Faith Beyond Gifts: Trusting the Giver

1. "If you can count to five, you can share the gospel of Christ. The sixth one is discipleship, okay? But if you can count to five, you can share the gospel of Christ, and it's all color-coded, and it all starts out with these bands that are like this, and 17, or 1,749 bands were given out this week. To people, and these bands all have scriptures on them that go along with these. There's also little gospel cards that explain each one of these, and those gospel cards, there's 1,005 gospel cards that went out that share the word of God on the west side of Columbus." [31:20] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "God has started a movement. God has started a movement. Started. You hear me? God has started. In that minister's meeting, because I missed Melinda's little talk and reading, uh, she read the back of this. Right? Is that what you read? She read the back of this. In that minister's meeting, and the remnant that met that evening, that night, Friday night, we're continuing the outreach here on the west side of Columbus." [32:40] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "God himself will provide. Okay. He always provides. God himself will provide. Oh, oh, oh, I don't know why God wants someone to get this because I've preached on this many, many, many times. Pastor Watts has preached on this many, many, many, many times. And I don't know why somebody needs this this morning. There might be somebody going through something right now and they don't know how they're going to get out of it. But God is determined to nail this message into your spirit that God himself will provide. Whatever it is that you're standing in need of, whether it's financial, emotional, mental, physical, a job opportunity, strength, health, peace, joy, comfort, God is trying to tell you something this morning." [42:10] (71 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Somewhere in your life, God will give you something to see if you will give it back. To see if somewhere along the way, if you have fallen in love with the gifts he gave, then the God who gave it. Somewhere along the way, if you have fallen in love with the gifts he gave, somewhere along the way, your faith will be tested to prove that you are not just following God in a spirit of manipulation. To get him to orchestrate your affairs to get what you want out of him. God will ask you to give up something you love as evidence that you love him more." [46:30] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "It is interesting to realize that God starts a new people out of an old people. That he goes... He goes amongst the Gentiles to a place called Ur, which is really Mesopotamia, and in that he pulls out a Gentile, and God goes into covenant with him, circumcises him, and starts the Jewish nation from a Gentile bloodline. That alone, we could stay there all day. That alone. The fact that God could start something new out of something old. That God doesn't need all the conditions to be right. That he can turn water into wine. That he can take the children of Israel in the middle of the wilderness and say, this shall be the beginning of months for you. That it's new when God says it's new, not when man says it's new." [49:09] (70 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "God talk is crazy talk. And most church folk can't handle God talk because God says things that don't make sense and we walk in our senses even though we're totally in our senses. to walk in the Spirit. A lot of you would have had major problems this past week going out on teams because we followed a lot of God talk this past week. Going up to church buildings and praying over the building outside of the building. No one in them. No one home. No one in the office. No staff there. Just laying our hands on the building." [53:23] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "God will talk to you if you allow him god god talk is is is is crazy talk and people just sit back and they shake their heads but when you start walking by faith and not by sight god opens doors abraham was called called to walk by faith and not by sight. But when we walk in our senses, even though we're told to walk, walk in the spirit, we walk in our senses and God, sometimes God says, step out." [01:04:17] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "We say we want people to come to church. We say we want the church to grow. We say that we want to see souls added to the kingdom. Look, we have some great... We have some great ground that we have to walk out. God is waiting on us to get up and walk it out. The promises are out there. The land is out there. But God is waiting on us to get up and walk it out. As I was walking through the streets of the West Side this week, I saw the promises of God this week. But it took getting out. It took getting out of this building. It took getting out into the street. It took getting out of my home. It took getting out of my comfort zone." [01:06:33] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "Will you walk the land? go will you say yes where the Lord has been prompting you yes I'll talk to that person that the Lord has been prompting me to talk to yes I'll share the gospel message with someone who I know doesn't know the Lord today yes I'll commit to the Great Commission which is to go go I challenge you to make a commitment to God to say yes to him today you don't know him say yes to him today yes to the blood of Jesus Christ yes to salvation yes to redemption yes to a life of freedom in Jesus Christ yes to the blood of Jesus Christ yes to salvation yes to today leave the old life behind and start walking toward the Lord say yes you know him say yes to walking the land leave her the Chaldees and walk the promised land because everywhere your footsteps that land is yours the promises are yours but you gotta walk it out what are you gonna do today there's a land ready for us to possess" [01:13:57] (105 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)