Podcast Summary: “2 Focuses: Speak More And…” | Pastor Craig Field | Sun. Jan. 12, 2025

Podcast: Promise of Life Church Podcasts
Host/Speaker: Pastor Craig Field
Date: January 12, 2025
Episode Theme: The Lifestyle of Faith – “Speak More”

Episode Overview

In this heartfelt and revelatory sermon, Pastor Craig Field emphasizes the first of two life-long spiritual focuses God gave him: Speak More. He unpacks how speaking—aligned with belief—is key to activating faith, moving beyond mechanical religious routines, and stepping into the living “spirit of faith.” Drawing from biblical examples, personal stories, and testimonies from ministers, Pastor Craig encourages listeners to make faith-filled confession a constant, vibrant part of daily life, not just a ritual act.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Two Divine Focuses for Life (Not Just 2024)

• Pastor Craig recounts (00:00-03:10) how God told him the previous year to focus on two main things, emphasizing that these shouldn’t be confined to a year, but adopted as a lifestyle practices.
• Today’s focus: “Speak more,” with the second to be shared in a future sermon.

2. The Spirit of Faith: More than Mechanics

• Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:13 – “I believed, and therefore have I spoken. We also believe, and therefore we speak.” (04:05)
• Faith has both mechanics (confess, believe, receive—the “law of faith”) and a spirit (an attitude and lifestyle that overflows naturally).
• “The spirit of faith is not just limited to mechanics. The spirit of faith is an attitude.” (05:40)

3. Personal Example – Open Vision with Pastor Bill Matthews (08:00)

• Pastor Bill, preaching on the spirit of faith, sees a fireball in a vision. Jesus appears and says:
  “You do have the spirit of faith… so speak more.” (12:40)
• The message: If you possess faith, proof is in your speaking. Don’t limit confession to a specific time—make it a continual habit.

4. Mechanical vs. Living Faith (16:00)

• Many believers only do faith mechanically—set times for prayer or confession ("the little box in your day")—but neglect ongoing, living confession.
• “Most of us will do the mechanics. …But there’s something so much more important than just the little box that you do… That is just a lower rung because that's the baseline. I'm trying to get you to go beyond the baseline.” (22:10)
• Without ongoing, living confession, you are just a mechanical faith person.

5. Faith that Pleases God – Testimony from David Hogan (26:15)

• In a “Holy Ghost” meeting full of manifestations, Jesus appears but leaves disappointed.
  “There’s not enough faith here.” (32:15)
• Point: God is pleased by faith, not just spiritual manifestations or routines.

6. Speaking Beyond the Prayer Box (39:00)

• Romans 4 – Call things that be not as though they are: God changed Abram’s name to Abraham before he had any children, calling him “father of many nations” (41:50).
• “We are not calling things that are as though they're not. …We call things that be not as though they are.” (48:00)
• Start with mechanical confession, then intentionally speak faith throughout the day—while driving, cooking, etc.

7. Striking the Match: Developing the Habit (55:00)

• Initially, speaking more takes effort—“strike the match”—but it becomes second nature as faith becomes alive and active in you.
• “Force yourself just to start speaking even though you don’t feel it... as you do that, you’re striking a match.” (57:10)

8. The Power of Words – Proverbs 18:21 (1:02:40)

• “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” (1:03:00)
• What you speak has material consequence; increase your words, increase your results (speaking brings “increase”).

9. Examples of Faith-Filled Speech

• Randy Greer (1:08:50): When facing prison ministry, he’d say, “[Even before I started] I cast out devils in Jesus’ name.” (1:09:35)
• Joshua and Jericho (1:14:30): Jesus said, “I have given you the city” before any victory; the act of calling it done before it materializes is faith.

10. Real-Life Testimonies & Practical Application (1:22:50)

• Jerry Savelle: Taught his kids to avoid bumping invisible furniture—faith in what was called in before visible.
• Personal Story: Pastor Craig, countering his father’s prediction that ministry would leave him poor, insisted on calling God's promise a “great life” into reality.

11. The Language of Faith – Present-Tense Speaking (1:33:30)

• “Don’t say, I will. Say, I have.”
  “If you’re weak, say, I am strong… If you’re broke, start saying, I’m rich…” (Citing Bible and “Let the weak say, I am strong.”)
• Live in the reality of what you receive by faith—don’t apologize or dilute speaking faith in front of others.

12. Encouragement to Practice Incrementally (1:38:15)

• Start with your finances, health, ministry, or relationships—“Whatever you need, start to say you have it.”
• The ongoing challenge: check yourself with “What do you say?”—pastor is your “Randy Greer” pushing you to keep speaking.
• “Three to one. Speak, speak, speak, believe. Speak, speak, speak, believe.” (1:42:10)
• Praise reports: Real results in the church as people “spoke more”—jobs, sales, breakthroughs, healings manifested.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Faith That Speaks:
  • “The spirit of faith is not just limited to mechanics. The spirit of faith is an attitude.” (05:40)
• The Vision’s Instruction:
  • Jesus to Pastor Bill: “You do have the spirit of faith… so speak more.” (12:40)
• On Getting Past Mechanics:
  • "If all you do is the mechanics... you’re doing good, but you’re not doing great." (22:10)
• On the Ongoing Flow:
  • "It’s got to be a living thing that comes out of you... It can’t just be the little mechanical prayer. It’s got to be throughout your day." (50:20)
• On Present-Tense Faith:
  • “Don’t say, I will be free. You are free. I am free… If you're not married, start saying, I'm a wife, I'm a husband… If you're broke, start saying, I'm rich. Let the weak say, I am strong.” (1:34:20)
• The Pastor’s Inventory Question:
  • “So what have you been saying?” (1:10:20, recounting Randy Greer’s rebuke)
• On Habit Formation:
  • “Force yourself just to start speaking even though you don't feel it. ...as you do that, you’re striking a match now that’s going to hit that spirit of yours, and you’ll find it becomes second nature.” (57:10)
• Summary Exhortation:
  • “Speak more. The spirit, the living faith speaks more—speaks more. Speak has an attitude of boldness, an attitude of expectation. It is an attitude of demand: I’ve got it. I will not be denied. I will not say no. I will not back down. I will not quit. It’s mine. I’ve got it. I got it now.” (1:47:00)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00 – Introduces two lifelong focuses; today’s focus: “Speak More.”
• 04:05 – Unpacking 2 Corinthians 4:13 and the spirit of faith.
• 08:00 – Story of Pastor Bill Matthews’ vision and Jesus’ instruction to “speak more.”
• 22:10 – Mechanics vs. living faith; “baseline” faith.
• 26:15 – Testimony of David Hogan and Jesus’ disappointment with lack of faith.
• 41:50 – Romans 4; “call things which be not as though they were.”
• 55:00 – Becoming intentional in developing speaking as habit.
• 1:03:00 – Proverbs 18:21 on power of the tongue; words create reality.
• 1:08:50 – Randy Greer’s practical advice and testimony.
• 1:14:30 – Joshua at Jericho; calling things done in advance.
• 1:22:50 – Jerry Savelle’s teaching by example; living in faith's reality.
• 1:34:20 – Present-tense confession; “let the weak say, I am strong.”
• 1:47:00 – Closing exhortation and prayer; the call to “live it.”

Conclusion

Pastor Craig’s message is a clarion call to make faith-filled speaking a true lifestyle—not just a religious checkbox. Through personal stories, testimonies, and scriptural teaching, he invites every believer to become conscious of their confession, to move their faith from being mechanical to living and active, and to see real transformation as God’s promises are called into their lives with their own words.
“Speak more... it’s for your life.”

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