Pursue Him

When the unseen becomes seen

• Derrick & Kim Dsouza

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In this powerful word, Prophet Derrick reveals what Jesus saw that others missed and why it matters for every believer today.

🔥 What if the key to your next breakthrough is already within your reach?

This message will challenge your perspective, stir your faith, and inspire you to pursue God like never before.

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Thank you for tuning in to Pursuit Podcast. We are committed to serve you with the now word of God that will inspire and encourage you to be a God chaser. Help us reach out to many by subscribing, sharing, and leaving a review for us on your favorite listening app. This is Sam, your host, and this is an excerpt from a recent word ministered by Pastor Derek. Let's dive in.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. God is good. He's never been so good. He's been good, he's been good, he's been good, he's been good. God is so good. You know one thing about God? He is uh He loves humility.

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How many of you know that God deals with us not according to the way we deal with people? We are very unforgiving, we may be very short-tempered. We get very upset, we get very hurt, bitter, jealous. But God deals with us. Can somebody say thank you, Jesus? Not according to the way we deal with others. He shows mercy to us even when we've not shown mercy to others.

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He shows love to us even though when we've not shown love to others. Yeah. He's so good.

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Can you guys hear me? Is the audio good?

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Okay. Is it better now? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah. So God is merciful and he loves the humble.

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That's why more grace is given to the humble. Because at that point of time, when you decide to lean on the Holy Spirit, when you have to get angry, you require more grace. Amen. God knows that. That's why He gives you more grace. Because you are demonstrating humility. You're saying, God, they cannot understand why I am the way I am.

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They cannot understand why you may be persecuted for being a Christian.

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You may, if you are really a Christian, you will hundred percent suffer persecution. If you're not suffering persecution, you have to ask yourself whether you're a Christian. Because people won't like you. People will not respect you, they'll try to speak evil about you, they'll talk behind your back. May all this happen to you, but not only on account of the gospel. May you never be mistreated for any other reason. If you're found guilty, you should be found guilty for being a humble person. And I'm telling you, we all shall fall short of it, right? It's not that uh you're all shining examples. You are so good. Thank you for all your people, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that you did not give up on us. Thank you, Lord, you never give up on us.

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Thank you, Lord. You started a good work and will be faithful to complete it.

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Thank you, Jesus. And you are a prayer-answering God. Thank you, Lord, when we open our mouth and pray. You hear your children. Thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord. So I was telling you, uh, a word that can come for you is basically the way you respond, the hunger that you show. And uh I feel God wants me to share it because yesterday's word came because of the way a person was able to articulate the blessing that they have received through a word. The minute they did that, my spirit began to jump. And I'm telling you, you don't need any help because the word is your greatest help. And when you begin to love the word, honor the word, seek for the word, build your house on the word, that's when the word of God begins to locate you. There have been many times, many people were blessed just because of one person. Not necessarily everybody, but it's because of one person's hunger that many got blessed. So I want you to know that you can be that person. You can be that person who triggers your man of God, you can trigger the spirit that he carries to jump out and give you an answer. It's the way you respond. Anyone interested in that word? So you can go to Mark chapter 2. Mark chapter 2. And if you can read from I mean from verse 1.

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Mark chapter 2, verse 1. And again he entered Capanom after some days, and it was heard that he was in the house. Immediately, many gathered together so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the doctor. And he preached the word to them. Then they came to him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And then when they could not come near him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven you. And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts. But immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they reasoned just within themselves, he said to them, Why do you reason about these things in your heart? Which is easier to say to the paralytic, your sins are forgiven you or to say, Arise, take up your bed and walk. He said to the paralytic, I say to you, Arise, take up your bed and go to your house. Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were raised and glorified God, saying, We never saw anything like this.

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Wow, did you hear that?

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So he's you know the story, right? He's he's healed a person, uh, there was a paralytic, and uh the Bible clearly tells you that many gathered together so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door, and he preached the word of God to them. Then they came to him bringing a paralytic who carried was carried by four men, and when they could not come near him, because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof. I want you to pay attention when they could not come near him, that means they could not come near him physically, they decided to give up, right? They decided to go home. When they could not meet the man of God, they said, you know, I'm feeling like they get offended, and they left, right? Or what did they do?

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And when they could not come near him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where Oh, they they never gave up, it seems.

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They went to the roof. How many of us give up when we don't get something from God? We just give up. We get offended, we leave, we say, Oh God, he healed the neighbor, he healed somebody, but he didn't heal me, and we get up and walk away. I'm giving you credible evidence how faith works. I want you to see this. This happens to us every day. Every day you have an opportunity to touch the hem of his garment. But many people see the crowd, your day, you see a lot of obstacles and you begin to leave. Why? So many people come to church. Instead of crowding to come close, you see them sitting far. Why? They are more worried about the AC. They are more worried about thank God we got AC. When you had no AC, people cried about the heat. Now you got AC, AC also is troubling you. God bless you. But I wanted to see, people were gathered so close because they knew that this was their time to receive. They came expectantly, and now they could not reach out to Jesus, so they decided we are not going back. And remember, this is not the man, these are his friends. They are not even the man, this is the friends of the man. And they uncovered a roof so that they broke through. When they broke through, they broke through, my God. Broke through. May some of you break through in prayer to God. May some of you break through in your pursuit with God. I'm telling you, this kind of a story will either make get you offended or it will put you on fire. You decide what it's going to do to you today. Because I guarantee you, as I go into this story, you are going, the Holy Spirit is going to speak to all of us. And that's what we want. Talk to me. Is that what we want? Or we don't want the Holy Spirit to speak to us? Because I can tell you for sure, by the end of the story, either you'll be a changed person, you'll repent, you'll go on your knees, cry out to God, and your life will be different. Or you will turn round and say, you know what, it's a crowded day today, we'll come back, maybe tomorrow. I have a lot on my mind. But I'm telling you, God be God. You may have hundred things on your mind, but if you do what is said today, those hundred things tomorrow will get completed. Because God is not a man. When you put a demand on him, he always meets. Most people never receive from God because when they find too much crowd, when they find no way to connect, when they probably come and they don't get appointments, they don't get prayed, the pastor just leaves. I remember one person got upset. I came to meet you and you just left. Like, so come again. No, but we get offended. Yet you see these people, they didn't take no for an answer, they would have ran down. He's got a car, they'll stand near the car, they'll wait near the car, they do something, but they say, I'm not going today. Never act pretty, never act cute when you come to God's presence. When you come with faith, God will honor it. Amen. You know his sons, you can get a word in just like when the Greeks wanted to speak to Jesus, they approached Andrew, and Andrew approached you know Peter, and they finally got a place with Jesus. So you gotta find a way to break through and put a demand by your faith. Are you with me? So you look at this story and you see that they broke through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. Now I want you to pay attention to this. I really love this, okay? I really love this. I never saw this before, but I saw this today. I think I saw it before, but it came so beautifully today. Look what verse 5 says. Can you read verse 5?

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Verse 5, when Jesus saw their faith, he Whoa, bust, bust.

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That's it, that's it. I want all of you to shout wherever you are, when Jesus saw their faith.

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When Jesus saw their faith.

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Amen. Now you tell me when I looked at that scripture, I realized how many of you know that faith is spiritual. Faith is spiritual. How many of you know that? Faith cannot be seen. Faith is the evidence of things hoped for. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of unseen things. That's Hebrews chapter 11. Faith is the substance, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. But Jesus is saying, when he saw their faith. So we have to ask the question, what did Jesus see? Did he see their faith? Because the Bible says clearly that faith is spiritual. Faith cannot, is not just physical, it's spiritual. So the question is, how did Jesus see their faith? Because the word clearly says, when Jesus saw their faith, and he didn't see the man's faith, that's even greater. Can you believe that? You could be praying for a family member, you could be praying for your mother, you could be praying for anybody. Can you say thank you, Jesus, for family members and friends who whom God has given you who carry faith? Do you know the guy who was paralyzed? He had zero faith. But the people who carry them, oh blessed are you, you have people to carry you who have faith. Wash their feet. Thank God for them. Bless them. If you have a friend who, when you go grumpy and you cry and they don't agree with you and give you a hit on your head and say, Wake up, what are you talking? God loves you, you need to give them a special offering. Say, you know, I have always never thanked you for being the friend who never agreed with me, never self-pitied with me, never listened to my gossip. You gave me the word and put me straight. I hate you, but here's your offering. Because my man of God said, You are the kind of God, you are the kind of friend that God rewards the friend for carrying you. So some of you don't realize why Lot was blessed. Now you'll realize because he was carried by an Abraham. You get it? Now you know why Lots are blessed. Do you know why some people, even they are so bad still? Because they are close to somebody in the family, they still don't get what they deserve. Do you know Abigail was such a beautiful woman? Yet she had a husband named Naban. Such a wicked guy he was. But do you know he never died? Nothing happened to him as long as Abigail was there. Oh, that guy was all the time greedy, selfish, he even came to attack David. He spoke of David, the future king, like as though he was a servant. And David marched to cut his head off. And there comes Abigail, the wise woman. She goes and she tells David, Oh, don't consider this fool. Your servant over here. If you find that, don't go there because otherwise it will become a new teaching. But you, if you can paste it there so people can see it. And she goes and graciously bows before David and she urges him. And David says, You know what? Because you came to me, surely by this time I would have finished him. But because of you, somebody, I want to thank God for your life because you have been the reason why grace is on your house. So I don't want you to ever put yourself down. You are the very reason Grace is on your house. Can you shout amen? Yeah, you may feel like there's nothing you have done. That is the very reason Grace has located you. Because you carry humility. You yourself know you're nothing, and that's the reason why God loves you. Because He's saying, Ah, she's thinking she's nothing but she trusts me. He's thinking that He's nothing but He trusts me. Blessed is the man who puts his trust in the Lord. Are you with me? Okay, hallelujah. So I want you to see this. You are the reason. That's why Nabal, the minute Abigail gave all the gifts and he came home, he heard about it. Do you know what happened? He died of a heart attack. The guy died, his heart became like stone and he died. Believe it or not, he that's the way he died. And the minute he died, Abigail got a new husband. Thank you, Jesus. So I want you to know that if you have a friend who has never agreed with you because they stand on the word of God, will you do that person a favor? Will you bless them and thank them? They never agreed with you, they never played your game, they never gossiped, they never slandered, but that person encouraged you. They carried you. You were that paralytic and somebody carried you, and God saw their faith and healed you. Amen. Isn't God good? God made a way, even if you don't have faith on a good day, if you're connected to somebody, hey, you'll be healed. That's why it's so important to be part of a church because there's not every day that you will be on faith. Some days you'll have a friend who will carry you to church, and that day God will look at the friend's faith and heal you. Amen. So let me continue. When Jesus saw their faith, thank you, Holy Spirit. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Sons, your sins are forgiven. So I began to look into this and say, How did Jesus see their faith? Because faith is a spiritual thing, right? We know that, right? From Hebrews chapter 11. And then the Holy Spirit began to tell me certain things which I really want to speak to you. Are you excited about this word? It's really going to bless you, it's going to jumpstart you, it's going to push you in the right place. So I want you to see this, even though faith is a spiritual, it's a spiritual substance according to Hebrews chapter 11. Yet there is a physical manifestation of a spiritual force. I don't want you to ever forget this. There is always a physical manifestation of a spiritual force. That's why Jesus could look at four people. Not the man who is paralyzed. Look at four people. And they would not take no for an answer. That means the whole house is packed. There's no appointments left on Jesus' calendar. He's busy preaching a word. Can you imagine? Jesus is it's like Prophet Shaiju is preaching a word, and you come from the top. Top of the And release some strings and bring a guy down. First of all, you have to ask the question, would you have done it? No, we are too cute. Oh, we are so cute. Who wants to be called the black? What if he gets up and curses you? What if he says, You spoiled my word, the light fell on him as you were trying to get the guy down? One light fell, it hit him, and he fell down. What if so many things could happen? But no, these guys had no, they said, I don't care, let the house be full, we are not leaving. They looked here and they found a strategy and opened a roof. Can you imagine the roof? One tile could have fallen on Jesus' head also. But they were ready to let it go as long as they could get the person in the presence of the word. Oh my god, can you come like that to church where you can get yourself to be in the presence of the word? Remember, Jesus is the word. Why am I stirring you up? Because God is trying to tell you, I want to do things for you, my children, but I don't see faith. Do you know when Jesus comes, he's going to ask you, do can I find faith on earth? It's in your Bible in Luke. He's saying, Can I find faith on earth? Jesus is saying that. That means what is Jesus saying? Do you know every miracle in the Bible? Jesus never said, I healed you. He kept telling people, It's your faith that is healing you. It's your faith. Go, your faith has healed you. The woman with the issue of blood, she would not let go. She said, I'll touch the hem of his garment. And he's telling a woman, your faith has healed you. Jesus looking at these guys and he's saying, Your faith has healed you. The woman, the Syrophoenician woman, she says, It's it's even the dogs eat the crumbs. And Jesus saying, Woman, your faith is great, your child is healed. He's God, Jesus is going on saying it's not Him who's healing, it's your faith. And most people come to get healed, but I'm giving you the secret. You don't need to come to be healed. When you come with faith, you cannot go back sick. Hallelujah! You cannot go back broke, you cannot go back the same way when you come with faith. You have faith places a demand on God to give you what you have manifested through your physical actions. So let's go deeper. What did these guys really do that Jesus called faith, which is unseen? Number one, it takes faith to carry a paralytic man all the way to Jesus' house, even though it is fully packed, I'm not giving up. I have to find a way that I'm in the presence of the word, not at the door, not late, not you know, five minutes after the praise and worship is sung. One hour before, I need to be there in the house because today is my breakthrough. Realize one thing these guys didn't suddenly realize that Jesus is there, they had planned it, they had already planned it and they were excited that Jesus is going to heal their paralyzed friend. They came with such hope. I'm telling you, the words are not there in the story, but as the spirit is showing me, these guys would have planned it. How many of you believe that? How many of you know when you're going on a trip how excited you are? How every detail you plan for, how you make sure you have the right clothing, the right cap, the right shoes, perfect picture you want. You already have checked the weather, you've checked the climate, you've checked your lotions, your moisturizer, you've carried every why are you excited? Do you carry the same excitement when you come to the house of God? I'm telling you, this is a word not just for you. It's cutting me, it's cutting you. The Lord wants to stir us all so that we need from that we have to be men and women who have faith that brings encounters to us. Child of God, please pay attention to this word. It is a spirit-breathed word. I'm telling you, God wants to speak to someone here, not someone, all of us here. That it is not you, it is not you begging God for a miracle, it's you that bring faith that brings a miracle. We need to stop asking God for a miracle and need to start believing that God honors your faith, that God honors your sacrifices, that God honors your prayer. You know, something as small as this prayer time. How do you come for the prayer? How did you come? Did you plan your day? Did you make sure you closed everything on time? Did you make sure that you were ready? Did you make sure your camera is clean? Did you make sure you ate before? Did you make sure you finished everything? Did you make sure that this prayer time is going to be an encounter with you? Because if you did, I guarantee you, God will meet you. I'm telling you, otherwise, these prayer calls will become like it will become the worst thing you can do because it'll become another tradition. You know, my father doesn't have prayer all the time because he wants it to be organic. It needs to be faith-driven. It cannot be, oh, we have one sister, you know, called Nadia. She's going to open that call and regardless of anyone, she's going to be saying, just to give a little comfort, we'll join. Otherwise, she will go and tell Pastor. If that is it, please stay at home. Don't come. I guarantee you, she will still pray and close and be happy. Are you with me? Regardless of whether the man of God comes or no, it is your moment with God. It's your moment with God. You don't come. Most people come for a church, they come to a prayer when they are broke, when they are looking for some comfort. Why not come to a church and to a prayer call and for any event? Because you carry faith to move mountains in your life. You know, I was talking to a guy at work and he was I I've given him the gospel ten years ago, or maybe seven or eight years ago. And I found him after seven years, the same guy, and he was sitting next to me. The guy is like really bad in a bad shape, really bad shape. I couldn't recognize him. It was so different. At that time, he was, you know, I gave him the gospel and he's like, ah, I don't need, you know, he used to climb the Himalayas, so he was in top condition. Now, if you see him, I don't think he'll climb even the staircase to the station. He's that bad. And uh he turned around and he said, You know, I don't know what life is. And now he started talking all you know depressive stuff. And I looked at him and I said, He's saying, I don't know what to do anymore. And I said, You know what? You don't need to do anything. I said, God has a plan for your life. You don't need to have one, you've got to find out God's plan for your life, otherwise, you will be always trying to make your plan. And the Bible says that it is not in man to direct his steps. That means you can't see beyond your nose. Do you know you can't see beyond your nose? You don't know tomorrow. Governments are hiding things from you. Tomorrow things can change, all your money can become paper. What are you gonna do? And so I told him, I said, I I don't know whether I told you this, but like 20 years ago, I was into debt collections and I was I had not yet met the Lord. And I was just talking to God. I just I was so frustrated, I didn't know what to do, just doing a job, and I knew I was born for something else, and I was just talking to God, and you know, I was hearing a call, I was into quality, so as to hear recorded calls and evaluate them. And as I was talking to God and saying, God, I need to know the plan for my life. What are you doing? I don't know what I'm doing, Lord help me. Can you imagine? I went to sleep with the headphone on my ears, and suddenly, in the middle of my sleep, somebody scrimped in the headphone. It is not you who needs to plan your life, you need to find what God has already planned for your life, and I jumped out of my seat. I was like, My God, did you just answer me, God, in this way through a headphone? I lost it, I could not believe. I said, My god, my god, I knelt down over there. I said, This is like Jacob's moment. I mean, God threw the headphones screaming. Later, I realized that that debt collector called up some pastor who owed him money, and the pastor was preaching, and his message got stuck. I called it on the call. I said, Oh god, you know how to answer. Man, I got shocked. I I could not believe that's been the greatest, that's been the greatest revelation. Like, can you imagine a guy is calling a pastor who owes money? The pastor is taking the call while preaching, but not answering it. His message gets recorded on the call, and I'm asking God for an answer, and I record I'm hearing that call and I get my answer. That's your God. Oh, I went home so happy. I said, God, I tear up all my plans, I search your plan for my life. I don't have a plan till today, you know that? And without a plan, I bless left, right, and center. God bless you for making all your plans. So, what am I saying here? What is the faith that God saw? What was the faith that Jesus saw? He looked at four people, and these four people had actually planned, they were excited. They were like, you may think it was like four guys holding a paralyzed person. No, they had come on a mission and they were so excited because they are going to be a part of a miracle Sunday. Because they knew it was not dependent even on that man, it was dependent on them. Some of you wives drag your husband, he may not want the good service, but because you came with faith, he'll be blessed. Some of you drag your friend, he that person may not like God, may not want to be there, but because of you, God will see your faith and heal that person. So then I began asking God, what is it that we are missing as Christians in our life? And he began to speak very profoundly. He began to speak and he began to say, Look at the way people come to me. They are already full of themselves, they have no expectation, they have no prayer, they have not persisted in prayer, they have not sought me, yet they want a miracle. And yet, Jesus looks at four men and he says, He looks at them, looks at their faith. It's very clearly written, Jesus saw their faith, and he said to the paralytic, son, your sins are forgiven. So I began to ask, go back in the story and say, What did Jesus see that he termed faith? You want to know? What did Jesus see? And we know faith is spiritual, so he saw something in the physical, yet gave it the spiritual name faith. And what was the physical things he saw? He saw four people who were not going to take no for an answer. He saw four people that, regardless of all the setbacks in their life, they were ready to press in into a fully crowded place and open the roof and make sure they have an encounter. What are you willing to do that you do not give up on what you are seeking God for? What are you willing? What are you willing or are you willing to say one five-minute prayer and walk away and then grumble at God that it never got answered? Or are you going to push God and say, God be God? If I carry the faith and the evidence of faith is these actions. Now you know why God told the Israelites to bring an offering. Because they had to catch a goat, they had to first select the goat, they had to first plan and get money to get the goat. Then they had to make sure they had to go to the place, select the goat. It had to be without blemish. That means they had to make sure their tithes and offerings they had to plan for it. Then they had to dress up in a particular way, they had to wash themselves, they had to get. Why did you think God put all that? He did all that so that faith would be manifested. And what they did, they made it a ritual. They had catch the goat, not look whether how the goat was, if it's blind, ma'am, still bring him and offer that deaf goat to God and walk out and saying, My sins are forgiven, I've got new life. Here, take your goat. You wanted one goat, take this is your goat. It's as good as you and me coming and saying, Lord, here's your offering. You wanted 10%, take 10%. Thank you. Just make sure nothing happens to me and Jimmy. And you walk out. And God is saying, I didn't give you that so that you can make that a ritual. I gave you that so that you come jumping and thanking and blessing and giving cheerfully, not only of your finances, but cheerfully of your heart, your mind, your soul, your might in everything that you do. Can you see the connection? Can you see the connection now? And we used to think, was God mad? No, he was not mad. He gave them certain things that if they did it right with the right heart, faith would manifest in it. So I began to see, oh my god, I said, oof. Think about the millions and billions of Christians coming to God and they go back empty. And it's not God's fault. Because faith is the currency of heaven. It you don't even have to ask God. Did the woman with the blood, issue of blood even ask God? He didn't even know. In fact, he got up and said, Who touched me? Because faith took the answer before even Jesus knew. What are you doing? How are you doing it? Is there any faith in what you're doing? Even I began to say, Oh my god, I'll go for a Saiju Matthew conference, I'll go for the next one. Nothing is happening. Why? Because you're giving the same way, you're coming the same way, you're so excited to sing the songs, but there's no faith in the song that you sing. Child of God, this message will either, I told you, will either make you upset with God or it will turn you around and it'll make you check your prayer life, your word life, your excitement about the things of God, your church, your family, the gospel, it will challenge you in different areas. I'm telling you, and you will realize now you're receiving without even asking. Now, when you go and carry a friend, the friend is getting healed, not because of the friend, because of you. Because of you. Because of you. You are a faithful vessel. I don't want anybody to get upset, okay, with this message. Are you getting upset? Actually, it's good to get upset, right? It's good. Some messages need to stir you, stir you till it breaks every mould that we have put ourselves in and put our God in. And we can see through this guy. Jesus saw their faith. Everybody said Jesus saw their faith. Now I want you to look at yourself, okay? This is not to hurt you, this is even I'm doing the same thing. I'm looking at myself. I looked, I took a good look at myself when the Lord spoke this. And I said, if God sees me in my daily, in my day affairs, like tomorrow or today, what will he see? Will he see faith or will he see K Sarah Sarah? Whatever will be, will be. Will he see faith or will he see doubt and unbelief? Will he see faith or will he see a person going through life saying this is my portion? Because remember, these guys, that guy was supposed to be a paralytic all his life. But four guys decided, no, there is a word, there is a superior word in a superior place God has placed, and if I locate myself there with the right heart, with the right faith, with the right expectancy, I will also not be a paralytic, I will rise up and fulfill God's call on my life. Can you see? So when we say I am in this church and nothing is happening, is it nothing happening or is it that you are the same? Oh, you know the message when I came in, I got healed, but after that I'm not received. So I'm giving you the answer. I'm telling you, sometimes just serving God can become so patterned, so repetitive, so you know, like your own thing that you can even get into a habit and you won't even know you're missing God because when God sees you, he needs to see faith. Will you not forget the sentence? God saw their faith. So I want you to just think about your day that you're gonna have tomorrow, and I want you to jump in faith and expectancy. Believe God for things that you have never believed him for. Believe God for things you've never believed. Believe God that you are the carrier of the anointing of God in your office, in your home, in your street, in your city. Believe God that what when you carry people, God sees your faith and heals them. Walk and give the gospel in such a way that by the time you finished, you won't even have to pray, God heals the paralytic because of you. I'm here to stir you up, amen. Because I'm telling you, can you put up that verse? He says, When I come, will I find faith? Because he says, if I don't find faith, I'll strike the earth with a curse. Do you know Jesus is coming? And I'm after I read this, I got really shaken up. He's not coming to see, oh, you attended church faithfully for the last 20 years. And so what you want an award? Do you think this is your company? 20 years service award, one medal, and one check. No, God is going to say, in 20 years, did I see faith in you? Did I see faith in you, my child?

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Father, the scripture verse is Luke 18, 8. Luke 18. I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he really find faith on the earth?

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So that means when he's coming, what is Jesus really coming to find?

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Faith.

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And what are we doing? We are making sure. We got spare money, we got lights. Hey brother. I'm not saying don't do that. But I'm telling you, even if you don't have, God will multiply your five loaves and your five fish for you. That's what God is saying.

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He's He's looking for a generation who is so believing God's word.

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So you are asking me, but I'm not healed. So I'm asking you, did you bring that kind of faith and take your miracle? Or did you come to the pastor to pray over me? Can you see the difference? Do you think these guys came and said, Jesus, pray over us? Do you know the guy who got prayed over did not get healed because of his faith? He got healed because of the four guys who carried him. And Jesus saw their faith. I cannot get my mind off that line. And Jesus saw their faith. May the world see your faith and may Jesus reward it. I know you are a blessed people, okay? You are the best. If you're still here at 12 o'clock in the night, I know some of you have early shifts and you're still not ready to drop. I know God loves you and you love God. But it's also important that we make our time and our time given to God worthwhile. Who wants to give so much time to God and reap nothing? And then say, God, I prayed so long and nothing happened. It's time when we prayed, we bought faith. It's time when we came to God, we carried faith so that God can see it. So you ask me, I'm gonna end with this. You ask me. So then what should God see? That He says, I see faith when He sees you. Can I tell you that? When you decide to pray when nobody is looking, when you decide to give when nobody is giving, when you decide to intercede when nobody's interceding, when you decide to not follow the world and follow the worldly principles, but be a woman of God, be a man of God and honor God and His Word, do you know that's the time God says, I see faith. I see faith. Because this girl, this man is not living by the worldly system. He's living by a system that is in my word, which is spirit. And so when God looks at you, he says, This is a man of faith. I want you to also see one more beautiful thing. The men who had faith didn't do one miracle. Hey, this is blessing somebody. The four guys did not do one miracle. So you can't say the traditional thing that you are thinking, oh, he's a great man of faith because he healed people. No, the four guys who had faith didn't heal anybody, but Jesus saw their faith. Are you getting it? I hope you're getting it. I hope you're getting it. The four guys who carried the paralytic had not healed a single person. Yet Jesus looks at them and he sees faith. Faith that can raise a paralytic, and yet they've healed nobody. Yet they carry faith. So don't be disappointed, my friend. Faith is not about when you see a result, faith is about when you believe God's word and choose your lifestyle. Faith is not when you see the result. Faith is when you see no result, yet keep the lifestyle. God sees faith. Man will say, Are nothing, no healing happened with this girl, but yet when this girl enters the room, brother, you will be healed because of her. Oh, somebody give God thanks that God sees your life and blesses people. Hmm. If I was you, I would be shouting. I would be shouting in the chat. God, I got the key to receiving from you. God, I got the key to my life. God, yeah, like the centurion. I like that. Yeah. Believing without seeing. Believing. What did Jesus say? Blessed are those who without seeing yet believe. Blessed are those who without seeing yet believe. I am so thankful to the Holy Spirit because I want to make sure that from tomorrow every day Jesus should come and say, I see faith. That means in whatever I do, can you imagine the amount of opportunity we got to walk in faith? That means control your mouth, control your words, when you want to have say wrong things about yourself. When you when you when the world is screaming in your mind saying you're a failure, you're a disappointment, nothing is gonna happen to you. Oh your bus has left, nobody cares for you, ah, you're worthless. If you can hold on to the word and say, but my God says that he has not finished with my life, that he who started a good work is faithful to complete it in me. And if you put your do you know at that moment you have seen nothing, but you believe it. And God sees faith. God sees faith. God will honor you if you will just hold on to the words that you have spoken one day at a time. One day at a time, you're gonna check your life every day from now till we meet in church. I want to see you all, you guys in church. You are gonna celebrate God like never before. Are you excited? Even if you're online, go far from your camera, do stand on your head, jump up and down. You should put all the people ashamed on the other side. They are like, oh my god, this woman on the camera, she's dancing in her house. We are not dancing properly here. You got to be so excited because you're not dancing for people. You're saying, God, this is my house. This is my time with you. And I'm telling you, watch and see how God. I'm telling you, yesterday's sermon was so prophetic, it was such a beautiful word. Today's even more beautiful, beautiful, right? But do you know the word kicked in from yesterday and it started because of one hungry person. One person, I won't tell you the name, one person. And I got out of that word and said, I was not even thinking about that word. Where did this come out from? This is what you can do, even if your man of God has not prayed for you. God can remove a word from him for you because of your faith. Can you take 30 seconds and say, God, I'm gonna make sure that the next from tomorrow morning my time with you is not going to be dragging my feet, it's gonna be jumping into your coats with thanksgiving, with trays, coming with offerings. You're not waiting for Sunday already making offerings as God leads you. Don't get into any ritual, be led by the Spirit in everything that you do. This is what God wants. He doesn't want people who stand up, sit up, stand up, sit up, do things for God and say, God, you told me to do it, I did it. God wants people who are in love with him, who are who believe that this God is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. 30 seconds, come on, just lift your voice and say, God, my life changes from today. Everything I do, I look from a point of faith. I want to make sure that when you come, you say, I saw great faith in this man. I saw great. Don't worry, don't worry whether anybody gets healed. That's not the measurement of faith, child of God. These four people never healed anybody. But God saw their faith and healed. God saw their faith. That means faith is not something that only produces, it's not something that, oh, if something happens, that means you are no, it can be also a lifestyle. It can be a lifestyle after God, pursuing him. Do you know? Do you know Abraham left God when he never even knew which place God was telling him to go? And you're so upset, God, you never gave me an answer. Hey, brother, Abraham never had any answer. He just went and he was still happy. I am in the desert. I don't know where, north, south, east, west. But I got Jesus. Maroka Bara Sepraniya. Remanaya. The church that God has planted you in, you should never miss it. You should miss anything but not the house of God. That should be your life. That should be the way you serve God. That's the way you should. When God sees you, He says, Listen, I see faith. I think I need to make a song, I see faith. And Jesus said, I see faith. I see faith. When God sees you, He has only one remark about you. Hey, there comes that woman. She didn't get her answers, she didn't get many things that many people would have got in a lifetime. But when I see her, I see faith coming. I see. Do you know that faith has nothing to do with you getting answers? Do you know the men of the word of God? It's written in Hebrews 11. They died having not got what they prayed for. It's written there. Please put that up so people read it. Many of us think, oh, if my prayers are answered, I'm a faithful man. Your Bible is telling you that the guys who died never received what they were praying for, yet they died in faith. Do you get the connection now? The connection is not that you get the answer, it's the way you walk in life. Nobody should be able to put you down just because you don't have what they have. You still are walking by the word of God, that is by faith.

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These all died in faith, not having received the promise.

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Hey, I think you're wrong. These all died not in faith, not receiving promises, but I thought faith gives you promises. These guys must be fake, fake men of God. They are fake, they are fake. Right? No. Okay, read on.

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But having seen them from fast, having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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That means these guys not only saw them, they never received them, but they saw them, they were assured of them, and they embraced them. Do you know what it's telling you? These guys, basically, what they've done. These guys, what was revealed to them was so accurate that even though they didn't receive it physically, they hugged it physically. So if you looked at them, you'd say, hey Abraham, you didn't you didn't get the promised land. But Abraham walked in it length, breadth, height, depth. He hugged it, he sat in it, and he saw that his children are going to inherit his land and they're going to take away the gates of the enemy. That's the power of faith. So faith doesn't mean don't put yourself down if you think that, oh, I'm not healed, I'm not given gospel, I've not done. Hey, brother. Make sure that when God sees you, he sees faith coming to him. Because you put faith in his word, and that's what changed your lifestyle. Don't rate yourself by what is produced out of your life. Maybe God didn't want you to become Benian. Maybe God just loved you to sit in his presence. Do you know you won't get rated like Benian? You will get rated according to the talent given to you. But faith has been given to all. And God is coming to see faith. That means God is saying, if I gave you something, make sure you are walking in faith. If you get a word, make sure you're holding it in faith. Don't give up, child of God. I want you to hold on to the prophetic word that is given to you. Your time has arrived. It shall not pass you by. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is not slumbering. He is waiting for his children to come with faith to him. Because when you come with faith, you won't need God to give you an answer. You will get, you will become the answer. You will become the reason for someone's miracle. You will become the reason. Isn't that what you're looking for? You want people to be healed? God is saying you be in faith. Not you pray with all your heart to get people healed. You walk in faith. And God will start healing people when he sees your faith. Don't give up. I want to leave you with this: don't give up. May the Lord Jesus bless you. He sees faith on your life. You're shining with faith right now. The days of tradition in my life are over. From today, I will pray in a completely different way. Not like the scribes and the Pharisees, but when I pray, there will be faith. May the Lord Jesus bless you, keep you, and make his face shine on you. May you be the reason for many people being blessed. Because when Jesus sees you, he sees faith.

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God bless you, God bless you, God bless you.

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Never give up. The Lord has never given up on you.

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