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Moses saw the invisible. How? By faith. Too often we look at our deteriorating situations, and we get anxious and nervous and despairing. But when our hearts perceive God as His Word becomes alive in us, we see Jesus, and we know that we know that He is with us. Don’t look just at what you see physically. Look at God today, and see what He can do.

Maybe you struggle with some sin. You pray to change, but you still fail. What can you do? Fight! The enemy pounds us with lies, but God’s Word gives us the truth to combat those lies. Let’s get out of the try-fail-repent cycle and start fighting spiritually, unearthing the devil’s lies and acknowledging the truth of God’s Word that demolishes strongholds. Jesus will enable us to walk in victory.

The church today has lost its awareness of our glorious hope: Christ’s return and our going to heaven to be with Him. But Moses understood it, for Hebrews 11:26 says that “he was looking ahead to his reward.” He thought, “God has something better for me down the road, and I’m going to walk by faith, even if I suffer.” No hardship is worthy to be compared with the glory that God is preparing for us...

Identifying with Christ can mean difficulty. Are we willing for that? Moses was. By faith, he said, “No, I’m not Egyptian; I’m Hebrew,” even though it meant leaving the palace and joining the mistreated Israelites. But hardship is only for a season. Jesus is coming back to take us home! Let’s leave the pleasures of sin and identify with Jesus today.

Moses had it all. He was Pharaoh’s daughter’s son, after all. Then he realized, “Wait a minute. I’m a Hebrew.” So by faith he said, “I’m not identifying with what’s easy. I’m identifying with who I really am in God.” We Christians can be so tepid. Who are you—Democrat, Republican, white, black, southern, American? Or by faith will you boldly say, “No, I’m a Christian.” Let’s be courageous. Let’s w...

What did Jacob, Joseph, and Moses have in common? They were so sure of God’s promises that they acted in faith—even when the answers didn’t come until after they had died! When the invisible promises of God are made real to our hearts, and we know with absolute surety what God has said, we act on those promises. Let’s believe God with all our hearts and then do what He tells us to do.

Some of us don’t believe that God can reveal anything—and our church services reflect it. But just as God revealed blessings to Isaac, and Isaac spoke them over his sons by faith, so the Lord will speak to us too by His Spirit. We don’t want fake emotionalism, but we do want the faith that the Holy Spirit wants to create in us. Let’s expect God to bring the supernatural to bear in our daily living...

We go to church; we read our Bibles; we pray. But in Psalm 50, we find out that even when we’re doing all the right things, God still calls us to account sometimes. Why? Because we forget to thank Him. God judges His people and says, “Don’t just give Me your regular routine. Sacrifice thank offerings to Me!” Let’s thank God every day, every hour, for every single thing He does for us.

Abraham had waited years for a son, but then God said, “Offer Isaac to Me as a sacrifice.” What? But God was testing him—and he passed the test. When God asks us to do what makes no sense, we can reason, like Abraham did, “God promised me good, so I know that He will make this work. He will never fail in His promise to me.” Let’s glorify God with our faith, believing that He will bring us through.

Is heaven on your mind? When we don’t have faith, we settle down on this earth—and our hopes and fears go up and down with news headlines and the market numbers. But God wants us to walk above all that by faith, focused not on this world but on the kingdom of heaven. If you’re worried about politics or the economy, get heaven on your mind. Our great hope is going home to be with Jesus.

What are you tolerating in your life that’s offending the Lord? Even as Christians, we put up with things that hurt us and hold us back. Yes, we should be tolerant of people, loving them, being patient with them. But as Jesus told the churches in the book of Revelation, we should never tolerate sin. If we love the Lord, we should love what He loves and hate what He hates.

A lot of people don’t believe that Jesus is coming back again. You can tell by the way they live. But to the men and women of faith in Hebrews 11, heaven was so real that they lived as strangers and foreigners on Earth. Faith brings a consciousness of God, His promises, the value of a soul—the invisible things of eternity. We can live by sight, or we can live by faith. Let’s walk by faith.

The faith of Abraham and Sarah that they would have a child started with a promise from God. Faith is not “If I believe hard enough, it’ll happen” or dreaming something into existence. It has to be initiated by God. Then, when His promise is a long time coming, we can keep believing, because God said it would happen. What has God spoken to you? Believe Him today. God is good.

Everyone God has greatly used throughout church history has had to leave what they’re used to and go to a new place. Sometimes we get our definitions more from our church cultures than from God’s Word, and God says, “Leave.” That’s what He told Abraham—and John Wesley, and George Whitfield, and William Booth, and many others. To be used by God, we need to step out in faith.

Streamed on April 16, 2024

Too many Christians are not just in the world, they’re of the world. But anyone who is walking with Jesus by faith is a pilgrim on this earth. We should never settle down in this world, because God has something far better for us! Like Abraham, we should be looking forward to the heavenly city God has promised us and be shaped by its values. This world is not our home; heaven is.

There’s one thing that always accompanies faith: obedience. Abraham had no idea how leaving home and going to an unknown land would work out, but when God asked him to do it, he obeyed. What is God asking us to do? Let’s do it. Like Abraham, let’s believe God so completely that we don’t just intellectually agree with Him but we act on our faith in Him.

The church in America is in a crisis. We are asleep. But as people who trust in Jesus, shouldn’t a dynamic force accompany our faith? We need revival—a fresh work of the Holy Spirit. Then we will produce the same fruit the early church did when they devoted themselves to God’s Word, God’s presence, God’s people, and God’s love for the lost. Let’s pray, “Lord, revive us again.”

When Abraham got to the promised land, you’d think he would have built himself a nice, big house to settle down in. But he lived in tents, like a stranger in a strange land, his entire life. Why? He was looking forward to heaven. The promises of God were more real to him than the earth around him. By faith, let’s live as strangers in this world. Soon we’ll go home and see Jesus.

The first thing God ever said to Abraham was, “Get out of town. I have great plans to bless you, but not where you are.” Not everyone should leave home, but the greatest stories in the Bible are about people who left the familiar to go to something God had for them. It might feel scary, but when we step out in faith to obey the Shepherd, goodness and mercy will follow us all our lives

What would you do if God told you, “Leave your home, your job, your church, and I’ll show you where to go”? We like security, predictability, five-year plans. But Abraham didn’t even have a five-minute plan! He obeyed God, not knowing where he was going. That’s not emotionalism or fanaticism. It’s true biblical faith. Let’s allow the Holy Spirit to lead us.

Do you feel that God is not hearing your prayers? That He isn’t listening? Actually, He’s working behind the scenes to bless you more than what you’re asking for. We get tired, we complain, but God has set every star in place; He knows every hair on our heads. Remember the wonderful works of God! He will come through for you.

Noah didn’t see any rain, but when God told him to build an ark, he did it. By faith, he was sure that if God had warned of a flood, there would be a flood. God has warned us too of judgment to come—and He has sent us an ark named Jesus. Are you in that ark? By faith, trust Jesus, and when judgment comes, He will be your salvation.