Do you ever find yourself wishing you had more faith, more courage, more confidence? Are you ready to step into the ring for the good fight of faith? Join me, Don Carpenter, as I share my own personal journey of tremendous faith and remarkable victories. With over six decades of ministering and a role as a Bible college president, I have plenty of wisdom and motivational tales to share. From my own bold steps, risks, and trust in the plan of the Almighty, I've seen miraculous results unfold.
The power of faith is truly amazing. In this heart-to-heart chat, we'll discuss how, just like Jesus, we can utilize our faith as a strong defense in life's many battles. One of my most inspiring stories involves praying for a friend in distress, and how God's miraculous intervention confirmed that with Him, indeed, all things are possible. I'll also challenge you to unleash your faith, and truly believe in yourself and your dreams. With faith as our gift from God, we are all capable of achieving powerful victories in life. So tune in, let's journey together to discover how to fight the good fight of faith.
Do you ever find yourself wishing you had more faith, more courage, more confidence? Are you ready to step into the ring for the good fight of faith? Join me, Don Carpenter, as I share my own personal journey of tremendous faith and remarkable victories. With over six decades of ministering and a role as a Bible college president, I have plenty of wisdom and motivational tales to share. From my own bold steps, risks, and trust in the plan of the Almighty, I've seen miraculous results unfold.
The power of faith is truly amazing. In this heart-to-heart chat, we'll discuss how, just like Jesus, we can utilize our faith as a strong defense in life's many battles. One of my most inspiring stories involves praying for a friend in distress, and how God's miraculous intervention confirmed that with Him, indeed, all things are possible. I'll also challenge you to unleash your faith, and truly believe in yourself and your dreams. With faith as our gift from God, we are all capable of achieving powerful victories in life. So tune in, let's journey together to discover how to fight the good fight of faith.
Don Carpenter:
Thank you for joining me today. God is so good to us. Today I'm going to share with you some things that's going to excite your faith, that's going to just cause you to come alive. My name is Don Carpenter. I am a minister here in Canada. I've been in the ministry 62 years. I'm a Bible college president. I travel all over the world and preach, I do conferences, and today I'm spending some time with you.
Don Carpenter:
We live in what the bible calls "E conomics are up and down for many people. We have wars and rumors of wars.
Don Carpenter:
People are wondering what does this all ? In the midst of it all, people are concerned about their well-being. Are we going to enough finances to survive or will I have a place to live? When we're in the work of the Lord and the ministry, God shows us things. How can we make a difference? God has equipped us with something that's called faith and as a believer, a spirit-filled believer, when you release faith, it requires boldness, there's a risk. People may say, "what if I do it and nothing happens?
Don Carpenter:
I remember one time I was ministering in a church in Nova Scotia, Canada. I've been in several nights of meetings, as I entered the church people people were saying to me "I brought my brother, he's going to get saved tonight and I know that when you pray for my mother, she's going to be healed, and so on, like this. And I was spending some time just talking to the Lord just before I went out to preach and the church was absolutely packed. There wasn't a seat left in the house and I said, lord, what if this doesn't happen? And Lord, what if I pray for somebody and it doesn't work? And what if I release my faith and nothing happens? And I felt the Lord was saying to me he said Don, don, don, whose church is this? And I said, well, it's your church, lord. And then he says and who do you belong to? And I said well, I belong to you, lord.
Don Carpenter:
I realized that it's God that works and I have to have the faith. And my faith rose to such a point, right then and there, there was no doubt in my mind. It's the Lord's work, I am not in the kingdom of God working for the things from a position of weakness. God has equipped every believer with faith. what If nothing happens?
Don Carpenter:
As this thought came to me, and I'm sure it was a God thought what if something does? One has to step out and believe God. We are running for our life. Everything that you do, you put everything into it. Jesus set the great example. He had to be about the father's business and that was exactly what he was doing. I have learned that that once I commit to something, I must be prepared to carry that mission through to to where it's supposed to go. When you proceed, you know, and there's going to be probably resistance. You may get the thought "I can't do this. I probably nobody wants to listen. Listen to me.
Don Carpenter:
Faith in God brings forth miracles. Faith is a gift that God has given to us and we must be strong in our will and in our purpose. ThatYou must have faith that you heard from God and that you are going to do it. Once you commit, it is absolutely amazing what will happen. I could tell you, story after when I've been in situations where I did not have any idea how I was going to get out of it. Things were against me. I would be someplace and and I'm thinking, lord, I don't even know where to turn today, and I would bring it before the Lord and I felt like, in the spirit of God, that he would tell me what to do and then I would step out and I would do it.
Don Carpenter:
Always remember that you must be confident. You must be sure that you are a child of God and when God tells you to do it, you must be confident that your faith is going to be released and it's going to happen. You have to be fearless. Your confidence has to be such that your thinking "of course, we're going to succeed. Failure is not an option. Okay, I'm going to be bold. Member intimidation We'll always try to see if it can find somebody that it can cower.
Don Carpenter:
When you're standing in the midst of a trial,and you know that you've heard from God that you know this is what you're supposed to be doing, and You're going to do it, and you can expect that it's going to happen. This enemy, called fear that comes , remember every piece of ground that you have taken, that you had to fight to get there. You had to conquer that, whether it was your fear or overcoming your limitations, whatever it was. That's the way it was with Jesus. Paul, the Apostle that we read about in Scripture, or hear about great men and women of faith today and things that they perform and do. We all fight enemies, but I thank God that he's the one that is our defense. He tells us to go and fight the fight of faith, and that's what I do. That's what you're going to do. You're going to conquer, you're going to stand on what 1 Timothy 6 says, you're going to fight the good fight of faith. You've had a vision. You're going to unleash that vision. You're going to remove every mental, every spiritual roadblock, and you know what the outcome is going to be when you do that. It's going to be victory, victory. You're going to accomplish your mission and you're going to move forward and you're going to attain your goal. When that happens and you release your faith, it creates an opportunity. Faith creates an opportunity.
Don Carpenter:
Many people when they faith may people say, "I would like to do that. Can you imagine what you could do if you thought that absolutely nothing would stand in your way? Can you imagine how strong you would be and how bold you would be? Oh, wow, see, here may well be times that you will run unopposed, like nothing is going to be there to hinder you, and there are going to be times where it seems like everything's against you. B e bold and just keep moving forward, as if there's no limits, as if there's no walls, as if there's no restrictions. That's what faith does. Faith removes the walls, it removes the restrictions.
Don Carpenter:
Maybe another Christian believer will speak and ask someone " the ever-thought-about given their lives to Christ. And maybe they're thinking, well, I'm too evil, too sinful, I've done too many things wrong. I couldn't do that. God loves us and God forgives us. The blood of Christ covers every sin and when we come through that, we accept Jesus as Lord. We are We're going to be bold and move forward. As a Believer, we are going to view things differently. We don't look at what we have in the natural Because, see, as a believer, it's Christ, it's God working through us. We're vessels, we're channels. We're vessels that God works through and releases his power through. That's why he uses God you . God has things for you to do that only you can do. You have people to speak to about about the things of God, and you do it so well and that's why God sends you to them. If you will be open before God and say "God, you can move through my life and I've got faith and I'm believing that you're with me. That will create opportunities right there in itself.
Don Carpenter:
I've often heard it said over the years that the hardest part of your mission, the most difficult of anything you feel that God wants you to do, the most difficult time is the starting time. It's when you're going to say I'm going to do it and I'm going to take steps right now and I'm going to start it. When that happens, we got some idea that faith is blind and all of that. No, when we face the reality that's before us, you're free to act. Always pursue God's best for you. Believe that you're the instrument that God is going to work through, just as easy, just as strong, just as powerful, just as anointed as whoever the greatest Christian you think in your mind is. God wants you to be that way. Always live and move toward the peak of your ability. Always do your best.
Don Carpenter:
Don't allow anybody to put you down or the enemy will say "you can't do that. What if you do it and fail? Remember what I said. Remember what I said Faith is a risk, but when you know that God is with you and you believe that that's what you should be doing, do it. It's going to happen. You already picture in your mind. You already picture in your mind what the result is going to be, but yet the enemy says not today. The enemy may say well, there's somebody else who can do it better. That is an adversity that's there before you and you need to defeat that. And you're going to encounter this. Don't think that you're the only person that encounters that. You're going to encounter it, but I'm going to tell you what God has made the way for you. So you just step out and you do it.
Don Carpenter:
We're thinking "if it's God's will, okay, if something is God's will, or this is what I'm supposed to do, how can I? Is this a once in a lifetime thing? Is this going to happen again, like if I do this today and then tomorrow, what if I run out of faith? You're not going to run out of faith. Okay, it's there, it's in you. God wants you to release it. Okay, you just establish some purpose in your mind that I'm going to live to the peak of my ability today and that I am going to have a mindset that I am going to live a fulfilled life and every day, when I come to the end of the day, I'm going to be able to look back on it and say I achieved today what I felt that I should achieve. You had faith for it and God's going to honor your faith.
Don Carpenter:
You should always, look at attaining outstanding personal achievements in your life. Unlock the doors. The door is there and God wants you to turn the handle, seize it. Step into this new faith new level that God wants to give you. Don't be held back. you. be held back by what others say because sa can't do. You're going to meet people who say what you can't do. Whenever people tell me that I can't do something, what they're really saying to me is they can't do it, but I can do it because in Christ I can do all things. I'm going to release faith and I'm going to do it, and I want you to free yourself from the weakness of others.
Don Carpenter:
Read the Bible in the morning, read a verse, pray, get the mind of God. God will speak to you about what you've been praying about. Today is a good day to start walking out and seeing what's going to happen. Continually renew yourself every day, renew your mindset, speak to yourself. Whatever your name is, say that and say you can do it. I will say Don, "you can do it. And thank you, lord, for your spirit. Thank you, lord, that I'm your child, your son. Thank you, father, that I have ears to hear and eyes to see and a mouth to speak with and I've got feet to walk, hands to work. I can do it. God has spoke to me and I'm going to do it by faith. Yeah, I'm just going to do it. Why are you here? God told me to be here. This is what God wants me to do and I'm going to do it.
Don Carpenter:
Whatever it is, Don't stop and think about. Just think," God is going to come on the scene. I'm going to release my faith, I'm going to stand with them and we're going to see a turnaround. So always, whatever you dream, whatever your goal is in God, always expect to exceed that, always expect greater. Am I going to do, because Jesus Christ is with me and I've got faith. I'm going to pray with you, father, in the name of Jesus. I pray this precious one to be strong. I rebuke the enemy that tries to tell them that they cannot receive from God, they can In Christ. All things are possible, and I minister encouragement today in Jesus' name. Amen.