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FBT Daily Devotional: Hebrews 11

• Pastor Reggie

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What if the unseen is more solid than what you can touch? We open Hebrews 11 and find a blueprint for a life that pleases God, not through flawless performance, but through trust that acts. From Enoch’s quiet walk to Abraham’s daring steps into the unknown, and Sarah’s strength to conceive when time said no, we trace how faith turns promises into lived reality.

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Okay, so we're talking about Hebrews chapter 11 this evening. And if I had to give a title to this, it's going to be called The Lord is Pleased With You. So, of course, the famous scripture is verse 1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. And I'm going to jump over to the amplified classic because it really brings out that verse. Now faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed, the title deed. I love that. Of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality. Faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses. So the title, like I say, is the Lord is pleased with you. I'm going to jump down to verse six and read that one. But without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. When I was thinking about giving this message, the thing that jumped out of my spirit was that every single person that you see listed in this chapter, because they call this the Faith Hall of Fame, is somebody who you would consider a giant in the Bible, right? You have in verse 5, Enoch. He was um 65 years old, then he had Methuselah, then he lived 300 years after that, until for a total of 365 years. And for those 300 years, he walked with God, and God took him. He didn't die, God took him because he um was found to have faith, right? So, but that right there is an a major thing. But guess what? He did it by faith. You go down to verse 8 and it's talking about Abraham. It says by faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out not knowing where he was going by faith. Verse 9, by faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tenth with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise by faith. So Isaac didn't do anything, Jacob didn't do anything, but just be Abraham's children. And they were heirs of the same promise that were given to Abraham, but they still had to take it by faith. Go down to verse 11. By faith, Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age because she judged him faithful who had promised. She did that by faith. And think about that. Received strength to conceive seed when she was past the age of childbearing. So that means that her faith allowed the creation process to happen in her body in such a manner that um her womb was probably uh dead at that point, definitely was dead, not producing any children, because you know they put a biological clock on us. You get above 35 and you get pregnant, they send you to a geriatric, high-risk OB doctor. But she was 90 years old and she was able to conceive by faith. The belief that she had in God revived, reinvigorate, reinvigorated her um reproductive organs so that she could produce a child way past the flower of youth. Right? So then it says verse 12, they're from one man, one man, and him as good as dead, the Bible says, were born as many as the stars of the sky and multitude. Remember, they were named Abraham and Sarai before God changed their name so that he could change the vision, so they could change the image that they had on the inside of him. Abraham, father of a multitude, Sarah, mother of a multitude, right? And it says these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that we're so strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Right? And then let's go on down to verse 17. He's talking about Abraham again. By faith, Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, in Isaac your seed shall be called. Concluding that God was able to raise him up from even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense. He had so much faith in God that he was going to take Isaac and sacrifice him in obedience to what God told him, because God has promised me something. God said, In um Isaac, all those nations will be blessed. In Isaac, that's when the seed of the promise will come. So since he gave me that promise, and that promise has not come to pass yet, then even if I do kill this child as God has uh commanded me to do, then he's gonna have to bring him back from the dead or something because what he has promised me has not come to pass. And he did that by faith. And of course, we all know the story that um the angel called out from heaven and said, Don't touch the boy, and then a ram was caught in the thicket and he sacrificed the ram and not that lamb. But of course, that action that he did be in obedience to what God did, uh unlocked the um opportunity for Jesus to come into the earth. Because you know, with the old covenant and the new covenant, they had to find somebody that was going to match what was done. So it's not that you know God gives something and we don't give something to. He had to find somebody to say certain things, he had to find somebody to prophesy certain things, he had to find somebody to take certain actions, and in doing that, then that opened the door for us to be able to bring Jesus into the earth for him to manifest, and then for us to receive the promise by faith through what Jesus did. And then you come on down, verse 20. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worship leaning on the top of his death. I can continue on down to the bottom of this chapter, and it's just showing that by faith, by faith, by faith, every single thing that happened on with these wonderful people that you were considered generals of the faith did it by faith. But guess what? You're in this category with them. God is pleased with you just like he's pleased with them. Why? Because salvation is received by grace through the title of faith, right? You had to take your faith that God gave you when you were hearing the word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, and you had to utilize that faith that has uh sprung up in your heart to reach out to Jesus and say, Jesus is my Lord and Savior. That is how this journey started, that is how this journey continues. It does not at any point like change to do something else, just like it says in the book of Galatians, or foolish Galatians who have it which you, you know, and tried to change the gospel. No, uh, this started like this, it will continue like this, and it will end like this by faith. So God is pleased with you because you utilize that faith, you yielded to the faith, and you received Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You received the Holy Spirit on the inside of you, and then you're still doing things every single day by faith. You get up in the morning by faith, you click into this broadcast by faith, you um go to church by faith, you go to work by faith, you're able to do wonderful things by faith every single day, and that pleases the Lord. Because going back up to verse six, it says, but without faith, it is impossible, impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. So the Lord is pleased with you because you're utilizing your faith. And while I was sitting thinking about this message, um, I started, I started healing hearing when Dr. Billy Bram came to our church and she was uh speaking and prophesying over Pastor Carrick and Pastor Raquel, and I was hearing her speak to Pastor Carrick in my head. So I said I was going to read that prophecy from March the 2nd that she gave to him. Um, it's on Ah Carrick. You please the Lord, he's pleased with you because you yield to him, you yield to the spirit, you know the word, but you're not dry word, you have well-watered word, word that springs forth, springs out of the word, and those springs are for hallelujah. Yes, they're for the business community, they're for the community, they're for the law, but they're for God. They're springs for God, they come from God, and He wants growing on either side of that river, coming out of you, those trees of life that are for healing. And whereas there has been a degree of healing in your ministry that is really quite prominent and that is real powerful, the power is coming up, and people are going to fly across the room, fly across the room, knock down the catchers, knock down the catchers, and in this place, in this church, before the face of this people, they will see men made whole. Where there was no arm, there will be an arm. Where there was no eye, there will be an eye, and the blind will see, and the deaf will hear, and the timing is very near, but it depends upon uh it comes from the union of the body here. So, church, walk in love, walk in union, walk in authority, and watch God make you one of the houses that God occupies for the world to see. It will be the best advertising you ever had to the glory to uh the glory of God the Father, and it's not far away, but it does depend on you, hallelujah. Don't be satisfied with anything less than the best and less than the full power of God, hallelujah. Glory to God, bless the Lord. So, how do we obtain that prophecy? Because that prophecy was for Pastor Kerr, but it was for the church congregation, faith Christian Center as a body as well. How do we obtain to obtain that promise? How do we obtain everything that was said in there? How do we obtain that power coming up to the point where it's knocking down the catchers? How do we obtain limbs growing out and eyes opening and where there wasn't an eye and eye coming by faith? That's how we do it exactly by faith. By faith, we press in, by faith we contend, by faith we walk in love, by faith. We do all of the things that have been laid out in front of us with all this wonderful teaching for years that we've had sitting under this ministry. And by faith, we will see those things happen, we will see um those things come to pass by faith, and more than that, right? Because that's what um they said in the um Bible. John said, um, he wrote down that Jesus said, You will do greater works, greater works than these, because I go unto my father. We are here, saints. We are the hands and the feet of Jesus, and we take hold of those promises by faith, and we act on them by faith, and we see the manifestation of the spirit by faith, we see the miracle, signs, and wonders by faith. We do this thing called life by faith, because God is pleased with you. Every single one of you, every single one of you, under the sound of my voice, God is so pleased with you, and I feel like that's just really what he wanted me to lean on this evening, that he is pleased with you. It doesn't matter if you missed it today, it doesn't matter if you missed it to the right or to the left, it doesn't matter what you do, he is pleased with you, he loves you so much. So understand this evening while you are sitting there and you're taking this message in, that the father loves you so much, he has a heart for you. And just like you know, Pastor Um Billy, Dr. Billy Graham came and gave this message to um Pastor Carrick, um God has a message for you. And that message is He loves you, He is pleased with you. Keep pressing, keep moving forward, and watch all these wonderful things that He would do through you. And with that, we will go to the breakout room.