The impact of real faith is measurable. It’s not enough to have a theology of God’s goodness, we must press in to experience it. Faith will lead us to explore the promises God has given us.
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hallelujah king forever
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we thank you for the cross
one of the wonderful things about a
faith culture where people start
expecting god to invade the impossible
as we start telling one another what we
believe belongs to us
it’s it’s a confession it’s a
declaration jesus
actually did it it’s amazing before he
ever started his ministry
he announced the spirit of the lord god
is upon me and then he announced what he
was going to do
he was declaring what belonged to him
these realms
in god belonged to me is what he was
doing
and he invites us into that same
relationship
but here’s the challenge is so many
people i have found through the years
will describe to me what belongs to them
but they just stay in their comfortable
location they don’t
they don’t become inconvenienced and
sometimes you’ve got to go through that
veil of
inconvenience to really step into the
realm of the kingdom
when jesus ministered to the cyber
phoenician woman he
she she said she wanted her daughter
free and he said
i can’t give the children’s bread to
dogs oh my goodness churches have split
over less
offense than that than to imply that a
woman is a dog
but that that comment provided an
obstacle for her to overcome and when
she overcame that obstacle she walked
through that veil of offense
on the other side she found the kingdom
she found her daughter being well
and sometimes there are obstacles to the
breakthroughs that we long for
and it’s just essential that we
recognize that on the other side of the
obstacle on the other side of that
curtain
so to speak is the breakthrough that
we’ve longed for what it comes down to
is that faith will explore what
revelation reveals
it’s not good enough i can tell you what
belongs to me it’s not good enough that
i tell you i’m blessed i’m eternally
blessed and
i mean that’s fine but it’s got to be
demonstrated somehow it has to be
measurable the impact of real faith is
measurable it can be evaluated it can be
examined we can see where we’re weak
we can see where we’re strong i want to
encourage you in this statement
faith explores what revelation reveals
what that means is
is that faith will take you to explore a
realm a territory
imagine with me that you just inherited
like ten thousand acres
and you’re sitting on this hilltop and
you’re telling me way over to those
trees that belongs to me way over to
that mountain that belongs to me way
over to that river that belongs to me
and that’s awesome but have you been
there have you been to the trees have
you been to that mountain top
have you seen the river if you haven’t
then your inheritance hasn’t done you an
ounce of good
it doesn’t do us good just to walk
around confessing and declaring what
belongs to us
unless we’re willing to exercise to stir
up our own heart of faith and risk
to explore the very things that we know
god has truly given to us
so i want to encourage you get on your
four-wheeler and go and examine
the height the width the breadth of all
that god has given to you get on there
and go to that river to that tree line
to that mountaintop
and see what it is that god has given to
you because your faith will take you
into what god has revealed to you is
actually yours it’s a beautiful
beautiful journey
let’s go on this one together
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