Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this message on Thursday, January 11, 2024. Welcome. This message is called, What are some character traits of unbelief. This is going to be a good message. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for the anointing of your word and your presence. We thank you that your word does not return void. We give you the glory, the honor, the praise, and the strength. And we worship you, Father God. And we pray and ask for understanding in this word. We pray and ask for strength to apply it to our lives. For we are more than conquerors. And we pray and ask, Father God, that we recognize the deficiencies within ourselves. And that we press forward into your presence, improving in your holiness and righteousness. Thank you, Father God, in the name of Jesus. Amen. And amen. Okay, let's go to our opening scripture here. This is called, "What are some character traits of unbelief?" We're going to start here in Matthew 17:20-21. And Jesus said unto them, because of your unbelief or faithlessly, for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith, which is which means persuasion, credence, moral conviction, as a grain of a mustard seed or of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, a mountain rising, lifting itself, it's we'll get into that. remove or to change place hence to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing not even one shall be impossible or unable unto you. How be it this kind go out goeth not out by prayer but by prayer and fasting or prayers worship and fasting is absinence voluntary lack of food. My goal for this teaching is to help you recognize some areas that you may have unbelief in. There's areas we believe in, but there are areas we lack and we don't believe in. In other words, we can be a believer in Christ, but still believe a scientist talking about evolution. And I want to share this with you because I want you to understand there are areas within ourselves that we can change to better improve our lives and and help us get closer with God. And sometimes we need to recognize this. Now, to put context into this opening scripture here, just know that this is where the disciples were unable to cast out a demon. And so, they had to give this one over to Jesus. And they asked Jesus, "Why couldn't we cast out the demons?" And he says, "You have no belief. You're you're you're lacking belief. You you don't believe. If you have faith, which is the word faith there means to persuade, credence, moral conviction. You're going to see that in this message. How to convince God you got faith. So, this is a very good message and I want you to grasp a hold of this. Um, and that mountain because when you say this unto your mountain, and a mountain is rising, lifting itself, it's it's like a an issue or a situation that keeps getting bigger and bigger and looms right over you. you know, mountain versus a molehill. It's really a molehill or it isn't even a mountain for most people, but for you it is. Well, this is if you have faith, you can take that mountain and move it from here to there. And that's what Jesus is pointing out to the disciples. And of course, he had to go further because he wanted them to understand that this type of demon is cast out through prayer and fasting. Prayer is worship, meaning you got to worship the Lord. And fasting is abstinence or voluntary lack of food. And sometimes we need to fast. Sometimes we need to worship the Lord. And here's the thing is a lot of people worship the Lord at church, but you don't see them worshiping the Lord in their home. So part of your home activities with the Lord, not just staying in the secret place, but yes, being in the secret place, but you need to have your worship music on. you need to be worshiping because that's what's going to give you the authority and the power to overcome it. Also, there's something about worship and I I I want I've been wanting to teach on this for some time and maybe I'll get into it finally, but I'm not going to do it in this message. But there's something deep inside that happens when you're worshiping the Lord. Amen. All right. Now, there are three I'm going to identify three character traits here in this teaching. There are probably many more. I'm just going with three. I've got to watch my um time on my teaching. I don't want to get too too long. But look, I'm identifying three traits. So, one is no trust. Second, believe the lie instead of the truth. And the third is disobedience. So, these are three traits of unbelief that I'm going to talk about in this message. No trust. Okay, let's start with no trust. Hm. Let's see what the scripture has to say about it. And then we'll I'll go delve into this deeply. Let's start with Proverbs 3:5 and 6. Trust. And the word trust there is be confident, sure, and bold. And who do you trust? In the Lord. Who do you have your confidence in? In the Lord. Who are you sure of? Who do you boldly have confidencees? Is in the Lord. With all thine heart. Your heart is your feelings, your will, your intellect. and lean not unto thine own understanding or your own knowledge. Let's let's stop there for a moment because I want you to get a hold of what this is talking about. You know how you sometimes get a little scratchy throat? As you can tell, I got a little bit going on real right here. And sometimes you say, "Well, yeah, I think I'm coming down with cold. Um, yeah, I think I'm going to be sick." And here's the thing is you you don't have to be. And in fact, this is where I'm at right now. Uh we're we're being spiritually attacked right now. But you know what? I gave it to the Lord and I'm going to keep moving and doing my thing. So the devil's having no effect on me whatsoever. But here's the thing. When you think you're going to get sick, and you know you are. Here's the thing. He says, don't lean on your own knowledge. I remember one time um this is after CO uh this I had gotten CO in that December. So, this is a few months later, probably around May, give or take, and I needed to do a day travel to Los Angeles for my work. And I was going to be traveling on Tuesday. This was a Monday, and I was working from home that Monday. And I had a fever. And I remember taking a nap during my lunchtime. And I'm thinking, I don't have time to be sick because especially after the time of COVID, this is still that that point if you're running a fever, you're doing this. that I'm thinking, "Oh god, you know, I need to go on this day trip. I needed to do this. This was for my career." And I'm like, "I need to do this. I can't just wimp out and say, "Well, now I'm sick. Forget it." No, no, no. I had to go. So, I just told my body, I told the Lord, I told anyone who was willing to listen, I'm not sick. I don't have time to be sick. You know, I got up that next morning, had no fever, went and did my thing, and I moved on, and I never got sick. And that's what the scriptur is trying to teach us is that we don't have to accept what we think we know. We can actually change it. Well, that's part of trust. Do you trust in the Lord's healing, in the Lord's knowledge, in the Lord and the scriptures that he tells us, or do we trust in what we think we know? Because it it is a fact. We would get sick. But we don't have to. And there's the part that we don't know. And this is why the scripture clearly tells us, don't lean on our own knowledge. Don't lean on our own understanding. Verse six, in all thy ways, and that's your road, your course of life, acknowledge. And what that word acknowledge means to know, observe, care, recognize him and he shall direct or straighten even right thy path which is your welltrodden road or caravan. He's going to keep you on the right road. Keep you on the right straight path because you're acknowledging because you know, you observe, you care, you recognize him. You're putting him first. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all the and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33. Very, very important that we understand what the scriptur is telling us. These are different tactics than what we're used to. Because see, we walk in the flesh. We see the flesh. We know the flesh. But what we have to learn to know is the spirit. So, how do you know what the spirit is and what the spirit is going on? You've got to find out in the scriptures. And the more time you spend with God in the secret place, the more he teaches you how to overcome and fight this. You know, as you watch my teachings, and I've been doing this for now a handful of years, several years, and what you're seeing is my progressiveness, my progression in the Lord. You can see the strength improvement, the more overcoming and the more spiritual awareness I'm become, which is allowing me to teach better than what I had done in the past. Amen. So, how do you do? So, let's continue on with scripture to see what else it says. Romans 15:12, and again, Isaiah, which is Isaiah, saith, there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to rain over to be first. That's what reign over. Be first seek ye first the kingdom of God. the Gentiles. In him shall the Gentiles trust or to expect and confide in him. So let's read this again and again. Isas saith there shall be a root of Jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles. And he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles. In him shall the Gentiles trust. That's what we are. If you're a believer in Christ and you were not born and raised in the Jewish community, you are adopted into the Jewish community because you became a believer in Christ. Christ is Jewish. Okay? Jesus is Jew. And so, we become adopted into that community. So, we're part of that, but we're called Gentiles because we're technically foreigners to we we weren't born in it, but we're adopted. And as far as God's concerned, we're part of that. Amen. So he's saying Paul as he's writing this in the Romans, he's saying that there's going to be a group of people that are going to trust the Lord. That's prophecy over you and me today. Trusting in the Lord with what we have. Hallelujah. Keep that in mind that this is what has been prophesied over us to trust. So do you want to fulfill prophecy and trust in the Lord? So you got to realize that you don't know everything. You don't understand everything. But if you trust in God, he will provide the everything that you're missing. Amen. Amen. So that's bullet number one. That's trust. Now let's look at a second character trait that I'm identifying as part of unbelief. And that's to believe the lie versus the truth. And that's kind of crazy. So let's look at this. We're going to go into 2 Thessalonians 2:11. And for this cause God shall send or dispatch them strong delusion, which is an energetic fraudulence that they should believe or have faith in a lie, a falsehood. There's a lot of people that currently believe a lie right now and they're not believing the truth and they can't understand how we're not believing with them. Seriously, just take a look at Trump. There are people that are so baffled by the people, you know, that support Trump. They just can't figure it out. They think that we're believing the lie when it's actually the opposite. And they just don't understand that. And so, what do you do? You know, these are people you've got to pray for because we need to pray for that. But this is why I'm trying to show you how to recognize that if you're under a strong delusion or not. So, let's continue on in scripture. We're going to break this down here. 2 Thessalonians 2:es 1-3. Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come except there shall there come a falling away first. and that man of sin be revealed, the son of predition. Now, the reason I wanted to read it that way without the extra words is I wanted you guys to understand and see how this this um deception kind of works. The Thessalonians thought the rapture already happened. And so Paul is trying to explain to them, listen, it hasn't happened yet. You see, communication back then was very challenging and difficult and it could take months before you heard news of anything. So, they were confused in that moment. And so, Paul was writing to them to diffuse that. Well, even today, look at what our media is doing. Um, they're obstructing us. They're trying to keep things from us. This is why I added one of the new empowering prayers to pray for journalists and the media outlets and the media outputs because we need truth in this. And if you notice, there are some um news articles that are coming through that are saying, "Well, if you don't believe in God, I saw one journalist actually, cannot believe he said this." He goes, "You have to know there has to be a God." And I mean, he flat out said that in a a news story that he was talking about, but this is the deception that's going on. In other words, we should be able to see it. So, for example, using evolution again, I I don't know why I'm using that, but I think it's very pertinent. If you go see Ken Ham's ministry, uh, Gen Answers in Genesis, or you see the Creation Museum, or you go see the replica of the of Noah's Arc in Kentucky over there. Very powerful teachings that he's got coming through there to help you understand what the scientific community is doing and why they do what they do. Well, you know, some pastors fell for un because to them, you know, we trust our scientists. Here comes that trust factor of unbelief. This is where we have to be very careful. We think the scientists are doing their due diligence to be good for the world, to show how the world operates. But little do they know, when they don't have Christ in them, they're being manipulated by the demonic spiritual influences that are around in the world. Amen. So here they brought in the teaching of evolution been brought in um well well before Darwin but they've been bringing it in and it got popular at that time which there was a lot of people doing demonic stuff in the the 1800s there but anyways it's historical stuff if you want to go check it out but this teaching came out pastors tried to make it fit into the Bible into Genesis and into well maybe it took this long for God to get to Adam and Eve. No, the Bible has nothing. It says nothing about evolution. Your rock, your foundation should always be the Bible first. So if you hear a trusted scientist say something that just you you you have to stop and you go, "Well, is that in the Bible?" You need to think this way. You need to learn to say, "Wait a minute. Is it in the Bible?" If it's in the Bible, then maybe it's right. Let me see what the Bible says. And then you compare it to the Bible. But if the Bible says nothing about it, it ain't in the Bible. And that's where this deception comes in. And you have to be very careful. Especially like uh homosexuality. People are like, well, they love each other. Love trumps everything. It's got to be good. And the Bible clearly says it's not. It's it's an abomination to God. So whether you understand that or accept it, then what you have to do to say, "Lord, I don't understand what's going on, but I'm going to be obedient to you. You said it's bad. You said it's an abomination. I'm going to believe you and trust in you." But what a lot of Christians tend to do is, "Well, I think it's right. Forget what God says. I'm going to do what I think is right." Which by the way is where disobedience comes in which is another part of unbelief. But I need you to see how if you are not allowing uh the scripture to come in and be a part of your life and look how how Paul says it here in Romans. He's he's interrogating. He's requesting of the pe of the Thessalonians. He says, "Brethren, by coming of the Lord Jesus and by our gathering together," he's talking about the um rapture that ye be not briefly shaken. See, they were shaken, which is wavered or they agitated. Look, in their intellect intellectually they're thinking it happened because they seduced by that because it seemed convincing whatever they heard that was telling them this. It sounds seductive and truthful that evolution makes sense, but when you actually come down to the nitty-gritty of it, how many vessels go into the eye? If we had to evolve, you would have one vessel, maybe two, maybe three. There's like billions of vessels that come into the eye. One eye. That's one eye. And if oh you got all those vessels in there how did the eye survive with only five? It didn't because that's not how it happened. So we have to be very careful. So the intellect has to be settled with God or see and the intellect was shaken and troubled. Look at this. They they were wailing frightened. But look at this. He says that you not be uh uh shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word. Oh, maybe that was Holy Spirit telling me something. Well, is it in the Bible? The Holy Spirit will always confirm the Bible. There's nothing new coming out of the word of God. If there's anyone like a prophet coming out saying, "Well, I have a word from the Lord that is timely." It should still be a scripture in the Bible because God's not talking anything new anymore. It's in the Bible. Now, he talks to us with dreams and visions, but everything he says has a root in the Bible. You have to believe that. You have to understand that. And then he says, "Nor by letter from us as that the day of Christ is at hand." And then he says, "Let no man deceive." Look at what the word deceive means. seduce, holy, beguile, which is what I was referring to a moment ago. You see, we cannot Oh, that sounds so appealing. Maybe that is right. Is it in the Bible? You have to be able to understand the Bible and uh seduce, holy, beg you by any means, any It could be an article. It could be them talking to you. For that day shall not come because I'm using this as an example. But look at what he's telling you. He's telling you boldly. There's going to be a fall away, a fall falling away, a defection from truth. Are you in that truth right now? Are or are you not believing that truth? Because see, if you're Look at this. It says, "For that day shall not come except there come a falling away, defection of truth." He's talking about the day of rapture. Don't be deceived and think it already happened if the falling away hasn't happened. And by the way, if you're taking a look at the unbelievers right now and people who are caught up in this deception, you will know that the falling away is beginning to happen. That's where we are in the timeline of end time events. Uh and verse and that man of sin be revealed. So uh take off the cover, disclose the son of predition. That is what's going to happen. So that's what's coming and that has not happened yet. This is that part of believing a lie versus the truth. So if you can get to the root of the word of God, you will always be in truth. You've got to stay at the root of the word of God. Now the third character trait that I'm identifying in this message is disobedience. By the way, having no faith is disobedience, which means you've got to have your belief. Unbelief is no faith. So, if you're going to have belief, you've got to have faith. Faith is what make makes things work. But let me show you in in an event that happened in Jesus day. We're going to read Matthew 8 5-10 and verse 13. And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a a centurion, beseeching or calling near, inviting him, and saying,"Lord, my servant lith at home sick of the Pauly grieviously," which is terribly excessive, tormented. He's in torture and pain. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal, which means adore, relieve, cure him. The centurion answered and said, 'Lord, I'm not worthy or competent, fit, or able that thou shouldest come under my roof. But speak, just say the word. The word meaning said, including your thought only. Just say the word and my servant shall be made whole. For I am under I am a man under authority. I have privilege, force, capacity, freedom. I have sold having soldiers under me. And I say to this man, go and he goeth. And to another, come and he cometh. and to my servant, do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marveled. He wondered. He admired this guy and said to them that followed, to the crowd around him, basically, "Verily, I say unto you, I have not found so great a vast faith." Look what that word faith means. Persuasion, credence, moral conviction. Know not in Israel. And then in verse 13 he says, "And Jesus said unto the centur, go thy way. And as and as thou hast believed, you had your faith, your credit, so be it done unto thee." And his servant was healed or made whole in the selfsame hour. Now, let's go back real quick. I want you to see something very powerful here. Says, "Faith, I did not go back far enough. Let's go back on my screen." Uh, let's see here. Oh my faith. Look at this right here. The word faith, persuasion, credence, moral conviction. That centurion told Jesus, "Listen, I understand you. You know, I have the servant of the sick. I I need him healed." And he's basically saying, "Listen, I know you're a man of authority and you have servants who work for you. And I have I'm a man of authority. I have to report to those higher than me, but I also have people who do my work for me. And basically, I understand the chain of command. And he says, when I tell my servants to do something, they do it. They have to. There's punishment when they don't do it. Same thing with Jesus. He's got his servants who work, they do whatever Jesus tells them to. All the angels will follow Jesus. Demons have to do what Jesus says. There's authority here. So, the the centurion is convincing Jesus, I know what you got. All you have to do is say the word and my servant's going to be healed because you don't have to come to my house. And that's what this word faith means. Persuade, credence, moral conviction. You need to convince Jesus why you think his word should come and and and heal like this centurion did. This is powerful because this tells you what faith is. Which is by the way, when you don't believe, you have no faith. So when you believe, you have faith. But you got to convince Jesus what your faith is made up of. Do you understand the authority he has? Do you believe the authority he has? Are you actually realizing how powerful Jesus is? Have you put aside your unbelief? Do you even recognize that you don't believe? There are things in the world we don't understand. I get that. There's things I don't understand. I don't know this whole Bible. I know very, very little. And that's just enough for me. And again, these teachings are more for me than they are for you. But I'm glad you're joining me in this journey of a lifetime to get to know Jesus and to have belief and to have faith and to be made whole. Hallelujah. This is Jesus. This is whom we serve. So, do we have that belief? Can you put that aside? Because what do you do to do that to help you with that? Let's go to Proverbs. Proverbs 18:10. The name of the Lord is a strong force security tower like a castle or a pulpit or a rostrom. If you don't know what a rostroom or rostroom is, at any platform stage for public speaking, the righteous runth rush run or to make haste run into it and is safe. They're lofty and inacceptable. This is why birds or squirrels, they put their nests so high because they're trying to keep things that can't climb from getting to their offspring. Eagles, they way up there. They put their nest way up there because these are things for safety purposes. So for your safety, for your belief to be strong, you need to be running into the tower, which is your secret place with the Lord. This is where you enter into his presence. You enter into his rightness. You start talking to God and say, "Lord, I need your help with this." There is another scripture that says the centurion came up to him says, "I I believe, but I need you to help me with my unbelief. it. All it takes is going to God and saying, "Lord, I don't understand it." You know, help me understand. And I promise you, if you truly are seeking an answer from the Lord, and you open up the Bible because you prayed about it, you open up the Bible because remember, there's no new words spoken. So, everything you need is in there. You open it up. It doesn't matter where you open it up. You It opens up to a page that you go, "Oh." And he answers what you just asked. And you're blown away. That's how God talks with us. One way of talking with us, he talks with us in many ways. Let's continue on in Ephesians. Ephesians 5 and 6 and verse 11. For this ye you know that no whoreonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man who is an idoltor hath any inheritance, he airship possession in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive, cheat you, or delude you with vain empty words. Remember we were showing how seductive and how you know it you reason it in your mind. You hear what they say, man. Yeah, that evolution seems to make sense, you know, but it's on the surface. You got to check it. You got to go to the Bible and check it. So, this is what Paul is telling us in the Ephesians. Let no man cheat you to lead you with vain empty words. For because of these things cometh the wrath, the violent passion of God upon the children of what? Disobedience. Look at this. Disbelief, unbelief, and have no fellowship. You do not co-articipate. Don't co-articipate with unfruitful, barren works of darkness, shadiness, obscurity, but rather reprove or prove to be false. Admonish them. It's like someone's trying to convince you about evolution and you say, "Well, what about the Bible says nothing about it and they say,"Well, you know, the Bible isn't been proven true. It's never been proven false." You can convincingly show them, hey, well, it doesn't make any sense. Especially when you know the medical anatomy, you know enough to say, hey, you know what? I'm an intellectual individual and I can reason within myself. Do you really think that a pool of

drudge, whatever it is that got put together made me an intellectual being? No, no, no. There's something else that had to have made me. You see, now you're reasoning and you're putting it back on them to prove. And of course they can't prove it because it's not biblical. It's not real. This is what we do as righteous being. This is how we keep ourselves safe. This is how we enter in. So question I have for you is do you recognize any of these traits within yourself? Are you having trouble trusting? Are you having trouble believing the lie? Or are you just simply not being able to reason to Jesus, to God whom you're supposed to be praying to? Are you not able to reason in your prayer that I should be healed? You know, maybe you're living in so much sin that you can't even tell God, I I've been doing good, Lord. I shouldn't be sick. By the way, that's really non-scriptural. Look at Job the righteous man and what he went through. But it doesn't matter. See whether you're sick or you see when you are choosing God first, whatever happens at you, you just say I already know God's got it. See, I just taught enter into his rest. So I just enter into his rest now and say, "Ah, he's got it. I don't have to worry about it." This is the power of God. recognize what you're dealing with on the inside and pray and and start with forgiveness. Forgive yourself and ask God to forgive you. Always start with that. And you say, "Well, I' I've repented before. I I don't need to do it again. Job repented for his children every time they had a party." Trust me, if they if Job can do that, you and I can. You know, one of our nightly prayers before we go to bed, my husband and I always repent before the Lord. You just never know. I I want to be right standing with God and I don't want even anything. Go read the seven letters to the churches in Revelation. Jesus identified things they did that was good, but then he would say something like, "But I still have this against you." Well, I don't want God to find anything against me, but I'm in the flesh and I recognize that and I understand that I'm going to do stupid things because that's what we do as humans. But God gave us his salvation. And he says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things and his righteousness and all these things shall be added. And his righteousness is to build your faith. Get yourself into obedience. That way you are operating in the status of belief and that you are not in unbelief because unbelief is sin." And if you didn't know that, you just learned something new today. I'm hoping this message will help you recognize things and I'm hoping it will help you pray through it and help you change those things that are within you so that you are walking in belief. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we thank you for the anointing of your word. We thank you for your awesomeness and your gloriousness, for the power of your word and and for your amazing amazing grace. Thank you, Father God. May we learn from this and operate in belief. And may we start operating in faith and be able to convince you why we're operating in faith. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father God. Amen and amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye.