Faith for Things... (Sent 7/1/2010) “...Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his
those things which he says shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he says. Therefore I say unto you, What things heart, but shall believe that
soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them...” – Mark 11:22 - 24
Faith Is the substance things not seen...” – Hebrews 11:1 “Now
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“...verily I say unto you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you...” – Matthew 17:20
In order to have `good success` (Joshua 1:8) which involves obtaining all of the `exceeding great and precious promises` in our physical experience we must have 11:22)... which
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by hearing the Word of God, and stays by rejecting every
contrary voice or opinion no matter how generally accepted these opinions are...
Who
is the Creator and who is the created? Who should you listen to? You will notice if you read through the healings, deliverances, and financial breakthroughs in the gospels Jesus did, He often said to the particular individuals “...your faith has made you whole...”; and we have seen that some people’s unbelief (lack of faith) often limited
it is paramount that we understand this subject of faith if we are to walk in these exceeding great and precious promises in our physical experience because faith is the primary medium through which we Jesus from doing His best in their lives. So then
access these... Further, it is expressly written that without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6), and he that comes to God must believe not only that He exists but that He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. He loves you... He rewards... if you diligently seek Him...
Now, Faith is substance...
it is not wishful thinking... neither is it an exercise of the will but of the heart... it is not what will happen tomorrow or
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have something, the Amplified bible translation calls it the `title deed` for things hoped for... Now if you worked for Microsoft, and you were a good shareholder, always contributing your vote at shareholder meetings and doing your best to ensure the company performed well... and then Bill Gates, the majority shareholder and one of the world’s richest men were to walk up to you at one of these meetings, shake your hand and say... friend, you have been serving this company well... I would like to reward you with a shareholder bonus of $5 million USD, what would you do? You would begin to imagine how this sum would change your life... you would begin to think about all the possibilities that would immediately become available to you... you would (surely) begin to think about how you would give the tithe $500,000 back to Jesus, and put it where He directs you to... and how many lives you can affect positively with these monies... all this before it has even reached your hand... why? At Bill Gates’ word... why? Two things... because you know he has the money to give, and you believe he keeps his word... What more God...
What is faith? Simple trust in the Word of God that he is both able to do what He says He will do, and has the integrity not to make promises He cannot deliver on... Suppose then... you leave Bill Gates rejoicing, and start drawing up plans for how the money would be stewarded, and then dumpster diablo comes up to you and asks you... What are you doing? You say, I am making arrangements to receive $5 million bucks... you see, I am now a millionaire 5 times over because Bill Gates promised me this money... He is worth at least $50 billion so $5 million would not trouble him in the least... I have worked with him for quite a while, and I also know him to be a man of his word, so I can take that to the bank laughing and get my bank manager to join me in the mirth... dumpster diablo then looks at you.. shakes his head with a wry smile, and then gives you a concerned look... he then says, look junior chief... I don’t mean to burst your bubble but did you not read the Financial Times yesterday... and discover how Microsoft shares are not even now worth a farthing... Bill Gates cannot even afford his very expensive lawyers anymore... further to this, he promised a hundred other people the same amount and they are still living in the can and eating canned beans... Look friend, be practical and get yourself into the real world mate, it is not going to happen... What do you do then? Do you decide to investigate for yourself... Get a copy of the Financial Times and latest Microsoft Annual Report to see if what dumpster diablo says is true... or do we just accept this, and return to our pitiful “Oh mee...” and avoid Mr Gates because we feel he has led us on and given us false hopes, and we are not truly 5 times millionaires like he had said we are now...
Well our faith is not based on Bill Gates’ word however good it is, thank God... Our faith is based on the Word of the living Almighty God, the everlasting eternal Spirit whose “...Let there be light!..” is still working at the speed of 186,000 miles a
second, and the universe is still expanding from the command of those four
What could a Person that says “...the silver and gold is mine..” (Haggai 2:8) promise you? If “...Let there be light...” upholds our very physical existence, what sort of Words...
logic could convince people differently concerning these exceeding great and precious promises we have been delving into...
A Living Spirit created all
physical matter, and can change it at will, yet even He has bound Himself to the Rules He has created... Our God is not a power throw around, but even He has brought Himself under the forensic audit of His own Words in His saying to “...Prove Him now in this...” (Malachi 3:10) concerning His tithe... We don’t need to make excuses for them not coming to pass, but continue to seek and to search His written Word for more and more knowledge of who He is, and what He has done in relation to our physical existence here on earth... In our daily affairs, would we not safely assume that what a man writes down on paper is his will and intentions? We don’t need to form our own individual rules and take this to Him, for what kind of a Creator would create a Universe and not establish everything necessary to the fulfilment of its every material need? Would you do that to your own children? Why do we think God would do any less but more as Jesus assures us (Matthew 7:9-11)... He would not ask us to do something He would not do... Which one of us can wait for up to 20yrs for the fulfilment of a promised son, and then sacrifice him because God said so? Abraham was willing to do this, for he counted Him worthy who had promised... he knew that God was able to raise his son from the dead, counting Him as faithful that had promised that in Isaac shall your seed be... God checked his heart and found it faithful, and God did the same... He gave His best... His only Son... John 3:16 the most famous verse in the Bible
Well if you have identified yourself as a `whosoever` in John 3:16 and received this great salvation, you must also include yourself as a `whosoever` in Mark 11:23 and declare what the Bible says you are and what you have! ...and see ever shows us this love...
them come to pass through your patient endurance in not wavering through unbelief but holding fast your profession of faith (Hebrews 4:14/Hebrews 10:23)... saying continually (Psalm 35:27)... regardless of what your so-called current reality is telling you... The same Word that causes the sun to rise each day, and the moon each night is the same Word that says to you... (2 Corinthians 9:8)
“...For you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more strongly and clearly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (His Kindness, His gracious generosity, His undeserved favor and spiritual blessing), (in) that though He was (so very) rich, yet for your sakes He became (so very) poor, in order that by His poverty you might become enriched (abundantly supplied)”.
If you have not caught on by now dumpster diablo is the devil, satan, and he is a liar and the father of it (John 8:44), and will tell you anything to keep you from accepting you are now rich, primarily because he realises he will have to cough up and have less funds available to him and his family company Kill, Steal, and Destroy Nil Liability...
What business do you have believing him or any fallible human being that tells you sad `believed and did not receive poverty, sickness and lack tales` for! We are expressly instructed to let God be true and all men liars (Romans 3:4)... Mr dumpster wants to keep you in darkness because in like manner he can deny millions of others the help the Lord has predestined you to be... You don’t need to be afraid of him or anything he can do because you have ALL AUTHORITY over him and his demonic cohorts (Luke 10:19)... on an angelic level, they are outnumbered 2 to 1 because only a third of them followed him... Plus, you are in Christ, who is in God... So for the enemy to get to you he has to get through Jesus and then defeat God... Can this happen? Konechno Net!! (certainly not in Russian) so can he get to you... Konechno Net! When last did you turn on your light bulb and the darkness of the night in your room said, no mate, I am not leaving... unless of course your bulb has blown... or you have not paid your bills... which is the call for obedience to God, because he will always lead us away from lack and to abundance if we walk in obedience... you see folks, dumpster diablo has been around for quite a while and without God’s wisdom neither you nor I stand a chance, but thank God we are not without Him, but joint heirs with Christ glory to God... So you see... we are not walking as Christians merely for the `feeling of goodness` therewith or to feel
We are walking as Christians because this is who we are... We are Christ-like... We live by faith... This is what Jesus meant when He better than others for what do you have that you did not receive...
said “...except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit...” John 12:24... We are the harvest from the Seed of his perfect earthly life, as such we have the capacity to walk before Him and be perfect even as He is perfect... If we discover it (Proverbs 4:20-22)... If we are willing... and perfect does not only mean living a holy life without sin, but a healthy body, a full bank account after all your bills have been taken care of, and all the wherewithal and resources to achieve and accomplish everything He requires of us at every point in time... We are the generation to bring the Lord Jesus’ commission to fulfilment even more so than our great Apostle Paul’s generation... What would he have used Billions of Dollars or Denarii to do gospel-wise in a world full of political fiefdoms and kingdoms where loads of people did not even own their existence, and the others thinking they had a divine right to oppress... what could he have needed to buy? A bigger ship to travel? A fancier toga perhaps to represent before Ceaser? Human rightswise we have come a long way since then... bless God, we have International Law and Multilateral trade relations between nations where an individual can travel freely between several countries with only a breachable language barrier... we have the technology, such that we can sit in the comfort of our living rooms and preach to the ends of the earth over the internet... We can come together, and buy warehousing and take over food, resource provision, technology companies etc... we can buy great big Jumbo Jets and fly aid in quick time anywhere in the world and interact freely with less free brothers and sisters... We can pull our career intellectual capacities together in partnership before the Lord... Accountants, Lawyers, Engineers, Policemen & women, soldiers, Joiners, Builders, Educators, Doctors etc... and assist the Lord build up nations that had been completely thrown apart and destroyed by the enemy through wars... Would you like to be having your morning quiet time with the Lord and then the Holy Spirit would show you a Chinese brother standing in faith for food to feed his family for that day, and the Lord then instruct you to go and multiply this brother’s seed...
In our self-inflicted prostrate circumstances, we would say Lord but you know I have to go to work to feed my own family too... Lord I have a meeting to attend and if I don’t my boss would let the guillotine down on my head... Lord I need you too to pay my next rent, how am I going to achieve this... Would you like to be able to say, why yes Lord of course I will... and have the liberty to cancel all appointments for that day, phone the airport and tell them to get your Learjet 85 ready... fly over there and meet this brother’s need for years to come, and this would bring forth great thanksgiving to the Lord because you were the vessel to meet this need, and this brother saw the glorious end of his faith... you would share your testimony as well with this brother, excitedly chatter and share in love of the great works and deliverances of the Lord in your lives... meet his family and immediately feel like they were your own... and he would believe God to raise him up financially as well and would be raised up, and suddenly our great God has two He can call on to raise others up as the need arises...
Would dumpster diablo like this... Of course not... he knows this Chinese brother well... he knows how this Chinese brother held up your family in prayer for many years through your worst of circumstances, when you thought all hope was lost... as such because of his great hatred for you, Mr dumpster engineered and orchestrated the circumstances to ensure this Chinese brother could not feed his family properly... He moved on some government official to appropriate land his family has lived on for generations, and threatened to imprison his eldest son for some trumped up charge if he dared object... Nevertheless, this Chinese brother would lift you up in prayer everyday simply because the Holy Spirit says he should do so, and he loves you even though he has not met you... How many would we not be able to face and meet their eye seating across the table at the marriage supper of the Lamb because we decided what does little `ole me need with £200 million... not to mention the untold number that could not make it because we refused to accept the truth as written, as truth... but decided we would hold to what we think truth is, or what that sincere but ignorant religious Sunday school teacher told us truth was while struggling to put food
Money is not the root to all evils peeps, but the love of it is... There are loads of people without a dime who would kill for a dime so the lack of it does not make you holier either... Solomon, the wisest on his own table...
and richest man who has ever lived testifies that the rich man’s wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty (Proverbs 10:15), money is a defence (Ecclesiastes 7:12), and that money answers all things (Ecclesiastes 10:19); surely you would listen to him as he had the material evidence to prove it while he was on earth, and not your Sunday school teacher... And Jesus
Will you stand out from the traditional crowd and be that special person God takes pleasure in and is unwilling to do without... will you have faith in God long enough, believe and obey Him long enough... start tithing faithfully long enough, give long enough making a lifestyle of it to make these promises good to your checking and saving accounts as God has said... Your honest heart answer right now will help you discern where you are in the faith... promises to bless us better still...
Your brother In Christ, Temisan
“...You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavour? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. You are the light of the world-like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father...” – Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:13 – 16) New Living Translation