This is “Transferable Faith”. Faith is the currency of heaven, and praise is the language of faith. In this week’s message with Pastor Jentezen Franklin, learn how you can build transferable faith and pass it on to the next generation. To hear more inspiring messages from Jentezen Franklin, visit http://jentezenfranklin.org/watch?cid… & subscribe to this channel: http://goo.gl/yfkXHy
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>> Happy New Year,
and welcome to this special
program that I believe
is going to challenge you,
and encourage you greatly.
Did you know that faith
is the currency of Heaven,
and praise is the language
of faith?
Sometimes we need to stir up
our faith.
Trust me, and I’m gonna teach
you how to build your faith.
You can encourage–
increase your faith
and encourage your faith
with the Word of God.
Check this message out.
I believe it’s a Word
for you life in season.
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>> I want to talk to you
about transferable faith.
In 2 Timothy 1:5,
“When I call to remembrance
the genuine faith that
is in you which dwelt first
in your grandmother Lois
and in your mother Eunice,
I am persuaded,” this is Paul
speaking to Timothy,
“it’s in you.”
Everybody say it’s in you.
It’s in you also.
“Therefore, I remind you
to stir up the gift of God
which is in you through
the laying on of hands.
For God has not given us
a spirit of fear but of power
and of love
and of a sound mind.”
Transferable faith.
When you talk about faith,
you have to really define
what that means biblically
because there’s a lot of people
if you ask them are you
a person of faith,
they would say, oh, yes,
I’m a person of faith.
I’m not an atheist.
I believe in a god
somewhere out there.
I don’t really buy into
the Bible stuff,
but I believe there is a God.
I do believe that.
I don’t think that it matters
how you get to Him,
a lot of times people say.
They have abstract faith.
A faith that it really
has no definition.
It has no manifestation.
It’s just He’s out there.
They call Him the Man Upstairs.
Let’s not limit Him to Jesus
and let’s not limit Him to —
there are many gods,
potentially,
and however you worship.
You get to the real God
through any religion or vehicle
that you try to take,
and they believe in a faith.
They believe in something
out there somewhere
like spiritualists,
people who use New Age crystals
and things, burn incense
to statues, and they believe
in a God out there
like psychics.
They have abstract faith.
They believe there is a spirit
being that comes and empowers
them to tell the fortune.
Yeah, there’s a spirit being,
all right, and tarot cards
and fortune tellers
and all of that.
That’s a faith they believe
not in the God of the Bible,
nor are they being led
or given their directions
by the God of the Bible,
but they believe there
is some spirit out there.
So, that’s an abstract faith.
And then there’s one that’s
a little bit closer
to where it needs to be,
and that’s like
a structured faith.
By that I mean
a ceremonial faith.
They believe because
they were raised in church,
so they believe in the church.
They believe in the ceremonies
of the church.
They’re not anti-Christ.
They’re not anti-Virgin Birth.
They come at Christmas.
They come at Easter.
They come every once in a while.
You know, it’s a ceremonial.
It’s more about the ceremony.
They want a Christian wedding.
When I get married,
I want a Christian wedding,
they say, and when I get
children I want
a Christian dedication.
I want to dedicate
the babies to Jesus.
They mean that.
They mean that, but it’s not
something really that they
have that they nurture
that they feed
in their own life.
It’s what mama raised them in.
It’s what the church —
you know.
We went to the Baptist church
or the Catholic church
or the Methodist church
or the Pentecostal church
and that’s how I was raised,
and I believe in that stuff.
Ceremony.
Ceremonial faith.
It’s like water baptism.
You can get in the baptism tank,
and you can be a dry sinner
and go down a dry sinner
and come up a wet sinner.
The water is just water.
It’s not going to change
anything unless there
is real faith in you.
Not the church’s faith.
Not ceremony faith.
Not abstract faith.
And then there’s
transferable faith.
That’s what we get to
in my text because he says,
Timothy, the faith that I see
in you that is sincere,
that is very real.
It’s in you.
He said I saw it first
in your grandmother, Lois,
and in your mother Eunice,
and I’m persuaded it’s in you.
Somewhere your grandmother
got it, and she transferred it
because it was personal
because the only kind of faith
that is transferable
is personal.
You can’t have a distant
relationship with God
and transfer it
to your children.
You cannot have a lukewarm
relationship with Jesus
and pass red hot fire passion
for Jesus to your children.
The only faith according
to this text that can
be transferred is faith
that is personal first
with grandma, and when grandma
gets it, then daughter
can’t go off grandma.
Daughter has to get her own
personal faith,
and then she passes
what she is.
She has a praise life.
She doesn’t go to church and —
she has a praise life,
and it gets transferred
and the children
have a praise life.
She has a prayer life.
The children have a prayer life.
She has a consecration
and standards and lives
this thing and reads her Bible
and loves God and loves people,
and it’s transferred.
Only can you transfer
not what you profess.
Not what you believe,
the church’s write,
and what they believe.
You can’t pass any of that
on to your children
or your children’s children.
That’s why we’re fasting
because we’re saying
I need a personal faith
that is transferable not
just to me but to people
all around me.
This is really weighed on me
as a pastor and a preacher.
I can only transfer
to you what I am.
What I have in a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ.
And even more troublesome
is that I can only transfer
my personal faith
and relationship with Jesus.
That is the part of me
that I will transfer
to my children
and my children’s children.
So, I’ve got to have it.
It’s got to be personal.
It can’t be out there abstract.
Some God out there.
It can’t be the church,
and boy, when I really need
prayer, I go find Granny Sue,
and she gets her little bunch
of women together,
and they pray for me.
No, you’ve got to get your own.
Nothing of that will ever
be transferred to your children
or children’s children.
When you get alone with Jesus
and you’ve been with Him,
it gets transferred.
You fast and pray for 21 days.
It gets transferred even if
you don’t feel God.
Even if you hadn’t had no big
angels and no glory cloud.
Neither have I.
I’m with you.
But I’m going
to tell you something.
What we’re doing,
ladies and gentlemen,
is saying I don’t
want a distant faith.
I don’t want a distracted faith.
I don’t want one
that’s out there.
I don’t want to go through
the routine of church
every blessed Sunday.
I want a personal fire down
in my soul that so moves me
that my kids get hungry
for the Holy Ghost.
My grand kids want the power
of God more
than they want anything.
That’s when it’s transferable.
Faith is transferable
when it’s personal.
They took note
of them they had
been with the Lord.
Faith, listen now,
is the essential ingredient.
This is not some take it
or leave it option.
If you don’t have what I’m
preaching right now,
you don’t have anything in God
because faith
is the essential ingredient.
You can’t have
this without faith.
You can’t have John 3:16.
You can’t have healing.
You can’t have provision.
You can’t have any of this
book without faith.
Let me just give you
a line in Scripture.
Hebrews 11:6 says this,
“But without faith,”
everybody say it’s essential.
“But without faith it is
impossible to please God.
For He who comes to God
must believe that He is,”
watch this, “and that He
is a rewarder of those who
diligently seek Him.
That sounds like a church
that’s on a 21-day fast
can get ready for some reward.
He didn’t say if you catch me.
He didn’t say if you touch me
if you have
an angelic visitation.
He said I will reward anyone
who diligently seeks me.
You’ll end up in places.
I’ll open doors.
I’ll bless you.
I’ll make a way for you.
I know the enemy wants
to wipe you out, but when you
diligently seek me,
I’m going to reward you.
The kingdom of God is not
based upon welfare.
It’s based upon a reward system.
Salvation is free.
Nobody has to earn it.
It’s a free gift.
Everything else from
there is warfare.
You have to take off
your spiritual P.J.s
and put on the whole armor
of God, and you have to say,
now listen here.
This is a war,
and this is a battle,
and I’m suiting up
because I know that my God
is real.
I know that it’s impossible
to please Him without faith,
and I just decree
that I am going to seek Him
diligently until I find Him.
The kingdom of God
is not a handout.
It is a reward system.
Inside of your Bible is what
your life is supposed
to look like,
and the essential ingredient
to make that happen is faith.
Faith is the currency
of heaven.
In London, if you want
to buy something,
you have to have pounds,
and they will trade you.
That’s what they call
their monetary system.
Pounds.
You pay in pounds.
In Germany, francs.
In America dollar bills.
In heaven, faith.
You want something
from the warehouse of heaven?
Bring your faith because faith
is the currency of heaven.
In the kingdom of God,
you don’t get what you want.
You get what you believe for.
It’s personal faith.
It’s not limited by what
others are limited by.
It’s personal faith.
It doesn’t matter if others
have died of it or others
believed in something
and they didn’t get it.
It’s personal faith.
It’s personal faith that leads
to transferable faith,
and to prove this,
I want to take you to Luke 4,
and here is the setting
of Luke 4.
Jesus is going to Nazareth,
His home town, to do miracles,
and the Bible said
He couldn’t do many mighty
miracles there because
of their unbelief
because they were
so familiar with Him.
They said it’s not this
Joseph’s son,
and He, the Son of God
could do no mighty works there
because of their unbelief,
and in Luke 4,
Jesus then turns,
and He says I want to teach
you something about faith
because He had just healed
people in the city
before He got there,
and He would leave,
and the Scripture would say in
the next city in the next
chapter that He healed
them all, but only a few
people got something
in His home town because
they got too familiar.
Been around it all their life.
Became ceremonial faith.
Became abstract faith.
Well, God can heal,
but you know.
God can move mountains,
but let’s keep a level head.
I believe in theory in miracles.
But watch.
Jesus said, and He uses
two illustrations.
He says in the days of Elijah
there was a famine in the land,
and He said there
were many widows.
Notice that.
Everybody say many widows.
He said I’m telling you there
were many widows in the days
of Elijah when the heavens
were shut up for three years
that were starving
to death in a famine.
And then He goes on to say,
but only one of them.
One of them.
One to whom He was sent.
One woman got —
they all had the same needs.
Many needed it.
Many needed it.
Everybody shout many.
Many needed it which
is so important.
He said many needed it,
but only one got it
and what happened is
the prophet came to her
and the prophet said thus
sayeth the Lord make
a cake for me.
She said all I have is enough
to eat for me and my child
and die.
This is our last meal.
And the prophet said I’m just
telling you what the Lord
told me to do.
Make a cake and give it to me.
A pancake.
And she looks at him
and in that moment, boom,
because she was hearing a word
from the Lord,
faith arose in her heart,
and she gave that prophet her
last meal, and when she did,
the Bible said God multiplied
her food for three and a half
years for her and her son.
It was a transfer of faith
from the word into her
that changed her circumstances.
Now watch.
And he said and Jesus
is doing this teaching.
He said there were many other
widows who were starving
with their babies,
but only one got the miracle
because she saw it.
She got it.
And she activated personal faith
and when she did,
God met her at the point
of her need with a miracle.
And then He gives another
equal illustration.
He says in the days of Elijah
there were many lepers.
Many lepers.
Many people who had leprosy.
Many people who had an awful,
awful disease.
Many, many, many.
None of them were cleansed
except Naaman.
What happened to Naaman?
Well, let me give you some hope
if you feel like, well,
I just don’t have enough
faith like that woman.
I don’t have it.
I don’t have it.
Well, number one, let me show
you what Jesus is trying
to teach us here.
Only one.
There were many who needed
healing, but only one got it,
and what happened to him?
The Bible said that when
the prophet said to him go
wash yourself and dip seven
times in the Jordan River.
He puffed all up.
He was a big shot.
He was a big politician,
a general, and he said
that’s too low for me,
and I’m better than that,
and that’s a filthy river
and how dare you,
and I’m insulted.
I came all the way from Syria,
and I’ll forget you, prophet.
And the Bible said he didn’t
have personal faith
but watch this.
He got around somebody who did
because just when he was about
to turn around and walk away
and die a death
like many were going to die,
a servant spoke up,
a humble servant, and said,
had he asked you to do
something great and grand
that would have gotten
huge attention,
you would’ve done it,
but because he told you to do
that thing that is low
in your mind, you are going
to forfeit you miracle,
and when he said that,
faith was sparked not
because he had personal faith,
but he got around somebody
who did have faith.
That’s why it’s so good you’re
in church today because even
if you don’t have faith,
there’s people all around you
that have faith.
Even if you don’t believe,
we believe, and I’m here
to tell you that we can bind
together during this fast,
and we can believe for miracles.
I want to say it like
I want to say it.
God wants to give us
transferable faith to
our sons and our daughters
and our families and our loved
ones that need a miracle.
Notice what happened.
Notice what happened.
The Bible said he dipped
seven times.
Six times nothing happened.
Seven times he came up.
And when he came up,
the Bible said his skin was
like the skin of a newborn baby.
What a picture of water baptism,
by the way.
You go in the water.
You get baptized.
You come up.
You’re born again.
You’re brand new.
Just like a baby.
And here’s the point
that I want to close with.
Paul said.
Paul said to Timothy two times
in that verse in Verse 5,
it’s in you.
It’s in you.
Faith of your grandmother.
Faith of your mother.
It’s in you.
I hate to tell some of you this,
but it’s in you.
That’s why you can’t enjoy
what everybody else enjoys
and you can’t live like
everybody else lives,
and you can’t do what everybody
else does ‘cause it’s in you.
Somebody in your family
transferred some stuff on you.
Somebody transferred
some anointing on you.
Somebody transferred
some faith into you.
Their faith got in you
and when you are in your
lowest moments, you know where
to turn and you know what to do.
And Paul said, number one,
I want you to know it’s in you.
Everybody shout it’s in me.
Shout again it’s in me.
And then he said
something powerful.
He said it’s in you,
but you can’t stop there.
Then he gives them an
instruction, so stir up
the gift that is in you.
That’s what this fast is doing.
It’s stirring up the anointing.
It’s stirring up personal faith.
I can’t afford to have
ceremonial faith.
I can’t afford to just come
to church and let singers
do my praising
and let people live for God
and let the preacher bring me
a word every once in a while.
I have to get some
personal faith, and it’s in me,
but I’ve got to feed it,
and it gets activated
when I get around other people
who have faith.
So, I need to make God’s
house a priority,
and I need to pray,
and I need to read the Bible.
It’s in me,
but I’ve got to feed it.
I’ve got to have personal faith.
Why?
Because only personal faith
is transferred faith.
If you’re not growing personally
in your faith,
you’re not transferring
your faith
to the next generation.
So, he said you’ve got to know
number one and be reminded
that it’s in you.
And then he said secondly,
you’ve got to stir it up.
Boy, I’m praying today
for that kind of stirring.
I feel it in my heart.
I know when I go home,
I’m stirred.
I don’t know about you
‘cause this is personal.
Sometimes a preacher
can’t talk you into it.
Sometimes you’ve got to
stir it up, the gift,
the gift of tongues.
The gift of Holy Ghost.
The gift of anointing.
The gift of faith.
The gift that moves mountains.
The gift that causes miracles
to come your way.
You have to stir it up
and say I can’t live another
year by just doing
ceremonial faith.
I need some personal passion
and powerful faith activated
in my life,
and I hate to tell you this,
but you’re in an atmosphere
that is happening
all around you.
Turn to somebody
and say I’m the official praise
leader of this road
and when I praise God,
it’s going to transfer all
the way down this road.
I didn’t come to church
for a normal service.
I didn’t come to church
to play church.
I can’t have ceremonial faith.
I need a personal powerful touch
of God on this fast because
I’ll only transfer
what is personal.
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