Two Types of Faith ~ Part 2

Have you ever had a faith blooper? That's where you went to bed full of faith, but in the morning you woke up and it seemed like your faith took wings and went out the window? Hi, I'm Don Boyer and I want to welcome you to today's podcast where we're going to continue the subject and the teaching on faith. I'll be right back. Now we want to continue our understanding How faith works and how we're able to implement such an important subject for the believer. Now when we talk about faith, there are many different schools of thoughts of perspective on that particular subject. One of the areas that I think every Christian can agree on is that faith is a subject that we've all walked on, a road and a pathway that we've followed to only feel like we've had a dead end. It was like where we came to that point where we were believing for something to happen and everything happened but the thing that we were believing for. How does that happen? How do we get a biblical understanding where we come into that place, into that state where our believing moves into manifestation? Now, we want to move from the space of faith that waits To faith that takes. Now, what do I mean by that? So many times when we are believing, or we believe that we're believing, and we're exercising faith, we wait and wait, and the weeks go by, and the months go by. Sometimes the years go by, and yet the manifestation still hasn't taken place. That is where we're in a state of waiting. But that's not God's perfect will. The way that we are designed to operate in faith is faith that takes. Now, what does that even look like? Remember the woman with the blood issue? She has spent all of her money on doctors trying to get better and only grew worse because she was having faith that was waiting on a healing. And she was going through the known medical system of her day. Yet the Bible tells us that not only did she grow worse, but she grew broke. She spent all her money. But then there was a switch. Someplace, somewhere, she heard the teaching of Jesus about healing that takes. And she said within her own heart, if I can just touch but the hem of his garment, I will be healed. Now, that was a dynamic of faith that takes. Was it easy for this woman to go and touch the hem of Jesus' garment? It was not. A, it was unlawful for her to do that while she was in that unclean state. Number two, there were crowds thronging Jesus because when she touched him, he said, who touched me? And even his disciples said, what are you talking about who touched you? You're thronged with everybody around you. Everybody's pushing you. Everyone's touching you. How do you say who touched me? He says, no, no, no, no. You don't understand. This wasn't an ordinary touch. This wasn't a hand out grabbing me. This was faith that takes, that drew virtue or power out of me and went into a human body for healing. And when he turned around and said, who touched me? She said, I did, Lord. When she said that, she had to push her way through the crowd. Have you ever been to a meeting or maybe a concert where you wanted to get in and get front row seating? These are the days back in the 60s and 70s when they didn't have any tickets, and it was the first come, first served. And you were trying to get to the front of the room, but the place was jam-packed. I mean, it was absolutely almost impossible To maneuver through the crowds to get to the front because you, like everybody else around them, wanted to get to the front. This is what this woman was facing. Now, had she had the faith of waiting, she would have never got through. If she would have abided in the faith that waits, she would have never been able to manifest healing in her body. But somewhere within her heart, she heard the rhema word. She heard Jesus talking about divine healing. To the point that faith came into her heart and it came alive and it began to burn. And it would not settle to wait any longer. It was done with patience. It was done with hope. It was, my faith is going to take it now. Now faith or take it now faith is that you don't allow any more excuses. You don't allow any more outside circumstances to stop you. You are going to take hold of that promise and manifest it. This is exactly what happened with this woman. And when she operated at that level of faith, the take faith now, She was able to maneuver her way into the crowd. She took out the voices in her head and said, it's not lawful for you to touch him while you're in this state. This is something that you cannot do. That's not allowed. She took all those voices and put them to the side because she was not operating in her natural state of faith. She wasn't operating in the realm of reason because what she was about to do was unreasonable. But her now take it faith eliminated all of that, maneuvered through the crowd and touched the hem of Jesus to the point where that virtue or that healing anointing flowed out of him and into her body for complete manifestation. And then he looked at her and said, woman, your faith has made you whole. That is the difference between waiting for manifestation And having the manifestation happen, that little switch of turning our faith from waiting faith to taking faith. Now, what's another example? There was a paralytic who wanted to touch Jesus, wanted to get into his presence, heard the rhema word, heard the teaching of Jesus that he could be healed. There was two problems. Number one, he couldn't walk and he couldn't get out of bed. Number two was where Jesus was teaching, the house was packed. I mean, there was, you're not even talking about standing room only. You're talking about crowds standing outside, out of outside, and there was no room that you can get in there and hear Jesus, let alone touch him. Now, for most people operating in what they would call faith or waiting faith, David would have looked at that and just said, you know what, this is an impossibility. And thank God he had good friends. Good friends will match their faith with your faith. Because if they were not good friends, when he said, hey, I need to go have Jesus lay his hands on me and touch me. I need to get to him. If they were not good friends, they would say, are you crazy? Do you know the facts that are against you? Do you know the odds of you being able to get in his presence is almost impossible? I mean, come on, let's be reasonable now. You can't get out of bed. You can't walk. And I'm telling you, the crowds where Jesus is teaching out in the house, you can't penetrate that. And the people that are in there and even close on the outside, they're not about to let you in. They don't care that you're paralytic. They don't care that you can't walk. They don't care that you are suffering. Why? They're suffering themselves. They want the exact same thing that you want. And if anyone's going to get to touch Jesus, it was going to be them and not you. Now, if he would have been operating in that state of waiting faith, he would have looked around and just said, you know what? You're right. Why don't I just wait for another time? Why don't I just wait for maybe one of the physical doctors of our time comes up with a cure to make me walk again? He wasn't operating that kind of faith. He was operating in take it faith. So like the lady with the blood issue, he put all the negative sayings, all the reasonable situation out of his mind. He put them on the shelf. And thank God he was surrounded by good friends that operated in the same way and the same dimension of take it faith because they said, let's go. We're going to get you in the presence of Jesus and it doesn't matter what the circumstances look like. You see, circumstances and outside, quote, facts Many times deters people from their faith. They'll be believing for something, maybe for healing. And instead of them getting better, the doctor tells them, you're getting worse. Instead of getting that financial miracle, they get a bill in the mail and say, you're getting sued. Well, that's called facts. And many believers that are operating in faith. We'll take those outside facts and circumstances and keep them stuck in waiting faith. It will take them off and deter them off the path of take it faith. Because circumstances are subject to change. But if we don't understand that, if we don't practice that, then all of these outside circumstances are going to deter us And keep us from having the manifestation miracle. That God promised us. So they came in and they saw the facts. They saw the circumstances. But they were walking and operating in take it faith. So they climbed up on the roof. They made a giant hole in the roof of somebody's house that they probably did not even know. And they began to lower him down in the midst. Can you imagine what that looked like? What kind of disruption it created? All of a sudden now, Jesus is in the midst of his teaching, and here comes a guy on a bed. Now there's a giant hole in the roof, and he's being let down. What do you think Jesus' response was? Well, we know what it was. He said, son, your sins are forgiven. Take up your bed and walk. How did that happen? It happened because he had take it now faith. He wasn't going to allow... Outside circumstances to keep them in the waiting mode. Have you ever been on an airplane on the runway taking off and then the pilot says we are taxiing the runway but we have to wait for another aircraft to land first. And you're sitting there expecting to take off and you're just sitting there and you're waiting and you're waiting and you're waiting. But the problem is you're not going anywhere. Well, that's where people are at in their faith. They're in their faith and waiting and waiting and waiting. Let's move from waiting faith to taking faith. So I'm going to close this segment today on this thought. What is faith? Faith is the conscious awareness of God's promises for the believer. It is the conscious awareness and understanding, the reality in your mind that God's promises are true. Let God be true and every man, every circumstances, every fact be a liar. That means that we believe and we are conscious and we're aware of the fact that God's promises are for us, whatever they might be in healing, relationship or money. God's promises are true, and when we come into that conscious reality, that conscious awareness, we are operating in the true measure of take it now faith. Well, I trust that you got a blessing from this, that rhema word came inside of you. If you allow this word to get into your heart and pound out, you'll find out that the manifestation will begin to operate in your outside world. I look forward to seeing you on our next podcast. Make sure you hit the like button and share, and we'll see you on the next podcast.