If you are in the spiritual warfare right now not only learn to cry out to
God learn to say help Jesus learn to say I
can't do this anymore Lord please help me
it's not a suicidal prayer it's just a desperate cry
this is not your life it's not over no you're just you're hurting so much
that you're just you can't put right words into it please understand
Jesus does not have a theological scanner that scans
how theologically sound your words are he has a heart scanner that checks your
heart sees is this coming from the heart and
if it comes from the heart but it's not right he will answer it the second thing
i want to mention is not only to wake up desperation
but number two wake up faith after you've cried your cry
after you've said your prayers after you've accused God for
leaving you and not caring for you after you've done the stuff you jumped
you walked around the jericho walls you stomped on the wall
you made the declaration you blamed everybody you told you threatened god
you told him if he doesn't do it you're gonna quit
after you've done all of that and nothing happened
listen to me very carefully now instead of
that's good that you woke up desperation now wake up faith
because when jesus stopped the storm and he spoke to the waves
I want you to notice what he did he came to these precious disciples
and he said what is wrong with you he said
what the heck is wrong with you he didn't say that word because he was
perfect he said where is your faith
that tells me he expected them to stop the storm
jesus would have never accused them of something
that they were not capable of doing our Lord never does that
God will never accuse you for not flying to mars
you're not capable of doing that he said where
is your faith what he demonstrated to the wind
was expression of that faith and now he's asking them
you guys woke me up why didn't you wake up your faith
because it was not only your desperation that was dormant it was your faith that
was dormant he says where is your faith why do you have
no faith but you are so fearful and so I want to just speak for a minute
desperation cries but faith confronts desperation is directed towards God
faith is directed towards the devil desperation complains faith commands
desperation see dormant faith will complain but your
your quickened faith will confess God's word
desperation will question God's love but faith will quote God's love
desperation will say God do you really love me but faith will say
God you do love me and because you love me I will overcome this
complaining relies on someone's anointing to help me
but faith quickens the anointing I have inside of me
to overcome my enemy come on somebody
complaining speaks about the problem but faith speaks to the problem
complaining creates fears but when you begin to speak faith you
put your fears to sleep and so a lot of us what happens is that
complaining is a lot of times ruled by feelings
but faith is ruled by the word of God the biggest difference between
the cry of disciples and the commanding of Jesus is this
one was ruled by feelings and i'm gonna tell you again
i'm gonna give you permission no matter how long you've been in God
give yourself permission it's okay to complain
read book of psalms David was the man of God half of his psalms
cry baby the way he accused God the way he questioned God you're like this guy
is this guy even saved it's okay it's give yourself permission
people who always bottle it up and pretend that they have all the faith
but please understand when you've cried your cries
wake up your faith because that's what David did you read in many of his psalms
starts complaining and whining and ends praising God
ends confessing God's word your faithfulness is great
your fidelity is great and he begins to say he will deliver me and he
will speak for me and he was just like what happened because David woke up
desperation and then he also woke up his faith
your faith will cause you to speak to the storm your faith will cause you to
speak to the night terrors and begin to say I rebuke you in Jesus name
because Jesus who slept in the storm he spoke to the storm
he spoke right into the wind and he says I command you to be silent
he rebuked the wind as though like it's the spiritual entity
and so when you have a nightmare you have an option you can complain
or you can command you can command it to go you can command it to stop
you can command it to quiet down you can command it the chairs to stop moving in
your house you can command the intrusive thoughts
to go you have the power of the name Jesus living in your boat
you have the power of the word of God living inside of you
and you don't have to complain you can also command
you can also confront you can also speak to the enemy you can also speak to that
sickness you can also speak to your own soul
David did many times he says why are you disquieted within me oh my
soul you can speak to yourself you can speak to your situation
you can speak what God's word says amen you may say but I speak and it
doesn't work if it's not inside of you the only Jesus
the only reason why what Jesus spoke worked
is because Jesus was willing first to sleep in the storm before he spoke to
the storm if you can sleep in it you can speak to
it effectively what that means the storm was never
inside of him he was in the storm the storm was not inside of him you know
what was inside of Jesus was God's peace he slept in the storm
you may say well it's so hard to have peace when everything around me
is really really bad you probably have been in the boat
have you noticed it's really hard to stay dry when everything around you is
wet but when you have a boat it's easy when
you have God's word it's easy the only secret to sleep in the storm is
you have to stand on what God says not on what you feel
what you see what the doctor's report says or what
the feed on facebook says or what your spiritually insensitive
prophets say who bring in fear into your life if you stand
on the boat of God's word you will stay dry
when everything around you is wet you will stay full of faith when everything
around you is fearful but the moment you go into your feelings
you will get wet the moment you go into facts you will
get wet the moment you go into symptoms you will get wet
the moment you are going to live by your bank account or by what doctor says
or by what your friends think or what you feel you will get
spiritually wet speak to your situation command that thing to go command that
evil spirit to depart in Jesus name you have the
authority in the name of Jesus