The Law Of Faith chad gonzales

hey so if you have your bible turn over to mark chapter 11. we're going to start a new series of teaching this week and we'll be on it for a couple weeks and we're calling it four supernatural laws got it up there four supernatural laws of victory how many you know there's some natural laws in this world what's probably the the most common one or the most well-known that we the law of gravity and so gravity does what what's the law of gravity what goes up it's got to come down i mean now no don't

get all sacrilegious i'm not going to hell this is my bible but if i was to hold it here and i let it go you just experience the law of gravity and actually you know if you just want to do this you just experience the law of gravity and the thing is we know how the law of gravity works you know there's other laws out there you know if you're talking about flying i mean there's the law of of what any pilots the law of lift there's the law of thrust you know the law of

drag and and the reason these are laws these are physical laws is because they'll work for anybody anywhere at any time on this earth you know the law of gravity has been going since day one you also realize that the law of thrust which people began to find out about i believe is like the late mid late 1800s law of thrust and law of lift when it comes to flying that those laws have been in action even since the days of of adam and eve you realize that even noah could have been flying instead of

taking a boat really those laws have been in existence on this planet for thousands and thousands and thousands of years but it was only up until you know 150 years ago that people began to discover these laws and how they worked and isn't it amazing that even though so take the laws that we use for flying laws of thrust and lift and drag those laws have been in existence operating on this earth potentially could be been tapped six thousand years ago with adam and eve and they weren't but all of a sudden when they got

tapped into and and were discovered and people started figuring figuring them out in the late 1800s and then all of a sudden it was just a few decades later and we're on the moon think about that have you ever thought about that really i mean up until 1800s i mean we're still we're still horse in the thing horse and buggy no electricity anything like that and all of a sudden people begin to discover different laws that operate in this earth and all of a sudden now we've got electricity we've got light bulbs you know we've

got cars we've got planes and all of a sudden we're on the moon and we're putting satellites up in the i mean all these things happen you know in less than a century as soon as certain laws started to be discovered and tapped into and the thing is that the reason these are laws is because they will work for anyone anywhere at any time you realize that all these laws that natural laws that men have tapped into and discovered you know in the in the 18th and 1900s those things were still operating and available for

thousands and thousands of years well there's some supernatural laws that have been in existence for a very very very long long time and they are laws just like these physical laws and that they will work for anyone at any time in any place that's why it's a law and so we're going to look at four laws four supernatural laws laws that operate in the kingdom of god that if you will tap into them and you operate according to them it will bring you victory in every single facet every single area of your life and it

will help you to go past the impossible situations in your life and you know what the other cool thing is is that god operates according to these laws too and what i found is that god he is not going to require you to do anything that he won't do how can you be an imitator how are you required to imitate your father if he isn't doing those all right we're working this morning so mark chapter 11 mark chapter 11 and let's start here in verse 12. mark chapter 11 verse 12 we're going to do some

reading this morning i intentionally didn't have the scriptures on the screen because i want you to read it in your bible yourself and do some underlining some writing and see these things for yourself mark 11 verse 12 says on the next day when they had come out from bethany jesus was hungry see even jesus got a little hungry hangry sometimes jesus was hungry and seeing a from afar a fig tree having leaves he went to see if perhaps he would find something on it and when he came to it he found nothing but leaves for

it was not the season for figs and in response jesus says this he looks at the fig tree and he says let no one eat fruit from you ever again and his disciples heard it verse 15 so they came to jerusalem and jesus went to the temple began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves jesus must have been really hungry he had a little temper there all right that was a joke so verse 16 he would not

allow anyone to carry wares or money through the temple and he taught them saying is it not written my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations but you have made it a den of thieves and the scribes and the chief priests heard it and sought how they would destroy him for they feared him because all the people were astonished at his teaching and when evening had come he went out of the city now in the morning verse 20 says as they pass by the disciples they saw this fig tree once that

last phrase says it was dried up from the roots now that's interesting because the day before it was alive and jesus is standing there and jesus gets a little upset and he looks at it and he said from this day forward what no one will ever eat fruit from you again and they see this tree and they see this dead and peter remembering what was said the day before he says rabbi look the fig tree which you cursed it has withered away and jesus answered and said well i told you how spiritual i am you

know look at me look at my big faith i told you i was the son of god no jesus looks at them and says have the faith of god some translation says has faith in god but the literal greek says have the faith of god or you could say it this way and other translations say it this way have the god kind of faith have the god kind of faith well what's the god kind of faith well obviously it's something that even the disciples uh could operate in because jesus looked at him and said this

is what you need to do you need to operate with this you need to have the god kind of faith and he said in verse 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 therefore i say to you whatever things you ask when you pray believe that you receive them and you will have them notice verse 23 he says in verse 22 he

said have the god kind of faith have the faith of god and verse 23 he says whoever now this ought to clue you in jesus says whoever so this means this is for anybody notice he didn't say that the bishop of the running with jesus fullness of baptist church he said whoever whoever says to this mountain be removed be cast into the sea does not doubt in his heart but believes that those things he says will come to pass he will have whatever he says friends this is a spiritual law a supernatural law right here

it's the law of faith and it will work for anyone anywhere anytime it doesn't matter if you're tall you're short you're skinny you're healthy that was funny too fluffy doesn't matter if you're ugly doesn't matter if you got a million dollars a bank or you got one dollar in the bank that is not the qualifier the qualifier is are you breathing are you breathing because if you're breathing he said if you will believe in your heart and declare with your mouth you can have what you say this is a spiritual law here supernatural law it's

the law of faith and it will work for anyone any time any place it doesn't matter if you're american or if you're african if you're asian if you're south american it doesn't matter who you are your race your ethnicity doesn't matter your your wealth your it doesn't matter your background your last name he said whoever so how many whoevers do we have all right so we've got some people raised from the dead we're gonna we're gonna do some dead raising here a little bit some dead people whoever if you're alive and breathing you're whoever if

you're reading in the king james version it says whosoever you're a whoever so if you are whoever if you believe if you're if you're breathing then this is applicable to you and you can take a hold of this if you want let's read that again he said have the god kind of faith for assuredly i say to you whoever so you ought to put your name there for sure that i say to you if chad says to this mountain be removed be cast to the sea does not doubt in his heart but believes that those

things that chad says will be done chad will have whatever chad says you got to put your name in there let's read that again some of you all still so we're still working on it we're going to keep reading it till you act like you're actually excited about reading it you ready we might do it 10 times i don't know i'm watching your face you make ugly faces it's going to make it longer for surely i say to you whoever that's you say that's me whoever says to this mountain be removed be cast into the

sea and does not doubt in his heart but believes that those things that that's me that i say will be done i will have whatever i say say that with me i will have whatever i say i will have whatever i say now some of you that just sounds kind of stupid but do you know what that you are a product of what you say who you are and what you're doing and what's going on today it's a product of what you've been saying i actually heard a very interesting story the other day uh it

was this this family they'd gotten in a really bad car wreck really bad car wreck they were driving down the road and it was a husband and wife and two kids and they were driving down the road and they got t-boned at an intersection and they got hit so hard it actually split the car split the car and it threw everybody out of the car and the mom's telling the story and she said that she said i'm laying there and she ended up having just broken bones all over the place she said i couldn't move

she said but i'm in severe pain i'm thinking about my husband thinking about my kids i'm looking around trying to find them and she she was talking she was talking to this this minister and she said you know i was severely hurt and she said long story short my me and my children survived we were injured my husband wasn't injured at all he had a couple of bruises and bumps but he died and me and my kids we had broken bones and and serious internal injuries but we survived and lived and she said i couldn't

figure out for a while how in the world did me and my kid survive and my husband uh he survived the wreck wasn't injured he actually came running up to me and stood over me and was checking on me and she said he ended up dying a few days later and she said me and my kids we survived and she was talking to this preacher about it and he said well let's just pray about this you know god he knows everything he'll he'll reveal the answer to us and so they began to pray about that

and he said father just just show her enlighten her so she can have peace about this and understand what's going on well a few days later she came up to to the minister and she said i know exactly what happened i know why my husband is in heaven right now and the preacher said what happened she said i distinctly remember she said i was laying there on the ground and she said i've got broken bones i've got internal injuries my kids have internal injuries she said we end up going to hospital we're there for a

while we survived she said my husband was was uninjured from it and they they did an autopsy and everything he had no physical injuries at all but she said i distinctly remember now she said he ran up to me he came to check on me and he was so upset over what happened because he thought that it was his fault and she looked he looked at me and he said i'm a dead man she said three days later he was dead no physical injuries at all and what was going on was this minister was talking

about some things about faith and the power of our words and our confession and stuff and she said that's it right there i know it she said i know that's what it is and the thing was is that you know just because you say something it doesn't mean that you believe it you know i mean i could call you stupid doesn't mean i think you're stupid you call me dom and ignorant doesn't mean you know i mean like we joke around with something well that's not a good way to joke around but but you know

we joke around with people and we say stuff goofing around we say stuff we don't mean we're just being funny goofing around and stuff but there are some times and you know this very well when the pressure is on when you get squeezed what you really believe is what comes out what you really believe is what comes out and what you really believe when we say that jesus said you will have what you say you will have what you say and so that's why number one it's very important as to what you are confessing about

yourself and confessing about your children you know you don't need to be going around and talking about how your kids are just brats my kids they're just dumb i mean you know they must have got it from their mom i just don't understand that i mean my kids you need to watch what you say about yourself and watch what you say about your family watch what you say about your finances you know you don't need to call talk about your finances say i'm always broke i mean i just never can get ahead i mean just

when it seems like i'm about to get ahead then something always happens and i always go something breaks down something falls apart i lose this lose that i just never can get ahead in life i never can get ahead i've heard people talk like that all the time and you know what happens they never get ahead never get ahead never get ahead jesus said whoever says this mountain be removed be cast into the sea does not doubt in his heart but believes that those things he says will come to pass he will have whatever he

says and he says therefore i say to you whatever things you ask when you pray notice he said believe that you received them and then you will have them so you could say it like this when you believe you got it then that's when you're positioned to get it so jesus here he is he's telling them and he's showing them this is the law of faith and this has this is how faith works this is how it works and and the primary way that it works is by your words and again remember i told you

god is not going to do something that he isn't doing himself he's not going to require you to live a certain way that he isn't already living and you and i are not going to be commanded to be an imitator of our father and yet god be doing something he doesn't require himself to do and require you to do it either but jesus here he's showing you how to to to access the impossible what the world calls impossible he's telling you how to access some things you know every single one of us we may not

be facing a you know a real mountain made of stone and rock but we've all got some mountains that come in our life we've all got some impossible situations some things that you know we're endeavoring to believe god and trust god and fulfill some things for god and some and some mountains show up and isn't it interesting that jesus doesn't say when you're facing a mountain pray unto god to do something about it because that's where most christians most christians are god do something about the mountain god do something about the mountain god i'm trusting

you to do something about i'm trusting you to remove this mountain and god's saying i'm not listening because i already told you you do something about the mountain and see you talk like that amongst a lot of christians and they'll say who do you think you are you think you're god or something well i don't know about you knuckle nut but jesus said i say to you whoever says to this mount not whoever prays to god about the mountain whoever says to the mountain right come on this is jesus now this is this isn't a

particular denomination a religious circle this is jesus and it's in red and jesus said not whoever praises god about the mountain he said whoever says to this mountain come on this is just basic theology 101 it takes a theologian to screw it up that was funny too jesus said whoever whoever says says to that not not praise the god whoever says to this mountain be removed in other words we're getting into this thing about our authority as a believer he said whoever says to this mountain and this is an impossible thing you may be facing

some impossible situations i've been facing impossible situations for years as i've been trying to be obedient but anytime a mountain shows up in your life an impossible situation jesus didn't say pray to god to do something about it he said you say something to it why because god has given you authority through christ he's given it to you in this world and the primary currency of heaven the primary currency of the kingdom of god is faith faith the law of faith is how you and i receive from the kingdom of god while we're here in

the kingdom of this world and yet it helps to understand that like we've talked about for years that you and i we are a spirit and and i'm in a body and it doesn't matter if it's a tall body a skinny body a fluffy body a you know a tan body a white body this is just a house and this right here gives me access into this physical world so physical things can be tangible but me the real me i am a spirit being made in the very image and in the likeness of god and

because i'm a spirit being then that means i have access to the spiritual world and the way that i can access those things is by f-a-i-t-h faith the way they access it is by faith and jesus is showing you here he's showing the disciples remember jesus is he's training these guys to take over to take the reins of the ministry when he leaves they need to be able to get results just like him didn't jesus say in john 14 12 whoever believes in me he didn't say the bishop the apostle the prophet the evangelist the

pastor the teacher the bible school student the person with a doctorate degree person been saved for 25 50 years he said whoever believes in me will do the very same works that i do and even greater works because i'm going to the father well the purpose of him going to the father was to produce salvation and salvation was to not just get you to heaven but was to bring and make a union between you and the father so that jesus being the vine and you would be the branch that everything that flows through jesus flows

in you and it was because everything god wanted in you he put into christ so that when christ got into you and you got into him everything that's in him got in you so now as a believer i've got the faith of jesus christ friends come on you do not have a faith shortage when you got into jesus you got into all that he has how could you do what jesus did and have less equipment come on friends don't buy into this beggar mentality and this mentality that i don't have enough of this and i

don't have enough of that that's where the majority of christians are praying for god to give me more power more authority make me more holy make me more righteous if that's the way you're praying it's because you don't know who you are in christ but the moment that you get a revelation of who i am and him all of a sudden i begin to realize and get a revelation of i've got the faith of god almighty come on i have the love of god see we don't have a problem with that the bible says the

love of god's been shed abroad in our heart by the holy ghost i've got the love of god i've got the peace of god i've got the joy of god but when it comes to this faith thing all of a sudden oh i need to fast and pray god give me more faith god ain't going to give you any more because he gave you everything that he is if it's not working for you it's because you're not working it i've been around long enough that i've heard people say well i tried that faith thing well

that's the problem you tried it no you need to work it you need to work it you need to do it because jesus said i don't care what your experience was and i don't care what your mama's experience and your auntie's experience jesus said if you do this it will work it's a law it is a law that means it has to work it doesn't have an option there's no if maybe but it's a law it has to work in the very same way that the law of gravity i mean i guarantee you every single

one of you if you were to walk out this building you would have no problem betting somebody a hundred bucks a thousand bucks even if you want to bet them a million and you didn't have some you would still bet them because you know you maybe you could get it you would bet them whatever if you get somebody to take the bet then when i drop this bible i guarantee you it's gonna fall i'll bet you anything i'll bet you my house that when i let go of this bible it's gonna fall on the floor

you would be willing to take you may not be a betting person i guarantee you'd be willing to take that bet what if somebody said you go out there here here's ten thousand dollars and you bet somebody that when i let go of my bible that it's gonna fall on the ground you find somebody's willing to take that bet you're gonna make a lot of money really quick but see every single one of us would be willing to take that bet we all would 100 thousand dollars i guarantee you this bible when i let go

it's going to hit the ground why it's a law it's called the law of gravity well there's another law that we're talking about this morning it's the law of faith and just as sure as you would be willing to drop this thing for a better ten thousand dollars or a hundred thousand dollars jesus said just as surely whoever says to this mountain be removed be cast to the sea he said if you believe it in your heart and you believe that you receive it you will have it you can bet your life on it you

can put ten thousand dollars you can put a hundred thousand dollars on it jesus said it will work for whoever jesus said it he said it'll work for whoever right whoever this is a law it's a law it will work i mean i'm living proof of it it will work mark chapter 11 verse we're still there mark 11 23 you might get tired of mark 11 23 notice this he said whoever says this mountain be cast into the sea and then a wonderful thing he said you can take these impossible situations that have come against

you they can be thrown into the sea in other words it can be thrown into a place where it ain't coming back and there won't even be a trace of it in your life you know you could be facing some impossible situations right now i mean excruciating physical circumstances it just seems impossible to get out of but you take your authority you begin to declare some things and therefore begin to receive some things and years on down the road years later and there's not even a trace of that in your life and people can't even

tell that you went through that and they're looking at how blessed you are and can't figure out how in the world could you have possibly gone through that how many of you been in a situation i've been there how many of you been in a situation you know as of late you know maybe you went through some stuff back in the day and people see you now and see maybe what you've done or what you have now and they go well you just don't understand my problem i mean i just got it bad i mean

you possibly understand look how blessed you are i mean let me tell you about my mountain let me tell you something brother let me tell you about my mountain range that i dealt with i mean mountain range is but i'm telling you when we get a hold of this uh friends i'm telling you we can get to the point you may not be able to stop the mountains from coming you may not be able to stop the impossible situations from forming but you can keep them from standing in your way you can keep them from

standing in your way and you get to the point they get out of the way they're gone they ain't coming back there's not even a trace of it there's not even a smell of smoke on you there's not even a hint of it you can get to the point people begin to see how blessed you are they may not know where you come from but you never forget where you came from and what god brought you out of and every single time those are trophies every single time that another mountain another impossible situation shows up

i can go back and i can remind myself of the faithfulness of god in which the law of faith and the law of sowing and reaping and the law of love and many of these other laws that when i put them together and they began to work and this impossible situation became possible and this impossible situation became possible and this one became possible and this one became possible and i know that whatever i'm facing right now it may look very dire it may look very bad but i know just like god brought me out of

that one and that one and that one and that one as i chose to believe in him and trust him and take him at his law and do things like him and operate like him and imitate my daddy that just as it worked for him it will work for me again and again and again and again and again friends i'm telling you there's going to be some times i mean i have been there done that where i had to walk outside it said as at night time i had to get away from lacy so she

wouldn't think i was a weenie but i mean standing out there and tears running down my eyes and say god i believe you i believe god around me looks like it's going to hell god i'll still hold you and take you at you where i believe god i will have what i say i mean this is a strong man's gospel friends if this was easy i mean the sinners would be doing it no you need to grab a hold of the promises of god and say i believe that i believe that it doesn't matter what

comes against me i believe the word of god and i will have what i say i declare it to be true i declare it to be so and i won't have it i don't care what the banker says i don't care if the doctor said you're going to be dead in four weeks the bible says i will have a long life and i will be satisfied by it a thousand may fall at one side ten thousand out of another but it shall not come near me it may be coming near me and trying to get

around me but it ain't gonna stay on me i will have what i say see guys this is this is the dividing line it's a dividing line between the christian who's going to heaven and then the christian who's manifesting heaven that's a good tweet right there i'm going to write that down here when we get done but paul said the apostle paul said over in colossians chapter 2 verse 6 he said as you have received christ now walk in him see that's the separating line between the the christian who's going to heaven the christian who's

manifesting heaven the christian who loves god loves jesus jesus you're my lord and savior and then the one who's allowing him to work through them it's the christian who who who they're going to heaven but it's the christians now i'm getting results and i'm acting like him and i'm looking like him and i'm smelling like him and i'm doing like him why because i'm operating according to some laws some supernatural laws i'm operating according to the law of faith and jesus said if you will believe it in your heart and you declare it out of

your mouth you will have it he said this is the currency of heaven this is how you receive and pull from the kingdom of god some people say well i don't know if that'll work are you saved how did you get saved friend how did you get saved you believed in your heart and you confessed it with your mouth this is a law if this is the way that you receive salvation it is the way and the only way that you will receive all of the benefits of salvation come on you need to look at

this with your own eyes look at romans chapter 10 well i don't know about that i don't believe that that whole you know confession thing and speaking and declaring thing and mouth it and mouth it and blab it and grab it anybody heard that that blabbit grab it stuff i don't know about are you a christian are you saved yeah you sure believe it then what do you mean i believe that's how you got saved you blabbed it and you grabbed it i don't know yes you did where i tell you return roman look at

romans chapter 10 and verse 6 it says the righteousness of faith speaks this way so there must be another way of speaking for faith people must be a different language see some of you didn't know you're bilingual what do you mean bilingual i speak english and spanglish nah you might be speaking some faith and not realize it the righteousness of faith speaks this way do not say in your heart who will ascend to heaven or who will descend into the abyss verse 8 says what does it say the word is near you it's in your

mouth and it is in your heart that is the word of faith which we preach well i don't like those faith preachers you mean you don't like that believing and speaking thing you mean that the way that you got saved thing you don't you don't like that this is a law friends this ain't no denomination religious circle this is a law he said verse nine that if you can confess you do what you speak you say something with your what your mouth you confess with your mouth the lord jesus uh oh and you do what

and you believe in your heart so here's this whole believing and speaking thing you know this thing that people get all mad about this believing speaking thing you mean the way you get saved yeah i don't like that i don't like that that's not scripture yeah it is it's right here it's how you guys say bubba what does it say the word is near you in your mouth and in your heart if you confess with your mouth the lord jesus and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead you will be saved

but with the heart one believes right but notice this last phrase if you've got your bible underline it highlight it put some glitters on it and with the mouth confession notice this word it's made it's made with the mouth it's made with a mouth it's manifested with the mouth it's created with the mouth that comes into being with the mouth it's made unto salvation it's made unto salvation he said you believe it in your heart but it isn't until you open up your mouth and you declare and confess jesus as your lord and savior that's

when salvation comes into being not just because you believe it in your heart he said when you open your mouth and you declare it there's some friends there's something about believing and speaking something about believing and speaking god set it up this way i'm not complaining this is the way he set it up and apparently it works because if you believe that you became a brand new creation in christ old things passed away and all things became new and when you take your last breath you're going to heaven you obviously believe in believing and speaking

you're betting your life on it you're betting eternity on believing and speaking yes you are well i don't know if i believe in that believe and speak that blab and graph yeah you're betting your life on it aren't you buddy and if you think it would get you to heaven don't you think it would manifest heaven my god believing and speaking believing and speaking believing and speaking some of you might need to start saying something some of you might need to start changing what you're saying look let's look at a couple of scriptures i didn't

realize we've gone this long but all you know the buffets are open so we're good so look look over at uh hebrews chapter 11 real quick hebrews chapter 11 then i want to tell you a story and then we'll stop hebrews chapter 11 it's kind of over in the middle of the new testament if you can find first timothy and then a son ii timothy you can find philemon in hebrews hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 it says now faith is the substance it's the evidence of things hoped for it's the evidence it's the title deed

of things not seen for by it the elders obtained a good testimony notice verse 3 circle this highlight it do something put a post-it note by faith we understand that the world the universe was framed by what by the word of god so that the things which are seen are not made of things which are visible how did god create the universe by believing and speaking how'd the sun come unto be by believing and speaking how the moon coming to be by believing and speaking how the grass the trees get here by believing and speaking

by believing and speaking all of creation that you can see it was formed by a word see words are carriers of life or they can be carriers of death the bible says over in proverbs that your words produce blessing or they produce cursing your words are carriers of something waiting to be created and you are the one who chooses what's going to be put into that carrier and jesus said you will have what you say why it is a law and the creator of the universe has been operating according to this law since whatever it

is the way things work and so you can choose to live like everybody else and just kind of go through and have the molly grubs and you know and whatever happens to me well i guess that's just my lot in life or whatever comes your way you can make a decision i'm not going to let this stand in my way and jesus promised me that whatever mountain and tries to show up in my life i can remove that thing by simply believing his promise believing the authority that he's given me understanding i'm an ambassador of

christ i've been sent by god from heaven to manifest him manifest heaven on this earth to produce the will of god that's in heaven on this earth and act like him do like him get results like him do it for him if you're facing some impossible situations you might not you might need to stop praying so much and you might need to start saying some more there's a lot of times a lot of people are praying and they need to be saying you need to be declaring instead of spending all those times and tears and

telling god about how bad your situation is you might need to start speaking some things you need you might need to start calling those things that be not as though they are if you ugly you might need to start calling yourself beautiful if you got a self-esteem problem stop talking bad about yourself start calling yourself good things if your kids are acting ready stop calling them bratis they're talking talking about them calling them good tall obedient call them smart intelligent you got some financial issues going on hey stop praying to god about it i know

that sounds kind of weird but god don't have any dollar bills up there all the money is down here and you've got ministering angels you've got ministering spirits that are here to help you and work for you and you might need to start declaring some things and confessing some things and let your angels have something to work with you know a lot of your angels have been sitting there for a long time they're getting cramps they're getting bored they're ready for you to do something you need to give them something to do you need to

start using your faith you start using your faith i try to always get you out of here 11 30. i'm gonna tell you this one story and then we're gonna go because this is really good i'll make it i'll give you a short version many years ago lacey and i we had bought this house it was on long street in beaumont texas we bought this house and it was our it was going to be our our first big flip we've been we've been flipping houses and buying investment properties for years it was going to be

our first big one and we had and i say big it was big to us back then we bought this house we bought it for 135 000 and we put 15 000 into it that we had borrowed from mastercard and visa and discover whoever else would give us money and so we had 150 000 into it it was this beautiful house built in 1916. and uh the builder of it was the the guy who had founded seagram coffee which was like like a big regional coffee company down in the south part of of america and

this gorgeous house original hardwood floors it had crystal chandeliers the original molding from from 1916 i mean like this place was was really cool so we just kind of updated it a little bit and we were we had bought this and we were going to take the money we made and we were going to leave from there and we were going to go start our first church in college jason texas so we had worked on this house we got we worked on it for a year got everything done and then how many of you heard

about this hurricane called katrina well hurricane katrina came i mean we had just finished the house and we put it on the market the sign from the realtor went out in the front yard and two weeks later katrina comes through new orleans new orleans comes through new orleans and we're a couple of hours from there so it goes to new orleans wrecks and devastates new orleans two weeks later one that a lot of people didn't get a lot of attention to was hurricane rita and rita came right behind katrina and rita was actually a bigger

hurricane than katrina and it came right through the middle the eye the storm went right through the middle of beaumont texas 170 mile of our winds went right through the middle and i mean literally destroyed tons and tons of properties well you know uh hurricane katrina caused problems in new orleans because of the water well there was a particular insurance company that told us we would be in good hands and we found out we weren't because they wanted to say that all the devastation in beaumont was due to water even though we got no flooding

but the problem was that most people there had they they thought they were in good hands and so they they offered this company offered to give us five thousand dollars toward our damage even though the appraiser said we had over eighty thousand this it was a three thousand square foot two story brick home that had been shifted it was on pure beam had been shifted several inches when you walked into the the downstairs the floors that were nice and and beautiful now they look like waves of the ocean walls were leaning in our master bathroom

we had we had re-tiled it it was gorgeous and the bathroom wall was leaning in tiles had fallen off the floor i mean not falling off the wall and we were in an impossible situation because everything that we had and then things that we had borrowed it was in this house and we had to have this sold in order for us to move forward and go to our church that we knew god was calling us to do well the realtor that we had he specialized in the historic district that's what he did and so we

we looked at him to get this thing sold and for six months we didn't get one bite on this house well it was obvious why this thing's a disaster and the problem was there was so much damage no bank would loan anybody any money to buy this house so it was going to require someone to go in there and pay cash they're going to need 150 000 cash despite everything that they're seeing that's a pretty impossible situation and if it wouldn't work we would have just had to file bankruptcy or something well at the end

of six months the realtor he did everything he could couldn't find anybody and we knew we had to get this thing sold and so me and lacy i'll never forget we got together and we just made the decision god we know you're calling us to go start this church but this has to be sold we've got to get out of this so we're just trusting to you this is the days before social media facebook and we didn't have all that free advertising you know you still had to go put an ad in the paper well

we didn't have any money really to do an ad in the paper so i was able to get a for sale by owner sign i stuck it out in the front yard and then every day when we left left our house and we went to work because we were working at the same prison we weren't bad people we were just working in prison but we left to go and every time we pull out that driveway we said father i thank you that's a sold house that's a sold house and when we would come home from

work we pull and drive and say father i thank you that's a sold house and we would think about it we would be laughing and talking with each other and say how does it feel to walk into a sold house how does it feel to sit down in a dining room table or in a sold house you know i mean when we think about it we're calling it sold sold sold sold sold no realtor no nothing just got a for sale by owner sign sitting in the front yard in the historic district in beaumont texas

well about two months goes by and i'm in the backyard i'm doing some yard work lacie's at the store and all of a sudden i hear this guy yelling and i look over it's an older gentleman looking over our fence and he says hey are you the owner of this house and i said yes sir he said i'd like to see it if possible i said well yeah so i go open up the front door and walk through and and he said well yeah he said i was driving through downtown and came down here and

he said i'm looking for a house he said i've been living in brazil for the last 25 years and he said i just really felt like it was time to move back here to beaumont i've got some family here and he said i'm a psychologist i was kind of looking for a nice big older home that i could live in but also do a private practice in and he said i've been in brazil for 25 years i just got got here to texas last week and i was doing some some driving through the area and

trying to find something and i came across your house and and so we're looking through and he's just really liking it and so we get into the backyard and and he goes well i'll tell you what he said i know you're asking a hundred and sixty thousand dollars would you take 155 000 cash and i'll waive all the inspections i was like i'm thinking about is this dude smoking something from brazil i mean like you can see this house is just bad and but i i played it off real good i said well let me

go call my wife and talk to her so i walked up to the side i said lacey you can believe it there's a fool out here from brazil he just said told me he'd pay 155 000 cash and waive all the inspections what do you think she said sold i said that's what i thought so i went back and talked to him i said hey i talked to my wife and and she was agree but we'll do the deal for 155 000 cash so we went down to the title company we wrote up a little

agreement turned everything in two weeks later we closed on that house we made five thousand dollars off of it you know what happened a year later that house burnt to the ground god is my witness there was a fight there was a fire in the kitchen that burnt to the ground he was on the balcony and the fire fire trucks had to come and take him off the balcony to rescue him that house burnt to the ground but i'm telling you for for two and a half months every day multiple times a day we called

that house sold that was our mountain the realtor told us there's no way you're going to get this soul i said i'll tell you what buster we're going to have what we say no i didn't tell him that but i was thinking i mean we called it soul called it soul called it soul call it soul jesus said you will have what you say we were trying to obey god and we had to have that thing sold and god got that thing sold but he wouldn't have got it sold if we want to believe something

in our heart and begin declaring it and confessing it and being determined they come hell or high water we're going to have what we say and we got it praise god so i want to encourage you whatever you're facing whatever mountain you're facing whatever hard times you're facing find the promises of god and start speaking some things start declaring some things over your situation and i'm telling you gotta flip those things and turn those things around when people said there's no way out praise god i know we've gone a little long but look we don't

like to go without doing this if you're sitting here or you're watching online and you have never received jesus as your lord and savior and you need to change you need to get out of the mess that you're in i'm telling you jesus is the answer so i just want you to pray with me it's very simple we read it there in romans chapter 10 say this with me god i come to you right now and i realize i'm in need of a savior your word says if i would believe in my heart and confess

with my mouth jesus as the lord of my life i would be saved so right now i take a hold of the law of faith and i believe in my heart and i confess with my mouth jesus as the lord and the savior of my life in jesus name amen so be it i will have what i say that with me i will have what i say i'm going to operate according to the law of faith and jesus said it will work for me and i will have what i say [Music]