Key takeaways
- Trust is practiced before the full outcome is visible.
- Faith should move from encouragement into action.
- Connect conviction to one practical act of obedience.
- Use reflection, prayer, and accountable follow-through together.
Faith and Trust
A faith-in-practice teaching for visitors who need encouragement to trust God beyond what is visible.
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My leader, there's a collective collective battle that everybody is going through right about now. I speak to one person, they battling. I speak to another person, they're battling. I get messages from people, they're battling. I'm finding out new information. Somebody else is battling. Some of us have been battling for months. Some of us got through one battle, going through another. And really, you may be in a space where you feel like, dang. It's just me. And I'm sitting here because at first I was going to do this message that was based on temptation.
But as I went to God and I prayed, I said, "I actually need to speak about battles and that God sees your battles and while he's helping you with your battle, somebody else is going through something as well, too." It's as of recent that I've heard so many different things. You know, me and my wife went through our own situation a few months about a month ago. And as we're speaking to other church members, as I'm getting messages from from people, I realize like, wow, we were not the only one in some form of struggle, some form of battle, some form of needing God.
And you may be watching this video cuz that's where you find yourself right now. You feel like you are in a battle with something. And in this battle, you may feel like, "Dang, man. I'm just by myself." And the fact of the matter is, my leader, yo, it seems like you're by yourself right now and you're the only one in this green planet Earth going through your situation, I want you to know, you're not the only one going through your situation. And what I'm not saying is that your situation is not important, because it very much is. Okay.
And it's so important that I just want to remind you that although you feel like you are in a space of isolation, you can't tell nobody about what you're going through, your problem, your struggle, or your battle, that one person that's there with you is God. Jesus Christ knows what you're going through. Jesus Christ sees your battle. Okay? And Jesus Christ wants you to be empowered to know that if you give this to him, you'll realize that he's already overcame your battle.
And what I want to remind you today, right now during this time, is that one of the things the accuser of the the brethren as said in Revelations, I believe it's 12:10. The accuser of the brethren right now wants you not connecting with Jesus this season. The accuser of the brethren wants you to believe that you're cursed, that you did something to create this turmoil in your life. Okay? And he wants to keep you in your head. And then he wants to keep you on a cycle. And he wants to keep you isolated and alone by yourself going through things. just going through things.
Because if you ever speak about this openly with somebody else, you may realize realize that it's not as bad as you think it is or that you do have the ability and the power to overcome this because of the overcomer is with you. Last month I thought to myself, I said, said, "Man, we going through it, babe." Looked at my wife I said, "Man, we going through this." But while going through it, God continuously reminded me, "Hey, do what you can to keep serving them." And every time I would go out and keep serving, I would see that while he battling, she battling, they're battling.
This family has something going on. That family has something going on. and this family has something going on. And what it reminded me to do this season is to keep praying, keep praying for others, keep considering what others are also going through as well too while I'm going through what I'm going through. Not after I get the breakthrough, not after I come overcome, but in the midst. And what I realized that in the midst of helping, in the midst of serving, in the midst of praying for others, I I'm realizing there's a healing as we fellowship, as we talk about about things. I'm listening. They're listening.
And what happens in that moment of fellowship? And what happens in this moment of spending time with God? And what happens in that moment of reading the word? What the enemy has been playing in my my head no longer has the power that it did. did. Because as we read God's words and as we do what he commands and as we share our testimonials and as we fellowship, power is released. Gifts of exhortation coming from the other person. Now I'm encouraged. Gifts of exhortation. Wanted to encourage them. Now they're encouraged. encouraged. praying together. Holy Spirit is with us now. We're both encouraged and we receive power.
And one thing I want you to realize this season is you have power over your circumstance. And the accuser of the brethren wants to convince you otherwise. He wants you to dwell in pity. He wants you to dwell in shame. He wants you to dwell in guilt. And one thing that comes from this battle is comfort. comfort. And what this comfort wants us to do is now go towards temptations. So not only does God see your battle, God also sees your temptation. Your temptation to heal from the war that you're in in a way that won't actually be productive. And that could be anything.
That could be a multitude of things. I mean, there's so much battle that folks are going through right now that is causing them to become angry, causing them to become become depressed. Some have a lot of energy, some have none energy. Myself included, when we went through our battle last month, had to ask myself, am I about to go into some cycles that I went through a year ago? Am I going to allow the accuser now to convince me that I'm not walking with God? Am I going to allow the accuser to make me think that my relationship with Jesus Christ just ain't that close? Oh.
Oh, you wouldn't be going through what you're going through if you hadn't done this, this, this. And this reminds me of Job. Job. Job had his three close friends trying to convince him that there must have been something that he did in order to get this outcome of losing everything. And although it seemed like they were coming from the right angle, that was not actually the truth. truth. And so my leader, I need you to understand and I want you to hold on to these words right now that God is with you. God sees where you are right now under that fig fig tree.
And I want you to understand, he's never left you nor will he forsake you. And I'm not just saying these biblical churchy words. I mean that. And I need you to receive that so that you can realize that hey, you can actually relax. You can breathe. You can you can breathe and you can take things one step at a time. You don't got to try to overcome everything right now by yourself. But what you need to do is give your problems to Christ. Give those desires that are within you to God. Those are also burdens. And one thing that I was watching a video about KG Fuego.
He titled his message God sees your temptation. And one thing that he mentioned that was so pivotal is that if the enemy is accusing you right now and if the enemy also thrown a few things in your face, a few battles and a few roadblocks in order to stop you, it only means that you are headed down a road that is worthy to be stopped. stopped. You are heading down a road in a pathway of breakthrough. You are heading down a road of overcoming something. You are headed down the road of this next place that God wants to show his glory. He wants to show his miracle.
You are headed down that road. Because if there was nothing for the enemy to stop and if he was not coming to stop you and if you did not feel that resistance, you're most likely in the world without discernment that something is off. You may not even discern your battle right now. But what I've come to realize, especially amongst believers, there seems to be these battles that are happening right now. And we're literally holding on to our fate. And that's exactly what I want you to do. I want you to hold on to your fate. Some of y'all are going to get hit. Okay?
But what I need you to do is I need you to dust it off. Okay? You may have lost a battle, but you haven't lost the war. Okay? You may have lost an hour of your time, two hours of your time dwelling in some thoughts, dwelling in an emotion, dwelling in behaviors, but don't allow it to take your 24 hours. This is a reminder that your greatest weapon Jesus Christ showed us in his battle and his battle also with temptation in the account of Luke when he went to the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights tempted of the devil.
What we see Jesus doing is speaking the word back into the devil. Speaking the word back into Satan. Why did he do this? Why he's speaking the word? Because the word of God, the Bible, is a sword. It's your weapon. And in John, it says, "In the beginning was the word." Okay? In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and God was the word, and the word was God. Think about this for a second. in the beginning and nothing that was created was created without God. So God creates every single thing and nothing came into existence without God first speaking this into existence.
And then we see in Isaiah Isaiah 45 says verse 7 says I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things. There's nothing here that God did not speak that was created. And what we also see Jesus doing in his miraculous ministry is speaking even into the elements, even into nature. It's a whole another video, but he speaks to the wind and it comes. He speaks to the demons and they're literally cast out. Everything that is created has to obey the creator.
And one of the things that we need to do this season is speak back back life into our situations with the power that's in our tongue. We need to speak life. We can't be saying things, "Oh man, it's always going to be like this." You don't want to curse yourself. And when you curse yourself, which the enemy wants you to put out curse words, when God speaks a word, the Bible tells us that when he speaks a word, it doesn't come back to him void, but it accomplishes and establishes everything that that word is sent out to establish.
So if something good, if God speaks a good word and it goes out of his mouth, it's going to accomplish what is set out to accomplish. And if we're made in his likeness and in his image and life and death is in a tongue, then what we speak out is going to accomplish what it's meant to accomplish. So cursing ain't just the F word or the B word. It's negative things that we say when we're in tough circumstances, when we're in temptation, that we speak out and begin to curse our environment. I rebuke curse words in our life right now in Jesus' name. I rebuke it.
Oh, I'll never overcome this addiction. Oh, the marriage will never be fixed. I've tried this before. It won't work this time. I always be angry. And I rebuke those terminologies. Just think about things that you may be saying right now. The accuser has come in to torment you so that you could begin to confess things that are not true confessions. You aren't addicted. You need to begin to say things that I am delivered. I do hear from God. These are not affirmations. These are just declarations. God is alpha and omega speaking his word into our circumstance. circumstance.
And I'm sharing this because you may be that individual even in your battle who's called to go battle with somebody else. They may not have it in them to to to start praying. They may not have it in them to to speak life into their situation. They may not have it in them to speak words of exitation and encouragement and start encouraging themselves in the word. They may not have it in them. And it may be you who's the only person in their life regardless if you think they got a million friends. They contacted a million people. It don't matter.
What I've come to learn is that no matter how many people you think some is in certain people's life, you may absolutely be wrong. You may be the only one that's giving them words of encouragement. You may be the only one motivating them and praying for them. You may be the only one showing a true act of generosity. You may be the only one that's truly sincere in their life, that's truly real in their life. which is why your life is so important to me. Your life is more important to Jesus Christ because you are his hands and you are his feet.
And I'm giving this to you because I need to remove what the enemy has been trying to do in our lives this season by just saying, "Hey man, God is with us. I don't care what you're going through. I don't care what a battle is. God is with you. He's in your battle. He moving and shaking things around. And you just have to endure in weary not in welloing this season. Be motivated in the Lord. Be motivated in the Lord. Be motivated in the Lord. So my leaders, God, he sees your battle.
And spiritually, those of you have who have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, God already overcome your battle. You're now just in a process of walking this thing out. Walk out your victory and begin to speak the word of God back to the devil who is the accuser. He's a liar. He's a manipulator. He's a deceiver. He's the one that comes to condemn you. And so when you start feeling condemnation, it's not from God. He says, "I didn't come to condemn the world, but I came to save the world." Even in your battle, there's supernatural peace. There's grace and there's mercy.
And those of y'all who have been battling and temptation has come to ruin your battle, ruin your fight, ruin your breakthrough, I want you to understand that God loves you. And he loves you with this grace and this mercy that man can't give you. So, I just want you to know God loves loves you and he wants you to keep leaning on him and he wants you to know that he sees you and he wants you to know that he's with you. Okay? And he wants you to know this. You will break through. This season is nothing but a season.
However long, however short it may be, it's just a season. And some of you all are getting pruned. But in this battle that may lead to certain temptations, this is your chance to truly choose Jesus Christ. This is your chance to witness a miracle. This is your opportunity. to my leaders, don't stop worshiping Jesus until you get your breakthrough. God sees your battle and he's with you. Heavenly Father, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Lord, we come before you right now to your throne with thanksgiving and we just want to say we thank you.
Thank you for your grace, God, that you've showered us with even when we didn't deserve it. Father, thank you for your mercy that you have upon us that you don't take our life even though we don't deserve to live. Lord, thank you for your son, your precious son, Jesus Christ, who came to die for our sins. Lord God, he became the curse for us and he overcame death, heavenly father and rose and sent the helper, the Holy Spirit. And we thank you for the Holy Spirit, the one that gives us power. Hallelujah. the one that helps us discern, the one that gives us strength.
Lord God, I'm praying for my leader right now that this battle that they've been fighting that today they give it to you that they don't try to wrestle and do this thing in the flesh. It can't be won in the flesh. It's a spiritual battle and they just got to keep leaning to you in prayer, in worship. Hallelujah. and reading the truth, the word, packing their sword with them, the Bible with them, so that they can fight off the schemes of the enemy, who's coming to accuse them, who's coming to condemn them. So I rebuke the condemnation that this leader may have accepted in their life through Satan.
Whoever and however he worked through, we rebuke it right now in the name of Jesus, God. And we repent right now for listening to the accuser, Lord. We know that you love us unconditionally. Agape love, Lord God. and that Lord, you will never leave us nor forsake us. So God, I empower this leader right now to keep leaning and trusting on you this season like they've never trusted before. I empower this leader right now to know that they will break through in this sign of a battle. Hallelujah. Means that there's victory. Hallelujah. There's no victory without a conquest.
So God, this is just a conquest and they will conquer in Jesus' name. Father, I plead the blood of Jesus over them right now. I renounce Lord God and rebuke any demonic spirit right now that is trying to latch on my leader today. We literally rebuke that spirit right now in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. We rebuke that demonic tormenting spirit from this leader right now into the fiery furnace of hell in Jesus name. Hallelujah God. Father we thank you that the victory is yours that the battle is already won and that you make our enemies our foottool.
So Lord, today this leader will know that whatever they're going through, it's simply about to be a foottool for the next season. Hallelujah. So Lord, we give you the honor, we give you the glory, we give you the praise right now and we just want to say that we love you and it's in Jesus mighty name that we pray. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. My leaders, I love you, but Jesus Christ loves you more. My I'm going to see you in the next video. If you would like to get on a call with me, do a one-on-one. The link is below. Free coaching. I want to get to know you.
Get on my calendarly. Um, I look forward to connecting with you all. all been connecting with so many different people this season at coffee shops on Google meets from different cities around the United States. So I would love for you to be the next person. Okay, get on my calendarly link below. I look forward to connecting with you one on one. All right, my leaders, I love you, but Jesus Christ loves you more. We out.
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