 Just give people a minute to join us the recording has just started Okay. Thank you. Good morning, everyone Welcome to the class Okay We're going to pray and then we will get started Okay All right, I rather now I rather now calm play I don't know can you please pray so that we can get started Just pray for the class Remember Okay, thank you. Thank you All right. Good morning, everyone we're going to get started in our class today as we are learning about fate about How to Walk by faith how to exercise our faith in God and And just see God work in our hearts and in our lives want to Quickly review some of the things we did last week and then we'll move forward with some of the new things today so I'm going to share my screen and All right, let's see now. Oh Not that It's a different class. Okay. Jesus teach him on faith. All right So we're going to just go forward from here and I know that Towards the end of the class last week We had some questions. We were answering some questions and We had left a few unanswered So we will pick that up those questions towards the end of this hour this lecture and Of course, we'll take any additional questions that come up today. All right, so just to quickly review some of the things we started off looking at we started talking about What did Jesus teach us concerning the subject of faith? What what was his teaching? We see that you know, and we just put them in these Statements, so basically we're just summarizing his teaching in some of these statements So we said Jesus taught us that All things are possible through faith so When we when we look at life situations when we look at, you know, when we face challenges, whatever But there it could be situations of need in our lives maybe we Need God's provision in certain areas. Maybe we need all doors to open up Maybe we need circumstances to change. Maybe we need healing So there could be various situations that you know, we face at various points in our journey through life We must always approach them From this perspective of what the Lord Jesus taught us. He said All things are possible. He said if you have faith Nothing will be impossible for you. So, you know, even if there's a big mountain in in our way And then that's just speaking metaphorically. That's there's something in in our way That's obstructing us hindering us, you know, he said look if you have faith and all it takes is a mustard seed faith To move that huge thing faith is so powerful and So he says if you have faith nothing will be impossible for you. Nothing will be impossible for you So that's Jesus that's Jesus is teaching to us and we must embrace it. This is what our master taught us And he will teach us the same things if he, you know, if you were here today Um We also said that Jesus taught us that we will receive according to our faith If you want to call it, this is the law of faith. He said according to your faith Let it be done for you. Let it be to you So this is a law a spiritual law and it will not be broken According to your faith it will be done and no force of man. No power of hell Can stop you from from stop your faith from receiving from God Whatever God has promised. So we must be again convinced about it. My faith will receive I will receive according to my faith Nobody can stop it because Jesus said this in place. He said According to your faith it will be done for you Right. So today in any situation You and I must look at it from that perspective according to our faith. We will receive Because Jesus affirmed that for us A third aspect of Jesus teaching on faith Is that he taught That our will and desire is involved in the exercise of faith so when we are Talking about, you know faith We must understand that our will is involved and You know, we we looked at the example of this this woman from Canaan and Jesus said let you know Of course, he commanded her great faith. Great is your faith But he went on to say let it be to you as you desire So her desire was involved and the king James would say be it according be to you according To your will, you know the king James. This is new king Now here in the new king James. It's just let it be to you as you desire so We see That Jesus is seeing the connection between great faith and desire She had a determination a determined desire She is going to have it and nothing is going to stop her So we also looked at some other examples where you know, this blind man came and it is a very interesting question that Jesus asked I mean, what do you want me to do for you? You know, I'm very interesting But why would you ask a blind man something like that? Well, who knows? Maybe all he wanted was some money Or maybe all he wanted was some clothes, you know, but Jesus Wanted him to specify. What do you want me to do for you? And he responded a lot. I want to receive my sight And Jesus said your faith go your way your faith has made you well So we are seeing again that we must be very clear We must have a determined desire that accompanies our faith For us to exercise faith so That's very very important be determined that you are going to get the whatever god has promised for you Be determined that you know, if god has put something in your heart It is going to be done. You are going to get it done With faith in your heart. You're not divided about it You you're not, you know undecided about it. You are determined And you have a determined desire that you will get it done right so In other places where he taught about prayer along with faith He said what things you ask What things you ask or whatever things you ask the king james says whatever you desire when you pray right Believe that you receive them and you will have them or in john 157 He says if you abide me my words about in you you will ask what you desire You will ask what you desire Right now the problem with with many of us is you know, we say oh god Or whatever you want to give it to me You know, we we think that's that's the right way to pray but God is turning around and saying what do you want me to do for you? What is it that you are asking? What is that you desire because god wants us to engage Wholeheartedly with him You know, it's very easy to say god give me whatever you want well But what is it that you want? I mean are you committed to receiving what god has already promised because that is an expression of your faith in god And it's an expression of your faith in his word Then god wants us to be in that place of faith In order to receive what he has already promised Because if god has promised it that means he's already revealed his will to us so it's it's no longer a question about his will because His will is already expressed in the promise Otherwise he would not have promised that for us. So when god promised to Heal and god promised to provide and god promised to make an open door And god promised to intervene and life situations is already revealed his will And so for us, it's a matter of receiving By faith and so we must be determined To receive right and then we were talking about some of these other related things, you know, how people generally pray Now we're just clarifying this Jesus did teach us to pray your will be done on earth, but this is not a passive posture where we just sit down and so god your will be done whatever happens happens. No This is a determination that I want to see god's kingdom come I want to see his will be done. I'm here to establish his will on earth Because I'm a co-worker with god And so we are co-working with god in order to see his kingdom come and his will be done So that's the posture. That's the engagement He wants us to have not something that's passive but something that's active something that is pushing forward To see his kingdom advance and this will be established here on earth another common Text that people would use In this context about you know being determined is, you know, jesus prayed Not as I will but as you will That is true. He prayed like this But if you look closely It's only one time and only one Situation that he prayed like this and this was in the garden of getsimony when he had to go to the cross He never prayed like this when it came to heal healing the sick or casting out evil spirits Or working miracles. He never prayed like this Right, uh, he it has always he commanded it to be done. He just said father. I think he have heard me even before I've asked, you know, you know, so he prayed very very in faith. He demonstrated that for us Only when in the garden of getsimony when he had to go to the cross when he had to surrender to That ultimate purpose for which he came He said lord father You know, it's it's a very painful thing One who was without sin is going to become the sin Be made sin for all of us And in that situation he said not as I will but as you will so, uh This prayer doesn't mean we do not pray this in every situation because in all of the situations We know the will of god Only when you know when god is calling us to step into a life assignment or something like this We we surrender we surrender we yield To the will of god, okay? So we're going to move forward here with the teachings of jesus. We're just quickly reviewed Um as some of the things we had covered last week um number four Is this that faith is key to seeing God's glory manifested faith is key to seeing god's glory manifested. We said this um, you know jesus is right there before the tomb of lazarus and uh Lazarus has been dead there for four days a marion month are, you know, very very in grief and Jesus has moved the tombstone away Martha raises her objections saying, you know His body must be stinking it must be stinking right now four days But he said hey, did I speak to you? That means he must have had some calm private conversation with them. We mentioned this Uh, where he instructed them Just believe you will see the glory of god. So can you just picture that just try to imagine that in your mind? Jesus coming To marion martha it's four days since lazarus been dead And uh, jesus knows what the father wants him to do in this situation So he comes in there and he takes uh marion martha aside and he tells them look I just want you to believe We will see the glory of god So in a private conversation he he shares that but then we don't know what else he said or We don't know if he told them that look i'm going to go there I'm going to tell them to move the tombstone And i'm going to call lazarus out and uh, we're going to see the glory of god. I just want you to believe with me I'm not sure exactly. You know what all went on in that conversation But later on when he comes to the tomb, uh, he says move the stone martha objects and jesus says hey martha Did I just tell you? if you believe You will see the glory of god He's reminding her Of what he had just spoken to her the conversation he had he said just believe And you will see the glory of god That means he had this conversation trying to encourage their faith even in that situation believe You'll see the glory of god. And so this is how you and I must Consider life situations Things may be rough things things may be hard But we believe the promise of god what did god say he will do for us What did god promise sorry there's a train going by here What did god promise that he will do for us and believe that promise even in Difficult situations and it's key to seeing the glory of god What is the glory of god the glory of god is a visible display Of the greatness of god the glory of god is a visible expression Of who god is and what he does that's the glory of god It's a it's an expression and in this case, of course, it's going to be expressed through a miracle of resurrection Of raising somebody from the dead Or it could be expressed through the healing of a sick person could be expressed through the provision That comes into meet a need It could be expressed in so many other ways But the glory of god is putting god being put on display So it says if you believe you will see god displaying Who he is and what he does in your life in your situation So faith is key to seeing god's glory manifested Number five we said this that jesus taught us That when things go from bad to worse, we just stay in faith just stay in faith just believe right We looked at the example of jeres This and when he heard the news from his home Jesus's immediate response was Do not be afraid Only believe don't let this news Rattle you Don't let this news shake you. Don't be afraid only believe And if he would he was with you and and me um in A situation a similar situation. What would he say to you and me? He would say just believe don't be afraid. Just keep believing just believe All right, so that's how jesus would respond. So that's what you and I Must learn to do that no matter You know what the situation is We must stay in faith Okay, so let's move forward from there. We we covered most of that earlier. So we start off with point number six In chapter four on page 32 Jesus also taught that faith is released through words Spoken out of a believing heart So could somebody please read for us matthew 17 20 it's there on the pdf Matthew chapter 17 and verse 20. Please somebody could read Matthew chapter 17 verse 20. So jesus said to them because of your unbelief you're Assuredly I say to you if you have faith as a mustard seed You will see to this mountain move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you Thank you Thank you. Could somebody else read mark chapter 11 versus 22 and 23 please So jesus answered and said to them have faith in god For assuredly I say to you whoever says to this mountain We removed and be cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart But believes that those things he says will be done. He will have whatever he says man Thank you and one more passage look 17 versus five and six. Could somebody read that And the apostles said to the lord increase our faith So the lord said if you have faith as a mustard seed You can say to this mulberry tree We pulled up by the roots and we planted in the sea and it would obey you Amen. Thank you. Let me just see I don't have somebody Raise the hand. Oh there she raised your hand for something All right, I'm not sure. All right, let me go back to sharing my screen All right We see in all the three I mean in the three gospels matthew mark and luke All three of them record this part of jesus teaching on faith All right, of course The actual wordings may be a little different, but the essence is the same Matthew he said Matthew says put us like this. He says if you have faith like a mustard seed You will say to the mountain Move from here to there. It'll move when nothing will be impossible for you and mark Jesus said have faith in God And whoever says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea And there's no doubt in his heart. I believe that those things he says will be done. He will have whatever he says Now and and we also read what luke wrote increase when the disciples pray increase our faith. He gave them the same response so let's uh Let's spend some time on this because this is a very important teaching from the lord jesus on how To put our faith to work Having faith is good But you and I need to know how to make that faith work, you know, how to get back. How do I get my faith? to Work for me do things in my life You know in situations, how do I make it effective in life situations? Well, here is one key that jesus gave us and it's recorded for us in matthew mark and luke So let's highlight some of the things jesus is teaching us here What's the point? He says, you know, if you have faith You will say you will say matthew 17 20 Mark 11 says have faith in god. He says you say and then Luke also says you can say right so saying Speaking is one way That jesus taught us to release our faith So some people say well, I have faith in god. Okay, wonderful How are you going to release your faith? You don't have faith in god jesus said have faith in god. Okay. You have faith in god wonderful How are you going to what are you going to do with that faith? How are you going to cause that faith? To affect change in this realm Faith in god is a spiritual thing. You have it in your heart very good But how's it going to affect the spiritual the natural ground? Sorry. How's it going to affect things around us? how are you going to cause the faith that we have in our hearts to bring about a change in the world in our circumstance in a situation Jesus said if you have faith you will say so our words the words we speak to release our faith into the natural realm So you and I have faith in our hearts faith in god faith in his word faith in his promise very good But notice jesus didn't say if you have faith you will think He didn't say if you have faith you will think He said if you have faith you will say So thinking positive is good. I mean we need to think positive and that's good. That's wonderful but thinking About god thinking about His word which is important But thinking is not going to cause the faith you have in your heart to affect The natural realm around you. He said if you have faith you will say So this is important Why because jesus taught us that he said this is what you need to do You know like we saw here The apostles came to jesus and they said Oh lord increase our faith. They thought you know the real issue is we need more more faith inside us And he said look it's not about the size of your faith because even if you have faith like a mustard seed What if you had that tiny we any amount of faith? The important thing is to get it out so that it can affect change So you can have huge faith sitting in your heart But it'll do good. Do you do us no good If you don't get it out So it's not about how big the faith this is that look even a small amount of faith if you get it out It'll affect change But how do you get it out of your heart into the world into the environment into your life situation? You must say So that's the first thing very important thing Each one of us must understand about faith what jesus taught us about faith. You must speak You must release Your faith through words that you say out of your mouth You will say Then jesus said If you look at all of these passages quick carefully said you say to the mountain Say to this mountain You say to this mulberry tree So whom are you speaking to? Not speaking to god You're not speaking to another person You're speaking to The thing in this natural realm. So the mountain is figurative It's representing something in this natural realm I notice jesus had mountain or mulberry tree meaning it's something in this natural It can be an inanimate thing and mountain is an inanimate thing A mulberry tree is a plant. It's it's something in this world So the point is this You speak to What is inside in the natural realm You speak to your need You speak to Your body You speak to the You know The situation jesus spoke to the winds jesus spoke to the waves He spoke to a fig tree He spoke to Demons and cast them out He spoke to People's bodies to be healed stretch out your hand You know be opened. He said to the blind or the deaf or the dumb So We speak words and we speak two things in the natural realm Now that's very you know, that's ready what to say Counterintuitive that means we don't do it normally, you know, you don't find people speaking to objects in this world natural I mean, they'll think they're crazy but Jesus said If you have faith You will speak you will say To the thing in the natural realm you speak to it. You say in jesus name. I speak to this thing So I must speak to that thing You know jesus spoke to sicknesses That answer the the bible says he rebuked the fever And it left He spoke to the fever. He said fever leave So he spoke to the thing in the natural Now who taught us to do that jesus? He taught us to do that So we are going to follow jesus Now some people will call us crazy for doing it. That's okay. I'm just following jesus I'm just following his teaching Some people will say well, what are you doing? You're speaking to this thing. You're speaking you think by just talking to The situation it'll change. Yes Why because jesus said speak to the mountain The mountain represents anything in this natural realm so I can speak to a circumstance. I can speak to a situation Now I can speak to a closed door I can whatever it is I can speak So people will think we are crazy, but remember you're following the teaching of jesus So jesus said if you want to get faith out of your heart, what must you do? You have to say it and What do you speak to speak to the situation? now Yes, we exercise our faith also in prayer. We'll be seeing it at the next point but He talked he spoke told us to speak to the situation He didn't tell us to speak to to god about the situation He said speak to the situation God already knows the situation There's nothing wrong in saying god. I thank you that you are opening the door for me That is that's fine But god said I want you to speak to the closed door So I say in the name of jesus I command this door to open up Because god said he'll go before me and he'll make crooked places straight So you speak to the door you speak to the way that needs to be made open and then he said What do you speak to it? give it When you speak into the natural command the desired result Speak out the desired result He said tell the mountain move from here to there So you're not saying mountain. Oh, you're such a big mountain No You're not talking to the problem about how big the problem is No, you're not talking that You're speaking to the situation and you're speaking your desired result mountain Move from here to there Sickness I command you to be gone Door I command you to be opened Need I command you to be met and paid in full You know debt I command the debt to be paid in full and cancelled and cleared So you speak the desired result move from here to there move from here to there right or Be removed and be cast into the sea Be removed be cast in the sea Be pulled up by the roots to be planted and see what are you speaking you're speaking the desired result This is what I want to see happen So you speak that right, so How do you release faith? Jesus said you've got to say Gotta speak words You got to speak to the city the thing in the natural And you're going to speak the desired result. What do you want to see happen? Speak the desired result And once you speak it What must you do? Don't doubt in your heart Don't doubt in your heart So you've got faith in your heart What is that faith it's faith in God You're believing God Because God promised something for you God promised you will be healed God promised he will provide God promised. He's your waymaker. He will open the door God promised. He's your provider. He's your protector. He you know God has promised your faith is in God And you need to guard your heart Don't let doubt get into your heart now I want us to understand something important Satan the enemy is the thief He wants to rob us of our faith and he comes in order to Rob us of our faith He's going to first put doubts in our mind thoughts of doubt Sometimes these thoughts of doubt can come simply because of The winds and the waves That means you know, we are living in the natural world. So we look at the natural situations And your mind is processing and your mind is saying, hmm Wow, it's really bad out there The you know the winds are very strong and the waves are really high Or the mountain is really huge The mind is processing So what happens is doubts can come into our mind either because you know, we're looking at The situation around us and the mind is processing it or The enemy is throwing thoughts of doubt Sometimes even people may throw doubts Because they don't understand faith in God They may not know the promise of God So doubts can come in our mind because of these things But Jesus said Don't doubt in your heart So there's a difference most of us Will struggle with questions in our mind Because our mind is logical our mind is processing this information And our mind doesn't necessarily have an answer How is it going to happen? When is it going to happen? Can it really happen? So there may be you know those questions in your mind But when you look into your heart you say hey, I'm believing God God's promises in my heart So God your hearts Even if there are questions in your mind God your heart. Jesus don't doubt in your heart But what must you believe? Believe that what you're saying will be done. That's what he tells us. Yeah Believe that what you're saying will be done you're believing That what you're saying will be done Now you're saying it because of faith in God So you're not just making affirmations in another world copies a lot of things that we preach and teach So the world talks about you know positive Speaking and positive mind and whatever that but we are talking about what Jesus taught us He said you have faith in God Because your faith in God you're releasing your faith by your words Now don't doubt in your heart continue believing That the words you're speaking which are the which is the promise of God will be done Why is it that you can believe that what you're saying will be done because you're saying the words of God Because your faith is in God your faith is in its promise This is not a makeup thing. Yeah, this is not a Something you just you're just affirmations you're making or statements you're randomly saying no This is based on faith in God. This is based on the promise of God So that's why you can believe That what you're saying will be done I believe what I'm saying will be done and Jesus said If you do this If you do this Said you will have whatever you say Said you will have what you say It's what he taught us it will be done so This is a very important teaching from Jesus on how to release faith You know many people come in various situations just believe God just trust God Yeah, okay trust God but Jesus didn't say just trust God He said have faith in God that I need you to do this verse 23 So trusting in God is not just You know a nice christian thing to do You have faith in God But you don't stop there You're trusting in God You're believing God, but you don't stop there You got to go on from verse 22 to verse 23 That he said you got to do this You got to speak to the mountain Tell it to be moved and put a God cast from the sea and you don't doubt in your heart But you believe that what you say will be done. You will have whatever you say Now as I mentioned sometimes There is a process involved meaning I may not start out with great faith You know, I may have some doubts I may have some struggles between my mind and my heart But I keep continue doing this because God's word God has spoken his word. I'm going to keep saying it. I'm going to keep declaring it I'm going to come to that place That I will not doubt in my heart But I will believe that what I say will be done So that's why you know, some people ask Okay, you know, how long should I do this? Do I do it once? Do I do it twice? So I do it 10 times? Well Keep doing it until you see the desired outcome Because sometimes when we start out We may not be in in that place of mature faith of complete faith We starting out wherever we are And so we just Keep at it We just keep speaking to the mountain Because every time you speak you are also hearing the word of God and your faith is being encouraged your faith is being strengthened So you keep saying to the mountain mountain. This is what I'm telling you Based on the word of God, this is what will happen And you know slowly Doubts will be eliminated from your heart and your heart is coming to a place of stronger faith So that's why you continue to speak you continue to say Now there are times when you speak and it happens right away Then you've just you're in that place of faith You speak and happens and you see the result But there are times you need to keep saying it why? so that your heart Comes to that place of perfect faith complete faith And you will see the result you will be able to see the result Okay I'm going to pause a moment here and I I just wanted us to dwell on this because it's a very important part of learning to walk by faith and I'm going to just Take up some questions Does anybody have any questions that you want to ask and I will also um Bring up the questions that we had from class last week Um any questions you're with me so far Yes, pastor Everybody else everyone's very quiet Nicholas and go ahead Good morning pastor. So I just wanted to I don't know clarify my doubt maybe because personally I've prayed for two resurrections one was I think we're all part of the one one where there was an infant and one was an old person and I know that my faith I believed in my heart and I had the faith and The only thing I could probably think of when you were teaching now is that I didn't speak to the problem But I spoke that God Heal this I mean raise this person up. That's the probably problem thing I can think of But is there anything else you can like add on I mean, I I still do believe that God will take people from the dead He's not dirt my faith in any way So I still believe in that but is there something else I can do an additional If ever there were to be a situation where I have to pray again for resurrection Um um So, you know, so about the particular situations you know, we Don't know all the details in the sense that you know all the factors in one be the others also involved in all that but um Generally what you do is just speak to the person and say, you know in jesus name You know you speak to the person you command the person to rise up and you command death to leave and You Command life into the person. So basically you are speaking to the person Speaking to the person who's at that moment dead And you're commanding life to the person so That's how we just you know, just like how jesus did it and we see in the in the gospels, you know It's a young man. I say to you arise you know or To the child say arise or you may say receive life Or you may say death. I break your hold off of this person Let life come in. So that's how we minister All I would say is, uh, you know, even when we don't see like like in the case of speed In the past If you don't see the result don't we don't give up We'll just continue doing it and just continue, you know Focusing on the on the promise on the word that jesus gave us And keep going keep going because you will see Good results, you know in time to come Thank you Yeah, just to you know encourage our hearts just a quick Test to any some of some of you who were part of the church may have heard this testimony, but for the benefit Um Okay, Isaac I see your note. Um, that's fine. Okay, not a problem. Oh, you can also watch the video later, okay Yeah, I remember when our team was ministering in in This was in some place in gujarat Um It's a district called navasari. So we were there I forget the exact year You know our team so we should go around different places But remember one one evening this was in in in an avasari district in gujarat the state of gujarat western part of india And uh, we were there it it was kind of a village situation So it's not a big town or anything And we had that night We had an open air meeting And it's not a big crowd It was a couple of hundred people from village village people And the pastor there was hosting the meeting Was on the stage and that night We were talking about the mighty name of Jesus how powerful it is how wonderful it is and At the back of the you know, so while I was preaching I knew at the back some something was some commotion going on And I didn't know as I just and this was kind of getting closer to The end of this sermon we're going to transition into praying for healing and miracles and all that And then there was some commotion happening at the back And so the pastor who was hosting us Hosting the meeting he caught up the stage and he went to the back And something was happening and in the meantime, I continued administering and And you know, we we took some testimonies and all of that and then Then we saw the pastor Walking up with a man Actually, there was a man and two others next to him holding him His body was so stiff and he was just like kind of walking in a very stiff way and He came up So they brought him up to the stage and we was trying to understand what happened And And they made him sit down and the pastor said this man was dead At least 15 minutes. We don't know the exact time Because you know, this was in the meeting that was all going man was dead at least 15 minutes but he's alive now and His I could see there his family Again, I think it's it's his mother and his two or three sisters were there. They were all crying making a lot of noise And then we asked what happened and then the pastor explained, you know that Uh, well, you know at the beginning or some some earlier part of the evening The family that's the mother and the sisters Brought this man from wherever they were They brought him to the meeting But he was very very sick and by the time they brought him there he died He died right there and the way they know it is his body became just cold and you know, just You know, lifeless and dead So that's when the the commotion started happening. They started crying at the back and and things like that So that's when this pastor went down he went to the back And the pastor, you know, he suddenly in his heart He just said, hey, I uh, you know, we are we are hearing about the mighty name of Jesus So in the local language, right? Uh, he just said in in the local language. He said in the name of Jesus rise You know, and at that moment this this man You know rose up And so and so he'd been actually dead at least 15 minutes Right and then they brought this man up to the stage and you know, I mean I was I mean I was of course there We touched him and and you know, this his body was still cold It was just it was just amazing to be in that place at that moment and see a miracle that you know This dead man was brought back to life now One year later our team went back to that same Village or you know the same district They purposely went and they looked for this man So one year later he was there and they asked, you know About the story and so on. Nicholas you want to say something? No, Nicholas in your your hand. Did you want to say something? Okay, all right, so Uh Okay, so they went they they met this man. Yeah, this took his testimony and so on So, uh, it's just an amazing thing Okay, so let's take a break. I and I see some questions coming. So we are going to Uh, we are going to take up these questions and Right after the break. Okay, and I'm also putting that in that I copied from last week. I think This was from So we will answer these questions Right after the break we'll go for our break. We'll come back And we will answer these questions and then Continue, okay Please have a quick break and come back and we will continue. Thank you