The Fulfillment of Your Faith: Unveiling God's Promises
Today's episode centers on the fulfillment of your faith, a theme intricately woven into the fabric of our spiritual journey. In this session of Power Hour, Carlie Terradez endeavors to explain the profound goodness and power of God, emphasizing the significance of unwavering belief in the face of adversity. We often find ourselves plagued by distractions and doubts when manifestations of our faith do not materialize as we anticipate; however, it is imperative to recalibrate our focus towards the finish line rather than the hurdles that obstruct our path. Through fervent prayer and insightful teaching, Carlie invites listeners to embrace the assurances of healing, encouragement, and financial breakthrough, reaffirming that such divine provisions are indeed within reach. Join her and delve into the practical applications of faith and engage in powerful prayer.
Takeaways:
- The fulfillment of faith is a process that often requires patience and perseverance, as one navigates through challenges to witness the manifestation of God's promises.
- We must focus our attention on the finish line and the fulfillment of our faith, rather than on the hurdles that may impede our progress.
- In times of struggle, it is essential to remember that God is actively perfecting the things that concern us and that we can trust in His timing and plan.
- The testimony of Bartimaeus illustrates the importance of recognizing our identity in Christ and approaching God with confidence rather than as beggars seeking mercy.
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Transcript
Welcome to Power Hour where we believe it is God's will for you to be well.
Speaker A:I'm your host, Kylie Terradez, and this podcast is created from the weekly live streams that I do every Thursday at 1pm Mountain time.
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Speaker A:Man, I am so glad you that you have joined me.
Speaker A:We are going to be teaching today on the subject of faith and everyday faith is a powerful teaching that I did with Ashley goes into so many different practical things, practical applications of what faith is, how to use it, what it looks like, what it isn't.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:So, Father God, I just thank you that wherever we're watching from, wherever we're listening, watching in real time, live or away in the future.
Speaker A:Lord, I thank you that this word is your word, Lord, that this word is a fresh word, that it is your.
Speaker A:That it is your power, that.
Speaker A:That it.
Speaker A:That is carried through it.
Speaker A:And Lord, we just ask that you give us ears to hear it and a mind to understand it and a heart to receive everything that you have for us today.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, Amen.
Speaker A:And amen.
Speaker A:Okay, well, here we are.
Speaker A:We are going to be talking today about the fulfillment of our faith.
Speaker A:You know, so often we start out believing God for something and somewhere along the line we get distracted, especially if something doesn't seem to manifest in an instant.
Speaker A:You know, we get discouraged or, or we think there must be something wrong with my faith.
Speaker A:I must be broken, I must be doing it wrong.
Speaker A:Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Speaker A:Where you look at, you start looking at yourself and thinking, I know the word doesn't change.
Speaker A:I know the word is good.
Speaker A:So what is the, what is the reason why is this not working?
Speaker A:And we start to even question our faith at its very core, whether it's, whether it's real, whether we're, whether we've missed something, if know we can become very introspective.
Speaker A:But I want to look today at the fulfillment because, you know, if you can see the finish line, it changes your perspective on some things.
Speaker A:So today, if you're in the middle of a battle and maybe that battle is a new one, or maybe it has been going on for a while and you just feel like you're not really getting anywhere or wondering, you know, is there an end in sight to this?
Speaker A:Is there a breakthrough in sight for me, yes, there is today.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:And so we're going to look at the fulfillment of our faith.
Speaker A:Let's get our eyes on the prize.
Speaker A:Let's get our eyes on the finish line.
Speaker A:You know, when I was in high school, I was still short.
Speaker A:It's not a new thing, right?
Speaker A:I don't even grew to five foot.
Speaker A:I was even shorter in high school.
Speaker A:But for some reason my coach realized that I was particularly springy and bouncy in some ways.
Speaker A:I could jump high even though I had very short legs.
Speaker A:And so they put me in for things like the high jump and the hurdles competitions, which I think is, you know, is ironic for somebody with short legs.
Speaker A:But being springy and nimble helped me, apparently.
Speaker A:Well, one day I was practicing for the hurdles 100 meter race and the hurdles.
Speaker A:If you've ever seen hurdles, you know, like, you may watch them in sporting events, in the Olympics or something.
Speaker A:You don't realize actually how tall they are.
Speaker A:They're at least waist height, a little bit above waist height on me.
Speaker A:And the idea of the hurdles race is it's 100 meters.
Speaker A:It's a fast, short sprint and you have to leap over things that are in your way.
Speaker A:So you have to go.
Speaker A:It's not like you can, you can run and stop and climb over a hurdle and then, and then just carry on running again.
Speaker A:The idea is that you're sprinting at full pace and leaping at the same time.
Speaker A:So there's some coordination in this.
Speaker A:But you know, one, they don't just start you off.
Speaker A:When you start running hurdles, they don't just start you off with the, you know, the big, the big full size hurdles, they start you off with a smaller hurdle first.
Speaker A:And so then maybe, you know, they just put the beam on the floor and get used to you making your strides, running and changing your rear them in order and to get over that hurdle.
Speaker A:And then as you get more used to it, they raise the bar on those hurdles until they get to full height.
Speaker A:And by the time they get to full height, you've been jumping, you know, hurdles of, of a similar height the whole time.
Speaker A:So like it's not, it's not a big deal, but when you start out, it's very intimidating.
Speaker A:Well, one day I was running a hurdles race and I hit a hurdle and that happens.
Speaker A:But you know, when you hit one of those hurdles, they do fall down, but you end up with a lovely knot on your knee.
Speaker A:And I remember running the rest of the race.
Speaker A:It seemed like from then on, that whole practice, all I kept doing was hitting the hurdles and it started, failure had started to get on the inside of me.
Speaker A:And, you know, faith is not dissimilar to this.
Speaker A:When we are believing God for something and we aren't seeing something manifest instantaneously, we can start to become more acquainted with failure than we can with the finish line.
Speaker A:And so as I was running, it seemed like I may just have hit one hurdle now and again.
Speaker A:Now I was hitting them consistently, and as I was running in between hurdles, I was feeling the sting, the pain in my knees of the last hard hurdle that I just hit.
Speaker A:You know, sometimes we get.
Speaker A:We get wounded, we get disappointed, and things don't.
Speaker A:We get.
Speaker A:Things get delayed, and we carry that disappointment or that pain and that memory of that past failure of or disappointment from one situation to another, from one hurdle to another hurdle.
Speaker A:And all the time that we're doing that, we are focusing on the disappointment.
Speaker A:We're focusing on the problem.
Speaker A:We're focusing on.
Speaker A:I know, you know, it was painful where I came from.
Speaker A:I've got this challenge again.
Speaker A:I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get over it.
Speaker A:We're already more focused on failure than we are on the finish line.
Speaker A:And because whatever we focus on becomes our dominant thought, our whole body is attracted towards it.
Speaker A:Every cell in your body is attracted to whatever your mind is focused upon.
Speaker A:You know, this, this.
Speaker A:And even in the secular world, people understand this principle.
Speaker A:What we set our mind to focus on actually draws us closer to it.
Speaker A:It's like we're attracted to it.
Speaker A:You could say it's like putting a magnifying glass over something.
Speaker A:If you had a magnifying glass and you went out in the yard and you put that magnifying glass over, you know, an insect or something, that.
Speaker A:That tiny little insect would.
Speaker A:Would grow massive.
Speaker A:And because it grown massive in the glass, you know, I've watched little kids do this.
Speaker A:They think, oh, it's a massive creature.
Speaker A:It's like, no, just take the magnifying glass away.
Speaker A:It's really much smaller.
Speaker A:But because you're focused on that, on that whatever it is, it becomes bigger.
Speaker A:That hurdle, that fear that.
Speaker A:That symptom, whatever we focus our attention on becomes bigger in our minds.
Speaker A:And because it becomes bigger in our minds, it becomes bigger in our reality, and we have more chance of hitting it.
Speaker A:We lose sight of the finish line.
Speaker A:So what was the solution to me hitting every single hurdle?
Speaker A:You know, my coach said to me, you need to stop focusing your attention on overcoming the hurdle.
Speaker A:Now, that's a word for somebody today.
Speaker A:Quit focusing all of your attention on overcoming this hurdle.
Speaker A:Now, this hurdle might be a sickness, it might be a symptom, it might be a whatever.
Speaker A:But right now, if all of your attention, if every time you open your Bible, if every time you pray to Jesus, if every time you, you have a conversation with somebody, every time you pick up a book to read and, and learn, it's all about overcoming a, a particular hurdle, you know what you're doing, you're focusing on the hurdle.
Speaker A:And that in itself has.
Speaker A:There's a balance to it, right?
Speaker A:So if all of our time and all of our attention is focused on overcoming the hurdle, we're going to hit it every time because we're actually zeroing in on it.
Speaker A:So what do we do?
Speaker A:And my coach said, you need to focus not on the hurdle.
Speaker A:You need to focus on the finish line.
Speaker A:Focus on the finish line.
Speaker A:Focus and the contest of healing.
Speaker A:What does this mean?
Speaker A:It means focusing on what is the.
Speaker A:Well, you look like.
Speaker A:You know, you might need to go back to the time where you were better and find a picture of you.
Speaker A:Maybe you have a picture of you before you were sick.
Speaker A:You know, that doesn't work if you've always been sick, but maybe you could find a picture of you when you were in a better place, you know, and you keep that before you.
Speaker A:Or maybe, you know, maybe, I don't know, maybe you're trying to lose weight.
Speaker A:Well, find, Find a, you know, maybe you're a size 18.
Speaker A:You want to be a size 10.
Speaker A:Find the body of somebody that's a size 10 and put your face on it.
Speaker A:You need to, you need to see something on the inside, your finish line.
Speaker A:What does your finish line look like?
Speaker A:Maybe your finish line that you're.
Speaker A:The goal that you're aiming towards is to literally run a marathon.
Speaker A:Or maybe it's to have a better living situation, or maybe it's.
Speaker A:Have a better job or whatever it is that you're believing God for.
Speaker A:Have a picture of that.
Speaker A:Get that picture that now becomes your finish line.
Speaker A:You know, maybe it's.
Speaker A:I don't want to be taking medication every day.
Speaker A:Great.
Speaker A:You know, maybe you get.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is something that I've done before.
Speaker A:I've.
Speaker A:I've got that medicine bottle and I said, I started speaking to it.
Speaker A:Your days are numbered.
Speaker A:I already had the finish line of throwing away that medication in my mind, you might need to take that medication bottle and take a picture of it sitting in the trash can and put it on the wall.
Speaker A:Because one day that's your finish line of where you're trying to get to you.
Speaker A:You need to focus on the finish line more than the hurdle.
Speaker A:That's on the info on right in the middle of your vision right now.
Speaker A:So let's look at some scripture for this.
Speaker A:Okay, I'm going to look in Hebrews 12.
Speaker A:We've got a lot to cover today, so I don't know how much of it we're going to get through, but we'll try our best.
Speaker A:It says here Hebrews 12, verse 1.
Speaker A:Therefore we are encompassed by such a great cloud of witnesses.
Speaker A:Let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that so does easily entangle us or beset us and run the race with endurance, the race that is set before us.
Speaker A:Now, I want to look at this for a minute.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:So it's talking about laying aside a weight that so easily besets us or entangles us.
Speaker A:Now actually, when you study this out, what this is a picture of is a competitor that's running circles around you, that's running around you, that's literally encompassing you.
Speaker A:Can you imagine trying to run a race and there's another runner that keeps running around you in circles as you're trying to run forward.
Speaker A:Man, that you cannot help but be distracted by this.
Speaker A:We are running the race of our lives today.
Speaker A:We are running the race that the Lord has set before us in.
Speaker A:And it says, and let us run in run with endurance.
Speaker A:Endurance, you know, hopeful endurance is also patience, the race that is set before us.
Speaker A:There's an endurance here.
Speaker A:There's a not quitting here.
Speaker A:But understand this.
Speaker A:There is a competitor that is running alongside you.
Speaker A:Who is the competitor.
Speaker A:The competitor in our life oftentimes is our own flesh or it's the enemy.
Speaker A:Now our.
Speaker A:Some of us don't need to give the enemy any credit for this because our own self talk is so negative that you know, he doesn't have to do any work because we're already talking ourselves down anyway, right?
Speaker A:But our own thoughts will work against us and they'll remind you of the hurdle you hit last time.
Speaker A:Remember that hurdle you hit before.
Speaker A:Remember the pain in your knee.
Speaker A:Remember the big bruise that you have.
Speaker A:Remember the disappointment.
Speaker A:Remember how you let everyone down.
Speaker A:Remember how you had to quit, how you didn't finish.
Speaker A:Remember that.
Speaker A:Remember that, right?
Speaker A:That's the competitor that's trying to run circles around us to stop us from running the race.
Speaker A:The competitor.
Speaker A:Whether it's our own negative self talk or our previous negative experiences or the words of the doctor or the enemy himself, or the opinions of Others, whatever that that competitor is.
Speaker A:You know, the assignment that that competitor has in this instant is to stop you from finishing, is to stop you from finishing your race.
Speaker A:You know, how do we run with endurance?
Speaker A:Well, you know, a few years ago now we met a runner, an endurance runner.
Speaker A:And this gentleman was in his 80s and he runs a marathon every day.
Speaker A:He's an, he's an ultra runner.
Speaker A:So he doesn't just run one marathon, he runs about 80 miles every single day.
Speaker A:And he's in the middle of running from one side of America to the other.
Speaker A:And he was born again.
Speaker A:Believer, loved, loved.
Speaker A:The Lord loved Jesus, but there was something about him.
Speaker A:He had learned the art of endurance.
Speaker A:There was something in him that said, I'm not quitting, I'm not going to quit.
Speaker A:I don't care what it looks like, I don't care what it feels like.
Speaker A:The finish line was so real to him.
Speaker A:He never gave up on it.
Speaker A:That's endurance.
Speaker A:He had an expectation of reaching the finish line and you know, hopeful endurance is so important.
Speaker A:That's patience, because patience will hold your faith in place.
Speaker A:Hebrews says in another chapter, by faith and patience we inherit the promises.
Speaker A:You know, when we know what God has provided for us to have, when we know that for example, healing belongs to us, we won't give up on it.
Speaker A:We're not going to quit on it.
Speaker A:It's already done, a done deal.
Speaker A:It's already paid for for us.
Speaker A:It's already finished in our mind.
Speaker A:If healing is already a finished work of the cross, we don't have any reason to quit believing for it.
Speaker A:We don't have any reason to imagine that we won't cross the finish line, that we won't overcome the hurdle.
Speaker A:We can take that self doubt and the voices of the competitor off the table because in our minds, you know what?
Speaker A:Jesus has already crossed the finish line.
Speaker A:This is really important.
Speaker A:It goes on.
Speaker A:It says in verse two, let us look to Jesus.
Speaker A:Ha.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:Where is Jesus?
Speaker A:He's already crossed the finish line.
Speaker A:He says he's the author.
Speaker A:He's a start, right?
Speaker A:The author and the finisher, the end of our faith for the joy who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame and is seated in the right hand of God.
Speaker A:Now this is really interesting.
Speaker A:It says, look in verse three, for consider him Jesus, who endured such hostility from sinners, such competition, you can, you can imagine as Jesus was walking the earth, the competitors that he was dealing with, the people that were, were the People that brought persecution.
Speaker A:These were the, the Pharisees of the day that were coming against him, the naysayers, right?
Speaker A:They were constantly rallying around and, you know, trying to.
Speaker A:Trying to upset things and arrest him and persecute him and his disciples, he says, for him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, lest you become weary and your hearts give up.
Speaker A:So it says, for consider Jesus.
Speaker A:Lest your hearts become weary.
Speaker A:Consider Jesus who endured the hostility, endured the competitors, endured the hurdles and crossed the finish line.
Speaker A:First, consider his victory.
Speaker A:Consider him.
Speaker A:Consider the fact that he's already finished the race that you're running.
Speaker A:Oh, that's important.
Speaker A:He's already finished the race that you're running.
Speaker A:He's already crossed the finish line.
Speaker A:You know, if, if we were part of a team, maybe a relay team, right?
Speaker A:And, and, and each person had to finish relay.
Speaker A:Guess what?
Speaker A:He's already secured the victory.
Speaker A:He's already finished his leg of the race.
Speaker A:He's already secured the victory for your team.
Speaker A:So no matter what happens in your team, all you need to do is not quit.
Speaker A:If it doesn't matter if you come in last place, if you just walk across the finish line by refusing to quit, you're.
Speaker A:You've already entered into the victory.
Speaker A:He's already secured.
Speaker A:It's not going to change your position on the podium.
Speaker A:He's already won it for you.
Speaker A:Your part.
Speaker A:My part is just not to quit, man.
Speaker A:I can do that.
Speaker A:Maybe I'm not the fastest on the track.
Speaker A:Maybe I'm not the best hurdler.
Speaker A:I'm definitely not the best hurdler.
Speaker A:I haven't done that in years.
Speaker A:Don't want to go back to it, right?
Speaker A:Maybe I'm not the most talented, the most skilled.
Speaker A:Maybe I'm not the most experienced or the most eloquent.
Speaker A:But you know what?
Speaker A:I cannot quit.
Speaker A:That's easy.
Speaker A:If there's only one thing that I need to do and it's not quit, I can.
Speaker A:I can do that.
Speaker A:I can not quit.
Speaker A:I can be tenacious.
Speaker A:I can endure.
Speaker A:I can because I know that the victory has already been secured.
Speaker A:It's not based upon my effort.
Speaker A:You see, something we need to understand about Jesus is he's already fulfilled.
Speaker A:Fulfilled our faith.
Speaker A:He's already fulfilled it.
Speaker A:You know, when we say we just need to believe God, we just need to stand in faith.
Speaker A:Sometimes we get a little bit caught up in this and we start thinking it's our faith that secures the victory.
Speaker A:It's not our faith that secures the victory.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's his faith.
Speaker A:We have his faith on the inside of us.
Speaker A:You know, we have been saved by the, by the faith of the Son of God.
Speaker A:We have saving faith.
Speaker A:We have the faith of light, precious faith.
Speaker A:It says in the scriptures, the same faith that raised Jesus, the DAs that we have, here's victorious faith, his world overcoming faith on the inside of us.
Speaker A:And when we say we're just not going to.
Speaker A:Not going to quit, not, not going to give up believing, what means we're not going to cast aside the faith of Jesus, you know, it's not our great faith that accomplishes anything.
Speaker A:It's that it's the faith of the Lord on the inside of us.
Speaker A:And his faith is already victorious.
Speaker A:You know, Jesus finished what he started.
Speaker A:This is really interesting.
Speaker A:He is the author and the finisher.
Speaker A:He started this in you, and he'll finish this in you, right?
Speaker A:He'll finish it.
Speaker A:I want to show you some scriptures here because, you know, we might be accustomed to quitting.
Speaker A:Jesus isn't a quitter.
Speaker A:He never.
Speaker A:He never quitted anything.
Speaker A:He was a finisher.
Speaker A:There's a difference between finishers and quitters, right?
Speaker A:He was a finisher, not a quitter.
Speaker A:And he finishes what he started.
Speaker A:Look on over here.
Speaker A:I'm going to show you this.
Speaker A:This is in.
Speaker A:Go to the Philippians.
Speaker A:Doing this on my digital phone here.
Speaker A:Okay, Philippians 1 6.
Speaker A:Let's go here.
Speaker A:Being confident of this very thing that he who has begun a good work in.
Speaker A:Who in you say he's begun a good work in me.
Speaker A:Somebody needs to put that in the comments.
Speaker A:He has begun a good work in me.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:He's begun a good work in me, will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:He being confident in this very thing that he who has begun a good work in me, will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:Man, this is so important.
Speaker A:You know, if we don't see what God has already put on the inside of us, he's put good things in us.
Speaker A:He started good things.
Speaker A:He's put hopes and dreams on the inside of us.
Speaker A:Sometimes when we look at ourselves, we're very aware of our failures.
Speaker A:We think, man doesn't seem like there's any good thing in me.
Speaker A:You know, Philemon, not, not Philippians, but Philemon 6, another great verse.
Speaker A:It says that your faith becomes effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing that's in you, in Christ Jesus.
Speaker A:That tells us a couple of things, that there are good things that are in you, in Christ, and that you're and that you have faith.
Speaker A:And that faith is activated by meditating, by focusing on those good things that Jesus put on the inside of you.
Speaker A:So don't look at yourself and curse your body anymore.
Speaker A:This is a real word for someone.
Speaker A:Don't look at yourself and say, and say out loud, some of us say out loud terrible things about ourselves.
Speaker A:I can't.
Speaker A:I won't.
Speaker A:I'm not right.
Speaker A:We speak negative of ourselves, our body, our image, all of the time, of our own abilities, of our future.
Speaker A:We speak negative.
Speaker A:We curse ourselves.
Speaker A:Man, this is something that the enemy doesn't need any help destroying you because you're doing a good job of it with your own words.
Speaker A:When we got to stop agreeing with the enemy's lies when it comes to ourselves, we have to believe what the word of God says.
Speaker A:He's put good things in me and he.
Speaker A:And he's put good work in me and he's going to complete it.
Speaker A:Because even if we aren't faithful, Jesus is faithful.
Speaker A:Even if we feel like quitting, he's not a quitter.
Speaker A:He's a finisher.
Speaker A:And he's going to finish what he started.
Speaker A:The things that he's put on the inside of you today, the things that he.
Speaker A:He put intrinsically in you when he created you in your mother's womb, they're a combination of unique gifts and talents no one else on the earth has, right?
Speaker A:They're good things.
Speaker A:They're God things.
Speaker A:He put them in you.
Speaker A:Talents, abilities, dreams, purpose.
Speaker A:No one else can fulfill it.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Those good things that he started.
Speaker A:If you don't quit and shipwreck it, right?
Speaker A:If we remain in the race, then we're going to cross the finish line.
Speaker A:He's going to be able to complete those things.
Speaker A:Just don't quit.
Speaker A:Just don't quit.
Speaker A:This is so important, being confident at this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in me will complete it.
Speaker A:God is going to complete the thing that he started on the inside of you now in the realm of healing, he's going to complete it.
Speaker A:He's already paid for it, Right?
Speaker A:That healing is being completed.
Speaker A:You might have put that down.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Healing is completed in me.
Speaker A:Healing is completed in me.
Speaker A:Prosperity is complete.
Speaker A:You can put in there whatever you want.
Speaker A:But we need to start seeing what we're believing for as a finished work, not as something that might come, you know, coming soon to a life near us, hoping in a wishing that one day it's in the future.
Speaker A:We need to start seeing what we're believing for as if we already have it.
Speaker A:Isn't that what Mark 11 talks about it?
Speaker A:But if whatever we ask when we pray, believing that we will have it, we shall see it.
Speaker A:We need to start seeing what we're believing for as a finished work, not as something that's out there.
Speaker A:Healing is a completed work in me.
Speaker A:Yeah, Kizzy, George, you have.
Speaker A:Jeannie says healing is a completed in me.
Speaker A:It's a completed in me.
Speaker A:You can put whatever you want in there.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:Prosperity is completed in me.
Speaker A:Peace of mind is completed in me.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Deliverance is completed in me.
Speaker A:Restoration, it's completed in me.
Speaker A:You can put in there whatever it is that the word says that you can have, you have it.
Speaker A:It's not something that we're striving to get.
Speaker A:In fact, there is a fulfillment in our faith that when we put it in Jesus, that he's already got the victory.
Speaker A:It's a completed work, man.
Speaker A:This is so important, so important because if we still.
Speaker A:If we keep thinking that something is coming soon, we never have it.
Speaker A:We never actually act like we have something.
Speaker A:If we don't believe we have it.
Speaker A:We have to believe it on the inside first.
Speaker A:Proverbs says, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Speaker A:If you don't believe you're victorious, you won't walk in victory.
Speaker A:If you don't believe you're already healed, you won't walk in health.
Speaker A:If you don't believe that you already have prosperity on the inside of you, you won't walk in the fulfillment of prosperity in your life.
Speaker A:If you don't think you're free, you'll walk as a slave, man.
Speaker A:This is so important, right?
Speaker A:We need to see ourselves has already secured the victory.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:Jesus said, you know, the last few words that Jesus said on the cross?
Speaker A:What did he say in.
Speaker A: In John: Speaker A:You know, Jesus didn't say, I'm quitting.
Speaker A:Peace out.
Speaker A:I'm out of here.
Speaker A:These people are horrible to me, and they were mean to me.
Speaker A:They beat me, they crucified me.
Speaker A:They were, you know, they rejected me.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I don't even know why, you know, why we came.
Speaker A:You know, I give up on these people.
Speaker A:No, he didn't mean I'm finished as in unfinished with these people.
Speaker A:I'm done with them, right?
Speaker B:He.
Speaker A:He didn't.
Speaker A:He didn't mean that.
Speaker A:You know that word, tetelestai?
Speaker A:It is finished.
Speaker A:It means Many different things.
Speaker A:I have a whole teaching on this.
Speaker A:But it means it's complete.
Speaker A:It's complete.
Speaker A:It means it's perfect.
Speaker A:It's lacking nothing.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:It was also a victory cry.
Speaker A:It also means that the, the, it's.
Speaker A:The debt has been paid.
Speaker A:The debt has been paid in full.
Speaker A:You know, in Roman times, when somebody was arrested, they'd throw them in jail and they'd, they'd put, they'd put their charges on a sheet and they'd write them on a sheet of paper and then nail them to the, the lintel, the doorpost of the jail cell.
Speaker A:And so when you.
Speaker A:Everybody knew what that person was in there for, their charges were, their handwriting was on, literally the rap sheet was on the wall.
Speaker A:You know, when Jesus rose from the dead, he obliterated the charges that were laid against us.
Speaker A:The handwriting that was on the wall against us, it says in Colossians, he obliterated, he wiped it out, like it doesn't exist.
Speaker A:You know, when that prisoner was released, you know, they take that, they'd unnail that sheet down and they'd take it before the judge, and the judge would write on that sheet of charges, the debt has been paid in full.
Speaker A:The sentence has been served.
Speaker A:And anyone that tried to stop that prisoners, they, they tried to leave the prison, they'd present them that, that sheet, they'd have to let them go, man.
Speaker A:They were freed.
Speaker A:They were freed because they saw that it was finished.
Speaker A:Whatever was set against them had been finished.
Speaker A:Jesus says, I finished it for you.
Speaker A:The charges, the accusation, you.
Speaker A:One of the names of the enemy is the accuser of the brethren.
Speaker A:In other words, that word accuser in our English language it means prosecutor.
Speaker A:He's the prosecution for the enemy.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:The, the state prosecutor, you could say there, whatever it is, they're the big, the big person that's bringing the charges against you.
Speaker A:But Jesus says, it's too late.
Speaker A:The sentence has already been served.
Speaker A:It's finished.
Speaker A:It doesn't belong to them anymore.
Speaker A:The slate has been wiped clean.
Speaker A:The debt that was owing on your account is finished.
Speaker A:It means it's been paid in full.
Speaker A:You know, this was also a cry of victory.
Speaker A:It is finished.
Speaker A:When soldiers defeated the enemy, they'd come out with this same shout.
Speaker A:It was a shout of victory.
Speaker A:It means the enemy has been defeated.
Speaker A:Victory has been secured.
Speaker A:Man, this is so powerful, so powerful.
Speaker A:You realize that Jesus has, has, has been the fulfillment, the completion of your faith.
Speaker A:We're not like people in the Old Testament that were believing in something that was to Come, you know, we're already looking back.
Speaker A:We don't have to believe in something that is to come.
Speaker A:Put our faith in something that hasn't happened yet.
Speaker A:We're putting our faith in something that's already done.
Speaker A:Man, that's, that's the easiest part of all this.
Speaker A:It's already done.
Speaker A:Record, getting that done, finished, completed.
Speaker A:One victorious mindset on the inside of us.
Speaker A:The hardest part of that is between our own ears, right?
Speaker A:That picture of victory belongs to us.
Speaker A:You know Psalm 107, 20, it says he sent his word.
Speaker A:This is God saying he sent his word and healed you and delivered you from destructions.
Speaker A:Delivered you from destructions.
Speaker A:This is in the Old Testament.
Speaker A:So this was talking about something that hadn't happened yet.
Speaker A:It was in the future.
Speaker A:But you know the word of God in John chapter one, it says the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.
Speaker A:He has a name.
Speaker A:His name is Jesus.
Speaker A:The word that was sent to heal you in the Old Testament is Jesus that died and arose again for you to pay the price for your healing in the New Testament.
Speaker A:Man, that's so powerful.
Speaker A:He is the Word.
Speaker A:Jesus is the word that was sent to heal you and to deliver you from destructions.
Speaker A:You know that phrase, deliver you from destructions that is talking about and it's a way of escape from a pit.
Speaker A:A way of escape from a pit.
Speaker A:Jesus has pulled you up out of the pit.
Speaker A:The miry clay, the enemy that your situations, that your circumstance, the own negative thoughts put you in.
Speaker A:He's pulled you up out of that pit.
Speaker A:You know, when we, when we don't agree or, or we, we agree more with the hurdle in front of us than we do with the finish line.
Speaker A:You know, what we're doing is we're putting ourselves, we're climbing back down into the pit.
Speaker A:Refuse to be in the pit, right?
Speaker A:You've been given a way of escape.
Speaker A:Don't come down and start agreeing with the enemy.
Speaker A:Don't lower yourself to that, those, those poor expectations, that low self esteem.
Speaker A:Don't literally, don't lower yourself down to his standards, right?
Speaker A:You, you are designed, you are created.
Speaker A:You have good works that God has put into you.
Speaker A:You've got so much purpose that Lord has has equipped you with.
Speaker A:Don't lower yourself to agreeing to with the lies of the enemy.
Speaker A:He has sent his word and healed you and delivered you from, from destruction from the plans of the enemy.
Speaker A:I love that, you know, Jesus is the word that could become flesh and he's the perfecter of our faith.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:This is Psalm 138, verse 8.
Speaker A:He says he perfects those things which concern you.
Speaker A:You got things on your mind today, things that you're worried about.
Speaker A:Maybe you've got concerns.
Speaker A:Maybe you've got loved ones.
Speaker A:Maybe you got, you know, financial issues.
Speaker A:Or, you know, maybe there's conversations that you've had.
Speaker A:I see some people.
Speaker A:You've had conversations, people have said some things.
Speaker A:And it's moved you at a heart level, and you keep thinking about it.
Speaker A:There's that worry.
Speaker A:There's that nagging feeling on the backside, in the backside of your head, right?
Speaker A:You just can't shake it.
Speaker A:Those are things that concern you.
Speaker A:Those things.
Speaker A:It says here Psalm 138, verse 8.
Speaker A:He's perfecting those things that concern you.
Speaker A:You don't have to concern yourself with things that he's already perfecting.
Speaker A:So when those things, when you invite the Lord into that situation, you say, lord, I thank you, that you're right in the middle of it.
Speaker A:I don't have to worry about this, Lord.
Speaker A:But I know that it's in your hands.
Speaker A:I know that you're taking care of that.
Speaker A:Lord, I trust you with this.
Speaker A:Once you've prayed a prayer like that, you can take your hands off.
Speaker A:But I'm not going to worry about this anymore.
Speaker A:We had a situation one time years ago when we had a.
Speaker A:We had.
Speaker A:We just moved from England.
Speaker A:So it must have been.
Speaker A:We were.
Speaker A:We were in England, but we were students.
Speaker A:I mean, this is probably 20 years ago now.
Speaker A:We had to move the other end of the country.
Speaker A:We had a rental house a long way, way down in Essex, actually, while we were at Bible school.
Speaker A:And we had some tenants in there, and we didn't have any money because we were Bible college students.
Speaker A:And the Lord said to me, he said, the furnace is.
Speaker A:The boiler is gonna.
Speaker A:Is gonna break.
Speaker A:Is an old house that we were in here, it's gonna break.
Speaker A:And we were really concerned about it because we didn't really have extra money to pay for stuff like that.
Speaker A:But the Lord says, but don't worry, I've got it covered.
Speaker A:And, you know, I started thinking about that.
Speaker A:And then, like, the next day, we get a call from the tenants that were living in that house.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:The furnace is broken.
Speaker A:But because the Lord had already spoken about it to me, I wasn't concerned.
Speaker A:I knew that the Lord, if he'd shown me that if he knew that it would concern me, he'd already told me.
Speaker A:I. Oh, don't worry.
Speaker A:I'm Perfecting those things which concern you.
Speaker A:And sure enough, from different sources that were unexpected, the money came to replace that furnace, that boiler.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:I didn't have to be concerned about it.
Speaker A:And I would encourage you.
Speaker A:And you know, there's always going to be stuff that comes up in life.
Speaker A:You're going to get a negative report about something.
Speaker A:You're going to get somebody's disagreement on something.
Speaker A:You're going to get something that breaks, something that doesn't work out.
Speaker A:You're going to get rejection here, right?
Speaker A:And maybe you're gonna have lies that's spoken about you.
Speaker A:But you need to understand the Lord is perfect in those things that concern you.
Speaker A:Now, he can only perfect the things that concern you that you've allowed him access to, right?
Speaker A:Because sometimes we're like, no, I wanna do this all myself, okay?
Speaker A:And if we wanna do this all ourselves, the Lord's not gonna push his way in, but give it to the Lord.
Speaker A:He's perfecting those things that concern you.
Speaker A:You know, I like this one.
Speaker A:And there's some good scriptures for you to be writing down, actually.
Speaker A: , Job: Speaker A:And many such things are with him.
Speaker A:You know, he's performing things that are appointed for you.
Speaker A:You know, the Lord has appointed things for you.
Speaker A:Remember, he's already crossed the finish line and now he's looking back at you, running your race, running towards him, right?
Speaker A:So he's already.
Speaker A:He's already crossed over.
Speaker A:He's already performed things that are appointed for you.
Speaker A:That what things are appointed for you?
Speaker A:What are you appointed to?
Speaker A:You know what you are appointed to.
Speaker A:Good works is what the scripture says.
Speaker A:You've been appointed.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:He's put good things on the.
Speaker A:In good works on the inside of you.
Speaker A:He's appointed those and he's completing those, right?
Speaker A:So those, maybe they, maybe these are hopes, maybe these are dreams.
Speaker A:Maybe these are things that haven't yet come to pass.
Speaker A:Maybe the Lord has spoken to you something.
Speaker A:And you, maybe you've had a word of prophecy, word of wisdom, word of knowledge, but you haven't yet seen it come to pass.
Speaker A:You know what it says?
Speaker A:The Lord performs the things that are appointed for you.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He works on your behalf, and many such things are with him.
Speaker A:Man, he's perfecting things that.
Speaker A:That concern you and is performing things that are appointed for you.
Speaker A:I mean, that, that shows me a picture of a God that isn't removed from our challenges, that he's Very aware of the hurdles that we face and the race that we're running.
Speaker A:He's very aware of the challenges that we're going through because he's spending his time performing things that are appointed for us and bringing things to completion that he's put on the inside of us and perfecting things that concern us.
Speaker A:This is a God that isn't distant.
Speaker A:This is a God that's very engaged in your welfare.
Speaker A:He's very engaged in your success.
Speaker A:He's very engaged in your victory.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But we just need to take a moment and recognize, ah, he's already secured the victory.
Speaker A:He's already working on my behalf.
Speaker A:He's already appointed me for good things.
Speaker A:I can trust him.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:He's concerned about the things I'm concerned about.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:He's perfecting things that are on my mind.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker A:And he says he goes before us and straightens our crooked paths.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Involve him in the things that you're concerned about.
Speaker A:He'll work it out.
Speaker A:He'll work it out.
Speaker A:You know, Luke 1:45, he says, there'll be a fulfillment of those things which were spoken.
Speaker A:Blessed is she who believe, because there'll be a fulfillment of those things that were spoken to her by the Lord.
Speaker A:We had to first put faith in the finished work of the cross.
Speaker A:We have to put faith in Jesus's final words and believe what he said when he said it's finished.
Speaker A:We're not striving to get something we haven't already got.
Speaker A:We're resting in something that's already been provided.
Speaker A:That's quite a difference, right?
Speaker A:There will be a fulfillment.
Speaker A:You might need to declare that there will be a fulfillment of the things that I've believed, that they were spoken to you by the Lord.
Speaker A:This is your day of fulfillment.
Speaker A:That's a great confession.
Speaker A:So this is my day of fulfillment.
Speaker A:This is my day of fulfillment.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:I want to show you something.
Speaker A:I was reading this the other day in Mark, and I'm going to keep praying for you in Mark.
Speaker A:Go on over to Mark, chapter 10.
Speaker A:Now, this is a really.
Speaker A:I like this passage.
Speaker A:This is the healing of Bartimaeus.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:The healing of Bartimaeus.
Speaker A:Now, there are some things in here that you might not have seen, but it says here, and I'm just going to read from the top then.
Speaker A:Verse 46, they came to Jericho.
Speaker A:And as they went out of Jericho with his disciples, a great number of people blind.
Speaker A:Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus sat along the way, begging.
Speaker A:Now, I started thinking about these things.
Speaker A:And this was right before Jesus went up into Jerusalem for the last time.
Speaker A:And then from there he was crucified.
Speaker A:So what is it about Jericho?
Speaker A:They came to Jericho.
Speaker A:You know, Jericho was a major city.
Speaker A:Actually, it was the very first city that was conquered when the Israelites crossed over the Jordan into the promised land, into Canaan.
Speaker A:The very first cities.
Speaker A:Remember it?
Speaker A:Well, that was the Joshua is in charge, and he made the people circle the city seven times and the walls came down.
Speaker A:Do you remember that?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Well, you know, Jericho was a fortified city.
Speaker A:It was the first city that they came to, the first city that they.
Speaker A:That they conquered.
Speaker A:And it was not an easy one.
Speaker A:It was a fortified city.
Speaker A:And so, you know, this city was demolished.
Speaker A:Now, I don't know if you remember the story.
Speaker A:You can go back and read it, but there was a prostitute in that city.
Speaker A:When the Israelites went in, they sent spies ahead of time into the city to infiltrate the city to decide what the best course of action was before they could take the city down.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And so they sent the spies in, and they were.
Speaker A:They were being discovered.
Speaker A:And a prostitute who lived in the city wall named Rahab took the spies in and hid them.
Speaker A:And she said, you know, thing you don't realize, the Israelites were looking at this massive fortified city, this huge hurdle, you could say, as something that was totally insurmountable and massive and huge and way beyond their ability to conquer.
Speaker A:And yet, when the spies met Rahab, Rahab explained to them, the people of this city are terrified of you.
Speaker A:The soldiers in the city, they've heard about you.
Speaker A:They've heard about your God.
Speaker A:They're already afraid of you.
Speaker A:You see, the people of that city realized that greater was the God that was with the children of Israel than the belief system and the armies that they had at their disposal.
Speaker A:Their God was greater.
Speaker A:And so Rahab hid the spies and she let them down over the city wall.
Speaker A:And her faith in that moment saved her and her.
Speaker A:Her whole household, the entire city was destroyed.
Speaker A:But not the corner.
Speaker A:All of the walls fell down, but not the section where she lived.
Speaker A:She lived in the wall that was destroyed.
Speaker A:She didn't live in a little heart under a rock somewhere.
Speaker A:She lived in the very wall that came down.
Speaker A:But yet her and her family were spared because she put her faith in.
Speaker A:In God.
Speaker A:Now, that was Jericho, okay?
Speaker A:So it is the first city that the children of Israel, of the Israelites conquered in the promised land.
Speaker A:And Jericho was The last city that Jesus visited before he went to Jerusalem for his crucifixion.
Speaker A:You see, he is the author and the finisher of things.
Speaker A:He will always finish what he started.
Speaker A:Even from the Old Testament to the New Testament, there was fulfillment of promises.
Speaker A:He was finishing what he started.
Speaker A:You know, the interesting thing that many people overlook here is Rahab the prostitute.
Speaker A:And her family that was saved went on to be.
Speaker A:She was the great, great great grandmother of King David.
Speaker A:Jesus came from the line of David.
Speaker A:Who would have thought that a prostitute would end up being a long distance relative of Jesus himself?
Speaker A:If that isn't a story of redemption, I don't know what is.
Speaker A:He is the author and he is the finisher.
Speaker A:So remember, Jesus is from the line of David.
Speaker A:His great great great grandmother was Rahab, who was rescued from Jericho, the very first city that was conquered and the very last city that Jesus visited.
Speaker A:And look at what Bartimaeus says.
Speaker A:He says in verse 47, when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, jesus, son of David, son of David.
Speaker A:Rahab's.
Speaker A:This is the same city.
Speaker A:This is in Jericho.
Speaker A:This is Rahab's grandson, several generations down.
Speaker A:Have mercy upon me.
Speaker A:What, what an.
Speaker A:What a wonderful closure, you know, and the thing with Bartimae, so many people came out against him.
Speaker A:So many people saw the hurdles, you know, he was blind.
Speaker A:He sat in the place in Jericho where, where people sat, you know, it was a very wealthy city.
Speaker A:He sat on the place, the entrance there, where the, where the beggars would sit, trying to get money out of people because, you know, I guess it was a good spot for begging.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And there are so many.
Speaker A:There's so much competition.
Speaker A:There were other beggars there too.
Speaker A:So many people told him to be quiet.
Speaker A:The competitions were.
Speaker A:Competitors were trying to stop him from running his race, but he wouldn't quit.
Speaker A:He was.
Speaker A:See, he wasn't acquitted.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because he already saw the finish line.
Speaker A:You know, when you've already seen the finish line, it doesn't matter how far that finish line is.
Speaker A:You've already seen it.
Speaker A:You're going to get to it.
Speaker A:If you've run 25 miles and then in the distance, a mile ahead, you see the finish line, there's no chance you're going to quit a mile before the finish line because the finish line's already in view.
Speaker A:Some of us just need a better view of the finish line.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Bartimaeus, he might not be able to see in the natural, but by faith, he saw the finish line.
Speaker A:And he wouldn't quit because he'd already heard the same Jesus, the Jesus of the, of the God that destroyed and rebuilt the very town that he was begging in, was walking through his city, walking through his city.
Speaker A:He wasn't going to give up on that.
Speaker A:He knew that power was more than present, more than able to bring healing to his mortal bodies.
Speaker A:The more that people cried out, he said, the more he said, son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker A:He didn't say please.
Speaker A:You know, he was a beggar, but he wasn't begging this time.
Speaker A:Oh, come on then, this will preach.
Speaker A:He was a beggar by profession, but he wasn't begging when he said this.
Speaker A:You see, we cannot come at the promises of God as a beggar.
Speaker A:He was a commandment, Son of David, you have mercy on me.
Speaker A:He knew as, as a, as a.
Speaker A:He had a covenant right to the healing power that Jesus contained.
Speaker A:And he was not about to give up on that victory.
Speaker A:He was not about to.
Speaker A:To let that moment walk by.
Speaker A:He was not about to be shut up by the concerns of other people.
Speaker A:Quit approaching God like a beggar.
Speaker A:It's time we started taking back our victory, placing a demand on it.
Speaker A:And Jesus stood and he commanded him to be called.
Speaker A:Rise, be of good comfort.
Speaker A:He's calling you.
Speaker A:You know what he did next?
Speaker A:He threw aside his grave clothes.
Speaker A:He threw aside his beggar garments, and he rose and he came to Jesus even though he was still blind in that moment, didn't say he got his sight back yet to find his way to Jesus with his eyes still shut.
Speaker A:But you know what?
Speaker A:He knew that that finish line that he was approaching did not, did not require him to have beggar clothes on him at the time.
Speaker A:He couldn't cross the line in his beggar clothes.
Speaker A:He couldn't cross the line.
Speaker A:He couldn't finish the race in his beggar clothes.
Speaker A:If he was going to be victorious, he'd have to see himself as such and cast aside the.
Speaker A:The garments of disappointment, the garments of poverty, the garments of sickness.
Speaker A:He had to have on the inside of him an identity that says, I'm not blind anymore.
Speaker A:I'm not a begging anymore, and I'm certainly not begging for healing.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:If a beggar figured out he didn't need to beg for healing.
Speaker A:You don't need to either because you have today something that Bartimaeus didn't have.
Speaker A:You have the Lord of heaven and earth.
Speaker A:You have Jesus himself living on the inside of you.
Speaker A:Quit coming in your prayer times as a beggar.
Speaker A:When you're coming as a container of the king of glory, right?
Speaker A:There's a difference there.
Speaker A:There is no prince that enters the palace as a beggar, right?
Speaker A:When we understand that we are carrying the king of glory, that we are kings and priests seated with him in most heavenly places, that Jesus himself is it contained on the inside of us, or we don't have to walk through life as a beggar anymore.
Speaker A:We can come to the throne of glory with full confidence.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Knowing that our Father has already given us the keys of the kingdom.
Speaker A:Man, this is so powerful.
Speaker A:He said to him, rabbi, that I might receive my sight.
Speaker A:And he said, jesus said to the man, go your way.
Speaker A:Your faith has made you well.
Speaker A:Your faith in what?
Speaker A:Your faith in Jesus.
Speaker A:Put your faith in Jesus today.
Speaker A:Put your faith in a finished work.
Speaker A:Say I, I have what he says that I have.
Speaker A:Healing belongs to you.
Speaker A:Prosperity belongs to you.
Speaker A:Peace belongs to you.
Speaker A:Deliverance belongs to you.
Speaker A:Forgiveness belongs to you.
Speaker A:Security belongs to you.
Speaker A:Safety, friendship, favor, they belong to you.
Speaker A:To you.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:They belong to me.
Speaker A:It's time to approach it as a finished work.
Speaker A:Father God, I just thank you for all these good and these precious promises that you have deposited in our account.
Speaker A:Lord, I thank you that you are the author and the finisher of our faith, that you are perfecting the things that concern us, that you are performing the things that you have appointed for us.
Speaker A:Lord, thank you that you're completing the good works that you have put on the inside.
Speaker A:Inside of us, and that you are helping us to run the race that's.
Speaker A:To run the race with endurance, the race that you've put on.
Speaker A:On laid out for us.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, that you're making those crooked paths straight.
Speaker A:I sense the Lord right now is opening doors of opportunity for some of us.
Speaker A:There's doors of opportunity that are being swung wide open.
Speaker A:And I see it's almost like saloon doors where one swings both ways.
Speaker A:You know, you have an opportunity to go through or to go back.
Speaker A:You can go forward or you can go back.
Speaker A:If you want to keep going forward, you have to keep saying yes, yes to opportunity.
Speaker A:Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker A:The more opportunity.
Speaker A:It's almost like one after another.
Speaker A:I see three yeses that are coming your way.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Three opportunities that are coming very quickly that you won't even have a whole lot of time to think about, but that it's almost like it's yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for giving us boldness, for giving us confidence, to give us Clarity, to see the opportunities.
Speaker A:Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker A:And to say, I'm going through those doors of opportunity to quit taking two steps forward and one step back, but to keep the momentum on.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for helping us to have confidence, to keep moving forward, to have confidence, for trying new things.
Speaker A:I feel the Lord is really.
Speaker A:It's almost like he's reeling you in with opportunities for good right now.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:He's giving you opportunities to trust him, even in the little things.
Speaker A:And as you start saying yes to him, you know, yes, he's going to become a habit for you.
Speaker A:Saying yes to God.
Speaker A:Trusting him in small things will lead to bigger opportunities to say yes to.
Speaker A:And the more you say yes, the more things there are to say yes to.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:I definitely feel like there's a drawing, there's a reeling, there's a closeness that the Lord wants to have with you.
Speaker A:The Lord doesn't tempt us with things.
Speaker A:He gives us opportunities for good.
Speaker A:He's giving you opportunities.
Speaker A:There's an opportunity coming for you to give, for you to sow into somebody else.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:There's going to be opportunities to sow at a level even where.
Speaker A:Where it's uncomfortable for you, where it doesn't make sense.
Speaker A:It doesn't make sense.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Again, this.
Speaker A:This testimony is coming.
Speaker A:I'm going to share this real quickly.
Speaker A:Years ago, we bought a truck for our family.
Speaker A:This is back in England.
Speaker A:And I remember it was £4,000.
Speaker A:It was a used vehicle, but it was all the money in the world to us, right?
Speaker A:We had nothing else.
Speaker A:And it was our family car.
Speaker A:And we.
Speaker A:We bought this used, you know, off an advert in the paper, whatever.
Speaker A:And Ashley went and he did all of his due diligence.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:But it.
Speaker A:It turned out to be stolen.
Speaker A:And they'd done a really good job of changing numbers and identity.
Speaker A:They're doing a really good job of cloning this truck to make it look like a real.
Speaker A:Like a legit.
Speaker A:Like it wasn't stolen, it was stolen identity.
Speaker A:But we found out that it was stolen.
Speaker A:And so we actually called the police.
Speaker A:We're like, we believe we have received a stolen vehicle.
Speaker A:This is the person that we bought it for.
Speaker A:And obviously, you know, they had to go and investigate that.
Speaker A:But we knew that they were going to take that vehicle, as, you know, they were going to confiscate it because it belonged to somebody, whoever it was stolen from.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And people around us said, you, first of all, you're crazy for, for telling the police, you're crazy for, you know, turning them in because they're going to take that and you're going to be without.
Speaker A:You're going to be without any money and you're going to be, you know, you're not going to have that vehicle either.
Speaker A:And we trusted God.
Speaker A:And you know what?
Speaker A:We, we screamed and we saved and we saved up another $4,000, £4,000 to buy a vehicle.
Speaker A:And we didn't have a truck, and we didn't, you know, and we needed that money to buy, to buy a car now to replace the one that we had, we had to give back to the police.
Speaker A:And people said to us, you are never going to get that truck back.
Speaker A:Once they please confiscate something, you never get it back.
Speaker A:But something on the inside of us says, no, Jesus is the author and he's the finisher of our faith.
Speaker A:And the devil cannot steal from us.
Speaker A:That truck is coming back to us.
Speaker A:It's coming back to us in Jesus name.
Speaker A:We stood and we agreed, that truck is coming back to us.
Speaker A:And people around us, people in the, you know, that had more experience than us in these things, said, no, that never will happen.
Speaker A:Never ever.
Speaker A:That is lost.
Speaker A:You are crazy to turn it in.
Speaker A:It's never coming back to you.
Speaker A:We're like, nope, it's coming back to us.
Speaker A:We did.
Speaker A:We refused to quit even though it was a hurdle, and we scrimped and we scraped and we came up with another $4,000.
Speaker A:You know what the Lord told us to do?
Speaker A:Give it.
Speaker A:I'm like, what do you mean, give it?
Speaker A:I've already given the truck, the vehicle back to the police.
Speaker A:Right, and now you want me to give again?
Speaker A:You want me to give the cash?
Speaker A:Yep, give it.
Speaker A:In the offering at church, £4,000.
Speaker A:I think until that point, it was the biggest amount of money that we had ever given anywhere.
Speaker A:And we were not giving it because we were giving it out of our abundance.
Speaker A:We were definitely giving out of a sacrifice.
Speaker A:But it was clear.
Speaker A:I remember what I was doing is actually painting a wall at the time in our house.
Speaker A:We were decorating.
Speaker A:And the Lord spoke to me, says, I want you to put that money in the offering at church tomorrow.
Speaker A:And I spoke to Ash as he said, the Lord told me this is what we're supposed to do.
Speaker A:And he's like, yep, let's do it.
Speaker A:So we wrote the check and we dropped it in the offering bucket as it went by.
Speaker A:Bye.
Speaker A:See ya.
Speaker A:Never gonna see you again.
Speaker A:Don't know how we're Gonna ever scrape it together any more money and actually have a car, you know.
Speaker A:But, you know, the end of the story is that we have been blessed.
Speaker A:And that turned out to be.
Speaker A:Obviously there was a testimony on that that that was just the money they needed for something, you know.
Speaker A:But, you know, within a short space of time, guess what happened?
Speaker A:The police called back and they said, well, you know what?
Speaker A:We know this truck is stolen, but we actually can't identify it.
Speaker A:It was cloned.
Speaker A:It's not the identity that is on the truck now because it has a stolen identity.
Speaker A:But we cannot find the original identity of this truck.
Speaker A:Therefore, we can't return it to the person before because it's been so far removed.
Speaker A:Therefore, we have no choice.
Speaker A:We have to give it back to you.
Speaker A:We got our truck back.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:We got our truck back.
Speaker A:We got.
Speaker A:We got more back in abundance and blessing from the.
Speaker A:From the seed that we sowed.
Speaker A:But sometimes we have to give up something that seems crazy to say yes to an opportunity that God is giving you to bring you higher.
Speaker A:You have to.
Speaker A:A friend of mine said one time, you have to give something up to go up.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:That's true.
Speaker A:And I think the Lord, the reason I'm telling this to you is because God has given you an opportunity to say yes to him.
Speaker A:Because.
Speaker A:But usually when we say yes to him, there's a cost, there's something, there's a sacrifice.
Speaker A:Everything.
Speaker A:Every good opportunity is at the sacrifice of something else.
Speaker A:Sometimes we have to sacrifice something, whether that's money, whether that's time, whether that's saying no to something over here, to say yes to something over here.
Speaker A:But when you say yes to an opportunity from the Lord, you will never be disappointed.
Speaker A:You will never be destitute.
Speaker A:The Lord is so good.
Speaker A:He's the author and the finisher of your faith.
Speaker A:Lord, I thank you for people that are struggling in the realm financial finances right now.
Speaker A:I thank you, Lord, that you give them boldness, that you give them courage, that you give them confidence.
Speaker A:You give them a vision on the inside, even in their lack of where to sow.
Speaker A:You give them a vision on the inside, even in their not enough of helping other people's needs.
Speaker A:Even though it seems crazy, Lord, I thank you that you drop that into their heart.
Speaker A:I thank you that you give them the opportunity to trust you.
Speaker A:I thank you, Lord, that there is opportunities coming to go up.
Speaker A:And Lord, we say we're going up, we're going up, we're going over, we're going through, we're crossing the hurdle.
Speaker A:We're crossing into the promised land.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:I speak healing to your bodies right now in Jesus name.
Speaker A:Yes, we command.
Speaker A:Beverly.
Speaker A:We command that potassium level to come right down.
Speaker A:Right down.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Right now I speak here.
Speaker A:The healing power of God to flow through your body from the top of your head to the very soles of your feet.
Speaker B:Thin kiddle.
Speaker A:There are bones in the feet that are becoming straight right now.
Speaker A:They were broken and not healed properly.
Speaker A:But the Lord is straightening out bones in the feet, feet right now.
Speaker A:We command that ovarian cyst flower to shrivel up, shrivel up and leave.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:There is a tumor in the brain.
Speaker A:The Lord is, right now is shrinking.
Speaker A:Even as we listen in this moment, that tumor is shrinking.
Speaker A:It is shriveling down to nothing.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:There's an MRI scan and somebody's in the MRI scan and I see it's changing in front of the, the, the technician's screen.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's things on the screen that they cannot explain because they're moving around.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's the hand of the Lord at work right now.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:He's moving things around on the inside.
Speaker A:He's making, he's making tissue where there was none.
Speaker A:He's removing tissue that shouldn't be there.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's blood vessels that have.
Speaker A:There's a rearrangement of blood vessels in particular.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:There's a shifting going on, a shifting of airways and intestines.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command the pressure inside the blood vessels to come down.
Speaker A:We command those airways to open up and those, those blood vessels to become unclogged.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:Blood pressure come down in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command that the injury in the arm to leave.
Speaker A:We command the muscles to be whole and healthy.
Speaker A:Pain leave inflammation.
Speaker A:Go.
Speaker A:Tendons knit back together.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Shinobuku.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:I see micro tears.
Speaker A:There's little micro tears in a muscle right now.
Speaker A:We command those tiny little fibers to mesh back together.
Speaker A:Those tiny little microscopic tears to mesh back together in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command Jameson's vision to become clear, the blurriness to leave right now.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We could float us to leave right now.
Speaker A:We turn off allergies and intolerances.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:We command that somebody has a very sensitive skin and you get like a boils and blisters and you have open sores and wounds right now.
Speaker A:I command new skin to grow New infection, leave abscesses, drain.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Lumps and bumps and cysts be removed from everywhere that they don't belong.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Someone's asking.
Speaker A:Kitty's asking.
Speaker A:Can you pray for my dog?
Speaker A:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker A:Right now, in Jesus name, we speak health over all of our pets.
Speaker A:We command winter to be healed.
Speaker A:We command the healing power of Jesus to flow into winter's body and that lymphoma to leave.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, shrink down.
Speaker A:Lymphoma in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Henry says his wife has received some concerning news on an exam today on a mammogram.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And listen, got to see the finish line.
Speaker A:Decide right now what you believe for who you agree with.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:What picture you see right now.
Speaker A:I mean, I've prayed for many people that have had negative mammograms.
Speaker A:Many people.
Speaker A:And people have been called in two and three times because they can't find what they found on the mammogram.
Speaker A:So right now, in Jesus name, we command.
Speaker A:Whatever was on that mammogram we command is a lie.
Speaker A:We command that report to come back null and void.
Speaker A:We command that mammogram to come back and declare the works of the Lord.
Speaker A:We command any cysts, any cloudiness, any tumors, any lumps or bumps or shadows on that mammogram to leave right now.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:We declare over it no evidence of disease found.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:There's many people with issues in their limbs, arms and legs.
Speaker A:Right now we command strength back into the arms and the legs and the joints.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, we command bones to knit back together.
Speaker A:Tibias, amphibians, knit back together.
Speaker A:Right now, we.
Speaker A:There's something that has gone down that has broken into a growth plate, a bone.
Speaker A:I think this might be a younger person, but it's hit the growth plate.
Speaker A:And right now we command that bone to be healed in Jesus name.
Speaker A:And we command that growth plate to be complete and undistructed, undisturbed in the name of Jesus.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command those pains.
Speaker A:Those shoes, somebody is dealing with shooting pains.
Speaker A:I think this is a nerve pain.
Speaker A:It's a shooting pain that goes down the arms.
Speaker A:Shooting pain that goes down the legs.
Speaker A:Right now we command those nerves to be at rest.
Speaker A:Plantar fasciitis, sciatica to leave right now.
Speaker A:There's somebody.
Speaker A:You have had an issue in the past with shingles and it's called horrible nerve pain that really hasn't resolved itself even after the shingles has gone.
Speaker A:Right now we Command that the rest, that virus out of your body.
Speaker A:The sensitivity that's in your nerves, there's an irritated, irritated nerves in your body that they're just on fire.
Speaker A:They're on like, you know, 100, 100% reaction all the time.
Speaker A:Right now we just speak peace over your nerves in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We speak peace over those nerves.
Speaker A:We command them to go back to rest, that inflammation to go down.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:There are some, there is some inflammation on the inside of the head, in the, in the cavities around the face.
Speaker A:In the hearing, you have inflammation inside and, and nerve damage and it's causing a ringing.
Speaker A:The little nerves on the inside by the hairs are very deep within your hearing.
Speaker A:There's nerves and inflammation and the ringing noise.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:I speak peace over that.
Speaker A:I command that inflammation to go down and I command that ringing to stop in Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:That's you, Robin.
Speaker A:And praise and praise him Right now with the, with the, the nerve pain.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:We command nerves to be at rest.
Speaker A:Be at rest.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:That pain leave right now.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command that pain to leave in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We speak peace over your Vernon.
Speaker A:We command that heart rate to come down.
Speaker A:That heart rate to come down.
Speaker A:Somebody has inflammation in their sinus cavities and in the back of the, in the back of the nose.
Speaker A:And it actually, the inflammation there, it blocks your breathing when you're sleeping.
Speaker A:It's like a sleep apnea or something and, and it's affected your sense of smell.
Speaker A:Right now we command that inflammation to go down those airways, to open up those muscles to become strong, to keep the airways open even as you sleep.
Speaker A:And we come on, rest.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:Rest.
Speaker A:No more sleep apnea.
Speaker A:Just breathing.
Speaker A:This snoring issue right now, we command it to stop.
Speaker A:Those airways to stay open.
Speaker A:Strong cartilage.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:We command those.
Speaker A:There's I see a collapsing, a collapsing of an airway.
Speaker A:And this also happens this, this happens in somebody's vein as well.
Speaker A:That it's almost like there's a collapse that happens in the airway and in the vein right now.
Speaker A:And it causes blockages and it causes obstructions.
Speaker A:Right now we command those, those structures to remain open, to be widened, that inflammation to leave.
Speaker A:We combine that the normal, healthy circulation in your body.
Speaker A:From I hear, what I hear is from root to tip, I don't know what that means, but right now, from root to tip, normal, healthy circulation in Jesus name.
Speaker A:Health, strength, life, vitality.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:They're breathing open airways.
Speaker A:You know, right now we come on that the airways to stay open no matter what's in the environment.
Speaker A:Somebody has had environmental responses to things.
Speaker A:Right now we command.
Speaker A:We command.
Speaker A:That reaction is almost like an allergic reaction.
Speaker A:That happens when you go and you smell or you breathe something in.
Speaker A:It affects you in your lungs and it tightens them right up.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's just pollution, cigarette or smoke or something.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's even a change in temperature or a perfume where there's.
Speaker A:There's real chemical sensitivities.
Speaker A:Right now we turn them off.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:We command those allergies to be switched off right now.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command that.
Speaker A:That trigeminal neuralgia to leave.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Sinuses open up.
Speaker A:Chest.
Speaker A:Somebody has had a pain in their chest.
Speaker A:Like it's tight.
Speaker A:You feel like a band, like an elephant sitting on your chest or something.
Speaker A:You can't quite take a deep breath.
Speaker A:We come on those lungs to open up these, these ribs that are hurting from coughing.
Speaker A:Somebody's been.
Speaker A:You've been coughing so much that there's a.
Speaker A:There's a real pain Just, just to breathe is painful in the, in the pleuras there.
Speaker A:It's almost like you have a pleurisy or something.
Speaker A:Right now we command that pain in the chest to leave.
Speaker A:We command those lungs to open those ribs to those intercostal muscles to move without pain.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Hearts beat normal rhythm.
Speaker A:Hearts beat at a normal rhythm.
Speaker A:Somebody has been newly diagnosed with diabetes just like it came out of nowhere or something.
Speaker A:And this right now, we just take authority over that lie.
Speaker A:We take authority over that lie.
Speaker A:We command that, that, that diagnosis to repent in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Diagnosis of diabetes.
Speaker A:Repent.
Speaker A:We command the pancreas to produce insulin and process insulin and sugars as it was created to be normal.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Right now we command mobility back into people that are struggling to move.
Speaker A:We command mobility back.
Speaker A:We command that movement in every part of every joint in the body.
Speaker A:Lubricated inflammation, arthritis.
Speaker A:Leave right now.
Speaker A:Thank.
Speaker A:Somebody has a problem with lupus.
Speaker A:And there's some different autoimmune issues that I'm seeing here.
Speaker A:But right now we take authority over lupus in Jesus name.
Speaker A:And autoimmune diseases.
Speaker A:We switch them off.
Speaker A:We command these adverse reactions to be turned off.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:This fatigue to leave you.
Speaker A:Strength to return to you.
Speaker A:In the name of Jesus.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:Somebody has a problem With.
Speaker A:Oh, you've had to do a peak flow test, and that's breathing out.
Speaker A:And they measure the force at which you can breathe out.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:It's low.
Speaker A:You have to keep a log of it or something.
Speaker A:Right now, I command that test result to improve.
Speaker A:I command that lung capacity to open up.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Cancer.
Speaker A:We curse cancer in every part of the body.
Speaker A:Every lying part of the body.
Speaker A:We command cancer to get out right now.
Speaker A:We say, you cannot take any territory.
Speaker A:Retreat.
Speaker A:We command that cancer to shrivel up.
Speaker A:Retreat.
Speaker A:Die.
Speaker A:Get out of your body in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Every single part of you.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Strength coming back to you.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Man, God is so good.
Speaker A:He's so, so good to us.
Speaker A:There's a brain damage.
Speaker A:I see a child with some.
Speaker A:You've.
Speaker A:This had a.
Speaker A:An incident where there was oxygen deprivation.
Speaker A:Right now I just command the structures of the brain that have been starved of oxygen and have died to come back online.
Speaker A:Come back to life.
Speaker A:I speak life.
Speaker A:Back into the dead spaces.
Speaker A:Come alive again.
Speaker A:Come back to life.
Speaker A:I speak new nerves, new brain cells, new blood vessels to grow where there were none.
Speaker A:Where there were dead.
Speaker A:Where there is death and decay.
Speaker A:We speak life and resurrection.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Man.
Speaker A:He's good to us, man.
Speaker A:The power of God is working.
Speaker A:He's been released in people's bodies right here.
Speaker A:He's touching every part of you.
Speaker A:Remember, he's complete.
Speaker A:He's bringing a.
Speaker A:Bringing you to a place of completion.
Speaker A:Get in your mind a picture that it is a finished work.
Speaker A:That tumor, if you have, it's shriveling.
Speaker A:See it shriveling?
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:That fibroid.
Speaker A:See it shrinking that hemorrhoid.
Speaker A:Seeing it be that hernia, seeing it being moved, sucked back in.
Speaker A:Those blood vessels opening up in Jesus name.
Speaker A:See yourself being lubricated in all of your stiff joints.
Speaker A:See yourselves responding, firing up, coming back to life.
Speaker A:See them on the inside.
Speaker A:See them on the inside.
Speaker A:Everything that the enemy has touched through virus, through disease, through infection, everything that he's infiltrated, start seeing that blackness be removed from the flesh.
Speaker A:Because right now we speak deliverance.
Speaker A:We command the enemy out of your body.
Speaker A:Out of your brain.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Every tentacle, every lesion, every black, shadowy spot, right now, out in the name of Jesus.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:You see, your body does not belong to the enemy.
Speaker B:It belongs to the Lord.
Speaker A:Your body was created to worship him.
Speaker A:It's an instrument of worship.
Speaker A:Created for him right?
Speaker A:So there is no part of the enemy that belongs inside of that.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:I speak peace over your bodies.
Speaker A:Peace.
Speaker A:Somebody needs peace in the sleep.
Speaker A:Sweet sleep in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:You're so good to us man.
Speaker A:He's so good.
Speaker A:Well, thank you for joining me today.
Speaker A:We sure love you.
Speaker A:Ashley loves you.
Speaker A:He'll be back on Tuesday with his live stream and again I'll be here for Power Hour on Thursday.
Speaker A:But we love you.
Speaker A:Thanks for joining me.
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