Good morning, Word of His Power, and welcome to everyone online and in person. This is the place where lives are changed and people are blessed. Amen.
But before we start, I have a couple of quick announcements. First, here at the church, we have United Prayer. We have it Sundays at 9:45 a.m., Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and Fridays at 6:15 p.m. If you'd like to be able to receive the link to these prayer times, you can register online on our website at whp.org.
That's all the announcements I have for you today, so let's continue with the service.
We thank you and praise you. We believe and know how much you love us, your perfect love. All fears you are with us; therefore, we need not be afraid of anything or anybody. We thank you and praise you that you have promised to help us, strengthen us, and uphold us with the right hand of your righteousness.
We are so glad it is because of your love you have delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of your dear Son, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of all our sins.
This morning, Father, as your children, we come expecting—expecting you to perform your word, keep your promise, and continue to lift us up towards you, that we may continue to strengthen our relationship with you, walk with you, and do according to each one you are giving us assignments.
We thank you and praise you for your faithfulness, your goodness, and your mercy. We totally depend on your mercy, Lord, for you are the Father of mercies. You are the God of strength and comfort, and we depend on you for everything.
While we are going through problems, while we are rejoicing with victory, both ways you are with us. And your word says, "What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? No weapon formed against us shall prosper."
For he who did not spare his only begotten Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him give us freely all things?
Father, we have come to receive by our faith freely that which belongs to us, so that you get all the glory, we get all the joy, and Jesus is exalted. In Jesus' name we pray. Everyone said, "Amen."
Praise God! Praise God! Praise God! Hallelujah to Jesus! God is good!
One of the most important names God named Himself—you read that in Exodus 34. He said He named Himself with His own core attribute. So when Moses said, "I want to see you," when He passed through, because He told Moses, "You cannot see me and live," He said to Moses, "I am the Lord of Mercy."
And if you see in the Old Testament, anytime His people faced serious trouble and problems, the only anthem they sang or confessed or chanted was, "But God, you are good, and your mercy endures forever."
You can read about that before the victory of Jericho. Joshua was told they went around saying the same thing. You find it in 2 Chronicles 20:20, when Jehoshaphat appointed singers. The song they sang was, "Oh God, you are good, and your mercy endures forever."
And if you read in Psalms, Psalm 118 and all those psalms, many times you will find it repeated. For example, Psalm 118 says, "O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy endures forever."
Then the next verse is, "Let Israel say, 'For the Lord is good, and his mercy endures forever.' Let the house of Aaron say, 'The Lord is good, and his mercy endures forever.'"
That means it is an important key to stimulate the faith which He has given us to quickly access His presence more than any other song. I am not against other songs or anything. I myself, you know, one of the main challenges for people is when I sing, but I'm not going to stop singing.
But the Bible says, "Make a joyful noise," so I can make all kinds of noise. You see, I have seen and I have heard Brother Hagin constantly start. I would wonder why of all the preachers he always says, "Let us say, 'God is good, and his mercy endures forever.'"
I have watched, and I have watched. I said that should be something key to this. So I prayed because he is my teacher; he taught me. And I started praying, "I said, 'Lord, what is in there?'"
Then the Lord revealed that this is one way to stimulate your God-given faith and access God faster than lightning. And then once you are in the presence of God, it doesn't matter what surrounds you, what is trying to oppress you, or what is trying to take you down, because nothing can take you down when you are in His presence.
So I find I am led again and again. Every Sunday we confess, but this Sunday, this morning, I was encouraged to give you a little hint of why we are doing what we are doing, because religion will only tell you to do things without explaining anything.
We are not religious people; we are relational people. We have a relationship with God, and through God, we have a relationship with one another. You and I are children of God; we are in the family of God.
So I was led. I hope you realize, and I would encourage you in your private time also, if this is the easiest worship and faith thing you can do, even while driving, "Oh God is good, and his mercy endures forever."
And you keep saying that, you will sense not just the presence of God. Anointing—these are all, I'm talking about supernatural things. It has got nothing to do with if you don't get, you know, kind of your hair standing on your neck. It's not nothing to do with your anointing. Maybe you lost hair on your neck; that is the problem.
So let us do what the Bible says, and I want you to use this because you will find it is very, very effective in your walk with God.
"Oh Lord, I give thanks to you, for you are good, and your mercy endures forever. Lord, you are good to me all the time, and your mercy endures forever. Oh, I give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, and his mercy endures forever."
I am a spirit being; I have a soul; I live in this body because I am born again. The Holy Spirit of God is living in me; He is helping me and doing to me everything what Jesus said He would do to me. He is helping me to learn, for He is my teacher; He is my leader. He leads me always in the pathway of righteousness, health, long life, prosperity, and victory.
He is always assisting me to be a doer of the Word and enjoy my life walking with God through my Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, the Lord is so good to me, and his mercy endures forever. Thank you, Lord Jesus! Praise God!
So we'll continue our lesson we started two weeks ago about faith. We are learning the basics and the basis of our supernatural faith.
And you say, "Why?" There is because many people assume a lot of things. And another thing particularly Christians do is take God and the things of God for granted, and that is a dangerous thing because God is real, and you cannot take Him for granted.
You have got to make sure, like what He tells you to observe and do that. And faith—we saw what is the definition of faith, but what is faith? A lot of people think, "Oh, I believe, so I am in faith." No, not necessarily, because people say, "No, in the Book of James, the Bible says even the devil believes."
Because they will believe he is saved or can be saved. No, so just believing is not faith. So we said, "What is the definition for faith?"
So who can define supernatural faith other than God? So God gave us a book called the Bible. He gave it to us in writing, which cannot be changed forever.
So Hebrews 11:1 says that definition for faith: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." And then in the sixth verse, you find the whole chapter of Hebrews 11 is about all ordinary people like you and me, and some of them were not even born again—those people, how they walked in faith and pleased God.
The list is given at the end of the chapter. If you are also a sincere follower of Jesus Christ, you can add your name in the sixth verse. In between, God inserts the truth.
Hebrews 11:6 says, "But without faith, it is impossible to please God. Whosoever comes to God must believe that He is, and He is a rewarder of those who seek Him."
Yeah, you have to believe. And the Amplified version says, "You must believe that God exists, is real." A lot of people, where they miss, they say, "Oh, God is great; God is powerful; He's the creator of the universe."
He's not asking you to believe any of those things, which He already did. First of all, you must believe that there is somebody called God who always existed, and He is the one who created everything.
So you are not supposed to start believing about all the creation and everything; start with the basic. The basic is He exists. There is a God.
Even now, in learning people, there is always a dispute about whether God exists or not. People will debate, write books. Hey, simple: you believe God exists, okay?
And there is a reason why it is recorded like that: "Whosoever," that means sinner, believer—anybody can come to God. By far, she has to believe God exists.
"Whosoever comes to God must believe that He is, and He is." God is a rewarder of those who seek Him. That means anybody can see God, and by nature, He wants to reward.
And because we have been religiously brainwashed all our life, when we read that, we come to God always thinking about material things: "Pay my bills, heal this wound, make this all right."
Let me just live like any other creature. That is a very low level of living. He said "rewarder" means first thing: anybody, a sinner, comes to God; he rewards him with salvation.
And a believer comes to God; he rewards him answers to his prayer. I believe it comes to God, answer for every way. But He's not going to make everything just pack it and give it to him.
A believer, being recreated in the likeness and image of God, expects a believer to do certain things. So when you go with your issues and circumstance, problem, whatever it is, you come to God, believe that He is.
Because the Bible, as you read His word more and more, describes about Himself. He is a merciful God; He is the holy God; He is the creator; He is omnipotent; He is omniscient. He knows everything; He can do anything; nothing is impossible with Him.
All those things you read just to build your faith—that is what it is given. But every time you come to God, you must believe that He is.
See, this is why many people's prayer is not answered. Okay? They are simply imaginary. You sing, "I am approaching God."
When I approach God, one of the definitions for Hebrews 11:1 in the Amplified translation says the same. It says the definition for faith is, "Now faith means that we are confident of what we hoped for, convinced of what we do not see."
So see, there is a confidence you should have when you approach God. You must have confidence. What is that confidence?
Like in the natural, we can understand. For example, when your children come to you, they don't have to stand in line or pretend. They come with confidence and open the fridge and see their orange juice is not there.
They turn around and say, "Dad, it's empty. Bring it, please." You see how they talk? And if they are timid and they say, "Oh, you know, I don't know," every time they cry, you'll start correcting them. "What's wrong with you?"
If you're not there, let me know. See, there is a confidence. Same way between parents and children, same way between husband and wife, same way with us.
We should have that confidence because we are in the family of God. But confidence means you don't try to make your fellow believer your God to supply all your needs.
You can have your fellow believer confidently say, "Hey, brother, sister, just stand in agreement with me. This is happening, and let us agree according to the word. Let God do this for us."
And you do the prayer of agreement; it works. But many Christians, they don't use any of these because either they are not taught or they don't have confidence.
They're too busy with everything else. But everything else around—politicians, government, your friends, your this, that, government job—nobody can help but God.
They are all there to assist you to obtain your goal, but the real Lord who saves you is your provider.
So that is why God says, "You come to me; whoever comes, believe that I exist, and I will reward you." Again, reward you means sometimes He will reward you with anointing; sometimes He will give you extra anointing; sometimes He will give you peace of mind; sometimes He will give you wisdom.
See, many people think, "Oh, if I got a problem, it's all now try to scientifically fix." We are not against science, but science is subject to God.
When God overrules all the scientific rule, the Bible calls it a miracle, and our God is a miracle-working God. When everybody says it's not possible, you join with Him.
The Bible says nothing is impossible with God. People, instead, they quote the scripture, "Oh, nothing is impossible to God." That is wrong.
There are a lot of things impossible to God. There is a whole list. God cannot do it. Number one, He cannot change His word. Number two, He will not break His promise. Number three, He will never be able to tell lies.
He cannot do it. With God, nothing is impossible. So join Him.
And so that is if you come to God, you must have confidence. The hope—the word hope—we also saw there are two kinds of hope. One is a free based on feeling; another hope is you expect God to keep His word.
We saw the example in Abraham's life. Same way, there are two kinds of faith. Last week we studied there is a faith with which all of us are born, which is based on our senses—feeling, sight, hearing, touching, smelling—mostly seeing is in order.
That is why nowadays, see, the devil is playing havoc even with believers. Like all these devices are used against us. It is good to use it, but you should know how to use this.
All the nonsense that you see, the more you see, you start believing. And Jesus said that kind of faith is not good for you.
How do you know? He said that in the Gospel of John, the 20th chapter. When Thomas, he said, "Hey, they told him the Lord appeared." He said, "Oh, no, no, no, no. Unless I touch, put my finger in His wounds, unless I thrust my hand in His side, I will not believe," he said.
And Jesus appeared. He told Thomas, "Come on, Thomas, put your finger here, put your hand here." And when he saw Jesus like that, what happened? Thomas knelt down and said, "My Lord and my God."
Then immediately Jesus said, "Thomas, you believe because you saw me. Blessed are those who do not see and believe."
That means Jesus did not recommend or approve that kind of faith which is based on your senses. That is why, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul wrote that "the just shall live by faith."
The just shall walk by faith and not sight—means seeing, right? Because whatever you see, you start believing. When you start believing, you start acting on it. It is going to take you to a dangerous place.
But God says that is a kind of faith I will give you. With this faith, you can not only have constant victory; you can overcome. The faith, through the faith, even the Epistle of John says that even we overcome everything by our faith.
So God says, "I will give you that kind of faith." And last week we saw the example of that because that is supernatural faith, which is based on the word of God and the promises of God.
So, for example, we read in Romans, the fourth chapter, verse 17 and 18: "Abraham believed like unto God." How he believed like God? That he called into existence those things be not as though they were.
For it is written, "I have made thee the father of many nations." That means Abraham took some promise which God told him in Genesis 17: "I have made you the father of many nations" when he didn't have any children yet.
Through the promise of God, he said, "Okay, if God says I am the father of many nations, it doesn't matter. I am 100 years old. I am not going to be concerned with my situation, my feeling, when nothing. I'm going to confess, 'Yes, I am the father of many nations.'"
So he based his speaking. He believed and spoke, and what he spoke, God said, "This is the kind of faith that comes from me."
Okay, if that faith—and that with that kind of faith you can please God more.
Okay, if I have to get that kind of faith, how do I get faith? I'm talking about not the natural faith that we started from our birth, which is not acceptable to God.
When God says something to you, He always provides what He tells you to do. If He tells you to believe, first He believes in you so much. So even when we were wretched, worst sinners, He believed that your life can be changed.
So He sacrificed His Son, Jesus Christ, and rose Him again. And when you believe, He said, "Okay, I accept you; everything made okay."
That means He believes in you before He asks you to believe in Him. To me, God says, "Love one another." He won't tell you first without Him doing it first.
He loved us so much that He gave His only Son. So God, when He says you have to come to me and please me with faith, only He says, "Okay, you come to me; I'll give you."
The first thing, anybody—a sinner comes; he thinks he gets salvation. Not true. A sinner, when he comes to God, I'm talking about true God—not so many religious gods—the only living God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
That God, when you come to Him, first He gives His faith to get saved. So from there, our journey starts. You first get faith to be saved; you get saved, and then you are going to learn how and more and more you can have similar faith to achieve other things in your life—good health, wisdom, strength, physical, financial support—anything and everything you want, you can get from God according to the promise He has made.
So this God kind of faith—how to receive that is what we are going to learn. So not in my opinion; it's not some theological book I have read. It is in the Bible. You mark it down; you read it for yourself and tell yourself, "Yes, God has said this; I am also going to have it."
That you have to make a decision and not think, "Oh, a correct man; he's preaching good. Which college did he attend?" No, it is not the college or anything; it is you deciding to have what God has promised you.
I am, as a believer, sharing with you, directed by God to get you to the place where together as a church we are going to overflow with the goodness of God for the world to see and win them for the Lord, because that is the whole purpose of all this learning.
So now, how do we—how does faith come? Three places. First one: God is based on what God says. If you say what God says, if you hear and believe that, it will start happening in each one's life.
As you believe, so in Romans, the 10th chapter, verse 17 says, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
So how does faith come? Faith—this faith. Now remember, there are two kinds of faith, but we are focusing on the important faith as a believer you need to please God and get things done so that when you are blessed, you can bless others and bring them to God.
Simple principle. So He says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Okay, then faith comes. So when you come to God's faith, it comes to you by hearing His word. Then Ephesians 2:8 says, "You are saved by grace through faith, not by your works, but it is the gift of God."
Gift means it is given to you. That means it is talking about in order to get saved, God, out of His grace—you didn't pray for it; you didn't do any sacrifice for it; you didn't, you know, fast and all kinds of personally what you could do with your wealth or anything.
You didn't do nothing. By grace, God loves you so much. When you were the worst wretched sinner, He says, "My grace is available; come."
When you went to Him, He gave the faith to receive salvation. So faith is now not only comes according to this scripture; faith is given to you.
And then in Romans, the 12th chapter, we'll read that. Romans 12:3 says, "For I say, this is he's writing to believers. All these scriptures which I read are all to the believers. Romans is written to believers; Ephesians is written to believers."
Now this is again a believer. Romans 12:3 says, "For I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith."
In that verse, that is the most important part we need to remember. So I'll really regain slowly the last part: "According as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith."
I want you to see people read this, and they don't—especially nowadays, we have been getting robbed of our basic thinking. Even just see something, everybody—somebody says, and you're all wrong.
Oh, you don't even verify, "Is it okay? How am I supposed to do this?" And that is dangerous, and that is how the Antichrist is going to come and always be, because people, they don't anymore think for themselves.
We are supposed to think for ourselves. That is why he's talking about thinking. And then he says, "According to the faith that is dealt—the measure."
He did not say, "Yeah, measure." If it says "measure," it means maybe you got just—I'm using some weights and numbers just to explain. You can say, "Oh, he got one ton of faith, but he got only one kilo of faith."
Because a measure is changing, right? Are you all getting this? A measure means it can be a change. Maybe God gave, oh, Copeland and Brother Hagin great measure of faith; you and I a small measure of faith.
That is not true. He gave everybody the same measure of faith. Are you all getting this? That means when you get born again, that same measure of faith is given to you and me.
So it's dealt. He says in one place it says, "This faith of God comes." Another place it says, "It is given when you come to God to get saved."
Another place it is dealt. See, the word is dealt. You know the word dealt is from the word "to deal." When we make a deal—when we make a deal, you know, there is a television program we used to watch. I don't—nowadays I don't watch television.
There is something, you know, you have to say, "Let us make a deal," something like that. They have got different, different programs. It's all about a deal.
That means they say something, you say something, and if it agrees according to the deal, they give you some trinket, some plastic box, or something, something, right?
Are you all getting this? See, that is to those people who are there dealing with one another. When it is done, they were dealt with the reward, right?
Same way, in order to keep this faith alive with God, you are going to daily deal with God. When you deal with Him, He deals with His faith. He gives you that faith.
So faith is dealt; faith is given, and faith comes. Faith comes—this God kind of faith comes when you read His word or hear His word.
I like in another translation. Yesterday night, I was woken up and told, "You see this translation in the Passion Translation." I read this; the Holy Spirit is so wonderful, you know, that translation meaning.
And I thought I will read that here. It is in Romans 10:17. It says like this: "Faith then is birthed in a heart that responds to God's anointed utterance of the anointed one."
Faith then is birthed in a heart that responds to God's anointed utterance of the anointed one. That means anybody who takes the word—a believer, when he speaks the word, the believer is anointed.
The Bible says every believer is anointed—anointed by who? Holy Spirit. And you can increase your anointing by spending time with the Bible and God.
So when the anointed person speaks, God kind of faith is birthed in the listener. So based on this, the first—how do we get salvation? Salvation is given through only preaching.
How did salvation—everybody receive salvation? They have heard the word of God, the truth. Somebody has spoken to them, and scripturally, there are several examples.
So let us take one: Acts, the 11th chapter. You can read about that. I think Acts 11th chapter—yes, Acts the 10th chapter. There is a story about a centurion named Cornelius.
He was one day praying and fasting, and the Bible says an angel appeared to him and told him, "Your prayer and your giving have come before God."
Cornelius was not a born-again believer; he was a centurion soldier. And if he feared God, so the angel says to him, "Go, there is in Joppa a man called Peter. Have him come to you."
You send, have him come to you. So Cornelius obeys and sends his three servants. Peter was praying in Joppa, and there Peter is having a vision that a lot of animals are brought down from heaven and heard a voice telling, "Kill and eat."
Peter says, "No, no, these are unclean things; I don't eat." But then Peter realized he heard the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit said, "There are three people come to search you and come to your door. Go with them without doubting."
He should be there of all the people. He has to be constantly reminded, "Go without doubting," because that fellow on and off doubts.
And the Holy Spirit tells him, "Go with them without doubting." With this background, see what happens here. Cornelius sends—the angel did not give him the message other than an instruction.
The angel could have said about Jesus, but angels are designated to preach after the tribulation. At that time, you and I will be watching angels preaching. It comes in that book of Revelation.
But now man is only authorized to speak the anointed words. So this is the background. So you see in verse number—Peter came to talk with him, and he said to them, "Cornelius is told that Peter would give you the words by means through which you shall be saved."
So Cornelius, when he heard from Peter, said, "I can tell you the story." You can read it; it is there in the 10th chapter.
Cornelius, when he was told Peter will give you words by which you will be saved, and when Cornelius and his family hears the word, they all get saved. They get filled with the Holy Spirit.
And in that chapter, he says they began to praise and magnify God, speaking in an unknown tongue. So Cornelius, after hearing the word preached to him, received salvation because by preaching he received the faith of God, and he believed God.
He received salvation, and on the same day, he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit by hearing the word of God. Otherwise, Cornelius would have just remained a good man, praying man, donating man, charity-giving man, but he would have still gone to hell.
But God sent Peter to preach the word to him, and then when Cornelius heard that, he conceived the faith to be saved. He got saved; he got filled with the Holy Spirit. You can read about that in the 10th chapter.
Then again in the 8th chapter of Acts, here is about Philip the evangelist. He goes to Samaria, and he preaches Christ. And when he preaches Christ, people get saved; people get healed.
Let me go there. Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them. He preached Christ means Christ is the anointed word of God.
Christ is referring to the word because in the Gospel of John, the first chapter says, "The word, in the beginning was the word; the word was with God."
And then in the same chapter, it says, "The word became flesh." So Christ, when he preached Christ, means he preached the anointed word of God.
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke. See, here they have to hear first—hearing and seeing the miracle which he did.
For unclean spirits crying with loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them, and many taken with policies and that were lame were healed. There was great joy in the city.
Then coming down to the 12th verse, "But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women."
And then the 14th verse: "Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God," he didn't say Samaria—a lot of people got saved, which is what resulted, right?
How did they get saved and healed? They first heard the word. When they heard the word, faith was birthed in their heart. When faith was birthed in their heart, with that faith, they received salvation and healing.
And you see, this is the means by which you get everything from God. You hear God's anointed word, and you receive it in your heart.
That is why in Romans, the 10th chapter says, "With the heart man believes unto righteousness; with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
That means God kind of faith comes; it is given to you; it is dealt to you for you to receive in your heart and not just keep it there and forget it. Start speaking what you have received.
So the Bible says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so." So you, every day, you say, "I am the redeemed of the Lord," and say so.
That you are the healed of the Lord, say so. So I am prosperous in the Lord, say so. I have the wisdom of God; I am the righteousness of God; I have the strength of God; I have the life of God.
You start saying that is what you believe. See, Christians are not encouraged to say these things. They go to church, and that is like, "Oh man, he went to church."
No, you went to church to learn. Start saying what the Bible says about you. The Bible says, "Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'"
So even though it looks like you are weak, even though you look like you are weak physically, mentally, financially, every which way, you say, "I'm strong in the Lord and the power of His might."
You say, "I am prosperous in the Lord." You say, "I am the smartest person because I have the wisdom of God working in me."
I have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Every day, the Lord is filling me with the Holy Spirit. And when they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they began to speak in an unknown tongue.
See, this is how these things work. And people, they separate, "Oh, this is for the church one hour; I'll be spiritual; the rest of the time I'll be like natural."
No, you are born again; you are washed in the blood of Jesus Christ; you are anointed with Holy Ghost and power for you to use your mouth and call into those things which do not exist.
You start saying, "I am the healed of the Lord; everything about me is well. My brain is well; my organs are well; everything about me is well."
Glory to God! What are you saying? You are calling. Whereas people are busy denying, "Oh, I don't have the sickness; I will never get this sickness."
Yourself, sickness may come, but it will not remain on you. I said sickness may come; it may come in many forms, but it can be put back faster than—because nowadays in the hospital, they tell you when a bone is broken, nature will take its own course.
But the Bible says that same spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you. He will raise Jesus from the dead and will make your mortal body full of life.
We saw in passive Sarah's life when they said nature will take its course. Supernatural took control, and her bone was put back faster without surgery.
It has happened; now she's recovering because the muscle—everything—they have to bring it back because they were put to sleep for a few weeks in the form of a sling.
And then when you release it, you have to make the muscle train. But as we don't pay attention to anything, some say, "Oh, come and say I'm an expert."
According to who? See, we have all these experts pointing out nonsense, and we believe as children of God, anointed of God, chosen of God, selected of God, appointed of God.
Start believing all what the world nonsense tells you. Push it aside and say, "My God, my God, He's there; He will never leave me nor forsake me."
He sees; He is there. I believe that. You may not see Him, but I know Him. Look at me; look what the Lord is doing.
You will be surprised; you will be left on the side. Better join and shout with me because what you believe and say according to the word of God, God will perform.
[Applause] Kind of useless people taking some donation. No, we are the prosperous children of God, and we will believe that.
You better believe that because people think, "Oh yeah, you know, I am safe today." You don't know we live in a fallen world.
You think we planned in horoscope? It was written that passage here, "I will hit the kitchen," what do you call that? "Island and fall and break her shoulder bone."
So what? It happened, man. She's having a time. You don't know; maybe she was too busy. God says, "Okay, girl, daughter of Abraham, sit down here."
24 hours she's confessing the word, speaking, having a good time with the Lord. Man, that doesn't mean you have to break your bone to spend time with the Lord.
But even when what—that they will put you as a stumbling stone, you can step on it and make it a stepping stone to look at God and say, "Hey, you devil, you can never touch me. Nothing can happen to me because God is on my side."
Why? I'm calling into existence. Not only that, my bones are put back together; I'm calling into existence that I am a witness for God, and I will come and speak and let them know that our God is the Healer.
He surely bore our grief, carried our sorrow, yet we esteemed Him, stricken in the spirit of God, and He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for my iniquities.
The chastisement of peace was upon Him, and with His stripes, I am healed. You will see her stand here and glorify God because that day is coming.
Just because she is not physically here doesn't mean she's sick and then given up. She is preparing herself; the Lord is filling her with the power of God, and she's preparing a witness.
And at the moment in her life, she's relaxed; she's sitting there; she gets all good, you know, not only room service, bed service, or service.
We are there to serve. That is called family. What do you think we are doing here? We are serving you this kind of food Sunday after Sunday.
Are you not getting good food? This food, whether you like it or not, will transform you, will make you young, will make you smart, will make you full of wisdom.
This food will keep you healthy; this food will keep you long life; this food will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
See, that is how faith—you get God's faith. Faith comes; faith is given. Next week, we'll learn how to use this faith because, see, you got faith for salvation.
A lot of people, after they are saved, then they are busy discussing, "What denomination you are? Baptist? Pentecostal?" These are all nonsense.
There is no need. If they are belonging to somewhere, let them be labeled. Fellow, I am—like, for example, I was born and brought up a Hindu priest, know nothing about all these denomination business.
So much so, when the Cherry Hill, when I was the pastor, one fellow, he was following—his life was put together. He was about to be divorced, and his marriage was to be broken; everything was in shambles.
They came to my house; I prayed with them; I showed them what to do, showed them what the scriptures promise to stay. They did; the finances came back, and the family was—everything was all right within six months.
Then once somebody broke from another church, a so-called visitor, they came and put poison in this couple. They forgot what the word did. Did not mean their faith families put together.
When you came to my house, everything was through the window; now everything is working all right. They put poison. What is the poison?
"Oh, look at that pastor because one time somebody out of their generosity gave me the Indian-looking silk dress."
We in India like silk because we had more kings and queens than England. Every corner there were kings and queens; we like silk.
So when somebody gave me a silk dress, that attire looked like I am from India. Without attire also, I am from India, so I wore it.
Okay, I am a simple fellow. If somebody blesses me, I am thankful, so I wore that dress and came to preach. I preached myself happy, like always.
So they told poison in this couple, "You know what? He's dressed up like a Hindu; maybe he is preaching new age to you."
And did you find out what denomination is? So that couple came Monday morning and came with a long face. "Ah, what happened? You—um, we may not continue to come to your church. What denomination you are?"
Which I knew somebody has poisoned them. So I said, "What denomination I am? I am always a confident guy because I know God is on my side."
Instead of defending myself and this and that, I jumped from my couch and said, "What denomination? I don't know what denomination myself, but I always prefer fifties and hundreds."
They laughed; I laughed; problem solved. Because see, it doesn't matter what denomination you are. The matter is, are you born again?
Are you following Jesus Christ? Do you read your Bible? Do you accept the Bible? Do you confess the Bible? That is what decides your entire life.
It doesn't matter what denomination you are. So that is why by faith you can be—see, we are so busy always asking God to heal us, asking God to give us our money, asking God to fix our house, asking God to get our car.
That's all is guaranteed. But there is a way. People think, "Oh, I got a little faith, and I am going to have." No, this word of God has to work with the Spirit of God because the Holy Spirit is the one who wrote the book.
So you have to take His help. No, you have got to take the word, start believing, because that faith is given to you.
You believe in your heart, speak. Then you have got to also get filled with the Holy Spirit because the promise in the Book of Joel was promised.
There is a promise that you are—that He will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. Then the same thing Peter quotes in the third chapter of Acts that, you know, this is a promise given to us.
And you are going to be filled with the Spirit of God. He's going to pour on all flesh. Three thousand people, after getting saved, they got filled with the Holy Spirit.
It is a promise. The Bible calls it being filled with the Spirit of God is a promise from God. It's a free thing.
And again, God—Jesus said in Luke, the 11th chapter, verse number 13, Jesus said, "If ye being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father which is in heaven will give you the gift of the Holy Spirit?"
That means the Holy Spirit is a gift. The Holy Spirit is in the place of Jesus. He sent—God sent His Spirit to live in us just not to just, you know, be part and then have a free ride with you.
He is there to help you like Jesus would physically help you. The Holy Spirit will help you how to apply the correct promise at the correct place.
Otherwise, people will take all kinds of problems. I have met people take promise out of context and such things.
God says that God said, "Okay, that's a promise, but that is not the promise." Maybe you want to apply the same. Many people do this.
I'll be bold about this. I have seen—I even told ministers. I went to Kenneth Copeland's conference once. One minister said, "Copeland said that."
I said, "That promise was given to Copeland by God. Is this the promise God gave you?" "Ah, you are so rude."
Fine. The truth is, until today, he never got the promise. How to use the promise? That help comes from the Holy Spirit.
So you have to be filled with the Holy Spirit. So when I read as a believer, Hindu born-again believer, I went to my pastor's Bible study.
They all sit on the floor and read. He would sit on his couch in his house. So one day he read when Jesus was baptized in water. When He came out, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him as a dove.
So I asked him, I said, "What is this?" He said, "Oh, that is—see, I am—I don't know nothing about this Bible or this kind of background, anything. I don't know. I'm learning, but I'm hungry for God.
I want if anything truth and good, I will swallow it up." So he said, "This Holy Spirit, when He comes, He sent."
And then he showed me from John, the 14th chapter, that Jesus prayed and the Father will send out. I don't even know what is the Holy Spirit because I have—I am with all kinds of evil spirits as a Hindu man.
Holy Spirit, I don't know. Then he showed me the promise. It's a promise from God. You can be filled with the Holy Spirit.
When they get filled, just begin to speak in unknown. He explained to me all this Bible in one Thursday night Bible study.
So now what happened? I heard the word; I saw the promise, and it is a promise for every believer.
So I told the pastor, "Pastor, stop. I have to have whatever." They all thought I am crazy. The truth is when you start following God anyway, they will say you are crazy.
Better be crazy and be blessed than just be crazy. I don't know surpasses that you are excited, Jay, but you know we have to call so and so church.
We don't have in our church baptism tank. As a pastor, I read in the Bible, Cornelius—I mean when Philip, he saw one Ethiopian man, he on the way somewhere, they found some water.
He got water baptized. Any water will do, pastor. So he jokingly said, "Only my bathtub is available." I said, "Let us go."
And God be the glory, me and my wife got water baptized in that bathtub of my pastor. When I came out of the water, I believe because it is a matter of me receiving the word, believing in my heart.
I believe I am being filled with the Spirit of God. When I came out of the water with my hands raised, praising God in an unknown tongue.
And from that day to today, I have never stopped it. It continues, and it is a gift from God.
It is an important aspect every believer should have. And the Bible says you can be continuously more and more filled with the Spirit of God.
It is by faith you believe you receive. When you believe you receive that by faith, you believe that you are filled with the Holy Spirit of God.
It is not a feeling; it is a belief that you are being filled. When you believe inside that you are filled, you release the utterance will come.
You may not hear, but it comes, and you release it with your mouth. And no man, again, like that, you release by faith.
When you do that, it is by faith. It is not a feeling. When you start doing that, that will together—a combination together, a supernatural will start operating in a greater measure.
You will understand things better; you will understand especially things of God. You'll get it so fast because the help of the Holy Spirit.
You are just stimulating, which is promised to you. There is an urge filled. After that, people have tried to say a lot of things.
New Age—listen, if you really know some other things, like one fellow said, "What kind of translation you are reading? This is not Paul's translation; this is all diluted in America."
This happened to me. These are all diluted translations. This is not—I told him, "Sir, with a diluted translation, I am having such a good time with God. Bring me the original; see what I will do."
Because it is up to you. You be—you don't be. I always tell myself, "Don't get short-changed. Always aspire for the best, and the best is coming only from God."
So the Spirit of God says now there are people you need to be freshly filled with the Holy Spirit, and you need it because the power of God and the word of God combination together will lift you up.
We lift you up because there is a purpose and a plan for every one of you here. You are not here just to hear a good learning on faith or anything.
You have faith, and you just now demonstrated how you release the infilling. When you believe, you start speaking.
Somebody says, "What if I get only one word?" Like one fellow did this. "What if I get only one word for five minutes or ten minutes or fifteen minutes?"
Is all he did still—it is a word given by the Spirit. You cannot judge. Don't judge what others are saying; don't judge what you are saying.
Because when you offend the Holy Spirit, you will never be forgiven. So come with the attitude that you want to receive this.
It is a gift; it is the best gift you can get from God for your enhancement in your life, for wisdom to operate in your daily life, wisdom to operate in your business, best time to operate in a family, wisdom to operate in the kitchen.
Because the one who wrote the Bible, who gave the promise, who spoke Himself wants to overflow in you.
So I will invite you. I'm just following the instruction I am receiving in my heart so that you will know you not only learn something; you exercise what you learn.
So anyone who wants to be filled with the Spirit of God, come quickly. All of you, join me in faith, and I will say a prayer for you.
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on Nov 05, 2023
