0:02

coming up on the butter

0:12

because if you believe in faith for

0:15

the sake of faith apart from God

0:17

then you believe that you can will

0:19

things into being by thought that

0:23

type of manipulation is not what I came

0:26

to teach about Jesus

0:28

didn't just say have faith, He

0:31

said have faith in God so

0:35

the faith has to be grounded, are you following what

0:37

I'm saying? The

0:46

book of Hebrews 11th chapter

0:49

is considered the hallmark

0:51

of faith the Hall of Fame,

0:53

the Hall of Faith filled

0:56

with different men and a few

0:58

women out of different eras who

1:02

had notable accomplishments by

1:05

faith. The

1:08

phrase by faith permeates the 11th

1:10

chapter of the book of Hebrews

1:13

so that we will have a deep

1:15

respect for faith. We

1:19

are living in a day and a time in

1:22

the church that we do

1:24

have a deep respect for

1:26

praise and

1:31

because we sing songs about praise being

1:33

a weapon and sometimes it is sometimes

1:37

we do not emphasize faith

1:41

because faith is not tangible,

1:43

touchable does not appeal

1:45

to the senses, we can't

1:47

hear it or see

1:50

it, we have to

1:52

believe it. And

1:57

yet the book of Hebrews tells us no matter

1:59

what we do how talented we may

2:02

be as orators,

2:04

as speakers, as singers, as

2:06

musicians, as technicians, as producers,

2:08

that whatever we are, no

2:10

matter how many degrees we

2:12

have, no matter how many

2:14

good deeds we do, no

2:16

matter how ingratiating

2:19

our personality might be.

2:22

The Bible is clear about this,

2:25

that without faith, it

2:30

is impossible to

2:33

please God. And

2:35

that one verse alone should make

2:38

us really hone in on the

2:40

significance of faith, because

2:42

if we do everything else, and

2:44

we get everything else right, and

2:46

we have wonderful services, and we

2:48

bring cookies over to our neighbors,

2:50

and we say prayers every night,

2:53

and we do good deeds to

2:55

people, and we forgive people, and

2:57

we fail to believe God, it

3:00

is impossible to please Him.

3:04

Conversely, if

3:07

we don't do everything right, and

3:10

we still get the faith right,

3:15

Abraham believed God, and

3:17

it was counted unto him

3:20

as righteousness. So

3:23

God gave him credit for being

3:25

righteous, though he wasn't, because

3:29

faith is a big deal to

3:32

God. So

3:35

the enemy knows it, whether you know it

3:38

or not, and he does everything he can

3:40

to uproot your faith and

3:43

make you doubt, and

3:46

he makes you doubt by talking,

3:50

because faith comes by hearing. So

3:56

For all of you who are over thinkers, If

4:00

not just as you're over

4:03

thinking, you've got many voices

4:05

talking to you. From

4:08

feeling for your attention

4:10

because of voice you

4:13

believe. Determine.

4:15

What You part? Of.

4:20

Fruits and already. The

4:24

voice you believe

4:27

determines. What? You birth.

4:30

And I would venture to say

4:32

those got a person in his

4:34

room that is not inundated with

4:36

many voices on a consistent basis.

4:40

Stay. Join.

4:44

Quit. You not

4:46

good enough you to good

4:48

as new not appreciated. The

4:51

voices don't even agree with each of.

4:55

The. Like rumors use it. So many rumors

4:57

on you that the room or start arguing.

5:01

About know what I'm talking about. Added

5:04

a quarter of all this internal

5:06

noise era to a bit extra.

5:08

Don't know I said I was

5:10

just talking about you have to

5:13

get some were sometimes I'd be

5:15

steel. To

5:18

hear what the spirit

5:20

is say to that

5:22

serves I was hearing

5:25

it. You must be

5:27

obedient of up to

5:30

believe it without details.

5:35

You gotta go Words: The don't know. You

5:40

gotta do what you have a dog. And

5:44

we must understand that if

5:46

we don't become more adept

5:49

in that area of phase

5:51

though we are talented in

5:53

the area of gypsies you're

5:56

just moved to to in

5:58

the room. But

6:02

you're afraid we'll keep you there. So

6:06

we have a lot of people. didn't

6:08

get a lotta rules that they don't

6:10

study of because they don't have the

6:12

mindset. To produce

6:15

the stability that causes it to

6:17

be able to stay and I'm

6:19

not result of about rooms like

6:21

opportunity I'm also talked about rooms

6:24

like three. Rooms

6:28

Like Joy Rules. Like said, ten

6:30

minutes of you have moments are

6:33

moments of ecstasy or the seasons

6:35

of a law. Dated as of

6:37

the. Most

6:39

of our eyes of these are a

6:42

result of listening to the wrong voice.

6:47

If athletes place apart

6:50

from god, I'm teaching

6:52

Norman Vincent Feals the

6:55

power of positive thinking.

6:59

Which basically boils down to

7:01

humanism. Which is

7:03

just one step away from witchcraft. Because

7:07

if you believe in free for the

7:09

sake of brave apart from god you

7:11

believe the Duke of will bring that

7:14

to be bad thought. That

7:17

type of manipulation is not what

7:20

I came to teach about. See

7:22

the flip? Just say have faith.

7:24

He said have faith in. God

7:28

so the previous to be grounded Are

7:30

you follow what I'm saying. It

7:34

our test series the first female

7:36

med two. Years.

7:39

Ago I used to preach mess called the

7:41

First Lady. Because.

7:43

She's the first woman medicine in

7:45

the hallmark of faith. We.

7:49

Are all types of men? Mention

7:52

before we get to this one.

7:55

Woman: Are you hear what

7:57

I'm saying? Hope

8:03

for the evidence of the not seen.

8:06

For. By the elders obtain

8:08

a good report through

8:10

faith. We understand

8:12

that the world's were framed by the

8:15

word of God, so that. Think

8:18

that do appear more not

8:20

made from things that to

8:22

appear. Oh gosh. What?

8:26

What I'm dealing with? Didn't start

8:28

with what I'm dealing with. Things

8:33

that do appear were not

8:35

made from things that do

8:38

appear. It starts in the

8:40

spirit. Before

8:42

it manifests. In.

8:45

This list. But.

8:47

Frankly, elders obtain. A.

8:50

Good report. To

8:52

phrase chain offered up or

8:54

more able offered up a

8:57

more excellent sacrificing chain. Two.

9:00

Friends. Say.

9:03

Means. He heard something. And.

9:06

A baby and walked in. what

9:08

he heard. And

9:11

if you walk and what you hear

9:13

and you're hearing what gotta say, you

9:15

will always be acceptable. For

9:29

a walk with God and was

9:31

hot but left a testimony please

9:33

Gus Gus so far over his

9:35

face he disappeared. Bad faith in

9:37

a walk with God. And

9:40

was not at all. He

9:43

left was a testimony. For

9:47

they did. I don't know, but his testimony is

9:49

still in earth. That

9:51

he flees. God bless his legacy.

9:53

That's his legacy. We don't worry

9:56

Leah, we don't know what a

9:58

wore who he believes close more

10:00

he left the testimony very please.

10:02

Got bad faith Know are being

10:05

warned of God of things not

10:07

yet seen move with fear. Look

10:09

at that. Now we see people

10:11

feel the same texts. Buffets,

10:15

Know a be want to gotta things

10:17

not yet see move with fear to

10:19

the saving of his house. Or

10:22

body in the house. That

10:26

saved all for somebody square.

10:33

Foot God allows you know

10:35

you got face when everybody

10:37

has a house that children

10:39

and the in laws are

10:41

say by the first one

10:44

person's face. Buffet

10:46

ignore. Been warned of lot of things

10:48

not yet seen move with fear to

10:50

the saving of a house and if

10:52

he feels and our. Own

10:55

Dirt. Before.

10:58

The first drop of rain never

11:00

fail because he heard something. From

11:08

I say I heard. From. That's

11:11

why I came out to church on Sunday morning cause

11:13

I heard something. That's

11:15

why I'm thinking the classes I'm taking

11:17

cover Heard something. That's why building the

11:20

business that are building Because I heard

11:22

somewhere that for our group of women

11:24

boyfriend Koga heard suffers. That's why I

11:27

married the one that are married because

11:29

I've heard something that that's why I'm

11:31

fighting the good fight a place because

11:33

I heard Crawford. That's why I got

11:36

the courage to was staff. Whatever you

11:38

think about me become offered suffered. I.

11:40

Heard something. I heard subway

11:42

car heard suffering. And

11:45

is say this house. I

11:49

can't tell you how long is Vince is

11:51

our pets about it. Walk up to require

11:53

said i want my house to be say.

11:56

about a lot of people want to be say i want

11:59

to house But

12:03

what good is a house if it's full of

12:05

hell? I'm

12:14

a little older, but I remember a time that people

12:16

would be burdened because people were going to hell. People

12:20

would be burdened because they were lost. People would

12:22

be burdened about the souls of men, not

12:25

just the souls of their feet being red.

12:28

I remember a time that people

12:30

would lay on the altar grieving

12:32

before God saying, You devil, you're

12:34

going to turn my daughter loose.

12:37

You're going to turn my son loose. I tell you what

12:39

you're going to do. You're going to get out of my

12:41

house. And the family got saved

12:43

because one person had

12:45

incredible faith. Talk

12:48

to me somebody. Let

12:55

them understand. Are you the one? Put

13:53

me down. Sarah

14:07

doesn't make it to the hallmark of

14:09

faith because she's just any woman. She

14:13

doesn't make it to the hallmark of faith because she wants

14:15

to fit in. She

14:18

makes it to the hallmark of faith by

14:21

faith. She

14:23

doesn't make it because she's married to Abraham. Because

14:27

Abraham ended up with one

14:30

more wife in a situation. I'll

14:33

explain it later. And

14:37

neither the other wife or

14:40

the concubine are

14:42

mentioned. But

14:45

Sarah is mentioned because

14:48

she judged him

14:50

faithful who had

14:52

promised. Have

14:55

you judged him faithful who

14:58

has promised or

15:00

is he still on trial? Have

15:05

you rendered a verdict and decided that God

15:08

is faithful? Not just because

15:10

you got a car, not just because you got a house,

15:12

not just because you built a place. Can

15:14

you say God is faithful at a funeral? Can

15:17

you say God is faithful at a cemetery?

15:20

Can you say God is faithful in

15:22

a waiting room at the hospital? Can

15:24

you say God is faithful when you

15:26

got laid off? Can you say God

15:28

is faithful when you're back in a

15:30

corner and there's a tumor in your

15:32

breath? Can you yet say

15:34

God is faithful? Have you

15:36

judged him faithful or

15:39

do you have a hung jury and you got

15:42

a little bit of faith and you got a

15:44

little bit of doubt and you got a little

15:46

bit of this, have you come to a conclusion?

15:51

She has achieved a level of faith

15:53

and there are levels. She

15:58

has achieved a level of faith. of faith

16:01

that fulfilled the purpose of God

16:05

in her life. Oh, excuse

16:07

me, Lord, please let

16:10

me achieve a level of

16:12

faith that fulfills

16:15

the purpose you have for me in

16:18

my life. I

16:20

don't need a level of money. I don't need

16:22

a level of friends. I don't need

16:25

a level of likes. I don't need

16:27

a level of followers. I don't need a

16:29

level of birthday cards. I

16:31

need a level of faith that

16:34

fulfills the purpose of God in

16:37

my life. If nobody

16:39

follows me on Facebook, if nobody

16:41

befriends me, if nobody wants me

16:43

on their page, if nobody invites

16:45

me to speak, if nobody wants

16:48

to do business with me as

16:50

long as I accomplish the thing

16:52

that you created me to do,

16:55

I will be satisfied.

17:07

That's my prayer. The

17:12

conception of faith.

17:17

Conception is a process. No

17:20

matter whether you take it from a theological

17:22

perspective or from a natural perspective, conception

17:25

is a process. In

17:28

the natural you have conception. You

17:31

have conception in two different dimensions

17:34

as it relates to childbirth, as

17:37

it relates to ideologies, as

17:40

it relates to childbirth, as it relates

17:42

to ideologies. There is

17:44

some similarity, connectivity, a

17:47

synonymity between the

17:50

brain and the womb. They

17:56

both have to conceive. in

18:00

order to birth. They

18:04

both have to receive seed in

18:07

order to be fruitful. If

18:11

I lose my ability to

18:13

think, I can't preach. I

18:18

can't talk, I can't interview, I

18:21

can't negotiate, I can't serve, I

18:23

can't work. I got to be

18:25

able to think. I

18:27

can't preach. Even if my mouth goes out, I can still write

18:29

if I can think. This

18:32

is the battleground because

18:35

this is for me what

18:38

the womb is for

18:41

birth. The

18:44

fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube for

18:46

about three to four days. Three

18:50

to four days. Just

18:52

hanging out. Within

18:56

24 hours of being fertilized,

18:59

it starts dividing fast into multiple

19:01

cells. Reproducing just

19:04

levels of faith. The

19:07

cells start dividing and multiplying and

19:09

increasing and forming and shaping and

19:11

developing and coming forth. It keeps

19:13

dividing as it moves slowly through

19:16

the fallopian tube to

19:19

the uterus. Its

19:21

next job is

19:24

to attach to

19:29

the lining of the uterus. Are

19:32

you following what I'm saying? If

19:37

I so seed out here right now

19:40

and you hear it and

19:43

it gets in your fallopian tube, faith

19:52

comes by hearing and hearing

19:55

by the word of God and it

19:57

floats around in your ear for many.

19:59

it, but it doesn't attach

20:03

to the uterus of the way you think

20:05

and the way you function and

20:07

your mindset, it doesn't become

20:10

one with you, it doesn't start

20:12

drawing from you, it doesn't start

20:15

affecting you, then it falls to

20:17

the ground. That's

20:23

why we use the word, same word, when

20:25

we say, I never conceived that I'd be

20:27

president, I never conceived that I'd be

20:29

pastor of this church, I never conceived that

20:31

I'd be married with five children. Conception, conception,

20:34

conception, whether you're birthing in your womb or

20:36

not you're birthing in your mind. Can

20:39

I go deeper? Faith

20:43

incubates, it's a process. Hearing

20:47

is the fallopian tube, but the

20:49

process doesn't stop there, it

20:53

has to, the

20:55

word has to stick.

20:57

The Bible says the engrapted word of

20:59

God is able to save your soul,

21:02

engrapted, engrapted.

21:04

The word that sticks is

21:07

the word that saves. That's

21:11

why you'll see people taking copious notes

21:13

and you'll see people really listening. I

21:15

really don't like to preach to a

21:17

church that just shouts. I

21:21

like shouting, but I don't

21:24

want to preach to people who just shout because

21:26

if you are so busy shouting you're not listening.

21:31

How can they hear without a preacher

21:33

and how can they preach say they'd

21:35

be sent? You're excited,

21:38

but it's just emotionalism and it has

21:40

no root. When you get in trouble,

21:43

I'm going to make a plain error. Let's

21:48

look at Romans 10, 14 through 17 for just a minute. I'm

21:53

not going to be long, but just follow me. Are

21:55

you all getting anything? How

21:58

then can they call? on the

22:00

one they have not believed in. Wait a minute,

22:03

people do that all the time. They

22:07

call on God because they're in trouble. They call

22:09

on God because of the courage slide. They call

22:11

on God because they're in the emergency room. They

22:13

call, but they have not

22:15

believed in. And

22:18

how can they believe in the one to whom they

22:20

have not heard? Or

22:24

how can they hear without someone

22:28

preaching to them? And

22:32

how can anyone preach unless they

22:35

are sent? Uh oh, I don't even

22:37

want to get on that. Oh

22:40

God, I just want to—in this day

22:42

where you can go Google

22:46

up some

22:50

license, we

22:52

have no metrics in the church anymore

22:54

to continue to control who gets to

22:56

the stage. If

22:58

you've got charisma and Google,

23:05

so it's hard to police outlaws.

23:12

Somebody who will not submit cannot

23:14

be mentored. As

23:20

it is written, how beautiful are

23:22

the feet of those who

23:25

bring good news or preach the gospel of

23:27

the King James Version. How beautiful.

23:30

You're glad to see them coming. When

23:33

they walk in the room, they

23:35

haven't even said anything yet. When

23:37

they walk in the room, your

23:40

spirit leaps because you know they're

23:42

carrying something. They're the walk. They're

23:45

the walk, glory to God. There's a

23:47

walk. It's not just a talk. There's

23:50

a walk when you're carrying something from

23:52

God. You walk in the room like

23:54

I'm on a mission. I

23:56

didn't come here to play. I didn't come here

23:58

to play. I didn't come here to play. I'm on a mission." But

24:05

not all the Israelites accepted

24:07

the good news. For

24:09

Israel said, for Isaiah says, Lord,

24:12

who have believed our message? Consequently

24:17

faith comes from hearing

24:21

the message, and

24:23

the message is heard through

24:26

the word about Christ. So

24:29

you can hear what I'm saying to you. The

24:32

word that sticks. The

24:35

word that sticks. The

24:38

word that sticks. I'm

24:40

still, I'm still

24:43

living off of steady

24:45

in the storm. Every

24:51

time a storm comes into my life, my

24:55

mind says, be steady in the storm.

24:59

Keep your hand on the wheel. Don't

25:01

let the wind rock you. Don't

25:03

let your emotions break you. Don't

25:05

let the situation shake you. Be steadfast, unmovable,

25:08

always abounding in the work of the Lord.

25:10

I preached that like four or five months

25:12

ago, and I'm still chewing off of that

25:15

word right there. You know why

25:17

storms are still coming. And as long

25:19

as storms are still coming, I'm going to

25:21

be steady

25:25

in the storm. You can't be

25:27

faithful if you're not steady in

25:29

the storm. If you're tossed to

25:32

and fro by every wind, you

25:34

can't be steadfast. You

25:36

got to prove that I'm going to

25:38

stand flat footed right here, come hell

25:40

or high water. I'm going to stand

25:42

right here. This is where I stand.

25:45

I can't control where you stand. I

25:47

can't control where you stand. I can't

25:49

help where you stand. I can't change

25:51

how you stand. But as for me

25:53

and my house, this is where

25:55

I stand. I'm going to stand

25:58

flat footed on the word. of

26:00

God. Are you hearing what I'm saying? There's

26:03

a faith that God takes to you

26:05

that are fighting. It doesn't

26:07

make sense. You don't feel ready and

26:09

yet God's going to do it and

26:11

He told me to tell you it

26:13

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