God tests you because the test confirms that your faith is real. The problem is that a lot of us have taken the test but our faith comes back as unconfirmed righteousness because we won’t do the work.

1. 01.09.11 I Am Global International Ministries What Is Your Faith Birthing “ When you come into the real body of Christ the first thing that should happen is you should have an experience. You should experience something or have an encounter with Him.” “ You shouldn’t try to fit into a body or a particular body of Christ, nor should you become an experiment of a particular body.” “ A lot of churches see new faces and the people become bait. People even switch their message for the new faces which says that the message never came from God in the first place.” “ A lot of people have gone into churches and left churches and they are spiritual experiments gone wrong.” “ When you go to a church you ought to know that you are called and attached to that body because if you are called and attached that means you have a function there.” “ If you don’t have an experience or an encounter you should ask God for one to see if that’s where you belong.” “ During an encounter, God will speak to you through someone about something you already know. It will be something that this person has no way of knowing. The only way they would know is because God had to tell them and He will confirm what He has spoken so you know it was Him. He will begin to take you through a series of spiritual testing.” “ Some tests you will be used in and some you will be used for. That’s how God tests you. This is to show you where you are and what areas God wants to clean you up in and what spiritual prescriptions He needs to prescribe so you can begin your pathway to healing.”

2. “ These tests are not measured by grades (pass or fail), but by levels because you can go as high as you are willing to put in the work and it will require something called faith. This faith allows someone you can’t see to do something that you don’t understand, but you’ll believe it.” “ When we look at Abraham, because he so single heartedly obeyed God to sacrifice his son, Abraham was counted as righteous. God counted Abraham as righteous because his heart was willing and he wasn’t double-minded in his heart. Some of us have a double mind and a double heart. Abraham had the heart to kill his son for the Lord. That would have pleased God, so he was one in heart not double in heart.” “ Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one. If you are one with Them you are supposed to have the same heart. If you disagree with Them and what They say, then you have added a different heart.” “ Abraham had faith in what God said but in order to have faith in what the Lord said, he had to know what the Lord said.” Genesis 22:1-14 Verse 5, Abraham had displayed his faith already because he told them he was coming back with his son before he even offered him.” Deuteronomy 18:10 “ You don’t know all the word, only Jesus does. If we just trust Him and do the work to train our hearts, God won’t require us to do it anyway.” “ God tests you because the test confirms that your faith is real. The problem is that a lot of us have taken the test but our faith comes back as unconfirmed righteousness because we won’t do the work.”

3. “ So many sit in church and say, “So as a result of my giving, my worship, my time and my love, Lord what about all of that?”, and God says, “I can’t count it as righteous.” “ Your work is in vain when it is not counted as righteousness.” “ So we find ourselves taking the same tests at the same place over and over again. Take the test, get your faith confirmed, and you won’t have to take the test again. Once you do the work, you will understand what it took to get the faith.” “ Now after you pass the test, can a man fall again? Yes. When a righteous man falls we are supposed to lift him up not make a mockery of him because their sins will beat them up enough.” “ God says, “I AM a builder and a restorer, but who is going to stay built when I build you the first time? If I have to keep rebuilding you, to the world it looks like I can’t do My job. Am I not powerful? Once I build you, you’re built!” “ The biggest issue we have in church is that we have faith problems.” “ Without faith it is impossible to please Him. They are us (Father, Son, & Holy Spirit) dwelling in us, so we need Their faith to please Them, not ours.” Many of us have the “I’m working on it” faith. The reason it’s not producing anything is because you can’t create the plan to carry out the work. You can’t write the playbook and you don’t know how much work it takes on the “I’m working on it faith.” “ Faith has to be written down because faith is work. You can’t write an “I’m working on it” faith plan down because you don’t accomplish anything that doesn’t produce anything.” “ Why have I only gotten this far? Because you gave sloppy works somewhere down the line.”

4. “ Please” doesn’t mean a polite gesture to Jesus such as asking for something. “Please” to Him means affordable pleasure. In other words, we must say to Him from our heart, “Lord, it’s my affordable pleasure and if it pleases You to clean me up, then I afford you the pleasure.” “ When He says, “Without faith it is impossible to please Me,” He’s saying without your affordable pleasure, it is impossible for you to please Me because now I don’t have the authority to clean you up.” “ A lot of us say, “Thank you Jesus,” and He says, “For what, you didn’t give Me anything.” “ Faith without works is dead so my faith must be willing to let You do the work, Lord.” “ How do you get your heart right...you can’t. If you want Him to you must do the work. Many say “I’m trying to get my heart right”, but that’s the problem. You can’t write a faith plan for that, only God has a plan for that. If you don’t do the work, then your heart won’t be right and any of His.” “ It’s only through work that can God prove who He is. Other than that, you will take credit for the things you do. You do the work, He works your life out.” “ How much of this faith do I need Lord?” The size of a mustard seed. Why is faith the size of a mustard seed? God says, “I was already the biggest seed in the Garden of Eden. Since your parents (Adam & Eve) didn’t believe Me, I’m going to give you a small seed so you have to do the work to make it grow.” “ He was once given to us freely, now we have to do the work for Him to show who He really is because we didn’t believe Him. Now we have to prove that the little seed will grow into the biggest tree in the garden. At first we didn’t have to prove it, it just was.”

5. “ When you plant it, you have to trust Him to bring you the increase. That’s how our faith grows strong.” “ In Eden is where we lost our faith, and guess where you will find it…back in Eden.” “ We have to position ourselves for Eden while we are in an earth environment. This is just an environment. We should not be trying to fit in where we are totally out of our element.” “ An apple wasn’t an apple before it was a seed, it was a seed first before it became an apple. Someone’s faith led them to believe that if they planted the seed that it would grow into an apple.” “ All we are is a liquid seed. Out of liquid came an eye, some teeth, feet, hair, and a person. How did the liquid know to make your face? Because it contained an image. That’s why we can’t go around laying with anybody because if Jesus didn’t place the image, the count is going to be missing in that seed. You can’t go messing with how Jesus created things.” “ What is your faith giving birth to and after it gives birth, will the work pass the test? How will you know if it passes the test…because it will produce Godly fruit.” “ Birth signifies newness and accomplishment. This is why so many of us are down trodden because there is no new birth and no new accomplishment in our lives.” “ Because we are stagnated in the birth process of our faith, we are stuck in our labor process and the reason we are stuck is because we are giving God sloppy work. We’re grading it ourselves giving ourselves an “A” and God says it’s not even on the scale.” “ Some of us need a spiritual epidural. We think we are doing something but our faith isn’t right.”

6. “ Faith literally means “to know.” It is a firm belief without proof, your work, and what you know your work to be. Your faith will show in your work.” “ Once your faith grows your work will begin to prove that your faith in God is real because it begins to look like God’s work.” “ Some of us God has called to certain things and to have certain roles, but we won’t do our role because we are concerned about what we want to buy and what we want to get. But He says, “If you just do what I tell you to do, you might not have to give the thing up, and when it’s time for you to get it, I might meet you and give you something bigger and you won’t have to do all of what you were going to do if you didn’t give all I told you to give Me.” “ So if you move from a Lord “I believe” to “Lord now faith is”, then you can say, “Now Lord I can afford you the pleasure at this thing that’s keeping me from pleasing you.” So bump “tomorrow”, bump “I believe”, but now, “faith is.” “ You have a now worship, with a yesterday belief, a now praise with a tomorrow mindset?” Hebrews 11:1 “ The evidence of things not seen is because you haven’t put forth the work. If the police need evidence, they have to go collect it. “Go collect My evidence,” says God. “And if it’s My evidence it will produce a good work, and if it’s yours, afford Me the pleasure.” “ Christian belief can’t be based solely on evidence from a scientific perspective. But God is so awesome that even though they don’t have enough evidence to believe the evidence they have is supported. They can’t see it, but yet it’s supported.”

7. “ The chairs that we sit in, we don’t care to check to see if it will hold us or who makes it, or if its static will cling to our clothes, or if the legs are broken, but by faith we sit down. We believe in a chair when we sit in it, and our faith should look like this same illustration.” “ If our faith says that Jesus is the manufacturer, sit down. We should allow Him to support the weight. Instead we sit down ask if Jesus can handle it, and ask can we hold a leg, or if He has it. The weight is now heavy because we have rearranged the chair.” “ We keep getting up and down out of the chair and we gauge our own time. But this is how you know your heart is right because time is no longer an issue or a factor. This is how people operate phony and that’s why nothing will happen because your heart isn’t right. When your heart isn’t right, your work won’t be right, and it will be in vain.” “ How do you get your heart right…put in the work and keep doing the work.” “ Faith that can’t be tested is faith that can’t be trusted.” “ Taking no risks without Godly wisdom you will never understand the impossibilities of what God can do.” “ Obedience and faith are absolutely inseparable. You have to obey what you believe.” Hebrews 4:11 “ The one who is disobedient is counted as disbelieving and having no faith in God that He can do anything in you”

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