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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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