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Mark 11:22-26 NKJV
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
25 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
I want you to wake up your faith that God has given you. God has given you, His faith. It’s in you and you need to wake it up.
When they were in the storm, Jesus asked His disciples, “Where is your faith”. In other words, it’s there but why are you not exercising it? Why are you not using it? WAKE IT UP.
You are waking me up from my sleep instead of waking up your faith. Wake it up and rebuke the storm. Command it stop and desist. It will obey you.
Jesus said to his disciples, “Have faith in God”.
The margin in the KJV says, “Have the faith OF God”.
Greek Scholars tell us the literal translation of that verse is “Have the God-Kind of faith”.
Every Born-Again Believer Has Faith
People who are not born-again do have faith but it’s not the God kind of faith. It is sense knowledge faith. Faith that comes from the senses.
I am going to show you that if you are born again, you have the God-kind of faith already in you.
You have the same faith that God has, in you.
The same faith that created the heavens and the earth, the moon and the stars. You have that same kind of faith in you.
And God is expecting you to use His faith just like He used His when He created the heavens and the earth.
God wants you to use your faith like a mechanic uses a tool.
Your faith is for everyday use. We don’t use our faith like a spare tyre or parachute, only in an emergency.
Faith is like a toothbrush. Each one must have their own and use it everyday.
In Mark chapter 11, the passage we just read, Jesus was operating in that kind of faith.
But let’s read it in context.
Mark 11:12-14 NKJV
12 Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry.
13 And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
14 In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His disciples heard it.
“In response Jesus said to it…”
KJV says, “He answered the fig tree”.
You can only answer somebody or something if it said something to you.
This fig tree was speaking to Jesus and He answered it. He responded with words.
Jesus spoke to fig trees. He spoke to storms. He spoke to fever. He spoke to demons.
Learn to speak to your body. Speak to your organs. Command it to be healed and made whole.
Speak to your bank account. Command it be filled with God’s supernatural provision.
When He spoke words, it created.
Words were first and foremost used for creation, not for communication.
God said, “Let there be light and there was light.”
Peter’s mother-in-law was sick and had a fever. Jesus rebuked that fever, it left her and she got up healed immediately.
Luke 4:38-39 NKJV
Now He arose from the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. But Simon’s wife’s mother was sick with a high fever, and they made request of Him concerning her. So He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she arose and served them.
Notice, Jesus never prayed to God the Father asking Him to take away the fever. He spoke to the fever and commanded it to leave her and it obeyed Him.
In Dr. Yonghi Cho’s book, “The Fourth Dimension”, Their was a woman who had a constant fever. Doctors didn’t find anything wrong. Then they discovered that she kept saying, “that just burns me up”.
Learn to speak to situations and circumstances that come against you, that are contrary to what God’s Word says.
But you must be full of faith when you speak otherwise it will sound like faith but it will be empty. (Like a gun with blank bullets. Sound the same but no power).
Speak to lack. Speak to poverty. Speak to debt and tell it be removed.
Speak to sickness, disease, weakness and pain and tell it to be removed.
Tell trouble to get out of your way. Tell demons to get out of your path.
Answer situations like Jesus did.
If people say, “we are all in trouble, this world is getting worse and worse, nothing good ever happens to us”.
Don’t agree with them. Agree with God’s Word.
Say, “I’m not in trouble. God has delivered me from all my troubles. Even though it’s the worst of times, I’m living in the best of times. Something good is going to happen to me today.”
IF YOU SAY WHAT HE SAID, HE’LL DO WHAT YOU SAID.
Mark 11:20-21 NKJV
Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 21 And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”
Mark 11:22-23 NKJV
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Don’t tell God about the mountain. Speak to the mountain and tell it to be removed.
Mountain of sickness. Mountain of debt. Mountain of lack. Mountain of depression.
Your mountain needs to hear your voice. It will respond to your voice.
It’s not come what may. It’s come what you say.
What you say is coming to you, good or bad.
Jesus is teaching and demonstrating to them how the God-kind of faith works.
The God-kind of faith is the kind of faith in which a person believes in his heart, and then he says with his mouth what he believes in his heart. And Jesus said, “When that happens, it will come to pass.”
2 Corinthians 4:1 NLT
Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up.
We never give up. We don’t lose heart. We don’t quit. We keep believing.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 TPT
Though we experience every kind of pressure, we’re not crushed. At times we don’t know what to do, but quitting is not an option. We are persecuted by others, but God has not forsaken us. We may be knocked down, but not out.
2 Corinthians 4:13 NKJV
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
The spirit of faith believes and speaks. Faith must be in two places in order for it to work.
Say, “I have the same spirit of faith!”
You Have World Overcoming Faith
When God gave you His faith, He gave you victory because…
1 John 5:4 NKJV says
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Are you born of God? Are you saved? If the answer is yes, then you have overcome the world and all the evil that is in it.
And what gives you victory over the evil that is in the world? Your faith. The God-kind of faith.
Jesus said, “you will have trouble in this world”. But that is why He gave you His faith, to overcome all the trouble in this world.
John 16:33 AMPC
I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]
God placed world-overcoming faith in you. He put the faith in you that gives you victory over the evil that is in this world.
The key is: Are you using it? You need to wake up your faith
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NLT
That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.
17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!
18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 MSG
So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us.
There’s far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever.