Sermon #S008 - (Faith
Isn't Invisible Part 1)
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Pastor Snell:  Turn to your
neighbor today and just tell
him, "Get unrealistic."
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[Congregation: Get unrealistic.]
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Pastor Snell: No, no. Tell the
neighbor on the other side,
"You're too real for me. Get
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unrealistic."
[Congregation: Get unrealistic.]
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Pastor Snell: You're too
real for me. I need you to get
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unrealistic. Amen. Amen. Remain
standing as we go to the Word of
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God, Matthew 14. We're going to
begin together in verse number
22. Matthew 14, and we're going
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to begin together at verse
number 22. When you get there,
just say "Amen." The Bible says,
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"And straightway, Jesus
constrained His disciples to get
into the ship, and go before Him
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unto the other side, while He
sent the multitudes away. And
when He sent the multitudes
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away, He went up into a mountain
apart to pray: and when the
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evening was come, He was there
alone. But the ship was now in
the midst of the sea, tossed
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with waves, for the wind was
contrary. And in the fourth
watch of the night, Jesus went
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unto them, walking on the sea.
And when the disciples saw Him
walking on the sea, they were
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troubled, saying, 'It is a
spirit.' And they cried out for
fear. But straightway, Jesus
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spake unto them, saying, 'Be of
good cheer! It is I; be not
afraid.' And Peter answered and
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said to Him, 'Lord, if it be
thou, bid me to come to thee on
the water.'" And He said what?
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He invited him to come. "And
when Peter was come down out of
the ship, he walked on the water
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to go to Jesus. Today, as we go
into part two of this particular
story, I want to talk to you
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today under the subject "Faith
is Not Invisible." Faith is not
invisible. Let's pray together.
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Father, I pray that in this
little while, that You would say
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much. Lord, I'm praying that You
would make Your spirit so dense
that it suffocates all other
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principality. Lord, would You
move so strong, force the devil
to tap out of this place?
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I'm praying that in the hearing
of the Word, that once again,
faith will be multiplied
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exponentially. Lord, would You
add to the tidal wave of belief
that is flowing through the body
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of Christ? Hide me in the
shadows of the cross, that Jesus
alone might be seen, that Christ
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alone would be heard. At the end
of our time together, may Jesus
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alone be praised. We ask this in
the name of Him who is
altogether lovely. It is in the
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name of Jesus that we pray.
Let God's people say together,
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"Amen." Amen. You may be seated
as we go into the Word of the
Lord. We invite those to come in
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and be seated and settled as we
go into the Word today. Again,
talking on the subject "Faith is
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Not Invisible." You know,
saints, as we work through this
Word today, there are a few
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attributes of faith that I want
to detail. The first thing this
story teaches us, my friends, is
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that our faith is not invisible.
You see, too often in the body
of Christ, we have relegated
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faith to being a mental
exercise. We have deluded faith
to a series professions,
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declarations, and proclamations.
So that when most people think
about faith, they think faith is
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something that you think, or
they think faith is something
that you say. The problem is
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that it has created a generation
of people with imposter faith.
In fact, most of us don't have
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meaty faith. Our faith is
vegetarian. [Congregation:
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Laughing] Pastor Snell: How many
of us understand that real faith
is not just something you think?
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Real faith isn't just something
you say, but real faith is
something that you do.
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It is why James says that, "Just
as the body without the breath
is dead, so faith without works
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is dead." Faith may begin as a
thought, but it's not limited to
your thinking. Faith can be
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spoken, but it is not limited to
Words. I need you to get that
it's not real faith until you
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put it into practice. Remember
now in our text, we talked
about, last week, how Jesus
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comes to them, walking on the
water. Remember, we told you
last week, that Jesus does not
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stop the storm neither does
Jesus get inside of the boat.
Jesus, at first, stands at a
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distance. The reason He stands
at a distance is He's requiring
them to make a choice. He is
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wanting them to decide between
the comfort of the boat or being
willing to stand with Him in
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faith. The thing I like about
Peter is that he understands the
assignment, so that he notices
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that if Jesus is not going to
come to him, he makes it up in
his mind to go where Jesus is
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standing. Peter says, "Lord, if
it's you, bid me to come to you
on the water." I need you to be
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clear that Peter makes a bold
statement of faith. He makes a
request for the invitation to
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come, but I need you to be clear
that Peter's faith is not
invisible. You see, Peter's
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faith is not seen in what he
says. His faith is seen when he
climbs out of the boat and begin
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walking on the water towards
Jesus Christ. In other Words, if
he just talks it, he's a phony.
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It's not real until he begins to
act on the invitation that Jesus
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gave him. Please note this,
friends, that notice what the
invitation to come does not do.
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The invitation does not stop the
storm. The invitation doesn't
turn the water into cement.
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The Word simply calls
him to step out in imperfect
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circumstances. He is called to
start moving while the
atmosphere is still unstable.
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He is called to start walking
while the elements are still not
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clear. The problem with some of
us is we've asked God for the
invitation, but we won't move in
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the invitation. The problem with
some is that we will only move
in God when the wave becomes
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clear. The problem with some of
us is that we will only worship
the God who stops the storm,
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but we won't praise the God
that sustains us in the storm.
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The reason some of us will never
move in faith is we need perfect
circumstances in order to move.
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In fact, we know that
Jesus is able to move the storm,
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but the greatest miracle is when
God moves you in the midst of
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the storm. Congregation: Amen.
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Pastor Snell: In fact, how many
of us understand that God isn't
going to clear the way before
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you move? Sometimes, he's not
going to clear the way until you
move. In other Words, it would
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have been nice, saints, if God
had opened up the Jordan River
before the people walk through.
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But God says, you've got to put
your feet in the water, and then
the waters are going to part.
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It would have been cool, Daniel,
if God had closed the lion's
mouth before he got into the
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den, but God didn't close their
mouths until Daniel got inside.
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It would have been cool if God
cooled off the fiery furnace
before the three Hebrew boys got
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inside, but it wasn't until they
stepped on the inside that the
fire begin to get cool down.
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It would have been straight if
Jesus healed the ten lepers on
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the spot, but He said, "Go show
yourselves to the priests." And
the Bible says that as they
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went, they were healed. The
larger point for somebody today
is that you can't wait for
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perfect circumstances to move.
It is your movement that creates
the perfect circumstance. You
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all are not hearing the Word
today. In other Words, if you're
waiting for perfect finances in
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order to give tithes and
offering, you're going to be
waiting in perpetuity. How many
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faithful givers know that,
sometimes, the math angle always
matches up? That, sometimes, the
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numbers won't make sense? But
when you give in an unrealistic
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way, God opens up the windows of
heaven and pours out a blessing
that you don't have room enough
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to receive it. I need you to
know that you can't wait until
you get the right job to start
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working on the Sabbath day. But
when you move in unrealistic
way, God will cause you to ride
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on the high places of the earth,
and he'll feed thee with the
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heritage of Jacob. You can't
wait to see the right person
before you walk away from the
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wrong person. In other Words, it
is only when you walk away from
the wrong one that God can clear
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your vision to see the right
one. You can't wait for your
spouse to get right before you
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work on the marriage. In other
Words, you're going to be
waiting forever. You got to
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start with where you are, and
God is going to move things
forward. In other Words, passive
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faith works for everything to
get better before it moves, but
unrealistic faith moves when
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it's not clear, and you don't
know how, and you don't know
when. God moves once you start
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moving. Are you all hearing
me today? [Congregation: Yes.]
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Pastor Snell: Okay. Let me say
it this way. I remember,
probably about six or seven
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years ago, I was driving up to
Pulaski, Tennessee to visit one
of our members who was sick.
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I drive about an hour to get to
Pulaski, so I can anoint and
prayed for this sister.
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When I get there, into this very
rural and country road, I get
there in front of her trailer,
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and I noticed that all the
lights are off in the house and
I don't see any lights outside
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on the porch. I get a little
nervous because when I pull up,
I see that the grass comes all
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the way up to my knees. Now,
I need you to know that makes me
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nervous because I'm one of those
brothers that's got a bad
relationship with snakes.
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[Congregation: Laughing]
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Pastor Snell: Do I have at least
one or two cousins out there in
the space? It's crazy because
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now, I'm trying
to figure it out.
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I'm going to have to walk about
30 feet from my car through
grass that comes all the way up
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to my knees. I call to see if
someone can turn the porch light
on, but no one answers the
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phone. Here I am preaching about
faith, stuck in the driveway,
afraid to walk through some
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grass. Now, I began to man up. I
say, "I drove all the way out
here, so I got to pray for
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somebody. " Are you all hearing
the Word today? What happened,
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saints, is I began to march
through the grass by the edge of
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the house. When I get there to
the edge of the house, there was
a light that comes on on the
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side of the house. When I walk
through the walkway, there's
another light that comes on the
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walkway. When I get to the front
porch, another light comes on
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the front porch, and then it
becomes clear that she has what
they call a motion-detecting
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system. With the motion
detector, it has a sensor that
doesn't apply power until it
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notices activity. [Congregation:
Continuous Clapping]
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Pastor Snell: In other Words, as
long as I was talking about it,
as long as I was thinking about
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it, I wasn't going to receive no
power. I wasn't going to get no
power till I start walking in
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it. How many of us know that we
serve our motion-detecting God.
He doesn't apply power to your
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talk. He doesn't apply
power to your thoughts.
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He only applies power when you
begin to walk in whatever He's
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told you to do. Are you
hearing the Word today, saints?
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I need you to see this because
Peter's faith is made visible
when he gets out of the boat.
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I need you to get that his faith
is seen in his activity, but the
11's unbelief is seen in their
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inactivity. Hear
me on this, beloved,
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because one thing I need you to
get is that there is this
incidental relationship between
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your beliefs and your actions. I
need you to understand that your
actions don't create belief.
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Your action simply
reveal what you believe.
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Your actions are going to mirror
the belief that is either
present or absent on the inside
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of your soul. In other Words, I
need you to get that your
behaviors are simply a byproduct
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of what you believe or
what you don't believe.
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It's just kind of like this. I
talked about it in the book that
if I believe it's going to rain,
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then I'm going to carry what?
Umbrella. If I believe that it's
going to be cold tonight,
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I'm going to carry a coat even
if it's warm today. If I believe
when I travel to Florida and
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it's warm there, I don't pack
sweaters and coats in my
suitcase. In other Words, I
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don't pack for where I am.
I packed for where I'm going.
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[Congregation: Clapping]
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Pastor Snell: In other Words,
even if there is no rainbow
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cloud in the sky, I walk around
with an umbrella because I
believe it's going to rain later
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on. Now, there's
somebody who's saying,
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"Pastor, you're going to look
crazy walking around with an
umbrella when there ain't no
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clouds in the sky." But who's
the crazy one, saints? The one
that lives by the outlook are
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the one who lives by the
forecast. You all not hearing
it. In other Words, you're going
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to look crazy until it starts
raining outside. I guess what
I'm saying is when you expect
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something, you begin preparing
for it. You pack for it. You
anticipate it. Is there anybody
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that during these 21 days,
you're expecting rain? If you're
expecting rain, you better have
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an umbrella. Is there anybody
that can hear the sound of the
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abundance of rain? I believe
they're going to be showers of
blessings. Showers of blessings
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we need. Mercy drops around us
are falling, but for the showers
we plead. Are you hearing me
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today? First thing this teaches
us, number one, is that faith is
not invisible. The second thing
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this teaches, friends of mine,
is that real faith does not move
ahead of instruction. It relies
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on instruction. Now, I want to
stay here long, but the one
thing I want to point out.
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The one thing I like about Peter
is that when he sees Jesus out
there walking on the water...
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The one thing I like about more
in Peter is he don't just jump
out there before he gets an
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invitation from Jesus. Now,
Peter started sinking later on
in the story. But I need you to
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know that if he don't get no
invitation, he started sinking
at the very beginning of the
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story. I need you to get that
Peter does not just jump out
there based upon his wishes or
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his instinct. He literally
disciplines himself in the storm
to be still and wait on a Word
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from God. Beloved, this is the
difference between unrealistic
faith and human presumption.
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Faith relies on instruction,
whereas presumption moves ahead
or without instruction.
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In other Words, presumption,
friends of mine, is wish-based.
Faith is Word-based.
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Let me say it again. Presumption
is just based upon what I want.
Faith is based upon what He
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said. I need somebody to get
this, that sometimes we mess up
and function in presumption
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because we walk according to our
wishes as opposed to God's Word.
You all are mighty quiet in this
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place today. I need you to
understand what presumption is.
Presumption, my friends,
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is where I operate according to
my instincts. It is where He'll
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slow it down. Presumption is
where I try to leverage my value
to God to get Him to cover my
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human imperatives. Presumption
is where I try to leverage my
value to God to get Him to cover
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my recklessness. Presumption is
the faulty belief that I can do
whatever I want to do, and
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because God loves me so much, He
won't let me fall. Presumption,
young people, is where you just
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get with somebody and start
praying after the fact., for God
to bless the relationship.
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Presumption, friends of mine, is
where you don't study for the
test , but you're down here at
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the altar praying. Come on now.
Asking God to bring back to your
memory what you ain't never put
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there in the first
place. [Congregation: Clapping]
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Pastor Snell: Presumption is
where you just jump out and
start the business.
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And then, you try to use your
covenant with God to try to
manipulate him into blessing the
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business. The problem is we
think that because God loves us,
that he will not allow it to
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fail. How many of us know that
God is sovereign, that you
cannot manipulate God,
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that He will let it blow up in
your face? He will let it humble
you. He will let you hit the
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ground. He's going to teach you
not to move ahead of His Word.
Are you all hearing me today?
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I need somebody to get that
there is a devastating
consequence to presumption.
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When God allows
presumptive behaviors to fail,
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the purpose of the failure is
actually designed to teach you
to not move ahead of His Word.
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Are you all still with me?
Sometimes, our takeaway is not
that we shouldn't move ahead of
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his Word. What happens is the
consequences of presumption
create some deficits,
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but the problem is we try to
withdraw from our faith account
to cover the deficits that
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presumption creates. In other
Words, I suffer some wounds
because of presumption, but I
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try to borrow from my faith in
order to heal it. The issue is
we lose so much in presumption,
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that now, we ain't got no
courage when it's time to walk
in faith. The crazy thing about
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it, friends of mine, is that
instead of distrusting
ourselves, when it's time to
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operate in faith, we then began
begin to distrust God. Because
most of us don't have the
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humility to say, "Lord, you
didn't tell me to do that. We
don't have the humility to say,
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"This was my idea, not Yours."
We don't have the humility to
say, "I moved ahead of you."
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What we try to do is
spiritualize and rationalize our
failures. What we do is we drag
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God down with us when the truth
is that it was us that moved
ahead of the hand of God. Are
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you all with me today, saints?
This is the crazy thing about
it, church. You all going to get
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quiet. It's okay. I'm going to
stand in here this today. Ain't
that amazing how our fallen
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nature gives us courage for
everything, but faith? You all
are going to get mad when I say
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this. Ain't that amazing how
your flesh will give you courage
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to try weed. Oh, you
all are going to get quiet.
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Ain't that amazing how your
flesh will give you the courage
to sit in front of a stranger
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with a needle and tattoo your
body up from head to toe? Come
on. It takes courage.
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Come on and say, "Amen." I mean,
ain't that amazing how your
flesh will give you the courage
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to lay down with a stranger?
Your flesh will give you the
courage to fight somebody in a
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bar. Your flesh will give
you courage to get a vaping pen.
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Isn't that amazing how we have
so much courage when we're
walking with the devil,
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but we ain't got no courage
when it's time for us to start
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walking in faith. The problem is
that we use so much courage for
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the world, that we ain't got no
courage when it's time to stand
on the Word of the living God.
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Are you all hearing what I'm
saying to you all today, saints?
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The problem is we have borrowed
so much faith and emptied it
into presumption that,
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now, we ain't got no surplus
when it's time to operate
according to what God said.
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What happens is we get in a
relationship with God and what
happens is that relationship
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suffers because of what happened
in our previous relationships.
Anybody ever knew somebody
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that... Ain't it that. Anybody
ever been somebody that was in a
relationship with a lying,
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manipulating, abusive man or
woman? Ain't it crazy how you
give so much of yourself to that
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lying, cheating, abusive man or
woman, that it did affects the
next relationship you get into?
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Okay. You all go brand-new on me
today. Okay. You are like it
ain't never been you, right?
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Help me, Holy Ghost. It's crazy
because you got lied to so much
over there. They didn't keep
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their promises over there. They
abused you over there. So even
when you get a good man or a
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good woman, guess what? You're
checking their emails. You're
scrolling through their text
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messages. You're smelling their
clothes when they ain't around.
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In other Words, what happens
is because you gave so much to
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them, you distrust the
person that you're in a good
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relationship with. You all
didn't catch it. In other Words,
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you bring those deficits from
the last relationship into a
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good relationship. The problem
is when we were in relationship
with the world, the world lied
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to us. The world manipulated us.
The world abused us. Now, you
got a good man in Jesus,
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but the problem is, now, you're
questioning Him because the
devil didn't keep His Word.
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Where are you all at today,
church? Is there anybody that
knows that God is saying,
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"Don't bring my Word into
suspicion because you trusted
yourself too much in the past."
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Is there anybody that knows that
the bridegroom is going to keep
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his Word? The Word says that he
cannot lie, that he cannot
change his mind. The Word says
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he cannot fail. So don't bring
the baggage from presumption
into the relationship that's
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based on faith. Are you
all hearing the world today?
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What a powerful message
by Pastor Debleaire Snell.
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Thank you for tuning in today
for the Breath of Life
Television Ministries broadcast!
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We hope that you have been
blessed through the inspiring
message about unrealistic faith.
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Tune in next week for Part Two
of “Faith Isn't Invisible.”  You
don't want to miss it!
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