Unlocking God's Promises Through Active Faith

Without faith, somebody shall faith, it is impossible to please God. I want that just to sink in. There's a lot of good things we can do in life. There's a lot of admirable things, serving, but what really pleases the Lord is exercising faith. I want you to think about that, faith. [00:03:25] (24 seconds)  #FaithPleasesGod

It's not just belief that God exists. Watch this. It's an acting, ongoing truth in his character, in the word, and in his faithfulness. Thank you. Can I get an amen? And actually, actually one commentator says, it carries the idea of being fully persuaded and confident in God's ability and promises. Faith. There's something about faith. Can you say amen? [00:04:06] (28 seconds)  #FaithIsAction

I just want to talk to you in these next few weeks about mixing our faith with the promises of God and appropriating the promises of God. And I really believe God has given tremendous promises in the Word of God. 2 Peter 1 .4 talks about these precious promises that are in the Scripture. Actually, the Greek, it means divine assurance of good things to happen. A pledge, talking about a promise, a guarantee of divine commitment. It's not a vague hope. They are binding assurances of a faithful God. [00:06:07] (37 seconds)  #DivinePromisesAssured

As powerful as all these truths, these promises are that God has given, as encouraging, as inspiring as they can be, can be, watch this, by themselves, these promises won't do you any good. Won't do you any good at all. On their own, you won't see any change just because you read them. You won't, you won't appropriate any of those on your own. They're just nice, encouraging words. [00:07:56] (28 seconds)  #FaithActivatesPromises

What is it saying? I believe it's a spiritual principle that's still for us today. That what is that? That God, watch this, that God can bless his people with provision they didn't earn by human effort, favor, and resources. Now when you say that to some people, it's like, well, I earned everything that I have, and I worked for everything that I have, and I worked hard for that, and that is admirable. Amen? But how many know we serve a God that's more than enough? [00:10:03] (29 seconds)  #FaithRequiresGrowth

Just because God promises something for you, watch this, doesn't mean it's going to automatically happen. Ooh, really, Pastor Mike? Yeah. Well, he's all -powerful. He's omniscient. If he says what's going to happen, yeah, his word is. But there are some things that we have to learn to grow in, in faith. [00:15:09] (19 seconds)  #GodCreatesByFaith

So what is this verse? It shows us that just hearing the word isn't enough, even though we know that faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. So hearing is powerful, but you've got to do something. You've got to mix an ingredient when you hear the word. And that's faith. [00:21:40] (18 seconds)  #ReleaseFaithForLives

Without faith, the word remains unapplied potential. What does that mean? God's promises that I shared, just a few, are activated and ignited by faith. Once again, I didn't write the book. God did. By faith. Doubt leaves the promises on the table. Untouched. Unused. Like someone starving but holding a meal ticket. [00:22:17] (24 seconds)

Faith is like this. This little match, how many of you know that this thing is so tiny and insignificant, it seems like nothing. But how many know the fire in this can burn a whole forest down in the right environment? Hot, dry, arid, just a little spark can destroy thousands, tens and thousands of acres. It can burn a city down. Just this little thing right here, not much. [00:24:23] (27 seconds)

That little fire was powerful, even though it was small. Why? Because there's fire in the match, but nothing happens until you ignite it. Nothing happens until you strike it. And when you strike the match, it catches fire. And what happens? Power is released. Power, power here today to help you raise your kids. power here to help you in your marriage power here to help you to forgive in your marriage power here to help you in your finances your health your health of your children you know there was a season in our life with our kids and without being specific there was times where we would print out the promises of god and pray it over our kids different times and seasons speak the word no they're going to serve the lord they will follow god there was times that we did that power is released for your business your future it's the same but the promises of god they are powerful they can bring deliverance healing i believe that and they can restore and they can these promises can catapult us into a new level but they will not do any good until we ignite them and faith is the igniter. [00:25:16] (83 seconds)