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Faith and Dreaming Big - Sermon

We welcome our visitors and thank God for the testimonies.  This is a month of dreaming big and new beginnings.  We cannot stop dreaming big until something happens. There are people who end up intimidating others especially because of self pity.  I rebuke that spirit of self pity and I set you free from the past.  Some of us have been held back from what we want to get because we are still held in the past.  

Isaiah 43:18-19 says do not hold on to the past behold I do a new thing.  You have to let go of the past in order to embrace a new beginning and that is what we need to do in this month of September.  There are people who are still held up in their past and want to intimidate others. Do not allow people to intimidate you, you know who you are. If God has said new beginnings this month, just believe that.  It does not matter how many prophets or preachers have spoken into your life, what matters is that this is a word of the month.  You can believe God for your new beginning in this month of September !

Genesis 12:6-8; There was a secret with men of God in those days. Whenever God would promise something, they would immediately build an alter as a sign of faith that “I’ve believed the revelation”.  They would even offer sacrifices, as sign of faith.  It is very important in our lives that whenever God speaks to us, we thank Him in advance. We should not wait for the word to manifest. When you wait for manifestation, then you are not a Christian. The Bible says that the just shall live by faith. Christian walk of faith is to believe without seeing; that is the only way we can please God.  Every time God spoke to Abram, he built an alter and sacrificed.  Last Friday I shared with you that they used to sacrifice the best, an animal without a blemish, even before they saw the promise.  They made a sacrifice simply because they had heard from God.  Now this month as we are dreaming big, there are things that the Lord is speaking to us, He is showing you bigger things.  By faith, begin to thank Him; start to see yourself as though the word has been fulfilled, begin to live in the future in the spirit. By doing that you start to neglect people who do not understand what you are going through at that particular time. Because some of these people that who keep around us are the ones keeping you behind?  They will begin to tell you not to run mad. But ignore them and focus on what you believe.

Apart from the alters and sacrifice, faith itself is also a sacrifice. Hebrews 11:6 says without faith it is impossible to please God for you who come to God must believe that He is.  When you come to this place you believe that God is here, when you meet a man of God you believe that God is with him.  Do not be double minded and have a little doubt of His presence. You know some of us think we can tell His presence by our feelings.  But we believe by faith.   Jesus said that where two or three are gathered in my name, I will be in their midst. He did not say that where two or three are gathered you shall check with your feelings to tell my presence. So we have to believe that God is, He is I am who I am (Exodus 3).  He told Moses that you do not need to define Me, I am; meaning that I can do anything, I am not limited, I can take you to any dimension, I can raise your standard at any time, I can change your life in a second or minute or a fortnight! You can wake up in the morning when your life has changed. You cannot remain the same when someone gives you a 1 billion cheque one morning; your life definitely changes. God does as He wills and He brings change when you least expect it.

 

So Paul says those that come to Him must believe that He is and we do not just believe that He is, but you go on to believe that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. He is a rewarder!! That is why I was telling you that our God adds something; he multiplies. If you are in a situation of reduction, then that is the devil’s doing not God. So you have to wake up and tell the devil to stop.  Jesus said in John 10:10 that the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy but I come that you may have life and have it in abundance!  So your business must grow and get more profit. I speak an end to losses in your business. You will have profits. Your business will grow every day.  It will grow this year and not next year.  Believe God in the now because faith is in the now.  We need to stop hoping; avoid statements like, ‘I think God will help me’ or ‘God willing’ or ‘If He wills’.  It is God’s will for you to have the best. He is a rewarder, you will never do anything for God and He does not reward you.  Even you that have been supporting ministries, God will reward you.  He is not a son of man, He does not change.  No matter how long a time has passed, He will fulfill His word and reward you. He will remember your sacrifice and when you took what you had and gave it to the kingdom. That is why the Bible says, cast your bread upon the waters and after many days you shall see it.

 

I heard a testimony that about an American brother who received a word about prosperity, financial break through and the like.  You know Americans record prophecies, they write them down.  Now this brother had his written too.  However, the brother died before seeing the manifestation of the word.  But because God is not a son of man to lie, those prophecies got fulfilled in his children. Even now his grand and great grand children are living in that word, enjoying the prosperity.  Another prophecy I heard is that of Kim Clement, one of the cutting edge prophets today.  When he prophesied about Barrack Obama, even before he had been nominated on the Party seat, he said that an African American called Hussein Barrack shall be president.  Now people began to attack him, saying, when will an end come to these false prophets? How can him prophecy a black and more so Muslim to rule America. But the word came to pass!!  That is why we need to be careful about predictive prophecies.  Do not be in a rush to criticize.  Just sit back and wait for the manifestation and only comment if it never comes to pass. Now Kim Clement also prophesied to a certain woman, telling her that the Lord is going to use you, you shall serve with your husband.  By then the gentleman (her husband) was not in ministry, but she wrote down the prophecy.  He added that your husband will be involved in politics.  Now this man fell sick and died and the doctors declared the death.  But this lady refused to believe the doctors.  She began to cry out to the Lord reminding Him of the words spoken by His prophet.  And the man came back to life!  You too should refuse death until you see the goodness of the Lord.  What He has spoken into your life, you need to see it come to life, refuse to give up. That is why it is very good to write down these prophecies.  When you record them, you can go back to them in the trying times and say “Lord You spoke through your Prophet” and He shall come down!  He is not a son of man to lie.  That is why in Chronicles 20:20 he says believe in the Lord and you shall be established, believe in His prophets and you shall prosper. All things are possible.  He is a rewarder!  One of these days you shall testify.

 

Galatians 2:20 – is what real faith means.  It is a faith where you die to yourself, die to your five senses and start to believe God in His word.  You refuse to be controlled by your five senses.  That is what Paul says – that it is not I who lives but Christ that lives in me – it means I can believe God for anything; nothing is hard before God.  This is a sacrifice, to die to yourself.  We need to cease to be controlled by the five senses such that when God says that I am making a way here, you follow it without question. When he says you are going to walk on waters, do not start to figure out how it shall be done.  That is why men of God are sometimes called mad because they believe and do the extra ordinary.  I once met a man of God called Kigata (RIP) when my Pastor in Kamuli introduced me to him.  He was an old man in his late eighties.  When with him, he asked me what I wanted and I told him that I wanted to further my studies.  He laughed at me and told me that what I need is just a single drop of the anointing and my life shall be changed.  He then shared with me some testimonies in his life, two of those that really touched me was when he walked on water and healed people.  He had gone to minister in States and there he was challenged by the people.  They told him that if he really were a man of God then he should walk on water.  This happened in the days when George Bush senior was the president.  He then told the people to gather the next day.  The following day he prayed and prayed and the Lord told him it can be done where you believe. So he walked out and the people were waiting.  He then prayed again and he says that he began to see a road (others weren’t seeing it) on the water. And the Lord said you start to walk as you see, and he did.  People gave their lives to Jesus! Another time he had a one week crusade here in Uganda.

 

So he prayed for people and people were getting healed that even his coat became anointed.  So being a human being he got tired of praying.  So he hung his coat on a tree and whoever touched it was getting healed.  Now people started cutting piece by piece to take home and each piece was healing people.  It came to the extent that even the tree on which the coat hung began healing and people began taking branch by branch till the roots and whoever took a piece was healed! People have seen the hand of the Lord.  Miracles still happen even today!  It was then that I received the revelation of not asking the Lord for temporal things. I asked the man of God to lay hands on me.  He prayed for me and told me I’d see the hand of God in my life.That kind of anointing is still available.  But not until you are tired of a certain situation or certain kind of miracle can you see this anointing.  Not until you are tired of that figure that you earn at the end of the month, shall you receive more money or a promotion because you are contented.  The day you arise and say “Lord I am tired, I want to see more in my life”, that is when you shall see more.  And when you get tired, that is when you stretch forth your faith and then you shall see the hand of God in your life. That is why when Paul in Acts 14 performed a miracle on the crippled man he spoke like Jesus himself – he said arise and walk – he did not say “in the name of Jesus”.  It is not because he did not believe in Jesus but he knew who he was in the Lord!  We must have faith and know who we are in the Lord.  If He lives, we live too. If he is victorious, we too are victorious.

 

If he is rich, so are we.  Whatever had swallowed you, I command it to spit you out in the name of Jesus.  In this month of September, you have to come out. In Eagles Wings we shall prophesy into your life until something happens in your life; in your business, your marriage, your scholarships, till you get the dream house, till you wed, till you start that business!  Connect with the anointing of that which you are believing for. That is a simple step of faith. If you want to drive, learn how to drive.  If you want to drive, connect with people that have traveled.  That which you honor, you attract.  Let no man limit you.  We are in a season of dreaming. We reject any kind of limitation.  To he that believes, with God all things are possible (Mark 10:27). There is nothing hard for God.  If you dare believe, if you die to self, if you stop reasoning and you take God by His word, you shall see the fruits of faith in Him.  May God help us reach that life of Paul; that life of faith! Jesus said worry not about tomorrow as it has its own worries.  As a man thinketh, so is he. And in Jeremiah it is said that the very things that you fear, I shall bring to you.  So quit being afraid of a call from the landlord, God is in control. When you cease being afraid, that which you fear will leave. When you are afraid of something, then you are empowering it to come. Have faith in God.  Faith and fear do not work together. When you have faith, fear should depart from you. When you have faith in God, you are victorious.  I reject self pity.

 

So September is a month of dreaming big.  Believe God. Do not mind the situation, what matters is Christ.  If He lives then I live.  If he overcame, I shall overcome.  If He is rich, I am rich. Do not say that I will be, but I am.  Believe in the present; the now.  Faith is in the now!  God is moved my faith.  When you appear before Him, tell Him what you want. Let us not give up on the journey of faith and do what the Lord tells us to do. Endure the journey and you shall see the fruits of our faith.  And what God gives, His prosperity, is eternal. When God raises you up, He cannot put you down.  Jesus says be it done to you according to your faith.  So every morning rise up and call new things in your life; new money, new life, new cars, new houses. Believe God to raise the standard in your life and He will.

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