WILL YOU LOAN YOUR FAITH?
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
COMFORT ZONE VS THE CALLING!
Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
WHEN THE PAIN IS CRUSHING. WHEN THERE SEEMS TO BE NO RELIEF. WHEN THE HURT KILLS OUR HOPE. PEACE ELUDES US. WHAT CAN I DO? WHEN OUR DISAPPOINTMENTS, TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES ARE FLOODING US… ARE WE GOING TO DROWN?
Psalm 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
ABIDE IN YOUR CALLING… NOT YOUR COMFORT ZONE…
*BORROW: TO TAKE AND USE SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE.
*LOAN: temporary usage, something that is lent, a thing that is borrowed.
WHAT IS LIFE IF GOD IS NOT IN IT? GOD HAS A PLAN… WE HAVE A JOB TO FULFILL. WE ARE TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING. AFTER WE PRAY WE MUST PATIENTLY WAIT. COME LET US TRUST THE MIGHTY GOD. WE KNOW THAT GOD, IN HIS TIME, WILL USE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO US FOR OUR GOOD.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
I have learned that in extreme pain … WE CANNOT GIVE UP! We must keep praying while trusting. BY FAITH. We must learn the lesson that Paul learned with his 3 thorns. I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION: GOD’S GRACE IS SUFFICIENT.
BORROW NOT A FEW … ELISHA HEARD FROM THE LORD… IT TAKES GREAT FAITH TO BORROW EMPTY VESSELS.
The oil flowed until the LAST POT WAS FULL. The blessings flowed … I HEAR THE HOLY SPIRIT SAY WE HAVE BEEN IN A DROUGHT… WE ARE HOPELESS AND HELPLESS… BORROW EMPTY VESSELS… Many will live because of the in filling of the empty pots. Her sons will be saved from the auction block.
Hear me! Hear me, my friend… THERE IS ENOUGH OIL TO MEET THE NEED.
Isaiah 55:8 (NLT2) “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
EMPTY POTS? PREACHER, WE ARE DESPERATE. THERE IS NO ANSWER. THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO TO BRING RELIEF TO THIS SITUATION. WE ARE NOT ONLY HELPLESS, WE ARE NOT HOPELESS.
You must prepare for your miracle. DO WHAT I SAY. Go borrow THE EMPTY VESSELS. Why empty pots? Empty pots will not help us. LISTEN TO THE PREACHER BORROW NOT A FEW. THE SIZE OF YOUR MIRACLE WILL DEPEND ON HOW MANY POTS YOU BORROW.
MY FRIEND WE ARE IN A DROUGHT, ALL THE POTS ARE EMPTY. Your miracle will depend on your trusting the plan of empty vessels… borrow not a few.
2 Kings 4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. 5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. 6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. 7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
I CAN’T. YOU CAN’T. WE CAN’T. PEOPLE WERE DISABLED, THE CROWD AROUND US IS NEGATIVE. LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE OF THE SICK PEOPLE. O, GOD ANOTHER YEAR ROLLS AROUND AND LOOK I AM IN THE SAME PLACE I WAS 18 YEARS AGO? 28 YEARS AGO… WHAT IS THE USE?
John 5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
DO YOU WANT TO MAKE IT 39 YEARS? DO YOU WANT TO BE MADE WHOLE? HEY SIR, DON’T YOU KNOW, I HAVE BEEN HERE 38 YEARS…
John 5: 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
DO YOU WANT TO MAKE IT 39 YEARS? DO YOU WANT TO BE MADE WHOLE? HEY SIR, DON’T YOU KNOW, I HAVE BEEN HERE 38 YEARS… NO WAY?
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
JESUS WAS GOD’S SON: HE ASKED WHAT DO YOU WANT? JESUS LOANED HIS FAITH TO THE MAN… ARISE, GET UP. JESUS LOANED HIS FAITH TO THE MAN. GET UP. GET UP NOW. What do you mean, GET UP? DON’T YOU KNOW 38 YEARS? JESUS DOESN’T CARE HOW LONG… JESUS SAYS: I AM GOING TO LOAN MY FAITH TO YOU. 38 years of nothing? JUST WAIT!
HE CAN’T DO NOTHING…YOU EVER GET A BRIGHT IDEA? GOD CAN! THERE IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE SITTING AROUND AND SOMEHOW THE DISCUSSION TURNED TO TALK ABOUT JESUS AND HOW JESUS WAS HEALING PEOPLE. THEIR FRIEND LAID THERE HELPLESS AND HOPELESS. SOMEONE HAD FAITH --- LET US LOAN THIS GUY OUR FAITH.
FAITH HAS TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES. You mean we came all this way and NOW NOTHING!
Let’s talk about FRUSTRATION? If we share our faith we must not quit. This obstacle is an opportunity.
WE ARE LOANING OUR FAITH AND WE WILL GET OUR MIRACLE,
Mark 2:1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
THERE ARE AT LEAST 5 DISAPPOINTED PEOPLE… WE REFUSE TO BE STOPPED SHORT OF OUR MIRACLE. WE HAVE COME THIS FAR BY FAITH. WE REFUSE TO GO HOME WITHOUT OUR MIRACLE. The men stepped out of their COMFORT ZONE. They stepped into the REALM OF MIRACLES, THE CALL! Up, up the wall.
Mark 2: 3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. 4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
WE CAN LOAN OUR FAITH… WHEN JESUS SAW THEIR FAITH.
Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
Mark 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
CONCLUSION: TODAY WE LOVE OUR COMFORT ZONE. Do you know your eyes and ears are gates or ports where ships load and unload? The fence of the comfort zone can hinder THE CALL OF GOD. The call of God is to operate in the realm of BY FAITH. We can accept this is my COMFORT ZONE. Erosion has the tendency to slowly accept 38 years as the norm. WE EXCUSE OUR CALLING. COME WITH ME INTO THE “BY FAITH” AND ARISE ABOVE ACCEPTING OUR COMFORT ZONE… HEAR ME MY FRIEND… GOD HAS A HIGH CALLING UPON YOU TO MOVE IN THE DIVINE REALM OF MOVING IN OUR CALLING… THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD
Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
Isaiah 59:19 When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
THE COMA IS IN THE WRONG PLACE. COMA SHOULD BE AFTER COME IN (,) LIKE A FLOOD…
