Build Your Faith

[0:00] Welcome. Thank you for choosing to listen to another faith-building message by Pastor David Entry. Faith comes by hearing and by hearing the Word of God.

[0:12] May your knowledge of Jesus Christ increase as you listen. Be blessed. Bible says that by faith, Sarah herself received seed to conceive.

[0:27] Sarah herself, she received seed to conceive by faith. It takes faith to see the move of God in their life. It takes faith.

[0:47] I see somebody's faith rising and growing in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. We are in moments of extreme testimonies. I'm telling you.

[1:00] Amen. Listen, before the end of this year, before the end of this year, we are in moments of extreme testimonies that don't make sense. Testimonies that don't make sense. Mind-blowing testimonies. Mind-blowing testimonies.

[1:16] Medical testimonies. Marital testimonies. Financial testimonies. Career testimonies. I mean, housing testimonies. Mortgage testimonies. All kinds of testimonies. I'm telling you.

[1:29] We are in a season. We are in a season of extreme mind-blowing testimony. Family testimonies. Family testimonies. Somebody's family is beginning to rejoice.

[1:40] I hear the sound of rejoicing. I hear the sound of rejoicing in somebody's family. In somebody's house. I hear the sound of rejoicing. In the name of Jesus, so shall it be.

[1:53] Amen. By faith, Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed when she was past age.

[2:04] Why? God, it was her season. God said the time of life. So it was the time of life. But in the time of life, the only way she could connect herself to the favor of life, the opportunity of life was to act by faith.

[2:23] The only way you can receive from God what he has promised is when you choose to step out in faith. Yesterday's faith is not good enough for today's testimony.

[2:35] Peter began to receive faith. By faith. But somewhere along the line, he began to sink.

[2:47] Why? Sink. Because he lost faith. You will walk on the water with today's faith, not with yesterday's faith. Hallelujah.

[2:57] Satan is trying to dig into yesterday to discredit your faith, to punch your faith, punch holes in your faith, to make you lose faith.

[3:12] But I see you growing stronger and stronger and stronger in faith. Amen. In the book of Romans, Romans chapter 4, verse 17 says that, As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed, that's talking about Abraham believed, even God, who quickens the dead and calls the things that be not, those things which be not as though they were.

[3:41] God quickens the dead. It looks like something is dead. God is of power to quicken what is dead. To quicken something means to give life. Some other translation says, God who gives life to the dead.

[3:55] God. He believed God who gives life to the dead. In the who is present, who we believe? God who gives life to the dead. God gives life to the dead. Listen, don't worry about what seems to be dying or what seems to be dead.

[4:10] Yes, yes, yes. God gives life to the dead. Be more concerned about the weakening of your faith than the dying of the situation. Be more concerned about the weakness of your faith or the weakening of your faith than the death invading nature of your problem.

[4:29] Wow. Death is invading your marriage. Death is invading your finances. Death is invading your career. Death is invading your life. And you are more worried about the death, the invasion of death.

[4:42] Be worried about the weakening of your faith. Because God is, oh, when you have faith, the dead can live. Oh, come on. Yes, sir. When you have faith enough, that death, that dead will come back to life.

[4:55] Because it is God. You are dealing with a God who is able to give life to the dead. God is able to give life to the dead. Bible says that before whom Abraham, he believed.

[5:06] Abraham believed in God. When God called him, you are the father of many nations. At the time when his body was dead. At the time when he was not able to provide or produce any child.

[5:17] God said, I have made you a father of nations. In the presence of God whom he believed. He believed God who gives life to the dead.

[5:29] And God doesn't only give life to the dead. By calling the things that be not as do the world. So something doesn't exist. But God, in God's mind, it exists. So don't be so fixated on what is not present.

[5:42] Be fixated on what God is saying. Believe what God is saying. Put your focus. Put your mind. You are letting what you don't have disturb you too much. It's disturbing you too much.

[5:53] Come on. Come on. Don't give it that credit. Give God more credit. Hallelujah. Give God more credit. Give God more credibility. God's word. God's word.

[6:03] It says that the word of God liveth and abideth forever. 1 Peter 1 verse 25. It said the word of God, it lives and abides forever. The word of God lives and abides forever.

[6:15] And he said, this is the word we have preached to you by the gospel. Verse 25. I said verse 25. But the word of God, which endures. The word of God, it lives and abides forever.

[6:27] The word of God, which endures forever. It lives and abides forever. Stand under the word of God that stands forever. This is the word which was preached to you.

[6:38] The word I'm preaching to you, it is alive. It lives and guess what? It abides forever. Your problems will come and go. The word of God abides.

[6:49] Your challenge will come and go. The word of God abides. The bad news will come and go. The word of God abides. Don't give credit to the news you have heard. Give credit to the word you have heard.

[7:00] Give credit to the word you have heard and believe in the word. Stand on the word. Stand on the word. My brother, I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. Why are you fasting without standing on the word?

[7:11] Stand on the word. Don't be afraid. Stand on the word. It's more powerful than your fasting. If you can stand on the word, all things are possible to him who believe it.

[7:22] Amen. Go. Stand on the word, my sister. Stand on the word. I know you heard something that really, really have discouraged you and you think it's not possible.

[7:35] Abraham believed. He said we are the sons of Abraham. Abraham believed God who calls the dead and who gives life to the dead. And not just that. He calls things that be not as though they were.

[7:45] He didn't say he calls things that be not to be. No. He's calling them as though they were. It's like they're already there. So God is talking to you about your children like they are 80 years old, yet you haven't given birth yet.

[8:01] Wow. God is the only one who can come to you and talk to you about your natural children when your womb has been removed. Wow.

[8:11] He'll be talking to you about your natural children and be calling their name and telling them that, telling you about when she finishes her uni, encourage her to relocate to be in London, relocate from Scotland.

[8:22] God will be talking to you about things that don't exist as though they already are. Things that be not as though they were. That is so, you need faith to accept the truth of what God is saying.

[8:37] Master, I've done it every time. I've done it. Yeah. The fact that you have been saying you've done it every time tells me that you didn't do it God's way. If you are doing it God's way, you don't change your mind.

[8:49] You keep doing it because you know God's word is true. Yes, sir. Abraham believed God who caused quickies the dead and caused the things that be not as though they were.

[9:00] Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations? According to that which was speaking, so shall you see be. He believed in hope.

[9:11] Do you know what he did? He believed against hope. Who against hope believed in hoping? You can put it this way. Somebody will ask, why are you doing this?

[9:23] There's no point. It doesn't happen. He was doing what is against hope. If you are going to hope for something, this one is too late. At your age, 100 years old, if you are going to hope to be a father, I mean, not a natural, maybe an adopted father.

[9:39] That's right. A father of adopted children. That one. But having your own. Sarah's womb is also dead. How can you hope that? So he hoped against hope. It shouldn't be.

[9:49] What he did seemed unreasonable. It seemed unreasonable. It seems bizarre. It seemed absurd. It seems it came across improbable.

[10:01] How? How? Why are you believing something like this? But the only reason behind his belief was God said it. God said it. God said it. God, let me believe God and me put to shame.

[10:14] God said it. God said it. Has God said it? If God has said it, fear not. Hallelujah. Just believe God.

[10:25] What's the point in a believer who doesn't believe? What's the point in a baba who doesn't cut hair? Think about it.

[10:36] What's the point? You're a believer. But you're actually not a believer. All believers who know you don't know anything about belief. You don't know.

[10:48] When you talk, you even talk more sorrow and more shame and more trouble and more pessimism than unbelievers.

[10:58] Unbelievers are now encouraging you. Don't worry. It will be okay. Don't worry. You know, it will be okay. Don't worry. A believer has lost his job. You have also lost your job.

[11:09] Both of you have been working. You go to church. He goes to pub. And now he's encouraging you. Now don't worry. Ah! A believer should not even ever dream of trying to encourage you because you are a reservoir, repository of God's strength.

[11:26] Hallelujah. You walk with your Lord. Bible said David encouraged himself in the Lord. David encouraged him. Oh, the marriage didn't happen, so I'm very down.

[11:39] I can understand. It's natural. Natural to be down. Natural to be worried because you didn't get a job. Natural. It's natural, okay? Don't let anybody make you feel bad for being down.

[11:50] But don't stay down. Amen. How could you have walked if when you attempted working as a child, when you fell, you decided to lie down, not to get up again?

[12:01] You wouldn't have been walking like the way you are walking through your nice walks. Yeah. But you fell and you got up. Go and ask your mom the number of times you fell. You in particular. You in particular.

[12:13] Go and ask your mom. You grew up learning how to fall and get up. Hallelujah. I'm talking to somebody. God has trained you for this moment.

[12:24] Amen. Amen. You don't need unbelievers to preach to you. God has trained you from this. Get up and keep running. Keep going. Keep going. And keep your eye on God's word by nothing.

[12:37] Not on the doctor's word. On God's word. Keep your eye. Keep your focus. Keep your confidence. Keep all your faith in God's word. Because the word of God abides forever.

[12:50] The word of God, it abides. It will not change. Situations will change. The weather will change. The economy will change. The political climate will change. But the word of God, the word of God, it's forever.

[13:04] And it is this word that has been preached to you through the gospel. Thank you. Abraham. Abraham. Listen to this. The Bible says that against hope he believed in hope that he might be the father of many nations.

[13:18] Why? Because that's what was told him. According to what was spoken. So that shall die see. So all his confidence was these few ways. So one, two, three, four, five, five ways. So shall die see.

[13:29] That's all. That's all. He went and bought a coat. He went to mamas and papas. He went to Madake. Went to do shopping.

[13:40] Yeah. Yeah. So every time they go to the shopping center, you see them there. He went. She went to the bridal shop. Went and did a gown. Went and put down payment for her gown.

[13:53] Wow. Wow. Nobody had showed up. But she knew that he said, so shall die see. That's all. So shall die see. Be became his principle for making decisions.

[14:08] Making decisions. Why? Watch this. So shall die see it be. And be not weak in faith. See, the problem is that the weakness of your faith is costing you too much resources in heaven, in God.

[14:23] The weakness of your faith is costing you so much godly resources. It's called weakness of your faith.

[14:34] Listen, spend more time embellishing, developing, and enhancing your faith. Not your face. Spend more time. I see.

[14:44] I see. Spend more time enhancing, beautifying, and developing your faith. Not your face. Some of you, we see your face.

[14:56] Your face looks good, but your faith is bad. God, you want a woman to marry, don't determine it by their face.

[15:09] Yes. Let the determination be by their faith. Sister, you want a man to marry, don't look at his face and a long beard. It doesn't mean anything.

[15:20] Wow. Or no beard. Plenty beard, no beard, dyed beard, colored beard, treated beard. Unkept, unkept, but money-like beard.

[15:33] It doesn't make any difference. It's not a determinant. It's not a determinant. So, spend time.

[15:45] Invest in developing your faith. Those who, oh, oh, thank you, Jesus. Those who are not into faith building will not see the point of you being in the Zoom meeting.

[15:58] But they will see every reason why they will turn on YouTube and put their legs up and be doing exercise. The ugly gym. But they are building their muscles.

[16:15] They are working on their fitness. Listen, why don't you also work on your spiritual fitness? I see. They are into body building.

[16:26] You are into faith building. Everybody should choose what they are building. Come on. Everybody should choose what they are building. Let them build their body and you build your faith and add a little bit of your body.

[16:37] Build your faith first. Build your faith. Sister, build your faith.

[16:50] Engage in faith building exercise regularly. Not only for one week. Not only for one month. Not only for two weeks. Not only for six months.

[17:01] Not only in the time of COVID. Engage in the lifetime of faith building exercise regularly building and developing your faith. They ask you, what are you doing? You say, I'm working on something.

[17:12] I'm working on something. Very soon. You lift your hand and you can see your faith biceps and triceps like Horkogan. Satan. Because you've been building your faith.

[17:23] Satan comes, throws something at you. You hold it and blow it away. Because when Jesus said, Simon, Simon, Satan has desired to sift you like Luke chapter 22 verse 31.

[17:37] Satan has desired to sift you lightly. He said, but I have prayed for you that your faith fails not. Did you see that? Your faith fails not. That's why I've prayed for you.

[17:48] I'm not praying for you that Satan can't come. But I've prayed for you that your faith will be intact. Because when your faith is in place, Satan will be out of place in your life. Abraham was not weak in faith.

[18:02] Satan is against your faith. Not your life. Get it? Once ever, not your marriage. It's your faith. He's throwing everything against you.

[18:13] Using your marriage, which is very dear to your heart. Using your health. Using your resources that are so dear to your heart. Why? Because he's trying to get to your faith. As he throws, he throws, he throws first one.

[18:30] Take it. He throws the second one. Take it. Use it as like dumbbells. He throws the next one. Use it to build muscles. As he keeps throwing. Take what he's throwing to build your muscles.

[18:43] Joseph said, you meant it for evil. But God meant it for good. Hallelujah. Genesis chapter 50 verse 20. God meant it. The same thing you are using to pull me down. God is going to use it to develop me.

[18:55] The same thing. The same thing. The same thing. It's your trouble that will crown you a champion. It's your trouble. It takes a Goliath to find a champion, David. It takes the presence of Goliath to discover a champion, David.

[19:09] Don't be afraid. Just stay in faith. Just stay in faith, bro. Brother. Sister. Stay in faith. It was happening for you by your faith.

[19:19] Be it unto you according to your faith. By the words of Jesus. Thank you, Jay. Matthew 9, 29. Be it unto you according to your faith.

[19:31] I want to encourage somebody. Don't be weak in faith. The Bible says Abraham was not weak in faith. Verse 19. Be it not weak in faith. He did not consider his own body that was not dead.

[19:43] No. The deadness of Sarah's womb. Come on. Verse 20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. The problem is the unbelief.

[19:55] You are now beginning to doubt what God has said. You are staggering. Today you are like it. You are not steady. You need a stabilizer in your faith. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.

[20:10] The Bible said he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. But was strong in faith, giving glory. It doesn't matter what is going on. You keep giving God glory. Sometimes situations might make you cry.

[20:24] Don't cry too long. Finish crying quickly and start giving God glory. Be strong in faith. Amen. Don't be weak in faith. Hallelujah. Some of us parents, learn how to lay your hands on your daughter.

[20:37] Learn how to lay your hands on your son. Yes, yes, yes. Speak over their lives. Say, son, you will do well. Son, you will not fail. Don't ignore the news. Ignore the results. Just speak what you know must be seen.

[20:52] Yes. Speak it. Speak it. Speak the word. Homolog here. Speak the word. Speak the word. Speak the word and fear not. Amen. For the days ahead are better.

[21:03] And not only speaking, start acting by faith. Take giant steps of faith. Some of it may look ridiculous, but that's the access to your next level.

[21:15] Take giant steps of faith. Move by faith. Move by faith. Take giant steps of faith. And you'll be on it.

[21:27] In Jesus' name. Thank you for listening. To hear more from David Entry, follow him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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[22:03] Be blessed. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace.

[22:15] Peace. Peace. Peace.