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FAITH WILL DO THE WORK
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: As a born-again child of God you weren't made to struggle through life on this Earth. Through faith, God gave us a way to walk in sweat less victory on the Earth. That while the world is out there struggling to get by, we the believers, walk in sweat less victory.
FOUNDATION SCRIPTURE: Romans 8:32, 1:16
I. Everything that you could ever need, want, or desire on this Earth was already bought, paid for, and struggled for by Jesus on the cross at Calvary (Romans 8:32)
A. You don't have to work for or earn what God has provided, you just have to receive it
1. You can't do anything to earn grace, but you do have to receive grace (Ephesians 2:8-9)
2. The promises of God are obviously ours because of the grace of God, but to see the grace of that promise in your life, you must receive it by faith (Romans 4:16)
a. (AMP) Therefore, [inheriting] the promise is the outcome of faith and depends [entirely] on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of grace (unmerited favor)
3. There's no struggle, no sweat, and no toil in receiving
a. How hard was it to get saved? It shouldn't be any harder for you to receive prosperity.
B. Jesus made it so that you have a right to prosper and walk in victory without struggling to do so (Matthew 6:28, Proverbs 10:22)
1. We can prosper, increase, and walk in victory without growing weary, struggling, or being tired
C. When we live the life of faith we can walk in and experience sweat less victory
1. Adam didn't sweat and struggle until after the fall (Genesis 3:17)
2. Jesus came to take me back to the garden (Galatians 3:13)
II. Faith in the Word of God will do the work so that you don't have to struggle to walk in the fullness of God's promise on the Earth (Romans 1:16)
A. The Word of God is the power of God that will do the work and produce the victory in your life
1. You don't have to do anything, but believe
2. The Word will do the work (Isaiah 55:11)
B. Faith will do the work (Galatians 5:6)
C. Peter struggled and toiled as an expert fisherman all night and never caught one thing, but when he acted in faith, there was no toil, he just received and because God was providing it, it was the biggest catch that he ever made (Luke 5:1-9)
1. Don't struggle to get what has already been struggled for, just receive it
III. As a believer your job is not to make this Word come to pass, your job is to live by faith and enter into the rest of faith allowing faith in the Word to do the work (Hebrews 10:38, Galatians 3:11, Habakkuk 2:4)
A. Your job is not to make the Word come to pass, you labor and you work to enter into the rest of faith (Hebrews 4:2-3, 10-11)
1. You've got to cease from your own works and quit trying to do something to make it happen
a. Enter into the rest of faith and allow faith and the Word to do their job, and you just believe
b. You don't labor to enter into prosperity, money, the house, or the car. You labor to enter into the rest of faith. You already are all of those things
2. The farmer sleeps and rises night and day and the harvest came up (Mark 4)
a. He entered into the rest of faith and while he's resting the seed and the ground are working together to produce a harvest
i. While you're resting in faith the Word and your heart are working to produce a harvest
b. He didn't know how it was going to come up, but he knew the law of seedtime and harvest
i. You don't have to know how victory is going to happen you just have to apply the principles of the law of faith
B. Faith is your servant and it will do the work (Luke 17:6)
1. You enter into the rest of knowing that faith is out there working on it 24/7 doing what you tell it to do and bringing the harvest in
a. If you get into doubt and unbelief and take faith off the field, then the way that faith was out there producing victory, with faith withdrawn fear/unbelief is out there producing defeat
2. EXAMPLE: How foolish would it be for the master to be out in the field working and the servant inside sitting on his rear end doing nothing? The master is out there toiling at something that he's not very good at, when all he has to do is tell his servant to go out there and do it and he can enter into the rest of faith. The servant is way more qualified than him and will produce a harvest that he cannot produce, but the master must put him to work.
3. Mark 11 - Jesus spoke to the tree, went to the temple, went home and slept and woke the next morning and the whole time, faith as his servant is out there working on that tree
C. Faith is a law that produces victory every time and once the principles of that law are on, the law itself will do the work (Romans 3:27)
1. The law of lift says thrust over drag will cause that object to lift
a. Once the principles of the law are put into motion there's no struggle for the guy flying that airplane. He didn't have to work to make that airplane fly, all he had to do was apply the principles of the law of lift and the law did the work to get that plane in the air.
2. Faith is a law that produces victory every time
a. You don't have to struggle to get victory in your life, you just have to apply the principles of the law of faith and the law of faith will do the work and produce victory in your life. You don't have to struggle to get victory; you just have to apply the principles of the law of faith and it will do the work.
b. The law of faith doesn't even care what you need victory over, if you apply the principles of that law, faith will do the work no matter how big the task is.
D. You don't have to do it, so it doesn't matter how impossible it may be; release faith onto the situation, it was created for the impossible.
1. Mark 9:23 - All things are possible to him that believes
2. Numbers 11:23 - There is no situation in which God's power is not enough
3. Genesis 18:14 - Is anything too hard for God?
4. Mark 10:27 - With God all things are possible
IV. Faith will do the work so that you don't have to
A. David defeated Goliath with no sweat, no toil, and no struggle; faith in the Word did the work (1 Samuel 17)
1. David had a covenant with God
a. A covenant is documentation of words that two parties agree to keep to the point of death; it's a binding agreement of words that is absolutely 100% unbreakable
b. Deuteronomy 28:7,10,13 - These are the words that God spoke to David
2. Goliath had no words from God and David knew it
a. That's why he called him the uncircumcised philistine
3. David's mindset was that I got words from God and he doesn't and my faith in the Word is going to do the work
a. It was the simplest thing in the world to him; he just received what God had promised
4. David didn't sweat, he didn't struggle, and he didn't toil, he shot one rock and swung the sword one time
a. That must of took all of what, five minutes tops
b. That Word did the work, David just believed it
B. Peter walked on water and it was the easiest thing in the world (Matthew 14:22)
1. He stepped out in faith and faith in the Word did the work
2. That was an impossible task, but faith makes the impossible become possible
C. The woman with the issue of blood struggled and toiled for 12 years to get healed and only got worse (Mark 5)
1. This task was impossible
2. YOUR FAITH made you whole
a. Not you, not me, your faith did it because you put it to work
3. She didn't do anything but believe
D. The Blind man (Mark 10:52)
1. He's blind, no cure, it's impossible
2. Faith did the work and made him whole
E. The leper (Luke 17:13)
1. This guy has leprosy and has body parts missing
2. Faith did the work made it so, anything that he lost because of that leprosy, he got it back
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