WEBVTT 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:04.400 Hi, my name is Michelle Steele. 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:10.080 Pastor Phillip and I want to thank you for listening to this message from Life of Faith Church. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:16.800 We have more resources available to help you build your faith and bring your world by the Word of God. 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:22.800 From our website, lifeoffaith.net, you can connect to our YouTube channel. 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.320 Watch the live stream feed from our church services. 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.679 Access books and downloads in our web store. 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:36.799 And discover more about Life of Faith Church, producing by city, state, nation, and world. 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.759 Visit lifeoffaith.net today. 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:54.960 And uh we're gonna continue to look at that tonight. 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:07.920 We've looked at so far uh concerning faith, the sacrifice of faith, the walk of faith, the work of faith. 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.519 Last week we dealt with the obedience of faith. 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.239 And uh this evening I want to deal with the three steps of faith. 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:19.280 The three steps of faith. 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:49.519 And uh Hebrews 11 and 13 in talking about these men and women of faith, it says these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:54.560 So here we see the three steps of faith, and they are number one, seeing. 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:57.519 The first step of faith is seeing. 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:07.680 It says that they saw them, and then secondly, is embracing, seeing and embracing. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:20.960 So they saw them, they were persuaded of them, they embraced them, and then thirdly is receiving three steps of faith: seeing, embracing, and receiving. 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.560 Seeing, embracing, and receiving. 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:27.520 You cannot embrace what you cannot see. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.879 You can't embrace what you cannot see. 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:41.840 That's why the Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 5 7, we walk by faith and not by sight. 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:56.159 And that in in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, that's a parenthetical statement in parentheses, and Paul in the perfect context is talking about heaven, and he's talking about us in heaven. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.840 And he says, what we're gonna be, we don't see it yet. 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.520 Because we walk by faith and not by sight. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:04.639 All right? 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.439 We walk by faith and not by sight. 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:13.680 If you're not walking by faith, you can't see anything that faith can get you. 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:16.800 I just can't. 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:17.680 Amen. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.120 Because I'm limited. 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.840 I'm limited to this natural existence, this natural world. 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:27.439 So you can't embrace what you can't see. 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:28.960 It's right there. 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.199 I've said this over and over again. 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:36.240 The space between the natural world and the spirit world is not great. 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:37.759 It's very thin. 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:39.120 Right? 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:44.479 And and if I'm if I can't see it, I can't embrace it. 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:46.719 Hallelujah. 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:53.199 The bigger problem that a lot of folks have is they're not seeing anything by faith. 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.360 And because they're not seeing anything by faith, they can't embrace it. 00:03:57.919 --> 00:03:59.199 I have to embrace it. 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:00.080 I have to do that. 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.759 I have to do the seeing, and I have to do the embracing. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:09.680 So you can't embrace what you cannot see, and you cannot see what you cannot embrace. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:11.199 Hallelujah. 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:19.680 Because we don't preach the message of faith and prosperity so we can center on materialism. 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:21.680 That's not why we preach it. 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:22.319 Right? 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:27.600 We preach it so that we can believe God for the things we need to help other people. 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:28.560 Right? 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:33.120 That that's why, that's why, that's the main reason that you need to be blessed. 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:37.199 Is so you can be a blessing, so you can help other people. 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:39.120 Hallelujah. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:40.639 Amen. 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:46.319 So some are at the seeing stage. 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:49.040 Some are at the seeing stage. 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:50.720 I'm beginning to see it. 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:53.600 And I'm beginning to see it by faith. 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:59.279 Some are at the embracing stage. 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.680 I'm reaching out for it. 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:09.839 I'm seeing it, I'm reaching out for it, I'm taking it in, and then some are at the receiving stage. 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.279 So seeing, embracing, and receiving. 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:18.480 See, that's why it's important to remember. 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.439 I said this uh a couple weeks ago. 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.560 That I've heard people say, well, you know, faith is just trust. 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:25.759 No, it's not. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:33.120 Faith is conviction, being convinced that something's true. 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.800 I trust because I'm convinced. 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:40.800 And then people say, well, believing and faith are the same. 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:41.920 No, they're not. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.240 I believe because I'm convinced. 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.600 They're all a part of faith, but they're not faith. 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:49.360 All right? 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:54.079 If if I'm gonna embrace something, it requires more than trust. 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.800 If I'm gonna embrace something, it requires more than just believing. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.639 It requires conviction that that thing is mine. 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:05.360 Hallelujah. 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.240 It requires conviction that that thing is mine. 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:16.800 You know, in the natural, if you get convinced that something you've been putting in your body is not good for you, you will stop. 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.399 When you become convinced. 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:25.199 Until you're convinced you're going to keep eating what's causing you the problem. 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:31.839 When you become convinced that's not good for me, you'll cut it out of your life. 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.560 When you become convinced, right? 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:42.319 When you become convinced that this is what God wants you to have, you'll have no trouble trusting God. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:48.079 You'll have no trouble believing God because you're convinced that God is faithful. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:52.800 You're convinced that his word is true, you're convinced that's what he wants for you. 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:57.920 You can become so convinced that you're healed, there's no way to stay sick. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:03.120 You can become so convinced that you're blessed that you can't stay poor. 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:10.480 You can become so convinced that God wants you to have whatever it is that there's no way you'll not have it. 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:12.639 Because you're convinced. 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:15.439 When you're convinced, you start reaching for things. 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.480 You start seeing them, you start embracing them. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:19.759 Hallelujah. 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:25.759 These people, according to Hebrews 11, had seen the promises. 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:32.639 They had seen them afar off and they they embraced them and they received them. 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:45.199 Now, right there in Hebrews 11 and verse 1, which is a very familiar scripture, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and I always put yet. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.240 The evidence of things not seen yet. 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:55.600 See, if I'm in faith, I'm going to see what I can't see in the natural right now. 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.040 I'm going to see it. 00:07:57.360 --> 00:07:59.199 I just don't see it yet. 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:00.480 Not yet. 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:02.399 Always put the yet in there. 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:04.319 Hallelujah. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:09.680 Over the years, people have said to me, Well, you know, I've I've been standing on the word and I don't see it. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.279 And I always say, yet. 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:13.279 Yet. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.879 You stand on the word, you'll see what the word says. 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:17.839 Amen. 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:41.279 Now, then verse 7 concerning Noah, it says, by faith, Noah being warned of God of things not seen yet, moved with fear, with respect, with awe, with honor for God, and prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is of faith. 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:45.440 Now notice, this does not say these things did not exist. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.399 It said they're not seen yet. 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:50.399 Didn't say they don't exist. 00:08:51.759 --> 00:09:07.279 Remember the scripture in 2 Peter, it says, uh, according as God hath given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, has given. 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:11.039 I was teaching Tuesday in healing school. 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:16.480 It says in Psalm 103, He sent His Word and healed them. 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:18.720 He sent His Word and healed them. 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:23.279 So in the mind of God, when were you healed when He sent His Word? 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:26.720 Right? 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.960 I was healed when He sent His Word. 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:32.320 When was I healed when Jesus took stripes on His back? 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:38.720 There's a flesh and bone man at the right hand of the Father that still has scars on his back. 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:42.559 That is proof positive that you already have been healed. 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:43.600 Right? 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:45.039 Already been healed. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:46.720 So that's when it happened. 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:52.159 I may not see it yet, but the price is paid. 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:54.480 So what am I gonna do? 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.960 I'm gonna talk healed, I'm gonna act healed, I'm gonna confess healed. 00:09:59.039 --> 00:09:59.440 Why? 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:01.759 Because according to God, I'm healed. 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:04.159 Do you see this? 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:16.240 So you're gonna talk blessed, you're gonna act blessed, you're gonna think blessed because according to Scripture, Jesus became poor so that you through his poverty could be made rich. 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:18.320 Is that right? 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:20.960 So did he become poor? 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:22.799 Then I can be rich. 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:28.080 And again, it's not just about materialism, it's not just about things. 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.039 It's about so the kingdom of God can be advanced. 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:34.480 It's so the power of God can be displayed in other people's lives. 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:42.399 It's so that you can have more than enough that you can go to somebody's life and change their life by being a blessing to them. 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:44.080 Amen. 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:50.320 Now, if he became poor, then he says, I can be rich. 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:53.120 You may not see rich yet. 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:56.559 Now, people get hung up on that word. 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:57.679 Rich. 00:10:58.159 --> 00:10:59.840 Just means fully supplied. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:01.679 That's all it means. 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:05.120 No, no, no lack, fully supplied. 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.120 I've had people I've had people say this about me. 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.360 Well, you're one of them rich preachers. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.039 Yeah, say it again. 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:14.960 Say it again. 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:16.159 I'll agree. 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.480 Wherever two or three will agree. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:20.639 Right? 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:21.759 Amen. 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:28.960 Now, if you go just by the definition, if you go by the definition, then I am, because I'm fully supplied. 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.120 God has met our needs. 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:32.000 Amen. 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:33.679 Are you following me? 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:36.240 But here's what I want you to understand. 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.759 If that's gonna occur, I've got to see it. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:48.399 I don't see it yet, but faith is the substance of those things. 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.080 Oh, hallelujah. 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:56.480 God did not create the earth out of things that do not exist, He created it out of things that were not seen. 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:07.440 And so faith by definition, the Bible definition, is it's the substance, the grounds, the conviction, the title deed of the thing that you don't see yet. 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:10.240 You don't see it yet. 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:21.440 If you have the title deed to a car, you have more, the car is more real to you with the title than it is with the car. 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:25.519 Amen. 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:32.720 If somebody comes and steals that person's car, but they have the title, they still have a right to the car. 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:38.639 The car is more theirs than the person driving it. 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:41.840 Hallelujah. 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:48.399 When you have it by faith, it is more real than when you see it with your own eyes. 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:54.159 Because having it by faith is what produces what you can see. 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:55.759 I already have it. 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.440 I have it by faith. 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:06.799 When someone says, I have it, and I have it by faith, well, what they're saying is, I have possessed it, I have embraced it, I have received it. 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:11.679 I may not see it physically yet, but I see it. 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:14.559 I see it. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:15.759 Amen. 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:21.919 I know you've heard the story, but it's it's so important that it bears repeating. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:32.000 When uh Walt Disney finished, I think it was Disney World in Florida, when he finished, it was it was finished and they were opening it, but he had passed away. 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:39.600 And one of the guys that worked very closely with him was there, and he turned to his wife and said, I wish Walt could have seen this. 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:41.200 And she said, He did. 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:43.200 He did. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.159 Everything you see came out of what he saw. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:48.399 Hallelujah. 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:49.600 Amen. 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:58.080 Everywhere a person's life is, their life is where it's at based on the level of faith that they're operating in. 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:01.840 Hallelujah. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:03.039 Because there's more. 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.279 No matter where you're at, there's more. 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:10.159 I've got to see it, I've got to embrace it, I have to receive it. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:11.279 Hallelujah. 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:18.399 So you may not have seen what you're believing God for yet, but it already exists. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.879 It's already there in the realm of the Spirit. 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:25.840 How do I know that a house exists for you? 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:29.440 Because he said, I'll give you houses that you didn't build. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.279 Hallelujah. 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:34.399 Is that right? 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:37.759 How do I know that all of your needs are met? 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.240 Because he said, I'll supply all your need. 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.879 How do I know that God doesn't want you to just get by? 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:55.679 Because he said, I have given you the power to get wealth that I may establish my covenant in the earth. 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:05.759 How do I know that God doesn't want you just calling yourself an old sinner saved by grace and I'm nothing and I'm nobody? 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:08.879 Because he called you the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.279 He called you a son and a daughter of God. 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.679 He called you accepted in the beloved. 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:15.919 Amen. 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:23.440 And you may not see all of that operating in your life yet, but you will see it. 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:24.559 Why? 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:26.639 Because you're embracing it. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.159 Say it out loud. 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.200 My faith is working right now. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.320 My faith is strong. 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:37.360 My faith is working now. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.360 Hallelujah. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:48.240 The way we get what we cannot see yet into the realm where we can see it is by faith in God's promise. 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:49.919 His word. 00:15:50.960 --> 00:16:01.440 And again, that's that's one of those things that at times we we we hear that a lot, but that's how I get what I cannot see yet into this realm. 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.559 By faith in his promises. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:07.600 What did the word say? 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:10.879 That's what I'm gonna receive. 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:12.879 Amen. 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.360 And remember, faith is that conviction. 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:23.120 Faith is the spiritual force that we use to contact God. 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.080 We live by faith through faith. 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:32.720 One the Weese translation says, through faith, we're ordering our manner of life, not by something seen. 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.320 By faith, I'm ordering my manner of life. 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:42.000 I demand of myself to live by faith. 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:43.679 Right? 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:47.279 Because that's the only way I can see what God wants me to have. 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:52.720 People that don't walk by faith are bound by temporary circumstances. 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:54.320 Right? 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:57.360 Because that's what 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 8 says. 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:10.799 It says, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things that are not seen, you cannot not you cannot refuse to look at what is seen and look at what is not seen if you're not living by faith. 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.200 Here's a sure sign that somebody's not living by faith. 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.039 They're always telling you about their problem. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:22.559 They're always telling you about their issues. 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:24.880 They're always telling you about how bad things are. 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.680 They're always telling you about how much of a struggle they're having. 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:29.759 And I understand that people go through those things. 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:30.400 I get it. 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:31.759 I've been through it myself. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:33.359 Still facing myself. 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.119 But here's the point. 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:36.799 I'm looking beyond that. 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:38.960 Faith looks beyond. 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.240 Faith sees beyond. 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:48.880 So I may be in the middle of a challenge, but faith is looking beyond that. 00:17:50.799 --> 00:18:02.880 And the place that I always find myself in is looking at my life, looking at our ministry, looking at everything that God's doing, and asking myself, am I satisfied with this? 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.160 Because if I'm satisfied, I need to pull my faith back. 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:09.359 If I'm not satisfied, I need to release it more. 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:11.839 Hallelujah. 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:17.440 Because faith is the spiritual force that we contact God with. 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.799 In Luke chapter 1, verse 35. 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:26.319 This again is a familiar passage of scripture because it has to do with the birth of Jesus. 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:28.000 Am I helping you tonight? 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:30.480 I feel like I'm fire hosing you. 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:33.680 Hallelujah. 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:43.920 You know, faith, and I gotta be cautious with this because faith is what changed my life. 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:45.839 Right? 00:18:46.160 --> 00:19:01.200 And and uh because you know that there's faith is what radically transformed everything. 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:10.319 When I begin to really understand faith, and I'm not saying people don't understand faith, my job is to teach you faith the way I learned it. 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:11.680 That's what the Lord told me. 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:20.000 But here's the thing when I begin to understand faith, then a whole new world opened up. 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:23.839 Because now I'm talking God's language. 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:26.960 Amen. 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:31.359 There are people that say things and they they say they're talking God's language. 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:33.920 Well, Lord, I'm just gonna do my best to believe you. 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:36.960 Well, dear Lord, you might as well say, twinkle, twinkle, little star. 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:38.640 I wonder what you are. 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:42.480 I'm gonna do my best to believe you. 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:45.039 No, Lord, I'm gonna believe you. 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:46.319 Right? 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:50.640 Remember the man that brought his son to Jesus? 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:56.720 And he said, I brought my son to your disciples, and they couldn't cast the devil out. 00:19:58.400 --> 00:19:59.039 Amen. 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.440 And Jesus said, Well, bring him to me. 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:03.839 And while he was coming, the devil threw him on the ground. 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:05.759 Jesus said, How long has he been like this? 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.240 He said, Since he was a child. 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:13.599 He said, If you can do anything, help us. 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:24.160 If I'm glad Jesus loved that man, because right there, that man was farther away from his miracle than he had ever been. 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:30.720 Because he's looking at the answer saying, if you can help us. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:32.799 Brother Hagin would say what? 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.279 If is the badge of doubt. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:38.400 If you can help us. 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:43.519 And people will come and I'll have them say, I've had them say it to me recently. 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:47.599 If God don't do something, you really think he's not going to. 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.319 There's no, that should never be in our vocabulary. 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:01.039 If God doesn't come through, you really think he's not going to come through? 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:04.319 Hallelujah. 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:09.359 He said, no matter what you're going through, he said, when you go through the flood, don't worry about it. 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:11.119 He said, you're not going to drown. 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:13.599 When you go through the fire, don't be concerned. 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:14.799 I'll be there with you. 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:17.039 He said, it won't kindle around you. 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:19.440 You'll be, you're not gonna, you're not gonna fall apart. 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:20.799 You're gonna make it. 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:21.440 Right? 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:23.279 I got to see myself. 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:26.079 See, that's the point with the word of God. 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.799 He said that no matter what you face, you are an overcomer. 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:32.640 You are more than a conqueror. 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:36.079 I see myself in the word of God. 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:39.119 When you see overcomer, you see you. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:42.079 And what happens? 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:50.720 Then your faith begins to engage, and everything that comes along, you overcome, you get the victory over it. 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:51.279 Why? 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:52.000 Here it is. 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:56.799 It's real simple because you have faith that you're gonna overcome. 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:59.039 So why do people not overcome? 00:21:59.119 --> 00:21:59.680 They have faith. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.160 That they're not gonna overcome. 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:05.119 Hallelujah. 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:07.119 Remember what the Apostle Paul said? 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:08.400 There's a lot here. 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.119 That's probably why we'll preach more on this next week. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:12.240 But here's the thing. 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:14.559 Remember what the Apostle Paul said? 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:22.160 He said he in the Greek, it was like he was holding up a list of enemies. 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:27.920 And he said, if God be for us, then he said, who? 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:30.640 In the Greek, that's an emphatic question. 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:31.279 Who? 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:33.359 And it's like he's pointing at this list. 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:39.039 If God is for me, who on this list could possibly be against me? 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:45.759 Who can overcome you if God's for you? 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:53.119 Who can take their part against you if God has taken his part for you? 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:54.960 Nobody. 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:56.799 Nobody. 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:57.759 What did he say? 00:22:57.839 --> 00:22:59.839 They'll form weapons, but what would happen? 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:00.880 Help me out. 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:02.559 They wouldn't prosper. 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:03.599 Right? 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.920 So you can't stop them from forming the weapon, but they're not going to prosper. 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:16.960 They're over there making plans, they're over there forming weapons, and you're just sitting there happy and joyful and believing God because it's not going to prosper. 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:20.880 Hallelujah. 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:23.200 Luke 1 and 35. 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:34.880 The angel had said, answered Mary, and said, The Holy Ghost will come on you, and the power of the highest will overshadow you. 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:41.440 Therefore, also that holy thing which will be born of you shall be called the Son of God. 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:44.319 Now we know Mary believed God. 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:47.279 But faith was needed. 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:47.759 Why? 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:50.240 Jesus was in the spirit world. 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:58.880 And Mary's faith in the word she heard caused him to be able to be manifest in the natural world. 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:06.720 If Mary had not said, be it unto me according to your word, this isn't happening. 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:09.839 Because she had to believe. 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:12.240 See, when she said, How will this be? 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:13.680 that wasn't doubt. 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:17.440 That was an honest question. 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:19.759 I don't understand how this is going to happen. 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:21.440 You know, God doesn't mind that. 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:32.319 If God tells you to go after something and you look at your resources and there's not enough, God doesn't mind you going, now, Lord, you're going to have to help me here because I don't see it. 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:36.880 How's this going to happen? 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:40.720 Now, he may tell you implicitly or he may not. 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:43.920 He may tell you you're just going to believe me. 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:45.039 But right? 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.799 But Mary's wondering, how am I going to be able to have a child? 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:50.079 And I've never known a man. 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:54.319 I know how this biology things works, and this is impossible. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:25:00.400 And what the angels say, with men it's impossible, but with God, all things are possible. 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:02.079 Is that right? 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:05.039 And he said, this is how it's going to happen. 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:09.599 So she had to have faith that that's how it was going to happen. 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:10.480 Amen. 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:13.359 How are you going to come out of whatever you're dealing with? 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:17.519 Because God said, I'll take your part and I'll fight for you. 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:20.400 Is that right? 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:22.240 So that's what God said. 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:24.319 So you just believe what God said. 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:27.279 Amen. 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:31.119 We do the same thing every time we release our faith. 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:38.559 When you see something in the Word of God and the Holy Spirit convinces you that what you're seeing is yours, that's faith. 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:40.480 Then what do I do? 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:41.839 I grab it. 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:46.559 I grab a hold of it, I embrace it, and I release it out of my mouth. 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:48.240 Amen. 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:50.319 I release it out of my mouth. 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:56.799 All those years ago when the Lord healed me and then he gave me Naham chapter 1 and verse 9. 00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:00.319 This affliction will not arise again the second time. 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:01.279 I saw that. 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:06.079 I call it my battle verse. 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:13.039 And every time that thing would try to come back, I'd say, nope, that affliction will not arise again the second time. 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:14.559 What had I done? 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:21.200 I had embraced that, I grabbed a hold of it, and then I released it out of my mouth. 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:29.680 When you grab a hold of something and you embrace it, if you don't release it out of your mouth, faith has not been released. 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.599 You can see it, but then you got to release it out of your mouth. 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:34.319 That's mine. 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:34.960 I have it. 00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:36.640 It belongs to me now. 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:38.960 Hallelujah. 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:39.920 Amen. 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:46.880 If I'll give you a guarantee, I can give you an absolute, I start to say money-back guarantee, but you're not paying for anything. 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:48.799 The absolute guarantee. 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:51.599 I live here in the city, I'll be here next Wednesday. 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:55.680 I'll be here a Wednesday in a year or two or three or four or how long it is. 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:57.839 And if it don't work, you can come tell me. 00:26:58.079 --> 00:26:59.920