Rico Sharp- Day 3 in Freeport Bahamas at the Leadership/Relationship/Fellowship Conference

Well, praise the Lord. I am having a wonderful time here on the great island that God loves to dwell in. Amen. The Grand Bahamas. My wife and I have been really thoroughly blessed and well taken care of. I called myself prior to coming here trying to lose Somehow, day one, that plan went out the back door, and I think instead of losing a few pounds, I picked up a few pounds since being here. You guys got good food, you know how to cook, and you don't mind sharing it. I believe today the best is yet to come. We're eating over someone's house after church today, and I'm excited about that. I'm looking forward to it. I want to thank God for the spirit that dwells in this ministry. Yes. The spirit of love and acceptance and hospitality. The spirit of faith and unity. It's not everywhere you go that you can be amongst people who have such kindred spirit. And I am blessed to be here to get to meet all of you and to spend the past 3 days with you. I thank God for each and every one of you. Can you also help me celebrate the Angel of the Shepherd, the overseer of the apostles? Come on! And I want to thank God for my wife who has come to accompany me on this journey. Amen. And, uh, can I have that water please? And, uh, she's been a big support in my ministry, in my life over the years, and I'm just grateful that she could come with me and we can minister together. Amen. Um, I go oftentimes to, to speak And to minister, she's not always able to come with me. So whenever I show up alone, you only see half of me. The better half that you don't see is the woman who stands not behind me but next to me, because God didn't take Eve from the back of the earth. He took Eve from the side. So she stands beside me, and I thank God for her. Did y'all enjoy her last night? I also want to thank God for Lynell, who first suggested that I would come and speak and put everything together. And everything has been lovely. Everything has been fine from day one. All of everything. And, uh, I also want to thank God for my brother Perry, Who introduced me to Lynell, and without Perry, raise your hand, Perry. Without Perry, I wouldn't be here. So, so God uses people in ways that we don't even think He's using us. That's right. And God has a plan for each and every one of us. And I'm thankful to get to meet each and every one of you. For all of the pastors that are here, that have come over from your particular place of dwelling, we thank God for you for being. Here to support this event. Resend the email. Okay, resend the email. Um, go ahead and take your seats. Go ahead and take your seats. All right. So I want to just say I was late getting my slides to the church, and I don't want the church to spend too much time trying to, to get them loaded up at this time. I can just send them to you later and you guys can have them for whoever would like to have this information on hand. And I'll just go into the word. When it comes down to preaching, I am a preach teacher. Yes. I'm a preach teacher, and there are some things that I want to share with you today on the subject and the topic of faith. How many of you realize that faith is a subject and a topic that you just cannot ever put on the back burner? You can't get away with it. No, sir. And, uh, if I can— I think you can give me my phone, my bag. Thank you very much. Faith is a topic that we can never get too much of. I've been teaching on faith for probably about 27 years consistently. And there are some revelations that God has shared with me on faith. My gift is the gift of faith. Yes. When it comes down to the spiritual gifts that are listed in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and there are 9 of them, my gift is the gift of faith. Our ministry has experienced over the years supernatural movements. From the point of starting in our home, just my wife and I and our 2 sons, to purchasing our first building just months later, to purchasing 15 acres of land a year later, to starting a transitional house for homeless men and ex-offenders a couple of months after that. Then to building an addition onto our first building, paying it off and making it debt-free a couple of months later. And then to purchasing a 35,000-square-foot movie theater and converting that into our house of God, and then starting multiple locations, all within a short period of about 7 to 8 years. Wow. Faith is how we've done it. There are some things that I have shared with our congregation over the years about faith that has not only caused for our church to grow and to explode, but for people's lives to become more prosperous, more profitable, and more successful. And so I'm going to share with you some things that I— that the Holy Spirit has shared with me about faith over the years, and I believe that you're going to be blessed. The first thing that I want you to know about faith is that you can never have too much of it, but it is possible that you cannot have enough. Thank you, musicians. You guys did a great job today. I appreciate it. Praise worship team. You guys did a wonderful job today. If you could just stay on the keyboard, I'm going to teach a little while, and then a little bit later on, I'm going to get a little prompt, and I'm going to need you to follow me. Make sure that you take notes as much as you possibly can when I teach the word of God. I'm giving you information. Information needs to be retained as much as possible. When I start preaching, I'm giving you inspiration, and inspiration becomes a motivation that gives you the option to function. But sometimes inspiration runs out, whereas information runs on. That's right. When it comes down to faith, it is not a luxury. It is not something that you can do without. In fact, the Bible says in the book of Hebrews 11:6 that without faith it is impossible To please God. So no matter what you do right, no matter what you do good, no matter how much good you do, the Bible says without faith it is impossible to please God. Without faith it is impossible to please God. So you can pray in tongues. Yeah. You can love, you can give, you can worship, you can praise, you can do all these wonderful things that God receives, but without faith it is impossible to please God. So if it is impossible to please God without faith, then it must be possible to please God through faith. Yes, sir. So it is our faith that we please our God with. In fact, the Bible goes on to say that whatsoever is not of faith is sin. So that brings now faith into the same category that when we live by it, It becomes an empowerment to our lives. In fact, when the Bible says in Ephesians 3:20 that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think, he concludes that verse by saying, by the power that works in you. And that power that works in you Ladies and gentlemen, is the power of faith. Yes. Your faith God uses to produce on your behalf things that exceeds your request. I'll do exceedingly abundantly above all you ask or think. So I want to be practical for a bit about faith. And then I'm going to give you the message that we're going to focus on today. Faith is in the spirit realm what money is in the natural realm. Money in the natural realm or the physical realm is a means of exchange. It's a means of exchange. We call it currency. It's a means of exchange. You go to the store, With money, with currency, to purchase goods. And whenever you see an item in that store, you must produce the equivalency of that item before you walk out of that store. Otherwise, you end up with the prison ministry like Paul. Yes, sir. And Pastor Rico. You have to pay for what you want. You've got to give them the equivalency. Of that, that is a means of exchange. Am I right about it? Well, faith is in the spirit realm what money is in the natural realm. Jesus made a statement. He said, "Be it unto you according to your faith." Anybody who came up to Jesus in the time that he was in the earth and wanted to be healed or delivered or a breakthrough for themselves or a family member, Jesus would always ask them this question: Do you believe that I am able to do this? And when they would reply yes, then he would say, "Then be it unto you according to your faith." Can I say to you that you don't always get from God what you ask for, but you do get from God what you believe and have faith for? Jesus didn't say, be it unto you according to what you ask for. He said, be it unto you according to what you believe for. Yes, if you have faith, you can receive. So we have to believe that we receive before we receive what we believe. Are you hearing? Yes. So faith is one more time in the spirit realm what money is in the natural realm. Without faith, you cannot move the hand of God in your direction. God is not a God who is moved by tears. He's not a God that is moved by the pressure on your life. He's not a God that is moved by the things that we consider to be motivating to him. Like, we go to God and we tell God about our deadlines and about our mandates and about the things we really need to happen, but God tells us that, hey, you got to come to me correctly when you come. You got to come by faith when you come. I know you're under pressure, but where is your faith? I see you crying and hurting, and I hurt with you, but where is your faith? I know that you got certain things that needs to be done by the 10th, and you need $25,000 by the 15th, and you need $150,000 by the 17th, and you need this bill paid, you need a healing in your body, your doctor said this, and I know all the things that you got going on in your life, but do you believe? And if you believe, where is your faith? So in other words, like if you go to the store and you write a $25,000 car— a check for a new car, that's your means of exchange. When you come to God and you say, God, I need to be healed in my body from cancer, God is looking to see, have you produced the level of faith that is an equal exchange for your healing in your body from cancer? Yes. In other words, when you come to God, be it unto you according to your faith. Your faith has to measure up to the level of Your request. This is why the Bible says in Mark chapter 11, if I can start at verse 22 and go through verse 24, the Bible says, whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart but believe that those things which he says should come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he said. Therefore I say unto you, That when you stand praying, believe that you receive, and you shall have what you ask for. Yes, yes. When people go to God and they pray and they ask God for something, and they ask God 2 times and 3 times and 4 times and 5 times, the reason you're asking more than one time is because you didn't believe you received the moment you asked the first time. And when you don't believe you receive the moment you ask the first time, then you come back again and again and again because now you're trying to appeal to God's mercy. But God doesn't want you to try to appeal to his mercy. He wants you to appeal to faith. Yeah. If you pray and you ask God for something one time and you believe that you receive, You don't have to ask him again and again and again. What you need to do is thank him for it and praise him for it while you're waiting for the manifestation. Are you hearing me? Amen. So faith is like an investigator fingerprint dust. You know, like when a house has been burglarized or a car has been burglarized and they come and they sprinkle this powder around the area which is the point of entry, and then they get a brush and they start dusting off the dust. And there's some police officers in here, so you understand exactly the language I'm speaking. Yeah. And then when you brush off that area, it begins to reveal to you what? Fingerprints. The fingerprints were always there, but they were not apparent to the naked eye. Yes. And that's how faith operates. Faith is always there and it produces things you can't see. But in order for you to have the evidence of those things, you have to begin to tap into the— where the Bible says in Hebrews 11:1, now faith is the substance of things hoped for and it produces the evidence of things not seen. Yes. Verse 2 says, for by it the elders obtained a good report, that through faith they understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that those things which are seen were not made by those things which do appear. For without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that comes to God must believe that he is God and that he is a rewarder of them Who diligently seek him. Now, this is Faith National Church. You guys are a faith nation. All right. And so you have a certain standard in this ministry relative to faith. And according to the Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:7, you walk by faith and not by sight. Which means you're not moved by what you see, you're only moved by what you believe. Amen. So regardless of how difficult and how challenging things can become along the way, you understand that when you're walking by faith, you're not walking alone. Because when you walk by faith, you have the whole support of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the angels of God which are encamped round about you to deliver you in all of your ways. Can I get an amen from faith walkers in here? Can I get an amen from Faith National? Amen! Amen! Yes, sir! Now I need you to understand something. The devil is not after your house, your car, your money, your groceries, and all of that stuff that people would superficially suggest. But there are some things that he's after that you possess. Yes, sir. The Bible says that when one receives the word, Satan comes immediately To steal away the word that is sown in the heart. Why is it that he wants the word? Because the Bible says in Romans 10:17 that faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing the word of God. So in other words, the reason The enemy is after the word sown in your heart is because he realizes that it is the word that you receive that produces the faith you live by. That's right, God. So whenever the enemy is trying to deprive you of the word that has been sown in your heart, he's ultimately trying to interfere with the results that your faith produces. Amen. So I need you to think twice about missing a service. I need you to think twice about pushing the Bible to the side in the place of the television remote. I need you to think twice about walking away from the word just to TikTok and to jump on Instagram. I need you to think twice about when you walk out of the house of God and you go on about your day and you let somebody run up to you and get on your nerves and get you in the flesh and cause for you to forfeit what you just had as a deposit imparted into your spirit from the word of God. Yeah. I need you to think bigger than the setting of the score when somebody cross your path and go off on you. I need you to realize that there's something bigger at stake than just you getting even with somebody Who disrespected you? I need you to realize that the enemy is trying to get you to forfeit a promise or a breakthrough or a miracle or a healing that God wants to bring into your life. I need you to be mindful that the enemy is after your faith. The Bible says let every word be established in the mouth with 2 or 3 witnesses. Why don't you look at somebody and tell them the enemy is after your faith? He's after your faith. I need to inform you that faith is not a luxury. Faith is a commandment. It's not a luxury. It's not an option. It's a commandment. In fact, the Bible says in Romans 1:17 Now the just shall live by faith. Now you look at that word shall, and that word shall, S-H-A-L-L, is the same word that you will find in Exodus 20 when God gave to Moses the Ten Commandments. Yes. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Witness. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. And he goes down the list of those Ten Commandments. Yes. And those Ten Commandments is what brought divine order and alignment and agreement between humanity and divinity. Yes. In the Old Testament. When you cross over into the New Testament, you don't see the word spelled S-A-L-T because our English dictionary translated the word Into S-H-A-L-L, but it is the same definition and it has the same meaning, which means it is a commandment. So if there were to be 11 Commandments, then the 11th Commandment would be, thou shalt live by faith. Yes. This is how serious God is about his people living by faith. In fact, in fact, you can be a Christian and not necessarily be a believer. Amen. Let me break that down. And explain that for me. Yes, sir. Before— well, you would never find in the Bible the term Christian. It's not in the Bible. But you will find in the Bible the term believers. People who served God and followed Jesus were not known or classified or categorized as Christians they were categorized as believers. They were not known necessarily by having been saved, but they were known by having believed, and they were called believers. They were known by their faith, not by their association. They were identified by their faith, not by their association. They were identified by their faith, not by their denomination. They were identified by their faith, Not by their affiliation. They were identified by their faith, not by who they hung out with. They were identified by their faith. They were called believers, and they were called believers because they operated with demonstration of the Spirit and of the faith. And so when a person gets saved today Oftentimes they are more identified by their denomination, association, and affiliation than they are by their faith. You can get saved and through faith according to Romans 10:8-9-10, whosoever shall believe in their heart that God raised Jesus from the dead shall be saved. With the heart man believes unto righteousness, with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. You can get saved by faith, as many people have given their life to God and they become a Christian, and now their names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. But from that point on, they left off developing and maturing their faith, and now they're saved and on their way to heaven, but they're living in fear, they're living in doubt, they're living in unbelief, because even though they gave their heart to God, they did not give their life to God so that they can go from just being a Christian to becoming a believer. Yes, yes. So all believers in God who operates by faith are Christians, but not all Christians operate in faith by God. And so many people in our day and time are saved and love God, but they have no faith. Yes, yes. And they need you to go to God for them, for their deliverance, for their breakthrough, for their victory. And Jesus called it a faithless And he said to his people before he depart, he's— he said, there's a time coming where I'm asking myself, when I return, will I find faith in the earth? We're living in a time where people's hearts are failing them, Paul said, because of fear. Fear, fear, fear. Fear, false evidence appearing real. Fear is faith perverted. Yeah, fear and faith both have the same foundation or meaning. It means to believe in the unseen. When the enemy finds Christians that does not develop their faith, he knows that they have a greater propensity of operating in fear. So he'll try to divert their faith into believing for the contrary. Yes, there are many folks who believe more that the contrary will happen in their life versus the will of God happening in their life. And there are people who live in fear daily, and they're afraid that something bad is going to happen to them. I have this saying, and that saying something good is about to happen in my life. Yes, sir. I refuse to lend my faith to the enemy and have the enemy to control what I believe, which will imprison me in fear. If I'm going to believe in the unseen, then I'm going to believe in what the word promises me. Yes, sir. But the thing about faith and fear is that they both are Supported through either gossip, G-O-S-S-I-P, six-letter word, or the gospel, G-O-S-P-E-L, six-letter word. Yeah. And what determines which one you receive is who you lend your ear to. So if you lend your ear to gossip, your spirit will be filled with fear. But if you lend your ear to the gospel, your Spirit will be filled with faith. Are you understanding? So you have people who can tell you verbatim exactly what Satan said to them, but cannot tell you what God said to them. You have people who would say to you, "The devil said he's going to kill me by the time I'm fifty, like he killed my mother or killed my grandfather." or killed my sister. And you got people that can go around and tell you exactly what the report of the enemy is but cannot tell you what God has spoken over their life. Amen. Isaiah 53:1 says, who shall believe our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? I don't want to hear from you what the devil said. Tell me what God said. And you have the ability I want you to know what I'm with. If you have the ability to tell me what the devil said, then you also have the ability to tell me what God said, because both God and Satan dwells in the realm of your spirit, or in the spirit realm. So if you can turn the dial and turn the knob and turn the frequency to hear what the enemy is saying to you, then you should be able to change the dial and turn the knob and change frequency and tune into the voice of God and be able to quote, thus saith the Lord. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the church. Good word, good word. Amen. Yes, sir. Look at somebody and tell them, tell me what God said. I don't care what the devil said. I don't want to hear what the devil said. Don't tell me about how busy the devil is. Tell me that God is moving by his Spirit. I want to shift a little bit and get into the message. I want to talk to you now that you understand the premise I want to talk to you for like the next 25, 30 minutes on this topic called Faith on Fire. All right. Faith on Fire. And I want to start by saying to you that there are 3 dimensions, or components if you will, related to your faith being on fire. Number one, before your faith can be on fire, and we'll break down faith on fire, your faith has to first go through this first dimension, which is faith under fire. Faith under fire is when your faith comes under attack by the enemy. Oftentimes, people in the military on the battlefield would Use that translation when they are being bombarded by the enemy. They would say, we're under fire. The enemy is trying to move in and capture their location. That's right. And then we go from faith under fire to faith in fire. And faith in fire is when our faith is being proved. And then we go from faith in fire to faith on fire, and that's when our faith is exploding and engulfing not only ourselves but those around us. And so the first thing is that when your faith is under fire, Satan is behind that. When your faith is in fire, God is behind that. But when your faith is on fire, you must be behind that. Let's take this scripture. I want to say to you that faith on the fire, according to 1 Peter— if you are able to put that scripture up— 1 Peter chapter one, verse six and seven says, wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptation. So Peter is saying right here that there are many people as believers. who is being tried in multiple facets of life. Circumstances in their marriage, circumstances with their finances, circumstances in their household, circumstances with their health, spiritual warfare in their mind, trouble on the job. Just manifold temptation, just many things all at once just breaking loose in your life. You ever been there before? Anybody ever been there before? Yes, sir. Right. And then he goes on to verse 7. He says that the trial of your faith, the trial of your faith, the trial of your faith. Notice he didn't say the trial of your relationship. Notice he didn't say the trial of your money. Notice he didn't say the trial of your health. Notice he didn't say the trial of your, your mind. He said the trial of your faith. He calls it out for what it is because he knows that the underlying current behind everything Is that this is the enemy attacking your faith? That the fire of your faith, being much more precious than a gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. So faith under fire is where the battle begins. This is where the enemy is attacking you. you in the area of your faith life. Yes, sir. This is where the enemy launches attacks against what you have that God has given to you. In fact, God has given us faith according to Romans 12:3. The Bible says he's given to every man the measure of faith. If I ever get a chance to come back, I, I'll be glad to do a 3-night faith revival, which is what I do as several trips back home. I know. Your faith has been given to you by God as a means to receive from God, right? So just like a woman, when she is with child, she has an umbilical cord inside that connects to that child, and that's how she supplies that child with nourishment while it is within her womb. Well, faith is our umbilical cord to God. Yes. And that's where God says, Philippians 4:19, I will supply all your needs. So when the enemy attacks your faith and your faith is under trial or under fire, or under attack, he's trying to prohibit what you're able to receive from heaven. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father above. He's trying to limit your access to the things of God. Yes. The devil sends fire to discourage you. To discourage your faith, to try to get you out of faith into doubt, or to try to get you out of faith operating in unbelief. He sends fire to distract your faith. He sends fire to destroy your belief system. But what the enemy intended against you, God knows how to use it to strengthen. you. Say amen to that. Amen. Let me give you some examples of people's faith in the scripture that were under fire. The 3 Hebrew boys in Daniel chapter 3, they refused to bow down to Nebuchadnezzar's command and image. They stood in a literal furnace, and yet they came out without even the smell of smoke in their They were persecuted not because they were handsome, not because they were people of God. They were persecuted because of their faith. And you hear their faith and see it in action when they said to the king, O king, be known unto you that even though we stand in front of this Furnace that has been heated 7 times hotter. We will not bow down and worship your false god. The God that we serve is able to deliver us, and if he chooses not to deliver us, it's not because he can't. It simply means he will have a greater purpose for letting us go into the fire. And they go into the fire, they walk around in the fire, And they discovered that the 4th man met them in the fire, whom the Bible says is likened to the Son of Man, who represents Jesus Christ. Amen. Their faith were under fire, and even though their faith was under fire, they did not bow to the fire. You know why? Because when your faith is on fire, the enemy's fire has no power over you. Amen. The Bible says in Job chapter 1 that Job lost everything, but he never lost his worship. He declared, though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Job's faith was under fire. The enemy attacked Job so much so That Job, who was rich, who had a beautiful marriage, who had a beautiful family, he lost his financial security, he lost all of his employees, his children died, and he had marital issues, and he had physical sickness in his body. Yes. And yet, in spite of all of that, Job still declared Though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Yes. There are times in your life when you are attacked from every side and are troubled on every side, but what needs to shine through more than the attack you're under is the voice of faith you operate in, declaring that though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Are you hearing? Amen. Daniel prayed openly in Daniel chapter 6 despite the king's decree. Daniel was sought out by his haters because he was anointed, he was gifted, he was talented, he was a man of faith. And they starved these lions before putting Daniel in this cave with the lions, or den. And yet Daniel stood by faith. And when the enemy attacked his faith, he proved by faith Isaiah 54:17: No lion that is formed against me, no weapon that is formed against me, no hand that is formed against No weapon that is formed against me. No weapon. No opponent or enemy or adversary or opposition that is formed against me. Come on, say that with me. No weapon. No weapon. That is formed against me. That is formed against me. Shall be able to prosper. Shall be able to prosper. He went into the lion's den and God shut the mouth of the lion and used the lion's belly as a pillow. Yes, yes. But this is your faith being under fire. Let me tell you some things to do when you find your faith is under fire. Number 1, understand that your faith is being confronted, and so you must confront what's confronting You cannot confront what you are afraid of. So when your faith is under fire, you have to stand by the faith that the enemy is trying to extinguish. You cannot conquer what you can't or refuse to confront. Right. So when your faith is under fire, you need to confront what's confronting you. Face the fiery trial and the fierce opposition. Number 2, prove your faith. Prove your faith. How do you prove your faith? Paul said in Ephesians 6:10, to stand, having done all to stand. Yes. You have to do what the word says to do in order to prove that you are standing by faith. Amen. Now, as we get into Ephesians 6 from verse 10 down to verse 18, that is the warfare passage where the Apostle Paul starts in verse 10, says, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, having done all to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins gird about with truth, Having on the breastplate of righteousness, having in your hand the shield of faith, having in your hand the sword of the Spirit, and having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Notice that one of these descriptors or these descriptive items of the armor which is for warfare is the shield of faith. The shield of faith is used that when your faith is under attack To provide defense or covering from the onslaught of the enemy. So when you're when the enemy attacks you, the very thing that he is attacking is also a defense for you. Come on. Amen. It is called a shield of faith. Amen. That's something. And Paul says you have to stand having done all choosing. Yeah. Then when you prove your faith, that means you're able to resist the temptation and resist the trouble. And according to James 4:7, you're able to resist the devil and he will flee. Amen. Third thing you have to do is you have to operate with unyielding faith. That means faith that refuses to bow under pressure. Regardless of how much pressure you find yourself under, you must know in whom you believe and that he will make a way for you. And then your faith, number 4, has to be rooted. Say rooted faith. Rooted faith. That means anchored even in adversity. Now, once you move into passing that, once you pass that stage, You go from your faith being under fire to now your faith being in fire. Say faith in fire. Faith in fire, unlike faith under fire where the devil was behind, faith in fire God is behind. So God now evaluates you go through this faith under fire stage and your life, and God begins to analyze areas of your faith that needs to be strengthened and developed. So when the enemy attack against your faith expires, God then takes you and he places you in his body. And according to Isaiah chapter 48, verse 10, God says, yes, I have refined you. Refined means to purify. He says, but not with silver. Silver represents pleasant things, pruded things, polished things, things that you would suggest he used as a process. He says, yes, I have purified you, which means I brought out the best in you, but I didn't do it with pleasant and pretty things like you would suggest. He says, I chose you in the furnace of affliction. Now, when God chooses you in the furnace of affliction, God's fire is not like the devil's so-called fire. God's fire is working things together for your good. And God will put you in his furnace because he realized that that you still have some areas of skepticism, or your faith wasn't calculated, or your faith wasn't operating timely as it should, or you had a difficult time trusting him and believing him, or you didn't respond to his word when he asked you to respond, or you didn't do the things that you knew you were taught and trained to do in the kingdom, your faith became shaky. Your, your faith became fragile. Your faith had the smell of smoke on it. Your faith had some burn marks on it. And so God says, I got to purify your faith. I got to purge your faith. I have to perfect your faith. I have to put your faith in the fire. Yes. Now notice that a goldsmith or silversmith, when they are purifying gold and silver, they realize they got to turn the heat up on the furnace And get the temperature to a certain Fahrenheit. Because gold and silver, when it comes out of the earth, it is not pure. It has some impurities in it. It has dross in it. It has metals in it. And what the goldsmith and the silversmith does is when they have turned up the heat, they would take their skimmer and skim the impurities off of the top. And then they will continue to go through that process until no more impurities rises to the top. And the way the goldsmith or the silversmith knows that the gold and the silver is pure is when they can look at it and see their reflection in it. And God does the same thing with us when our faith comes under fire by the enemy. And we start doubting God's word and panicking and living in fear and getting anxious and start operating with our rational faculties and leaning to our own understanding and trying to take matters in our hand and trying to be our own God and make things happen and get ahead of God instead of trusting in the Lord with all of our heart. He has to take us now and put us in the fire because you realize there's Some impurities in our faith, and he will keep you in the fire until those impurities burn out and surface to the top. And then he looks at us and he says, now you're ready, because I can see myself in you. I can see my glory in you. I can see my worship in you. I can see my praise in you. Amen. And David said, before I was afflicted. Before God put me in his fire, I went astray. Yeah, yeah. But now have I learned to keep his word. Right, that's right. Are you following me? Yeah. Can I have another 10 minutes of your time? Go ahead, go ahead. And so God uses his furnace to refine your character. God's fire is never meant to destroy you. It's only meant to develop you. God uses his furnace to purify your motives and prepare you for the next season of your life. And when you are in the furnace of God, you don't need to call your prayer partners and your prayer warriors and your intercessors to try to pray you out of that fire. You need to say, Lord, whatever your will is, Thy will be done. So when you're in God's fire, James chapter 1, verse 2 says, my brothers, my sisters, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations, into God's furnace, knowing this, that the trying of your faith Worketh patience. Yes. And let patience have her perfect work, that you may be mature or complete, wanting nothing. Yes. Faith and the fire that God provides is not destroying you, it's deploying you, it's sending you to your next place of victory. Say amen. Amen. So God's fire becomes your faith fitness center. It shapes you for strength. When your faith is being tested in the fire of God and proven in the fire of God, your faith in the fire of God is taking you someplace you couldn't go by yourself. Let me give you some things to do when you are in the fire of God. Number 1, allow God to refine your faith. Yes. That means submit to the process of purification under pressure. Yes, sir. Number 2, Understand that God is building resilient faith. That means keep glowing in the glow of God's grace. Resilience is really mental toughness, which means your mind has to connect with the process that God is establishing. Because what God is doing is not only is he creating a flow So that the blessing can flow down into your life, and his favor can flow into your life, and his anointing and grace can flow into your life. But he's also creating a flow for your faith, for your faith, so that your faith can flow in this world and become evident to others that you walk by faith and not by sight, that you live by faith and not by fear. Then you must. Number three, allow God to form your faith. And forming is shaped by storms and configured by the process of pain, ladies and gentlemen. Which means there are times when there will be storms, sometimes categorized, that God would allow your faith to go through. But please understand. That your former— your latter end should be greater than your former. Then number 4, your faith must endure. So you must establish enduring faith, which is mature faith that is only mature through trial. And number 5, you must operate with what is called revealed faith. That means your faith proves what is genuine By what it survives. Are you following? So Abraham had his faith tested and tried by God. Abraham and Sarah were ninety and a hundred years old before they had their first child, which means if you're over seventy, you still in love. God. If there's a will, there's a way. God is still able. I'm just saying, in case anybody is desiring a child in their old age, God is still able. They're 90 and 100 years old when they get their first child, and yet they have Abraham has this, the son of his, his only child named Isaac. And God says to him, go up to the mountaintop and offer me this son as a sacrifice to me. And when he gets ready to do it, even though his faith is under pressure, God stopped him and said, do the lad no harm. Now I know that thou fearest God and love God above all others. And let me tell you what God was He was wanting to see if he could find somebody in the earth that loved him enough to sacrifice their only son as he loved the world enough to sacrifice his only begotten Son. Yeah. And when he saw that Abraham would do it, he said, Abraham— this is the only time God ever said this in scripture— he said, Abraham, you are my friend. Joseph is thrown into prison, sold into slavery by his brothers. He did nothing to deserve this, but yet while in prison, he maintained the faith. He did what Paul said; he kept the faith, and his gift began to operate from that prison and promoted him to become second in command. Within the palace and the country of Egypt. Paul and Silas are in prison waiting execution, and yet through faith they begin to praise God at midnight, and God sends an earthquake to open the doors of the prison so that they can go free. You have people throughout scriptures That are there to give you testimonies about what happens when your faith is sustained through the fire God puts it in. Faith in the fire doesn't panic; it purges. It used the fire to burn off whatever distorted it. When Job said in Job 23:10, "When he has tried." me, I shall come forth as gold. Job was saying that when my faith has been proven, yeah, yes, after this trial, right, my faith is going to reflect God's glory. It's going to reflect God's image. It's going to reflect God's purpose, right? And that's what has to happen when we're operating in faith. I'm almost where I need to be. Now, when your faith has been under fire by the enemy and has been in the fire by God, the only thing left is for your faith to be on fire. Can you look at somebody, tell them, my faith has been under fire. My faith has been under fire. My faith has been in fire. Now my faith is on fire. In Mark chapter 9, verse 23, the Bible gives us this inside edition of this man who has a son, and his son is possessed by a devil. And the Bible says he first takes the boy to church, and he speaks to the leaders, and he says to the leaders, can you cast this devil out of my child? He went to the disciples. Disciples represent the leaders in the church. That's right. And the Bible tells us they could not because they were still going through the phase where their faith was under fire or in fire. And they had not yet graduated to where their faith was on fire. So the man had to take the boy to Jesus. Yeah, but he told the disciples, he says, you know, before I came to you, I, I tried the elders, the deacons, the ministers. I tried the leaders. They couldn't do anything with this devil that has attacked my boy. Right. Jesus now ministers to the man after the man says If you will, will you deliver my son? Jesus says, "Not about if I'm willing to do it or not. It's about whether you believe. Do you have the faith for it?" Now this man, he represents the church. He's he's a picture. He's a type representing believers or Christians. I should say. The man says, "Yes, Lord, I believe, but help thou my unbelief." Which means, Lord, sometimes I have faith, other times I have doubt. Sometimes I'm operating with a made-up mind, other times, like James says, my mind is tossed to and fro like the waves of the sea. Jesus says, give me the boy. How long have your child been dealing with this situation? Yeah. He says, from since he was just a little boy. Jesus cast the devil out of the boy. From that moment on, now the father is a believer. And as you begin to go through scriptures, you will find that there are people who didn't always start out in faith but ended up in faith. Because faith is a lifelong journey. It's a process. Yes, sir. And every step you take, your faith is developing, your faith is evolving, your faith matures. And then there are certain places you get to in your faith where your faith engulfs you, and you go from doubting God to now believing God and trusting God And having the power of demonstration of the Spirit to prove that you are in faith. I don't know who this is for, but I believe there are some of you in here right now. Your faith has been under fire. Your faith has been in the fire, and now you're at the threshold of your faith being on fire. Wow! I'm almost there. I'm almost there. Amen. There are some. The scriptures of faith when your faith is on fire. One, you want to operate with what's called active faith. Active faith. It's the kind of faith that moves mountains just at the command of your mouth. Please understand that we live in a voice-activated kingdom. Yes. God did not create the world with his hands. He created it with his word. The Bible says in the beginning, Genesis 1, beginning at verse 1, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Yes. But the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light. And there was. And he saw the light, that it was good. And he separated the light from the darkness. And the light he called day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Then when you flip a few pages and you go to Saint John chapter one verse one, the Bible says in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And all things were made by the Word which was made, and without the Word was not anything made that was made. And then when you drop down. Amen. When you go to John 1:14, the Bible says, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And then when you flip through a few more pages and you go to Hebrews 11:1, now it makes sense that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, for by it the worlds were created. You live in a voice-activated kingdom. When your faith is on fire, you don't You don't struggle with the enemy. You don't struggle with the blessing. You don't struggle with the word. You don't struggle with a prophecy. You don't struggle with a promise. You don't struggle with the devil. You open up your mouth and out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. Say amen! Amen! Who did I come to preach to? My fire, somebody tell them my faith is on fire. My faith is on fire. My faith. Okay, can you look at somebody else and tell them my faith is on fire? My faith has been under fire. My faith has been in the fire. And now my faith is on fire. Let me call the The Bible says that the Apostle Paul was in a ship and they were going to the island of Malaysia. And while out there, they were met by 2 different storms that met together and destroyed the ship. And all the people began to panic. And Paul stood up and said, listen, my fellow brothers, the ship will be destroyed, but not one life shall be destroyed or lost. And they Grabbed on to a piece of wood and they paddled themselves to this island. And when they came on shore, they think— they say that the people began to warm themselves by the fire. Paul walked over to a pile of sticks and picked up a pile of sticks. And while walking over to the fire to put the pile of sticks in the fire, the Bible says a viper came out of the pile and bit Paul on the hand. Now all the people are sitting back watching Paul, expecting for him to die, saying things like, this must be a bad man because he almost died in the ocean and now the snake should have killed him. But Paul, because his faith has been under fire, his faith has been in the fire, and now his faith is on fire, he walked over to the fire And he shook the snake off in the fire, and he felt no harm. You know why? Because when your faith is on fire, the devil's fire has no power over God's fire. Can I see everybody in here who have been bit by a serpent? Everybody who has been bit by a snake? Everybody who's been stabbed in the back, everybody who's been lied on and treated like a junkyard dog, everybody that the enemy tried to destroy, I need you to shake it off, shake it off, shake it off, shake it off, shake that fear off, shake that lie off. You can shake it off. I don't know who this is for, but I hear God saying that he's going to shake off generations of curses. He's going to shake off generations of bondage. He's going to shake off generations of dysfunction. He's going to shake off And say, neighbor. No, you ain't see it right. Look back at her one more time. Stare them in your— in their eyes. Get a deep breath and say, neighbor. Say, oh, neighbor. Get one good look at me. Get one good look at me. Because this is the last time you're gonna see me broke. This is the last time you're gonna see me sick. This is the last time you're gonna see me depressed. This is the last time you're gonna see me angry. This is the last time you're gonna see me struggle. This is the last time you're gonna see me down. This is right now. I'm striking off what the enemy meant for evil. God is turning it around in my life. Say yes! Say yes! Is there anybody? Is there anybody in here? You know that the enemy tried to take you out, but God will use what the enemy meant for evil and all for your good. Oh! And he's working together for your good. Come on, shut that thing off. And when Paul shook that snake off, they changed their minds about Paul, and they said, this man must be of God because no weapon formed against gets in is prosper. You don't have to be of God, you just have to be connected to God. When you're on fire with the fire of God, you might go into some things, but you're also going to come out. Look at your neighbor and tell them, I'm coming out. I'm coming out. I'm coming out. I didn't know better, but I'm coming out my way. Sharp, my faith is on fire. I said, shout, my faith is on fire! We'll stop for the sake of time. Your faith was under fire. The devil was behind it, but you survived. Your faith got put in the fire. God was behind it, and now you thrive, and your faith is on fire, and you are behind it, and now you're alive, and your faith is evident to others. That's why folk comes to you, to you to minister and pray for them because they can feel the fire of your faith. They are warmed through the fire of your faith. They are encouraged through the fire of your faith. And when your faith is on fire, then you appear to them like the bush did to Moses. Yes. There's a fire that has engulfed this bush. Yes. But this is a different type of fire. It's not burning up the bush, it's illuminating the presence of God. And as you continue to develop and allow for your faith to explode and engulf you even more, it goes from representing a bush that was on fire to a whole mountain that is on fire. Because the presence of God hovers over Mount Sinai, and your faith is evident to your employees, and even your enemies can see that you are walking in an unprecedented amount of faith, and that you can believe God for things your eyes have not seen, your ears have not heard. Amen. Neither have never been entered into your hands or even so much as to in your heart. But you take God for his word, and whatever God says to you, you don't struggle with the word of God. You don't chide with the word of God. You take God at his word, and God says to you, be it unto you according. To your faith. Am I in the right house today? And I close with this: when two or three faith walkers, fire walkers, comes together in his name. Jesus says, "I'll be right there." My prayer for this church is that what happened on the day of Pentecost, where they were all sitting on one accord on a Sunday morning, and the Spirit of God came in, and he filled the place, and they all began to speak with cold tongues. Tongues of fire. And they all began to speak with open tongues of fire, and they all began to experience the fire of the Holy Ghost. John the Baptist made a statement to the people in his time. He said, I baptize you with water, but there comes one after me who is greater than I, whose shoelatch I am not even worthy to bow down and unloose. He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. His fan is in his hand, which means God touches your life and sets your life on fire for his kingdom. Amen. I'm gonna ask you to join hands with the person that's standing next to you. And while you're holding that hand, know that you are holding the hand of someone whose faith has been under fire. Yes. They were ready to give up, but by God's grace, he carried them, and then he placed them in his fire to develop and to strengthen their faith. And now they're in a place where their faith is on fire. Those are the folk Whose hand you are holding right now? They've been through hell and hell more, and the enemy has tried to take them out. The enemy has tried to claim their sanity. He's attacked them with sickness and diseases. He's attacked their mental capacity. He's attacked their marriages and relationships. He's attacked them in the area of their financial security. He's He's attacked their children. He's attacked them on their jobs. He's done everything in his power to try to snuff out their fire, but yet you're still here. Hold that hand and believe that as you hold that hand, that the fire of God is engulfing the 2 of you, the 3 of you. Because when two or three touch, touch, touch, touch, touch, touch, it agree. God said whatsoever you ask, it shall be done. I pray for you right now in the mighty name of Jesus that your faith will be encouraged, that your faith will be ignited. Yes. That your faith will be strengthened. Yes. I pray for you that your faith will consume your life and engulf your life, so much so that the fire of God will rest upon your life. And everywhere you go, you will carry the torch and the flame of God's anointing. It is my prayer that God opens the windows of heaven today and pour out the Holy Ghost fire upon your life, that it will be encapsulated so much so in your spirit that even when you touch your neighbor's hand where you live, or your co-employee's hand, they will feel the surge of fire permeating from your spirit. Now lift your hands Open your mouth and say, Father, I receive the fire of the Holy Ghost. I receive the fire of your Holy Spirit. I receive the fire where my faith is engulfing my life. I receive it now in the mighty name of Jesus. I begin to thank and begin to praise Begin to believe that you receive right now. Come on, praise him! I said praise him! Come on, worship, worship, worship, worship, worship! Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! Believe you receive. Believe you receive. Believe you receive, says the Lord. Believe you receive. Believe you receive. I tell you, you will never be the same. You will never be the same. You will never be the same. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right. This is your day of Pentecost. This is your day of Pentecost. Hallelujah. God says the times are coming where I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will dream dreams and have visions. Jehovah. Now, for anybody in here who have departed from the Lord. For anybody that may have fallen away from God, backslid, you need not have any more time delayed to be rededicated and restored back to God. God says, I have not left you. I'm right where you walked away. If it is possible to backslide, then it is also possible to frontslide. And come back to God. And so I'm going to ask you to bow your heads and close your eyes. And everyone in here today that says, Pastor Rico, I heard this message on faith today, you're talking to me, I feel God tugging on my heart, I want to rededicate my life back to God right here, right now, that you raise your hand. Don't put Don't wait. I see that hand. I see that hand. Anyone else? Anyone else? Anyone? I see that hand. I see that hand. I see that hand. Praise God. I see that hand. I see that hand. Praise God. Hallelujah. I'm gonna ask everyone. I see that hand. I'm gonna ask everyone to say this prayer together. Say Jesus, I believe in you with all of my heart. I thank you. Thank you. For having died on the cross for all of my sins. I ask you to come back into my heart. Restore me unto yourself. Forgive me for all of my wrongdoing, for my strife, for going astray, for all of my unrighteousness, all of my sins, all of my transgressions. All of my iniquities, everything I have said, everything I have done, and everything that I have thought that displeased you, I repent. I repent. And I rededicate my life to you. I rededicate my life to you. Now fill me afresh with your Holy Spirit and anoint my head with fresh oil and teach me To live by your word and to serve your purpose forever and ever. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. You may be seated. Thank you very much. Now, I got one last thing that I would like to do. And then I'm taking my seat. I'm taking my seat. Did you enjoy the word today? James, when he talks about faith in chapter four, he said faith without works is the equivalency. Of a man without his spirit, as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead. Faith is like a verb; it is an action word, or it requires action. In fact, faith is not so much of what you think or what you say as much as it is. Is of what you do. You're not in faith until you're active. And I have found in my own personal life that when it comes to visions and dreams and goals and aspirations and ambitions and things that we want to do and accomplish, God gives you more when you're in action than he does when you're just sitting around talking God says in Jeremiah 29:11 that I'll give you an expected end. I give you an expected end, which means I'll meet you at the level of your expectation. Yes. He's a God who honors faith. Yes. And when it comes down to activating your faith, You have to do something. We have this terminology that we use in church which is scriptural. We call it seed faith. And in Romans 12:3, God says, I dealt to every man the measure of faith. And he says faith is like a mustard seed. It starts out small. And insignificant. But when you water it, when you feed it, when you nourish it, it grows and grows and grows and grows. And the Bible said it becomes the biggest of all trees. When it comes down to giving and planting and sowing and tithing into ministry, into the kingdom, it requires faith. When people Don't tithe, don't give, and don't sow into ministry. It's not a matter of them not having it or not. It's a matter of them believing that what they sow, give, tithe, and plant into the kingdom is going to come back and be reciprocated into their life. Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 11:1, he says, "Cast thy bread." Upon the waters, and after many days you'll find it again. Bread is an old term that we used back in the day, in the '70s, where somebody had some money and would give somebody a few dollars. Would you like a little bread? Everybody remember that terminology? Luke 6:38. God says, give And it shall be given unto you, a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, shall I cause for men to give into your bosom. The first word in that verse is the word give, and it is a comma behind it. That implies that even though the first word give is not a complete sentence, however, it is a complete statement. The prerequisite to receiving is giving. Without a harvest— without a seed, there could be no harvest. Which is why Galatians 6 and 7 says, be not deceived, God is not mocked. Only what a man sows, that shall he also reap. I said to you earlier that you don't get from God everything you ask for, but you do get from God what you believe for. And the second truth to that is that you get from God what you sow for. Be not deceived, God is not mocked, that whatsoever a man sows, that, that, that, that will he also reap. When Galatians 6:9 says, be not weary in well-doing because you will reap in due season if you faint not, God is saying when it comes down to getting Don't get fainthearted, don't get weary, don't get discouraged when it comes down to sowing into the kingdom, because there is a time where God says that the waters are going to come back and bring to you whatever you send out. If you stand at the ocean, at the sand, where the sand and the ocean meets, and you throw a water bottle with the cap sealed on that to that body of water, the waves is going to take that out. But eventually the tide is going to bring it back. It's going to come back again. Ministry, just like any other business or organization, has to have money in order to operate. Just like your household, you can't go to the power company and, and give them a praise and a hallelujah. you and a thank you, Jesus, to pay your light bill. They're gonna run you back to church if you— with that praise, thank you, Jesus. You have to write a check. You have to pay your bills. Yes, sir. This ministry paid the bill to bring my wife and I across the pond Put us up in a very nice hotel and has treated us like royalty from the moment our feet hit the ground. And it would be remiss of myself and you who serves and eats from the bread of this table to not give back into it. I'm going to ask you if you would do something with me today. 2 things. One, Pay your tithes and pay your tithes accurately. I looked up the word tithe and I found that it had only one definition, and that is a tenth. Unlike most words in the Hebrews that have up to 16 definitions, tithe has only one. God is saying, don't get it twisted, it don't mean a It don't mean a whole lot of things. It only mean one thing. It's a tenth. So when you write out your tithe check today, your tithe should reflect a tenth. Not a ninth, not an eighth, not a seventh, not a sixth, not a fifth, not a fourth, not a third, not a second. Anything from a ninth down is just a good offer. Just a good offer. Tell somebody that. Just a good offer. Just a good offer. I'm gonna ask you to write out your tithe check to this ministry, and then I'm gonna ask you to get a seed, a financial seed, to sow into this house. I brought a financial seed today on behalf of my wife and I, and I'm gonna ask you to get a financial seed to sow. And here's the thing that I'm gonna ask you to do. I'm a faith man. Amen. I've seen people brought back from the dead. I've seen people healed of all kind of cancer and sickness and low blood pressure, high blood pressure, no blood pressure at all. I'm going to release my faith with you today. If the ushers can get everyone an envelope at this time. I'm going to release my faith with you today, so when you write Out your seed amount on the envelope. I'm going to touch and agree with you that God will move on your behalf. I want you to write three things on the envelope. Three things on the envelope that you are trusting God for. I'm going to ask everyone who can if you will plant a seed. I want you to sow a seed today of $33 if you can. $33. $33 if you can. Everyone, a seed of $33. If God tells you to sow more than that, sow more than that. Over the past 3 nights, which is where I get the number 3 from, you've been blessed Through this ministry in the area of discipleship, which will help you, help you in your personal growth, your professional growth, and your interpersonal growth. You've been blessed last night in the area of relationship, which will accompany and accommodate you in your marriages and in your relationship with other people. And this morning you've been blessed through fellowship, which as the Bible says in Proverbs 27:17, as iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. I'm asking you today to get your seed together and let God move on your behalf. Write 3 things on the envelope that you are trusting God for. Please remember, your tithe is not your seed. Your seed is not your tithe. Just like your left foot is not your right foot, and your right foot is not your left foot. How many feet do you need to walk? 2. And when it comes down to faith, we walk by faith. Not by sight. Husbands and wives, plant a seed for your husband, plant a seed for your wife. If you need to plant a seed for your children, then feel free to do so. If you have family members that are sick, plant a seed on their behalf. If you have family members that need employment, plant a seed on their behalf. If you have family members that are incarcerated, Or going to court, plant a seed on their behalf. If you have kids, sons and daughters that the enemy is trying to take away captive, plant a seed on their behalf. Listen, a seed of nothing equals to a harvest of nothing. No matter how you twist it around, zero from zero equals zero times zero is still zero plus zero is still zero. Amen. You have to give God something to multiply. You have to give God something to multiply. Write your check out to Faith National or pay your tithe through Zelle and other digital sources. And once you get your seed together, I want you to stand to your feet. Once you get your seed together, you can put your tithe and the I want you to bring your seed up here because I'm going to touch and agree. I'm going to touch and agree with you that God will move in a miraculous way and grant you the 3 things that is on your envelope. And I believe that not many days hence, you're going to come running back to me and say, Pastor, God did it. Amen. This church with a testimony that will say, look what the Lord has done. Amen. Amen. Amen. If I can get an ink pen from somebody so I can write out— if I can borrow an ink pen from someone. If you're still writing, say, wait for me. Okay, we're gonna wait for you. We're gonna wait for you. Just feel free to take your time and hurry up. Just just just hurry up and take your time. Praise God. Remember, remember you're coming up with your seed. Your time is not your seed, and your seed is not your time. I just wanted to touch and agree with. Can we have a basket or something to put the seed in? A separate basket to put the seed in, please. Bishop did not ask me to take up an offering for the church. Lynell did not ask me to take up an offering for the church. I'm a pastor. I've been a pastor for nearly 30 years. I know that it takes God says render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar and render unto God what belongs unto God. Okay, once you're ready to come up, I want to just ask you to place your seed just like this. Pastor Daniel, if you can join me, just like this. We're just going to touch the top of your seed. Don't And we're going to say, we touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. And automatically our faith is going to be released in conjunction to your faith, and then you just place it in the basket. Amen. Okay, if you will stand and come to the altar. Come at this time. Stand and come at this time. It's just to see you. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. Come on, Bishop. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you, Mother, in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. We touch and agree with you in Jesus' name. 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