“Wake Up Your Faith” with Jentezen Franklin.
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the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection faith comes by hearing not seen hearing we walk by faith what we hear not by sight what we are watching that’s the life of faith that’s how you can be up in a down world that’s why you can look at the crazy things that are happening in this nation and if you let it it’ll drive you down or you can turn around and say but I’m getting news from another arena and another world and it tells me everything’s going to be alright God is not nervous about politics economy all the violence all the things that are going on in the news God’s not biting his nails he’s King of Kings Lord of lords and he says I’m gonna take care of my children and my people come on it’s shout a man if you believe today I want to talk about wake up your faith how many of you know faith is important faith is important and the thing about faith is in this chapter of Corinthians it’s pretty powerful it gives us some insights into faith when it says in verse 17 for our light affliction which is but for a moment is working in us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we do not look at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal and then second Corinthians 5 one more verse of scripture for we walk by faith not by sight say it again for we walk by faith not by sight so important that we understand that we if we’re going to be people of faith not people of fear but people of faith we do not walk by what we see and let it dominate and defeat us but we hear the promises of God and what we’re hearing is greater than what we’re seeing faith is so important the definition of faith according to the Bible is faith is not what you see it’s why when Jesus cursed the fig tree and nothing happened the disciples thought what he missed it on that prayer and they walked away and came back 24 hours later and the Bible said that same tree was withered up from the roots now if you were looking on the outside at what you see prayer was not making a difference but the moment that Jesus prayed in the invisible root of that tree that fig tree was withering up and dying and even though it looked like nothing was happening something was happening and that’s how that’s how faith works faith is trusting God faith is being willing to walk off them out and not have all the answers but you just moved by faith the Bible said Abraham went not knowing where he was going we want to know everything we want to know every question answered before we move but faith faith in God and God cannot be pleased the Bible said without faith I don’t care how religious you are I don’t care how many rules you have I don’t care what you abstain from and and what you do he said if you’re if if where you are is not requiring faith of you risk then you’re not pleasing me because God loves to see his word trusted we want by faith not by sight now watch this don’t let what you see hinder what heaven is letting you hear we want by faith not by sight and then I love this part that faith the Bible said in Romans comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God so don’t go by what you see but go by what you hear because what you hear from the scriptures and from moments like these that we’re having right now is what will determine whether or not you can overcome I think of a story in the Old Testament in 2nd Samuel chapter 5 of David fighting the Philistines and the Bible said that God told him then when you go out to the battlefield I want you to pull off to the side of the battlefield and get under the grove of mulberry trees and I want you to wait and when you hear the sound of rustling in the tops of those trees I’ll go out before you that’s when you’re to go and with your troops and fight the Philistines so here’s David he’s looking at an advancing overwhelming army of Philistines coming right at him and God says I don’t want you to be focused on what you see what you see looks like defeat but I want you to hear and when you hear the sound of angels chariots rumbling over the tops of the mulberry trees then you move and I’ll give you the victory don’t go by what you see go by what you hear the prophet Elijah was in a famine and yet he said I hear if he had gone by what he was seeing everything was drying up and everything was gone but he did not go by what he saw he said I hear something different from what my eyes are watching I’m hearing something that is a contradiction to what I’m seeing the folks this is what faith does faith doesn’t just look at facts and say well I might as well give up faith looks at defiant circumstances that look like defeat and listens and you’ll never hear heaven talking defeat you’ll never hear heaven talking give up you’re right you should be suicidal and depressed you’re not going to make it you’ll never hear heaven say that kind of stuff so you have to determine as a person to faith am I going to see what I see and watch what I’m watching and let that determine fear and and worry and all the things that come from that or am I going to listen to what I hear and Elijah said I hear the sound of an abundance of rain right in the middle while he was watching famine he was hearing abundance that’s faith it was a mid-october afternoon 1982 at badger Stadium in Wisconsin 60,000 plus diehard fans gathered to watch their team the University of Wisconsin take on the Michigan State Spartans even though they had the home-field advantage it became obvious quickly in the ballgame that Michigan State had the better team what became odd is as the score became more and more lopsided and Wisconsin fell further and further behind quarter after quarter the more they were losing the louder the fans were getting the burst of appalls and shouts from the Wisconsin fans grew louder and louder the more they were watching their team lose the coaches and players were stunned to hear their fans scream and cheer while they were watching their team lose and lose bad it turned out that 70 miles away the Milwaukee Brewers were beating the st. Louis Cardinals in game four of the 1982 World Series many of the fans in the stands were listening to their portable radios and they were responding to what they heard not to what they saw they were celebrating victory in the presence of what looked like defeat what a contradiction shouting in the mists of obvious defeat and the question is are you responding to what you see or are you responding to what heaven is saying the arena that they were seeing in was showing them one thing but there was another arena where a greater victory was taking place and it was screaming another thing from what they were seeing one was telling them something totally contrary to what they were looking at and you have to decide are you gonna live by what you see and every day you get up you let that determine what kind of day you have are you going to live by what you hear man shall not live by bread alone what he can see but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God faith comes by hearing not seeing hearing we won’t buy faith what we hear not by sight what we are watching that’s the life of faith that’s how you can be up in a down world that’s why you can look at the crazy things that are half in this nation and if you let it it’ll drive you down or you can turn around and say but I’m getting news from another arena and another world and it tells me everything’s going to be alright God is not nervous about politics economy all the violence all the things that are going on in the news God’s not biting his nails he’s King of Kings Lord of lords and he says I’m gonna take care of my children and my people come on and shout a man if you believe I want somebody to shout who’s watching a defeat seemingly but you’re hearing something that’s greater than what you’re watching Wow that’s the shout of faith when I look around it seems odd that a church would be cheerful and you got all kinds of problems why do you come to church and start cheering oh praise the name of the Lord my god you usually do it with your eyes closed you know why because you don’t want to look at the circumstances you’re living in right now oh I’m glad I’ve got faith that overcomes the whole world it’s by what I hear not what I see I got a radio up to my ear that’s telling me good news in a world of bad news hurt betrayal and even guilt can restrain holding on to unforgiveness can keep the power of God from being released into your life but God wants to set you free from the of your past so today we invite you to launch forward and experience the power of forgiveness in your life we want to send you Craig stones book forgiving the unforgivable you will learn how to find healing and hope in the midst of pain loss and even betrayal or with your gift of $30 or more you may request Craig stones book plus Jensen Franklin’s two CD set including the messages the power of forgiveness and get over it learn the secret to letting go and release the power of God in your life visit us at Jensen Franklin Oh our G or call us now at eight eight eight eight eight eight three four seven three Jesus gave the church three tiers and he said I want you to get cheerful and I want you to be so odd in a depressed world that when you come together it’s like the fans in the stand watching everything morality everything looks like defeat defeat defeat look at the laws and the Supreme Court and all these things defeat defeat defeat everything’s going anti religion anti-god anti-bible and we’re supposed to be cheering I don’t care what happens in the election I’m going to be cheering I don’t let this stuff control my soul the joy of the Lord is my strength and I know one thing I’m hearing that Jesus is coming soon I’m hearing the trumpet is gonna sound I’m hearing he’s bringing another Kingdom and where righteousness will be exalted my hope is not in this world don’t live by what you see live by what you hear Jesus said I want to give you three three times he said cheer up three times he said be of good cheer be of good cheer be of good cheer John 16:33 he said be of good cheer for I have overcome the world and if I could overcome it I don’t care what’s going on in your little arena in the big arena there’s victory and he says I overcame in the little arena and I know you’re looking at some things that look like they’re overcoming you but I promise you if I overcame you will overcome and then in Matthew 9 and verse 2 he said be of good cheer because your sins are forgiven don’t just celebrate what you’ve got celebrate what you got rid of you got rid of your shame somebody needs to shout you got rid of your guilt you got rid of your addiction you got rid of yesterday you’ve been born again you’re a new creation your sins are forgiven be of good cheer let’s take a praise break right there no matter what’s going wrong in my life that part is right cause Jesus finished it at Calvary and then he said in Matthew 14:27 be of good cheer it is I be not afraid so Jesus says I want you to give a cheer if the world looks like it’s winning the system of the world looks like it’s winning unrighteousness looks like it’s winning I want you at my church to really cheer up and and and if you if it looks like sin is rampant and an increasing I want my church to be of good cheer because your sins are forgiven and if you’re in a storm I want you to be of good cheer because it is I the water Walker coming on top to the Whitecaps and I don’t want you to be afraid jesus said in John 15 and 18 you’re in the world but you’re not of the world we’re in this arena and we’re watching things and you may be watching your child on drugs or you may be watching your marriage in trouble or you may be watching your finances depleted and you’re in the world but watch this and that’s what your watch but he says you’re not of the world there’s another world that you need to be hearing and it’s not telling you to be depressed about what you’re seeing it’s telling you I hear I hear something else I hear Deuteronomy 28 while I’m looking at what I’m looking at I hear Deuteronomy I’m blessed in the city I’m blessed and this is what faith people do they look at defeat and they hear victory they look at discouragement and they start saying I’m blessed in the city I’m blessed in the field you sure don’t look blessed your car in blessed that’s all you’re walking thumbin you broke down itself pulling up on a on a moped no no no that’s just my print that’s temporary everything changes when you get the Word of God it may not happen today but it’s coming tomorrow and if it doesn’t happen tomorrow my faith won’t let go until he blesses me that’s faith watching one thing here and another thing my faith I hear I’m healed according to Isaiah 53 I hear I’m free according to the book of John whom the Sun sets free is free indeed I hear I’m blessed according to Deuteronomy 28 I hear that in all of these things according to Romans 8 I’m more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus who loved me and gave himself for me I hear I’m anointed and blessed that’s what I hear I know I’m seeing one thing but all I’m hearing another and you may have buried a loved one recently and you saw them go in the gray but you’re hearing another sound that says ain’t no grave gonna hold that body down there’s a resurrection power in the name of Jesus everybody give the Lord a big cheer from the grandstands no matter what’s going on in your personal life on the field I want to hear a shout in the stands that says what I’m hearing is greater than what I’m seeing we walk by faith not by sight Calvery looked like a defeat but on the third day the stone was rolled away in Jesus rose triumphal you know the Bible we talk about the last days is if you’re not careful we paint a picture of gloom and doom only for our children and it is perilous times and evil men and seducers are I’ve never seen such corruption I’ve never seen anything like what we’re dealing with have you I’ve never seen anything like this but I’m not worried about it because at the same time that’s going on I hear something different and it shall come to pass in the last days saith god I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh you’re gonna live by what you see what you hear and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy a prophecy is is to talk about the future in other words your young people will get filled with my spirit and they’ll future talk the world’s coming to an end but God says I’m gonna raise a generation up that’s gonna have a dream for the future and say we’re gonna change politics we’re gonna change medicine we’re gonna change the church we’re gonna change the laws we’re gonna change the book we’re gonna change the nation and that only happens when they’re filled with the spirit they get a vision from God of what the purpose is and then they begin to future – all I’m saying to you today that there is a victory in a greater arena that is more powerful what Jesus did on the cross and at Calvary the worse that gets the Bible says the better it gets for us darkness Isaiah said darkness darkness darkness but a rising shine for your light has come the darker the world gets the brighter he said I’ve called my church from from he said you you’ll go from brightness to brightness from glory to glory from faith to faith hallelujah if you put your ear up to the radio you know what you’re here we win we win bring on man in Christ we win bring on the last days we win bring on all hell bring it on bring it on because when it’s all said and done the trumpets gonna sound Jesus is gonna stop at the clouds he’s not coming all the way down to earth he’s gonna stop in midair in the clouds the Bible said the dead in Christ will go up first we are alive and remain we caught up with them to meet the Lord in the clouds will gather around the clouds shout around the clouds and then go straight up and hallelujah that’s what I hear not what I see on only about what I see I live by what I hear and some of you are looking at me on TV saying why don’t you calm down why don’t you get fired up we don’t need a dead church we need a church that’s hearing a sound from heaven right in the middle of hell somebody shout like you believe God is on the throne deaf is defeated Luke 10:17 I’m almost done but Luke 10:17 said and the 70 returned with joy saying Lord even the Devils are subject under your name to us and Jesus said I beheld Satan fall from heaven as lightning I love that Satan is a fallen foe he’s got one of those little beepers don’t help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up he’s a loser he’s an ex-employee from heaven that was kicked out and replaced and we are now the worship leaders of heaven and we take his place that’s why I didn’t want you to praise the Lord and cheer in the stands he wants you to not have any joy because of what you’re looking at but a triumphant Church is a church that looks at seemingly temporary defeat and has enough faith to raise its hands in the same arena and say that Jesus is alive and Jesus is Lord and he’s still healer and he’s still deliver everybody take another praise break I feel this thing I feel it let’s let a messed up world here a jacked up church right now come on if you believe faith overcomes the world overcomes the storm overcome sin I’m not through preaching sit down got one more point then Jesus went on and he said he said and I tell you that in my name you’ll tread on skirt I’ll give you power over all the power of the enemy nothing shall by any means hurt you and in my name you’ll tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy all the power they notice serpents and scorpions serpents strike you with their head and scorpions strike you with their tails what Jesus is saying is heads or tails you in whatever life throws at you if it lands on the good side you win if it lands on the bad side heads or tails I got a God who took the Stinger out of death and who crushed the head of the serpent and he said all I hear is a sound of victory from another arena if I am walking by faith not by sight take a praise break and I’m going I’m gonna wrap it up don’t wallow in self-pity any more so I’m gonna ask you to stand to your feet hallelujah wake up your faith don’t you go back home like you can don’t you walk in there and look at those bills and lose your heart and lose your hope but here something that’s greater than what you’re seeing but my God shall supply all my needs no weapon formed against me he was wounded for my transgressions and bruised for my iniquities that’s what I’m hearing I’m seeing this but I’m hearing this and by His stripes I’m healed you you you here at free chapel our mission is simple to inspire people to live for Jesus with incredible worship and messages by senior pastor Jentezen Franklin you will leave encouraged to thrive throughout the week we offer great opportunities for you and your entire family to grow connect with others and serve the community we would love you 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