So the title of the message today is your faith has made you well or your faith has made you whole You could even say your faith has saved you because it's the same words It's a Greek word sozo which means to save to heal to deliver to rescue to to keep protected and so this is a word the phrase that Jesus says to blind Bartimaeus and Probably I'm gonna go I think I'm gonna jump ahead in the message a little bit because what God's really showed me a little bit through this Through this passage. We're gonna be in Mark chapter 10 verses 46 through 51 So if you have your Bibles and you want to turn there is that This is a little different story of blindness if you remember the story where Jesus heals the blind man in John chapter 9 Jesus heals a man who was born blind he was blind from birth as matter of fact as they're reciting the story to people They're saying there has never been in the history of the world record of a man who was healed of blindness that was born with blindness And to be born with blindness really represents to to that we're born in sin we're born spiritually blind So that an aspect of blindness can be that it can be that you're born in sin You're separated from God that your spiritual eyes have never been opened That that Paul says it like this in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verses 3 through 4 He says that if our gospel is hid it is hid to those who are perishing who the God of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not Believers we're talking about unbelievers less the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ who is the image of God should shine into them And so Paul's saying that that there's a condition of spiritual blindness. It's a condition unbelievers have It's a condition that unless the light of the gospel penetrates their hearts that Satan keeps their minds blinded to the truth of God's word But when the gospel penetrates that their eyes are open they become born again. There's a little different blindness I believe in blind Bartimaeus.
Oh, thanks for putting that with blind Bartimaeus What what he asks for my one that might be God might answer that there's Can't find it. All right. It might be really important. Please say I live for me if it is But with blind Bartimaeus when when Jesus at the end of the story asks him what do you want me to do for you?
What do you want me to do for you? It's a question that Jesus is still asking today. What do you want me to do for you? Blind Martimaeus says this in the version we're gonna read he said that I may receive my sight But it's really the Greek word Anna Blepo, which means to recover sight if you read in the new English translation the nate He says Jesus says what do you want me to do for you?
Bartimaeus says this that I might see again So we're not talking about a man that was born blind We're talking about a man that had sight Became blind and now wants to recover sight again And this is the condition I believe that God spoke to me that exist in the church today that we were beggars But now we become royalty but because of a blindness that's come over us We've returned to begging we've returned to the place that we were once brought out of that we weren't born that way But we were we were given sight somehow something has come along in our life some condition some some situation Align of the enemy and has brought blindness to us and we've returned to a subpar level of begging man God is busy today if you look at the word blind When it talks about and here's where I want to go The word blind means this it means to be blind The Greek word blind means it's the word to floss It means to be blind physically like actually be blind right so that God Jesus healed people with blind eyes right he physically healed people But it also means metaphorically blind it comes from the word the verb form to fool Which means to emit smoke to raise a smoke and don't get sidetracked on that I know it's legalized now, but this we're not raising a smoke here, but it means to wrap in a mist It means to wrap in a mist and and mark is the only one that records the name of Bartimaeus The other versions in the gospels one says there was two blind men Which means Bartimaeus was one of them the other one talks about one blind man But doesn't mention his name, but mark is on to mention he says this man was blind Bartimaeus the son of Tameis he's blind Bartimaeus so in Hebrew Bartimaeus is an Aramaic Hebrew word which means son if you remember when Jesus was talking to Peter when Peter said you're the Christ the son of the living God remember that Matthew 16 And and and Jesus says to Peter Peter thou son of Jonah or bar Jonah So bar in Hebrew means son and then in that case Jonah means doves So if you say Peter your son of the dove well bar to may us it's not bark like we think of Bart Simpson It's bar and then to meas and so in the Hebrew bar means son But in the Hebrew to meas in the Hebrew means son of the impure or son of the unclean But mark goes on to further define that he was blind Bartimaeus the son of to meas now He gives us a Greek word he says that he is in fact definite article the son of to meas which means highly prized It means valuable it means noble it means honorable and so so here's what God spoke to me Actually really put this message together on the plane coming back from from Italy last week And I'll just tell you a little spoiler word I had eight points about faith And I told Seth as I developed a message I had eight points from this message about this passage about faith and it was kind of like making spaghetti sauce this week You know Put the tomatoes in and the onions and and as it simmered down I felt like God simmered the eight down to three and it just kind of like brought it together So there's really three things I want to talk to you about today But look at this so in Hebrew son of the unclean son of the highly prized or precious valuable so his his nature is Son of the highly prized But his label is son of the unclean and here's what I think happens to the church You because of your faith in Jesus have been made son of the highly prized you have been made son of the noble you have been made son of Honor and value or daughter of honor and value but because of a lie of the enemy he's combined can convince you that you're the way You used to be which is son of the impure and therefore because your son of the impure you're not worthy to receive from Jesus And you have to beg for scraps like a beggar What God spoke to me was this I read it out. I normally don't do this but I couldn't remember it all next slide When you agree with the lives of the enemy he remembered to be blind means to emit a mist of smoke When you agree with the enemy he releases a smoke screen over your true identity as a highly prized son or daughter convincing you that you're impure or unclean Downgrading you to a life of begging for scraps instead of receiving and feasting on the delicacies of your inheritance Jesus wants you to step up to the table of your inheritance He doesn't want you relegated to a life of begging when you've already been provided every need that you ever have in life You heard Whitney say earlier that it is done like you already have it like it's a completed fact like when Jesus died He didn't say there's more to come he said it is finished like he's no longer working He finished his work at the cross and so today I want to show you three things about faith I want I believe that just like just like Bartimaeus said that I may regain my sight I believe spiritual sites coming back today I believe people that have been kept in the dark that that came out of the dark and into the light that went back into the dark today The mist is coming off your eyes the veil is coming off your eyes that you're gonna be released by faith into the more of God today So if you have your bibles, let's turn to mark chapter 10. I apologize to my the team It's working the PowerPoint I'm all over the place today, but I probably would do better just free will in this one But we'll try to stay on task. So three things today.
I want to talk to you about three things I told you the the the the stew or the sauce marinated down to the simmer down to three things, but about faith Oh bless you Faith does this three things now. There's a whole lot in here faith does number one We're gonna see that it convinces me convinces you of unseen realities that if true Bible faith will actually convince you of what you can't see It's gonna be more real to you than what you see with your physical eyes and experience with your your physical touch The second thing that it does is that faith moves you to some sort of response Faith moves you faith does not move God See too many believers today are trying to get God to move and you see it faith will move God See God moved 2000 years ago when he sent Jesus Jesus died on the cross paid for all sin all sickness all bondage once and for all time And now he's seated at the right pain of the Father And too many believers think that they want to take a pry bar and get Jesus off the throne as if he needs to do anything He's already done everything faith moves me see God's not the one that stuck He doesn't need moved He's in a place of all power all authority all blessing at the right hand of the Father and from that place has poured out his holy Spirit on the day that he ascended he's released everything Faith moves me to align with God. I'm not trying to get God to align with me And the third thing we're gonna look at today is that that true biblical faith Positions me it positions me to receive it positions it puts me in a place that I can actually receive From Jesus mark chapter 10 verse 46 says now They came to Jericho and as he went out he being Jesus as he went out of Jericho With his disciples in a great multitude blind Bartimaeus remember we said that means son of the unclean The son of Tameus his true identity was son of the highly prized sat by the road begging So here's a guy that has one issue in his life, but the one issue has impacted his entire life He could think he could speak he could walk he could act he could reason he could do all kinds of things But because he couldn't see it limited every other aspect of his life. He's relegated to a life of sitting outside the city asking for alms Because of blindness and it said when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth He began to cry out and say Jesus son of David have mercy on me and then many warned him to be quiet But he cried out all the more son of David have mercy on me To find it interesting more times than not it's the people that are quote unquote close to Jesus that actually try to silence your cry to Jesus They're actually the one that tried to keep you from getting to him because they think when you get to him It'll somehow lessen their access to him, but it doesn't Verse 49 says so Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called and then they called him They called the blind man saying to him be of good cheer arrives He is calling you and throwing inside his garment he rose and came to Jesus So Jesus answered and said to him what do you want me to do for you?
The blind man said him Rabona that I may receive my sight or that I may recover lost sight Then Jesus said to him go your way your faith has made you well and immediately he received a sight and followed Jesus in the way Man, there's so much in there and God. I just pray you'd help me to boil it down today Holy Spirit make it simple father make it understandable God open eyes today to see in Jesus name number one and number one is this Faith convinces you of the unseen reality faith convinces of unseen realities Here's a blind man that could see more than the people that could see He saw things that they didn't see but he was blind. It says in verse 47 next slide It says when he heard where does faith begin Roman stent 17 faith comes by Hearing in hearing by the word of God when he heard that it was whom Jesus of Nazareth He began to cry out and say Jesus of Nazareth He has a revelation that they didn't have although he couldn't see they could see that it was Jesus of Nazareth I'm sure that he heard the stories of Jesus resurrecting the dead. I'm sure he heard stories of Jesus healing the lame I'm sure he heard stories of Jesus opening other blind eyes and opening ears and loosing tongues They said it's Jesus of Nazareth and I'm sure when he knew that that because he had he would have had to have been in the word at some point Because he translates Jesus of Nazareth to Jesus son of David He says I know they're calling you as a man Jesus of Nazareth, but I have a revelation by faith that you're the Messiah You're the son of God that was sent to come as our Messiah And if you're the Messiah if you're truly the Messiah then according to Isaiah You're going to rule it says your throne will be established in mercy and that you will open blind eyes and you'll lose dumb tongues He says so if you're in fact the Messiah which I believe you are I can see something that nobody else can see and you're not Gonna convince me otherwise of it.
He cries out. He says son of David have mercy on me Mercy is any action that is motivated by compassion if you look in other versions of the story It said Jesus had compassion on him and healed and gave him his sight back He says have mercy on me, but mercy could be any number of things. It's any action motivated by compassion So he's not really specific about what he wants later. Jesus asked him to be specific But right now he's just saying son of David have mercy on me and it says this and it says there's many said hey Hush up Y'all hush Be quiet look Jesus has better things to do then talk to a beggar I mean he's walking with me.
He's talking with me. He doesn't need you. He doesn't have time for you You've already picked your lot in life, but I'm walking with the Lord I'm living the best life because I'm with the master But he doesn't need you and you know what if you believe that you believe that you believe something No one is going to deter you from what you believe and did you ever try to tell somebody no like your wife And and the more you tell them no, what does it do it just spurs them on even more like? I'll show you be quiet.
You're gonna tell me to be quiet. I'm gonna get a little bit louder I'm gonna raise my voice Jesus son of David have mercy on me And he says he cries Even louder see because he could see something that they couldn't see that there was a reality that was unseen That was superior to the reality that everybody else could see see too often we live in this inferior realm of sight It says Saint Corinthians 5 7 we walk by faith Not by sensory mechanisms not by what we can see taste touch smalhere here There's a level of faith that operates beyond sense and I don't mean this sense. I mean sense is it Says in Hebrews chapter 1 I want to give you two different versions here the new English It says faith is being sure of what we hope for being convinced See faith will convince you if faith is founded on the word of God If if the word is read if the word is spoken if it's released if it's dropped into your heart by the Holy Spirit It convinces you it's convincing it makes you certain it says in the new living it says faith shows the reality Like there's another reality that's greater than the reality that you're living in right now the things that you're experiencing I get it they seem real Like they seem real and in one sense they are but there's a reality the spirit of life in Christ Paul says has freed me from the law of sin and death There's a law that operates at a greater level than the law that you're living in today There's natural law, but then there's a spiritual law of life in Christ It's superior. See it's the realm that Jesus ministered from That this is where Jesus lived Do you remember when Jesus says John 519 he says the son can do nothing imagine that's Jesus right the son can do nothing of himself Except what he sees the father doing Now think about that that Jesus couldn't do anything except what he saw the father doing that he only did what he saw the father doing The father was not on earth with him.
It's not like he's like hey pop. What do you think? What should I do? Oh, okay.
I'll do that our father Matthew 6 9 who is in heaven? Jesus set his vision on a reality that didn't exist in this realm if Jesus is watching everything he sees the father do He's obviously returned his sight not from the natural realm, but to the spiritual one He's anchored his vision in the heavenly realm Do you remember the story of the feeding of the 5,000? I believe pastor Seth preached a message one it several months ago, and then he turned out this this wonderful Shirt it was like Bible math. It's like was it two plus five equals five thousand right?
It's like two fish five lows equals five thousand like it only works in the Bible doesn't don't use that you'll fail in school You try that and the story of the feeding of the five thousand do you remember? I said Bartimaeus Jesus says what What do you want me to do for you? And he said that I may regain that I may recover I had sight But now I don't have it and my prayer today is to recover what I used to have Keep that in the back of your mind Matthew chapter 14 verses 15 through 19 say this now this same the word we're gonna Look at is in Matthew mark in Luke's gospel not in John's But although the stories in all four gospels it says when it was evening his disciples came to him and says now look at what the look at the realm That the disciples are seeing from now if you read John's gospel Jesus says you give him something to eat and Andrew says this he says what's 200 denari among so many people So it's not in this one, but it's in John So he's looking at how much they have we don't have enough money to feed all these people send them away Let them buy food for themselves and Matthew it says you know, it's a deserted place. There's nothing here We can't go pick food.
We can't buy there's not even a place to there's no Chick-fil-A Like you know you're in the desert if there's no Chick-fil-A Well, we're in the desert today. There's no Chick-fil-A today It says we're in a deserted place and the hours late not only is it deserted, but there's no time Not realizing there with the guy that lives outside of time, but there's no time. It's too late forget it It's over it said send them altitudes away They make in the village and buy themselves food, but Jesus said to them They do not need to go away you give them some to eat and they said but we only only Now they didn't realize that the only was gonna turn into a whole bunch But in their estimation we only have five and two Or five pieces of bread I got two fish like not gonna do it, you know Jesus was setting them up. I mean if you read John 6 it says he knew what he was gonna do like I know He's just like he's like he's like waiting to play that play the ace, you know He just can't wait, but he knows what he's gonna do and it says this let's go the next line It said he said come on he says bring them to me bring them to me bring me the five loaves bring the two fish And then he commanded the multitude to sit down the grass He took the five loaves and two fish and looking up to have any blast and broke gave the lows of the disciples and disciples gave them altitudes We read this and we think that Jesus is doing the Jesus pose Probably a little bit lower.
Oh Right we read it and we think that he's look just looking up. I'm just gonna look up in the sky, right? Where is the father? In heaven this word that says it's in all three gospels.
It's the same word that means to recover sight and a blepoh It says that Jesus recovering his sight Looked it's not the word to although it's translated to here. It's the Greek word Eis ice 581 times it means in two 280 times half that it means to I believe what the gospels are communicating is that Jesus just didn't look up in the sky He literally took his eyes off the natural and returned them into heaven See he lived from a place where he only did what he saw the father do he's continually living from that vision and then We'll look here. We got two fish look here. We got 200 denari look here.
We only have five lows look here It's too late in the day look here. It's deserted You fill in the blank and she said I get you you took my sight to that But now I'm gonna return my sight to the place that I live from because from that place I can commune with the father and from that place I can do what I see him doing. Oh, I see what he's doing He's breaking the lows. He's blessing him and he's handing him out See too often it's not wrong to see things But when you see things don't live in that reality Return your sight regain your sight into heaven see when Jesus looks into heaven here He sees five loaves and two fish when he looks into heaven He sees 12 basketfuls of leftovers and when you see the leftovers before you feed the people There's never a concern if there's gonna be enough because you had more than enough to start with Imagine starting from a place of more than enough all of a sudden it's not a big deal anymore It doesn't matter what time it is it doesn't matter how desolate it is it doesn't matter much money We have and it doesn't matter how few that we start with Because we're not really starting with what we see we're starting with what he has It's the reason Paul tells us in Colossians chapter 3 verse 1 I like the new living translation on this because it says set your sights on the realities of heaven See there's realities in heaven that are superior to the realities of earth and I get to choose I get to make a conscious decision where I set my mind He says says he says some translations say if you've been raised with Christ I like the new living translation because it's not a question the word in the Greek that means if can also mean since since I've been raised I was I died.
I was buried. I was resurrected and now I'm seated with Christ He said since you've been raised with Christ set your mind on those realities where Christ is where your life is That's where you live from see when you're so convinced Nobody's gonna deter you from what you believe Like you can't take it away from me because I know that I know that I know I've been convinced of it Number two we could probably end right there right? Number two faith Moves you to respond faith moves you to respond So I said earlier faith the job or the outcome of faith is not to get God to move. I know that sounds sacrilegious But God moved through Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.
He did all the moving he ever needs to do Like he doesn't need to move because he already moved See I need to align with him like too many people think that that faith jobs to move God to line up with them Like I'm not trying to get God to line up with me Like he's provided it all and so if I really believe if I'm convinced of that it should move me It should move me. I was talking to pastor Seth before church. I love how pastor Bill Johnson talks about prayer He says if anytime he said the purpose of prayer and fasting is not to change God's heart on the subject It's to change yours Like anytime I go into prayer and come out the same way. I wasn't praying I was complaining because if I truly engaged in prayer and communion and intimacy with the father it would change me It would change me Faith moves me faith moves mountains But God is seated But he doesn't need to do anything else because he's already done it It says in verses for 49 to 50 it says so Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called and they called the blind man Saying be a good cheer rising calling you and throwing his eyes at the gourmet resin came to Jesus Here's the thing he's crying out to Jesus because what Jesus is doing.
He's calling to Jesus But Jesus is actually calling him see anytime. There's a call it demands a response Like if Jesus calls yourself and right I said it might be him answer You better answer the phone it might be him but but when he calls you it demands a response Now you can respond by I'm gonna sit on the street and beg or I'm gonna stand up I'm gonna take my garment off and I'm gonna walk to Jesus See this was a big step the garment was given to him by the synagogue to legitimize his begging the garment that he's wearing said He's a legitimate beggar. He's legit. He's not a fraud.
He's not a fake He's legitimately blind and thereby entitled to sit and ask and so when he Jesus says come he stands up He removes the thing that identifies him as a beggar and he comes to Jesus Faith demands a response You can sit and beg or you can take it off and walk to Jesus See what happens a lot of times like faith it says by faith Abraham when he was called right? He had a decision to make when he was called He what obeyed and he went out going to a place that he he didn't know Well, what's gonna happen when Jesus calls me? Well, I don't know why don't you take your coat off and take a step? I mean you're never gonna find out here You're never gonna find out until you take it off stand up and take a step see what happens when they come to him That get back to the last slide when they came to the man.
They said hey Jesus is calling you be of good cheer Cheer up. It also means be of good courage be of good comfort I know you don't know what the outcome's gonna be but take some courage take some cheer Know that it's gonna be okay know that all things work out for good to those that love the Lord Stand up and take a step see Jesus himself every time he said this to somebody He didn't say it here They did but when Jesus said it miracles happened when when the four friends brought the guy with Paul's e to Jesus and it said they couldn't get in because of the crowd once again people closest to Jesus keeping somebody away But they were not deterred they like they were they were persistent they go up on the roof They tear the roof open they let the man down on a caught in front of Jesus and you're thinking Jesus is gonna say you're healed But before he heals him he says this he says be of good cheer your sins are forgiven And then he goes on to heal the guy But see sometimes we can be so blind that we think the thing that we did last night is keeping us from receiving what Jesus has already Provided by grace and God wants you to know this be of good cheer your sins are forgiven And you can walk into all that I have because I've already dealt with the sin issue to the woman that was had the issue of blood for 12 Years it's he said if I can only reach out and touch the hem of his garment and it said that when he she touched him Virtue flowed from him and he said who touched me and they said well, what do you mean everybody's touching you? He said somebody made a withdrawal on the power and he turned around and when she saw that she was uncovered And she couldn't be hidden any longer and she was terrified It says he looks at her and says daughter be of good cheer your faith has made you whole a miracle takes place When Jesus when the disciples are on the the sea of Galilee and they're out there and the storms going crazy And they're stuck in the middle and out walks Jesus But he walks on the water right and he's walking and they thought they saw a ghost and and they're like oh my gosh They're scared to death and he says boys be of good cheer It is I do not be afraid and Peter said master if it is you bid me to come unto you and walk on the water and Jesus said come and Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water see when Jesus calls you Don't be afraid don't be worried have good cheer be of good comfort be of good courage and take a step to Jesus Nobody can come to me look like well nobody comes to Jesus unless the Father draws him That's a true statement, but read verse 45 with verse 44 Don't stop it verse 44. It says therefore say this everybody Everybody that has faith comes by hearing so like a lot of people here But not everybody that hears believes not everybody that hears Understands it says that the enemy when the seed is sewn by the wayside He comes in and steals it last they should understand And so if he can't keep you from hearing it He wants to keep you from understanding it because he knows when you gain perception of what the word is saying that nobody It's going to deter you from what God's word says he says everyone that hears everyone that Understands and has learned from the father does what comes if you really knew what God's word was inviting you to you would come If you're not coming to the master that means one of two things either you haven't heard or you don't understand What you're hearing because the Bible says everybody that hears everybody that understands takes a step It doesn't say that you're gonna know the end from the beginning It just says when you know and you believe and you understand you're gonna be drawn And the final thing says faith doesn't move God it moves you into a position to receive what he's already provided by grace See faith is not moving God.
It's moving me, but where does it move me to? See I see a lot of people say well, well brother. I'm moving in faith See you think you're moving in faith, but you're actually operating outside of the place that God's called you to be See if you're not in the place that he's called you to You're you're turning your faith into a work because you might be operating in faith But you're trying to get God to come here when he's actually trying to position you here So that you can receive the thing that you've asked for number three Faith positions you to receive versus fifty one fifty fifty one fifty one two. Sorry It says Jesus answered and said to him What do you want me to do for you the blind man said robona that I may receive my sight So you're not working you're not working for it.
You're not earning it for by grace. You have been saved through faith Like it is a gift What do you do with the gift? You receive it you receive it see he he gives you the word in order to convince you that it's true Everyone it says in Hebrew he runs he I spent so much time teaching the Apostle Paul. I just go to Romans Hebrews 11 6 without faith It's impossible to please God because everyone who comes to him must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him Like if I'm coming to him I have to believe that he is who he says he is But I also have to believe that he does what he says he's gonna do and that when I come to him in faith I trust him what I also trust that he's gonna do what he says Because when he calls me, he's not calling me to punish me.
He's calling me to position me. He's positioning me to receive It says that I may receive my sight. Jesus said go your way your faith has made you well immediately received a sight and followed Jesus on the road Mark 11 24 says this is whatsoever things you ask when you pray believe that you received the intense believing is today that you received and You will have them see if I truly look into the reality of heaven. It's a finished work It's a done deal.
It's the 12 basketfuls are already there. I Can believe that I received it when I prayed it not when I receive it But when I pray the reason I can believe it when I pray is because he already did it See faith positions me. I love talking about you remember the story of Elijah. We'll just end here and trust me when I say I cut a hundred Things out this message what happened to Elijah Elijah prophesies no rain, right?
And he's the recipient of his own prophecy He says there's gonna be no rain and then all of a sudden he's got nothing to eat or drink because of the famine and he prophesied But guess what God called him to a place God called him to a place of provision He said that you know things have dried up Then you know it's not to food and God says I want you to go to the brook at sheriff and I've commanded the Ravens to feed you Here or there See you stay here all day long. Oh God move God move I'm binding and I'm declaring and I'm setting the captives free and I'm quoting scripture and but God's called you there You can't move the provision to hear I've got a move to where God's called me to so that I can receive what God's already provided for me He says I've commanded the Ravens to feed you there and then he goes there and guess what the Ravens do they feed him They bring him meat every day. He drinks water from the book, but then the brook dries up. Oh God.
What am I gonna do? What'd you do last time? He says I've commanded a widow in Zarephath to provide for you there Well, I want to stay at this brook because I'm just I'm in love with this brook I love I just love the scenery. I just love hanging out here and yeah But the provisions there and seeing if you want to receive you can you can call down fire all day long here And you'll die Because the provision is here and so when God calls you to a place to receive That's where you need to feed God forbid that I say if he calls you to this church to be fed God forbid you go outside and try to command something there when he's brought you here to be fed and provided for Oh, but I'm operating in faith.
No, you're operating in foolishness and disobedience Because God didn't call you there called you here Bible faith faith based on the word of God spoken word of God written word of God prophetic prophesied word from God Will convince you it'll convince you that there's a reality that's greater than what you're going through There's a reality that exists that has everything you'll ever need or ask for in it already It's the place Jesus lived from when I truly believe God's word and it has become part of me to the place where nobody can talk Me out of what I believe it demands a response It demands a response You can respond however you want to and God will still love you That's the amazing part if you want to sit here the rest of your life God will love you every day that you have your hands out Looking for what he's already provided I love you but it's impossible to please God Without faith and you can't please him if you don't come to him See it seems so ironic that please that what brings pleasure to God is his ability and want to release into you what he's provided Pleasing God is actually stepping into his provision and receiving it and faithful position you Positioned you it postures you it puts you it puts you in the place that God's called you to if you'll trust him If you'll take courage if you'll take comfort if you'll realize that I don't need that the thing that I've whatever I've been putting my faith in here. I don't need it Because I got him and I can trust him and I can trust his word. Let's pray