(3 Teachings) God has chosen you for such a time as this! In this three-part teaching, Dr. Bill Winston imparts biblical truths on why you are designed to do the impossible, and how to live separate from the world. Like Abraham, you were created to depend only on God. As you operate in your authority as a born-again believer, it’s your faith-filled words that carry creative power. Continue to line up your thoughts with the Word, see yourself how God sees you, and trust that God wants the best for you. Start Living on Top of the World, today!
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The Believer’s Walk of
Faith. BILL: God’s got
so far for you to go if
you’ll just let him think
through you. He said,
“Your thoughts have not been my
thoughts. Your ways have not
been my ways.” From this day, we
gonna open up and we gonna allow
God to think through our mind.
We gonna love, we gonna receive
what he says about us, watch
this, how far we can go, what
we can have, what we
can do, what we own,
what we … Come on. Just
receive it by faith.
BILL: Hello. Bill Winston
here and welcome to The
Believer’s Walk of Faith,
where we walk by faith
and not by sight. Well, did you
know that God chose you? You
didn’t choose Him. You’ve heard
people say, “You know what? I’ve
found the Lord.” He wasn’t lost.
We were lost. He found us. I
don’t care what you been
through. You might have had a
lot of things going on in your
background. Some people may have
been in jail or even be married
five times, but you know what?
That didn’t change God’s
mind about you. He knows your
potential. He put something in
you. You couldn’t have come into
this world, I don’t care who
your parents are. You couldn’t
have come into this world
without him giving you life so
he’s got a plan for you. You are
special. You have been chosen
for such a time as this.
Today’s message going
to really minister
you. Get your Bibles ready.
It’s called Living
on Top of the World.
BILL: Thinking is where it
starts. Not speaking. Let’s look
at Proverbs chapter 30. In
Proverbs chapter 30 he says, “If
thou has done foolishly in
lifting up thyself or if thou
has thought evil, lay your
hand,” where? On your mouth.
Notice Satan is after your
thoughts, but so is God. See? He
Notice Satan is after your
thoughts, but so is God. See? He
knows where the deal is. It’s in
your thinking. What you think on
continuously you become because
it’s going to come out of your
mouth. I gotta watch my thoughts
and things all around you are
vying for your thoughts. They’re
trying to make you think that
you can’t make it, you won’t
make it, you need this, you need
that. When Satan came to Eve, he
came after her thoughts. It’s
called the power of suggestion.
Satan uses sorcery to pump it.
You gotta evaluate a thought
once you think it because if
it’s not lining up with the
Word, you do something with it.
You cast it out. You can seal
your mind. You can say in the
name of Jesus I take the blood
and I seal the door of my mind
from that thought ever coming
back again and that thought can
get–Folks, thoughts are things.
That enemy will come with a
thought and suggestion. Tell you
you don’t have this, you don’t
… Notice what he told Eve. He
told Eve that God was holding
something back and that wasn’t
even true. What God had done is
hidden what all he was going to
do with her in her. Through her
own obedience it would be
exposed. You’re not missing
nothing. When you got made, God
had you on the workbench, come
on, and everything that you
gonna do and be he put in you.
All the potential is right in
there and as you obey him you
going to work it out. Are you
following this? It’s all your
thinking. If you … People are
not poor because they have no
money or can’t find a good
paying job or whatever. They’re
poor because of the way they
think. Are you following what
I’m saying. Y’all stay with me
now. Jabez. 1 Chronicles chapter
four. Jabez. Jabez found out
that his problem was not money.
He didn’t ask God for money. He
asked God to enlarge his
territory, his ability to
receive how God sees him. Fix
how God seems me and I can
receive what God has for me
because your image got a whole
lot to do with what you can do
for God. We have been taught
that a Rolls Royce is more
valuable than we are or
some kind of expensive car or
expensive house or something.
See, but when you get to heaven,
you going to have a mansion.
When you get to heaven, you
going to walk on streets of-
CONGREGATION: Gold. BILL: Gold.
When you get to heaven you going
to go through gates of-
CONGREGATION: Pearl. BILL: See
God’s trying to show you bring
heaven to earth. I want you to
know how valuable you are before
you even get there. I got work
for you to do and you need an
esteem to do it. Boy, that’s
good preaching right there.
Thinking. I gotta get my
thinking right because if I get
my thinking right, I can get my
speaking right and the spirit of
a person, its job is to think
and speak. Jesus said it. He
said my words, they are spirit
and they are life. That’s found
in John 6:63. There are spirit
in their life. Spiritual things
control natural things. Are you
with me? God made you royalty.
He made you to speak and when
you speak things, you should
expect something to come to
pass. The thinking is the thing.
He said in Proverbs 23
and seven, “As a man,” what?
CONGREGATION: Thinketh- BILL:
“Thinketh in his heart so is
it.” Think. That thinking there
is continuum. What you dwell on,
what you think and stay with in
your thought life so is he. He
becomes or he ends up in that
place. Do you realize that your
thoughts are so powerful
til they draw stuff to you?
Philippians chapter four and
verse eight. He says, “Manage
your mind.” He says, “Listen,
here’s what I want you to think
on.” He said, “Think on
whatsoever things are”-
CONGREGATION: True. BILL: True.
Look at Hebrews chapter 2 verse
14. “For as much, then, as the
children partaketh of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise
took part in the same.” Talking
about Jesus. “That through death
he might destroy him that had
the” … Had, had, had pastor.
“The power of death, that is the
Devil.” Watch this. “And deliver
them who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject
to,” what? CONGREGATION:
Bondage. BILL: Bondage. Satan
has no longer power over a
believer. None. He had power
before Jesus came but once Jesus
came, he said, “All power is
given to me, both in heaven and
in earth. Now, I’m going to
delegate it to you. Now you go.”
That’s why the church is so
powerful, man. He said, “Resist
the devil and he”- CONGREGATION:
Will flee. BILL: And he-
CONGREGATION: Will flee. BILL:
He might flee. No. Who said
that? God said it. God said,
“You resist him and he will
flee.” I gotta resist sickness,
I gotta resist the temptation to
say something mean. I gotta
resist. He said, “Submit
yourself therefore to God.
Resist the devil.” I can’t get
the devil to resist if I’m
holding you in unforgiveness. It
doesn’t work, see. Then when it
doesn’t work, all of a sudden
stuff don’t work so forth. What?
We neutralize the church and
then open the door to anything.
That is not true folks. We
supposed to be so far above
where the world is operating
until it’s laughable. We
supposed to have millionaires
and billionaires in churches. Do
you hear what I’m saying? And
without apologizing for it. We
supposed to be living
voluptuously. Look at Matthew
again. Matthew chapter 12.
“Generation of vipers,
how can you being evil
speak good things?
For out of the abundance
of the heart, the mouth
speaks.” Watch this next
one. “A good man out of
the good treasure of
the heart, brings forth” what?
“Good things.” Alright, put it
up there in the Amplified. “You
offspring of vipers. How can you
speak good things when you are
evil, wicked? For out of the
fullness, the overflow, the
superabundance of the heart,
your mouth is going to speak.”
Keep going. “A good man from his
inner good treasure flings forth
good things.” Put it up there
the NIV.” A good man brings good
things out of the good stored up
in him.” Everything of yours
comes from your inside. Jesus
totally went around the world’s
system. He was producing
everything from the kingdom.
See, we been trying to do better
still in a cursed system. You’re
in another system. You’re in the
kingdom system. Say amen to
that. CONGREGATION: Amen. BILL:
I’m saying you got something in
you that you can speak the Word
only and change your
environments, change your
finances, change … It comes
from a mind that has been
renewed. It comes from a belief
system that once you believe it
and speak it, that thing is
going to come to pass. You can
stand back and watch it because
that is a law and that’s going
to come to pass. Now, it’s got
to line up with God’s Word, but
his Word says wealth and riches
shall be in your house. His Word
shall says he going to increase
you more and more. You and your
children. Come on. His Word says
that even the heavens of the
Lord, but the earth has he given
to you the children of men. His
Word says it’s been freely given
to you. His Word says by his
stripes you are healed. His Word
says I want to know what the
truth is because whatever’s
the truth, I’m going to believe
that. If Satan is coming at
me with another thought, I’m
casting that thing down. As fast
as you turn on this TV, they
talking about everything. You’ve
got eye trouble, head trouble,
brain trouble, nerve trouble. So
forth and so on and you’re
depressed and take some of these
until you’re dead. What you need
to do is say, “Wait a minute. I
got the Word of God and it is
medicine to all my flesh.”
Proverbs chapter 4, 20 and 22.
It’s medicine. I’m going to take
me some medicine today. I’m
going to get this book and
I’m going to open it up and I’m
going to take some medicine
before I go to bed and then when
I get up in the morning, I’m
going to take some more because
I know I can’t overdose on this.
I’m going to take some more
tomorrow night. I’m going to
take some more and pretty soon,
the first thing that’s going to
change is your soul. Your soul
is going to get right with God
and when it does, that power
will go through from your
spirit, through your soul and
hit your body and –praise
God. That’s what I wanted.
Right there. If it
will do it for your body,
it’ll do it for your community
because it’s the same power.
It’s called the blessing. I’m
talking about people who don’t
have anything. You’ve been
rejected. You’ve been married
five times. I’m going to just
lump them all up because people
don’t think God can fix cases
that are that bad but I got news
for you. God is still God. He
can fix the worst situation up
in here. Whatever your problem
is, God can fix it. I know it
might be people that are
doubting, hopefully you can
catch hold of this thing because
we have taken ourselves and we
have put ourselves on the
same level as the people in the
world. They can borrow money,
they can sit up in the doctor’s
office, they can go down. I want
it so that we are the doctor.
I want it so that we are the
banker. We’re supposed to be the
lender, not the borrower. I’m
here to take you over to do
that. We going over. Not under.
Over. Now, when you think, think
out of the box. Don’t think in
the box because that’s where you
been thinking and that’s what’s
kept you where you are, but
think out of the box. Think
future. Are you with me? Then
think it and what you meditate
on or your most dominant
thoughts is going to take you to
where you’re thinking because
you’re made that way. Are
you with me here? Here’s David.
David is 17 years old, but he’s
got the right thinking. He saw
himself really like God saw him.
David comes to the front
line. He said, “Hey. What’s
that?” They say, “Get back and
keep those sheep.” Well, he
said, “Wait a minute now. I
slayed a lion. I slayed a bear.
You got this guy giving you
problems?” He gets eventually to
the front line. Now, this is
what he said. Now, watch this.
Think out of the box. Stop
thinking that this is what
you’re going to be. At least
say, “Okay by this time next
year, I’m going to double my
salary.” Think out of the box.
Go somewhere that you’re not. Go
somewhere. It starts with your
thinking. Receive God’s
thinking. He said, “This day,”
watch this. Told Goliath. Now
Goliath had just cursed him. Now
he’s got to answer that curse.
He said, “This day will the Lord
deliver you into my hands.”
Watch this. Watch this. I’m
going to take your head off.
Now, he didn’t have to say all
of that. Seems to me the young
man is getting a little bit
beyond what is necessary to tell
this guy, but he’s telling this
guy how he’s going to execute
him. He said, “I’m going to
first take your head off. Then
I’m going to feed you, move over
Goliath, and that army behind
you.” Watch this, “To the
buzzards.” He said fouls of the
air, but buzzards. “I’m going to
feed them all to the buzzards.
The whole army.” One 17 year old
is going to feed an army to the
buzzards today. Now, you tell me
how in the world is that going
to happen? Well it won’t happen
if he don’t think it. I’m
telling you God’s got so far for
you to go if you’ll just let him
think through you. He said,
“Your thoughts have not been my
thoughts. Your ways have not
been my ways.” From this day, we
gonna open up and we gonna allow
God to think through our minds.
We gonna love, we gonna receive
what he says about us. Watch
this. How far we can go, what we
can have, what we can do, what
we own, what we … Come on.
Just receive it by faith and
then think on them things. Just
think on it, think on it, think
on it, think on it and watch
pretty soon, you going to speak
on it, speak on it, and the next
thing you know manifestation,
manifestation. Now, look at
Psalm 27 and look at verse 13.
“I had fainted and lest I
believe I had believed
to see the” what?
“The goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.”
He is saying here that
unless I saw somebody
who this stuff is working for,
they told me I need to go to
Heaven before I can get this,
but I got a feeling I can get it
right now. Unless I can see
somebody who can prove to me
that this is so, I would have
fainted and just gone by the
wayside. I’m telling you folks.
The world is waiting on somebody
that God can use and they can
say, “Jesus is Lord. God is good
and his mercy endures forever.”
Man. Until God shows you. Watch
this, you didn’t choose him. He
Man. Until God shows you. Watch
this, you didn’t choose him. He
saw you before you hit your
mama’s womb. Watch this, and he
said, “Pick that one.” Between
the time he picked you and the
time you came into the kingdom,
you went through H-E double
hockey sticks. You been married
10 times. I’m talking about all
kinds of mess that happened, but
it didn’t change God’s mind. Not
one iota. Oh, Lord. You don’t
know. He been in jail. That
don’t make no difference. He did
this, he did that. I’m telling
you, when God chooses you, he
don’t change his mind about it.
He knows what he put in you and
God’s going to get it out. You
are special. Been chosen
for such a time as this.
BILL: Well, I trust that
you were blessed by
this powerful message.
Here are a couple of points you
want to remember. One,
in Proverbs chapter 23
and verse seven, he says
this. “As a man thinketh in
his heart, so is he,” or what
you continue to think on you
become or you can say it like
this. What you dwell on in your
thought life is the place you’re
going to end up. If you don’t
want to go there, don’t think
it. Think on things that are
true and honest and just.
God, tells us to do that, why?
Because he wants us to end up in
a good place. Now, number two.
In 1 Chronicles chapter
four verse 10, we find a prayer
called the Prayer of Jabez. It’s
something that this one Jabez
prayed. He had been named Jabez
as a baby and Jabez mean pain.
How would you like to be every
time somebody call you, “Hey
pain, come here.” Jabez knew he
had to change his destiny
because a lot of times, the
things that we call ourselves is
where we end up. Jabez then
began to petition God and that
God would enlarge his coast.
As a matter of fact he prayed a
prayer. Here’s what he said. He
said, “Oh, that thou would bless
me indeed and enlarge my coast
that thy hand might be with me
and that thou would keep me
from evil.” I say that prayer
at least once a week. This is
interesting. God granted him his
request and where maybe that he
had a destiny that was limited,
now everything opened up. Jabez
became very big. In other words,
he was able to receive the big
things God had for him. Well, I
want to challenge you. If you
want to increase your life and
you’ve seen that, think that
you have been limited, somehow
things have not worked out like
they should. I challenge you. As
a matter of fact, I dare you,
double dog dare you. Praise God.
That’s what they used to say
when I was a kid. I double dog
dare you, to just for 30 days
pray the prayer of Jabez. Once a
day for 30 days. Guarantee
you’re going to see increase
take place in your life. Well,
I’m not … Do it. Just do it
and then write me and tell me
what happened because guaranteed
some things are going to start
taking place in your life, by
the power of the Holy Spirit.
It’s going to bring some changes
in to your life that are going
to be good. All you have to do
is do it. I challenge you to do
that. Write me and tell me what
happened. Well, this is all
we have for today. This is Bill
Winston saying we love you and
keep walking by faith.
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BILL: God is looking for
a people who are bold. Who are
righteous. Who are not ashamed
of the Gospel. MALE: Dig that
grave. Dig it. Let your faith
dig it. Now take that shovel,
start covering it. Cover that
poverty. Like Miriam, you will
see this enemy no more. FEMALE:
If I don’t see a way out, God
has a million ways out and how
do they get to know that? They
see we’re walking it out. MALE:
Whatever God promised you
20 years ago, 30 years ago, 10
years ago, five years ago, four
weeks ago, it is still
on you today and it will
still come to pass tomorrow.
BILL: In the middle
of your worst situation,
speak the Word of God.
FEMALE: Deep within you,
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Distractions have tried
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remains, and now, it’s time,
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