The Power Of The Faith Tree
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: As a believer your life
has no choice but to line up with what you believe in your heart. – Proverbs
23:7
I.
Spiritual law says
whatever I believe in my heart I am in life (Proverbs 23:7)
A. As a man believes in his
heart so is he
1.
Proverbs
23:7, Proverbs 4:23, Matthew 12:35, Matthew 15:11,15-19, 3 John 2
B.
If
the Bible is true, and it is, then it’s telling me if I change what I believe
in my heart, my life has no choice but to transform into what I believe
1.
Spiritual
law says u can’t believe one thing in your heart & have another in your
life
2.
Because
this is spiritual law this is going to work every time, all the time, no matter
what the circumstances are
a.
If
you change what you believe in your heart, then your life is going to change
and line up with what you believe every time, no matter what
C. People have got
unbalanced and in self-deception where this principle is concerned
1.
EX:
They’ve said I believe I’m a millionaire and when it didn’t happen they say see
that didn’t work
a.
Just
saying that you believe something does not prove that you believe
2.
Real
belief/faith is faith that has been developed, faith that has been tried,
and faith that has been proven. It’s that kind of belief/faith that will
come to pass in your life
3.
Questioning
your belief?
a.
What
word did God speak that is the basis for my belief
1)
Apart
from God saying something to you, you have no basis for faith
2)
EX:
You can say that you have faith in me to pay your bills, but if I didn’t say I
was going to pay your bills, then you have no basis to believe that
3)
EX:
I believe in my heart that I am rich because God said I was
b.
Faith
has to be fully persuaded (James 1:6-8)
1)
You
can’t be double-minded and expect to receive a harvest
2)
You
can’t cross-pollinate your tree of faith with a tree of unbelief and expect to
see a harvest
c.
How
much time have you spent with that word to develop your faith
1)
Apart
from time spent with that word there is no development of your faith to the
place of full persuasion
d.
When
your faith was tried did you pass the test?
1)
When
pressure was put on your faith did it hold up under the pressure
4.
Faith
is perceiving as real fact what is not yet reveled to the senses (Heb 11:1 AMP)
a.
When
you believe like this in
your heart, this will come to pass in your life
D. APPLICATION: You
are what you believe you are, you have what you believe you have, and you’re
doing what you believe you can do.
If you’ll believe different, then your life has no choice but to be
different.
II.
The power of the faith
tree is that it gives your life no choice, but to line up with what it’s saying
A. The three Hebrews (Daniel
3:28)
1.
Their
faith tree (belief) was “Our God who we serve is able to delivers us and He
will deliver us”
a.
They’ve
set it up so that their life has no choice, but to get in line with this
2.
Their
belief is working and it won’t allow their life to be different than what they
believe
a.
They
can’t die, they believe this
b.
“I
know you’re saying we’re supposed to die, but my faith tree is saying God will
deliver me”
c.
They
were supposed to die in the fire, but they had a faith tree (belief) in them
and their lives had no choice, but to line up with what they believed
3.
The
fire killed the men that threw them in the furnace because they got too close to
the fire. But they went in the fire
and the fire didn’t effect them
a.
The
fire effected the world, but it didn’t effect the people that worked the
Kingdom of God system
b.
It’s
possible to get s faith tree in you and be in the middle of destruction, but unaffected
by the destruction
B.
Daniel
in the lions den (Daniel 6:23)
1.
10-He
must have believed God will deliver me
a.
That’s
his faith tree
2.
23-His
belief was working and it wouldn’t allow his life to be different than what he
believes
a.
He
can’t die, he believes this
b.
Daniel
was supposed to die in that lions den, but he had a faith tree in him and his
life had no choice, but to line up with what he believed even if that meant
getting thrown into a den of lions, and them not eating him
3.
24-Those
men represented the world and the lions that had no effect on Daniel greatly
effected these guys
a.
Daniel
is working a system
4.
Daniel
being delivered wasn’t in God’s hands.
God already spoke His peace where Daniel’s deliverance was
concerned. If your enemy comes
against you one way, I’ll cause him to flee seven ways. Daniel’s deliverance was in his
hands. Will you believe?
C. Abraham (Romans 4:16-21)
1.
His
tree was, “I am the Father of many nations.”
2.
Their
belief was working and it wouldn’t allow their life to be different than what
they believed
3.
They
weren’t supposed to be able to have a baby, but they had a tree of faith in
them, and their lives had no choice, but line up with what they believed. Even if that meant a 100 year-old man
and a ninety year old woman with a dead womb having a baby.
D. APPLICATION: Your belief won’t allow your life to be
different than what you believe
1.
Whatever
has to happen has to happen, I believe this
III.
There’s no thing in this
world order that faith cannot overcome (1 John 5:4)
A. It doesn’t matter how
impossible the situation my seem, if you’ll get a fully persuaded tree of faith
in you, your life has to choice but to change from what it is, to what you
believe
1.
My
belief is working and it won’t allow my life to be different than what I
believe
a.
We
can overcome anything, by getting a fully persuaded tree of faith in us
2.
Our
means of success is our faith (tree)
a.
With
no fully-persuaded faith tree how victorious and
successful can a person be?
B.
The
power of this faith tree is that it will override natural law.
1.
Natural
laws tell you that you cannot do and cannot be certain things under certain
conditions
a.
Natural
law says in a fire you burn, natural law says in a lions den you get eaten,
natural law says a 100 year old man and a 90 year old woman don’t have babies,
natural laws say a baby born with half a heart dies
2.
The
law of faith can override natural law and take you to a place where you’re not
effected by the natural law
a.
EXAMPLE:
The Law Of Gravity vs. The Law Of Lift – When somebody releases the law
of lift gravity is still working, but the law of lift has overpowered the law
of gravity and kept that person unaffected by gravity. That airplane is not affected by
gravity, because laws have been applied that overrode gravity.
3.
Just
like the law of gravity has no say when the law of lift is motion natural law
has no say when the law of faith is in motion
C. If you can believe no
body and no thing can keep you from the manifestation
1.
2
million people couldn’t keep Joshua and Caleb from it, being 80 years old
couldn’t keep Joshua and Caleb from it, being 17 years old could keep David
from it, having 300 men against 135,000 could keep Gideon from it, Being thrown
in a fire couldn’t keep the 3 Hebrews from it, being thrown in a lions den
couldn’t keep Daniel from it, being 100 years old and having a wife with a dead
womb couldn’t keep Abraham from it
D. APPLICATION: If you develop a fully persuaded tree of faith,
there is no man, situation, or circumstance that can keep you from being
victorious and receiving what God has for you
1.
There
is no thing in this word order that faith cannot overcome, so if you’re in an
impossible situation today know this, if you can get a fully persuaded tree of
faith in you nothing can stop you from being victorious
IV.
Inside every believer,
there is a belief that has been developed through the words-seeds that they
spend the most time with. That
belief is yielding the results that they see in life. (Proverbs 4:23, Matthew
12:33-37)
A. As believers we have to
take responsibility for our lives and acknowledge that the fruit we have came
from what we believe in our hearts
1.
Fruit
doesn’t come from nowhere; if there is fruit, there was always a tree; if
there’s a tree there was always a seed
a.
Whoever
is responsible for the seed sown your heart is responsible for the harvest you
see in life
2.
Life
is not just coming from nowhere (Proverbs 26:2)
B.
Too
many times believers play the victim mentality where they blame people,
situations, and circumstance for why they don’t have something or why they
aren’t walking in the fullness of the promises of God
1.
We
need to stop playing the victim, change what we believe, and be the victor
2.
In
the Kingdom of God system, the blame for our failures goes solely on us
3.
The
church has not wanted to accept responsibility for their life; People like to
play the victim
C. APPLICATION: When there’s something in your life that you
don’t like, don’t play victim, own up, take responsibility, and change what you
believe and change your life.