Service Date: 02.10.19 11AM
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I’m gonna jump right into this word I
believe it’s it’s a timely message for
all of us I believe it’s gonna dig deep
and I believe it’s gonna restore
something that’s gonna give you strength
and joy and and faith and perhaps even
creativity and strategy to move forward
because God’s not finished with you do
me a favor just tell somebody God’s not
finished with you it’s not finished with
you it’s not finished with you I feel
that he’s not finished he’s not finished
it’s not over and in fact I believe it
just might be getting started for some
of you are you tracking with me it just
might be getting started it’s not
finished there’s more there’s more I
feel that I want somebody to sketch that
in their spirit you’re watching via live
stream just catch it in your spirit
there’s more there’s more there’s more
life is about an unfolding right life
doesn’t just happen life unfolds that’s
why we can’t give up before we grow up
you understand what I’m saying I can’t
give up before I grow up because because
things are still unfolding unfolding
there’s another dimension to me I feel
the presence of God there’s another
dimension to you right and sometimes
people won’t get that and they’ll count
you out and start you know downgrading
you and they still stop betting on you
but you just got to make sure you don’t
stop betting on yourself there’s another
fold I fill it there’s another fold
that’s coming and a whole another way
and a dimension I feel like there’s a
there’s a restoration there’s a renewal
and it’s coming and it’s awesome and
it’s gonna make sense and everything is
gonna add up because he causes all
things you’ll get it
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I like this place I like this place
right here I’m gonna read a couple of
passes of Scripture that I believe will
underscore the thought that I have for
today
today I want to talk about the power of
belief the power of belief and I know it
sounds simple but it’s it’s much deeper
than that to believe it’s powerful it’s
powerful but I want to I want to read
two passages of Scripture right off the
gate these are foundational scriptures
when you go home and you study you can
you can look at these passages again the
first one is in John one and we’ll read
the first three verses there and then
we’ll read verse 50 words 14 so one
through three and then we’ll skip to
verse 14 and then and these are
foundational and then we’re gonna read
Romans 12 and 3 John 1 says in the
beginning was the word and the Word was
with God and the Word was God
he the word was in the beginning with
God all things were made through him
through the word through the word and
without him without the word nothing was
made that was made in the beginning was
the word and the Word was with God and
the Word was God he was in the beginning
with God all things were made through
him and without him nothing was made
that was made all things were manifest
through him through the word it’s gonna
make sense in a second and without the
word nothing was made that was made in
the beginning was the word and then the
word started making things and
everything that was made was made
through the word right and then it says
if we jump down to verse 14 it says and
the word became flesh so what was said
became seen and the word became flesh
and dwelt among us and we beheld his
glory the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father full of grace and truth
I’m gonna break that down and then we’ll
go over to Romans 12 and three these are
foundational passages it says for I say
through the grace given to me to
everyone who’s among you not to think of
himself more highly than he ought to but
to think soberly as God has dealt to
each one a measure of faith so lord I
just thank you for this moment for this
gathering and thank you for your people
assembled here the people that are
watching via livestream the people that
will watch and I just thank you God that
that in this atmosphere you’re rich love
will be palpable and God you know every
personality you know every season you
know every situation you know every
individual in this room you know our
unique needs you know the needs that we
have that we can’t even articulate and
God I pray that in this service you
would reveal a solution to a problem we
didn’t know we had and edify us and
build us up god I pray that we wouldn’t
leave you the same but we leave here
sharpened and clear and focus with
strategy for living and great
breakthrough and god I thank you as your
servant in this moment but you would
give me the spirit of wisdom and
revelation and knowledge and prophecy
and insight and all of heavens treasures
and resources to communicate truths that
are empowering and enlightening to the
people you love the most
so I just thank you I’m yours and God as
we spend these few minutes together we
pray that at the end we will leave out
of here richer sharper where there was
confusion what may they be clarity when
there was weakness where that may they
be strength where there was doubt may
there be faith we love you we thank you
we claim it done in Jesus name Amen amen
amen
all right here we go so the first thing
I want to do is I want to there is a
truth hidden in his passage in Romans
chapter 12 and three that I really want
us to unpack and you would miss that
truth if you are focusing on the wrong
thing in this passage this passage
basically says you know not to think of
ourselves more highly than we ought to
think of ourselves and that God has
given to while he’s dealt to every man
the measure of faith and a lot of times
that passage of Scripture can be used to
promote this sort of sense of false
humility because if you read it and you
put the emphasis on the wrong things
you’ll be thinking that this passage is
telling you not to think more of
yourself than you should
and the emphasis really is that you
should think high of yourself that
didn’t sound very spiritual does it no
you actually should think high it’s
saying in fact the only reason why the
caution is there is because you actually
should think I have yourself just not
higher than you ought to and I want to
show you something about you that you
may not know in fact it’s in Psalm
chapter eight verse four we’ll look at
verse four and five but there’s
something about you you should know
about you I believe that God has been
trying to from the beginning of the
creation of humankind he’s been trying
to get us to understand who we really
are
identity and perspective about self is
everything because it determines how you
will enter into life how you would
engage life and how you will what you
will expect out of life but I want to
show you something that you know I
believe it’s truly a correction to be
honest with you but if we look at Psalm
eight I want you to check this verse out
I want to show you something and if you
were exposed to the the third night and
the revival service in Denver you
already know this but I want to show you
something that’s really important that’s
not what I want to show you but this is
what I want to show you it says what is
man that you are mindful of him and the
son of man that you visit him and then
it says for you have made him a next
verse it says for you have made him a
little lower than what yeah but that
that’s a problem because the Hebrew word
that was translated there does not mean
angel there’s another word the word
malach which means angels this word that
was used there is the word Elohim which
means God if you go back to Genesis it
says in the beginning Elohim created the
heavens and the earth and so so we got a
problem with this text that’s why you
have to always study the original
languages because it’s one thing to say
you have been made a little lower than
an angel which there’s all kind of
problems with that and I won’t even get
into but there’s another thing to
believe that you were made a little
lower than Elohim a little lower than
God himself in fact we were created in
God’s image we were the only beings with
the only things of his of God’s creation
that was created in his
and in his likeness we were not created
a little lower than angels in fact here
is the truth about angels angels are
supposed to serve you if you serve God
you got to catch that angels are a sign
that God’s purposes and plans and so if
your life is committed to God’s purposes
and plans then that means that angels
will work for you which means that they
are not that you’re not lower than them
this is not where I wanted to go but but
do you understand what I’m saying so
he’s saying that I made you a little
lower than me which means that you
should think high of yourself you should
not be self-deprecating and you should
you you’re supposed to think
in fact you should think so high of
yourself you should continue to ask
yourself the question Who am I really
like Who am I really like like really
like God when you saw me before you put
me in your mother’s womb what did you
really see God what are you seeing about
me
that I am yet to see are you tracking
with me because you were made not a
little low in angels you were made a
little lower than God that’s pretty
serious and it’s seen and it kind of
messes with your religion a little bit
because it’s always been about that you
know and and and it is about God but you
have to understand that to a certain
degree it’s about you and if you don’t
perceive that it’s about you and about
what God has placed on the inside of you
for God’s glory
then you will miss what God has for you
in life but the passage that that’s not
the exciting thing about that pass is
back in Romans chapter 12 and 3 the
exciting thing is the revelation about
what God has given to every person so he
says don’t think of yourself more highly
than you ought to how do you think more
highly of yourself than you ought to
it’s when you think that you were higher
than God or when you think that you and
God are equal that’s when you think more
highly of yourself than you ought to but
it’s also when you think more highly of
yourself than another human being that’s
why sexism and racism and every other
type of ism you can think of where one
person believed that they’re more
superior than another is one of the
greatest things you can ever do because
it is because even right there it says
God has given to everyone a measure
faith and that’s kind of what I want to
talk about today I want to talk about
what God has given to you that word
faith that was translated there is a
Hebrew word it’s a Hebrew word pistis
and it means believe and it has the the
sub thought of persuasion and so what
that means is is that God has given to
every person a belief he’s given you a
measure of belief God’s guarantee that
you will become everything that God has
created you to be
is this measure of belief that he’s
given you there’s some of you and you
have been believing something about
yourself for a long time and you don’t
even know when it started but there is
something in you that says I can do that
you don’t and typically you discover
that when you’re a kid right and you
just you it’s I can I can do that it’s a
gift from God it doesn’t even come from
you it’s something that God has dealt to
you it’s something that God has given to
you because it is the beginning let me
put it this way when God is purposing to
do something in your life he does not
give you the thing he gives you faith
that will produce the thing I’m gonna
teach it and I don’t mean he’s shouting
today okay it’s just gonna be I’m on his
teaching thing I don’t know I think I’m
there’s that okay you don’t mind like if
I but I want you to understand that the
way that God works God what he purpose
is to do something in your life he gives
you the seed of belief for it he gives
you a seed he deals you this measure
just enough to get you to believe
something that he desires for you let me
show you another passage go to
Philippians chapter 2 and verse 3 this
is beautiful look at this it says for it
is God who works
in you in you both to will that’s to
desire and to do that’s to accomplish
for who hit for his good pleasure
so God puts something in you that makes
you believe in desire and accomplish
what he expects from you so some of
these ideas that you think are your
ideas aren’t even your ideas they’re
ideas some of these dreams are not even
your dreams they’re God’s dreams there’s
these things that God has placed in you
that if you follow them and if you hold
on to that belief will allow you to look
like what God saw before he puts you in
your mother’s womb are you hearing me
let’s take our time here so Jeremiah one
and four and five you’ve seen this
before you know this before it says God
says before I formed you in the belly or
in your mother’s womb he says I knew you
I sanctified you that means I set you
apart and I our danger that means that I
haven’t our due for something and so you
are here because there is an idea in
God’s mind concerning the whole of your
life and so what God does as his
guarantee that you have an opportunity
to fulfill that desire and so you’re not
living this random existence as God
begins to put desire and he begins to
put faith in you and sometimes there’s
something in you that looks at something
and says I can do that you don’t know
where it came from you don’t know where
it started but there is this this
ability this innate belief on the inside
of you and you’re just crazy enough to
believe that you can do something
outrageous like change the world and you
think it’s your dream and you think it’s
your it started with you but it didn’t
it’s actually God but you will always
have to war for your belief because
there’s so many things like
discouragement and distraction and
disappointment that will war against the
most powerful thing you have and the
most powerful thing you have is belief
and by the time we’re finished today I
believe that God is gonna stir up your
belief in this house and in your heart
and and for what he has for you unlike
anything else because some of you you
just need to jumpstart your belief
because somehow you stopped believing so
God and that Philippians two and three
passage it says that it’s him working he
puts something in you to cause you to
think that you can to know that you can
I gotta just tell you like like like
this church is my testimony like this is
this church I don’t come from like
preachers like a long line of preachers
in fact I don’t I’m the first generation
passed their Minister speaker and my
whole orbit like I just you know I’m
first generation and I gotta tell you
like my background is business I built
data centers and computer rooms for
company that’s what I did like for a
living but God put this thing in my
heart and he and and this belief that he
put in me when I had nothing I had no I
had like like no materials I had no
building materials and God put this
belief in my heart that that through him
I could change people’s lives the same
way he changed my life I had no no
mentor can we just have a real
conversation where’s one I’m just tell
you true Fiat right we’ll get back to
this and saying I had no mentor I had no
like seminary experience I didn’t even
know I was barely going to church at all
it’s true
but God puts he put this like it wasn’t
just I think I can he put this belief in
me that said man I can totally do this
thing and now you know fast forward you
know 16 years later that was 2002 and
that happened and yes almost 17 years
later and thousands of people into
cities hundreds of thousands of people
online three books television show and
all these sort of things and guess what
what procured all those things was not
the right relationships it was not
mentorship it was one very very powerful
thing called belief are you tracking
with me like that’s what did it so so
God gave me this measure of faith that
gave me something and everybody in there
has something that God has dealt with
you sometimes it gets covered up
sometimes it gets suppressed by life but
it’s in you and I want you to find it
again because there’s something in it
and it’s powerful it’s it’s like like
destiny is a partnership with God it’s a
partnership with God and if you think
about any partnership whether it’s it’s
it’s in you know corporation or business
or whatever we think about a partnership
you have multiple parties that bring
something to the table and when they
bring what they bring to the table
that’s what makes the partnership rock
are you tracking with me so in life what
God brings to the table is one he brings
a word and he brings a word that he
gives you grace to believe anybody near
got a word you got something you’re here
because God has spoken something to you
and he gave you the grace to believe it
right so what God brings to the table is
he brings that word and in that word is
the grace to believe and then he also
brings the ability to manifest that word
that’s what God brings so God brings the
word he brings the grace for you to
believe and he brings the power to
produce that word what we bring to the
table is
Leif oh god help me will he doesn’t ask
for anything else you don’t have to
bring a million dollars to the table you
never bring five dollars of the table
what you bring is belief because belief
God knows that if you believe all you
got to do is believe that’s the seed and
if you believe long enough it’s gonna be
manifest let’s look at that John one
passage really quickly and this will I
think it’ll kind of bring it bring it
together that John one says in the
beginning was the word and it’s a Greek
word it’s the Greek word logos it means
things the things said so we’re not
talking about something that was written
we’re talking about something that was
spoken right in the beginning was the
logos in the beginning in the beginning
was the logos right but then later on it
says and the logos became flesh in other
words what was said became seen okay I
want you to understand the process of
the unfolding of destiny it always
starts with something sad and something
ultimately believed right so in the
beginning if you go back to the
beginning of anything even if you go
back to the beginning of you
there is something said that God causes
you to believe he has a way of getting
what is said to you sometimes it’s in a
sermon sometimes it’s through reading it
can be a sound it can be a thought to
you but God has to get to you what he
said so that you can believe it because
you’re part of the deal is to believe it
and when your belief and what he said
gets together you make an incredible
baby called destiny and you begin to be
profited by it are you tracking with me
let me show you something really quickly
real quick I’m a mix it all in to give
it and put it together and put a ball on
top and we’re gonna go home
okay go to Hebrews chapter 4 in verse 2
I want to show you something let me show
you something I’ll show you something
it’s very important and while we’re
going there just turn to somebody and
say you’ve got a word you’ve got a word
you’ve got a word you’ve got a word
you got to work so look at this check
this out this is deep it says for indeed
the gospel was preached to us all the
good news was preached to us all as well
as to them was preached to us as well as
to them but the word which they heard
did not profit them and it tells and
what not being mixed with faith and
those who heard it so he’s really
breaking down like like two groups of
peoples those who heard and those who
had faith you got to mix your faith
that’s what you bring to the table God
speaks you bring your faith to the table
and faith and belief is simply a
decision that’s all it is
it is simply deciding I am going to
believe what God says and when that
happens something happens on the inside
of you that belief for some of you there
is creativity to produce what God said
and you simply believing that he said it
mm-hmm all right so let’s go back to
John 1 so it says in the beginning was
the word so everything starts with a
word everything starts with a word God
does not give you things at their
potential he gives you things full of
potential so all of us start with a word
we start with something that God speaks
to us some sort of way and what he
speaks to us he causes us to believe in
that’s how it starts there’s no way
around it I wish I could tell you that
God will give you your life and just
slam them lay it in front of you and
it’s already said no he does not do that
he gives you your life in seed form and
seed form is the word it’s it’s what he
causes you to believe and as you hold on
to that seed and you mix your faith in
with that seed in the process of time
you will go from that thing said to that
thing seen in the beginning was the word
everything starts with the word
everything starts with a word you don’t
start with the thing you start with a
word and the word is the thing in seed
form are you tracking with are you
tracking with me and that’s why you
cannot say all I have is a word all I
have is a promise that is all you will
ever get you just hold on to that
promise and then the process of time
that seed will grow up and it will
become everything and even more than
what God God said I’ve got this quote
that I want to put up there about about
about what a word is about about the
word the word is the truth that God
causes us to believe I can’t that’s too
small I can’t see I’m just turn my back
on you for a second I still love you the
word is the truth that God causes us to
believe in seed form that if we hold to
it it will mature and be manifest in our
lives the word is the truth that God
causes us to believe in seed form that
if we hold to it it will mature and be
manifest in our lives the word is the
truth that God causes us to believe in a
seed form you got to pay attention to
what God causes you to believe I almost
want to come down and talk to you
I would if the camera wouldn’t be if it
wouldn’t the lighting and all that cuz I
would I would I might still do it but
I’m thinking about those who are
watching via live stream right now I
want to I want to sit down with you and
have a conversation with you and
high-five you and touch you and look you
in your eye and speak to you to you
believe the words that are coming out of
my mouth it’s in seed form your futures
in seed form right now and it’s growing
and if you will hold on to it it will be
absolutely incredible it is it’s it’s
why God dealt it every man a measure of
faith every man a measure of faith got
take my time take my time this is crazy
I shouldn’t even be here like no no no
background no pass I’m like no pastors
and my family like and I don’t know that
may have even been it no I won’t say
that I’ll say a good thing but sometimes
it’s better to not learning to have to
unlearn it’s just the way it works but
but no I I’m not telling you something
that I read it just hit me the other day
like God how did you do it and it’s
simple you because you believe me
because you never stopped believing even
even when your life looked nothing like
what he said here’s the thing
here’s the thing sometimes we we expect
too early sometimes we expect harvest in
seed season and we get discouraged you
know everybody says delayed and not
denied right and I understand kind of
what that means but that’s not really
true because it’s not delayed it’s just
that you had a timetable based on what
you thought or where you thought you
should be at a certain time so you
thought more highly of yourself and put
yourself in the stead of God and said
God by the time I was thirty I should
have this in that knitting by golly by
the time I’m 40 I should definitely have
that home I got fifty it’s not here
oh no no god no and what you fail to
realize is guess what what God wants to
do in your life is bigger than you when
God is what he’s doing in your life it’s
supposed to affect your children and
your children’s children and a
generation that’s not even born yet and
so you just look at at your little
timeline and saying me me me but you are
bigger than you their generations
assigned to you
you’re not even I’m gonna let you in on
something
you’re not even here for you you’re here
for a generation that’s not even born
you here for a generation that don’t
even know what it’s like to be human
that’s why you’re here and that’s why
God causes you to believe incredible
things most of the people even
biblically like most of the people
didn’t even come they didn’t even come
to their greatness until they were in
their 80s don’t get discouraged
don’t get discouraged you were like yeah
and I think it’s there as a principle as
a principle to us and they didn’t get
this little cute little blessing Abraham
didn’t get like a cute little blessing
right house and he’ll is in the new car
like that’s a cute little blessing what
God has for you is so much bigger than
that it can’t even what God has for you
can’t even be fit in the lifetime of you
so it takes time to cultivate and to
develop your your name God desires to
live on long after you’re gone your life
is supposed to be an echo it just echoes
and echoes and echoes and echoes and
echoes and echoes and echoes you’ll be
in heaven and people will still be
talking about what you did and who you
are and your great great great great
grand children will be blessed because
of you that’s what the Bible says a good
man leaves an inheritance for his
children’s children now that type of
miracle takes time it takes time it
takes time family for you to live in
such a way that you leave an inheritance
for your children’s children and I’m not
just talking about finances I’m talking
about the essence of who you are the
spirit of who you are the integrity of
who you are the faith of who you are the
Revolutionists that you are I’m talking
about that you want to give that because
if you give money and you don’t give
that the money will be gone it takes
time to become you it takes time to
become you and it seems like the
majority of the time is you discovering
who you’re not
kind of seems like that’s why it takes
so long because you spend 80 percent of
the time not discovering who you are but
discovering who you ain’t I’ve learned
I’ve learned I’ve learned that that life
people think like the more you grow in
God and the more you experience God that
your life gets broader and bigger no it
doesn’t it’s actually the opposite your
life gets more defined and more
fine-tuned and there’s some stuff you
have zero time nor tolerance for the
more see the more that you become you
the less things you entertain because
you are on a mission and if it’s not who
I am
authentically it cannot be in my
universe because my greatness is in my
distinction it’s not in my randomness
it’s in my distinction I feel God I feel
God yeah
when you get with God you become more
streamlined Wow
you know who you’re not anymore and you
love everybody you’re never better than
anybody but you don’t you can’t rock
with everybody because because because
there’s a rhythm to my life and and if
you’re not in the same rhythm and not in
the same pace then how can we walk
together and let you agree and I love
you and I know you’ve got a rhythm and
I’m not even saying that my rhythm is
better than yours I’m just saying that
we can’t do this together and that’s
okay you’re not better than me I’m not
better than you but I’m on my way to
something because my steps are being
ordered there is a rhythm and the
cadence to my success and my greatness
and my breakthrough and I can’t have a
whole bunch of people around me unless
they’ve got my rhythm unless they’ve got
my rhythm unless they’ve got my rhythm
and it takes time I feel the Holy Spirit
it takes time to find your rhythm it
takes a minute right sometimes you get
tripped up right it takes a minute to
learn it but once you find your rhythm
once you find your stride once you find
yourself once you find who God created
you to be
it becomes crazy and then you start
running without tripping restoration is
coming I feel this for some of you when
you get your rhythm there’s gonna be an
acceleration see you thought it took a
long time no you were just getting your
rhythm you were just getting your step
but when God gives you your step and
your rhythm you go from walking to
running – flying – flying – flying –
flying it’s not supposed to happen right
now you don’t have your rhythm your
heads you still step it over your feet
or stepping on other people’s feet you
don’t have your rhythm yet let God do
his work and what you do in the meantime
is you keep on believing there’s a
reason why it’s taking longer than you
think it’s a reason why he doesn’t pray
he doesn’t answer prayers overnight
sometimes sometimes the miracle is in
the wait season in between your prayer
requests and the manifestation sometimes
the miracle is in between the logos and
the manifestation are you tracking with
me I’m becoming something I’m becoming
don’t give it to me now because I’ll
messed it up God I’m becoming something
I’m becoming something I’m becoming
something I’ve got to keep believing
you’re gonna see what he said you’re
gonna see what he said you got to
believe you got to measure faith God
gave it to you Wow
you don’t even know who you are yet you
don’t even know who you are here you
have no idea what’s on the inside of you
I’ve got to get my belief together
because my belief is the channel by
which my greatness comes out I’ve got to
give my belief together I’ve got to give
my belief together and there’s so many
things in your head and there are so
many things that comes at you and a lot
of times you’re you’re comparing your
greatness with your idea of someone
else’s says I dealt to every man in
measure faith in other words I gave
everybody something and sometimes the
things that keeps me from my thing is
looking at somebody else’s thing come on
somebody on Grammy Sunday uh-huh why
didn’t I get mine I’m looking again what
is it gonna happen for me if you would
stop looking at the next person thing
and begin to work what God has placed on
the inside of you you’re gonna go to
another look I feel God you know what I
feel today I feel up great see you’re
looking at somebody else’s greatness and
what if you’re looking to small what if
you’re looking to small because because
what if what if God is doing something
so radical with me that it’s gonna take
time to cultivate it’s gonna take highs
and lows and ups and downs and
disappointments but when I hit my stride
just turning a verse and your stride is
coming your your stride is coming your
stride is coming your stride is coming
your stride is coming it’s coming it’s
coming your stride is coming it’s coming
I promise you is coming your stride is
coming your stride is coming your stride
I’m standing in it right now
your stride is coming and it’s not gonna
be too late it’s gonna be right on time
there’s another unfolding that’s getting
ready to happen in your life
a door is getting ready to open for you
that radical changes everything about
your life it’s coming it’s coming had it
come in to hype you up I came here to
tell you the truth it’s coming it’s
coming your belief has power
that’s why everything comes against your
belief because your belief has power how
is it gonna happen it’s gonna happen by
your faith that’s how it’s gonna happen
and let me tell you what belief says
believe doesn’t say man I think I can do
it
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belief doesn’t say I think I can do
that’s not belief that’s not the measure
of faith that God gave you
belief doesn’t say man I probably can do
I think I can get it I think if I didn’t
you do your calculations like that but
the bill didn’t I could no belief
doesn’t do that belief says God caused
me to believe it and God cannot lie
therefore it’s mine I can do
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you got to get this I won’t stop talking
until you get this you got to get this
you got to get this you got to get this
its power and belief and what happens is
we all have an analyst inside of us
right it’s part of what makes us like
God we have the the cognitive ability to
figure things out and to think and it’s
wonderful thinking is a blessing and a
curse
so blessing and a curse it is a blessing
for obvious reasons right you think you
can come up with a strategy you can way
you can process that’s wonderful but
then sometimes even like when a computer
is thinking it’s buffering it gets
overloaded with thinking and they can’t
function and it slows down and sometimes
it buffers for so long that it does
nothing it spins out of control and you
have to shut it down completely and
reset it and cause it to start from
scratch and sometimes we overthink
things sometimes we allow overthinking
to rob us of the gift of belief belief
is a gift it is a gift it is a gift that
is a gift and the beautiful thing about
the measure faith that God gives is the
measure of faith that God gives is based
on something that God said which means
that it is credible which means that you
don’t have to do your due diligence you
understand what I’m saying there’s some
some things and many deals I will never
do unless I do my due diligence and
that’s because I’m trying to figure out
whether or not it’s God but when God
speaks to you and he gives you a word
there is no due diligence neither who
what are you gonna go God let me see
your credentials Lord Allah what was the
last time you created something I mean
you know it’s so it saves you the
trouble of buffering saves you the time
in the trouble and the energy and the
effort of buffering trying to figure out
whether or not you believe what God said
saves you that and you make a decision
mana fill it that’s where we’re gonna
land today and you make a decision god I
believe I feel that I got us get this
out for some of you your joy your
creativity and some of you have been
experiencing creative blocks creative
blocks like stuck and you’re almost like
what’s next
and your joy and a resurgence of
creativity that is beyond you is going
to be unleashed
restored and renewed by you simply
making the decision to believe what God
said get this we’re gonna get this
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because until you believe your
creativity is working against you
because you’re using creativity to try
to to validate the credibility of the
word when you believe the creativity is
released now to produce the word you
understand what I’m saying
it is simple family people make faith
like hard but you got just give me some
more food I need some faith like like
like that’s outside of your control no
belief is a gift from God that’s in your
control and you can literally turn on
the switch and choose to believe and it
recolors your universe with the
possibilities not how impossible it is
and when you believe you recognize that
what God has shown you and sometimes
it’s not this this voice that comes from
heaven sometimes it’s it’s it’s just a
knowing there is a in the scriptures
there is this this word as Greek word
that literally means an organ of
perception and it’s only in the Bible
one time and it speaks to how the same
God who created the ear to hear audibly
in the eye to see visibly and the tongue
to taste why would he cause you to be a
spiritual being that he would know that
God would know that you would have to
engage him why would he not give you
something a spiritual organ that will
allow you to perceive what he’s saying
to you you’ve got an organ of perception
so God has a way of getting to you truth
it’s God who works in you in you he’s
got a way of getting true to you that if
you make the decision to believe
it will open up everything everything
that the instruction the word so it says
in the beginning was the word and the
Word was with God in the Word was God
and everything that was made was made by
that word and then that word became
flesh and it dwelt among us there’s so
much there
there’s so much there it started with
the word and everything that would be
created would be created by this word by
this this communication that God somehow
gets to us and then he gives us a
measure of faith so that we can believe
in that communication it says that
everything that was created was created
by that word and then that word became
flesh well and then the word became
flesh so so the manifestation of the
word was not the creation of the word
the partnership between the word and
your belief was the creation of the word
and that creation is what created
manifestation okay when this when is it
really manifest is it manifest when I
see it or is it manifest at the point of
conception the point of conception is
when my belief engages and encounters
what he said and that’s why if we look
back at Hebrews chapter 4 in verse 2 it
says the word not profiting some not
being mixed with faith it’s almost like
an egg I am NOT a biologist I’m not a
doctor I feel somewhat unqualified but
let’s see if we can get the analogy
that’s why the egg without the sperm to
engage it cannot produce a baby all of
the ingredients were nearby
but what creates the baby is when the
sperm and egg hook up and when they hook
up then something can be produced even
though it takes the process of time for
the baby to be born are you tracking
with me
so so manifestation really shouldn’t be
when you are most excited because why
would you be excited about something you
expected why would you be well what that
means that you didn’t really expect it
right I want God to move in your life in
such a way where a manifestation comes
he like yep I knew it what’s next what’s
next and it’s as simple as a decision
that’s it one of my kids my second to
the youngest daughter she’s amazing
she’s beautiful and and we’re working on
her words right now you know because
she’s just got this you should get in
these moments she’ll have these moments
she’s not watching this and she’ll never
watch this and by the time she watches
she’d be old enough to not be mad at me
for saying it so we’re cool but she just
should get in these moments where she’s
just she’s just talking so negative and
it’s like and you can’t talk her up you
can’t talk her up she’s just like dad
but you don’t understand it and it
should go and should just be like and
I’m like and I’m there and I’m like baby
no this is the truth and she’s like no
but Dad and always this and then and
then and then they’re like and it’s just
in its crate and it’s frustrating after
a while I get it
you know I like hey write down the truth
you know meditate on the true study the
truth or whatever but it’s frustrating I
think we’re like that too but there’s
some in this room right now and God is
telling you that he’s not finished with
you and God is telling you that the best
is still yet to come and God is telling
you that it’s going to happen and it’s
God speaking of you because it’s hitting
you in a place that only God can touch
you
transcends what a human being would a
man stand on the stage can say because
it’s hitting you in a place and and for
some of you I see it you’re like and and
this is the only reason why I’m
describing it is because we’re gonna
break through it but you’re like your
heart is like it needs to be thawed your
heart has become so hard because of
disbelief and sometimes even you put
yourself out there and you have faith in
and something happens it doesn’t turn
out the way you want it to turn out and
you’re disappointed and you are now a
protector of your heart anymore you
don’t want to put your heart out there
anymore and I get it and I know how that
is and I’ve been there before but you
have to understand that that it’s not
God’s fault if you thought it would be
this way which was a way that was
different from what God saw it’s not his
fault he’s empathetic he’s not even
different to how you feel it’s not that
but it’s not his fault Lord I thought
there’s so many things in my life man we
got to stop but there’s so many things
in my life that I thought would look
different and and I’ve had moments where
I’m like god this doesn’t look like what
I envisioned you said would be mine and
I had like 2013 was a year like that for
me with that whole year I was like God
just be transparent just for a second
like the whole year of 2013 I was just
like I was I was just I was in shock
because I couldn’t understand how this
season that season 2013 season could
play out in the plan that God had caused
me to believe Lord if this if this is my
future if this is my destiny if this is
what you’ve called me to do then how can
this show up anybody no one’s talking
about like how wait this is not this
doesn’t add up but then I learned that
that sometimes we don’t understand God’s
mathematics because his mathematics are
not straightforward like ours it’s not
2+2
you know equals 4 it’s not 2 times 4
equals 8 sometimes God uses a little bit
of division a little bit of subtraction
a little bit of square root here he does
all this
these things that are beyond you and you
ultimately get to the same result that
he promised to prove to you that he’s
God sometimes God is factoring in things
that you would never even know to factor
and that’s why you gotta believe and
that’s why you got to continue to
believe and you got to hold on to
believe it so my prayer as we cease
today my prayer is that if you’re here
and maybe God is highlighting the fact
that you you’ve got to resurrect your
belief and I don’t know in what or for
what and it could be your belief in God
in general but I believe today is about
a resurrection of faith bringing your
faith back to the forefront you know how
you know it’s good you have joy again
God doesn’t even promise you bad stuff
I’ve got this wonderful curse for you
that’s not God he says for I know the
plans I have for you plans to prosper
you and not to harm you to give you a
future and a hope and when you’re living
in the belief of that reality when
you’re living in the belief of that
reality the evidence is joy because
you’ve received it you’ve received that
you received it you just know okay god I
don’t like it I don’t like the season I
don’t like where I’ve been but what I do
like is what you said because it is
impossible for you to lie which means it
is impossible for this thing not to come
to pass and if you’re here and you’ve
been struggling with believing and
you’ve been struggling with doubt and
you want to lay the doubt and the
disbelief here at the altar you want to
give it to God so that you can operate
and function in the joy and in the power
of believing again I want you to come
and meet me at this altar I want to pray
for you this is real your belief
is going to purchase is going to create
what he has caused you to hope for your
belief is gonna create what he caused
you to hope for I just got to be
obedient I know it’s been rough come
here I know it’s been rough Lord’s just
highlighting you the entire service I
know it’s been rough but I hate guys
saying I got you and I won’t put more on
you than you can bear
I got you and you were supposed to hear
this message and I want you to surrender
your disappointment I want you to
surrender your discouragement I want you
to surrender your anger I want you to
surrender it all and trust me again
don’t give up on me I haven’t given up
on you says God don’t give up on me cast
not away your confidence don’t throw it
away I got you and I’m gonna turn your
weeping into joy and I’m gonna turn your
mourning into dancing
and the season that you had to walk
through cannot compare to the miracle
that I’ll bring you into that was me in
2013 I had no idea got how can you make
something good come out of this thing
that’s so painful and when I tell you he
did just that and then some he really
did all things will work together for
good for those who love God and the
called according to his purpose belief
was something that was attacked in the
very beginning of the human experience
did God really say he went after belief
I can’t produce if I do not believe I
can’t produce I can’t even attract the
materials that God has assigned to me to
produce what he said if I don’t believe
there are things that God has already
placed out into the universe that are
the raw materials to manifest what he
has caused you to hope in it’s already
there but it cannot be attracted to a
fearful or doubting spirit your belief
will be the magnet that attracts
everything that God has placed out there
to you including people including people
you got to believe
you can’t go into a meeting and not
believe your own idea
you can’t sell an idea you don’t believe
it
it’s the same in the spiritual nothing
will move toward you until you make the
decision to believe what God said to you
nothing will move to index for some of
you’re gonna see this
you’re gonna simply make a decision and
you’re gonna put to death all the doubt
and all the worry and all you’re gonna
put that all the fear and all the
back-and-forth you’re gonna put that to
death and it’s almost like you’re gonna
be living in a different world
and you’re gonna get more yeses in this
season than you’ve ever had in your life
and more doors are gonna open because
you believed I’m thinking about when
Jesus said ask and you shall receive
seek and you shall find knock and it
shall be opened unto you and I’m looking
at that passage a little differently now
because I think that what Jesus is
describing is the attitude and the
operation of the person that believes
the person that believe asks and then
they already received because they
realize right they understand it that
they’re asking in faith and so they
receive it but but it causes them to do
something they start seeking so I can
tell if you believe it if you start
looking for what you believe is yours if
you’re just sitting at the house come on
somebody or at the club or whatever like
you know no no you start looking for it
that’s faith that’s a person who
believes Lord I prayed I know it’s
coming so I don’t just pray and start
worrying again I pray and I start
looking for that thing to come in my
direction and then there’s even another
level that says ask me you shall receive
seek and you shall find and then it says
knock and it shall be opened
knocking is another level it’s one thing
to seek but sometimes it takes another
level of belief to believe that you have
found what you’ve been seeking for
and that sometimes you finding what you
have been seeking for is not enough you
got to believe so so tenaciously that
it’s yours that you start knocking when
I feel that for some of you you you you
you asked you sought but you haven’t
been knocking you knocked one time and
then walked away I hear God’s saying go
back to that door with belief that that
thing is yours and start knocking on it
until that door opens for you because
God opens doors that no man can shut and
he shuts doors that no man can open when
you know that you know that you know
that’s for you you keep knocking and you
don’t stop knocking until that door
opens for you it opens for your family
it opens for your future keep knocking
keep knocking if God spoke it last time
say God how you use belief he values it
in his dealings with Abraham it wasn’t
that Abraham was perfect at all you know
what God blessed Abraham you believed he
accounted belief for righteousness in
that’s something he’s like you want to
move me believe me all you’ve got to do
is believe me because if you believe me
then I can release to you everything
that you need in order for the promise
to be manifest our only job in this
thing is to believe what instruction so
what we’re gonna do now is we’re gonna
let go of disbelief I’m gonna pray that
some of the things that God calls you to
believe even as a child is there when
your child is young you have an
experience heartbreak and disappointment
all that kind of stuff you’re fresh when
you’re a child
and sometimes the dream is a dream from
child I fill this for somebody it’s a
childhood dream and you thought it was
just Alice in Wonderland but it was God
putting something in your spirit at an
early age about who you are and who you
can be and and somewhere throughout the
process of life and the process of
dealing with people and spirits and
things and heartbreak and just the
realities of the vicissitudes of life it
got taken from you today I wanted to
come back because not even dificulty not
even tribulation not even destruction
that even disaster can disqualify or
void out the word that got put in there
what he did the measure faith that he
dealt to you is stronger than anything
that you will face on your way to its
manifestation are you tracking with me
it’s stronger than that so I want to
pray and I believe that that belief will
push that out I believe if I can get
back to the belief if I can get back to
that if I can get back to that place to
that moment where God gave it to me and
I believed in God if I can get back
there everything else will be squared
away because faith is stronger than
doubt it’s stronger than doubt the
measure of faith I think that’s why God
gave it to you it’s like I’m gonna give
you this measure doesn’t have to be big
I’m gonna give you this little measure
because if you can ever find that place
if you can ever find that place you’re
gonna find joy and you’re gonna find
strength I fill it and you’re gonna
rebound
there’s somebody in here I just hear
God’s saying you’re coming back you’re
coming back there’s a comeback in you
so come back in you how do I know you’re
still here you’re still here
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if that should come closer come closer
that should come closer
so sometimes disbelief has you buffering
and you’re just still and you’re
stagnant and you’re you’re debilitating
but if the Holy Spirit is it’s touching
that that measure faith I dare you to
trust it and just get up and say you’re
talking to me and I I’m gonna come down
and get all of of what you’re saying I
want you to get this I want this so bad
for you because it’s just that simple
the only thing I did the only thing I
did was believe God I promise you that’s
the only thing I did that’s the only
thing I did know hocus-pocus or tricks
no shenanigans just belief just belief
that stood the test of time and God’s
not finished with me I’m just getting
started I learned I learned early on and
I want this for you so bad all right I’m
past the time but I just love you I want
you to get this because this will be
your weapon when you leave out of here
when you attempted to be discouraged
when you attempted to compare yourself
to others and think that you’re missing
out when you’re tempted to do that that
belief is going to kick in and you’re
going to get excited all over again
and you’re gonna get creative again and
you’re gonna dream again yeah you know
what I’m saying
and you’re gonna take that meeting again
and you’re gonna get back on the horse
again and you’re gonna get back in the
ring again
and you’re gonna fight again and this
time you’re gonna win and you’re gonna
win very very big that’s why I’m not
rushing it it’s just a decision god I
believe you I’m gonna hold on to the
measured faith you gave me because my
whole life is in it my whole life is in
it and it’s still unfolding and it’s
still unfolding what you said is gonna
be seen and then it gets better remember
it says it says and the word became
flesh and then it says and it dwells
among us what does that mean
that it’s not gonna be this flash of
breakthrough when God does what he
intends to do in your life not only is
it gonna be manifest but it’s gonna
dwell it’s gonna stay in your house and
your family it’s gonna remain a part of
your store a part of your story forever
that’s why you got to keep believing and
it’s got that’s why you got to wait for
it because it’s bigger than you think
it’s beyond you it’s beyond you it’s
bigger than you it’s through you and
it’s beyond you it’s the type of
blessing I’m done it’s the type of
blessing where you get old and you go to
sleep in peace because you know that
what God did in you does not end with
you you tracking with me that’s what you
want I know we’re young but you got to
think long term
it’s time for you to go and transition
to glory you’re good it’s good with you
because what God accomplished in my life
man mission accomplished
my life will speak long after I’m gone
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that’s what God is cooking up in you
before our light affliction is which are
but for a moment are working a far
greater weight of glory man I could talk
to you all day but the one o’clock crowd
will kill me so let’s pray father thank
you so much for these moments that we’ve
had with you I thank you for every
person here I thank you that you are
restoring and renewing their belief yes
you are and God every circumstance and
situation that created disbelief I pray
Lord God that you would heal it in such
a way in fact can you begin the process
of healing through resurrecting the
measure of faith that you’ve given them
cause them to believe again and be so
excited and so filled with joy about
that which is inevitable because you
spoke it that it would drown away the
tears of sorrow discouragement and
disappointment for they will have the
consciousness that all things even the
painful things will somehow work
together for good because we are the
called according to your purpose father
today may a decision be made at this
altar the decision that counts you
faithful and that counts you worthy of
our absolute
trust our absolute trust Lord that we
would hold on to what you’ve caused us
to believe some of us are in the city
because you caused us to believe that we
could and we shall
and so God renew our hope renew our
strength renew our faith renew our
belief we release the pain we release
the disappointment we release the
discouragement we release the doubt none
of those things can profit us any way so
we release it here at the altar it is
completely unprofitable we eject it from
our spirits and we make the decision
today to believe you and God I thank you
that as we do chains will break that as
we do joy will return that as we do will
feel closer and closer and closer to
manifestation time and God I thank you
that you’re not just going to manifest
what you promised but that promise is
gonna come and live with us forever and
become our new normal as a sign that you
are faithful to your word I just want
you to repeat after me Heavenly Father I
feel your love I receive it Heavenly
Father I thank you for this word it
spoke to me
I receive it I thank you for Jesus thank
you for making him who had no sin all of
mine all of my limitations all of my
shortcomings you placed in his body
nailed it to the cross and once and for
all put it to death but I’m glad you
raised him up free and victorious
because since I’m in him
I’m raised up to no more shackles no
more chains and all of your promises are
yes and amen
in Christ and whom I serve now today I
choose to believe the word that you’ve
spoken since you cannot lie it is
impossible for it to not be manifest I
thank you for that my new reality is
that I will see what you said and I
thank you for strength while I’m waiting
so restore my joy and give me strength
this is a new day and this is a new me
and I will have and do everything you
said thank you God in Jesus name Amen
amen come right in with me
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celebrating
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you