Trusting God's Specific Promise to You in Difficult Times - Extreme Faith
Mega faith and mega grace
If you need to see something big move in your life or move significantly, it takes exercising mega faith to appropriate mega grace.
2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, reproaches, necessities, persecutions, distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
When you step out in faith and rely on my grace to obey the words I have spoken, present or past. Do not grow weary waiting for my word to come to pass.
The Lord will make the impossible things possible. That is who the Lord is when we step in faith and rely on His grace. Not sitting on it but moving forward on the word given by others or the Word of God to compel you.
The Lord will show ways over, around, and through things that may have held a person back in their calling, purpose, etc. Regardless of what is happening, do not look at the circumstances. We must keep our eyes on Him and His promises to the body of Christ, whether as a body or personally.
That means we cannot waiver. To not waiver is to stand and stay strong, believing, standing on His Word and His promises regardless of what others say or what is happening. Yes, the enemy will try to stop it from coming into flourishing, but it is pressing through, getting the breakthrough. It quotes the promises of God, declares His word, and does not waver. It is building your faith continually daily over the promises of God.
One way to do this is when it comes from the Lord, knowing He will make a way for you. Appropriate His grace over your word of promises that dwell inside of you. Means, trust and obey regardless knowing His grace is sufficient
2 Corinthians 12:9, King James Version, 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me
His grace gives you supernatural favor over your life. His grace gives us supernatural power. What is the grace for? When we get a word or a promise from the Lord, the enemy comes like a flood through discouragement. A time of dryness a lack of anyone encouraging you to stay with it.
The Lord offers us whatever we need, but we must ask for it from Him. He will encourage his people in a time of need when the promise has not come about.
It takes releasing your faith to walk in His grace. Expect the enemy to throw storms, but it takes keeping your eyes on the lord and allowing Him to pour out the grace on us to survive the waiting to fulfill His promises. When we do this, we will see things move that seem immovable.
It is expecting to see God move in ways you hoped and prayed for. Expect to move into new God dimensions as His goodness. Expect and move. How do we know it is time to move?
Being in the same place you may have always been is tiring. It is breaking out, moving into a breakthrough for something new. It is sick and tired of being stuck in the same place of drama. Stop being in a place of lack, but expect abundance spiritually, financially, or both - reaching the promised land, regardless of whether everything is breaking around you—chaos. You can expect chaos, but it takes moving forward to see the promises break into a new dimension.
That means stepping into spiritual warfare to push back the enemy or push forward to the promise. Look at Moses leaving Egypt. They had to press through, backs against the wide river. But God came through, and the water departed. Expect miracles in the middle of chaos when the enemy tries to stop the dream or promise. He will come in like a flood when there is a promise. Expect it, and fight back by pushing through.
David lived in Constant Spiritual Warfare for Battle.
David lived in constant spiritual warfare. It was more of a natural fight but a spiritual lesson for us to learn how to fight and not give up. Remember to rest as well. David, as a mighty warrior, had times of rest. Many times, the Lord fights for us while we are resting. Can you trust the Lord in a time of rest and know the Lord is fighting for you?
Joshua did not Waiver Going Crossing Over Into the Promised Land.
Is there a time you did this? Give an example:
It is time to move out of that place and cross over into the Promised Land like the Israelites did when they entered it. Was it easy? Did they have encounters?
The first thing they did when they moved over the river into the promised land and went into warfare was the Battle of Jericho.
Before crossing the river to the promised land, what did they do?
Joshua 3:14-17, King James Version, 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;
15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan..
The priest was at the front of the tribe with the ark, and they dipped their feet in the water, and the river pulled backward, and the ground was dry.
3:5 they sanctified themselves,
3:7 they magnified praises to the Lord
To stay strong in mega faith, we must sanctify ourselves, examine sin daily, and worship the Lord. Worship can be warfare against the enemy,
The result at Jeriko, was victory in Christ. They took the city down. A City of Giants. The promise?
In Joshua 6:2 it is written how the Lord speaks to Joshua, saying:
“And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.” (Joshua 6:2)
The giants were described as “a mighty people with tall stature who lived in Canaan.
In the scriptures, it is said that the Hebrews set fire to the whole city of Jericho, and none they found inside alive. They burned everything around the city of Jericho, and they tore down structures that escaped the fire.
Joshua and Israel did not waiver because of Jericho's people's size—they were giants. They knew the Lord would give them victory.
·Faith: Joshua and Israel believed the battle plan given by God, as unusual as it was.
·Obedience: Joshua and Israel followed God’s battle plan exactly.
·Courage: Israel followed God’s battle plan despite the danger it posed.
·Endurance: Israel followed God’s battle plan over a period, even when it seemed that nothing was happening.
·Trust: Israel did not rely on their own wisdom or familiar methods; their trust was in the Lord, not in human ingenuity.
We need become like Joshuas. it was time for them to move into the promises. It is time for the body of Christ to move into its promises in mega faith and mega grace. Time is short, just like Joshua and Israel did to proclaim and claim their promises from the Lord.
What does mega mean? It is the highest level of rank of excellence or importance. Mega is something important.
Like Israel taking back the promised land of Abraham, it was to claim back, take back, something bigger than them, their possession and inheritance. Mega is the inheritance of God's promises.
Mega is an astronomical blessing. We must move from ordinary to unordinary Christians with astronomical blessings the Lord wants to give through His promises. Mega is large. Taking back Israel, the promised land was immense. The land was whole of giants and many tribes of people to reclaim back to them.
A colossal breakthrough in your life.
Proverbs 13:12-18 MSG
Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around. Ignore the Word and suffer; honor God's commands and grow rich. The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so no more drinking from death-tainted wells!
Receiving God's blessings is like being over the moon. It is something more significant than you can ever imagine. God is in the business of stretching our imaginations. He wants us to dream larger than life. Receive what He shows us and go after it without letting anything stop you. That takes mega faith with mega grace to believe and conceive it.
Dreams go through a process of conceiving and then birthing. It is birthing the dream.
Once the Lord conceives His plan, what do we do? First, write out the vision.
Proverbs 29:18 King James Version "18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."
Sometimes, we have a mega-mountain, and it takes mega faith and mega grace to speak to that mountain and say be thought removed and cast into the sea.
Mark. 11. [23] For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
It is often time to move and implement God's promises into action. Speaking to that mountain is spiritual warfare: clearing out the land, removing the enemy from the land, and removing the obstacles in your way to claim God's promises.
The next step is to expect a supersized breakthrough as you remove all the barriers to God's promises—a supersized movement.
Mega faith and mega grace unlock a mega movement—a big move of God in your life. There may be people around you who are sick and dying, premature children who need to come home, and some who lack financial resources. It is time for a mega move of God like Joshua did with Israel stepping into their promised land.
God gives us a measure of faith. First, it starts out like a mustard seed
Matthew 17:20, King James Version "20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you."
To grow that faith, we must exercise that faith. How can we grow that faith?
You cannot wait for things to fall upon you. It is exercising faith, warring, standing, decreeing, and stringing yourself up not to lose hope even when the enemy comes in like a flood. It is time to move into the promised land and claim it as yours that may be cleaning and removing things in that promise.
Don't allow yourself to lose faith when the enemy comes to fight against you. Instead, fight harder than before each time the enemy comes, like a flood. The enemy can be family members, work, school, friends, etc. Don't lose heart; keep moving forward. Don't allow discouragement from others.
Discouragement will rob and release the flames that the Lord ignited in you. Keep fanning the flames with mega faith and grace. Fan them with the written promise in front of you, the Word of God, and worship and praise the Lord for the answer or completion, even if it is not completed yet.
Sometimes, your faith will seem weak, and victory will be far away. Again, fight the discouragement. Stand, fight the good fight of faith - 1 Tim. 6:12. Appropriate the grace of God. Begin to exercise that faith again. Rebuild your faith to have strong faith to stand for the impossible. Mega faith is pure faith. Like a child has pure faith. Keep the reasoning and doubt, unbelief, and fear out. Don't try to analyze it. Just keep moving in faith. It is time to root those things out if you have a propensity for fear.
Faith like David Had to Defeat Goliath
We need to have that stubborn faith and bulldog faith. That bulldog faith is not letting go by bitting into the promise the Lord has given. Did David give up fighting Goliath after his brother, Eliab, accused him of 1 Sam. 17:28 by saying, "I know your presumption and the evil of your heart. ESV or "I know your pride and wickedness of heart." He was accused by a spirit of accusation. David didn't fight with him but went forward with stubborn faith to fight Goliath with stones.
Often, when accused by family, it goes deep and can stop us, but not David.
Have you ever received a promise and shared it with others and were accused of evil or pride in your heart? Share!
Let's look at David's response in vs. 29. He says to Eliab, And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?”
In vs. 30 he says, "And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before."
Did David accuse his brother? No, He asked a question. How many times, as Christians, accuse back when attacked by family or good friends?
Should we defend ourselves or move forward with Mega faith to pursue the calling?
When we get a promise or prophetic word that resonates with our heart, what should we be doing?
Ten Steps to Turn Faith on the Promises of God to You into Mega Faith
1. Wage war with the prophetic word of promises to you.
2. Expect the enemy to come in like a flood and be ready
3. Keep hope. Keep the faith and receive grace from God by keeping doubt, unbelief, and discouragement out of the heart. Watch what you say so that you don't speak negative words over it.
4. Speak over your word out loud and praise the Lord for the Word, declaring it.
5. Praise the Lord for the outcome even when you don't see it.
6. Speak to the mountain to remove obstacles.
7. Watch your responses when the enemy does come like a flood through family and friends.
8. Meditating on the Word of God on His promises to you day and night - Joshua 1:8. Then you will find success.
9. Pray in the Holy Spirit - Jude 20 — King James Version (KJV 1900) - 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. When we pray in the spirit, we are building our spirit man up. Cultivating mega faith.
10. Keep your dream and vision written out in front of you.
Keep doing all the above to grow your mega faith and mega grace
Matthew 8 and 5 - Jesus went into Capernaum. A centurion came to him, begging him to heal the paralyzed servant boy at his house. He understood authority and the power of authority and knew Jesus did not need to come to his house to heal the servant boy.
Jesus said he had never seen anyone with that much great faith, which is interpreted as mega faith.
Jesus hears our cries, hears our prayers, sees our faith, and performs miracles.
Traci Morin, speaker, minister, anxiety coach, teacher of deliverance, Who's Who of America
Touch of God International Ministries - a Christian Healing and Deliverance Ministry - Setting the Captives Free from demonic curses
