Say It, Do It, Receive It, Tell It: Putting God's Faith to Work

Sermon outline

The God kind of faith is released through the heart and the mouth, so believe God's Word, speak it, act on it and see yourself with it, because you are from a supernatural class.

1. Step one: say it

   Your faith will not work beyond your confession, and death and life are in the power of the tongue. Whatever you want in your life, begin to say it, even while you are struggling.

   Illustration: If you don't have a job, say 'I have a job'. If things are not going right, say 'I'm getting promoted'.

   “Whatever you want in your life, begin to say it.”

   • Hebrews 4:12-16
   • Proverbs 18:7
   • Proverbs 18:21

2. Step two: do it

   Put action to what you are saying. Whatever God's Word says you can do, you can do, and whatever the Holy Spirit has told you, go and do it, because it will yield results.

   Illustration: Mary at the wedding in Cana telling the servants, 'Whatever he says to you, just go do it.'

   “Whatever God's word says you can do, you can do it.”

   • John 2:5

3. Step three: receive it

   When you meditate, pray and praise, see yourself having received it. Look at the things that are not seen and make no provision for the flesh. The devil makes the same suggestions to everyone, so refuse to be dragged back down to the natural.

   Illustration: Conversations that pull him down to the natural irritate him, because all week he has been fighting doubt with the Word and seeing the church's future: families coming, conversions, a traffic jam of cars on the road.

   “Vision yourself with having received it.”

   • 2 Corinthians 4:18
   • Romans 13:14

4. Step four: tell it

   Speak out your belief and your confession. We do not have to make God's Word work, because it carries its own power; we only give voice to it and send it out, and God watches over his Word to perform it. We are from a supernatural class, and it shows in our countenance.

   Illustration: Send out the Word to heal your land, your marriage, your business and your finances, as God sent his word and healed them.

   “We do not have to make God's word work. It has enough inherent power in itself to work.”

   • Psalm 107:20
   • Luke 6:38
   • Jeremiah 1:12

5. 1. Faith will not work in an unforgiving heart

   Every day something happens that can make us angry, and if we allow it, unforgiveness and strife seep in. When they do, our faith stops working.

   “When strife enters into our heart, our faith stops working.”

   • Mark 11:25-26

6. 2. Faith is not in the head; faith is in the heart

   The head and the heart argue, but we do not operate by logic or natural information. The heart is the production centre of your life, so keep it open to God, his Word and his Spirit whatever the news says. Teach your children to believe God and hold family altars.

   Illustration: The day he believed in Christ, it was not his head but his heart that drew him.

   “Faith is not in the head. Faith is in the heart.”

   • Romans 10:8-10

7. 3. With the heart man believes

   The devil's schemes aim to draw you away from faith, the Word and church, and you can sit in church with a backslidden heart, as Saul did. Believers are not defined by race or group but are a royal priesthood and a holy nation, so we can call forth things that are not. Feed the inward man with the Word, because it is the Word that builds you up and gives you an inheritance.

   Illustration: Years ago he told the church, 'We are not black or white, or Asian or coloured. I am a royal priesthood', and says he had to say it a thousand times before it reached his inner consciousness.

   “We are not natural people. We are from a supernatural class.”

   • Ephesians 6:11
   • 1 Peter 2:9
   • Romans 4:17
   • 2 Corinthians 4:16
   • Acts 20:32

8. 4. Faith must be released through the mouth with words

   Heart faith is based on the Word, not feelings, and faith based on feelings leads to spiritual ruin. There are only two systems, the kingdom of God and the world, and the world will get worse in the last days. We are called to separate ourselves but not to segregate ourselves: influence the world you work in and witness there.

   Illustration: Go into all the world means your world too: if you are a hairdresser, hairdressing is your world; if you are an accountant, accounting is your world.

   “We are not people of feelings. We are people of faith.”

   • 2 Timothy 3:1-4
   • 2 Corinthians 6:17
   • Mark 16:15

9. 5. Faith works by praying or by saying

   Some miracles came with prayer and some by a word alone, so both praying and saying matter.

   Illustration: The man at the Beautiful Gate was raised without prayer, Jesus raised the widow's son without prayer, and Peter raised Tabitha after prayer.

   “So prayer and saying is very, very important.”

   • Acts 3:1-8
   • Luke 7:11-15
   • Acts 9:36-41

10. Seven ways to use the power in your mouth

    He closes with seven abilities to develop: speaking positive confessions over your life and ministry, preaching the Word, teaching the Word, making positive proclamations over your congregation, home cell or workplace, counselling and advising people, persuading men and women into the kingdom, and creating and inventing things with your mouth.

    Illustration: When he comes to church he says, 'Lord, the people in our church are blessed. They're blessed coming in, blessed going out, they're highly favoured of the Lord.'

    “Develop your ability to create and invent things with your mouth.”