm believing God for
a word. I'm believing for people to get
delivered. I'm believing God that you're
bringing people from the north, east, South and West.
I'm believing you, Lord, that you're speaking to me.
I thank you, Lord, that you supply everything that I need.
Come in here and bring something.
Quit being dead weight in here. I'm not saying you are.
I'm just, you know. Just trying to tell you
something for a minute. OK, #3 let's try to wrap this up
#3 Joy and peace in believing. These are indicators.
You're fervent.
You're you're a conqueror. You conquer things right away.
You're quick to speak the word of God. #2 was you've got the
victory, you got the victory, you've got the greater one on
the inside of you got the victory.
And #3 is Joy and Peace in believing Romans chapter 14
verse 17 says for the Kingdom of.
God is not eating and drinking. It's not the same stuff.
It's not just talking about right here, food and drink.
It's talking about the scene. Realm for the Kingdom of God is
not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace and joy in
the Holy Ghost, in the spirit, the spirit of faith.
You're not going to have peace and joy in the Holy Ghost if you
don't understand your righteousness, if you don't
understand. This is a gift.
You know Righteousness is a gift.
It's not anything that you did on your own merit.
It is a gift. That is why in Romans chapter 5
it says that you can reign in life because of the gift of
righteousness. He literally did not just take
all your sin, he did not just take everything for you.
It's not innocence that gets you in the Kingdom of.
God. He He not only took all that,
but he actually imputed or transferred to your account his
righteousness. That's why you can stand boldly
before him, before the throne of God, because you're in him.
You're literally hidden in him. The Bible says you died with
him, you rose with him, You're buried with him, you rose with
him, you're in him. And so you should walk.
Around all the time it's in him that I live.
It's in him that I move. It's in him that I have my
being. It's in him I'm I'm hidden.
It's no longer I that live, but it's Christ that lives in me.
If you understand that position of righteousness, you'll have
peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. If you're living in the spirit
of faith, if you have a reigning spirit, if you have a strong
spirit, you'll have peace and you'll have joy in the Holy
Ghost Romans. 1513 says Now, may the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by
the power of the Holy Ghost. It says that he may fill you
with all hope and all joy. And peace and believing it.
Should you have joy and peace in your believing?
I'm going to tell you, if you think you're believing and you
don't have joy and peace, you're not in faith.
You are not in faith if you do not have peace and.
Joy and the minute you discern. I'm going to read Hebrews
chapter 10 in just a minute. The minute you discern that that
anxiety is trying to hit you. You got to have enough maturity
and enough strength on the inside of you that you can
recognize that right away and say, I will be anxious for
nothing. Not one thing.
But through prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving,
I make my request known to you. And the peace of God that
surpasses all understanding guards my heart and my mind.
You got to be mature enough in your faith and have this spirit
of faith that you can recognize those things when they come.
God's first covenant people when He established the feasts and He
and and He established them when they were bringing their tithes
and offerings. There's multiple places where He
commanded them to rejoice. I want to read one to you,
Leviticus, chapter 23, verses 40 through 43.
It says. And you shall take for
yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees,
branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and the
willows of the brook. And listen, you shall rejoice
before the Lord your God for seven days.
He literally told them they were going to rejoice.
So if I walk down here, if I walk down here and said, Sabrina
Indolent, I need you to rejoice right now, I need you to do it.
You don't have to do it, but but I need you to rejoice for seven
days straight. OK, I like the response.
But I could walk to some of you and say I need you to go rejoice
for seven days right now. And you'd be like, don't tell me
what to do. Tell me.
What to do? God told them to rejoice.
He didn't ask them how they were feeling.
He didn't ask them what their circumstances were.
He didn't ask them if they had conquered anything yet.
He didn't ask them any of those questions.
He said, Now here's what you're going to do.
You're going to rejoice for seven days.
This is not the only place where he told them to do that.
And in the New Testament, he tells us to do that.
This is a choice. God's not in control.
It's not about when you feel like laughing.
It's not about when you feel like being thankful.
It's not about when you feel like rejoicing.
It's not about when you feel like it.
You've got to do it. You've got to just choose every
day. When our girls were little, we
didn't give them a choice of whether or not they wanted to be
happy. They didn't have a choice.
We literally told them you're going to have a thankful heart.
We didn't ask them. We didn't give an option if they
got pouty or teary or whatever. I said get yourself together.
You have a thankful heart and you have a happy heart.
Be glad for what you have. That's an easy way to start.
It was a veggie tale song. We used to sing it.
And that was it. That was, that was their only
choice. And that's how some of our our
parents here, that's that's a nugget for you.
We should be that way with our kids.
We let our kids decide way too much, way too much.
Let them choose how they want to feel.
What's this little gentle, soft parenting?
I'm telling you, that's not our parenting class.
That will not be our parenting class at all.
It's no different with your father God, though.
And it's not mean. It's life.
It's life for you. So when you wake up in the
morning, you ought to go. I'm going to rejoice.
I don't care how I feel. That's how you get the victory.
And that's how you go from strength to strength.
And that's how you go from faith to faith.
And that's how you go from glory to glory.
That's how it happens. I don't care what you think
about it. That's how it works.
That's how the spirit of faith works.
You choose to rejoice. You choose to believe.
You choose every day whom you're going to serve.
Either you're going to serve yourself or you're going to
serve him. A lot of people in our culture
today serve themselves. Whatever they want to do, they
do, Howard. They want to feel.
They feel we should not be that way.
We've overcome the world. And if you look the same as the
world, you should not, you should not look the same as the
world. So he required them to rejoice.
And that word rejoice means to be cheerful and to brighten up.
Get happy. Don't wait till you feel like
doing it. Just do it.
You know we're supposed to have
faith like a child. What is it?
What is a child do when when a song comes on, they dance.
They don't take them anytime and take them anytime to dance.
Don't take them anytime to sing. Don't take them anytime to jump.
Don't take them anytime to do that.
How come we're so dignified? How come we can't just quickly
jump in? How come we can't just quickly
respond? The scripture says You foolish
Galatians, You foolish anchor Faithians.
How come? How come you started this thing
out in the Spirit and now you want to continue in the flesh?
How come you got to get out of you?
It's not you. It's not about you.
It never was about you. I'm not trying to hurt your
feelings, but it's not. It's not about you.
And you got to just every day make a decision that you're
going to live in this spirit of faith, no matter what.
Proverbs 1722. Everything the Lord tells us
requires a response. Everything that He tells us.
A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit
dries up the bones. It literally affects your
health. If you don't have joy and peace,
it happens in your body. Your chemicals get off.
Things happen in your brain that throw every chemical off in your
body and cause you to be unhealthy.
When you are sad, when you are worried, when you are anxious,
when you are depressed, when you allow the spirit of fear to come
in your life. It changes what happens in your
physical body. It doesn't matter how often you
go to the gym. It doesn't matter how healthy
you eat. That is part of it, and you need
to do that. But it's about where you're at
on the inside, what you're believing, what you're trusting,
what you're putting your faith in.
Every single day, James, chapter one, verses two and three, says
my brethren. Here we go.
In the New Testament, he's telling us what to do.
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various
trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces
perseverance or produces patience.
Count it, joy. He didn't give you an option.
He didn't ask you. He didn't ask you how you felt,
he said. Brethren, sister.
And when something comes at you, count it, joy.
Count it, joy. You got to get good at this.
I'm telling you, you got to get good at it.
It's not a personality thing. It's not a pastor Angie thing.
It is not that. It is a faith thing.
It doesn't matter what you're feeling, what your personality
is, You've got to choose to count it joy all the time.
Emotions are always. Going to be there.
They're always going to hit you. They're always going to come at
you. Deuteronomy chapter 31, verse
six. Before we go there, let me read
Proverbs 2128 real quick in the world.
You will have tribulation, but be of good cheer.
Be of good cheer. Deuteronomy 3126 says.
Be strong and of good courage, and do not fear nor be afraid of
them. For the Lord your God He is the
one who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake
you. He will not leave you or forsake
you. Can you realize that God?
It's in him. Everything was made.
You were made. You were created.
He formed every one of your days out before one of them came to
be, and that you're just supposed to walk this out by
faith and yield to him Revelations 27.
I'm going to just give you these references.
These are multiple references in Revelations that says to him who
overcomes to him who overcomes to him who overcomes.
It's your choice whether you're going to overcome.
It's your choice whether you're going to live in this spirit of
faith. Or a spirit of doubt.
Revelation 27 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
says to the church. To him who overcomes, I will
give to eat from the tree of life which is in the midst of
the paradise of God. Revelations 211 He who has an
ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.
Revelations 217 He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches. To him, whoever comes, I will
give some of the hidden manna to eat, and I will give him a
whitestone. And on the stone a new name.
We We sing that song, a new name written which no one knows
except him who receives it. Revelation 226.
And he who overcomes and keeps my works until the end to him I
will give the power over the nation's Revelations. 3/5 He who
overcome shall be clothed with white garments, and I will blot
out His name from the book of Life.
But I will. I will not blot out His name
from the book of life, but I will confess His name before my
Father and before his angels. Revelations 312.
To he who? Overcomes.
I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall
go out no more. I will write on him the name of
my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem,
which comes down out of heaven from my God, and I will write on
him my new name. Revelations 321.
To him who overcomes, you see the the consistent thing, this
consistent theme here To him who overcomes, I will grant to sit
with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my
Father on his throne. Revelation 21, Seven and eight
To him who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God, and he will be my son.
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable,
murder sexually immoral sorcerers, idolaters, and all
liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire
and brimstone, which is the second death to him who
overcomes. Whose choice is it to overcome?
It's ours. Whose choice is it to have a
strong spirit? Whose choice is it to reign in
your spirit? Ephesians Chapter 6 be.
Strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 1st
Corinthians, 1613. Watch Stand fast in the faith.
Be brave and be strong. I want to read it to you in the
Amplified. Be on guard.
Stand firm in your faith in God, respecting his precepts and
keeping your doctrine sound. Act like mature men.
And be courageous. Be strong.
I'm telling you the spirit of fear is just that.
It is a spirit, and you better recognize it when it comes.
When that spirit of timidity and fear comes to you, you better
take authority over it right away, because you'll live in
doubt. You'll live in anxiety.
You'll live in fear if you allow it in.
Anything that you recognize that you've allowed a spirit of fear
to gain access, you better get strengthened in your spirit and
take dominion. Take authority over that.
Thing Hebrews chapter 10 and I'll close with this.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers.
You need someone to teach you again the 1st principles of the
oracles of God. And you've come to need milk and
not solid food. For everyone who partakes only
of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a
babe. But solid food belongs to those
who are of full age. Please listen to this.
Solid food belongs to those who
are of full age. Who, that is by reason of use,
have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
First of all, it says if you don't understand who you are in
Christ. If you don't understand that
you're the righteousness of God in Christ, you're a baby.
And it says if you're mature, then you can by reason of use.
By practice, you're able to discern clearly between good and
evil that you have full discernment.
When things come at you, you can easily discern because you're
mature. You're strong in your faith.
I can go. Nope, That's evil.
I recognize that, and I take dominion.
I take authority over that. By reason of use, we take
authority. We recognize we discern those
things that try to come against us having a strong spirit.
Proverbs 1814 says the spirit of man will sustain him in
sickness. Not just sickness, everything,
everything in life, but a broken spirit who can bear.
Hebrews chapter 10 verses 38 and 39 says the just shall live by
faith, and if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure
in him. But we are not of those who draw
back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the
soul. You've got to be like David, you
know, in in the Psalms, David said.
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why are you so distraught within
me? You got to talk to your soul.
It's OK to talk to yourself. In that kind of way.
You got to say why? Are you downcast?
Oh my soul? Why are you worried about many
things? Why are you flailing around?
Why are you shadowboxing Oh my soul?
Why? Are you trying to get things
from God? Why are you trying to figure
things out? On your own.
You got to be like David and say, why are you doing that?
Oh my soul, Why are you downcast?
O my soul, put your hope in God. That's what he says in the
scripture. Why are you downcast, O my soul,
put your hope in God, for despair is a waste of time,
don't you know? Put your hope in God.
You got to talk to your soul. You got to take dominion.
And Luke, it says in your patience or in your
perseverance, you possess your soul.
Nobody's going to possess it for you.
You've got to do it. And I'm going to end with this
scripture. Psalm 2714.
Wait on the Lord and be of good courage, and He will strengthen
your heart. He will strengthen your spirit.
Wait, I say, on the Lord. You've got to internally ask the
question with these signs or these indicators, do I have a
strong spirit? Am I fervent?
Do I? Quickly default to the.
Spirit of God, do I quickly speak the word of God?
Do I quickly jump over in faith, or am I more quick to side with
the scene realm? Am I fervent?
Am I hot? Am I stirred?
Up? Am I built up on the inside?
That's one indicator that you have a reigning spirit, a
strong. Spirit, do I have the victory?
Do you have the victory? Do you live in victory?
Do you live conquering? Do you conquer on the inside?
Is the greater one on the inside of you?
Can you conquer anything that comes at you?
That is an indicator that you have a reigning spirit.
And then the last one was joy and peace and believing.
You better recognize if you have joy and if you have peace in the
Holy Ghost. Because if you don't, then I
would, I would venture to say you're not in a position of
faith because faith sees it done.
The spirit of faith has victory and knows it's already taken
care of. Doesn't matter what I see, all
those things are under my feet. I can stay positioned in my seat
of authority. I can yield to what the Word of
God says and what the Holy Ghost is telling me about every
situation. Oh, my prayer for you today is
that you be strengthened in your faith, That you capture this
spirit of faith on the inside that we leave out of here,
Father God. And we ask ourselves the
question, do I have joy? Do I have peace?
Am I fervent on the inside? Am I quick to boldly speak the
word of God? Do I walk around like I have
victory? That we ask ourselves these
questions and we do an inventory and we don't walk out of here
and just walk right back into our everyday situations and the
heaviness and the anxiety and the cares of life.
But we're quick to cast those things.
Off. We're quick to get the victory.
We're quick to speak what you said, Father.
We're quick to choose joy. We're quick to choose peace.
We're quick to live this thing out.
And I thank you, Father. God, as this church gets in
unity, Hallelujah. As this church gets in unity and
the Spirit unity, not when we're just in this building, but when
we're in our homes. She's speaking it over there and
he's speaking it over there. And I'm speaking it in my home.
And there's a there's an anointing that begins to build
and begins to to draw people into this church so that
sicknesses can be broken off of them and and heaviness can come
off of them because we're in unity and we're in unity in our
homes, not just here in the church.
And I just thank you, Father God, that we'll do this thing
that we're. Quickened.
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