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Faith you can hear (4)


Mark 11:23 (NKJV)

23 For assuredly, I (Jesus) say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.


The enemy wants you to say things that he can work with to destroy you.  That's why what the world is saying is negative.  



Why not say I believe that I'm going to make it?  The mouth will reveal what you really believe especially under pressure. 



The more you get squeezed why not talk victory.  Isn't God on our side?



Romans 8:31 (NKJV)

If God is for us, who can be against us?

 



Faith calls those things that be not as though they were. 




Romans 4:17B (NKJV)

17 God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;


If you're not satisfied by what you have, quit saying what your saying (Kenneth Hagin).


Mark 5:25-32 (NKJV)

25 Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, 


26 and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. 


27 When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. 


28 For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”




29 Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. 




She didn't feel it until after she said it.  You don't wait to see it before you believe and say it.    



30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”




The other people were touching Jesus, too; however, they didn't believe or say that they would be healed in that way.  They didn't receive like this woman. 




31 But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”


32 And He looked around to see her who had done this thing.


 33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. 


34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”




Jesus didn't mention His own faith.  He didn't mention God's sovereignty.  He only mentioned the faith of the woman who believed, spoke, and acted upon her faith in Him.


Romans 10:17 (NKJV)

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Keith Moore, Faith Life Church
https://flcmedia.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/productvideo/0808-RealFaith-06-FaithYouCanHear-HD.mp4 
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