WEBVTT 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.820 Pick your Bibles up and wave them around. 00:00:01.820 --> 00:00:02.863 That's what we like to do. 00:00:02.863 --> 00:00:10.128 We like to take our Bibles and hold them up and wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:10.128 --> 00:00:24.068 And let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I'm tuned in tonight to live stream because the Word of God is alive and powerful and sharp than any two-edged sword. 00:00:24.068 --> 00:00:35.182 I receive the Word of God tonight as food for my faith, nourishment for my spirit, in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:35.182 --> 00:00:38.759 And let's turn in our Bibles, if you will tonight. 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:51.600 Hebrews, chapter six, and also Hebrews chapter 10, hebrews six first, verse 10, hebrews six, 10. 00:00:51.600 --> 00:01:03.179 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have showed toward His name, and that you have ministered to the saints and do minister. 00:01:03.179 --> 00:01:19.599 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope under the end that you be not slothful but followers of them who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:53.028 And then, in chapter 10, verse 34, I believe it is, paul is talking to them and he said for you had compassion of me and my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves, or that you have in yourselves, and knowing that you have in heaven a better and enduring substance, cast not away. 00:01:53.028 --> 00:02:07.710 Therefore, your confidence, which have great recompense of reward, for you have need of patience that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise. 00:02:07.710 --> 00:02:14.883 So I wanted to share a message tonight entitled faith and patience, faith and faith. 00:02:14.883 --> 00:02:21.489 People must exercise patience and we live in an instant society. 00:02:21.489 --> 00:02:29.293 We wanna see instant results, and your spirit needs to be possessed with patience. 00:02:29.293 --> 00:02:35.201 I heard Brother Norval Hay say that one time your spirit. 00:02:35.201 --> 00:02:38.947 When we talk about people being possessed, well, christians need to be possessed. 00:02:38.947 --> 00:02:48.587 They need to be possessed with patience, and, in fact, at Luke 2119, jesus said in your patience, possess your souls. 00:02:48.587 --> 00:02:51.479 And we sure need that right now. 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.270 We need patience because we see all this stuff going on. 00:02:54.340 --> 00:02:58.384 It seems like things are spiraling out of control, but listen, let's be patient. 00:02:58.384 --> 00:03:01.580 God's listening, god's hearing and answering prayer. 00:03:01.580 --> 00:03:07.409 He's moving behind the scenes, and so revelation always brings a fight. 00:03:07.409 --> 00:03:20.008 I just think about the revelation we had back on Rosh Hashanah, september the 19th last year, 2019, when God said that 2020 will look back and say my, my, this has been the greatest year of my life. 00:03:20.008 --> 00:03:23.308 And so you know when God put that in front of us. 00:03:23.460 --> 00:03:27.449 The devil heard it too and he is working overtime to try to steal that. 00:03:27.449 --> 00:03:29.987 Try to stop that, try to. 00:03:29.987 --> 00:03:37.503 If he can't steal the word out of your heart, he's gonna turn up the heat and try to scorch it, try to burn it up. 00:03:37.503 --> 00:03:47.969 But we are developing patience, you know, being constantly constant and being consistently consistent. 00:03:47.969 --> 00:03:53.228 I think I said this on Sunday night inconsistency lies the power. 00:03:53.228 --> 00:03:58.346 It's not how we are at a particular moment, it's how we are all the time. 00:03:58.346 --> 00:04:07.169 All the time, if our confession is consistent, our faith is consistent and we're consistently patient. 00:04:08.659 --> 00:04:16.689 You know, hebrews 10, 34 says we have to have a knowing on the inside that we have substance in heaven that cannot corrode. 00:04:16.689 --> 00:04:24.930 And our faith brings the substance that's in heaven and it becomes reality on earth. 00:04:24.930 --> 00:04:27.226 I mean, it doesn't do much good for it to stay up there. 00:04:27.226 --> 00:04:33.528 We need what is up there in heaven which can't be corroded up there. 00:04:33.528 --> 00:04:41.273 So our faith is bringing that which is incorruptible down here and manifested on earth. 00:04:41.273 --> 00:04:49.605 And so in verse 35, it says don't fling away your confidence, don't cast it away. 00:04:50.187 --> 00:04:58.543 You know the Amplified says don't fling it away, you know, your confidence, which has great recompense of reward, that word confidence. 00:04:58.543 --> 00:05:10.754 It means assurance, it means all outspokenness, but it also means in Thire's Bible dictionary let me just read to you what they say. 00:05:10.754 --> 00:05:18.937 It means it means the deportment by which one becomes conspicuous or secures publicity. 00:05:18.937 --> 00:05:23.579 Now just let your mind think about that just a moment. 00:05:23.579 --> 00:05:30.875 In other words, that's not describing someone that's hiding on the sidelines hoping not to be noticed. 00:05:30.875 --> 00:05:36.999 That's not somebody that's kind of sitting by and hoping that God doesn't choose them to go into game. 00:05:36.999 --> 00:05:55.617 You know this is a deportment means how you carry yourself, how your countenance, your way of speaking, your outspoken, your bold another word for it is boldness and you become conspicuous, you become, you secure publicity. 00:05:55.617 --> 00:06:00.214 You know God wants the church not to be sitting on the sidelines. 00:06:00.350 --> 00:06:10.836 We need to be pushing back very vocally and very boldly against the spirit of any crisis active in our government and in our society. 00:06:10.836 --> 00:06:20.802 You know what we're seeing in society right now, with these people talking about defund the cops, we're gonna defund. 00:06:20.802 --> 00:06:24.110 You know, we're gonna tear down the family and so forth. 00:06:24.110 --> 00:06:33.317 I mean I saw this one leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is a communist organization and it's funded by billionaires. 00:06:33.317 --> 00:06:44.237 So these people I just was going down 1960 today and I saw this whole display on the side of the road with Black Lives Matters t-shirts and I can't breathe t-shirts. 00:06:44.237 --> 00:06:50.259 Listen, folks, you know I'm not talking about that man dying, but I'm talking about the results of that man dying. 00:06:50.259 --> 00:06:57.238 This is wickedness, this is doctrines of demons, and we've got to think better than that. 00:06:57.238 --> 00:07:04.901 We've got to be bold and not be cowed and not be intimidated by the spirit of this world. 00:07:04.901 --> 00:07:06.314 We know what the truth is. 00:07:07.290 --> 00:07:12.997 Yeah, there's a few bad cops, but there's a whole lot of criminals out there that need to be reigned in. 00:07:12.997 --> 00:07:14.175 They need to be arrested. 00:07:14.175 --> 00:07:18.661 I was so glad to hear our president this afternoon talking about that. 00:07:18.661 --> 00:07:21.499 They're gonna bust MMS 13. 00:07:21.499 --> 00:07:24.454 They've got the leader of that thing and they've got him arrested. 00:07:24.454 --> 00:07:37.798 They're gonna try him for, you know, and they're gonna go for the death penalty and you know if we're able to take care of some of these gang members and people behind Black Lives Matter. 00:07:37.819 --> 00:07:45.139 Let me tell you something they're out there fomenting sedition and they're fomenting the overthrow of the government. 00:07:45.139 --> 00:07:47.297 In my mind, they ought to be arrested. 00:07:47.297 --> 00:07:51.033 That's not freedom of speech that falls. 00:07:51.033 --> 00:07:52.559 That's not the freedom of speech. 00:07:52.559 --> 00:07:53.634 That's not protest. 00:07:53.634 --> 00:07:56.117 You speak of overthrowing the government. 00:07:56.117 --> 00:08:10.572 That's when you have a different thing going on, and I believe if these Democrat mayors and police chiefs don't wanna enforce the law, then there may be a reason for the federal government to get involved. 00:08:10.572 --> 00:08:13.999 And I think our president's looking into it and I hope he does something. 00:08:13.999 --> 00:08:17.418 I hope he does something with or without anybody's permission. 00:08:17.529 --> 00:08:19.016 I don't think we ought to have to wait around. 00:08:19.016 --> 00:08:38.678 I remember when I was growing up, they had all kind of terrible things happening I think it was and Little Rock, wasn't it and the governor of Arkansas wouldn't allow a Black student to come to class and the National Guard landed there and the federal government intervened. 00:08:38.678 --> 00:08:45.059 I remember watching that on television, and so it's not without historical evidence. 00:08:45.059 --> 00:08:47.376 And so we need law and order. 00:08:47.376 --> 00:08:50.178 We don't need all of this kind of thing. 00:08:50.178 --> 00:09:09.639 So we need the church needs to have this the deportment by which we become conspicuous and we secure publicity, and we need to speak up and speak out and resist some of the horrible things that were being said in our society. 00:09:12.669 --> 00:09:16.750 So we're developing patience, amen. 00:09:16.750 --> 00:09:21.096 We're developing patience at this time, and so don't fling it away. 00:09:21.096 --> 00:09:24.850 Let's develop our confidence, our boldness, why? 00:09:24.850 --> 00:09:27.822 Cause there's a great reward for holding on. 00:09:27.822 --> 00:09:39.650 There's a great reward for holding on Patience always holds on, patience doesn't melt, patience doesn't give up, patience keeps on going All right. 00:09:40.549 --> 00:09:49.534 And so in verse 36 here in Hebrews 11, for you have need of patience that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise. 00:09:49.534 --> 00:09:52.879 See, you have to be a doer of the word of God. 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:54.576 The word of God is the will of God. 00:09:54.576 --> 00:09:57.337 See, after you've done the will of God, well, what is the will of God? 00:09:57.337 --> 00:09:58.235 It's the word of God. 00:09:58.235 --> 00:10:00.115 So you have to be a doer of the word. 00:10:00.115 --> 00:10:01.491 You have to act. 00:10:01.491 --> 00:10:04.655 Like the Bible is true, that's what the word, the will of God is. 00:10:04.655 --> 00:10:12.975 And so we have need of patience, because after we've done that, sometimes things don't change right away. 00:10:12.975 --> 00:10:21.458 After we've prayed, after we've acted on the word, after we've done what it's in our heart to do, sometimes it doesn't look like anything has changed. 00:10:21.458 --> 00:10:23.255 That's when patience has to kick in. 00:10:25.076 --> 00:10:28.238 You know I mean we just have to keep on ministering to others. 00:10:28.238 --> 00:10:32.059 You know that's what it says in chapter six, verse 10. 00:10:32.059 --> 00:10:44.278 You know he's talking here about God's not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you've showed toward his numb in the name that you've ministered to the saints. 00:10:44.278 --> 00:10:47.777 I'll tell you people need ministry, they need encouragement. 00:10:47.777 --> 00:10:51.719 Not everybody has it good. 00:10:51.719 --> 00:10:53.216 Some people are going through a battle. 00:10:53.216 --> 00:10:56.636 Let's get around the people that are going through a tough battle and let's encourage them. 00:10:56.636 --> 00:11:02.436 Let's agree with them, and maybe our thing that we've prayed for hasn't come to pass yet. 00:11:02.436 --> 00:11:04.256 Well, don't be waiting until it comes to pass. 00:11:04.256 --> 00:11:16.754 Just keep staying busy, busy helping others, and so follow along with those who, with faith and patience, inherit the promises. 00:11:16.754 --> 00:11:22.821 Find somebody that's whose life is working and follow behind them and emulate them. 00:11:22.889 --> 00:11:26.756 The Bible says be an imitator, follow successful people. 00:11:26.756 --> 00:11:34.158 It's good to imitate, it's good to pattern your life out of, especially out of, successful ministries. 00:11:34.158 --> 00:11:40.071 Now, like your pastor, I'm not just bragging on me, but I do have a track record here. 00:11:40.071 --> 00:11:47.719 We are 26 years in this you know, in glorious way church, and 33 years in the ministry. 00:11:47.719 --> 00:11:55.181 I mean we must have learned something, even by accident, and one of the things I've learned is patience. 00:11:55.181 --> 00:11:56.475 You just have to be patient. 00:11:56.475 --> 00:12:03.178 We have Bible examples that we can follow. 00:12:03.318 --> 00:12:16.341 After you know, I like to read about David, I like to read about Joshua, I like to read my Bible, but also there's real life examples, and I just remember following after Brother Osteen. 00:12:16.341 --> 00:12:25.456 He was such an example to me, and Kenneth Hagan and many other great men and women of God just were great examples. 00:12:25.456 --> 00:12:31.758 And you know, a little job done is better than a great job, big job bragged about and talked about. 00:12:31.758 --> 00:12:35.589 You know, it's not all about the talk, it's about what you're doing. 00:12:35.589 --> 00:12:37.535 So we ought to do the will of God. 00:12:37.535 --> 00:12:40.190 You know, david is a good example. 00:12:40.190 --> 00:12:41.475 I mentioned him a moment ago. 00:12:41.475 --> 00:12:42.673 He's one of my heroes. 00:12:43.671 --> 00:12:49.669 But in the first Samuel 16, you know, he was just a scrawny kid on the back 40. 00:12:49.669 --> 00:12:57.759 In fact, when Samuel came to town to anoint the next king, god didn't tell him which one of Jesse's boys it was going to be. 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:01.629 And so he gets Jesse in there and says get your boys. 00:13:01.629 --> 00:13:03.456 And they just come one by one. 00:13:03.456 --> 00:13:04.359 No, that's not it. 00:13:04.359 --> 00:13:05.313 No, that's not it. 00:13:05.313 --> 00:13:07.655 He looks around at the last one. 00:13:07.655 --> 00:13:08.177 Is there. 00:13:08.177 --> 00:13:10.136 Well, have you got any more son? 00:13:10.136 --> 00:13:12.190 Well, yeah, we've got that David. 00:13:12.190 --> 00:13:14.238 He's in the back 40 watching the sheep. 00:13:14.238 --> 00:13:16.590 See his daddy almost forgot about him. 00:13:16.649 --> 00:13:17.914 You talk about somebody. 00:13:17.914 --> 00:13:20.629 You know that was kind of forgettable. 00:13:20.629 --> 00:13:23.054 Well, god knew about him, god had selected him. 00:13:23.054 --> 00:13:29.278 And he comes up before Samuel, and I mean God spoke to him and said this is the one. 00:13:29.278 --> 00:13:39.121 And he poured the horn of oil on this young teenage boy and he was on no one short list to be king. 00:13:39.121 --> 00:13:42.210 But as a matter of fact, god's list didn't have but one name on it. 00:13:42.210 --> 00:13:42.893 It was David. 00:13:42.893 --> 00:13:46.789 He didn't have a short list, a long list or any other kind of list. 00:13:46.789 --> 00:13:47.693 He had one name. 00:13:47.693 --> 00:13:54.263 And so here he was, an ordered king, and he goes in. 00:13:54.791 --> 00:14:12.179 And you know he had that confidence that when he showed up at the scene where Goliath was blaspheming God, all of the armies of Israel were cowed down behind rocks, trying to hide, hoping not to be called into the game. 00:14:12.179 --> 00:14:14.979 I mean you talk about people that didn't want their name called. 00:14:14.979 --> 00:14:19.520 I mean, his brothers were like that and Saul was hiding too. 00:14:19.520 --> 00:14:23.701 I mean Saul wasn't interested in getting into a battle with Goliath. 00:14:23.701 --> 00:14:34.894 But here's this young boy, you know, in his teenage years, and he said why are you, why are you people letting this man get away with blasphemy? 00:14:34.894 --> 00:14:36.615 Is there not a cause? 00:14:36.615 --> 00:14:38.693 Oh, what do you know about it? 00:14:38.693 --> 00:14:41.735 Boy, shut up, you don't know anything, you're just a shepherd boy. 00:14:41.735 --> 00:14:47.417 He said what will be done for the person who will kill this uncircumcised Philistine. 00:14:47.417 --> 00:14:51.096 You talk about conspicuous. 00:14:51.610 --> 00:14:59.740 You talk about somebody that had secured publicity by the time he finished killing Goliath with that stone. 00:14:59.740 --> 00:15:07.538 One smooth stone in the forehead cut off his head, his, his notoriety spread all the way through Israel. 00:15:07.538 --> 00:15:11.870 I mean, he was on the hearts and the minds of the women of Jerusalem. 00:15:11.870 --> 00:15:15.520 They were saying you know, saul has killed his thousands and David is 10,000. 00:15:15.520 --> 00:15:21.798 You know, he, he didn't count on the sideline, he didn't throw away that confidence. 00:15:21.798 --> 00:15:23.677 Where did that confidence come from? 00:15:23.677 --> 00:15:25.428 It came from his prayer life. 00:15:25.428 --> 00:15:28.058 It came from his worship of the father. 00:15:28.058 --> 00:15:30.337 It came from his personal relationship. 00:15:30.337 --> 00:15:32.597 I don't say that we ought to be proud. 00:15:32.597 --> 00:15:37.361 I don't say that we ought to be, you know, irritating. 00:15:37.361 --> 00:15:42.277 I say that we ought to have the confidence that comes from a close personal relationship with the father. 00:15:42.277 --> 00:15:44.673 And he had that. 00:15:44.673 --> 00:15:47.922 And he was persecuted for his trouble. 00:15:47.922 --> 00:15:55.009 I mean, people were jealous of him and and Saul was jealous of him and and persecuted him and chased him out to a cave. 00:15:55.009 --> 00:15:59.179 He had to hide in a cave and he became a captain. 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:04.860 Over 400 men, and they weren't exactly a soldier types. 00:16:04.860 --> 00:16:08.916 I mean these the Bible says they were in distress, they were in death and discontented. 00:16:08.916 --> 00:16:11.496 I mean, you talk about a mess. 00:16:11.496 --> 00:16:35.182 He was a captain over a mess and over many years he worked on those men and he showed them by precept and by example how to be men, how to be soldiers, and some of them turned into mighty men and it took 12 years and during that 12 years he could have killed Saul that was after him two different times. 00:16:35.182 --> 00:16:39.000 And he, he refused to touch God's anointed. 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.336 He loved God so much he just wouldn't take a shortcut. 00:16:42.336 --> 00:16:46.760 I know ministries that have taken shortcuts and have been thrown aside. 00:16:46.760 --> 00:16:50.779 Some of them went to heaven early because they tried to take a shortcut. 00:16:50.779 --> 00:16:52.775 Listen, there are no shortcuts. 00:16:52.870 --> 00:16:56.759 You know you, with with your, you need to be possessed with patience. 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:14.258 You know patience, and and and David's faith and patience inherited the promise because after that 12 years he became king of the Southern kingdom, judah and Benjamin, and then, seven years later, he became king of the 10 tribes and the whole kingdom was unified under David. 00:17:14.258 --> 00:17:17.477 And so so God's plan for his life. 00:17:17.477 --> 00:17:18.640 It took time. 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:30.599 It took years and years, 12 times 12 plus seven, that's almost 20 years, from the time he was anointed king to to where he was king of everyone. 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.756 You know you, you, you just have to. 00:17:33.756 --> 00:17:35.078 You have to have patience. 00:17:35.078 --> 00:17:36.993 You have to have patience. 00:17:38.569 --> 00:17:42.326 You know I've got things that God put in my heart almost 40 years ago. 00:17:42.326 --> 00:17:50.215 God put things in my heart 40 years ago that have not yet come to pass, but you know what they're coming to pass. 00:17:50.215 --> 00:17:51.693 They're coming to pass. 00:17:51.693 --> 00:17:54.436 See, I don't even doubt. 00:17:54.436 --> 00:17:55.661 I have no doubt in me. 00:17:55.661 --> 00:17:56.732 I know my God. 00:17:56.732 --> 00:18:03.616 He's done so many things in those ensuing 40 years, other things that God has shown me and they've come to pass. 00:18:03.616 --> 00:18:06.991 And I know whatever is left to be done, it will be done. 00:18:06.991 --> 00:18:08.577 It will be done. 00:18:09.430 --> 00:18:14.337 So we're talking about tonight faith and patience, and that's what inherits the promises. 00:18:14.337 --> 00:18:21.958 Or we can say it this way it takes faith and patience to gain the victory, and that's what we do here at Gloria's Way Church. 00:18:21.958 --> 00:18:24.156 We don't develop victims. 00:18:24.156 --> 00:18:32.336 You know, when you think about a victim, a victim is someone who blames others for their lack of success. 00:18:32.336 --> 00:18:38.739 And what a pitiful thing that is, because that's just really not true. 00:18:38.739 --> 00:18:40.343 It's really not true. 00:18:40.343 --> 00:18:41.252 I mean, look at David. 00:18:41.252 --> 00:18:42.750 He could have said that he could have. 00:18:42.750 --> 00:18:44.718 Well, that mean old Saul, he's the one. 00:18:44.718 --> 00:18:53.421 No, no, he just kept busy about doing good and he eventually received what God told him he could have. 00:18:53.421 --> 00:19:04.319 So to gain the victory, let's look at James chapter one tonight, and I've got one, two, I've got four things I'm gonna leave with you that have to do with patience. 00:19:05.490 --> 00:19:18.159 James chapter one, and the first one is in verse two my brethren counted all joy when you fall into different or diverse temptations. 00:19:18.159 --> 00:19:26.557 The word temptations means test at trials, as well, as when we see temptation we think sin, but it means tests and trials. 00:19:26.557 --> 00:19:30.734 So, number one point when trouble comes, counted all joy. 00:19:30.734 --> 00:19:32.431 They say. 00:19:32.431 --> 00:19:36.756 That's not necessarily something that we automatically do. 00:19:36.756 --> 00:19:41.338 We have to train ourselves, we have to discipline ourselves to do that. 00:19:41.338 --> 00:19:46.458 You know, when trouble comes, most of the time people don't count it all joy. 00:19:46.458 --> 00:19:56.439 They get intimidated, they get afraid, they start complaining, they start whining, they start calling the prayer lines, they start calling people to pray for them. 00:19:56.439 --> 00:19:59.980 No, the Bible says when trouble comes, count it all joy. 00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:03.598 The joy of the Lord is your strength to endure. 00:20:03.598 --> 00:20:09.232 If you don't waste time being amazed at the trouble, just praise God. 00:20:09.232 --> 00:20:10.857 Just praise God. 00:20:10.857 --> 00:20:13.015 Count it all joy. 00:20:13.015 --> 00:20:17.057 I mean, if you're going through it, then God has already got a way of escape. 00:20:17.057 --> 00:20:22.018 He's got a way of escape for you so you can just go ahead and count it all joy. 00:20:22.390 --> 00:20:25.692 I think about Paul and Silas when they were locked up in that prison. 00:20:25.692 --> 00:20:31.595 They were locked up in the inner prison, and they were locked not only in the cell but they had feet. 00:20:31.595 --> 00:20:33.319 Their feet were in the stalks. 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:35.365 They had these wooden stalks with locks on them. 00:20:35.365 --> 00:20:38.555 They couldn't even move and they were in the inner prison. 00:20:38.555 --> 00:20:48.575 And at midnight the Bible says Paul and Silas prayed and they sang praises so loud that all the other prisoners heard them. 00:20:48.575 --> 00:21:02.473 Instead of complaining about all those stripes that they had suffered, all those lashes, that rough treatment and everything, instead of complaining about that, they prayed and sang praise Because they counted it all joy. 00:21:02.473 --> 00:21:05.815 Praise God, and God broke them out of the prison. 00:21:07.069 --> 00:21:11.240 And so number two is found in verse four. 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:18.519 But let patience have a perfect work that you may be perfect in entire, wanting nothing. 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.220 So the second one is let patience develop and grow. 00:21:22.220 --> 00:21:28.198 And the only way that patience can grow is by its being tried. 00:21:28.198 --> 00:21:30.203 Your faith is being tried. 00:21:30.203 --> 00:21:37.223 You know, there's no great victories without great battles, no great faith without great tests. 00:21:37.223 --> 00:21:40.229 Your faith is going to be tried. 00:21:40.229 --> 00:21:41.890 Whenever you're believing for something. 00:21:41.890 --> 00:21:43.401 The devil's gonna oppose you. 00:21:43.401 --> 00:21:51.194 He's gonna send contrary circumstances that when you have to have faith, the trying of your faith, the worketh or develops patience. 00:21:51.194 --> 00:21:54.868 That's the only way patience can grow. 00:21:55.457 --> 00:21:56.086 See, gifts are given. 00:21:56.086 --> 00:22:01.309 Some of us have great gifts that God gave it and they're just given by God's grace. 00:22:01.309 --> 00:22:08.150 He just gives people different gifts and it's amazing to see people's gifts in operation. 00:22:08.150 --> 00:22:11.119 That's the beauty of the church, because we all have gifts differing. 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:20.355 But the fruit of the spirit, of which patience is one of the fruits of the spirit, there's nine gifts and nine fruit and the fruit of the spirit. 00:22:20.355 --> 00:22:22.609 These are all developed. 00:22:22.609 --> 00:22:23.174 They have to grow. 00:22:23.174 --> 00:22:26.788 We're given the seed of them when we get saved. 00:22:26.788 --> 00:22:31.028 But what we have has to be worked on, it has to be developed. 00:22:31.028 --> 00:22:40.868 And so here in verse four, he said let patience, let patience have a perfect work that you may be perfect in entire. 00:22:40.868 --> 00:22:45.529 It has to be developed and it's developed by trial. 00:22:45.529 --> 00:22:48.461 God didn't send the trial, but he won't waste the trial. 00:22:48.461 --> 00:22:51.829 The devil's gonna give you the perfect work. 00:22:51.829 --> 00:22:52.794 God won't waste the trial. 00:22:52.794 --> 00:22:58.115 The devil's the one that sends the trial, but God won't waste it. 00:22:58.115 --> 00:23:03.582 He will use it so that you will develop in patience and then you will be perfect. 00:23:03.582 --> 00:23:05.154 See, patience is perfection. 00:23:05.154 --> 00:23:06.525 What do I mean by perfect? 00:23:06.525 --> 00:23:07.316 I mean mature. 00:23:08.589 --> 00:23:10.336 See, a child has no patience, right? 00:23:10.336 --> 00:23:16.136 I mean, when you start talking about Christmas, they can't wait to open their gifts and they want to start opening the gifts. 00:23:16.136 --> 00:23:21.653 Like three weeks before Christmas you start putting Christmas gifts under the tree and they don't want to rip the. 00:23:21.653 --> 00:23:23.173 You know, gladys is like that. 00:23:23.173 --> 00:23:23.955 She's still like that. 00:23:23.955 --> 00:23:25.436 It's very childlike. 00:23:25.436 --> 00:23:27.336 I mean, she has no patience when it comes to gifts. 00:23:27.336 --> 00:23:28.755 She wants to tear that gift open. 00:23:28.755 --> 00:23:30.654 So I have to fool her. 00:23:30.654 --> 00:23:32.875 I have to do it tonight before, just like a child. 00:23:32.875 --> 00:23:35.654 Uh-oh, if Gladys is watching, I'm in trouble. 00:23:35.654 --> 00:23:38.613 I mean, I may need the intercession before this is over with. 00:23:38.613 --> 00:23:49.416 But you know, but children develop their, you know, as they mature, their patience, they begin to understand about patience. 00:23:49.416 --> 00:23:52.599 It's the same with Christianity, with the new birth. 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:58.837 I mean, we're born as babies but we develop patience, and so patience is maturity. 00:24:00.263 --> 00:24:01.853 All right, the third one I want to talk about. 00:24:01.853 --> 00:24:16.599 In verse five and six, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which gives liberty to all men and a braided thought, and shall be given him, but let him, ask in faith, nothing wavering, for he that wavers is like the wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. 00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:21.913 So the other third thing to gain the victory is to pray, to ask for wisdom. 00:24:21.913 --> 00:24:23.500 See, don't doubt. 00:24:23.500 --> 00:24:28.680 See, when you're coming up against a circumstance, you don't automatically know what to do. 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:30.867 First of all, count it all joy. 00:24:30.867 --> 00:24:37.327 Second of all, let your patience start kicking in, because you know it's not going to snap your fingers and everything's going to change. 00:24:37.327 --> 00:24:38.984 You're going to have to go down a road. 00:24:38.984 --> 00:24:43.007 And so then, third, you pray for wisdom. 00:24:43.007 --> 00:24:45.305 You pray for God's wisdom. 00:24:45.779 --> 00:24:47.606 Wisdom is application of God's knowledge. 00:24:47.606 --> 00:24:52.309 This is God's knowledge, but you need wisdom as how to apply it. 00:24:52.309 --> 00:24:55.669 And so God will make a way through the trial. 00:24:55.669 --> 00:25:01.765 First Corinthians, chapter 10, there's no temptation, test or trial that has taken us, but such as common man. 00:25:01.765 --> 00:25:12.310 But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tested, tempted or tried above what you're able, but he will, with the temptation, also make a way of escape. 00:25:12.310 --> 00:25:14.473 And so there's wisdom. 00:25:14.473 --> 00:25:17.849 See, your way of escape is the wisdom that you need. 00:25:17.849 --> 00:25:21.288 So pray for that and then believe you receive that. 00:25:21.288 --> 00:25:29.259 And as you pray in other tongues, your spirit is active and soon that answer will come, rising up. 00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:43.625 As difficult sometimes to describe spiritual things in natural terms, but it's like the answer just rises up and you become aware in your mind what your spirit already knows, and that is your wisdom. 00:25:43.625 --> 00:25:47.248 That's your way of escape out of the circumstance that you're in. 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:54.981 And many times in my life I faced all kinds of difficulty and I had to pray and I had to ask God. 00:25:54.981 --> 00:25:57.769 Okay, god, how do I, how do I get out of this thing? 00:25:57.769 --> 00:25:59.003 What's my way of escape? 00:25:59.003 --> 00:26:01.487 And it it very seldom is right. 00:26:01.487 --> 00:26:05.442 Right that moment I had to use patience, I had to pray. 00:26:05.442 --> 00:26:07.444 Sometimes it'd be several days. 00:26:07.444 --> 00:26:10.147 And then you know, sometimes the devil's bringing pressure. 00:26:10.147 --> 00:26:14.351 You've got deadlines and oh, you've got to have this answer right by a certain date. 00:26:14.351 --> 00:26:16.025 Well, don't be intimidated. 00:26:16.025 --> 00:26:18.685 You know God is greater than the deadline. 00:26:18.685 --> 00:26:22.970 And and so pray and ask for wisdom and don't doubt. 00:26:22.970 --> 00:26:28.071 See, somebody that's going to doubt, somebody's going to go back and forth and back and forth. 00:26:28.071 --> 00:26:30.907 Listen, you're not going to receive anything from God like that. 00:26:30.907 --> 00:26:34.867 It's by faith you receive it and God will show it to you. 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:41.284 And finally, the last one is found in verse. 00:26:41.284 --> 00:26:53.055 Let's see here chapter two, verse 17. 00:26:53.055 --> 00:26:59.230 It says even so, faith if it hath not works is dead, being alone. 00:26:59.230 --> 00:27:02.886 So if you're going to, if you're going to walk by faith, you have to. 00:27:02.886 --> 00:27:05.903 You have to have a, a corresponding action. 00:27:05.903 --> 00:27:10.862 The Weymouth translation says faith without corresponding action is dead. 00:27:10.862 --> 00:27:13.625 And then in verse, verse 26,. 00:27:13.684 --> 00:27:25.386 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also, you know I've used this many times, it's maybe a little crude, but you know you don't go to the funeral home to find help. 00:27:25.386 --> 00:27:30.728 You know if you're going to hire somebody to help with yard work, you're going to get a carpenter job. 00:27:30.728 --> 00:27:35.965 You know well, you're not going to go to the funeral home and hire a dead body, right, because there that's empty, the dead. 00:27:35.965 --> 00:27:38.131 The body without the spirit is dead. 00:27:38.131 --> 00:27:39.192 There's no use of me. 00:27:39.192 --> 00:27:42.931 It's just laying there in a casket, is of no use, it can't do anything. 00:27:42.931 --> 00:27:52.365 That's what your faith is like without corresponding action is like a cadaver, it's like a dead body, it's not going to work, it's not going to do anything. 00:27:52.365 --> 00:27:57.388 So your faith always has to have a corresponding action. 00:27:57.388 --> 00:28:00.424 See, do the word, don't just be a hearer of it. 00:28:00.424 --> 00:28:10.231 And what do I mean by acting Well, acting like the Bible is true, but again it gets back to this wisdom that we've prayed for in step number three. 00:28:10.231 --> 00:28:19.574 When God gives you the wisdom, then you need to move forward in that wisdom and be a doer and be a doer. 00:28:20.690 --> 00:28:39.476 I remember when God began to communicate to me that he was ready for me to start Glorious Way Church, I was under a lot of financial pressure, had a lot of pressure on me financially, and so I got my clearance from Brother Osteen and he gave his blessing. 00:28:39.476 --> 00:28:49.438 And it's kind of close to the holiday season I think it's November, you know we're fixed to going to Thanksgiving and the Christmas. 00:28:49.438 --> 00:28:52.019 And you know, and I said so what did I do? 00:28:52.019 --> 00:28:55.817 Well, I began to pray okay, god, where is the building that we're gonna start in? 00:28:55.817 --> 00:29:02.374 And I just started driving and I knew it was gonna be somewhere around 1960 in this area of town. 00:29:02.374 --> 00:29:08.314 And I can't explain all of that, but I've known that, I'd known that for a long time, and I started driving up. 00:29:08.414 --> 00:29:12.808 I'd take off work early and I'd drive and get in my car and drive up down 1960. 00:29:12.808 --> 00:29:27.479 And I'd just be praying and holy ghost, the whole time, praying and holy ghost, and I'd feel something, you know, and I'd look, I'd look on both sides of the road see if I saw anything that was attracting to me, and I just went up and down the road and I would start. 00:29:27.479 --> 00:29:34.998 I'd start really praying about headed west on 1960, I'd start really praying about Stubner Airline. 00:29:34.998 --> 00:29:37.777 Then I'd get to Champion Forest and I'd really pray. 00:29:37.777 --> 00:29:40.136 I mean, it just seemed like it'd get hotter. 00:29:40.136 --> 00:29:46.180 And then I'd get to Cutton Road and it was still pretty strong. 00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:49.232 And then further, I got closer to 249, it was. 00:29:49.232 --> 00:29:49.452 You know. 00:29:49.452 --> 00:29:52.215 I could just feel like I was getting out of the area. 00:29:52.215 --> 00:29:53.634 It's just amazing. 00:29:53.634 --> 00:29:55.936 But I didn't see it, I didn't find anything. 00:29:56.509 --> 00:30:10.238 So somebody that I had called had them praying with me and they said Pastor, there's a building for rent right at the head of my subdivision, and they lived in Champions Park subdivision. 00:30:10.238 --> 00:30:31.459 So when you, when you it said, when you come out of our subdivision, it's directly across 1960 in the Strip Center, and I had been driving right past there and just close to Cutton Road, and I had been driving past there and missed it, and so I drove right back over there and I drove in there and here's this for lease sign and I mean the witness of the Spirit hit me. 00:30:31.459 --> 00:30:32.694 See what happened. 00:30:32.694 --> 00:30:34.737 I had to do something. 00:30:34.737 --> 00:30:38.519 See it was working, it was moving, doing something. 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:43.320 And as I did something, god revealed our first building. 00:30:43.320 --> 00:30:49.383 And you know, and you know we, we call the realtor. 00:30:49.383 --> 00:30:56.943 The realtor met me there, the broker, and he knew the landlord and he contacted the landlord. 00:30:56.943 --> 00:30:59.479 We started the negotiation and that was our building. 00:30:59.479 --> 00:31:00.835 We were there for three and a half years. 00:31:03.109 --> 00:31:04.536 So be a doer of the word. 00:31:04.536 --> 00:31:07.117 See, when trouble comes, count it all Joy. 00:31:07.117 --> 00:31:10.298 Number two let patience develop and grow. 00:31:10.298 --> 00:31:15.935 And number three, pray and ask for wisdom, nothing doubting, and finally, be a doer of the word. 00:31:15.935 --> 00:31:21.278 This is the way to gain the victory, and God wants you to have the victory. 00:31:21.278 --> 00:31:23.597 Faith and patience brings the victory. 00:31:23.597 --> 00:31:27.740 As a matter of fact, faith and patience is the victory. 00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:31.955 So let's lift our hands and receive the mighty word of God tonight. 00:31:31.955 --> 00:31:36.536 These are things that are tried and true that they work and they'll work for you. 00:31:36.536 --> 00:31:39.464 They work for any believer that employs them. 00:31:39.464 --> 00:31:40.400 Praise God.