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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Your faith is important. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Have you ever heard of a pastor named John Osteen? Yes. He had built a building that was two stories high and they outgrew it. And he called the contractor and he said, I want to add several more stories to this building. The contractor said, you're not going to do that. John Osteen said, don't tell me I'm not going to do that. I'm the pastor. I can add on if I want to. And he said, you may be the pastor, I'm the builder. And I did not put the kind of foundation in order to build more stories. You want to go higher, you have to address the foundation. And I want you to know that what is going on in your faith. Amen. And so when we look at mark 1122, 24, these are foundation scriptures for faith. That means we must be skillful in these scriptures. We must not just know. These are your basic foundational scriptures. When I was in college, I was a piano performance major. Playing all the classical music. When I first started taking piano lessons as a young girl, start playing the song. But my teacher would always go, no, you have to do your scales. She knew that if I could not be skillful in those. When I was young, the teacher had to make me practice foundational technique. But as I grew older, I realized the importance. No one had to tell me. I would spend much time every day before I practice. And get that skill tight. Then I could not play what I needed to play. And as I grow older, in the things of God, There's a head of. And if that foundation is compromised, everything. And I don't want any of it coming down. I've heard that. If you're ever going to be strong, never get tired. Till the day my dad went into. Into the hospital, right before he died, he was out examining his cross. He never got too. Depended upon his examination. Trying to get you. Trying to get you into doctrines that won't bless you because these things erode your faith. So we must become skillful and not become familiar towards. Faith must be reborn every day. Mark 11:22. Jesus said to them, have faith in God. The original says, have the faith of God. It says that so y' all are better than us. In verse 23, he said, for verily I say unto you, what things soever you. Excuse me, whosoever shall say unto this mouth, be thou Removed and be thou cast, shall not doubt in his heart, Doubts in your head, From your heart. You say, this is going to work. And you can believe in your heart, even with doubts, trying to convict your mind. So whosoever shall say to this mouth. Shall not doubt, He shall have, he shall have whatsoever he says. Notice verse 23. He's telling you talk to things. You can change things, remove things by speaking to them. So you have to speak to them. People are waiting for God to deal with. Speak to things. The resources you need, Talk to them. And then he goes in verse 24 and he says, what things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive and you shall have them. Verse 23 tells you how to remove things you don't want. It tells you how to receive your desires met. When you get rid of what you don't want, it's something you do want, and it's amen. And people will say, pastor Nancy, I've done that and it didn't work. I've pastored for 25 years, and many have said, I'm doing that. It's not working. Telling things to leave. I'm telling things to come, I'm coming. Not working. I'm doing the principles. I'm doing. The faith message stuff is verse 23 and verse 24 are the principles. If you Try to work 23 and 24. Principles out of their minds, But it has to come from a place on the inside. You have the faith of God. Say it from your inside. If I could say it this way, you get mean and ugly about it. I had a healing line not long ago in one particular church, and a pastor came up because he needed healing. I didn't know what condition he had, and the spirit of God told me, tell him to get aggressive about laying hold of his healing. If you just passively sit back and just say, I believe, I receive. I believe, I receive. The devil's going to have you for lunch. You have to boldly say something. The spirit of faith has a roar to it. It has. It has an unmovable flow to it. And it sounds different when somebody says, I believe God. I've heard people in the congregation, I believe in God, with a tear in their voice. If you got a tear in your voice, you're not in the faith of God. Yes, it has no tear in its voice. Voice whining and crying, feeling bad for itself. There's a boldness to the spirit of faith. Verse 22. Just a couple of days after my husband went home to be with the Lord spoke to me and said, I am your helper. And he said, the way I help you is by putting my word in your mouth. I still had to break. God did not wish sympathy approach me. And he said, put my word in your mouth. Put my word in your mouth. From a grieving place doesn't belong to us. I won't have any part of it because there is no grief in the spirit of God. I needed help from heaven. I needed answers to a tear in my voice. And a tear in your voice won't bring the results of the fall. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So if you're doing these principles of faith. And nothing's changing, the problem is verse 22. So I said to this pastor, in this healing line, I was operating the principles on, but not with the spirit of faith compelling him. He just knew the steps, taking the steps. But you have to say it from that place to where you don't quit, you don't back down until you receive what is from the Lord. So he went home. And I found. They later told me his testimony that he had vertebrae of his back that had disintegrated. And he had great pain in his back. And for two weeks he got out the word of God, walked the floor, He boldly. What was he doing? He was feeding that spirit of faith because he had been trying to heal when his faith wasn't built up. So he took time to build his faith. After two weeks proclaim, he brought to his wife something. He brought a big tank that you strap on your back. It was full of a liquid to stain his house. The exterior of his home needed to be stained. The tank was so heavy with liquid, it was huge. His back, he could not. And so after feeding his faith in his face, he brought this tank to his wife. Put this on my back, put that tank on his. Stood there, he said, and tears running on his face. And he walked outside. And he put the ladder against the house. He climbed the ladder with this big tank on his. I'm working those steps of faith from the place of a spirit of faith. You understand the difference? And he said, when I came down from that ladder, every pain was gone. Every pain was gone. My back was completely healed. Why? Because he got mean and ugly about. He started feeding himself, making sure that verse 22 was big in him. Faith of God. There was a man who got into one of. Came to one of my husband's meetings. His mother had breast cancer. So he brought a handkerchief for my husband to lay hands on. And my husband had an anointing to destroy cancer. And so he laid hands on that cloth and this man took it back to his mother. And his mother didn't just. Although she needed healing, she didn't immediately take it and lay it on her body. For two days. She fed healing scriptures and she meditated on it. What was she doing? Verse 23. And when that spirit of faith rose up. And laid it on her body and instantly the power of God shot through her body and that lump immediately disappeared because she wasn't just trying to work the steps. Get it big in you. Hallelujah. The Bible says in Romans 10:17, faith comes hearing by the word. I know this as a pastor. I preach faith, you understand? I preach other subjects, but there's always the string and the thread of faith that is brought to our people. And when I preach any message, faith comes to people. But I see people that have sat in churches for years, faith changes. Yet they're hearing the faith and faith comes. But just because faith. Faith comes does not mean faith is received. You understand that you can hear the word not get in. You. Have people that come. I have people that jump the fence at my house, crawl over the fences, because they want to come see my house. I had put security cameras up. They come and they rattle on the doors. They got fences, no trespassing signs, My house, and see it, you can see. And they think because they can see it, they can. So people come to my door, they knock on my door and they want in to see my house. They come. They're not getting in. They come, they're not getting in because I'm not opening the door. There are a lot of people that come to church. It's not going to work. Just getting it in your mind. Your mind needs the word. And you can tell when people are taking it in. It's not enough that it comes. You have to receive. It comes. You can't. You can't just sit and say. I know that you have to say, God, I want it. When you're preach, when your pastor preaches, but you have to receive that. Yes. And you say, that's my word. Faith comes, but you're the receiver. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How many of you believe matters how you treat the Word? You have to interact with the Lord. You can't just sit back and say, I go to church. He works. Your faith is in action. His power goes into action. It matters how we treat the world. Not casual toward it, but you touch it. And that's what we nourishes us. Hallelujah. How many of you say how many of you say I have the faith of God? And how many of you know whenever you hear the message of faith. Worship, always receive your answer. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. When your pastor gets up, preaches a message preached before, listen, tell me again. Pastor. Gets thrilled when it hears the word until a scent just treats it. Oh, I've already heard that. So if things aren't changing and make sure you're feeding your faith. Told Joshua, I have a land for you to get the people into. That's something Moses couldn't get him in. How he treated God's word. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Protect your faith. Your faith. Earnestly contend for the cause. Without faith, you cannot conduct business with God. Hallelujah. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at defrainministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.