Awaken Your Great Faith

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I late to start with. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.000 Something funny, and I heard about this country grandmother. She'd 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.480 go out on the front porch every morning and thank 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.480 the Lord for another day. Well, her neighbor didn't. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:43.080 Believe in God. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.160 He'd shout back, there's no such thing as the Lord. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.440 One day he overheard her asking God to give her 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.440 groceries for the week. He snuck over early the next 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.600 morning put some groceries on our front porch. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.000 She came out and said, thank you, Lord, you did 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:57.480 it again. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.600 He laughed and laughed, said God, I didn't give you 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:01.320 the groceries. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:02.160 I put them there. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.480 She said, Lord, thank you you not only since the groceries, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:10.080 but you made the devil pay for them. Say it 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.119 like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.680 what it says I am. I have what it says 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.239 I have. I can do what it says I can do. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.440 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.799 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.480 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:30.400 God bless you. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.880 I want to talk to you today about awaken your 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.920 great faith. We all face dreams that seem too big 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.720 and obstacles that are too much to overcome. The medical 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.320 report is not good, child is off course, we don't 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.080 have the connection for our dreams. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.440 It's easy to get discouraged and settle where we are. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.640 But God wouldn't have put the dream in your heart 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.240 if he didn't have a way to bring it to pass. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.639 He wouldn't have let you get in that child, if 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.400 he wasn't planning on bringing you out. But our faith, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.960 what we believe, will have a great impact on what's 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.200 going to happen. It's not just up to God, He 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.160 has all the power in the world. It's up to us. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:19.000 He works through faith. If you believe little, you'll receive little. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.880 If you think small, talk small, I've reached my limits, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.520 then you'll get stuck where you are. The scripture talks 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.200 about different levels of faith. The disciples were on a 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.360 boat when a juge storm arose. They started looking at 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.960 the winds, the waves, how big they were. They got 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.040 worried and ran and woke Jesus up, and we're about 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:41.480 to die. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.320 Before Jesus calmed the storm, before he. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.920 Spoke to the waves, he looked at them and said, 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.480 why do you have such a little faith? 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.200 He was saying, you've seen what I can do. You've 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.240 seen me heal the sick, multiply the food, restore the broken. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.680 Why are you still stuck at that low level of 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.360 faith when you know I. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.680 Can do anything. Another place in the scripture talks about. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.440 Weak faith, people that barely believe, get talked out of 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.560 their dreams, that at any moment give up on what 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.040 God put in their heart. But there are two places 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.560 where Jesus talked about people with great faith. These were 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:27.440 people that dared to believe despite the circumstances, that knew 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.960 our God is all powerful, that he can make streams 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.880 in the desert, that he can open doors no person 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.040 can shut, that he can do what medicine cannot do. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.760 If you're going to reach the fullness of your destiny. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.000 It's not going to happen with weak faith, little faith, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.960 doubting faith, average faith. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.640 It's going to take great faith. The good news is 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:51.800 it's in you. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.920 You have the ability to go places you've never gone, 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.800 to overcome challenges that seem too big. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.159 But here's the whole key. Have to awaken your great faith. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.000 You have to stir up what God put in you. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.000 The enemy would love for you to go through life 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:13.080 with little faith, not believing, full of doubt, or weak faith, 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.720 comfortable where you are, not stretching, not putting a demand 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.880 on your faith. But the day we're living in, average 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.400 faith is not going to cut it to overcome forces 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:26.839 that are trying to stop you. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.960 You can't have ordinary faith to leave you a mark. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.599 You can't just believe like everyone else. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.479 It's going to take people that will dare to believe big, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.600 to take the limits off, to say God, I don't 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.840 see a way, but I know you have a way. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.560 God wants to do something new in your life, uncommon, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.160 out of the ordinary. But if you're going to see 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.880 great favor, you have to have great faith. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.560 Little faith says I'll never get well. Have you seen 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:56.520 the medical report. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.880 Great faith says, God is restoring health back in them. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:01.960 I will live and not die. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:07.200 Little faith says, these disappointments have limited my life. This 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.279 bad break is why I can't go any further. Great 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.720 faith says God, you have beauty. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.160 For these ashes. What was meant from my harm? You're 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:16.600 turning to my advantage. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.320 Little faith says, I'll always struggle in my finances. Man, 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.039 with gas prices, the pandemic. How I is raised, I'll 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.720 never have abundance. Great faith says, I will lend and 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.760 not borrow. I live under the open windows of heaven. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.240 My cup runs over. Friends, Great faith is already in you. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.479 I'm just trying to awaken your great faith. That's how 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.760 you're going to go to a new level. That's how 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.440 your business will take off. That's how you're going to 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.880 break the addiction. That's how those children are going to 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.279 get back on course. It's not just going to be by. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.960 Your willpower, your strength, your intellect. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.159 That's all good, but it's going to happen because of 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.280 your faith. To get in agreement with God, Angels go 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.320 to work. Forces of darkness are broken. Good break start 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:11.600 chasing you down. Great faith activates great favor. What you 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.080 believe is setting limits for your life. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.679 Don't go around with weak faith, little faith, doubting faith, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.360 complain in faith, get out of your box, start believing 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.480 for bigger things. It's not that God is limited. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.960 He's all powerful, but we can limit him by our 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:28.720 small thinking. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.760 In the Scripture, the prophet. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.520 Ezekiel had a vision of this valley that was filled 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.480 with dry bones, with a huge graveyard with thousands of 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:40.480 bones on the ground. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.280 These bones represented what. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:48.040 Was dead, dreams that didn't work out, disappointments, and closed doors. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.120 God was about to bring these bones together cause these 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.000 people to come back to life. But before any of 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.240 this happened, before God did the miraculous, he asked Ezekiel 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.800 in this vision, do you believe that these dead. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:03.440 Bones can live? 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.440 He was saying, Ezekiel, what level of faith are you at? 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.600 Do you have weak faith, little faith, doubting faith, or 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.080 do you have great faith? 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.000 Do you believe that I can do the impossible? 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:21.880 Ezekiel answered back, saying, oh, Sovereign Lord. He was saying, God, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.520 you control the universe. You part red seas, you stopped 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.160 the sun for Joshua. You gave Sarah a baby at ninety. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.560 Yes this looks impossible, but I know you can do 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.480 the impossible. God said, in effect, Ezekiel, That's what I'm 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:42.200 looking for, Not weak faith, not a complainer, not someone 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.760 that's gonna tell me all the reasons it's not gonna happen. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:46.760 I'm looking for great faith. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.400 He told Ezekiel to prophesy to those dead bones. When 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.680 he did, the bones begin to come together and skin 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.120 forwarded over them. God breathed breath into them. Just like 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.679 in a movie. Those people stood up came. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.000 Back to life. 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.720 Now there may be things in your life today that 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:10.239 look dead, situations that seem impossible, your health, your finances, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:11.440 and your relationships. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.000 God is asking you. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.440 What do you ask, Ezekiel, Do you believe those dead 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.959 bones can live? Do you believe you can get well? 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.080 You can set a new standard for your family, you 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.040 can get your degree, write that book, build that orphanage. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.480 All the circumstances may say there's no way that's impossible. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.720 You could get discouraged and easily talk yourself out of it. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.199 Live with ordinary faith. God, just help me to survive. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.840 Have little faith, God, I hope I can endure weak faith. God, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.760 this isn't fair. Try a different approach like Ezekiel. Great 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.720 faith is down in you. It's not in your mind, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.240 it's not in your intellect, it's in your spirit. For 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.240 some people, it's been asleep. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:56.640 A long time. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.480 God sent me to awaken it. He's about to bring 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.679 dead things back to life. He's about to do something 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:09.080 you've never seen. Restore your health, open new doors of opportunity, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.360 turn that child around. But there is one requirement that 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.120 he's looking for, and that is great faith. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.120 The good news is you have it. Now do your part. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.520 Get in agreement with God. Father. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.079 Thank you that I will accomplish my dreams. I believe 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.800 I will get well. I believe this will be a 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.000 bountiful year. Lord, Thank you that you're breathing on my 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.880 life right now. You keep that attitude of faith and 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.400 watch what God will do. Great faith brings great favor. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.719 Friend of mine has a daughter. When she was three 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.320 years old, this very heavy piece of iron fell on 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.920 two of her fingers and cut the very tips off. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.480 They rushed her to the emergency room, and after taking 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.960 all the X rays and doing all the tests, this 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.640 specialist came in and said to the father, I'm sorry, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.160 but there's nothing we can do to restore her fingers 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.720 back to normal. She'll never have nails on those two fingers, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:07.480 and they'll always be a little bit shorter. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:09.480 The bone had been cut. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.560 All they could do was a skin graft to hopefully 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.800 make them look as smooth as possible. The father was 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.600 very respectful, but he said to the doctor, I believe 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.719 that God can restore my little girl's finger and make 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:24.880 them normal once again. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.400 The doctor looked at him really odd. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.199 He was from another country and he didn't have any 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.959 kind of faith background. He said, that's fine, sir, if 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.920 you want to believe like that, but understand. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:36.640 The bone is missing. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.640 They will never be the right link, and for sure 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.840 she's not gonna have fingernails. When his wife came in, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.160 the doctor got her aside and said, your husband's in shock. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.000 He won't accept the fact that the tip of those 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:50.160 fingers have been cut off. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:51.920 They did the skin graft. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.240 Six weeks later, they brought the little girl back for 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:56.280 a checkup. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.000 When the doctor took the bandage off, his first words were, 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.840 oh my god. The father was alarmed. He said, what's wrong, doctor. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.760 The doctor said, the fingernails have grown back, and it 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.640 looks like the fingers are the exact right length that 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.520 was over twenty years ago. Still to this day, her 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.959 fingers look perfectly normal. And I'm not saying to deny reality, 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.080 but i am saying that God has the final say. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.880 There are natural laws, but God is supernatural. He's not 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.440 limited by what limits us. When we believe, all things 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.880 are possible. But if this father would have had weak faith, 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.080 just my luck too bad for us, little faith, God 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.440 just help us make it through. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.520 I don't think this would have happened. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.199 When you have great faith, you will see the greatness 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.400 of our God. Sometimes we're not seeing favor and healing 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.319 and promotion, not because God is limited, but because our 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:55.760 faith is limiting him. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:57.079 Jesus healed a. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.280 Blind man one time in the scripture, and he said, according. 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.080 To your faith, be it done. Unto you wasn't. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.840 According to God's faith, he can do anything. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:07.559 It's according to our faith. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.080 Where God is taking you, it's going to take more 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.080 than average faith. The amazing future he has in store, 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.360 the doors he's going to open, the favor you're going 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.840 to see, it won't happen with ordinary faith. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.040 There will be dreams that are way too big for you. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.320 There will be golias where you don't stand a chance, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.280 times where it's way over your head, compact sinners. That's 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.800 when you have to be in Ezekiel and say God, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.560 I know these dead bones can live. I know you 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.440 can defeat these enemies. I know your favor on my 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.200 life will take me where I can't go on my own. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:44.920 Jesus told a. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.120 Parable in the Book of Luke, and at the end 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.600 he asked this question, when I return, what. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.000 Kind of faith will I find on the earth. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.360 If God showed up at your house, what kind of 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:01.080 faith would he find? Small faith, weak faith, complet laning faith. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.280 To all I used to believe, But he don't know 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.400 what's come against me. I had big dreams, but it's 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:07.280 been so long. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.120 I don't see how I can get in college, how 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.640 I'll meet the right person, how I'll break the addiction 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.080 it's been in my family for years. That kind of 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.640 thinking is limiting what God can do. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.600 Why don't you awaken your great faith. You don't have 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.880 to figure out how it's going to happen. All you 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:26.200 have to do is believe. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.920 In the scripture, there was a Roman officer that was 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:35.400 very respected and influential. He was called a centurion, meaning 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.200 that he had one hundred men under him. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.280 One of his servants. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.720 Became very sick and close to death, and he was 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.440 so concerned. He heard that Jesus was in a nearby city, 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.440 and since he was a gentile, he found some of 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.400 his Jewish friends and asked them to go to Jesus 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.960 and see if he would come and pray for his servant. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:55.600 Well, these Jewish. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.200 Leaders, they went and pleaded with Jesus to come, and 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.680 Jesus agreed set out toward the man's house. But before 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.440 they arrived, this centurion sent another message. He said, Jesus, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.320 don't trouble yourself coming to my home. I'm a man 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.360 of authority. When I say go, people go. When I 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.880 say come, they come. Just speak the word, and I 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.520 know my servant will be healed. When Jesus heard this 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.000 verse nine says he marveled. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:25.880 He was so amazed. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.360 He turned to the crowd and said, I have not 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.640 found this greater faith in all of Israel. Notice what 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:36.360 God calls great faith when you believe that he'll do 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.960 something out of the ordinary, when you take the limits off. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.120 No one had ever told Jesus to just speak the word. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.680 All they had seen is Jesus lay hands on people 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.400 and healed them. This officer was saying, I believe you 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.200 have so much power, so much favor, you don't even 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:54.880 need to come. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.960 Just say it and it will happen. And what's significant 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.440 is this Durian wasn't even a follower of Christ. He 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:04.440 was a gentile. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.600 But Jesus said he had more faith than the believers 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:13.080 that travel with Jesus. Having great faith is not about 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.720 being a religious scholar, how many scriptures you can quote, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:17.880 how long you pray. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.560 It's about believing that our God is. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.440 All powerful, that he can make ways where you don't 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.840 see a way, that he can defeat your giants, that 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.920 he can open doors you can't open. There are only 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.800 two times in the scripture where God marveled. March chapter six, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:38.120 Jesus was in his hometown of Nazareth, teaching in the synagogue. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.080 They had heard about the miracles. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.560 Word had spread about how Jesus was doing so much good, 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.080 but they didn't believe. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.080 They thought, we know who he is. He grew up. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.280 Here, there's nothing special about him. Because of their unbelief, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.880 he couldn't do any mighty miracles there here he had 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.040 all this power. He'd gone to different cities do an 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.480 amazing things. You would think in his home city they 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.200 would believe more than anyone else. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.000 It's just the opposite. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:11.520 Verse six says Jesus marveled at their unbelief. One time 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.520 he marveled at the man's faith. The other time he 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.560 marveled at their unbelief. When God looks at you, what 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:19.600 is he marvel at? 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:20.560 Joel? 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.200 This opposition is so strong, I don't see how I 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:24.000 can get ahead. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.840 These people have done me wrong. Don't ZiT that up. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.600 Let's be people that cause God to marvel over our 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.119 faith and not over our doubt. People that believe big, 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.440 people that take the limits off of him. Now, I 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.480 love how this centurion who didn't even worship Jehovah, who 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.160 wasn't even a believer, yet he knew how awesome our 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:45.720 God is. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.560 He had this understanding that this man carries. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:55.160 Power, favor, healing authority that is unmatched. Jesus didn't say 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.600 to him, who do you think you are? You don't 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.639 even follow me. You have a lot of nerve asking 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.880 me for something that I've never done. Oh, Jesus said, 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:05.840 in effect, your faith. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:06.600 Is at another level. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.120 I've seen weak faith, little faith, average faith. But I've 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:12.800 never seen faith like yours. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.000 You have great faith. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.960 God is not faulting you for believing big, for asking 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.720 for your dreams for what seems impossible. 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.159 That's what God calls great faith. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.440 Like this centurion, you're showing God that you believe how 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.840 powerful he is. The enemy would love for you to 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.480 live with comfortable faith, faith in a box, faith for 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.040 what you've seen in the past. To reach your destiny, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.159 you have to break out of that box. Is there 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.600 anything you're believing for that will cause God to marvel? 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.359 So anything you're dreaming about that's out of your reach 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.160 that you can accomplish, that's too big, too much, too hard. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.760 It's time to awaken your faith. Dare to believe bigger. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.879 Dare to ask something that causes God to be amazed, 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.439 not just to believe. To pay your bills each month, No, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.280 great faith, says God, Give me overflow, Give me an 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.280 abundance so I can help pay somebody else's bills. Not 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:19.560 just let me endure this sickness, let me manage this depression. No, Lord, 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.400 thank you that I'm totally free, thank you that I'm 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.719 completely well, that I will run and not be wearing. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.359 Not just make it through another year, God, help me 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:29.960 to survive. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.639 No, Lord, thank you. Twenty twenty two will be a 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:33.600 bountiful year. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.199 That doors are opening that I couldn't open, That my 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.919 talent's coming out in new ways, that I'll set a 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:44.359 new standard for my family. Whatever level your faith is at, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:45.240 it's time to. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.480 Step it up. Believe bigger. God's doing a new thing. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.399 But it's not going to happen with comfortable faith, lazy faith, 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.720 limited faith. God's looking for great faith. There was a 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:58.280 lady in. 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.800 The scripture that had a bleed eating disorder for twelve years, 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.240 and she went to the best doctors, took the best treatment, but. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.000 None of that helped. She continued to get worse. 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.280 She could have accepted and thought, it's not meant to 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.919 be tried my best. But one day she heard that 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.280 Jesus was passing through her town and something rose up 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:19.520 on the inside. 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.439 It said to her, this is your time, this is 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.240 your moment. This sickness is not your destiny. 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.239 Maybe she's heard how Jesus had healed the man with 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.400 the withered hand, or how he caused that and paralyzed 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.760 man to walk, or how he had freed. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.440 That man that was chained in the tombs. 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:41.240 Something happened to where her great faith was awakened. She'd 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.240 had average faith making it despite the trouble in enduring 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.199 the illness, but she could sense that this was a 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.080 new day. She left her house that morning, determined to 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.600 get to Jesus. Was so crowded. She had to push 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.240 through people. Pushed through doubt, it's not going to happen, 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:00.760 put through her. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:04.240 Past, you tried and it didn't work out. Pushed through fear, 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:05.680 what if he gets upset? 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.320 Despite all the opposition, she kept making her way to Jesus. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.800 Excuse me, I need to get through. Pardon me. I 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:15.800 don't mean to be rude, but move out of my way. 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:16.840 I'm on a mission. 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:21.639 She was weak, her blood count was low, Thoughts telling 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.560 her is never going to happen, but she kept saying 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.400 to herself, when I get to. 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:31.160 Jesus, I will be healed. She could have been at home, discouraged, 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:35.760 thinking I'll never get better with comfortable faith, lazy faith. 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.440 But she did what I'm asking us to do. 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:43.040 She tapped into her great faith and yes to believe bigger. 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.800 It's going to cost you something. It's easy to stay comfortable. 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.680 It's easy to live average, but you can't become who 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.080 you were created to be with average faith. 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:55.240 God's looking for great faith. 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.720 He's looking for people that will cause him to marvel, 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.200 to say, Wow, look at what they believe I can do. 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.760 They believe they can get well despite the diagnosis. They 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.919 believe they can have a blessed year despite the pandemic. 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.199 They believe that I'll give them a compact center, that 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.880 they can start their own business, that their family will 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:21.639 be restored. Great faith gets God's attention. This lady finally 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.000 made it to Jesus, just to the nick of time. 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:26.879 She reached out and touched the hem of his robe. 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:28.879 Instantly she was healed. 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:33.359 Jesus stopped and said to his disciples, who just touched me? 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.560 They said, what do you mean everybody's touching you? It's 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:37.600 crowded around here. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.639 No, he said, someone touched me with such faith that 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:42.440 it drew the. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.639 Miracle working power right out of me. 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:50.639 About that time his eyes met this woman's eyes. He 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.040 didn't say, lady, why'd you do that? Why don't you 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.760 wait your turn? Takes a lot of nerve for you 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:56.920 calling on me like that. 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:58.320 No, he was amazed. 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.679 He said, daughter, your faith has made you whole. He 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.719 was saying, was it my faith? I didn't even see you, 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:09.480 but you had such great faith. You believed in who 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:12.440 I am in such a great way that you caused this. 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.040 Miracle to happen. There were a lot of people. 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:17.560 Bumping into Jesus, but she was the only one that 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:22.720 touched him. Many others needed healing, breakthroughs favor. The mistake 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:26.919 they made is they didn't awaken their great faith. Are 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:30.720 their blessings you're missing because you're living with comfortable faith, 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:35.480 not stretching is their favor. You're not seeing promotion, new 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:38.480 relationships because you have lazy. 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:41.760 Faith, small faith, weak faith. Well, Joel, if I go 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:42.920 through that crowd. 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:45.160 So to speak, I know I'm not going to get healed. 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:49.480 Nothing good ever happens to me. My family's always struggled. 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.560 I wasn't raised in a good environment. None of that 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:56.240 has to stop you. God knows what you didn't get. 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:59.040 He's not going to leave your life in a deficit. 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.040 Put something down in you. He's just waiting for you 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.439 to wake it up. It's called great faith. It's faith 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:07.960 that causes him to marvel. 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:11.840 It's when you do like this woman. You press past 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:16.119 the doubt, the naysayers, the past, the failures, and you 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:20.440 believe for what seems impossible. Believe for your dreams. 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.360 Believe that the dead bones can live. Believe you can 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:28.120 accomplish what others say is no way. Believe that your 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:32.119 children will leave their mark. This won't happen with average faith. 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:35.280 The good news is that's not you. I'm talking to 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:38.640 people with great faith. Now do your part and wake 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:43.160 it up. You haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.680 has in store for you. The time we're living in, 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:50.760 you are needed more than ever. The prophet Joel said, 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:54.280 wake up the mighty men, Wake up the mighty women. 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:58.080 God is counting on you to make a difference, to 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:01.920 be a blessing, to shine rightly, to set new standards. 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:03.800 It's going to take people who are. 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:06.440 Bold, who will stretch, who will get out of their 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:10.320 comfort zones. When Jesus was on the earth, he did 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:13.639 so many amazing things, but he said in John fourteen, 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:16.280 greater works than these shall you do. 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:21.359 Greater works is going to require great faith. I know 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:23.760 sometimes we think I don't have that much faith. Yes, 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.680 it's in you. You just have to make this decision 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:30.080 to believe, not so much believe in what you can do, 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:34.240 but believe in what God can do through you. On 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:35.000 your own, you. 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:38.840 May be limited, you don't have the qualifications, the resources. 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:42.600 That's okay, You're not on your own. You and God 0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:46.240 are a majority. When He breathes on your life, dead 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:50.320 bones will live. You'll go places you've never dreamed. You'll 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:53.920 discover talent that you didn't know you had. Doors will 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:56.960 open you never thought would open. The right people will 0:25:57.000 --> 0:26:00.280 suddenly show up. If you'll do your part and have 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:03.600 great faith, God will do his part and show out 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.040 in your life. Friend of mine is a medical doctor 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:09.520 and he was driving home from work when he saw 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:12.520 this accident on the freeway and it had just happened 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.640 a few minutes earlier. They had this young man covered 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:18.240 with a sheet. My friend told them that he was 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:20.840 a doctor and asked if there's anything he could do, 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:24.200 and they explained they had done CPR and tried everything, 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:27.760 but no response. And my friend at that time wasn't 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:32.080 necessarily a strong believer, but he remembered the scripture that 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:33.280 you can lay hands on. 0:26:33.280 --> 0:26:34.840 The sick and they will recover. 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:39.640 Medically speaking, he couldn't do anything, but he gently placed 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:42.960 his hands on the young man's chest. Under his breath, 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:46.520 he whispered, God, I'm asking you to let life come 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:47.520 back into this body. 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:50.440 Stayed there a minute or two, nothing happened. 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:52.919 He turned around and went back to his car, and 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:56.199 all of a sudden, there was this huge commotion. The 0:26:56.320 --> 0:27:00.119 young man woke up. He started breathing again. Every every 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:03.040 one was in awe. They asked the doctor, what did 0:27:03.080 --> 0:27:06.240 you do to him? He said, all I did was praying. 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:10.200 That's one of those greater words. That's what God wants 0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:13.960 to do for you. Use you in amazing ways, bring 0:27:14.040 --> 0:27:17.080 dreams to pass that leave you in all take your 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:18.720 places you never thought possible. 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:22.639 How does this happen? Through great faith? It's on the 0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:26.520 inside of you right now. Have you awakened it or 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:27.480 you just living. 0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:32.440 With comfortable faith, average faith, not believing, not stretching, not dreaming. 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:36.080 Get out of that box, take the limits off of God. 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:39.720 There should be something you're believing for that causes God 0:27:39.800 --> 0:27:43.719 to marvel, something that's over your head, out of your range. 0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:47.359 That's what gets God's attention. If you'll do this, if 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:50.680 you'll wake up that great faith, I believe and declare 0:27:51.080 --> 0:27:53.439 You're about to see the greatness. 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:53.520 Of our God. 0:27:54.040 --> 0:27:56.800 Dead bones are about to come back to life, a 0:27:56.840 --> 0:28:01.320 new level of favor, promotion, healing, breakthrough the fullness of 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:05.280 your destiny in Jesus' name, and if you receive it, 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:09.399 can you say amen? I'd like to give you an 0:28:09.440 --> 0:28:13.160 opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 0:28:13.160 --> 0:28:17.960 you pray after me, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:23.400 Come into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:27.280 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:30.800 born again. We have some free information we'd love to 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:32.439 send you. 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