Expecting from God – Contending for the Faith
Expecting from God – Contending for the Faith
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Dear Lord,
Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..
Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….
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So says by his here, see, it looks like I’m gonna be here cause that’s a lie that you have been healed and faith calls it down from the eternal.
Watch this and enforces it into your life.
Well, hello, Bill Winston here and welcome to the believers walk of faith where we walk by faith and not by sight.
Well, today’s teaching is a powerful teaching. It’s talking about faith and walking by faith.
Now, when you walk by faith, you’re basically walking by something, you cannot see something that’s invisible.
Now, you can’t prove it with your feeling or touch or taste or you can’t physically see it.
It, as a matter of fact, it can’t even be proven with your mind, but it is true and it’s a substance of things hoped for.
The evidence of things not seen. Praise God. Let’s get into it. We’re gonna tell you more about that.
It’s called contend for the faith.
Every one of us who’s given according to Romans 12 3, the same measure of faith and Saint in God is what moves God.
There’s so much to say, you know, you, you know why sometimes taking so long, somebody asked that online, I think last night or whenever.
But sometimes it takes a long time because of these two scriptures.
Put up their psalm chapter chapter 62 verse five.
He says, my soul, wait thou, what only upon God for my expectation is what from Him?
See, when your expectation is not from God, you end up in frustration.
See you, they’re looking at people leaning on, people, watch so forth. You’re expecting not from God.
You, you, you go in, in Genesis chapter 40 and you’ll see Joseph was down there in jail and two people got thrown down there with him and he, they had dreams and he prophesized and said, one of you are going back to the king and you’re gonna get your old job back.
The other one is gonna get his head cut off so forth.
And so he told the one that was going back to the king.
He said, tell the king I’m down here.
The bow says distinctly, he stayed down there two more years.
See, you can’t go to City Hall and think you know somebody at city Hall and get it.
God is not gonna share His glory. His expectation is only from Him.
Go to Jeremiah chapter chapter 17, please. I’m telling you, it’s so many of God’s people trying to know somebody.
God don’t want you to know nobody but Him. That’s who we want you to know.
Jeremiahs 17 5. And look what he says.
Thus says the Lord curse be the man that trusts in man and makes flesh, his arm whose heart departs from the Lord.
What’s this for?
He shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good comes but shall inhabit the parts places in the wilderness in a salt land and not inhabit it.
Bless be the man that what trust in the Lord with what all your heart.
He He didn’t put it in there.
But I’m just telling you and whose hope the Lord is keep going for?
He shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spread out her fruits by the rivers and shall not see when he come but her leafs shall be green, glory to God and shall not be careful in the year of drought.
The only way you’re gonna know it’s a drought.
You read it in the newspaper near the shall cease from yielding fruit.
I don’t care what happened with the economy around you in your city. You’re gonna bear fruit.
You’re gonna Romans 10 verse 11 for the scripture says, whosoever believeth on who Him shall not be ashamed.
Let’s try it and know what, what did we try New, new living as the scripture tells us anyone who trust in Him will never be what do you trust in it now?
Sometimes that’s why it takes so long for things to happen because God’s got to get, he’s got to wait till we stop putting a spank on your cousin and everybody else trying to get something out of them and wait until he becomes your only source and supplier.
So he just had to wait. Why? Because his word is out there. You can’t violate his word.
All right, you with me.
You can see where are you going before you get there?
Oh boy, no, I know this is, this is tough on you right here.
But look at Genesis, look at John John chapter 16 in verse uh 13.
Let’s start there. How be it when he the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all what truth for you shall not speak of himself.
But whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will show you what he’ll show you things to come.
Why? Because everything God is going to do for you, you gotta help me with this.
He has already done now. Why?
Why do I need to tell you that? Because that’s your time. Peace.
See in the the in, in the spirit, when you’re dealing with faith, you are dealing with the invisible, you are dealing on a level called the eternal and on the eternal.
It says in second Peter chapter three and verse eight, but beloved be not ignorant.
Of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as 1000 years. And what else?
1000 years as one day.
Now, I look back in Genesis, come back there with me in chapter five.
And you’ll see in verse 21 Enoch lived 60 and five years and begot Methuselah and Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah 300 years and begot sons and daughters.
And all the days of Enoch were 365 years.
And Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him.
Now, Enoch is one of the few that God took and you know, you go to funerals and how, how’s he doing?
Well? Yet the Lord took him well, everybody in the Bible that the Lord took, he took alive you with me.
Now he took him. Who else did he take anybody? Remember? Took Elijah? Who else did he take?
Took Jesus? Alright. Alright. Now watch this Jude, Jude, please. And Jude verse 14 is number one chapter there.
And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesized of these saying behold the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints.
Wow, he lets you see that Enoch was seventh from Adam.
And so all the way to Jesus coming back with 10,000 of his saints.
He knew what a saint was back in the at Becky by the garden.
Now, what, why, why am I, why am I getting on this because Revelation chapter 13 and verse eight says, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of Life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
When was the lamb slain? Now we got it recorded that he got killed and, and crucified about 2, 2000 years ago.
But the Bible has it recorded that the lamb was slain when before the foundation of the world? See.
And what he is saying here is if you turn with me to Isaiah, please.
And let’s go to Isaiah chapter 46.
He said this in verse nine, remember the former things of all for I am God and there’s none else I am God.
And there is none like me declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times that things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and everything I said gonna happen is gonna happen.
So everything that God is going to do for you, he has already done.
See now the point of it is is I don’t need to wait to get it, did something bad.
The here, here’s what I’m saying. I’m saying that faith is not time.
Faith has no time. Faith is right.
When is right now and, and, and if you ever put time in faith, you’ve just gotten out of faith because everything that’s gonna be done for you is what already done and faith knows that.
So faith has to be now. So whether you’re talking about today or tomorrow, it’s always now.
So faith calls things come on that be not as though they were what? Cause they’re already done.
So faith says by his stripes, I am here.
See, it’s not saying I’m gonna be here cause that’s a lie that you have been healed and faith calls it down from the eternal watch this and enforces it into your life.
Now, how much is in the eternal?
This book is an inventory of what’s in the unseen.
So faith says when things will happen and time bows the knee.
See, because faith is a higher law than time and will manipulate time back and forward.
That used to be an old uh song when I was coming up, you know, and it said, if I could just turn back the hands of time, well, wait a minute now, hold on because I saw where the man got healed of leprosy and his skin was like that of a newborn.
Somebody turned back the hands of top up. Come on now. Come on.
See, I’m saying that most of what faith will do is not been manifested.
You see, there’s supposed to be a clear difference between you and the rest of the world.
See, they’re supposed to be piling in trying to get what you got.
See the way we win them, the biggest way that we’re going to win.
The world is through influence. One day they gonna see you, you stupid and the next day you’re smart or one day they see, not, not you but you know y’all follow what I’m saying.
No, you follow what I’m saying.
So I can’t say I’m gonna be healed because that’s not true.
Truth is the highest realm of reality. It is where things are true.
It is where things are as they are.
It is the eternal invisible world and you and I are supposed to live according to that and not according to this world that’s under the been cursed and, and fallen and man is imprisoned by time where he tells you, it’s going to take five years for that to get healed to nope, five minutes, no five seconds.
See, but I gotta participate for God to do it because He can’t move outside of my face.
Faith is released by words and actions. We came from eternity.
So did Jesus. He stepped from no time into time and then govern time that it no faith enables you to see like God.
And when you can see like God, you talk like God, you act like God, you think come on like God second Corinthians chapter four and verse 18.
While we look not at the what things that are seen, but at the what things that are not seen.
Now, once you’ve received what God says is yours, then you have joy and you have joy because you have received it.
Now. It may not be manifested in your life yet.
But joy is what gives you strength to stand until manifestations take place.
Say amen to that. He says in Isaiah chapter 12 and verse three through joy, we draw waters out of the will of salvation.
So you can access deliverance through joy. The Jordan Lord is my strength, by the way.
That’s Nehemiah chapter eight and verse 10.
And it’s my strength and also through joy, you increase that Psalm chapter 67.
Joy keeps us in his presence. And that is Psalms chapter 16 in verse 11.
All right, let’s go to Martin. Let’s finish up in Mark chapter two in verse one.
And this is when uh the men uh had this one man on this, um this, this whatever he was carried on, caught.
And it says here and again, he entered into Capper after some days and it was noise that he was in the house and straight away, many were gathered together and so much that they, there was no room to receive them.
No, no, so much about the door and he preached the word onto them and they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy who was born 1/4.
And when they could not come in for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was.
And when they had broken it up, they let down the bed where the sick of the palsy laid.
Jesus saw their faith when he saw their faith, he said to the sick of the palsy son, thy sins be what forgiven.
I call this crazy faith.
And let me tell you what crazy faith is.
Crazy faith is.
People whose minds are no longer governed by what they can see.
When you measure your faith to the limit, then God will take you higher.
He will take you higher.
When you have used all the faith, you know how to use God will take you to another dimension of faith.
Now, if you don’t lose your faith, use your faith, it is possible to lose the measure that you have because it, some people just choose to be comfortable.
And next thing you know, their, their faith has been laying dormant and they’re not even able to do some of the things that you used to be able to do.
So it’s meant for you to continue to use your faith.
And it’s time now for us to use our faith as a profession, it’s time for us to do something, have something, be something that the world can’t do have or be unless they know Jesus isn’t that powerful.
And the last part is crazy.
Faith again, is people whose minds are no longer governed by what makes sense.
I mean, that’s what it is by what makes sense. Real faith is passionate about the impossible.
I’ll say it again. Real faith is passionate about the impossible.
It is fed every time you confront something impossible.
Yeah, it grows when you overcome. Hm.
Now you and I receive the image of God and the faith of God.
And when you got God’s nature, you also got an appetite for the impossible.
Isn’t that something we were created to have this appetite?
You are hungry for something to do.
You’re designed to believe way above what you can think with a hard man believing and faith has no respect for the word impossible.
And God even made provisions for us to get healed supernaturally.
Every time. Think about this.
God tells one man, Noah, build an a what man?
Let me ask you this.
How many years did he build that? Anybody know?
I think it was about 100 and 20 years.
Watch this with no water in sight.
He did it by what you look Him up in Hebrews chapter 11, did it by faith tells you to do something.
You might not see any reason for doing that in the world.
But God knows, watch this and brought animals from every continent, watch this in pairs because of one man’s what God can bring you stuff in prayers by faith, man.
Let’s see what’s happening.
It’s been somehow we haven’t had faith in God.
The first thing Jesus says, have faith in God have the God kind of faith or have the faith of God and all things become possible and sometimes you got to get in that Bible and find out some of the impossible things that were done and don’t read it so fast.
It was right in this, in the, in the book of, in, in that place of Noah.
Man, there’s some stuff that happened in there that’s, that’s mind bending.
I mean, how in the world did God do that?
He’s, I mean, he’s, he’s, he was on that water for about a half a year and then he had 100 and 10 more days or whatever have you.
And I’m just saying he had to trust God because it wasn’t no um CBS news or anything like that to give him some, some encouragement.
But I’m saying with you, when you walk by faith, you’re walking by something you can’t see, you can’t feel conscious and you can’t prove with your mind is the substance of things hopeful, the evidence of things.
Well, I trust that you were blessed by that powerful message.
Now, here’s a point you wanna remember once you receive what God says is yours, then you have joy.
Now, it may not be manifested.
You just receive it in the spirit first and it may not be manifested in your life yet.
But joy is what gives you the strength to stand until the manifestation takes place.
Remember here is Jesus and he kept joy in his life.
See, as you believe for things, sometimes you don’t see it right?
Away, but keep that joy because the joy of the Lord is your strength. Praise God ain’t that powerful.
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