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YOUR LIFE IS THE PRODUCT OF YOUR BELIEF
The Process of Faith (Part 2)
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: There is an image/belief inside all of us that is determining who we are and what we have in life. That image/belief in your heart is the source that produces in your life. In the process of faith you have to reset that image/belief in your heart to line up with the Word of God
Foundation Scripture: Proverbs 23:7, Mark 9:23
I. In the process of faith you have to reset your belief so that you can see yourself in line with the Word of God
A.Unbelief will keep you from your inheritance (Numbers 13, Hebrews 3)
1.Unbelief is not non-belief. Unbelief means to believe something that God didn’t say.
2.There’s a belief inside all of us that is determining the results that we are getting in life and in
the process of faith we have to reset that belief and begin to see ourselves the way
that God says we are.
B. In the process of faith we have to reset your belief/image to line up with the Word of God and get you to the place where you believe that you have received.
1. EXAMPLE: If you’re going to receive healing, then we have to get you see yourself as being healed and believe that you’re healed.
2. EXAMPLE: If you’re going to receive financial prosperity, then we have to get you to see yourself as being prosperous and believe that you are prosperous.
II. You can’t go any further in life, than the image or belief in your heart (Proverbs
23:7)
A. If you are going to become it in life then you first of all have to give birth to it in your heart
1. There’s a time of conception that must take place if you are going to give birth to the promise in your life
2. What you believe you are, you are; what you believe you have, you have; what you believe you can do, you’re doing
a. Mark 9:23 – You can’t go any further in life than the boundary of belief that is in your heart
B. You have to see yourself the way the Word of God says you are for that Word to come to pass in your life
1. If you can’t see yourself with it or get to the place where you believe you receive, you’ll never receive (Mark 11:24)
a. You have to see yourself with it
b. Faith sees itself in line with the Word of God before it’s shown up in the physical realm
C. Unbelief works against you like a fence to keep you trapped in the wilderness of just enough and to keep you from the manifestation of God’s Word
1. Right now you are trapped in your belief, and if we are going to get you out then we have to reset your belief
2. That unbelief that kept the children of Israel from entering into the promised land was located in their hearts; so the boundary for their life was not outside, the boundary for their life was in their hearts. (Hebrews 3:19)
3. Believing that you’re sick will keep you from being healed, believing that you’re middle class will keep you from being rich, believing that you’re depressed will keep you from walking in joy
D. The Children of Israel (Numbers 13:2, 25-33, 14:9)
1.God’s promise to them was in Exodus 32:34, 33:1-3, 34:11, Numbers 13:2
2.They believed Numbers 13:31-33 – Unbelief
3. Because they didn’t believe what God said, that kept them from seeing the manifestation of what He said
III. Your life is merely a reproduction of the image/belief that you have in your
heart
A. Your life is being produced by the belief that you have in your heart (Proverbs 4:20)
1. Your life on this Earth is coming out of your heart
2. Matthew 9:29 – According to your faith
3. Matthew 8:13 – As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee
4. Mark 5:34 – Your faith has made you whole
5. Luke 17:9 – Your faith has made you whole
B. The things in your life are coming as result of the words that you deposited in your heart
1. Those words that you deposit in you are producing your faith/image/belief and your life is merely a reproduction of what you believe in your heart
2. EXAMPLES
a. The Children of Israel believed they couldn’t go in and that belief produced in their lives (Numbers 13)
b. Joshua and Caleb believed they could go in and that belief produced in their lives (Numbers 13)
c. David believed he could defeat Goliath and that belief produced in his life (1 Samuel 17)
d. The three Hebrews believed that God would deliver them and that belief produced in their life (Daniel 3)
e. Peter believed he could walk on water and that produced in his life and then Peter believed the wind and the waves were going to knock him down and that produced in his life (Matthew 14)
C. That tree represents the image in your heart and the fruit off of that tree represents the product of your life (Matthew 12:33)
1. You bring forth good things in your life by making a good deposit of the Word of God in your heart
a. That Word in you will create a belief/image that lines up with the Word of God and that belief/image will come forth in your life
2. Notice it’s the man bringing forth the things, not God
a. God has given you His Word so that you can transform your belief/image and bring that Word forth in your life
b. You are the one determining what you have in life and nobody can stop you, but you
3. If you want the fruit to be good make the tree good; if you want the results to be the Word of God then make your belief/image the Word of God
a. If you want the fruit to be apples then make the tree an apple tree; if you want the fruit to be prosperity, then make the image prosperity
b. Your problem isn’t physical and it’s not outside; the problem has been with your tree/image/belief
i. 2 Corinthians 10:3
ii. The only thing that you have to do to win is make the tree good!
4. To change the tree in you, you have to change the Word seed that you’ve planted in your heart
a. If you want to bear prosperity fruit, then you have to have a prosperity tree, and to have a prosperity tree you have to sow the Word seed in your heart on prosperity
IV. Your life is working from the belief in your heart outward
A. You are not who you are because of what’s going on around you; you are who you are because of what’s going on inside of you.
1. That belief in your heart is determining who you are, what you have, and what you can do in life
a.That belief in your heart is producing what you have in your life
B. Matthew 15:10-20
1.It’s the words that are coming out of your mouth that are defiling you
a. Those word seeds that you are releasing out of your mouth are being deposited in your heart and they are becoming your life
b. What’s around you doesn’t defile you; it’s what’s in you that defiles you
i. It’s what a man puts in his heart that defiles him
2. Every tree, every belief, every image that God and His Word didn’t plant in you has to be rooted up
a. If God didn’t say it about you, then you’ve got no business believing it your heart
b. These images/beliefs that the world has built in you have to be rooted out and you have to begin to see yourself the way God says you are
3. Jesus referred to the Pharisees as blind because they didn’t see themselves the way God said they were
a. When you have an image in you that the world or Satan has produced, then you are blinded from the truth of who you really are and what you really have
b. Only the people who can’t see will follow people who can’t see, but when the Word is revealed to you, you can see and you won’t follow someone who can’t see
4. The things in your life are proceeding coming forth out of the heart
a. How did it get in the heart? Through words
C. Matthew 23:25-26 – The process of change takes place from the inside out
1. If the outside is going to be good, you first of all have to make the inside good
2. Matthew 12:33 – If you want the fruit to be good then make the tree good
V. The eye of faith can see what can’t be seen with the physical eye (2 Corinthians
4:18)
A. Faith can see that rascal as done, before it’s physically done
1. You’ve conceived it or gave birth to it in your heart
B. Faith can look beyond the natural circumstances and see the manifestation of God’s Word
1. The eye of faith can see something that cannot physically be seen
a. I might not see prosperity with my physical eye, but I see myself as prosperous through the eye of faith
b. EXAMPLE: Everything around me can be telling me that I’m broke, but through the eye of faith I see myself with my needs met, out of debt, rich, prosperous, overflowing, and abundantly supplied in finances
C. Seeing it through the eye of faith
1. 2 Kings 6:15-18 – The prophet saw something that couldn’t be seen with the physical eye because he had an image of protection on the inside of him. He could see God protecting him under any circumstance and the word that produced that image was that if your enemy comes against you one way I’ll cause him to flee 7 ways and I’ll never leave you nor forsake you.
a. What he saw through the eye of faith kept him grounded in the time of attack
b. Fear will always see things in line with the physical report; faith will always be in line with God’s report
2. Hebrews 11:27 – What you see through the eye of faith will produce endurance and encourage you to keep on believing
a. When circumstances are bad, you need to look through the eye of faith, see the situation as finished and endure
b. Moses saw something that was invisible through the eye of faith
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