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of Faith. BILL: There are two realms, the realm of
the spirit, cause, the realm of the flesh or natural,
effect, cause, effect. When you're only in this reality of
the senses, you are only in the effects, and you're trying to
figure out solutions in the natural, but once you get in the
spirit, you can go back to the root cause of everything.
BILL: Well, welcome to the Believer's Walk of
Faith. This is Bill Winston, where we walk by faith
and not by sight. Well, did you know that the
Word of God is designed to do the impossible in
your life? Now, I don't care whether it's to start a
multimillion dollar business, a company, or either give you an
idea that'll create a new industry. I'm telling you, the
Word of God will do it. We're talking about the Word that will
do the impossible. Now, Mark 11:24 says this, "Believe you've
received when you pray, and you shall have it." Glory to God.
That is a blank check. Let's go right into this powerful
message entitled Living on Top of the World.
BILL: The capabilities that you and I have of living
how we can live are much beyond what the world
system or people of the world can experience, and one of
the biggest reasons why is because you have been born again
and reconnected with God. Ain't that a good place to be?
Reconnected with God. The Bible says in Ephesians 2 "That we're
seated together with him in heavenly places."
We're not under circumstances. We're on top of them. The
only way that the enemy can keep control of the
people of God in this earth is to keep them
ignorant or keep them carnal, those two. We're
going to deal with one of those, a little bit today. Let's go
over to Isaiah, if you will, Isaiah chapter 65. Isaiah
chapter 65 and verse 16, "That he who blesseth
himself in the earth shall be blessed himself
in the God of truth." I just want to take that
part of that verse and look at it in the Amplified
translation, and here is what it says, "So [it shall be] that he
who invokes a blessing on himself in the land shall do so
by saying." Ooh, that's good. Words have a lot to do with what
you do, because as I taught in teaching on confession, you will
rise or fall based upon your words. If you recall, they came
back from spying out the land of Canaan, and when they came back
from spying out that land that some of them said, "We can't
take it." You recall that, right? They said, "We can't take
it," and guess what? They didn't. The others said, "We
can," and guess what? They did. The Bible says death and life
are where? CONGREGATION: In the power of the tongue. BILL: In
the power of the tongue. Now, when God made you, he made you
like him. Genesis 1:26, "And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth." Then he went on down in Genesis chapter 2 in
verse 7, and he talked about them having this speaking spirit
like God, "The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul." One of the translations says, Hebrew
translations said, "He became a speaking spirit just like God."
What God gave mankind is words. God did not create mankind to
be a servant in this earth. He created him to be a ruler, to be
lord over this earth, Amen, put God over all creation. After he
created everything, he created a man and put him over everything.
Now, when we say that, when we talk about words, we got to
remember that words were originally for more creation
than communication. Are you still with me? CONGREGATION:
Yes. BILL: When we're talking about that, we're saying that we
become speaking spirits like God, that as God spoke, "Let
there be," we should be able to speak, "Let there be." Now,
understand, one of the things that is
the biggest difference between you and God
is that you are not sovereign. What do I mean by
that? Mean that you have an overlord, that God is your
Father, and that if you separate from the Father, you will die,
just like if I separate the fish from the water, what will happen
to him? CONGREGATION: It'll die. BILL: It'll die, because that's
the life source. Other than that, you are to think like him,
talk like him, act like him, glory to God, believe like him.
Everything is like him. Now, what's the problem? Because you
and I have been born again, and we're supposed to be acting like
our Father, and there's a problem here because many of the
people of God are not acting like their Father. I said one of
the things is ignorance and the other one is carnality. Let's
deal with carnal. Ignorance means you don't know, never been
taught. You've never learned these things, but then you got a
carnal person, and we talk about that one other time, and when we
say carnal, we're talking about a person who basically is living
by his or her own natural ability or human carnal ability,
and we referred to it as carnal. In other words, this person is
thinking based only on this world's reality. You are
thinking ... Not you, but whoever is thinking carnally is
thinking only like the world, and that's as far. Now, Paul
talked about that over in 1 Corinthians, in 1 Corinthians
chapter 3 in verse 1, he talks about that, he said, "And I,
brethren, could not speak unto you as spiritual, but as a
carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." He said, "For I fed you
with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you are not able to
bear it, neither yet now are you able." Watch this, "For you are
yet carnal: for where there is among you envying, or strife, or
divisions," divisions is racism, "are ye not carnal, and walk as
(what?) men?" The Amplified says, "Walk as mere men," as
mere unchanged men. A person can be born again and just as carnal
as a goat. Again, this word carnal has to do with needing,
need having a sense of the flesh instead of the spirit. Look what
it says in Romans chapter 8, and in Romans chapter 8, I'll start
reading at verse 5, "For they that are after the flesh do mind
the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit
the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is (what?)
death; but to be spiritually minded is (what?) life and (what
else?) peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity (it's an enemy)
against God: for it is not subject to the law of God," one
of the major laws of God is faith, "neither indeed can be.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot (what?) please
God." Now, let me just show you this. Five senses, you have the
eyes for seeing, you have the ear for hearing, you have the
mouth for tasting, you have the nose for smelling, and you have
the flesh for feeling. Now, this is five senses, but faith is a
sixth sense. Got it? With this sixth sense, it's designed to
sense things that you cannot feel, touch, see, taste, hear,
smell. It's a whole level higher than these senses. If you're
only operating in these senses as a Christian, you're carnal.
If you're carnal, Satan can always deceive you, is capable
of being deceived. Over here, you can't be. See, there are two
realms, the realm of the spirit, cause, the realm of the flesh or
natural, effect, cause, effect. When you're only in this reality
of the senses, you are only in the effects, and you're trying
to figure out solutions in the natural, but once you get in the
spirit, you can go back to the root cause of everything.
Alright, so here, a person, and this person now wants to receive
an inheritance from God. God does nothing apart from faith.
If they want to receive it naturally, you have to
understand that in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 50, five
zero, he said, "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption
inherit incorruption." If you want to receive the inheritance
of God and walk in his kingdom, you can't do it with these
senses. Alright, let's see another one, 1 Peter in chapter
1 and verse 3. Let's look at that one, 1 Peter 1 and verse 3,
he says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again
unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead," keep reading, "To an inheritance
incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for (who?) you." You have an inheritance reserved, where,
in heaven, for who, for me. Does that mean I got to wait until I
die and go to heaven? No, no, you can get it right now. It's
just reserved there. See, it's reserved there because the only
way you're going to get it is by, what, by faith. You can't go
with these senses and get it. You can't get enough PhDs, MDs,
DDs, no Ds to get that. You can only get it by faith, and this
is what people are trying to do. They're trying to get enough
academics or scientific knowledge or whatever to fix
some of this out here. There is some fix that you can make out
here, but if you really want to go to the root and fix the thing
like God had designed for it to be fixed, only the blessing
removes the curse. The blessing is part of your inheritance that
you have to receive by faith. I showed you that, Revelation
chapter 5 in verse 12, and he said this, he said, "Saying with
a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive
(what?) power," I got to receive that by faith, to receive what
else, riches, I got to get those by faith, receive what, wisdom,
come on, strength, come on, honor, come on, glory, and what
else, blessing. If I want to get those, I got to receive them
without feeling it. I can't feel it. Mark 11:24, put it up, in
Mark 11:24, he says, this is Jesus teaching, now, he has
commanded us to do this, "Therefore I say unto you, What
things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you
(what?) receive them, and (what'll happen?) you shall have
them." That's the way you're going to get it. You got to
believe you got it before you get it. You're going to have to
receive it by, what, faith. These senses can't step over the
line. The nose can't get over into the seeing, and it can't
get over into the hearing. It can only smell. Got it? I'm
saying to you now, once you get in the sixth sense, it's got
everything to it, because you can smell with it, you can speak
with it, come on, you can taste with it, oh taste and see that
the Lord is good, everything, that one. This is the one you
need to be able to get in the driver's seat and be able to
have some control over the destiny of your life. Other than
that, you got none. Now, we have people praying for you, and
that's why you've made it where you are. Look what it said in
Mark chapter 4 in verse 35. He says, "And the same day, when
the evening was come, he said unto them, Let us pass over to
the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude,
they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also
with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of
wind, and the waves beat into the ship, it was now full. And
he was in the hinder part of the ship, he was asleep on a pillow:
and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not
that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said
unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there
was a great calm." Watch this, "And he said unto them, Why are
you so fearful?" Why are you so, what, fearful? "How is that you
have no (what?) faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said one
to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and
the sea (what) obey him?" This fear is designed to contaminate
your faith, and we'll hit on that for just a minute here,
because Job even said, "The thing that I feared most came to
me." Notice how fear will draw stuff to you that you don't
want. We're going to try to get rid of some of that fear here
today. Notice what he stopped. What did he stop? A storm. What
do you know can stop a storm naturally? Nothing. Mark 11:24
was designed for the impossible. Let's look at a couple of
Scriptures here. Let's go to 2 Kings chapter 6, and let's look
at verse 16. This is when Elijah, pardon me, Elisha the
prophet was telling the army of Israel which way the enemy was
going to attack. The king of Syria, which was the enemy,
said, "Wait a minute, we got a traitor in my camp, because
every time we go to attack, they're set up for us." What did
he do? He said, "We got a traitor." The servant said, "No,
king, you don't have a traitor, you got a prophet down there
that knows what you even say in your bedchamber." They were set
up every time they attacked. He said, "There's a prophet down
there." The king said, "Go get him." What did they do?
Organized their army, went after him by night. Now, they're going
to call themselves, going to sneak up on him.
Now, I don't know what kind of sense that
makes. If he knows which way they're going to come
against you, wouldn't he know they're coming after him?
He didn't run. He stayed right there in the city of Dothan. I'm
not talking about Dothan, Alabama. I'm talking about city
of Dothan. All right? Now, here he was, and the enemy surrounded
him by night, and his servant gets up early in the morning and
going to get him some coffee, espresso, whatever he gives him,
and he saw all these enemy soldiers surrounding him early
in the morning, and he cried out for fear. Okay, because this was
impossible. He knew it according to the five senses, but we're
not dealing with the five senses. We're coming up with one
more sense. This puts us in a whole nother category. Say Amen
to that. CONGREGATION: Amen. BILL: Your standards of
operating are much higher than the worlds. Ooh, that's good.
What happens? Put that Scripture up there again please. He says,
"He answered, and said, Fear not: for they that be with us
are more than they that be with them." Now, right now, the
servant begins to count, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000,
6,000, 1, 2. Now, he dare not rebuke the prophet, but he said,
"Wait a minute now," so the prophet is going to help him
out. The prophet said this. He prayed, said, "Lord, I pray
thee, open his eyes." Now, what did I tell you about the sixth
sense? It's got the same things that your five senses have. When
he opened his eyes that he may see, "And the Lord opened the
eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain
was full of horses and chariots of fire round about (who?)
Elisha." It didn't say anything about round about him. All
right, let's deal with that. Let's go to Psalms chapter 34,
and look at Psalms chapter 34. He says, "The angel of the Lord
encamp round about them that fear him, and (what?) delivers
them." What is the characteristic of a person who
fears God? Now, that fear, it doesn't mean tremble. It means
reverent respect for his Word. What is the characteristic? Is
that the angel of the Lord is going to be encamped round about
you. If you have a reverent respect for God's Word, angels
are around you right now. They're loaded in here right
now, because they like me to preach. They like hearing my
preaching. We are created on the high order than angels. We're
created just a little lower than, who, than God. Now, I'm
not trying to diminish their importance, but I'm just, want
to show you something. Not only do the angels encamp round about
you, but they also will what? CONGREGATION: Deliver. BILL: Is
that a maybe or is that God's Word? CONGREGATION: God's Word.
BILL: He has given you his Word, because the angel, if one won't
do the job, God's promise is out. He said in Hebrews 12, he's
got enumerable number of angels. That means there is no figure
that you can come up with that can designate how many angels
he's got. If one won't do your job, how about two? If two can't
get the job done, how about three? Daniel in Daniel chapter
10 have fasted for three weeks on a Daniel Fast, and he was
waiting on a Word from God. The angel finally showed up, and the
angel came and told him, "I would've been here for the first
day you started and petitioned God, I was sent," he said, "But
I had a war in the heavenlies. I was warring against Satan and
his army," watch this, "And I couldn't break through, so I
called for backup. I call for Michael, and Michael ..." Do you
hear what I'm saying? Michael came, who is the chief warring
angel. If God had to call Michael to get your
money to you on time, he will call for Michael,
and you will have your deliverance.
BILL: Well, I trust that you are blessed by that powerful
message. Now, let me share a couple of points you might want
to remember. Number one, in the natural, we have five physical
senses. In faith, you have what I call the sixth sense. Now, I
don't mean that in some occult way, but it's the sense in a
realm that is designed to operate above your five physical
senses of touch and taste and smell and hearing, and so forth
it operates above those. Now, if you're only operating in this
five-sense area as a Christian, then you are in a carnal realm,
and you can be deceived and mislead. What you want to do
always is try to keep everything you do over into faith. The
Bible says, "The just shall live by faith." In the Spirit, you
cannot be deceived. If you can walk in that spirit you'll not
ever be deceived by the enemy, and everything God has, you'll
get it. Praise God. Well, that's all we have for you today. This
is Bill Winston saying, we love you, and keep walking by faith.
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righteous. Who are not ashamed of the Gospel. MALE: Dig that
grave. Dig it. Let your faith dig it. Now take that shovel,
start covering it. Cover that poverty. Like Miriam, you will
see this enemy no more. FEMALE: If I don't see a way out, God
has a million ways out and how do they get to know that? They
see we're walking it out. MALE: Whatever God promised you
20 years ago, 30 years ago, 10 years ago, five years ago, four
weeks ago, it is still on you today and it will
still come to pass tomorrow. BILL: In the middle
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