Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this message on March 1st, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We bless your word that it does not return void. Thank you, Father God, for teaching us how to have faith and to te trust in your word and to know it in our mind to be fully persuaded by your word in the name of Jesus. To be confident in your strength and in what you can do, Father God, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Welcome. So glad you can join us now. Thank you for all of the kind words and support, prayer uh for as we grieve uh for the loss of my mom. Thank you guys for being with us. Uh the the flowers, the plants, and especially the prayers. Thank you. We really needed it. So, we are going to resume and I'm going to move forward with this new teaching. It is called Fully Persuaded in Your Mind. So let's go to our opening scripture. Romans 14:5. Uh, one man esteemth or decide one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded, completely assured in his own mind or intellect understanding. So when you look and see when I teach, you see the word in bold there. That word is the original word in the King James version that the the translators used when they translated from the original language into King James. When I put the word in parenthesis after it after it, it is another word that could have been used as a translation or I could add a lot more words just kind of give you full flavor of what we're looking at. So here, let's read that again. One man esteemth one day above another, another esteemth every day alike, and let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. So being fully persuaded in our own mind is what we're going to be talking about. We will be focusing here in Romans 14. And uh I want to my goal here is to teach you your faith that you can have in your mind as to what you stand for without judging others. Meaning, if you see them a little weaker than what you are, then let's not judge them. And if you think somebody is stronger than you are, then maybe that's the Holy Spirit speaking to you on what you can do with your faith. So, let's start here in Romans 14. We're going to start in verse one. Him that is weak. That word weak there uh could also mean feeble, disease, sick in the faith. Pause. weak in the faith. How many people, you know, I I consider myself a very strong person in faith. Uh but I see that there are others that are not. They're just not that strong. Um and I'll see pastors, preachers, you know, when COVID came about, I was like, "That thing ain't touching me." By the way, it did touch me. But after three rough days, the Lord, I mean, it was almost like it was instantly cleared. So, we're something it is it when you're dealing with uh sicknesses, it is a spiritual battle you're dealing with. But anyways, so I've seen preachers who are afraid of a sickness or disease. Not remembering Psalm 91 that a thousand would die to your left, 10,000 to your right. It won't touch you. But see, we walk in this fear and so we get weak in our mind. And this is what this chapter is talking about where it it's measuring all of us out comparatively to one another. It's interesting. Let's look at this. Says him that is weak in the faith receive ye but not to doubtful disputation. And so for example, uh it was a preacher I heard one time talking about being fearful of sicknesses and diseases and is a strong uh man of God in my personal opinion. And to find him at this level thinking that I I thought this was odd. Where's his faith? Because I know he has it and yet he didn't in that area. So now we have another component here. So, some of us could be very strong in some areas and some of us weaker in other areas. So, we're going to be talking about our mind in comparison and how to receive this person. So, when I saw that pastor weak in that area, what was my first reaction? One, I prayed for him. And two, I I I continue to listen to him. Why? because he's a good teacher of the word of God. You know, just because he's weak in that area doesn't mean I just need to shuck him out the window and be done. No. See, this is where we need to get a mindset that's a little different for um right now, Gathered 2025 is going on while I'm recording this here on March 1st. It started last night for those of you who have been watching and it's been um a round the world event of Christians. So, I watched a bit of it at my church last night and a gentleman came out, um, Mark Comr or something like that. But as he he starts speaking and and I'm looking at him and he's young, he's from Southern California. And so all of my judgment comes up and I said, "No, because here he is a man trying to teach the word of God." So again, I prayed for him. Does that mean I reject him? No. Now, if he was teaching something against what the Bible says, that's a different matter. But to we judge and that's what we do. We judge ourselves and measure us against all of these others. So, how do we deal with that? So, here he's saying, for one, verse two, for one believeth or have faith that he may eat all things, another who is weak eateth herbs. Oh my goodness, this is very interesting. So there's a culture back in the day of Paul and what it was is that the meat market would cut up the meat but they would take it to the temple and sacrifice it to the temple there. And so there are a lot of people are like you can't eat that meat. It was sacrificed to all these false gods. So Paul had to come in and talk about that and say, you know what, um he he tried he he wanted us all to know that we can be equal. And if there's a weak person in that area who is not believing to be able to eat that food, then you know he's saying you don't eat the food with him. You bring your measure to his level. This way you guys are on equal playing field. This way that person doesn't feel lost, rejected or maybe in a hypocritical type of situation. So here now what he's saying is okay I don't want you to receive these people to doubtful disputations. See there are different levels of faith. So some believe absolutely in vegetarianism. They only want to eat the herbs of the earth. They don't want to have any meats. But we see all kinds of fads and phenomenons that go on about food and diet and diet restrictions. Uh some people are like, "I just can't eat that. That will upset my stomach." Because in their mind they believe that to be true.

What if that true that you believe the truth you believe can be overcome and changed? That's a very interesting question. Paul talks about it more detail. Let's let him continue and get it from the word of God. We're in verse three. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not. And let not him which eateth not judge, distinguish, or decide him that eateth. for God hath received him. He's taking that. He's taking both of you to himself. So, he's telling you, the reader, let's say you're the side that is strong on the meat side versus the vegetarian side. He's telling you, "Hey, don't judge him and reject him for what he's doing because I'm going to receive him to myself just like I receive you to myself." And you're sitting here like, "Wait a second here." Um wait what that that's so in other words uh Paul is saying there's an equality here in the end when we come into the presence of the Lord the Lord is going to bring us all to himself. We're going to see that here very shortly. Verse four. Who art thou that judges another man's servant? I want to pause there too. Servant. That person who's eating vegetarian is a servant of God. Well, you know, they may not be a believer today, let's say, and maybe they're rejecting God today. However, God has his eyes on him. He says, "I'm going to bring them to myself one day." So, yes, God has his vessels made, and that is not for us to to judge or condemn. He's telling us, you're to receive him as if he's work as servant for God, who he's going to receive for himself. This is where we start to mature up in our Christian walk because we're beginning to realize it doesn't matter because it all has to do with where we are in the mind. Now, I've done a teaching on the mind and I've done um and it's called the mind and you can go search for it and it deals with overcoming and working through the mind. Now this is just showing you what you believe in and how not to judge with others. So but being fully persuaded in your mind. See you might be fully persuaded I got to have meat if I don't have meat. Well let's use another analogy here I think is very applicable. Look at how many denominations there are in the Christian faith. Now you have Catholicism which takes they claim leadership as the Christian faith. So they take that. So then you have all of these subdivisions which is a denomination which is Assemblies of God, Calvary Chapel, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and so on. There are a lot. Which ones are right and which ones are wrong? You see, a Methodist will be fully persuaded in his mind, these are the commandments I need to follow. These came from scripture. This is what I stand on. The Baptist will be saying the same thing. And here's what the world is hearing though, and I really want you to catch this because I've talked about this in other teachings. The world hears, well, which one is right or wrong? And if you're standing there saying, hey, I got the best ones. you. I will make sure you get to heaven through through our denomination. Now, is that correct? Do we have the right to judge or condemn that? No. Because God is going to bring them to himself anyways. Which means the Holy Spirit is working in their lives. Let's continue on. And I said, "So who so and he's asking us, who are thou to judge another man's service? Who are you?" I mean, let let's come down to what do we believe in in our mind? And is it fully correct and right? This should be a great example for us to look at ourselves here because we may believe it to be true, but that doesn't mean it was true or accurate. Imagine being taught all these years, raised in a church, raised in a school, and they gave you all this information, and then you come back and you find out later about somebody or something that wasn't the way you were taught, which way is right. This is when you have to go to the Holy Spirit. This is when you have to say, "Okay, I need help, Lord, because I don't know who to believe in anymore. I don't know. I I had my trust in this. This was my truth. This was my foundation. This is what I believe in. He believes something different. Is it right? Is it wrong? What this ought to do to each and every one of us is convince us to go into the word and look at it more thoroughly and to ask the Holy Spirit, ask God, help us to understand this because yeah, who are we? We're definitely not the creator. And if you're somebody who thinks you've written so uh a study Bible even or you've done deep teachings, you don't know everything. And that's okay. Hey, none of us know everything. This is why who are we to judge? We shouldn't be judging. We should be accepting and just try to maintain the peace, which is what a Christian ought to be doing. So to his own master he standeth or falleth. You see, when we stand before God in our walk, some of us are going to fall, some of us are going to fail, but we get back up and we stand before Christ. Then there's some of us who it may take a lot longer to fall, but either way, we all have fallen short of the glory of God. We all have messed up, not just to people in our lives around in the world, but to our father in heaven. And that is when we have to come to realize, yeah, who am I? Should I be judging? No, I'm just a human little being with God living in my heart. Amen. And I should just be trusting in him. Which then comes back to what I've been standing on for years now. Pray for them and pray for yourself. Amen. Hallelujah. So he says to his own master he standeth their folly. Yeah. He shall be whole enough for God is able to make him stand. Did you see that? God is able to take care of them. So when you partner with God, because that's what Christianity is all about. You having a relationship with God, you start reading these scriptures and you start working in and diving in and you start finding out how can I deal with this, Lord? How can I fix this? What can be done? And he says start with you and pray for him or her. And this way God heals the differences between us. That's what this whole chapter is about is bringing a healing in. But realize who the healing is coming from. God. So it mean it means we have to humble ourselves to God. I I mean seriously uh I don't have all the answers. You know, our teaching here is a supplemental teaching for you to get from what you already get from your pastor in your own church and who you follow and listen to. We're hoping that by teaching you the word of God in depth uh from the perspective that the Lord has revealed to us that it would just open your eyes a little bit more. You see, you know a part, I know a part. And when we put our two parts together, we know a bigger part. We still don't know the full picture, though. So back to our opening scripture in verse five, one man decides one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. What that simply means is let's say today's my birthday. It's not, but I make today a good day because it's my birthday. Whereas another person, it doesn't care what holidays, what birthdays come up every day is the same for him or her. So he's saying whatever day he says let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. So if somebody doesn't want to celebrate birthdays, let them. If somebody doesn't want to celebrate holidays, let them. That's between them and God and they're fully persuaded. Another way to look at this, another analogy that I think is is very applicable is what do you believe in in the the sense, you know, like uh let's use the Hispanic culture, the Mexican culture to be more specific. They strong they strongly believe that when you go from a cold atmosphere to a hot atmosphere, you're going to get sick. And they do every time because they believe it. You know, there was a man who uh this was years ago in the news, and I don't have all the details, maybe you can Google it, but he he uh purposely went into the Arctic Ocean and swam there for 30 minutes. He did a mind over matter where his core temperature would not drop and it didn't and he was perfectly fine when he got out of it. There's a lot of people who teach on uh cold water immersion theories or whatever, but yet the Hispanic culture, excuse me, the Mexican culture, they're the ones who are absolutely saying, "No, no, you're going to get sick because that's what they believe in." But then you look at both and both are true. You'll see that happen with the Mexicans. They get sick. I used to work with several and when it got hot to cold back to hot, they always got sick because that's what they believed in. And yet you can have a mind over matter in a s because our mind is made this way. Think of it like this another analogy. There's a car accident and somebody's pinned and you know, hey, if I can just lift this vehicle up, they can get out of from being pinned. And so you just go and do it and you just can't figure out how you couldn't do it because you were in the heat of the moment. The adrenaline was flying or flowing through your body and you just knew that if you can lift that car and you did it like the woman with the issue of blood. She just knew that she can touch the hem of Jesus garment she would be healed. And he said your faith made you whole. This is being fully persuaded in your mind. Your mind is what's going to make a reality of your physical body. If you believe in veganism, you believe in eating all meat, you you believe, you will fall under the construct of that belief, whatever it may be. But if you're one of those who I'm not going to get sick, you won't get sick. Now, there are other things that go around on all of this, but where your mind is, you need to be fully persuaded in your mind. Read that again. Verse five. Oh, I already moved on. I'll go back. I think it's worth it. Let's go back. Says, "One man esteemth one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." So when you take the scriptures and you want to believe in them, have the faith to believe them in them and ask God to help you with your unbelief. The centurion asked God one time to help him with his unbelief. That's how God works. And he's going to get you fully persuaded in your mind. You know, when I stepped away from all of the diabetic drugs and all that stuff before we moved here to Missouri, I taught on this. uh shared it before in other teachings. There were videos I was watching of all the stuff the Lord was bringing across my my social media feed um books with titles and I would read and I would be like wait a second is this true what the doctors are saying or not. So talking about cholesterol used to be that number 300 was good. I range about 236 but they wanted me under 200. Then they wanted me under 190, but then there's that side effect of dementia or Alzheimer's and then you find out your brain needs a coding of cholesterol. Anyways, as you go through the process of realizing the truth, you become fully persuaded in your mind. And that's exactly what happened to me. I'm being fully persuaded that no, those drugs are not for me. That's how God works in us. So to get out of it, you've got to go through your process so that you can walk in your faith and be fully persuaded. Verse six, he that regardeth which is exercising the mind or you're having an opinion which is my opinion is I don't agree with the cholesterol drugs because I've seen the other side and I know what it was doing to my own body and I would get dizzy from it and it was like no I and then they would tell me well you just can't stop taking and I'd be like well I did and I'm fine in fact I feel better now than I ever did because I became fully persuaded in my mind and there was nothing they can do to convince me otherwise. And by the way, I'm still feeling the best I've ever felt. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus, for my healing. So, exercise my have an opinion the day. So, he that regarded that day regarded it unto the Lord. And he that regardeth not the day to the Lord, he didn't regard it to the Lord. He that eateth eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks. And he that eateth not to the Lord, he eateth not and giveth God thanks. For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. So see when let's say blessing your food. I am a big big person on blessing food. I believe you got to bless the food. And to do it, by the way, to get myself into that new habit, it took some effort. There were days, I mean, I wrote notes, big notes, put it on my plate of food or right in front of it, mind me, bless the food because I had to learn a new habit because I did not grow up blessing the food. And I wanted to bless all my food because I believe that if I ate it and it was blessed, it's going to go through my stomach like it's supposed to. That's I'm fully persuaded by that. But look, there are many who don't bless their food and nothing happens to them

because it hasn't come across that and and you haven't you know you're fine. Who am I to judge that person or who are you to judge me in blessing the food? And I'm telling you there were days I spit the food out because I realized I didn't pray. Had I seen this scripture, my my whole eating would be totally different. But you see, we live and we die to what we believe in. If you believe the doctors, you were given a bad um you know, my mom was given a cancer uh that she had cancer and here she just passed away. I have to wonder, had she just believed, see, who am I? Who am I? But I know that God is in control and that God took care of my mom and I know that he met her needs and that she was comforted. And you know what? She's home with him now. She's not suffering. Praise the Lord. Amen. Verse eight. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord. And whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lords. One of the things that really got me more onto this side was when Hamas had attacked Israel and the church I'm attending right now, they had a meeting, uh, a prayer meeting. We all met to pray. And there I am, very excited. Pray for Israel. Woohoo. and they wanted to pray for the terrorists, the Hamas terrorists. And I was like, and I've already taught on that before, but I remember coming home being convicted by the Holy Spirit. And it the thing that got me, God clearly telling me, I love them just as much as I love you.

So, we are the Lord's, even the evil ones. Verse nine, for to this end Christ both died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living. How many of us are walking dead on this earth? Because we don't believe. And how many of us are walking alive in this world? Because we do believe. We all belong to the Lord. Verse 10. But why thou judge thy brother? Why thou said and not thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment or the bema tribunal seat of Christ. For it is written, as I live, sayeth the Lord, every knee shall bow or bend to me, and every tongue shall confess, agree fully to God. That is where it all comes out. That is the conclusion of the matter. It comes down to we belong to the Lord. We're all going to bow down to the Lord. We have to go through Christ. He says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through me. But if you decide not to do that, you're still going to bow because everybody bows before the Lord. Everybody is going to convince uh confess Jesus as Lord because that's the scriptures been prophesied. Verse 12. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. I do not want anyone to trip or fail because of anything I say or believe. And I am hoping that you understand that when I teach something, I am teaching from faith that the Lord has revealed to me and I stand in that and I am blessed by that because I am fully persuaded by that in my mind. I do encourage you to get into the presence of the Lord and find out more about him and become fully persuaded as well because that is who our God is. He wants us to believe and believe to the full maturation of his word to that uh word to magnify and come out of us absolutely and totally so that in 1 John 5:20 and we know we're aware that the son of God has come and hath given us an understanding deep thought that we may know absolutely know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. And this is what I'm encourage encouraging everybody to do. Get right with God. Stand with him. And his teaching is let's not judge the others, but let's pray for them. And imagine taking your prayer life to a whole new level with Christ because he's calling you to do that so that you love them just as much as he loves them and you love yourself just as much as he loves you. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word, that your word does not return void. And I pray that in our hearts and minds that we decide to put that judgment aside and that we decide to pray for others, that we decide to pray for ourselves, that we decide to open the door for you to come in and change the way we think and do things. That you come in and that you make us help us understand that your word is true. make us help us understand. You know what I'm trying to say, Father God. And I thank you for what you're doing in our hearts and in our minds, helping us to stand strong in your faith and not

uh hurt anyone or put a stumbling block in anyone, but that we are there fully persuaded that you are our God and whatever we do, we do in your name. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you and I will see you in the next message.