Faith That Works By Love
In this powerful and heartfelt message, the pastor draws from the story of Job to reveal that true, overcoming faith is not built on what we see or feel, but on an unwavering trust in God’s plans. Using Job 42 and Galatians 5:6 as anchors, the message challenges believers to take personal ownership of their walk with God and to understand that faith only works when it is fueled by love — even toward those who have hurt us. This encouraging word calls the church to a higher level of spiritual maturity, where prayer, forgiveness, and loving the unlovable become the keys that unlock breakthrough and restoration.
Overview
In "Faith That Works By Love," Pastor Ester Bartel draws from Job 42:1–11 to show that authentic, biblical faith is inseparable from love, humility, and personal repentance. Using Job's journey through demonic assault, bad counsel, and ultimate restoration, she demonstrates that the turning point of every captivity is not spiritual warfare technique but a surrender to God and a decision to love and pray for those who have wronged us. The sermon's anchor text, Galatians 5:6, crystallizes the thesis: faith that is alive and effective is faith that works by love.
Key Scripture Passages
- Job 41:1–8 — God's interrogation of Job using the image of Leviathan to reveal how powerless humans are against principalities apart from divine authority.
- Job 42:1–6 — Job's moment of repentance and personal encounter with God, moving from secondhand religion to firsthand conviction.
- Job 42:7–11 — God vindicates Job, commands the friends to seek Job's intercession, and restores Job's fortunes doubly when Job prays for his enemies.
- Galatians 5:6 — The sermon's key text: "Faith which worketh by love" — the theological hinge of the entire message.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1–3 — Without love, even powerful gifts and eloquent speech are mere noise; love is the essential medium of effective ministry.
- Revelation 12:7–10 — Satan's expulsion from heaven and his present role as "accuser of the brethren," contextualizing the spiritual warfare Job faced.
- Genesis 27–33 (Jacob and Esau) — Used illustratively: Esau's eventual entry into authority and provision mirrors the freedom that comes when bitterness is released.
- Ephesians 6:12 — "We wrestle not against flesh and blood" — the battle behind relational conflict is ultimately spiritual.
- Philippians 4:19 — "God shall supply all your need" — cited in connection with Esau's declaration that he lacked nothing once he entered a place of authority and faith.
Sermon Outline
- The Nature of the Attack on Job (Job 41; Revelation 12:9–10)
- Job's suffering was not merely circumstantial; it was orchestrated by a supernatural principality described as Leviathan.
- Friends who came to "diagnose" Job's problem became instruments of discouragement rather than comfort.
- The enemy operates through accusation, deception, and the voices of those closest to us.
- The Problem of Powerlessness — Knowing Your Position (Job 41:1–8)
- God's rhetorical questions to Job about Leviathan expose the futility of confronting high-level principalities in human strength.
- True spiritual authority flows from being positioned "in Christ Jesus" — under authority before exercising authority.
- Illustrated by the Jacob and Esau story: Esau could declare sufficiency only once he had entered his own place of dominion under God.
- Job's Turning Point — From Rumor to Encounter (Job 42:1–6)
- Job confesses he had "lived by rumors" of God — secondhand faith based on others' reports rather than personal encounter.
- Personal encounter with God — not doctrine, not another's prophecy — is what produces unshakeable conviction.
- Job takes personal ownership: "I admit it. I was the one." Faith demands self-examination before blaming circumstances, the devil, or other people.
- Repentance is the gateway; the biggest sin is not walking by faith.
- Faith Does Not Walk by Feelings, Sight, or Rumor
- Confessing sickness reinforces sickness; confessing healing aligns with God's word regardless of symptoms.
- Declaring lack reinforces lack; declaring provision even on an empty bank account is an act of faith.
- Physical feelings, emotional states, and what we hear from others can all pull us away from faith; we must override them with the word of God.
- Illustrated personally: Pastor Bartel got up to preach despite wrestling all night, and a new woman attended because the Holy Spirit sent her — confirming that breakthrough lies on the other side of resistance.
- The Anchor Text — Galatians 5:6: Faith Works by Love
- Circumcision or uncircumcision — religious status, background, tradition — avails nothing; only faith working through love counts.
- You cannot walk in faith while harboring hatred, bitterness, or unforgiveness.
- The real test of love is not loving those who love you back — it is loving those who betray, persecute, and stab you in the back.
- Actively speaking love ("I love Pastor Terry; I bless her") over a difficult relationship is a faith act that transforms the atmosphere.
- Turning Captivity by Praying for Enemies (Job 42:7–11)
- God's vindication of Job came through Job's intercession for the very friends who had wronged him.
- Job did not review their offenses; he prayed for their needs — and captivity turned.
- Illustrated by Joseph: deep pain, even tears, but intercession rather than accusation.
- Practical application: When you hear someone has spoken against you, immediately pray a blessing over that person.
- Anecdote of a cancer patient: signing checks for orphanages in the face of a terminal diagnosis; doctors could no longer find the cancer. Love expressed through generosity broke the physical captivity.
- Restoration and Its Channel (Job 42:10–16)
- God gave Job twice what he had before — not dropped from heaven, but channeled through people: brethren, sisters, acquaintances bringing gifts.
- Blessing flows through relationships restored by love and intercession.
- Job lived 140 more years and saw four generations — longevity as a fruit of faith that works by love.
- Love Defined Correctly — 1 Corinthians 13
- Without love, prayer, prophecy, and giving are empty noise.
- You can prophesy out of bitterness, anger, or unhealed wounds — and the word that comes out will be distorted.
- Healing from inner wounds (trauma, broken authority figures, failed relationships) is prerequisite to ministering love accurately to others.
Theological Insights
- Leviathan as Principality: Job 41 presents Leviathan in cosmic terms — an ancient Near Eastern chaos-dragon imagery repurposed in the Hebrew text to depict a supernatural adversary that no human strength can subdue. The passage's rhetorical force is that only God commands such a creature. This aligns with Paul's "principalities and powers" language in Ephesians 6:12 and Colossians 2:15, where Christ alone has disarmed them.
- The Accuser of the Brethren (Revelation 12:10): Satan's title as "accuser" (Greek: katēgōr) is not passive — it describes an active prosecutorial role. Job's friends, perhaps unknowingly, rehearsed the accuser's arguments. When we agree with condemnation — of ourselves or others — we can become instruments of the same spirit.
- Secondhand vs. Firsthand Faith: Job 42:5 marks a decisive epistemological shift: "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee." This mirrors a pattern throughout Scripture — Abraham's progressive encounters, Moses at the burning bush, Paul on the Damascus road. Personal encounter, not inherited or borrowed faith, produces unshakeable conviction.
- Galatians 5:6 — Faith Energized by Love: The Greek word translated "worketh" is energoumenē (from energeō), meaning to be at work, to be operative, or to be energized. Paul's point is that genuine saving faith is not inert — it finds its operating power in love (agapē). Love is not an addition to faith; it is the fuel through which faith becomes effective. Neither religious observance (circumcision) nor its absence matters — only this energized, love-driven faith.
- Intercession as the Mechanism of Restoration (Job 42:10): The Hebrew phrase shûb shebût ("turned the captivity") is a covenantal idiom for radical reversal of fortune. Remarkably, Job's turning point came not when he prayed for himself but when he prayed for others. This anticipates the New Testament ethic of blessing those who curse you (Luke 6:28; Romans 12:14).
- Blessing Flows Through Restored Relationships: Job 42:11 shows that God's double-portion blessing was not delivered by angelic courier but through restored human community — family and friends bringing silver and gold. The restoration of relationships was both the sign and the channel of divine blessing, consistent with the principle that God reconciles and then sends reconciled people as his ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:18–19).
- Unforgiveness as a Spiritual Blockage: The sermon's teaching that unforgiveness hinders prayer is grounded in Matthew 6:14–15, Mark 11:25–26, and the parable of the unforgiving servant (Matthew 18:21–35). Theologically, harboring bitterness places a person outside the relational dynamic in which God's forgiveness and blessing freely flow.
- Confession and the Creative Power of Words: The sermon's emphasis on declaring health and provision rather than confirming lack or sickness reflects the biblical principle seen in Romans 4:17 — God "calls things that are not as though they were" — and in Proverbs 18:21: "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." This is not a denial of reality but a deliberate alignment of the mouth with God's declared purposes.
Word & Context Study
- Leviathan (Hebrew: liwyātān): Appearing in Job 41, Psalm 74:14, Isaiah 27:1, and Psalm 104:26, Leviathan is an ancient Semitic sea-monster motif representing primordial chaos and supernatural evil. In Job 41 the description — impenetrable scales, fire-breathing, fearless — is designed to overwhelm the reader with the creature's invincibility, so that only God's mastery over it is possible. The sermon correctly identifies this as a figure for a high-level demonic principality that no human strategy can neutralize.
- "Energoumenē" — Faith Working (Galatians 5:6): The Greek participle energoumenē is in the middle or passive voice, suggesting that faith is activated and energized by love from the outside. Some scholars (e.g., F.F. Bruce, J.B. Lightfoot) read it as "faith made operative through love" — love is the sphere and the mechanism, not merely the result, of living faith. This nuance supports the sermon's central claim: love is not optional or supplementary to faith; it is its working principle.
- Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar — Job's "Comforters": These three friends represent the dominant theological assumption of the ancient Near East: suffering is always the direct consequence of personal sin (retribution theology). While their theology sounds orthodox, God rebukes them sharply (Job 42:7) because they had not "spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has." The friends' error was not that they believed in divine justice, but that they applied it mechanically, without pastoral wisdom or openness to God's larger purposes. This is a sobering warning against diagnose-and-blame pastoral responses to others' suffering.
- "Shûb Shebût" — Turned the Captivity (Job 42:10): This Hebrew phrase, sometimes translated "restored the fortunes," is used in covenantal restoration contexts (Deuteronomy 30:3; Jeremiah 29:14; Psalm 126:1). It carries connotations not merely of financial recovery but of comprehensive covenant renewal — family, identity, community, and destiny all being reset. The timing in Job 42:10 is precise: the turning occurred when Job prayed for his friends, underscoring that intercession for enemies is a covenant-activating act.
Application
- Identify what you have been blaming. Before engaging in spiritual warfare, follow Job's example and ask honestly: "Where have I been operating in unbelief, bitterness, or secondhand faith?" Own your part before addressing the enemy's.
- Replace complaint with confession. Whatever you are believing God for — health, provision, relationships — begin consistently speaking what God's word declares rather than what circumstances confirm. This is not denial; it is deliberate alignment with divine purpose (Romans 4:17; Proverbs 18:21).
- Test your love by your difficult relationships. Make a list of the people whose names on your phone screen cause your chest to tighten. Those are the people toward whom you are called to walk in active, Galatians 5:6 faith. Begin praying a specific blessing over each of them this week.
- Pray for those who have wronged you — immediately and specifically. When you hear that someone has spoken against you, stop and pray for their needs before the day is out. Intercession for enemies is, according to Job 42:10, the trigger of captivity's reversal.
- Pursue personal encounter with God, not borrowed faith. Schedule extended, undistracted time with God — not to receive a word from another person about your situation, but to cultivate your own "now mine eye seeth thee" moment (Job 42:5). Quiet time is a discipline, not a luxury.
- Pursue inner healing as a ministry prerequisite. Unhealed trauma from authority figures, broken relationships, or childhood wounds can distort what flows out of you in ministry, counsel, and prophetic words. Seek healing intentionally — through prayer, honest conversation, and if needed, Christian counseling — so that what flows from you is love, not unresolved pain.
- Change your spiritual strategy from confrontation to interc
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Amen, but I want us to look at something in Job chapter 42.
Is the media able to put it out for us today?
If not, then I need a Bible.
Amen.
Is the king back there?
Yes.
Amen.
So I want you to look at, we are going to actually read Job chapter 42, verse 1 to 11.
And we are going to understand the attack that Job was going through.
so that if we really want to operate by faith,
we need to begin to.
Because Job was going through,
his friends were coming to him
and saying to him,
do you know,
nobody gets into trouble like this
when they have not done anything against God.
Do you know that?
They were coming to him,
telling him all kinds of things to bring him down.
Sometimes, do you know when we are going through them,
people come and they do what?
They come to discourage us more.
Bring you down.
Discouragement.
But how many of us can say
that we want to be a people of faith?
amen so sometimes you're operating by faith i told us i tell you here when you're praying
enough by faith you can become foolish you know that people say she's so foolish look at her
she knows this is happening but this is what she's doing amen but because you want to see the hand
of god manifest in this particular situation you got to operate by faith so when you are sick you
can't go around and keep saying i'm sick i'm sick because if you keep saying i'm sick and sick what
happened you'll be sick but you have to say i'm healed then people begin to say that the christians
are fake but we are not fake we actually believe in the word of god hallelujah we are believing
what the word of god is saying when your bank account is zero and you say you keep going around
and telling people i'm poor what do you think will happen you'll be poor so even when your
bank account is zero you have to begin to say what i'm rich sunday we know we finish offering
here pastor terry said hey i posted the offering but do you know that sunday i said to her you
better rejoice she said why a woman walked here she's not a member she's not anything she walked
here and signed a check for the church she just said as i've walked through this door i want to
sign a check for the church and she signed the check so what does that mean we have to operate
by what faith believe yes because if you look at your bank account and you keep saying oh my bank
account is zero what do you think he's going to do zero so if i love pastor mary oh somebody listen
to me and i have i keep on saying talking about the problem i'm having with pastor mary what is
happening what is going to happen the problem will multiply but when i begin to say i love
pastor mary i love pastor mary what am i doing i am turning the problem to what and make and bringing
in changing hatred to bring love oh somebody hallelujah so since we all have to change the
way we're thinking because listen job begin to look at verse 42 starting from verse 1.
because all that job was going to we all some of us have read the book of job
i would love for you to go back and you see all the attacks that he was going through
but he got to a place he answered the lord because god spoke to job and before we go there maybe
somebody can jump to job chapter 40 41 let me see job chapter 41 let me see
what is the beginning of job chapter 41 for the beginning of 41 says um can can you pull
leviathan with the fish hook or tie down his tongue with the rope listen maybe we should go
there so that look at this can thou draw out leviathan with an hook or his tongue with the
accord which thou let us down god begin to introduce job to a spirit that was attacking
he said but you see when you talk about leviathan the word of god says that they are so connected
there is no air in them so when the fire time when the principality mommy decide to come and attack
you the only person that can take you out of it is god oh are you hearing me somebody listen to me
so let me tell his friends were coming and they were trying to diagnose what is happening to job
but then god begin to speak you see go something and sit down and and just watch us oh oh she's
poor because she did this she's sick because she did this and god just begin to watch the whole
scene and then god begin to speak or it says can thou draw our leviathan with an hook or his tongue
with a cord which thou let us down and have his two can thou put and hook into his nose
or bore his jaw through with a thorn uh-huh will he make many supplications unto thee
will he speak soft words unto thee what does he said um can you get the devil to a position where
he now becomes calm since oh somebody i hope you are getting it i have to let you understand that
the devil is here you know the devil is here when you go to the book of revelation chapter 12 the
word of god tells us that there was a word that broke out in heaven and when they fought one of
the angels fought and what happened and the demons fought and what happened the satan was thrown down
here he said he's the accuser of the brethren so right now we are sitting here do you know that as
you are sitting he's whispering to somebody's ear oh my god your husband is to home right now you
don't even know what the devil is telling your husband he could be talking to your children he
He could be talking, he's saying all kind of things.
And that is why we come under something called the spirit of deception.
Where we come to a place where we believe a lie.
You understand?
So listen, will he make supplications unto thee?
Will he speak soft words unto thee?
Let's go to verse 4.
Will he make a covenant with thee?
Will thou take him for a servant forever?
He's asking Job.
He's asking what power do you have over the enemy?
somebody tell your neighbor and say what power do you have over the enemy
so you see because sometimes we are trying to diagnose a lot of issues
but god is saying to job what power do you have over the enemy everything is going on about what
power do you have over the enemy hallelujah let's go to verse 5 and i'll let you jump
would thou play with him as with a bird or would thou bind him for thy maidens tell me he's telling
his accident god is accident what position do you have concerning the adversary so you see you have
for you to be an intercessor for you for you to be a faith person you got to come to a place where
you know that you are in the secret place of what of the most high oh somebody because since i'm
tell you some people say oh i saw a witch and i did this and sometimes you can't even some of us
we can't even fight against a little witch do you know that some of us we cannot fight against one
little witch in our family they when they appear in our dream we'll be on fasting for seven days
oh but somebody listen this is the word of the word thou play with him as with a bird or would
thou bind him for thy maidens why do you come to a place where the devil is there but you are not
afraid oh somebody oh i want to put you to that place of faith what what let me tell something
why do you come to that place what you know a group of people have gone up against you but you
are still okay oh somebody somebody shall faith my god so god was talking to job okay let's go to
verse six shall the companions make a bouquet of him shall they put him among the merchants uh-huh
let's go can thou fill his skin with barbed irons or his head with fish spears god is telling us
what authority would you have over this deviant so some of the challenges that we are having
somebody listen to me the challenges that we are having is that we should know our position that is
in what in christ jesus yes if you know your position you can overcome hallelujah so faith is
that the faith is believing totally what the word of god is saying so when when you have time i want
you to go home and just begin to read this and begin to read this what was attacking job what
was attacking job was not an ordinary attack not attack there are some attacks i'm telling you
there's some attack that comes only god can deliver you from you can go from one prophet
a to one prophet d i'm telling you nothing is going to happen until you come to a place
what you say father this one i surrender it to you help me oh somebody shall father this time i
surrender it to you and i need your help until you come to that place say something you will battle
it somebody will tell you if you go to that man of god and pay this something nothing is going to
happen because the weapons of our warfare they are not cannot they are mighty through god and
they're pulling down our strongholds hallelujah and he's saying that the battle is not against
flesh and blood you are deep sense let me tell you something when the principalities are fighting
against you my sister let me tell you you can go and befriend mama clarissa mama clarissa is so
sweet but i'm telling you if you don't take that thing will jump on here you that thing will happen
you will say mama clarissa is the problem you go to that sister and do the same thing it will happen
you jump to pastor terry you oh somebody if you so if you don't take care if that principalities
attacking you you don't take care you marry seven times i know somebody right now they are on their
eight marriage they are on their in marriage they still can't get it that i'm dealing with what
this is not the witchcraft you know oh you are dealing with the principality
mr frank they are so connected like this air cannot pass through them
so tell me if air cannot pass through who can destroy this leviathan
hallelujah who can and so now you have to come to a place for you to be able to conquer this thing
is coming to a place of faith so now if you see job let's go to job chapter 42 after job begin to
listen to what is really going on because when he comes to a place where he says now i'm diagnosing
god has given me the strategy god is giving me the thing for me to be able to come out of the
problem that i'm in let's listen to what job said i would love to get this in the message bible
i'm telling you every time i come down in my living room i just think in my prayer room i
just read this thing over and over and over and i see if i've never read it before job chapter 42
it says let's read it together job answered god so at that time god was speaking to you now job
is what answering god listen to this i'm convinced you can do anything and what
some people you are not getting this from me he said what job now came to a place that i am what
so all this so some of us we are not convinced with our work with god we are not convinced
but you have to come to a place of total conviction that this issue that i'm going through
this destiny that i want to change oh this assignment that i want to do oh this breakthrough
that i want to break through ah you have to listen i'm not convinced because of man
i am convinced because what you can do what everything and he said what let's go nothing
and no one can upset your plans oh i don't know about somebody but listen to me it means that
no matter what you can come through an attack all of us sitting here everybody is going going
through something but i have to tell you that you gotta come to a place where you know you have come
to a place of a conviction that nothing and no one can upset your plans it means that listen to me
listen to me let me tell the principality can be cooking the witches and the walnuts in your family
can be cooking no the powers can be cooking they can be gang up and set up against you but god is
telling you that when he comes to the plants of god nobody can upset his plans so now i don't
whatever i'm going through i got to come to a place where i know i'm in connection with god
everything can be happening around me my god but let me make sure that me my source sabrina is who
my god everything can be happening around me who is the president who is the vice president
who is in authority you go to that workplace there's a different boss do you know that they
can come and decide that oh this year nobody's getting raises but no but if god has planned for
me to get a raise this year it doesn't matter what they are saying nobody can stop the plans of god
So they can put something on you.
Oh, Jesus.
My God, there can be a curse in your background.
There can be a curse in your mother's house
and your father's house.
There can be a curse in the city that you live in.
But make sure that you are not under the city
that you live in.
Make sure that you are not under your mother's house
and your father's house.
Make sure that you are under God.
Because when you are under God,
nobody can upset the plans of God.
my god nobody so this is the position he wants you to be nothing all and one can upset your plans Mr Mr Frank how long has he been here
Six months people are
You know now they have even passed the law you go back home
Before you can get a green card to come but nobody can upset the plans of God
so that the person had to give it to him and us actually had to tell him do you know right now
you are yours is quick what are they saying we don't know what we are doing we are under the
plans of god so whatever somebody let me tell you something you can make everybody your enemy
you tell your neighbor but don't make god your enemy i'm telling you you can make everybody your
enemy don't make god your enemy let me tell when he knocks your door and tells you you are wrong
since i said that i'm wrong change your situation change it my god don't even debate with him
job just begin to answer you asked who is this mudding the what now what's my americans uh-huh
who is what this mudding the water ignorantly confusing the issue my second guessing my purposes
my god i admit it i was the one i bowled on about things far beyond me did you see that job did no
job at this point wasn't talking about his friends he was not talking about even the devil
he came to a place where he said this situation that i'm going through is me
because it's not the devil that's supposed to walk by faith to sabina it is you that need to
walk by faith so the problem is not the devil the problem is not the principalities and the powers
the problem is not the witches the warlocks the problem is not your boss the problem is not your
pastor the problem is somebody shout it is me oh somebody when i change my heart
oh somebody when i change my mind or somebody start when i change what i am saying
everything will change around me oh somebody's shot
because if you don't take care you go around and blame everybody
it was my husband it was my children it was that and the devil love it when he can stay behind and
watch you blame everybody but he said job came to a place he said i admit it i was the one i babbled
on about things far beyond me made small talk about wondrous way over my head oh listen to me
you told me listen and let me do the talking let me ask the questions you give the answers
i admit i once lived by what how many of us live by rumors of god so then when we hear one doctrine
we chase after that doctrine how many people have lived by rumors of god it means that you have not
come to a place where you have their own encounter since i'm telling when we have an encounter with
god nobody can stop us do you know that when you have your own encounter sabina you don't have to
go and ask somebody to for the person to tell you who god is you come to a place where you know what
this is god thank you pastor amen it's okay thank you so when we come to a place where he said now
i have an encounter you know there was uh two brothers the word of course said jacob and iso
right the blessing was supposed to be for what iso and jacob did what and jacob did what took
the blessing right and so now what happened jacob it was like a little thing in the family jacob
run right is for now was now better how many people carry bitterness or forgiveness sometimes i'm
telling people we're here last week we're like we gotta let it go since i'm telling if you carry any
bitterness against someone on forgiveness you better work on that thing it's not even about
them it's about you you gotta let because why you will not have this encounter with him
you will not see the hand of god it's like drinking poison and expecting other people to
what to die so now iso was upset but when he kept going to his father father me too bless me
how many people see people in that father but look at this person they don't even i'm prettier
than them but look at their husband oh look at them i think i speak even better than them why
is it that this and that he was doing all that my god and his father said but when you get your
dominion you will break his yoke of your of your neck what is he saying when you come under the
authority of the lord jesus christ oh somebody my god when you come under authority when you're not
coming to a place of dominion where you have come to a place of authority when now you have made god
your king and your lord somebody because you have to be under authority for you to be what
take authority you cannot go and say i bind the devil when you don't have cried on your side
oh somebody's i'm blessed oh somebody's out i'm blessed you gotta come on that place of what
authority so when isa came to a place of authority do you know that when jacob met iso
isa thought jacob was going to uh what do you call jacob thought he had to give something to
isa he said i don't need anything because why he has come under authority because when you come
under a place of authority you have no want you have no need he said i will supply all your needs
according to his riches in glory by what christ jesus saying something because somebody somebody
out i believe the word hallelujah oh so that's what god is looking for us i'm for us to do i'm
believing the word it doesn't matter what i feel since i'm telling our feelings and we the women
we are even all kind of post-menstrual post-menopause under post upper post prepos all the
process will be going on and we'll be and so now our feelings but since i'm telling you for you to
be able to be an overcomer in this kingdom you have to be able to overcome your feelings
i don't feel like going to church but i put on my clothes and i came you know that today i didn't
feel like i got up in the morning until all night i've been up wrestling wrestling wrestling i'm
telling you but i got up and i put them i think i got up even earlier today just because i knew the
devil is uh who didn't want me to come but today didn't i see a lovely new lady sitting here i've
never met this woman walking and said she walking while we came in she was the first person when she
said the holy spirit told me to come you you see you see what it is so sometimes when the enemy is
stopping you like that it means there is something that god has for you so you cannot go by what you
are feeling you got to go by what the word of god is saying and what does the word of god say i was
glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the law because in the house of the lord
there is one oh hallelujah you see how you operate by faith your feelings and everything i'm telling
you you at since you'll be talking into your mind you don't take all that you don't take what you
going there for i'm telling you but that is the same moment a breakthrough is right ahead of you
hallelujah so we don't go by feelings when you want to walk by faith you don't even go by what
you hear oh yeah let me tell you do you know that sometimes what you hear can pull you down
jesus i'm telling you what you hear what you're you know backstabbers sometimes people can be
backstabbers in your and you hear that oh they said this it can make you if you don't take care
you shrink but you gotta rise up in a place of faith oh somebody hallelujah and then you will
see the hand of god amen because by the time is a jacob met iso iso did not want anything from jacob
he said i don't need anything from you he said oh take something for i don't need anything
because he had come to a place where he has entered the place of what faith maybe you know
that all of us living on this earth we do you know we always need something how many people right now
lift up your hand is something that you want god to do for you everybody here want god to do something
so it means that when esau told jacob i don't need anything he was speaking in faith oh
he was speaking in faith amen look at this he said you told me listen and let me do the talking
let me ask the question you give the answers i admit oh somebody read it with me i once lived by
rumors of you now i have it all firsthand from my own eyes and ears i'm sorry forgive me i'll never
do that again i promise i will never again live on crust of esa crumbs of rumor and that is what we
all do we live on what people say you can be doing something let me turn that was the point every
month i was sending my time i'm transparent every month i was sending a special seed to my father
prophet nana in ghana i didn't miss i did not miss a bad day father's day but you know that we all
get complete we get casual with things in the spirit and then i just stop and sometimes you
hear people talk talk talk hey she gives she gives she gives so then i stop but then there was something
was happening to us and i hear i brought in i say we flew we finished the seven days and i said i'm
i said i'm going to show a seat on behalf of everybody in the church amen and let me do it
and then i just said nobody should bring anything i'll do it myself and i just did it but do you
know that do you know that the morning i sabina we stayed here i sent it by morning i'm sitting
in my office like this somebody called me and gave me the same amount oh somebody said apostle
i just felt like blessing you hallelujah then we were praying here on sunday i said father when i
stood i said father restore the oil that is in our altar somebody walk here through the service
came and said apostle it's like i could see the water just flowing in this altar and the person
begin to describe something that i was familiar with and then i begin to say restoration as well
so you see what so sometimes let me tell you your mind will be like oh
i don't take all that i'm telling you somebody takes all that
whatever you did to get to where you are you have to continue doing so that you continue to progress
hallelujah but sometimes we all get one complacent sometimes we can be so comfortable with prayer do
Do you know that? God can wake you up.
That's why we roll back and sleep.
But do you know that that particular time God wants to
use you for something powerful?
Oh, is somebody here? As simple as that.
Because sometimes when you talk about
giving, people think you are going to go, I'm not collecting offering.
Hallelujah.
It could be prayer. It could be even getting into
the word. That you made.
There was a time that we used to call a quiet time.
We get up and that hour, you don't
pick up your phone. You just read your
word. And you allow the Holy Spirit to
speak to you you go out there and you are shining you are powerful but sometimes you know that the
the job can take you out of quiet time do you know that friends can take you out of quiet time
oh somebody social media oh hallelujah ai movie apostle is watching ai movie amen it can take you
out of it amen until like you come to a place where he said no i need to return so now job
came to a person now i'm sorry forgive me hallelujah he didn't say forgive the people attacking me he
said what i would never do that again i promise i will never again live on crust of yesa crumbs of
rumor but let's go let's go to next next verse uh-huh let's read it after god had finished
addressing job he turned to eliphaz the temanite and said i've had it with you and your two friends
i'm fed up you haven't been honest either with me or about me not the way my friend job has
so here's what you you must do take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my friend joe sacrifice
a bent offering on your behalf my friend joe will pray for you and i will accept this prayer his
prayer he will ask me not to treat you as you deserve for talking nonsense about me and for
not be honest with me as he has you see how things are turning for you things begin to turn for job
when he came to a place of repentance so sometimes when you are trying to attack the devil repent
first take ownership of your your part what did i do holy father forgive me because sometimes forgive me not because you have done some big sin but the biggest sin is not even walking by faith oh somebody hallelujah oh are you clapping your hands for jesus my god we you
know we are in the church we are still coming on adultery fornication but i've come to a place where
the biggest sin is they're not working by faith so jesus got to a city and he began to cry over
the city and he cried and he said because they missed their visitation because if you don't walk
by faith somebody you will do what you will miss your visitation i declare over us this year 2020
says that we will not do what we will not miss our visitation hallelujah hallelujah
let's go next verse let's go they did it eliphas the temani builder the shuhai and zophar the
nehemi did what god commanded and god accepted job's prayer you know why we need to walk by faith
do you know god can talk to people sabina do you know that god can visit people in dreams and vision
oh somebody are you are you are you hearing me this morning i was listening to this man's
testimony he was looking for he he was he was trying to build a place a sanctuary
for for god and the people wanted to use it for a factory so they were they were he wanted the
land the person wanted the land he went to them and said you better leave this land alone because
we are about to build the house of god the person said no i have the white people here they're about
to fund this thing we need to do this thing he said okay and he left it alone he kept on praying
but the man came back in three days he said three days i have not slept oh he said three days i have
not been able to sleep since i'm telling sometimes we confront our enemies but get to a place where
god says what leave the battle for the law oh are you hearing me oh somebody leave the battle for
what for vengeance is the lord that he shall do her repay because listen if somebody's under
deception and you go to them and i've noticed mommy and you just say to them listen that you
did to me i did not like do you know that thing can turn against you before you know they saying
this they saying that so what about me i have new strategy i act like i don't see but don't think i
don't see i see everything but i've changed my strategy for battle i don't find no physical
battles anymore hallelujah because why you will not win you will not win it's not gonna amen and
i've been there done that until somebody tried to kill me i called them and i said listen this
thing that you are doing i don't want you to do that anymore that thing turned against me they
were able to gang up more people oh that i almost died so now god was god has used that to teach me
a lesson yes sir act like you don't see tell your neighbor post she see everything no
but i have changed my strategy i changed my strategy oh so let me tell one and i'm telling
you i'm being blessed by it though because i'm in a place of peace oh i don't have anything against
anyone hallelujah so one of my workers came to me this last week and she said hey mr sister
you have changed i said what i said really i said tell me more
when you come in you go to everybody every nurse every worker and say hello to them
before you go to your office you say hello to every patient in our department and she said
some of them i could see they were stabbing you are back you act like you don't know but i know you
know ah i said yes i know hallelujah let me tell you because why i've come to a place where i know
that this battle is of the lord leave the battles amen because job god was able to talk to do do you
know that job's friends god is the one that spoke to them hallelujah you know an incident happened
like a month ago one of my staff she came to me she wanted no she actually left the job she left
she went in and she told them please today i'm going nobody's going to stop me six o'clock
she did what she left so i came and according to the policy you supposed to get the second
waiting for them to do what you're lazy so when she came out there the second waiting
one and she found it and she went to the she didn't go to my office
you know the one to the eu
and then she came back but do you know that let me tell i'm loving her just like they say
when i get this that this past week it was see any week i didn't say i'm not giving her a gift i'm
giving the other person a gift why because i cannot operate in the flesh that is what we do
then we take on the battle oh somebody may from now on may you not take on any foolish battle
in the name of jesus hallelujah and i'm free i'm free oh somebody shout i'm free oh hallelujah
Hallelujah, because you see
I just want to shoot this word
I want somebody to open it
Today we are learning something
Hallelujah
Galatians chapter 5 verse 6
I want you to take this scripture
Put it on your mirror
Put it in front of your car
Galatians 5 verse 6
Leave this on there
And let somebody read Galatians 5 verse 6 for us
Amen
Put this on your mirror
And me, since I'm talking to you
not talking to even from a place of perfection i'm working with it i'm in a workout amen i talk
to myself mommy walk in love oh hallelujah i talk to myself do what do what walk in love
somebody uh huh uh-huh serenity read it for me uh-huh galatians chapter huh galatians 5 6
for in jesus christ for it mommy take your time for in what in jesus christ he didn't say for in
in new jersey it didn't say in america it didn't say in the nations what where in what in jesus
christ so you see how it's a position uh-huh in jesus right there is what neither circumcision
anything no on circumcision uh-huh but faith which worketh by love faith where someone tells
your neighbor say faith works by love faith works by love so if you want to operate in faith you got
the love you have no choice because if i say i want to transform my relation first of faith
i have a problem with pastor terry so the problem with pastor terry is not what i'm going to a person
of faith is not worried about the problem that we have with pastor terry the personal faith he says
i love pastor terry right but i said tell you my senior
i can hear pastor talking behind my back whispering i can hear the stabbing on the back
oh somebody how many say ouch ouch you feel it ah the stab in the back that one hey you feel it
sometimes because it pierces enters your heart amen but but if i'm a person of faith what am i
saying to pastor terry i love you i miss you i love you i miss you because why i cannot do this
pastor terry come she says she pushing me and i'm pushing her and then i go into my closet and i
begin to say oh father i thank you for pastor terry i bless her like it's not going anywhere
you see that oh it's not going anywhere so now you praying for you praying you cannot you can
love and hate cannot be in the same place so if we are operating by faith then we are operating by
love and that that since i'm telling you because we are living on this earth it's not easy
because you are seeing you are seeing the attack you are seeing the person fighting you you are
seeing oh somebody i'm telling you you are seeing everything you are hearing everything but if you
want to operate by faith faith work it by what law so no matter what the person is doing i still have
to love them because if i wonder i want to see a change in sabina i can't hit sabina and pray for
sabina so no matter what i have to work by or walk in law and somebody so your heart sometimes your
chest could be tight you know that and you are feeling all kind of emotions but at the same time
you gotta love the person oh my god hallelujah for in christ jesus neither circumcision what
availed anything nor on circumcision but faith oh oh are you clapping your hands
oh somebody say faith work out by law so i wanna walk in faith i better love people
my god hallelujah and let me tell some let me right now there are two people that are very
close to me okay they are always around me it's easy for me to love them do you know that that you
know that do you know that this is not work these three people there in the front here it's no work
for me to love them because i know they have to tell deep down i know they love me whether my good
my when people love you you don't have to do anything supernatural they just love me so now
let me tell them this is not where the work is where do you think the work is the work is people
oh that hate you people that is people do or persecute you oh somebody hallelujah so somebody
oh i love you listen when you come to the sanctuary you can hug everybody and say i love you i'm not
done anything though hey it's the people that you go home and you are waiting they are waiting for
you oh hallelujah those are the people that do show the test of love your co-workers oh somebody
hallelujah oh your mother's house and your father's house oh somebody hallelujah the people that when
they you immediately they are full rings and you see their name your heart goes those are the people
hallelujah this is how much the love is not say mama clarissa what amen amen what hallelujah
sabina all of us say what no but it's the people that when you hear their phone call you just be like
that is the test that is how we know that you are walking by fear
my god like this person can you just imagine they came back from there
that is the test of faith amen that you can still love this person and give them everything that
they're supposed to need that is when you're blessing but but the word of god says when we
are in christ jesus hallelujah oh somebody when are we are in what we are in christ jesus not we
are in america oh not when you are in the job oh somebody when we are in what christ jesus oh my god
my god mike so let's jump to job chapter 42 10 and 11. since i'm telling you today i just pray that
you this word will transform you because i didn't prepare any preaching amen this is just god speaking
today hallelujah amen this is god just speaking to them because pastor maria did i prefer preaching
today no hallelujah it says what hmm but 10 verse 10 and 11. my god
listen he says what and the lord turned the captivity of job when he prayed for his friends
also the lord gave job twice as much as he had before the lord turned the captivity so do you
know what i've been practicing now even when somebody comes to tell me somebody has said
something about me immediately i start i pray for her i pray in the name of jesus father that you
bless her now father my god you oh father my god open her eyes of understanding oh and if i know
that that person have a need i begin to say father my god i know that this person have been asking
you for this and that father i pray that you meet them that need because father you love them you are
the one that reign on the just and unjust oh somebody what am i doing i am overturning my
captivity so he said the lord when his friends came job didn't begin to sit down with him and
begin to say you see what you did against me that's the same thing that happened to joseph
joseph it was because of his brothers who and he ended up in prison but when he came the word of
of god said he cried because the pain was deep sometimes you have to cry praying for them oh
somebody are you hearing me you have to cry pray for that spouse cry pray for that children cry
pray for that thing but since if you want to see a total 10 and you are the person that were by faith
what happened oh my god and the lord turned the captivity not of the man but of what
oh so somebody how do you turn captivity by walking in love
so that is why sometimes we don't get our prayers answered you want captivities to turn
sicknesses and infirmities to turn let me tell this a man that they said one of the former
presidents he was diagnosed with cancer immediately he received that i gave him how many months to live
do you know what he did he took his checkbook and he began to sign checks to orphanages do you know
that the same doctor came back and told him,
you are, we cannot find the cancer again.
Because what?
He showed love to some orphans Oh hallelujah That is why he said when we are fasted you know that fasting is the best standard the money that you were supposed to buy lunch for yourself buy lunch for somebody
else hallelujah when the lord turned the captivity of dope when he prayed and what the lord gave one
twice as much he had before let's go next verse uh-huh uh-huh them came day unto him all his
brethren and all his sisters and all day that had been of his acquaintance before and did eat bread
with him in his house and they bemoan him and comforted him over all the evil that the lord
had brought upon him every man also gave him a piece of money and everyone an earring of gold
let's go so the lord ah
so you see i was telling you sunday that the blessing of the lord pastor mary mr frank it
won't come some people think when they pay tight and they give offering that actually from heaven
you begin to no no that's not how it opened no no no no you sit down and that one million dollars
show no it will god will give you favor it will touch people and the people will bless you
that's how we that that's how it is because who the lord blessed the latter end of joe
more than his beginning for he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a
thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand of she access uh-huh oh he had also seven sons and three daughters
and he called the name of his first boy jemima and the name of the second kezia and the name of the
third karen hapock uh-huh mama and in all the land where no women found so fair as the daughters of
job and your father gave them inheritance among their brethren oh hallelujah uh-huh after this
leave job 140 years and saw his sons and his son's sons even for generations oh hallelujah
hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah oh somebody i don't know about you hallelujah faith just walking
by faith my god faith not walking by what you see not walking by what you feel not doing how you feel
no i feel like oh you don't know my mother's house we do it that way we'll tell you like
this somebody is not going to get you nowhere i'm going to show you where i come from it won't get
you nowhere me then nobody cross me and go you're not gonna get you nowhere but the key when you are
in christ there is no circumcision no own circumcision but faith that worketh by love
hallelujah and the kind of love that he's looking for us is not loving the unlockable
my god the test of love is not the people that love you it's easy it's not the test
you know that it's not the test oh it's not the test when you love people that love you
that test is to love people that do not love you oh but you see we even this love we have
divined it wrongly hey i don't know first corinthians after 30th we have defined this love
we have defined this love wrongly we think love is when somebody hocks you oh somebody
we think love is when somebody gives you oh somebody hallelujah hey my god but look at the
first corinthians chapter 13 let's go there mama mama oh somebody said i i love somebody i'm loving
somebody somebody said this week i'm gonna love on someone i'm telling you and it's a test of faith
how you know you can walk in love is a test of faith because everything sometimes your chest is
It's like, your whole body, you feel like you need to fight.
But in that moment, sometimes your breakthrough is right there.
Don't fight.
Walk in love.
Hallelujah.
Oh, my, my, my, my, my.
Let's do it.
First Corinthians, chapter 13.
And I'm finishing.
Starting from verse 1.
I think he got it.
First Corinthians, chapter 13.
Oh, he went to verse.
First Corinthians, chapter 13.
ah let's go say though i was
uh-huh uh-huh i have no charity i am becoming a sounding brass and a tinkle symbol do you know
that he said if you can speak samira we can come to it i got all that and he's saying that we are
not we don't have love so it means that your prayer has to be mixed with love for your prayer to work
it has to be what? Missed with love.
Hallelujah. We want to get
prayer answers. The prayer must what?
Missed with love. If we can come
and break the
we can pray out to the door
and go. No love, nothing.
Amen. Hallelujah.
He said we are like what? I am like
a what? A sounding brass
and a tinkle. Because you know that
one day God said, somebody came to me
and they were trying to give me a prophetic word.
And God said to me, do you know that this word that
just gave you it's because of where they are because when you are better you can prophesy
in bitterness do you know that when you are angry you can you can prophesy in anger so you got to
make sure that you empty out so that the holy spirit is the one that is what speaking that is
what some people who see wrong visions and all kind of things and wrong dreams and begin to
prophesy because you already because let me tell you something it's what is in you that is going
to come out not the other way so if you don't have blood brewing in you i'm telling you you
will give a wrong prophecy i'm telling you ah it's like somebody going through marital crisis
if you don't take care and empty yourself very well you'll go around and break people marriages
do you know why because you are bitter in the marriage so the first thing for you to do is
well pledge yourself and cleanse yourself from all the bitterness so that when the word of god
will come out of your mouth will bring with them or somebody who has had like a bad relationship in
the past and they did not allow themselves to heal the best thing that you can do since let me tell
something sometimes you just have to your fasting and your prayer you don't even have a prayer point
to father heal me oh are you hearing me sometimes do you know that we have childhood traumas do you
know that child let me tell some people were molested secretly nobody did it said anything
do you know that do you know that all of that is trauma oh somebody broke up relationships with you
you are not healed and then you build it all up oh listen there are people that listen i know people
that god would tell me the situation is because they had a problem with authority it starts with
father mother stepfather all those things if you don't heal from those things and so
you have to purposely go and give that person a gift
oh so there was a time for whole year i was giving my mother-in-law a gift every month
what was i doing i was breaking that thing some curse because if you think of the person all you
think of the thing the person did with you do did for you or did against you but you better go give
that person a gift what are you doing oh you are breaking that thing that is between you and that
person if not if somebody comes to sit you and you are ministering oh somebody are you hearing me
that is why people are breaking people homes because if i come and sit now somebody comes to
me and they have a problem with their mother-in-law what am i going to say to them that's all they do
but not every mother-in-law is bad oh look at mother samary i i want her to be my mother-in-law
let me tell i'm telling you not every mother-in-law is bad not every sister or brother is bad
so if you have a problem with your sister your brother you don't heal from that thing
everywhere you go you will have problem with someone if you have a problem with like a
stepfather a stepmother you don't heal from that thing i'm telling you you know that is authority
you come to church you have a problem with your pastor if you go to your dad you'll have problem
with your boss you have because why you have not been healed from that place so when you heal
everything that comes out of you will be love amen then you can be able to help others because if not
you bring every every family down amen you people come to you they tell their family oh yeah go fight
them yeah yeah yeah go fight them yeah yeah yeah that's what they do and that is why there's so
much confusion in the church oh yeah oh oh somebody oh i had a dream and i saw my mother on there
and then she was doing something and before you know it it has turned to a whole different thing
amen hallelujah this church we have to come out of that this church we have to come out of that
what people say i see i see this if you come to me i see i just i'm not seeing you i'm seeing you
that is standing in front of me i say what are you saying because if you don't take so out of
the issues of life you can prophesy from it bitterness anger unforgiveness oh hallelujah
and before you know it's confusing everywhere oh somebody hallelujah and then the enemy has taken
over the church but today oh somebody i walk in love oh oh somebody i walk in law oh somebody are
you clapping your hands i walk in law oh listen this woman she walked through the door the first
thing she hugged me and she said hug me too can you just imagine she don't know her from anywhere
but she said do what hug me too she wants to receive the love so we have to come to our
center we gotta stop because that we hang out a lot if you don't take care we will just be the
three the three i said to her no i'm even today when i came to church if it wasn't the way service
went i decided i'm going to move my seat no it's true i'm telling you know that because then
sometimes people will come in and they feel like that's it you understand what i mean but there has
to be a place where i have to be able to sit with mr vandy and talk and have fellowship and go home
i have to be sit with the sister benedicta one i was telling them too sometimes if you don't take
her as the leader the people that are around you that you think will not go anywhere they'll go
and they'll leave you alone so there are people that let me talk because sometimes you think the
only people that are around you are the only ones but i'm telling you there are other people that
you need to tap into it and i was telling her there was a day sister benedicta came to me and
said apostle i want to sing a song before you preach and she said i know you're not going to
let me i said why not why am i not going to let you because if you don't take care she's seen from
the eyes of what she's singing so she's saying it's only here she don't know that where she
said she can still think that day she sang didn't the power of god move in this sanctuary
we have to since i'm telling you so if you don't take care that is because the church is such a
place where people come people go people come you got to be able to blend with everybody because if
we don't blend with everybody the people that you even depend on sometimes they go ah i love my
daughter joyce and her husband my god but today where are they iowa oh hallelujah do they have a
problem with the church no they moved oh hallelujah so we have to be able to blend with everybody
love everybody allow everybody because that church oh somebody he said i will build my church
and the gates of hell will not prevail again hallelujah verse 2 let's go to verse 2 we're
about to go i'm telling you are you blessed today me i'm today i'm preaching from my experience
i'm preaching from what i have learned and i'm still working on this i hope you can also work
on it amen so that your prayers will be answered there are some things that we have been praying
and crying out to god i'm praying that this year it will be answered for us amen and saying though
i want i have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though i have
all faith so that i could remove mountains and have no charity i am nothing oh and though i
bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though i give my body to be burned and have no charity
it profited me nothing uh-huh charity suffered long oh somebody said love suffered long
some of us we are praying for some of our family members nothing have changed but faith will let
us stay praying for them if you don't have faith you will stop it's suffered long hallelujah you
you want them to change you want that you want to see the glory of god in your life amen oh and
it's what and this one it's kind somebody so when you are saying that you love somebody the first
time i'm being kind to them when i sit and i can talk about the person in the word of God said if
i have a problem with the sister in the church what should i do go to them but if i can go to
mama Clarissa go to her go to him go to everybody but come to pastor tell meanwhile if you come to