 You know sometimes you know we went to a Jewish church you saw the video very interesting amazing different feel this Friday this Saturday we're gonna go with you people to Portland there's a more of a traditional youth gathering is going to be that really excited and sometimes you go in and some odd places sometimes you go in and you the odd person in those places and if you have lived in this earth long enough had any religious background you have to learn how to deal with odd things there was a boy who was born and his parents decided to name him odd which is not a good name you should never name your kids odd and he grew up as a child he thought it was just a good name until he grew up as a teenager and the people start calling him hey odd and so it was really uncomfortable and he made a decision that whenever he will die he will ask his spouse or his children never to put his name on his tombstone so he passed away and his wife trying to honor his wish left his birthday and his death no name so everybody who would pass by and this is what they would say isn't this odd if your parents named you odd don't leave your name out of your tombstone because you will be called odd no matter how much you do not want to be called odd today we want to talk a little bit about faith we want to see great things with God in our lives we want to see great miracles in our lives as Christians and faith is very very important to a Christian life and so we want to know what faith is what faith is not and how can we build our faith to receive from God not just tomorrow but to receive God from God today every single person has faith some people have faith in their circumstances some people have faith in how bad things will be some people have so much faith that they are depressed because they believe bad things will happen that's faith fear and faith have one thing in common it's a belief in something that has not happened yet and it takes as much faith to believe in fear as it is to believe in the promises of God when you wake up in the morning you have a choice to either put your faith in the Word of God or to exercise your belief in something that might not happen but if you're gonna believe in it it will happen it's like the story of a woman who was always afraid that somebody is going to break into her house and steal things from her house and so any smallest noise that would happen during the night she would you know hit her husband and says go check somebody's in our house and her husband was so sick and tired of it of her phobias that every single time during the night I mean not every night but every other night he would go in checks and nobody's there okay okay thank you for going there and this continued for years upon years until on this fateful night 40 years of being married there is a little whisper in their living room and she says somebody's there go check to room and he goes in there for a routine check and there is a gun sticking right in his face somebody was there and he looks at him he says oh that's you he says yes I'm a thief if you make a noise I'll blow your brains off he said no just take anything you need just just leave us alone and he's he took stuff that the thief was about to leave he says wait wait can you hang in there for a little bit he said let me call my wife to meet you cuz she's been expecting you for the past 40 years and that's how many of us live is we constantly expect bad things to happen you have a pain in your stomach it must be cancer something is happening it must be this you got an accident God's God must have left me you know you got a ticket that's it I'm gonna go lose this I'm gonna go lose this if your boss corrects you expect you're gonna get fired you always expect the worst and that is your faith at best working against you God wants our faith to work for us and trust seeing in his promises because somebody say amen and so it's so important to understand that your faith everybody believes but are you believing for the positive or you're constantly expecting negative we live in a nation today where everybody claims to believe in God a very small percentage I think it's even less than one percent of people who actually believe God doesn't exist but most of the people believe in the existence of God and some people believe that that is the kind of faith that is going to give them salvation but it's so important to understand that the Bible says that demons believe and tremble the kind of faith we are talking about as Christians that brings salvation and brings healing and brings change in our life is not a mental agreement in the existence of God and in the existence of the historic fact that Jesus was born lived died and rose from the dead a mental agreement with the historical fact is not going to change your life demons have a mental agreement in their mind that God is real he created the earth that Jesus is his son and that's it but this kind of a faith that they have in their brains is not affecting their relationship with God and it's not doing anything to them and the Bible calls this faith in James chapter 2 a dead faith or a demon faith doesn't necessarily mean that if you believe in the existence of God you have a demon faith it just simply means that if you only believe that God exists your faith is no other than the faith that the demons have we see Jesus coming into the synagogue and the first people who got up and say you are the Messiah were not prophets and priests and scribes and Pharisees they were demons demons for the first to acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah yet this faith they had that Jesus is the Messiah is not going to improve their lifestyle demons are still demons they're still going to hell and they still are really bad why they're really bad because inside their heart is sick their heart is following their own desires and wishes and lusts I really want to challenge each one of us today that mentally agreeing that God is real it's not enough to change your life mentally agreeing that Jesus came to thousand years ago and Mary was his mother it's not enough for you to experience a change in your life this faith is a good place to start with but this faith has to drop into your heart and the Bible says with heart man belief and with mouth confession is made unto righteousness it's so important this may not seem important to you but it's like the story of the Niagara Falls when the man who walked over the Niagara Falls and everyone cheered for him he came back and he says do you guys believe that I can put somebody on my on my back and carry them over the Niagara Falls over a tight rope and everybody said yes of course we do and then he asked the second question he said do do I have any volunteers and all the hands went down because see everyone believes mental asset if you say God I believe a heart faith it says God I will piggy back right on you over the tight rope of life's uncertainties that is the faith that will change your life the faith where you sit on the sidelines and say God exists yes I mean he has to exist we didn't come from monkeys Jesus yes he came to thousand years ago he's a good Jesus all of that but then you live like the devil you live like just doing whatever you want to do you look man I believe in Jesus I must go time I will go to heaven honestly if that's all you have is in your head then demons are going to heaven too if the only faith we have is a mental agreement with historical facts and scientific proofs is in the existence of God I have a news flash for you there must be room for demons in heaven too it's not this faith that saves you heals you delivers you it's the faith that drops through your mind into your heart we're in your heart you say God I don't just sit on the sidelines raising my hand and say God I know you can do it but God I throw myself over to you into your promises and I would trust in you demons don't trust in God demons don't yield their heart into his promises demons they believe in God in their mind but they're hard they're following the devil and if in your heart you're following the devil or you're following your own sin but in your mind you believe God exists and you think that's enough or wearing a crucifix I have a news flash for you your faith is dead and it's demonic it's just not gonna work honestly it will be the same thing as not having it all this faith has to drop into your heart it's not enough to have a mental agreement with the historical facts it has to be an issue of the heart surrender to God it's like that house that was on fire and the boy was on the on the second floor and there was a little balcony there and the boy came out out of the balcony and his daddy was standing right in you know on the bottom of the house burning house and the flame was almost reaching the boy and the father says son jump and the son has faith that his dad is real his son has faith that his dad is right here and he also has some faith that his fire is about to kill him but see real faith is not when you just stand on the balcony real faith is when you let go of the balcony and you take a risk that he will catch you real faith is when you take a risk that God is not gonna betray you that he will not forsake you there may look like you falling down but he will catch you that you are not alone real faith is not just agreeing that God is in heaven real faith is that God is in my heart and he is with me every step of the way and I trust in him and sometimes real faith feels like risk sometimes it feels like you're falling until you reach his arms and then you realize you're not falling but you are going into his arms because somebody say amen and so really want to challenge you today the faith is very simple it's jumping into the promises of God it's trusting God has no secret agenda to destroy you it's trusting God is not a sheriff or a police officer and we love those professions but God is an earthly is a heavenly father who loves you unconditionally and who cares about your life can somebody say amen briefly I want to speak with you and just share with you a few simple things to encourage your faith we encourage everybody in our church to take notes we welcome all the new visitors with us today and but those of us who come and attend if you have a phone or notes on your phone or you have notes you can take notes or we have our messages our services online you can rewatch it always but I'm just gonna share a few simple thoughts with you concerning faith and back them up with scriptures the first thought that I want to share with you is that faith pleases God it's very simple faith pleases God in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 6 says the following it says it is impossible to please God without faith and he who comes to God must believe that he is and he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him faith pleases God we must understand that it's possible to please God but it's impossible to please him without faith when I was younger I think I was at the age of 11 I have quickly at my young years I've discovered that my mother can be pleased and I've discovered how I can please her till this day I don't think I know how to please my father my father is a mystery man and stuff so if you know my father you know he's a mysterious nobody hasn't figured out and so he's a very mysterious my mom and she's very simple and I knew that from a young age that to figure my mom out and to please my mom I just had to clean the house really really really really clean and she will be very very very happy does anybody have a mother like that or father okay so at 11 years of age my parents went somewhere and I remember it like yesterday I don't remember much about my childhood but remember this incident and we had cows we had pigs with chicken and and I had four siblings I don't compare them to the animal category but at times they needed restraints and so what happens is my parents left and they this time they didn't ask one of her mom and sisters or other uncles or aunties to take care of us but they commissioned me the 11 year old to rule the house and I remember I felt so good I felt like they trusted me and I you know put the siblings in order you know we started cleaning the house and they did not want to clean the house but we clean I mean we watched that we almost licked the house it looks spotless we fed the pigs we just swept the driver we just cleaned every single thing so good and I remember it like yesterday when the mom came and dad came and the mother look at how clean the house was she was in awe and I remember it like yesterday she started to look for money and she found some pennies it wasn't a lot but it was enough to buy ice cream and she gave me money for cleaning the house and I've learned at that day there is a reward for people who please people in authority and that they also learn a second lesson it's not hard to please someone if you know what they like when I say to please God this is not just to get brownie points this is so that God's favor will be stretched on your life so that God will help you in your doings and in your life because if your parents if you please them and they honor you can you imagine what will happen if you please God what would happen if we will take all the attention we play to please other people and just focus on pleasing God and I want to encourage you tonight that it's possible to please God many people think that it's impossible to please God maybe your parents were very difficult to please maybe your boss is impossible to please maybe you feel like God is this professionalist and that it's nearly impossible to please him if there is anybody who could please him it's mother Teresa but not me I actually can tell you today it's not difficult to please God God makes it easy for us by telling us you know how you can please me not by a good behavior sometimes we feel like well if our smoke drink get high I am gonna be pleasing to God now God is pleased with that but what really pleases God is a belief when you believe you please God it's not hard to please God if you understand that he is pleased not by your good behavior as much as your great belief in his promises and in his word it honors God to trust him when every sense contradicts him when you go through the day and the day is hard and the feelings are against you and the sickness maybe has come back or maybe some symptoms are raging in your body or maybe you got a letter or you got a ticket or you got a fee somewhere at the bank or maybe things are not working out and you did not get the job but it honors God not only when you do good but when all of that is happening you keep a good attitude that my God is with me he did not leave me and everything is going to be all right it honors God God is pleased with that a lot more than when you don't smoke then when you don't drink don't look at pornography or don't abuse drugs God is pleased with great belief not just a good behavior it sets me free it makes it easy to please God can somebody say amen number two I want you to write down is that God is that faith protects me from the devil faith protects me from the devil if he's in chapter 6 verse 17 it says above all else pick up the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one faith protects you from the devil it's interesting that it doesn't say pick up the promises of God and they will help you to overcome all the fiery darts of the devil it says pick up the shield of faith and it will help you to overcome the fiery darts of the devil pastor mentioned a one minister from Ukraine Dmitry Leo had an opportunity to see a few of his videos and and a while ago I actually had opportunity to talk with him on Skype about some ministry things he is a very known minister in Ukraine and he has a very popular website that is visited by hundreds and thousands of people it has it contains a lot of resources about spiritual things miracles deliverances and all of these things and there was a time that he shared a story that this pastor from Ukraine he was practicing casting out of demons in the early time of his ministry and he was very successful in it he would cast out demons and just just enjoyed very victorious and protected life and had a very good success until one day he found a book and in the book pastor described one particular pastor described that if you cast out demons that the devil will fight you back after you cast out demons and you will have repercussions in your life and the devil will attack you because you're dumbling into his kingdom and so this pastor Dmitry he read the book and he started to realize oh my goodness and this author gave examples of people who were casting out demons and then their families suffered and then their children suffered they lost their homes and things were so hard because they attacked the devil and so this pastor friend of ours he gave this book to his leadership and they all read it and after that immediately they started to have the attacks the car started to break down the hell started to get bad things started to get so bad that they actually had to stop praying for deliverance and they recognize that no we shouldn't be casting out the devil why it's a very dangerous business see previously he said I believed in the promise what it says that Jesus gives us all the authority and nothing will hurt us and he said when I would pray for the deliverance that promise was my shield my faith in the promise was the shield that protected me from the devil's attack against me but he says when I got exposed to somebody's negative experience I left my shield on the side and said you know what maybe I shouldn't be so blunt trusting every word that Jesus said maybe I should take into consideration that there are people who are being attacked after they pray for deliverance and he threw away his shield and became vulnerable to the attacks of the devil when you become so smart that you stop trusting in the promise of Jesus that he says he is your healer and you start taking into consideration all of your aunties and uncles who died out of the sickness all of the people who have died out of that disease the statistics says what you're doing is you throwing away your shield your faith in the promise of God and you become vulnerable to the devil's attacks the power that protects you is not God's word it's your trust in God's word you will always have people around you who have a negative experience of something that happened to them or something that didn't work 50% of marriages in the United States end up in divorce the reason why our marriages will not end up in divorce is because me and my house will serve the Lord and that is my shield against divorce many people die out of cancer many people die out of diabetes many people die out of arthritis many people die out of all kinds of diseases but the Bible says that thousands will fall on your right 10,000 will fall on your left but it will not come near died welling the promise is my shield and it's my protection and my trust in it the Bible says Elisha died being sick Paul had a thorn in his flesh Timothy had a stomach but my faith is not built in Elisha Timothy or Job my faith is built in a son of God who died on the cross for my sickness we see sons of Sceva tried to cast out demons and the demons attack them but sons of Sceva are not the sons of God you and I are the children of God and the Bible says that God has given us all the authority and the demons will not attack us back why because we have the shield we trust in God's promise can somebody say amen the Bible says I will build a church and the gates of hell will not what will not prevail against it the devil would try to shoot at you but the Bible says if you trust blindly bluntly and just with the simple faith in the promises of Jesus they are your shield against the devil to penetrate your heart and penetrate your life he will attempt but he will not succeed why because you are trusting in what God says not in what other people have done and did not succeed in can somebody say yes I want to share the third principle of faith is that not only faith pleases God and faith protects us but faith is in a person faith is in a person it is very important to know this because many people have faith in healing some people have faith in hope but Paul in here in 2 Timothy verse chapter 1 verse 12 says he says that when I suffer and I go through difficult things he said I know in whom I have believed it's interesting the Paul doesn't say I know what I believe Paul was a theologian Paul was a guy who had great degrees he was a Pharisee or Pharisees he was very religious person he wrote so much of New Testament that theologians are frying their brains and what he wrote even apostle Peter wrote he says his writings are tough to understand if anybody could write I know what I believe it will be Paul but for Paul faith was not a doctrine it wasn't dogma it wasn't thesis idea for Paul faith was in a person Christianity is the only religion in the world where we are asked to place our hope in a person not an idea most of the reformers mighty cap captains that arose in this world they always presented ideas people will buy into those ideas just in case these great men die that people will still be committed to those ideas and that people will continue to believe in those ideas and see them come into reality if we look at Martin Luther in United States the idea that white and black are created equal the idea that we should not mistreat people based on the color of their skin but based on the content of their heart that was an idea he wanted us to subscribe to he was killed but people didn't trust in Martin people trusted in his idea Jesus never asked people to trust in faith hope or justice he always said believe in me that's why when he died their faith died that's why when he died they scattered because they did not believe in goodness love hope or mercy they believed in a person they anchor their hope in a person and when he died so did their faith died but when he rose from the dead so did the faith rose from the dead why because faith is in a person not in the idea can somebody say amen and therefore God send us a savior not salvation he sent us a healer not just the healing he sent us a prince of peace not just peace your faith is going to be as strong as your relationship with the person of Jesus Christ your faith is not in a doctrine or a teaching your faith is in a person and it's going to be as strong as your knowledge of this person it's not the size of faith that matters it's the object of our faith that matters trust is the fabric of every relationship whether you realize it or not but if when you get in love when you fall in love with somebody and you begin to love somebody the immediate illusion is that what keeps us together is a love is like a glue but it's not love that is a glue it's trust because the moment this lover that you have that you've been with maybe for years or decades if he violates or she violates the trust it's amazing how in two seconds all the love evaporates it's amazing how the diamond rings become dirt how the mention becomes a shack and how his beautiful Audi becomes nothing and he becomes a terrorist just yesterday he was the love of your life just yesterday he was so wonderful but when you find out a text message that he's not on a business trip but he was some other loser somewhere else something begins to happen trust is broken and when the trust is broken relationship does not exist you have his last name you share everything you have children with him but you don't have no relationship how could it be broken so fast why because when there is no trust there is no love when there is no trust there is no intimacy when there is no trust there is no relationship trust is the fabric of every relationship same thing happens in your job when you call your boss in the morning is it I'm so sick but mr. so-and-so could you have me excuse today he said oh yes I hope you get well you get up on Facebook you said I am on my way to Las Vegas I'm so excited to get rid of this stupid job and the boss for next few days so I can have fun and it so happens that your boss checks your Facebook during the break what happens does the boss say ah she just had a weakness no the next day the boss comes and all the brownie points you had with the company all the respect he had for you went down the sewer pipe he comes to you and says you're fired you say why because the trust is broken you can't be here no trust no job no trust no relationship no trust no love that's why Paul is saying I know in whom I believed he said the reason I trust him because I know him and the reason why I know him is because I trust him you want to trust in God more get to know him you want to get to know God start to trust him but remember this your relationship with God will never grow higher than your trust in him many times kids they complain and I hear there's so many times especially the younger ones the teenagers my parents don't trust me my parents check my phone call my parents you know check my my emails my parents check my Facebook I had a father call me from Seattle a few weeks ago and he said you know he has a son 24 years of age and a handsome strong built really really nice guy he's finishing a degree and the father is saying to me on the phone he said I took his phone away and I was like your sons that the one that's 24 years old he said yes I said why would you do that he said oh not only that I took his car away I was like oh sucks to be him he says not only that but I drive him everywhere right now he said it's embarrassing but he says he broke my trust so many times and he says when we came to the special service and he already received freedom I thought everything's gonna be fine I gave him trust again until he left and he never told me where he went he told me that later he went to some leaders house but it turns out he went to a party and he did not come back until two days later and he says and there's no more trust he said if he doesn't trust me I cannot trust him in the same house eat the same food use the same refrigerator but the father and the son have no relationship that's why the Bible says one day people will come to heaven and say father we know you we've been in the church we'll carriage your name and he will say we have nothing in common not that I don't know about you but he said you never trusted me you always suspected I'm gonna rip you off you always expected I'm gonna take you away your fun you never trusted me with nothing you always did what you wanted because you were afraid I will let you down you didn't trust me and guess what I can't trust someone who doesn't trust me a friend's trust is a fabric of every relationship you want to have a great relationship with your parents begin to trust them with the information that you're going to the movies instead of saying you're going to the church begin to trust them with the information of where you're going begin to trust them that when they say please don't go there they actually don't want you not to have fun they actually genuinely truly love you when you trust them and it's amazing how much trust they will return back to you my friends you cannot have a relationship with your boss with your parents or with your God if you don't have a trust it's not charm chemistry it's trust that glues relationships together amen faith is in the person not any idea and therefore trust is the fabric of every relationship let's just go on we mentioned that faith pleases God faith protects us from the devil faith is in the person and number four is faith is a process the Bible says the just shall live by faith we live by faith and not by side faith is a process it's not a one-day thing faith is not just instantaneous the Bible says that we are a household of faith the Bible says God has given us the word of faith the spirit of faith the gift of faith the measure of faith all of it so we will live a life of faith faith is a process many of us love the leaps of faith but God wants us to have a lifestyle of faith so many people have moments of faith when God wants you to have a momentum of faith so many people faith is about the hype but not the endurance for so many people faith is about the spring how high I can jump instead of the marathon when I was in high school my favorite part of being in the PE class was running a mile I didn't like lifting weights I wasn't really good at it at that time I'm so much better now of course but but marathon I love the marathon but I love to run a mile and I was the fastest out of all of them and the reason why I've discovered few secrets is that all of these buff guys and all of these strong even girls all of them had this idea that they were strong when it comes to lifting weight for a moment but with me I had endurance for pain I could endure longer I couldn't lift more but I could last longer and that's what I would always be we would start running and all of them would start so fast first lap and I would always start medium not so fast and in a second lap and you see one down second one down a third one's getting a water break and then you know when I would pass them over and they're like man how do you do this and they don't understand and my mind my goal is not to win over you in the first lap and my goal is not to be the fastest when we start my goal is to be the fastest when we finish that's what faith is faith is not a sprint this is not a moment two months I am single I need to get married I need to get my faith up I am sick I need to get healed I need to get my faith up I don't have a job I need to get a job I need to get my faith up my friend faith is not for a moment faith is a momentum God is not going to use you if you're just simply starting out right now without long term determination in your mind faith is like a language it's like learning a language you know God speaks a language and going to a Jewish messianic congregation on the weekend I was convinced God speaks Hebrew language is so beautiful but God's language is not Hebrew God's language is not Shakespeare's language God's language is not Greek or even English God's language is faith God speaks faith when you are born for most of us who immigrated into this country you learned a language that was in English for me I learned Ukrainian and for 13 years 11 13 years I perfected this language to the best of my ability but I was able to speak Ukrainian where people could understand me and without any accent we came to United States 13 years ago it's gonna be 14 years and we came into the new world where everybody spoke a different language and in order to be effective in United States I had to learn the language of United States or else I wouldn't be able to be effective in this country and it's amazing that there was no prayer I could go to where somebody could lay hands on me for me to learn English though I wanted that to happen they promised on this certain CD if you listen to this CD you will learn English in 90 days but they also were lying you cannot learn English in 90 days you can't you may learn how to close the door and get on the train but you're not going to learn English in 90 days you may learn how to say and I was thinking thinking thinking and you don't know whether he was thinking or he was thinking but you cannot learn the language in 90 days can somebody say amen but you can learn one word in one day you can learn few words in few weeks and as you learn more words and you hang out people around people who speak English guess what happens it wraps off on you and then you begin to speak English better and better and better and it's been 14 years and my English still has accent if you have not noticed and today I am in a dilemma because when I go to a Russian church I have an American accent and when I go to American church I have a Russian accent and I'm stuck I'm not there and there in the beginning when I was learning English I could speak English but think Russian I think Russian and has to translate in my mind before I speak English and that's how many of us start when we come to the kingdom of God the language in the kingdom of God is faith to be effective in a kingdom of God you have to learn speak faith not your feelings and not your circumstances you have to learn to speak not what you feel not what your eyes tell you about what God says in his word you are in a different kingdom ruled by a different king when you were born first time on this earth you were born in flesh and what rules the flesh is the sight and the feelings and therefore you learn to speak flesh you learn to speak your feelings you always speak what you feel you always do what you feel but when you become a Christian you are born in a new kingdom in the new language new opportunities new glories new miracles but in order to be effective in this kingdom you gotta learn the language and the language is faith and you don't learn there from the first service you don't learn there by coming to the front is somebody laying hands on you and that's it you how you got you have the faith of disciples no my friend disciples walked with Jesus for three and a half years and their faith struggled they had a big accent Bartimaeus had a big leap of faith he got a miracle but disciples learned a lifestyle of faith and they became a miracle to their generation God wants you to learn a language of faith and it's not gonna happen immediately at first it's gonna be like this you're gonna think feelings you're gonna think doubt but you're gonna cut try to restrain your mouth and say no I know I feel this I know I think this but I'm gonna speak something else I'm gonna speak the promises of God and somebody say man somebody say it's a process somebody say it's a process every miracle builds that when you hang out people who speak English you will learn to speak English when you hang out people who see miracles you will begin to see those miracles when you listen to the power of God you begin to see that in your own life I want to challenge you today surround yourself with people I meet people sometimes in the United States who lived here for 25 years and they cannot put two words together in English I was like how in the world you are the same age as me and you cannot speak English and this is why they say everyone around me speaks Russian or everyone around me speaks Spanish like Nazar mentioned today if people around you don't speak faith but suck life out of you it doesn't matter how many times you will go to church you're not gonna learn the language of the kingdom and when you don't learn the language of the kingdom something is going to happen you cannot operate in the kingdom because somebody say amen faith for me is like a credit score long time ago and some of you know that in the United States we have this system where if you want to purchase something without cash but borrow money from the bank you have to have a job you have to have this job for two years and then you also have to have a good credit score a FICO score a credit score is based on how much credit you've been paying off you've been faithful on your payments and all that stuff and I remember when I was trying to get a first property at the age of 21 and I went to apply for a loan and I was so happy because I was like well I worked for two years here's I have my pay stubs they looked at this it that's great you shouldn't have a problem let's just pull your credit score I was like what is credit score they said well it's something that you probably have it good you don't have any like collections up no no collections they said do you have credit cards I'm like no no credit cards do you pay for your own phone bill no I don't pay for my own phone bill I was like do you have any payments do you pay for no I don't have any payments and so I thought it's good they don't have any payments it will qualify me for it alone and they looked at me and they said the problem is that your credit score you don't have a credit score I was like what do you mean I don't have a credit score I'm like I don't have payments they said that is your problem he says you've never been faithful in anything we don't know if you can pay things off or not and I said what does that mean so I cannot buy a property they said no there's only one way you can get this property if you have someone who has been doing this come alongside of you and go sign for you and honestly that's how faith is sometimes we think faith is about having a job means as long as I like go to church and I don't do anything bad then I could just have all the blessings of God but the reality faith is your credit score it's from the first time that you went through something difficult and you learned that God doesn't give up something goes up with your credit score it goes up when something else happens bad and you went through it and you notice God did not abandon you your faith your credit score goes up when you see a miracle here at the prayer line it's like this miracle is co-signing to your faith you're like wow this is encourages me this is encourages me and then you begin to see your own miracles in your own life why because your FICO score is your faith you know what I wanted to do it that day and this is what I did I got a credit card and I went the next month to check my credit score it didn't move and I was like really I'm like this is disappointing but today years later I have a perfect very good credit score but it didn't happen overnight and today I'm able to purchase things on my own without a co-signer why because it's been seven years not just seven years that I went through but seven years that I've been faithful in every single thing that came along and it build my credit score I don't look over whether my credit score is good or not but every week even if I don't use it I still build it and that's what faith is even when you don't need your faith today for anything specific but you build it why because when it's a time to receive something from God your faith is there to place a demand on the things from the Lord because somebody say amen faith is a process I really want to challenge you that you can receive something from the Lord today but commit to living a life of faith commit to walking by faith commit to learn this language a language of the kingdom a faith you know when we pray for the sick and I started to now exercise that and I've learned that it's not about a feeling but it's about a trust that Jesus died on the cross and that he wants to heal people for me it started with that that every time I would go somewhere even in our church I never have any doubts that God wants to save people even today when I look over you I know that God can save people and God can save people today I know that God can take somebody's life and flip it upside down after the service today I never have doubt about that it's the greatest miracle why even though a lot of people don't get saved but my faith is in the fact Jesus saves even when I was a young kid and still going to high school and preached in the high school clubs I was convinced in my mind every single place I went that God can save people and he can save it in schools but I was a little bit hesitant that God can heal people I was like what if he doesn't it's interesting I never had those questions concerning God saving people I never had those questions what if God is not in a saving business today I was I was bold and it's not because I felt I knew that I knew that I knew God saves people period even if nobody would respond to the article that doesn't matter I mean no one thing God saves people and months ago in my prayer time I started to kind of take these scriptures and I started to challenge myself I said Vlad why is the same God who you are convinced in can save people why he can heal people is the problem with God or is the problem that you are not like Paul who is convinced he can heal people every time you pray and I said Lord I take this there and I believe you can and you want to heal people every time I pray we started to step out on faith and we started to see the Lord touch people today I am stepping out and in my heart there is this conflict that is coming to an end that God wants to deliver people every single time we pray that casting out of demons is not only for the prayer line and it's not only for the special services but God wants to drive out evil spirits not all may manifest but manifest that's better that's a bonus but God wants to drive away demons because somebody say man I want to challenge you right now be convinced grow your faith let your faith be a process which grows every single day every single service every single testimony and when your Goliath shows up you don't need to go into the prayer room and memorize scriptures you don't need to call Prophet Samuel on the phone as a Samuel is there a word from the Lord for this Goliath you don't need to go run around desperate you just need to face the Goliath find some few stones and say you know what my credit score is pretty built for this and I'm gonna bring you down not because I started to build my faith yesterday but it's been years my faith is being built and built and built and built and now I can use it to loan this miracle into my life because when I saw the bear it improved my FICO score when I saw the lion it improved my FICO score when I did this and improved my FICO score so now when there is a challenge I don't need to find a scripture I just need to release the scripture that I have inside of me build your faith let it grow every day it's not a sprint it's not about how high your faith can be today it's how long you can last all your life and endure in Jesus name