A People of Faith!

A People of Faith:

On May 5th it was the 8th year since we began meetings in our church.
For the past 8 years, we have believed God for an outpouring of His Holy Spirit, in our church, City and Nation.

And this is what God has spoken to me, for the road ahead.

Hebrews 11:9-10 (NIV Reader’s Version)
9 Because of his faith he made his home in the land God had promised him. He was like an outsider in a strange country. He lived there in tents. So did Isaac and Jacob. They received the same promise he did.
10 Abraham was looking forward to the city that has foundations. He was waiting for the city that God planned and built.

God would say this to us today:

1. We are a people of faith.

God chose the first Man of God, the first Father in the Faith, to be above all else, a man of Faith!
We must hear His word by faith, receive His promises by faith and live in His truths by faith.
Abraham is our example and we are His offspring, His descendants, because HE first believed by faith, and because we NOW believe by faith.

2. Abraham received the promises of God and then had to wait 25 years before he saw them fulfilled.

I know Christians who struggle to wait 25 minutes to see their promise from God fulfilled. There are those who can’t wait 25 days, or who after 25 months of waiting, are ready to never believe God again.
But Abraham not only heard the promise of God, he actually received the promise at the same time.
For 25 years he had to ignore the facts surrounding him, his body ageing, his strength weakening, his wife’s womb closed up… yet still all the while believing God that he had received what God had promised.
Have you really received a promise from God, or have you just heard a promise from God?

3. Abraham had to live like a stranger in a foreign land.

Living by faith, denying the facts and focusing on the truths of God, is not normal.
This world is not geared for men and women to live by faith, you may have to dwell in tents for a while.
You may not get to settle… like so many do.
You may not get to keep up with the Jones’, if you want to keep up with Jesus!
You may feel like you don’t belong, you don’t fit in, like you’re a stranger, a foreigner, because you’re a person of faith.
You may find you speak a different language, because it’s the language of faith.
You may find you have adopted different customs and practices, because you’re a person of faith.
You may find that your kids are different, not like the other kids at all, because they are children of faith.

4. Abraham was looking forward to what God had built.

For many years, we have contended, fasted and prayed for a move of God’s Spirit in this Nation, this City and our Church.
God has answered us, He said He will do exactly that (Isaiah 60).
We all heard it…
But have we received it?

I bring you this message in order to encourage you to keep looking forward to the City that God has built for us, to keep looking forward to the outpouring of His Holy Spirit amongst us.
We have received it!

And living like this, in this faith, you will find that it will discipline us, it will keep us accountable to God, dependent upon God, reliant upon God.
And in His time, He will do it swiftly (Isaiah 60).

I end with this message from Prophet George Farmer:
“Hold on, Hold on! It’s coming, something good is on its way! The move of God is ‘round the corner.”

Ps Paul Botha (06 May 2013)