The Force of Faith | David Hall

"The Force of Faith", a message by Ps David Hall, recorded live at Revival City Church. Learn more about Revival City Church, visit www.revivalcity.church.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:26

I've been preaching on faith for about a year. And I feel like today is the day to sort of wrap it up and we'll move into some other things. I preach other things, but this is where I felt focused to preach. But the reason I've done that is the Lord spoke to me and said, preach faith. So I had to, I just did what I felt like the Holy Spirit spoke to me to do. But I want to just I let me say this. You know the old lullabies and nursery rhymes? They have meanings. But we don't even know what they mean because we've sung them so many times that it's actually lost on us that that uh some of these songs are not actually positive songs. Rockabi baby on the treetop. Has anyone stopped at that point in the song to ask a question? Why is there a baby on a treetop? Who put the baby there? I mean, if it's Nick and Talies, they just put it up there quite easily. But everyone else. Rock a bye, baby, on the treetop. When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. Somebody put the bed up in the top of the tree. Who did that? Why? There's so many questions that we don't ask because we've heard the song. When the bough breaks, you might not know what bow is. Bow's another name for branch. When the branch breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle, and all. Not a great song. It's not uplifting. It's it's to be honest with you, I think we actually need to make a report. These parents, these parents are not doing the right thing. They're not creating an environment conducive to healthy parenting. And and the song's negative, but we've sung it so many times. We don't hear the message. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses, not some of them, they sent the whole lot. What if the French invaded? How are we going to defend the country? I don't know. Where are the king's horse? We're putting an egg together. How do we even know it's an egg? It doesn't even say in the song. We know it purely from pictorial evidence. It's an egg. The eggs had enough. You know, it's the eggs, you know, if his son's name's last name's Dumpty, don't call him Humpty. And so, poor old Humpty Dumpty, he falls off the wall. The king sends all of his king's horses, all of his king's men. Now, if you're gonna send an animal to help fix an egg, how about you send, like a gorilla that has opposable thumbs, not a it makes it worse? I know I should start with scripture, but I'm making a point. We sing these songs and we don't even think about the meaning. Ring a ring a rosy, like we would hold hands at school and spin around in circles. Ring a ring a rosy, a pocket full of posy, a tissue, a tissue, and we all fall down. And we think that's a nice song. It's a song about the bubonic plague. Killing millions. And we think it's not a nice song. Nursery rhymes are negative. We see mums holding their baby Rikerbye, baby. We go, what a good mum. No, no, no. She is threatening that kid. It's creepy, it's unrighteous. And sometimes that happens when we read Bible verses that we've seen a thousand times, and the grunt in that message gets lost. And I'm gonna ask you with fresh eyes to have a look at an old time passage that we preached a hundred times because this, if you look at it through the lens of faith, man, I feel it in my bones. If you look at it through the lens of faith, this will stir something in your heart. Mark 11, 22. So Jesus answered and said to them, I'd love you to say these four words out loud. What did he say? Have faith in God. He he said, have faith in God. Now I'm going to keep reading, but I want to just tell you before I start, because I'm preaching faith today, the word that that that statement, when he says, have faith in God, that the the best translation of what he's saying is, have the faith of God. Have the kind of faith that God has. Which, man, when you look at how God operated in faith in himself, but faith in a word that he spoke, he'd say, My words are spirit in their life. The Bible says God said, Let there be light, and there was, and he saw it was good. When God speaks, things happen. And I want to have that same kind of faith that when I speak something according to the word of God, something is going to happen in the name of Jesus. Can you say a good amen to that this morning? And so it goes on in verse 23. For assuredly, as that assuredly is not a fancy word, is saying, like I am, I am absolutely clearly and boldly and truthfully saying, He says, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, somebody say this mountain, I'm not going to make you repeat everything, but I want you to look at this with fresh eyes. Pretend you've never read it before. He says, Whoever says to this mountain, be removed and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. That seems like a pretty big, bold, broad promise from God. And it goes on in verse 24. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. Now, we we skim over that. Or what we do sometimes is we go, we we put an invisible asterisk by that to then announce the ten things it doesn't actually mean. But there is no asterisk. If we do that, we're actually adding to scripture, or we're taking away from scripture. What Jesus said there is if there is a mountain in front of you, and that's a mountain of opposition, or it's a mountain of challenge, it's a mountain of difficult circumstances, and I don't want to take away from what the scripture says. Maybe it's something physical in front of you. He says, speak to that mountain, command it to be removed, and believe in your heart, and you will have what you say. I don't know if I'm talking to anybody today that sees this like I do, but I see it, and that actually builds faith in my heart, and it tells me, man, if I release my faith, things can happen. Do we have any faith people here today? I want I hope that somebody goes around and says, Oh, Revival City's one of those faith churches. Yes, we are. I don't want to be one of those doubt churches. So it's like when people say, Oh, you're you're just a grace preacher. Yes, but so was Jesus, so was the Apostle Paul. So so every epistle said, Grace be with you. I I'm a grace preacher. Man, I I gotta calm down. I'm getting myself happy this morning. I'm not trying to rant, I'm just pumped. Because I read this and I go, these are the words of Jesus. In my Bible, up here it's in red, up there it's in white. But I want to I want to spend some time this morning. The title of my message is simply this, The Force of Faith.

unknown 7:52

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

Because I how many people here you got saved maybe in a denominational church, like a maybe a non-Pentecostal church, but you got saved in a non-Pentecostal church and you came into the baptism in the spirit. Well, in the first service, it was a whole lot. This service it's three people. Can I just ask a question? I'll follow up. Anyone here actually saved? Just give me a wave. All right, that's we've got some work to do, Pastor Jonathan, because that was how many people just will not put your hand up no matter what I'm asking you this morning. We were taught, well, let me say this. We believe 100% in the sovereignty of God, the overriding, overarching power of God that's greater than anything on the earth. And so, faith preaching has sometimes been put at odds with the teaching of the sovereignty of God. Where we sit as a church is simply this God is married to his word. Though sovereign, he will never act outside of his word. Do we believe that? Come on, give me a good amen. A mature believer knows that's true. So he's married to his word. And our faith, if faith goes beyond what the word promises, that's not faith. You you faith can't go beyond the promises contained in the word of God. So so when we say, well, well, faith isn't sovereign, it's not sovereign. God is sovereign. How faith works, faith is the instrument by which we operate within the sovereignty of God. And so we we discern the see, I I sat with somebody, if I said his name, everybody would know this this person's name. Famous Australian. And I I was I was with him one day at lunch, and and he he he was in a service I preached in Sydney, and I went to lunch with him, and he said, I I had trouble with some of what you're preaching. And I said, Okay, that's great. I had some trouble with what you were doing, but that's but but it but he he he he said he said to he said to me, uh, your your your teaching on on faith, I don't agree with it. You're imposing your will on God. And I said, You're you're you're not correct. I said, We believe, I believe faith comes where the will of God is known. And from knowing the will of God, that's how we can release our faith. So so I if you start having faith for things that the Bible doesn't promise, that that you might have hope for things, you might pray for some things, but but we've got to ask for things that God's promised us. So so so if I'm gonna ask for, you know, a a some random thing, like I this might be, I'm not trying to be uh negative or confronting, but if you start praying for destruction to come to somebody that's hurt you or something like that, you're praying very much outside the will of God. And and so you the book the book of James says, you have not because you ask not. And I've heard that quoted oh, you have not because you ask not, you've got to ask and it'll happen. But then he goes on to say, or it's because you ask amiss. In other words, you have not because you ask not, or maybe you're asking for things that God hasn't promised in his word. That's why you'll hear us say all the time we've got to stay in the word of God. Because you you can't make informed decisions uh for for the direction of your life or where to uh uh apply your faith. Now, now, faith and sovereignty will be at odds with each other when our when when we try to apply faith to things that God hasn't promised. So we always come back to the word of God. The word is safe, the word is a is a place where you can hide, you you can live under the word of God, and I've said it a million times, but but but the the Bible, some people go, we we should look at the Bible through a 2025, 2026 lens. I would flip that around and say, no, we should look at 2026 through a Bible lens, and the Bible works, it's eternal, the grass withers, the flower fades, the word of God stands forever. And where does faith come from? Faith comes by hearing, hearing what? The word. So so it might sound good, it might be motivational, but motivational things won't build your faith. A prophetic word might might stir your heart, but you can't build your faith on a prophetic word. You build your faith on one word from God that can change your life forever. Now I'm not minimizing the prophetic, but the word of God. So so faith and sovereignty live perfectly well under the shadow of the word of God. Can you say amen to that? So I'm saying all of this, but we were raised, some of us, and even in some of my old traditional Pentecostal upbringing, we were taught that faith. Now, now I'm nervous someone's gonna yell amen before I finish. And you might yell amen, and then I'm gonna say something completely the opposite. And if if you do, that'll be noted, and you'll lose five house points. Now, now, this is not a wrong definition of faith, but this is the incomplete definition of faith that you might have been taught that faith is uh faith is solely depending on God and trusting him with the outcome no matter what it is. Now, that sounds beautiful, and and in many ways there is powerful truth in that, but it's not the full truth. Yes, I trust God with the outcome. Yes, I trust that God is able to do that which we're believing and hoping for Him to do. But some if we sit back and go, you know, if a door opens, I guess I'll walk through it. No, you've actually got to believe God for things. You might be going for a job, believe God for that job. You might be believing God for breakthrough in something, and and we sit back, whatever the outcome. No, no, no, no, no. We've got to sometimes fight tooth and nail for that miracle and and believe God. See, what I believe, I believe that's part of faith, but I also believe when you read this that faith in itself is a spiritual force that has the power to produce things, not just a confidence in an outcome, but it's also something that can affect change to an impossible situation. It's the force of faith. You release your faith and something happens. Like when I pray for someone, I'm not gonna if you come to me sick or needing a breakthrough, I'm not gonna pray, Lord, whatever the outcome is, we trust you. No, no, no. We believe the outcome has been clarified in his word, and so we're gonna partner with God. Let's have a look at faith. Let me ask you a question. Do you believe it was faith when Peter walked on water? Yes or no? Yes. So let me ask you this. When Peter walked on water, did he sit there and go, Lord, if you want me to walk on water, you'll make me walk on water? He'd still be in the boat. Jesus said, Come. And so he had to make a decision. Is he gonna trust that word enough to stand on it and step into faith? I think some of us we're just living our life passive and calling uh calling spiritual laziness faith, because we're sitting back, whatever will be, will be. I don't believe that. It's a good fight of faith. What what what part of a fight involves sitting back, whatever will be? If somebody's punching me, I'm not gonna sit there going, well, whatever will be, will be. Because whatever will be, will be. Somebody say amen if you believe that today. Now, now, there might be a time where God gives you a word and says, Hey, trust me, I'm gonna do something. You sit back trusting God. But but I I I want to understand faith is more than just sitting back waiting for an outcome. It's something we release, it's something we speak, it's something that we declare. Like this building that we're in right now, it was bought by faith. The story behind this building is hilarious because nowadays, if you want to buy something, you go to realestate.com or you talk to Sonia and Chris and you buy a house from them. If you're selling a house, Sonia and Chris Dunbar, they're the best. I recommend them. I really do. I can give you a lot of reasons why. And they're they're a blessing. But this is what I will tell you. Uh, if you if you when they bought this church, well, I'll quickly tell you the side story. A kid escaped from Royal Rangers and at a Holden Hill community uh building somewhere. And so the pastor of the church was freaking out. So he's looking for the kid. He's driving all these streets and comes past here and sees this building, not the whole thing, just that that that side from from the other side of that wall was the building that existed. There was a little warehouse shed thing back here, and he drove past and it was for sale. And he and the Lord spoke to him and said, Buy that building. So he he bought that building, made the negotiations, had a go. But but if he sat there going, Lord, you'll bring us a building. No, you believe God, you look around, you have a go, you you do you do the stuff. I I I think we apply faith to so many other things. When you got saved, you didn't sit back, well, Lord, if you want me to be saved, you opened your mouth, you confessed. Yes, you believed in your heart and you got born again. How many are glad you're saved? Give me a wave. So let me ask you this. If you got if you got saved on the belief of your heart and the confession of your mouth, and and and you're on your way to heaven, a place you can't see, it's what we are all here today. Understand this. This is faith. We are all here today, on our way to a place we've never seen. We've got about two or three passages in scripture that give us an insight of what it even looks like. We don't really know too much about heaven. We know streets paved with gold, walls of jasper, gates of pearl, foundation of rubies, a place of no more tears, no more sorrow, no more sadness. There's no night there. We know that. We know that uh the the the the beasts and the elders and the cherubim and seraphim uh surrounding the throne of God. We know that we're gonna be singing the same song forever and ever and ever. My wife's dad, Russell, uh, he's a Baptist, and I remember one day Donna came to me and said, My dad asked me a question why don't you guys at your church sing this song over and over and over and over again? And uh and uh to some that might be boring. We're just trying to get your your heaven legs ready because they're gonna be singing one song forever and ever. Three lines.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

Like the verse, holy, holy, holy. Verse two, holy, holy, holy. Verse three, holy, holy, holy. Let's sing the chorus, holy, holy, holy. You know what, guys, let's go into the bridge. Holy, holy, holy. Let's sing the last line three times. Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. That's why we do it!

SPEAKER_01 18:15

You know, and then Gabriel comes in. You know what? I actually have a new song. Let's sing this together. Goes like this: holy, holy, holy. Holy, holy, holy. Why? Because there's a holy God, and we're gonna be in there casting our crowns at the feet of Jesus. And and we're all in there, we know. We've never seen it. You are literally raising your kids to live a righteous life, to serve God. You pray and you give thanks and you come to church, you you share your faith. Your faith is not you sharing your religion, it's your your faith in an expectant future that one day you're gonna be in heaven. Our whole relationship with God is not a, you know, maybe one day God. We we by faith receive the word, right? We claim salvation, we declared Christ as Lord of our life, we repented of our sin, we turned our back on the world, all because of a place that we can only see with the eye of faith. And so I'm preaching to people like that to go, if our whole relationship with God started in faith, then in the providential nature of God, what he starts is to stay. So if we started in faith, let's walk by faith. Because the Bible says the just shall live hammered by faith. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. I want to be a faith person. I got saved by faith, I got filled with the Spirit by faith. So guess what? I'm healed by faith. I have my breakthrough by faith. I don't even know why I do that. It's a new habit. I just don't know what to say. I want you to be faith people. Man, I got so much to say, and it's up there. It's a force of faith. It's tapping into the sovereignty of God and believing that what He's promised and established, we can walk in on planet Earth. Can you say a good amen? I'll even take a Baptist, I'll take an Anglican. Amen. I was gonna say I'd take a Seventh-day Avenger. Amen, but I would have only been able to do that yesterday. Faith is a force. My first thought today really is a recap of everything I've just said. Faith is a force, it's not human optimism. It creates, it produces, it moves the obstacles. Jesus doesn't say, have hope in God, have willpower in God, have good vibes in God. Have you ever seen somebody write on social media? You know, I'm facing a big challenge, I'm not well. He said to postpone his tour. Because the doctor says he can't he can't do a 90-minute concert yet, so they're postponing it to match. And I saw someone write underneath sending you good vibes. But those good vibes are not gonna they're not gonna help Barry Manila, of whom I share a birthday. So I care about Barry Manila. I've got a real soft spot for him. Sending good thoughts. Man, if I find out you're sick, I ain't sending good thoughts. I'm not sending good vibes. I'm sending father in the name of Jesus, according to your word. You are Jehovah Rapha, my healer. You are a miracle-working Jesus. You you took 39 stripes on your back so that we may be healed in the name of Jesus. Oh man, I don't, I don't wanna, I don't wanna sit back and whatever will be will be. No, no, no, no. We're gonna declare to the devil what we'll be. We're gonna declare over principalities what we'll be. We're not we we gotta understand it's not just simply going, oh, whatever will be. This is not K Sarah, Sarah. This this is my God can do anything, and I partner with him. See, see, when we partner with God, we work together with him. That's that's that's why faith brings pleasure to God because it's us coming into partnership with supernatural power. And say God's gonna do a miracle. But when he does miracles, he brings up Peter, James, and Johnny. He surrounds himself with people of faith. We do it together. What a privilege it is to join with God in faith and participate in the breakthroughs that God does. Wow, what a privilege. I can't heal anybody, but somehow I get to put my hand on somebody and God in his grace sees my faith. It's not about my faith, it's about his power. And it's about the faith of the person receiving, but he uses us to go. I'm gonna anoint you and your hands become my hands. I went to the hospital the other day. Prayed for a guy connected to our church. Stage four bone cancer. And I hadn't heard from the family. Like I just hadn't had a phone call, and so I thought I should reach out to them, see how they happen, and I just get a text back. Oh, sorry, we've been quite busy. I meant to tell you he's in remission. Thank you for letting me know that. I really, really appreciate you the time taken to give the glory. I mean, they're giving glory to God, but isn't that beautiful? You weren't all quite you're all shocked. You know, we pray for these things. Typical Christians, God does a massive miracle, huh? So funny. We come to prayer meeting, believe God, for something to happen, it happens. How did that happen? The angels didn't tolerate it, did they? When people came to the tomb of Jesus, they're like, Why are you so surprised? It's like, because he rose again. He said he was going to. Angels have no emotion. They're like, Why do you seek the living among the dead? What are you doing here? He's not here, he's risen. Thanks, angel, for your excitement. Angels don't always have a sunny disposition. When they pop in, they have to go, don't be afraid, I'm not gonna kill you. That's that's angels have a side. We we picture them really nicely from the from the from the from the photos, but a nine-foot dude, buffed, huge, built like myself, but just taller, with feathers. That's a I don't know what to do with all that. God does miracles in response to our faith, and then we sit back, how'd that happen? I've got to a point where now, and it's not prideful, but we sometimes see miracles, and we it we sometimes just go, yeah, that's that's what God does. It's not a it's not a yeah, we're it's got nothing to do with us. We just finally come to grips, you jump into this faith life. The things just happen. Faith is a force. Somebody say faith is a force. Say like, say faith is a force. So if faith is a force, then then the second thing is we've got to release that faith. The Bible says in verse 23, whoever says to this mountain. Isn't that I I I I might practice it this afternoon. I might go up to Mount Lofty, stand at the bottom because I'm not climbing it. I hate mountain climbing, I've done it once. I wanna how many people do climb things? Yeah, see, I don't feel like you guys are I don't feel like that's a normal thing to want to do. But let me say something about climbing mountains. That just as a side note, it's got nothing to do with the sermon. Don and I went on a holiday and they had this big old volcano where we went, and so Donna goes, let's let's climb it, let's climb it. And I'm like, fine. And and so so Don and I climbed the mountain. I'm at the top of the mountain. Donna's up there taking photos. All good. Um I'm borrowing people's puffers, I'm I'm repenting of sins because I think it might be my time, you know. No one told me that what's worse than climbing up. We come back down. That's the pits. Because you're using muscles to not fall that you didn't even know you had. By the end of it, Donna's ready to just have a nice day on holidays. I'm I'm not in a coma kind of thing. I actually got a taxi to get me home. I was done. Donna's running next to the taxi. I'm like, but you know, there's too many Christians that that that that that are mountain climbers rather than mountain movers. They come to church with a carabiner. They got their they've got that little vest with a built-in drink bottle. They got their hiking shoes and they're they're ready to go for a big hike. But this is what I want to tell you. Let's not pragmatize the supernatural things of God and and and and and and and try to negotiate in our own strength. Something that God wants us to negotiate in his strength. He says, speak to that thing that's in front of you. Some of us adjust to things that God wants us to rebuke and say, go. I don't I I'm wondering if maybe we can shift back from being mountain climbers back to mountain movers. I'm changing this song from climb every mountain to bind every mountain. In the there's mountains of fear that you're trying to climb in your own strength. There's there's mountains of division, there's mountains of debt, there's mountains of lack, there's mountains of sickness, there's mountains of calamity, and you're trying to, how am I going to do this? And you go, let's take one step day by day. Maybe step back, make the natural adjustments for sure, but look at that thing and say, This is getting it too much for me. And in the name of Jesus, I speak to this mountain. That declaration is a release of faith. And you lay hands on the sick, it's a release of faith. When you amen the word of God, it's a release of faith. When you hold that communion cup in your hand and you hold that bread. This is my body given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. It's a release of your faith. When you came into church this morning and we're lifting our hands and we're praising God, it's a release of faith. When you come to an altar call, it's a release of faith. In just a few minutes' time, we're gonna ask people that don't know Jesus to ask Christ of their life. And when you put your hand up and respond to the word of God, it's a releasing of faith. That's gonna connect you to grace. That little release of faith is actually gonna take you from death to life, from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to the power of God. You will be born again. You won't go home a different person, you'll go home a whole new creature. Hallelujah. Faith is released. Number three, faith confronts obstacles, it doesn't go around them. I've discovered when I'm walking by faith, things bounce off me that other times have the power to knock me down. And I really want to I want to speak this to your heart because I think oftentimes we don't realize that this is a walk of faith. So what's faith? It's acting on the word of God, it's believing the word of God, it's having total confidence in the authority of God's word and and and that God's got good for us and he wants to bless us and walking in favor and walking in blessing. I I've discovered anything I do by faith, God comes through when I do it in presumption. He doesn't always come through. Presumption would be me going to walking off a jetty going, I'm gonna walk on water. That's presumption. If you've got a word from God, it's faith. I think sometimes people step out and they'll they'll they'll start a business and and and and uh do something and it's on a word from God, God blesses it. Other times you see people they'll take a big step and they're taking a step and saying God said and God didn't say, and then wonder where the blessing is. And you know, uh it's not just in business, it's in any area, any life decision that we do. That that I think sometimes we go with a gut feel rather than waiting on God, getting a word, stepping out on that word. I I've I don't make big decisions on a gut feel, I need a word from God. Because my gut, if I'm hungry, can tell me all kinds of things. Faith. When you're walking in faith, I find things, when my faith has been weak and my faith has been depleted, opposition has had the power to just knock me out. There's times where I could talk to our staff, I could talk to Donna just about things here, and the challenge comes and and it could it it could be it could be a small thing and you just go, man, it's just really it's really confronting. Other times it could be a big thing and you just find yourself, yeah, let's go walk through it. And you're saying fate. You you you push through obstacles. What obstacles are currently in your world right now that maybe you're trying to sort out through human reason rather than releasing your faith. Asking God to speak to you about it and then acting on that word from God. Faith. It gets the job done. Number four, this is my I think this is my favorite point. It's definitely my top four so far. Faith is now. Somebody say faith is now. What does Hebrews 11 verse 1 say? It says, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen. But by it, the elders obtained a good report. Now faith is. Say it backwards. Faith is now. Now faith is. In other words, let me say this. Can I sit for a second? Thank you. So I I shared it with the last service. Lazarus, he dies. And Jesus knew that he wasn't well, but he for whatever reason, in his supernatural wisdom, he he declares this is not under death, though death actually did happen. But he said it's not the final outcome, won't be death. Then he says, he he just lingers where he is for another few days. They're going, Come, come, come. He's sitting there having a matcha latte, whatever that even is. Having bubble tea with extra pearls. I love those. And he's just hanging around. It's his best mate. This is not just any old person, this is Lazarus. This is this is his mate. And he dies. And Jesus knows what he has to do. But it actually hurts him to lose his friend. He he wept. Bible says it, shortest verse in scripture, Jesus wept. And then he finally gets to where Lazarus is. And Lazarus' sister. She says, if only you had come earlier, my brother wouldn't have died. And he goes, He's not gonna die. He'll be alive. And she says, I know he'll be alive in the resurrection. You notice something right there? Something we all do. She had faith in a different outcome if something else had happened in the past. She had faith in yesterday. She had more faith in yesterday than today. And then he says, no, no, he'll be like, she had more faith in tomorrow. Think about the gravity of that. How often do we have faith in our own life? If only I'd made this decision five years ago, then things wouldn't look like this. Oh, but they've got to turn around. Yeah, I know one day they might. And we don't realize that faith is not yesterday. Faith is today. I think a lot of us are living in that same mindset. If only it tells me we've got a faith in a day gone by. Have faith. I have faith in today. Now faith is. The evidence of things. The substance of things hopeful. The evidence of things not yet seen. The evidence of things. This is the only evidence that you can't see that you can bank your whole life on. The evidence of heaven is Christ coming into your heart. You can't see it. The evidence of things. Not yet seen. Faith is the evidence, it's a substance. So when you have faith, the Bible says faith is a victory that overcomes the world. We shout when we have the manifestation of the faith. In other words, the result. Why don't you shout over your circumstance? Praise God over your circumstance. Not because you've had the victory in manifestation, but you've had the victory in the spirit. When you learn to get victory in your spirit for things, Amen. That's when you start to see things happen.