Faith is the spiritual empowerment to bring heaven to earth, and is the holder of your destiny. That is why nothing is more important in this hour than developing your faith. When faith is fully developed, it converts your humanity to divinity…You begin to talk, think and act like God.
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>> Bill Winston: If you treat
your faith like a seed, you
plant it.
And you plant it by saying it.
Once you speak it, the soil of
your heart grabs it.
This is putting faith to work.
You can’t say what you see,
you’ve got to say what he said.
When you say what he said, he
can watch over his word and make
it good.
Now speak the word “holy.”
Faith is your servant.
Now put him to work.
>> Bill: This idea of faith, one
is faith sees.
Faith sees.
There’s a couple places you can
see for that.
You can turn to 2 Kings chapter
6.
And over in 2 Kings chapter 6,
he says–this is when Elisha and
the–his servant Gehazi was
surrounded by the enemy.
It says here, verse 15, we just
start there, “And when the
servant of the man of God was
risen early, and gone forth,
behold, a host compassed the
city both with horses and
chariots.
And his servant said unto him,
‘Alas, my master, how shall we
do?'”
In other words, “I am scared.”
“He answered, ‘Fear not, for
they that be with us are more
than they that be with them.'”
Glory to God.
“Elisha prayed and said, ‘Lord,
I pray thee, open his eyes.'”
Now, a question.
Weren’t his eyes open to have
him to see the enemy?
Yes.
But now he’s saying, “Open his
eyes.”
So, it tells me we’ve got a pair
of eyes that most folk don’t
have open.
And that’s why they can’t see
anything.
And I’m saying that, “‘Open his
eyes, that he may see.’
And the Lord opened the eyes of
the young man, and he saw, and
behold, the mountain was full of
horses and chariots of fire
round about Elisha.”
It didn’t even say anything
about round about unbelief
because the other guy’s in
unbelief.
It was round about Elisha.
Now those angels were there.
They were there.
They were positioned there by
God.
And this man of God saw them.
Now, when you see them, true
enough, you can see them with
your spirit, but it’s different
from seeing them with your
natural eyes.
In your spirit, we call it, for
the most part, discerning.
Discerning, because it’s another
level of seeing.
And that’s why, in the kingdom,
you’re not–you’re not really
taught by learning, you’re
taught by discerning.
That’s why the academic world
can’t compete with it.
As a matter of fact, let’s see,
I put some things down here.
The natural world is trying to
compete with the spiritual world
and it can’t do it.
Dr. Cho made a comment, he
said, “God does not bother to
talk to smart people.”
He sure did.
He said, “God doesn’t talk to
smart people.
He only talks to those who say,
‘Lord, teach me.'”
Do you hear what I’m saying?
Because the tendency is to think
that your intellect can get over
into this.
And it can’t.
It can’t.
Now you can see this verse, when
he talked about–I’ll just turn
to it for a moment, and talk
about in 1 Corinthians, in
chapter 1.
He says in verse 26, “For you
see your calling, brethren, that
how not many wise after the
flesh, and not many mighty, not
many noble are called.
But God has chosen the,” what
kind of things?
“Foolish things of the world to
confound the wise, and God has
chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things
that are mighty.
And base things of the world,
and things which are despised,
hath God chosen, yea, and things
which are not, to bring to
nought the things that are.”
Why?
“So that no flesh can glory in
his presence.”
Now, thank God that you can go
to a university or a high school
or whatever have you, but you
don’t have to be smart to have
faith.
You better write that down.
Somebody in here better write
that down.
You don’t have to be smart to
have faith.
Now, this really bothers people
who paid a lot of money for some
big education.
It really bothers them.
And a matter of fact, it makes
them somewhat jealous of it
because they have just spent all
this money trying to be smart.
And I’m not really talking
against academics now.
I’m saying that’s fine.
But you’ll find that–I find
that when I’m having people to
get born again and people come
in, that the people who are real
smart want to tell me what to
do.
You don’t know me.
You know, one of them came in
and said, “Well, I can’t get
baptized.”
I said, “Why?”
“Well, other people have been in
that water.”
Well, this water here, this
water here is sanctified, this
water here.”
Are you following what I’m
saying?
I’m saying that’s what you have
from smart people.
And it is amazing.
They can come up with some
schemes that I’ve never seen.
You know, and now I’m not going
to go into it, but just–if you
could just take that, okay.
So, I’m just saying it’s
interesting how sometimes, with
smart people, things of faith
offend them, actually offend
them.
And so, you can’t be too smart
for God because he’s the one
that put that brain in your head
in the first place.
And you’re going to find that
faith usually, always puts you
in a place of ridicule.
It puts you in a position for
people, if it doesn’t work, to
laugh at you.
And so, smart people don’t want
to be laughed at.
They don’t want to take any
chances.
They have got all kinds of risk
formulas out there, and so forth
and so on.
But God will give you a plan and
he doesn’t even give you a
backup because the first one
works.
And so, he’ll just tell you what
to do.
I’m just saying this is faith at
work.
And you and I all have been
given the measure of faith.
Put it up there, please.
That’s in Romans chapter 12,
verse 1, Romans chapter 12,
verse 1.
So God, he doesn’t talk much to
smart people.
I mean, you can have a PhD and
God will talk to you if you
don’t think you that smart.
I mean, you know, smarter than
God, that’s what I’m talking
about.
Because it is amazing how many
schemes they can come up with.
And the enemy wants you to do
this.
I put something down here that
one of his jobs is to keep you
in the natural realm.
And if he can keep you in that
natural realm, he’ll put a ring
in your nose and lead you all
over town.
And the next thing you know,
you’re either going to run out
of money or run out of time.
Because that’s what he
specializes in.
He keeps you in time, he can
dominate you.
Take him out of time, and he
can’t.
I’m going out of time when we
talk about out of time in just a
minute.
Look at what he says, “I beseech
you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which
is your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this
world, but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that
you may prove what is that good,
and acceptable, and perfect,
will of God.
For I say, through the grace
given unto me, to every man that
is among you, not to think of
himself more highly than he
ought to think, but to think,”
what?
“Soberly, according as God has
dealt to,” how many men?
Every man what?
The measure of faith.
All right, let’s see whose faith
it is.
Let’s go to Mark’s Gospel
chapter 11, please.
Over at Mark’s Gospel chapter
11, we see an account here of
Jesus.
And he has this issue with this
fig tree.
Verse 12, “And on the morrow,
when they were come from
Bethany, he was hungry.
And seeing a fig tree far off
having leaves, he came, if haply
he might find anything thereon.
And when he came to it, he found
nothing but leaves, for the time
of figs was not yet.
And Jesus answered and said to
it,” say to it, say, “It.”
Say “it” again.
Now, “it” is an inanimate
object.
So, “it.”
You can speak to things that
can’t talk back.
You can speak to problems, you
can speak to trees, you can
speak to storms, you can speak
to disease, you can speak to it.
Glory to God.
Boy, that’s worth something
right there.
That’s worth coming right there.
“And Jesus said to it, ‘No man
eat fruit of thee hereafter
forever.’
And the disciples heard it.”
It didn’t say the tree heard it,
it said the disciples heard it.
Now I’m just–I’m reading what
it says here.
He said in verse 19, “And when
the evening was come, he went
out of the city.
And in the morning, they passed
by and saw the fig tree dried up
from the roots.
Peter calling to remembrance and
said to him, ‘Master, behold,
the fig tree which you cursed is
withered away.’
And Jesus answered and said to
him, ‘Have faith in God,'”
underline it.
Have faith in God.
Now, another way to say that is
have the what?
God’s kind of faith, right?
But let me embellish that just a
little bit more.
Have God’s faith.
Have God’s faith.
Now, what he’s going to do is
give you his faith.
Human faith is insufficient.
You need God’s faith.
Now, when you have God’s faith,
you can do things–come on now,
I’ve got to finish this
sentence.
You can do things just like your
Father when you have his faith.
Because his faith is what made
all of this.
His faith is what made all of
this.
Look, just I’m coming back to
that place, just look, if you
will, at Hebrews chapter–pardon
me, yeah, Hebrews chapter 11,
verse 3.
Just look at that.
He said this, “Through faith we
understand that the worlds were
formed by the word of God, so
that the things which are seen
were not made out of things
which do appear.”
Now, what is he saying?
That which was seen didn’t come
out of something visible.
It came out of something
invisible.
So, God’s faith was involved in
manifesting this earth, his
faith.
Now, he gave you his faith to
manage it.
Say amen to this.
So, what we have to do is we
have to develop this faith.
We have to learn how to use this
faith, how to make faith work
for us.
Because if God is depending on
us to steward this earth, and to
be fruitful, replenish, and
multiply, so forth, he wants us
to develop our faith.
So, we have to develop this kind
of faith.
The same kind of faith God has,
we have, so now let’s make this
faith work for us the same way
God made it work for him, and
Jesus is demonstrating.
So he released his words filled
with faith.
“No man eat fruit of you
hereafter, forever.”
And the disciples, not
overheard, they heard it.
Because he wasn’t trying to make
it so they didn’t hear it.
When he went in the house of
Jairus, here’s what he said when
he showed up in Mark–in Mark
chapter 5.
He said this, “Your daughter is
not dead, she is just asleep.”
Now if that in the natural
didn’t qualify for a lie, I
don’t know what did.
She was graveyard dead.
But he was operating on a higher
level of truth.
And the truth of God is the
highest level of reality.
Say amen to that.
And I’m saying, as he spoke that
word, something happened.
Now why did it happen?
Because he believed that what he
said was going to come to pass.
Stay with me now.
He spoke it because he believed
what he’s going to say will come
to pass.
Now, what was the reaction of
the people once he said it?
What was the reaction?
They what?
They laughed at him.
What is the reaction of people
with you when you say stuff like
that?
They’re going to laugh at you.
But should that stop you from
saying it?
I’m saying they don’t know what
they’re doing; you know what
you’re doing.
Now, what are you doing?
When you do that, you’re not
looking linear.
You’re not looking in time,
waiting on some time for
something to happen.
Because in the spirit, it has
already happened.
And the only thing you’re doing
is going vertical.
You’re going up in the spirit
and superimposing the invisible
over the visible.
I better come over here.
You are going up in the spirit
for something that has already
been done before the foundation
of the world, and superimposing
that over the visible.
So that’s why faith is always
when?
Now.
If you ever go in the future,
you’ve just looked linear.
And if you just look linear, you
have just put faith in time.
And if you put faith in time,
then you’re not vertical
anymore, you are linear.
And if you’re linear, you are
out of faith.
You don’t have faith.
But when you know that it’s
already done, you know that
it’s–come on, you already done.
There is an assurance inside of
you that that deal is already
done.
Now the only thing left for me
to do is say it.
Now, I got to say it because if
I can’t say it, God can’t do it.
So I’ve got to call things
that–as though they–because
they already are.
Now, stop talking about, “I’m
going to get my debts paid.”
[speaking in tongues]
Stop talking about, “I’m going
to get my healing.”
Once the devil puts you in time,
he can keep you in time.
What you need to do is let go of
time and understand faith is
always?
This is one of the biggest
reasons why the Christian
community is not benefitting
from their own relationship with
God, and they’re sons–as sons
and daughters of Christ, of God,
and having the benefits of that
relationship, one of the biggest
reasons.
The biggest reason is the tense.
It’s the tense.
They’re still putting it in the
future.
It’s already done.
Now, not only do you have to say
it’s already done, you’ve got to
believe it’s already done.
Say amen to that.
And don’t be trying to minimize
it so that if it doesn’t work,
you don’t look that bad, or
trying to not work God too hard.
Put it back up there.
Because what God’s got for you
is the best.
What he laid up for you is the
best.
Say amen to this.
Now this is–this is very
important now.
I’m just saying, you know, he
doesn’t–he doesn’t have a lot
of hand-me-downs up there.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with
that.
But he does have some new stuff.
When the prodigal son came back
home, he said bring me the what
kind of robe?
The best.
He didn’t say, “Bring me the one
on sale.”
Now that’s all right, you can go
down and say, “I’ll get one on
sale.”
But see, when I start talking
like that, see, what happens
with faith, faith converts your
humanity to divinity.
And what you’ve got to do is
understand that God is bringing
you into a whole new dimension
of seeing, speaking, and
believing.
So, what you’ve got to do is
come on in.
Who was that Bishop Oyedepo?
He said, “Nobody on my staff
will ever tell me I don’t have
no money.”
He said, “If they do, it’s the
last time they’ll tell me that.”
They won’t even tell him.
But how did he know?
He got to figure out some other
way to tell him because he
won’t–why?
Because he wouldn’t let that
come out of their mouth.
Now listen, listen, I’m talking
about something now.
I’m talking about one of the
reasons why the enemy does not
want you to clean up your speech
is because his job is to keep
you not believing what you say
is going to come to pass.
See, his job is to keep you
into, “My feet are killing me.
Oh girl, I’m just dying to go.”
See, it’s to keep you.
That’s where he’s to keep you.
Because he knows that if you
check your speech and you
believe what you say, then when
you speak to that mountain, it’s
going to move.
The problem comes in when you’ve
had all this corrupt
communication all day, and all
of a sudden here it comes, boom,
something happens in the house,
and you’re trying to speak to
it.
Well, your spirit is not trained
now.
It’s hard for it to bring it
forth.
And so, what you’ve got to do is
go back to that Bible and he
talks about no corrupt
communication, talks about so
forth.
And you’ve got to clean that
thing up.
That’s why one of the reasons
why you saw the centurion–and
remember, the centurion came to
Jesus.
It’s Matthew chapter 8.
And he came to Jesus about his
servant, was lying at home,
wherever it was, sick as a post.
Jesus said, “Well, I’ll come and
heal him.”
He said, “You don’t need to come
to the house.”
Just what?
“Speak the word only, and my
servant shall be healed.”
Watch this.
“Because I’m a man under
authority.
And I got soldiers under me, and
I say to those ‘Go,’ and he
goes, one, ‘Come,’ and he comes.
And they obey me.”
So what is he saying here?
He is saying, “Wait a minute, I
respect words.
I respect words.”
I’m going to tell you something.
You’ve got to watch–you’ve got
to watch being around loose
lips.
Now, let me just say what I
mean.
Now, you think about this.
Joshua and Caleb came back and
said something.
And they said–let me get my
notes.
They said, “Let us go up at
once, and possess it.
For we are well able to overcome
it.”
Didn’t they?
Now, look what happened, chapter
13 and verse 31.
“But the men that went up with
him said, ‘We be not able to go
up against these people, for
they are stronger than we.'”
What difference did that make?
See, what difference did that
make if you’re operating by
faith?
Faith commits God.
He’s looking for faith.
The Bible says when they opened
up that roof and let that man
down, when Jesus saw their
faith.
Say amen to this.
Those ten lepers that were with
Jesus and next thing you know,
they cried out–I mean, they
were outside the gate, they said
“Jesus, son of David, have mercy
on us.”
Jesus said, “Go show yourself to
the priest.”
They started going and started
getting healed.
Why?
Because they had to show some
faith.
You can believe and sit there,
and nothing will happen.
But when you get up and start
talking and walking, then
something’s about to happen.
It commits God.
It obligates him.
Sure it does.
And look what he says here in
verse 32.
“And they brought up an evil
report in the land.”
Now verse 33, “And there we saw
the giants, the sons of Anak,
which come of the giants, and we
were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in
their sight.”
Look at what it says next.
“And all the people,” chapter
14, verse 1, “all the
congregation lifted up their
voices and cried, and the people
wept that night.”
Now, why did they weep?
Why did they weep?
Unbelief, okay, unbelief, that’s
good.
But why did they weep?
Words.
What did words form?
Pictures.
Pictures.
And I’m just looking at how many
pictures are on TV about
sickness.
It is enough stuff going around,
they got something for
everything.
And I said, “Man, this
medication thing is taking
over.”
So I’m saying here, notice they
said the wrong thing, now the
enemy is feeding vain
imaginations into their thinking
and trying to make them see
things.
>> Bill: If you treat your faith
like a seed, you plant it.
And you plant it by saying it.
Once you speak it, the soil of
your heart grabs it.
This is putting faith to work.
You can’t say what you see,
you’ve got to say what he said.
When you say what he said, he
can watch over his word and make
it good.
Now speak the word “holy.”
Faith is your servant.
Now put him to work.
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>> Bill: Today’s powerful
teaching is from our 2015 Faith
Refresher.
It’s called “Putting Faith To
Work.”
Now, because we grow from faith
to faith, we have this refresher
to strengthen our faith, to see
beyond the natural sense realm
into a higher reality of the
eternal, where there is no time.
The Bible says in Hebrews
chapter 11 and verse 1, now this
is the Amplified translation,
“Now faith is the assurance (the
confirmation, the title deed) of
the things [we] hope for, being
the proof of things [we] do not
see and the conviction of their
reality, [faith perceiving as
real fact what is not revealed
to the senses].”
Now, that’s a powerful
definition of faith.
So in the spirit, everything
you’ll ever need has already
been done, and faith can see it.
Praise God.
Well, this is Bill Winston
saying we love you.
And until next time, keep
walking by faith.
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