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BILL: This is the attitude you
have to have to have, watch
this, strong faith. Now
you got to have weak faith,
you can do that, but if you
going to have strong faith
and tell the devil what to
do … It’s in the book.
BILL: Hello. I’m Bill
Winston. Welcome to the
Believers Walk of Faith, where
we walk by faith and not by
sight. Today’s message is
entitled Developing Strong
Faith. I’m going to show you
some of the hindrances to faith
so that you can remove all of
those kinds of things out of
your life. God has planned for
you to have great faith. Now,
this teaching is going to teach
you exactly how to develop
strong faith. Get your Bibles
and pencils and papers ready.
Let’s go into it. It’s called
Developing Strong Faith.
BILL: The idea about strong
faith is that the assumption is
that you’re going into Canaan.
In Canaan there are giants.
Let’s just assume they
are not your friends. Yet,
they have what belongs
to you. You’re going
to have to take it by faith.
The only faith that can
take that that belongs
to people from that land
of Canaan is going to have
to be strong faith. When you
have strong faith it means you
can have it the way you want it.
You dictate the terms. You call
the shots. Now, secondly I am
not up here for my health. I do
not plan to give you all of this
and you do nothing with it. I am
up here so that you can add to
your life and be able to fulfill
the destiny that God has for
you. All right, let’s look at
Romans chapter four. I’ll start
reading in verse 17. “(As it is
written, I have made thee a
father of many nations,) before
him whom he believed, even God,
who quickeneth the dead, and
calleth those things which be
not as though they were. Who
against hope believed in hope,
that he might become the father
of many nations, according to
that which was spoken, So shall
thy seed be. And being not weak
in faith, he considered not his
own body now dead, when he was
about an hundred years old,
neither yet the deadness of
Sarah’s womb: He staggered not
at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in
faith,” underline that, “and
giving glory to God; And being
fully persuaded that, what he
had promised, he was able also
to perform.” Over in Ephesians,
chapter six we see in verse ten,
“Finally, my brethren, be strong
in the Lord, and in the power of
his might.” I want you to be
able to connect those two
scriptures together, because you
can’t be strong in the Lord
without being strong in faith. I
want you to connect these two
together. Now, again faith is
vital and it’s vital for the
believer. Here’s some of the
things that I talked about about
faith, that it says that over in
Acts chapter 26, in verse 18,
that we’re sanctified by faith.
Over in Hebrews 11:6 you can’t
please God without faith. It
says over in Galatians 3:14 that
we receive the promise of the
Spirit through faith. In Romans
chapter 1:17 he said the just
shall live, how? By faith. In 2
Corinthians 5:17 that we walk by
faith. In Romans 3:28 and Romans
5:1 he said that we are
justified by faith. Do you know
what justified means? It means
made righteous. It means made
righteous. Say “I’m made
righteous.” You can say I am the
righteousness of God in Christ
Jesus, and you can say it by
faith. He said also in Romans
chapter 12 in verse three that
we have the measure of faith. In
Romans 10:8 he said we
preach the word of faith. In 2
Corinthians 1:24 he said by
faith we stand. Glory to God. In
Romans 14:23 that whatever
is not of faith is sin. In
Ephesians chapter 6 in verse 16
he said taking the shield of
faith. He said in Colossians 2:7
we are established in the faith.
In 1 Peter chapter 1:9 he said
you receive the end of your
faith. In 1 Peter chapter 5:9 he
says that we resist the devil by
faith. If you don’t have faith
you can’t resist the devil.
That’s what he just told me. Now
here I just put an extra one
down there for myself. It’s
called crazy faith. Oh, Lord,
crazy faith of people whose
minds are no longer governed by
what they see. That’s a person
with some crazy faith. Faith is
important. It’s important to
every believer. In any church
that you may go into, the faith
must be taught, what faith is,
how faith comes and how to make
it work. When we look at this,
we look at those two verses in
Romans chapter four and
Ephesians chapter ten that we
just went through, that we don’t
start out with strong faith. It
said first, I think it was in
Romans chapter … Let’s go back
to Romans chapter four again. He
said in verse, 19, he said,
“Being not weak in faith”. He
wasn’t weak in faith. It’s
possible that somebody could be
weak in faith. Abraham didn’t
start out being strong in faith,
that’s my point. My point to you
is in 2 Thessalonians, chapter
one in verse three Paul talks
about the faith. He said, “Thy
faith groweth exceedingly.”
Whatever measure of faith God
gives you, he is counting on you
to grow that faith. He is not
counting on you to have that
faith to stay weak. Now, people
who have not grown in faith,
look at 1 Corinthians chapter
three, please, in verse one. He
said, “And I, brethren, could
not speak unto you as unto
spiritual, but as unto carnal,
even as unto babes in Christ.”
He said, “I have fed you with
milk, and not with meat: for
hitherto ye were not able to
bear it, neither yet now are ye
able. For ye are yet carnal: for
whereas there is among you
envying, and strife, and
divisions, are ye not carnal,
and walk as mere men?” That’s
what it says in Amplified. Now
that’s kind of interesting
because division, division is
nothing but racism. If you’re a
racist you are carnal. If you
are carnal you can never develop
strong faith. Can I get an Amen
in this house? Now, once you
develop strong faith, you go
from your flesh to your spirit.
I don’t know whether
you know it or not, but
your spirit looks like Jesus.
You were born of him. You
were born of the seed of the
Word of God. You look just
like Jesus. The only
thing outside different
as your pigmentation,
your color so forth and
so on but that’s not
the real you. Say amen. But
people who think it’s the real
them are carnal. When they’re
carnal they’re not going to be
able to receive certain things.
Galatians 4:1, they’re not going
to be able to receive certain
things. Look what it says. “Now
I say that the heir,” this is
you. “As long as he’s a child
differs nothing from a servant
though he be Lord of all.” Let’s
take that same verse and put it
up there in the Amplified
translation please. He said,
“Now what I mean is this. That
as long as the the inheritor,
the heir is a child, childish
and underage, he does not differ
from a slave although he’s the
master of the whole estate.”
This earth does not belong to
Satan. It belongs to God and his
family. Got it? It belongs to
God and his family, but I told
you something about great faith.
I said this. I said this strong
faith that we’re talking about
here, is this faith that it
means that you can have it the
way you want it. Nothing is
supposed to take place in this
earth without your permission.
One more time. Nothing is
supposed to take place on this
planet without your permission.
God even told you something.
Whatever you bind on earth is
bound in heaven. Say amen to
this. Nothing, not a thing, not
a storm, not al-Qaeda, not ISIS,
not a nothing without your
permission. Now this, I’m going
to show you how far the church
has been down there, but there’s
a reason for it. There’s a
reason for the church has been
down there. But how many you
know we coming out? I’m coming
out. All right. So what am I
saying? What has happened? Most
Christians have never grown.
Number one, why? Because they
were never fed. They were never
fed. They were never fed man.
Thank God for the big choir. But
it won’t grow you. I mean sure
enough, that’s why in terms of
praise and worship, I like to
speak the Word. I like to speak
the Word. I like you to sing the
Word. You know, and that …
Some of them songs, we need to
remix those things because that
… I run through the river and
down on the wall, great is the
army that carries out God’s …
I mean some, they may sound like
they’re kind of corny or
something but they’re faith
builders. I am an example.
That’s all I knew. That’s all I
grew up on. But sometimes today
we have some shows. The
Christian meanwhile still broke,
still in debate, and fussing
at one another and fussing over
a seat. When they ought to buy
the whole place. No. It’s what
they’ve been taught. Been taught
nothing. I’m telling you I can
get you going and never have a
scripture. Mama went home that
night … I can get you going
and somebody will shout. And
ain’t mention one scripture. The
Bible says in Matthew 4:4, it
says “Man shall not live by
bread alone but by every word
the proceedth out of the mouth
of God.” When you preach it you
got to preach the whole counsel
of God. The whole, a balanced
word. You’ve got to preach from
Genesis to Revelation. You got
to preach the whole thing.
Because if you don’t and just
preach all the Twinkies and
goodies then what you got over
there is a lot of goodies and a
lot of sin. Ain’t no holiness.
Is this the right bunch I’m
talking to? Now this is the
biggest reason. Now he said that
they, you know when they’re
babies when they’re not still on
milk and having little faith and
so forth like that, they can’t
go in there and take their stuff
back. You can’t go in there. The
idea about it is you have got to
take stuff. Look at Matthew
11:12, he talking about that up
from the days of John the
Baptist, even til now the
kingdom of heaven suffers
violence. The violence going to
have to do what? You’re going to
have to take it man. You’re
going to have to take it. The
devil is not giving up your
healing. You have to take that
thing. You’re going to have to
say it right there in the midst
of that report, in the midst of
that x-ray you’re going to have
to say something about your
healing and if you are weak in
faith, you will not say that
because you’ll feel intimidated.
Y’all came for the Word didn’t
you? Say it’s in the Word. Oh we
can do these things. You just
got to get something to eat.
Dang. Little Twinkies, you can’t
run the marathon on Twinkies?
Are you following what I’m
saying? You need some beans,
butter beans, squash, turnip
greens, cornbread. See there,
you about to go now ain’t you.
Amen. Praise God. Praise God
pastor. Amen. I was jut putting
a little humor in there but you
follow what I’m saying, that
every time he change their
location from Egypt to the
wilderness to Canaan he change
their diet. He change their
diet. You can’t be in Canaan
eating manna. It won’t work
folks. All right. Most
Christians never grow because
most Christians have never been
fed. All right? Now, 1 Peter 2:2
says for us to desire the
sincere milk of the Word that we
may grow thereby. God plans on
you to grow. You can’t be a 40
year old Christian coming in
here with a diaper on talking
about bah bah. Okay? That’s,
we’re not going to do that
anymore, okay? Now but there’s
another reason why people don’t
grow. Because they’ve never
acted on the Word. They’ve never
acted on the Word. Now that’s
very important. That we not only
hear this but act on it. I think
that is a piece that in my life
I was determined to do. I was
determined that this, I’m going
to act on this. You know I may
not be totally convinced of this
but I’m going to do something. I
just cannot fathom being in this
kingdom, having a faith that can
move a mountain and I’m never
going to try it. It takes, like
I said crazy faith. You got to
be able to point at your wallet
on the table. You feel what I’m
saying? You got to take that
checkbook and point at that
check book and tell that bank
account what to do. Let’s look
at Hebrews, and Hebrews chapter
5. Look at Hebrews 5:12 please.
There? These are some scriptures
there. He said, “For when the
time you ought to be teachers.
You have need of one teach you
again which be of the first
principles of the oracles of God
and are become such as have need
of milk and not of strong meat.
For everyone that uses milk is
…” What? “Unskillful in the
word of righteousness for he is
a …” Who? “Baby. But strong
meat belongs to them that are
full aged. Even those who by
reason of use have their senses
exorcized to deserve both good
and evil.” Say amen to that.
James 1:22. I’m giving you all
of this because I’m giving you
the reason that we need to teach
this. We need to go into it.
Why? Because the church instead
of being the place of influence,
a lot of time the church has
been the place of ridicule.
We’ve been laughed at. They
don’t come by here
except when the election time
comes. So what you
have do is well wait a
minute. You’re supposed
to come to me all the time.
Matter of fact, I’m supposed
to be leading this parade.
Because I have the wisdom of
God in me. Say amen to that.
Now you’re not trying to
put anybody down, but you are
trying to lift Jesus up. “But be
ye doers of the word and not
hearing owners, deceiving your
own selves. Watch this. For if
any be a hearer of the word and
not a doer he’s like unto a man
beholding his natural face
in glass. Where he
beholdeth himself and goeth his
way and straight way forgets
what manner of man he was. But
who so looketh unto the perfect
law of liberty and continueth
therein. Being not a forgetful
hearer but a doer of the work,
this man shall be,” what?
“Blessed indeed.” He promises
you that. He said “If you act on
my word you will not be
ashamed.” Say amen to that.
Belief means unqualified
committal. It’s unqualified.
It’s unqualified. It
doesn’t care what extent
I have to believe, but
it’s unqualified. I’m going
to believe it anyway.
Suppose it don’t work?
I’m going to believe
it anyway. It’s unqualified.
When you really believe, you’ll
act. You will act. You can not
sit there. You will do
something. So what do you do?
How do you do this? Let’s just
take an example, so a headache
comes. “Honey, excuse me. Do you
have any Tylenol?” Okay, instead
of asking for that first, ask do
you have a Bible first. “Do you
have … Do you have Bible?” Are
you following what I’m saying?
Then go through a few
scriptures on you know …
healing and how God took your
pain and so forth like that.
Just start trying to work your
faith. Because you have it. A
lot of times people have it, but
they’re just sitting on it. They
won’t act on it. It’s not meant
that you hear this much Word
with no action. It’s not meant
folks. That’s … Somebody says,
“Well that runs in my family.”
Get it out! Change families.
Just get it out and the devil
will tell you in a minute he
going to kill you, so you just
may as well get over that. This
Word is not true because it
worked for you. It’s true
anyhow. Whether you never work
it. This thing is true man. I
ain’t putting my faith in
what Joe-doe did. Am
I right about it? I’m doing this
now because I’m tearing down all
these sacred cows. People come
in here with all that, “Well my
church said …” Your church …
if it’s not in this book, tell
your church … This is the
attitude you have to have to
have … watch this … strong
faith. Now if you’re going to
have weak faith you can do that,
but if you’re going to have
strong faith and tell the
devil what to do, it’s
in the book. Get the
book. Open the book.
Isn’t this good? Now to
develop strong faith.
But was strong in faith,
giving glory to God.
BILL: Well I trust that
you were blessed by this
message now. Here’s a
couple of points that I want you
to remember. Number one, God has
given every believer the measure
of faith. What I mean by that is
that there is a faith that once
you get born again, that God
injects into your spirit. That’s
it and it’s no different for you
than it is for me. Now the
difference is, we have to
develop it. You have to get it
stronger and stronger. Some
people spend more time
developing theirs than others,
so they can do more for the
kingdom than other people can
do. But you want to grow your
faith. Number two, we don’t
start with strong faith. It has
to be developed. Sometimes
people hear me and talk about
the things that we believe God
for. An airplane or a shopping
mall. I’m a believe God for
me an eighteen bedroom home.
Well wait a minute, start with
a bow tie. Start with a
pocketbook. Just let God work
with you and develop your faith.
You’re going to find that when
you act on the Word of God, and
whatever level you’re at right
now, you hear it and act on it,
it’s going to develop strong
faith. Well I trust that you
enjoyed this broadcast.
We’re going to see you
next time, so until then
keep walking by faith.
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