Faith needs a companion.
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Conscience- Your conscience uses history to dilute your faith. You must train your conscience and renew it,
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Love is giving. The giving helps Faith work. John loved Jesus and he got Revelation. John known as the lover.
John reports Jesus’ nature. He gets carried into the spirit realm.
Mark 11:23
Forgiveness is in the mix for Faith. Make sure you are operating in love. -
Eph 2:8 Grace For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselfs; it is the gift of God. Grace Charis - Charisma. Divine influence on the human heart that is reflected in the life of the person. The hand of God on a person’s life. God has acted before you have acted. Faith is a reaction to what God has already done. Faith can only apprehend what Grace can comprehend.
Forgiveness is provided by grace. Grace already provided but Faith is what it goes though. Jerome is conscious that Grace is what starts his process of faith. Othewise it’s pride.
If faith was your vehicle grace is the road. The highway on which faith rides. Grace is losing weight without a diet. It’s wiping sweat in the opposite.
Your grace might be working on another person. Biological father had 7 heart attacks. Early 60s found 3 blocks in his heart. Your faith works least with your own family unless your family honors you and your position. When you are too close the faith doesn’t work. Husband and wife praying for each other may not work. Depends on the level of honor you have for who is praying. The mother’s prayers is what kept him alive. It is the opposite of Karma. If you want a family member to come to the Lord apply grace first.
Grace is where the blood of Jesus comes in.
You can’t explain HOW healing works. Only God knows the how. You just exercise faith and let grace do the work.
The brain and the eyes don’t understand the healing. You can miss out by looking at the how.Just go for it. Not how.
Thankful is grace. The word gracious is thank you. Even if a great swimmer you can’t swim if no water in the pool. The world calls it Aura.
- The Word. Romans 10:17 hearing the Word works with Faith. Teaching the Scriptures is NOT the Word of God. It is logos. You need to be sensitive to the Word. God can use people to give you a Word. Keep your ears on. Radar sensing for the Word. The Bible produces a hearing sensitivity. Take your Vitamins can be the Word for you.Develop hearing the Word. The hearing will energize the Faith. Don’t study your way into a sernon. You need to Hear the Word into a sermon.No scripture where Jesus studied. He reads in the synogogue but not studying.
God does not always speak through a verse. God can speak to you on a sign on a tree. Not spontaneously but be sensitive. There are secrets to healing. Law of dematerialaization to remove lump from breast. But the how is still grace. - Joy Matt 14:26 Be of good cheer. After that Peter walks on water. When joy kicks in Faith breathes. Sowing tears is better than shedding tears. Crying is wasted when not sowing. Cheerful. Beny Hinn is moody. It is because your need to focus. Need joy and stay around people who make me happy. Don’t let your spouse talk to you prior to ministry. You need joy to work with faith. Watch comedy. Certain type of music can take you to hell. Don’t read stuff that takes your joy.
- Persecution. Heb 11:32 being tortured part of Faith. Persecution can come with torture. Faith enables you to take persecution. Betrayed or denied something because of your Faith. Not invited to weddings, shunned. What have you lost from your Faith in Christ. Taking a stance can cause problems.
Schools persecuted Jerome because of Christian faith.
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Don’t start joy at the beginning. It is used to break the ice when in a difficult moment in the message.
How does financial lack affect your Faith. Financial challenges come and you say why isn’t God fixing it? Faith requires movement. Momentum. When you are not moving maybe your Faith is not working. Do something.
When you are struggling, get up off the couch and start moving.
Heb 6:12 Faith and patience needed to inherit the promise. Endurance. Keep working the problem.
2 Cor 4:13 I believed and spoken. Must have a confession. Speak to it. Melanie accidently turned off treadmill. He said I could have gotten injured. WRONG. In faith you should say I didn’t get injured so it’s OK. Correct it immediately in your Spirit. If it didn’t come from your heart then it has no power. Faith has a vocabulary.
7. Works James 2;26 Faith without works is dead. Balance that with grace. He would get meds every month. He decided to grow his faith one tablet at a time. Balance between grace and works. It doesn’t mean law it means action to complement Faith. If you want to build something don’t wait for the money but get started. Don’t compete with others. It’s carnal. Keep up with the Jones". Not good. bought a paddy field. But it doesn’t make sense. He wanted to get into agriculture. It’s a start anyway but it can be something in the future.
Your conscience can give you a word. But it is not necessarily right. Bad conscience can make you feel guity for a negative word.
8. Virtue 2 Peter 1:5 Add to your faith virtue. It is excellence. Must add excellence. It is the virtue of praise worthiness. Dan 6:3 preferred due to an excellent spirit. Unbelievers will also prefer you. It is the highest level of quality you can operate in. Go to interview with faith but dress shabbily, don’t brush your teeth, sleepy. Lacking excellence you don’t get the job. Great faith to start the business but no excellency to build it. You can’t be a man of faith and be liked. Not nasty but be excellent with high standards. Provoke you to excellence Mentor. Steps up your game.
9. Jesus Hebrews 12:2 author and finisher of our faith. The source of our faith. Jesus needs to be in the picture. Studying Moses might not give you the faith. Study Jesus’ life. Jesus is before resurection. Christ is after resurrection. Christ is the ascended one above all. Jesus pre-resurrection. Christ is a place a person. Ryan is marrying girl named faith.
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Read the Gospels. Read the Epistles (letters). Over 10,000 newcomers in last month. Partner is more than the tithe. Partners catch more fish.
Flow to start the day. Sleep is when you have God’s total attention to you. In Jacob’s dream his destiny changed. Before you sleep ask for answers to issues.
Getting persecution. Opposition is telling you that you are going in the right direction. Don’t expect life to bring you an easy life cause then you are not overcomeing anything or growing or being effectual. There is a reward with the persecution. FAke prophesy _- so much stress you have bone problem and some headaches. How is it a fake prophecy. He used her hair. Her hair shows stress, bone pain, headaches. The real prophecy: God is shifting you from persecution to reward.
When it comes to money, how do we handle it. Study the word concerning money and give.
Grieve is OK, but there is a time when it is not healthy. 16 categories of the dead. Grief is a sign of self centeredness. Conscience is telling you it’s about the other person. But actually it’s about your position. Same as Pride.
Jerome had to say goodbye to his father. Wish he would love wife better. He got close to correcting his father. He gave him money and vehicle and took care of him. Give him a watch. Didn’t weep at his funeral. Every day after the funeral he would think about him not leaving so soon. He now has grown to the place where it is disappointment but not grief.
Faith process. Childlessness and relocation. Must exercise faith in little things first. Two big things but not working on little things.
Husband had stroke and can’t hear or talk. Build your faith. perceive is from the intuition. The word ido which means to see. The other one is to consider that some were born as eunichs. No sexual capabilities. That restriction is for the fullfillment of his calling. When we look at people that are restricted in a certain way, we need to understand that maybe the restriction is a way to keep his salvation. There can be coded wisdom.
Exercise your faith in little things. Maybe your prophecy is not going to happen but the Lord always has another word. Go and love your husband. Practice your faith in little things.
Extra hour for questions on Friday. Thursday watch the Forensic Night. Watch him minister in Faith. Passion week is coming up. Easter coming up Candles coming up for each day. One time for candles. Not in the future.
Order the candles for Easter.