BELIEVING BEYOND THE TEST PART 1

1 Corinthians chapter 10













Today we are walking in: Believing Beyond The Test Part 1










Proverbs 20:6



Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful H529 man who can find?





FAITH





Today we look to the word FAITH-- H529- emuwn--faithfulness, trusting, faithful









The Torah testifies...............




Deuteronomy 32:20



And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith H529











The prophets proclaim..................



Habakkuk 2:4



Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith H529.











The writings bear witness............

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Believing Beyond the Test, Pt. 1




Every vision will be tested for authenticity.




That means no one in this room, or watching this TV program, no one listening to this CD or watching this DVD, is exempt from tests. Being born qualifies you for tests.




The safest way to stay away from major tests is to decide not to fulfill your vision. Did you get that? In other words, decide not to be yourself, and you won’t have too much trouble in life. Of course, you’ll end up being nothing.




But the minute you discover and decide to pursue your assignment, you just qualified for tests. Please get used to that idea. Stop believing that testing is a sign that you are out of Yah’s will. Testing is a sign that you are in it.




The devil doesn’t stop anyone who ain’t going nowhere.




So your vision assignment must be tested for what? That’s a big word, eh? Authenticity.




It means Yah has designed life in such a way that life will test to see if what you claim Yah told you to do is authentic.




So if you don’t want to be tested greatly, do little things or do nothing. By the way, if you aim at nothing, you never miss.




Everybody say, “Tests are normal.”




Say it again, “Tests are normal.”




You know what tests do? They remind you you are living. You are alive.




Only dead people are not tested.




As long as you are breathing, you will be tested. And the exams never finish in life.




Write this down, point number four:




The test is not to destroy you, but to prove you.




Tests are not sent to destroy; they are sent to prove.




You will never know who you really are until you are tested.




Yah doesn’t send tests—or should I say allow tests—in your life because He wants to destroy your life. He allows tests so that you yourself could discover what you are made out of. Whether you truly do have the belief in your own assignment.




We were talking about life. One of the things I tried to emphasize to you is you must allow Yah to be Yah.




Don’t try to be Yah. You will definitely kill yourself.




What do I mean by that? Well, here’s what I mean.




There are things only Yah can do. So know your limit and back off.




Number two, there are things only Yah knows. So some things you don’t know, and be honest with people.




Number three, there are things only Yah understands. You don’t comprehend everything that’s happening in your life or what has happened in life. You must know when to back off and say, “You know, Yah, I really don’t understand this.”




Surrender your lack of understanding to Yah’s omnipotence.




Number four, there are things only Yah can explain. You should not try to explain everything to people in life, because there are some things you cannot explain.




Like why you bow-legged. Well, that’s not a good example, I guess.




You know, don’t try to be Yah. Relax. Keep your blood pressure down.




Here’s the key: you have to know your limit, and you’ll have a good life.




If you try to make the sun rise in the west—I mean, you make it a project—you can’t change that. There are some things that you are limited in.




You know what the Bible says? “With Yah, all things are possible.” So you got to leave what’s not possible up to Yah.




It’s going to be a good session. Listen to me carefully.




So what do you do? And I’m about to show you what Yah spoke to me about this morning.




Man, that was a beautiful statement. When Yah speaks, you can’t comprehend it. It’s so beautiful.




Write this down:




The most important power you possess is your faith.




See, when you don’t know anything, all you got left is faith.




When you don’t understand something, son, you got to believe.




Number two, faith is your belief and conviction that creates your confidence.




If you lack confidence, that’s because you lack faith.




If you possess faith, it produces confidence every morning. You walk into the world with confidence, no matter how the environment looks. You walk into the world with the spirit of conviction that, “I’m still going to win.”




It gives you confidence.




Number four, your faith is manifested by the test it encounters.




I repeat, your faith is manifested by what? I can’t hear you. The test it encounters.




In other words, if you have faith, only tests can prove it exists.




So we will never know whether you have faith unless you face a test. And that’s why you’re going through what you’re going through right now in your life.




That experience didn’t come to destroy you. It came to test to see if there’s faith under all of that talk.




“The Lord is good.”




Well, let’s see how good He is. Let me take a couple of things from you.




“And Yah can do anything.”




Really? Well, let me just touch certain things in your life to see if He can do anything. Do you really believe He can?




See, the test will manifest faith.




In the Kingdom of Yah, faith is the most important thing you possess.




So faith is manifested by tests.




How do you strengthen faith? Well, here’s what I want you to write down. This is our statement from Yah in this series, and that is:




Your faith is only as strong as the test it survives.




Say it with me:




“My faith is only as strong as the test it survives.”




Everybody say it again:




“My faith is only as strong as the test it survives.”




Say it again:




“My faith is only as strong as the test it survives.”




In other words, no matter how much you brag about your faith, it is as strong as the test it overcomes.




Well, according to the Word of Yah, you are designed for the tests that you encounter.




Glory, halleluYah.




Please don’t miss this point. Please.




You know, when Ford Motor Company builds a car and you buy it, you will know that in that car there is a speedometer. The speedometer says 180 miles per hour.




Now, you never went that fast. You didn’t have any say in them putting it on the speedometer. They didn’t ask your opinion or nothing.




When you bought the car, it came with this statement: 180 miles per hour.




And they say, when you buy it, “We guarantee it can travel 180.”




Now, you weren’t there. You don’t know how they got to put it there. You don’t know what gave them the right to put it there, what qualified them to put it there. All you do is you buy the car.




Now, here’s the issue:




How did they get to put that figure on the car?




I took a tour of the car company in Detroit some years ago. I can tell you all about that. It was an amazing experience to me, how they build cars.




And one of the things that they have in the Ford Motor Company complex, they got this place they call the test track.




Now, the test track is a track, just like a race car track, that is owned by the company. And what they do is they would build an engine, and then they would put the engine in a test car.




They call it a test car. Only one test car. One test car.




Then they would pay what they call a test driver. It’s a very dangerous job. The test driver is the guy who they pay to sit in that car, and he has to take that engine to 180.




And he has to drive around that track and go from 10, 30, 50 miles per hour, 60, 100, 115. And then the guy’s driving: 160, 175, 180.




And he has to stay at 180, he says, for one minute.




Can you imagine? Dangerous job.




By the way, these guys get high insurance, and they get paid thousands of dollars an hour. Test pilots.




Once they finish the race, they clock it and everything. They get it all confirmed: 180.




Then they take the engine out of the test car, and they take it back to the engineers. And they say, “Replicate this engine every single centimeter. Produce this engine 300,000 times. The same engine.”




They don’t test all the cars. They test one engine.




Then they reproduce it 300,000 in its image.




So they make thousands in the image of one that was tested.




Then they put it in the cars, and they put on the speedometer 180.




How can they guarantee it can make 180? Because it is made in the image of one that made 180.




But the only way that they could have made it in that image is because it was pre-tested.




Everybody say, “Pre-tested.”




So now, when you sit in the car, you could literally feel confident that you are buying 180 miles per hour, even though it never drove 180. You never drove 180, because it’s been tested.




In other words, they design the engine for a test, and then they build all the others on the one they tested.




Put another way, the tested engine becomes the model, the prototype.




So they can use that one engine as a mentor for all the others.




Yahusha told Kepha something.




Yahusha said, “Kepha?” He said, “Kepha, listen. In the Kingdom of Yah, please open your eyes. Listen. Listen. Listen to me, please.”




He said, “Kepha, in the Kingdom of Yah, every confession you make requires a test.”




Remember Kepha told Yahusha, “I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I will never deny you.”




And Yahusha said, “Kepha, Kepha, oh Kepha.” He said, “Satan has just demanded to test you, and I cannot stop him.”




Watch Yahusha now.




He says, “But I—” He said, “When you are tested, I have prayed for your faith.”




He says, “And when you have completed the test”—watch it now—“then you can strengthen your brothers.”




Let me tell you something.




When you’re going through a tough time, that’s a good sign that Yah wants to use you as a model.




And if you fail the test, they take the engine and throw it on the dump heap, and they start building again.




Don’t let Yah throw you away. Pass your test. Go through this tough period, because Yah wants to make a lot of people in your image.




Yahusha said, “Kepha, when you complete this test, then you can strengthen your brothers. You can now reproduce after your kind.”




Do you know, you’re not called into ministry, you know. You are qualified for ministry.




And I’m happy. I really don’t care how deep you think you are in Yah. I’m not really interested in how well you can speak and sing.




The minute you tell Yah, “Use me,” Yah says, “Okay.”




And Yah starts collecting all these tests. And you’re like, “No, no, no, I want ministry.”




He said, “I know you want ministry, but I got to qualify you. Let’s go to the lion’s den, the fiery furnace. Let’s go to jail. Let’s get beaten up, criticism, chaos. Let’s make sure that when you go there, you don’t make me ashamed.”




Let me tell you why it’s important to understand this. Because sometimes we think that tests are strange.




And they’re not strange.




It’s normal when Yah’s about to use you for something greater. He wants to use you as a model.




And sometimes it’s so rough, you know.




Sister Sylvia goes, “Yah, why don’t you take this from me?”




Like Sha’ul, “Why don’t you take it from me?”




Yah says, “Because I got some folks watching you to see if you can believe through this. Not believe that I can take it from you—believe through it.”




Because some folks need to be able to see that your faith can handle all the stress and still come out smiling on the other side.




Because your faith is only as strong as the test it survives.




Write this down:




Here’s what the Bible says about tests.




Qorintiym Ri’shon (1 Corinthians) chapter 10. Sha’ul says in verse 12:




“So if you think you are standing firm…”




Watch this.




“Be careful that you do not fall.”




Stop right there.




There are people in this place, and maybe those outside this place, who have been talking strange talk.




“Boy, I’m not as weak as you. I wouldn’t have fallen to that. I wouldn’t this, I wouldn’t that.”




Thank Yah, Sha’ul says, “Be careful. You next.”




I feel like slapping somebody.




You know, people don’t understand. Don’t criticize people. You next.




You know what Yahusha said one time? He says, “Be merciful and you will obtain mercy.”




What He’s saying is, you better be merciful to those who are going through troubles now, because you’re going to need it next week.




Come on, give Yah a praise. He knows what you’re going through.




Mercy.




Don’t talk things you don’t understand. Don’t try to explain things you can’t comprehend. You just got to trust Yah in it.




You think you are strong. Sha’ul says, “Be careful.”




Yah’s going to bring you through this. I know it’s tough. I know it’s a nightmare.




And when things happen sometimes, like let’s say you get a divorce or someone dies, all of a sudden your life goes into this spin, and you’re like, “Nothing makes sense.”




And Yah says, “Keep your faith.”




Faith means keep believing.




I know you don’t understand everything right now, but just keep believing.




Don’t stop believing in Me. Lose everything else, but don’t lose that.




Kepha says, “Yahuah, I’ll never leave You.”




Mashiach says, “I pray that your faith fail not.”




Now, you may cuss and everything else. You know, Kepha cussed that night three times. You may even tell people you don’t even know Yah.




He said, “But make sure that’s a lie.”




Come on, somebody.




Oh, that’s a good one. I thought that was good. That’s pretty good.




He said, “Kepha, even if you tell them you don’t believe in Yah, deep down inside, you still believe. Don’t let your faith fail.”




What do you do when people fall apart around you? What do you do when things happen that you can’t explain?




You got to keep believing.




Believe yourself right out of the lion’s den.




We want faith. We want faith that takes you beyond the test.




Look at this verse. He says, “Be careful,” because you too, you also set up. You might fall.




Be merciful.




Verse 13. He says, “There is no temptation…” That means test.




“…that has seized you except that which is common to men.”




In other words, nobody—listen to me carefully, because I used to think I was special—ain’t nobody special.




The hell you catching is a multiplicity of hells. The folks sitting behind you right now got a bigger hell you don’t know, but they’re hell.




So sometimes you feel like, “Oh, man.” You say, “Yah, why me?”




Yah says, “No, no. Just say, why us?”




Because a whole lot of folks around you going through stuff, the same stuff.




It’s common. It’s common.




And do you know what I believe? Yah is so wonderful. Yah would allow you to go through something, and then He’ll keep you strong in it, so when the next person goes through it, you can say, “You’re going to make it.”




Come on, say amen.




You know, I did my sister, Chara, you know, losing Pastor Emmy. And then my sister back there, Sue, losing Steve. Could you imagine Sister Chara telling Sue, “Girl, you’re going to be all right”?




But it wasn’t easy going through it.




You see, we have to be careful in believing that our test is special.




“This is unique. Yah must really think I’m unique. No one going through this ever been. This is a new test ever on earth. No test like this. No one never, ever been through no divorce. Never.”




Stay right there.




“I never lost a job where I was the chief person, the CEO. Yah, I must be special. They fired me and I am the CEO.”




Yah says, “Oh. You know how many CEOs I got saying the same thing this very hour?”




It’s common.




“I ain’t coming back to church because, you know, this thing.”




Yah said, “Listen, listen, listen. I got a thousand members who woke up this morning saying the same thing. All of them on the way to church. Put on your clothes and go to church.”




“This is only me. Only me.”




You remember that guy? The pity party. What was his name? Eliyahu.




But Eliyahu was a felon. You know, Eliyahu is a man of Yah. No prophesying. No miracles.




One day, Eliyahu became depressed. Went inside the cave. Sat down in the cave out there on Elytra.




And Eliyahu started talking to Yah. And you should hear him. You should read this. Eliyahu sounds exactly like a Bahamian.




Eliyahu says, “Yahuah, I ain’t going back out there.” I mean, he’s a great man of Yah. The great prophet called down fire. He said, “I ain’t going back out there no more.”




He said, “First of all, everyone talking about me.”




Sound familiar? Common, right? Yeah.




Then he says, “Yahuah, there ain’t nobody else willing to do what I do.”




Yah said, “Okay.”




And then the third thing he said to Yah, “Yahuah, I can’t go back out there because I’m the only one left.”




Now, I can hear Yah cracking out laughing in heaven.




The Bible says, “And Yahuah came to Eliyahu and said, Eliyahu, do you know that I got seven—how much?”




Well, that’s a lot of people to take your job, eh? Not 700. Seven thousand prophets who are ready to take your job this afternoon.




You and I, sometimes we make Yah think, you know, without me, You can’t do nothing.




“You need me, Yah.”




Yah said, “Let me tell you something.”




I never forgot this as a teenager and as a visionary. Yahuah says, “It’s a privilege for you to serve Me, not a right. I don’t have to use you, Myles. So settle down, behave yourself, and thank Me every day for the privilege.”




It’s a privilege.




It’s common.




Tell your neighbor.




Okay. No, here’s what I want you to ask them:




“You catch yours yet?”




Ask them.




Now, answer them.




“Catch what?”




Say, “Hell.”




Give Yah a big hand. Praise Yah.




Yeah, you catch your hell yet?




HalleluYah. Glory, halleluYah.




“Well, you know, saints don’t catch hell. I’m born again for the Ruach Ha’Qodesh. I’m a Kingdom citizen.”




Oh, yeah? Wait till the sunset.




It’s common. All men to be tested.




The test is not important. What’s important is how you handle it.




Look at the next statement. He says:




“And Yah is faithful.”




Whoo, I like that.




He begins by saying, now, look, the solution to the test is, first of all, Yah is faithful.




Why? Because you might not be.




So he says, look, before you enter the problem, first settle in your mind: Yah is faithful.




Why? Because I might not have much left after this.




So if I fail, He will be faithful still.




So when I lose faith, I have to put my faith in His faith.




Anybody there this morning? Are you there? Yes, sir.




Sometimes, see, you don’t know people screaming about. You don’t know.




You said, “Don’t look at them. You next.”




Sometimes I walk around and I go, “Yahuah, Yahuah, only Your grace made me different from that man over there. Only Your grace.”




Give Yah a praise for His grace.




You don’t know what people go through.




HalleluYah.




And the good news is He’s faithful. Give Him thanks for being faithful.




Yah is faithful.




Young man, He’s going to bring you through. He is faithful.




Even when you can’t keep up, He’ll hold you up.




Some of you this morning came to this meeting with tears that haven’t arrived in your eyes yet, and no one knows what you’re going through.




And you’re saying, “Yah, if I don’t have a breakthrough this week, I don’t know what I’m going to do.”




And Yah is saying, “I’m going to send you a word this morning that I’m faithful.”




HalleluYah.




“I’m going to bring you through this. I know you think the doors are shut and all the walls are closing in.”




He said, “But I tell you what, I made the cement that made the walls. I will bring you out of this.”




The Bible says, “Many are the afflictions of who?”




Those who are in right standing with Yah.




“But Yahuah will deliver them out of them all.”




He didn’t say when. He said, “It’s coming.”




Now watch this part, like this. He says:




“He is so faithful, He will not let you be tempted beyond”—read it—“what you can bear.”




Isn’t that a good Yah?




Listen to me, sir. Daughter, listen to me.




That verse is keeping me hot all the time for the rest of your life. Whole life.




Live the whole life on that one verse, because He says He won’t allow you to be tested beyond that which you are able to overcome, which means that there’s no test that could destroy you.




Zero.




Give Him a praise that you’re going to be okay.




HalleluYah.




And I know sometimes when you’re going through it, but the car is like, “Oh Yah, oh Yah.”




Catch yourself. Hang on.




“I allow this because I trust you. I trust you. I trust you with this pain. You’re stronger than this pain.”




He won’t allow it.




Thank You, Yahusha.




This verse tells me this. Praise Yah.




It tells me that you can tell what Yah thinks about you by the test you face.




Are you hearing me?




See, Yah says, “Look, I won’t allow it if you can’t handle it.”




Which means that you could tell what He believes you can handle by what He allows you to face.




You know, this ministry used to believe Yah for $300 a week to pay rent over 25 years ago. We used to believe Yah for $300.




We got to believe Yah this week for $200,000.




So you go from $400, $300, $200,000 a week.




Okay. So that’s why I have to keep my peace.




I said, “Okay, Yahuah, if You allow that to be the test, then deep in Your heart, Yah, You believe I can handle that test.”




So I keep on moving. I keep on moving. I keep on moving.




Listen, friends, if you’re going through a big one, you must got a big faith. That’s what it means.




He won’t allow if He is not convinced about your own capacity to overcome.




This week, take this word into Monday and Tuesday. When Thursday hits you and something goes bad, just say, “Yahuah, that’s what You think about me? You mean You believe I can actually do this?”




And heaven is clapping, “Go, girl. Go, guy.”




The Bible says you got such a great cloud of witnesses looking over the balcony of heaven, watching you run the race, Ivriym says. They’re watching you run.




And here you are. You’re about to funk. You know, quit.




And they’re saying, “No, no, no, no. You’re almost there. Keep going.”




I can hear the voices of heaven saying, “Keep running. Keep running.”




I don’t know about you, but, you know, I did long-distance running for years in my life, and I know there’s a point. All you runners know that there’s a point where your body tells you, “You quit.”




If you ever beat that point, it’s over for the body. Am I right? You can run forever after that.




Some of you are at the break point right now. Yah is saying, “Keep running. I’m faithful. I wouldn’t allow this race if you couldn’t win this.”




You get up and you keep running. You quit doubting and keep believing.




Run.




Let me tell you something. The life—oh, don’t miss tonight. Life behind the test is wonderful, but you got to make it through it.




You thought you had difficult days in your life? No.




Put it another way. You thought you had good times in your life. The good times ain’t started yet.




But the route to the good time is a little test.




Make it through.




Look at the last part. He says:




“But when you are tempted, He will provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.”




Oh, I feel like you’re shouting glory.




HalleluYah. HalleluYah.




Sometimes you say, “Yah, it’s killing me.”




Yah said, “Get up and lift it up.”




Imagine He will make a way.




Now, you know what’s amazing about this? You and I don’t know the way.




You know what makes us depressed and frustrated? We try to dictate the way.




You imagine, here you are. You serve Yah. You sing in the choir. You’re faithful. You never miss a prayer meeting. You know, you pay your tithe, everything else.




And all of a sudden, they’re going to put you in a lion’s den.




And now, you know, you say, “Okay, Yah’s with me. Yahuah will never leave me, nor forsake me.”




You start quoting all these scriptures, right?




“Yahuah will bless me.”




The man says, “You go into the lion’s den.”




“But I know Yahuah going to deliver me when I get to the gate before I go in. I don’t know that. He going to fix that. As a matter of fact, when the soldiers come to get me, when they touch my body, they all fall on the ground.”




You start telling Yah how to do this thing.




“You’re going to do it that way, Yah.”




And Yah says, “You know something? I said, I will make a way. I will make a way. You don’t make the way. I make the way.”




And we start telling Yah, “Okay, Yah, when I get to the gate of the den, you know, let the gate close. Can’t open.”




You get to the gate, the gate open.




You walk inside. You see the lion.




You say, “Yahuah, I know the lion’s going to die now.”




Open your eye. Every lion around you growling.




They say, “Okay, Yahuah, I know that when they about to bite, all their teeth going to fall out.”




Every teeth shining and ready.




We keep telling Yah how to deliver us.




And watch Yah now. Yah’s way of delivering you is actually locking the gate behind you, keeping the teeth in the lion’s mouth.




Come on, somebody.




And letting the soldiers look in and see faith. How faith acts in a den.




Let’s all give Yah a big hand.




How does your faith act in the furnace? How does it act?




You know, Chananyah, Miysha’el, and Azaryah, I will never forget what they told the king. They told the king, they say, “King, live forever.” That’s Nevukadne’tstsar, right? “Live forever. Yah bless you, buddy.”




That’s what they said.




Then they said, “We will not bow to your idol.”




He said, “Then we can put you in the furnace.”




They said, “Oh, king, hear us. Our Elohiym, whom we serve, can deliver us from your furnace.”




Okay, that sounded charismatic. Okay, sounds good.




But this is the part that the charismatic people don’t say.




It says, “But if He doesn’t…”




Oh, my Yah.




Oh, that’s in the Bible.




“If He doesn’t…”




Come on, say it.




“If He doesn’t deliver us.”




Is that the kind of faith you got? The faith that says it still stands if He doesn’t?




What do you do if He doesn’t save your house? You quit the church and say it doesn’t work, and Pastor Myles preaching it’s not right?




“If He doesn’t, we still shall not bow to your idol.”




Now, remember now, every time you make a confession, it has to be tested.




So Yah said, “Okay, tell you what, I will not deliver you. You will go into the fire. Let me see if what you say, you believe.”




You beautiful queens, let me tell you something. All the work that you’ve been doing to achieve your goals will be tested. You ain’t seen tests yet.




But Yah sent you here this morning to tell you when you go through the next test, you remember Dr. Munroe says you have what it takes to overcome it.




He won’t allow it if you can’t overcome it.




Say it:




“He won’t allow it if you can’t overcome it.”




Say it again:




“He won’t allow it if you can’t overcome it.”




Your test is a sign of Yah’s confidence in you.




He will make a way of escaping.




See, let me tell you why that’s an important statement. Because we don’t know the way out of the situation. And the way He may choose will seem so unorthodox that all you’ve got is your faith.




You pray for somebody to be healed, to heal, heal, heal.




And so you bring oil, you put it on the head. You get all the cloth from Shambach, you put it all in the body. You know, you get Oral Roberts’ book, you put it in the back. You know, you have to cover the pillow with all kinds of tapes and, you know, Oral Roberts and, you know, Benny Hinn and, you know, and just stuff.




You take them to Benny Hinn Crusade, and they still die.




He’s Yah.




Yah says, “Wait a minute. That’s the way I chose out. What about your faith? Are you still believing in Me? Is your faith still in Me? Or is it in healing? If I don’t heal, I’m still Yah.”




I remember when Oral Roberts’ son and daughter had a plane crash, and his child died in the plane crash.




Here’s this man preaching, “Yah is a good Yah.” He’s the first one in history to make that a cliché: “Yah is a good Yah.”




I saw him in crusades. I worked with him at ORU. Pastor Richard and I were with him all the time in the crusades.




We see thousands get healed, and now his own child dies.




What do you say?




His wife fell down and broke her hip. He prayed for her. She didn’t get healed.




He saw millions get healed. His wife didn’t get healed when he prayed.




Where’s your faith? Who do you think you are?




And I heard him. I was at the funeral of his child. He was burying his own child.




He said maybe—he said thousands of people there, 15,000 people. And everybody’s watching Oral Roberts. He’s the great healer.




Let’s see what he’s going to do now. What is he going to say? He couldn’t even raise his own son from the dead.




And he stood up to the microphone, tears running down his face. He said, “You know, Yahuah can heal two ways. He can heal temporarily or permanently. He decided to heal my child permanently.”




The whole place went quiet.




You know, Yah can heal you. Death is a healing. You’ll never be sick again.




Sometimes my loved ones in the hospital, we are so selfish.




“Hold on. Hold on.”




The person got ten tubes in their ears and their nose and their mouth, their hip. You know, packed all this stuff. They got all this stuff and machines pumping the heart.




“Hold on.”




That’s selfish.




You should say, “Yahuah, Thy will be done.”




And tell them, “If you want to leave, you can leave. If you want to stay, we’ll stay with you. But if you want to leave now, you go ahead. We ain’t going to be holding you back.”




Release people.




Because Yah may decide to heal them permanently from all that pain and stress.




Yah bless the elegant ladies. Give them a hand.




Yah bless you. May you all win every test in Yahusha’s name. Every contest too. Contest. Yes, contest.




Give them another hand for their presence.




I love you. Yah bless you.




You all do well. Miss Continental. Miss Bahamas as well. That’s my girl. Yes, sir. That’s my girl.




She studied my book on purpose. That’s why she won.




Praise Yah. Yes, sir. That’s my girl.




Congratulations. I love you.




Let me just wrap up on this.




Listen to this carefully.




The test you’re going through, Yah’s going to bring you out. Please get this. Please.




HalleluYah.




He says what? He says He will provide. Look at that verse.




He says He will. That means He will bring you out.




But you don’t know how.




So don’t put your faith in the way. Put your faith in Yah, and don’t tell Him how to do it.




You know, in our board meetings sometimes, I’ll just remind our board members there’s a Yah factor.




Say that. You should write that down somewhere.




Always remember the Yah factor.




The Yah factor should be said about everything.




When they say the bank says, “We can’t lend you any money. You don’t have enough credit. You got bad credit,” et cetera, et cetera, then you say, “But there’s a Yah factor.”




The Yah factor is the area that no one can control.




That’s where Yah can turn the fire into cool air.




That’s the Yah factor.




See, Nevukadne’tstsar didn’t figure out the Yah factor. He said fire burns.




It only burns if Yah ain’t in it.




He forgot the Yah factor.




Nevukadne’tstsar said, “Okay, the lions eat people.”




Yeah, but if Yah’s in the lion’s den, then the lions are a pillow.




It’s the Yah factor.




Say, “Neighbor, don’t forget the Yah factor.”




Say it again:




“Don’t forget the Yah factor.”




When you hit a solid wall and there’s nowhere to go, just remember there’s a Yah factor.




Why? You can walk through walls if the Yah factor’s there.




You’re going through the wall.




He will make a way of escape so you can stand up under it.




Let me just give you this:




Kingdom faith submits its limitations to the unlimited Yah.




As you walk out this week, prayer and fasting, your business, your investments, your family, your home, your dreams, your visions, everything that you are dealing with for the next 50 years. In 50 years, you’ll be 95.




Think about the next 50 years and living by faith.




Some things you can’t control. You know, we pray for your husband, and you know, we pray for him to get healed.




Yah said, “Look, just hang on. Just trust Me. People are watching your faith.”




Do you only believe Yah when He does something?




He can do anything, including nothing.




So you got to believe Him.




Praise Yah.




And those of you who are doing well, you ain’t got no problems. I know some of you all ain’t got nothing wrong with you. You got perfect people.




Just remember, tomorrow’s coming.




That prayer card I gave you to fill out, don’t say, “I ain’t got nothing to pray for.”




You better find something. Fill out that card. Put it on the altar.




Why? Because you’re going to need mercy.




Matter of fact, if you ain’t got no problem, here’s your prayer card:




“For the things that are about to happen to me, pray: Let my faith fail not.”




That’s what you put on the card if you ain’t got no problems.




Because they’re coming.




They are coming.




You got to trust the unlimited Yah.




Tehilliym 131 says, verse 1, he says:




“Yahuah, my heart is not haughty.”




What haughty means? Proud.




Who’s speaking? A king, David.




The most powerful man in the whole country.




He says, “I’m not proud.”




Why? He said:




“Nor is my eyes lofty.”




What is lofty? Looking down on people.




Boy, you know why he went through that? Because yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.




“You know why he’s having such a hard time? Because yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.”




So you’re looking down.




Be careful.




You next.




Pray one for another, the Bible says, that you might be healed. Not what you pray for other people to be healed.




He said, the healing comes to you.




Lofty looks.




“You know what? I know that they must be living right.”




Careful with that lofty look.




That’s why David started by saying, “I’m humble.”




When I see a man going through a problem, I put an arm around him. I said, “Brother, I stand in with you. You’re coming through this. You’re going to be all right. Praise Yah. I believe in Yah. And when you come out of this, you have a testimony to strengthen all of us. And what else can I do to help you through this?”




That’s what you’re supposed to do.




You don’t go around finding a reason why they got the sickness.




Remember the man who was born blind and they brought him to Yahusha? The religious people says, “This man was born blind because his parents sinned.”




Mashiach says, “No, no, no. His parents didn’t sin to make him blind. This blindness is from birth, and it’s so Yah can show His glory.”




We love to find some reason for everything.




That’s the human mind.




Sometimes you can’t find no reason. So you got to just say, “Yah, I’m coming through this. I believe You.”




Look at David. David says:




“My eyes are not lofty.”




What’s the next statement?




“Neither do I exercise myself in great matters or in things that are too high for me.”




Please remember that verse. Write it down.




It’s one of the verses when I was a teenager that saved my life.




There’s some things that are too high for you to understand.




Why?




Yah says, “None of your business right now.”




Why?




He says, “None of your business right now.”




“But Yahuah, why?”




Yah said, “Just leave it alone and keep trusting Me.”




“Why did this happen?”




Yah says, “It’s none of your business right now. This is too high for you.”




Some things you ain’t supposed to know right now.




So here’s a statement Yahuah gave me, this one that changed my life. He says:




Faith means to believe.




Faith is from this Hebrew word, aman. It means to believe, to be firm, to endure, to be faithful. It means to be faithful and true to something.




Faith means to stand fast, to trust, to have belief.




The Renewed Covenant is the word emunah. And it says, it means to be firm in persuasion.




I am persuaded that this thing is so.




Emunah means deep conviction.




I am convinced that this is so.




Faith.




Faith is resolve.




Be it resolved that Yah shall deliver us.




I don’t know how, don’t know when, but He will.




That’s faith.




Faith says, “I will accomplish this dream. It may take 25, 30, 50 years, but it will come to pass.”




That’s faith.




“I will prosper.”




Even though you’re broke, you still gotta say it.




Let the weak say, “I am strong.”




Let the poor say, “I am rich.”




Now remember, whatever you say, you’re gonna be tested.




But you gotta say it.




Faith means sure hope.




My hope is in Yah.




My hope is in Yah.




Thank You, Yahusha.




I feel faith in this room today.




I feel faith in this room today.




You’re gonna be strong, people.




You are stronger than the economy that’s collapsing.




You are stronger than the job you lost.




You are stronger than the business bottom line.




You are stronger than whatever life will throw at you.




You are stronger than that.




And so lift up your hands and rejoice.




Because He who began a good work in you, He will bring it to completion.




He is gonna make His name great in the midst of the clamor.




Let me write this statement:




Faith is the substance of things hoped for. It’s evidence of things not seen.




And then it says:




“By it, the elders obtained a good testimony.”




I just wanted to show you that.




Look at that. Isn’t that amazing?




The elders is referring to Mosheh, Avraham, Yoceph, Yahusha, Amos, Ovadyahu, Yonah, Miykah, Nachum, Chavaqquq, Tsephanyahu, David, or Daniy’el.




Those are the elders.




It says, “By faith, the elders obtained what?”




A good report.




In other words, people spoke well of them because of faith.




Ladies and gentlemen, you will never be known by the things you avoided.




Say it. Think about it. Write it down.




The Olympics is going on right now.




Do you know that the only folks you’re gonna remember are the ones who won?




Are you gonna win your test?




Are we gonna remember a report about you that you, Mellon, you stood?




Wow, man, you’re still here standing strong. Wow.




She’s been here for 30 years with me. My faithful Mellon, standing strong.




Will you be remembered?




You know, Sister Trotman. How can I ever forget Sister Trotman? We named a department after her.




Strong woman.




They amputated her toes. She came limping to prayer meeting.




Some of you got 10 toes and don’t come to prayer meeting.




See?




And that’s why we named no buildings after you.




Name one after her.




Because she obtained a good report through her faith.




Your story will be told by the test you overcome.




Yah help us.




The elders obtained a good report by their faith.




Ivriym says:




“Without faith, it’s impossible to please Yah.”




For he that cometh to Yah must first believe that He is.




Read that.




And that He is what?




A rewarder.




You gotta believe that in the middle of this storm, Yah’s gonna reward me on the other end.




There’s something up ahead that is so beautiful that Yah’s gonna purify me through this storm so I can enjoy it.




You know, Kepha says, and tonight we’re gonna talk about this tonight, it’s very important, this next session, because Kepha says the test comes to wipe stuff off you so that you can be better in the next stage.




So the test comes almost like to squeeze you through, to take everything that can’t handle the next stage off you.




The test comes to purify you as gold, he says.




You can only tell when Yah’s about to promote you by the level of testing He takes you through.




Be known as the people who stood after the storm.




People will trust you by what you came through.




You know, the same country that called me a cult gave me an OBE.




No, let me try this again, because I didn’t miss that.




The same country that said that I was a thief, I stole the people’s money. BFM: Bring Finances to Miles.




It was in the papers for months.




They had me in birds, sidebirds, everything.




I mean, they said, “This man is a cult.”




The same country gave me an OBE.




No, no, listen, I want you to learn the lesson.




The lesson was, they were saying, “Boy, you made it through our test.”




You don’t demand respect. You earn it.




What are you coming through?




What are you coming through?




When I stood before the governor and they gave me the Silver Jubilee Award, I looked in the room. I was the youngest person in the room.




Everybody had gray hair and half dead.




And here I am, this young guy.




I was the youngest in the group, man.




I was like, “What am I doing here? Only old people get OBEs and Silver Jubilee.”




And Yahuah says, “Because you went through what they went through, it took them a lifetime. You already did it. Okay. Here you go.”




Thank You, Yahusha.




Okay, Yah.




Listen, I’ll tell you what. You’re my biggest test.




But I want to tell you something.




You know, you see this mark?




Yeah.




That’s from the lion that almost had my sheep, and I killed it.




But you’re my biggest test.




Let me tell you another story.




You see that big gash on my leg?




That’s from the bear that tried to eat my sheep.




You see that scar on my back?




That’s from the leopard that came and took one of my lambs, and I took it back.




You come to me with a sword and a spear, and you’re nine feet, ten inches high.




Me, I’m just a kid.




But don’t judge me by my age.




I got some marks.




Glory, halleluYah.




I ain’t coming to you with skill. I’m coming to you with experience.




Come on, give Yah a praise.




How can a young man have experience?




Because he had tests.




He said, “I’m going to have your head today. You’re my test.”




I’m going to tell you what Yah told me tonight.




Don’t miss tonight.




He spoke to me this morning. A statement that blew my mind.




Listen to me.




Golyath was David’s door to his next position.




From shepherd to king.




And right in the middle is this giant.




I wonder what’s on the other side of your test.




You’re going through some stuff.




You know, I was telling our leaders two weeks ago in a meeting. I said, “Look, Yah trusts Bahamas Faith Ministries this much. Don’t you all get it? He trusts us this much.”




I said, “Now, let’s think about what we’ve been through already. We have a 30-year history. We didn’t just arrive. We got scratches and scrapes. We got bruises. We got all kinds of marks. And we still stand.”




Stand.




Still stand.




Still believe Yah.




Believe Yah, son.




Believe Yah.




I said, like Iyov, “Even though He slay me, I still trust Him.”




Right behind Golyath was a crown.




And all David could depend on was the test Yah brought him through.




He says, “I killed a lion. I killed a bear. I destroyed this. I did that already.”




He says, “I’ve already been through some stuff, Golyath. I know what Yah could do.”




David could have said, “Well, I ain’t fooling with that. That test is too big. And I don’t have a skillful sword experience. I can’t handle a shield. I’m going to go back home. I already delivered the lunch to my brothers. Let me go back home where it’s safe.”




And he would never become king.




On the other side of your test is the greatest victory in your life.




That’s why I can tell you that the Bahamas Faith Ministries is about to go through a level of wonderful, powerful manifestations of Yah that you have never seen before.




But Yah knows that you have to go through a little test to see if your faith is in Yah, not in the things that Yah gives you.




Let’s pray.




Father, for every test, we thank You.




For every challenge, we thank You.




For every point of fear, discouragement, we thank You this morning.




Because You’ve got a way out.




HalleluYah.




And the trial of our faith will develop perseverance.




We will let perseverance have its perfect work in us until we become as pure gold.




And we will not be found wanting.




You’ll be able to trust us.




We thank You.




I pray for Your people in this place and everywhere, that they will be strong in their faith and in the power of Your might.




I pray that their faith will not fail in the midst of any test, but that they will believe in You when there’s nothing else around them to believe in.




Because You are faithful, and You will make a way out.




Thank You for blessing us with Your presence and Your word.




Now, Yahuah, as we prepare to respond to You and leave this place, let us walk out of this building into faith and live the rest of this week, as we pray and fast, in a life of faith.




Thank You for strong men and women here.




Thank You for faithful young men and women.




Thank You for strong fathers and mothers whose faith is in Your word and in You, not in things.




I give You now Your people.




I turn them over to You.




Yahuah, I pray that their faith will not fail.




In Yahusha’s name.




Aman.




Some trust in chariots. Some trust in horses. But you will trust in the name of Yahuah.