This is “Faith In The Father’s House”. Your faith is more precious than gold, more precious than anything in your life. Sometimes we have to go through difficult times to be reminded how important our faith really is. The heroes in the Bible lived lives of extreme faith that sustained them in times of great trial, even unto death. In this message with Jentezen Franklin, learn that even when you are in a time of testing and proving, even when your circumstances are not good, you must hold on to your faith and believe God is good.
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first peter chapter one that’s in the
new testament
verse six in this you greatly rejoice
though now for a little while
if need be
you may have been grieved by various
trials
everybody say a little while
that the genuineness of your faith being
much more precious than gold that
perishes though it is tested by fire may
be found to praise honor and glory
in the revelation of jesus
christ i love that verse 7
that
your faith he said
is much more precious
than gold
and i want to talk to you for a few
moments today
about something i’ll give you the title
in just a few minutes when i figure it
out amen
but um but i do know what i’m preaching
on i just i just want you to lean in and
listen a minute
but i was thinking about this that verse
just came alive in my heart that my
faith
is more precious
than gold
than gold
i mean our faith is more precious
than our home
our car
our bank account
everything that we possess
i’m telling you there’s nothing more
important than your faith
i believe that sometimes we have to go
through things to remind us that what
really matters is not
the gold
it’s not material things
but what really matters is our faith
what really matters in greater than
passing down an inheritance of gold or
financial blessing to our children and
our children’s children our faith
our faith is more precious than gold say
amen somebody
i think that when i read about the
heroes of faith in this book
they had faith
that
was so great
they did not have 401ks
they did not have safety nets
financially
they did not have healthcare plans and i
think we ought to have all of those
things
but i want you to know that their faith
was more precious to them when you read
of the heroes of this book than all the
gold in the world
the word faith can be defined this way
i’m going to give you my definition of
it a daily dependence upon god
to have a daily dependence upon god
to never lose the daily dependence upon
god because what we are striving for is
independence i want to be independently
wealthy we say i want to be i wanted
this and i want that and that will make
me independent and i won’t have to worry
about anything and god has geared this
thing to where we will never be
independent and blessed enough that we
won’t need him because you can have all
the gold in the world and if you don’t
have faith you don’t have nothing
faith is having a daily dependence upon
god now i want you to give yourself a
faith check right now do you daily
depend on him do you daily say without
you i can do nothing daily i need you to
leave me daily i need you to guide me
daily i need you to fill my mind with
your thoughts because that’s what true
faith is and it’s more precious than
gold
thank god for a job but my job is not my
god
thank god for money and a paycheck but
that is not my god if you take my faith
from me
then my gold is over
if you take my gold from me
and me keep my faith i’ll be just fine
i’ll have a comeback every time because
faith is the substance to everything
that we need
faith is the currency of heaven
faith is how god god transacts with
human beings
without faith and faith is the substance
of something hoped for but not seen but
when you put your faith in god and say
in a little while the circumstances are
going to change and god will show
himself alive i believe that it’s my
faith that causes me to prosper
not my prosperity that causes me to have
faith
trials come to get get you to turn in
and lose your faith for gold
trade it in
trade it in
but
my faith is more valuable than gold
famine time is a time
that god will use to take you to the
next level if you let him
some people go into a famine
down
and come out up
and some people go into a famine up
and come out down
there’s a shift that takes place abraham
in the book of genesis it says he
entered into the land and a famine came
but he went in it down but he came out
up god actually used the famine and when
he came out of it god called him the
father of faith
his son isaac went into the famine
pretty pretty bad
but the bible said he sowed in genesis
26 in the time of famine
and he reaped a hundredfold the same
year he went in low and the famine
lifted him high
joseph went
it was actually the famine that promoted
him from the dungeon to the palace
he was promoted because of bad times in
his nation
he was prosperous and raised to a height
that he could have never gotten had the
nation of
of egypt not gone into a massive famine
but in luke chapter 15 it’s the story of
the prodigal son
and the bible said that the prodigal son
was in the father’s house
and a famine was on the way
and he was in the father’s house
everybody say the father’s house
aren’t you glad you’re in the father’s
house this morning
and that’s where you need to be when the
famine’s on the way
and the prodigal son
is about to experience that famine
because he didn’t stay connected to the
father’s house
see but here’s a powerful thing to
understand
even though
that boy went to his father and demanded
the inheritance and took that and left
it and went out and started living
wicked and wild
you know what the bible said
it said
that i’ve never seen the righteous
forsaken listen to this or his seed
his seed is his children
begging for bread
the seed was connected to the paternal
blessing
and even though the boy was acting crazy
and going berserk the bible said there
was still a blessing on him because of
the paternal blessing of the father
there was a father and a mother who were
in covenant with god and the scripture
said i’ve never seen the righteous the
father in that house was righteous how
many of you are righteous because of the
blood of jesus and what i’m preaching to
you is it doesn’t matter what your seed
gets into when you understand he never
forsakes our seed
elisha elisha did not get a double
portion from elijah until he recognized
elijah as his father he said my father
my father the chariots of israel and the
horsemen thereof and when he said my
father there was a
double portion blessing that came on his
life because it matters if you’re
connected to the father’s house
and it matters when there’s somebody in
the father’s house on behalf of your
house who’s standing in the covenant and
even when the seed isn’t living it you
have a covenant that is so strong that
i’ve never seen the righteous forsaken
or their seed even though the enemy
wants to kill them there’s protection
over them because of that covenant clap
your hands and say amen
the father has a house
the father’s house
there are certain things that a father
provides a father provides ultimately a
house
and notice that during a famine the
father didn’t have his house repossessed
he had hired servants kept on iron in
the middle of everything going haywire
wire out in the world there was blessing
in the father’s house there was increase
in the father’s house there was hiring
we can’t get enough help
the house
the house
was blessed
the house
was and whoever yoked together with that
house the hired servants were eating
plenty of bread the tech said and had
room to spare had food despair
everybody else is starving to death but
anybody who got yoked up and connected
to the house
the father has a house the fathering
anointing is needed in the body of
christ today
you don’t have just
a young little rooster preacher up here
i’m becoming an old man and i am a
spiritual father whether you want me to
be or not and that’s why sometimes i get
all up in your business all up in your
grill
because you need a spiritual father in
times like these and a father builds a
house
and a father
anointing paul put it like this he said
though you have ten thousand teachers
see y’all and that’s fine i i i
go on the internet you listen to a lot
of people listen to them all i hope you
listen to somebody all the time but you
have not many fathers
because there’s certain people that the
holy spirit connects you to spiritually
and there’s a house that he wants to
connect you to spiritually and to unplug
from that is to to not stay connected to
the blessing i’m not making this up i’m
right in the book
during a famine in the father’s house
there was no lack
they in there dancing they’re in bible
talk about they had robes they had uh
shoes gucci’s and they had
bling bling the bible said they put the
rings on oh
read read the book read the book
they had fatted calves
in the middle of a famine
the house of the lord was pressed down
shaken together running over
and anybody who was connected to it they
weren’t getting laid off and the hired
servants went into recession and they
got laid off they weren’t getting laid
off what are you saying i’m saying that
when you move in to the lord in troubled
times he that dwells in the secret place
of the most high god shall abide under
the shadow of the almighty i will say of
the lord he is my refuge and my strength
in the father’s house there’s bread
there’s hired servants there’s fatted
calves
there’s clothes nice robe rings shoes
the father has something to impart
and the evidence of a fathering
anointing he has the capacity to build a
house
secondly he has hired servants it means
he’s taking more taking care of more
than himself
hired servants some of you have a
fathering anointing god has blessed you
in business and so on and you build a
house under the anointing of god a house
of work and employment and you have
hired servants that help you and people
who you hire who help you
that’s the sign of a fathering anointing
you’re taking care of more than yourself
and then the scripture said
that there was an inheritance
that those who were in the house
received that speaks of impartation
that when you get under a fathering
anointing there will be impartation
impartation of dreams
impartation of purpose impartation of
anointing
impartation of worship
impartation if ever people needed
spiritual fathers it’s in this time
famine is here famine is coming but
we’re not the people who tremble in fear
we’re the people who run into the house
of lord of the lord and there is no lack
and there is no want and there is no
need because he supplies all of our
needs according to his riches in glory
but let me finish
the father if he’d have stayed in the
house would have told him how to manage
his money
the father would have told him how to
abound and how to be a base
you got to learn how to sometimes you
need to go into survival mode
sometimes you need to tighten up cut
back
see this generation needs to hear this
stuff i know it’s so simple but
sometimes you need to really really
tighten up i feel like something’s
coming on our nation and and we just
kind of um let’s be real careful here
all right
the bible said the famine came the boy
took the money got out from the house
got out of church got out of the
father’s house got away from a father
and anointing where there was plenty
where there was blessing where there was
overflow and he goes out into the world
and i listen to this verse in luke 15
and not many days afterward
not many days
i’m having a good time party
party party and then all of a sudden not
many days afterward
he begins to spend all that he had on
riotous living we’re in a season of
riotous living in america
we get money and we don’t know what to
do with it we when we have money
when you see i read an article not too
long ago about people who were taking
their pet to a psychiatrist they were
hiring pet psychiatrists when i read
that my mind said you got too much money
when you not you laying on the couch i
understand that but but i’m talking
about when your cat is laying on the
couch and you’re paying several hundred
dollars an hour
for fifi
the pride of the prodigal made him start
looking
like he’s something that is not
i could see him in my mind he was buying
all the drinks
running with a new crowd
wearing stuff that he couldn’t afford
just trying to keep up an image and
shoot in instagram
and when he had spent all the tech said
luke 15 and when he had spent all notice
this there arose a famine the famine
didn’t put him in a broke position
the famine came when he was broke and at
the moment he could least afford it this
is how the devil does it
at the moment you can least afford it he
makes sure you’re good and broke and
then he sends the famine
and when the economy shifted
the pride of the prodigal instead of
turning and going home to the father
going home where there was no famine
hiring servants help wanted
inquiries here and check that robe out
look at those look look there’s plenty
and i’m not talking about material
things i’m talking about
something that’s more precious than gold
the father’s house and all the spiritual
things that we have in this house
and the bible said
that he joined himself a citizen
to that foreign country
he joined himself i got new friends
i don’t want christian friends they get
on my nerves they aren’t hypocrites
anyhow
you know how we get
especially somebody who’s off they get
real crazy and joined himself a citizen
of that country
and watch what they did when he got out
there and spin all and the famine came
so-called friends i wrote down in my
notes hammer time
he’s a great guy by the way i’ve met him
before
but he had to go through something to
learn something and i remember reading
the article one of the greatest artists
one of the greatest dancers one of the
greatest uh performers and an an iconic
person
but you know what they said they said he
had
90 people on his payroll at one time and
they not like they worked or they did
this some of them were dancers was was
and i’m not saying that’s not work but
i’m just saying that’s all that they and
everywhere he went he had an entourage
he had to every where he went 90 people
and most of them from high school and
you know what they weren’t leeches
just draining the resources
and when he had spent
all and no man could help him
where’s the people
you know who’s going to be there when
you hit that spot the church and a
family that loves you
all those people
all those people we tight
you don’t understand that boyfriend that
girlfriend that user that leads that
person yeah do it yeah snort it yeah do
it with me do it with and when you have
lost it all none of them will be there
where are those people in this story the
story never changes
but i tell you who you will find you’ll
find the father who’ll open the door and
he’s got binoculars looking and the
moment you don’t even have to have it
together if you’ll just start moving in
the right direction he’ll come running
he’ll come running and say let’s restore
you crank up the band because my son was
lost and now he’s found
here’s the point of the whole sermon
here it is
and i’m done
the path back to prosperity for america
the path
back to pros real prosperity
is defined in john
i wish above all things that you prosper
and be in health
get this nasty virus out of here i wish
above all things that you prosper and be
in health
even
as
your soul your spirit man
prospers
the path back to prosperity for america
is to return
to the father’s house
the moment that boy got up from the mud
and started moving back toward the
father’s house and here’s a word from
the lord if you want to see
the prosperity and healing and blessing
of god back on your life get on the
pathway back to god’s house come back to
the father’s house if you can’t come and
you got health issues or you’re a health
person that keeps people that that could
get something i totally respect honor
that keep watching online i’m talking to
families who the enemy through the
pandemic has pulled you away from the
house of god and the lord said to tell
you the pathway to prosperity begins
when you start making your way back to
the father’s house i’m not saying it for
a crowd we’re doing just fine but i’m
telling you everything your family needs
is in the house of god
and our faith is more precious than gold
stand to your feet and give the lord a
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