Service Date: 10.07.18
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and we’re gonna have a wonderful time
and his presence here today I want to
just get right into it because I’ve got
kind of a lot of ground to cover today
and and our thought for today and what I
really want to speak around is this idea
promotion has a process promotion has a
process and there’s some people in here
right now and you’re misinterpreting
your season and you’re in a season of
promotion but it looks like trouble and
I want to break something down we’re
gonna look at Peter and in fact let’s go
to first Peter chapter 1 verse 3 through
9 and I’m gonna show you that promotion
as a process and we’re gonna unpack
these verses and I think we’re gonna be
blessed there by Peter says beginning in
verse three of the first chapter of the
first epistle of Peter it says blessed
be the God and father of our Lord Jesus
Christ who according to his abundant
mercy has begotten us again say again
has begotten us again to a Living Hope
say living hope through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead – and in
to an inheritance incorruptible and
undefiled and that does not fade away
reserved in heaven for you to an
inheritance incorruptible and undefiled
and does not fade away reserved in
heaven for you who are kept by the power
of God say capped by the power of God
this turn uh somebody say I’m kept I’m
kept I’m Gloria I’m kept I’m kept
who are kept by the power of God through
faith for salvation ready to be revealed
in the last time in this you greatly
rejoice though now for a little while
though now for in another translation
though now for a season comma if need be
you are you have been grieved by various
trials I want to read that again in this
you greatly rejoice though now for a
little while if need be if need be I
can’t wait to talk about that you have
been grieved by various trials that the
genuineness of your faith the value of
your faith the worth of your faith the
purity of your faith the legitimacy of
your faith being much more precious than
gold that perishes though it is tested
by fire may be found to praise honor and
glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ
whom having not seen you love though now
you do not see him you believe you not
though now you do not see him yet
believing you rejoice with joy
inexpressible and full of glory
receiving the end of your faith the
salvation of your souls
let’s pray unpack that father thank you
so much for this moment that you brought
all of us into and I sense Lord God from
Colorado to California to Zimbabwe to
Belgium to Germany to the UK to the
Netherlands Lord to the uttermost parts
of the earth you are doing something in
the hearts and the minds of your son
and daughters you’re activating them
you’re making things plain and you’re
making things clear and you’re gonna
move in their lives you’re gonna explain
some things unpack some things I thank
you for the spirit of wisdom and
revelation God there will be revelation
knowledge and prophecy and insight and
truth that will seize your sons and
daughters in a powerful and profound way
that will bring light where there was
darkness clarity where there was
confusion and that it would give your
sons and daughters the ability to run
when all they could do was walk it’s
gonna give your sons and daughters the
ability to walk when all they could do
was stand it’s gonna give your sons and
daughters the ability to stand when all
they could do was open their eyes all of
us will receive an upgrade today because
of the words that you speak to us we
receive it in advance in Jesus name Amen
amen I dare you to receive it in advance
right now come on somebody God didn’t
bring you here for nothing he brought
you here to give you something and I
dare you to have
to measure of faith can they hold up it
before it even happens come on somebody
pressing and get it
let’s talk let’s talk a little bit
please be seated let’s have a
conversation here this is written by
Peter and and I love Peter for so many
reasons
and one of the things that I love love
about Peter one things that I I just
really really moves me concerning Peter
is that Peter had been through some
stuff and it’s like the older I get the
less I trust people who have been
through anything are you tracking with
me that the older I get the more I
realize that it’s not the person who has
never been through anything that’s the
most valuable I think what manifests a
person’s value is not that they have
avoided something but that they have
walked through something come on
somebody don’t have any people in God’s
house come on Denver don’t have any
people in God’s house and you you you it
wasn’t that you avoided everything it
wasn’t that you did everything so well
it’s that you survived do I have any
survivors come on and October Breast
Cancer Month
do I have any survivors whether it was
cancer whether it was a heartbreak
whether it was a Dvorkin I have some if
you are a survivor I dare you to take a
minute and celebrate the one who gave
you the strength to survive come on
somebody
some of you survived 2017 some of you
are surviving 2018 some of you ever
survived when people gave up on you when
life threatened to wipe you out but you
are still here where am I still here
Saints that come on somebody
there’s something about surviving and I
can’t explain it it’s just and I love
everybody well everybody’s cool I’ll go
to coffee with anybody but but the only
people that can really sit at my table
really really at my table table people
have been tried people who’ve been
through something because we’re not
gonna be able to connect if you don’t
have any scars we’re not gonna be able
to connect very deeply if life hasn’t
thrown everything it could at you in
some sort of way you found
within yourself to get up and stand up
again and keep moving
believing that the best is still yet to
come and some of you are in the process
of getting there and you don’t like it
and we’ll talk about that I’m trying to
stay on track today I’m trying to stay
here but but I feel I feel the spirit of
digression happening to me Peter I love
Peter because Peter had been on every
side of this faith thing you know Peter
Peter you know when when he first
started walking with Jesus Peter was
talking big talk Lord even if everybody
leaves you don’t you worry about me I
wanna be with you until the vamp telling
you I’ll be with you to the very end and
Jesus is like mm hmm you gonna deny me
and Peter was shocked at the notion that
Jesus would even insinuate that someone
of his caliber of integrity and faith
and loyalty well one day turned his back
on Jesus right Peter was a bug no
seriously he would cut people’s ears off
like Peter was like you know Peter was
something else and then and then Peter
here is pinning about what we have to go
through what we have to endure in order
to develop the type of insides that are
worth what God has promised to us hmm
and Peter went through something it’s
funny as we look at this text there’s so
much in this text I pray I can get
through all of it in the two hours that
we have together here in this message
but look at what Peter says I pointed
out the word again because he says in
verse 3 he says blessed be the God and
father of our Lord Jesus Christ who
according to his abundant mercy has
begotten us again to a Living Hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead what is he talking about
he’s saying that even Peter went through
a very dark and difficult moment where
his faith was tested
unlike ever before Peter you know the
story even after all that talk about not
not ever forsaken Jesus not ever giving
up on Jesus remember all that talk that
Peter was doing you got to study your
Bible it’s really amazing stuff on all
this stuff that that Jesus that he would
not do because he was so committed to
Jesus and and then he denies Jesus and I
think one of the reasons why Peter is
able to so masterfully talk about how
your faith has to be tested is because
when Peter went through that he did not
lose his faith he lost his fire you see
Jesus Peter had walked with Jesus he had
seen all kind of miracles take place he
had seen provision come out of no place
he had seen when when people were hungry
he had seen all these problems be met by
Jesus right he saw when people were sick
they were healed when when haters were
we’re trying to get them they escaped
the haters they there was no poverty
there was no scarcity and so his
relationship with Jesus was only a
relationship based on the expectation
that as long as I walk with Jesus
nothing negative will happen to me and
then all of a sudden Jesus is removed
from him Jesus has to go to the cross
Jesus dies and now his mismanage
expectation begins to rob him a faith so
much so that his behavior changes he is
no longer this ride-or-die disciple but
he becomes ultimately a coward he didn’t
lose his faith he lost his fire and
that’s why in the text he starts talking
about how how God how Jesus had brought
him to this place where again he
received the Living Hope he says who
according to his abundant mercy has
begotten us again to a Living Hope and I
thought about them like what does he
mean a Living Hope and so you know me I
like to look upwards it would have you
and
and it’s two words that were translated
Living Hope one word means alive so
that’s where they get the living from
and the other word means expectation and
so what he is saying was when he went
through his dark season he didn’t lose
all of his hope he just lost the Living
Hope
what’s the difference between hope and
living hope hope is when you believe
living hope is when you are on fire
living hope is when you don’t it doesn’t
matter what comes your way
you will stand flat-footed and recognize
that no matter what comes your way it is
not bigger than you living hope is when
there’s fire on your hope there’s fire
on your faith and you cannot be stopped
and and the tricky thing is oftentimes
in life we get demoted internally from a
living hope a living faith the faith
that is alive a faith that is innovative
a faith that is yet still creative of
faith that still has vision a faith that
believes that you cannot new lose to
just faith and it’s tricky because it’s
not that all of your hope and all of
your expectation and all of your faith
goes away it’s just not alive anymore
and it’s tricky because as long as you
have a little bit you think you have
what you need I want to take my time it
would almost be better for you to not
have any faith at all
because then you would recognize you
don’t have faith and you would go and
try to get faith you would try to do
something but what happens when your
faith just gets a downgrade because what
you expected see Jesus going to the
cross was a death of Peters expectation
Oh fill the Holy Spirit and God wants to
mature us in such a way that we do not
lose the fire of our faith when our
expectations aren’t met in life oh
there’s so much in this text he wants to
get us to a place where we do not lose
our faith in God when life deals with
deals with us that is in our minds not
within the parameters of what it means
to have God on your side because all of
us up to a certain point
have our own perspective and perception
about what it means for God to be with
us and when it does not fit into that
box when somehow trouble seeps into the
box that we have have have established
in our own mind about this if these
things do not happen that means that God
is with me can I talk to you for a
second all of us right now have this
thing I know God is with me when he
keeps trouble out I know God is for me I
know that the blessing of God is all my
life when he keeps trouble at bay and
the only problem with that mentality is
that when trouble comes in to the
borders or the parameters of what we
believe is our safety then all of a
sudden our faith goes from living faith
to just faith because now we have
mismanaged in that process we have
mismanaged the borders and the
parameters of where faith should live
and now because it didn’t happen the way
we want it to happen because our
expectation of what it meant to be
covered by God was disappointed now we
no longer have living hope we just have
hope here’s one of the things that I’m
learning about God faith is not simply
about what God keeps you from what I’m
learning about faith is faith is
believing that what God is believing in
what God can can sustain you in I need
to say that again because I was speaking
in tongues faith is not simply about
what God keeps from happening to you
faith is about your belief in the fact
that no matter what comes your way if it
happens to you
your faith in God will sustain you
through it are you tracking with me so
this is faith upgraded because a lot of
times we think that if God was true
believable if God was truly worthy of my
heart if he was truly worthy of my faith
then he would keep trouble out and God
is saying you don’t know how I work true
faith is not in you believing in me
because I tricky trouble out faith is in
you believing in me that even if trouble
comes your way I will be with you in the
trouble you will go through the fire and
not be burned you will go through the
rivers and they won’t overflow you
that’s real faith if you think about
faith itself faith itself needs trouble
to be itself let’s talk about it for a
second faith itself needs something that
is opposing it in order for it to truly
be faith the Bible says about faith in
Hebrews chapter 11 you know this it says
faith is the substance of things hoped
for the problem is in the hope for faith
needs a problem in order to be faith are
you not ready for that faith needs a
deficit it needs something to believe
for or to believe in faith needs
something to be absent in order for it
to be itself faith needs trouble and
faith also has to be proven because you
don’t know that you have faith oh god I
feel it you don’t know that you have
faith and two it is tried and tested and
guess what it’s not even God testing
your faith to show you whether you have
it or not it is God allowing things to
happen to your faith to manifest what
faith really is are you tracking with me
and one of the things that I’ve learned
about God is that is that every new
dimension requires a trial of your faith
oh I feel holy spirit every new
dimension requires a trying of your
faith not a test from the perspective or
trying or test from the perspective of
pass or fail it is to manifest faith
that is worthy of and necessary for the
level that God has taken you to oh I
feel it see all you got to do is live a
little bit and you’ll recognize that
going from level to level and dimension
to dimension necessitates another level
of faith because the oxygen up there is
a little different on the next level you
want the next level not realizing that
you need the next in size you need next
level in size to even breathe on that
level
I love let me tell you what God does not
do God does not promote unworthy vessels
oh this is getting me uh you know you
can you can in the natural realm people
who don’t deserve to be in position can
be placed in position because of
favoritism because of family because of
finances because you you know it can
just you consume you scratch my back
I’ll scratch yours that is how the world
system works come on somebody casting
couch type stuff you follow what I’m
saying you just pick that up later all
right
you you do this for me and I’ll secure
you a promotion it doesn’t work like
that in the kingdom it doesn’t work like
that in the spirit God’s not gonna
promote you unless you are the real
thing on the inside God does not allow
for kissing up you can’t kiss God’s
booty into position you have got to be
the real thing you have got to endure
whatever God
to endure you’ve got to base something
in order to be promoted on the next
level are you tracking with me so so so
under I got to calm down because I feel
the Spirit of God so so so you have to
understand God’s process when God makes
you a promise right it says there that
we have we have this inheritance that is
incorruptible that is undefiled that
does not fade away
it says reserved in heaven that word
heaven literally means an elevated place
and so I’ve given you something and let
me teach today maybe I’ll preach later
but I want to teach you know I’ve given
you something that is extremely valuable
oh god the promises over your life are
not little cute little little popcorn
promises and Oh pink fairytale stuff and
cute little Disneyland promises no he’s
saying I’ve got an inheritance for you
that is incorruptible undefiled will not
fade away it is valuable it is worth
something I’m not playing with you I’m
God I’ve really set you up but here is
the thing it is too valuable for me to
bring it down to where you currently are
I will not demote the inheritance to
meet you where you are what I do is I
will allow situations and circumstances
that will develop you and qualify you
and make you worthy of what I’ve given
to you in other words when I bless you
hi it is to lift you high are you
tracking with me you’re not gonna be
able to slick your way in here you won’t
be able to bribe your way in here you
won’t be able to brown you well knows
your way into it you have got to be it
in order to receive it you’ve got to be
it in order to receive it you are feel
God and the process of being it is to
have your faith tested
I thought I had faith because as long as
God kept a hedge of protection around me
allowing me to sing hallelujah oh Jesus
is good but he’s only good because he
kept the hedge of protection around you
he didn’t have no financial trouble you
didn’t have any relationship trouble the
jobs were always flowing and that’s why
he was good and that’s why you praised
him oh I feel the Lord you’re good
because I’m happy
come on somebody you’ve been there he is
good how God you know and something some
wonderful happen to you in life and you
know oh praise God he’s so good let me
tell you how good he is and you started
naming off things that he has done as if
he were not good or would not be good
had he not done those things how many of
us know that I don’t care if God he can
stop right now and still be good in my
life for where I’ve come from and what
I’ve been doing where I could be I don’t
need another blessing you are good no
matter what you do you’re good you can
stop right now
and I would still say oh thanks unto the
Lord give thanks unto Him for he is good
are you tracking with me see see a lot
of us walk around with this fluffy faith
and we don’t know it we don’t know it
because it’s never been tested it’s
fluffy faith everything’s so pretty
I live in California I live in Colorado
the weather is so nice I see the four
seasons my home is happy my job is so
great I’ve got money everything that’s
wonderful I’ve got my health my six-pack
has come back all these things and we
think that we are in faith and that type
of faith is not living faith it’s
situational faith it is conditional
faith it’s not real faith now God knows
that real faith is in there and so what
he has to do is he has to begin to
target your faith oh I can’t wait to get
into this God has targeted your faith
because your faith is more valuable to
your life than you think
let’s look at a couple of things in that
text real quick look at it a couple
things and we go back to the text and in
particularly in in verse oh let’s look
at verse four and so he talks about this
he says we have an inheritance it’s
incorruptible its undefiled and it does
not fade away reserved in heaven for you
reserved in heaven that word heaven
literally means elevated place not like
this place that means elevate its it
elevate its elevated which means that
it’s yours now right
so this incorruptible inheritance is
undefiled it doesn’t fade away is
reserved in heaven for you but then look
at what it says it says who are kept by
the power of God who are kept by the
power of God through what oh oh wait
wait wait hold on I saw that I’m kept by
the power of God that makes me feel good
because if I’m kept by the power of God
I’m good I don’t have to do anything to
be kept Oh God I don’t have to do
anything to be sustained if I’m kept by
the power of God but there is a a little
little caveat in there it says I’m kept
by the power of God
through faith Oh Lord Jesus did see it
so so I’m kept by God’s power but God’s
power does not keep me without my faith
I feel it that’s why God is always going
to be targeting your faith because your
faith is what keeps you your faith is
what keeps you from utterly giving up it
is your faith and is always going to be
under God’s microscope oh I’m learning
this you gotta catch this point you
gotta catch it it’s always gonna be
under God’s microscope because your
faith is more valuable to you than you
know let’s keep reading look at it if we
skip down it says in verse 5 it says
we’re kept by the power of God through
faith for salvation ready to be revealed
in the last time it says an issue
greatly rejoice though now for a little
while if need be though now for
literally a season if need be if need be
in other words God has calculated your
times and your seasons and he knows when
to try your faith and what not to so
your faith will not always be under
trial but it will be under trial when
you are getting ready to experience the
next dimension because God has times and
seasons in his hands and he knows that
in order to get where you need to get in
a certain time in a certain season when
your moment of harvest comes harvest
comes he knows now that he needs to
begin to target your faith because only
according to your faith will it be unto
you remember Jesus said that so often
according to your faith according to
your faith be it unto you which means
that it cannot happen unto you unless
your faith agrees o Holy Spirit it
cannot happen unto you unless your faith
is Co measure it with the experience
that God wants to bring you into and you
think it’s your righteousness it’s your
faith faith produces righteousness and
so you’re working on trying to not do
this and to not do that and all that’s
wonderful right we walk in integrity
right that’s all wonderful but at the
end of the day he did not say according
to your righteousness be it unto you he
said according to your faith be it unto
you
and so God begins to in seasons where it
is time for your harvest he begins to
target your faith and it is not fun it
is not fun it is not fun because God has
an understanding that who you are as it
relates to him at your core is who you
are by faith oh Jesus Christ
in his eyes where you are most valuable
is in your faith look at it it says if
we keep going are we tracking okay it
says though now for a little while verse
6 if need be you have been grieved by
what you are calling various trials and
then he explains it he says that the
genuineness of your faith being much
more precious than gold that perishes
though it be tested by fire may be found
to praise honor and glory at the
revelation of Jesus Christ so he is
saying that the most valuable thing that
you have is your faith Oh hallelujah it
is more important than gold it is more
important that anything in life that you
can
mass in the eyes of God he is saying
your faith is it and it must be tested
and found worthy Oh hallelujah
that’s why I love this we can’t get
around God because God sees our heart he
knows how much faith we really have he
knows if we have faith on Sunday and the
moment we get out of this building our
life speaks to the fact that we are
trusting in ourselves or we’re trusting
in things and not trusting in him and so
when there’s a call in your life and
when you’re called and you’re chosen and
God is desiring to make a deposit on the
investment that he has in you the very
first thing that he is going to do
because it has to happen it needs to
happen if need be is he’s going to zero
in on your faith to determine whether or
not you have faith and God keeping you
from something or will you have faith
that even if something happened God
keeps you in it I hear this for somebody
the reason why you’re in it you think
it’s a devil and it ain’t is God and
you’re saying so you’re misinterpreting
the trial you’re thinking that the trial
is evidence that God is not is not with
you that God is not on your side if God
were on your side he would have put a
hedge of protection around me to keep me
from this pain that I’m feeling and God
is saying you don’t understand how I
work I am a faith developer yes I am a
faith builder because I understand that
you are going to need some faith and
here is the thing it’s not that you
don’t have faith your faith just has to
be purified Oh hallelujah your faith
just has to be purified how does God
begin to purify our faith he begins to
kill things that were trusting in that
we didn’t know that we were trusted in
until we are left at our core with
nothing but faith oh I feel it
Oh Jesus can’t take my time can I talk
to you like this see see there things
that surround our faith that needs that
need to be killed that we will not kill
Oh God there’s a passage in the Bible
that says blessed are those who mourn
blessed are those who mourn for they
shall be comforted it says blessed are
the mourners blessed all the mourners
think about what a mourner is mourners
typically are grieving something that
has died and one of the things that I’ve
learned is if you are really gonna be
all that God has called you to be you
are going to have to be a professional
mourner in other words you’re gonna have
to sign up to kill things that are
keeping you from your destiny are you
tracking with me you’re gonna have to
sign up for it Paul says I present I
beseech you by the mercies of God that
you will present your body a living
sacrifice that means that Paul is saying
that worship is all about bringing
something to the altar that needs to die
that’s keeping you from being everything
that God has called you to be blessed
are those who mourn God says for they
shall be comforted in other words in
order for me to be who I’ve got to be
I’ve got to be a professional mourner I
have to be willing to more today so I
can celebrate tomorrow are you tracking
with me but herein lies the problem we
do not want to kill what God wants to
kill are you gonna be quiet on me today
that’s good I hear you listening Denver
we we either see there are things that
we know we need to lay at the altar that
are standing between us and the Lord
there are things that we know but we
don’t have the sense of urgency about it
we don’t have the same sense of urgency
that God has and the reason why we don’t
have the same sense of urgency about it
that God has is because God is seeing
the big picture
and God understands times and seasons so
while we’re playing with something God
is saying if this doesn’t get out of
your life today
it is gonna ruin your destiny so since
you won’t do it voluntarily how much sin
Dutch I’m gonna send the trial your way
now I’m a sin to test your way since you
won’t kill it I’m gonna have to kill it
and that’s why it says now you are
grieved by various trials if need be in
other words if we don’t become
professional mourners if we don’t get so
desperate about our purpose in our
destiny and I’ll call it that we will
lay anything down at the altar that
stands in the way of it then God is
gonna come and he’s gonna begin to shake
things up because God has got an
investment in you he knew you before he
puts you in your mother’s womb and he
also understands the timing and so it
will feel like a grievous trial but it’s
really God developing your insides
removing the dross from the silver
removing the coal away from that which
will show up as gold otherwise and it
hurts and it doesn’t feel good but it’s
not unto death God is doing it and
you’ve got to embrace it because this is
the process to promotion I feel the Holy
Spirit faith is nothing without
opposition we are shocked
when our faith is put to the test we’re
shocked we can’t believe it something
strange just happened to me I actually
had to believe God some some mysterious
occurrence happened to me today I
experienced opposition in the area that
I was believing God in can you believe
it
and the purest faith recognizes that
this is par for the course faith in
itself in order to be faith has to have
its nemesis it has to have something to
manifest it Oh hallelujah and what some
of you are experiencing in the season
right now is that something to manifest
it and you become better let’s keep
reading coz there’s some good stuff in
here good stuff in this passage it’s
helping me it’s helping me I think
everyone at least once in their life
goes through a season where your faith
is placed on trial how do you even know
if your faith is ready for the next
level if it’s not tested the tricky
thing about the next level huh I’m
almost done I’m almost almost done the
tricky thing about the next level is you
know what’s in it but you don’t know
what it’s of I don’t want to say that I
said it differently you you could only
see what you want in it what you cannot
see or discern is the atmosphere of it
next levels I’m learning this in my own
life next levels and next dimensions
have lions tigers and bears that there
are issues and things that you must
fight on that level that did not even
exist in the level that you left and so
God is not a negligent or irresponsible
God who would put you on a level that
would crush you upon entry before first
developing you are you tracking with me
God does not promote prematurely that
their lions tigers and bears on the next
level and we get intoxicated by what we
think are the blessings not realizing
that God’s process is to prepare us I
feel the Lord man I’m trying I’m off
script and everything but I fill this
with somebody sometimes you don’t know
what you’re praying for and you’re
frustrated with God because instead of
God in your estimation answering your
prayers you are stuck on this level
fighting and you’re mad at God and
you’re like God wait you know I heard a
word man
you know PT you know impassive Serra man
and she said this you know and and I
knew was for me but why isn’t it
happening I don’t I don’t understand it
I’ve got the word it was my word I
confirmed its confirmation but I’m still
where I’m at and not only am I still
where I’m at I’m struggling where I’m at
and I hear God’s saying I need you to
struggle there to get your strength
there to fight and conquer and kill the
devils on that level and to become
something and when you become something
you already be in that next dimension
it’s gonna be like that family I’m
telling you today what you think today
what you think to whom much is given
you’re not ready for that to whom much
is given much is required and we want
the give me much ignorantly not
realizing the requirement of that
dimension are you tracking with me but
God knows God knows and God says look he
told Peter this this this is this
couldn’t sum it up he told Peter he said
Peter
he says Satan has asked me for you he
desires you Satan has asked me that if
he has permission to sift you like wheat
first of all just think about that for a
second
in order for our nemesis to do anything
to us he’s got to get permission oh come
on somebody ought to give a liberator
right there you think you’re fighting
the devil the devil this stop it before
he can do anything to God’s servants he
has to go to your father and ask your
father for permission to do it it was
the same thing in the book of Job study
it when you get a chance job went the
Satan went to God and said hey you know
I’m looking for somebody to to mess with
and God said have you considered my
servant job I need to upgrade his faith
and so I’m going to use you as my pawn
to do it because I’m going to take what
you meant for evil turn it around for
good and make him a giant in the faith
and give him 10 times later on what he
lost in the beginning but but so Satan
comes to Christ and he says and Christ
tells Peter about a conversation that he
had and the conversation went like this
it was it went like this it says say
his ass for you he’s asked for you that
he might sift you as wheat and I’m sure
Peter was very encouraged by that
conversation and Jesus said he says but
I prayed for you that your faith would
not fail
y’all got to read your Bible more that
your faith would not fail in other words
all you have to do is have the right
type of faith and you will be able to
fight and overcome every battle that you
face promotion as a process and that
process is going to always be zeroing in
on your faith because we cannot in our
own strength increase or enhance or
purify our faith we can’t do it wouldn’t
it be awesome and we just pray O Holy
Spirit please Jesus purify my faith it
doesn’t work that way what he has to do
is he has to put you in situations that
draw perfect faith to the surface are
you tracking with me and in the process
of that perfect faith being drawn to the
surface it kills things that choke out
our faith and oftentimes the things that
choke out our faith are things that we
are relying upon instead of God and so
he will attack those very things
that’s why finances get attacked
that’s why Finance get attacked a lot
raise your hand if you’re at a financial
attack oh the whole doggone room let me
see you Denver oh yeah why because we
trust in them okay I’m gonna give you
another one since we’re being so honest
in here
raise your hand if you’ve ever
experienced a relational attack Oh
why because we have the tendency to
trust in relationships all I need is you
baby all I need is youth as long as you
in my life baby you’re the Sun the moon
and the stars and as long as you are in
my life
I’m gonna be all right stop it that’s
only partially true I’m in love so I’m a
little soft towards that but you know
that but that’s only partially true so
these things that keep our faith in God
from being pure and powerful which they
have to be will always be under attack
God if you were for me you would have
put a hedge of protection around my
finances and God is saying no I need you
to trust me even when the finances get
attacked because I am your Jehovah Jireh
I will strip everything away from you
that you rely upon to get your faith to
manifest itself are you tracking with me
I got a star landing this plane I feel
it there’s some of you right now and you
think that God has betrayed you and I’m
trying to stop you think that God has
betrayed you he hasn’t betrayed you he
would betray you by not upgrading you
that would be betrayal if he allowed
your faith to stay at the level that
it’s on so that she would be unfit and
unqualified for the next dimension that
would be betrayal but he loves you too
much I feel that right there he loves
you too much so he’s walking you through
this desert he’s walking you through
this dark place
he’s walking you through this valley the
same way Jesus was on the cross Jesus
went through it too he went through too
on the cross he’s on the cross Jesus is
full of faith he had living faith he
that living hope but there is this
moment on the cross where Jesus says
something that’s crazy and it manifests
that even his faith had to go to another
level he’s on the cross and he says my
God my God
why have you forsaken me see he had to
get that out of him before he could be a
perfect sacrifice I wish somebody would
catch what I just said
that was deep down on the inside of him
it just needed a situation and a
circumstance to bring it out but you
know what he didn’t stay there he did
say my God my God why how thou forsaken
me but you know what he was raised up
saying all power in heaven and earth is
now in my hands are you tracking with me
so he had to get that out of him so that
he can say the real thing and even
before he died he said into your hands I
commit my spirit
God’s trying to squeeze some doubt out
of you that you didn’t even know what
was there that’s what’s happening he’s
trying to squeeze some doubters poison
to destiny I didn’t even know it was
there why does he put me in this
situation and how come he didn’t deliver
me because he wants you to be the type
of person that says I trust you and even
if you don’t deliver me things are still
gonna be okay
can I tell you a quick story before we
close I’m thinking about the three
little Hebrew boys and there’s a story
in the Book of Daniel where the King
Nebuchadnezzar put a decree out there
and the decree was any one that did not
bow down and worship this image that he
had set up would be thrown into a fiery
furnace so Nebuchadnezzar creates this
idol and he says anybody who does not
bow down to it is gonna be thrown into a
fiery furnace and put to death and that
thing was set up to try to manipulate
God’s people into a idolatrous worship
and so so the three little Hebrew boys
they were confronted they were put in
this difficult situation where they were
supposed to they were trying to
Nebuchadnezzar and his army was trying
to force them to bow down and worship
this Idol and they said something
beautiful they said Oh King
Nebuchadnezzar I know do you got this
fiery furnace and I know you big and bad
I know you’re all that but let me tell
you something he said
my god well first of all we’re not gonna
bow down and he said my God my God whom
I serve is able to deliver me from this
fiery furnace he says but even if he
doesn’t I will not worship you in other
words my faith is not fair whether faith
my faith is not in just the good times
my faith is even in the bad times even
if I have to go into that furnace I will
trust God to get me out of that furnace
and you know what they were thrown in
that furnace and guess what they weren’t
burned Jesus was right there in the
fiery furnace with them and brought them
out and they didn’t even have the smell
of smoke on their clothes what am I
saying God is trying to get you to a
place where your faith is not predicated
by circumstance where you look at faith
and you say God even if I have to go
through it as long as I know you’re with
me I’m gonna keep on believing I’m gonna
keep on trusting I’m gonna keep on going
through it because my faith is what
keeps me and I don’t want fickle
Fairweather faith I need the real thing
I neither a thing you know that that
that word that was translated kept I’m
so out of time that word that was
translated kept you know what it says
I’m kept by the power of God through
faith I looked up that word and that
word literally means it has the idea of
a guard being in an elevated place
elevated place and he’s in this elevated
place and he’s looking at the gates so
that word that says were kept by God
were kept through faith has the word
picture of a guard in an elevated place
looking out at the gates and that hit me
I thought about that that’s what real
faith does real faith is not taken by
present circumstances
taken back by present circumstances real
faith sits in an elevated place looking
with expectation for the coming of what
God promised it is not tossed to and fro
and I think there’s some people in this
room right now complacent on landing I
think there’s some people in this room
right now and what you need to do if you
kind of sense that that maybe your hope
went from living hope to hope or maybe
it went from living faith to faith where
you’re just kind of getting by and you
don’t have that fire like you used to
have I believe that first of all you’re
in a season like Peter is describing
where your faith is being tested not
tested to say pass or fail but test it
to produce what it must be and I believe
that God’s instruction for you in this
season right so now I understand the
season but what do I need to do I think
that God’s instruction for you is to
elevate yourself
above what’s going on and look at the
gates what are the gates the gates are
the promises that God has spoken to you
if God says that you’re gonna have
victory I need you to come up out of the
battle for a second and just set your
mind on the victory of God says that I’m
gonna heal you I need you to come up out
of the sickness and and get to an
elevated place and begin to look at the
gates because the king of glory
is gonna come in those gates with
healing and he’s gonna come in those
gates with victory if you have a final
financial situation that you need I
think you need to elevate yourself
because here’s what God says God says
weeping may endure for a night but joy
will come in the morning and I
understand that board more because I
used to think that the morning was when
the miracle showed up I used to think
that that the morning was when the
financial provision that gets me out of
my circumstances shows up I used to
think that morning represented when the
healing comes so when the healing comes
that’s when my joy is gonna come that’s
not what it means
you know when the morning
Holmes the morning comes when your faith
has elevated itself above the situation
and now by faith you are imagining what
God has promised are you tracking with
me see here it is in the text here it is
in the text at the very end of the text
look at what it says it says after it
says in verse 7 that the genuineness of
your faith being much more precious than
gold that perishes though it is tested
by fire may be found the praise and
honor and glory at the revelation of
Jesus washes it says whom you have not
seen you love and then it says though
now you do not see and that word him
interestingly enough that word him in
the text if you look at it in most
manuscripts that word him is italicized
and when you see a word in the Bible
that is italicized that means that the
author added that word to try to give
you context but it was added which means
that a better way to read this is whom
it says though you do not see though now
you do not see you got to take the him
out of there because it’s not there it
was put there to give you context it
works but not at this point it says
though now you do not see yet believing
you rejoice with joy inexpressible full
of glory receiving the end of your faith
fill Holy Spirit in other words even
though you do not see what you are
expecting by faith it says yet believing
yet believing go back put it there it go
back to verse right before that I want
you to see it whom you have not seen you
love though you do not see take the him
out though now you do not see yet
believing you rejoice with joy
inexpressible and full of glory
receiving the
end of your faith the salvation of your
souls did you get it
in other words morning does not come
because I saw the miracle morning comes
because I believe the miracle is on its
way
are you tracking with me and so that
means that joy is the evidence that your
faith has been promoted God’s gonna give
you your joy back I filled that for some
of you God’s gonna give you your joy
back he doesn’t have to give you the
miracle right now all he needs to do is
elevate you bring you to an elevated
place some of you I just feel this
because you’ve been stagnant I’m done
but you’ve been stagnated by this moment
because you’re misinterpreting the
moment and I hear God’s saying this is
just the test I need you to endured I
need you to say hallelujah anyhow I need
you to say god I praise you regardless I
honor you no matter what I celebrates
you and when you can celebrate God in
the difficulty your faith has been
promoted and once your faith has been
over fill God what your faith has been
promoted your life is gonna be promoted
life before he promotes your faith your
bank has to go further if you are here
and you say God give me some faith renew
my faith do whatever you gotta do on the
inside
oh come on
we’re about to get this come on I’m not
a Fairweather believer bring the trial I
know it’s not gonna kill me I like the
three little Hebrew boys you know what
my god is able to deliver me right now
but even if I have to go soon for
another six months
because it’s gonna be
my life
you’ll get stopped
work it out together
my
got promised me
let’s be its cover limit
in fact accosted by me
hi Stan
the kids are boring whoo
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you
and the cake
you’re bigger than it you’re bigger than
it you wouldn’t be in it unless you’re
bigger than it you’re bigger than it
you’re bigger tatted you’re bigger than
enough fill it you better than it
it’s that bigger than you you got a
fight you gotta get your fire back Peter
goes on to do incredible things for
Jesus he goes on because everything that
Jesus said he would do or be everything
he said he would do or be he became but
the heat but he had to get his faith
upgraded he had to get his faith
upgrading he had to get his faith
upgraded he couldn’t get there according
to your faith they couldn’t get there
and you will not lay you won’t lay it
down you have no way of increasing your
faith you don’t even know what’s in you
you don’t even know what’s in you let me
talk to you come here
you don’t even know what’s in you come
here come here you don’t even know
what’s in you you don’t even know what’s
in you you don’t even know what’s in you
Denver I want you to be praying for him
Denver stretch out your hands you don’t
even know what’s in you so God has to
send you through things to manifest
watch this what is not you so that what
is you can come forth you don’t even
know what’s in you and the only reason
why you’re here is because if need be
God is saying you’re close to harvest if
this is where you catch it you’re close
to harvest you’re close to harvest and
so what I’ve gotta do you think that I’m
afflicting you but I’m not afflicting
you I’m afflicting everything that’s not
you so that everything that is you can’t
come for so that you’ll be worthy of the
dimension that I’m bringing you into
somebody better get up here
Mercedes Mercedes
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you don’t even know what’s in you hold
on you don’t even know what’s in you
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don’t be mad at God don’t give up on God
he loves you he knows what he put in you
he knows what he put in you and there’s
only one way to get it out the testing
of your faith which is more precious
than gold we’re chasing gold we need to
be chasing real faith if need be it’s
not always gonna be like this if need be
when it’s necessary 4-dimensional
breakthrough if need be you grieve but
various trials that the genuineness of
your faith being much more valuable than
gold that perishes your inheritance is
incomparable and so are you and so
everything about you that is comparable
is put under the pressure
so that you and your inheritance are
equal a one you and your destiny
understand this I’m way past the target
understand this understand this hear
this please
it’s not about where God wants to take
you it’s about who he wants to take
there did you catch it it’s who he wants
to take there it’s who he sees when he
looks at you and he knows the only thing
that is keeping you from becoming what
he sees is where you are in your area of
faith faith has to do with eyes how you
see how you perceive how you think how
you move how you operate how you
function how you respond to things
that’s faith a great poet her name
escapes me but she said it’s better to
be born blind than without vision better
to be born blind without vision better
to be born blind with eyes of faith
Helen Keller thank you
your faith has everything to do with how
you perceive the world how you perceive
God how you perceive yourself it’s how
you connect to life that’s why he says
according in your faith if I see life a
certain way if I see myself a certain
way if I see God a certain way I am
limited either I’m limited or unlimited
by my capacity to perceive faith has to
do with how you perceive and how you
perceive makes a difference in how it
makes the difference in how you connect
to life I can’t go past what I believe I
can’t go past how I perceive but so God
says I know that I know that
so i’ma work on it and you’re not gonna
like it
and you’re gonna have to cry and you’re
gonna have to grieve but what you’re
grieving is how you thought it was
you’re grieving a lesser perspective are
you tracking to think you’re grieving
and lesser perspective Jesus had to
grieve a lesser identity in order to
become the one who has all power in
heaven and earth and his hands he is in
the garden he does not want to go he has
done all these wonderful things but he’s
getting ready to go into another
dimension and what does he say if it
were possible let this cup pass from me
let it pass if it were possible while
wait Jesus you’re talking like that yes
because even Jesus had to go to another
dimension
there was another level of grieving
there’s another level of death even he
had to go to it and then something
kicked in nevertheless not my will but
sure will be done he gained strength
it’s interesting because it says when he
was in that process he wasn’t wasn’t
just crying he was sweating blood that’s
death it was a death that took place in
the garden even before he got to the
cross something had to die right there
something had to die so that something
greater could live man I feel this for
some of you I want you to understand
what’s going on oh what’s getting ready
to go on there’s no escaping this if
you’re gonna be the real thing now if
you’re gonna be the one that ultimately
turns and walks away and doesn’t walk
with it I can’t do anything about that
I’d be a saddest thing ever but I think
you’re here because you’re that
generation that will be everything that
God put in you to be and then some and
you’re gonna do exceedingly abundantly
far above what you can ask for or
imagine in his name I want to pray for
you I want to pray for you love you
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I want to pray for you if you here and
you say Holy Spirit you were talking to
me I get it and I’m gonna embrace the
living faith again I just want you to
put your hand up I want to just pray for
you
father I thank you I thank you I see you
in Denver I thank you for all those who
have responded to your word you spoke to
them they heard you they’re your
children they don’t belong to anybody
but you you know them you love them
before you put them in their mother’s
womb you knew them father I pray that
you would seal this word in their heart
in their mind I pray that you would
brand it in their spirit branded in
their mind God and whenever they have a
moment where it just seems unbearable
that they will remember uh-huh
this is about the trying of my face this
is about manifesting the genuineness of
my faith I thank you that there is
significant greatness on their life and
you’re gonna do great things in them and
through them and for them and for their
children and for their children’s
children for a generation not yet born
because of their commitment God to your
process your process of promotion people
will be blessed long after they’re gone
let’s just pray God that your hand would
rest upon each one sealing this word and
their hearts in their minds in Jesus
name Amen amen if you receive that just
take a moment give God a praise
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you