God Has Called Us to Walk on Water

To walk in supernatural faith.

I want to help you do that today. It's time for the line of fire with your host biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity. Call 866-34-TRUTH to get on the line of fire. And now here's your host Dr. Michael Brown. Friends, from the heart, from the heart, I want to infuse you today with faith, with truth and courage to help you stand strong on the front lines. Those are not just empty words. That is my holy goal by the Spirit, by the Word of God. With the emphasis today on infusing you with faith.

This is Michael Brown. You are listening to or watching the line of fire broadcast. So glad to have you with us today. You can call in. I'll get to some calls a little later in the show if you want to continue some of the discussion we've been having about politics and faith. 866-348-7884. If you have a random Bible question, I may be able to get to that as well later in the show. Or a specific faith-related question, how to build faith, grow in faith, overcome faith obstacles.

866-348-7884 is the number to call. If you are looking for expert analysis of the Democratic National Convention, you won't get that here. There are plenty of others can do a better job of that than me.

If you are looking for my analysis of the latest presidential polls and what they tell us, sorry I'm not your man for that. There are others that could do a much better job than me. When it comes to helping infuse you with faith and courage, helping you stand strong, God's called me to do that, anointed me to do that, graced me to do that. He's given me things that can be contagious.

He's gifted you a certain way. Maybe you're a gifted teacher of the word. When you start teaching, people just want to dig in. They want to learn more. Or maybe you're a gifted evangelist. When you start talking about winning the loss, inspire something.

They want to go for it, win the loss. Or maybe you just, you're a great musical teacher and when you begin to show, hey this is how you can begin to play, wow you inspire something. God's gifted me with faith that helps inspire others to get out of the boat and walk on the water. If you're watching on YouTube or maybe see a podcast title, you'll see that we titled it God is Calling Us to Walk on Water. Okay, I don't literally mean that we are supposed to get out of boats and walk on water. Last time I was on the Sea of Galilee, I thought what everybody thinks, Jesus walked on water here. How many people have tried to walk on water on the Sea of Galilee?

Probably more there than anywhere else in the world and everyone sank. We get that. We understand that. I'm talking spiritually. I'm talking spiritually. There is a way where we get out of the boat and walk by faith and supernatural things happen. If faith is taking hold of the supernatural promises of God, faith is getting out of the boat and doing what is impossible for man but is possible with God. We will not see America changed without supernatural faith. We will not see the Great Commission completed without supernatural faith. We will not see Israel saved without supernatural faith. We will not see many of the breakthroughs we long for and yearn for in our own lives without supernatural faith. We will not see loved ones saved and different things happening that are so important to us without supernatural faith. Hebrews 11 says without faith it's impossible to please God for the one who comes to God must believe that he is that he's a reward of those who diligently seek him. So how do we grow in faith?

How do we become people of faith? Presumption is not faith. Delusion is not faith. Sanctified daydreaming is not faith even if we're dreaming about good things, godly things. Faith has substance. Faith is divine reality that we take hold of.

It's reaching into this other realm and as we do there are realities there. I remember some movie decades ago and there's this massive chasm and you crash hundreds of feet down how do you get from one side to the other and the director was take a step. But if I take a step I step into nothing. No, no take a step.

Well show me the step first. No, no take the step and then the bridge will appear. So the bridge you could say was spiritually there just talking back about faith now it was spiritually there but it was not visible. So faith sees into the invisible. Moses Hebrews 11 endures as seeing one who was invisible.

So are you getting a feel for this? This is what happens through faith that we step out and now that which was unseen is now seen and is real and is tangible. I want to read to you from Luke the fifth chapter. One day as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. He saw at the water's edge two people left there by the fishermen who were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats one belonged to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore and he sat down and taught the people from the boat. So there's such throngs of people that they had to get out into a boat and just get a little way from shore where they couldn't surround him and crush him and then he taught.

When he had finished speaking he said to Simon put out into deep water and let down the nets for a catch. There were two problems with this. Wrong time of the day and wrong location which the fishermen knew. The fish are at certain places at certain times so we need to go at the right time in the right place.

You're telling us to go to the wrong place at the wrong time. So Simon answered master. Master. Notice he doesn't call him lord there. Master. So a different term but understanding his authority as well. Understanding that that he is the boss.

Master. We've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything. So we were out at the right time at night we didn't catch anything and we were where we were supposed to be and we didn't catch anything. But because you say so I will let down the nets. So they go out into the deep water where theoretically you wouldn't find the fish that they were looking for and it's the wrong time of day. And it's the wrong time of day.

Because you say so I will let down the nets. So Peter acted by faith went into the deep water contrary to what his mind was telling him was rational because Jesus told him. Not his not his imagination. Jesus told him. Jesus gave the command. Faith is responding to God's word. Faith is responding to God's command. Faith is responding to God's nature. Not to our human thinking.

Not to our human imaginations and ambitions. But to truth from God. That's what faith responds to. Okay I don't see you visibly God. I'm reading your word and trusting your word is is true. I'm hearing your spirit speak to me and trusting it's really you. So I'm going to do something my mind tells me is illogical but you are telling me to do.

Let me make something plain. Faith doesn't try. I'll try getting off my meds and see what happens.

Well I'll try quitting my job and see. No no faith doesn't try. Faith is a response to a command or an invitation or a promise of God.

Big big difference. So what does Peter do by faith? With his other fishermen.

They go into the deep water because Jesus told them to and they let down their nets because Jesus told them to. It would be the same as if he said sell your possessions and give to the poor. How are we going to live? Jesus told us to quit your job and go do this missionary work. How are we going to be supported? Jesus told us to. This is how it works.

You need to start giving consistently to your local congregate but I can't afford. Okay if you're telling me to I will and then God somehow supplies. When we lose our lives we find them. When we try to preserve them we lose them. It's it's it's a principle from God we we we gain by giving.

It's the opposite of what our minds would say. When they had done so they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break so they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them and they came and filled both boats so that so full that they began to sink. Probably in the history of fishing the most miraculous catch of all time.

The boats began to sink because of so many fish. Absolutely extraordinary. Now I don't know what God's speaking to you about. I don't know what he's dealing with you about but all of us have to live by faith. Just putting our trust in Jesus to save us from sin.

Believing that with him we can trust for eternal life forever and ever. So we are putting this world and the world to come fully in his hands and and maybe maybe you're a school teacher and your school is going totally woke and is demanding that you act a certain way and and go against your convictions for in order for you to to keep your job and you need the job for income but to do that is to compromise your conviction so it takes faith to say I'm going to do what's right. You don't know what's going to happen in the natural but by faith you know if I honor God things will turn out for the best and if I dishonor God they'll turn out for the worst. That is a faith decision. You're a young person in school with pressure to conform a certain way otherwise you will lose your scholarship otherwise you will lose this open door otherwise you'll lose this connection and these things are important but you know what's right in the sight of God so you do what God says regardless of cost or consequence and and somehow you look back a year or two or five later and God turned things for good for the best. You're a preacher of the gospel and you know what God wants you to speak on but you're afraid you're a pastor you're afraid if you speak up you're afraid if you speak out that you'll lose congregants you're afraid that that the biggest tithing members who are underwriting your new building project that they'll drop out then what but you know that you know that God wants you to take a stand so you take a stand that's walking by faith as well and sometimes we lose a lot before we get it all back and more sometimes things go in the opposite way that we expect but we know that we know what the will of God is and we do it see faith is not just believing for healing or believing for a breakthrough in someone's life faith is a lifestyle faith is why we do what we do and friends today marks 53 years since my first sermon in 1971 august 21st 1971 at the age of 18 so I've been at this by God's grace for a while and I can tell you God is faithful God is deserving of our faith and when you do things his way and honor him he will bless let me say it again when you do things God's way and honor him he will bless it's the only way to live we are people of faith not just a momentary act of faith but we live by faith we walk by faith we operate by faith come on friends let's stay strong it's time this is Michael Ellison founder of Trivita Wellness being aware of the dangers of homocysteine is crucial to protecting our health this natural occurring amino acid that the body creates plays a vital role but when elevated in excess it can pose significant risk to our health one of the dangers of elevated homocysteine is the impact on cardiovascular health research has shown that high homocysteine can contribute to heart disease stroke and other cardiovascular conditions conditions another risk factor it has been linked to cognitive decline and neurodegenerative conditions one of the best ways to manage homocysteine is to supplement with b12 b6 and folate found in Trivita's HCY guard 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risking our life in this world and our life in the world to come in the sense of we're putting it all in this one basket Jesus Jesus alone to save deliver forgive and give us eternal life Jesus and Jesus alone we're saying no to other religions other philosophies and saying yes to him alone God working through him that's that's our hope that's our desire that's our foundation so we we are taking a risk in that sense but we're sure right I'm not worried I'm not wondering he changed my life the word is true I'm sure I'm a hundred percent sure of his reality in in fact in ways his reality God's reality is more real to me than life itself in terms of the utter ultimate certainty but remember we're looking at what we cannot see yes there's evidence of God I've had radical transformation in your life you've had God work in your life dramatic answers to prayer the word of God speaking in so many powerful ways but but ultimately we're still believing and suddenly we can't see for example when I put my hand on this computer mouse here all right for for my computer screens um this is not faith it mentally I understand as I touch it things will move right but I can see it I'm I'm touching it whereas when I'm talking to God I don't see him and even though we'll often feel his spirit moving it's it's still somewhat invisible and and when faith faith is always calling us out of our comfort zone into this other place and I want to share some things that'll build faith with you all right let me let me read you though another passage this time from second Corinthians chapter four second Corinthians chapter four and here's what Paul writes there we'll start in verse 16 therefore we do not lose heart though outwardly we're wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all so we fix our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen since what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal how do you fix your eyes on what is eternal how do you fix your eyes on what is unseen in the summer of 1983 after God had wonderfully moved in my heart the previous year bringing to me to repentance for my theological intellectual pride and and the leaving of my first love although I was a committed believer with a strong testimony and my wife and I Nancy and I doing much good taking refugees and hurting people and caring for them in our home and and making them part of our family we were rich in good works I was I was strong in my faith in so many ways but I'd left my first love God brought me to repentance and 82 sent an outpouring of the spirit through me that radically touched our church and and then in in the summer of 1983 he spoke to me to quit my job and teach at a bible school in Long Island now there was a process there was a process I remember some days prior to that I had been in a situation Nancy and I had gone out to eat with someone and I knew the normal the normal protocol was that this person would pay me for my life and this person would pay for our dinner we had very little money but I knew no no you pay for everybody you just a little thing I just felt the word said you pay okay no big deal then we're at some meetings together and remember I had 50 dollars basically if I recall the exact amount 50 in cash with me which which we needed if any of the little things came we had a credit card of course but needed some cash and and we had a service and an offering was being received and I would say give give it all give it all which was a lot of money to us then give it all but I knew I knew it was the Lord I did it so it was like a test are you listening are you listening are you listening and then I'm sitting in your service and at the end of the service a woman in the the church had shared some teaching from the Bible about tithing and the pastor got up and he and he held the Bible over the pulpit and he said sometimes I feel like God's saying to us I dare you to believe it I dare you to believe it and at that moment I felt the Lord speak to me. Tithing was not an issue I'd always given since I was a believer but I just felt the Lord speak to me go out on the street find someone to share the gospel with it was a midweek service night time go out in the street find someone to share the gospel with there was a gas station convenience store there restaurant down the block and so I just I just got out I knew this the Lord was prompting me to do and it was in response to the pastor holding that Bible over the pulpit dangling it over the pulpit saying sometimes I feel like God's saying this I dare you to believe it I dare you to believe it so I I got up I went out I found a couple that was on their way to the restaurant kind of surprised them just shared very briefly they went in the restaurant but but I knew I had obeyed the Lord and I sat back in my my my seat in the in the church service just pumped just pumped spiritually and this this process I'd heard about this Bible school in Long Island the pastor asked me to pray about whether I was supposed to teach there and and sure enough I feel this calling quit your job and go teach you Christ for the nations at a branch on Long Island from 83 to 91 this was 83 quit your job and go teach you Christ for nations I knew it was the Lord I knew it I felt this divine affirmation yeah go for it I went home and told Nancy she burst out laughing not that because she was not believing it just seemed so what really I called my mom I said mom I'm gonna be moving out we're gonna be moving about an hour on the island of course come see every week she's a widow the kids but I'm gonna be moving about an hour out on the island to teach at this Bible school I called my boss I said I'm gonna be leaving my job sometime later this year teach you the Bible okay my great and it's a few months notice etc but it was before anybody at the school heart we put our house on the market and sold it and bought a house out there before anybody before anybody had hired me because God spoke it but there were these little tests first are you listening are you listening sometimes that's what he does and you take a baby step baby step and then a bigger step and when you do I'm walking on the water I'm what what can actually walk on the water it's a miracle so that's where the miracles are based on Luke 5 some have said the miracles of God are in the deep waters of obedience I posted that the other day on Dr. Michael Brown on Facebook and someone said are you now saying performance is more important than grace come do we always have to throw this performance stuff around I'm talking about obeying God it's not performance it's obedience obedience is highly prized in scripture no we don't earn something from God but we don't get in the path of blessing if we're not in the path of obedience and it's all by grace it's all empowered by grace it's all helped by grace so many times we have to get in over our head that's when the miracle happens we don't create it ourselves get rid of the meds and God will have to work America well I quit my job and God has to come through no no faith is responding to a word from God faith is responding to the prompting of God faith is responding to a promise of God but friends some of you God's been challenging to get out of the boat and you won't see the breakthrough until you obey him you won't see the breakthrough for some scenario of giving for some scenario of of obedience and ministry for some scenario of responding to a calling for some scenario of stepping out and standing up for what's right but the reason I'm on the air is to help you to help us see revival in the church moral culture revolution in society and redemption and that's going to happen through each of us walking our calling and you're going to live out the destiny the calling that God has for you friends if he's speaking to you get out of the boat and start to walk on the water you'll be amazed you'll be amazed hey friends Michael Brown here my delight to 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800-538-5275 you can give by phone as well 800-538-5275 just say hey i want to bless and help the line of fire broadcast we welcome you to our support team i'll say it again together we are making a difference let me give you some principles that i believe will be helpful faith is believing god and god alone what's hebrews 11 1 now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see i don't wonder is jesus real i don't wonder is is god's word real i don't wonder if his promise is real i i know as surely as i'm sitting i said it early in a sense more surely than even sitting here i know his truthfulness and yet it's something unseen and invisible faith is believing god and god alone faith gets out of the boat and faith does not sink remember i said faith doesn't try look i prayed for sick people and tried to muster faith we're gonna believe we're gonna believe it you you you don't psych yourself into faith faith comes out of relationship with god faith comes by meditating on his word faith comes by acting in obedience fear looks smith wigglesworth said faith jumps let me share some other principles with you principles of faith um some principles on how to increase faith how do we grow in faith how do we become stronger in faith some of you can think back maybe you're you're you're in traveling ministry right and and you you need you still need to believe god for 300 a month you know for rent and food but you're a young person traveling and oh that's so much money how now let's say your ministry brings in 50 000 a month and but he's challenging you okay i want you to do this new program to help orphans in haiti and you're going to need 100 000 more dollars okay it's easier if you believe for that it used to be for the few hundred a month for your for your groceries and rent now you can believe for 100 000 because you you've grown in faith you've grown in your faith at one point it was oh it's hard like to share my testimony with my neighbor this really sweet 90 year old neighbor it's hard to share my testimony but you stepped out and you acted on it we want to overcome these things right and and now you're you're called to be on secular tv and you share your faith boldly so we grow we grow and the grace and knowledge of the lord jesus second peter three we grow in faith as well so how do we increase our faith one thing is that we instantly obey the spirit we instantly obey the spirit in other words if i'm convinced that the holy spirit is telling me to change my direction in a sermon if i'm convinced that the holy spirit is directing me to share the gospel of someone if i'm convinced that the holy spirit is is urging me to to give and support a certain ministry if i'm convinced that the holy spirit is dealing with me to to get something right in my heart through someone forgive someone etc if i'm convinced that the holy spirit is doing it or the word of god something jumps off the page and speaks if that's you if you're convinced then act on it that's one way you grow in faith that when you know it's the lord you act on it well let me wait let me a lot of times we just quench the spirit that's one thing to want to be sure lord is that really you and and god's god's not some tyrant he's he's not playing games with us putting this carrot that would never get it never can get it so sometimes like lord i'll do it but i'm not sure it's you okay fine once i'm sure once you're sure act on it act on what the spirit says when he says it and now you're gonna find faith coming alive you know what it's like you get out of the boat you take a step it's like whoa the water just got hard under my feet before you know it you're running you're running on the water and now others are running and following you because whoa that faith is contagious you must be faithful in the little you must be faithful in the little so it's something very small well it just seems so insignificant act on it though it's an act on it the lord said act on it then you build act on something else you act on something else you act on something else and and then we we learn that we walk by faith not by sight so this becomes a life habit and and with it it brings a courageous spirit and then we recognize that everything we need for life and ministry was prepared for us before the foundation of the world it's stored up for us in heaven and can be obtained by faith god has called me to be a leader in the midst of a gospel-based moral and cultural revolution everything needed for me to succeed in that mission has been prepared before the foundation of the world and is obtainable by faith and obedience what's he called you to do what's your mission mike i'm not like you my mission is basically to be a good mom oh that's a small thing that's a small thing being a good mom is a small thing i don't know i feel like my main mission is just to be a good husband that's a small thing that's a massive thing this is greatly important in god's sight but you will not be able to fulfill that to be the mom or dad or husband or wife or young person or single person or business person or media influencer or preacher of the gospel you will not be able to fulfill any of those missions and callings unless you grow as people of faith because you're going to have to take convictional stance you're going to have to determine okay like like i had to determine two and a half years ago uh oh yeah two no no it's it's three years ago now three years ago going back to may of 2024 it's important enough nancy strongly encouraged me and i knew she was right to take one weekend a month as a prairie tree well i don't pastor local congregation so traveling ministry is a big part of what i do so we do our two radio shows weekly i i teach at at five or six different ministry schools every year some monthly some just once a year i travel and speak i write day and night these are the main things i do debate dialogue all of that but you take one weekend a month this is a major source of outlet for our ministry where i can go to churches i can go to different places i can go overseas i can minister i can pour in i can bring what god's called me to bring it's also a major source of income for our ministry which enables us to reach more people pay these radio bills and and and expand online and support our missionaries around the world etc etc so it's a step of faith to do that but it's been life-changing it's been glorious and our budget's gone up not down and god has raised up people to help us and stand with us one that we could never at the height well we're at the height of things but if our ministry was literally 10 times bigger than it is now 20 times bigger 30 times bigger monetarily we could not have afforded to hire a brother whom god has called to work with us and has poured into us now for two and a half years for free for free we could not have afforded to hire him but god called them to pour into us to help us succeed in the mission but it was a step of faith to say okay one weekend a month prayer retreat and seek the face of god and be with god and become more like him and be changed and oh what a great great life giving thing this has been and i look forward look at my calendar i can't wait for the next prayer retreat because it's just special times of intimacy and encounter that just it's hard for that to happen without pulling away getting to that place of focus that's me i'm not telling you you're supposed to be doing that but whatever it is that god's called you to do it's going to be obtained by faith it's going to be obtained by stepping out of your comfort zone in obedience to god and you say does that mean that throughout my glasses if you're here if your eyes are healed you won't need your glasses one brother told me a story that he was at a conference and and it was at a conference place you shared a room with someone and he was sharing a room with with a colleague who had really bad eyesight really bad really bad eyesight and he received prayer the night before for the healing of his eyes and the next morning he put his glasses on and he started crying but he was upset and the roommate the roommate's the one who told me the story and had prayed for him the roommate said what's the matter he goes my eyes are worse than i can everything's boring i can't see anything even with my glasses and the guy said take your glasses off he was completely healed he didn't need the glasses anymore when you're healed the doctor will tell you evidence will tell you you won't need the meds but you see it's that stepping out faith that takes hold of the answer then when you have the answer you don't need the other stuff what's god challenging you to do where is he calling you to step out oh he put it on my heart to speak about these things because we'll never be healthy when they were fulfilled the 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will kill faith avoid the word you want to kill faith avoid the word we take in the word the the word of god produces changes in our hearts and minds and builds up and strengthens our faith jesus said in john 6 63 the words i speak to they are spirit and they are life and talk about hearing the gospel he excuse me romans 10 17 that faith comes by hearing the message and the message is the word of christ so as the gospel is preached that message builds faith so the principle is that taking the word of god builds our faith you want to kill faith avoid the word avoid the word you want to get anxious worry avoid the word and just look at news all the time another way to kill faith is always point to the exceptions and the failures what about this one what about that one you won't build faith with it you will not build faith by all means have compassion on those that don't receive healing have compassion on those that don't see breakthroughs by all means but if you major on that your faith will never ever grow i was in italy one time i've shared this before you may have heard the story i was italy one time ministering with christ is the answer they had two tents in italy and they traveled year round and preached the gospel set up in a city for six months preached the gospel win the loss move on to the next city get the people plugged into local churches so we had a real breakthrough one night and some people were were miraculously instantly healed remember someone would go on to the doctor for a few weeks and remember someone had gone to the doctor for years for their condition instantly healed people were rejoicing and as we're walking back to get a bite after the meal uh the brother the leader of the missions team said to me brother victoria they said mike the people are really encouraged yeah the people are really encouraged it's beautiful it's wonderful and i i said to him i wanted to be spiritual i wanted to show my love and compassion yeah but what about those that weren't healed and it kind of took the air out of the room and i realized that did not produce faith that's not produced faith at all that didn't help those people that weren't healed the better thing to do is say praise god i rejoice that's beautiful let's keep believing even for those not touched yet if god started this who knows what he's going to do next so you wanna you wanna destroy faith you you you wanna put out the fires of faith with a cold blanket then then always point to the exceptions and the failures so faith in a certain way has to have blinders right faith in a certain way has to be very very single-minded single-minded single-minded and and it's not that it's not that you ignore the others the exceptions what doesn't happen but you focus on god and his promises that's why jesus tells the uh the parents of the 12 year old who died gyrus right and his and his wife fear not believe only and she will live tells in hebrews it would be a year but tells gyrus first fear not only believe and she'll live so just that's only get the fears are out there the concerns are out there but you have this tunnel vision focus the people i've seen have miraculous breakthroughs have had this tunnel vision focus i remember being in richmond virginia in the 80s and i met a woman and she wanted me to meet her daughter who was probably about five years old and she told me her story and a young man one of my students in ministry school knew her and said the church thought she just kind of went crazy what happened was she was going through a difficult divorce she was very distraught she was driving to to court very distraught with her three kids in the car and probably didn't have him in their safety seats properly what happened was she she was paying attention got in a bad accident and the kids got thrown from the car and this i mean she could actually see like one of the heads split open you see the brains just so rushed to the hospital and the girl that was the one that was most severely injured the doctor says brain dead she's brain dead it's not going to make it it's got all these other traumatic injuries and he was a jewish doctor and the woman rebuked her and said have you ever read isaiah 53 were healed by his stripes my daughter's healed so my friend said parents friends in the church thought she had gone off the deep end that she was in denial but she hung on she was determined she was determined she believed and miraculously the girl comes out of of the condition and begins to be healed from these other injuries so when i when i met the woman the girl i guess she was she could have been five six seven i forget the exact age i i told the story told the story back then more and i knew all the details quite precisely because she told me and i was amazed to hear it and you know they said she's okay she's gonna live but she's she's gonna be terribly handicapped mentally or in there okay she's gonna function but and and she was she was really doing well academically already at that point you know was ahead of the score for her age but the mother said there there's still two problems because of the surgeries and the injuries she's got these these scars on her legs conspicuous scars on her legs and she still has seizures so she she's on meds for the seizures so the mom asked me to pray for the daughter for complete healing when i came back one year later the scars had disappeared they're not the i know scars can these are not the kind of scars that would heal they were lifelong scars they would have been lifelong scars the scars were completely gone and she had no more seizures and was officially off medication procedures and i honestly i felt all i did was just rode on the back of that woman's faith that that she had the faith and i just agreed with her it seemed like she had gone fanatical but it was real faith there are times when we're just in denial you know what i'm saying you know what i'm saying we can say all we want the person doesn't make it the person's not healed the condition doesn't change i understand that i get it but there is real faith how you know it's real faith because you get the answer because you get the answer and because somehow deep down you know so you always focus on the exceptions and the failures you'll never have faith they exist we know they exist let's have compassion on those that don't receive the answer to their prayers the breakthrough the healing the the thing they're crying out to god for for the those kids that are in the accident and don't make it by all means we have compassion but if you want to see a breakthrough you're gonna have to have tunnel vision you're gonna have to have tunnel vision here's another way to destroy faith always focus on the natural i have this much in the bank i have this much ability you can do this we can't do many of you could share testimonies with me when god called you to do something very counter-intuitive that right before you had to make a big transaction with your business and you needed every dime that you had in the bank the lord said give it away that missionary needs the money give but if we give it away give it away and then you end up with three times what you needed to close the deal how did i don't know how it happened you want to destroy faith always focus on the natural always focus on what your eyes can see remember but we read second corinthians four that we look not on what is visible but invisible for what is seen what is visible is temporal what is unseen what is invisible is eternal and then again hebrews 11 moses endured is seeing him who is invisible you wanted to kill faith always look for a rational explanation there are rational explanations to many things but many things are supernatural you're always looking for a rational explanation try and explain away the miracle you'll never grow in faith but i'm not going to turn off my mind i don't turn off my mind i studied day and night what if i got a phd in your eastern languages and literatures and broke my teeth and you know studying ancient scripts and and learning vocabulary and grammar i wanted to study the word accurately and the best i could understand hebrew and sanction your eastern context the better i can understand the bible i'm a thinking person nancy and i think about these in-depth discussions you know philosophically about difficult issues that's in turn off your brain i'm saying many things don't have a rational explanation if you're always looking for the word i i don't seem stupid who cares what you seem like don't it's not the issue don't let other people think about you or how they look at you let's believe god let's believe god and not always look for a rational explanation you want another way to kill faith be a grumbler and a complainer never give thanks never stop and thank lord i thank you for this i thank you i thank you for what you did here thank you for your faithless philippians four six and seven which says don't be anxious about anything else does this but everything with prayer and everything with prayer and supplication with thanksgiving make your request known to god and paul writes in galatians five that faith works by love so you're going to kill faith grumble complain and never give thanks but be a thankful person a grateful person to god honor the person have that holy tunnel vision friends we're gonna see mountains move we're gonna see mountains move so