Good morning.
Happy Supernatural Saturday, you all.
It's so good to be here this morning.
I am covering our Supernatural Saturday today.
We have some awesome content.
I hope you all are going to be challenged and blessed.
Jackie and David are in New Jersey.
If you all don't know, we have a singles conference there today.
I think Gail's driving there.
I saw her get all excited.
Awesome.
So as we get started this morning, I really want to pray for Jackie and David and the
conference and all of those coming and going to that for them to receive, but also for
protection for Jackie and David.
If you all don't know, when we move forward, the enemy tries to resist, right, in all different
kinds of ways.
And so we want to lift them up during this time.
So I'm going to start there today.
And then I'll start to explain what we're going to be learning about on Supernatural
Saturday today and where we're going to track.
And I hope that you're going to just come fully expectant for God to speak to you right
where you're at, not only in your journey regarding your spirit mate, but in your journey
regarding your relationship with the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and how He
wants to grow you in the spiritual gifts that Jackie started talking about a little more
in depth last Saturday.
So we're going to be tracking there.
And I'll kind of tell more about what we're going to specifically talk about in regards
to that.
But I want to go ahead and pray, Father, thank you so much for this day, God.
Thank you that it's a Supernatural Saturday because you're supernatural, God, and you
are with us every moment, every day.
The same power that rose Jesus from the dead is living in us.
And we have the opportunity to walk in conjunction with that power, that spirit, the dunamis
power that you sent for us to be able to be more than conquerors for those who are
in Christ Jesus.
That's your declaration.
That's your prayer for us.
So Lord, we thank you, God, that you would help us to come in no matter what we've been
through, no matter even if we had a rough night of sleep or we're just not feeling it
today.
God, I thank you, God, that you meet us right in the midst of that.
And you empower us, you equip us, you fill us with hope.
You remove discouragement, despair, depression, oppression.
As we shared the other night, the winter is gone, spring is upon us.
Help us to partner with that truth today.
Help us to hear what heaven has to say to us this morning and help us to remove.
Yeah, Lord, you're the one that removes barriers and obstacles and anything that limits us
from stepping into the divine plan and purpose that you have for our lives as individuals,
as sons and daughters.
So Lord, we just thank you in advance for preparing our hearts to receive from you.
It's not about me.
It's not about the person that delivers the word.
It's about your spirit and your power and your truth flowing through us to those that
hear.
So help us to have ears to hear what your spirit is saying.
We lift up Jackie and David to you right now.
God, we thank you for their yes.
We thank you, God, for everything that they have sacrificed, everything that they have
endured to lead the movement to this place.
But God, we thank you that you have more.
Even as Brian and I went to this conference last week, God, it was good, great, greater
that you've called us to do greater things.
And we thank you, God, that that anointing and that mark and that plan is upon Jackie
and David, their lives, their family.
God, we thank you that you would just pour out.
Yes, Lord.
An abundance of faith, anointing, refreshing, of refilling, even as she's pouring out and
David are pouring out at this conference.
We thank you, God, that you would help them to release a now word, an in season word for
those that are coming to this conference, God, that it would be a divine appointment.
We believe that's already what it is, but God help those that are coming believe it
for themselves.
God, that they can leave this conference, not just having a moment and an experience,
but they would become a part of the movement, the part of the movement of kingdom, families
and marriages being birthed.
Not that we just look for the spirit mate, but we experience divine revelation and healing
and impartation from you in the process of seeking you first, Father.
So Lord, we just thank you that you will just, yeah, Lord, prepare a table for Jackie and
David in the presence of their enemies.
Every assault of the enemy that he's tried or is trying to raise up against them.
Even now, we thank you, God, that you would raise up a standard against him and you would
cause him to flee seven ways.
We declare it.
We confess it.
We thank you for it.
In Jesus name, you all, it's going to be a good day.
It's a great day to have to be great, to have a great day.
Do you all know that we're a part of when we have a great day or not genuinely?
I know.
y'all have bad days. But from my perspective, I feel like my
heart posture and my mindsets and my ability to continue to
press in is what causes me to have a great day or not. We all
encounter rough people, don't we? Right? Let's choose to have
a great day today. So if you're just now joining us, hi, I'm
here today surprise instead of Jackie, she and David are at the
conference. And so we were chatting about what did we want
to release today for Supernatural Saturday. And
here's where we're going to be tracking if you did not hear
last Saturday, Supernatural Saturday, I encourage you to
listen to it. Y'all Jackie started talking about or I mean,
she's talked about it before, but went deeper into spiritual
gifts, and why they're important in this day and season more now
than ever before. They've always been important. They were given
to us to help us but also to equip the church. And she she
really did an awesome job. It's it's amazing. And I believe it
will really encourage you regarding the plans that God
has for you regarding the gifts he wants to open up in your
life. And some of you are already walking in spiritual
gifts and all of the things but I want to encourage you just as
I was praying that God in his word declared that Jesus said
that we would do even greater things than he did. Can you
imagine it? I mean, when you read the things that Jesus did
when he was on the earth, and you just start meditating on
those, and he's saying that we will do even greater things than
he did. Well, how? How do we do that? Well, we start to equip
and be equipped and stir up the gifts that God has placed within
us. We cannot do greater things if we aren't walking in the
spiritual gifts that he's provided for us to disciple
other people to spread the gospel to, hey, create a kingdom
family and marriage. Guess what, you need all the gifts of the
spirit, you need the fruits of the spirit. And you need the
gifts of the spirit to have healthy marriages and families.
And then we've got to teach our kids. And you know, those that
come behind us to also walk in these things. So we're not just
learning for us, we're learning, so that we can release
it to other people as well. Maybe you're not a teacher. And
that's okay. It can be one on one conversation that God uses
you. And you're just sharing about what God's doing in you.
And then as you're sharing your testimony, it's by the blood of
the lamb and the word of our testimony, that that
transformation happens, y'all. Do you know, one of the first
things that God taught me how to do really early on, I was a baby
Christian. And I didn't even know really what I was doing,
other than I was just excited about what God was doing in me.
And I just started talking to somebody about it. This woman,
I had moved to Cleveland, and I moved in with two women, I
didn't know at all, kind of scary, but I did it. I just took
a leap of faith. And neither one of them are Christians, y'all.
At first, I was like, what have I gotten myself into? Because I
was sitting in my room, y'all. And when I say this, I'm not,
I'm not so great. So I'm just saying this is what God led me
to do. I would go and sit in my room, and I would read my Bible
and I would pray and I wouldn't go out with them. They would go
out and party and they would come home and they'd be smashed.
And I would hear them coming in at night. And God just said,
keep praying for them. Not because I was better than them,
but because God had a plan for them. So little by little, I
would share with them. The one lady was, was Jewish, and she
just kind of was kind of walled up, not super open, but she
would let me talk to her. And y'all, I'm not saying that to
point out and say that people that are Jewish can't believe
that's not what I'm saying. But I'm just saying that's where she
was at. Because everybody that has ears to hear what a spirit
is saying will hear it. The other lady was more open and we
would go walking and I would just be talking about what God
was doing in my life. And I remember one day talking to her
about, God was stirring up the gift of teaching in me. And he
was telling me and he was nudging me to start a Bible
study. And I was in a mentorship class at the time. And my mentor
was like, yeah, go for it. And, and I was telling this woman
about it, like, I don't even know where to start. Like, I've
never taught anybody. I hardly know the Bible, but I know that
God's teaching me stuff. But like, I don't even, I don't have
anyone to teach the Bible study to. And you all just literally
as simply as this, she said, what about me? I was like, Oh,
okay. Well, would you, is that something you want to do? Yes,
you all. My first Bible study I ever taught was with a woman
that was an unbeliever completely. She would drink and
smoke and all the things while we were doing Bible study. And
guess what?
did not condemn her for it. I let her do it. And I just taught her about Jesus. And I just taught
her about what God was doing in me. And, you know, as a baby Christian, I hardly knew the word.
You all, I was learning as I was going. And so I want that to be the starting point today.
We don't have to have arrived to be used by God to lead someone. We all are leading someone
every day. So why not lead them to the best of our ability and share what God's done in us,
is doing in us? How is he healing us? How is he transforming us? We are called to be hope
bearers, light bearers, and to spread the gospel. The gospel is Jesus. Just talking about Jesus.
If you ever pause and just say the name of Jesus and just kind of keep saying it,
y'all, if the enemy is attacking you, guess what? In that moment, if you will just start saying
Jesus and really mean it like Jesus, guess what? Darkness has to flee. It cannot stay
when we declare Jesus over anything, the blood over anything. And that's why sometimes even in
dreams, when the enemy attacks us, well, I don't know if y'all have ever had this happen, but I've
had where my mouth, like I literally was trying to open it in the dream and say Jesus and I couldn't.
This was a dream. This wasn't real life, but that has happened. And the reason that the enemy tries
to do that is because he wants us to be afraid. Okay. So we're going to, we're going to talk about
the opposite of fear today. We're going to talk about the gift of faith and y'all we're going to,
we're going to talk about the difference between a measure of faith versus the spiritual gift of
faith, because there's a difference. Every single one of us should be growing more and more and more
in our faith every day, but there's a gift of faith that we can pursue that is a spiritual gift.
And that we believe, Jackie and I believe that God wants to encourage all of you to start seeking
more, that you can have endowment power from heaven to have a gift of faith for something,
not just for yourself, but for the body of Christ, for God to release it through you.
And we want to make sure that you understand this isn't about how good you are,
ladies and gentlemen. It's not about, I did an awesome job, so therefore God is giving me
something. It's not about that. It's about humbling ourself under the mighty hand of God, pursuing,
and I'm going to talk about this more in depth later, but pursuing the Father who is the giver
of all gifts. First and foremost, y'all return to our first love. For some of you, you might,
you've known God for a long time and you might even believe in Jesus and the Holy Spirit,
but you may never have fallen in love because of what you've been through in your life.
Love with who? Well, love with the Father, love with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit,
like the amazing relationship that God sent Jesus to come and die on the cross to create that
pathway to the Father through Him. He has more for us. If you're just now joining us,
Good Greater is a conference that Brian and I just went to, and man, God was stirring things
up in me about the greater life that He has for us. Y'all, I've been so blessed to be a part of
so many things over the years and praying and prophesying over people, and I don't,
it's not about me. It's just such a blessing to see what God is doing in the body,
and then I get to be this little glimpse of that. Man, it's an honor. Do you view
the gifts that you have and the ability that you have to bless someone else as an honor? Do you
view your life and getting to be a part of this movement and community as an honor? Do y'all pay
for it? Yes, we all, like I paid for it too, but y'all, it's a gift that God has given you in this
season of your life. I'm not just saying that because I'm a part of the team. I'm saying that
because I believe it. Do we view the season that we're in as a gift? Yeah, some of you are in a
tough season right now. You're feeling disappointment, discouragement, oppression,
all the things, but even in that, there is a gift in the center of it that we can unwrap and ask,
God, what are you trying to teach me? What are you trying to give me? I don't believe you're
trying to call. The father isn't the one that sends depression or discouragement. That's the devil,
but in the midst of it, the father can say, hey, daughter, hey, son, I want to give you this gift
in the middle of what you're going through because what you're going through isn't your final.
destination, just like when Jesus the boat with the
disciples and they were afraid of the waves and he woke up and
he's like, why are you afraid?
Basically, he calms the waves and and all the things will
guess what it's because he knew where they were going.
Jesus knew the destination.
Do you know the destination?
Have you asked the father?
Have you asked Jesus to reveal to you the destination and not
just a place or a person that you're going to arrive at but
the heart posture your purpose the plan if you all remember
from heart work and I even talked about this the other
night for phase three and the men we we want to step further
every day into the fullness of the original plan and purpose
God had for us.
Okay, so that's what we're in pursuit of and in pursuit of
that.
We want to stir up faith today.
So last Saturday Jackie began teaching us about the spiritual
gifts and and why we should pursue them.
Why should we earn like why we should earnestly you guys
earnestly means like fervor like passion like we have a drive
and a hunger.
It says that we should hunger and thirst for his righteousness
and for the gifts.
Well to hunger and thirst means you recognize that you're empty
without him.
Empty without him not just the gifts.
He's the vine were the branches.
We can't do anything apart from him.
So she began talking to us about the importance of walking
in the fruits of the spirit including the gifts of the
spirit.
Those are different things.
Remember and then Sunday night her and David began activating
the gift of prophecy.
If you didn't hear that replay check it out.
It's in your replay tab.
And so today we're going to talk about again, just to make
sure everybody's on the same page with us.
We're all tracking together the gift of faith, but also
distinguishing the difference between just having a measure
of faith.
I'm going to talk to you all also about the spirit.
I'm sorry the measure of faith faith as a gift, you know, we
have faith saving faith.
That's how we come to know Jesus.
We're going to talk about that and then also those spiritual
And then also those spiritual gifts of faith and then seeking
the giver and then we're going to talk about stirring up the
spiritual gifts.
So we got a lot of ground to cover.
I'm going to try to talk really fast.
I'm going to be probably like a fire hose today.
Y'all.
I'm just going to say I've got a lot of stuff to give to you.
And so I hope it comes out with stories included.
We'll see where God's going to stir up as we go.
So I want to start with a fee.
Yeah, excuse me Ephesians 2 8 through 9.
I'm starting with faith as a gift of God the saving faith.
This is how we all come as I was saying just a moment ago to the
saving knowledge of Jesus Christ of who God the father is who
the Holy Spirit is but most importantly receiving Jesus as
our Savior Ephesians 2 8 through 9 says this for by grace.
You have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves.
It is the gift of God.
Not of works less any man should boast this verse highlights.
The Salvation is by God's grace.
Our Salvation is by God's grace.
It is a gift of God for us to us and we receive it through
faith through the hearing of the word.
The Bible talks about that.
Let us hear the word and then receive the truth that's in it.
Y'all if we're not here in the word if we're not, you know, I
know you all hear it through this community, but I hope
you're spending time reading your Bible.
Not just like Jackie said not just to read it but to read it
to hear that fresh man of what does God want to give you today?
Now?
Yeah, you can hear the word through me or through a pastor
through anybody else, but God wants to speak to you.
You are his friend.
What does he want to say to you personally that the scripture
is Ephesians 2 8 through 9.
Y'all we don't earn as I talked about a little bit ago.
We don't earn this.
Jesus the re I 100% believe and I've heard people preach this.
I believe the reason that God the father ascended like Jesus
on like a dove upon Jesus before he ever did anything.
I really believe it's because God wanted to in that moment
demonstrate that even through his own son remember to meet
your up yourselves y'all even his own son.
Was honored and loved and you know, this whole edification
moment if you will publicly affirmation affirming him
that this is my son and whom I'm well-pleased and Jesus hadn't
done any miracles yet.
He hadn't even gone out and started teaching yet.
That's something that we need to remember at the core.
No matter what.
If you never did another thing for God, the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit,
God's love for you would be the same. It's unconditional, without condition, without
feeling like we're doing something good. But God in His goodness is like, man, I want you to be a
part of this fun party. I want you to come and see the joy of our salvation. Not only the joy of our
own salvation, but man, has anybody ever just, when someone gives their life to Christ and they
get baptized, been at one of the churches where it's like, not just one, one baptism and salvation
is amazing, but man, when you see it one after another, after another, there is this immense
amount. Like I cry. I try not to cry, but I cry most of the time because my heart is just like,
Jesus, yes, He's winning. He's winning. He's, He's saving people. He's leading people home
into the family. And I've got new brothers and sisters in that, even if I never meet them
personally, that makes my heart happy. And so if that's not something you feel, it's okay,
but maybe pray for that. Pray that God would move on your heart in such a way
that you would feel joy, immense joy, not only at people coming to know Jesus Christ, but hey,
here we go. I'm going to add another thing into here. When your brothers and sisters meet their
spirit mate, when your brothers and sisters get engaged, when your brothers and sisters get
married and, and that we would shift out of this scarcity of, man, it's never going to happen for
me. And the lies that the enemy tries to send you when you see someone else prospering. Y'all,
I had to go through that. I had to, my, one of my good friends who wasn't even in this program
got engaged and married before me. And I was kind of like, man, I had to battle jealousy and all the
things, but guess what? In that process, in humbling myself and admitting what I was feeling,
God started talking to me and giving me a gift of faith to believe that I was a bride,
not just to be activated by Jackie, but to actually shift into receiving the met,
like the genuine heavenly gift of faith to believe in the impossible. Cause in that time,
I thought it was impossible y'all for myself. I really did. But God had more for me. And I,
the gift of faith that he gave me, y'all, I bought a wedding dress and I wasn't even dating
someone. And he told me to do that because he wanted me to activate the gift of faith that he
was about to pour into me. I didn't even have that gift of faith yet, but in that moment,
doing those things, there were other things God led me to do in the same time. I started getting
on super, or maybe I was leading a supernatural Saturday. I don't know, one of the prayer calls.
And I got on in a white dress with my bride sash on. Cause God was like, not only give this,
get this for yourself, but give it to people. And so I hope that you're hearing that today as
well. All right. We're going to keep going regarding the saving faith. I'm getting ahead
of myself. I start getting excited, you all, and it just starts coming out. So I hope I don't
confuse anybody. I'll try to come back and recenter before we keep going. Romans 10, 17 says this.
So then faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ. So that's what I
was talking about earlier. We've got to be around people that speak the truth. We got to hear it.
We got to receive it, but not only hear it from other people, we got to read the word and hear
the Holy Spirit speaking to us. Before you read the word, you all, I want to encourage you.
You know, I used to do this all the time. I remember somebody taught me this, so I can't
take credit for it, but maybe it was even Joyce Meyer. It's so interesting how many similarities
Jackie and I have. Joyce Meyer was one of my first mentors. I grew up in my faith listening
to her all the time. I'm so grateful for her life, for her testimony, for her word, the things that
she releases. But when we sit down and pray and just say, God, I'm about to read your word and
I want to hear you through it. Help me to hear what heaven has to say to me today.
We might not always feel it, you all, and we might not even recognize we're getting revelation.
Sometimes I do that and I feel like it's just a wall. Why? Because the devil's trying to resist
the word that God's wanting to give me. And then other times, y'all, I'm reading the word
and I'm not kidding. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's speaking to me. Oh my gosh, that's,
I'm highlighting and I'm making notes and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is something I was praying
about. And, and God's just like talking to me and, and oh, like I've read this scripture before,
but man, it's saying something new to me today. So we gotta, we gotta read the word and ask God
to help us perceive it, to understand it, to study the Greek, to study the Hebrew. If you don't know
how to do that, y'all, let's just have, let's just ask, ask somebody that does to teach you.
That's how I had to do it. Somebody taught me how to pray. Somebody taught me how to study the
And then I had to learn not just from them, but I had to start doing it for myself.
That's one of the biggest things I see in our Christian culture today is, you know,
because we get everything instant, microwave, we go through drive-thrus and we've got food,
we've got all this stuff so fast that we are losing our ability to apply what we are learning.
And we want everybody to spoon-feed us.
And I'm not judging.
I'm not trying to create shame.
I'm just saying I see it all around us.
Even in our community, we provide so much content.
I know there's a lot, you all.
I know there is.
But here's the thing, go back and keep studying it.
Keep listening to it.
Keep letting the truth, you know, come in and invade the places and spaces.
One other thing I want to say as we're journeying next to the faith as a spiritual gift is this,
do you all know that in certain seasons, if we are super wounded, we can only retain so
much in that season?
So when you came into this program, if you came in really fragmented, like this was the
first healing journey you've been through, it's okay if it takes you longer to meet your
spirit mate, because here's the thing, you can only receive so much at a time.
Sponges, if they're full of water, can't receive a lot more water.
But if that sponge is kind of squeezed out in that new season, guess what?
It's ready to receive more.
So the more that you heal and go, that's like that releasing of what's already in there,
the stuff that God never intended to be in your sponge, so to speak.
He's trying to get that stuff out of you, not pressing you to hurt you, but to grow
you, to heal you so that you can receive more.
Y'all, I've been saved for over 20, I don't know, 1998, y'all do the math, I've been saved
that long, 26, 27, 28 years.
So I've been journeying this thing for a long time.
So the things that I understand and see are so different than when I first came to know
the Lord.
I look at the Father so differently now.
So here we go, gift of faith as a spiritual gift is this.
We want to understand that, I'm sorry, nope, scratch that, we're doing measure of faith.
I got to talk about that next, because here's the thing, we have saving faith.
And then the Bible declares that we have a measure of faith.
So again, as we're going, which is why I was kind of talking about that just a minute ago
in my own walk, we're absorbing more as we go, as we're healing, we're able to retain
more and hopefully we're growing.
And this was from Joyce Meyer, at least the first time I ever heard it, maybe somebody
else said it before her, but from glory to glory.
Hopefully we're growing step by step by step, even in our faith and the ability to believe
that God is good, that we can trust Him, that He will defend us and He's gone before us
into every situation.
So sorry, you all, I'm going to say, oh yeah, Romans 10, 17 was the one I already read for
saving faith.
So measure of faith is Romans 3, that's where I'm going next.
And it says this, for by the grace given to me, I say to every one of you, do not think
of yourself more highly than you ought to, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment
in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
So God distributes faith to us according to the measure of our ability to receive it.
So that's why I talked about the sponge.
It's okay if you are still growing and maybe you all, when I say this, you know, the Bible
talks about in the beginning, you know, we're babies in our faith.
We're babies in our understanding and babies need milk and they need easy food.
And then as we grow, hopefully we're starting to, you know, eat the food that's a little
more developed.
Maybe as we keep growing, hopefully we're about to eat some steaks, some meat, some
heavier stuff, but understand that it's okay, whatever season you're in, don't let the devil
come in and start getting you to compare yourself to other people's faith journeys, looking
at leaders.
Like the reason I mentioned how long I've been saved is because I think some of you
in this community, you're looking at people that are leaders in this community, even preachers
and pastors and, and you're comparing yourself to them.
When some of you are new believers, don't feel shame or condemnation or guilt because
you're not where someone else is yet.
You're where you are because that's your journey that you're on.
So, let God lead you right where you're at.
So, what is the measure of faith?
The measure of faith is the faith,
it's referring to the faith that every believer possesses
that enables them to live the Christian life.
So, beyond receiving Jesus Christ,
that we would continue in our faith,
that is enabled by the measure of faith
that we have received.
The measure of faith also is our ability
to understand God's word.
That's why, again, as we grow as Christians,
we move from babies to toddlers to middle high,
think about the progression even of the physical realm
that we went through and all the things
that we've hopefully learned along the way.
Some of us maybe even now, I don't know about you all,
but I remember being even in my high 30s, young 40s,
feeling like, man, I still feel like a little girl
in this area and I need to grow up here
because of the things I went through,
you know, a lot of harm and a lot of things that happened,
they caused me to be stunted in some areas
until I was healed enough to grow and mature in that area
because I started seeing, wait a minute,
oh, that's not what God says or thinks about me,
this is what God says or thinks about me
and my value and how he wants to use me.
He doesn't just want me to be out here crushing it
and serving him, he wants me, man,
he likes to spend time with me as his daughter,
he just cares about me apart from anything I can do for him.
The measure of faith is also what helps us trust
in his promises, so here's the thing,
if you're struggling to trust in his promises,
remember from the heart work, that's gonna signal you
to an area where you need healing.
The healing partners with us growing in our faith.
Some of you maybe even felt like you were really far along
and then stuff happened and you felt like
you still love the Lord, you've been journeying with him,
but you just feel like there's been a disconnect.
I wanna encourage you, don't receive any shame
or guilt or condemnation, just understand
that you can begin again now.
Today can be the day of a new beginning
and a reckoning with yourself and saying,
Lord, I need you, there's that song, Lord, I need you.
Oh, how I need you, every day I need you.
That song is just that general reminder again
that he's the vine, we're the branches,
we can't do anything apart from him.
How do we receive the measure of faith, you all?
It's basically God deals to each one of us
a measure of faith, so again, it's not something we earn,
it's not something we achieve, it's a gift.
And as we keep growing, we get more gifts,
we get more faith, we grow, we get more food to eat.
Then the purpose of the measure of faith is this,
the measure of faith allows believers
to think with sober judgment,
that just means with clear minds, you all,
understanding our place in the body of Christ,
that we would also avoid pride
and overestimation of ourselves.
What does that mean?
That means that we wouldn't think more highly
of ourselves than we ought to,
which is what Romans 12, three talks about.
Humble, humble, humble ourselves.
The last will be first.
Does that mean you can't have the gifts too?
Does that mean God's gonna withhold his promises from you
and just bless everybody else?
No, but you all, it's like what I was saying earlier,
celebrating other people when they get their wins,
guess what?
That's kind of that moment of like, the last will be first.
You can celebrate someone else's blessing
and that doesn't diminish your ability
to receive a blessing.
It doesn't mean that you're missing out
because someone else has gotten something.
Doesn't mean that God doesn't love you
or he doesn't see you or any of those things.
And if the enemy is saying that to you,
it's because he's trying to get you to partner
with fear versus faith.
The measure of faith also helps us, excuse me, grow,
hopefully as I've been talking about
and in our time with the Lord,
spending time with him, prayer, living in obedience.
Obedience is better than sacrifice is what scripture says.
So where is God asking you in this season
to grow in your faith and be obedient?
One step every day.
That's something I talk about all the time.
What's, God, what's one thing you want me to do today
to move my life forward in you?
Not for my spirit mate, but in you, Father.
And guess what?
The spirit mate as we.
do these things as we keep walking and praying and believing and growing in our faith. The spirit
mate, as we talk about in this community, it's the cherry on top. It's the extra blessing,
the and then some that comes into our life because we're walking towards all the things that God is
showing us every day. Is God showing you today to walk in the measure of faith, to forgive someone,
to believe for reconciliation, to go out and exercise your physical body because your physical
body needs health. It needs healing. You know, what is that measure of faith today for you?
All right, we're going to keep going. Faith in that scripture, Romans 12, 3 is this, where it
says, accordance with the faith God has distributed to us. It's really just the conviction of truth,
our belief. So in that moment, in this day, you know, what is it that you believe?
There's a song again, y'all, sometimes these things come up. I can't remember the name of
the song, but in whose report will you believe? Will you believe the report of the Lord? And,
and that song used to be really famous years ago when I used to lead youth group and I'm,
I'm a lot older now. And so I don't know how old it is, but like that song used to minister to me
so much because the enemy was trying to convince me of things that weren't true.
And so I had to really work on taking every thought captive very, very much. The mind is
a battlefield. If the, if the enemy can get our minds, our minds are connected to our hearts.
Remember, we can be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Well, that's with the healing in
our hearts, right? So as that stuff gets cleared out, we have more ability to believe and have
faith and trust the father more. Now let's talk about spiritual gifts of faith. I don't know the
name of the song. Sorry, y'all just go on Google and type in whose report will you believe? Will
you believe the report of the Lord or something like that? I, and that might even be wrong,
but just type that in and see what y'all find. Hopefully you'll find the right song, but if not
just use discernment and what comes up. Cause there's some crazy stuff that comes up sometimes.
All right. Um, we're going to read, uh, Romans 12, nine. Let me find my notes here. You all,
here we go. 12. No, no. I'm going to start in first Corinthians 12, seven. Sorry, y'all. I'm
keen. I'm getting, getting things in front of them. Yeah. Ron cannoli. That sounds about right. Ruth
first Corinthians, 12, seven. And then I'm going to read first Corinthians 12, nine. I'm reading
two scriptures now to each one. The manifestation of the spirit is given for the common good.
This verse is suggesting that the gift of faith, like other spiritual gifts is given to us for the
benefit of the church and building up and edifying the body of Christ. So we're not just trying to
get gifts to get gifts. You all it's so that we can be empowered and receive endowment from heaven
to grow the kingdom, to invest in the people that God sends into our lives.
So the next thing says, first Corinthians 12, nine to another faith by the same spirit. Cause
if you read the in-between scripture there, it's talking about all the other gifts of the spirit.
And then it goes into, to another faith by the same spirit. This is where it's designated as
an actual gift of the spirit. This is where it's saying, okay, Hey, the gift of faith comes through
the power of the Holy spirit. And the one, the Holy spirit is the one that gives us that ability.
He's the one that gives it to us that wills it to us. But Hey, guess what? We got to ask for it.
Sometimes we just get impartation. Okay. Let's that is true. Sometimes when we just receive
Jesus, that stuff's already there. And we receive these impartation of giftings and we start
operating in them pretty quickly. But here's the thing. We got to cultivate gifts. We've got to,
if we don't already have it, if, well, we already have it, but if we haven't started up,
if we haven't activated, if we haven't been working on it, walking in it, all the things,
then we're not utilizing the tool that's in our tool belt. How many people have a toolkit in your
home? You went and you bought a toolkit. You got all these tools. And guess what? How many of them
do we use? Typically some water too. Now, if you're a big builder, you might use more of your
tools, but I'm using this as an example, because this is the reality. When we get saved, we're
given a toolbox and it's full of the fruits of the spirit and it's full of the gifts of the spirit.
But we don't always know how to use the tools that have been given to us. And we don't always
know that they're available to us. And we don't always know how to start walking in them and all
of the things. What kind of gifts am I referring to? I'm today.
Today I'm focusing on the gift of faith.
That's what we're talking about.
And we're basically, I've been trying to lay the groundwork so that y'all understand the
difference between daily having faith versus a supernatural gift of faith.
The impartation and infilling of the Holy Spirit and it manifesting through a gift of
faith.
And we're going to talk about what that looks like and all of the things.
So what is the gift of faith?
The gift of faith is this, a specific supernatural ability given to believers to discern God's
will and his purpose with extraordinary confidence, often involving a sense of assurance about
God's future plans.
So you all, sometimes when I used to lead faith Friday, I would just feel like this
supernatural belief in faith for people to receive financial blessing.
Sometimes I would feel this like, man, I just feel like God's saying he wants to heal people
of arthritis or what those are.
Those are gifts of healing, but also gifts of faith.
And God is activating and speaking to me from heaven.
And there's not, this isn't just me, God, he does, God does this with a lot of people,
but I'm just trying to give you actual examples for those of you that are like, well, what
does this even look like in real day, real time?
And we're going to talk a little bit about some of the people in the Bible.
I'm not going to go in depth in that because we're already at 1040 and I won't have time
for that, but I'm going to give you all homework, some reading to do so that you can grow in
your understanding of that for yourself.
But that's what it is.
It's literally a supernatural heavenly perspective that you're receiving for a situation, for
a person, you know, maybe you're praying for something and all of a sudden God is, is speaking
to you like, like he did me when we were going through, Brian had gotten reappointed
to a church.
We were in Indiana.
And when he showed me that church in that moment, I was like, no, not just because I
was resistant you all, but that church and that situation did not align with what God
had been telling Brian and I, God had been telling us that he was moving us forward.
And that place is soon, literally, as soon as I looked at it and heard about it, it was
backwards.
It was going backwards.
And so I knew, no, did I still go look at that church with Brian?
Yes, we did.
We walked it out.
But here's the thing the next day after we, he got that reappointment as I'm praying and
I'm crying because I'm like, God, I don't understand.
You said you're taking us forward and this place looks backwards.
What is happening right now?
And I saw this, this is the prophetic gift.
I'm going to kind of combine how God speaks to me and does this.
Everybody's different.
Y'all yours might be different, but I saw in my spirit, in my mind's eye, I saw a window
open and then I heard God say to me, look for the window.
Okay.
Well, that's, that's the gift of the prophetic.
God's talking to me as well as a word of wisdom and knowledge coming through.
Well, then guess what?
I had to activate that with faith.
I had to pray every day, pray for that.
And then I started asking God for the gift of faith to believe for the window, to look
for that window.
And then when it started happening, well, guess what it long before it happened, I perceived
it in my spirit and received a gift of faith to supernaturally believe for something more
because that's what God was already saying to us.
And now we are in a church that is absolutely forward.
Everything that God is doing, the supernatural that's being released, we've been, we've stepped
into a season y'all literally in my entire life, I've never been in a season where I've
received so much financial blessings.
We went on a cruise last year.
Someone paid for half of it.
Just recently someone gave us, they heard we were spending time with family when Brian's
daughter was coming in town.
Somebody gave us a thousand dollars.
I don't, we don't even know who it was just to go to Disney.
Just our whole trip for Disney, at least the tickets was paid for by someone else.
What I've never been in a season.
Like it's just God's doing something supernatural.
But long before we stepped into the season, God was giving me the gift of faith to believe
for the supernatural in every area of our lives, provision, supernatural provision,
not just with the church he was giving us, but with the finances and the provision going
ahead of us and preparing.
And then when we get here, we just get to receive it.
So I hope that encourages some of you that are also going through some difficulties that
God wants to give you more.
He wants to increase and give you the gift of faith.
Okay.
How do we receive the gift of faith?
Like other spiritual gifts, the gift of faith is giving.
given by God. Again, it's not something we can earn or like
just desire, we just need to seek it. But we receive it just
like a gift. Who's received a gift on their birthday? Anybody?
How do we receive it? We let somebody give it to us. And then
when they give it to us, what do we do? We open it. And then if
it's a toy or clothes, we do something with it, don't we?
Typically, we put it on, we wear it, if it's a toy, we're, you
know, doing something if you're kids, I'm kind of translating
there. But even like if, if it's a gift, and someone's, you know,
giving me an experience, I love experience gifts, you all, I'm
big on that I want to go experience something new. And
that's what I would rather get than any other gift. And so
we're, I'm doing something with that gift. So we got it, we have
to do the same thing with the gift of faith. We receive it, we
open it up. Well, how do we open it up? Well, we pray. What
does scripture say about it? We seek it out. And then we start
putting it in practice, we put it on, we start activating it,
we start walking in it. I can definitely tell you that I, I
know that God gave me the gift of faith long ago. But I
absolutely 100% believe I'm walking in that gifting more
now than ever. Do I think I've arrived in it? Absolutely not.
Because I am not in heaven. We're not in heaven yet. So we
receive a measure of faith, a measure of understanding a
measure of revelation about these gifts, and we walk in them
to the best of our ability. But like I said this the other
night, I want upgrades every day, I want to walk in more
faith in the gift of faith, not just having faith, but I want to
receive supernatural faith for people when the hurricanes were
coming to Florida last, last season, y'all. I'm praying and
I'm praying and I'm not just praying because I live here. I'm
praying because it's breaking my heart how much fear people had
because, you know, Fort Myers got hit by Hurricane Ian just a
few years before and people were terrified. And I just started
interceding and praying. And y'all, God started speaking to
me about the faith he wanted me to have for this place. And what
he wanted me to pray and say and declare. And then he said
this, go live on your Facebook page and declare it. Y'all think
I was scared to do that? Anybody? I was. Because I was
like, God, if I get on my Facebook page and declare this,
here's reality, you all, even when I'm receiving the gift of
faith to believe for something, you better believe the enemy is
trying to make me afraid to declare that faith over you all
or over somebody else over my own life. I was doing it afraid
because my fear, the enemy was saying you, yeah, I'm gonna come
in and do the opposite of what God's telling you. I'm just
gonna wreck that place. I went on and I did it anyways. I did
because I thought, you know what, God, I want to partner
with you. And I want to see what you're going to do. Now, was
that the only time I was declaring that? Absolutely not.
You all, I was continuing to partner with that gift of faith,
that impartation of what God was going to do. I prayed so much,
you all, that whole time, because God was telling me he
was going to cause that to go back out to the sea. Now you
all, I know that it's still landed and it's still impacted
people. Don't think I'm not understanding that. But you all,
even on the news, people were saying they don't know how, but
it started, it did not hit them the way they thought it would.
Y'all can go back and look at it. Am I saying it's just
because of me? Absolutely not. I believe God was speaking to me
and other people all over the world. And he was imparting
faith, the gift of faith to believe and intercede and see
something different happen. I believe that we're here to
partner with God, receive the gift of faith for things.
Characteristics that we can see are this. When we walk in the
spiritual gift of faith, there's an unusual desire to
accept God's promise at face value. So here's the thing. When
we say believe for your spirit, mate, I hope you all are
praying for them supernaturally before they come. Not just being
here, being like, I'm on dating apps. I'm getting mad. I'm
getting frustrated. Y'all, I get it. I experience things too. I
met some wrong people along the way, but here's the thing. When
I started praying for my spirit, mate, this one day God
said, pray for him to be healed. What? Well, okay, God.
Start praying for him to be healed
You know after I met Brian around the time that God led me to pray
I didn't know who my spirit mate was then. He just said he's sick. He needs healing
Y'all I found out Brian around that same time had to go to the hospital
He was really sick
And he had to have you know some stuff done and and I believe 100% that God was talking to me about Brian
So
Will you receive will you seek the gift of faith?
It's also a sense of assurance that God is going to do something unusual
Exciting, you know, one of our banner scriptures is that Amos 9 13 through 15, you know looking up with expectation
We're believing we're looking up to heaven and we're saying I believe God you're gonna do something unusual and exciting
And if we don't have that faith yet you all it's okay. I didn't have that faith in the beginning either
Because I had been through so many
Hardships with men and relationships and I just felt like man. I just keep failing in this
I don't understand why I can crush it and teach people I can crush it over here
But I can't get this right and I don't know what is going on. Well, God started healing me. He started showing me I
Had to learn how to set healthier boundaries. I had to learn to stop over sharing y'all
we have to partner and walk in this stuff to every day and
As I healed again, I grew in faith and I received an impartation
from heaven to supernaturally believe not only for my spirit mate, but y'all I used to
struggle paycheck to paycheck
And I didn't believe that's what God had for me I
Didn't I was working for wealth management firm seeing people that had massive wealth and
Thinking you know what? I don't know how I'm gonna get there God, but I believe you have that for me
So, can you help me understand?
Well, I needed to heal in my heart some heart postures and belief systems. I had about money. I
Don't look at God is it as a vending machine?
I
Shifted and I believe he's my good daddy
And my good dad
Has gifts he wants to give me but he also wants me to to grow in my ability to steward
Well what he's giving me
Y'all I had to grow in my stewardship and heal in my limiting belief systems and poverty mindsets
so that when I would receive the money I
Had be able to retain it and put it in investments and grow it the storehouse not just in my savings
But the investments the storehouse growing and I'm not gonna get into what you should do
Don't ask but I'm just saying that was part of my journey
But I also needed to receive the gift of faith for God to shift my unbelief regarding finances
Y'all I'm a big giver. I'm a big giver
I love to give to people my spiritual daughters
It wasn't just that I just spent my money on useless things and just was like being irresponsible
but
If my girls had a need it didn't matter if I did I was gonna get them groceries
Cuz their dad wasn't going to the grocery store and my girls didn't have food freaking a what the heck I was mad
So I'm gonna get him money. I'm gonna get him groceries. I'm gonna get him clothes
I'm gonna get him whatever they needed, but I also
Didn't want to be a bad steward of the rest of it
so
Keep going. I have seven minutes. I can't believe this. I got a hurry
Purpose again is to build up the church and demonstrate God's power one of the other characteristics
I don't want to forget this one of the other characteristics of the gift of faith is a deep knowledge of God's realness
Because of his ability to intervene why because he loves us
Sometimes he's intervening you all to protect us you you're mad at God right now some of you because God said no to somebody
And you're still trying to hang on to that relationship and God's saying let it go
Best thing I ever did was let go of that relationship with the girl's dad and then I was able to receive
What God had for me the best God had the best gift for me and Brian
So incredible, okay
We're gonna keep going. How can we pursue the spiritual gifts?
Including the gift of faith Matthew 7 7 through 12 says this
Asking it will be given to you seek and you will find
Knock and the door will be open to you for everyone who asked receives the one who seeks finds into the one who knocks
The door will be opened
Which of you if your son asked for bread will give him a stone or if he asked for a fish will give him a snake
If you then though you are evil know how to give him a stone
good gifts to your children, how much more will your father in heaven give good gifts to those
who ask him? So in everything you do to others, what would you have them do to you? For this sums
up the law of the prophets. And here's the thing you all, it's not just ask, seek, knock one time.
There's a scripture that also says keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking.
Do y'all think I asked God for one time for the gifts of speaking in tongues? Nope. I asked
all the time, every day. And y'all, it came when I went up to pray for someone else. I went to
bless someone else and pray for them and all of a sudden, praise the Lord, I was able to receive
that gift. But man, I sought that, I sought that daily, asking God, because I wanted to be filled
with the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, because I did believe and
I do believe that it empowers me to pray in ways that I, I just, it gets me out of the way and I
can pray and intercede for things and just connect with the Father in a way that I don't even need
to understand it or comprehend it. So yeah, I'm talking about another gift now, so hopefully I'm
not confusing you, but I'm just saying what's coming up in my spirit. So here's how we also
grow in the gift of faith or any gift. We ask, seek, knock, but how do we do that? How do we ask,
seek, and knock? Well, we study scripture, we pray, we pray and ask God for it. And then I
also wrote down, read books that help you grow in your understanding of these gifts. Y'all,
I have read so many gifts on prophecy, because guess what? Over the years, I knew I had the gift
of prophecy. Um, you know, not right away, but as I grew in the Lord, God started showing me
things for people. I'd start praying for people and I'd see stuff. And it was weird sometimes,
y'all, I'm just saying in the beginning, it was weird. And now I'm like, Whoa, this is so cool.
Okay. Okay. I don't got to understand it, but God, I'm just going to release it and give it
and let you deal with the rest. And I just do my best. And have I failed along the way? Yeah.
Sometimes I have a release stuff and people are like, yeah, no, nope. I'm not feeling that.
And I just don't have to, I just have to let that go and be like, Oh, okay. Sorry. Just toss that.
So guess what? You can do that too. If you release a prophetic word, let that person know,
Hey, if this doesn't resonate, just toss it. Don't take it personally. Cause sometimes it's
also because they're not ready to receive it. That is true. Read books, grow in your understanding.
I've read a lot of books on prayer. I've read a lot of books on intercession. I'm a big reader.
So if you're not a big reader, get the audio book. Y'all can do it. Don't just make excuses
and say, Oh, I don't, I'm not a reader. I hear people say that all the time. Well, guess what?
It's easy for you. Now you just get you to listen, work out, go on a walk, listen to stuff,
let it absorb into your spirit. Let other people's journeys in this stuff, encourage your own journey,
borrow faith from us as you grow, not only in your measure of faith, but the gift of faith
or all any of the other gifts. Y'all I'm going to, I'm going to really emphasize something.
Please listen. I know we've got two minutes. Please listen. This is one of the most important
things I have to say to you today. Seek the giver of the gift first. The most important thing you
can do to pursue a spiritual gift is to seek the one who gives the gifts first and foremost,
always focus most on God's character and your relationship with him rather than solely the
gifts that he can give to you. Now I'm not saying don't earnestly seek the gifts. I'm saying that
my heart and my walk with the father has absolutely, the more I've grown in the understanding
of who God is, his character, that has absolutely accelerated the release of the gifts that he's
placed within me. So some of you that are struggling, you're like, I'm trying, I'm trying
to walk in these gifts. I don't understand them or I want this gift or even as I prayed and sought
the gift of the speaking in tongues, y'all guess what? I'm giving to you what my mentor gave to me.
She like literally pounded into our minds, seek the giver first over and over and over. I heard
that. And so I prayed all the time to understand God, who he like, God helped me to grow in the
understanding of who you are as love. God helped me to grow in the understanding of who you are
as good. God helped me to grow in the understanding of who you are as faithful and kind, all of the
different characteristics of God. If you don't know the characteristics of God, start studying that
as you are seeking.
to grow in the gifts, because they go well together.
The last thing I'm gonna give you,
oh, here are two scriptures, y'all can,
I'm gonna give you two scriptures for seeking the giver.
Philippians 4.17, I'm not gonna read them
because we don't have time, so check that out.
Philippians 4.17, and then James 1.17.
James 1.17 states, every good gift
and every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights,
with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Y'all, everything comes from him.
He's our source, he's the giver, he's the good daddy,
who's excited to give you these gifts
and let you unwrap them.
Do you think he doesn't get excited
when we walk in the gifts?
Of course he does.
Have you ever seen your kid open a gift
or grow in some way, and you're just like,
man, like you're just so happy to see them growing
and walking in something new.
That's how our good father feels
when we open gifts and walk in them.
The last thing I wanna give you is that the Bible says
to stir up the gifts.
So not only earnestly seek them, but to stir them up.
2 Timothy 1.6 says this, for this reason,
I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God,
which is in you through Christ Jesus.
None of this would be possible if Jesus hadn't come
and died and went through everything he did
on the cross for us.
We can receive these things because Jesus Christ came
and he died for us.
And then when he ascended into heaven,
he sent the Holy Spirit.
Y'all go read the book of Acts.
That's some of your homework this week.
I wasn't planning to give that to you.
I'm gonna give you two things.
Read the book of Acts and read the book
or the chapter of Hebrews 11.
I want you to think about fanning the flame.
If you think about, if you've ever sat with a fire,
you're on a bonfire with people,
and I know we're going a little over,
but I'm almost finished, about to land this plane.
If you're sitting around a fire,
sometimes the embers start to burn out, right?
And the fire is starting to go low.
Well, if you want that fire to continue, what do you do?
You put more wood on it.
You stoke the fire.
You put the thing in there
and you're kind of stirring up the embers.
So that's what we have to do with the gifts.
We've got to get in there and stir this stuff up.
And hopefully today that's what this is doing in you,
that it's stirring up this stuff in you,
the desire to grow in your walk with the Lord
and all that he wants to,
not only has he already placed in you,
but he wants to activate you in it
and empower you to go and use the Holy Spirit
that he sent to help you.
He's our comforter.
He's our counselor.
He's our guide.
He's our ever-present help in time of trouble.
But y'all, he's also the one that empowers us.
The same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead.
If you are a believer in Christ,
Jesus is living inside of you.
Y'all think about that today.
It rose Jesus from the dead.
Do you not think he can't give you good gifts from heaven?
Anything dead in your life right now,
God can bring it back to life.
Do you believe?
I believe, help my unbelief.
I talk about that all the time too.
I believe, help my unbelief.
So if you don't have a belief right now
that you can walk in the gift of faith
or any of the spiritual gifts,
just be honest with the Lord
about where you're going.
Be honest with the Lord about where you're at.
Man, I wanna believe in this,
but man, I'm having a hard time
because I don't even fully comprehend
everything they're talking about.
Whatever it is for you.
Again, everybody's at a different place
in their walk with the Lord
that's a part of this community.
Please do not look at other people and compare yourself.
Be on your journey.
Celebrate your wins.
Celebrate with other people too,
but some of y'all just really need
to start celebrating yourself.
We're gonna activate the gift of faith
tomorrow night on Sunday activation.
Please come and allow yourself
to be activated in this gift of faith.
Candy will be the one there,
but she'll know what to do.
And it's gonna be really good.
Let me pray for us.
Father, thank you.
We covered a lot of ground this morning.
Thank you, God, for the truth of your word.
Because your truth brings life.
It brings freedom to those that hear it.
It's by hearing your word
that we can have that revelation of,
God, you have more for us.
Help us to hear what your spirit
is saying to us through it.
We just come against any shame, guilt, condemnation,
any lies of the enemy that's even come against people
during this call or those that would watch the replay.
And we thank you, God,
that you would just crush the enemy,
that you would put them under our feet,
but that we.
would take a posture of faith that would enable that,
that we would step into the authority
that you've already given us.
God, that you have given us authority
to take land and ground for you,
not only in our own lives, but for the kingdom.
Help us to not look at ourselves like grasshoppers,
like the people in the Old Testament,
but like Joshua and Caleb,
that were like, man, we can go in
and we can slay these giants and we can take the land
and we can live, not only take the land,
but live in the land that's flowing with milk and honey.
God, give us the gift of faith.
We ask you to stir up this gift in people today,
God, that they would begin to receive
not just a measure of faith, but the gift of faith,
supernatural impartation to believe for things,
God, that you're putting in their spirits,
not just things that they want,
but even things for the church, for people around them,
God, for people in their community
to reach people for Jesus Christ.
And we just thank you in advance for that.
In Jesus name, we love you all.
And we look forward to hearing about just,
things that this is doing in you, saying in you,
as you're working and practically
trying to implement the gifts, come in and talk about it.
Let's grow together.
That's what I used to have to do.
I used to go and talk to my mentors like,
hey, this is what's happening.
What do you think about this?
And this is what I'm experiencing,
or hey, I'm praying for this and I'm not receiving it.
What do I do?
All right, awesome.
Go and be great today.
We love you.
Have an amazing day, everyone.