The Word Of Faith

[0:00] Thank you for choosing to listen to today's message by Reverend Dr. David Entry. We know you will be blessed as you seek and serve God. We believe that this message will stir up a desire for more of God even as you listen.

[0:13] Be blessed. What kind of Christian are you who is always sad? I don't think you have met Christ.

[0:26] Or if you have, you have lost it. You have lost touch. You can't be in touch with God and be sad. It doesn't matter what is going on around you.

[0:40] The early church, they were killing them, maturing them, burning them at a stake and they were singing. It's only the church that can sing in the face of murder, attacks.

[0:55] It can't sing. Because faith is like the bed that sings whilst it's still dark. Most people don't have faith.

[1:14] They have ideas. They have wishes. What many people think is faith is wishes. They are wishing God to do something.

[1:26] Or hope. Hoping that it might. The difference between faith and hope is faith is based on your confidence in what God has said.

[1:43] In spite of the contrary circumstances around you. Faith. Faith. So, faith defies and disregards circumstances.

[1:55] Faith can examine the evidence. And find out the evidence is contrary to what faith is doing. And look at the evidence.

[2:06] It's not turning a blind eye on the evidence. Faith looks at the evidence and disregards the evidence in the light of God's word. Faith. Faith. Faith.

[2:16] Faith. So, in Romans chapter 4 verse 17. Bible talks about the, he did not, verse 19.

[2:29] Verse 19 talks about. Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body. Now, some translations put it considered not. But what it actually means is, he gave a critical consideration to his dead body.

[2:45] Because a dead body cannot impregnate a woman. So, he gave, at the age of 99, he gave a critical look at his dead body.

[2:56] And he concluded that God said, I'll have a child who is still work. I'm going to have a child. When he says that he considered not, you may think that he didn't look at it.

[3:07] No, he looked at it and decided that I'm going to make decisions. I'm not going to make decisions based on this. So, I've looked at it, but I won't consider it in my decision making.

[3:19] So, when you read the Amplify. Amplify says that he considered his body. Not being weak in faith. When he considered the other importance of his own body.

[3:30] So, when you look at the condition. Instead of the condition discouraging him. He didn't discourage him. He wasn't weak in faith when he considered the other importance.

[3:42] You know what importance means? And this one is utterly importance. Properly important. Lifeless. When he considered the utter importance of his own body.

[3:57] And not just that. Which was as good as dead. Because he was about 100 years old. And a 100 years old man is finished. Finished.

[4:09] Finished. When you even hit 60. No. It's like a car. A car that has done 250 miles.

[4:21] Thousand. The car is tired. It's tired. Mileage is high. High. High. A 100 year old man.

[4:40] When God comes to him. And tells him that. You are going to. Have a child with your wife. You. I'm talking about you. Oh man. He.

[4:52] He believed. Verse 17 says that. He believed in hope. Against hope. So. There's no hope. That this could happen. But just.

[5:02] He decided to believe. Against hope. In hope. That he'll become. He believed. Who against hope. Believed. In hope. So. It's not like his belief.

[5:13] Was in hope. But he believed. In hope. As he was believing. He was hoping. He knew. That he might become. The father. Of not just one person. Of many nations.

[5:26] And his strength. The audacity. The energy. The strength. The source. Of his believing. Is according. As it was said.

[5:36] Something had been said. So he decided. To pitch. And hinge his faith. On it. If it's true faith. It will be built. And hinged.

[5:46] On something. You heard from God. Not even. Somebody's sharing. Of testimony. Testimonies. Are good. But it's not faith. Until it is based.

[5:58] On the word of God. Abraham. Against hope. Say against hope. Against hope. Listen. We've got four weeks. To the end of the year. You must be able.

[6:09] To believe. Against hope. Hope. Against hope. That 2019. This thing. Will still happen. For you. Yes.

[6:22] I'm talking about. Believers. It's not. It's not cheap talk. To be a Christian. It's not. It's hard. Faith. Exercise. Yes. Yes. So what happens.

[6:33] Is that. You guard. Your faith. Because it's hard. To stare it up. So you have to. Guard it. By virtue. Of what you expose yourself. It's not everything.

[6:44] You should be listening to. It's not every information. You should be listening. It's not every. Every company. You should keep. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[6:54] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's obvious. Please speak and speak and speak There is a new thing.

[7:08] As I can't believe in Christ Yes. If you see the n 과�� Yes. most of us glorify our challenges instead of magnifying God before the challenges.

[7:22] instead of magnifying God before the challenges. So because it's not easy to come by faith, you have to, number one, guard the little faith that you have.

[7:43] Jesus said, if you have faith as little as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, be that removed and be cast into the sea and it shall obey.

[7:57] So faith is not so much about how big it is. Even the small can achieve so much. The disciples told Jesus, Lord, increase our faith.

[8:11] Increase our faith. I think in Mark chapter 4 verse 6, somewhere there, or Luke Radha, I forgot the word.

[8:22] They said, increase our faith. And Luke chapter 17 verse 5 downwards, I think so. Yeah. The apostle said, increase our faith. And do you know Jesus' response?

[8:33] He said, you don't need increase. The little will be enough. Wow. Wow. He said, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say, you will, might say to this sycamore tree, beat up plaque and be up by the root and be planted into the sea and the tree will obey you.

[8:55] How much more your boss? Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Your problem is not God's inability to do it.

[9:07] Your problem is faith failure. Wow. You cannot see the glory of God without believing. Can I say that again?

[9:20] Yeah. Most of us think your struggles is what will move God. No. Struggles have not moved God. He's always been where He is. He gets moved by faith.

[9:32] When you believe Him, Jesus said in the book of John chapter 11, verse 40 downwards, He said, 40, 41, He said, did I not tell you that if you will believe, you will see the glory?

[9:45] Hallelujah. What is God waiting for? To act and manifest His glory. You believe. And I'm not talking about wavering belief. Abraham was not weak in his faith.

[9:58] He wasn't weak in his faith. Romans chapter 4, verse 19. He wasn't being, Abraham not being weak in faith. He considered not his own body, which was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.

[10:15] The womb was also gone. Two problems. He didn't regard it. He said me. I've seen it. But I will not make decisions based on this negative condition. I'm going to make decisions based on what I've heard God say.

[10:27] Amen. God is too faithful to fail. Amen. Bible says in Hebrews, that faithful is He who has promised, who also will do it.

[10:44] Yeah. Faithful is He who has promised. Faithful is He who also will do it. If He promised, He will do it. God is able to deliver. Yes.

[10:57] He's able to deliver. Faithful is He that promised. He also will do it. Somebody shout hallelujah.

[11:08] Hallelujah. Abraham was not weak in faith. Verse 19 of Romans chapter 4. He was not weak in faith. He did not consider his own body, which was now dead, neither the dead, it was a hundred years old, neither the deadness of Sarah's womb.

[11:25] Look at verse 20. But he's target not at the promise of God through unbelief. Some of us, you are like a drinking man. When it comes to God's promise to you, today you believe tomorrow you are down.

[11:39] Today you keep staggering. You keep staggering. You are like, you are like, you waver, like the wave of the sea, unstable in all ways.

[11:55] Up and down. Up and down. Like a boat on rough waters. Up and down. Abraham did not stagger at the promise of God.

[12:08] Don't stagger. I'm telling you, when God promises you, He's not waiting for things to change before He promises you. He does not wait for everything to be okay, for there to be like a ray of hope.

[12:22] Then you say, okay, now, no, no, no, no. He comes to you in the middle of the situation, in its complexity and impossibility. And then He tells you that, this is what I'm going to do.

[12:33] So you look at it and you are wondering, how can it be? How can it be since I know no man? And you look at the promise, you look at the situation, and you look at the promiser. Most of us, we look at the nature of the promise instead of considering the nature of the promiser.

[12:53] The promiser. Consider him. Because whatever he says is true. So don't look at the condition. If God promises you, that's why Abraham decided, I've seen the condition, but I don't care, because the promiser is too faithful.

[13:09] I can count on him. So even though it looks different, once he has said it, I know it shall be. I know it shall be. Bible says that, let all men be, let God be true, and all men be liars.

[13:25] Romans chapter 3 verse 4, I think so. Romans 3 verse 4. Let God be true, and every man be a liar. Is it Romans 3 verse 4? Yeah.

[13:37] Yeah. Let God be true, but every man a liar. In Numbers chapter 23 verse 19, it says that, for God is not a man that he should lie.

[13:51] Has he promised, and shall he not do it? Has he, he said, God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Repent on me has changed his mind. Has he said, and shall he not do it?

[14:05] Has he spoken, and shall he not make it good? If he said this year, he meant this year. That's right. Don't update his promise.

[14:27] Revise, revised edition of God's promise. You, you have to have a stubborn faith. In fact, in the past, I've been hearing this statement, and I believed it, which, I mean, I heard from America, Powerful American Preachers, which, to understand that faith is a risk.

[14:47] Because you have to risk it and trust God. So, and they said, if you don't take a risk, it's a risk in itself. So, why don't you risk it? So, you see, in that sense, it makes, it makes sense.

[15:00] In that state, like faith is a risk. But, thank God, as I listened to Bishop David O. the poet, he said, faith is not a risk. Faith is the victory. Wow.

[15:11] Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. The Bible says that, this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 1 John chapter 5, verse 4.

[15:23] That's the Bible. It said, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. So, your faith is not a risk.

[15:34] Your faith is actually the victory. Amen. Thank you. So, that tells me that, without you operating in faith, you are operating in the undergrounds of losses.

[15:47] Because you have excluded the victory that God can provide. Wow. Faith is the victory. You have the victory when you have faith.

[16:00] That's right. Wow. Why are you so fearful? Yeah, they were in a storm. And the waves were beating on the storm. And they woke Jesus.

[16:12] And said, Master, don't you care we are perishing? He was wondering, where did you get the idea from? You are just judging by the sight. You are judging by how human beings judge. He said, Master, don't you care that we perish?

[16:25] And Jesus said, why are you so fearful? And he got up from the sleep and rebuked the storm. Where is your faith?

[16:42] Where is your faith? Where is your faith? I thought you were a believer. I'm just asking, I thought you were a believer.

[16:54] What's the meaning of a believer then? What makes you a believer? What makes you a believer? If you're a believer, what makes you a believer? Is it because you go to church?

[17:05] Oh no, sorry. The church, the chairs are also in church. What makes you a believer? A believer is not only a believer at church.

[17:20] Everywhere you are, your confession, when people listen to you, they get confused because how is it that things are like this and yet you are speaking like this and they know that there's some, what you are speaking about there is, it's like you have a backbone.

[17:36] Like it is usually said, when a blind man threatens to throw a stone at you, that means his feet must be on a stone. This is why I said you're a shootin'.

[17:57] He's got one in his pocket. A blind man seen at the mirror shop, doing mirror shopping.

[18:10] yeah that's that's when you are a believer you do what believers do you say what is your action is what defines you your confession when they will listen to your confession we must be convinced that you are a believer when we listen we see your actions something must it's not it's not just because you just said it we watch you carefully and something forces us to conclude that as for her she believes that's for him that's why he's doing it and in their eyes they see god fulfilling because god is committed to our actions of faith amen when you believe you commit god i see someone moving into a new realm please let's let's let's i'm about to make an appeal okay can i make an appeal can we can we just believe us can we just decide that the world will know we are different not by our dressing not by our dressing i know you don't wear all those kind of fancy funny clothes they wear but it doesn't show you a believer anyway it's not your dressing that makes you a believer when we come we are we are with them please come we are with them we are all facing something we are going when we get to critical moments they go the normal way we go a different way we go different they said everybody has lost their jobs and crisis and they lost their job you lost your job and you are still laughing and they are worried how can i pay my mortgage how can i pay my high purchase my sofa yeah yeah it's not the best thing to watch tv you haven't paid for tv is luxury and it's for it is for relaxation are you relaxing on credit yeah i'm going to buy uh what do you call it three uh five surround system on credit yeah you need to watch movie you are living a fake life it's not real that's why you are not at peace but when an unbeliever and a believer go through the same situation it is not what you go through that makes the difference but how you go through god takes care of what you go through you take care of how you go through may i tell you that the fire you are experiencing god is country is in control of the thermostat yeah yeah oh i'm telling you god has not lost control so be careful you don't lose faith

[22:19] god is still in control but the good news is your faith must be tested that it says that when it's tested being more precious than gold that perishes might be found unto praise and glory are disappearing did you see that so god is trying to get praise out of your life by allowing what looks like the devil can use it to destroy you allowing it because so long as he's concerned there is a word over your life and your future is already predetermined yeah future is already predetermined when i went through the period we went through the period of not having children it wasn't a prayer topic because the future was already predetermined listen may i say this again there's nobody in the bible who saved god and never had a child apart from one person he didn't save god he was criticizing the one praising god he was criticizing the one enjoying god he said oh look at this foolish man he's a king and he's look at the way he's dancing in public and the king said i'm dancing with god why bible says that because of that and and mikhail the daughter of soul never had a child to the end to the uh until his death bible that's the next statement after david said the therefore do you see that therefore therefore on the basis of what has happened he she was blocked from giving birth i was i was sharing with them in at congo that harness pregnancy a lack of pregnancy was divinely induced when you read the bible bible said god has locked shut her womb it's the bible some of you don't just open your eyes god has and i was explaining to them that in in first someone chapter her adversary because the lord has shut up her womb i was explaining to them god came and locked the womb and took the key away your husband couldn't do it the husband tried said don't you am i not better than 10 sons he said you don't understand what i'm looking for is not a husband and god allowed the situation and her rival provoked her so provoked her provoked her and it was pushing her to the limit guess what do you know why before hannah got married god has had a plan he saw that eli's days were going off and he wanted a prophet so he prepared the prophet but someone must give birth to this prophet but that prophet if he gives it to any woman they will think this is my child so me my child he has to make a woman desire for a certain man that will be a prophet so he locks the womb he prepares a prophet locks the womb and put the key in his pocket and he started walking the husband tried they tried everything yeah now when a couple are trying for a child yeah they tried they tried different things i'm telling you sometimes what they go through you don't i'm telling you they go through all kinds of things so they were trying everything they've tried it's not working they didn't know god has locked it and pocketed anything and the provocation made a nail down and lifted her hands to god god said yeah you're not talking go ahead talk now and she said god if you give me a son uh-huh uh-huh i'm waiting for it i will give him back to you

[26:23] and she made the vow that all i want is just a child so that i can because this woman is too much so that i can't believe in the marriage just give me a child and i'll give him back to you i won't keep him say that again then god comes and then god gives her child i see god doing it for you i said i see the god of heaven doing it for me don't give up don't give up on god most people give up on things and when we say don't give up you are holding on to things when we say don't give up what we mean is don't give up on holding on to god's word god's word when we talk about patience patience is not about you are sitting down waiting no when the bible says through faith and patience the patience in scriptures mean holding on to god's word whatever whatever happens your confession your hope in god's word does not change so who through faith and patience obtained the promise abraham when the year matures to the stage most of us to our faith begin to waver whoever told you that oh all this thing i sure is true you are trying is the devil is the one talking to you and your your irregularity in listening or coming to church your irregularity with uh listening to messages your irregularity with fellowship is what is costing you the the drowning of your faith your faith is sinking can't you tell when your faith begins to sink human intelligence and rational reasoning begin to kick in so you really don't see anything wrong because yeah in fact now you are trying to be they say things like let's be real let's be real wait when we will say let's let's get real let's be real they are talking about let's just use our natural senses let's use our natural senses let's use our natural judgment i mean let's let's judge things the way it is let's judge things as human beings but really faith is in a realm it's a realm of god and faith can never work when you are not exposing yourself to god's word on a regular basis and fellowship fellowship is the fuel of faith bible says that let us encourage each one another whilst is still yet called today that we would not be hardened by the deceitfulness of since hebrew chapter 3 verse 13 i think so we would consider one another let's exalt one another daily what else is yet called today lest any of us be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin bible says that for with most of them god was not pleased because of their unbelief chapter 4 hebrew chapter 4 i think verse 7 time we're there because of their unbelief god was not pleased with them it says that it says that let us let us live back to enter the rest of god yeah the other one i quoted i think that first corinthians chapter 10 from three down was they are because of their unbelief god was not pleased with

[30:28] them yeah it's five but with many of them god was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness and it's when you read down it's because of their lack of faith and they are complaining when you hear people complaining about church about spiritual things is one of the signs of dwindling faith when your faith begins to dim you begin to see problems in god and some of us are too advanced and too intelligent to say oh but god is not good so you won't say that but the problem is not now related to church you have gone so low in faith now you believe preaching is too long did you get what i just said leave those things for unbelievers to do i'm not saying that we should just just not have we have indefinite time of just no i'm not saying that because we live within the context of time because i have to just some people have to catch train the train will not say i'm waiting for you because you're a general things like that but some people where actually are you going you just have given god a certain time to the extent that when even the banqueting in his presence is getting intense you said no no i don't have time i have to go that's what i'm talking about but when when you are enjoying god and you really are thirsty for god sometimes you feel so disappointed that i like peter he said jesus don't let us go let us build a tabernacle here your faith is delivering for you no storm of life is too strong to sink you when your faith is strong enough some of you is your health you are dealing with a health issue and it looks so real there is no any alternative you can't have alternative to even think a little bit outside of the condition of your health and satan likes it like that this is what you got to do you can't decide i'm going to have faith did you hear what i said can i say that again you can't decide i'm going to have faith no because bible has told us how faith comes romans chapter 10 verse 17 faith comes by hearing not by deciding you can't decide i'm going to operate in faith but in the absence of hearing you are still going to be normal as anybody all of us me i don't have faith because faith comes it doesn't say faith is faith comes so you can't say as for me i always have faith no if you are always hearing then you can talk about how as for me faith is always coming you heard last week and you're expecting to run on last week's faith meanwhile after eating last week you have eaten so much today you have ever eaten this one you have even eaten before coming faith comes faith comes so if you stop if you close the tap how are you expecting the water to so open it how do you open the faith to come hearing hearing hearing as you are hearing faith is flowing and when your faith says yes god will not say no

[34:33] the woman said to jesus even the children who eats from the uh the the foreigners will eat from their children's bread the dogs will eat from the children's bread he said bridges said i've never seen such faith oh woman how great is your faith be it unto you as you have desired not me me i said i was not going to do the miracle for you but as you have desired peter bible says that and her daughter was healed that very same hour jesus said oh great is your faith then jesus answered oh woman great is thy faith so what she was doing was an expression of faith faith when your faith comes man's matthew 9 29 be it unto you this is jesus's own ways some people say i've gone to church i've gone to church and nothing is happening to them that my friend go back and start doing it in faith you have gone to church but you are not in faith you are more a christian than a believer most of us you are happy at being a christian but actually what makes you a christian is you being a believer check the number of times the christians or the the the lord's people were referred to as believers in the new testament more than christians christians just even once possibly twice but really mainly it's the unbelievers who call them christians so actually god calls us believers someone say i am a believer say it again let it be your confession what i haven't told you is that your faith can never rise above the level of your confession faith works with confession faith comes by hearing faith works by confession oh you didn't get it as you are hearing god's word faith is coming i can tell some people's faith are rising somebody's faith is rising and the results are going to be fantastic unbelievers only see the results of faith when it happens then they say wow so as you are hearing faith is coming but when you go out of here now speak what faith has generated until you speak it you have not started working it that's why the woman spoke back to jesus she was working her faith she was working it so faith does not come because you have decided to believe but faith comes because of what yeah can i tell you something abraham was is called the father of faith do you know that he didn't choose to believe god no god chose to come and speak to him uh god chose abraham was sitting somewhere and god came and spoke to him he appeared the god of glory appeared to him and spoke to him and when god's word came to him faith came alive so the faith with which he served god did it actually come from him yeah nobody has faith resident in him or you are not a repository of faith faith faith is always out of yourself that's why it comes comes by hearing bible talks about how one day paul was preaching in acts chapter 14 verse 7 8 9 10 they were preaching at lystra say preaching say preaching preaching look at verse 6 look at verse 6 bible says that and uh um they they were aware of it and fled to lystra and and debbie cities of lyconia and onto the

[38:37] ridges the verse 7 okay let's go to verse 7 and they they preached the gospel say preach the gospel how does faith come how does faith come so they preach so what i'm doing to you i'm actually god is giving you faith that's why our preaching is in church is more important than our singing it's even more important than our testimonies can i promise you there are times you are going to come to church and by the time it's 10 am i'll start preaching one of these days all those music fans and music lovers i'll disappoint you one of these services no quarry here no question nothing we just come i stand here and i said take your bible and let's start because that is the the the the center of our worship it's the word delivery of the word and someone leaves church with heart full of faith full of faith full of faith they were preaching he said that the spirit of the lord is upon me luke chapter 4 verse 18. the spirit of the lord is upon me for his and he has anointed me to do what to do what i can't hear you the usefulness of a man of god is his preaching a man of god who doesn't preach is not a man of god he says a businessman yeah preach the word he told said to timothy preach the word be instant in season second timothy and out of season preach the word anyway so he said the spirit of the lord is upon me for he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor to preach the gospel he has sent me to heal the broken heart to preach deliverance deliverance he said you preach it that's yes so it's a god god you preach deliverance it's not like you are casting no no you preach deliverance jesus came to preach deliverance he said to preach deliverance to preach deliverance to the captive recovery of sight to the so to preach recovery of sight to the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised and to declare the acceptable year of the lord i declare this is this is the acceptable year of the lord this is the acceptable year of the lord preach deliverance um faith comes by hearing and hearing of the word of god so i believe that today's first december anyway and that this last leg of the year must work for you and i'm delivering in your hands what make things work he said for it is given to one word of knowledge first corinthians chapter um 12 verse 7 that was eight word of knowledge to another word of wisdom another then he says to another the working of miracles don't wait for it to happen work it work it don't people those people who have this all this faith if it's god have just been pious god will remember please please please please stand on the word and take steps

[42:39] yes have understanding in his word and begin to take steps in galatians chapter chapter 3 verse no no chapter 5 verse 3 3 5 5 3 one of them 5 5 3 okay let's take let's take 3 5 rather galatians chapter 3 verse 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 it says are you so foolish having having begun in the spirit are you now being made perfect in the flesh wow wow you had a good start good start you are genuinely fire for jesus and this thing has lifted you to a different higher platform you had a good start you began in the spirit well done how come now you are sustaining it on a different platform how come your your your your dog has given back to a puppy you've tried to try not give him but and you take the baby the puppy and go and give it to monkey to breastfeed it how come you started in the spirit what he's trying to stay stay in the spirit be consistent because mockery will come laughter will come challenges situations it gets return looks like this thing maybe it's not true it's like when i hear someone said i almost lost faith in god you didn't actually start that start propelling it's just you get you got camera when you take your eyes off jesus you'll be shocked the way you start sinking there are people in church whose eyes are of jesus but they are just going through the motions i beg you take your eyes and focus on jesus one more time it's just foolish is foolishness to sustain something on the platform of what didn't start it it's that having begun in the spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh that's wrong have you suffered so many things in vain if it's actually in vain that's right that's right therefore he that he that therefore that ministers to you the spirit and worketh miracles amongst you does he do it by the works of the law or by what by what by what faith is a function of hearing faith is a function of hearing so then that means that there are certain things when you begin to hear them too it will attack your faith your faith your faith is at the mercy of what you are hearing can i say that again that means that everything is within your reach you're so afraid because you have not considered what god is saying you're only seeing the negative evidence that's what keeps and satan is good at that he'll keep showing the negative evidence keep showing look at you see you are so old now look at your body nobody will marry you you will never marry everybody who came into your life has left you look all your friends are getting married this married man take him like that and that your chance is going since you finish your education seven years now you've never been able to do anything with your certificates forget it all these things they are saying just just manage your own life think about yourself

[46:42] said time will keep showing you evidence and then your friend will call you said you know what i know i would i train as an accountant but this there's no job in accountancy so i'm just going to be maybe something out yet and you accountant and the devil has already been telling you that there's no then your friend calls he validates your fear validates so you begin you have a certified fear fear not they told the man that leave the master alone your your daughter is dead jesus 10 and look at him john mark chapter 5 verse 36 fear not only believe you've heard something negative but fear not only believe jesus had to speak back to the man other than that the negative thing he had feared would be his demise his head what you just heard by the the negative thing you just heard is actually enforcing a certain destiny on you but you can have you can have it otherwise if you can bend your ears to what god is saying some of us the problem is you've heard so much from the unbelievers that when god is speaking through a pastor you are struggling you are struggling to accept it you are struggling to accept it you are struggling to and satan likes that that is why satan likes negative information about pastors because the negative information here about pastors is has has the propensity to damage your confidence in the things of god yes and who suffers you yes yes you suffer you suffer because god will not come to you personally no no no no no no no no he will come through yes yes so if satan wants to keep you in prison he has to discredit the others through whom god will come yeah i am not supposing that everyone who holds the bible and holds the microphone whatever is genuine on the behalf of god or can't a that's not what i'm supposing but i'm what i'm trying to say is that sometimes when you get can't imagine if you if you keep hearing if you keep hearing that uh brixton brixton people are thieves brixton people like people are thieves when you are going to brixton you are afraid you're so much afraid when i was invited in um august to come to congo then somebody said about ebola then i asked the pastor oh can we do another time because he said if i've not heard that i wouldn't have had the problem but as soon as i heard ebola i said ah maybe another time i have to apply with some here now so i asked the pastor we have pastors chatting i said ah ebola is he said don't mind them ebola it's no ebola then he gave me peace yeah so then you can be going do you know what happened in landing bridge if you don't have the clue that something that happened and then you walk normal and be going sorry that's what terrorism does puts fear into you about something that is not even real you see the negative information you are hearing is programming you more than you think that's why anytime there's a terrorist incident like what happened last friday the leaders of the nation the prime minister and the the mayor of london has to come out and speak and say they can't change our reassure the people they can't change our ways of life and put more police on the street we have been programmed to respond to what we hear can i tell you a deeper truth nature nature responds to where's jesus jesus saw the fig tree mark chapter 11 and test it and said may no one eat of this tree and the bible says that instantly

[50:46] immediately the tree was withered to the tree jesus spoke so they asked him jesus look look look month chapter 11 look look look the tree you cast has withered to the root peter said it's as withered and jesus said half verse 22 have faith in god and then look at verse 23 verily verily i say unto you if you shall whoever shall say to them today whoever shall say to this mountain be that mumu and because into the sea and there's no doubt in his heart but believe this that whatsoever i shall say will come to you are he shall have whatsoever you say not whatever the doctor says what you are saying is what you are getting homologia i've moved into saying i wanted to stay on the hearing let's finish on the hearing so paul was preaching at lystra acts 14 7 and at lystra there sat a man look at verse 8 and there sat a certain man at lystra important from his feet not just that's not the only problem the main problem being a cripple from his mother's who never done physio doesn't know how to walk such a person is physio even an old pair a normal person who's been walking and has been unwell for a while and never after was you need to go back to physio but this one hasn't worked at all and he wasn't a boy a man a man sat being crippled from his mother's womb who never had walked watch this look at the next verse the same did what i can't hear you let's read that first statement together that first line one more time i thought you were speaking reading by faith louder please louder for the last time what does it tell you about yourself the same is the same one listening is the one who gets the results you are listening so you listen for yourself let me say i wish my friend was here yeah i can understand what you mean but it's actually for you your results will get the attention of your that friend

[53:25] The same crippled man from his mother's womb never walked, but this man, his biggest advantage is he had the chance to hear Paul speak.

[53:41] Hey! Come on! Hey! Wow. The same head, Paul speak. I told you, you have been programmed to react to what you hear.

[54:00] Because hearing doesn't... When you hear words, it is not only information that is coming to you.

[54:15] Most of us think you are just hearing information. No. Words don't only communicate and transport information. Words also transfer spirit.

[54:28] Yes! Yes! Yes! So, Bible calls it the spirit of faith. Said, in Ezekiel chapter 2, verse 1 and 2, and the spirit acted into me when he spread to me.

[54:49] Wow. Jesus himself pushed it this way in John chapter 6, verse 63, that the words that I speak, they are spirit and life.

[55:03] Come on! Come on! The words that I speak, Jesus said it. Bible says, in Acts chapter 10, verse 44, while Peter was yet speaking, the Holy Ghost came.

[55:19] So, who you listen to also matters. Hey! Who you listen to and keep listening to, they are communicating, they are spiriting to you.

[55:33] Wow! Wow! Whether it's music or preaching. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. That is why you can't be a proper gangster.

[55:44] That's why you can't be properly in the gang until you start listening to some music. Yes, that's true. I'm not saying all those music, please.

[55:55] But I'm telling you, whose music you are listening to, you are catching their spirit. Yes, you are catching their spirit. If some things are happening in you, you can't tell where it's coming from.

[56:10] Check what you have been listening to. Or what you have exposed yourself to. Yeah. Anytime I start feeling some maybe tummy upset or what have I eaten?

[56:23] What have I drank? In the same way, when feelings begin to come on you and oh, can I feel it? Check, what have I been listening to? Because sometimes you are there, you don't know, you are just down. You are so stressed.

[56:34] You feel that your emotions are all over. It's what you are listening to. You can't listen to such preaching and your spirits go down. Unless of course you were sleeping.

[56:47] the same heard Paul speak. They were preaching at Lystra.

[57:01] The same heard Paul speak. So the preaching was an act of speaking. The same heard Paul speak. Paul that who you can put and Paul steadfastly looking him saw noticed that this guy has faith to be healed.

[57:20] Where did he get it from? He was listening. Paul didn't give it to him. The others were listening by show that this guy is ripe.

[57:31] He's ready for healing. His condition is about to change. Because of how he's listening to his condition is changing. I'm also telling you somebody your condition is changing now. Your condition is changing now.

[57:43] Your condition is changing now. Your address is changing now. Your situation is changing now. Your circumstances are changing now. I prophesy to you by the power of the Holy Ghost.

[57:55] Let the Word of God deliver for you. Let the Word of God deliver for you. Let the Word of God deliver for you. Let the Word of God deliver for you. In the name of Jesus!

[58:09] Somebody scream, I believe. I believe! Scream, I believe! I believe! For the last time, loud, I believe! I believe! And they stay out there and they tell you that, oh, you are being brainwashed.

[58:24] Why not? With all the junk in your brains. My brain needs to be put in the washing machine. Yes! Yes! Why don't they tell you that you are being brainwashed, because they don't understand it.

[58:38] Yes! But you can take it from a social angle. The kind of junk that I've been thinking about. And that time I felt like killing somebody. That time I felt like insulting somebody.

[58:48] That time I felt like going to sleep with somebody's husband. I need a washing machine, proper washing machine. The problem is, my darling, they stay out there and define what we are enjoying.

[59:04] And join in here. And unfortunately, some of us, we begin on faith. In their spirit. And then you go and take the journey of giving spirit out.

[59:16] And then you continue, you want to continue your spiritual journey on that. No wonder you are suffering. No wonder you are suffering. Spiritual longevity requires that certain detachments must happen.

[59:29] Yes! Yes! Come on! Those who have experienced longevity know what I'm talking about. Yes! There can never be any spiritual longevity, significant spiritual longevity, without an actual active detachment from certain elements and certain environments.

[59:47] Yes! Yes! Because you are the environment you expose yourself to, it will program you. Yes! Yes! If the whole, if all nature responds to words, then you, you, you can be laughing right now.

[60:06] After, so you receive a phone call and hear one thing, expose your mood. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Your head, your former boyfriend is going to marry that lady. Ah!

[60:18] For three weeks, you can't eat. Yes! Then after three and a half weeks, they send you a message that, oh, not knowing is not him, it's somebody else we saw.

[60:36] So, the words, the words just change you for three weeks. You've lost weight so bad. You look so anemic and sickly because somebody told you something and it has entered your spirit.

[60:52] I see you rising above negative information. I see you rising above negative information. I see you rising above negative information. I see you rising above negative information.

[61:06] In the name of Jesus. Amen. So shall it be. We thank God for using his servant, Reverend Dr. David Entry, to share this awesome word.

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