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00:03 #S085 - Faith Looks A Certain Way - (Part 2)
00:19 Welcome to the Breath of Life. 00:21 Television ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:27 In today's episode, Pastor Snell will continue with part 00:30 two of the powerful message 00:34 “Faith Looks A Certain Way. 00:37 Now let's go deeper 00:39 into the word of God. 00:43 Not church. 00:44 When I say that, I say this not in an egotistical way 00:47 where I'm just saying you need to pay more attention to me 00:51 when I preach. That's not what I'm talking about. 00:53 I'm saying we've got to have greater 00:55 spiritual capacity 00:59 and greater attentiveness 01:03 towards spiritual things 01:06 because this is a thing I need somebody to understand 01:09 that the devil doesn't 01:10 necessarily just have to cancel your faith. 01:14 If he can simply distract your faith, 01:18 see if he can keep you looking over here. 01:22 When God is moving over there, He can keep 01:25 you under bondage until the day Jesus Christ comes. 01:31 I you'll hear what I'm saying to the church. 01:32 I need somebody to understand that the spiritual warfare 01:36 is not just what you hear in John King in verse ten. 01:39 It's not just to steal, kill and destroy, 01:42 but a part of the spiritual warfare. 01:43 It is literally to distract, to divert, 01:47 to make sure that spiritual you are scatterbrained. 01:50 Matter of fact, can I show you a couple of quotes 01:52 that bless my life this week? 01:54 I want you to see this here on the screen. 01:57 This here comes from the book, The Great Controversy. 02:00 Page 519. 02:02 I need you to understand how the spiritual warfare operates 02:06 so that you understand what it is you are up against. 02:10 Great controversy. 02:11 519 If it doesn't come up, I'll read it for you. 02:14 Satan will knows that all whom he can lead 02:19 to neglect, prayer and the searching of the Scriptures 02:23 will be overcome by his attacks with his church. 02:29 Therefore, he what invents 02:33 every possible device to engross 02:37 the mind. 02:40 He knows as long as he can keep you off your knees. 02:44 And if you keep your Bible shut, 02:48 and if he can keep you scrub link to your eyes, burn out 02:53 that he can 02:53 keep you in a slave is bondage. 02:56 I don't hear what I'm saying today. 02:57 Church So every invention that's consuming 03:03 devotional time has its path in. 03:10 Are you hear what I'm saying? 03:11 No, I ain't trying to be diplomatic with this thing today 03:15 because he knows if he can keep you out of the word, 03:18 he can keep you under his spell all your days. 03:21 You'll hear me today, Church. 03:22 In fact, I want you to look at this in the book. 03:24 Early writings 266, where the prophet of our church, 03:28 one of the pioneers, was given some insight 03:31 into one of Satan's board meetings. 03:34 And I want you to see what Satan told his aunts. 03:36 Look at this. Put it up. Put it up. 03:39 Listen what he told the Imps and the other fallen angels. 03:43 He says, Go make the possessors of land and money. 03:46 Drop with cares. 03:48 Are you all women in a church? 03:50 If you can make them place their affection 03:53 upon these things, we shall have them. 03:56 Yet they may profess what they please. 04:01 Only make them care more for money 04:04 than for the success of Christ's Kingdom 04:07 or the spread of the truths we hate. 04:10 Present the world before them in the most attractive light 04:13 that they may our love and idolize it 04:17 as they gather together for prayer 04:20 in different places, then we are in danger. 04:24 Be very vigilant. 04:26 Then. Cause over what? 04:30 Distraction you can destroy love for each other. 04:34 Hold up every plausible excuse so that those that have to those 04:37 who have means let's they hand it out battle 04:40 every inch of ground, make covetousness 04:43 and love of earthly treasure 04:44 the ruling trait of their character. 04:46 As long as these traits rule salvation and grace. 04:51 Stand back. 04:53 Crowd all you can, 04:55 all round them to attract them. 04:59 And they will surely be ours. 05:05 Are you all listening to this preacher today? 05:07 In other words, I need you to get that sentence. 05:09 Go is not just to make you immoral. 05:13 I need you to know 05:14 that he don't have to get you to smoke, crack or weed. 05:18 He ain't got to get you to have a woman on the side 05:21 and a cigaret under your car seat. 05:23 But if he can just keep your focus diverted 05:29 and what I'm saying to us today, Church, 05:31 is that we have to have a spiritually focused 05:36 approach and 2025, if we're going to make it 05:38 to the next level, can the church say, man, 05:42 this is one of the things I believe, beloved, 05:44 is that when you approach every day, you got to understand 05:49 that the enemy is looking to take over your focus 05:52 so that when it's time to pray, 05:54 I got to have focus in my prayer 05:57 so that when it's time for me to get in the word 05:58 that I can't get in, the comforts 06:00 of the bed snuggly and warm. 06:03 But sometimes I got to go to a cold part of the house 06:07 and I got to sit down in a hard chair where my mind 06:09 can be stayed all the way in on the Lord Jesus Christ. 06:14 I need some young person 06:16 before you open up your Bible and begin the scroll. 06:21 You need to begin the Scriptures because I need somebody 06:24 to know that the spirit of supplication 06:27 is being destroyed by the spirit of social media. 06:31 The spirit of intercession is laid on the altar of Instagram, 06:36 and your time with God is being consumed with 06:39 all y'all mad today. 06:41 Y'all want me to go out of town? 06:42 But I'm going to stay right here and preach to see y'all today. 06:45 In other words, friends, I need you to know 06:46 that when it talks about having a focused faith, 06:49 it means when you come into the house of God, 06:52 you need to be selective about who you sit next to. 06:56 In other words, I can't sit next to no Gossip Bunny. 07:00 That ain't gonna do nothing but complain 07:02 about every wrong note. Dismissed. 07:05 I can't sit in the back where I'm focusing on 07:07 who's coming in and who's going out. 07:09 There is an anointing in the first eight rows of the pews 07:13 where you can see nothing but the goodness of God. 07:17 When it talks about being focused, 07:18 it means you 07:19 need to be selective about who's in your inner circle. 07:23 If you're trying to grow in faith, 07:26 you can't surround yourself with those that don't talk faith 07:29 and those that don't want faith. 07:31 I need some people in my inner circle 07:34 that know how to get a prayer through, that know 07:37 God can make a way that knows the promises of the Word of God. 07:42 Tasco reinforce what I really believe 07:48 and friends, if you're going be focused, 07:52 what you do at the end of the day 07:55 needs to complement what you do at the start of the day. 07:59 Now you're going to be mad at me for a minute. 08:01 The reason we take one step forward and six steps back 08:05 is because our evening activity 08:08 conflicts with our morning activity. 08:11 Okay, so so we start the day with living. 08:16 Warner 08:18 But we end the day with the tea of gossip. 08:20 Y'all, y'all not hear me today? So. 08:22 So we start the day with sunshine. 08:26 But we end the day throwing shade. 08:27 Y'all mighty quiet in this house today. 08:30 And what I'm saying to somebody today is you got to make sure 08:32 that what you consume throughout the day reinforces 08:38 the word, reinforces faith, and it does not disassemble. It's 08:45 your life must be lived in the same direction. 08:49 So I need you to know that godliness is not hard. 08:53 Godliness becomes difficult when I try to plant 08:55 conflicting seed in the same soil. 08:59 I don't hear what I'm saying today. 09:01 Church How many of us understand that you can't kill your flesh 09:06 and feed it at the same time? 09:11 It's funny. 09:12 Over the holidays 09:13 we had a little situation where we had, 09:15 you know, some aunts coming in to, 09:18 you know, on the little island in our kitchen. 09:21 And it's crazy because my wife taught my kids 09:22 how to put together 09:23 a little, little poison 09:24 so that they would take 09:25 the poison down to the queen and kill the colony. 09:29 But see, the problem with 09:30 the kids is they would 09:31 love to plant the poison, but when they wasted something, 09:36 they didn't want to clean it up. 09:37 And see the problem with you're bringing 09:39 conflict to your approach because you can't kill 09:42 the ants while feeding them at the same time, 09:46 so that if you don't kill them, 09:47 you can't just send poison to the queen. 09:51 You've got to clean up the excess. 09:52 And the me 09:54 and the words of somebody is you're trying to kill the flesh, 09:59 but you're leaving remains for the flesh to feed on every day. 10:04 And you got to remove 10:05 all the provision for your flesh 10:09 so that you can become the man or woman that God has ordained 10:12 you to become. 10:13 You are hear me today. Church 10:16 faith has a certain look 10:18 so you can tell what people are believing for 10:22 when you look at what they position themselves 10:25 to receive. 10:30 So the word says this brother has the faith to be healed. 10:35 Bobby Now that's critical. 10:37 Scholars, ma'am, look at this, doing this, 10:38 trying to figure out what it is, what is it that Paul sees? 10:42 So for us they say, Well, maybe the man is focused, 10:45 but man, the second thing that perhaps they sees 10:48 is at a certain point, this man positions 10:51 himself 10:56 to be here. 10:57 So Paul is preaching 11:00 at me and Paul is getting jiggy with this psalm. 11:03 I mean, he's going Genesis to Revelation. 11:07 And I love because at some point what this man with crippled 11:11 feet begins to do is he begins to position himself 11:17 in preemptively of what Paul says. 11:21 I'm still not here yet. 11:22 So what this cripple man does 11:24 at some point is he takes a lame left leg 11:30 and stabilizes it 11:32 and ties down his handle 11:35 so that when the command is given, 11:37 he's getting ready to move and he takes a cripple right leg 11:42 and positions it and stabilizes it 11:47 so that when the command comes, he's ready to move. 11:51 He ties up his hand to strap so he doesn't trip. 11:55 When it's time for him to walk, he doesn't take his mat 12:00 and put it in front of him, but he takes his mat 12:03 and cast it out of sight 12:06 because he's getting in position 12:12 to see the miracle take place. 12:16 Now, friends of mine, I need somebody to hear this 12:19 because there is a difference 12:22 between wanting the blessing of God 12:25 and being ready for the blessing of God. 12:28 Because when I simply want it is simply 12:31 an intellectual acknowledgment that what I desire 12:37 will be profitable and beneficial to me. 12:40 But there's a difference between wanting get 12:43 and being ready for it. 12:44 Wanting it just means I have desire, but be ready 12:49 means I've got in position and prepared myself 12:54 to receive what I'm desiring. 12:59 See friends of mine. 13:00 Some of us. 13:02 All we have is desire, but 13:06 we don't never put ourselves in position to receive nothing. 13:10 We don't have a posture ourselves. 13:12 There is no sense of anticipation 13:15 that governs our behaviors. 13:16 We run around like good luck wishing upon a star, 13:20 rubbing a lamp, rabbit's foot carrying 13:24 black eye on New Year's Day kind of believers 13:28 where we are hoping for good luck, 13:31 not believing for the promises of God. 13:36 So this is see what real faith looks like 13:39 because you know what? 13:40 Real faith don't need it. 13:42 Don't need no proof. 13:44 Okay, let me say it, y'all know this are 13:47 real faith. 13:49 Doesn't need proof. 13:52 All it needs is the certainty 13:55 that God sent it. 14:00 See, is just kind of like this. 14:02 There are times where the weather man 14:03 will come on during the day and say it's going to rain. 14:07 Now some of us won't get an umbrella 14:10 until they see rain. 14:12 But if you believe what he said, 14:16 even when there are no clouds in the sky, you still pack 14:20 and umbrella and a raincoat 14:23 because you trust what he said. 14:26 You know that the showers are coming. 14:29 And what I'm declaring to somebody this year 14:33 is that rain is about to fall. 14:37 Showers are blessings. 14:40 Showers are blessings. 14:42 We need mercy. 14:44 Jobs around us are falling. 14:47 But for the showers, we plead and stop 14:51 waiting for clouds to get your rain gear. 14:55 Carry it when the sun is out. 14:58 Carry it when no clouds are in the sky. 15:01 Because if God said it's 15:07 it must come to pass. 15:12 And what I'm saying to 15:13 somebody today is you've got to get yourself in position 15:18 to receive what you are praying for. 15:22 So dear somebody who's saying, I want a big leap 15:24 in my mental health, 15:26 but you got to position yourself to sit down with somebody 15:29 who can help you along the way, somebody saying, 15:32 I want a position that you're praying for big financially, 15:37 but you need to get somebody 15:38 to help you manage the overflow without waste. 15:42 There is somebody there saying, 15:43 I want to leap into being a spouse, 15:46 but you need to position yourself, 15:48 learn how to forgive, learn how to communicate, 15:51 learn how to fix something, how to build something. 15:55 I hear what I'm saying. 15:56 You ain't pregnant but paint so nursery already 16:01 and trust that if God spoke it 16:05 is going to come to pass 16:08 and see somebody also looking at me crazy 16:11 because you don't really believe in positioning yourself. 16:14 Can I take you to the word real quick? 16:16 Psalms 81 in verse ten speaks to this very truth. 16:21 Psalms eight, don't wait for it on the screen. 16:23 Open your Bible today. Psalms 81, 16:27 highlight it and write it down some 81 in verse ten. 16:31 Look at what the word says. 16:33 Listen to what God said to Israel. 16:35 Psalms 8110. 16:36 He says, I am the Lord your God. 16:38 He brought you out of the land of Egypt. 16:41 Notice what he says. 16:42 Open your mouth. 16:54 He says, Open your mouth wide, then I'll feel it. 17:00 So the level of your position 17:04 is going to determine the level of your perfect set. 17:08 So it's just like when you feed the baby, 17:12 when they don't like the proofs or the green carrots, 17:15 they just open them out like this. 17:17 And really, almost subconsciously 17:21 you begin to determine what you put on the spoon 17:24 by how much they open their mouth. 17:28 But when you feed them the bananas and the pears 17:32 and the grapes, they don't just open it 17:35 like this, but they open wide and point it. 17:39 They mouths so you can fill it. 17:43 And do I have any sense that I'll get before 17:46 God this morning and say, God, right here, 17:51 I'm open wide. 17:54 I'm just not a lot open. 17:56 I'm not most of the way open, but I'm all the way open. 18:01 I'm positioning myself 18:05 to receive what God has in store. 18:09 Are you all with the pastor today? Church The 18:16 next thing I like about this brother 18:18 is that he doesn't ask 18:21 What if it doesn't work? 18:25 You don't ask, what if so, poor 18:28 man, this thing is so good. 18:30 He's he's. 18:32 He just simply declares to me, Yo, bro, 18:36 rise. 18:38 Stand up 18:40 and start walking. 18:43 Now what you do see this last quote? 18:44 Acts of the Apostles? 18:45 181 I need you to see how faith works. 18:49 Paul commanded the cripple to stand upright on his feet here 18:53 for the supper had been able to take a sitting posture. 18:56 What? 18:58 But now he instantly obeyed Paul's command, 19:02 and for the first time in his life 19:04 he stood on his feet. 19:05 Now watch. 19:06 This strength came with v 19:13 f word of faith, 19:15 and he who had been crippled, leaped, 19:21 and he walked, God, I 19:26 see somebody. 19:27 I'll sit and get it. 19:28 Because the problem is you still ready? 19:31 Like they did at the end of the chapter two. 19:33 Dear five Paul 19:37 But if you reading this right, Paul does not healed 19:41 the man. 19:47 Paul simply announces that God has removed 19:52 the restriction that was keeping him down. 19:56 Oh, God, 19:58 no, no. 19:59 Paul didn't healing. 20:01 Paul just wanted him to be aware 20:04 that he has some agency that he didn't always have. So. 20:07 So notice when she says she says, when the effort 20:11 of faith is demonstrated, that's when the miracle occurred. 20:17 Okay, so we are still missing it. 20:19 So when Paul tells him to stand up, 20:23 there is no surge of energy 20:25 in his legs. 20:30 There is no heart burning going from his toes 20:33 up to his torsos and his thighs. 20:36 No, I need to understand when Paul speaks it, 20:40 his legs are just as dead 20:43 as before he speaks it. 20:46 So the man can't wait to feel something. 20:52 Because if he's waiting on a feeling, 20:56 he would be waiting until this very day. 21:00 And even though he ain't got no feeling, 21:03 he still puts it into motion. 21:06 See, the reason some of us ain't going 21:08 get nothing is you still waiting on a feeling? 21:12 You waiting on the feeling of forgiveness 21:16 You're waiting on the feeling of reconciliation 21:19 You're waiting on the feeling of the Holy Ghost. 21:22 But you got to stop waiting on a feeling 21:25 and start acting in the Word. 21:27 Because once he obeys 21:31 the word, that's when muscles begin to move. 21:36 That's when ligaments begin to fire. 21:39 That's when nerves begin to shoot. 21:42 Once he begins to act 21:45 in the level of obedience. 21:50 Now watch this curve because I like this brother. 21:53 Because, see, 21:54 the one thing I like about 21:55 the brother is he doesn't spend his time asking, 21:58 what if it don't work? 22:05 CC Understand that most cripples hold back in the day 22:08 like the man at 73 or the fucking Jesus time 22:11 that when you were crippled. 22:13 What you boss at the time in order to avoid bedsores, 22:17 is you lived with a mat. 22:21 It was a soft place to sit 22:24 or a soft place to land. 22:28 Okay, yeah. 22:29 You ought to get this. 22:30 And it's funny because, like, even two times, 22:32 like cripple limbs were in some you've seen unclean. 22:36 So you covered them with blankets and covers. 22:38 But I like this brother, man. 22:39 He he ain't got no shame in his gay 22:42 like he don't want nothing to obstruct his movement. 22:46 This brother thought aside, his cover, 22:49 his robe, he got ass all on his knees, 22:52 because I know that dark black will crack. 22:54 Do I have a witness in the other day? 22:55 Right. 22:57 I see. 22:58 The thing I like about this brother is he is not worried 23:02 about what they think. 23:05 If it don't work. 23:06 See, some of us will never step because you so worried 23:11 about what somebody is going to say if it don't come to pass, 23:15 if it don't work out and if it don't come together. 23:18 And the thing I like about the brother 23:21 is that once he obeys the command, 23:24 he doesn't ask somebody for a cane, 23:29 he doesn't ask nobody for a yorker, 23:33 and he doesn't lay the mat in front of him 23:36 in the event that he falls, 23:40 he's got a soft place to land because when you act 23:43 on the Word of God, you don't need a backup plan. 23:48 You don't need a contingency plan. 23:51 You don't need a plan b. 23:54 C the reason we never know God's plan 23:59 is we're so busy and loyal to our backup plan. 24:05 We always worried about what if it don't work out? 24:09 What if it fails? What if it doesn't come to pass? 24:11 What if God doesn't hear my prayer? 24:12 You will never know what could be. 24:16 If you're always asking What if it does not 24:18 come to pass? 24:21 Are you out here in the world today? 24:24 You're in some point. 24:26 You've just got to start acting in faith. 24:30 So you got to start writing the book before you find 24:33 a publisher. 24:35 You got to start writing the music. 24:36 Before you find a record producer, let's discuss why 24:41 you got to start the ministry before you find the money. 24:44 Like at some point you got to stop asking 24:46 what ifs and just saying God. 24:49 What did you say to me? 24:53 This thing got even better 25:00 because you know what Paul said. 25:02 Money, noise, 25:06 all Paul said 25:08 was stand up 25:15 now, church. 25:18 It would have been enough of a miracle if he just stood up. 25:22 Hey, that's shouting right there. 25:26 If he just stands up on two feet, that ain't never worked. 25:32 But you know what I like about the brother 25:34 is that he doesn't let caution smother his faith. 25:41 Okay, so come and sit. Says 25:46 that before you jump up out of your seat. 25:50 What he should've did was test it. 25:51 That right leg first 25:55 to make sure it's work and common sense says 25:58 test the left leg. 25:59 Second to make sure it's work. 26:03 And common sense says wiggle your hips 26:06 to make sure they're firing. 26:08 But the thing I like about this brother 26:12 is he ain't got no common sense with his faith. 26:15 He doesn't test the waters. 26:18 He doesn't test his legs. 26:21 He doesn't walk. 26:23 Before he ran and after he learned to run, 26:27 then you had to learn how to leap. 26:30 But the brother doesn't start with a step. 26:33 He doesn't start with a run. 26:35 But the Bible says that he starts 26:41 not with a step. 26:43 Cause it's not a step. 26:44 Yeah, it's not a stand. 26:47 Yeah. I declare 26:51 in the name of Jesus 26:54 that yes, I live here now 26:59 I have a I love this brother. 27:05 He's saying you ain't always 27:08 got to go the conventional around 27:11 you ain't always got to wait in line. 27:14 Sometimes God says, Forget the process 27:18 and I'm gonna let you take a lead 27:21 in Jesus name. 27:23 Can somebody say I'ma take a spiritual leap 27:28 of faith? 27:28 Leap, oh, forgiveness, leap. 27:32 And professionally and financially 27:37 and socially. 27:39 Get off of your feet 27:42 and take a leap 27:45 in Jesus name, 27:47 my, don't wait for a step. 27:52 Don't wait for a stand. 27:55 You just got to take a leap. 28:05 (Breath Of |
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