Faith's Power: Trusting God Amidst Life's Challenges

1. "Through the church, God does all kinds of things. He spreads truth through the church. His Word, His salvation through the church. Amen. He heals through the church. He prophesies through His Word. Through His church. Of things to come, He does. Amen. And this is His body. It's the way He manifests Himself to the earth. It's through His body, the church. Amen. We are the presence of God today in this world. And this world needs us. Desperately needs us. This world is everything. This world is ever more messed up. And it's going to be getting a lot worse. It will. But the church, it won't affect the church." [01:30] (58 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "So you don't measure up. so forget about it God measures up put your faith in a God that's bigger than you start believing in something that's stronger greater able and you know what he says folks he says cast every care on me you know what he's saying I'm big enough I can handle it I can deal with it now I'm gonna be very practical and plain we create a lot of our problems by disobedience you know we can do that we've all done it we've all done it some of us have done it straighten it out some of us are doing it some of us are getting ready to do it and and it's it's always unwise and my goodness how many times have people come to me just broken and torn up because they disobeyed God and and lives shattered because they disobey God you know God gives us warnings God tries to give us warnings and and we've got to heat them but sometimes we think oh you know well I'll just do my own thing anyway and every time it leads to heartache and hurt and trouble in your life don't do it don't do it don't do it you don't do it." [04:00] (84 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "And a simple spoken word from God does not look like what you want sometimes. You know God told them they were dying. The army's dying. In the desert. And they finally get to the prophet. And the prophet he's mad because he sees somebody there he doesn't like. And he says I'll do it for Jehoshaphat's sake. But he's the only reason. He says get me a minstrel. Isn't that interesting? The prophet needs a move of God in his life. So he says get me some music. Think about that. Think about that. You know conditions have got to be right for faith to work. There's got to be right conditions. And he wants somebody to elevate him in worship. Get me a minstrel. And so they got a minstrel and started praying for the prophet. Or playing for the prophet. And all of a sudden the spirit of the Lord came on him. And he said go dig ditches. Well that's a great word from God. In the desert dying of thirst get your shovels out and start digging trenches in the sand." [10:03] (77 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Let me tell you something about the word of God. You might not understand it. But if you'll just get a little faith in you. And you'll start saying I don't understand it but God said it. And that's all that matters. I can't figure it out. It doesn't calculate. But God said it. So I'm going to believe it. I'm going to act on it. Because it's the word of God. God said it. Amen. And so it doesn't look like what's coming. Dig ditches. That's not what I came for. Amen. The spoken word of faith for healing doesn't look like the healing. It doesn't. A lot of times, it just does not. Amen. And God's done that through me several times. And when I say it, the healing's not there. You know what I mean? It doesn't look like healing. But yet I know it's a red -letter message. But they don't know it's a red -letter message." [11:43] (78 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "You get a word from God, don't you let go of it. You hang on. You hang on to that. Because God will surely bring His word to pass every time. Never fails. God is faithful. Amen. Now in Amos, listen, Amos 3 and 7. If you want to go there, sis. It says, surely the Lord God does nothing. Everybody say God does nothing. Unless He reveals His secret to His servants, the prophets. God won't do anything unless he shows it first promise you oh Lord this is hard this is hard for me but I'm going to do it anyway I'm going to get God always reveals what he's about to do before he does it did you hear me did you hear me God has shown me nearly everything that was coming our way before it came and even in my life personal events multiple times more times than I can remember amen the one time I can remember that he didn't he had two prophets come to me to give me scripture that indirectly spoke of what was coming one of them and the other one came and told me why God couldn't show me." [17:54] (93 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "God wants a relationship with us. He's after that. It means more to God than anything else. A relationship. He wants you. He wants a relationship with you. He wants you talking with him and fellowshipping. He wants you talking with him and seeking him and reading his word. And getting to know him so close that you just converse with him all day long. That everything about your day, you're conversing with Jesus about it. And that the smallest things, you know they matter to God, and you can ask God about them. And all day long, God's answering your prayers. And, and, and, and it's just a, it's, it's a fellowship. It's a relationship. It's faith. It's all faith. It's 100 % built on faith. But I know him. He knows me. He cares about me. He cares about what I want. He cares about what I think. He'll help me with this. He'll help me with that. And, and when you do this, when you move in these directions, listen, this is all 100 % based on faith. It's a fellowship. It's a faith relationship." [23:57] (79 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "Faith is reaching out and grabbing hold of nothing and maintaining a firm grip on nothing the thing hoped for it's not there but you feel it, you believe it, you know it, you understand how it works, and you're firmly convinced that what God has promised, he's able to perform. You know it. You know it. Amen. That nothing is hope, and we've got to latch hold of that. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. So what should our attitude be in between knowing it and receiving it? I believe it. I know it. Now what do I do? Because it's not here. That's coming. Amen. What do you do? Thankfulness. Thankfulness is always at the heart of faith. You know that? Amen. Like Siamese twins, you really can't separate them. You're going to be thankful if you've got faith. You're going to have a heart of faith. You're going to have a heart of thanksgiving. And it is impossible to have faith unless you're thankful. Amen. And grateful." [28:43] (75 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "You know why they couldn't enter the promised land? You say, well, unbelief. Yeah. You know why they really couldn't? Weren't thankful. Look all God did for them. Look at the miracles they saw. Look at the privilege. Look at the vision that God gave them, and they are not thanking God for it. They're saying he brought us out here to kill us with thirst. The God that split a rock and watered millions of people. The God that's given a manna every day from heaven. And they're not thankful. And all they're doing is complaining and griping. You know what? That's like coming, that's like being a Pentecostal filled with the Holy Ghost and coming to church and griping about everything. Power of God's been on your life. Anointing of God's been over your life. God's spoken to you. God's blessed you. God's blessed your family. God's blessed everything about your life and you're griping and complaining. What's the difference in you and Israel? Somebody shake themself. Somebody wake up. Somebody say, not me. Not me. I'm going to believe God. I'm going to let my faith rise. I'm going to let my confidence in God rise. I'm going to trust God. Not going there. Not going there." [34:04] (87 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)