Wow! I was looking for another message and was led to this message given by Joyce Meyer that I feel many need to hear right now. I have typed a transcript of the first 6 minutes of this message for my international readers who need to translate.
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Colossians 1:4 (amplified) says, "For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus [the leaning of your entire human personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness.] So faith is leaning on the power of God, the goodness of God and the wisdom of God. So it literally means that God is able to do what needs to be done in my life, He wants to do what needs to be done in my life, and He knows how to do what needs to be done in my life and I need to lean on that.
Now another thing that faith is, is believing in the unseen. We have to understand that there is a whole world that we don't see. I'm sure that there's a whole lot of angels in here tonight. Seriously I would imagine that there are all kinds of angels in this building tonight. Ocassionally God will open someone's eyes and let them see into the spiritual realm. It doesn't happen, I don't think on a real regular basis. But if we could just see with our natural eyes some of the things in the spiritual realm, some of the things that God has planned for us, some of the demonic forces that try to hold back the goodness of God in our lives. If we could understand how important the word's of our mouth are and how our word's affect that spiritual realm. But faith is believing what you can't see because once you can see something you don't need faith.
Faith is believing the answer is coming before you see it. It is just like if on Sunday you're going to get a special gift or somebody is going to see you on Sunday that you really love and you haven't seen them for a long time. Well on Monday they're not there yet, but you believe Sunday is coming. And on Tuesday they're not there yet, but you believe Sunday is coming. And you know what, you're excited about Sunday. For you it's almost like it was just there. You're getting ready and you're making preparations. But you can't see Sunday. You haven't seen the person yet. All you've have is a promise. Why is it sometimes that we can get so excited about what people tell us they'll do and yet we have a difficult time getting excited about the promises of God until we see it. On Wednesday we believe that Sunday is coming. And the thing that's interesting is the longer we wait the more excited we get.
But with Christians it's just the opposite. The longer we wait the more discouraged we get. I mean by Saturday night you are really excited. I mean now it's the midnight hour and you have not seen anything. But for you Sunday is going to be here really soon. Well what would happen if we behave like that in our spiritual walk? The bible talks about waiting on God. Waiting on God is not a passive thing, it's very active. And actually if you study it out, it means to expect God. To be expecting God to do something. Those who expect, looked and longed for God is what the amplified bible says. That's what it means to wait on God. So really we should live expectantly. I believe everyday we should say early in the day something good is going to happen to me today, everyday I get better and better in every way. Well you say, "I've heard all that positive stuff." Well would you rather be negative? You know I called Joel last week I said, "Brother just keep smiling. Just keep on smiling no matter anybody says just keep on smiling." Why in the world would the world get mad at you because you smile. Is that not dumb. Goodness sakes. I mean the devil is running out of things to do if you're going to get mad at somebody because they smile. And for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about you know the media picks on Joel Osteen because he smiles alot. I said man I bet I have eaten with the guy who smiles while he eats. I mean I do not know how you smile while you eat. Does he smile while he's sleeping Victoria? Pretty much right?
Faith is believing what you cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 says, "Faith is the evidence of the things you cannot see." Faith is the title deed of those things you cannot see. But that you believe they are on there way. Mark 11:24 I think is worth looking at tonight. Somebody might think oh faith I want her to preach on my problems. Well if I can get you into the rest of God it won't matter to you what kind of problem you have. I don't think you have a problem in here tonight that this message won't cover. This is so good, Mark 11:24 says "For this reason I'm telling you whatever you ask for in prayer, believe, trust and be confident that it is granted to you and then you will get it." First you have to believe in that realm that you cannot see that you got it and that's what pulls it out of that realm into the seen realm. So in God's economy you've got to believe you've got it before you get it. And that is so hard sometimes for human beings.
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