 Therefore, he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Apostle Paul is telling us that God does miracles and gives His Holy Spirit not because of good behavior but of right belief. And I want you to know that right belief is greater than good behavior. Let me say that again. Right belief is greater than good behavior. Most of the religion or most of the religious environments usually teach people that if you have good behavior, God is going to smile. God is going to really use you. God is going to really do great things through your life, through good behavior. And please understand, God wants us to have good behavior. But what really causes Him to use us and to do great things through us is not good behavior. It's right belief. Many people feel like until you have good behavior, you don't qualify for belief. That means if your behavior is not exceptional, your faith should not be either. Most of the people who had the greatest faith in the Bible had actually the worst behavior. Rahab, who I will say she had great faith, at that moment when she had great faith, she was actually had no good behavior. People who had great faith many times did not have a good behavior. And one of the things that was setting free for me in my life of faith, it was this, is to give myself permission to still believe when I misbehave. Because many times people throw away their faith when their behavior suffers. Your behavior will never be perfect. Even if you get to the point where you're no longer doing few things that you really think that nobody should be doing. And you stop doing them, you must understand, even at that point, what qualifies you for belief is not your behavior, it's the Word of God. Don't wait until your behavior changes for you to start believing because people with good behavior rarely have faith. Some of the most unbelieving people during the days of Jesus were people with perfect behavior. So the idea is that if I get a good behavior, if my life finally changes, then I will have such a great faith. You're wrong. Actually first starts the faith and then goes the good behavior, not the other way around. Faith is the most important. God works through right believing. He made the greatest gift, the gift of salvation to come to us not through good behavior but to right believing. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him, see right believing, that means it's possible to believe in yourself. That is not going to get anything done. It's possible to believe in belief. That is not what really going to do the miracle, it's believing right. See many people say you have to have good faith. You know you have to have right faith because you can have faith in Buddha. That's not going to help you. You can have faith in Muhammad that's not going to help you. You can have faith in our government that's for sure not going to help you. You can have faith in yourself and very soon you will find out that is not going to help you. You cannot have just the good faith. You got to have the right faith and the right faith has to be in Jesus. It has to be in the Holy Spirit. I want to give you permission this evening not to abandon your faith. When you misbehave. This doesn't give us permission to stay in our sin. This doesn't give us permission to somehow excuse our sin. But it tells us one thing don't wait until your life get better for your faith to get better. Sometimes life won't get better until faith does. But the excuse we leave for bad faith is that well I'm still struggling. That explains why my faith is weak. The man who felt the most unworthy in the Bible who was so unworthy that did not let Jesus come into his house felt so unworthy and Jesus said he had the greatest faith. It's possible to feel unworthy and still have great faith. If you can overcome that in your head that you don't have to have a good behavior to have right belief. Faith will grow in your heart. As a result of this faith Holy Spirit will work. You will be shocked when He will work through you when your behavior is still not the best. Your behavior is not what impresses God. It's your belief. It's your belief. What sin is when it comes to Satan, belief is when it comes to God. Many people see that Satan destroys people through sin and so God blesses people through the righteous living but that is not how it works. In God's kingdom Jesus always portrayed and always complimented and rewarded not good living. Good faith. Not one miracle came in the Bible through Jesus' ministry because of somebody's good living. It was always right believing. You have to accept it in your mind. And I know even when I say this I feel this tenseness inside of me and some of you feel like well this cannot be true because if I embrace the idea that God is interested in my belief more than in my behavior oh what if this means that I would just start excusing my sin. Don't worry about that. You can't change yourself anyway without God and God can't work without belief. But most of us say I can't have belief until I change my behavior and God says I can't change your behavior until you get some belief. God I can't have belief until I change my behavior and this whole cycle begins stop it's okay you can have faith great faith when you're in a mess. You won't get out of that mess without faith. It's okay when everything is not as it's supposed to be. Rahab was a prostitute and she could have faith. Okay I'm certain you're better than that. Okay unless anyway I've seen I'm hearing no a mess so I just have to wonder a few things. Okay at least not everybody. Come on God help me out amen. And so a lot of people in the Bible they were not doing well but they believed well and therefore their life changed and that's exactly what Holy Spirit does. And Paul says he who does miracles among you does he do it because of your good behavior? He says no it's because of your right believing. Holy Spirit will use the channel of your faith to do the supernatural in your life. Don't switch the channel off because the other channel of your good behavior is not functioning properly at this moment. That behavior is going to change open the faith up. Can somebody say amen. The proof text that we want to read today will be from John chapter 2 about the first miracle that Jesus has made. John chapter 2 verse 2 says the following. Now both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding and when they ran out of wine the mother of Jesus said to him they have no wine. And if we can go on verse 4 it says the following Jesus said to her woman. Only Jesus can call his mom woman and get away with it. What does your concern have to do with me my hour has not yet come. I'm sure this was a little secret language that she knew what that meant. Verse 5 his mother I love the mother of Jesus she didn't get it. What he's telling her he's like I'm not gonna do anything it's not my time. You know what she does she turns around she says to the servants whatever he says to you do it. She knew Jesus in a way nobody else did. His no meant yes. He is not sure not my time never mind come over here guys whatever he says just go ahead and do it. And she's like didn't you just hear what I said to you I'm not gonna do it. Jesus I'm the mother I think maybe she still wanted to use that phrase I brought you to this world but she couldn't use that phrase because he actually brought her into this world. But the point is is that this creates a very fascinating story why it's so fascinating because this was the time that Jesus made his first miracle first miracle. Why is it important to notice that it's a first miracle because there are synoptic gospels that are writings about Jesus that indicate when Jesus was a teenager he made miracles in school. He made miracles in his village and some people actually the readers like oh my goodness I can only imagine what Jesus did when he was a kid actually did nothing because in John chapter 2 it says the first miracle he did when not when he was in a primary school but when he was at the wedding which means up to that time there was no miracles. And all of those writings from Judas writings and so many others they're as simple and not true because we test everything according to the canon according to the word of God amen. I want to help us today our faith and we are going to take from this story few simple very basic lessons and they will be very simple to remove certain things out of faith that could make our faith ineffective. Everyone has faith the problem happens with faith is when you begin to add fantasy to faith when you begin to add a fallacy when you begin to add fairy tales and when you begin to add things to faith they are not real and they're not true and for a moment you feel great about it believing it until the problem happens and you realize it does not work and so what we're going to do is remove all of the things out of faith that shouldn't be there and maybe at the end of this message you're gonna feel your faith is very small maybe you will feel that your faith is smaller than you had before the service you actually that's the amount of faith you had all the way long it's just when you remove things that are not of faith you really have the amount of faith that you have. What one thing always reminds me is that not to pursue to have big faith but always to have real faith it's good to have big faith but real faith is what's important if you want to start a fire in the forest you don't need to have big fire you just need to have real fire even if it's a spark the same thing with faith many people aim I just want to have a big faith good once you get to 50 40 70 80 90 but when you're here now manage and aim to have faith that is real because faith is not really in the size it's always in the quality and Jesus says it could be the smallest and move the mountains and so it's not really the size that really matters it's the genuineness of it it's how genuine it is it's how real it is on inside and it's better to have it small but real than to have it big and flake and funny and weird and all of that stuff that many people have sometimes when it comes to faith I want you to write down the first thing about faith that we will learn from this verse the first thing about faith is this is that faith will not remove the battle it removes defeat faith does not remove the battle it removes defeat now from the story of the canaan we we've learned one thing that is very interesting is that Jesus comes to the wedding and he is invited to the wedding if you're the person who invites Jesus to your wedding or let's say you're inviting him into your life sometimes when you get Jesus into your life you have these assumptions right away if I get Jesus there will be no problems if Jesus is on my side everything is going to be wonderful the interesting part is the verse after we see that Jesus came to the wedding in the next verse there was a problem this thing has to be in your faith where you cannot believe that if I have faith my faith will cause me to avoid the problems faith is not the bridge over the stormy waters of life it's the path through them faith will not just simply if you people feel like if I have really great faith I'll never get sick I will never have disappointment nothing ever bad will happen in my life and the problem with that is it's not real it has a fantasy and a fairy tale inside and it will disappoint you because when the problem happens you will not know what to do so faith has to be I'm not saying that you have to walk around say I have faith come on problems no no no but you have to understand that faith is not an exception from problems it's to conquer them and we've read this in the verse in John in John 5 4 it says for whatever is born of God overcomes the world and this is the victory that overcomes the world our faith so our faith does not avoid the world our faith does not escape the world our faith does not remove the world it overcomes the world in order to overcome you have to first be in the battle the idea is that if I have faith it will remove the battles out of my life is not real faith is not removing the battle it's winning the battle but in order to win the battle you gotta have one and when the battle comes in we usually freak out when the battle comes in we usually go why what did I do why did you leave me and you begin to question the reality of your faith you're like oh man if I would have had a faith I would have never had this problem all these people they never have these problems because they have such a great faith no no no when you have a battle it's not an indication you don't have faith it's an indication you need to use your faith to win the battle and have a success in your life can somebody say amen and when you have no battles many times when people have this idea that if I have faith I will have no problems then when everything is comfortable and easy they feel like it's a proof they have great faith everybody has great faith when life is easy everyone has purity until they're tempted everyone is holy until they are in temptation and everyone has got great faith until everything is going fine everyone can sing when everything is wonderful but it's when you hit the night season when you hit some rough patches that's when real faith is shown don't think easy life is an indication you have great faith and don't think hard life is an indication you don't have any faith faith is not to remove harshness and hardships and trials out of their life it's to conquer them it's not to be defined by them it's not to be defeated by them but it is to conquer them one of the stories that I love in the bible is the story of the three Hebrew boys when they stood up against the king who made a big deal about worshiping an idol and he said if you don't worship this idol I will throw you into the furnace of fire and the three Hebrew boys they dare they dare to defy the king by not worshiping his idol and of course his pride was injured injured so deeply that he caused the furnace that they were supposed to be thrown into to be kindled and to be raised in the temperature by seven times now I don't know logically and I had no idea how they can do that in those days it's one thing when you take fire and make it twice hotter seven times hotter is really really hot it was so hot that the strongest man of Babylon threw the Hebrew boys into the fire and the strongest man died trying to throw the guys into the fire that's how hot it was and so you can imagine these guys are going into the fire the guys who threw them already died and as they are there the bible says God comes in their midst with them their faith didn't protect them from the fire it didn't remove the fire and it didn't remove God the idea that many times we have about faith is that if I have great faith I will not have fire in my life and if I have fire in my life that means I don't have great faith and that is not true an amazing part is three boys are there and the king notices he's watching at the furnace and he's seeing them walking in the fire the fire is still there but they're not dead see real faith is not when you can avoid the furnace it's when you don't die in the furnace other people even come close and they die in it they become so bruised broken and beaten by it and you are in it walking and not that it's comfortable not that it's your vacation but you are not dead by it you're not defeated by it and you are not defined by it that is real faith and so we see these three Hebrew boys they walk around in this thing and the bible says the king is looking and he says I didn't didn't we throw the three guys he said I see the fourth man and he is like the son of God he is like the son of God and then he calls them out and they come out and the amazing part was not only that they didn't stay in the fire not only they didn't die in the fire but when they came out of the fire they didn't smell like the fire real faith is not when you skip fire real fire real faith is when you don't die in it don't stay in it and they'll smell like it that's what real faith is when you go through hell but you don't die in it you don't stay in it and you don't smell like it when you get out of it we all know people who didn't die in it but they still smell like it it's been 10 years now but you come close to them and it smells like somebody some did something to them because their attitude portrays I've been hurt their attitude portrays you know what you gotta give me space I know it's been 10 years but you gotta give me space why because I've been hurt and abused you still smell like fire faith does not cause you to avoid the fire faith causes you not to die in it not to stay in it and not to smell like it when you get out of it that is faith because somebody say amen and we need more of that what I love about Jesus is that when I go through fire Jesus doesn't necessarily kill the fire when he comes and sometimes you would you would think why wouldn't he kill the fire he's the living water fire living water water kills the fire simple he's the light I got some darkness should dark light remove the darkness but that's your little theological logic doesn't always work in life how many figured that out sometimes you have Jesus and you still have fire what does he remove if he's still with me and he doesn't remove the fire before Jesus removes fire he usually first removes the fear removes the fear for many people it is not the fire that kills him it's the fear when you what is fear fear of what then what you're in right now will never change then what you're in right now will never stop and what you're in right now you will never overcome that fear many times paralyzes people no wonder david says in Psalm 23 he says the following the dough I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me mark this until you don't fear in your valley you can't walk through your valley the reason people get stuck in their fire is when when they get into it fear paralyzes them saying this is how it's going to be always fear is what keeps them in the fire and people battle feel but you have to understand that the reason you can overcome fear is not because you're brave it's because you're not alone the only reason to overcome fear when you are in something challenging and over your head it's not to become brave by watching brave heart or watching you know gladiator or watching some other inspiring movies the only way to overcome fear is not to be alone oh no this is not a reason to get a girlfriend this is a reason to get a savior this is a reason to recognize you're not alone you're not alone his presence doesn't remove the fire first his presence removes the fear first because it's fear that causes people to stay in whatever they're in right now when the man who was walking behind jesus because his daughter was sick heard the news that his daughter who was sick died the moment he heard the news in that very instant fear came in saying it was pointless to walk after jesus your daughter is done she's gone and that very moment when fear came in jesus grabbed him the bible says he looked at him with his piercing eyes and he said do not be afraid only believe as long as i am with you things can and will change and because they can't change you may be in the flame but you don't have to be in fear fear paralyzes your soul the way paralysis paralyzes your body it makes you not move and that's why you meet people that that event that happened five years ago is gone everyone in it is already moved on they are still stuck not because it was so dramatic and traumatic it's because fear keeps people unable to move they have the body parts they have everything they have the education they have the connections they have the influence they have everything it just when fear paralyzes you can't move forward you're convinced this is how it's supposed to be and jesus says when i am with you it doesn't mean it's always going to be mountains it just means that you will always know no matter how deep it is how painful it is and how dark the night is because i am with you you can have no fear i don't promise that you won't always have no problems but you will have no fear and it's a matter of days and a matter of weeks and a matter of hours and this valley will become the thing of the past remove falsehood out of faith remove fantasy out of faith please remove fairy tales out of faith that if you have great faith you will somehow dodge bad things and hard things in life somehow you will never get hurt somehow always everything will always work out good for you that is not true but if you have faith you will not die in your fire stay in your fire and you won't smell like your fire somebody say amen let's write down number two faith cannot be greater than your view of jesus faith cannot be greater than your view of jesus so jesus comes to the wedding and the next verse problem happens and so we derive from that that faith is not just simply when you have jesus it means no problems it's just you can overcome those problems they won't define you they won't defeat you and you won't smell like them when it's all over when the problem happens i want you to notice who comes to jesus first when the problem happens i want you to notice who comes to jesus first it's his mom i want you to listen to me very carefully she's coming to him now i've mentioned before in the beginning of the message jesus up to this point has never done one miracle how is she certain he can do something that he had has not done in the past 30 years why him what makes her think that if he hasn't done anything in the past 30 years he's going to do something right now do you think this is the first time they ran into a problem of course not what makes her think that the baby she nursed taught how to walk taught how to eat and still probably did his laundry can do something about this problem have you ever had a relationship with god for so long and he hasn't done anything in your life and you stop believing you're like i have him i love him he's awesome he's great doesn't do anything in my life what do you do you know what i love mary for for 30 years she has not seen jesus do one miracle but she still had a view in her mind defined by angels the angels who said he is not a baby he's a king 30 years he's not acting like a king he's still acting like a jewish man simon the wise man from the east the angel from god who said that this is not an ordinary baby this is god on steroids this is going to turn the world upside down this is going to be something different and she's living he's 15 he's 16 he's 17 he's 19 he's 20 he's 25 he's 29 he is 30 and nothing is happening she still has the view of him by what god said not by what he has not done this is really the root of faith it's when you can believe and view god by his word not by the things he has not yet done in your life and maybe it's been 30 years that it feels like well i've known him i've loved him i believed in him but i has not seen what it says in here that he can do do you have the guts and the audacity to maintain a view of jesus that is congruent and consistent with his word not with your past failure and experience is secret of faith i'm blown away by mary she's not an ordinary woman to maintain a view that jesus can do something amazing in this wedding though she has never seen him do it for 30 years gives her the right to come to jesus and say jesus you gotta do something your faith cannot be great at any of you of jesus if your view of jesus is well i prayed for him for this i prayed for him for that and i asked him for that and this didn't happen that didn't happen didn't happen so guess what happens nothing happens with jesus let me be prophetic on you for a moment nothing will ever happen in your life you can receive there's a prophetic declaration and you will see that that will be true miracles don't happen when your faith is based on what god has not done miracles happen when you still have a view of god though you look in your life and you see there is just none of that what the bible talks about this vlad this pastor was silly other people talk about god can do miracles god can change your marriage god can help you like nothing 30 years nothing be like mary have a view of jesus that's not based on what he has not done but based on what he has promised and you will see one day it's not going to be just jesus it's going to be your healer he's going to be your savior he's going to be who will take you from zero to a hero from a mess to a message from pain to gain from hurt to healing he's going to take your scars turn them into stars and you will see jesus that oh he's so much better and jesus that you feel like well i did laundry for him i brought tithing i'm helping his kingdom but he's not helping me faith cannot go bigger than my view of jesus i gotta protect my view of jesus even when i don't see him do anything for some time because if i keep it one day i will come to him and i will see him do it for the first time it's so good to see when jesus does a miracle for somebody for the first time i've seen it already so many times when jesus does a miracle for somebody for the first time i remember when i heard the testimony in the beginning of this year where a lady from kent in a conference when the prayer was offered and i prayed for healing for already four months but i never dared to ask for testimonies because i was convinced there was none and i didn't want to discourage my faith completely so i wanted to protect my faith and so i didn't ask for testimonies and it was for the safety of my faith and i remember this particular sunday this gentleman he comes here i don't think they didn't come for saturday i think they came just for sunday for screening and as i was screening him for the prayer line he says hey by the way my wife had this problem had this sickness and a few months ago when you were there in kent and you offered prayer for healing my wife she felt heat in her shoulder and she was my jaw dropped i said you said what what is she he's like well she still has a few sickness i'm like i don't care about the sickness tell me about what happened and he begins to tell me and i was embarrassed to go look for his wife and ask him hey tell me i sent my wife to do that i said hey can you go and ask his wife what happened and she went in she's like yeah i confirm she says that her doctor confirmed that her shoulder is brand new and i was like can you ask her to share on the service not for you guys it was for me and lana interviewed that lady right here in the stage and the lady testified when she testified this was the honestly for me is what happened in john two oh my goodness god heals i've played testimonies from scone for years i've seen that but it's different when it happens to you it's your first time and on that night we took a trip to portland and we saw seven people come get up and testify of healing and from that weekend every single time i go anywhere there has not been once where somebody wasn't getting healed somebody say my first time somebody say his first time see don't don't think that just because it didn't happen for so long it won't happen don't lose your view of how good jesus is just because you didn't see certain things happen because if you do that for sure nothing's gonna happen but if you can't keep them view and sometimes when your small thing happens let your faith explode to lead you to something greater because somebody say amen your view of jesus has to be incredible amazing and before we go any further i want to remind you of the view the g that mary had of jesus it was amazing because they didn't have a sick person in their in this wedding they had no wine at the wedding now if this is a very very very sensitive issue that i do not want to get in trouble for people are at the wedding this wedding is about seven days probably okay they already been drinking some wine okay and they have no wine this is a good moment to say praise god enough is enough this is a good moment to pull up thou shall not get drunk and all the drunk will not inherit the kingdom of god this is not a moment to come to jesus with this problem we all know the answer would you have the audacity to come to jesus when you would have this problem of course not because jesus does not turn water into wine he turns wine into water see most of our view of jesus is this first of all if he comes to the wedding he will not turn it into more joy he will turn it into more crying our view of jesus is real jesus at the wedding stops the music and says everybody you bunch of sinners gives few prophetic words heals people on your knees revival prayer fire holy spirit and the wedding is turned into revival because that's what jesus would do that's what you would do jesus didn't do that now let that mess with you for a moment it messed with me when i started to read that and i know how to make it spiritual oh he wants to turn your mess into a message i know how to make a spiritual but this was not a spiritual it was a physical Jewish wedding where people danced where people had food and jesus is there and they have a problem and if i would be jesus i would say things like water is fine h2o won't hurt anybody you don't need wine there are people in africa dying and you guys want wine anything else you want with that you would never come to jesus for something that is not a necessity because most of us jesus in our mind is only meets your needs not your greets let me ask you a question was it a need to have more wine of course not it was a luxury it was not a necessity why did god chose to make his first miracle not a necessity but a luxury to mess with you and to let you know he's a lot bigger than what you think he is he's a lot bigger if you think jesus is religious let me remind you nobody hated him except religion and nobody crucified him except religion he was never religious never came to start a religion there was four religion and religion hated him he hated religion and died by it jesus you have to have a view of jesus that's bigger than religion you can't have just a view of jesus he he will only give me what i need he will never fulfill my desires and my dreams because the first miracle of jesus takes that idea baptizes it into water and leaves it there until it drowns the first miracle of jesus completely takes that and mess excuse me and destroys that completely because not only he turns water into wine you know how much wine he makes 150 gallons that's a lot and you know that the kind of wine they made it wasn't the kind of wine people says no it was that kind of wine where they said it was amazing that means it was quality and see what i want you to see is this is jesus is not just interested to meeting your needs he's also interested fulfilling your dreams and many people feel that god is never for that why because see there are people who are suffering and god is not going to look at them who are suffering and here you are asking god for something more god is not going to waste his power on you when there are other people who are suffering tell that to jesus why did he make wine when people in the jerusalem at that moment were suffering out of leprosy people who were dying out of sickness and here he is god of universe has nothing else to do makes water into wine why because he's god and he's bigger than us your view of jesus cannot be bigger your faith cannot be bigger than your view of jesus if you think jesus in the most in marriage in relationships in finances in your dreams many of us will never dare ask jesus to get involved in those areas because we feel somehow those areas are not religious and jesus is like this religious guru he's like he's he's he's the top top dog when it comes to the older religions and every area of your life has to do not with him he proved that the wedding he is bigger the religion he is god he's the creator your faith cannot be bigger than your view of him marry amazing woman somehow new jesus will make so this problem i would never come to jesus until this revelation i would have never come to jesus if there was no wine because i knew the answer i would knew the scripture he would pull on me for even bringing that up i'm not in any way indicating or justifying or advocating for drunkenness or anything but i just need you to let this wrestle with you this has nothing to do with wine for us this has to do with who jesus is he's just bigger than we think he is better than we think he is and he's not religious he is not a religious activist he was born as a king when he was dying it says king of the jews he didn't say a religious beginner or a religious activist he was came as a king he died as a king and is coming back not as a starter of christianity by the creator of heaven and the earth somebody say amen amen let's go to number three let's go to number three so the first thing we mentioned faith is something that overcomes the problems not avoids them second thing we mentioned is that you can't have a faith bigger than your view of jesus you have to kind of expand a little bit faith cannot flourish if it's not flexible faith cannot flourish if it's not flexible now when jesus was brought with this idea and with this petition that could you do something about this problem that we have and jesus says okay i will do something and here here are the servants servants come and i want you to i want you to pay attention very carefully right now to what jesus is doing at this wedding he invites the servants and he asks them if they can find him some water h2o okay they found him some water so they're thinking okay jesus is really going holy on us you know we asked him for wine he's gonna give us some water to refresh ourselves because water is very important for you you need water not to die and jesus at the end is going to say well guys you had enough of wine remember the children in other countries who don't have enough water drink some water and be thankful that you have your needs met other people don't even have that shut up and move on they brought water and then jesus says now take this water and bring it to the main guy in charge tell him it's wine now the guy who probably had the best the worst record among them said okay since i'm gonna get fired anyway let me just take this cup and bring it to the main the main man in charge because nobody in the right mind takes water and brings it to the man in charge and tells him it's wine we all know things are not done like that what i love servants for is none of them pull jesus aside and say jesus i know that you grew up helping building your dad houses and you know nothing about where the wine comes from let me give you a little tip it comes from some other place but not water there is this thing called vineyards it produces these things called grapes and we do something with them i don't know exactly what we do with them but i know that it has to do something with grapes nothing with water none of the servants do that they foolishly ignorantly ignore their own brains and common sense take the water to the main man hoping probably gonna get slapped probably gonna get cussed out and probably gonna get what are you doing here what are you wasting my time you got some water get away from here and just in humility thinking this is just gonna go crazy and when the man tastes the water that was turned into wine and we don't know when the miracle happened we just know he said this was so awesome and the servant says i knew it yeah oh of course it's very awesome let me tell you where we got it from just we had it stored all the time faith is when you invite Jesus into your situation and he don't use grapes to make wine and you don't complain see we all have our ways of making wine right our ways is grapes if you want to have a happy life it has to be johnny if johnny is in your life i'd be very happy and when god takes jose like there is nothing good could come out of jose when it's lucy she's the one she's the grape that will turn into wine Jesus take lucy i know she's still a grape but you can squeeze some things out of her and she can be an awesome beautiful wife and you see that lucy doesn't even like you and something else happens and here is some other person there and you're like well there is for sure nothing good could happen out of this and sometimes you must understand if you want his wine you're gonna have to get it his way most of us want his wine our way somebody say amen see we come to god with this faith that says this god i know you want to do something in my life here is how you should do it and we know god does not like to take orders god has a tendency of having his own ways and usually he doesn't take orders and when god begins to take water we stand there and we with our logical mind look at water and it's like okay i asked him for the wine there is no way in this world this can lead me to that and so guess what we leave jesus at the water not knowing that his ways are higher than your ways his wine is better than your wine and therefore his ways will not be your like your ways you have to have your faith be flexible when he brings you to water you don't fly out don't quit don't drop and you say this is crazy but i'm gonna stick with you jesus because his ways lead to his wine and many times his ways will first take you off fry your brains he said this does not make sense i'm asking god prosper me he's putting that verse in melakia on my heart pay your tithe there is no way in this world i'm gonna get more money by giving it away god said water leads to wine no grapes lead to wine it's when my boss finally gets it that i deserve promotion then things will happen and god says melakia tree no his way leads to wine not your way same thing happens in relationships or many times maybe you've been in a relationship and now it's a time where the holy spirit places on your heart confirms it with pastors and leaders that hey you've been in relationships for so long and nothing ever worked out take a break and god will bring somebody into your life of course god will bring somebody into my life after i take a break really that's not possible the only way god can bring somebody into my life is if i will have my profile on every dating site on the internet if i will not miss one conference in choice series and the ones the past of last goes into as well the only way that i get wine is if i get grapes and jesus says i can do it my way can you trust god's way to get you to your wine don't have your face so stiff that when god brings water you freak out don't have your face so stiff when god didn't bring the grapes you have a heart attack or when god takes your grapes and you prayed it and you blessed and you confessed it and you possessed and you spoke the scriptures of it and god says over here water you looked at god yeah i'm gonna die i'm gonna go to china and die that's what's going to happen to me i'm gonna die and god says oh no you're not gonna die i'm gonna do something wonderful in your life my way is better there was a man in the bible his name was neyman and the bible says that he was he had a leprosy his leprosy was incurable leprosy even now is incurable he had an incurable leprosy a little girl told him that the prophet in israel can heal him to the power of god so neyman decided i'm gonna go there i'm gonna get healed but see just like neyman so you and i you're not just thinking about the fact that god can heal you you're thinking about how he's gonna heal you so he had a long time to plan how god is gonna heal him and so as he was driving there he's already started to think and i'm gonna get there the prophet will come out he already started to imagine how he will come out how he will stretch his hand and the bible says neyman actually imagined that he will wave his hand what did he get there from i don't know that was no youtube video so villager praying for people and so i mean he has this idea that he's gonna come wave his hand and then the leprosy will show will leave and he will get up present the gifts give a hug take a picture post it on instagram and he will go his way until he comes to the house and prophet doesn't come out a little stoogey a little servant comes out it's a prophet said you want to get healed there is a river over here it's a very dirty river by the way but if you go baptize yourself seven times your leprosy will be gone bye and neyman stood there insulted and he's like i didn't come here to be insulted the bible says he got so mad he says i quit neyman you have incurable disease who cares if he tells you to live in that river it doesn't matter but see when you've been thinking too much about how god should do it and he doesn't take your ways into consideration your pride get injured your feelings get hurt and you do exactly what neyman does you get upset because here god is taking water to make into wine and you're convinced the way he should do it is take grapes and churn it into wine because that's what that's what happens to normal people and neyman stood there says i'm not doing this his servants came to me he said listen bro let's just go get baptized which is so hard that he's asking you and they calm him down and he went and got baptized he came out and was completely cleansed in both of those stories i want you to notice one person that played a role servant you have to have a servant heart to have a flexible faith a servant heart is when you are okay and fly pliable and flexible with the timing of god and the ways of god the timing of god is when god does it faster or when god does it slower the ways of god is when god does not use johnny to bring you happiness but he uses somebody else when god does not use just that that you think it has to happen that's the only way god's gonna bring breakthrough into your life but he uses something else to do that and when god doesn't use that that you don't freak out that you don't cry that you don't call police that you don't quit don't throw the towel but you see jesus this is crazy i don't understand but i am a servant and servants don't get paid to share their opinion servants get paid to do the job you want to see god move in your life protect your faith how do you protect it don't think because you have great faith you won't have problems if you have great faith you will not stay in your problems will not be defeated by your problems and you won't smell like your problems when it's finished you want to have great faith remember jesus is bigger than what you imagine and your faith cannot be bigger than what you see jesus in your mind you want to have great faith i want to remind you don't make it stuck don't make it so hard that it won't be like let your faith be like water when you take water into a glass it immediately takes the form of glass when you take water into some other form it immediately takes its form and some of your faith is like ice cube and it does not want to pliable it's my way or the highway god said great take the highway we'll see what you're gonna get make sure you keep my number because they will come in handy god's ways are better and god's ways sometimes will offend yours and be okay with that and don't lose don't forget about what and don't stumble over how and when that you forget what what is what god promised how and when is how it's going to happen and when it's going to happen it's going to happen how it's going to happen you might not know now there's some of you god will reveal to you specifically how it's going to happen most of us that's not going to be the case amen