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WORDS DETERMINE WHAT YOU BELIEVE
The Process Of Faith (Part 1)
Foundation Statement: The first step in the process of faith is that you have to spend time hearing the right words. The Words that you are spending time listening to are determining what you believe and what you believe is determining your life. Change what you're hearing and you will change your life.
Foundation Scripture: Romans 10:17, Proverbs 4:20
I. All victory all prosperity starts with the Word of God because faith, which is the victory comes by hearing the word (Romans 10:17, 1 John 5:4)
A. You have to find the Word of God on what you're believing for
1. You have to spend time in that word to change what you believe
2. Hearing the Word of God will take place where you believe that you have received
B. Your life today is a sum total of the words that you spend time listening to (Proverbs 4:20)
1. The words you are hearing are either producing unbelief which is defeat or faith which is the victory
II. The most powerful weapon that Satan has is to get you to spend time listening to the wrong words
A. The first step to defeat an area of your life is to spend time listening to words that are in opposition to the Word of God
1. Unbelief comes by hearing and hearing by the words of Satan
a. Unbelief will keep you from your inheritance
b. Unbelief is the defeat that is overcome by the world
2. Satan has to keep you out of that Bible because he knows that if you spend time listening to God's word that's the foundation to his defeat
B. The children of Israel listened to the wrong words and it produced a belief/image in their hearts that they couldn't go in and possess the land (Numbers 13:2,25-33)
1. Who told them they couldn't go in and possess the land? The walls said it, size of the giants said it, and the people that were dwelling in the land said it.
a. That was referred to as an evil report
2. God said that he would drive the people out of the land that he had given to the children of Israel and they would possess it (Exodus 33:1-3, 34:10-11)
3. The basis for what you believe shouldn't come from see with your physical eye, the basis for you believe should come from what you see in God's word
a. They based what they believed off of the evil report (the circumstances and situations) instead of basing what they believed off of God's report and because it they couldn't possess something that had already been given to them
b. Who told you that? Where is that report coming from? Because if what you hearing is in opposition to what God's saying, then you need to believe what God's saying in spite of what you're hearing.
C. As believers we cannot spend time listening to the wrong words because they will produce a belief in our heart that is in opposition to the Word of God and keep us from seeing the manifestation of that Word in our lives
1. Unbelief will keep you from the manifestation of God's word in your life (Hebrews 3:19)
a. The children of Israel couldn't enter in because of their unbelief. Not because of the giants or the walls or the people, but because they wouldn't believe God's word.
2. Belief in the word of God comes from hearing that word and attending to that word (Romans 10:17)
a. When the word of God is not mixed with faith, it will not profit you (Hebrews 4:2, Romans 1:16)
b. The children of Israel couldn't go in and posses the land because they spent time meditating on the wrong words
i. Those ten spies heard God's report just like everyone else but they didn't attend to it, so it didn't produce faith in their heart
III. If your faith is going to produce in your life, then come hell or high-water we have to give our thoughts and our attention to the word of God. (Proverbs 4:20)
A. Ultimately, the words that you attend to will determine whether you walk in victory and receive the manifestation of the promise or walk in defeat and never see the manifestation of God's word.
1. Hebrews 3:12 - Take heed that you don't have an evil heart of unbelief
B. You have to make an on-purpose-conscious-decision when the evil report is staring you in the face that you are going to attend to the word of God
1. Don't spend your time attending to circumstances, situations, or any other evil thing that is saying something that is in opposition to what God's saying
a. The reason you haven't been able to walk in prosperity is because you've been spending time listening to words that are keeping you in poverty
2. EXAMPLE: You say, "I see the poverty, but I'm attending to he took my poverty and gave me his prosperity, I see the sickness, but I'm attending to by his stripes I'm healed, I see the debt, but I'm attending to I'm the lender, not the borrower and I owe no man nothing but to love him."
C. How to attend to God's word? (Proverbs 4:20-24)
1. You give your thoughts and attention to the word of God by looking at them, hearing them, and saying them.
2. When you are attending to the Word of God by looking at them, hearing them, and saying them, they will take root in your heart and produce an image or belief.
3. The words that you put in your heart will become your life
a. Proverbs 23:7 - As man thinks in his heart so is he
4. You guard your heart with your mouth
D. A man will not go any farther in life, than the words that He has deposited into his heart. (Matthew 12:33-37)
1. You can bring forth good things are bad thing in life based on the words that you deposit in your heart
2. Notice it's the man bringing forth the things, not God
•3. What you have in life, whether it be good, bad, or mediocre, is simply a result of what you've deposited in your heart
IV. The person that attends to the word of God will win because faith comes by hearing the word of God and faith is the victory that overcomes the world, consequently victory comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17, 1 John 5:4)
A. The guy that spends time in hearing the word of God is empowered to prosper (Luke 11:28)
1. Psalm 1:1-3
2. Joshua 1:8
B. The difference in the winners and the losers is the words that they spend time listening too
1. The children of Israel failed because they attended to the giants, the walls, the people, all in all the evil report (Numbers 13)
a. It wasn't that the giants were too big it was that their faith was too small
2. Peter failed because he attended to the wind and to the waves (Matthew 14:24)
a. The wind and the waves didn't knock Peter down, it was the unbelief in his heart that knocked him down
3. David won because he attended to his covenant (1Samuel 17)
a. David never mentioned one time the size of the giant
b. David spent so much time in his covenant that in his eyes he was bigger than Goliath because God was with him
4. Abraham one because he attended to the promise (Romans 4:18)
a. Abraham didn't consider the evil report, he considered his promise and the covenant that he had with God and it produce faith in
b. Abraham didn't consider his body or Sarah's body because would produced unbelief in his heart and defeat in his life
V. The target of Satan then is to steal that word from you because if he can steal the word from you he can produce unbelief in your heart and defeat in your life
A. Satan comes after the word
1. Mark 4:15 - When you start sowing the word, know this that Satan is going to do something to try to steal that word that you have been sowing so that you'll attend to something else
2. Mark 4:16-17 - Trouble, tribulation, and distress come to get your attention off of that word
3. Luke 8:12-13 - Satan and the test and the trial and the tribulation is all coming to get that word from your heart so that you don't believe it and see it come to pass in your life
B. The pressure came to get you off of the word of God, so no matter what do not let go of that word and at all costs keep your thoughts and your attentions on it
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