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Faith

1 Corinthians 13:1

Love Is the Greatest

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1 Corinthians 13

The Greatest Gift

 ¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

If we are going to live the way God wants us to live we are going to have to do it by faith

1 Corinthians 13:13

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¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13

New Living Translation (NLT)

 ¹³ Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.


God is a Faith God and if you are going to live the way he does you are going to have to operate the way he does

Hebrews 11:1

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Hebrews 11

By Faith We Understand

 ¹ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1

Great Examples of Faith

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Hebrews 11 

 ¹NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, ^[a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].

 

Faith and Hope are two different things but works together having hope but you can have hope without faith.

  Am I in hope or am I in faith?

Hope has limitations faith is limitless.

Hope is a positive expectation of something in the future.  We have to have hope before we can get  faith.

Something good is going to happen.

God always builds your hope before he builds your faith.

 

Genesis 12:1-7

The Call of Abram

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Genesis 12

Promises to Abram

 ¹ Now the LORD had said to Abram:

      “Get out of your country,
      From your family
      And from your father’s house,
      To a land that I will show you. ² I will make you a great nation;
      I will bless you
      And make your name great;
      And you shall be a blessing.
 ³ I will bless those who bless you,
      And I will curse him who curses you;
      And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
⁴ So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh.^[a] And the Canaanites were then in the land.
⁷ Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Hebrews 11:1

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Hebrews 11

By Faith We Understand

 ¹ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hope is a blueprint or a model.
Hope is what proves that blueprint.
God begin to build a blueprint for Abraham.

Genesis 13:14-17

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¹⁴ And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; ¹⁵ for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants^[a] forever. ¹⁶ And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. ¹⁷ Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”

Genesis 15:1-6

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Genesis 15

God’s Covenant with Abram

 ¹ After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
² But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” ³ Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!”
⁴ And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.” ⁵ Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
⁶ And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.


God had to give Abraham a miracle for it to happen. They had to be brought to no hope.

Genesis 17:1-4

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Genesis 17

The Sign of the Covenant

 ¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. ² And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” ³ Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: ⁴ “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

God changed Abram name to Abraham God also changed Sarai name to Sarah. This was a Faith confession.

Romans 4:16-17

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¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all ¹⁷ (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”^[a]) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;



Hope is the blueprint faith is your contrition cure faith is a force
Let God build the blue print for you let faith work faith works in the invisible arena where God lives 
God calls those things which be not as tho they already were
Hope says-I am going to(I will) be healed,blessed, and get another job
There is a lot of people that think there is standing in faith for healing but they are standing in hope
Faith calls those things which be not as tho they already are
By his strips you were healed  your healing already exists
 

Romans 4:18-19

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¹⁸ who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”^{[a] 19} And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.



What does being strong in faith do
If I am going to walk in faith I am going to have to put some blinders on(Faith) By his strips you were healed
Believe what God has said what has happen to me Jesus already died
Don't hope have faith you are healed

Mark 11:22-24

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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.



What does Gods faith look like? Jesus said when you pray believe that you have it and you already have it.

Hebrews 6:12

faith and patience (consistency)

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¹² that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Hebrews 10:35

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³⁵ Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

John 20:7

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⁷ and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.


Jesus wants us to be in a life of faith not hope
living in actual  faith not hope that's what actually going to change our world


Preached by Pastor Brad
http://springhill.cc/ 

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Understanding Honor

Proverbs 24:27

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27[Put first things first.] Prepare your work outside and get it ready for yourself in the field; and afterward build your house and establish a home.

we must come to the place that we value God and value His Kingdom more than any then anything else that is in our lives or around us.

Saying God has priority in your life and how you schedule and organize your life can be two different things. In other words,we can look at how you and I schedule our lives and see whether God is the priority in our lives.

1 Corinthians 6:12

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Glorify God in Body and Spirit

12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

1 Corinthians 6:12

The Message (MSG)

12Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean that it's spiritually appropriate. If I went around doing whatever I thought I could get by with, I'd be a slave to my whims.

When you don't set proper priorities in our lives we become slaves to our whims.

If we don't set priorities in our lives, our circumstances will set priorities in our lives for us. When we don't set proper priorities in our lives, other people will set priorities in our lives.

2 Corinthians 8:5

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5 And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.

John 5:21

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21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

When God is first amazing things will begin to happen in your life.

When love is your motive,honor will be your objective.

Honor-fix a high value upon

To honor God means that you will allow His Word to carry more weight in your life than any other influences in your life.

How much weight does God's Word carry in your life?

Are we allowing God's Word to weigh in on everything that we do and say?

1 Samuel 2:30

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30 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the LORD says: ‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

To despise God is to have the heart attitude that His Word does not carry weight with you.

Things may not be working in our lives because we are not walking in honor and we might actually be despising God.

John 5:44

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44 How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?


The honor that comes from God is like no other honor.

The honor that comes from God is the blessing of God.

Remember, the blessing is not the house, the car, the promotion,etc. Thant is the result of the blessing.

The blessing is an empowerment. It is God's ability coming on your ability to give you the ability to things that you did not have the ability to do before.

BUT IT STARTS WITH HONOR!!!

Matthew 15:8

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8 ‘ These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And[a]honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.

Ephesians 6:1-3

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Ephesians 6
Children and Parents
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”[a]

To honor your mother and your father means more then just a holiday. It means that you gives the authority to speak into your life with the full intention to obey what they say to you.

The key to our lives becoming everything everything that God wants it to be is to honor God. He has to be first and then I have to give Him the authority to speak into my life with the full intention of being obedient to what He says.

If God's Word carries weight in your life and you carry it out, then your words will carry weight in heaven and God will carry them out for you.

Proverbs 3:9

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9 Honor the LORD with your possessions,
And with the firstfruits of all your increase;


When you honor the Lord with your possessions, you give Him the authority to speak into your life where your possessions are concerned with the full intention of obeying Him.

What is the degree of your honor? Is He really first in your life? Is He really your King?

Preached By Pastor Brad
http://springhill.cc/

Now Faith is

John 4:24

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24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

John 4:22-23

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22Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

God is truth
John 17:1-26

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John 17

1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me
to do.


5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Hebrews 11:3

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3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Truths about Creation Genesis 1-2:3

Genesis 1
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

God’s angels already had been created (Gen 3:24, Job 38:7). Scripture points out that the, rebellion of Satan transpired before these events. In chapter. 3 we see Satan has fallen (he tempts Eve in the guise of the serpent). But In chapter 1 the focus is on the creation of the material world—the heavens and the earth.

2 Corinthians 4:4

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4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

1 Corinthians 2:14

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14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 13:13

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13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Faith, Hope, and Love and the greatest is Love (NLT)and(NKJV)

1 Corinthians 13:13

New Living Translation (NLT)

 ¹³ Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13

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¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

God is Love 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8


Amplified Bible (AMP)

4Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

5It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].

6It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.

7Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].

8Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy ([a]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].


Faith can Create
Faith is what moves the creative power of God and brings it over to the natural realm. Faith has superiority over any natural law that is in operation on the earth.
God has the power to over ride sin

John 2:1-5

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John 2
1ON THE third day there was a wedding at Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

2Jesus also was invited with His disciples to the wedding.

3And when the wine was all gone, the mother of Jesus said to Him, They have no more wine!

4Jesus said to her, [[a]Dear] woman, what is that to you and to Me? [What do we have in common? Leave it to Me.] My time (hour to act) has not yet come.

5His mother said to the servants, Whatever He says to you, do it.

Favor with God and man
Mark 10:45

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45For even the Son of Man came not to have service rendered to Him, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for ([a]instead of) many.

God desperately wants to work with you
If the Power of God is going to show up on earth he needs peoples cooperation
To cooperate with God you are going to have to do it through the spirit
God has a plan for our life that will not come to past without the Faith connection
in our life

Mark 1:40-41

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40And a leper came to Him, begging Him on his knees and saying to Him, If You are willing, You are able to make me clean.

41And being moved with pity and sympathy, Jesus reached out His hand and touched him, and said to him, I am willing; be made clean!


The mind set of faith
Matthew 18:2-4

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2And He called a little child to Himself and put him in the midst of them,

3And said, Truly I say to you, unless you repent (change, turn about) and become like little children [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all].

4Whoever will humble himself therefore and become like this little child [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving] is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.



Preached by Pastor Brad
http://springhill.cc/