Romans 10:17; John 1:14; Luke 1:41-42; Isaiah 40:31; Job 42:10; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Psalm 37:4; Genesis 26:12-22; Hebrews 11:1; Matthew 11:12; Psalm 27:13
Thanks to Pastor Thomas for such a on time word that he preached on Sunday that we are pulling on for our word today. To God be the glory!
We are walking in today: L. E. A. P. of Faith
My
faith can be moved forward by the word of God--any time there is an
encounter with the word or the presence of God I will have a leap of
faith. Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Where ever the word of God can be present, faith can be present. That is how our faith gets stirred, by God's word. John 1:14 And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and
truth. There is a process, by which we get to see Jesus, the word made flesh, walk upon the earth as man. Luke 1:41
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary,
the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy
Ghost. This shows us Mary and Elisabeth, meeting together while they are both pregnant. When Elizabeth gets close
to Mary, her baby, John leaps because of an encounter with Jesus in
Mary's womb. Then she is filled with the Holy Ghost and says, in Luke 1:42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Her faith is stirred and the baby leaped. No matter what you are
expecting from God, what it is that you are pregnant with begins to
leap. That is why there are some things that you can't put down.
Things that when you are in the presence of God you want to get it done,
that you are stirred up in your spirit. When you get close to the word
of God that something leaps on the inside of you. That is why the enemy
tries so hard to get or keep you from hearing the word. Trying to keep
dormant what is on the inside of you, that it would not be birthed out
of you. So the enemy works on us from Monday through Friday trying to
get us to sleep in on Sundays and through fiveamprayer. The devil knows that the greatness on the
inside of you is stirred up in God's presence and the hearing of His
word. Then there will be a point that the thing that is on the inside
of you has to be birthed out! You must have a leap of faith! Living Everyday Applying the Process.
Because this is the faith process, it is some thing that we have to do
over and over and over again! That we would be consistent, doing this
thing daily. Looking to God for answers, everyday living the process.
We leap and grow in faith. There is a sudden change or transition, every
time we operate in faith. When we operate in faith there is a sudden,
quick, fast, transition from where I am to where I am going! Like when
they have to add a day in February for leap year, that we get some extra
time. Each encounter we have with God that leaps us forward, gives us
some extra time! So no more worries about running out to time, trust
God He will leap you ahead and give you extra time! Like Pastor Taffe
said regarding
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew
their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. In
walking out this faith process as God leads us He will catch us up, that
we are brought to the front of the line and strengthened that we are not
weary and will walk, not fainting. He does all of this so that we are
able to walk out purpose. It is a leap of faith! The world would say
that a leap of faith is, doing something without understanding. Being
believers, we are leaping fully trusting, not fully understanding! When
we get in motion, He blesses our leap, if it is by faith. Not a maybe
but fully trusting that God will catch us. Inside of this leap of
faith, we have to be constantly applying the processes and principles
that bring to pass the promises of God. We have to understand that God
will not skip process, for promise! God isn't doing
anything just because we are asking, that we don't have to go through
something to receive the promise. Most of the things that we are asking
God for, require a process, some pressing, some changing. We are
wanting to avoid anything having to do with pain or suffering. We often
have this conversation with God, "I want all that You have for me--and I
want it pain free and painless." God replies that He can not skip
process for the promise, if you walk out the process, it will deliver
you to the place of promise. If you walk it out by faith, then you will
leap there--catapulted to a place of understanding. Catapulted to a
place of promise, a place of favor--if you live by faith. Fiveamprayer
we have got to live by faith! There is a process that we have to walk
through. We can not skip a step, lessons not learned will be
repeated. So in the process and the steps given, we must follow in
obedience to what God has given us to do. We have to go through the
process to get to the promise. God wants us to trust Him more than the
thing that He is delivering us to. Do you trust God more and care more
about Him than the thing that you are requesting?! Don't be so wrapped
up in getting something from God that you are not looking for and loving
God more! Trust God, He will give you the things, but where is your
trust! Many of us are only part way committed to the process and overly
committed to the thing. So that when God shows up and asks for that
thing back, you have hesitation and a conversation but God this is
mine! That you would even tell God all about the process that you
walked through to get it. God let's us know that He was right there
with us the whole time, walking with us through the process. Our
response should be, as long as I have You Lord, You can have it all!
Since God operates in multiplication, anything that He takes is replaced
and then some. Look at Job, chapter 42 verse 10, And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
But we have to remain attached to God over anything else. How can you
stand there and tell God "everything but this, I cried for this!" When
God replies, well I wiped away the tears. God doesn't want the stuff,
He really wants us! If we are not willing to let God have the thing,
then we are also holding ourselves back from Him as well. So that God
would take it all so that He can have us or leave us in a constant state
of dependence that we will always look to Him. God takes a chance
every time that He blesses us. Will we come back or find ourselves too
busy for Him!? But because we walked out the process and trusted Him
anyway, He's got to give it to us! He is hoping that we would trust
Him enough to remain with Him. We have to get to a place of trusting
and depending on God and not the things that God gives us! Hear the
word of the Lord; have the word of the Lord in your mouth--faith
confession. While walking through this process, you should fall in
love with God more than the thing that you are seeking after. That it
is all about God, no matter the out come! God is wanting to see if you
trust Him? Can we or will we say, Lord You can have it all! Making
that declaration, requires a leap of faith! In our taking a leap of
faith we don't jump down, we jump up! God causes us to leap into
destiny--when we trust Him and give Him everything, then we can leap
inside of purpose and the place that He has already prepared. We are to be
attached to the process that God has us walking in, not the things!
Putting down our way of doing things. The word of God causes us to leap
and live beyond where we are and allows us to focus on where we are
going! As we trust God in this process, not being focused on where you
are but focused on where God is taking you! So when you are trusting
God, operating in the process, and the principles of His word, you are
not looking at where you are right now--you are looking at where you are
going! So when God tells you to do something, based on the word, you
do it because He is taking you some where! 2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Some
of the things that you have placed value on in your life, can not be
higher valued than Him and where He is taking you! Are you focused on
where you are going, so focused that you are willing to cut people off?
If those around you are not able to respect you walking out this
process, following God's word, you may need to separate from them. Our
focus is to be on the things eternal not the earthly. While you are in a
faith fight, you can't have people in your circle, not supporting
you--only looking for the benefit of the blessing. The word of God
causes us to leap and live beyond where I am, but focus me for where I
am going! So when I read the word of God, the word has me in another
place. The word is usually written towards the future, which causes you
to think, I can't wait until I get there. To get there, we have to
walk out the process. Some of us are being tried in the fire--not to be
consumed but refined! God keeps refining us until He can see His
reflection in us. Like the silversmiths would refine and purify the
metal that it would have a bright shine. When God sees Himself in us,
He blesses us! Let God make you better! We must develop processes in
prayer, speaking and believing--working toward the goal of the promises
of God! Get focused on what you want from God, then cut out the
distractions--people who are distracting and make up your mind! Are
you making different requests of God for the thing that you really
want? Get clear on what your desire is! Do you have the same answer
each time God asks you about it? Are you standing resolute, impassive
on this thing. "Yes, God this is what I want." Fiveamprayer be decided
and confirmed in your selection! Not willing to take substitutes or
counterfeits. Psalm 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. When
we can't figure it out, God will give us what to desire, while we are
reading the word, we have an encounter with God and a leap on the inside
of you--that wants something, that you did not want before. That you
had no idea that you even wanted it. He will give us what to desire, He
will bring us clarity. Then God will clean out the clutter from what
has been keeping you from getting your hearts desire. By being
committed to the process, we can then obtain. How does your prayer life
look? Do you have one? Is it occasional? Was prayer stirred up by an
event? Having a prayer life is prayer on purpose, getting up early and
seeking Him! Making time to get in His presence and seeking a
conversation with Him. What does your word study or devotion time look
like? Have you cracked open you Bible lately? Are you spending time in
this word? Or is it only being read when you go to church? Will you
go home and read the scripture that you have been given in church for
more study and understanding? Be a student of the word! You go to God,
seeking from Him and are not in the word or prayer!? We have to know
the word because that is what He responds to. He tells us to remind Him
of His word. How can you do that, if you are not reading His word?!
Our prayer life is important, that is our communication with Him. God
had given us the measure of faith for us to pull out of Him what we want
most. That gift is given to us by the Holy Spirit and stirred up by
the word of God. There
was a hole in me that God fixed--He gave us faith to be able to pull
out what we need from Him. That you are changed by the word, seeing
more and more every time you are in the word. If
there is no time spent in the word, it will be shown in our lives. The
word will change you when you dig in to it. You go into prayer
speaking His word, you come out of word study speaking His word--the
faith confession. That means that our words and attitude line up the
word of God. Not anything else but His word! Then your faith has to be
targeted towards something. We are to have our faith focused on
something and then allow God to move. Our faith should be focused on
and have our faith targeted on something. That we are to target our
expectations. He moves on our expectations, we are to have focused
faith, standing on His promises that God is delivering on. All that we
need--there is a process to get it! Many of us are concerned about the
time portion. We have to apply the process to our lives that it becomes
a part of our life style, If it is a process, we have to apply it to
our lives! We have to, Live Everyday the Applied Process. Genesis 26:12-22
12) Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an
hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. 13) And the man waxed great, and
went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14) For he had
possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of
servants: and the Philistines envied him. 15) For all the wells which
his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the
Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. 16) And
Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than
we. 17) And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there. 18) And Isaac digged again the wells of water,
which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the
Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called
their names after the names by which his father had called them. 19) And
Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water. 20) And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's
herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well
Esek; because they strove with him. 21) And they digged another well,
and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. 22) And
he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they
strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now
the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. Isaac
is walking inside a bloodline of faith. We are to follow those who
through faith and patience inherit the promises. He is following in the
footsteps of his father. Walking in the same path, making the same
mistakes, receiving the same blessings. In the text you see him dig a
well, then adversity shows up. So he just leaves it, the reason why
everyone got mad was because he got water when he dug the well. So he
was chased away from that one. But he understood the process, if I dig,
I'll hit water. No matter what comes against me, or what persecution I
receive, or who doesn't like me or don't want to help me, who is hating
on me--if I operate in this process of digging I will hit water! Do
you see the process?! Some of us right now are digging and working
towards the process and you can see the dirt turning into mud which
means I have hit something. Th at atthe first sight of what looks like
water, the enemy shows up--persecuting your house, your family. Now
there is problems at the job, that is what it looks like. Spouses
aren't getting along, the kids are going crazy, the money is funny--when
I was not digging, every thing was fine. Everything peaceful and
quiet, the moment I decide to start operating in the process, everybody
starts tripping. Then Isaac goes off to the next well, he does not
change his mind about the process--he operates in it! We often receive
from God and then somebody, chases us away from a blessing and then you
forget all about the process. Why God did you let me dig, and they
chased me away? There is no conversation between Isaac and God--about
why he could not have that well. Fine I operate by process, I live
inside of principle, I will dig another well! No matter what is coming
against you, you need to work the process you have been given! Even if
you get chased off again, hold to the process! God is actually
processing us to get us into the right position. So opposition shows up
to move us to where God has made room for us! But will we walk it out
using the process that He has given us? Everybody who is hating on you
ain't hating on you because they are hating on you. Some people just
don't like you, but remember, that all things work together for the good
of those that love the Lord. If your good is over there, God says let
me see what I will do to get them over here. Many of us are stubborn,
God has sent all kinds of stuff, to get us to move--people, problems and
circumstances. Then you say, I am not going anywhere. Then God sends
something bigger. Those who are sold out will move, conformed to the
process, will dig any where, because I am bound to hit water! The
sustaining force of life, if I operate in faith along enough I am bound
to hit God, the sustaining force of life! God is processing us from
here to here--from glory to glory! It is unfortunate that we had to
leave, that you were fired, that you were cussed out--but God is working
it all our for our good. We have to be committed to the process! No
matter what it looks like. There may be some dark days. Maybe I don't
want to dig, but hit others with the shovel out of frustration. Don't
let the enemy get you out of focus, asking God about what others are
doing to you--God is processing you, everybody can't go where you are
going. Stop being frustrated or mad at God. You have been fully
equipped to prosper and succeed everywhere that you go. If you operate
in the process. Simply believe God. I could be put in any situation
and rise to the top. That is what faith looks like, that is not
prideful or conceited, I am confident, knowing when I walk in the
principles that God has given me, I will rise to the top. We are not here on
accident, we are here on purpose! Stop asking God why, He had given us
everything for life and godliness! We are fully equipped to succeed.
You have places to go, God has called you to destiny. Why are you
sitting on the side of the road crying over things that don't even fit
you anymore! Look the enemy in the face and smile and thank my haters
for pushing me into my purpose. When I act right God will leap me over
there, living everyday applying the promises! Faith operates like that,
you won't know how just know that God is with us! Every encounter we
have with God, we have a leap of faith! We have to be committed to
spending time in prayer and in His word. Never miss when the word is
going forth. You are gonna come to church and have an encounter with
God and then go home and pursue everything you ever wanted to do. To
look back over your life and see that it was not mistake or mishap, it
was supposed to happen! If you would subtracting things from your life,
it would change who you are. Taking those things out means that you
have not completed the process. As you are running from the people who
are chasing you from the well that you dug, it is for my good, should be
your response!
Faith Process that Pastor Taffe has given while teaching on faith:
- Know that it is God's will to bless us with material blessings.
- Find scripture that promises you the material blessings.
- Write it down and read them out loud. (Joshua 1:8)
- Pray
a prayer based on the promises of God in scripture and believe at that
time you receive what you have prayed for. (Mark 11:24)
- Fashion and speak a confession of faith in agreement with the word.
- Thank God daily for what you believe you receive as a sacrifice of praise.
- Sow a financial seed for wisdom and favor for the acquisition. (Genesis 15)
- Keep your thoughts in agreement with the word of God, by meditating on the word of God. (Psalms 19:14
- To keep your mind, listen to tapes in agreement with what you are asking for--stay inspired.
- Confess the wisdom of God and that God orders your steps in the process--motion.
- Avoid debates with unbelievers, protect your heart.
- Get you natural example and learn from their successful efforts. (Hebrews 6:12)
- Diligently follow the natural order to the full extent of your integrity--tell the truth, be upfront. Do all you can in the natural.
- Don't get frustrated in the process, respect the patience parameter. Chart progress and rejoice at every point of progress. Remember results are progressive!
We seal this prayer in His precious blood, by His Spirit: I will walk out the process by a leap of faith! Trusting in God, always!
Welcome to the overflow...
Trust in the Lord with all your heart! Lean not to your own understandings, in all your ways acknowledge Him. He will direct your path! Walk through the process with me this morning: leap of faith! Walk out the process of trusting God! Trust Him, believe Him and He won't let you fall! Just trust the Lord, never doubt the Lord, He has made a way, He won't let you fall! Thank You Lord! For it is written that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God! Taste and see that the Lord is good! Take time out this weekend and get a hold of this one! Walk out this process! To God be the glory, no man gets the glory! We trust You Lord! Visit us on facebook, it will encourage you! Keep on saying it, fiveamprayer--even if you don't see it with your natural eyes, look for it in the spirit! We are trusting You Lord more than what we see in the natural! Amen! Amen!
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