LIFE BEYOND THE TEST OF FAITH

Hebrews chapter 11













Today we are walking in: Life Beyond the Test of Faith










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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Life Beyond the Test of Faith













Life beyond the test of faith. Life beyond the test of faith.




I use the term kingdom faith because faith has been used throughout the gospels and throughout




the church in history in many different ways. And I would say that, for the most part, we have




abused faith, if that's possible. We've abused it.




More recently, in the past maybe 50 years or more, the revival of faith, revival means bringing it




back to life, of faith in the Christian religion, has been a major focus. They got even schools built




on it today. They have ministries that are built on it.




Even this ministry's name was chosen because we wanted to reignite the priority of faith in our




lives. Faith is very, very critical. But it's possible for you to abuse a gift that Yah gave you or




abuse a revelation that Yah has given you and use it for selfish gain.




This is a very common warning in scripture. The Bible talks a lot about not using Yah's gifts for




your own personal gain. And this is very common.




It happens throughout history. And many times, because it's been abused, it becomes attacked




by those who don't understand it. And in many ways, it has even become almost eradicated from




the experience of the believer because it's been abused by others.




And I want to caution us in our generation and our time, this is our time now, that we do not lose




sight of the value and the purpose for faith in the kingdom. I specifically got a word from the Most High.




The Most High says I must speak to this church about kingdom faith because there's different uses of




faith in the past.




But it has very rarely been set in the context of the kingdom. The kingdom of Yah is not a




religion. It's a country.




And that is really Yah's big idea. That alone causes problems. That one statement, I think, will,




you know, that's already affecting millions of people.




People hear the teaching coming from this one idea of the kingdom, but I think it's going to have




some repercussions that may even be difficult for people to accept. Because the whole idea of




the kingdom is one the devil doesn't want you to understand. The kingdom of Yah is not a




religion.Christianity is a religion. And we were all born in it. I was born in Christianity.




My father was always a preacher. I was born into a home of a preacher. And my father is 84




years old this year and he's still preaching.




My mother was a missionary, an evangelist. So I was born soaked in Christian religion. But, you




know, when you seek Yah for yourself, he allows you to find him for yourself.




And I wanted to know Yah beyond what they taught me. I wanted to know Yah beyond what they




exposed me to. I wanted to know Yah beyond the religion that I was born in.




And that hunger drove me to go back to Yahusha. Who is Yahusha? What did he preach? What was




his message? Why did he come to earth? What was his motive? What was his mandate? What




did he really focus on? And when I read the four gospels which contained the very essence of




Yahusha as a person and his message and his mission, I was shocked to discover that what he




focused on was not focused on in my religious experience. And it was a problem for me because




I had to then thank Yah for what my parents taught me.




Thank Yah for what the Christian experiences had taught me. But then I had to go and attach




myself to Yahusha. I believe there's a Yahusha beyond Christianity.




It's the one in the four gospels. And so we talk about his message. His message was the kingdom




of heaven has arrived.




And that message shocked me when I discovered that it is also found all through the Old




Testament. And it also is found all through the New Testament writings of Paul and Peter and




James and John. And I was surprised that we, in our contemporary experience, we missed it.




And so going back to that message, I discovered that the kingdom of Yah and the kingdom of




heaven is about a country. We read a scripture last night. I think someone read a scripture.




Dr. Richardson read a scripture from the book of Hebrews chapter 11. You remember that




chapter she read last night? She said that they were searching for a country. And they died and




never found the country.




They weren't talking about Israel as a place. Matter of fact, the scriptures actually say there was a




country that was from Yah. Because deep in the heart of every human being, we are searching




for a better country.




Look at the problems in all of our countries. This very minute, the Russians are attacking the




sovereign state of Georgia. People are dying tonight being blown up.




And we thought that that thing was finished with the Cold War coming back. And then today, we




have labor unrest in the Bahamas and the government have to respond. Our countries alwaysseem to be just running into problems.




And so we seek for better government because better government promises us what? Better




countries. That's why we keep voting for new people. We hope that the day will come when we




finally get a government that will work.




And that we really have a good country. Because this search for a country is natural. We didn't




lose a religion when Adam fell.




We lost a country. We lost a dominion. We lost a kingdom.




We lost a culture. And this even affects the way we pray. That's why the Bible uses the word




prayer.




And the word prayer is the word petition. Petition is only used for governments. So when the




Bible says to pray, it means to bring your petitions to the government of heaven based on a




constitutional document of law.




And demand the rights that were promised in the constitution. That's what prayer is all about.




Prayer is not about some mystical, religious, emotional experience.




It's really a practical, legal activity. And that's what we're here to do. And if we misunderstand




that, we waste our time.




We end up like Yahusha told the Pharisees who prayed seven times a day. He says, they think they




will be heard because of their much speaking. You don't pray seven times a day.




And the Pharisees and scribes prayed seven times a day. And they prayed to the same Yah




you're praying to. They prayed to Jehovah.




But yet, Yahusha says, they think they will be heard because of their much speaking. He was really




suggesting that their prayers would drop into the floor. They were coming to prayer meetings




seven times a day.




Praying in the marketplace. Praying in the synagogues. And he says, all that was a waste of time




because they turned a country into a religion.




And it wasn't working for them. And I used to term kingdom faith then. I'm talking about faith in the




context of a country.




And I want you to get this message tonight. Because this is a statement that we've been working




on the last three weeks. I want you to write it down again.




Keep writing it until it becomes your mentality. Strong faith is only possible through tests. That's




the way you function in the kingdom.Your faith is proven by the tests it encounters. And so, your faith is only as strong as the tests it




survives. Another way of saying this is, whatever stops your faith reveals your strength.




Whatever causes you to lose faith was the measure of your faith. I finally probably begin to




understand why Paul, the apostle, wrote that statement in Romans chapter 8. When he says,




what shall separate you? In other words, he was dealing with people who were, you know, under




pressure. They were being persecuted in Rome.




And they were under all kinds of stress and attacks and people maligning them. And Paul says,




wait a minute. You guys dropping off like flies.




Something happens and you think Yah ain't there. Somebody dies and you think that Yah quit




you. He said, what can separate you from the love of Yah? Can death? Can life? Can angels?




Can things present and things to come? In other words, is a little bit of trouble going to cause you




to lose your faith? He couldn't believe that people were that weak.




How about you? How strong are you? I want to talk about faith in the context of culture. Write this




down, please. Kingdom, faith, culture.




I believe that Yah wanted faith to be the culture of the kingdom people. The citizens of the




kingdom are supposed to have a culture of faith. Here's what I mean.




Point number one. Faith is the currency of the kingdom of Yah. We mentioned this last night.




Currency is what you use to function in a country. No country can function without currency.




When you enter a country, for you to live in that country and trade in that country and buy and sell




in that country and eat in that country, you have to have the currency.




You could say then that citizens live by currency. What happens if you don't have any currency?




You can't buy nothing. You can't drink nothing.




You can't live nowhere. You can't go nowhere. It's called broke.




When you don't have any currency, you are unable to what? Live, function. What do we call a




person who doesn't have any currency? We call them poor. In the kingdom of Yah then, a poor




person, not a person without money.




In the kingdom, you are poor if you don't have faith. Can I suggest to you that the devil is not after




your money? He's not after your house. He's not after your clothes.




He ain't after your kids. He ain't after what you think he's after. He's after one thing, your faith.




If he could steal your faith, you are bankrupt. And that's why you give up and commit suicide.




Because faith gives you what? Hope.When you lose hope, you become hopeless. The poorest man in the world is a man without faith.




Remember that.




The poorest woman on this planet is a woman who has no faith. She has no more hope. So, faith




is the currency.




What do you use currency for? You buy things with it. You accomplish things with it. The amount




of currency you have determines how much you can do in a society.




That leads me to point number two. Everything in the kingdom is received by faith. How many




things? Say it with me loud.




Everything in the kingdom is received by faith. Now, this is a very important thing. You see, if it's




a currency, you can't do nothing without it.




And you know that in the Bahamas. You ain't got no money, you can't do nothing. As a matter of




fact, for you to even get money, they say you have to have money.




Isn't that strange? You want to borrow money from the bank, the bank say come up with 10% or




20%. In other words, you can't even get it without having it. Yahusha made a statement one time




and he was very sad when he said it.




He says, will the son of man find faith on the earth when he comes back? Is the whole earth




going to be bankrupt of the most important currency? Everything in the kingdom is received by




faith. Say it again. Everything in the kingdom is received by faith.




That means I don't care what you believe in for right now, you can't get it without faith. And faith is




believing. That leads me to point number three.




Faith is necessary for living in the kingdom. It is what? That's it. That's why the Most High would




interrupt our lives at this point.




And say look, get back and check your faith. What's making you lose faith? If you lose that, you




are bankrupt. Satan attacks you to take your faith away.




Why would Satan make your house burn down? So you can start believing in Yah. Why would he




put sickness in your body and attack you with disease? Because he wants you to stop believing




that Yah could heal. He's after your faith.




Because he knows we live by it in our country. We spend faith on things in the kingdom of Yah.




It's the way we live.




That leads me to point number four. Write this down carefully. Without faith, the kingdom




principles cannot be activated.Now we all know that this book called the Bible is our constitution. A constitution has in it the laws




and the precepts by which a country functions. And it's very important for us to know the laws of a




country and how they work.




Well, in the kingdom of Yah, faith activates the laws. Without faith, what you read can't come to




pass. So that's why you can actually say that the letter killeth.




But the spirit of faith gives life. It brings life to this book. This is why people who you know who




are not born again in your family, some of them are atheists, some of them are derelicts, some of




them are apostates, some of them hate Yah.




And they read the Bible. They can even quote it to you. And they tell you, right, I ain't saved now,




but I'm going to tell you what your Bible says.




And they'll quote it. Why? Because you can actually know the law and it doesn't affect you.




Because faith activates the law.




Boy, faith is something else, huh? It is the currency that activates all the promises. It activates the




principles. And so we cannot really live a kingdom life unless we understand and use faith.




All right. Leads me to number five. Faith is the lifestyle of the kingdom.




Everybody say lifestyle. Tell your neighbor, it's our lifestyle. It's our lifestyle.




Say it slow. It's our lifestyle. In other words, it's the style that we live by.




That's the style we wear. Faith is our lifestyle. Lifestyle means it's the way we exist in our culture




of the kingdom.




It's our lifestyle. That means when you lose faith, you lose your life. It keeps us alive.




Faith is our lifestyle. Okay. So how does that then apply to us? Well, I think we better quickly just




remind ourselves what is faith.




Faith is from the word in the Greek pistos, P-I-S-T-I-S, in the New Testament. In the Old




Testament, it's the word amam, A-M-A-M. And this word pistos simply means belief.




It also means conviction. The word faith also means persuaded. I am persuaded.




That's faith. Faith also means confident expectation. Say that with me.




Confident expectation. I love that one. Faith is what? Confident expectation.




You cannot have faith and don't expect something to happen. And you must be confident. Even




though you can't see it, it doesn't seem to be happening.You are convinced. So your faith is confident expectation. Faith is also defined as sure hope.




Sure hope. This hope I have is sure. That's faith.




Faith is also resolve. To resolve means to come to a conclusion about something. That's faith.




I know Yah. He will keep his word. I don't know how.




I don't know how long it's going to take. I don't know where and when he's going to do it. But one




thing I do know.




He will do it. That's a resolve. By the way, faith, this is strange.




You cannot work for faith. But once you have faith, it makes you work. Okay.




Give an example. If you expect it to rain. It ain't raining yet.




Now you expect it to rain. What do you do? You carry your umbrella. So the guy in the morning in




the forecast say there will be showers today.




And the sky is blue. The sun is shining. But you are going out and you are going to be outside




that day outdoors.




What do you do? You take an umbrella. Now people see you walking out of your house in the




morning with the sun shining. With an umbrella.




And maybe even a raincoat across your hand. And they go, are you crazy? Well, you know




something they may not know. In other words, when you have faith, you prepare for the answer.




Can I hear an amen? So people apply for jobs and don't iron their clothes. Hello? People say Yah




give me a job and they don't fill out no applications anywhere. They just want an angel to come




and bring them a job.




You have no faith. That's presumption. That's foolishness.




Faith is sure hope. And it drives you to action. That's why the Bible says faith that is without




works is actually a waste of time.




It's dead. Let's talk about the culture of faith then. It's supposed to be our lifestyle.




Matthew chapter 9, words of Yahusha. Yahusha went indoors, it says in Matthew 9 verse 28. He went




into someone's house and a blind man came to him.




Okay? Now, how many of you believe that if a man is blind, you can see it? If you observe it, let




me see. Come on, hold your hand up. If a man is blind, do you think you can see it physically?




Yes, okay.So if someone is blind, you don't got to ask them if they're blind, right? Yeah. I mean, you see




people physically like that, you know. Okay.




So this man walks in the house and he's blind. Well, obviously they know he's blind. He either




probably has a cane or someone's helping him or he's feeling his way around.




But there was an obvious impediment in his sight. And the blind man asked them, you know, that




he need help. Watch this.




The blind man came to Yahusha. And Yahusha asked the blind man a question. In other words, look,




this ain't got much to do with the power I have.




Look at the question. I'm Yah, I'm anointed. You know, I got all this anointing on me.




He said, but this ain't got much to do with my anointing. Question, do you believe? What's the




word belief? Faith. Do you have faith? I'm looking, okay, put it another way.




You want to buy healing, do you have money? Can I put it that way? Yeah. I got sight and you




won't buy it. And you're blind.




What's your money? Yeah. Give me some currency, he said. Do you believe that I am able to do




this? What a question.




Well, my mother said, no, no, no, no. Well, the pastor said, no, no. Well, I heard one take my, no.




Do you believe that I can do this? See, he takes it out of the church and put it on you. He takes it




out of the TV ministry and puts it in your house on your head. Do you believe I can do this? Boy,




that's a different story.




And it's so easy to believe in a big crusade when everybody, you know, getting healed. Privately,




do you believe that I can do this? Boy, that's a different kind of faith all the way. This ain't no




group faith.




This is where the rubber hits, you know. I got to believe Yah for myself. How strong is your faith?




And the man said to Yahusha, yes.




And he added a word, Most High. It's an important word. What does the word Most High mean? Owner.




See, when you use that term, you put the pressure on the kid. The word Most High means owner. That




means, look, you own me and I'm blind.




That means you own blindness. Some people come to Yah to get things, but they don't want Yah




to own them. Bless me, Most High, but don't get involved in my life.




Bless me, Most High, but don't touch my relationships. Bless me, Most High, but don't get involved in mybusiness. Yah said, wait a minute.




I'm not Santa Claus. What am I to you? Am I Most High? Yes, I believe you can, Most High. Watch Yahusha




now.




And then he touched his eyes. Maybe he'll touch you tonight. Can you believe right in your chair




right now? Whatever you're going through, is there something you can just say, Yah, I believe,




Most High.




Yes, you can fix this, Most High. You got to say that for yourself. You know, the blind man said it.




You got to say it for yourself. You got to bring it to your own life. He said, Most High, yes, you can do




this.




I believe you can do this. Christ touched him. Now watch his answer.




He says, you're only getting this because of a reason. What does he say? Out loud. According to




your faith, you're getting this.




Now why is this important to learn? You see, remember I told you that the kingdom of Yah is a




country with a currency. And it's also a culture. He says, look, in this country, you get what you




believe for.




Now, there's a big difference here. You don't get what you keep saying, you know. Well, I'm




blessed.




Half of the time, you say, now, you don't believe nothing. My mind is racing. Forgive me.




I'm chasing after scriptures in my mind. I just caught one. Yahusha said, if thou can't believe, you




shall have whatsoever you desire.




Now, desire is different from interest. You know, I am interested in getting healed. That's why




you're still sick.




I am interested in finding a job. That's why you're still broke and ain't got no job. Desire has to do




with deep passion.




Desire is that drive that says, I ain't going to let it go until I get it. Do you have that which you're




going after? Do you have that kind of force behind it? Or do you just say, well, if it doesn't work




out today, then it doesn't. How bad do you want what you're believing in this kingdom for? Yahusha




said, he said, now, look, what you're getting is up to you.




According to your faith, it is being done to you. So whatever you buy in the kingdom of Yah with




your faith is what you get. How can you lose that and survive? If you lose your faith, you can't get




nothing from the kingdom of Yah.That's why Satan's after your faith. Last night, we read a scripture last night. Yah said, I will




shake everything, shake everything, shake it, until everything fall down like a shake.




And the only thing left is me. He said, now, put your faith in me. Wow, what a scripture.




I will shake everything, because you ain't supposed to live on nothing else but faith in me. I




thought I would give this to you tonight to prepare our hearts to pray this week. The enemy of




faith.




What is the enemy of faith? I found two of them that are devastating. Two of them that Yahusha




talks about. The two enemies of faith are fear and doubt.




By the way, they are related. Fear and doubt. And boy, when Satan wants to steal your faith, my




brother, my beloved brother, he puts fear in your life.




That's why he does all kinds of drastic things, tragic things to make you afraid. Because when




you have fear, you lose your faith. Wherever there is fear, there can be no faith.




If you know that Yah is love, and you have Yah, then love drives out fear. Because fear has




what? Torment. Torment means you feel totally hopeless.




There's no way I can come out of this. And so the torment creates what? All your diseases.




Another way for torment is worry.




It's the number one cause of all diseases. So you actually become sick when you become afraid.




The last thing you want to do in life is to become afraid.




That means to live under fear that destroys and debilitates your faith. This has to be protected




against. And by the way, the two, doubt and fear, are related.




Because when you doubt, it opens the door to fear. This is why it's so important. Look at Matthew




chapter 21.




I want you to turn to that and underline that in your Bible. Matthew 21, verse 21, it says, And




Yahusha replied, I tell you the truth. If you have faith, watch it, and do not doubt.




Now he uses two extremes. If you have faith and do not doubt, then not only can you do what is




done to the fig tree that I just spoke to, but you can say to a mountain, go into the sea. And it will




be done.




If you have faith and do not doubt. I think Yahusha knows that in his country, heaven, if you live




under that culture, your battle will always be between the two. So he says, look, make sure that




faith wins.




Make sure that belief wins. I still believe. When everything around you makes you doubt, you gotto still say, I still believe Yah.




I still believe in Yah. I still believe what Yah said. He said, don't lose that.




And mountains will hear you eventually. I don't think he's talking about necessarily physical




mountains, even though that might be a possibility. He's talking about anything that looks like a




mountain to you.




That which seemed to be impassable. That which blocks your progress. He says, if you have




faith, you can literally move that thing into the ocean.




Your belief can drive your obstacles away. What faith are we supposed to live by? This is why,




you know, Christians are the weakest, jelly-backed, milky, apologetic, complaining people I know.




Murmuring, critical, gossip.




Just blah. I wonder why Yah can't use half of them. And the other half he's considering.




Because he says, when I find faith in the earth, when I come back, what happened? What makes




you turn around so easily? He was frustrated. And then he just makes this statement casually,




but it has everything in it. He says, if you believe, you will receive.




Not if Yah can do something, or whether Yah cannot do it. You drop it on us again. What is




belief? Faith gets to you.




If you are persuaded, then angels and devils and demons cannot stop you. Your faith, your belief




is not up for sale by any tragic experience. If you can believe, you can receive whatever you ask




for in prayer.




Tonight we are here to pray, and Yah says, look, it ain't a prayer that's going to get nothing done




in this place. We can stay here and pray and fast all week, nothing happens. Why? Because




nothing happens without what? Faith.




So you pick up a card of this altar, you read the need, and now we have a little battle going on.




That's what this teaching of this week is for. For you to take that battle and you must win it.




You must say, okay, this prayer need is asking for the salvation of a husband or a child. Yah, you




said in your word that the seed of the righteous is blessed and shall not come to destruction. Now




Yah, I believe that for this child.




Boy, that's a battle. Yah doesn't answer prayer. Yah answers belief.




Here's why some people don't get stuff from Yah. I don't know all the reasons, but this is one of




the reasons. Kingdom, faith, must overcome doubt and test.




Some of you are going through a little test. Matter of fact, not some, all of us in this room aregoing through a test because all of us are experiencing common things. The Bible says




everything that is testing is common to everybody.




Okay, so whatever you're facing, here's what you got to deal with. Faith must overcome doubt




and the test. Matthew 5 verse 36.




It begins by saying this, ignoring what they said. Sometimes you got to do that. Yahusha told the




synagogue ruler, ignoring what they said.




Remember the synagogue ruler was the guy who had a sick child. And the folks were saying,




leave him alone, leave Yahusha alone. The masses are ready.




They're not interested. They were trying to talk him out of it. People talk out of your belief.




He says, ignoring what they said, Yahusha said to him, don't be afraid. Here we see another place




where he says, fear is the enemy. Don't be afraid, just believe.




Two things going on again. Don't be afraid. Believe me, I've dealt with enough people and I've




probably had my own bouts with moments of great fear in my life.




I can imagine how it feels. Because I had my moments in life. You get a message from the




doctor.




The doctor says, look, you got cancer. Man, everything goes apart, falls apart. I was talking to




one of our members yesterday.




She said how one of her sons had diagnosed with something. Your whole life just goes on the




ground. Yah! The first thing that comes to your heart is what? Fear.




Why did Yahusha say that? Because he knows. Okay, I know you're afraid. He said, I'll tell you what




to do.




Shift that fear into belief. Boy, that's adjoining. Most High, even though that's what they said, I believe




this you said.




Sometimes you gotta ignore what they say in order to move into faith from fear. Have you noticed




that it's what they say that makes you afraid? So you gotta find something else that someone else




said, like Yah. Praise the Most High.




Hallelujah. Whatever you're dealing with right now, you got two choices, fear or faith. And Christ




said it in one sentence.




He says to the man, I understand your situation and your family. He said, but you know, that's




what they said, but you gotta deal with this now. That man had to fight the fight of faith.What's the fight of faith? Between fear, doubt, and faith. And that's the only fight you really have




in life. You don't fight the devil.




The Bible says fight the good fight of faith. Paul says, look, we don't fight against flesh and blood,




but against principalities and powers and wicked spirits in high places. Now we think that's all just




demons.




He says, no. He says, and casting down every thought. In other words, it is the, it's what they




make you think that's your real fight.




It's when that brain starts kicking and saying, well, you see now, oh boy, that's it, it's cancer, that's




it, you might as well just call the undertaker and prepare yourself and get everybody in. And Yah




says, wait a minute, let's fight this thing with faith. Do you know what it says in Hebrews chapter




11, last night what you read? It says, many of them died in faith.




If I can die, let me die believing I gonna get healed. Hebrews 11, Abraham died in faith. You don't




die in fear and doubt and despair and give up and Yah doesn't work and it ain't working.




He says, no, die in faith. Why? Because in the kingdom of Yah, the gates of hell, remember,




cannot prevail against his rulership. That word hell means the grave, remember? So death




means nothing to a kingdom citizen.




Death is a passage to the other side. That's all it is. You don't lose when you die, you gain, Paul




said.




So now we measure Yah by this side and forget that he's even greater on the other side. Paul




says to live is Christ, believe in Christ. And to die, I gain pure, complete, total salvation.




No sickness, no disease can catch me again. I'm forever healed. But he says, don't let doubt take




over your life.




Two enemies, what are they? Fear and doubt. What's the enemy of faith? From now on, the rest




of your life, for the next 50 years of your life, you fight against those two things and your life will




be completely better. Fear and doubt are stealers, they're faith robbers.




Luke chapter 8, verse 11, Christ told a parable about the sower. Sowing what? Seed. Now here




he explains the parable.




He said this is the meaning of the parable. He's telling us himself what it is. He says, here's what




the parable is.




The seed is what? The word of Yah. Now remember, you gotta hear someone say something.




Faith comes by hearing what someone says.You're gonna have faith for doubt or faith for belief. Someone gonna tell you something, both




sides. He says the parable is about, the seed is the word of Yah.




Those on the rock are the ones who receive it with joy. Praise the Most High. That's good teaching,




pastor.




Wonderful man of Yah. Woo, wonderful teaching. Amen.




Praise the Most High. He says, when they hear it, they get excited. Glory.




Woo. Yippee. He says, but they have no root.




They believe for a while. And there's that next statement, right? And then in the time of testing,




just like that, he put it right there. He said, look, you hear my teaching? How strong is your faith?




He says, as strong as the test, it survives.




They believe for a while. Yah raised up this ministry. Yah called you.




I'm with you. Praise the Most High. They believe for a while.




When the test comes, do you believe the word that was preached here? I say to you, are you




really only as strong as the test that ripped you? Tests are normal. Christ said, when you receive




the word, you will have tests. He said, they fell away.




They couldn't handle the test. Are you going through a test right now? Yah is with you. And even




though it doesn't seem like it sometimes, he has never left you.




The Most High is with you and his word is in you. And the Holy Spirit is closer to you than your breath.




You must remain in a belief state.




Say it with me, I believe Yah. I believe in Yah. I believe what Yah said.




No matter what my eyes see. Here's the word Yah gave me yesterday morning. This statement is




so deep to me, I gotta go study this.




When the Most High speaks to me sometimes, just give me one sentence and that's it. He wrecks me




for two years. This is one of them.




He says, when in doubt, have faith. What a contradiction. When you don't know what to do,




believe.




When nothing makes sense, believe. When everything has fallen apart, he says, believe. Might




as well.




Nothing else to do, so you might as well believe. When you are in doubt of anything, have faith.When your doubt is shaken your whole life, still have faith.




Mark 11 says, have faith, but not in things nor people. Have faith in Yah, Mark 11, 22. Have faith




in who? Yah.




He's the only thing that is unshakable. Everybody else will fail you. People will fall apart.




Systems will fall apart. Jobs will not keep going the way they are. You'll never be able to




guarantee anything to anybody, but you put your faith in Yah.




Steady, stable. He is forever. John 4, verse 47 says, when the man heard that Yahusha had arrived




in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son who was close




to death.




Some of you all feel that way. Watch Yahusha go to action. And Yahusha said, his answer blew my




mind.




He says, now, he said, what about your people? Unless you people see miracles and signs and




wonders, you will never believe. He's trying to take their faith out of the miracles, put them back in




Yah. I know some of you never saw a statement before.




I know you're shocked. It's in the Bible. Christ was, first of all, he was a man with a problem.




You'd think he would be a nice and compassionate person. No. He was tired of them coming to




him just to get things.




Maybe that's the way Yah feels for the charismatic people. He just kind of, all right, that's enough.




I just had enough of this.




All you all want is blessing, blessing, blessing. No one want to fight. No one want to have a test.




No one want to go to a trial. What's your problem? I got strong people who can handle some




fight. You know, sometimes you got to fight to get your healing.




Come on, Pastor, pray for me. I didn't get healed. No.




Yah said, I didn't heal you that way. I want you to fight for three months. I want to see faith work.




That's what he's talking about here. Everybody wants a handout, he said. Well, I need a job.




Yah said, okay. So you come here for prayer. You pray for your father.




Yahusha is going to give you a job. And then you spend all day home waiting for the job. Yah said, I




ain't giving you no job that way.




I want you to get a bucket and a sponge and go to a parking lot filled with water and tell themyou're going to clean their cars. Let's start somewhere. I got prayer.




It doesn't work. I said, I didn't get the job. But I said, Most High, the Most High ain't working.




This ain't working. And Yah said, look, unless you all see signs, you all don't believe. He was




frustrated from a prayer request because faith was being abused.




They were useless with their own private benefit of faith for my little child. So give me an instant




miracle so I can go home. I am to you.




Christ said, that's the problem. Unless you people see miracles and wonders, you will never




believe. I hope that's not us tonight.




This entire series is Yah is telling us, your faith is as strong as the test to survive. So put your




faith in me, because I'm going to let the test come. I'm not going to move the test.




Let me see how much you can believe in the middle of all of this. My Yah will eventually do




things, you know. But he'll wait until you have faith that is strong in him.




John 6 30 says, so they asked him, what miracle signs will you give us that we may see it and




then believe you? Show us something. Sounds familiar? You know, let me just say this. I hope I




don't offend anybody, but it's a reality, I'm sure.




You know, if there was a miracle healer in the Bahamas right now having a big crusade, all of you




are gone. OK, let's say we're in a Bible teaching session here and a miracle service going on in




the park. You know, it's amazing how 90% go to that.




Read that verse. That's our problem. See, the problem is, once the miracle feller gone, you got to




go right back to your tribulations and trials and you start cussing Yah.




Because it ain't the miracles that keeps you, it's the word that keeps you. That's what keeps me.




The word of Yah in my life keeps me all these years and it will keep me till I die.




I don't trust a single miracle. I ain't got faith in no miracle, none. Just remember that Lazarus died




again.




He died again. So if you believe Yah because Lazarus was raised from the dead, you're going to




lose your faith the second time. See, because your faith was in the act of Yah, not the Yah of the




act.




Remember, blessings are always temporary. Yah is permanent. Put your faith in Yah.




And don't put your faith in Him to get something and let that be the condition for keeping your




faith in Him. Because if you don't get it, then you're going to lose it. He says, they say, we want to




see something, then we believe you.Look at John 6, 36. He said, but I told you. He didn't say, I showed you.




I told you. He didn't say, I showed you. I told you.




He didn't say, I showed you. I told you. You got to believe Yah what He said, not what He did or




didn't do.




I told you. You have seen me. You want to see miracles, He says.




You have seen me and you do not believe. That's your faith. Keep your faith in Yah.




I beg you. I beseech you. May Yah make the next four months of this year months of faith.




Live by faith, my daughter. Live by faith, son. Live by faith.




Matter of fact, declare your house a faith house. This is a faith house. Everything we do in here is




by faith.




And watch the holy anointing come to your house. This is a faith house. The things that Yah




wants to do for your life cannot be done without faith.




Close with this. He says, for even his own brothers did not believe in him. You never saw that in




the Bible before either.




Yahusha Christ had brothers. And he has a couple of sisters too. The Bible talks about that.




They did not have faith in their own brother they grew up with. His own brothers did not believe.




Some of your families, they're wondering about you.




But you've got to believe for yourself. You've got to believe. And you've got to keep your faith in




Yah.




He will never desert you. Sometimes you take it right to the edge. Oh, Most High.




And some of you are on the edge right now. Oh, boy, everyone's watching me. And Yah says, it's




okay.




Sometimes you say, jump. Now, that's really trouble now because, you know. I heard somebody




say, when Yah says jump, you grow your wings on the way down.




But sometimes he lets you hit the ground. And you land on him. No matter where he catches you,




you're caught.




He gets you on top of him. And then he says, good. I thought you wasn't going to jump.




You've got good faith. You're my kid. Praise Yah.You believe Yah. I was telling my friends the other night who were visiting us from the States. I




tell them, you know, Abraham was an interesting guy.




Abraham prayed for 25 years for a baby. When the baby came, Yah didn't trust Abraham. Why?




Abraham fell in love with the blessing.




So, Yah says, hey, I'll tell you what to do. Take the boy up on the hill, kill him. Wow.




Now, that's a test. Do you agree? Oh, man, you've been waiting for a baby for 25 years. It finally




came, and Yah said, now, sacrifice him.




Hey. Abraham was an interesting guy. Abraham got the donkey.




He got the rope. He got the knife. He got the boy, got up on the mountain, found a spot that Yah




told him to stop.




Took the boy off the donkey. Got the wood. Built the stones.




Yah watching him all the way. Then he takes the boy. And the boy, the little boy, remember the




Bible says the little boy says, Daddy, I see the altar and the wood, the fire and the knife, but I




don't see the lamb.




And Abraham says, son. And Abraham picked up his boy that he believed Yah for, for 25 years.




Imagine Yah taking your house that you worked hard, you paid a rent and mortgage, and you're




just about to pay it off.




And Yah said, give it to me. Hurricane came. This is your favorite house.




All your nice furniture. Poof. Yah says, all right.




Abraham takes the boy, put him on the altar. I want you to watch faith now. Test me.




It says, and Abraham tied his son to the altar. I am sure Abraham was probably crying, weeping.




But behind all of that tear was a persuasion that the Yah who gave him this boy with impossible




odds could also raise this boy after he run the knife through his throat.




Abraham held the knife up. Okay, Yah still watching now. Because sometimes Yah take you right




to the furnace, I tell you.




Yah still ain't convinced. Knife up, Yah still ain't convinced. And the Bible says, and as Abraham




bore the knife down.




See, Yah will take you that close to the edge. Sometimes they wheel you in the hospital. What




kind of faith you got? You got that kind of faith, you know.Most High, you know, you may take me, tell me, they open me up. The guy got the clamp and




everything. Yah could still fix it.




The guy say, oops. They ain't got to do nothing. Yah could take you that far.




Just to see if you can keep singing under the anesthetic. Singing in your sleep in the Holy Ghost.




Having faith all the way to the gas.




Can you have faith or do you lose it when the man say, okay, we said open you up. I guess I ain't




healed. Yah said, no, believe until the end.




Abraham bore the knife down. On the way down, an angel came and stopped his hand. Why? In




his mind, the guy was dead.




Next verse is what it's all about. It's the next verse you read. It says, and then the Most High spoke and




said to Abraham.




Now that I know that you believe in me. And will not withhold your only from me. I will give you all




that I have promised you.




I will bless you. Life after the test. I will give you cattle you cannot count.




Out of you shall come nations like the stars. Yah got so excited. Why? Because Abraham's faith




was in Yah.




That's what the test is for. Some of you are on the way to the mountain. That's where you are




right now.




You ain't there yet. Others of you gathering the sticks and the wood. You scared right now, boy.




Others of you already got the altar finished. Hoping Yah show up right now. Some of you got the




thing on the altar that you love so much.




Getting ready to lose it. Yah's watching. And you're going to pray for people to get their needs




met.




Yah's checking to see if you got belief to get yours too. Have faith in Yah. Amen.




Let's pray. Father, thank you. Oh, we need your help so badly.




Thank you for speaking to us. Thank you for stirring our faith. We believe you.




We believe in you. We believe what you said. Thank you now for answered prayer.




Let this be a week of faith revival. Spring our faith back to life. That our belief would be so strong




that no situation will rob us of our faith.We'll have faith in situations. In the midst of them. And we'll come out of this.




I pray for those who are believing for something right now. Maybe it's believing for a healing.




Most High, let this night be the night that that healing encounters faith.




Let the faith crash into the sickness. Let there be the beginning of a miracle. We're not going to




tell you when to do it.




But we are persuaded that we're going to win. We thank you. Those who have been waiting for a




while for something to happen in their lives.




You know what it is, Most High. Most High, I pray tonight that their faith would be active. And they say, I still




believe Yah.




Yah's going to bring me through. I'm going to win. I'm going to win.




Thank you, Father. Thank you, Most High. The Bible says there'll be any sick among you.




Let them call for the elders of the church. And the elders shall pray the prayer of faith, it says.




And the prayer of faith, it says, shall raise them up.




Not just any kind of prayer. Prayer of faith. I must confess, many times I pray, there was no faith




in it.




Of course, you know, you never have those kind of problems. Every time you pray, there's faith in




it. But me, at times I have prayed, no faith in it.




I just pray because, you know, they don't want me to pray. Or, you know, it says to pray. That's




what it says, pray.




But it's the prayer of faith that will raise them up. There's faith in this room.