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Bid Me Come! By Pastor Bill Taylor A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 8/Issue 10 Prophecy: You have asked Me to teach you how to enter into the mighty workings of My Spirit, into the supernatural, and I give you this lesson today: do not be like the so-called churches and believers around you who expect every service to be like the last, who expect every time they go out to minister that it will be the same as when they have gone out before. For they go backwards and not forwards; for they lose ground and do not gain it. For whatever has happened previously, whatever dullness has crept in, they hold on to that and they do not rise up into greater things. But to you I say this; go forth in an expectation that I will do a new work every time you minister; go forth in an expectation that I will speak a word to you and you will hear something you have not heard before and you will do something you have not done before. I tell you, when you prepare to minister, prepare your heart for the new things and the great things that I will do, and go forth with your eyes looking upward towards Me that I will reach down My hand and cause your next meeting, your next witness, your next gathering to be greater in My power, greater in My presence, greater in My manifestations than the ones before. And you shall arise, you shall enter into My greater works for as you look to Me I will lift you up, saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House”) With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! You rebuke the proud -- the cursed, who stray from Your commandments. You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood. (Ps 119:10,21,118) -- If "once saved always saved" were true it would not be possible to stray. But God’s Word shows us through Psalms 119 that not only is straying possible but to stray from God’s Word will be fatal to your spirituality and your salvation. Keeping yourself in the place where you do not stray is related to --“With my whole heart I have sought you.” (vs 10) Those who do stray, stray because of pride (vs 21) and they are cursed. Straying is disobedience as in: They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed. (1Pet 2:8) Remember You rebuke the proud – the cursed, who stray from Your commandments. (Ps 119:21) Those who stray or are disobedient to God's word are cursed and because they are cursed God has appointed them to stumble. And they are disobedient to the Word and they have strayed from the Word, because of pride and self-confidence. Pride goes before destruction so the proud are cursed. You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood. (Ps 119:118) And this includes the Baptists who believe in heresies like “once saved always saved.” Their deceit is falsehood and God rejects them. They’ve strayed from His command to be diligent and to be holy. Likewise, the Catholics – with their idolatries and worship of “Mary” and such. God rejects them! Their deceit is falsehood. And much of the contemporary Protestant Christianity where the believers live for themselves and do not walk in the Spirit. God rejects them! Their deceit is falsehood. Only those who walk in the Spirit are the sons of God (Rom 8:14) for they have the hearing of faith. (Gal 3:5) So to be a son of God and be led by the Spirit, you must have the hearing of faith. And we have had some examples recently about the "hearing of faith," and how when you hear God speak you must mix it with faith. (Heb 4:2) And you need to give room to see that it is God and open the door for Him to confirm His word or instruction to you. When you believe He is knocking at the door and when you think God may be speaking to you from the Spirit, you have to call on the Lord to show you if it really is of Him and invite Him in. (1Thes 5:21) These things all pertain to the hearing of faith. Another aspect of this, for example, is what has happened here at “My Father’s House” in the expansion of our personal prophecy gifts. We had been praying for God to move in greater ways in prophecy so the church should have been expecting the Spirit to start moving in various members in new dimensions of faith to prophesy. So when an individual feels the Spirit calling him to that new thing there should be an expectation that “This must be God answering our prayers.” And when you start sensing there is a new way of prophesying or a new work going on in you, you don’t reject it without talking to God about it. Just because it seems new to you or a little confusing and you're not sure how to handle it – you don’t reject it, but you call upon the Lord to give you understanding and confirm to you what he is doing. And if it is of Him, He will confirm it and establish you in the faith for the new thing. But when you reject something that God is opening up to you, you will also end up in deception. To say no to God you always have to come up with a deceiving reason why not to do what God is trying to get you to do. All of the people who fall away, who stray from the commandment, God must reject them for they have rejected Him and they always stray on the basis of excuses that they make up for not doing what the Spirit is telling them to do. Now, if they know or admit it is God telling them to do it, it would be difficult for them not to obey, wouldn’t it? So in understanding disobedience to God, it always has to have in it some kind of unbelief that it is in fact God speaking. This is why disobedience is always associated with unbelief. In other words they won’t admit it is God telling them to do that. They refuse to believe it is God, because to admit or believe it is God would require them to obey. So even if it is God telling you to do that, if you don’t want to do it you won’t believe it is God, because if you did believe it was God what would happen? You would have to have faith and you would have to do it, wouldn’t you? So there is always this aspect of disobedience to the Spirit in that the disobedient will not admit he is disobeying God knowingly or to His face. That would be extraordinarily wicked to do that. But what you are doing is you are refusing to believe it is God telling you to do something you do not want to do, or you do not feel capable of doing. And you are not willing to check with God or properly investigate, to test the spirit to see if it is God because if you did that you might find out it really is God then you would have to do the thing you don't want to do. The Jews not entering into the Promised Land certainly was not atheism; it was not unbelief in the existence of God. But they did not believe they were capable of doing what God was asking of them. And because they saw the giants as being a problem that they could not overcome, they did not want to do it and so they were not willing to admit that God was telling them to do it. This was unbelief in the commandments of God, not in the existence of God. In the church today, there is an extraordinary amount of unbelief in the commandment of God or the word of God. And even here we have seen many people, who professed to love God, have left. And every one of them left because God was telling them to do something that they did not want to accept as coming from God, and therefore they refused to believe it was God telling them to do it. Therefore they strayed from God’s commandments and God rejects them. And when God rejects them He cuts them off from His true church. This is a very serious thing isn’t it? And yet they would tell you that they do not believe they have disobeyed God. Well, of course they do not believe they have disobeyed God. If they had believed it was God they would have had to obey Him. Their unbelief is exactly the problem. They do not believe they disobeyed God because they do not believe it was God that was talking to them, and if they do not believe it was God that was talking to them when it was God, then they have made it impossible for themselves to hear God, because the voice of God that they rejected and said isn’t God, is the voice God uses to speak to them and they now say it isn’t Him. So how will they ever believe it is Him when He speaks for He will always be using that same voice which they say is not Him when He speaks to them? So how can they ever be a people of faith when they have rejected the voice of God? And if you reject the true voice of God unless you repent you may never hear Him again or be able to walk in the Spirit or live by faith. So your Christianity becomes dead - just following rules, rituals, habits, and human reasonings and going through the motions of religion without having a hearing of faith. Because you've rejected God's voice you've rejected faith. To know the voice of God you have to not lean on your own understanding and you must be open to anything God may be telling you to do, and you have to talk to Him about it and make sure you are not telling Him NO just because you do not want to do it. “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.” (John 5:30) If we are to make progress in faith, then one of the aspects of this is not seeking your own will but seeking and hearing God's will. In My Father's House we have such a revelation of what real Christianity is and what real Christian faith is to be as no other church in the world today. It is absolutely certain that God will use our children and the young people in this church powerfully in ministry. In many ways when God brings new believers to us we'll be spending much time teaching them what our children already know. And even though our children and young people here are looking forward to careers and they are finding jobs and things like that, it does not mean they are not going to be called into powerful ministries. And I admonish you to keep your ears open to God concerning that call and be prayerful about it. I can see a day when churches will be calling us up saying, “Do you have somebody you can send to us to teach us what you know?” And we will be able to send our young people out and they'll step right into these churches filled with believers with their mouths opened waiting for us to feed them. And "the workmen is worthy of his hire" and these churches will pay our workmen the wages that they are worthy of. For if they have been partakers of our spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to us in material things. (Rom 15:27) But I also would say this to our young people; it is not likely that God will send you out before you are 30 years old or so, because God does not promote novices. (1Tim 3:6) So what you should be doing now is getting ready in the same way that Jesus prepared Himself for service. It was not permitted to the Jews in Jesus’ day to start ministering until they were 30 years old. So His first 30 years of life was preparation and that is what our young people here should be doing – preparing. And when you have that maturity to where God can send you out full of the Word and the Spirit and you have been prepared and you have done the lesser things so that He can give you the greater, then you should expect that God is going to use you in a mighty way. There is a great work to be done and the simplest way I can say it is this – the church world around us believes in “believing you are saved” instead of believing in such a way as for Jesus to actually live in them. And they do not have any real concept of what it means to really believe for Jesus to live His life through them to make them righteous in the righteousness of God. Even here, we are still working on you to get you to take a hold of that, for the fullness of what it means – that Christ would be formed in you and that you might be made perfect and complete in all the will of God, and that you would know the love of God. One of the boys in our Biblestudy was having trouble bringing something worth while to share into the meeting and he confessed to praying, “Lord, give me something so I won’t be rebuked for having nothing to share.” And I had to rebuke him and tell him you are asking for the wrong thing. He is asking the Lord to give him a verse so as not to be embarrassed when the problem is you do not have Jesus in you and you do not love the brethren enough. What you need is to have Christ's love in you, For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. (Gal 5:6) Because if Jesus were really in you and you really loved your brethren, your faith would start working. You would come in, not trying to satisfy your conscience that you participated in some way, but you would come in with a heart to really build up your brothers. You would love them so much and want to bless them so much that you would be like the man in Luke 11:5-8. You wouldn't give up until God gave you something wonderful to edify the brethren. This is a contrast to the wickedness of many false Christians in that they criticize each other about what they are doing wrong and yet when they have the opportunity to really give their brethren something to help them to do right they do not do it. Because all they have is a mouth that can tell you what is wrong, but they do not have the heart that can bring in a word from God that would help their brethren to grow up in Christ. Ask yourself this, “Do you have the right to criticize anybody that you have not extended help to that they might be built up?” At “My Father's House” we send God's word freely to the churches to edify and build them up. Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey. (Isa 32:20) Through the Glory of His Grace ministry we show the churches how to properly serve God. Therefore we can criticize righteously because we are constructive in our criticisms – we are not just telling you what's wrong, but we're showing you how to do it right! So if you are not willing to tell people how to do good by bringing them a scripture or a revelation or a word from God; if you’re not willing to build them up when you have the opportunity to do it, like in the Biblestudy or sharing services in the church, in which we have a set aside time to minister to one another and build each other up in faith and holiness and in righteousness; and if you are not building your brethren up there where you have the opportunity, then what right do you have to criticize them somewhere else? Are you just called to tear things down and never build them up when it is time to build them up? There is; a time to break down, and a time to build up; (Eccl 3:3) So you are asking for a verse, but you really do not have the faith that works by love in you that God will give it to you. Because if you loved Him and you wanted to build your brethren up then God would be speaking to you. You may just be trying to satisfy your sense of duty. That is not what Christ is about. God will not reward something that is not Jesus in you. But when you have a hold on the love of Jesus, which is Christ dwelling in your hearts through faith, and you know God’s love which passes understanding, (Eph 3:17,19) when you have that kind of love in you, then God will respond. He responds to Christ in you when you pray and when you ask for something; where what is in you is Christ praying and what is motivating you is Christ in you. Then God always answers. When Jesus said, “I know you always hear Me, Father,” (John 11:42) do you know what that means? It means Jesus is always heard when He is in you too. And that is what you want; you want to make sure that it is Jesus in you that is praying through you; Jesus in you that is sharing through you. And in every case if it is Jesus in you God will answer. He will give you what you need, because the Father always hears the Son. Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. (1John 5:14,15) We are praying, for example, for God to increase prophecy in the church. But then when He starts to work we each must make the connection that this is God answering our prayers. Of course what He does will not be something you are used to. He is doing a new thing. And you may feel like “I can't handle it.” But that is like the spies refusing to go into the Promised Land. What you should be spiritually aware of in “My Father's House” is this church is built by God; this one is real. Most churches are fake, made by man not God; but this one is real. This one God called, named, and is building. And He is going to make it into what He wants it to be; so wake up to that! So He is leading us to pray that we will have more faith, better prophecies and greater manifestations of God. And even in our prayers we’ve been acknowledging, “God, we have not been this way before. We need you to guide us. We need you to show us how to take these steps.” And when He starts to move on us, it may seem new and strange. But this is not the time to close yourself off and say, “I do not want to do this, because I'm not used to it and I might not do it right.” That is the time to say, “This is God moving us into the new thing we have been praying for” and cry out to Him, “Help me Lord. Help me to take a hold of it; help me to see how to do what you are doing here.” Because that is the response He is looking for. And you know that faith is always fearful to the flesh but it is exhilarating to the Spirit. And it often seems like you are putting yourself at risk. Faith is always like that; it takes courage. Faith and courage are closely related. Cowards can never have faith. People who are afraid will not let God move; they will not step out; they will not take the “risk.” People who fear disappointing God more than they fear the possibility of their own failure are willing to do something new and will take the steps to glorify God. In the documentary movie about the 101st airborne in WWII one of the survivors says his grandson asked, “Were you a hero in the war?” and the man answered, “I wasn’t a hero but I served with heroes.” The point here is that this man was a hero, but he saw men that were more heroic than him, and he was inspired by them. And these soldiers had an attitude that no matter how much it hurt and no matter how dangerous it was, they were going to do the job. They were not men who were immune to fear, but they sure knew how to overcome it. They were the men who held the line at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. They moved to the front while other allied soldiers were running. These men were moving up and all around them soldiers are retreating and saying, “the Germans are going to kill you and you can’t stop them.” And in all of this, do you know what the 101st is doing? They are saying, “give us your ammunition; give us your guns.” These men went in to the most dangerous place in the battle and some of them were not even armed. Yet they went believing they were going to stop the Nazis, and they did. Faith is like that. Faith says, “we are going to get the job done, and nobody is going to stop us and nobody is going to make us run.” God is calling us to be awake to the fact that we are in a great battle to bring real spiritual Christianity back to the churches and to get this word out to the elect. And nobody is going to stop us and we are going to get this job done. And in order for us to enter into these things we must step into areas we have never been before and when we start praying for God to lead us into those areas, we must expect Him to answer. And when He answers He’ll be calling us into things that we are not used to; new things. So we need to stay very close to Him so that we do not miss the opportunity to get the answer to what we are praying for just because it’s new and we may not at first recognize it as coming from Him. Now, the hearing of faith is when you know it is God speaking to you and once you are convinced it is God then the job will get done. But if you argue with what God is asking because you don’t like what He’s asking of you then is it like you are saying, “I hear what’s being said, but it can’t be God and I won’t do it.” And so by disobeying what you are saying is, “That’s not God.” And that is exactly what Mrs. L. did. She had an opportunity to come into God’s true church and to become a part of the marvelous things God is doing here but God was asking more of her than she wanted to give. Now when God spoke to us, for example, and said, “Come to church every night,” we heard it as coming from God. We mixed faith with God’s Word to us and obeyed Him and it has resulted in the awesome spiritual growth that we’ve been experiencing. When God spoke to Mrs. L. she said, “That’s not God, I can’t do it; God is not saying that to me.” Oh yes He is!! God is saying the same things to everybody who comes into this church. Everybody that comes to “My Father’s House” will be called into the kind of Christianity that we are in. There aren’t two different kinds. Paul teaches the same ways in every church, (1Cor 4:17) and we are to be gathering together so much the more as we see the day approaching. (Heb 10:24,25) So if anybody will not get in step with what God is telling us, they are not of God. Because they are telling themselves it’s not God that is speaking when it is God. And that has always been the problem; most of the so-called Christians around us and our own families have said, “God isn’t telling us to do that.” But the truth is, “Oh yes He is!” You just haven’t been willing to obey God so you don’t believe. It is unbelief in what God is saying because they don’t want to hear, and they don’t want to pay the price of obedience. So they are not of God. The first principle on the hearing of faith is you have to be willing to do what God says no matter what. And you should be awake to what you have been asking God to do. Take the example of Peter walking on water. First of all, he can’t walk on water unless God tells him to, and he knows it. So when Jesus is walking on the water, Peter says, “Bid me come” and Jesus says, “Come!” And on the strength of that command, Peter can walk on the water. Now when Peter heard Jesus say, “Come” he heard faith. And he stepped out on that faith and God upheld him. But “God rejects those who stray from His commands.” (Ps 119:118) The incredible faith that Peter is exhibiting when he’s walking on water dissipates when he strays from looking at Jesus and starts looking at the problem. He starts looking at the waves and he sinks. There is a great lesson here, that even when God gives you the faith, if you do not keep your eyes on Him then you can stray from the faith. The command was to “Come” and instead of holding on to that command, Peter started thinking on his own, “It’s dangerous out here. It’s getting rough!” So he strayed and he sank. The lesson is this – you can stray! But what does the Psalmist say, “With My whole heart I have sought You.” If your whole heart is on Jesus, the waves won’t distract you. If my whole heart is set on Christ; if my heart is set on pilgrimage, (Ps 84:5) my heart is set on getting to the Kingdom, then I’m not going to stray. I won’t be distracted by the world if my heart is set on getting to Jesus. That awesome illustration of Peter walking on the water to Jesus is what God is expecting all of us to do throughout our whole Christian life. Our hearts should be set so much on getting to the finish line, getting to Christ, that nothing can get in the way. A word we looked at recently in our Biblestudy was “simplicity” For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. (2Cor 1:12) Simplicity doesn’t mean poverty. Poverty is not simplicity. Simplicity means without distraction. Simplicity means a good soldier doesn’t get entangled with the affairs of this world. (2Tim2:4) We keep our eyes on the goal and Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (Heb 12:1) The simpler we keep things, the easier it is for us not to stray; the easier to stay close to God. Complexity distracts and interferes with our relationship with God. So we’re not trying to be prosperous in the way worldly people are. They somehow think that the more things they possess and the more they have to do, the more important they are. Whereas what we want is a simple life with as few of our own things to do as possible so that we can always do more of the things of God. We want to keep things simple that way. Now here is an idea about simplicity. When I balance my checkbook and I’m not bouncing checks then my life is simpler than someone who is careless and does not balance his checkbook and has continual financial problems. If I do the work of balancing my checkbook and I keep things in order, I have less trouble and my life is simpler than the lazy person who doesn’t. There is a lot of wisdom in simplicity. A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished. (Prov 22:3) But consider "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matt 6:34) Now, are these two verses contradictory? How easy is it for someone who claims to be a Christian to decide, “I will not worry about tomorrow and I will not balance my checkbook, because Jesus says, “don’t worry about tomorrow,” and they abuse the Word of God and make their life complicated because they are not doing the things that would keep it simple; the things that foresee trouble and avoid trouble. Do you know how much of that is going on in the so-called churches? In the false church people use scriptures as excuses to be lazy. When Jesus says they will deliver you up but “settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer; for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist.” (Luke 21:12-15) Does that mean you don’t have to study to show yourselves approved? Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2Tim 2:15) Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine (1Tim 5:17) Those who labor in the word and in doctrine could have used Luke 21:12-15 as an excuse not to labor couldn’t they? In the book of Acts, the apostle’s gave themselves to the ministry of the Word and prayer instead of serving tables. Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Act 6:2,4) You see the fact that He says that you don’t need to prepare a message beforehand when you are taken captive doesn’t mean that you are not supposed to be reading your bible and preparing for the ministry to the believers. You don’t use one scripture as an excuse to disobey another or as an excuse for laziness. You must look for the real meaning of the scripture. If you want to be a successful witness, then you better read your Bible and prepare. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; (1Pet 3:15) If you are prepared then when the time comes the Spirit can bring something appropriate out of you, and you don’t have to try to figure out what to say because if you’ve been properly preparing God has already put His Word into you and He will be able to bring it out. If you have been a workman that need not be ashamed, then God can use you. But He is not teaching you laziness, when He says not to be concerned about what to say. And when He says not to worry about tomorrow; He’s telling you not to be involved in wild imaginations and useless anxieties about things you can’t do anything about, but He is certainly not telling you not to be wise, to foresee and ask God what you can do about potential problems that you see coming. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Phil 4:6,7) So talk to God about your concerns instead of worrying and make appropriate requests for Him to deal with your concerns. Then you’ll have peace because you know that God is taking care of the problems, and even preparing you for things to come. But if you look at the future and say, “God said, ‘not to worry about it’” in such a way as to ignore everything then what would happen? Like the foolish virgins judgment will come, and you won't be prepared. The future doesn’t scare me because I am watching and praying about it. And God is giving us insights on how to pray concerning things to come so there won’t be a problem when they do come. In many things there could be a problem if we don't prepare ahead, so we are asking God what to do and He is showing us how to prepare, if we need to prepare. Religion can kill you! Matthew 6:34 can kill you if you interpret it as an excuse to be lazy and irresponsible. You have to look at the whole Word. You must see what other things God is saying that may apply. Simplicity does not mean poverty, because poverty can be very distracting. If you have to be juggling the books; robbing Peter to pay Paul; scrounging around for money to buy a loaf of bread; you are not living in simplicity. That is not a simple life; it is complicated and distracting. Simplicity is having the things you need when you need them because you have listened to God and trusted Him and done as He has shown you to be prepared. Simplicity is the way we have been running this church. Anything we need, we have because the supply is there. We were wise and did right with our finances as God showed Joseph to save in the seven good years, so when we go through the lean years, we are prepared. And we’ve had no financial distractions in this church. God has given us faithful brethren who joyfully contribute to His work. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have abundance for every good work. (2Cor 9:8) I do not have to wonder, “Can we afford to put out the next issue of the ‘Glory of His Grace?’” That thought never has to occur to me, because God has given us an abundant sufficiency and God blesses in such ways that we do not have financial problems and if we are faithful to God we never will. This is simplicity; it is a simple way of operating. It is complicated to have to try to drum up the money, or delay one thing to do another, or borrow from one to pay someone else. That is not simplicity. So to live in simplicity, we follow God in such a way that He may guide us to always have an ample supply so when things are needed we are not distracted. "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (Matt 6:33) But this doesn’t mean you can be wasteful! If any believing man or woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are really widows. (1Tim 5:16) The church must use its resources wisely or it will not have enough for the truly needful things. And so should you. Cease listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. (Prov 19:27) What happens in a true church like “My Father's House” every night? You are being instructed. We are instructing you in all the things pertaining to your salvation. Lately, we've been particularly concerned with the hearing of faith. Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (Gal 3:5) And what are we learning? We are learning to hear God better. Jesus hears God perfectly. He is completely open to anything His Father or the Holy Spirit asks Him to do. He never misses and we want to be just like Him. We have a promise we can be; that God will make us just like Jesus. But it requires us to listen to instruction. When you stop listening to instruction, soon you forget what God is telling you to do. Then you become accursed because you stray from His commandments and He rejects you. (Ps 119:21,118) We are asking God to give us greater faith. And when the disciples asked for greater faith, He said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” (Luke 17:6) That’s all He said to them. They said, “Increase our faith”. It seems like a strange answer. But what Jesus is saying is, “You are asking the wrong thing when you say increase our faith, because you don’t need much faith to do a big job; just a mustard seed of faith will do the job.” Now, I’m going to tell you what the right request is. The right thing to ask God is to “bid me come!” Because if God tells you to come you can walk on water. It’s knowing that God said it personally to you that produces faith. And it isn’t really important how much God says, but the fact that He said it to you – for even if it is just a mustard seed of His word all the power of God and Heaven backs it up if you have the true faith that God spoke it to you. If God bids me to command this tree to move and I command it the tree will move. Because if God speaks to you just a mustard seed, it is still the word of God and it cannot fail to do what God sent it to do when you obey Him. So when you are asking for God to give you more faith, in reality you are asking for Him to speak to you the “hearing of faith” and to command you to do His will. If we are asking God to give us greater prophecies then we are asking Him to bid us to prophesy, because you will not be able to prophesy unless He bids you. So, Jesus, bid us to heal and to work miracles! Faith comes by hearing and hearing when God speaks to you. And you shall all be taught of God when God speaks to you. And “My sheep know My voice” when Jesus speaks to them. And “the just shall live by faith” because they hear when God speaks to them. And it’s the one who hears God speak to him most who has the most faith. "For My words are spirit and My words are life." (John 6:63) Then let us pray for God to speak much to us. Speak Lord for your servant hears. (1Sam 3:10) And let us obey all that He speaks. Prophecy: Thus says the Lord, when I see your heart is to bless the brethren and when you’re seeking My face to bless the brethren with the hidden treasures and with those things that will edify and build up their faith, I say to you, I will pour out My Spirit upon you and I will give you those revelations that help the brethren in their walk with Me. I will give you these things because you have faith for Me to do it and you have sought My face and I will reward you openly, and I say to you that I will bless you mightily, thus says the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House” by Rebekah K. 10 yrs. old) Prophecy: Thus saith the Lord, I tell you My people that I am pleased when I see those who love Me and who seek Me for those things that glorify Me. And also when they see them, they pray for them and they do not lose heart until they have seen Me glorified. I admonish you to be those who seek Me for My will and those things that glorify Me and do not give up until you see Me glorified. And I tell you, My people, that I will indeed, when I see you holding on to Me and staying steadfast, I will move on your behalf and I will use you to edify your brethren and I will use you to glorify My Name. And also when I see that you are steadfast and that you do not faint, I know that I can rely upon you to do the things that I need you to do to bring glory to My name, so I will use you. And when you do this, I am well pleased with you and I am glorified in you, thus saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House” by Sarah K. 13 yrs. old)
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