 Thank you everybody for coming. I'm excited to hopefully give you guys a good message today Not only for the kids, but also for the parents So that's what we try to do make it fun All right, so today we're going to talk about faith Does anybody know what faith means? You guys do Who can tell me what faith is what is it well there might be a component of love Yep, that's but what is it what does it mean? Trust that's a good one. That's really good. What do you think? Yeah, that's also good. Those are all really good answers. Let's see what the Bible says. Okay The Bible says now faith is confidence in what we hope for and Assurance about what we do not see so that means We have a hope for something Right and we believe that it's going to happen and then even though we don't see God Even though we don't see him We have assurance. We're guaranteed that he's going to show up for us Does that make sense? Okay, so it's complete trust who said trust yep belief and loyalty to God Even when we can't see God Even when we can't hear God Even when we can't touch God Knowing God knows best Okay, so those are some some components of faith What is what isn't faith? Do you guys know what faith isn't? Does anybody have an idea? Jen, what isn't faith? doubt doubt Unbelief Unbelief, okay. Remember these words guys. Well, go ahead Hugh Not trusting right the opposites go ahead Yep, did you raise your hand? Okay, Hugh Okay, that's a good one too. Let's see what I wrote. Okay faith is not magic Okay, God is not our personal genie. Who knows what a genie is Yeah, you all do you don't have probably seen a movie with a genie in it, right and they rub the lamp and they Yep, exactly and they make a wish. That's not what God does for us Well, that's technically witchcraft and we don't mess with that. Okay, so faith is different. Faith is not magic All right Faith is not trying to tell God what to do. We don't tell God what to do We want God to have his way Okay, so faith is God knows best for us. We might think we we have something we want and We can ask for it But instead of saying I have to have this my way. I want it to be your way God I want it to be your way no matter what because I have faith that you have the best way Does that make sense to you guys? Yeah, okay Faith is not trying to get your way Right have you guys ever tried to get your way with your parents? Yeah, does it work? No Sometimes it works, okay God's God's plans for us are better than our plans for ourselves Because he loves us and he's perfect. He knows exactly what we need Okay All right, I'm gonna give you guys an example of faith and prayer All right, you guys want to hear a story of something that happened to somebody and how they got their prayer request answered by the Lord Okay This is Rena and Jack's story of faith. This is my sister Rena And her little dog Jack And we're gonna see how prayer requests and faith in God Had an outcome Go ahead Rena This is my dog Jack and so for the longest time when I was little I always wanted a dog because I just Was like a typical child request. I just wanted a dog and I always loved dogs And so I asked God for a long time in my life I was always like God Dog dog, please a dog. I'm a big dog. So all that I don't care about you Just want a dog and for a very long time. I like didn't hear anything. So I was like, okay That's all right. Then we moved to Arizona and my mom got this prayer jar And so she was like it's just like write down whatever you want and just put it in there So I wrote down on this little piece of paper God, can you please give me the perfect dog at the perfect time? so I Put that in jar and after that I was like, you know what? I'll just leave it to God because God's timing is the perfect timing So I was like, I'll just believe that he'll give me a dog when I need the dog And so I think around six months ago Something like that we got Jack and we got Jack for free It's crazy because like his specific breed is kind of expensive because it's hypoallergenic Which is another Thing I think God for it because it wasn't what I specifically picked out I didn't put on a checklist of things that I want dog I just like give me the perfect dog and I have a lot of allergies So having this dog hypoallergenic just comes to us like that is such a blessing And he is so perfect for me because I had faith and trust in God He entered a prayer that I didn't tell anyone that I wanted Was that if you don't know much about God's is that when they get like Put into a family they pick a person who is like their top person when they love them the most And that's usually the parents and like the leader of the house So me I knew that like it was selfish I never told anyone but I was like, you know, I want a dog that'll love me Like But I was like that selfish I can't tell him that But God answered that because dog loves me so much and I am his top And I didn't tell him that but because I let God choose the dog and not have a checklist He gave me a dog that Listens to me loves me above everyone. He gets so excited when I come home He'll my mom will come get him from my bed and take him out to To pee and then when he comes back, he gets all excited. He's like, I'm back. I'm back. Did you miss me? I'm back It's adorable He gave me at the perfect time because I'm a freshman in high school and a lot of my friends left So I was having a hard time getting in with a bunch of the new kids Getting along with a bunch of people. So I felt kind of lonely. I asked God Can you give me someone for me because I'm having a hard time and he gave me Jack at the perfect time They'll have him someone who will love me It was perfect So I didn't have to constantly ask for him or give him a checklist Ask God if you give me this a perfect dog. I don't care what dog it is Just give me what you think the perfect dog is at the perfect time And I look back now at those times I asked for a dog What it was not a good time because he Conflicts of what would happen along my life Great to have a dog And so he is just so perfect. He's he's small so I can take him everywhere We got a free Yeah, it's hypoallergenic and you know We had a bit of a struggle with like if you were to get a dog It's like my last house like our house is small, but we had a big backyard So if we wanted a dog, it would be a great space for it So we're like we need that and then our house now has a tiny backyard, but the house is Spacious so we're like we need a dog. I'll be fit Room and so he doesn't have a lot of energy So he's so perfect. He loves the pet all Amen. Amen. Thank you, rena Okay, did you guys like that story? Yeah, maybe you guys can meet Jack after okay He's a really sweet guy There's actually more to that story. Maybe y'all hear it later, but So here's what happened there was a prayer request Okay, it didn't matter that it was written down or in a jar. That's not what mattered It was that the request was made to the Lord with faith See she made her request known and then she used her faith to believe that God would give that to her in The right timing and he did it and what does she say about Jack? He was the exact perfect dog. She couldn't have picked herself a better dog. Isn't that cool? And it's important to remember Every one of you is God's favorite. He didn't do that for rena because she was his favorite Every one of us has the same opportunity with God. Okay So That's the end result an answer to prayer and God's timing and this is a picture of the actual jar and the prayer request So you can see right here August 2019 for a dog the perfect one At the right time that was rena's what you didn't know is her mom who she lives with also made a Request it says father. We want a dog a personality that will Blood what's it say? Oh Bring life and joy into the family. Please choose The time so her mom also had written a prayer request Okay, so what if you don't have much faith does anybody feel like they don't have a whole lot of faith You have a lot of faith. That's great. So if somebody doesn't have a lot of faith Matthew 1720 says He replied Because you have so little faith truly I tell you if you have faith as small as a mustard seed you can say to this mountain Move from here to there and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you Do you guys know how small a mustard seed is? You do well, maybe some people don't so I'm gonna have sister Alyssa pass out a mustard seed to you guys And a sunflower seed so you can see how tiny the mustard seed is And that's the amount of faith that we need to have just a little tiny bit and The Lord will do the rest so she's gonna pass those out and we're gonna keep going Here is a mustard seed You can see the size of this penny. How tiny is that mustard seed in comparison? Tiny huh teeny tiny All right What stops our faith guys? What could stop our faith video games You know ironically that could be true Yeah, right Yes YouTube that's true. Why YouTube? There is right so if you listen to something that's not true Right, maybe there's a video that makes you scared that takes away your faith Right. Yeah, that's the opposite of faith Okay doubt We talked about that a little bit unbelief Not believing God not trusting God How about negativity Be a negative He's not gonna do it. I don't think he's gonna do it. I don't know he doesn't like me I'm nothing being negative that'll stop your faith Okay No prayer or Bible time with God No prayer or Bible time with God, how many you guys pray you guys pray awesome, how many you guys read the Bible? Yep, when do you guys read the Bible? You guys that's good. Okay Do it more You guys try to do it daily, okay, and if you're having a hard time get your siblings together You know for the older ones get get your little sister get your little brother And get them together and read Bible stories together. You know why it's important Anybody what is the Bible? It's the sword of the spirit it is the sword of the spirit. What is it? That is true Ethan Yeah That's right, and it's the truth So it is the truth if anything goes against the Bible. It's not true The Bible is the truth. So this is how you can tell the difference between a lie and the truth If you compare it to the Bible, what does the Bible say? You have a thought that says you're no good. You're dumb What does the Bible say about you the Bible says that God planned you before even the world was created So you're not dumb. He loves you. Okay, make sense. What do you have a question? Don't be shy Amen the truth will set you free Great and then the last thing that can stop you is bad spirits Right Those are the ones that whisper those lies in your ears. Those are the ones that have bad plans for you You guys know what that means, right? Have you ever had something tell you to do something naughty something to tell you that you're no good? Who's had that? Negative thoughts. Oh right here. Okay negative thought. What was it? Anybody want to share what their negative thought was Anybody over here go ahead. What was it? Okay All right, probably something like what I said, right go ahead. What was your negative thought the bad thought? Right, okay, so what she said is there might be a lie that says you're not going to get caught Right, you can do what you want. You're not going to get caught It doesn't matter because God sees everything you can't hide from God. He's a spirit. He knows everything Yeah Okay Well she could repent of that today, okay, so she'll tell the Lord she's sorry today and dad, so that's good Okay, so Let's test your faith Who's gonna be a volunteer? We're gonna have Jen is gonna grab a volunteer and then we're gonna do something fun Okay, you want to be the the volunteer? Okay, come on up Pink shirt, she's coming up. Okay. This is gonna be your blindfold. Okay, Jen's gonna make it work You might have to double it up like that and then just tie it You can It might need a little more link Okay Yeah, there's two because you can see through it. So keep them together Here, sorry. Sorry. I didn't know there was two. I had to do a makeshift blindfold And this is what I came up with Full t-shirts work great Okay, make sure you can't see okay Let Jen know if you can see and then I'm gonna have you turn her around and we're gonna set something up here so in our life We have to trust that God is gonna Direct us the way we need to go even though we can't see his plans, right? Okay, so Yeah, we're gonna spin her go down there. Let's just walk her down in faith Okay, so what you're gonna do Jen is you're gonna tell her in directions you're not gonna steer her No, you're gonna tell her, you know Turn to the left. Okay. Now what else we're gonna do is we're gonna put some roadblocks Okay. Oh, yeah We're gonna have some roadblocks Because we have things in our life sometimes that come up right and we got to get around that and we have to trust God That he's gonna get us through the roadblocks, right? All right, so be a good experiment Okay, go ahead. Yep You're on the right Keep going straight ahead turn to the right a little bit a Little bit more. Can you kind of twist around a little bit? There you go. Step over. You're gonna hit that the racer Step over it Okay, and bring your other there you go turn to the right just a little Just a little you perfect walk straight ahead About four more steps Put your hand out Okay, walk ahead a little bit more to the right Turn to the right a little bit the other way honey What's the other way? Okay, you're about two steps in front of that chair You step forward turn to the left a little bit To your other left Take one step forward Put your hand out You had that a little bit to the into your front like reach out to your front and then swing it over to the left a little bit Step to the left a little bit take a side step Okay, take another step forward you're right in front of the chair sort of reach out You're doing good down put your hand down a little bit Oh Step forward tiny there you go now read there. Oh, where is it? All right, she made it Did you figure it out? Yeah, okay, so she made it Okay, so that was not a smooth journey was it it wasn't so what was the problem? Right she had a blindfold That's true She couldn't see Right She had faith though, right? She kept going and she kept listening and she kept doing what Jen was asking her to do So that's what we do too with the Lord Right, we trust that because we love the Lord we've accepted Jesus and he's guiding our path He's making our path straight even though we can't see him and touch him He's still directing us We know in our heart what the right thing to do is and we have the Bible to guide us, okay? So we use our faith and we trust them Okay Okay, here's an example Peter and John had faith to heal a lame man you guys remember that story Sure, I don't know but that that seems legitimate Okay, let me make sure that I got this turned up here Peter told people about Jesus Peter and John went to the temple to pray As they were near the temple, a man who couldn't walk from the time he was born was being carried in Each day the man was put beside the temple gate so he could beg from the people going into the temple When the man saw Peter and John and asked him for some money Peter said, look at us The man looked up at them eagerly thinking that they would give him some money But Peter said, I don't have any money for you But I'll give you what I have in the name of Jesus Christ get up and walk Then Peter took the man by the hand and helped him up As he did, the man's feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened He jumped up and began to walk, then walking, evening and praising God He went into the temple with them All the people saw him walking and heard him praising God When they realized he was the man who couldn't walk, then sitting outside the gate asking for money They were absolutely amazed Peter asked the people, what's so surprising about this? Why stare at us as though he made this man walk by our own power? He reminded all of the people that it was God's power to heal this man And encouraged all of them to turn from their sins as all of God with their own hearts Okay, so today what we're going to do is have an opportunity to seek the Lord We're going to get some prayer We're going to repent if we haven't had enough faith And if there's anything lying to you guys bothering you We're going to command it to leave in Jesus' name Does that sound good? Yeah Okay, well if I can have the ministry team come and start praying with the parents Then that would be great We're going to start with the parents and then we're going to work our way to the kids What's that? What do we do with the seats? Oh, you can throw them out Okay, or you can keep them You can toss them if you want to There's a garbage in the hallway What do you say about the parents? What? What do you say about the parents? You're going to start with the parents? Yeah, praying with the parents Yeah Oh, praying with the parents Yeah, exactly So generally the kids get a lot from the parents So when you work with the parents first You break off and they come into agreement for the deliverance of their children Absolutely Yeah I was told that there was a doorbell that I was trying to flirt with It was good And we addressed it And she told me that I was more trying to put a hickey on it Oh, no I see it really Yeah, we've got to rebuke that I'm just going to have that outside I don't have it so I've got to bring it over Okay, yeah, let's do it Well, let's I'll go back over there with you guys And let's go talk Let's go do it Where did they go? They... Oh, they're over here Okay, let them... Reena can minister to them Actually, so also with you here Let me let Reena know Hey, Reena Do you want to minister to these two girls? Yeah Yeah? Okay Can you girls tell Reena what's been going on with you? That's for you That's what's going on with them and their family I want to pray with dad real quick Okay Can you let... Who had the girl that was trying to flirt with them in school? I didn't mean to flirt with them Who did? I didn't Was that you? No, she gave me a hickey too Okay Reena, she's gross Okay, yeah So you can't let her do that to you, okay? Don't let her do that to you She tried to tell me It's not good Okay I'm going to tell Reena and she's going to pray with you guys, okay? And then I'm going to pray with you after Okay Oh Do you... Alice, do you want to minister to these two? She didn't want to go to sleep I tried Oh, she's a good girl Or three? Yeah Okay Yeah, she told me And the little one says She's nasty She goes, she's trying to hit me Okay Yeah, yeah So I just found out to people Well, you know, they're... They're... See I became the same parent And I had to sign on some DCS Oh, okay And I had to sign on her And I had to sign on the other parent And the other grandparent on the other side Wanted to adopt the children And I had many children Trying to make it work And it did And so did the rejection And a rival If you had a rival, we'd like you and me And those things And why Did you ever have that in your life Growing up with anybody? Not really No? No I mean, at school You know, sports, I was involved in sports Yeah, competitive Yeah They're real competitive And they're really talented I mean, they picked things up really good But, I mean, as far as that Between the family, I had nothing to assist with Right So it wasn't... It wasn't anything like that You know, as far as that Something like that It's not going to be in my hands It's not going to be discussed with my dad How is that healing up? It is I've come a long way I've come a long ways And then I've worked throughout the years And I've done a couple of things And then, you know, I do self-deliverance Everybody comes sort of the more Oh, amen We do Yeah, we all do And... But what can I pray for you today for? Like, is there anything in... Like, that you struggle with still That you see actually as a reflection With them? Just like rivalry Disobedient, you know, they're still burning