Until next time...
And good morning, or if you're watching this later, good afternoon, good evening,
depending on your time zone. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I am so glad you're here.
I'm so excited about this study. Of course, we are continuing our study, Harnessing Your
Spiritual Power. And today we've got a really important one. I mean, I know they are all
important, but I think this one will be huge for you. We are talking about harnessing your faith,
activating your faith. And there is so much power in faith. I think you're going to love
the scriptures we're going to talk about today. We're going to dig in, we're going to look at
a lot of aspects about faith, and I just pray that it blesses you. So say hello as you're
watching on Facebook or wherever you're watching this. Say good morning, leave your comments,
leave your prayer requests. I love, love hearing from you. I can see your comments,
even though I'm on a different platform, I can see as you leave your comments.
So let's start with quick prayer. Let's just invite the Holy Spirit to move and that today
will be a day that your faith goes to whole new levels. You know, scripture says that faith can
move mountains. And often there are things in our life that appear like a mountain, right? They just
appear like, like huge, daunting, hard to move, heavy, impossible. You can't imagine this mountain.
Maybe you've gotten used to this mountain. Maybe, maybe you've been like, you know,
the Israelites circling around the same mountain, looking at it, analyzing it,
struggling with it, being frustrated by it. Today, we're going to talk about mountain moving
faith. And I just pray you're going to be blessed. Let's start with prayer. Let's invite
the Holy Spirit and let's dig right in. So Father, I just thank you. This is the day that you have
made and we rejoice and are glad in it. Holy Spirit, I just invite you right now to open our
spiritual senses. I ask that today in this moment, this hour for this season, that you will activate
our faith. Those places that maybe we've allowed to die, maybe fear, doubt, or worry, or distractions,
or whatever it is has pressed our faith down. Maybe we haven't been fully walking it out and
experiencing the full power. I'm praying for mountain moving faith to be released today.
Mountain moving faith to be released today. Lord God, wherever healing is needed, I pray that you
heal. Heal minds, heal emotions, heal hearts, heal bodies. I pray where resources are needed, Father
God. I ask that you release an outpouring. You have promised you will supply all our needs according
to your riches. Father, I thank you for every person listening to this, both now and throughout
time on the replays, Father. I ask that you bless them. I ask that you enrich them. I ask that you
flood the eyes of their heart with light, that they can know how deep, how wide, how high is your love
for them. I ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, check some of the comments,
and then we will dive in. Let's just see. All right. Welcome. Welcome, Kim. Welcome,
Ginny. Welcome, Tom. I see you guys over there on Facebook. All right.
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And welcome, Len. Thanks for commenting.
I see you just popped in as well.
So excited to share this topic.
We've been talking about harnessing your power and we've been looking at all the
different kinds of power that the Bible talks about.
We've done some really unique ones. You know, the power of agreement.
Today we're going to talk about the power of faith,
the power of faith. And I'm really believing your faith will be activated today.
As a result of this study, we're going to be in the word, really diving in.
Let's look at the promise.
Here's a promise and this is Jesus speaking.
And you know,
there's times where Jesus like really wants to get our attention.
I mean, every word that he speaks is important, right?
So you would think that he doesn't even have to say this,
but there's verses that he opens and it's almost like pay attention.
And so he'll say things like,
I tell you the truth or he'll say solemnly,
I tell you,
and these are like exclamations right on the words of Jesus.
These are like, Hey, you know, open up.
This is super important.
And so he says,
I assure you and most solemnly say to you,
whoever says,
now there's the words we have,
we've talked a lot about the power of words.
So there is words in this.
Whoever says to this mountain,
whoever says to this mountain,
be lifted up and thrown into the sea.
And here's the key and does not doubt in his heart.
In what?
In God's unlimited power does not doubt in God's unlimited power,
but instead of doubting believes that what he says.
So you,
you're activating and you're using your faith with your mouth.
Your mouth is the sickle that harvests it.
You must speak it.
Do not leave that part out.
So you notice that this whole thing about faith is being used through your
mouth.
So it says believes there's the faith believes that what he says is going to
take place.
So you see,
you're not just saying words and doubting them.
You're not just kind of going through the motions of the same words.
You are speaking faith.
Faith.
You're activating your faith with your words.
Then look at the promise.
It will be done for him.
That's Mark 11,
23 in the amplified.
Those of you who know,
I always notice numbers.
Um,
you notice that the numbers 11,
23,
one,
two,
three,
whenever you see one,
two,
three,
it's a reminder.
The steps of the righteous are activated by the Lord.
It's orderly.
Your life is step by step by step.
And so here is the promise around faith and it's got the steps for you.
Whoever says whatever that mountain is that is holding you up right now,
the mountain of,
uh,
believing in luck,
the mountain of fear,
the mountain of uncertainty,
the mountain of a symptom in your body,
the mountain of relationship struggles speak to that mountain with authority,
with faith.
And when you speak,
you're saying,
Hey,
be gone.
be gone, without doubt in your heart, then the promises, it will be done.
So let's look at the definition of faith.
We're going to talk about it.
Let's make sure we have a biblical definition and we're keeping ourselves in line with the
word.
My favorite comes from Hebrews 11, 1.
Now I'm just on a numbers tangent.
I can't help but notice these things.
I don't know.
God's wired me this way.
So when you have 11 and you have 11, 1, 11 is a master builder number.
And the whole Hebrews 11 is about faith and building your life on faith.
So here's the definition of faith.
It says, now faith is the assurance.
And I love what the amplified puts in there.
It's the title deed.
It's the confirmation of the things that you've hoped for, parentheses, those things that
are divinely guaranteed.
So you've got this title deed.
You've got this divine guarantee.
Like you know, when you go to buy something and it's got the sticker guaranteed, money
back guaranteed, right?
Faith is that.
It's that, you know, you know, you own your home because you've got that title deed.
You own your car.
You've got that, that title deed, right?
It's that confirmation.
You know what?
This is mine.
This is a divine guarantee.
This is your divine heavenly money back guarantee.
And this faith is the evidence of the things not seen.
You have to understand in the spiritual realm, things begin on the inside and they work themselves
out.
They begin in the unmanifested form.
They begin in the seed form and then they manifest out.
So when you plant a seed in the ground, those of you that plant flowers, that plant gardens,
that plant vegetables, you put that seed under the soil.
You do not see it growing.
And depending on the plant, you won't see it growing for days, weeks, months, in the
case of some plants, years like the bamboo.
So you have to understand that there is a season where your prayers are in seed form.
So they're still unmanifested, but that doesn't make them any less vital, any less alive.
That seed is starting first, going deep.
The seed goes down into the root system first before you ever see it.
Your faith starts building roots first before your eyes can see it.
So you cannot rely on your physical senses to determine something, to determine if it's
working.
You can say, well, I prayed and nothing's happening.
No, no, no, no, no.
There can be so much happening.
And there's so many examples in scriptures where all kinds of things were being rearranged
in the spiritual realm.
I could go on a whole Bible study just on that, how things are restructuring and rearranging
before your eyes can see them.
This is why I believe that Paul prayed that the eyes of our heart would be enlightened,
that our spiritual senses, our inner eye, our perception would be activated because
you're going to have that happening before you actually see with your eyes.
So it says, faith is the assurance, the title deed, the confirmation of things hoped for
and divinely guaranteed and the evidence of things not seen, the conviction of their
reality.
So do you see this begins with your own conviction, believing in the reality of it.
Do you see what this is?
This is an inside job so that, look at this, faith comprehends as fact.
You're looking for the facts, right?
Faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses.
So if you're still waiting for your physical senses to tell you if something is working,
you are not operating on faith.
So let me give you an example.
You may pray, you may have some symptoms in your body, some sickness in your body, and
the Bible is so clear that he purchased our healing on the cross, that his name is Jehovah
Ratha, that by his stripes we have been healed, right?
Lots and lots of healing scriptures, okay?
If you're not familiar with all the healing scriptures, that's your first start.
You know, go on YouTube and Google healing scriptures.
You could just let them soak in you.
All right, so you've got all these healing scriptures, so you pray for that mountain
to be moved.
Father God, I thank you that you have healed me, I receive your healing power, I know by
your stripes I have been healed, I know you are Jehovah Ratha, thank you for my healing.
And sometimes, almost as a test, it's like the pain even gets worse sometimes.
And the tendency or the symptom or the, you know, whatever it is, the ulcer, the scar,
the whatever, right?
And so the temptation is to say this just isn't working, this prayer stuff doesn't work.
Remember the seed.
You've planted a seed and there's some roots going in.
There's changes happening in your body before you experience the full healing.
Now sometimes it's instantaneous.
If you study all the healings Jesus did in the Bible, sometimes it's instantaneous.
Sometimes it was over time.
Sometimes they had to do things to demonstrate their faith.
He would tell them to go wash in a certain pool or put mud on them, whatever.
He would do these things.
But the fact of the matter is that when you're in alignment with the scripture, God said
it, that finalizes it.
But your eyes, your physical senses may not see it yet.
Okay.
And so what do you do during that time?
And welcome.
I'm looking up to your comments.
Welcome Juanita.
So glad that you are here and I touch and I agree with your prayers.
I will go back and even continue to pray with you on that.
Thanks for being on this and thanks for writing those prayers.
We touch and we agree on that.
Okay.
So the key is then that you have to understand that it's your faith, not your physical senses.
It's your faith that comprehends.
Your faith gets it.
Your faith understands what your senses don't yet see.
Okay.
So you might want to put down a comment just to remind yourself.
My faith comprehends what my physical senses cannot see.
So what do you do during that time while the roots are going deep?
What do you do with the plant when you plant the seed and you're waiting?
You don't have the harvest.
You don't even see the plant coming out yet.
What do you do?
You water it.
Maybe you fertilize it.
If you're like me, maybe you talk to it.
You just keep looking at it with gratitude.
That's what you do.
Once you've prayed, you don't even have to keep praying the same prayer.
That would make you think that your prayer isn't even working, right?
That would be unbelief.
Once you've prayed and it lines up with the word, then you keep confessing the word.
You keep thanking God for your answer before you see it.
Thank God for the resources before you see it.
Thank God for the healing before you see it.
Thank God for the reconciliation before you see it.
I hope this is helping some of you.
All right.
Here's another one.
This is from 2 Corinthians 5, 7.
For we walk by faith.
This is a faith walk.
We walk by faith and not by sight.
The Amplified Translation says we live our lives in a manner consistent with our confident
belief in God's promises.
What happens is you activate the faith by speaking it.
You water it with the gratitude.
Anchor it. You have the roots go deep.
You're firmly grounded in the word and then you walk it out.
Walk it out. So if you knew you were healed,
what would you do? Walk that out.
If you knew the resources were on their way, what would you do?
Walk that out. In other words, live it. You know,
a lot of times the world has like these biblical ideas and they don't,
they don't understand what they're really doing. And, and you know,
it's got all kinds of names, laws of attraction and all these things, right?
But this is what's originally in the word. It's all there. Um,
and so as you're walking it out, in other words,
you're acting as if in other words,
you're activating the law of expectation, right?
I've talked to you about the power of expectation.
When you're expecting a baby,
you're not going to see that baby for nine months.
And in the beginning when it's a little seed,
you don't even see it in the belly. You don't, unless you have an ultrasound,
you don't even know it's there, right? For months usually, right?
But you're expecting, you're acting as if you start preparing,
you start making space for it. You start getting ready for it.
Get the room decorated, right? And so we walk,
we walk by faith.
So we make sure that our lives are consistent with our belief because what you
focus on expands, right?
So you want to make sure that what you're thinking about,
what you're talking about, what you're expecting,
what you're creating space for that is consistent with this faith,
right? Okay.
Let's look at your comments over here. Seed,
form of faith. Never, never, never give up. Yes.
Love that comment. Thank you. Okay.
So the new living translation says,
for we live by believing and not by seeing,
you must begin to shift from relying on your physical senses.
Okay. Our physical senses, you know,
let us know if there's danger, if we need to step over something, right? We,
our physical senses connect us with planet earth,
but they don't accomplish a lot when it comes to your spiritual life.
Your spiritual life is not built on your physical senses. Okay.
It's built on your spiritual senses.
And so we see again in Hebrews 11, as it continues on,
it says without faith,
it's impossible to please God because anyone that comes to him must believe that
he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
In other words, what's the point of praying?
If you don't even believe if there's a God,
what's the point of praying if you don't believe that he's a good God,
you know, David said, what would have happened to me?
Had I not believed in the goodness of God,
that I would see the goodness of God in the land of the living.
So David kept his faith that even when his life was turned upside down,
that Romans 8 28, that all things are working together for good.
David walked out that belief. He said,
I don't know how I would have survived if I had not believed that I would see
the goodness of God in the land.
If this is true of every area of your life,
you believe you will see the resources. You will see the healing.
You will see the reconciliation.
You will see your emotions dissipated and,
and, and changed. Here it is in the passion translation.
I love the way it says it there. It says,
without faith living within us,
it would be impossible to please God for we come to God in faith,
knowing he's real and that he rewards the faith who give all their passion and
that he rewards the faith that give all their passion and strength into seeking
him. So we believe that he's a good God and that he rewards.
So it seems that maybe some of you are needing healing cause that is what is
coming up in my spirit a lot. I, obviously I've been talking about it so far,
this whole conversation.
And so God had me prepare this in advance knowing that faith is very powerful
when it comes to healing. Now this can be emotional healing.
Some of you have, have really faced.
trauma in your childhood perhaps, maybe you have been part of abuse or
molestation or a trauma or a violent crime or you know an abusive
relationship and and there's a lot of trauma that gets stuck into our cells
and I'm I'm right there with you and what I can tell you is that God is
faithful and he heals. You know lately I have had dreams that have brought back
the dream was like a scene of trauma and then I woke up and I knew that it was
like an infection you know you have an infection and it's stuck under the skin
and it can't heal and then you know not to be gory but like the pus comes out or
you cut open and and you're able to clean the wound and then the healing can
happen it this stuff has to get out of us it cannot be healed stuck or stuffed
or ignored and and so this healing and so I knew that that I had dreamt that
and that this was a moment of healing and so I laid there and I invited I
became very very conscious of God's love and I invited God's love to flood every
cell in my body and I invited God's healing to heal and remove the trauma
from my our cells because physiologically the trauma gets stuck in
our cells and so I invited God to remove that trauma from our cells so this power
of faith it can be emotional healing it can be physical healing but it's it's
very very important so let's look at some examples in scripture of healing
and the power of faith one of my favorites is the woman that had the
issue of blood and it's one of my favorite stories for a lot of reasons
she'd had this struggle for a long time it says years and years I think I think
it might have been 12 years I can't remember now but years and years she
struggled with this hemorrhaging this blood issue okay and it said she had
spent all her resources on doctors okay the best of doctors so you know maybe
you've been in that situation where you've done that you've gone from doctor
to doctor and it's exhausted your resources I've had to do that especially
with some of my children some of the things we've gone through and so you go
from doctor to specialist to specialist and they give you more and more bad news
you get more and more fearful your body gets you know more and more tense the
trauma gets in there and you've exhausted your resources well that's
this woman this woman with the issue of blood that we read about in Matthew 9 21
and I like this because I can see what's happened we get a history right and we
also get to remember we talked about activating our mouth we get to see what
this woman was saying we get a glimpse into her faith world which I love it's
just so has so much insight into it and it says she kept saying to herself she
had been saying to herself if I only touch his outer robe talking about Jesus
she was trying to make her way through the crowd as a woman I believe she was
a Samaritan woman so making her way through the crowd as a woman look down
on in society but her self-talk was faith talk she said if I only touch his
outer robe I will be healed and she got her strength to go another step to make
it through another abusive statement and being pushed aside and and and keep
her strength through the hemorrhaging and through the discouragement and plow
along and she kept activating her faith with her mouth if I just touch the hem
of his garment I'll be healed if I just touch the hem of his garment I'll be
healed just I I can do this you know like the little engine I think I can I
think I can I think I can right she's talking to herself and the very she
does it and she's catching the back of Jesus he's not even coming toward her
and she literally makes a demand on Jesus she literally pulls the healing
virtue out of him he's not freely giving I want you to get this she's pulling it
out of him by her faith we know that because if you read the
Story he turns around. He's like who touched me and the disciples are thinking he's nuts. Everybody's touching you. We're in this huge crowd
What do you mean who touched you? He's like no. No. No, this was a different touch
I felt the power go out of me. I felt it. Someone made a demand on my power and
He turns and he sees her
And he calls her daughter
This was a Samaritan woman. This was not an Israelite. This was not
What would be considered a daughter and Jesus calls her daughter
Her faith made her daughter
Jesus says take courage daughter
There's some of you that are hearing that today Jesus is saying to you take courage daughter
Your father loves you
Take courage daughter daughter daughter take courage daughter
your
Personal trust your your faith in me has made you well
It's her faith that she activated with her words she activated by walking it out
Walking by faith not by sight. She didn't have her healing yet
But she knew she was on her way to get it and she was gonna walk and do whatever she had to do
However far she had to go however many insults she had to take no matter how much opposition no matter how much blood
No matter how tired she was she had faith and she was gonna get her healing and Jesus said daughter
Your faith has made you well
And she was healed
She was healed
We see another example in Matthew 9 28
where they follow Jesus right into the house where he's staying and
Jesus turns and asks them a really important question
He says all right you followed me in here
He says do you believe do you have faith?
That I have power to restore the sight to your eyes you see
Jesus understood
That their faith had to be activated
For him to be able to heal. Do you see that question throughout Scripture?
He'll say do you want to be healed? Do you believe I can heal? Do you have faith?
You see he knew that their faith was a key component for them to be open and
receptive to be able to receive that healing
He says do you believe I have the power to restore sight to your eyes
Well, their faith was activated they said yes Lord, yes, we believe
Okay
Let's do it. Then
Jesus put his hands on their eyes and said look at this. I love this. This is from the Passion Translation. I love this
Look at this
You will have what your faith
expects
You might want to put that one in the comments. It's Matthew 9 29 and 30 in the Passion Translation
You will have what your faith
expects
Instantly their eyes were open and they could see I
Will have what my faith expects. So here's the question. What does your faith expect today? I
Will have what my faith
expects
Does your faith expect God to supply all your needs according to his riches?
Does your faith expect God to heal you does your faith expect?
You will have what your faith expects I will have what my faith
expects I
Love that. I love that
Matthew 9 29. Here's another one Matthew 15. We're just kind of working our way through the scriptures. Jesus said woman
Your faith there it is again your faith
Not God's faith
Your faith woman your faith your personal trust and confidence in my power woman your faith is
great
It will be done for you as
you wish and
This was a mother praying for a daughter to be healed and
her daughter
Was healed from that moment. So it's not
Not just for yourself, your faith can move mountains
in other people's lives.
How many people have been saved by praying grandmothers,
praying mothers, praying fathers?
How many people's life has been changed
by the faith of another who did not let up?
Pressing in, pressing in, pressing in.
I love that.
Welcome Ingrid, I see you put it too.
I will have what my faith expects.
So woman, your faith is great.
It will be done for you as a wish.
Now let's look at the opposite side of the coin.
It's always good when things aren't working
to look at the underside of that coin.
A lack of faith equals a lack of results.
In fact, here's a formula for blocking miracles.
Here is a formula for not getting your breakthrough,
not moving your mountain.
Two things, offense, offense,
and unbelief equals no miracles.
You might want to put that one in the comments as well.
Offense plus unbelief equals no miracles.
I recently just saw this again.
I was amazed.
I was listening or reading, I don't remember,
a book about money and about poverty spirit,
about lack, not being able to get a financial breakthrough.
And this man was very prophetic.
He really lived in the prophetic realm a lot
and had ministered to thousands and thousands and thousands
and helped get breakthrough.
He himself had to overcome poverty spirit as a pastor
because of the programming,
that a pastor appears more holy
if he's really broke, et cetera.
And he said something.
He says this spirit of poverty,
this lack very often or almost always begins
with an offense.
And I thought, now that's amazing.
And I started looking at the people I know
that struggle with lack.
I started looking at my life and it was like, wow.
So they got offended.
They got offended that someone didn't do for them.
They got offended that some expectation wasn't met.
They got offended with what was happening with money or,
anyway, this offense kept them receiving money.
Well, then I saw it as I was doing this Bible study
and preparing for you.
And I saw, wow, when you take offense and doubt or unbelief,
you literally block your miracles.
You literally block your miracles.
And let's look at that example.
We'll look in Matthew 13, 57
in the Passion translation.
And it says this,
and the people became offended.
There's the offense.
The people became offended and began to turn against him.
Why were they offended?
Was he doing something offensive?
No, they were offended because he was an ordinary folk
and ordinary folk don't get elevated.
How many of you have had families
or have known people that had families?
And that's just not what we do.
That's just not our family.
And who you often hear them say,
I was talking to a woman yesterday,
amazing conversation
and how she's had to break the voice in her head
because she can literally hear her parents.
She's African-American and she can hear her parents like,
who do you think you are?
Thinking you can do all of that.
Just who do you think you are?
You hear she has to break that voice.
Well, they took offense at Jesus
with that exact same offense.
Who does he think he is?
Isn't this the carpenter's son?
Well, what does he think he can do teaching us?
He's not some from the, you know, rabbinical.
He is not some from this elite family.
Who does he think he is talking to us, telling us?
And so it began with offense.
It says the people became offended
and began to turn against him.
And Jesus said, you know,
there's only one place a prophet isn't honored.
It's in his own hometown.
Some of you trying to go to another level,
you got to change your circle of friends.
You got to change your influence.
You know, my first million dollar company that I started,
we presented it to my father and my father laughed at us.
He told us that we were looking at a crystal ball
and he literally laughed at us.
In fact, even before that,
my first six figures I made in direct selling
and my family laughed at me.
Even at that time, my husband laughed at me.
He called me yakjangsa.
It was a kind of a derogatory,
like the guys that go through the back alleys
with their wheelbarrows, peddling their wares.
And so when I got involved in direct selling,
this is before we founded
an international direct selling company,
I got made fun of, offense, right?
And so, you know, sometimes we're not honored
in our own hometown, our own family,
because they still see you as little Johnny,
as little Susie, as the one that used to do this or that.
And they hold you stuck and frozen in that.
They don't let you keep growing.
They don't let you live out your faith,
live out your vision.
And so sometimes you gotta move out of there.
And Jesus had to do that too.
He said, you know, there's only one place
a prophet isn't honored and that's in his own hometown.
And look what it says though.
This is the amazing part of that.
It says, and their great unbelief
kept him from doing any miracles in Nazareth.
Put this together.
You literally have the son of God,
the son, I mean, you have infinite love in your presence,
infinite power in your presence,
infinite wisdom right here, right in front of you.
And their offense and their unbelief
blocked the miracle, blocked the miracle,
stopped the son of God from performing the miracles
that could have been possible.
How many people could have been healed?
How many could have been set free?
How many could have become abundant?
How many could have seen their wildest dreams
that they'd been praying for, hoping for, living for,
and they blocked it by having judgment,
a spirit of criticism, a spirit of offense and unbelief.
Unbelief.
Powerful, powerful, powerful.
All right, let's look at some more real quick.
It says later, this is another one, Matthew 17.
We've kind of been working our way through Matthew.
Matthew 17, 19 says,
later the disciples came to him privately and said,
why couldn't we cast out that demon?
They were out trying their spiritual gifts
and it wasn't working in this particular case.
And they pulled Jesus aside and they're like,
hey, I think we're doing something wrong.
What is it?
And he told them, it's because of your lack of faith.
It didn't work.
You didn't believe it was gonna work.
You didn't speak faith.
You didn't think faith.
You didn't expect.
He says, I promise you, don't give up.
Here's a promise.
I mean, if you were reading in your actual scripture,
circle this.
Jesus is promising here.
He says, I promise you.
This is a big promise.
I promise you.
God, the son says,
I promise you,
if you have faith inside of you,
and it doesn't have to be huge, start small.
Doesn't have to be.
If you have faith inside of you,
just the teeny, teeny size of a small mustard seed,
the smallest of all seeds,
the smallest example he could come up with, the speck.
If you have faith like a speck,
but you speak that speck faith,
you activate that speck faith,
that little mustard seed faith,
then you can say to the mountain,
move away from here and go over there
and you'll see it moving.
And I love the end of this promise in Matthew 19, 20.
There's nothing you couldn't do.
Or the Amplified translation says,
nothing will be impossible for you.
nothing will be impossible for you nothing nothing will be you could write
that down nothing will be impossible for me nothing so we've got this battle that
goes on you know faith and fear this battle of faith and fear and and and we
see this in in Matthew 13 Peter sees Jesus walking on the water and Peter
really wants to do that he's pretty excited about that and he says Lord if
it's really you have me join on the water I want to do this this looks fun
this looks cool right and Jesus no problem Jesus has come join me and Peter
steps out on the water it's working he's walking on the water he is doing it he's
walking on the water but look at this when he relied on his eyes when he went
back to his natural senses and not his spiritual senses and he saw the size of
the waves then he let fear overtake him and he became frightened and he started
to sink he was walking just fine until he allowed his circumstances to be
bigger than his faith you must look at where is your focus are you focusing on
your circumstances how high the mountain is are you do you think about do you
meditate on do you just fret over the circumstances that the money that you
don't have or the the healing that you don't have yet or the relationship
problems that are in your face or or you know the complications from COVID going
on right now that you're watching your business numbers go down and so are you
focusing on that because if you do if you focus on your circumstances you will
sink just like Peter did our circumstances make us sink our faith
makes us rise and so as soon as he focused on that he became frightened
save me Lord save me save me and Jesus asked them a really important question
he's saying save me save me save me and of course Jesus is willing he's gracious
and he's loving but he he says look at the question in the passion translation
he makes the comment what little faith one wave freaked you out you were
walking Peter one wave one big bill one negative comment one medical diagnosis
and you start sinking it all the faith that you built and it takes one medical
diagnosis one doctor speaking one lawyer speaking one piece of mail one setback
one news report bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop you start sinking one little thing
and you start sinking and Jesus comments Peter you were doing it dude you were
walking on water do you have a grip on that you did it you got out of the boat
you were walking on water you were doing the impossible you did it Peter
why'd you let that go and that's the question he said why would you let doubt
win why would you nurture your doubt you were doing it you got this how many
miracles have you already seen how many times has has God saved your life how
many times have you been spared how many times have you been spared how many
miracles has he already done how many times has he provided for you so there
is this battle faith versus doubt there is this battle this ongoing battle is it
my is it going to be my faith or is it going to be my doubt you know um there
is the story in Matthew 21 and and Jesus is walking along and um he's
walking along and he goes looking for fruit in this big tree and it doesn't
have it and and Jesus
This mouth speaks and says, you know what, you're cursed.
You're never going to bear fruit again.
And they keep walking, walking.
And then on their return trip home, that huge, big,
beautiful fig tree had withered into absolutely nothing.
And they're shocked. They're beside themselves.
They are astonished.
They don't understand what in the
world happened.
And they ask, how is it that the fig tree?
I mean, a fig tree has, you know, a big trunk.
It's got branches. A fig tree has big leaves.
If you've seen fig leaves, they're big leaves.
I mean, you know, the you know, they covered themselves with fig leaves
in the Garden of Eden.
Now, these are big leaves.
These huge leaves.
And now there's nothing in just one day, just the return trip.
And Jesus said, again, pay attention.
I assure you, I most solemnly say if you have faith
and you do not doubt, if you look at this of doubt,
this is a really one this is what you see in James chapter one as well.
It's called being double minded.
If you don't allow yourself to be drawn in two directions.
The book of James chapter one tells us the same thing,
that being double minded will keep you from getting what you want.
Double minded. I believe God.
But man, these bills are so big.
I believe God. But oh, I'm fretting.
What am I going to do? I believe God.
But they say that this is going to be the worst recession in history.
I believe that's called being double minded.
He says, if you don't do that, if you don't doubt,
if you don't allow yourself to be drawn in two directions.
Then you'll do not only what I just did,
this was this was small potatoes, this fig tree.
But again, there's that mountain thing.
You can move mountains and understand that this
as we begin to wrap this up, that this is also the key
to our prayer to successful
prayers being answered.
He goes on to say, not only can you move mountains
if you won't be double minded.
But whatever.
If you're in your Bible circle, that whatever doesn't matter,
whatever you ask for in prayer,
if you will not allow yourself to be split,
if you will not allow yourself to be double minded,
if you will not entertain the doubt,
then whatever you ask for in prayer, believing you will receive it.
So how are you praying?
You're praying a faith prayer.
You're praying a belief prayer that says,
I believe this prayer will be answered.
I'm going to expect it.
I'm going to create space for it.
I'm not going to waver.
In fact, I am from this day forward going to thank God for the answer.
I'm going to seal it with gratitude.
I'm going to act as if I'm going to prepare the baby room, expecting the baby.
I'm going to prepare for these resources to come.
I'm going to open the bank account.
I'm going to prepare for God to provide.
I'm going to see it.
I'm going to believe it.
I'm going to speak it.
I'm going to thank it.
I'm going to consider it a done deal.
When you ask for prayer,
believing that you will receive it, you'll have it.
Jesus said, I promise.
He said, here it is in the passion translation.
I love this.
Everything you pray for with the fullness of faith.
You're going to receive it.
Pray with the fullness of faith.
You might want to write that down.
Everything I pray for with the fullness of faith.
It's mine.
It's a done deal.
Jesus says all things are possible.
So as we wrap it up, I pray that your faith has been stirred up.
You know, Paul told Timothy, you see this in scripture.
He says, stir up, stir up the gifts that are in you.
Whatever mustard seed of faith you have, stir up those gifts.
How do you do that?
Have a history with God.
Start writing down all.
the miracles. I have a friend, a client, that she writes down all the times God
moves, all the miracles. She keeps a list. You know, that's called building a
history with God so that you can recount what he's done. So you stir up the faith.
You know what? If God did it before, he can do it again. You know what? God
provided for me, and this time he can do it again. God protected me, and this time
he can do it again. God, you know, resolved that situation. He can do it again. God is
the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is not in time like we are. He's the same.
If he did it for you before, he'll do it again. Remember those times that you were
miraculously saved. You were miraculously provided for. You were miraculously
directed. You were miraculously moved forward. Remember those times, and
thank God. Gratitude replaces fear. You know, perfect love casts out fear.
Gratitude. It's just the best thing you can be doing is just, you know, if you've
got nothing else to do to get out of your situation, just go around thanking
God. I thank you, God, for all the times you've healed me. I thank you, God, for all
the times you've protected me. I thank you, God, for all the divine appointments
in my life. I thank you, God, for all the ways that you worked. I thank you, God.
Stay in that place of gratitude, and I know you'll do it again. I know you'll
do it again, God. I'm praying with expectation. I'm praying with faith. I'm
praying with confidence. I'm creating space for you to move. I know you'll do
it again, and I know he'll do that for you. You're here by divine appointment. I
don't think it's an accident that you got on this call, or if you're listening
to the replay, or you were drawn to this somehow. This is not an accident. God's
speaking to you. He's saying, activate your faith. You've got power. You've got
power deep inside of you. In Ephesians, Paul prayed that they would know the
power, and the way he described that power, he said, I just pray that you'll
know in your knower that you'll know the unlimited, the unsurpassing, the
immeasurable greatness of the power. Where? That's working in you and through
you. You've got power. You're not a helpless, hopeless victim. You've got
power. You've got God in you. You're the temple of the Holy Spirit. You're carrying
God. You're a God carrier. When you walk in a room, God walks in a room. When you
speak, God speaks. Step into your authority. You have power of life or
death in your tongue. Activate that power. Stir up those gifts in you. You've got
this, mighty woman. You've got this, mighty man. You've got this. This is going to be
your test. It's going to be turned into a testimony. I promise your mess is going to
turn into a message. I promise. God's got you. He's always had you. He never
leaves you. He never forsakes you. God's got you. Don't let discouragement. Don't
let doubt creep in. Don't let the voices. Turn off the TV. Turn off the voices of
mediocrity. Those voices that say, isn't he the carpenter's son? Ah! Cut off the
voices of mediocrity. The ones that don't think you can do it. The ones that
remind you. The voices that remind you of your past when you messed up. Cut them
off. Say to that mountain, be thou removed. You can do this. You got this. God in you.
Christ in you. The hope of glory. You got power in you. You've got this. Don't ever
let the voices of mediocrity silence your dreams. You've got a hope. You've got
a faith. You've got a call on your life. You've got a purpose in your life. Walk
that out. Walk that out, mighty woman. Walk that out, mighty man. You got this. I
promise. Put your prayers. Put your comments in. I go back through afterwards.
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hashtag replay. I'll reach out to you. Put your prayers here. Put what you're
grateful for. Speak it out. Put it in the comments and I will be standing in
agreement. The power of agreement. I will be standing in agreement for your
healing, for your provision, for your relationships, for your business. If you
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