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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message.
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I'm starting to love this church. I mean, your pastor is somebody special. She really is. I'm telling you, there's an anointing that's here, and this is really a beautiful thing. Cause I go somewhere, and sometimes you wonder where the anointing is. Yes, sir. Well, thank you. I brought Patrice with me, who is the one who kind of helps me with my lessons, and Derek and Minister Derek. He's kind of coordinated everything. He made sure we got here. I'm going to Arizona in the morning, and since I was coming out this far, I said, why don't I come on out? Amen. Well, let's see. Just a short time ago, me and the devil had a tussle, and I won. But thank you for receiving us. Hallelujah. Well, I don't want to keep you too late. There's. There's a word I want to give to you. Okay. The. I went down and preached at Brother Copeland's here a couple of days ago, whenever it was. And I preached on Showtime in California. Y' all ought to know something about Showtime. Okay, But I want to start here. Start talking about just faith and that you got to have it. I found out that when you do have it, you know, you make sure that you don't hang around certain places and let them drain you of your faith, you know, because that. That can happen. A witness of it. Devil wants one thing, your faith. And if he can get your faith, he can control things and so forth and so on. So faith is absolutely what we need. Faith can be, you know, this God kind of faith can be simplistic, and it can be powerful. And see where over there in Matthew or Mark. Pardon me, chapter four and verse 35 through 41, this is Jesus stopping a storm. And he used, apparently, faith to do it. Because when the disciples cried out, you know, we're going to die, Jesus got up, rebuked. It, said to the wind, peace, be still. And the storm, the waves, peace, be still. And everything ceased. And he said to them, where is your faith? How come it is that you don't have any faith? And so, notice faith is the holder of your destiny, because it's going to the other side. So faith really enables you to get to your destiny. So if you don't have any faith, you can be assured that a lot of things God has planned for your life, perhaps you've never experienced before. And we Want to get you with some faith because we want you to stand before Jesus. And he said, well done, well done and not well, well done. So it's going to be faith and it's simple. He was a little boy, you know, they were. Jesus told the disciples, don't send them home, feed them. And the disciples said, well wait a minute says 200 penny worth of bread is not sufficient, that everyone would take a little. And he said, there's a lad here, he's got two fish and five barley loaves. But what is that amongst the. See how he discerned the solution. And much of the solutions of God have to be discerned. It has to be discerned. I'm telling you. A lot of times people sow a seed and say, well I ain't getting a harvest back. You did get it, but you didn't discern. Just went right past you, somebody got you in an argument and it passed right by, you see what I'm saying? That's why sometimes, you know, and once a year like January maybe, going a little fast and you know, see what God wants you to do that year and so forth and so on. But it's simple. The little boy offered up his lunch box because I think he listened to Jesus and I think he developed some faith, I really do. Because faith, you know, you don't have to be a certain age to have faith. Faith comes by hearing, hearing and hearing by what the word of God. And you can have, I think in these last days some of these young folks in children's church going to be laying hands on the sick and they're going to recover. Really, I'm telling you. So it's both powerful and very simple when we look at faith also faith is needed, needs to be put to work. Faith needs a job. Faith grows when it's put to work. When you have the impossible and put faith on it, faith grows. Here you've got things like in my case I was working for a company called IBM and I some people were, you know, we were bad economy at that time and I was a salesman for computers and in the branch office things were pretty bad. And somebody called me in, my sister and she said, how are you doing this month, brother? I said well you called me back at 5 o', clock, I have so much business I can't put it on the books. Hung up, you know. Now that didn't come out of my head because my head doesn't know that much that came out of my spirit. Are you following what I'm saying, see, my head said, that's impossible. My spirit says, that's my job. Say that with me. That's my job. That's what your spirit is saying. When you come up on something that is really tough, difficult, your head can't handle it. Your head, like Charles Capture says, it's a goal setter. That's all it is. The faith comes out of your heart. So your heart says, that's my job. So I said that and I said, came out of my spirit because my head didn't know that much. And so the next thing that happened is people, my marketing reps are calling in and that's at 12 noon. And they start calling in, kept calling each one, hey, Bill, I just got a big order for this and that. I said, bring it in, bring it on in. So at five o', clock, I was over at the administration office and I was booking business. I booked enough for me. I booked enough for Leo. I booked enough for Bill Adrian. I booked enough for Dave Meeker. You see, God can use one department to meet the budget of the whole company. I'll say that again. God can use one department to meet the budget of the whole company. The budget's our whole office. And look, and the only reason I stopped booking it is because I said it. Call me back at 5 o'. Clock, I'll have so much business I can't put it on the books. I cannot put it on the books. So the Holy Ghost was only allowed to go as far as I spoke. So watch your mouth. Now turn over this side. Watch your mouth. The next thing, it's kind of powerful. We have a covenant obligation to provide for the world and to keep this world. If you look at the story of Joseph, let's see, one time you had a little person, a young girl who came and read for me. I sense there's somebody over here. Either it's a little child or somebody with a child mind. I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. But somebody over here. Come on. Whoever it is, you got your. Now get your iPad or something, your phone or something like that, come on up right here and give them the microphone. Praise God and they're going to read for me. Okay, over this side. Let's come stand right here. All right, come on. I'm going to pay. I'm going to pay. All right, you may go home, Rich. All right, very good. Look at Genesis, chapter 41, verse 55. Oh, you got a Bible board. Let me tell you, I haven't Seen a Bible in years. People don't have a Bible anymore. Oh, man. It's technical, technological. Okay. Genesis, chapter 41 and verses 55 through 57. Now this is Joseph, all right? And as you know, Joseph had a dream. And he had a dream that he was a man, he was raised up, and he is the one that his brothers came and worshiped before him, you know, bowed down before him, so forth and so on. And as you know, Joseph had to go through quite an ordeal before that came about. So God can give you a dream and. But you might have to go through something. But as long as you keep the dream in mind. Come on. Long as you keep the dream in mind, God will give you the grace to go through to your place, you see? So read that, please.