All right, welcome to Faith Friday, and this is going to be a special session on Faith Friday, because we're going to get into some teaching and activation on faith, because it's just become a topic of interest, and also a topic of just what the Lord is putting on our hearts this week and in this season, because we need it.
And we need to activate our faith, and there needs to be an understanding of how to use our faith, what faith is, all that kind of stuff.
And Jackie's asked me to go ahead and share a little bit on that, because she and I were talking earlier this week about some specific things that related to the activation of faith as it relates to achieving and getting into and seeing things change in your life.
This community is centered around activating and getting into relationship and focusing in on that part of your life.
But there's so many other parts of your life that, in my life included, that we can activate in faith.
And relationship, of course, and getting breakthrough in the areas of your personal relationships and your romantic relationships, of course, is very important.
But getting breakthrough in a lot of other things is important as well that also relate to getting into personal relationships.
So it's important that we understand that, and we're going to do that today on Faith Friday.
We're going to do some activating later on as well, and I think you're going to be really excited about it, because I think you're going to get some breakthrough.
We're really looking forward to some testimonies coming out of today's activation.
So if you're ready, get ready.
I want you to respond a lot in the comments this morning, if you can, just by way of participating and activating.
Where do I want to start with regard to your activating?
Maybe it'll come to me here in just a second, but let me get into this.
I pulled some notes from my teaching days where, you know, I come from the word and faith background.
That is a movement of kind of teaching that was really popularized in the 70s and 80s, where in Christian charismania, if you want to call it that, that style of Christianity, there was a strong focus on the word.
There was a strong focus on activating your faith, moving in the gifts of the Spirit, and it was really a revelation, a resurgence, a renaissance, if you will, of being filled with the Spirit for the modern-day believer.
And it was a season and time, on the heels of a lot of the faith healing that was happening in the 40s and 50s, there was this now resurgence of in the 70s and 80s, where there was a strong teaching.
It was more teaching and not necessarily—it was activation, because it usually always was some sort of like activation at the end in the kinds of services that I grew up as a young child when my faith was being formed.
Now, I'll tell you, there's a lot of things that happen in every movement of faith, every movement, I would even say, of every denomination or every outpouring or every—there's always the extremes.
There's always the 2.0, 3.0, second and third generation, where humans, as they get involved, people begin to start getting messed up.
They get away from the core truth. They get away—they have their personalities get involved, their egos get involved, and there's lots of things that happen.
That happens with every movement. That happens with every revelation. That happens with—and so what we as believers want to do is we want to contend for truth.
We want to contend for the core truth and power of the word.
And so regardless of—I say that to say that regardless of what you've heard about faith or faith teaching, grab it and blab it, some people call it, trying to speak in tongues and get a new car, that type of thing, there's been a lot of criticism for that style.
of going after faith.
But that's not what I'm talking about this morning.
I am not talking about trying to use your faith
to get something that you want from God,
just because you want it,
just because you're selfish,
just because, that's not what I'm talking about
this morning.
I'm talking about the kind of faith
that shifts your life
and the lives of other people around you
for the kingdom, for the good, for the better.
Do you use your faith to get the things you want?
Of course you do.
But you don't use it in such a way
that is selfish or that is greedy or that is opulent.
It's not about that.
Is heaven opulent?
Is heaven ornate?
Yes, it actually is.
Is the kingdom of heaven, can you have abundance on earth?
Yes, the scripture bears that out.
You can have abundance.
You can have more than.
But that's not the point of activating the faith.
Activating the faith is coming in partnership with God.
Matter of fact, my pastor's pastor back in the day,
he defined faith as simply knowing God.
In other words, if you know God,
if you know who he is,
if you know what his character is like,
if you know what he would do
and what his proclivity is in typical situations,
then you understand the nature of God.
You understand more of where the answer lies
in certain situations.
And then you're easily able to come into agreement with God
to activate this certain truth in your life.
In other words, you can make things happen in your world
and in the world around you
through the activation of your faith.
It is not about, oh, I don't have enough faith.
I don't, I have to build up my faith
or I have to, it's like acquiring some sort of like credit
or acquiring some sort of treasure.
Oh, now I have enough faith.
As in now I have enough money
or like equating it to some sort of value.
Like I have enough to purchase this.
That is not the way faith works.
It is not about getting more faith.
It is simply about knowing God.
It is simply about knowing his characteristics,
about knowing his way.
And we talk a lot about that in this community.
We talk about, we contend for,
and we try to always go back to the level of truth.
There's some teaching out there,
and Jack has addressed it this week,
about that like singleness is giving individuals
because they're struggling in their singleness,
a theological stance to say, well,
maybe God's given you the gift of singleness.
And we have addressed that over and over and over again.
And unfortunately it's a tool of the enemy
used by people that want to relegate
and not deal with this problem of singleness
that we're having in our world today.
It's more than just individuals not trying,
find somebody who's compatible
and finding someone who lines up with their values
and lines up with what it is they're looking for
and a spirit mate and so forth.
It's more than that.
We're having more of a crisis in this area
because there is an enemy
and there's an enemy that's coming against us.
But we who are of faith,
we who are in faith,
we who are of the Lord,
we who know Jesus and who know his word,
this right here is my word.
This is my mother's amplified Bible.
I asked her if I could have it, and this is my word.
This book is as old or older than I am.
But she's taken very good care of it.
She even has the little tabs
so she can find the books of the Bible back in the day
when this is one of her first Bibles.
And my mother is a word
and she will pray the paint off the walls.
I'll tell you that right now.
If you need somebody to pray for you,
you call my mom at any moment of the day,
she will drop what she's doing.
She will pray for you and you will get a breakthrough
and you will have a revelation
and you will have a moment with the Lord
because that woman knows how to pray.
She knows how to activate her faith.
This is the foundation with which I was raised.
We were coming to faith in our family
at that time altogether.
We got saved in the early seventies.
I got saved when I was about five or six years old,
filled with the spirit, all that.
And I've been contending and working
in the kingdom ever since.
And so I didn't have the second, third,
fourth generation of Christianity in my lineage.
I just had, I mean, I knew there were people
that probably generations ago were praying
for our future generations, but we didn't know them
and we didn't have the kind of faith
that they had at that time.
So we were essentially first-generation new believers
experientially, if you understand what I mean.
So I wanna outline some things for you very quickly
with regard to faith and activating your faith.
First and foremost, activating your faith,
some of the key scriptures, of course, are Hebrews 11.1,
which is now faith of the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
Even though I said that faith is not like a credit
that you build up, there is a spiritual substance to it
and is a substance of activation.
And it's connected and it's tied to the things
that you're hoping for,
the things that you want to see happen.
When I ask people the question of what is it you want,
that's my core question.
I go to that, like, what do you want?
When I used to go into the hospital rooms,
I used to do hospital visitations
with regard to the ministry I was involved in.
I would go see people in the hospital
and I learned a couple of things that were very key.
And there was an elder that taught me this.
And he said, when you go in, you greet them
and you see their situation,
you sort of assess what's going on.
And we're visiting people in the hospital who are sick
and having surgery or going through
whatever they're going through.
And you greet them and you have some pleasantries,
but then you get to the core question,
which is like, okay, what are the doctors saying?
Okay, and then that gives them an opportunity
to tell you what their condition is
or what their situation is or what's going on.
And then you turn the situation to,
and what are you believing for?
You know, not as a heavy put on,
but how can I pray for you?
How can I agree with you?
How can I, so we have information from the doctors
that this is the disease, this is the condition.
And then I would say, you know, what are you believing for?
And some of them would say,
well, I just really just would like to be healed from this.
I want to get out of here.
You know, I don't want to be in the hospital.
And some of them would not have very much faith.
And they were like, I don't know.
I just, this sickness and so forth.
And so sometimes I would have to sort of increase
their faith and help them with that.
And, but most of the time, what I would do
is I would simply take the information they gave me
about what the doctor said,
and I would agree or add my faith to their faith.
I typically couldn't go beyond what they were believing for
in their situation, unless there was a specific,
moment of an act of faith or a gift of faith
for a certain situation.
Most of the time, I was asking them,
not only just like Jesus did,
not only what God can do or what God will do,
but what you can believe.
So that's a good question today is what can you believe?
What are you believing for?
So put in the chat today,
while I'm doing a little bit more teaching,
what is something that you're believing for today?
What is something that you need to be shifted in your life?
It could be on your relationships, it could be financial,
it could be personal, it could be health,
it could be something just topically,
but just what are you believing for today?
Some people believing for a job, financial, healing,
a couple of things coming in there at first.
So go on and continue to articulate
what it is you're believing for today.
And when I would go in those hospital rooms, I would come and use the power of agreement because I would add my faith to their faith.
Okay.
So we would multiply our faith together, because they would be leaving for something and I would say, Okay, I'm coming in with reinforcements, and I could come I've been. Sometimes we would have other people come with us.
And sometimes we go out two by two, and we'd have another minister there and so we're adding their faith, and so we're adding our faith together to come into agreement for breakthrough for this person healing and deliverance right.
That is scriptural is powerful and you can do it.
And then some of what we're going to be doing today.
The next thing I want to highlight is that faith comes by speaking and believing Mark 1122 to 24 is very hallmark word of faith scripture, have faith in God.
I love that.
Have faith in God.
For surely I say to you, whoever says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea and does not have doubt in his heart, but believe that those things that he says will be done.
He will have he or she will have whatever he says, therefore I say to you this Jesus speaking, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
And you say, but that sounds so simple. It is.
It is so simple.
Then why is it so hard because there's so many things in the way.
And it's not to your own I mean look, we're living in a difficult time. We're living in a difficult world. We're living in a world with an incredible amount of resistance, spiritually, supernaturally, naturally.
So it's, it's a given that yeah it's hard.
It is challenging. It is a lot of stuff we have our this is what the hard work is all about right.
We see the trauma we recognize the things we have trauma. And so the hard work helps us reveal some of the trauma we've been dealing with the things that are in our way.
Okay, so those things are there by our own doing by the, by the, the doings of people that have been in our past things that aren't even have anything to do with us but they're present there because they came into life somehow.
Those are just the givens or it's not about, you know where the blame is.
It is just about the fact that there's things in your way there's things that are resisting you.
And when we sooner we get those things out of the way and get clarity, which this lesson is supposed to do today. Have faith in God.
In spite of the circumstances, in spite of what you see, in spite of what you think you know, in spite of what somebody else says no have faith in God, and having faith in God you could literally as Jesus says you could literally speak to a mountain.
How many of you today would say that there are things that you feel like are resisting you there are obstacles in your life that feel like mountains.
That's, it's why he used a mountain analogy. He didn't say, speak to the little moral he'll speak to the little pebble, and it'll be moved away because that's easy to understand we could just kick that out of the way.
He used the analogy of a mountain that is supposed to be in the place of or reference or visual representation of the stuff that's in your way.
And Jesus said, when you have simple faith in God.
You will speak to that mountain in it shall we be removed.
And that shall be cast into the sea.
What happens to dirt when it goes into water it usually just dissolves and settles, it goes away.
Take a cloud of dirt and a big pile of dirt a mountain of dirt, and you move it out of the way and it dissolves.
That is how simple and effective and powerful and strong.
Having faith in God can be and as I said before, what is faith.
Faith is just simply knowing God.
Until you know God, you have to know what his word says.
So it's very simple.
What does his word say.
Yeah, but yeah but I don't have any money yeah but what does this word say. Yeah, but I don't have the right person in my life yeah but what does this word say.
Yeah, but I don't have the job right yeah but what does this word say.
Workman is worthy of us higher. He provides for those.
when he sleeps, you know, that you can have abundant life.
There's all kinds of scriptures that you can look to
that say, yeah, but the word says differently
than what I'm seeing.
And that should bring encouragement,
that should bring power to you to go,
yeah, I see all this, but his word says something different.
What does his word say?
And oh my God, when you start seeing his word
in contrast to the things that you're seeing
that are in your way, and you say, I have higher,
I have higher word, I have a higher power,
I have a higher authority that says differently.
I have lack in my life.
Yeah, no, no, no, I serve a God who has,
who owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
He has abundance, he has riches more than anything.
I have a God who supplies every need.
Yeah, that's the kind of substance that builds your faith.
Romans 10, 17, so then faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of God.
So I've talked about adding faith and agreement
as it helps you to come into more of a powerful prayer.
Matthew 18, 19 through 20, again, I say to you
that if two of you agree on earth
concerning anything they ask,
it will be done for them by my Father in heaven
for where two or three are gathered together in my name,
I am there in the midst of them.
Okay, Matthew 18.
Deuteronomy, excuse me, James.
Oh, well, Deuteronomy 32, 30.
How could one chase a thousand
and two put 10,000 to flight unless their rock
had sold them the Lord had given up on them?
Agreement amplifies, that's the foundational part
of when you come into agreement,
the agreement scripture that says
when one puts a thousand flight, two put 10,000 flight,
there's a multiplication exponential power
when you come together on anything in agreement,
especially faith.
James 5, 16, the effective fervent prayer
of a righteous person avails much.
When two or more righteous believers join together
in faith-filled prayer, its effectiveness is magnified, okay?
And now there's something I want to highlight,
which is the difference between the gift of faith
and personal faith.
We understand that everyone is given a measure of faith.
Romans 12, three says this,
God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
Every believer has a measure of faith
for their walk with God.
Whatever it takes for you to walk with God,
God has given you that level of faith.
When it says that he's given you a measure of faith,
a lot of people think, well,
God gave some little bit of faith
and others a lot more faith.
No, no, no, no, no.
What that means is, is he's given you,
listen to, you have to read the scripture
and not just read the Bible.
You know what I'm saying?
You have to read, like Jackie says,
you have to read the Bible, not just read the Bible.
It's not like some give a little faith
and others have a lot of faith.
No, it's not like that at all.
What it is is that God has given you the level of faith,
whatever it takes for you to walk with him,
for you to go with him,
he's given you that measure for your individual life.
And it is true.
Some people need a lot of faith to walk through their life
because their life is a lot.
And other people, it seems like they don't need
as much faith because they don't encounter.
But that's everyone's separate individual life, right?
So the faith of a believer.
There's also a thing that's called the gift of faith,
which is found in the first Corinthians 12, nine,
where it lines up and talks about the gifts of the spirit.
And the gift of faith is a specific enabling of power
for extraordinary works or miracles beyond capacity.
It is a gift of faith.
Whoever is on there, if you would go ahead and mute yourself.
All right, I think we got it taken care of.
So the gift of faith is one of the nine spiritual gifts
listed in first Corinthians 12.
That is a specific endowment of power
that enables a believer to do extraordinary works
or miracles.
Jesus operated in this gift of faith.
And there are certain individuals.
that operate and just at a particular higher level of faith and typically for
other people, not necessarily for themselves, for other people. In other
words, have you ever heard somebody say, I have faith for that. I have the faith
for that. I have faith for specific kinds of things, specific kind of
breakthroughs. There is a there's a grace on this movement for the area of
getting relationship, getting your relationships fixed, getting and having
breakthrough in your romantic relationship. Jackie operates in a gift
of faith or a level of faith that says, let me show you, let me teach you, let me
train you, let me work with you, let me inspire you, let me be in community with
you because you're having this issue with finding your spirit mate. I have the
faith for that. I have a gift of faith to get you breakthrough in this area. Let's
partner together and let's get that breakthrough for you. That is essential
part of what we're doing in this community specifically. But there's more
because this community is more than just romantic relationships and spirit mates.
This community is a community of believers and kingdom people because
there's more going on in your life. And so what we want to do is we want to
activate that. So we can come together on days like Faith Friday and we can
activate our faith. We can join our faith together and believe for breakthrough.
So
there are some times when people come to me and say I need this and I say sure
we can let we can pray for that. And then sometimes there's a specific word that
comes to me and then my faith is elevated because I do believe I walk in
the gift of faith and I in most instances are like yo I have faith for
that. I can believe that. And so I try I step into and I start
activating that gift of faith that's within me that says I can believe for
that. Even when somebody else is having lower faith they're not sure they're
just saying you know I'm just really having a struggle struggling with this.
So I add and connect my faith with them to believe for their breakthrough. There
are some times when you hear people's stories and you hear what they're going
through and you say oh yeah that would be really difficult I don't know how you
can handle that you know. So it doesn't seem like you have you can agree with
them in your own level of faith. You can agree with them and and partner with
them and pray with them still. But sometimes there's things when people say
and talk about their circumstance and their situation and you wonder why is
it such a problem. Like there's some people like finances is a good one.
There's some people that are really good with finances. They have finances. They
know how to work finances. They know how to make money. There are other people
that struggle with that. There are other people sometimes that have a hard time
with finances. Okay. Someone that understands finances will look at
somebody and go that's struggling with finances and wonder why is that such a
problem. Why is that such a big deal. Right. And someone who is spiritually
activated and using their faith even more so who has an ability with finances
might come along and hear somebody's story say I'm really lacking in finances
I need a breakthrough I need a job in this kind of things and they go you know
what I have the faith for that. I have the faith. I just can believe with you
and for you. I'm gonna add my faith or I'm gonna even stand instead of your
faith. You have like zero faith. Let me let me use my faith and help you through
the situation. Does that make sense? Is that tracking with anybody? Does anybody
want help in their faith this morning? There's this one guy. Okay Ruth.
Yes. I want this faith. Yes. How many are saying yes I want this level of faith or
I want more faith or I want to learn how to operate better in my faith. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes. So that's what we're doing this morning. We're going to activate. I want
to say one last thing here. There's the story in Matthew 8 and Luke 7.
The centurion whose faith was found greater than all of Israel. Jesus said
when the story comes to an end
he says there's no greater faith than I found in all of Israel than this man
here. And it was really interesting because the story goes that in Luke 7
after Jesus had finished all that he had to say in hearing of the people he
entered Capernaum. Now a centurion who was if you've seen The Chosen this is
this is depicted in The Chosen series and it's really kind of cool how they do
it. But a centurion who's a Roman soldier and a Roman soldier of authority and a
man who commands multiple other Roman soldiers in the biblical times had a
bondservant who was held in honor and highly valued by him and whose his
bondservant was sick and at the point of death. And when the centurion heard
of Jesus he sent some Jewish elders to him requesting him to come and make his
bondservant well. And when they reached Jesus they begged him earnestly saying
he is he is worthy that you should do this for him. In other words they
understood the centurion and they had a relationship with him and they vouched
for him to Jesus they said he's worthy like he won't despise the teaching of
Jesus. He loves our nation he built us our synagogue at his own expense and
Jesus went with him. But when he was not far from his house the centurion sent
some friends to him saying the Lord do not trouble yourself for I am not
sufficiently worthy to have you come under my roof. In other words so it's
kind of cool that the elders vouched for him but the centurion himself felt
he was unworthy felt like he didn't have him he didn't know the faith that he had
he didn't he was not sure he didn't know God enough like as in the definition of
what is faith knowing God he didn't know God enough for himself to know what was
going to happen. He felt like he was unworthy for Jesus to come into his very
own environment to accomplish what he had wanted Jesus to do. How many of you
feel like that some days you feel like you're not worthy you feel like you
don't deserve it you don't feel like you didn't earn it you didn't feel like you
you know this isn't really mine I want this but it really I don't know if it's
really truly something that I can have because I'm just not sure. How many of you
feel I feel like that a lot of ways a lot of times I feel like I'm just I
didn't do enough work I don't deserve this I'll just stay down here at this
level I don't deserve to live at this level or operate at this level I don't
deserve to have this level of authority I don't deserve to have this level of
influence you know a lot of people feel that way you feel this less than okay
and this centurion felt this way and he says neither did I consider myself
worthy to come to you so not only is Jesus I don't feel like he's worthy
to come to my house I'm not even worthy to come to you Jesus because I feel bad
about myself I feel bad about my state I feel bad about the position and
condition that I put myself in because we're always blaming ourselves for our
situation and not very much of it is ourselves a lot of it's just the
resistance around us and the life and the trauma and everything that's
happened to us and this is for I am also a man subject to authority this is the
century now talking and saying this message to Jesus the soldiers with
soldiers out of me I say one go and he goes and another comedy comes and to my
bonds and to my bondservant do this and he does it now when Jesus heard this he
marveled at him and turned and said to the crowd and followed that followed him
I tell you not even in all of Israel have I found such great faith and when
the messengers who had been sent returned to the house they found the
bondservant who had been ill quite well again so the lessons from this story is
this that hearing Jesus doesn't even need to be present even in this situation
he wasn't even there for the healing to happen but because the centurion said I
am a man under authority number one he heard the word of the Lord he heard that
Jesus heals he heard that Jesus was around he heard that he does these
things there was this testimony that was going around he heard the word of the
Lord he understood the word of the Lord he also recognized authority he said you
don't even I'm not even worthy for you to come into my house I'm not even
worthy to come to you but I understand authority and if you say
that my servant can be healed, then he'll be healed.
He was confident in knowing that God would do
what he said he would do because he had heard
and he understood authority.
Those are the two requirements of activating your faith,
understanding what is being said,
the fact that you can have breakthrough,
the fact that you could have healing,
the fact that you can have finances,
the fact that you could have what it is that you say
that you want, and what you want isn't unrighteous.
We're not talking about ungodly sinful things
that you would want.
When I ask you, what do you want?
You're gonna give me an answer that lines up with,
I want breakthrough, I want relationship,
I want, okay, those are all kingdom godly things.
So we're not talking about selfish fleshly things
that you want, we're talking about
what do you really, really want, right?
We're not talking about, I want a Snickers bar.
You're talking about like, what do you want?
Like, what do you want today?
What kind of breakthrough do you want?
Oh, I want my life changed.
I want my life, I want the Lord, I want breakthrough.
I want a job, I want breakthrough in my finances.
That's what we're talking about.
So when you answer that,
so when you look at what it is you want
and you find and you hear that you can have,
you hear the word that you could have what you want,
and then you understand where's that word coming from.
It's coming from a position of authority.
Jesus said it, it's in his word.
Whoa, that changes the whole thing.
That brings life, that brings power onto the scene.
That brings change, that brings,
whoa, things just got real, okay?
This is the level of faith
that every single one of you can operate in.
Now, are you gonna operate it in a perfectly?
No, but you cultivate it and you work with it
and you use your faith
and you come in agreement with others.
So this is what we're gonna do today.
A lot of people articulated what you want,
what you're believing for in faith today.
There's some things that you need breakthrough in today
that you can't articulate because you're like,
I don't know, like you didn't,
a lot of people probably didn't write
when I asked you to write is,
what are you believing for today?
A lot of you left out maybe something that you really need,
but you're not really sure you have faith
and you didn't even write it down.
Because you're like, ah, well,
I sort of can believe for this,
but I'm not, I really need this over here too,
but I didn't write that down
because I'm not even sure I'm supposed to even have that
or I'm allowed to, or I have enough faith or whatever.
I'm not even sure that there's even an answer for that.
And some of you even just left that out.
Some of you wrote down the thing that you are contending for,
but you're just don't, I'm like, I just,
it's a real problem and you need help with it.
You need agreement.
You need somebody else that's like,
oh yeah, that's not a big deal.
And they're gonna step into their gift of faith for you
and agree with you.
So we're gonna agree on a lot of these things today.
And who has, I'm just gonna do this topically
because we don't have very much time left.
And so it'd be very difficult
to go through every single one of these,
but we're just gonna take some of these prayer requests here
and you're going to,
we're gonna have to take this by faith as a group today.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask
for someone who has faith for a specific thing
to pray and go like, oh, that's not a big deal.
I can pray for that.
And so all the people that need that
and level of faith for that,
you're going to add your agreement with them
and we're going to agree together in faith believing.
Does that make sense today?
Is that cool?
We understand that.
David, I received healing on this call.
I woke up with a ruddy nose and a cough
and I wrote it in the chat
that I was believing that on the same day it came in,
it will go out.
And my ruddy nose stopped in Jesus name.
So I just pray for everybody.
By his stripes, we are healed in Jesus name.
So no more cough, no more colds, no more sickness,
no more flus in Jesus name.
Thank you for healing us from the top of our heads
to the soles of our feet.
Amen.
Thank you, Christine.
Thank you for that.
Who has faith to believe for something in.
breakthrough, like, yeah, oh no, that's, I have other issues
that I may need faith for and agree before,
but this one particular thing, like, you know what I'm saying?
Who has something that you have a level of faith for
this morning that wants to pray for everyone?
Maybe it's finances, maybe it's, we just had Christine
pray for healing, like immediate healing,
that's very specific, not just healing, but healing now,
like the same day it came in, the same day it's leaving.
Okay, like a momentary, like right now instant
sort of like transformation.
So that was good, that was very specific.
Maybe you have a specific breakthrough that you've had
in a long-term illness that somebody has on this call
that they're needing faith for and that you can pray for.
So who has that?
Who's ready to go this morning?
Put down all the hate.
I have faith for a home, for people that wanna buy a home
and to be completely out of debt because God has done that.
And I'm a quilter and I sew, and I'm sitting in a home
that's paid for, and it's a freaking wonderful thing.
I just pray, Lord, right now, thank you, Lord,
that you are a giver of good gifts, God.
I just pray over every ear, every man, every woman
that hears this, that they believe, I have faith for them
that they will also step into a house
that they are gonna buy.
You will walk them through getting the deposit.
You will walk them through getting the right realtor.
You'll walk them through, and it takes time,
and it takes time, and they will know it
and hold your hand through it
and give them peace through it, God.
Every step is like this amazing peace, Lord.
I just pray that over each individual right now
and that one day they will say that mortgage is paid
and God paid it for, we did it together.
It's a together thing, amen.
Amen, thank you.
Thank you for that.
You're grabbing onto each one of these testimonies.
You're grabbing onto Gwen has a house that's paid for
and she's out of debt.
If you want that, then you just come in agreement
with Gwen's prayer and say, yes, I want that.
I've heard it, there's authority on it,
and I'm gonna take it and I claim it for my situation.
David, I have-
Hold on just one second.
I believe there's someone here this morning
that has a measure of wisdom that has just like,
I know what to do, when to do it.
Like I just have that gift.
I typically know what the response is.
And you have the ability to pray for someone else
who needs wisdom.
Who's that, this person this morning?
I think that's me.
Crystal, go ahead.
Father, we just thank you, Lord.
As stated earlier here, Lord, Jackie has the gift of faith,
Lord, for us to find our spirit mate, Lord.
But I believe that I have the gift to release to everyone
that when we come under the people
who have the gift of faith, Lord,
and follow the exact directions, Lord,
that we will get exactly what we came for, Lord.
I release, Lord, that they will have the wisdom
to hear what the step is and follow every single direction.
Father, we can't leave the chips
out of the chocolate chip cookies, Lord.
And when we receive this wisdom, Lord,
when we follow everything that has been set before us,
faith Fridays, prayer, every piece of homework, Lord,
what we came here for, healing, deliverance, heart healing,
Lord, that you will give it to us
if we just stay and follow in faith, amen.
That is so powerful.
I've never heard that before.
We can't leave the chocolate chips
out of the chocolate chip cookies
because they're not chocolate chip cookies anymore,
are they?
And the thing about it is,
is if you came to a group called Last Year Single
and you're part of this community
because you want breakthrough in your relationships,
but you don't do what the community is doing,
then why are you here?
It's like a poor use of wisdom.
So get wisdom.
I love that.
Thank you, Crystal.
Get wisdom, do what you're supposed to do,
put the chocolate chips back in the chocolate chip cookies
so you can have chocolate chip cookies.
It's that simple, folks.
I love it.
Okay, who was, Jill, go ahead.
What do you have faith for this morning?
I wanted to have faith and pray
for restoration and relationships and families
heading towards the holidays.
So Lord Jesus, I just pray for you.
I'm on my knees for my brothers and sisters here,
for these families that feel broken,
that relationships feel hopeless,
feel like there's no restoration possible.
God, you bring us together.
You are the healer.
You want us to be together and to have restoration.
So I just pray faith into anyone needing that
with their children, their parents,
their sisters, their friends.
There's so much brokenness in this world
and broken people break others.
And I just pray for healing and restoration.
And as we go through this process, that we can be people who bring relationships back
together.
But I pray your hand of blessing on the area of relationships and brokenness within that
within families, that you can have all of branches extended, that you can have invitations
accepted Lord, that you can have people who thought they wouldn't hear from somebody get
messages and, and warmth and the love.
This is a season to be grateful and to remember you God.
And I just pray that you can just pour out your blessings and your healing in this area
of relationships and in families and in friendship, because so much of the time people end up
in isolation this time of year and in depression.
And I just pray against that spirit of isolation and depression.
I, I, I asked that anyone that has previously been in agreement is broken.
The ties are broken with that Lord Jesus, and that your healing and your restoration
is paramount, that it comes through in such mighty and powerful ways that people walk
away with a testimony.
Even right now, God, even today that someone had a text message or a phone call from someone
they didn't think that they'd have healing or restoration with.
I just know you want to bring us together, not apart.
And the enemy always wants us to be isolated and apart.
So I just pray against that scheme of the enemy that he has no ground here.
He has no power.
He has no authority in this area.
And I just say that you are King of Kings, your Lord of Lords, and you will make a stream
in the desert and a path in the wilderness in this area for the people who are broken
or who are hurting, who feel like this area is hopeless.
I pray new hope inside of them today in Jesus name.
Amen.
Thank you, Jill.
Your response, when somebody has a level of faith that's praying for you that you're trying
to connect with because you're kind of connecting your faith because you realize, I need faith
for that, but they have faith for it and they're praying for it.
Your response is yes and amen.
Your response, just like Mary did, amen, be it unto me.
Like, you know, I hear what you're saying, I'm receiving it by faith.
Like my level of faith is kind of low in this area or for this thing, but I'm just
going to receive that.
And so with all of these things that we're being prayed, but you know, I really believe
the season right now, it is the holiday season.
I'm glad you brought that point up because there's a lot of reconciliation that can happen.
And I believe it will happen in this community.
I believe we're going to have a lot of testimonies of this holiday season where there's family,
there's reconciliation in families, that there are people coming back together.
And you know, everybody was coming into the season after the elections and how politically
divisive everything was and all the issues and everybody's concerned about coming into
holidays because they go, oh my God, don't mention anything politically.
Don't mention anything issues wise, we're going to get in a fight and everybody's going
to be mad and everything like that.
So everybody's like dreading the holidays for even hyper in this season because of just
simply that reason alone.
And so I'm just telling you what, there's going to be a difference though, in this community,
there's going to be people that reconcile, there's going to be family members.
Just like Jill said, there's phone calls that come out of nowhere and people that didn't,
you didn't think were going to show up that showed up or that people you haven't heard
from for a long time.
You're going to, there's going to be some sort of reconciliate, reconnection in that
those family and those relational things, even friends.
And so if you want that, need that, have to have that, take that as your word, and
then begin to, just like James says, the effective fervent prayer, this became rehearsing that
prayer.
You don't have to like get all excited and feel something, just rehearse the prayer.
So we have this prayer call on Friday and it was great.
And somebody mentioned family reconciliation.
Somebody mentioned wisdom.
Somebody mentioned getting out of debt, buying your own house.
Somebody mentioned, you know, getting a job.
Those are the things I need, just, Lord, my faith is on that.
My prayer and my agreement with that is yes and amen, amen.
So be it unto me, as you have said, right?
That is your response to the call of faith today.
All right.
Some other things, marriage and family, healing, we have a breakthrough job.
We have a, did we pray for jobs already?
Because I know there's so many people looking for like a job or something.
I do pray for jobs.
Who's that?
I'm Ruth.
Yeah.
Ruth.
Go ahead.
Okay.
So I'm sure some people have heard this, but when I got my job, I heard 10 no's.
I did 11 interviews.
I heard 10 no's.
God told me I was a no.
and I have the job I wanted,
I was a no.
I ended up getting the top hospital
I was a no.
in one of the top hospitals in the world.
I was a no.
So if you're hearing no, it's because better is coming.
I was a no.
So.
Yes.
Anyway, God, I thank you that you are our provider
and you give us the ability to get wealth
according to Deuteronomy 8, 8, 18.
So God, I declare that anyone who needs an upgrade in job,
their job situation,
whether it be because they're not making enough money,
if it's a toxic work environment,
if it's even a location,
God, I pray that I release my testimony
to everyone here on this call.
And I pray for the faith that they,
even though they're hearing a no or it's not working out,
that you have better around the corner.
You're actually saving them for the best job,
the best location, the best coworkers,
just whatever detail they need in their jobs.
God, I thank you for the testimonies
that are coming in today.
I thank you for the connections
that will be the connection they need for that job.
God, I thank you for raises and bonuses in jobs
that are already good now.
God, I thank you for favor with bosses
and favor with clients.
I thank you for that we would be the salt and light
of this world that people wouldn't go to these jobs
thinking that it's just their job,
but they would know that it's their ministry
and the way that they walk into it with excellence
would be a testimony to everyone around them
in Jesus name, amen.
Amen, thank you so much for praying that so good.
I'm just looking down through some of these comments.
A lot of family, a lot of healing,
a lot of like breakthrough, like new job,
a lot of harmony, core spirit mate.
We're gonna pray for that at kind of the end.
Physical healing, job finances, healthy relationships.
A lot of the same things coming up
over and over and over and over again.
Anything out there that anybody has in mind
that they're just kind of like burning
in their heart right now,
a topic that we haven't really hit yet?
I have one.
So basically it's for drugs and alcohol.
A lot of people drink at this time of year
and they don't want to.
You know, it's something that they wanna be able to give up
and one of those, and I actually had God heal me from that.
And so I had heard him one day saying,
I can't take you any further
until you give up drugs and alcohol.
And it wasn't like a big drug and alcohol problem,
it was just an everyday drinking.
You know, it was a casual one.
Yeah.
And so Lord, for the people who really just wanna stop,
they don't wanna get stoned, they don't wanna drink
and they know it's not good for them,
but it's so much in the culture
and so much in their friends and family.
Yes.
I pray that you will touch their hearts.
I pray that you will give them not only the desire,
but really what you gave me the, I can do this.
And it was so amazing for going to a place
and being able to say, you know, I don't want that wine.
No, I don't want that.
And coming home at night and not wanting to stop
and get a glass of wine or whatever it is, Lord.
And you did that for me and I know you can do that for them.
I pray that you increase their faith for that.
I pray that they can look at you and just say yes
and you will do the amazing, miraculous thing that you did.
And it's just no longer attractive
that the power you have given them,
that they want to please you is so much stronger
than anything, you know,
that drugs or alcohol can give them, God.
Yes.
Or that if their friends ask them,
that they can easily say no and there's no pressure.
I pray that when there's tension and pressure coming up,
that the thought of having a drink is like,
nah, that's not what I want.
And Lord, I pray when that urge or that strong craving
or that stress is there, Lord,
that you are right in their face, Holy Spirit,
that you flood them so that that desire
is easily being able to turn away.
Lord, thank you for doing it for me.
And I have faith that you can do it
for every single person who wants it on this call.
Jesus.
I love that.
Thank you so much, Joanne.
That is powerful.
That's so necessary.
There's a lot of things, even just our diets alone,
just the unhealthiness of our diets.
There's so many things that in our culture,
and then they're more prevalent in certain circles
and family traditions and that kind of thing,
like Joanne was talking about, like alcohol, drugs,
just, you know, like it's, some people just calm down.
I mean, that's just like, that's just kind of like
what we do.
Everybody does it.
a world, I'm in an industry, I'm in a family culture, I'm in a city or a place of work,
that's just what you do. The holidays, the seasonal sort of thing. Every time there's a
holiday, every time there's a long weekend, every time there's a game, every time there's a,
that's just what you do. So if you come from that culture, and you come from that situation,
and you want to be delivered from that because you're realizing that that is slowing you down,
you realize that that is harming you, you're realizing that is like, you know, compromising
your ability to have subjective thought and the ability to make progress. It's not about like,
oh, that's wrong. Yeah, it's wrong. Because why is it wrong? Because it's just keeping you from
your best self. Don't put the taboo on it. Don't put the condemnation on it. Don't put the guilt
in there. Take that out. That's stuff you can leave out. Just deal with the things that are
easily besetting you. Just deal with them as what for what they are. They're just things holding you
back. They're just things that are distracting you. They're just things that are trying to
medicate you to make you feel better. Joanne, I think put it really perfectly. Because she was
talking about the actual struggle that people go through that moment where you're like, you feel
that urge, you feel that desire. Why? Because you're just looking for an escape. You're looking
for, you know, a band-aid. You're just looking for something that's like, oh, this is kind of
what we do, whatever. It's no big deal. It's not against the law, whatever. You know, it's just
like, why is it a big deal? You know, I just want to get buzzed. You know, and there's a lot of
people that are realizing, I don't need that. I don't want that. It leads to this or that, or it
leads to just me not being my best self. So many things. And if you want to be delivered from it,
it's just a matter of doing that. And did you know, I say this all the time to the guys,
did you know that some of your greatest prayers are prayed at your worst moments? I don't mean,
I don't mean like when you're like going through it and like, Lord, I'm having a tough time.
I'm talking about when you're at your most tempted, sinful moment, like if you want to put
sin on it, like your most like ugly moments. Like I'm about to do my worst. I'm about to go on a
tirade. I'm about to like jump off the deep end because I'm just feeling overwhelming temptation
on anything, like whatever. So many most critical and most powerful prayers are when you like,
God, this is me. I'm about to jump off the deep end. Like literally, I'm not kidding. Like I'm
going, like, I'm so tempted right now. I just need, I need to, you know, like, but most people
avoid that. Most people avoid God in those moments because they're like, I just want to do what I
want to do. I'm just like, this is my shame moment. Some of those powerful prayers that
you can talk to have, have conversation with God in the worst moments of shame
and the worst moments of where like, this is my, this is my worst ugly self. So be willing to go
there. Be willing to have that conversation. If you're dealing with something that is a temptation
of yours over and over and over again, be willing to go. And you have that and you're like, ah,
this is the sin shame cycle, all this kind of over and over and over and over and over again,
just be willing to have a conversation with God and bite God into that. You're like, oh no,
I can never do that because God, like, that's like, I can only come to God when I'm holy.
No, he's there with you. And if you just open up your mouth and say, hey, you see,
you see what I'm dealing with here? You see what I'm going through here?
You said, I just, this is not me. I don't want this to be me. Lord, save me from me.
Just like, literally, like save me from myself. Like point at yourself, stand outside your body,
point at yourself and go, I do not want to be that. Help me not be that. Deliver me, Lord.
Can I speak to this, David?
Yes, go ahead.
Lord Jesus, I just thank you so much that you give us the ability to actually see ourselves
in that freedom space. Thank you, Lord Jesus, that you've delivered me actually. And I have
the faith for those who are speaking in chat about no sugar, but I didn't have the faith.
I didn't have the faith at the moment. I just knew what I wanted. I knew what the goal was,
what I wanted to look like. And I saw myself there. I envisioned myself there.
our Lord. And you gave me the grace. You gave me the grace to
take sugar out of my diet. You didn't give me the grace to go
on some keto diet. You didn't give me the grace to go on some
sort of diet at all. You gave me the grace Lord Jesus to see what
the ramifications of the sugar were on my body and that 50
pounds that I had extra overweight on me. And you gave
me the vision to see myself thin like I used to be when I was
younger. You gave me the vision to see myself the way you saw
me. And Lord, you didn't tell me to take all the sugar out of my
diet and be an idiot. You gave me wisdom. I partnered with you
Lord. You took out the fake sugar. You took out the I mean
not fake sugar, but you know that white stuff, you know, I
had fruit still I had maple syrup. I had honey. You didn't
make me take everything out Lord. You just gave me the
wisdom just like those chocolate chip cookies. You were
talking about earlier today. You gave me the chips. You knew you
gave me the steps of what to do because I partnered with you
Lord. So right now I have the faith for those who are on this
call right this very second that they will partner with you. They
will hear you. They will see what you have for them. What
your vision is for them and what how they can see themselves in
that space Lord. I have faith for them because I've seen it.
I've lost 50 pounds Lord because of this because of this
partnership with you and my partnerships different. My
partnerships different than your partnership with each one of
these women and men who are on this call Lord. You have an
intricate designed way and wisdom for each one of them Lord
help them see it visualize it dream it experience it in their
heart in Jesus name. I pray amen.
Margaret that was so powerful and it was so necessary so many
people are in need of that revelation that gift of faith
in that area. Thank you for speaking up. Thank you for
praying that so many things were had there this this calls
recording is going to be it's going to be published in the
group because because of the nature of what we were dealing
with today because a lot of people need breakthrough in
their area of faith and every single one of you that pray
today has this measure of this gift of faith in this area. So
when you notice something clicks in your head you hear something
it's like I don't know I really don't have a problem in that
area like that's that's not a big deal. That's an indicator
that's a sign that you might have a level or a gift of faith
in that area. So use it. OK. Use it for other people. Hey you
know I'm like I struggle on this but over here like I'm good with
this. And so let me pray. Let me add my faith to your faith
and agree with you to get that breakthrough. So that's a way
you can be operating in kingdom with with with other people. So
many things that I could recap that I just on this call all the
things that were said. Thank you so much to all of you that
prayed. I'm a pray one final prayer and that is for spirit
mate. So Father God just like Jackie and I met in April and in
seven months by November we were married. Lord I just believe
right now for breakthrough for everyone who truly is looking
for their spirit mate. They are doing their work. They are
serious about getting all of the obstacles out of their way.
They are ready. They are ready to go. They are. They are
contending. They are keeping the faith in that. And they say
that I know that my single season is ending. It is ending
this year. And so I just pray for every single one of them to
get breakthrough to find to discover to be revealed to be
connected to to be introduced to that person their spirit
mate. I pray that every single one of these would have
breakthrough everyone has who has ears to hear everyone who
has joy to receive it the faith to receive it. If you're
stepping into faith you want to partner with this prayer that
you will find your spirit mate you will be discovered you will
be revealed it will be known in Jesus name that relationship
will begin you'll begin to walk through the the the the path of
getting into relationship revealing and understanding and
getting to know the person and leads to the ultimate
destination in Jesus name. Let it be had. Let it be done in
Jesus name this year. Amen. Amen.
This is your last year single in Jesus.
Father God, I thank you, Lord, for all of these.
I thank you for today's session.
I bless all of you.
Have a great, great, great rest of your day.
Level up in faith.
Go help somebody with your level of faith,
with your gift of faith, and go pray for somebody,
and we'll see you on Supernatural Saturday tomorrow.
God bless.
Amen.