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structure in order in the Holy Ghost this morning thank God there were not a
church that resists the Holy Spirit I'd like to welcome our livestream audience
down in Utah we've got red dirt fellowship paying attention to us this
morning good morning read their fellowship as matter of fact we're next
week launching another church plant in Lusk Wyoming in the coffee shop called
rough and refine how prophetic is that man rough and refine its an awesome
place and we got the privilege to go in there so Wednesday night Elie and I and
Tasha gonna fly over to us and we're gonna start up plant a church there and
just see what God wants to do I got some great friends over there and they're
gonna go on down to Utah to read their fellowship and let them hear the gospel
and get to fellowship with them and in the meantime they all they have is their
TVs as it goes but going to start raising up some people to help pastor in
sheppard them somewhere that so thankful for that and I'm just thankful that you
showed up this morning you know you don't have to be here and there's a lot
of churches in town for some reason you chose to come here and I believe it's by
divine appointment let's get into the message this morning the title of this
is going to be called fixed in faith can you say that with me
fixed in favour I want to go to a famous verse I believe Kenneth Hagin was the
one who made this famous growing up it was almost like abraham wasn't the
father of faith Kenneth Hagin was and as I say that tongue-in-cheek but Kenneth
Hagin was wonderful man of God who I cut my teeth on and some people took some of
his teachings a little too far and and distorted them but this was his verse on
faith and if there was anybody who lived a life of faith besides the patriarch
Abraham it was Kenneth Hagin he was a man who walk by faith he was the one
that started raining Bible School excedrin and so there was a lot of
people that glean some great faith lessons from him and then others that
came down the pike
and so we have what we know of as the Faith Movement and I venture to say like
some of my colleagues that the Faith Movement isn't a movement it's a way of
life
the Bible says that the right just shall live by faith faith is important it's
our livelihood we need to live by it
faith is not a movement it's a lifestyle the Bible tells us to live by faith and
despite how faith has been abused it doesn't disallow the principle that
where to live by faith
praise the Lord but in this script sure I want to show you something that I
believe has long been missed in the area of faith
you've heard it said that if you want to walk by faith then you need to believe
by faith brother maybe if you'd like a new vehicle when you walk by faith for
it you want a new house then you believe by faith for it maybe you want a better
wife than you need to all come on now I didn't say marry another woman I just
said walk by faith
maybe get an upgrade by faith sometimes tina has to see that I'm a man of God by
faith
praise the Lord but you know there was this teaching that resulted in faith was
the thing that got you stuff and unfortunately that's a perverted view of
faith so I'm here to take the level and put the bubble in the middle like my
pastor said he was gained a little weight right here on his belly and
somebody said what are you doing a little bit he said not just put in the
bubble in the middle
put in the bubble in the middle state level and Mark 1122 we come into the
context of Jesus talking about him and what he did to curse the fig tree just a
few days before probably a day before Jesus walked by a fig tree he was hungry
and he saw that it was in leaf and it was supposed to be bearing fruit
but it didn't have any food on it so genus looked at it and by his words he
cursed the fig tree while the next day after they did their business
overturning tables and causing ruckus in the temple they were walking back by the
fig tree and they noticed that the fig tree had withered and the Bible says
from the roots up and the Bible says that Peter had remembered what Jesus had
done and he said lord look the fig tree you cursed is withered now there's a
little lesson in that that if when you stand before Jesus on the day of
judgement all you have is leaves no fruit you might get cursed because Jesus
is looking for fruit not leaves he doesn't want figleaves that's what Adam
tried to cover himself with he doesn't want you trying to do your own acts of
righteousness He wants you the fruit of the Spirit in your life to be revealed
but that's beside the point will be preaching other message if we go down
that rabbit trail but it just suffice it to say that Jesus is determined to find
fruit on things and when you get him in your life you'll begin to bear much
fruit the Bible says will Peter notices that this tree that Jesus had cursed was
withered from the roots and he said Lord the fig tree that you cursed is
weathered in Jesus doesn't go yes that's right peter I am the Son of God and only
I can do such things like that she is actually begins to invite him into this
realm where he has authority to do such things and not only did he invite Peter
since peter is the foundation of the church the one with the keys that opened
up the door he invites all of us and who are founded on the rock to operate in
this realm of faith and so he says in the twenty second verse of mark 11 so
jesus answered and said to them have faith in god there's a period there and
I want you to put a period there because for too many years those of us who
learned fade never put a period there let's say it together have faith in God
for years I was taught that faith was a way for me to get something that I
wanted or needed and the Bible says they were to walk by faith not by sight it
says oh ye of little faith concerning do not worry and doubt for your father of
feed you and will close the UN he'll give you all these things
oh ye of little faith don't you know if the father will take care of birds will
take care of you so there is an element of truth to this that we are to have
faith for our provision where to have faith for protection where to have faith
but my question is is it faith in your face for because I did a study wants on
all the times in the script sure where the Bible says have faith in or have
faith for and I'm here to declare emphatically that not one time does the
Bible elber tell you to have faith for things wow that went over like a lead
balloon not one time does the Bible ever tell you to have faith for something the
preface of the exposition on faith this discourse that's to follow is prefaced
by this have faith in God my faith isn't to be for a new car
my faith isn't to be for a wayward grandson my faith isn't to be for a new
house my faith isn't to be four new cabinets in my kitchen my faith isn't to
be healed my faith is to be in God who is the provider of all things the healer
of all things the deliverer of all things praise God faith is the
connection the extension cord that connects me to the All sufficient God
tell Dad I and what happens when I have faith for things I excommunicate God
from the equation and I begin to try and get things through my faith rather than
get
my faith in God who gives me all things what's the Bible say concerning things
seek ye first him his righteousness and his kingdom and all these things will be
added on to you how do I get things ladies and gentlemen I seek Him how do I
see him I put my faith in God gods my provider not my faith God's my healer
not my faith God my deliverer not my fav are you getting you see that my faith is
not my healer god is my healer when I put my faith in him
see faith is the bridge that connects me to the All sufficient God God is all
right chest I'm wretched without Christ but when I get into Christ now in Christ
I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and now my faith is the bridge
that connects me to the All sufficient got in let me tell you got is also
efficient that's what else had i means God is Jehovah Jireh the Lord that
provided through the guide is Jehovah Nissi the Lord my banner got his job is
sick and the Lord my righteousness got is Jehovah Rapha the Lord my healer God
is Jehovah Shalom the Lord my piece if I want to be connected to the All
sufficient god there's only one bridge its face
I did it I put pictures of airplanes and cars and on my refrigerator in believed
by faith that I was gonna get him Jason and I pastor rubbed hands fingers on on
motor homes and said by faith come to me now I remember one time we were down in
texas and we were putting our hands all over this black Allegro bus beautiful
bus 650 some thousand dollars and we were believing by faith God was gonna
give it to us and we are walking up and down come to me now in Jesus we had all
the stuff that we were taught from TV bus come to me now in Jesus name and we
were saying that the guy picks his head around the corner and what are you guys
doing he said noting their prints just like a little kid touch the cookie jar
he said can I help you we said well God gonna give us this bus he looked at me
like I think you're a little not as bright as all the crayons in the box
here and he said well whatever I I guess I know the owner and i got his personal
cell number if you want to call him and ask him all man favour of God I call
them right up
name was Bob dippin couldn't believe I got bob tip in the maker of the Allegro
bus I bet he was so mad that guy gave me his cell number he said I this is Bob
said
we got a ministry and we're just believe in that you're gonna give us this bus he
said no not interested click on like crazy
unanswered prayers as if I got that bus I wouldn't have no place to park it I
wouldn't have been able to afford to fuel it I wouldn't put air in the
compressor to get up off the ground so that it can level itself out I wouldn't
be able to afford that we have to park in the Mexican restaurant parking lot
across from our apartment on i-45 in Houston and they have been told before
Martin but God was gonna give us a bus because we're gonna believe by faith
actually our faith was gonna give us a bus not God our faith that's the
perversion ladies and gentlemen my faith is gonna get me something now I'll tell
you I've been blessed along with the best of them God has blessed me with
vehicles god blessed me with air vehicles God has blessed me with shoes
and watches and all kinds of stuff in and i dont i dont praise God somebody
give me a lot of praise the Lord you know some real expensive watch but it
helped that the epitome of faith is to believe for a watch I'm so thankful that
my god is a provider in my god has been all sufficient to us but when it comes
to my end of the bargain I'm not supposed to believe for things I'm
supposed to put my faith in God and I love the Blind Side a blessing you know
what's cool about faith in God is if you just go along and you trust in him no
matter what happens sometimes you got valleys sometimes you got mountaintops
but you just keep your faith in God no matter what happens all of a sudden out
of nowhere God will give you a blindside a blessing you just go where did that
come from and it came from God's provision and is also efficiency just
because your trust in him he don't just trusting God has been good to you
trusting God no matter what happens to you cuz that's what being faithful is
all about
I trust God no matter if it's good times or bad times I trust him because he's
God and He is faithful to me when I am faithful to him come on can I get a
shower this morning so what's the Bible say
on the heels of this have faith in God let's continue reading in the twenty
third verse for assuredly I say unto you whosoever shall say unto this mountain
be thou removed and cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart but
believes that think those things that he says it will be done for him whatever he
says next verse 24 therefore I say unto you
whatever things you ask for when you pray believe that you have received it
and you will have them wow that's amazing
here's what I wrote down about this the words believe in the words says are so
predominant in this scripture as a matter of fact the Bible ways out that's
saying something is more important
almost than even believing something in this scripture Jesus starts out and says
here here's how you gonna curse the fig tree here's how you gonna have victory
here is how you're gonna even bear fruit in your life
surely I say unto you whoever says to this mountain circle that word says be
removed and cast into the sea
I want you to notice who's saying it and what are you saying it to hussein it and
what are you saying it to the Bible says that when there's a mountain in your
life you don't say to God removed the mountain you say to the mountain be thou
removed why does my faith in God see we need to stop talking to God about our
Giants and start talking to our Giants about our god that's what faiths all
about faith is when I have a direct link to god I put myself into his outlet now
I have authority to start talkin two things in my life
see we need to stop talking to God about things and start talking to our things
about God
what's the mountain in your life this morning what's going on in your life
this morning maybe you've been faced with a bad report sometimes a molehill
can turn into a mountain in just one week Chuck found out that he had cancer
in just one week there's several of the UN here that all of a sudden life is
going great and all the sudden bad report and I'll tell you what when it
hit you that fast and that hard it's a mountain in your life but let me give
you a little instruction from Jesus if you want the thing to wither up from the
ground up if you wanted to dry up and move out of the way then stop talking to
God about it and start talking to it about your God start put your faith in
God the all sufficient got my god to healer my god to deliver my god is also
efficient and he takes care of me my god is my father and he would never do
anything that would violate my life or put me to death or cosmic destruction my
God is not the author of destruction he is the author of life and I put my trust
in him i'm plugging into him and by the way can be removed from my life by the
way offense be removed from my life feeling that I'm supposed to address
slumbering laziness and tiredness in here this morning so we don't even think
about speaking to that how many of you could just gone through your day and all
of a sudden you get that little baptized by the Spirit tired and you had nice
eight hours of sleep I happened to me and I started realizing it was a spirit
of defeat it was a spirit of not saying don't rest dressed got endorses rest he
took all day to endure stress but I'm saying don't let this spirit of defeat
spirit of overcoming sometimes when you're plagued with problems in your
mind is just mush all you want to do is just call up in the fetal position
pull that pillow under your head and become one of the seven Tour sleepy can
I get some testimonies in here are some witnesses in here this a man I've had a
rough week and I just want to sleep the whole time will tell you you can sleep
I'm not going to condemn you for that but you need to start looking at those
things and saying in the name of Jesus you have no right to be here this is the
fight of faith apostle gary was talking about faith is a fight you have to fight
the fight of faith you gotta keep your faith
run your race keep the faith keep the faith
ever say keep the faith faith doesn't just sit there like a loyal puppy on it
can't wait for just a bless your life faith you gotta keep it you gotta fight
for it you gotta live by it the right to sell it by faith everything in this
world is going against the grain of faith and you as a believer are going
upstream to believe by faith I know it's hard I know you get fatigued I know
you're wore out I know you're tired of that reports I know that you're tired of
going to the doctors office I know that you're tired of hearing me scream around
on this pulpits and get your hopes up
start believe it but I'm here to tell you it's essential to live by faith
start speaking to those mountains start cursing those diseases start putting him
down because you've been given authority from the most I and whoever believes
what he says it will be done for him if he does not doubt in his heart you need
to learn about your doubt when you go I doubt that say I doubt that I doubted
that
because the Bible specifically says here you will have what you say if you
believe and do not doubt what's doubt doubt is throwing a bunch of scriptures
that something but you don't really believe what you're throwing doubt blows
our focus blurs our focus to believe and to say is what fixes our focus to doubt
is what blurs our focus see faith all about focus here with me to Hebrews
chapter 11 the 39th verse can you say that with me
faiths all about focus it is faith is all about focus what you focus on
without wavering in his belief Abraham face the fact that his body was as good
as dead and he was fully persuaded that God had the power to do it he promised
he was called the father of faith
why because abraham refused to focus on the negative he focused on the positive
I like what my friend said fear is just faith in retreat are you should have
said a man right there a place here is just faith in retreat
you know we go to the my team in advance we got T shirts and all kinds of
paraphernalia that says we are not here to retreat we are here to advance fee
retreats faith advances in safety arrests there's no rest in fear fear
hath torment but fear always retreats faith always advances faith always says
I know it looks bad but I was just will the bar unions weren't Josh I'll tell
you josh is one of the best tree climbers in the state of South Dakota
and probably even in the nation is that right road and one day my dad my dad
lived injuries and one day he invited me over to this tree
climber contest with all these tree climbers I didn't even know Josh never
met him before
barely knew rod and so they were there and I didn't know about Josh was one of
the stars of the contest and one of their jobs was to take these cottonwood
trees climb up into the top of them and throw their ropes way across and swing
around you know when I first got there like you I could do that
arm and that should call me and then I don't know what Josh did this loop de
doop Boop December dumper pumper deal just threw it up there wrapped around
and then just like glided across I'm like ok I don't think I could do that
he's better than me I was sizing him up you know that I'd probably stuck up
there still today let me down but he did this deal and he won the contest and I
mean he's a phenomenal track climber but part of their contest was to take a
mannequin and the mannequin is to be up in the tree as if he got electrocuted or
something like that and it's part of their emergency procedures to take the
mannequin and they named him John and they they drop the mannequin down and
they're supposed to be real gentle on their supposed to say they're supposed
to say faith-filled words like John you look great but John we got you your
secure your gonna make it this is gonna be a fun ride the ambulance drivers
experienced and you're supposed to lower them down and you're just supposed to
speak faith filled
words I mean even the world's caught on to this and I thought how funny would it
be if the guy if Josh this was a real scenario in actually wouldn't be funny
be tragic but instead of getting up there seeing John on the street angolan
he starts to speak what he sees rather than speak what he believes in me says
John dude you're gonna die
John this is bad John I've never seen lips black before John you got a scar
and a scab from here to here John from getting you from here to there is going
to be impossible without a drop in you and that little shoulder without a joint
John you're gonna do you know where you want some liquor
he'll help with the pain John man I hope you're gonna make it i hope they get to
the hospital in time cause this looks bad John Boy would that be real
encouraging if you are John but that's what we do we sabotage our lives we
always say what we see we're supposed to walk by faith not by sight I don't speak
what I see I speak what I believe I wake up in the morning instead sport out
every hole in my face and I'm going
in it and i got stuff coming out of my ear my mouth what do I do go into the
mir go john you're gonna die John you look horrible and then go tell everybody
at work man I feel like I got run over by a truck and I feel and the Devils
going yes or say so more as you're granting me access and authority cuz
life and death is in the power of your tongue
containers of faith or containers of doubt and I don't care what you look
like I've been in some pretty sorry conditions before the mir and had stuff
coming out every hole in my face and I'll grab myself by the cheeks and say
in the name of Jesus you are the heels of the Lord no weapon formed against me
shall prosper in the head and tail above and beneath I'm blessed going in class
going out I'm blessed in the city blessed in the field if God be for me
who can be against me and I'll tell you it doesn't last very long have I had to
have had some about have had some doubts but I'd rather do that than walking
doubt and in there and say who you are somebody says well you're just lying you
just look at your nose in your face of the Lord but you got snot running
everywhere you liar I wasn't talking to you in the first place and in the second
place who's to say what's the truth ladies and gentlemen Jesus is the way
the and my Bible says by his stripes I am healed that's the truth
the fact might be that there's something running out of my nose but the truth is
by his stripes healed and I choose to take the truth and put it in the face of
the fact because it's subject to change my life is it real by fax its rule by
truth
that's the fact Abraham face the fact that his body was as good as dead but it
wasn't the truth it was a fact but it wasn't the truth the truth said you're
going to have a baby when you're a hundred years old it's good preaching we
could stay right here all day I just might look at 39 and all these having
obtained a good testimony through faith they did not receive the promise
let me just say this isn't about receiving the promised faith is about
believing and standing until you receive the promise I don't care if you have to
stand until you die
be faith full cannot stand is not to be faithful see a lot of people used to
think that if I got something then my faith worked but the Bible says all of
these in the Hall of Fame of faith walk by faith in yet none of them received
what was promised why are they in the Hall of Fame of faith as they received
because they believed because they believe no matter what
not one of them received it only two gether with us what they be made perfect
the Bible goes on to say therefore we also since we are surrounded by such a
great cloud of witnesses lay aside every weight and thus in which so done easily
beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us looking
unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith who for the joy set before
him endured the cross despising it shame and sat down at the right hand of the
throne of God going next verse check this out for consider him which endured
such opposition and contradiction against sinners himself lest you be
worried and faint in your mind's you have not resistant to the point of blood
striving against in and then it goes on and you have not forgotten exhortation
with speakers son tus children my son despite not the chase name of the Lord
they not at his rebuke going on for whom the Lord levity chasen going to the next
verse I'm trying to find that verse chasing ok it says let us
our eyes on Jesus first to let me tell you how the NIV says it let us fix our
eyes on Jesus the author and Perfector of our faith the Bible says let us run
the race marked out for us every second a race that the person you got a race
alright oh boy don't do it with joy and nothing we got a race it's called our
faith raise our grace grace God has ordained a race for you in this life got
Dave Morrison talked about the path the book written for you you have a
predestined plan God has preordained works for you to fulfill all right we'll
get into that some other sermon that's a huge the logical thing but nonetheless
God has a preordained race for you to run in the Bible tells us why we're
running this race with perseverance let us fix our eyes on who Jesus who is he
the author and of our faith that means faith is a process not an event I came
up and I got my faith no you didn't you might have started your faith but what's
the author of a book and what's the Perfector or an editor of a book by it's
a process my
faith begins and then if I'm faith full bill concluded hints well done now good
and so this is a life of faith not just an event of this is not just something
that happened at bible camp when I was 14 this is something that the righteous
shall live by faith I put my trust in Jesus and I continue to live by faith
and run the race with perseverance until he closes the book and edited and says
well done now good and faithful servant that's why the right to live by
see how do I live in this world that's constantly detouring me and giving me
off course I gotta run my race with perseverance fixing my eyes on Jesus the
author and professor of my faith
here's the secret to living by faith fix your eyes on Jesus not on a new car
not on a new house not on a center of a friend
lot of us have friends that are sinners and they haven't come into a
relationship with Jesus and we fix our eyes on them we target them and we gotta
get them for God no you don't gotta get them for God you fix your eyes on Jesus
and Jesus help you get them for God well I guess fix my faith on that new car
I'll get that new car you know what I will choose to refrain my word for this
some meathead of a preacher did when I was up in in Idaho and time I came up
and I preached at this Word of Faith Church and I had a message about walking
with God or something like that and the pastor came to me after his men that was
refreshing is it really that compared to the last guy that came in here and said
what do you do
he saw a young guy said he brought a bunch of rags into the church and handed
them out to everybody in the congregation and said I want you to go
to your nearest car dealer and you pick out whatever car you want and you take
this miracle rag and you rub it over the car
God's gonna give it to you
guarantee is not one of those cars was a manifestation in somebody's life and you
know how big of a reproach that brought on the gospel what's the car dealer
think when he sees some wack avoid Christian crews crazy Matic out there in
the name of Jesus now don't misunderstand me I've laid hands on cars
and stuff and I've done it the right way we're upset God if you desire for this
to be a part of our ministry will then I just come into agreement with you but
you're my provider you know what I need before I even asked so whatever you
desire to give me all receive it in Jesus name but I'm not gonna go rubber
rag on the hood of a car in SketchUp some guys cause I think it's a miracle
to differ that's the faith
done bad what's the secret to face i fix my eyes on a new car i fix my eyes on
Jesus here's what the word fix means from the Webster's Dictionary like this
I got six or seven different definitions here and they all apply spiritually you
know just when you read webster's doesn't mean that's the primary
definition of the word but you can just like some movies you can spiritual eyes
and see what you're saying and I think this word is so fascinating it says he's
not fix means to fasten something securely in a particular place or
position in something's broken i fix it but about done I fastened it back into
its rightful position praise the Lord some EU your faith is broke
fasten it back into its rightful position either fix your eyes on Jesus
somebody say give fix this morning another definition for fixes to larger
implant an idea imager memory firmly in a person's mind while directing one's
eyes attention our minds steadily or unwavering towards something man is that
people Webster hit one out the park with that really to implant my mind her
memory and directing my eyes attention in mind steadily an unwavering wavering
Lee towards something is another word for fixed-term and repair or to do
necessary work to restore order or tightness to some of your lives are so
far out of order in if you just walk by faith
it would restore the order and what's really important in your life
see some of you got your eyes on Jesus but you got guys on 50 other things and
she is just one among the mixed no I surrender all
to arrange for someone to meet or go out with someone in order I think teen and I
were fixed to help them establish a romantic relationship I'll tell you what
I had my eyes fixed on her fixed and hedged gonna get ready when you can
teach it then you can say I've heard it before
to decide or settle on Dec definition I'm fixed I've decided I'm settled on my
is single my hand is fixed my heart is fixed by a single my hand is steady on
the plane I'll jesus is my all in all nothing left this world can offer jesus
is my all in all somebody get fixed this morning praise God to make something
permanent or static in nature means to fix problems chapter 4 verse 25 says to
fix your gaze directly before you got a second Corinthians for 13 C we need to
get fix this morning we get fix this morning to fix our eyes on Jesus to
become Stadion on swerving and consistent and locked in on Jesus
what you're going through you know it's cool
every one of us in here can have failed no matter what predicament we're in we
can start fix our eyes on Jesus for the little things for the big things let me
just stimulate your thinking if you're one of these who you're going to hear
your pastor but so much on my plate I think I i'm deserve a little bit worried
a little bit off a little bit anxiety when the last time you looked back and
said man I wish I too worried about that situation a little more I was just not
uptight with that I wish I had just been chillin my fingernails over that for
another three days at what had just drove me up the wall our defense is
there one situation where you wish you woulda worried been bitter been anxious
about a little more
well then that says to me that no matter where you're at today you might as well
start fixing your eyes on Jesus start don't say what you see say what you
believe and start getting out of the pit and let an employee reclaim set your
feet up on the rock and I don't care if you been doing it for 10 or 12 years the
man at the gate call beautiful is over 42 years old when he was healed all
problems new problems got into fixing all of them it will fix our eyes on him
where you at today
well you know we prayed for three weeks about those loans will you smoked for
thirty years I prayed for three weeks but just smoked for thirty years you
know I'm under the conviction that God wants to heal all of us right now but
sometimes the purifying of our faith is important and the reason why God he lays
a little bit isn't cuz he doesn't want to heal us he wants to do something in
us before he does something to us and I'm not saying God delaying on anybody
I'm just saying that sometimes there's things that work out as a result of us
not being instantly healed that we learn in gaza not teaching us through sickness
or anything like that but what he's doing is he's teaching us to walk by
faith he's teaching us to drive it as somebody said this all that car wreck
just brought that little girl little closer to Jesus know the correct didn't
have to bring her closer to Jesus she coulda got as close to Jesus she did
after the car wreck but it was just the car wreck that brought her to the
understanding that she needs to get a little closer to Jesus so it's erroneous
to say that God does bad things to bring you closer to him but when bad things
happen to you God will sometimes bring you closer to him by causing you to rely
on faith in him in the Bible says the purifying of your faith is more precious
than even gold and there's there's been things in my life where it's like God do
this but he doesn't why and I walk away now and I go thank you Jesus that he
didn't do it now because if he did it now it wouldn't have helped me develop
what I needed to walk by faith with him in the future
see we go from glory to glory and from failed to before you go to the fourth
grade you gotta pass the third grain I'm so glad God in a Motorhome
it would ruin me I was convinced by the time I was 25 years old I'd be a
millionaire I was close
$10 away no just kidding I knew he was stealing from the offering of no and
then I got 225 I think I i believed to be a millionaire right now he said it
would have ruined you but I can do two plus two
in-your-face we go from faith to faith in clinton's chapter 4 verse 13 the
Bible says and since we have that same spirit of faith according to what is
written I believe therefore I speak they say same spirit of faith look what it
says the spirit of faith is is to believe therefore I speak no it doesn't
say speak and then try and believe me you done that Jim same Anamika we've
both done it you know I heard this from a country preacher he said he slings mud
loses ground that's a pretty brilliant concept he who slings mud loses ground
and I think we do this with God we don't really believe him but we want to
believe him and like the guy with the demon possessed sunny said lord help my
unbelief he said I hit once again he says I believe help my unbelief other
words make up the difference and sometimes we wanna believe so bad that
I'm healed but then you get that pain right back there are you got this pain
in your side and you stand up you quotes from scripture on the heel the Lord no
weapon formed against me shall prosper and then it starts hurting worse and
then you're going and I can do out there some of you know it hurts worse but
what we're trying to do often is say it in then believe it that's not the spirit
of faith
the spirit of faith says I believe it and then I think sometimes when the
devil comes out as he confronts us we start slingin scriptures Adam I can do
all things through Christ and He Who slings mud we have no ground to stand on
because we've thrown all these scriptures that the devil but he knows
we don't really believe in the first place we're trying to believe it by are
speaking we're supposed to be doing is believed at first and then speak it and
then you really believe what you just said out of your mouth and have said
stuff you don't really believe that a little bit more money I'd bungee jump
off that thing in friend goes here here's the money I gotta believe or how
many of you believed it and then set up a little bit more money on bungee jump
off that thing with Tosh I saw a video where he sat in one of those things
where they pull you away the bungee things way up there you know and then
you pull the cord and they had a video of it they were sitting there like this
they're watching that thing
believe it I believe how many believe he's a healer start speaking it let the
overflow of your heart come out of your mouth don't just say stuff that you
don't believe what I believe God heals me and then walk right out the front
door and say man up and deal with this cold for three months he doesn't seem
like there's any insight you just said that you believe that God will heal you
but then you walked right out the front door in disqualified your faith with
your doubt and I've done it to do you really believe God your healer if you
really do you lock out the front door and say man I don't feel very good today
by his stripes I am healed in Jesus name and no weapon formed against me shall
prosper
would you believe that with me any two of you agree it shall be done by faith
we walk not by sight
what's going on in your life looks horrible conclude with this and that
means absolutely nothing
story disciples are straining at the oars five in the morning at three in the
morning the fourth watch their straining at the earth and these guys are a bunch
of jokers i mean they're just a follow them in all areas
Peter John and James are always fighting about who's going to be first so you
know they're bickering about who gets the road the boat what direction and
they're probably yes they have a storm but they're probably contributing to the
resistance because they're fighting about Peter's in the front going going
you don't even know what you're talking about he's trying to turn the boat and
Johns on the other side going James not get off we're going this way we're
trying to get the camper no I'm not back to jerusalem Galilee and they're just
out there in Jesus is watching his ministry crew in the middle of the night
straining at the oars the Bible says and he's up on the Mount Olive commotion
down here and just i mean I can just see him getting up out of his prayer thank
you Father for all that you're dealing with the Jesus Christ Evangelistic
Association give you praise and glory just like angels are helping him up
and he looks down and he hears these distant what's the right way
Peter I'm so tired you tried a boss everybody around the church age
Jesus just walks down the hill and I mean we think I i think he's glad he
glided down the hill because it if you ever been to jerusalem there is rocks
everywhere and it just trying to get down where he was up there praying and
so I bet he just kinda pulled that all recording borden right down the mountain
and then comes up to the see and hear the waves crash and the Bible said he
walked on the water not in the water so it wasn't going through the waves like
rod when he's gone through snowdrifts
know he's walking up the way and he's having a blast I don't think he's
training and the Bible says this I love this the Bible says he about he was
about to pass them by
you wouldn't even get a stop here gonna let them fight you stay in in peace
there let them be in turmoil in terms like Tina y'all wanna go to hell thats
your problem I'm doing you know just do whatever you want to do and he just
walks by and I bet he was doing the rowboat hey guys what's up what's going
on
what's going on well see you later
big boats on well I decided I had to write anything past Mumbai
speaker and peter is like ok I can stay in this cesspool or I can get in the
piece that he's in and he don't know how you gonna do it but he can *** this plan
listen to the rock and a hard place no pun intended that he put Jesus Jesus if
it's you bit me to come let's do you suppose to say he has to say it's me
peter is brilliant
can't lie not a man that he should line he had to say it's me I mean if its you
come asking for superior go to give me a motor home so he gets out the boat and I
can just see this till the other disciples are in their computers like
watches the Bible says as long as he looked at Jesus
his eyes on Jesus he was walking I want walking on water I bet Jesus like let's
see what you got ten you call me on a call you on come in the scheme of things
three quarters of the way of a sudden he loses focus and the Bible says he
becomes terrified in afraid because he begins to fix his eyes on the wind and
the waves and as a result he begins to sink interesting theory if i fix my eyes
on Jesus I walk on water if i fix my eyes on the circumstances I begin to see
he looks at the waves and always sunny starts to sink sink it says he begins to
sink I wonder how that went
Jesus faithless keeping him it's like one inch to 2 inches 3 inches and he
started his beginning to sink in Jesus probably a year the one that called me
on dude you're the one that started this whole mess I'll show you I believe that
here's what's interesting when we begin to step out in faith and we start to see
the circumstances don't improve what we want to do is retreat to our place of
comfortability and go back to the boat rather than going to the places still be
stability Jesus Christ
and I i'm convinced he turned around I'm convinced Jesus probably referring me to
pull right here and he's he's Peters walk on water but he begins to sink as
he looks at the waves around any 2010 and I bet he went like this and he
starts going back to the boat going back to a place of comfort going back to a
place where I know I'm kinda safe and if he's going back is seeking further and
further and pretty soon as waste in these chest and the Bible says Jesus
reach out and grab him I think he grabbed it by the scruff of the neck and
all of a sudden there in the boat how they get in the boat they were very far
away from it and here's what Jesus says to Peter all the years I thought you
would say to Peter @ it somebody put that on Facebook I thought so the other
guy to walk on water wow me to come to come and you came three quarters of the
way here's a participant ribbon you don't say anything to the guys still
huddled in the boat he says to the guy that actually took some risk and got out
on the water you of little faith why did you doubt things here I think one if
your gonna start something with god you better be willing to finish you better
be faith full till the end
don't you start a relationship don't you start calling out scriptures don't you
start steppin out until you're willing to finish to be faithful and the other
thing is this that God doesn't Jesus doesn't rebuke anybody that doesn't take
any steps
take heart if you're being reviewed to the Lord your child of God you should
always be being jesus never said you silly idiots I can't believe you guys
every time he reviewed his disciples he had one ammo you have little to do with
you believe me he kept her eyes on me when I ask you this morning
where's your focus where's your eyes what do you believe what are you looking
at is it Jesus or is it your problems is it Jesus
your symptoms is it Jesus your mortgage is it jesus' sometimes we get people to
pray here and they can quote more symptoms than they can scriptures
shows me what you've been looking at the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks
I gotta do this and i cant believe this and I can't stand it anymore and
sometimes you do need somebody to come alongside Jim pump up your faith I'm not
down anybody but there's a time to pull yourself up by your spiritual bootstraps
and say in the name of Jesus by serving Almighty God that can do anything
anytime anywhere I can do all things through Him who strengthens me and I
know this hurts and I'm tired of this but in the name of Jesus on the heels of
the Lord no weapon formed against me shall prosper and I'm gonna believe even
to my dying breath if necessary that God is faithful and if I believe God is
faithful he will not put to shame those who trust in Him if you're having
trouble with your face you're having trouble with your focus I want to put
some spiritual glasses on you this morning and I want to encourage you to
come up and get prayer just by show of hands as anybody in your Usain ok