Unbelief stays the Hand of God

good morning and welcome to midweek

insights with Pastor John I'm Pastor

John Moore from popular Assembly of God

and today we're going to take a look at

a very unique

scripture and uh want you to try to keep

in mind

that the thing that motivates and

activates God's power in a believer's

life is Faith and without it it says a

man cannot please

God but I want to share with you

something that it's in the Book of Mark

chapter

6 and it's about the one thing that

could stop the healing power and the

Miracle working power of

Jesus it says and he went out from then

and came into his own country and his

disciples follow him and when the

Sabbath day was come he began to teach

in the synagogue and many hearing him

were astonished saying from whence hath

this man these things and what wisdom is

this which is given unto him that even

such Mighty works are wrought by his

hands is not this the carpenter the son

of Mary the brother of James and Joseph

and of Judah and Simon and they're not

his sisters here with us and they were

offended at him but Jesus said unto them

a prophet is not without honor but in

his own country and among his own can

and his and in his own house and he

could there do no Mighty work sa that he

laid his hands upon a few sick folk and

healed them and he marveled because of

their unbelief and he went around about

the villages teaching now one of the

things that we have to keep in mind when

it comes

to Jesus working in US is the one thing

that will

stop God's power from flowing through

Believers from one to the another for

miracles to happen healings to take

place all of these different things is

they're all activated by

faith and when you have

unbelief in your heart in other words

you doubt what Christ is able to do or

you doubt the person of Christ you stop

the power of God from

flowing and it's very really important

for for us it's very important for us to

realize that it's by our faith that

these things happen when we're praying

for one

another James says that the prayer of

faith shall save the

sick um we have to realize that it's our

faith in what God is able to do that

allows his power to flow

through Us in and meet the need needs of

someone else and so it's really

important for you and I to to realize

that if we're praying seeking God we're

seeking after a miracle a healing or any

of these things that when we doubt who

he is or we begin to not trust who he is

we have to we have to approach it this

way Lord I know you're able to do it but

help my unbelief and he will do

that it's important you and I have to

have the

attitude towards God

of he says in Mark chapter n uh Mark

chapter 10 that With God all things are

possible but with man it is impossible

so we to receive from God we have to

believe that God first can do it then we

have to believe that God will do it

and we have to receive that in faith for

it to

happen when someone comes and asks to be

prayed for and you pray for that

person whether or not they receive from

God has absolutely nothing to do with

your faith because you're taking an Act

of Faith by actually praying for them

the act of faith has to come from them

if they if their faith is

activated then whatever they're praying

for will come to pass so when we're in

these situations and we realize that

only God can answer this prayer only God

can do what needs that can meet the

needs that we have we have to come in

faith before him believing already not

only that he can do it but that he will

do it so that we're able to

receive there are so many times that uh

I have witnessed over my 40 plus years

uh of being saved of people praying

repeatedly for the same

thing and I tell them on a regular

basis that when you pray the first time

God heard

you after that if you don't receive a

miracle you have to begin to pray this

way thank you Lord for what you have

done you have to begin to praise him and

thank him for what you prayed for as

though it was already done this is Faith

Hebrews 11:1 says now Faith is the

substance of things hoped for and the

evidence of Things Not Seen so if you've

been prayed for for something but it

hasn't manifested yet this is where your

faith has to come into play and you

begin to

thank God for what he's done even if you

haven't seen

it so that your faith will activate

it Jesus

marveled at every time he saw someone of

great faith every time he performed a

miracle with the exception of

one he says your faith has made you

whole or or no great no greater Faith

have I seen in all of Israel it's always

about faith and you have to remember

this the only thing that moves or

motivates God is Faith and the thing

that motivates or the power empowers the

enemy is fear and when you come and pray

and you're not quite sure whether God

can do it or not that is where you have

to pray Lord help my unbelief or you

wind up in a situation where nothing's

really happen

because people aren't receiving you as

someone sent by God they're looking at

your past they're looking at your

history they're looking at all these

different things and to them it it makes

no sense that you could be there praying

for them and that God would touch them

because they know too much about

you and so whenever Jesus would

encounter this the way he overcame it

was by

teaching that's why it's so important

that you as a Believer get into a

bible-based church and you really really

really really need to be attending

church uh Hebrews 10:26 says that

forsake not the Gathering of yourselves

together after the manner of some is and

so much more so as you see the day

approaching we're in perilous times

there are the woke left they they don't

want Christians gathering in large

groups because they fear what can happen

if Christians get an

agreement so Jesus said wherever two or

three gathered together in my name there

am I in the midst of them and anything

they ask of me I will do

it so church is necessary it's necessary

for our spiritual growth it's necessary

for social

growth um it's necessary for us to be

able to Fellowship one with another

because we draw strength from each other

we draw support from each other we are

able to overcome and uh all these

attacks that come against the church and

against Believers by being together and

we can't forsake that especially in I'm

going to use use this term perilous

times uh everything right now in society

is about me me me me it's all about the

person uh there's nothing that values of

family of values of going to church

values of doing what is right being

morally upright uh making moral

decisions all of this stuff is is we are

people are being told

oh you don't have to do any of that it's

all about you do whatever your heart

tells you to do whatever you think it's

okay it's fine just do do whatever makes

you feel good and this goes totally

against

scripture Jesus never once said you know

if it feels good do it he in fact he

went so far as to tell you that your

heart is

deceitful and not to trust it but to

trust God

and that's a hard thing because we're

inundated or

overwhelmed by the me Society everything

is about me me me me me me me and Jesus

said that's not how it is everything is

Centric that means centralized or in its

circular is about seeking the kingdom of

God and his

righteousness to fulfill in US or to F

that void that's in

us left by

Adam and the more we draw close to God

the more God draw close to us it says

draw nigh unto me and I will draw nigh

unto you there's so many references in

the Bible about how important that

relationship between you and Christ is

and how well you develop that and he

gives us he shows us through examples in

his life as a man here on Earth of what

can accomplish Great and Mighty things

through C uh God and what can stop God's

power from flowing into someone's life

and so as you're making your way through

this next week stop and look listen to

what's going on around you listen to

what people are

saying hear what they're trying to

promote because all of these things go

completely against what Christ said and

so we have to we have to be on guard we

have to watch over our spiritual life uh

with extreme prejudice I know it sounds

like a a weird word to use here but it

is your faith your relationship with

Christ is so important that you need to

watch over it with extreme prejudice you

need need to make sure that no one or

nothing comes between you and your

relationship with God and when you do

that you are opening the door for God to

do many mighty things through you but if

you're dealing a life of

unbelief then God's power is not going

to flow in your life and you're

nothing's going to

change so I want you guys to keep in

mind there is nothing more important in

your life life than building a secure

relationship with God trusting him

learning how to walk by faith going to

church where you can draw strength from

other believers where you can be taught

what the word of God says and more than

anything it's absolutely essential to

your spiritual life that you get into a

bible-based

church don't follow along a group of

people because there's 3,000 people

going to that church make sure that the

person that's teaching you is teaching

you accurately lots of tools out there

available for you for interpreting

scripture for finding out what the Bible

actually says don't trust someone's word

on it go find out for

yourself do what Paul said in second

Timothy 2:15 study to show yourself

approved unto God a Workman needing not

to be ashamed right ly dividing the word

of Truth and so I'm going to leave that

with you this week I want to pray for

you Lord Jesus we just thank you and

praise you for today we thank you for

your word God we ask that you allow this

word that's went forth to minister to

the hearts and minds and Souls of people

that hear it God we just thank you and

praise you because even in perilous

times your power is not stopped in Jesus

name we pray amen I'll see you guys

again next week