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The Speaking Part Of Faith | Pastor Chris Cruickshank | Wed. Jan. 28, 2026
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The Speaking Part Of Faith | Pastor Chris Cruicks…
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Praise the Lord. So good to be here with you all. Praise the Lord. This is my second favorite place to preach. Hallelujah. I love preaching to the folks at Faithway, and all the folks at Faithway Family Church send their greetings and their love. A few of the ones that usually come with me this evening are away right now, and Brent usually comes with me, and he's in Africa at the moment. So, anyways, praise the Lord. So here I am all by my lonesome, but I feel like I'm with family. And this is a. I love ministering the Word here partly because it's such a privilege to minister when people are hungry and people love the Word and people want the word, right? And that is. It's just easy for a minister to do that. Aren't you thankful that we have pastors that pastor supernaturally? Supernaturally? You know, I was sharing with our people this past Sunday that even before I stepped into pastoring, I always prayed, lord, I don't ever want to be a minister. I don't want to ever be a pastor if I can't do it supernaturally by the anointing and unction of the Spirit. You can't pastor without that. You can't pastor effectively, and you can't pastor the way God wants you to without doing it supernaturally, without doing it by the Spirit. There's lots of pastors that try to do it in the flesh, and they try to do it naturally, and they're very gifted, they're very charismatic. They're very. They can get up and stir people and they can say a lot of good things, but they're the same ones that over time, they get tired, they get worn out, then they need a sabbatical, right? And they need this and that. You know, Jesus said, my. My yoke is easy and my burden is light. You know, if you're in the ministry and it's hard and you're tired and you're worn out, something's wrong, right? You're doing it in the flesh and not under the anointing of the Spirit. So I'm thankful for pastors that pastor supernaturally. I can't keep up to Pastor sometimes just where he is and where he's going and what he's doing. And you can't do that without the anointing, right? And without doing it supernaturally. So praise the Lord. We bless them tonight. We thank them for pastoring under the anointing of the Spirit. It's a blessing to be in a church like that, isn't It. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, I want to just bring you a good home cooked meal again tonight. Hallelujah. I know you guys are very well fed here. I'm not here to preach anything new. I'm not here to, you know, you guys are just taught very, very well in this church. So I just want to water the seed that has already been sown. And last fall I did a series at our church called Faith Factor. Anybody remember the show Fear Factor? Anybody remember that? Am I dating myself a little bit? Actually, I heard it's just kind of come out again with some. But back in the day, before anybody knew who Joe Rogan was, remember he was the host of Fear Factor. And you remember they had this show and they had to do all this crazy stuff and, you know, put their arm in some bucket or something full of, you know, all kinds of insects and snakes and lizards and all this kind of stuff and they had to do all these crazy things. I think there was six people, there'd be three women and three men, right? And then whoever was at the very end would win the prize. Who could, who could face the fear and face all the fear factor? And I got thinking about that and I'm going to talk about some of the different elements of faith tonight. But one of the things that we forget in life is the faith factor. The faith factor, you know, when life throws what it wants to throw at you and throws its trouble and throws the enemy, throws all his junk at you, a lot of times we forget about the faith factor. He's coming at you with fear. He's trying to overwhelm your life with fear. And you've got this fear factor all around you. But did you know there's something on the inside of you called faith? And when you factor in faith, it changes everything. It changes everything when you factor in faith. And I just want to encourage you tonight to always factor in faith. No matter what you face, no matter what happens in life, no matter what the enemy does. We're facing all kinds of crazy things in Canada right now. It changes from day to day. We don't know what's going on half the time, but praise God, we can factor in faith. Hallelujah. We can posture ourselves in faith and see God move in a powerful way. Brother Hagin used to always teach this. I know your pastor has taught this many times and I know Pastor Nancy as well. And I know another gentleman that's been instrumental in my life is Bishop Keith Butler. I don't know if you folks know Bishop Keith but anyways, he has a great book and he has a great teaching series on the five elements of faith. And Brother Hagin used to teach this as well. And the five elements of faith are first hearing, then receiving, then believing, and then speaking, and then finally acting. And these are five different elements of faith. If you turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter 10, I just want to read a passage here first. Romans chapter 10. We're just going to start at verse one. And it says, brethren, my heart's desire and prayer for God or to God for Israel, is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, and the man who does those things shall live by them. But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way. Speaks in this way. The righteousness of faith speaks in this way. Do not say in your heart who will ascend into heaven, that is to bring Christ down from above, or who will descend into the abyss, that is to bring Christ up from the dead. But what does it say? It says the Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith which we preach, that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. Now it says here, the Word is near you. It's in your mouth and in your heart. We know the Word has to be in two places, right? It needs to be in your heart and it needs to be in your mouth. The Word has to be in your heart, and it has to be in your mouth. And it says with the mouth, confession, confession is made. Well, we know that word confession literally means saying the same thing. Your pastor has talked about this in the last few weeks, that when we say confession, it literally means just saying the same thing. So when we confess, what we're doing is we're confessing the same thing that God is confessing, right? So we're speaking the Word. When we speak the Word, we're confessing the same thing as God. So we say the same thing that he says, same thing as the Word. And. And that is how confession is made. And that brings about salvation in every area of your life. We're not just talking about being born again here. We're talking about salvation in every area of your life. And it says here, this is the word of faith. And so the word of faith literally is. We've tried to make this so complicated, and everybody who is against the word of faith message have tried to. To, you know, have all these negative connotations on it. But all the word of faith is, is getting the word, putting it in your mouth, your heart, believing it, and putting it in your mouth and speaking it. It is a word of faith. And a word of faith will change circumstances. It will change and transform your life. A word of faith. Hallelujah. Now, with these elements of faith, we know hearing is very, very important. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. If you don't hear, you're never going to have the faith, right? So faith or hearing is the first element you've got to hear. But once you hear, you have to receive it. It's one thing to hear, it's another thing to receive it, right? That's why Jesus talked about the different soils, Remember in Mark, chapter four, he talked about the different types of soils, and the last one was good ground. And so we want to make sure we have good ground so the word finds a place where it can germinate and grow. Receive with meekness the implanted word, right, which is able to save your souls. So we receive the word, we have to have good ground and good soil. So receiving what you've heard is very, very important. Then once you've received it, now you got to believe it, right? You got to believe the word that you have heard. And a lot of people think faith is just believing, but it's not. Faith is these five elements. You got to hear, you got to receive, you got to believe, you got to speak it, and then you got to act on it, right? You got to act on it. The Bible says that even the demons believe and tremble. So it's not just believing, right? It's all these elements. So then after we believe, then we speak. Faith speaks. It says in this passage that we just read, faith speaks in this way. Faith speaks in this way. And then we have acting, and I think we all know the different elements of acting upon our faith. There are times when you, when you take a faith stand that it demands action on your part, right? And even sometimes if you're in a healing line and somebody prays for you for healing or that sort of thing, how many know it's important that you act upon your faith of you receiving, right? You have to do things. How would you act if you were healed? Right. How would you act if you were blessed? How would you act if you received what you're praying for? And that's the acting element that we have to apply to our life. But what I want to speak to you tonight is this element of speaking. This element of speaking, it's one part of faith, but it is the step I want to focus on tonight. Because even though we have heard so many messages on this, we've probably heard hundreds and thousands of messages on speaking. The speaking part of faith. It's still probably the one step that we fail to do so often. We fail to do so often. I heard Pastor Craig a few weeks ago. He said, you do not enter what God has for you by trying. You enter by speaking. Right? You enter by speaking. And I think if we would speak more, and we would speak more if we really had a revelation on how faith works and how willing God is to see. See to it that your faith produces what you are believing for. You see, God wants your faith to work. He wants your faith to be productive. And that's why we need to be speaking, because that's one of the elements of faith that he works with. He's waiting for your words, right? He's waiting for you to speak. God is for you. He wants you to succeed. He wants you well. He wants you blessed. He wants you overcoming in life, right? He wants you just like you remember when that leper came to Jesus and he said to Jesus, he said, if you are willing, you can make me clean. Now, when he said that, he had faith and he believed that Jesus could heal him, that Jesus could make him clean. But there was a question in his mind. The question was, if you are willing, right? If you are willing. So there was something about God he didn't understand, right? He didn't understand. He was unsure of something. He was unsure of the nature and the character of God. And I heard on that passage, I heard Pastor Terry Pearsons, Terri Copeland Pearsons talk about that. And she said, when you study that in the Greek, you know, the frustrating thing about our English Bible is it's just not good sometimes with clarifying things. But Jesus said, I am willing and then be cleansed. But did you know what it actually says when you study that out? When he said, I will or I am willing, it literally means he said, I can't help but heal you. I can't help because it's my Nature, it's who I am. My nature is so full of goodness, so full of love. What do you mean, am I willing? That's what he was saying. Like, what do you mean, am I willing? If you come to me in faith, my only response is, bless you with whatever you need. That's all I can do. That's the only response I have. Because it's who I am. It's my nature. I have to bless you when you come to me on the basis of faith, right? That is my nature. It's my goodness. There's no other response than absolute goodness and absolute healing and absolute wholeness. And that's how faith works. Faith reaches out and receives of God's nature and his character and his willingness to bless us. You see, sometimes we. We don't reach out and receive because we're like that leper. We question. We question God's character. But we can't do that. We can't do that. Hallelujah. Christians stumble at the nature and character of God because they associate God's character with relationships they've had here on earth, right? With relationships they've had here on earth. But God isn't that way. He isn't that way. His character is flawless. It's flawless. And he is faithful, Right? It's not just an attribute. He is just like when it says God is love. It's not that he has love. That is him. Right? So when you come to him on the basis of faith, you receive of his goodness, you receive of his faithfulness. And he can't help. He can't help but just pour out his blessings on your life because that's who he is. Just like that. In the crowd one day when Jesus was on his way to Jairus House, you remember that? And on the way there, someone reached out in faith to touch him. And the Bible says virtue or power went out from him. And he turned around and said, who touched me? And we know the story. Everybody was touching him. There was throngs of people. Everybody was around him. And even the disciples said, what do you mean, who touched you? Right? People everywhere. But he was like, somebody touched me with faith. Somebody touched me with faith. And when you touch me with faith, my character explodes, right? All that I am just oozes out of me. When you touched me with faith. And that woman received healing in her body. And what happened? She said, if I may distouch the hem of his garment, I shall be made whole. She said something. She put her faith in her mouth. She put her faith in her Mouth. If faith cannot move your mouth, it cannot move your mountain. If faith can't move your mouth, it can't move your mountain. Right, I heard. I forget who it was, but I saw somebody on Instagram or something like that, and somebody asked them, what do you think the next big thing, next big move of God is that's supposed to happen? And they were leaning, trying to get him to say that we are so close at the end of the age, that the Rapture is the next thing to happen. And he said. He said, no, I don't think it's the Rapture. He said, I think it's the great awakening that's been prophesied. It's this revival of the past moves of God coming together into one great phenomenal move of the Spirit, all in synergy, to see the greatest harvest this world has ever seen. I believe that is the next great thing to happen before Jesus returns, because that has been prophesied by. That has been spoken, right? That has been spoken and prophesied. And we're believing for that to happen, there's going to be a greater revelation coming to the body of Christ. There's going to be greater manifestation of signs and wonders and miracles like we've saw in the past. We all like to talk about everything that we've saw in the past and all the great men and women of God that we look up to and we read about and we crave for those things today, but we're going to see it, we're going to experience it, right? We're going to have those things happen. There's going to be a great acceleration of these things. It's going to accelerate quickly, and there's going to be a great harvest. I know our pastor has been saying the same thing. It is coming soon. In fact, I believe it's here. You can see different spots around the world where this is breaking out and revival is happening in all kinds of areas. It's so good to see in so many areas the young people getting on fire for God, the young people receiving. They're tired of what the world is offering them, right? And they're coming to Jesus and they're coming to see the truth. God even did the same thing with Jesus. You know, he began to speak and. And prophesy the coming of the Messiah hundreds of years, even thousands of years before it happened. He had to get his prophets to speak it, right? To declare it that the Messiah was coming. The Messiah is coming. The Messiah is coming. The voice had to be in the earth, right? The voice. The voice had to be speaking it, right? For it to come to pass. Hallelujah. He spoke through the prophets for years. Prophets, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, called, if you will, called the birth of Christ into reality. And we have to realize that faith can fix anything. Faith in God can fix anything. It's just got to be put into motion and utilized. It has to be put in your mouth. Everybody, I'm sure you've all heard of R.W. schombach. He's in heaven now. But you've heard that name before. I used to, like, he had that long pointed finger, right? He'd point it at the television camera and his finger looked like it was this long or something. But he'd point that finger and he had the saying. He used to always say, you ain't got any trouble. All you need is faith in God. You ain't got any trouble, all you need is faith in God. I remember him saying that all the time, all you need is faith in God. And that's the faith factor. When trouble shows up, you just consider the faith factor. I don't have to put up with this trouble. I got faith, right? I got faith. And when the enemy comes against you and tries to stop you, tries to harass you or hinder you, you have to realize your knowledge can't overcome him. Your money can't overcome him. Your gifting can't overcome him, right? Your life experience can't overcome him. All your friends and your family and all your pets can't overcome him, right? The only thing that can overcome him is your faith in God and your faith in his name and your faith in the blood and the faith in the covenant that you have. That's the only thing. This is the victory that overcomes the world. Even our faith, right? It's even our faith. And the devil would like to think. He likes us to think that he has all this power and that he can ruin our lives at the drop of a hat, but he can't. He can't. The Bible says he's under your feet. He should be under your feet, right? And it says that Jesus stripped him of all power and all authority, and he's given us all authority and all power over the devil. And I was saying to our people at Faithway, I said, you know, I hear people say all the time, well, you know, I know Satan is coming against me so strong. He's coming against me so strong, or he's coming against you so strong because. Because he knows your future and he knows what God's going to do with your life and that's why he's coming against you so strong. And I said to them, I said, there's a couple things wrong with that statement. Number one, God knows all things. God knows the end from the beginning. He is omniscient. He knows everything. Satan does not. He doesn't know the future. He wouldn't even know his own future if he didn't read it in there. If it wasn't for God prophesying and declaring his future, he wouldn't even know his own future. And he definitely doesn't know your future. He doesn't. He's not all knowing. He doesn't know your future. He can't. He doesn't know the future. He may know some things that have been spoken about you. He may know some things that have been prophesied over you. He may know. That's why the Bible talks about things with familiar spirits. He may know all the past. He may know how he was able to trip up your parents and how he was able to trip up your grandparents and your great grandparents. And down the line it goes. He knows if they find something that works in a family bloodline, they just stick with the same thing. That's why the sons and the daughters usually fight all the same demons and fight all the same stuff that the parents did and grandparents did, right? It's just those dumb devils doing the same stupid stuff. But we can have victory over that. But a lot of times people think, oh, he's just coming against me because he knows how great my future is. He don't. He doesn't know your future. What he recognizes is the anointing. That's why he comes against you. That's why he's attacking. Because he knows what the anointing looks like. He used to have it. He used to be the anointed cherub. He used to lead the worship in heaven, right? He would move and music would happen. He had instruments built right into his body, right? It was a beautiful sound. The Bible said that his heart was lifted up, right? And pride was found in him. And boom, like lightning, Jesus was like, what the heck was that? That was a lightning flash and boom, he was out of here, right? But he knows what the anointing looks like and he knows what the anointing feels like. And when he sees the anointing on you, he's like, there's another Jesus. The anointing of God is there. That's why he attacks. That's why he comes against you. Not because he knows your great future. He doesn't know your future, right? He sees the anointing and he knows what it looks like, and that's why he's coming against you. And this is why our words are so important. Because when you're walking in the plan and the purpose of God, Satan doesn't know what's bothering you or what's hurting you or what's harming you until you give voice, voice to it. Until you give voice to it. He doesn't know what's going on in you. He doesn't know what's going on up here. This is the battlefield. He attacks your mind and he tries to sow all his evil thoughts and all that kind of stuff in there, but he doesn't. He can't read your mind. He knows what's happening when we speak, right? When we speak. That's why, you know, we go around and you wake up the morning like, oh, man, my back is killing me. My back is killing me today, right? And the enemy's like, did you guys hear that? Did you hear what she said? Did you hear what he said? His back is really hurting today. Why don't we pounce? Why don't we get some more stress? Why don't we bring some more attack? Let's do everything we can to stir up all these kind of issues in their life and, and make that back worse, right? We give him all these pointers with our words, I don't know how I'm going to make it. I've got no income. I don't know how I'm going to pay the rent. I don't know how I'm going to do this. And we're just feeding him. He doesn't know you're all stressed out about it until you tell him, right? Then he's like, oh, that's a sore point. Let's attack there, right? Let's attack there. And that's how the enemy work. Those devils don't know. They don't know how you're feeling until you tell them. They don't know how you're feeling until you start blabbing it to everybody. Have you ever met those people? I work with some of those people, they can't wait to get to work in the morning and tell everybody what's hurting and what went wrong, right? And what's, you know, what happened to so and so when so and so died and this died and my dog died and my cat died. And it's just like, they can't wait to tell the bad news, right? The enemy loves that stuff. He loves that stuff. When we just go around and just start talking about all the bad news, we need to change that. We need to change our words. If you're going to say something, then say, I'm healed. Say, I'm whole. I'm blessed. You just frustrate the enemy when you do that. When he has an inclination that you're stressed or you're worried about something and yet you speak words of faith, you just frustrate him, right? He just gets mad. He's like, I don't know what's going to work on this person, right? What do I do? How do I attack this person? But if you're going to constantly complain and constantly whine and talk about the problem, and now you're feeding him, right? Now he's got something to go with. If you stay in the soul realm, then the devil can have the upper hand. That's his playground, right? When you stay in the soul realm. But when you stay in the faith zone, right? When you stay in faith, he can't win in that arena, right? He can't fight you and he can't win in that arena. And so faith is not supposed to be quiet. Faith has a voice. Faith has a voice and faith speaks. And the faith factor is putting the word that you have heard in your heart. You receive it, you believe it, and then you put it in your mouth. So it can work and it can produce something. Even faith at its basic level. Your faith in Jesus as savior and Lord is not something that you can keep to yourself and keep quiet, right? We know we're not religious, but in the saying of religion, it's against our religion to not talk about our religion, right? We know we're not religious. We've been set free. Hallelujah. We have a living, breathing relationship with Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. He's our king and he's our Lord. But it's not something you're supposed to keep quiet about. It's against your faith. It's against what you believe. Not to talk about it and not to speak it, right? You're walking in disobedience to the scripture if you stay quiet about your relationship with God. He who wins souls is wise. We are to speak, we are to witness, right? That's one of the things Jesus, the first thing, one of the first things he said to us before he went ascended up to heaven, that we are to be witnesses, right? That's one of the reasons the Holy Ghost comes upon us, that we would be witnesses, right? That's putting the word in your mouth, the word of salvation in your mouth. So we're walking in disobedience to how faith works by not speaking. You're walking in disobedience to how faith works by not speaking to your mountain, right? To not speaking to your mountain. And that's why the Bible talks about idle words. Remember, it talks about the will given account for every idle word. Part of the reason we'll give an account is because our words are meant to be filled with faith. Our words are meant to produce something. Our words are meant to be productive and accomplish something. That's the same way God operates, right? His words accomplish things. Idle. The word idle literally means unproductive, non producing, inactive, right? Unproductive, non producing, inactive, idle words. Let me ask you this question. How far and how fast can your car go at idle? If you just put that thing in drive and then you just sit there, right? You might start to creep along. But as soon as you get out of the parking lot here and get on the road and you're doing like five kilometers an hour, pretty soon somebody behind you is going to do what they're going to be on the horn real fast. Step on it, buddy. Right? Step on it. If you just stay at idle, you're not going anywhere, right? You're not moving. And if your mouth is filled with idle words, your life will hardly move. Your life will hardly go anywhere. If your mouth is filled with idle words, it needs to be filled with words of faith. The Bible says that God watches over his word to perform it. Not to see if it's still maintaining. Not to see if it's just sitting there and existing. No, he watches over his word to make sure it is producing and it is performing and it is accomplishing, the Bible says what it was sent forth to do. He watches over his Word to make sure it's accomplishing what he said, right? What he said for it to do. And we've got to do the same thing, right? Our words are meant to accomplish something. They're meant to go out and do something and be productive. You know, the children of Israel, they had the promise of God, they had the presence of God, right? They had the power of God. They had the angelic host with them. They had supernatural protection, they had supernatural provision. Yet with all that, they missed out on what God promised them. And they died an early death in the wilderness. Because of their words and their confession, they had everything they could ever want, right? They had all of God's Provision all of God's protection. God was with them 100% of the time. And yet they failed to enter in because of this, because of their mouth. They grumbled and complained, Remember? They grumbled and complained and spoke negative, unbelieving words. And, and they did it so much that it grieved the heart of God. And he's like, enough. You're not entering. If you grumble against me non stop like this, you're not entering. You're all going to die off. I'm going to take the young and I'll take them into the land, right? Because of those unbelieving words. Have you ever met, have you ever met a Eeyore in your life? Anybody remember Winnie the Pooh, you know? Anybody have young kids still and you got those Winnie the Pooh books, you know? Eeyore, right? Have you ever met an Eeyore, right? Always down, always defeated, always complaining, always trying to bring everybody else down. You know, I think we all know an Eeyore. Hopefully it's not us tonight. If you're an Eeyore, you can get set free from that. Hallelujah. But we're not to be Eeyores. We're not to be down, right? Our words. You can change your life by changing your confession and changing your words. If you're a spiritual Eeyore, you can change it, right? You can change it with your words and your confession. Praise the Lord. You can do it with your words. Your words are meant to produce. They're meant to be productive and to accomplish something. I started, I started working for Amazon. I break down all the cardboard boxes that they send to our house every day. They don't pay very well, but, you know, it's kind of crazy. My wife and I seem to always, our days are always full. Many of you know, I work full time and I also pastor, so my life is just jammed and my wife is very busy as well. And so we both like it when we can just be home and just enjoy our house and enjoy our property and have time to rest. And so we don't go out and do a lot of shopping. In fact, we usually try to kind of set a date day. And we have one Saturday a month where we go out and we, we have a special route that we do. We kind of go up north to all these, in Amish land and these places, places we like to visit and buy some of our meat and produce and all that kind of stuff. But we usually have it one day in a month where we go out and get all the stuff that we need. And so because of that, there's usually an Amazon driver at our house quite often, right? Because she's the same way as me. And you know, oh, I need this or I need that. You know, we just get on our phone or our computer real quick and I can get that off Amazon or get that off some online thing. And so the truck is just coming by all the time, right? And that's why I work for them now, because I got to deal with all these boxes. But did you know that I've never had it once where I received something I didn't order? Now I've had it where they sent the wrong size or they sent the wrong color or that type of thing. But whenever I order something, it always shows up and I'm a prime member. So it's usually the next day. I'm amazed. Their business model is something else. There's times I'm at home and it's 10 o' clock at night, and I need some little gadget. I don't know why I need it, but I need it. And I press purchase, right? And I get the confirmation. Sometimes I get home from work the next day and it's there on the porch, right? It's not even 12 hours yet. It's like 8 hours, 9 hours, and there it is. And who knows where it came from. And it's already delivered. It's crazy really, how it works, but did you know that when we don't order things. Well, let me say this. Every time something came, it was something I authorized, it was something I purchased. And the driver has never come to our house. And. And he's never come and said, you know what? I'm here a lot, but I haven't been here in a few days. I haven't been here in a few days. So I brought a couple boxes for you just because you're such a good customer. I just wanted to bring you a couple extra boxes, right? That's never happened and never will happen, right? It's never happened. They ship what I order, right? They ship what I order. And did you know your words do the same thing. They ship what you order. Your words do the very same thing. Your confession shifts what you order. Your words are like your authorization in the spirit. Your words are your authorization. Authorization in the spirit realm for that realm, to bring to you what your words have said, right? What your words have declared. And the things are shipped to you based on the words that you speak. And Bill Winston says this all the time. He says, show me your Words and I'll show you your life, right? Show me your words and I'll show you your life. Your life is a compilation, he says, of all the words that you have spoken in the past. Your life is a compilation of all the words that you have spoken. Mark Hankin says the same thing. He says, your words and your voice is your address in the spirit realm. Your voice and your words is your address in the spirit realm. Healing gravitates to the addresses of those who speak healing. If healing is in your mouth all the time, then those packages will be shipped to you, right? Supernatural provision gravitates to the addresses of those who speak increase and who speak the blessing. Psalms 33. 9. It says, for he spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. The Christian standard Bible reads that verse like this. It says, for he spoke and it came into being. He commanded and it came into existence. I believe it was Pastor Craig. He was saying in John chapter one, where it says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And he was saying, when you put the Word in you, you're putting God in you, right? Because the Word is God, right? You can't separate the Word is God, right? So when you put the Word in you, you're putting God in you. And when you put the word of God in your mouth, it's like God speaking. It's the same thing. That's why it's called confession. You're saying the same thing as God, and it holds the same weight and the soul speaks same power because it's God's word, right? It's not your word, it's God's word, right? It's. It's powerful. In Second Corinthians 4 and 13, it says, and since we have the same spirit of faith, the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke. We also believe and therefore speak, right? We look at all those in the Word of God and those prophets and all the people that we look up to in the Word of God. And they knew what it was like to confess the Word. They knew what it was like to say the same thing as God. And even God had to get Abraham to do that, even by changing his name. He said, your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, which is the father of many nations. He had to get that word in their mouth, right? Get that word, get them speaking that word. And we speak it because we have that same spirit of faith. We have the same spirit of faith we believe, and therefore we speak. Hallelujah. Did you know sickness and disease has ears? It has ears, right? Those sicknesses and those pains and all of those troubles and struggles that you go through in life, they have ears. They have ears. And when you speak to them, they will respond. You know Jesus spoke to pain, right? He spoke to a fever. He spoke to a fever. He spoke to blindness. He spoke to the deaf ears. He spoke to the wind and the waves. Remember that? And said, peace, be still. He spoke to the lame and told them to walk. He spoke to the dead and said, arise. He spoke to things. And if he spoke to things, they have ears. He spoke to that fig tree. Remember that? And that thing had ears and listened to him and responded well. Our words do the very same thing. And the mountains that you're facing can hear you. The mountains that you're facing can hear you. And they need to hear your voice. They need to hear your voice of faith. And we have to remember that faith is for the battle. Faith is for the trial. It's for the attack. It's for life. The Bible says, the just shall live by faith. That's those four passages in the Word of God where it says, the just shall live by faith. That's one of the founding verses that we founded our church on. Faithway Family Church was the just shall live by faith. And how many know, if we're to live this way, then we better know what faith is and how to use it, right? Because we got to live this way, right? And faith is for all those things that you face in life. And when you need victory, you need to use your faith. We know we live from a place of victory, but sometimes you have to enforce that victory. You have to enforce it, and you enforce it with your words. And, you know, we sit in a service like this and we say, that's right, Pastor Chris. Amen, brother. Amen, brother. We've heard it before. We know. We speak to that mountain. We're faith people. We know how these things work. Amen, brother. And then Thursday comes along, right? Thursday comes along and the doctor calls, right? And says, we need to see you. We got your blood work back. There's some things we're concerned about. We found this, and we found that, right? And what happens? Fear floods in, right? Fear floods in. And you forgot all about Amen, Brother Chris the night before, right? You forgot all about that, and now you're caught up in this report. And we forget all about Isaiah 53 that says, whose report are we going to Believe. Whose report will you believe? Well, we need to choose to believe the report of the Lord. We believe the report of the Lord and not these reports that come to us. And when fear floods your heart and mind, we can't forget that. We need to use our voice. We need to use our faith, our voice of faith. We need to factor in faith. Factor in faith. When life throws its stuff at you, when the trouble arises, when the enemy attacks, factor in faith. Faith can change this. Faith can answer this. Just like Pastor Nancy always says, you got to answer it. And we answer it with faith. We answer it with words of faith. Hallelujah. Do you remember, I might be dating myself here, but anybody remember that movie Twins with Arnold schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito? You remember that movie? I was thinking about that the other day when I was preparing this message. And if you remember Arnold Schwarzenegger in that movie, his name was Julius, right? You remember that? His name was Julius. And you remember whenever him and Danny DeVito would get into a situation where they were in trouble and. Or they had some aggressors coming at them or things are going wrong, something's about to attack them. If you remember, Julius would always. He'd kind of like, pause in a situation, and he would say to the people that are trying to attack them, he'd say to them, you forgot the first rule in a crisis situation. And then Danny would look at them and like, what is he talking about? Right? And then the next time they were in trouble, he would say, you forgot the second rule in a crisis situation. And then, you know, he'd grab the two of them and slam them together, and they'd be down, you know, but. And he'd get them out of the trouble they were in. But I like that thing he'd always say. He says, you forgot this rule in a crisis situation. Well, you know, when life comes at you, when the devil comes at you with his lies and he comes at you with his attack, you need to say, devil, you forgot about the first rule in a crisis situation. You forgot. I've already got the victory. You forgot the second rule. That I have a sword right here. The sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Hallelujah. Which can cut down anything he throws at you. He forgot the third rule in a crisis situation. The shield of faith. The shield of faith that quenches every dart you want to throw at me. Devil, you forgot the tools and the weapons I have in a crisis situation. And we all face crisis situations, and we need to use faith we need to use our faith. Hallelujah. If you were here on Sunday or if you were watching the. Either at. Or watching the camp meeting at Pastor Nancy's when Reba Rambo was ministering to Pastor Craig and Jenny, I like what she said, there's a sound coming from your church. There's a sound. And even when she was ministering to Pastor Jenny about the worship, there's a sound, right? The sound of heaven. And there's a sound coming from this church right down, right from the pastors, right down through you, right? A sound. And your voice matters. Your voice matters. Your voice is very important. And your voice is prophetic. Your voice is prophetic, the voice of this church, and you're part of that. And as you put the faith of God in your mouth, hallelujah, your voice will be prophetic. The Bible says in Revelation, it says the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Right? The testimony of Jesus. The testimony of what Jesus has done for you. The testimony of what Jesus is doing for you. The testimony of what Jesus will do for you. When you put that in your mouth, it's prophetic. You're prophesying when you declare what Jesus has done, what Jesus is doing and what Jesus is going to do, Right? It's a prophetic voice. And it's no coincidence, I believe, that you've started sharing the videos of testimonies of people in the congregation. That's great. The ones I've seen have been awesome. But that is a very important thing, and that's a wonderful thing to do because we overcome the enemy by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. And your words, when you testify of Jesus, when you testify of him and who he is and what he's done and what he's going to do, it's prophetic. It's prophecy that goes out and it releases something in the spirit realm. You know, when you watch those videos, what happens in you? Faith rises, right? Faith rises within you. It's releasing faith in the realm of the spirit, in the hearts of men and women. And the Bible says this is the victory, as I've said, that overcomes the world, even our faith. So I want to encourage you, I want to encourage you to start thinking about putting the word in your mouth more often, right? Put the word in your mouth so many times, you know, when we're attacked, you know, we call so and so and so and so. Can you agree with me? Can you pray for me? Nothing wrong with that. Or we get in our prayer closet and we pray and we pray and we pray and we do this. We get in the word and we get all this stuff, all well and good, all things we need to do. But we forget to speak. You forget to speak to your mountain. Right. You forget to do that. And it's one of the most important steps to speak. To speak to your mountain. Hallelujah. And Jesus taught us this. He taught us to speak to the mountain. Amen. Amen. Let's stand. Father, we come to you today in Jesus name. And Father, we're just so thankful for your word. Father. We just lift our hands towards you. Father, we just repent for not using our words the way we should be or the way we should have. Father, we repent, Father, before you and we thank you for the blood of Jesus which cleanses and purifies us. And Father, we commit tonight, we commit tonight, Father, to put your word in our mouth. Hallelujah. We've put it in our heart. We've heard it, we've received it, we believe it. And now Father, we commit by faith to put the word of God in our mouth that we may speak it and declare it and watch over it the same way you watch over your word. To see that it's producing and it's accomplishing what you sent it forth to do. We will watch over our own words. Hallelujah. That it will go forth and produce the very things that we sent them to accomplish. We thank you for it. In Jesus name, Father, I thank you for the voice of this church. I thank you. The voice of this church is increasing. It is rising. Hallelujah. The voice in the spirit. Hallelujah. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you. There's a voice in worship that is rising in this place. A new voice of worship. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Father. That destroys. Destroys the power of the enemy and the strongholds, Father. Hallelujah. We thank you for that voice of worship. We thank you for a fresh voice in our pastors lives. A fresh voice. We thank you. Their voice is going further, further and further. In Jesus name. We thank you for it. And we thank you for the voice of this congregation. This entire congregation, Father. Their voice. That voice. That sound. That sound is increasing. That sound is penetrating the atmosphere. That sound is destroying the work and the strategy of the enemy. Where the praise of God is sustained. Hallelujah. The enemy's plans are destroyed. And we thank you that we will sustain the sound of praise. We will sustain the voice of faith. And we thank you for it. In Jesus name we thank you. That faith will open doors that only God can open. And we give you praise, we give you honor. And we give you glory, Father. For it, in Jesus name we pray. Amen. And amen. I hope you were fed and edified tonight. Thank you. It's so good to see you. And I will see you again very soon. Amen.