Resound Missions Base Podcast with Leah Ramirez Resound Missions Base

There are things we know, and things we profess to believe, but if we are honest, we don’t really know them or believe them at all.  It’s this culture of doubt, this culture of heresy and apostasy that I want to batter.  Today we will tear down doubt, but we will do more than that.  We will build up the wall, the shield, of our faith. 
 
Will you stop believing the devil?  Don’t you know yet that he is nothing more than a liar?  Why put your trust in his word?  Why should you go on believing anything he says?
 
I want you to come into more than “believe” and set of doctrinal points, today I want you to come into a living and active trust with the Man, Christ Jesus!  After all, today is the day of salvation.  Today is the day of atonement! 
 
Salvation:
Deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ // Preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss //  A source or means of being saved from harm, ruin, or loss.
 
I.  IN THE BEGINNING
 
Genesis 1
[1] In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. [2] The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.  [3] And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
 
A.   The Holy Spirit did nothing until the Word came.  We don’t know how many years the Holy Spirit hovered, waiting to act.  The Bible doesn’t say… He could have waited for millions of years.  What we do know is that when the Word came, and as soon as the Word came, there was light!
 
B.    This relationship between the Word and the action, or the manifestation, of the Holy Spirit has been in place from the beginning.  We are relatively new to the scene… part of creation.  As part of creation, we too, are recipients of the Word… and when the Word came, there was light within us.  But there is more!  Now we have been called into partnership with the Word… we are ambassadors of the Word, and the Holy Spirit waits for our command.
 
C.    This week we got to be part of Outreach Orlando in partnership with El Calvario.  What an amazing week!  I was preaching on being a burning one for God and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and I asked the young people who had not being filled with the Holy Spirit to come up to receive the infilling of fire and power.  I told them that when I prayed for them they would receive the Spirit of burning, and many of their hands would begin to feel fire. I prayed and was watching for the spontaneous outpouring of tongues to manifest (In part because right now I am reading a booking titled, “Tongues.”)  At the end of the altar time several reported to me that they felt the fire of God and a burning in their hands.  After leaving the meeting, while driving home, I asked the Lord why there was no manifestation of tongues when I prayed, and He said, “Because you did not declare it.  What you declared did manifest.”
 
D.   The Spirit waits for the Word.  This is the partnership we have been given with the Spirit. 
 
1 Corinthians 2
[11] For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. [12] Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. [13] And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
 
E.    Many times what we believe does not manifest until it is confessed.  Why?  Because of this partnership, this relationship between the Word and the manifestation of the Spirit.  How do we impart the things freely given to us by God?  We impart the Word with words. 
 
F.    Our beliefs are stored up, they are full of potential e

There is something beyond faithfulness… something beyond holding down the fort, so to speak.  There is faith!  I think its’ possible to call someone faithful, while there may be very little faith present.  But it shouldn’t be so, should it?  Faithful should mean to be full of faith.  It seems to me that we don’t quite mean “full of faith” when use the word faithful.  We mean steady.  We mean consistent.  Steadiness and consistency are wonderful qualities, especially in a culture that seems to be falling away from the principles of yesterday, where we would say what we meant and do what we said.  Steadiness and consistency are to be honored.   But when we speak of faithfulness (faith – full – ness), there is something more for us!  There is actual faith.
 
I’ve seen people faithful to attend prayer meetings, and those same people lacking in faith that God hears and will move.  I want to call you into more than prayer meeting attendance.  I am here to call you into faith.  We are beloved children of the God who hears and moves.  We are connected to the God who acts!  I know some people would say that’s it’s impossible to be steady without faith, and there may be some truth to that.  But I can say with assurance that I have been faithful to pray for sick people, without possessing faith for their healing.  And if you are honest, you may admit that too.  The desire of God is to fill you with faith.  I’m all for steadiness… but let’s be steady IN FAITH. 
 
I.  THE FORM OF FAITHFULNESS THAT DENIES FAITH
 
2 Timothy 3
[1] But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. [2] For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, [4] treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [5] having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. [6] For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, [7] always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
 
A.   There is a form of faithfulness that actually rejects true faith.  There is a form of godliness that actually denies power.  How does this work?  When we pray for comfort instead of praying for healing.  When we pray for the strength to let sickness ravage us while being a good witness for Christ, instead of contending for real deliverance.  We must be very careful in this!  We are ambassadors of the impossible.  We are conduits of the power of God! 
 
B.    It’s not loving to side against God and His expressed Word.  It’s not loving to disbelieve the work of the cross.  Either Christ has paid for all sins, sickness and burdens, or He hasn’t.  What do we really believe?  There are things we know and there are things we possess.  And there is a difference.  I want to provoke you to keep pressing in until the things you know become the things that follow you. 
 
Mark 16
 [15] And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. [16] Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. [17] And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; [18] they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
 
[19] So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. [20] And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
 
C.    We have be

Obedience is not the final stage of our maturity in Christ… it’s our training for a life of partnership with Him.  It’s the beginning.  There is more than complying with the Word of the Lord.  There is more than acquiescing to the command of the Lord.  Much more!  The joy comes from a place of surrender to the will of the Lord, but a surrender so complete that we are swept into the momentum of saying yes.  It’s a surrender so deep that we are partners in the thoughts and will of God. 
 
There is more for us than obedience.  And yet, there is not less.  Obedience is the teacher that leads us into true joy.  We were made to worship the Lord.  We were created to bring Him pleasure.  There is a partnership with Jesus that to describe is nothing short of miraculous.  God will grant to us the honor of moving His heart… of hastening His day.  This is lofty indeed! 
 
I.  BE UNTO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL
 
Luke 1
[26] In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, [27] to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. [28] And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” [29] But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. [30] And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. [31] And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. [32] He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, [33] and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
 
[34] And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”  [35] And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. [36] And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. [37] For nothing will be impossible with God.” [38] And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
 
A.   Saying yes to the Lord is the beginning of the supernatural in your life.  Mary could have gotten stuck in the details, asking, “How will this be?”  Many of us get stuck trying to figure out how the Word of the Lord will come to pass in our lives.  We look and look, but we can’t see how it will unfold.  Beloved, the Word of the Lord comes to pass because of the work of the Holy Spirit. 
 
B.    We are desperate for a move of the Spirit.  We long to see a move of God in our lives, in our regions and nation.  So, we have to say yes to the Holy Spirit.  We must say, like Mary, “Behold, I am a servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” 
 
C.    Have you said yes to the Lord, or are you still trying to figure it out?  Are you still trying to figure out how you are going to make it all happen?  The plans of the Lord, believe it or not, will require the Lord.  A move of the Spirit will require the Spirit.  There is far more for us!  Say yes!  Just say yes. 
II.  OBEDIENCE IS THE BEGINNING BUT CERTAINLY NOT THE END
A.   Obedience opens the door to the supernatural realm of God in your life.  The Kingdom of Heaven manifests in our lives when we surrender to the expressed will of God.  Let me put it this way, the Kingdom of Heaven (the blessing of Heaven) will not operate while we are in explicit disobedience.  Salvation is the manifestation of God in us from the place of being reconciled.  Physical healing is the manifestation of our bodies being reconciled to God.  Deliverance is the manifestation of ou

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