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Episode 87: Free Me, Favor Me - Part 5 · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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I bless you God, blessure. We welcome you, ladies and gentlemen once
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more and again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries US a podcast.
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I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and today we are going
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to continue in this short series on this topic that is near and dear to
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my heart. Personal prayer request a man of mind simply entitled free me,
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Favor me, Free me favor me. Amen. And before we begin,
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I just want to take just a quick moment a brief word of prayer as
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we invoke the presence of the Lord and His Man, his Holy Spirit.
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Amen, lead us and guide us into all truth. And also certainly to
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let us speak forth the words of truth and life. And Amen, hope,
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and also that we would have listening ears to hear what the Spirit would
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say to the Church. Father, We thank you for this day, this
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opportunity, the fresh breath of life that comes from you new mercy this morning.
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Thank you for your great faithfulness. Thank you for the peace of God
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that surpasses all understanding. Thank You for the Holy Spirit, the power of
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the Living God, resting, ruling, abiding with us. Thank You for
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this great, great, great salvation, and all of your benefits that you've
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bestowed upon your people. Blessed Now every obedient heart, every obedient mind.
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God, to a man, hear what you would have to say, to
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believe your report, to stand on your promises, Amen, and to walk
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faithfully amen, in these times in which we live. So God, be
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glorified in your church, be glorified in your people everywhere. Amen. And
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let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in
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your sight. Amen, and a man all right again, this particular short
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series is entitled free me, Favor me, Lord, free me from these
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We've already covered these four topics in our previous podcast, So if you have
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not heard those particular ones, I will certainly invite you, to a man
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listen to those previous four sessions that we've done already. Asking the Lord.
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This is, by the way, of course, this personal prayer request of
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mine these seven things, Amen, fear. I want the Lord to number
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one, free me from fear. Number two free me from folly. Thirdly,
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free me from faltering, and fourthly, free me from foolishness. We
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covered that particular topic in our previous session. Lord free me from foolishness.
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But Lord free me from all of these things in this world of fear,
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a world of folly, a world of faltering, and a world filled with
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foolishness. Lord free me from these things. Certainly, he whom the Son
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sets free is free indeed, and we thank God for the saving power,
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the keeping power. Amen. He who hath begun a good work in you,
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he is able to perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. God
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is our keeper, a man from day to day. So Lord free me
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from these. But as he frees me, I also want his favor upon
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my life. I don't want to just be free in the sense that I'm
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not a making a contribution as it were, Amen to the kingdom, seeking
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the kingdom daily, seeking the Kingdom first, letting it be priority in my
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life. Amen. That is my desire. And so within that framework of
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wanting to be and desiring to be pleasing to God, I think it is
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a man a very good and I'm going to certainly suggest that you would take
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this to heart today, a very good prayer request for any of us to
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ask the Lord to favor us with faith. And that's what we're going to
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discover or talk about. Brother today, Lord favor me with faith. And
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the final two that we're going to cover in the next two sessions would be,
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Lord, favor me with focus and God favor me with fruitfulness. So
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today, Lord, in the affirmative, favor me with faith. Lord,
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favor me with faith. There are several kinds of faith in the Bible,
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and certainly different kinds of faith in our world. Everybody has some kind of
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faith. Amen, But most notably in the Bible, we have saving faith
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by which we are all redeemed back to God. That is, all of
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us who are in Christ Jesus, all of us who have obeyed the Gospel.
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Amen. We have been redeemed back to God through our trust in His
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a man way of salvation again through Jesus Christ, that has been freely given
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to us. Amen. Is the free gift of God. Amen. However,
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Amen, our focus today is not on saving faith, but the gift
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of faith. Amen. The gift of faith as it is given by the
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Holy Spirit within the church. Paul in his letter to the Corinthian Church included
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the gift of faith faith among the diverse gifts of the Holy Spirit to believers
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in the body of Jesus Christ, which is of course the Church of the
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Living God. So when we're talking about the gift of faith a man,
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we're talking about and we're speaking from the perspective of within the body of Christ,
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within the Church of the Living God. This is the gift that I
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desire to have in my life, the gift of faith. Lord, favor
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me a man with faith. And let me take you to First Corinthians chapter
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twelve, from which you will find amen this gift of faith listed among those
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spiritual gifts that are in the body of Christ a man, First Corinthians,
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chapter twelve. I'm going to begin reading at verse number one. Paul writes
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these words to the church now concerning spiritual gifts. Brother, and I do
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not want you to be ignorant. You know that you were gentiles carried away
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to these dumb idols. However you were led. Therefore, I make known
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to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed,
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and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Ghost.
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There are verse number four, diversities of gifts, but the same spirit.
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There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities
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of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all verse
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number seven. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one.
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Listen carefully with the Bible says for the prophet or the benefit of all.
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For to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit, to another,
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the word of knowledge through the same spirit to another faith. There it
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is the gift of faith. Verse number eight to one is given as he
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begins this list amen word of wisdom through the Spirit to another, the word
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of knowledge through the same spirit. But verse nine to another faith by the
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same spirit to another, gifts of healings by the same spirit to another,
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the working of miracles to another, prophecy to another, discerning of spirits to
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another, different kinds of tongues to another, the interpretation of tongues but one.
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And the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually
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as he wills. It is the work of the Holy Spirit, distributing the
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gifts as he pleases. In the Church, in the body of Jesus Christ.
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And I want you to skip down the verse number thirty one. I
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want to read that VERSEI and we'll revisit that just briefly a little bit later.
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But earnestly, Paul says, desire the best gifts. We are to
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earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet he says, I show you a
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more excellent way. And of course that takes us into First Corinthians, chapter
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number thirteen, where he speaks of love, love, and all of the
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these things. None of these things are of no benefit to us if we
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don't have the love of God. Amen. But we want dwell on that
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today. We want to a man focus on this gift of faith a man,
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this gift of faith. Faith itself is a gift from God a man.
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Faith is a prerequisite in order for us to be found pleasing to God.
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And the Bible teaches very clearly that faith comes by hearing. By hearing
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the word of God, we cannot have faith. We cannot possess faith without
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a word from the Lord. No one can have faith without the word of
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God. God speaks, and we are able to believe and act in obedience,
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living by his word. As he commanded from old in antiquity, that
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man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out
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of the mouth of God. Faith without works is dead, being alone.
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James reminds Us in his epistle a Man that we can say that we believe,
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but that doesn't mean anything, Amen, because he says, the devils
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believe and they tremble. Amen. Faith without works, so faith is active.
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Faith is not simply lip service, as Jesus spoke of those Jews in
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his day that would honor him with their lips, but their heart was far
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from him. Amen. And every true believer, of course, has saving
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faith. Amen. Again, we're not dwelling on saving faith. Every true
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believer, every child of God, everyone who is redeemed by the blood of
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Jesus Christ, saved, sanctified, holy ghosts filled Amen and rejoicing in the
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God of their salvation. We all have saving faith. All of us who
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come to God, who has come to God, who will come to God,
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must believe as the Bible says, that He is, that he is
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who he is, and that he rewards those who diligently seek him. And
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although we all have saving faith, not everyone in Christ Jesus has the gift
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of faith. All of us have a measure of faith. Amen. And
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we are certainly to build up our faith. Amen. And we all have
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the responsibility, the personal responsibility it is your own personal responsibility. A man
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to build up your faith, to grow in knowledge, a man to take
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the yoke, as Jesus says in his invitation, one of the great invitations
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in the Bible, learn of me. Amen, Amen, take the yoke
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and learn of me. Build up your faith a man. Again. Faith
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comes by what hearing. Hearing the word of God, and God has painstakingly
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a man. Not that it was painful for him, but I'm just saying,
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the preservation of his word over the centuries, a man has been,
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a man delivered to us, and we have the Word of God. We
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have the revelation of God. We have the revelation of God. A man
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revealing his character, a man his nature, a man in everything that we
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need to know about God has been revealed to us. Everything that is necessary
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for us that pertains to life and godliness in this world, we have it.
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God has given it to us, and it is ours all. Listen
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again, it is your personal responsibility. It is not the preacher's response.
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It's the preacher responsibility. The preacher word. To be faithful to the word.
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A man to give himself to a word of God in prayer all those
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things. A man that God is called and set aside a man. Those
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who are appointed a man to the Gospel, to proclaiming the Word, to
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ministry a man, that's their responsibility, and they also have to be faithful
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and build up their own faith. But you, if you're not in the
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ministry in the sense of preaching or disseminating the Word of God, you have
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the personal responsibility of building up your faith with the word of the Living God,
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because that's how faith is produced in us by the Word of God.
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Saving faith, of course, again comes through grace, and again that is
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what adopts us into the family of God. But it is the gift of
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faith a man. It is the gift of faith in the church that elevates
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faith to the highest level of trusting God even when we are in the most
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dire of circumstances a man, that we may find ourselves in this gift of
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faith is what we need. A man in the Word of God is replete
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with numerous exploits of plain old, ordinary people who displayed the gift of faith
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in their walk with God a man. They may not have possessed this gift
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of faith at the very outset or the beginning of their a man pilgrimage,
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but through their fiery trials, through the facing of impossible obstacles or odds in
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their journey a man. The Bible lets us know that they believe God.
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They trust it in his divine power. They believe that He is the sovereign
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ruler over all of creation and that he was able to do the exceeding the
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abundant the above. Or they could even ask or think, let me give
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you just a few examples Noah. Noah does not build a gigantic floating vessel
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within that one hundred and twenty year period of time of repentance if he did
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not believe God, if he did not believe that it was going to rain,
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even though it had never The Bible tells us he had never rained on
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the earth. He had to believe God. And it wasn't just had belief.
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It wasn't just mental assent. No, ladies and gentlemen, His worked
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is going to work every day. Building that arc was an exhibition of his
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faith. You've got to demonstrate your faith again. Faith without works is dead.
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Noah had more than saving faith. He had an extraordinary faith in believing
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that God was going to do exactly what he said he was going to do.
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Abraham would not have raised the knife to the point of slaying his beloved
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son of the promise by the way Isaac if he did not believe that God
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was able to provide. And that's what he said, Amen to his son
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Isaac. He said, God will provide. Oh, thank you Jesus.
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God will provide for himself. Amen. And he believed that God was able
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to provide. And he also, the Bible tells us, believed that God
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was able even to raise Isaac from the dead, even though no one had
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ever been resurrected from the dead. Abraham believed God. Now Abraham is,
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by the way, is a prime example of someone who grew in their faith
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when the Lord spoke to him Genesis chapter twelfth and called him out from the
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a man a culture that he was in a man. God spoke promises sevenfold
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cover that promised to Abraham about all of the blessings that he would a man
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bestow upon him. But he had to leave. He had to walk at
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him to get out. Now, Abraham had his ups and downs. Amen.
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He had his fears, he had his trials, and he had times
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when he did not fully trust God. As he ought to. But by
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the time he got to this point in his life, ladies and gentlemen,
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we are all to grow in faith and in the knowledge of God. Amen.
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And he was strong in faith. The Bible tells us he always was
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a worshiper of God. He never went back to idolatry Amen. And even
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though again he had his periods or times or seasons when he may have questioned,
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when is this going to come to fruition? When is it going to
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happen? Because it was twenty five years before Isaac, Ladies and gentlemen,
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I was born twenty five years Amen, before the promise of the seed the
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Sun. Amen. By Sarah would come Amen. But Abraham believed God when
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God told him to take Isaac and sacrifice him. He believed that God was
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able to raise Isaac up from the dead. That is, Oh, my
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God, that's a gift of faith, y'all. Amen. And the fugitive
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Moses, by the way, I'm almost done. He returned to Egypt in
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a showdown with the gods of Egypt and the Pharaoh. Because Moses had more
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than just a saving faith, but he had faith in the supernatural power and
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sovereignty of God. Almighty, that he was able to deliver a whole heap
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of people. I mean it was. Some people put the number around six
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million or so. However many it was that came out of Egypt. Moses
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believed that God was able not only to deliver them, but also to bring
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them into the Promised Land. And God was able to provide for them,
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which he did all the way from Egypt, all the way, not only
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provide for them, but also to protect them all the way from Egypt,
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all the way into the Promised Land. And that is, ladies and gentlemen,
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a picture of our pilgrimage. God is able to save you out of
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Egypt, and to keep you in this world and deliver you all the way
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to glory. Amen, He that had begun this good work in us,
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a man is able to perform it. The Bible says until the day of
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Jesus Christ. And as the writer of Hebrews, by the way, in
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chapter number eleven, which we find many of these examples of these what we
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call heroes of the faith. The time, as he said, would fail
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me to expound upon the myriad of others who also triumph with the same gift
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of faith which I believe, ladies and gentlemen, is readily available to all
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of us by the power of the Holy Spirit and through obedience to the living
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Word of God. Again, the Word of God is what produces faith in
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our hearts. And whenever any child of God is given the gift of faith
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in trusting God to do what may be impossible with man, as Jesus said,
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with man, these things may be impossible. But with God all things
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are possible. And he said also all things are possible to them that believe
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a man. When God gives to us, any of us, the gift
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of faith to trust God to do the impossible, it is for the purpose
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of God's glory. It is for the edification of the church. It is
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for the strengthening of the believer. Amen. No gift of the Spirit is
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for individual selfish use and exploitation, but for the benefit of everyone in the
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Body of Christ. And I am convinced that the gift of faith, the
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gift of faith to believe God for the unimaginable, for the exceedingly abundantly above
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all that we can ask or think, is a gift to be desired by
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every believer in the Body. And that is why I pray this prayer,
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and I hope you will too. Lord, favor me with faith, with
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the gift of faith, to believe that you are able. You are able
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even in the midst of this craziness, in this madness of this world that
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is topsy turvy, upside down inside out, in the midst of all of
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this. Lord, You're able to do the impossible. Lord. You're able
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to send revival. Lord You're able to overturn. Lord, You're able to
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shake up and to shake down, to open doors that no man can shut,
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and to shut the doors that no man can open. Lord, You're
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able to save and deliver and set captives free, to open blinded eyes everywhere.
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God, to loose the prisoners that are in shackles and chains, bound
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by the devil. You're able to do it for your glory, for your
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honor, for your great namesake. Lord, favor me with faith to believe
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God to do the impossible, the unthinkable, the unimaginable. Because with man
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it may be impossible, but with God, all things are possible to them
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that believe. Amen to the glory of God. May we believe the report
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of the Lord