THE POWER OF KINGDOM FAITH PART 1

Romans chapter 8










Today we are walking in: The Power Of Kingdom Faith 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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THE POWER OF KINGDOM FAITH PART 1




We want to talk about the power of kingdom faith. Say that with me. The power of kingdom faith. I am convinced that you should not trust anyone who have not been tested. Don't trust anyone who have not been tested.










Somehow, we've developed the idea that testing is a sin. Going through a test is some kind of indication that you are out of Elohiym's will. This is a very dangerous misconception.




Somehow, we believe that when things are not the way we think they should be, then we begin to wonder if something is wrong with us or wrong with other people, or maybe we are not doing something that is right, or maybe even thinking that we are sinning. Somehow, we relate tests and challenges with sin. And I want to correct that tonight.




That is not true. You would remember if you read the Bible and the four Gospels, there was an incident where Yahusha met a man who was blind. And the story actually says he was blind from birth. And the religious leaders had already concluded what caused him to be blind. So when Yahusha came into the village and the blind man cried out for help, he went to the blind man and he began to address the situation. And one of the religious leaders said to him before he acted, he said, Master, was this man born blind because of the sins of his parents? Interesting.




And that question is still asked today in your mind and in the life of our community. Need to talk a little quieter, sir. Need to talk a little quieter. So it's important for you to have an answer to that question. Your house burned down, your first question, or maybe the comments of other people around you. Shift immediately to questions of integrity.










What are you doing wrong? Why? If you wasn't doing something wrong, your house wouldn't have burned down. So they assume that the burning house is payback for sin. Your baby died in the womb. Miscarriage. Question, what are you not doing right? Maybe your husband is sinning. Maybe you ain't paying enough tithes.










Maybe the YAHUAH left you. And they they build this. Massive case against. The experience of something that seemed to be negative. This is a very common human experience. So here's Yahusha facing an issue where a man has a physical problem he cannot see. And the religious people have already concluded why he's blind. They say he's blind because his father and mother must have sinned. As if Elohiym gets you.




If you sin. And Yahusha answered wonderfully. He said, this man is not blind because of anybody's sin. He said, but this blindness is for the glory of Elohiym. Now, there's a shock. Maybe it may be helpful then to. Discuss the word glory a little bit. Because if if a if a handicap. Or a problem or a challenge or a test of blindness.













Is connected to glory. Then give me more blindness. And there's your paradox. OK, write the word glory down just so that we can deal with that comment of Yahusha. The word glory is the word doxa. D-O-X-A. It's a Greek word. Doxa. This blindness is for the glory of Elohiym. The doxa of Elohiym. The word doxa, here's what it means. Write it down.




It means nature. Nature. N-A-T-U-R-A. Or it means true weight. W-E-I-G-H-T. It also means heavy. This blindness is to show the glory, the doxa of Elohiym. How can this problem reveal the nature of Elohiym? Well, nature has to do with what something is like. What is Elohiym like? Well, the only way to know what Elohiym's like is for him to reveal his nature.













You can only know how strong someone is when they try to lift something. So you can brag of how strong you are as much as you want. The test, everybody say test. The test is what you can lift. So the test reveals your true nature. Are you really strong? So testing is not demonic activity.










Testing is built into the system of faith. Yahusha said, Elohiym made sure this man could not see until this moment. Because I have to show you what Elohiym's power is like. So I need blindness so I can show you that Elohiym can make blind men see. And it's not even the seeing that's important, nor the blindness. What's important is to show you that Elohiym can do this work.










Are you with me? So Elohiym's strength, his power is revealed in tests. So I want to talk about this power of kingdom faith. The kingdom of Elohiym is not a lazy, shallow, timid, frightened community of people. We're tough. If I wrote the Bible from my own inspiration, I would have cancelled 80% of the stories in the Bible. Because 80% of the stories in the Bible are full of trouble.







And yet, the Bible is packed full of acts of faith under pressure. Matter of fact, no one made the Bible without going through tests. When I say made the Bible, you didn't make the list. Just think about some names, and you think about trouble, don't you? Avraham, trouble, calf baby. Mosheh, trouble, can't talk, and Elohiym never healed his tongue. He was a murderer, trouble. Ya’aqov, stole his brother's birthright, he was a thief. Anyone you call, their whole life is full of trouble. I wouldn't put that in the Bible if I was Ya’aqov.













I would put good things, not that I was a thief. But that's what makes them so great. They were able to go through and come out the other side better than when they went through. The Elohiym we serve doesn't protect you from problems. He proves you through problems. You know, the last few years in the church community around the world, I'm talking about maybe the last 30, 40 years or more, there have been incubating a theology that places a negative spirit on testing.













Almost to the point where it is suggested that if you are not doing well, you must not be doing right. And if that be the truth, then we got to cancel Mosheh, we got to cancel Ya’aqov, got to cancel Obadiah and Jonah and Micah and Nahum and Habakkuk and Daniel and Shadrach and Meshach and especially Abednego. Them fellas wasn't doing nothing wrong and Elohiym let them go in the fire.













Now, let me ask you to write some statements down. I want to talk about the value of your faith. The value of faith. Number one, write this down please. The most important power you possess is your faith. Please remember this. I want to strongly reinforce this reality. What is the most important power you possess? I can't hear you. Shout it loud. No, your faith. Say it, my faith.













My faith. That's the most powerful thing you possess. When you lose that, you lost. Not only is faith the most important, powerful thing you have, but it is the only thing that threatens the devil. As long as you have that, he cannot succeed. Your faith is your only protection. Number two, write this down. Faith is your belief and your conviction that creates your confidence in life. That's number two.













Faith is your what? Belief and conviction that creates your confidence in life. You can only have confidence if you possess faith. When you lose faith, you cannot be confident. You become wavering. You become questioning. You become weak. And all the forces of earth run over you, destroy your life. As a matter of fact, when you lose your belief and your conviction, there's no reason to live after that. Number three, your faith is manifested by the tests it encounters.













How is faith manifested? Say it loud. A little loud, everybody. Louder still. So how do I know if you have faith? There has to be a test. The only way faith can be manifested is through a test. This is why Elohiym would many times take his time answering your prayer. It ain't the answer he's interested in, nor the prayer. He's interested in what you're going to do while you're waiting. Are you still going to have confidence in the waiting period? Help us, YAHUAH. So I'm no longer impressed by your bragging of how great Elohiym is to you. I want to see how great he is when the bottom falls out. That's the test.













Number four, your faith is as strong as the test it survives. I'm going to keep repeating that for the rest of the year. Say it with me. My faith is as strong as the test it survives. My faith is as strong as the test it survives.
















Elohiym will only know the level of your faith by the test he allows you to face that you survive. I want to give you number five, but it's not written down. Number five, faith is Elohiym's pre- No, sorry. Testing of your faith is Elohiym's prerequisite for trusting you. I'm going to say it again. Testing of your faith is heaven's prerequisite for trusting you.










The word prerequisite, some of you may be a big word. It simply means before a requirement necessary before something. Elohiym will never trust what he didn't test. And if you call test negative, you will never be trusted by Elohiym. How you handle pressure, test, attacks, challenges is Elohiym's laboratory of experiment for him to trust you. Oh, you can think of a thousand examples, right? Just like that.













I think the best example of all. Is Yahusha Ha'Mashiach himself. 30 years old. At 12, he knew. His mission. He told his mother. I must be for my father's business. At his birth, the angels announced that he was the son of Elohiym. The wise men came and confirmed it. And yet Elohiym didn't trust him. And now he's ready at age 30, because it takes 30 year old to become a rabbi or one who is a teacher in his culture. So at 30, he's now ready to begin his mission.













And Elohiym is not yet. Let me test you first. So Elohiym took him, dip him in the water, bring him back out. He confirmed that my beloved son, but I still don't trust you yet. And the Bible says the Ruach Ha'Qodesh led him into the wilderness to be tested. And the word tested there is the word tempted. Wow. At the end of the test, 40 days. 40 nights. The Bible says when he had passed the test. There's a verse after that. It says, and Yahusha left the desert. Filled with the Ruach Ha'Qodesh without measure. In other words, you know, Elohiym would give you the Ruach Ha'Qodesh. On the front side of the test.










But when you finish the test, he baptizes you in a special power. Why? Because you're going to need it for the next. What? Do you know that as soon as he came out of the wilderness for the Ruach Ha'Qodesh? The first thing he meant was not a celebration party of how he won. The first person he met out of the desert was a demon possessed man. Next test. Sometimes you say, Elohiym, we just went through a tough time. Give us a break. Elohiym says, listen, the life of kingdom citizens is proving their faith. If he had to test himself.













Who do you think? You are. I think the most dangerous prayer you could ever pray. And some of you have prayed it in great ignorance. Is this prayer? YAHUAH, use me. Listen, don't pray that prayer. It's too late. I know you've already done it. And that's why you're going through a little hell right now. Because he's answering your prayer.













If you want him to use you like he uses his son, he's going to take you, he's going to lead you to the wilderness. You have to be qualified to be heard. Write it down. You have to be qualified to be trusted. Elohiym used no one he didn't test. So your faith is really as strong as the test it survives. You're tougher than what you're going through. Okay? So take heart, rejoice. Be exceedingly glad.













Because great is your reward at the end of the test. You know, here's something else I thought was interesting. What is the object of your faith? See, the object of your faith determines the strength of your faith. Write this down. The source of your faith determines the quality of your faith. Where you got your faith from is the question.










If your faith falls up under a little stress, under a little problem, a little surprise, a little sudden thing that happens, then I want to know where you got your faith from. What is the source of your faith? Where did it come from? Do you know why we become disappointed in people? No matter who they are. It could be a spouse.













It could be a parent. It could be a child. It could be a pastor. It could be a politician. It could be anybody, a good friend. The reason why we become disappointed in them is because we had faith in them. And so our faith was as good as they were at the time. And when they changed, then our faith in them changed. So where did you get your faith from? Is it coming from the people and the situations you are in? That's an important question. Because wherever you get it from is the source and the quality of your faith. Number two. Write this down.
















Objective of faith. The object of your faith determines the quantity or the size of your faith. Now we got two things here. We got quality and quantity. How much faith do you have? In other words, how big is your faith? That depends on the object of your faith. What you have your faith in. You know, I keep promising to do this for years, but I think I'm coming to the point where I'm going to eventually do it, maybe 2009. I'm going to put together a marriage ceremony built on kingdom ideas. Because most of the marriages that we use, the ceremonies we use, are questionable.










Let me tell you why I'm saying this. When you get married to someone, that marriage is 100% faith. It ain't love. It's faith. And that's why they don't stay together. Because we put our faith in the person, and that's how strong your faith is. Remember? The source of your faith is the quality, and the object of your faith is the quantity. How much faith should I have in this woman? How much faith should I have in this man? Answer, none. Why? Because if they are the source and the object of your faith, then they control your belief system.
















And so you hear things like, I can't believe you anymore. What they mean is, I lost faith in you. Well, if you have put your faith in Elohiym, and Elohiym is the one who you depend on to keep this relationship, then if anything happens, your faith doesn't move. Because it was never in the person. I scared too deep for you, I know. I'll leave it alone. I feel I'm just hitting a wall. Okay. But let me just comment on this number two.










The object of your faith determines the size of it. In other words, your faith is as big as the Elohiym you have it in. Now here's the problem with the Elohiym you have it in. You don't know enough about the Elohiym you have it in to claim that you know the Elohiym you have it in. And that's why the Bible says you must study. You have to get to know Elohiym for yourself. Because the more you learn about Elohiym, the bigger your faith becomes. Number three. Object of your faith.
















Your faith is as secure as what your faith is in. If you've got a faith in this chair you're sitting in right now, then that's how secure you feel. Some of you came and sat down and didn't even check the chair. You just walked in, sat right down. Why? Somehow there's been some assumption that these have been used before, or maybe even used them before, and you have this confidence that makes you just sit and you just believe that you'll be secure. How many times have you ever fallen out of a chair or the chair break? Let me see your hands. Anyone had a broken chair before? Yeah, man. A couple of times I sat on a chair and the chair break. I became very, very sensitive after that.



















And I took the chair and moved it out far away from everybody. Why? Because my trust in that chair failed. Your faith is as secure as what you have it in. What's your faith? Is your faith in a church or in Elohiym? Is your faith in a relationship or in Elohiym? Is your faith in a priest or a pastor or is it in Elohiym? Then your faith will only be as secure as what you have it in. Number four, object of your faith. The stability of faith is determined by the stability of its object. The reason why you don't put an anchor in sand is because when the currents come and the winds blow, there is instability. So you cannot trust the anchor. Do you know a miracle is a temporary act of Elohiym? So don't trust miracles.










I think that's one of our problems in the spiritual relationship we have in the kingdom of Elohiym. We somehow measure Elohiym by what He does. And so when He doesn't do something, our measure changes. It's sandy. How stable is your faith? It's as stable as the object it is in. Don't even trust the works of Elohiym. Number five is a question. What is your faith in? Ask your neighbor the question right now. Ask him. What is your faith in? Again. What is your faith in? Look at him right now. Ask him.










What is your faith in? That's an important question. And sometimes we think we have already answered it. Is your faith in Pastor Miles? You better check it. Is your faith in this ministry? You better check it. Your faith in television ministers? You better check it. Where is your faith? What is it in? Is your faith in the blessing Elohiym gave you last year?bWhere is your faith? Well, here's an answer I thought was interesting. It's answered by Yahusha. Mark chapter 11. Yahusha said these words. Have faith in Elohiym. Verse 22. Isn't that beautiful? He said look.



















He caught fish for them. He healed Kepha's mother-in-law from fever. He paid their taxes. He raised Lazarus from the dead. He walked on the water. He stopped the winds for them. He said don't have faith in none of those things, my dear. Have faith in Elohiym. Ask your neighbor, what is your faith in? Let them answer you. Where is your faith? Come on, answer them. My faith is in Elohiym. Say it.










Let the devil hear you say it. My faith is in Elohiym. Let the angels hear it. My faith is in Elohiym. Now let Elohiym hear you say it. My faith is in Elohiym. That's the only thing that is stable. Hallelujah. That's it. We're running a race, you know. And sometimes we forget that. We think we're just here to get Christmas presents from Elohiym every day. This ain't no party. This is citizenship in a country, in a planet that is very adversarial toward the kingdom. Don't forget we are in a fight.






















We are in a race. We are not in a great big celebration where everything is good. The devil has not left the earth. I just thought I'd remind you of that. And demons ain't gone from the planet yet. You will overcome the world. After a fight. And so you're in this race. What's the fight? I thought I would read this again. I thought it was important. 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 11 says, But you, man of Elohiym. Everybody say man of Elohiym.










Woman of Elohiym. That includes all of us. So you, if you claim to be a man of Elohiym, a woman of Elohiym, that means a citizen of the kingdom of Elohiym. If you claim to be, that you belong to Elohiym, then he says, Flee from all of this conditions, circumstances, and pursue righteousness. What is righteousness? Right positioning. Yes, right standing with Elohiym. Good. And to stay, stay, got to stay in relationship right with Elohiym. Why? Because the next statement says, Because godliness and faith are necessary.













Love and endurance are all necessary. Gentleness, all necessary. Why? Because you got to fight. What's the fight? Fight the good fight of faith. Verse 12. What's our fight? What's our fight? What is our fight? You're not even fighting the devil. Well, this is an important point. You think you're fighting the devil. He says the fight in the kingdom is for your belief. The devil is really not your ultimate enemy. Your ultimate enemy is doubt. His job is to get you to doubt what Elohiym told you.













So the fight is to come up after you've been under the water of life for a long time. When you hit, when you hit the surface, you go, I still believe. And they'll put you down again. Hold it down. I still believe. Can you live that way? I lost everything. I lost everyone. I lost everything. And I still believe. Then you won. You don't lose when you lose the blessings. You lose when you lose your faith. Because your faith will always get back the blessing. Hallelujah. So the devil says, I have to get rid of this faith.













I can destroy her faith, his faith. I have won. So Sha’ul says, fight the good fight of faith. Next verse says what? Take hold of eternal life. It doesn't just come to you. I know you got eternal life. He said, but you got to fight to keep it. Because the devil wants you to even believe that you ain't saved. If I am saved, why is this happening to me? If we say, why is this happening to us? If I'm saved, why am I losing this? And Elohiym said, this ain't got nothing to do with that.







Do you believe? Even if it happens. What a faith Elohiym given us. Powerful faith. Hallelujah. Please don't miss Sunday morning. Boy, some good stuff coming. Hallelujah. Listen to this. I like with Sha’ul. Sha’ul gave us a couple of hints here. Let me write them down. I took them out for you. Number one, fake confession will be tested. Let me tell you something that's very important. This is the key in the kingdom. These are principles, okay? That kingdoms will operate by. Yahusha said, I will give you the keys.










Here's one of them. Never say in the kingdom of Elohiym what you don't mean. This sounds simple. You know, one of the laws that Elohiym gave Mosheh to give to the nation that he was building was a strange law. Matter of fact, the Ten Commandments are used by our governments, but they miss out a few of them. But they use most of them to run countries, you know? Like, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not bear false witness, you know, thou shalt not commit adultery.



















A lot of countries use these laws to build their countries. But they miss out a few. Here's one they don't use. Thou shalt not take the YAHUAH thy Elohiym's name in vain. What does that mean? What does that mean? Yahusha explained it when he came to earth. 4,000 years after Mosheh. Yahusha said, and he was going through the laws, you know? Do not commit adultery and do not covet and all this stuff. And when he got to this one, he says, look. Do not take the YAHUAH's Elohiym's name in vain.



















He repeated it. Then he explained it. He says, let your yea be yea and your nay be nay. Let anything more than this is evil. In other words, don't ever use maybe in the kingdom. Oh boy. Let me explain how deep this is. It has to do with faith. If you say yes, I will do this, or I believe this. That must be tested. Are you getting this? So keep your mouth shut. Death and life is really truly in the power of your tongue. There is a key in the kingdom. The key says, whatever you proclaim must be tested. The word is must be.










So you don't talk if you don't want no trouble. It is a law in the kingdom. And yet, here's the problem. You can get nothing in the kingdom without saying it. I feel like just shouting all by myself. You shall have whatsoever you say it. The part he don't add is after the test. Hallelujah. So you tell your friends, I believe Elohiym for this thing. Now it's out there. Oh my Elohiym, it's out there. You already put it out there. And the next day, everything opposite happens. Now what are they going to say about you now? They can say, you know, this faith thing ain't working for you. This Elohiym ain't working for you.













See, you have to understand the system. Ladies and gentlemen, you know, Elohiym normally talks to you privately. But you have to profess it publicly. This is the deep part of the kingdom. Elohiym talked to Mosheh by himself, you know, in the back of the bush, in the mountain. Such and such and such. Elohiym talked to Avraham, always by yourself, privately. You know, Avraham, you can have a baby. Okay, Avraham now got to go back to that village where all those people know him and say it. Now he's thinking, no problem. I can say it because you know Elohiym said it. He can do it in nine months.



















The Bible says, and Avraham believed Elohiym. Okay, believing Elohiym doesn't guarantee immediate answer. It does guarantee a test. Hallelujah. Let me tell you why you are in trouble right now. Okay, this is it. Your mouth got you in trouble. You said something. And the principle of the kingdom is, it must be tested. Let's prove it. Here's a verse, Luke 22, verse 31. This guy was a member of BFM. His name is Simon Kepha. Okay, Simon said to Yahusha, Master, watch him now, I will die for you. I will never leave you. I will not forsake you. I am with you. I will support you.










I mean, Kepha was just, boom, speaking out. I will never abandon you, Yahusha. And Mashiach responds. Look at the words he used. Simon, Simon. In other words, the way Elohiym, Yahusha said it was, oh boy. Oh man, you know, that's the way it works, brother. You should have never said that. Hey, by the way, have you wondered why none of the other disciples joined him? And none ever tried to say it afterwards? Because they heard what Yahusha said. Yahusha said, Simon, Simon. Watch this now. Satan has asked, the word he has demanded, to sift you, test you, as wheat.










Now, this is Yahusha Ha'Mashiach, Elohiym in the flesh. The one who made the devil. Created him. He said, look, Kepha, you just qualified yourself for a test. By the way, I'm sure most of you know what a sift is. Or do you? You sure you know what a sift is? No, man, only the folks in Bayntown know what a sift is. Bayntown sift is not the kind of sift you guys, you all use like screen wire, call that sift. Sift in Bayntown, the original one, was a flat piece of tin. And you take a nail, you just knock little holes right next to each other in every fraction of that piece of metal until there's nothing but holes in this piece of metal.
















That's a sift. Now read that. He says, Satan has demanded to lay you out and test every area of this statement that you claim you ain't never gonna deny Yahusha. You ain't never gonna forsake him. You ain't never gonna abandon him. I'm gonna test it right to the hole. Anybody feel that way lately? Yeah, boy, you feel like, oh, man, we by ourselves. Man, Elohiym forgot me, man. This is, ah, can I make it through this? Elohiym said, hang on, your mouth got you here.



















Let your mouth keep you here. Say, I believe. No, no, that's what you gotta say when you're in it. I still believe. Hallelujah. Do not consider it strange, I'm quoting Kepha chapter one, that you enter into fiery trials. How did Kepha know that? Kepha spoke himself into it. He said, look, I've been there. I like this verse, though. Look at the next statement. And Yahusha said, but I have prayed, not just for you. I prayed for your faith.



















When you're going through, still believe. Believer Elohiym spoke at the beginning. This ministry is stronger than anyone's criticism, stronger than anybody's opinion, stronger than anybody's presumption or assumption this ministry is a result of a word Elohiym gave. And listen, you can tell if something is genuine. It always comes back out of the fire staggering and say, I still here. I still here.



















Smoking and everything, all kind of hole in him. I still here. You know, I think one of the greatest acts of faith I saw was in the movie. The Terminator. Come on, tell somebody I'm a Terminator. Yeah, you can't terminate Terminator. I mean, they blew his head off. Boom, fella's still walking around half a head. I'm still here. I mean, they burn him up, put him in the fire, he came back up. That's faith. Faith says it doesn't matter. What happens? I still believe. What destroys you? May Elohiym help us. Yahusha said, Kepha, I pray for your faith.













I didn't pray for you to get healed. He didn't pray for his healing. He didn't pray for the devil to leave him. Didn't pray for demons to not bother him. He didn't cast the devil out or nothing. He said, I pray for your belief through the process. That's why it's the most powerful thing you possess. Yahusha said, if you can just keep that, the devil lost. Did Kepha make it? Look at the last part. He says, and when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. Let me tell you what that means. You are not qualified to help nobody until you needed help one time and you made it through.
















It is the test that allows Elohiym to trust you to help other people. I told you all on Sunday, Bahamas Faith Ministries is about to move to a level that I don't know what it is, but it's so awesome. Elohiym's checking everybody. And if you are standing firm and strong, he says, I'm about to trust you with something I need tested people to trust. Your personal life, the bigger the test, the bigger the assignment that's coming up next. So don't be impressed by people who always having a good time.










Learn from those who went through the fiery furnace and the lion's den who had boils all over their body. They scrape it with 10 to get the puss out like Joe. You got to learn from people who went through and who got a story. Trust people who got scars. I remember teaching our little kids there to walk. I'm sure you all had this experience too. You have little children, they're babies. You know, when baby's ready to walk, they start trying to walk and then the parent will come and say, come. And the baby take one step, take another step and the baby fall down.



















I guess the parents do. They don't take him. So you can't try no more because you fell. The parent put him right back up to fall again and say, come. And why do the kids come? Because they trust the parent. The fall was not as important as the parents call. You missed it. Elohiym is still saying, come. You fall down, ain't nothing working. Elohiym said, get up, get up, come. And he ain't coming to help you, no. He'll tell you, come. Sometimes you got to pull yourself up because if he believes I can still walk across there, then I am going to walk toward him. Hallelujah. That's called faith.
















Trust, that's what kids have in parents. He says, when you've been tested, then you can help your brothers. Bahamas Faith Ministries is a leadership organization. The only way to test leadership is through trials. And if we are going to teach and train leaders from around the world, we're going to have to have a story on every corner. Been through that. Yeah, been through that. Oh, we did that. Yeah, we've been through that. Yeah, we've been broke many times, man. You'll be all right. Listen, you will never be blessed financially by Elohiym until you've been bankrupt a few times.






















And you got to have faith in the middle of the bankruptcy. Job was totally bankrupt. Everything gone. And Job says, even though he slayed me, even though he slayed me, my trust is not in the wealth and the house and the sheep and the goats. It's in Elohiym, he says. Where is your faith? Hallelujah. Are you blessed? Tell your neighbor you're going to make it through. Okay. I want to close on this point and then Sunday morning is going to be awesome because your faith is going to explode.










Hallelujah. Write this down, please. The impact of Elohiym's works. Now, this is very important stuff here to understand in the kingdom lifestyle. Number one, the goal of Elohiym's works is to place your faith in him and not the works. I'm going to say it again because it's a little bit confusing. The goal of Elohiym's works, his miracles and blessings, all that stuff, is to place your faith in him, not the works. In other words, Elohiym would do something in your life so you could trust him. What we do is we trust what he did.










Oh Yahusha, have mercy. I'm afraid to say what I'm thinking. Can I say it? Because the book of Proverbs 5 says the thoughts of a righteous man are always right. So let me check. We normally say if he did it for you, he'll do it for me. That ain't necessarily true in the kingdom. That's true in religion. Elohiym never did anything for Joshua the way he did it for Mosheh. Nothing.













So what he did for me, don't put your faith in what he did for me. Put your faith in Elohiym. He mightn't do for you what he did for me, but you still gotta trust him. YAHUAH help me. Hallelujah. Elohiym works so you could put your faith in him. The impact of Elohiym's works. Number two, very important, Yochanon chapter two. Watch this. Verse 11. This is the first of his miracles and signs that Yahusha performed at Cana. Remember he turned the water into wine.



















Remember that? It says he therefore revealed his glory and then his disciples put their faith in him. What was the glory? The wine? But they didn't put their faith in the wine because Yahusha never again turned water into wine. You know Elohiym might not pay your rent right now. That got nothing to do with your faith in Elohiym. He may let your rent run right to the last day. He may even let it run over the time to see what your mouth gonna say.










YAHUAH have mercy. See, the disciples saw the miracle but didn't put their faith in the miracle because miracles are temporary, remember? And they may never be repeated. So the YAHUAH healed your wife when she was sick. So my wife sick, I figure well okay, the YAHUAH can heal my wife too. And Elohiym said wait a minute, that was his miracle. You don't know everything about your wife. Her assignment is finished. She gave you the kid you're supposed to have. Her purpose is completed.



















But Elohiym, she's so young. Shut up! My ways are past finding out. You know, what comforts me one time is when I was reading, I was a teenager reading the four gospels over and over again and I realized that Joseph died with Elohiym in the house. The last time we hear about Joseph was when Yahusha was 12 years old. And 12 years old is when a Hebrew boy became a man. That's why he went to the temple to be tested. That was a test to become a man. His bar mitzvah in the Hebrew culture. And so Mashiach became a man at age 12.



















That's why he told his mom and dad don't you know I'm supposed to be my father's bishop? I can start now. You told me I'm a man now. I can start. Joe never showed up again. Mary lived all the way to his resurrection. But Joseph died somewhere in the time. My question was Elohiym, was Yahusha Ha'Mashiach in the house near the sickbed watching Joseph die? Yes. He raised Lazarus. Yeah, but he couldn't touch his own earthly father because his job was finished. So who are you to say someone died young? Your fate must be in Elohiym. Not his works. Hallelujah.



















So as you go through this week and next month and next year remember this message that no test is allowed that doesn't come just to build your faith. Didn't come to destroy. It came to test your faith, your belief in Elohiym. Not in people, in Elohiym. Not in circumstances, in Elohiym. Not in blessings, in Elohiym. What a wonderful thing to have faith in Elohiym. Faith in persecution. Here's one I thought was interesting.






















Acts chapter 6 verse 5. It says the proposal pleased the whole group. I wanted to read this one because I thought this was an interesting guy. His name was Estepanos. Book of Acts chapter 6. It's about Estepanos. When they appointed Estepanos. You remember Estepanos? He's one of the early disciples who were chosen as a leader in the local church. It says they chose Estepanos a man full of what? Faith. Full of what? Faith. You gotta be full of faith to be chosen in the body of Mashiach. You can't have weak back people who run when pressure comes. But I quit. What do you mean you quit? He was the pastor.
















They said they chose him in leadership not because he was educated. But his belief in Elohiym was so strong. Guess what? That belief made him a member of the hall of fame. Let's read the rest of it. It says and he was full of the Ruach Ha'Qodesh. Also Philip. They presented these men to the apostles and they prayed and laid their hands on them. You lay hands on people who got two things. Ruach Ha'Qodesh and a lot of faith. Not talent. Faith. Because when the going gets rough the talented leave. It's your faith in Elohiym no matter what. You know just a little note here on Kepha. Estepanos's faith did not prevent his stoning.













He was the first disciple to be stoned and killed in the road for Yahusha Ha'Mashiach. Hallelujah. Man full of faith. But if you have faith why that happen to you? Well ask Estepanos. If you follow in Elohiym how can Elohiym allow them to stone you? That's Elohiym's prerogative. Now what? Why? It is for his glory. How come you ain't in the Bible? Because you ain't been stoned. Let me tell you what's so great about Estepanos. You know the story. It says that when they threw the stones on Estepanos big rocks hitting him in his head his body beating him and they stoned him to death. It says that before he died he says Father forgive them. And then it says his face became bright for he had seen the glory of the Son of Elohiym.










He died with glory in his face with a smile. Can you die with a smile with rocks hitting you? A conch shell hitting you? This man's faith was stronger than rocks. And it was from his death that the church multiplied. It says and the church scattered and grew at the death of Estepanos. Elohiym used Estepanos's death to give everyone else a purpose for living. If he could die for that faith I could live for it they say. Maybe Elohiym taking some stuff to make some other people believe that they can do it too. But it ain't easy when you're going through it right? You say oh Elohiym take somebody else use somebody else as an example don't use me. Elohiym said no I chose you because I believe you are full of faith.













We were in a meeting last night wonderful thought came in that meeting the leaders last night the thought was this Elohiym will only allow you to go through something if he believes you can handle it. The YAHUAH will not allow you to be tempted beyond that which you are able to overcome. Not everybody could handle what you're going through because they're not qualified yet. So go through because Papa thinks a lot of you. He believes you can handle this. So stand steady stand firm don't be discouraged walk, run, stand and stagger out of the fire and shout with all your might I still believe.




Amen. Amen.