well hey everyone I am so glad that you are here on Wednesdays with crystal I
love connecting with you every single single week on Wednesday this week I'm
going to do something different I passed her an amazing church with my husband
here in Royse City Texas and we're actually launching our second campus in
Sulphur Springs on September 30th of this month from time to time I get the
opportunity of speaking on a Sunday morning and I just so wanted to share
one of those messages with you normally I have short form format videos that
kind of come out every week on Wednesday haven't missed a week for over two years
and they're usually about 10 minutes in length but I really believe that this
message was gonna inspire you and so I wanted to share it with you so legs
without further ado let's jump into that well amen amen how are you doing one
church y'all doing good you look good we're so glad you're here today and we
are continuing our series of you asked for it and we're so glad that you came
to church if this your first time here I've really believed that you are
joining us it's just such a special time for our church and just what God's doing
really here in this house it's so exciting for those of you that don't
know and we are starting our second campus in Silver Springs Texas so
excited so excited and next weekend is their soft launch and what that is is
for them to just be able to go through a service to be able to practice and make
sure that all the all the kinks are out before they have their first Sunday on
September 30th and so I just really challenge you as a church family if you
know people in the Sulphur Springs area can you do this a favor and let them
know that you guys are planning a church there in Silver Springs Texas invite
them and you'll never know the impact that one invite can make and so I know
that we have some of our Silver Springs team here and we want to pray for them
as a church family and all of our Silver Springs people where you at can we have
you guys just kind of come down forward here all my Silver Springs team
come on come on one church family give it up for them
so excited that team is over a hundred strong they're in Sulphur Springs and we
are so excited about what God's gonna do and we're just gonna pray for them as a
church family and we're believing God to see great things you know whenever we
started this campus here in Royce City we launched with 312 and I'm believing
they're gonna do better than us I'm believing that they're gonna do even
better than us come on how many you guys can believe God with us for that
so I'm believing they're gonna see even more than that and so as a church family
if you will we just stretch your hand towards and why do we stretch our hand
it's just saying we're in agreement like we're standing with you we're believing
with you so father we just thank you for every person represented down here and
god I thank you that they're gonna be your hands be your feet - Silver Springs
Texas and God I thank you that your word says that whatever we ask in your name
that you'll give it to us so father right now we just ask for the
people in Silver Springs that got their hearts are gonna be so softened to you
that lord I thank you that you're bringing in so many people that Lord we
have the team we need we have the resources we need and we have the God we
need to accomplish all that you've called us to do so father we just asked
for a great launch Sunday God even right now that you are compelling the people
to come into your house so as a one church family we unite our faith
together and we asked you to do great and wonderful things in Jesus name and
everybody who believed this said amen amen can y'all give it up for them thank
you guys so much we are so excited so so excited if you know anybody in the
Sulphur Springs area please invite them we would love to have them come to our
launch Sunday please to be just praying and believing God with us for great
things so I know it's gonna be awesome I'm so excited I'm also want to let you
guys know I don't know if you guys heard but we bought our building oh my
goodness I'm sorry
come on one charge are you so excited you prayed you believed you said come on
so good so excited about what God's gonna do and we're not about a building
but we are about people but I'll just tell you buildings make things a whole
lot easier right and some of you may be like what are they standing and cheering
hey let me tell you if you tore down and set up for four years you would be
sinning and cheering - and all my dream team said amen
oh we are so excited you know for those of you that don't know our church has
been going for four years and we've seen so many people give their life to Jesus
and that's just with a building that we use a few hours of the week how many
more people are we gonna see come into the kingdom with a building that we have
all the time we're so excited for those of you that don't know our building is
located on interstate 30 and it's right before you come into roy city and its
really interesting whenever we planted the church brian was driving a to Rory
city one day and the Lord spoke to him there was before the church started and
the Lord spoke to him right now the first thing you see when you pull into
roy city is the high school and the lord told him but one day the first thing
you're gonna see is you're pullin into rose city is gonna be the church and tom
goes on you know how sometimes you think well maybe we miss God like maybe that
wasn't God's Word and you kind of put it on the shelf and for those of you that
know we bought land and so we thought well maybe it's gonna be another way and
another thing and then whenever this building came up like God just made
himself so apparent and I think it's so cool now that the first thing you see is
you're pullin into Roy city it's gonna be our church isn't that so exciting oh
my goodness it makes me so excited so we are really really excited so we'll begin
the build-out process of that facility and we don't know how long it'll take
I'm praying it's done tomorrow amen I want everything yesterday and my
backup plan is tomorrow so but we'll move as quickly as we can
but we're really excited about all that God is doing next week is vision Sunday
and so for those of you that don't know twice a year we kind of refocus as a
church and our vision Sunday in September is where we talk about what is
the God's word for this house for the upcoming year and
every year we have a word that we kind of center around as a church family and
so you'll see that on the worship guides it says you are the one and so every
year it's something different and we don't just pull a phrase out of the air
as a staff and Brian and I we really pray and ask the Lord God what's the
word to this house for this next year and that's kind of what becomes our
focus and so pastor Brian's gonna be discussing that and talking about all
that we've done and where we're going as a church family I've already gotten to
hear a part of his message and y'all is so good so you want to be sure and be
here next week for vision Sunday so as you guys know we are in a series called
you asked for it so if you don't like what's been talked
about it's your fault cuz you voted for this some of your like
I did not vote for this but you did because you either voted or you didn't
vote right so this is what you got I think it's been an incredible series
Brian's message last week was incredible how to deal with difficult people I had
so many people tell me this last week you dealt with difficult people and you
needed that word and so that was an incredible one and then pastor Randy
kicked it off in the beginning on getting over fear and then the number
one most asked for topic was how to grow your faith so that is what we're gonna
talk about today and before I get my scriptures I'm gonna give a warning real
quick if you have children in the service I'm going to talk about a man in
the big red suit and so you might want to have them leave our cause a child to
cry in the last service so you might want them to leave go out in the hallway
away from a speaker and you've been forewarned and so other scriptures are
gonna be Romans 12:3 and it says to every man is given a measure of face I
may say every man every man tap your neighbor and say every man every man and
then Romans 10:17 says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
okay so we are gonna look at those two scriptures today we're an unpack them
we're gonna learn how to grow our faith let's pray as we begin Jesus we just
thank you that this is a God appointed word at a god appointed time father
declare in this house every ear is open and receptive every
heart will be softened for the seed of the word of God we declare that no one
will leave the same that every one will be changed in Jesus name and everybody
who believed it said a men you know I really don't know at what point I
stopped believing in Santa I know that it was probably older than I should have
been it was my graduation day of high school
now I'm just kidding that was a joke and that I remember I truly like my parents
were the type of parents that they were all in like they were all in Team Santa
and they were all in teen Easter Bunny they were all in team tooth berry
I'd like they went to such extremes that it was ridiculous
how hard they worked to get you to believe and so I was always like one of
those people that I was like well I mean I'm gonna believe what my parents say
because I was the child that would get phone calls from Santa like in June and
June who gets a phone call from Santa in June has anybody know what I'm talking
about does anybody get phone calls from Santa
and June is probably cause you're bad kid like me now I look back on and my
parents are like I realized that my parents are just trying to get me to be
good and so I would get phone calls from Santa and June we would have footprints
through our house on Christmas Eve every single Christmas Eve there would be
jingle bells outside of my window and I knew if Santa sleigh was here and I was
just always like oh my goodness like it was so real like Santa was so real the
cookies were always eating in my house and not just a little bit like my Santa
was hungry and so he ate all the cookies anybody else have a Santa they all the
cookies and we would leave carrots out for the reindeer the carrots would be
gone all the evidence pointed to this was a real thing so I found myself in
like fifth grade and we were lined up for something it was the first of
December and we were lining up for a school activity and I remember just
telling how excited I was about Christmas coming up and I'll never
forget the girl was wearing a unicorn sweatshirt she was standing behind me in
line and I said yeah I said I just can't wait to see
Santa's gonna bring me and she goes you believe in Santa and I was like do you
not believe in Santa like he calls me and she's like no
that's done like and she calls to all of our her friends in the line she's like
can you believe that she believes in Santa and all our friends are laughing
and you know those moments were like no no no and I'm looking at her unicorn
sweatshirt I'm like are unicorns fake too like is that my whole world's like
crushing down in this moment and so I go home and I'm crying like I'm having a
complete mental crisis like everything that I have built my entire life upon
it's like falling apart before my eyes and I come home to my mom I'm like mom
we need to have a serious conversation I need to know right now what is Santa
real well honey he's real in your heart you know Santa's everywhere you know
he's real to all those who believe and I'm like no mom I need to know so then
she talks to me and then I'm like wait the Easter Bunny
she's like yeah him too and then I'm like the tooth fairy and she's like yeah
her too and I'm like oh my gosh I remember going to bed crying that night
like some poor child that was sitting in first service is probably gonna go to
bed crying too and it was awful it was like the worst moment of my life but I
look back at that and how much I truly believed in Santa and then fast forward
I turned 16 and back when I turned 16 there was two things every teenager
wanted number one is to get a job and number two was to drive a car what is
wrong with kids side note that you are 19 years old you still have a driver's
license what is wrong with you what is wrong with you get a job and drive a car
anyways um so that was me like on my 16th birthday I went to the DMV I passed
my driver's test still don't know how I passed that and because I definitely was
not good idea I didn't realize till I was 22
why cars honk tat me when they were getting off the interstate it was
because I was supposed to yield I didn't know what that's so that's what the sign
man I was like people are so angry when they get off the interstate thank you
Jesus that you protected me and so on my mom my 16th birthday I went and got my
driver's license tray and then I went and got a job that's what you're gonna
do too and so I went and I got a job and the
part is he told me how much I was gonna get paid and I believed him I didn't ask
to see his financials I didn't ask for proof I just kept showing up believing
that I was gonna get a paycheck and then the day I got the paycheck I went to the
bank I was like yeah I'll never forget I went and bought a hot fudge brown Sunday
with my money I'm like I'm rich I can buy anything I want and then fast
forward to when you think about the foolishness of buying a plane ticket
like especially nowadays because you buy them online like there is no proof that
you're really gonna get on an airplane right like you go onto Expedia they give
you this number that's like a confirmation number and you have this
email and that's supposed to be proof enough that you're actually gonna get on
board this plane right but you prepare you ask off work you drive there you
pack your bags and do everything believing that that little those few
words on your phone are gonna actually get you on the plane and I'm using all
those things to say this the Bible says to every man is given a measure of faith
you have faith it's just where are you using it and how are you using it seeing
I've just decided in my life that I'm not gonna give Santa Claus and give my
employer and give American Airlines the best of my faith I'm gonna give God the
best of my faith I'm not gonna believe more and all these other things that
really because who knows your employer they may not have any money you may be
working for nothing and that dude's broke it as a joke let's just be honest
right but I'm not gonna put more faith in my employer than what I'm putting in
God and I'm not gonna put more faith in American Airlines and what I'm putting
in God and the Bible says every man is given a measure of faith so if everybody
has faith then why are we seeing great things happen now I'll just tell you
that if today whenever you left here I gave every single one of you a plan and
it was alive and it was just a little bitty plant now every one of you
received a plant correct but it's what you do when you leave here that will
determine whether it lives or whether it dies and I'll tell you that every single
Sunday when you come to church the Word of God is sown in
to your hearts and it's what you do outside of here that's going to
determine whether it's going to grow and thrive or whether it's just going to
diminish and go away and I think if a lot of us got real honest here like we
all want to have great faith right we all really want it but then we find
ourselves just not really believing the way that we wish we should we could so
two things I want to establish before we get started is number one that you have
faith right we all have a say I have faith you have faith and I'll just go
step further it's as bigger as small as you made it to be
I'll go another step further you are as close to God as you want to be hello
number two you that your faith can grow in second Thessalonians 1:3 Paul is
writing and he says that he gives thanks for their faith that is growing more and
more in other words God's plan for your life was not salvation and that's it he
wants you to grow in the things of God he wants there to be something further
now I'll just say this that salvation is free but everything else you're gonna
have to fight for salvation is free I'm not talking about God loving you
accepting you I'm not talking about that I'm talking to the people who said I
want to have great faith and if you want to have great faith I want to let you
know that it's gonna grow so here's the thing is that if we were all the size
and the physical shape that we wish we could be we would all look like models
right now if you guys all decided like okay like I really want to be skinny I
want to have great gluts I don't have great abs I'm gonna do all this and you
had pictures of it you knew exactly what you wanted to look like you had a gym
membership it wouldn't work right not until you go to the gym and do the work
the weight loss industry is a multi-billion dollar industry billion B
people pay so much money to try to figure out how to lose weight I'm gonna
give you the secret right now you ready you eat less and you move more that was
free I just gave that to you for free that's all you have to do and can I tell
you in the kingdom it's no different you eat more actually the word
and you act more on what he says if you want to grow spiritually you have to
change what you're putting in and change what you're doing hello but I think if
we'll be honest that we have to get to this place with faith I think for us to
really move forward it's unlearning what we've learned and
and usually when I talk to people and they're struggling in their faith it's
around these three things and it's number one that there's some things that
you just can't control there's some things that you can't control if you're
really gonna live a life of faith that means you don't get to be the boss of
your life and some of us if we'll just be real honest we have a hard time with
that cuz we want to be our own provider we want to know that at the end of the
day that we can pull ourselves out if we need to we want to know that we can put
on the game face pull it all together we don't need anybody we can pull ourselves
up by our own bootstraps but if you're really living by faith it means that
you're always living in such a way where it's one step outside of what you can do
in your own natural ability and this is why my friends most people never start
giving to God because you want to be your provider and I'm just gonna say
this I'm gonna throw this out there that you have no right to ask for God for
things that you're not willing to give him thank you all three of you I love
you I asked them to clap on that part good job cuz here's the thing is that we
want God to do something but we don't want to do anything to get it cuz we
want to be in control God you blessed me and then I will because we want to be in
control we don't want to live our lives in such a way that we can't bail
ourselves out but when you're truly living by faith it means if God shows up
that's that's the only plan he's our plan a there is no plan B and that's
really hard for people to get around faith submits its limitations to an
unlimited God and when you truly let go of control that's exactly what you're
doing every single day god I can't but with you I can
god I'm not able but with you I'm well able the second thing is you don't have
to have all the answers
most people get tripped up about the things of God they don't understand and
I'll just say this that I don't want to serve a God that I can understand
because if I can understand him that means that I'm just like him and I'm not
God I would make a horrible God I'm not that great at being a wife and a mom let
alone a god right but here's the thing is you gotta let go of having all the
answers there's just some things that I don't know I've been in ministry now for
17 years I didn't choose the ministry life the ministry life chose me I'm
married Brian and you know I didn't choose the thug life that though life
chose me anybody here know all right I see y'all thank you thank you for that
and so I remember I married Brian Anna I went to the grocery store because we got
home from our honeymoon and that's what you do in your adult you go to a grocery
store now I get my groceries delivered hey and so I was there and I was walking
down the bread aisle and this lady came up to me and she's like oh my gosh your
pastor Brian's wife I'm like he hath kind of and she's like I need somebody
to talk to and she started just dumping all of her problems of what was
happening and this happened and that happened I don't know what to do about
this and my jaw is like dropped open and I wanted to be like girl your life is
messed up like this is bad like this is bad you need help you need to talk to a
pastor like this is so bad and she's like what do you think like what do you
do you know what to do and I'm like I don't know I I don't know how to help
you like go see pastor Terry and and I'll say that it's 17 years later and
that's still my response to a lot of things I don't know I've sat in the
hospital room where they turned off life support on an infant child and literally
prayed to the moment that that baby flatline that God would resurrect it and
then once the baby was declared dead I thought okay Jesus like we're about to
raise this baby from the dead Lazarus here we go like we're gonna do this
prayed nothing happen I've gone to funerals where we stood and
believed God in faith and sat there and I was like this doesn't make sense but
I'm not gonna let the things that I don't understand about God keep me from
serving of God of the things I do understand about him and some of you are
getting so tripped up on why he left why it didn't work out why that person
rejected you why your loved one died and the things that you don't know about God
are keeping you from the good things that you do know about God because I can
tell you on the other side of the room I've been in rooms where we laid hands
and brain tumors disappeared I've been in rooms and in situations where the
diagnosis was so bleak there was no way and in a moment God's healing came upon
him I've been in rooms and in moments where we've seen breast tumors
completely dissipate I've been in situations where the couple looked like
they were gonna get a divorce there was no way out and in a moment God showed up
and did it but here's the thing is if I would have let the questions that I
didn't understand keep me I would have ever seen those miracles happen and some
of you in this place you're letting all the hurt and all the disappointment
define what you're gonna believe from God and there's some of you you got to
give the pin back to God and say you know what I don't understand it all I
don't have all the answers but God I know that you do and I know that your
word says that you will work all things together for your good so that's what
I'm gonna choose to believe one of my favorite scriptures it is in Deuteronomy
29:29 put this in your back pocket this is a great one it says that the secret
things belong to the Lord and I just think there's some things we just don't
have the answers for but I know that God is faithful and I know that the secret
things belong to him the third thing is there are some things that we will never
understand on this side of eternity there's just some things you want to
understand on this side of eternity there's so many times whenever you're
reading the Bible talks about when we come into heaven we'll see him face to
face as he is it talks about another place in the Bible when we get into
heaven that the things that were secret will now just be common knowledge for us
and I think when we come into heaven there's gonna be so much clarity about
things that we didn't understand cuz girl I got a long list like when I get
to heaven I wanna be like Jesus we got a long coffee day cuz we got to
talk about some things I got a list but here's the thing I'm not gonna let those
things keep me from serving God here on this side of eternity I'm gonna choose
to believe that he's good and he does good because I've seen too much good to
believe the bad over the good amen all right so how to grow your faith are you
ready this is good number one read the word you didn't see that coming did you
you wanted a secret you cannot grow your faith without the Bible in Romans 10:17
faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God I was I love numbers and
I think statistics are interesting and I read that eleven percent of Americans
have read their Bible from Genesis to revelations not in the last year I'm
talking about ever ever that's a staggering statistic and yet the average
American home has 4 point 4 Bibles sixty-one percent of Americans say that
they wish they read their Bible more fifty-four percent of Americans do not
read their Bible four times or less a year they said that they may reference
it they are not never but they're four times or less but this
is the part that was interesting eighty-eight percent of Americans say
that American culture has moved away from the Christian foundation that it
was founded upon I'm gonna talk to you real we should stop praying for our
government to change and come back to Christian heritage maybe your home needs
to come back to a Christian heritage maybe before praying for our leaders and
everything else to change you need to change listen to me moms and dads some
of you need to get into the word yourself quit praying for our schools to
change and you start changing the spiritual climate of your home because
here's the thing I won't stand before God for Trump I won't stand before God
for the strength of Supreme Court justices I will stand before God from my
home and for what I did and I will tell you
that I want on Judgment Day to stand before the Lord and say as for me and my
house we serve the Lord we've press into you we made the Word of
God a priority come on somebody we decided that we were to put God first
place reading the word is the only thing that's gonna grow your faith that is the
main thing I'm gonna tell you some other things but if you do nothing else but
read the word you're gonna have strong faith you have to read the word and I'll
say this that in 1st John 5 4 it says that this is the power that overcomes
the world our faith Matthew 6:33 says seek ye first the kingdom of God seek ye
what first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you
see we're seeking all the things without putting God first place we're saying God
when I get the job when I get the money then I'll take off on Sundays God when I
have all these things then I'll put you first place no reading the word is the
most important thing I believe it's setting God 1st place right in the
morning and I'll tell you that my best days are the days that I don't check
Facebook first email first text messages first can I get a witness and I get into
the Word of God first thing what is it doing it's saying God I'm seeking first
the kingdom and I know all these things will be given back to me and I'll tell
you just a free thing of I believe that there's a big difference between fast
food and gourmet food ok so think about this how many of you can remember every
meal that you've eaten in the last two weeks anybody tell me breakfast lunch
and dinner ok none of us can but every single meal nourished you and got you to
where you are today correct now how many of you can remember one really good meal
iron can you remember one really good meal in the last month I mean like good
like Britney like cooked for you it was good stuff Britney's like yeah I did
good once this month but how many of you can remember one good meal in the last
month ok like 10 of us I had a really good meal this weekend for our
anniversary we went out and was good but here's the thing it's not every meal is
memorable but every meal nourishes and sustains you there's fast food
devotional time and there's gourmet devotional time fast
food devotional time and the kingdom looks like this you put on audio Bible
while you're driving to work you put on a podcast while you're in the shower
right that's fast-food devotional time but then there's the time where we get
with God where we open up the Bible and we have a deep meaningful spiritual
moment if you're not doing that every day you're okay just make sure you get
the Word of God in you in some way okay like just start with a podcast on the
way to work start with putting the audio Bible don't start in Leviticus you'll
quit class okay but just start with the audio Bible as you're driving to work
you'll be amazed at how much it grows your faith and before long you'll find
yourself yearning to get into the Word of God don't start being like okay well
tell me today I'm going home I'm reading ten chapters don't do that you'll fail
I don't read ten chapters okay don't do that and so for those of you that don't
know we send out emails as a church every single week and they're always
full of good information and we want to send you a Bible reading plan if you're
not subscribed to our emails um you can do that by texting the key word email me
two three three seven three three email me two three three seven three three
follow the prompts and this week we'll send you a Bible read plan it'll show
you exactly what books of the Bible to read which ones you should read first
and then it'll work on down the line I believe it'll really help you start to
grow your faith or you'll get something good out of this all right number two
you need to begin to speak the word in Psalm 19 12 says that may the words of
my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing unto you
Romans 10:8 says what does it say the Word of God is near you it's in your
mouth and in your heart you are the greatest prophet of your life if you
want to hear what your life is gonna look like in ten years
listen to what you're saying put on a recorder around your dinner table or
when you're prepping dinner and see what you're saying what's coming out of your
mouth if you're saying that your kids are rebellious don't be surprised when
you raise rebellious kids when you're saying that your husband's are good for
nothing don't be surprised when he's a good-for-nothing come on if all you're
saying is that we're just broke we've always been broke everybody
our family's broke guess what you're gonna be broke I don't want to say those
kind of things I'm like I'm blessed say men if you say all of our families died
of cancer I'm gonna die at cancer well guess what come on but you get what you
say I love Jesus when he's teaching the disciples about faith in Matthew 21 he
says whoever will say to this mountain what does he say whoever will say to the
mountain be removed and cast into the sea it'll be done for him right but he
doesn't say whoever says to this mountain man you've always been there he
doesn't tell him say man that's a big old mountain I wish we didn't have this
mountain wish the Lord would have given us a smaller one no he says you're
supposed to speak the solution and for some of you you Neah start speaking the
opposite of what you see you need to get in your clunker vehicle for real I did
this for years I would lay hands on the steering wheel
and I would close my eyes and I would picture the car that I wanted and I
would begin to declare out of my mouth what it was gonna be and as I began to
say these things and declare them you know what happened God began to do
things I have a book that sits on my desk and it has all the things that I'm
believing God for for the year has how many I'm believing God for the church
and how many in groups and how many times I want to go to Disney a year and
I'm not joking where's Mickey Scripture it says that he will give you the
desires of your heart right my desire is Mickey Mouse amen but I say that to say
well as we've gone through the year Brian and I have been in agreement
and we've been declaring the word over those things and as we declared the word
over those things the other day when I got into the office
I opened up the book and I freaked out Tony and I ran to Brian's office and I
was like babe you're not gonna believe this
everything in this book is happening right now like oh my gosh because I had
put it that I was believing for but the end of the year that we'd have 800 in
attendance for the church we're over 850 now oh my goodness I had in there I had
60% of our church is going to be in group sixty-six percent of our churches
in groups now and all the things and I began to go
through one by one by one and see that didn't happen on accident it happened
because we got an agreement we began to speak what the Word of God says and for
some of you if you're believing God for finances here's a quick trip right
you're gonna trip out on this google scriptures on finances I know you don't
have to be super smart and it'll tell you all the scriptures on finances and
and didn't you just do this command P and print that bad boy out and then
stick it somewhere where you see it and then begin to pray the word back to the
back to God the Bible tells us in Jeremiah chapter wine that the Lord
watches over his word to perform it there's another scripture that says that
the angels hearkened to the Word of God so when you remind God what he said he
is obligated to begin to go to work because he will not be a liar and his
word is the standard that he begins to move things by right and so when you
begin to pray the word it's so powerful are you getting something out of this
the last thing I want to tell you is to begin to hear the word hear the word
that's not on your notes all my C personality types it's okay some of you
are freaking out that's not on that but the Bible says faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word you be in here today I'm so proud of you you putting
God first place by coming to church on Sunday I believe God is real big about
the first and I believe when you come to church on Sunday
it's like putting him it's giving to God the first part of your week and you're
saying God I'm gonna put myself in an environment where my faith can grow I
want you to imagine spouses if your husband were to come home and tell you
girl I love you you know I do like Denver if you told Salem you know I love
you but I'm only gonna come see you one hour a week
do you guys think Denver would still be married and then three weeks goes by and
he hasn't come by and she's still waiting week four he finally shows up
sorry things have been kind of crazy busy I've had soccer practice and I'm in
a band and I got a lot goin on with work but girl you know I love you you know I
do she'd be like no you better love me with some time move back into this house
we would all say they were separated right why do you think your relationship
with God is any different maybe you feel distant from him because
you removed yourself he's still in the same place and when you start putting
him first place God wants to be first place seek him first the kingdom of God
all these things will be added under you friends I'm telling you God wants to
grow your faith why not because that's the only way he loves you and that's the
only way you can come to church I'm not saying out of like a legalistic thing
I'm saying it because he wants a relationship with you there's nobody I
love more than Brian sparks I mean I love him I'm crazy about him but we
spent a lot of time together and that's why we're so close and if you want to
get a close relationship with God it's gonna come with just spending time with
him and it might be on your drive it might be in the morning with you in the
word but I promise you this you're gonna begin to see amazing things you know
whenever we were believing God for the building in Caddo that we just purchased
it was like it was looking like we weren't gonna get it like everything was
going south and really fast it was not good and they had called us and said
there's actually another offer on the building and they offered full asking
price and then when they found out that we were offering they said we'll go
above asking price and they were a cash cell which meant they could close in two
to three weeks and so they were like I just don't know
well y'all like Brian and I both we felt like the Lord had told us like that is
your building and so I was sitting there and I was frustrated I'm like everything
in the natural is telling me it's not gonna work out but everything in the
spiritual like God I know that you promised us this building so I looked at
her staff I looked at Denver and I looked at Ashley and I said I'm gonna go
pray over this building like I'm gonna go pray over this building and so we all
got in the car I was like a hundred and Hill outside all the Texas people said
amen and we went out there and we're sweating bullets and we do what every
Christian that's crazy Christian person does we Jericho March that sucker y'all
know what I'm talking about we walked around that thing somebody you don't
even know what a Jericho March is you ain't lived till you die in Jericho
March and so we Jericho March that building we walked around at seven times
that's what the Jericho March means and we laid hands on that building and we
declared we begin to bind the enemy and we've been again to declare God we
declare that whatever we bind on earth is bound in him whatever we loose on
earth is loosed in heaven god we thank you this building is ours we prayed
until we felt like we had release and so I said okay guys like now the rest is up
to God we've done having done all stand and stand therefore so I was like we'll
just have to see what they decide so I get in the car we drive back to the
office y'all I walk in I sit down at my desk literally right when my bum hits
the seat my phone rings and it was Renee that was negotiating the deal and she
says she's screaming on the other end of the line she's like oh my goodness and
she was saying she goes they decided that even though they would have made
more money and they could have closed faster they decided they wanted a church
in there and so they decided to give the building to you come on somebody
but throughout this whole process the thought that's kept coming to my mind is
what if we would have compromise what if we would have just believed what was
happening in the natural and we didn't stand in the spiritual and I want to
declare over some of you that God's wanting you to grow your faith not for
you to be saved this is not about where you're going to spend eternity this is
about you believing God for the miraculous in your everyday life God
wants you to begin to see some amazing things happen but it's not gonna happen
with just doing a little bit of time every single week it's gonna begin to
happen when you begin to put the Word of God in and you begin to water the seed
that's on the inside of you and I'll promise you this I believe in declare
that God's gonna take you places you never dreamed possible
amen amen well I'm gonna pray for you if you're a husband and wife can you just
join your hands together I want to pray for every single person definitely want
to pray for spouses to father we just declare what I declare that you're a
miracle working God that father you can do anything and everything father we
declare in this house that father we will see great and mighty miracles and
then lord I thank you for every marriage Lord in this house the father where that
enemies been attacking where there's been confusion and arguments father we
just say it has to stop now in Jesus name that the enemy is trying so hard to
get you guys to separate cuz he knows if your faith gets together there's you are
an unstoppable force father I thank you right now for peace in every home that
god I thank you that husband's will begin to pray for their wives and wives
will begin to pray for their husbands and that God as they begin to get an
agreement that Lord there's nothing that they can't do with you on their side so
father right now I think you that you're watering the seed inside of every person
lord I declare over them that their faith is growing that they are strong
that they're believing you for great and wonderful things we believe in declare
in Jesus name and everybody who believed it said amen
well hey if you're here in the sound of my voice and you said crystal I do not
know Jesus to be my Lord and Savior friend let me tell you there's no better
prayer that you can start off with and that one right there you know I've been
serving God first eighteen years now and I can tell you my life has never been
the same I came into church because I wanted to be with the guy and Brian told
me if you're gonna date me like you have to come to church every time the doors
open and I wanted the guy so I came to church come on y'all ain't dumb and so I
wanted the guy in Wranglers and boots and so he's the cutest thing I've ever
seen and so I came in there for a guy but what I really encountered was Jesus
and sitting in a service like this I heard the gospel of grace preached and
in a moment I realized maybe God could love someone like me and in that service
I surrendered my heart and surrendered my life to Jesus and I can tell you he's
taken me places so much further than I ever dreamed possible and I want to tell
you that same God is here today and he loves you he's never given up on you and
today he wants a relationship with you just if everybody here if you could just
bow your head and close your eyes if you're hearing the sound of my voice and
you say Christo I don't know Jesus Christ
I don't know him to be the Lord and Savior never prayed that prayer maybe
you might say Christo I prayed that prayer but I made some mistakes and I've
fallen away but today I want to give my life back to him if that's you you want
to give Jesus your life for the first time or you want to rededicate your life
to Jesus on the count of three will you lift your hand one
two three lift your hand amen amen
thank you Jesus let's pray this together as a church family Lord Jesus I give you
my heart I give you my life take my sins and by your grace I take your
righteousness in Jesus name and everybody who believed it said a man a
man come on can we give it up for every person who just prayed that prayer so
awesome okay I want to tell you that we're so proud of you for praying that
prayer and we want to celebrate with you can you take a moment and text the
keyword decided to three three seven three three decided to 33 7 33 a member
of our team will follow up with you we want to make sure that you have
everything you need as you begin this journey of faith hey I hope that video
inspired you and helped you grow your faith and equip you to accomplish your
dreams and your goals I want to tell you about an event I have coming up called
closer closer is a one-day event happening in November I'm gonna have all
the details down below and a link and I want you to get signed up spots are
limited and they're already filling up really fast I'm so excited about what
God's gonna do in this one day what is closer closer is the day that's gonna
get you closer spiritually closer as a leader closer to God closer in your
prayer life I want to have one day where we just focus together on growing and
getting closer to the person that we want to become so all the links for that
are gonna be down below and then also want to let you know that if you're not
a subscriber here on my channel hit the subscribe button next week I'll have
another video out for you I'd love for you to be connected comment down below
I'd love to know how this video helped inspire you thanks so much for watching
let's do something awesome for God this week
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