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DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE CLEANSED IN CHRIST? To help believers understand the power of Christ’s cleansing work, emphasizing that transformation begins with His spoken word and continues through abiding in Him. This teaching aims to show how abiding in Christ produces lasting fruit, develops love, and brings believers into a deeper relationship with Him. DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE CLEANSED IN CHRIST? Minister Lisa Kane January 12, 2025 Objective: To help believers understand the power of Christ’s cleansing work, emphasizing that transformation begins with His spoken word and continues through abiding in Him. This teaching aims to show how abiding in Christ produces lasting fruit, develops love, and brings believers into a deeper relationship with Him. Synopsis: This message explores John 15:1–17, where Jesus describes Himself as the true vine and believers as branches. The teaching highlights how salvation brings immediate cleansing through Christ’s spoken word, but also how ongoing transformation occurs as we abide in Him. Believers are reminded that cleansing is not something we accomplish by ourselves; it is the continual work of Christ purging old habits, renewing the heart, and producing fruit. Abiding in Christ means maintaining a living relationship with Him—through prayer, worship, and immersion in His word. From this abiding flow the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These fruits not only bless the believer but also serve as a testimony to others, drawing them to Christ. The teaching also emphasizes the necessity of pruning, the process by which God removes what hinders spiritual growth. Though pruning may be painful, it results in greater fruitfulness and joy. Love is central to this abiding relationship: Jesus commands believers to love one another with the same benevolent and affectionate love He has shown. Ultimately, believers are reminded that they are chosen and ordained by Christ to bear fruit that remains. Through His word, His cleansing, and His abiding presence, Christians are empowered to walk in transformation, resist sin, and live in joy as true friends of Jesus. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this teaching on January 12th, 20125. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for bringing the knowledge of your salvation and what it has done to our hearts and to our minds that we may stand faithful, true, strong on your name, on the firm foundation that you have laid for us. Thank you, Father God. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Welcome. I'm glad you can join us today. So, this is going to be a very interesting new teaching. very very basic, very simple, but at the same time very powerful. I love that. This is called, "Do you know you're cleansed in Christ?" Oh, let's bring some knowledge to our minds today, shall we? So, starting here in John 15:es 1-2. This is our opening scriptures. I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman or that word husbandman means land worker, farmer. Verse two, every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgth, or to cleanse, prune it that it may bring forth more fruit. So when we're talking about being cleansed in Christ, let's get some knowledge here. When you become saved, you change exponentially. sometimes slowly through time, sometimes instantaneously, but there's always a transformation that takes place at being a believer in Christ and abiding in him and you know getting to know him as much as he's getting to know you as you let him get to know you. So there's this abiding factor, dwelling factor between you and Christ and Christ in you and it cleanses you. It purges you. It it gets rid of things. And let me just simply make a statement here that I thought was very fascinating. I heard this from uh pastor at the Bendy Canyon Church. He said, "We tolerate the dislikes within us and we don't deal with them. So, we're not expuning them. We're not getting rid of them. We tolerate. We put up with. We don't want to make those efforts and changes in our lives that we need to make." But here's the interesting part is Christ is already doing that change in you every moment of every day. So here we can trust in Christ that who began a good work is going to finish a good work in us. Amen. So let's go to verse three. We're going to be here in John 15 for the most part. Um let let's break this down. So here verse three. Now you're clean or pure through the word something that said which I have spoken unto you. Let me explain how I do the scriptures in case you're new. I'm putting King James version scriptures up here. The word that's in bold is the King James version uh word that was translated from either Hebrew or Greek. In this case, Greek because this is the New Testament. And then the words in parentheses are other definitions or other words the translator could have used in lie of that first word. So, um it's kind of like an amplified Bible thing. I am adding these extra words in, but it's so I can give you the fullness of what that scripture means. And I am not using the Amplified version. I'm using the King James version because I want you to see the definition of what it was meant at the time of translation. I hope that makes sense. So, let's go here to verse three again. Now, you're clean or pure through the word something said which I have spoken unto you. If you follow any of my teachings, I have taught exponentially on speaking the word over your life. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord. So, you're constantly saying Jesus is Lord. Jesus is Lord over cancer. Jesus is Lord over my mind. Well, here Jesus spoke a word unto us. He says you're clean because of that spoken word. He blessed us and he caused us to be clean. So he's saying, "I've already done that for you." I know that a lot of churches and a lot of preachers and a lot of pastors teach on we've got to get ourselves clean. Well, Jesus did that for us and we just need to let him do it. Let it transform us. If you're somebody who has a habit of using God's name in vain or speaking foul language or anything of that nature, what happens is the moment you become a believer, you're things start to change. You realize first I shouldn't be speaking in that. I shouldn't be saying those words. then um you you use it less and eventually you can go by and you'll look back and go, "Man, I haven't said any of those bad words in a long time." That is how transformation in Christ takes place. But it there's a there's a a start to it. Jesus spoke a word over you and he cleansed you. So when you become a believer and you think, man, I am so messed up still or the devil is doing this against me or making me do this or whatever, good news is Jesus cleansed you from the get-go. You are cleansed, pured, because he spoke a word over you. Now he does add on to that in verse four. He says, "Abide." That word abide by the way means to stay, continue, dwell, endure, be present, stand, tarry in me. Abide in me and I in you. How do you do something like this? You need to have a relationship with him. We do have and and remember how Ecclesiastes is spoken and written, there's a time for this, there's a time for that. Well, you need to set your time aside to abide in him, Jesus. And and there's multiple ways to do it. You can do it all at once or bit pieces, however, but praise and worship music, put some on and just give him the holy praise that he deserves. Amen. Um sometimes just opening up the word of God and just looking at it going, "Oh, let him talk to you." And sometimes we got so much on our chest that we just cry to get it out. And when you're crying, that is purging all of the hurt, the pain, the suffering, that's also abiding in God. Amen. Amen. So he says, "Abide in me and I in you." Because he's meeting you there. You're right there with him. Especially if you're reading the word because now it's coming inside of you. But that's a spoken word that is written down. He was the flesh of the word of God. He and it got written down by different authors and his words abiding in you. But it only abides in you if you open it and you read it. He spoke a cleansing word over you. You need to receive that cleansing word. You need to abide in that cleansing word. You need to hear it. You need to listen to it. You need to obey the Holy Spirit because in that is where you're going to see that transformation take place. So, if you've got one foot in the world, meaning nobody at your job or nobody outside of church knows you're a Christian, you have a problem. and you're wondering why things aren't happening the way you hoped there. God should be shaking your life right now and getting you awake and telling you, "I need you to abide in me." Let's have a relationship. Amen. So he says, "Abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in me." Very important here. What of fruit are we talking about? You have fruit of the goodness that can come out of you and then you have fruit of bringing someone to the Lord. So the the uh the fruit of the spirit is joy, love, peace, gentleness, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and kind uh self-control. You have the fruit, and you can go look it up. It's in Galatians 5:22 and 23. I should have brought it here. I did not. But I'm going to allow you to do a little bit of homework here and I want you to go look them up. These fruits should be coming out of you because you're abiding in the word. And abiding is a continuous ongoing thing that needs repetition. Once a week is not repetition. If you're going to church once a week, it's not enough. Actually, one of the reasons that we do this ministry is to supplement what you're getting at your church because your pastor can only teach you what he's teaching the entire congregation and his congregation is moving in the direction that the Lord has given him and that's what he's going to teach. But you as an individual have more. You do more. You're part of this. You're a branch of Jesus. And as a branch of the vine, you need to be bearing more fruit. This is how you can bear more fruit of love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness. This is how you build your self-control. It is the abiding in him. And what's happening is as that is manifesting, it's changing you. You are becoming a different person. So he says and and otherwise if you're not doing that, you cannot bear that fruit. You can act like you're good. You know, things happen to people all the time. And one of the questions that is asked is why did this bad thing happen to this good person? That good person was so good that they fooled you. I'm not saying they weren't uh good. They probably were, but we don't know the heart of that person. Only God does. So whatever that circumstance is between that person and God, we shouldn't even be asking. should be asking, am I being filled with the fruit of the spirit? Am I bearing the right fruit? Am I being fruitful to bring people to the Lord? Draw them in, water them, nurture them. Remember, as he's describing himself as the vine and where the branches, take a look at how Adam was created. He's dirt. He was made from dirt. Eve was an extension of that being made from the rib. Well, then a seed is planted in us soil. And that seed needs to get water. We get water baptized. We come up to germinate and keep the seed growing. We need to be in the light of the word. That's where we get our sunlight, the Jesus light, s light if you will. We also get watered and nurtured through the living word of God, the spoken word of God. And this is how we begin to grow branches. And we begin to have fruit. And by the way, the fruit that comes off of the branch, the love, the joy, the peace, all of that fruit is to be partaken from or of from others. They come take the fruit off of our branches and they partake. They like your pen. It's so neat that you show love. It's so neat that you have joy considering what you're going through. is so neat. You're setting an example and you're simply telling him, I abide in the word of God. My foundation is the name of Jesus. He is whom I am dwelling in and this is the manifestation of him. Hallelujah. That is so neat. So he says, I am, this is going on to verse five, I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth, here's that word abideth again, to stay, continue, dwell, endure, be present, stand here in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. You see, you cannot show love without having Christ in you. And I will show that in scripture here in just a moment. You cannot uh you think um by showing love let's say to uh someone who has uh done evil. You can love them through spirit. You can't love them physically. It it is a physically impossible thing for a non-believer to like or love that person because they don't have the spirit of God in them. So they're looking at that person and that person's evil. Oh, that person needs, you know, but when you have Christ in you and abiding you, you begin to love people like that because Jesus loves them just as much as he loves me. Jesus loves you just as much as he loves me. Is that awesome? That was just so neat. But you can't have that if you're not dwelling in the vine. You got to be hooked up to the vine. And and how does a branch get fed by the vine? It's a continuous feed of the nutrients and the liquid through the veining between the vine and the branch on the inside. So you need to get your veins connected to Jesus so you're fed continuously. Oh, what a powerful analogy there. Verse six, if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered. You ever look at a person and they look like the walking dead? They're a dead person walking. They just look so dried up. They're so miserable on the inside. And in fact, it shocks you every once in a while when you see them smile and you're just like, "Where did that come from?" Well, here is the the whole analogy of this. When you are not walking with Christ, you look dead, sad. You look like it's the end of the world. We just had we're having the those fires in Los Angeles right now and seeing the people who lost their homes and the pain and the suffering they're going through. They're grieving. They're in pain. They're they but they look like they're dead. In fact, withered, dried up branches burn easily than someone who is filled with the anointing, the veining of Christ Jesus. Big difference. So it says if a uh a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them to lead together collect convene and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned. You see men are the ones who are going to throw you and cast you out. The way that men will know you is by your fruit. They will know you by your fruit. So, if you're in church playing church and there's a group and you're there part of that group and you're meeting and somebody says, "Well, maybe we should pray uh have a prayer meeting here and meet on Tuesday nights or whatever." You might be saying, "Well, uh, that sounds great, but shouldn't we do that on our own?" You see, you are the one interjecting the fruit of what's inside of you. Here a church trying to pray more as a gathering where two or three are gathered and here you're trying to isolate it by dividing and dividing comes from Satan. That is fruit and you can see it in people. It's very identifiable. You will know them by their fruit. So continuing on to verse 7, it says if you abide in me, here he is again talking about dwelling in him. You abide in me and my words abide in you. We know in Romans 10:9 that it says that if you confess Jesus is Lord. If you confess with your mouth, that's what happens. You're confessing the word of God. He's saying and my words abide in you. If they're in here, so if you see something happening, you need to pray for somebody or a situation, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. You start speaking the word of God because that word is abiding in you and it starts to manifest and bubble out. That's your fruit and people see it, recognize it, hear and know that you are truly a branch in the vine of Christ. You're veining in with Christ. Amen. So it says uh if you abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask. That word to ask means to beg, call for, crave, desire, require. Says, "Ye shall ask what ye will or what your determination is and it shall be done unto you." If you are determined about something that is of the will of God, it is of scripture. I guarantee and promise you that if you're asking him for it, he is going to give it to you. Now, that doesn't mean you're not going to ever have any sufferings in your life or you're never going to be sad or anything of that nature, but he will answer your prayers. And sometimes the answer isn't what we really were expecting because he's got something better planned for you. Amen. But this is part of abiding in him. And as you abide more and you're more pruned, because that's what's happening to fruit that is bearing or a branch that is bearing fruit, you are pruned. You have to be pruned. Meaning there are cuts. You're going to hurt it. It stings. But you learn from that. And that fruit begins to manifest. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Verse 8, herein is my father glorified or honored, magnified that ye bear much fruit. So shall ye be my disciples or your learner, the learner pupil. So all of this is to glorify the father because we glorify Jesus who is of the father and when we know Jesus we know the father and John talks about that in depth. So this is all to the point of glorifying the father. You dwelling in him. You calling on his name. You speaking his word. He goes to his glory and people know it. Recognize it and see the fruit. They recognize the cleansing that's taking place in you because you're walking in that cleansing and it's manif manifesting. That's awesome. And this is you're learning. You're a pupil. This is how you become a disciple of Christ is your learning. That's what disciples mean. Verse nine, as a father hath loved me, so have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. I want you to see something here is very very important. As the father hath loved, that word love is a different love than what we've seen in the past. It's a dative love, accusative kind of love because the father sees us. He knows what he what we're doing. But it's also a social moral obligation kind of love that Jesus always asks us to do. But when you see what Jesus did and what the word love there means says uh so I so have I loved you which is the same loved as the first one and then this third love continue ye in my love that love means affection benevolence difference. You see, when you have a baby and you bring home your baby, you are obligated to take care of that baby. And you may not have the affection and the benevolence of that for that baby yet. And you may have it right away, but sometimes it takes a little bit more for some people. But as you go throughout the years and then that baby grows up and they give you attitude or they tell you, "I hate you or anything of that nature," you're still obligated. That that's your child. You're still obligated or have that love. You still need to take care of them. You still have to take the upper road, the higher road, the moral, the sense, the obligation. You have that Jesus has done that, but he also did it out of affection and benevolence. The teaching of love through the scriptures is so powerful. It's amazing. I don't want to go down that rabbit hole, but I want you to see the difference here of what he's talking about. And then he continues on in verse 10. If you keep my commandments, that word commandment means authoritative prescription. You know, when Jesus says this, do in remembrance of me, when he's talking about holy communion, every time you take holy communion and brings you back to the cross, you repent, you you come back to Christ, you remember what he did on the cross, you take the broken bread, you drink the wine. As soon as you do that, it places you back in a right standing of good health. Because who is our healer? Jehovah uh Jehovah Rafa Jehovah Gyrus uh Jesus is our provider God our provider Jehovah Rafa God our healer he is our healer so he's saying if you keep my commandments which is authoritative prescription you are under his prescription he's written you a doctor's note and you're healed I hope you're getting that it's a fascinating little little point to make here says says, "If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love." Now, see how it says here in his love, which is affection and benevolence. Now, you have the affection and the benevolent kind of love that he has for us. It had to be developed. It had to be pruned. It had to be cut. You had to go through these things in order to get to that love. Because there's more than just having a social moral obligation. There is the affection and the benevolence. And the powerful thing is I cannot see Jesus but I know he's there. That is the affection and the benevolence I have now. I can love him because I know he's there. Amen. And even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. So he's saying you keep my commandments, you're going to abide in this kind of love just like I did my father's commandments and I have his affection and benevolence. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you. And that is a cheerful cheerfulness, calm delight is what he's talking about with that joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full or leveled up. You see, when we face all of these situations, oh man, we can forget the love that he has and it hurts. It's painful. But he's saying, I'm here for you. I'm never going to leave you. I'm never going to forsake you. And because I'm in spirit, because now that he has died and risen from the grave, he's so much more. And he could be with us at all times. This is why he sent the comforter. Now coming to verse 12, this is my commandment. Again, authoritative prescription that you love one another as I have loved you. So now he's telling you as you grow in this, as you abide in me, I need you to love one another because this is your fruit. They're going to see and they're going to know. And when they know this, there it's going to draw them in. He says, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man laid down his life for his friends." Look at what that greater love is. It's the affection and benevolence. And look at what friends are. We're dear, actively fond. He is actively fond of us. So he not only calls us a social moral obligation with love, but he calls us with benevolence and uh affection. And then he says, "I'm actively fond of you." In fact, he goes on to say, "You're my friends if you do whatsoever I command you." He says, "If you I'm charging you to love one another. You keep this up. You are my dear friend." That is so neat. That is just how he's So there's this relationship from abiding in him, which he cleansed you of the old. He's purging you of the old, of the bad habits, the things that we tend to tolerate, we put up with because we don't want to change, but yet Christ is changing us anyways little by little. We may fight it tooth and nail, kicking and screaming, but the spirit is changing us. And the more we allow him to change it versus tolerating what we want to keep the sin in our lives, we want to sin, we want this, we want that. Eventually, the spirit helps us release that and let it go. And we can walk in this simply by abiding in him. If you're sinning and you think that's going to keep you from God, you know what? Just ask him to forgive you and and come back into his word. It's a battle and you just keep coming back to that word. You keep coming back and abiding in that word. You keep reading that word even though you may have tripped, you've fallen, you messed up, you sinned again, spoke foul language, whatever it is, but you came back. That's overcoming the devil because the devil keeps telling me, "Ah, you're worthless. You can't do it. You can't do it on That's right. We couldn't do it on our own. But guess what? Jesus did it for us. And I'm going to keep calling on the name of Jesus. keep abiding in him and let him fill me up because he is greater than in me than he in the world. Oh, hallelujah. I hope you guys are getting this. Verse 15, henceforth I call you not servants. You're not a slave anymore. For the servant knoweth or is where not what his lord doeth. See, we don't as a servant, you can't know what your master's doing. But because we're friends, we are says, "But I've called you friends. For all things that I have heard of my father, I have made known to you." You see, you now know what's going on from the father direct through the son because he redeemed you, he purged you, he cleansed you. Because he has spoken his word over you. You're now his friends. Which means you have the knowledge to be healed, to walk in the healing, to be overcomers. You messed up. Yeah, but you can come back. And you always come back. You always open up the word. You always pray. You're always giving him the glory. And before you know it, that's your new routine. That's what you're keeping is his commandments, his prescription, his authoritative prescription in your life. And then you wonder why everything's going so good. That's why. Hallelujah. And yes, even if bad things are happening, you're still sitting there and standing there with a a joy in your heart. That's man, Jesus is on my side because I've done this. Wow. I'm so glad, Jesus, that you've done this in my life. Oh, I hope you guys grab on to this. I hope you do. Says, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you." which all it means is have you now bowed down and kneel ordained you that ye should go forth and bring that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain. So now that fruit in you should be drawing in people who want to partake of that fruit. Oh, and they're going to take it off of your branch that whatsoever ye shall ask, cuz he's saying now, your fruit will remain and then whatever you ask, you're begging, you're calling, you're craving, desiring, requiring of the father in my name, he may give it to you simply because you have chose you're he's chosen you and you're abiding him. He's changed you. He's cleansed you. He's worked something new in you. He's purging you and you're in the process. You're like a work in progress change. Hallelujah. And verse 17, these things I command you that you love one another. So he's re-emphasizing. It is your love toward one another. The fruit that you are growing. How they're going to recognize you one, but they're also going to want to partake and they're going to ask you and you're going to have the opportunity to say, "Hey, it's because Jesus, he's my redeemer." And you know what? Even though I keep messing up, he keeps forgiving me because he loves me that much. They want to hear that. This is you bearing fruit now, bringing in the fruit and drawing in the fruit. This is the cleansing and the purging that's taking place in 1 John 1 7-9 says, "But if we walk, that's the cleansing part. That's the purging part, the abiding." This is exactly what I just read through John 15. That is walking in the Lord. Oh, hallelujah. But if we walk be occupied with in the light because that word walk means be occupied with in the light as he is in the light. We have fellowship or partnership one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth or pur purifies us from all sin. All because you keep coming back. Keep coming back. You are more than a conqueror. Keep coming back. Verse eight. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. We go astray. Uh but if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness because he spoke his word over you. So he cleansed you, purified you. You just got to keep coming back and you just got to keep reading his word, keep dwelling. If you couldn't get to it today, make it a priority for tomorrow. But come back. Keep coming back. You have already been cleansed. So now when you are asked the question, do you know if you've been cleansed? You can say, I have been because the name of Jesus is over me because he spoke his word over me. Hallelujah. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word that it does not return void. Let your word be planted in our hearts and minds so that we live it and abide in your word. we make your word a priority in our lives that we're reading it. We're dwelling with you. We're abiding you and you are abiding in us. Thank you for letting us have that beautiful relationship with you to continue to hear your voice in our hearts and minds and to know and to follow your commandments. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

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Say this prayer out loud: Precious Father in heaven in Jesus name I humbly come before You to beseech Your peace in these trouble times. I know that true peace does not depend on the abundance of things or the lack of them; true peace comes directly from You, the Prince of Peace. There is nothing that can remove the torment of paralyzing fear except the precious blood of Jesus sprinkled upon my conscience. Deliver me Oh Lord from the fear over which I have no control, the fear that overwhelms my heart. Visit my spirit I pray with the manifestation of Your undying love for me, touch my heart dear Lord right now during my hour of need. Reveal Your grace to my soul afresh every morning and let the breath of the Holy Spirit clear away the dark clouds that hover over my mind. Anoint my head with fresh oil that marks me for favor with both God and man. Also clear my eyes that I might see the wonders of all Your very precious thoughts and promises to me. AMEN!PRAY AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF FEAR PRAY AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF FEAR PRAY AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF FEAR Say this prayer out loud: Precious Father in heaven in Jesus name I humbly come before You to beseech Your peace in these trouble times. I know that true peace does not depend on the abundance of things or the lack of them; true peace comes directly from You, the Prince of Peace. There is nothing that can remove the torment of paralyzing fear except the precious blood of Jesus sprinkled upon my conscience. Deliver me Oh Lord from the fear over which I have no control, the fear that overwhelms my heart. Visit my spirit I pray with the manifestation of Your undying love for me, touch my heart dear Lord right now during my hour of need. Reveal Your grace to my soul afresh every morning and let the breath of the Holy Spirit clear away the dark clouds that hover over my mind. Anoint my head with fresh oil that marks me for favor with both God and man. Also clear my eyes that I might see the wonders of all Your very precious thoughts and promises to me. AMEN! Previous Next Home

WATCH AND PRAY WITH DILIGENCE The objective of this message is to encourage believers to remain spiritually alert, prayerful, and prepared for the return of the Lord. By studying prophetic scriptures and recognizing the signs of the times, Christians are exhorted to live soberly, guard their hearts and minds, and diligently pursue God’s presence so that they may be found worthy to escape the trials coming upon the earth. < Back WATCH AND PRAY WITH DILIGENCE Minister Lisa Kane March 20, 2022 Objective: The objective of this message is to encourage believers to remain spiritually alert, prayerful, and prepared for the return of the Lord. By studying prophetic scriptures and recognizing the signs of the times, Christians are exhorted to live soberly, guard their hearts and minds, and diligently pursue God’s presence so that they may be found worthy to escape the trials coming upon the earth. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane opens with prayer and then begins in 1 Thessalonians 5, where Paul warns that the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. The message highlights the urgency of being watchful and vigilant, contrasting spiritual wakefulness with spiritual sleep and drunkenness. Believers are urged to wear the helmet of salvation and the breastplate of faith and love, maintaining focus and purity in a world full of distractions. The sermon then explores prophetic connections, including references to Ezekiel 38–39 and Matthew 24, tying together end-time signs such as wars, earthquakes, pestilences, and the sealing of the 144,000. Jesus’ teachings about the days of Noah are emphasized—Noah received advanced warning and prepared diligently, while others ignored the signs. Similarly, Christians today must remain spiritually prepared, recognizing that while no one knows the day or hour, the season and signs are clear. Scriptures from Luke 21 and Mark 13 stress the importance of prayer and worthiness, echoed by the parable of the ten virgins, where only the prepared entered the wedding feast. Lisa warns that half of believers may miss the rapture due to lack of diligence, though still ultimately saved, they will endure great tribulation and suffering. Personal testimony illustrates the struggle with worldly distractions and the enemy’s attempts to weigh believers down with the cares of life. Yet through prayer and focus on God, victory and clarity can be found. Supporting verses from Psalms, Timothy, Hebrews, and Peter reaffirm the call to seek God diligently, present ourselves approved before Him, and remain blameless as we await Christ’s return. The message closes with an exhortation: just as people secure their homes against thieves, so too must Christians prepare for the Lord’s coming through prayer, scripture, vigilance, and faith. The reward of diligence is escaping judgment through the rapture and entering eternal peace with Christ. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this on Sunday, March 20th, 2022. This message is called Watch and Pray with Diligence. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we lift up this message to your throne room and ask for your blessing upon it. Lord, we pray and ask that we hear your word, apply your word, live your word, and acknowledge that you are God and in control of everything that you do. Thank you for your blessings and your favor upon us and your anointing. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. All right, let's go into our first set of scriptures here. We're going to start with First Thessalonians chapter 5. We're going to read verses 1-1. I will stop in between, but let's get started. But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. I want to pause. The day of the Lord is an interesting day. Now you can go through the scriptures. There is a lot of information about the day of the Lord. A lot of things are going to happen and I do believe it's in a particular order. So it does start with Russia invading uh Israel and then God protecting Israel. this great earthquake takes place, the sun goes dark, um the moon turns red. So, there's these activities. Um the ceiling of the 144,000 take place, and then of course the bride of Christ is resurrected, um raptured up. So, there's a lot of things that happen on the day of the Lord. So, Paul is talking to the Thessalonians saying, "Okay, I want you to pay attention here. You're not going to know the days or the time." Watch how he says this. He says uh concerning the times and the seasons, brother, you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. And we got to remember this term thief. And I'm really going to address that in this message because this message about watching and praying diligently is about being prepared. You're going to love this. So let's continue on with the scriptures. Uh so verse three, for when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman and they shall not escape. Labor pains is what uh Jesus describes as Matthew describes in Matthew 24. And when you start hearing about rumors of wars and wars and earthquakes and famines, pestilences all over the place, which we are in that right now, that is being fulfilled as we teach this message, then you're you you see that this scripture aligns with that. So, this is all about the day of the Lord, and the day of the Lord triggers all of this event. So, he's talking about this to the Thessalonians. Let's continue on. Verse four. But you, brethren, are not in darkness. so that this day should overtake you as a thief. Again, we're going to be talking about being how thieves work. We're gonna we're going to look at that here in just a moment. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober. That's powerful. We're going to get into that here in just a moment. I want to finish the set of scriptures here. Let's look at verse seven. Uh oops, there we go. For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us. That whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Therefore, comfort each other and edify one another just as you also are doing. Okay, I want to back up here and go here. Okay, there we go. Okay, you can see this is going to be one of those teachings. So, look at this. He says, "Sleep at night, drunk at night, and we're of the day. We need to be sober." So, now take a look at this. He says, "The breastplate of faith and love." I did a whole series on being a soldier in God's army and wearing the helmet of salvation. The helmet of salvation is your covenant with Jesus. And that covenant binds his protection, the helmet, over your head and keeps the worldly thoughts and ideologies out of your head so that your head can stay focused on what the scripture tells us. So here he's saying, not only do you have your hope of salvation by wearing that helmet, but look, he's also talking about breastplate of faith and love. And faith is something we hope for that we cannot see. So all of this has to do with prophecy. Here we are again talking about prophecy. The day of the Lord has not happened yet and everything it describes has not happened. Ezekiel 38 and39 when it talks about the invasion of Russia and then that great earthquake says every wall falls. That has not happened. So that's coming. So this has everything to do with faith. So you've got to keep your mind. So he's telling you where to keep your mind. And then of course including love. And remember Matthew 24 prophesies that love grows cold. So us believers have to maintain that love. So now I want to show you what he's talking about with the mind because I think if you see how the descriptions of what he's saying about the mind, you're going to understand something very carefully here. So here he says um and we're going to look at focus on verse six here in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. Therefore let us not sleep as others do but let us watch. Look at what the Greek word watch means to keep awake. That is to watch literally or figuratively. Be vigilant. Ah, vigilant. Okay. So, we're going to be having to stay in the word. We have to keep an action to stay awake. Now, let's look at what the sleep portion of this is. So, let me get to the sleep. Here we go. Same verse. Now, now in verse six, he says, "Therefore, let us not sleep." Says, "To sleep, to lie down, to rest." That is by implication to fall asleep. Okay. So, let's talk about the thief and let's talk about our mind in sleepwatch mode. Okay? Which is what Paul is talking about here. So, when you don't feel good, what do you do? You take a pill, you take some sort of medication, and you lie down and rest because you don't feel good. So, you're doing everything you can to let your body rest so it could heal. Okay? So, what Jesus Paul is saying here, hey, listen, you got to be diligent, vigilant, and you've got to be sober minded. meaning you can't have your alcohol or the drugs that impair your mind because there are things going on in the world that you need to watch because otherwise it's going to get you like a thief in the night. So, let's talk about the thief. So, there's a guy out there, let's say guy or gal, and uh they're planning to raid your home. So, what you do because you don't know who this person is. You don't know what they're going to do. You don't know what they want to do. What's the first thing that you do every night so that you could sleep peacefully? Is that you lock your doors in your windows. You even put next to your bed um some sort of weapon and you're there to protect yourself because you don't know if that thief is going to come in. And if that thief should come in, you're prepared to stop the thief from happening. Notice the words, you're prepared. So, this is very interesting because what Jesus and Paul is telling us is to be prepared for the day of the Lord. Okay? But we don't know the day nor the hour. Know the day or the hour? Oh, let's look at the scriptures. I love this. I love this message. This message is powerful. You guys really got to get into the word of God here. I am telling you, you got to get into it. Let's look at Matthew 24:42-44. Therefore, watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. I want you to stop and look at what he just said. This is Jesus talking. You do not know what hour the Lord is coming. Why didn't he just say you don't know when? You see, we're going to get to the scripture where it says, "Do not know." Um, you know what? Let's continue with scriptures. We're going to continue on there. Uh, verse 43. But you, but know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore, you also be ready, for the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Now, look what he says earlier in the scriptures in Matthew 24. This is verse 36. But of that day and hour, no one knows. Not even the angels of heaven, but my father only. Pause. Day and hour. Boy, that's awfully specific. Why didn't he say you don't know when? A lot of preachers are telling you that you don't know when. They're misinterpreting the scriptures. Watch the deception that takes place about knowing the day of the Lord and when it's coming. Okay, let's continue on. but as the days of Noah were. So Jesus giving us some insight here as to what to watch for to help us prepare. Let's look at what the days of Noah was like. So also will the coming of the son of man be. So the when that rapture comes, that resurrection of the bride of Christ comes, we're going to see him come from the east to the west like lightning in the sky. He says when that happens, it's going to be like the days of Noah. So everything we're talking about is that day of the Lord. There's a series of events and that bride of Christ is resurrected after the 144,000 are sealed. So watch very carefully about the days of Noah because this is so applicable to us. This is the key. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will the coming of the son of man be. Okay, we have to look at the days of Noah because there's a mystery here. Jesus says no one knows the day nor the hour. Again, he didn't say no one knows when. He says no one knows the day nor the hour. Well, what happened to the week, the month, the season, the year? He didn't say that. Let's continue on with the scriptures here because I want you to see something that happened in Genesis with the flood. Watch. This is so powerful. Genesis 6:3. And the Lord said, "My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh, yet his day shall be 120 years." Now look at Genesis 7:1. Then the Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation." In verse four, for after seven more days, I will cause it to rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will destroy the face of the earth, all living from the face of the earth, all living things that I have made." Ho ho ho. So Jesus says, "Go back to Genesis and take a look because I want you to understand and not be taken like a thief in the night. I don't want you to be unaware of what's coming." So he tells Noah 120 years in advance, you're going to build an ark because I'm going to destroy the earth. So Noah knew 120 years in advance. Okay? And if you get into details, you will find it he didn't start actually building the ark for another 20 years. But as he's building the ark, let me tell you something. How many people saw him building the ark? Many. I bet it was on their news broadcast, television sets, however the people lived during that time, they were aware and they saw that the Lord was coming and they still didn't know. Then look at what he also said. He told Noah, "Come into the ark because in seven days, that's a week. We know in a week." Oh, people, we need to be watching this. We need to be watching because this is why he tells us to watch and be prepared. Now, I want to show you something else here because this is so so amazing. So, you've got Matthew and how he said it. It's like the days of Noah, but Mark and Luke say it differently. They don't use the days of Noah. There's more mystery here. Watch this. Let's start with Luke 21:es 34-36. But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with kerosene, drunkenness, and cares of this life. Isn't that what Paul was talking about? Having the mind in the fog. When you have your mind on drugs or sickness or ailments or of the matters of this world, your focus on the world and not what's coming. And when you're not aware of what's coming, it's going to take you by surprise. But you can prepare for it because that way that thief won't take you by surprise because you're ready to fight it. So here now when you're preparing for the return of the Lord, you know he's coming. When that last seven days come, what are you going to be doing? He said, "Come inside." [Music] So carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you unexpectedly. I'm going to read that verse again. But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with kerosene, drunkenness, and cares of this life and that day come on you unexpectedly. I'mma pause here for another moment. I got to share slight testimony from this week. I had a rough week. I gotten sick last Sunday and it, you know, it kind of lingered all week long, but I'm over it now. So, it was that sickness attack. It was all these little things that came in and Wednesday was the catalyst of this. And I I had gotten emotional about it and I I was frustrated. I got up from my desk and I walked out went for a walk around my the perimeter where work where I work and as I was like I said, "Lord, what's wrong with me? Why am I getting so focused on this?" And all week long, I had been studying these scriptures, looking at it, trying to figure out how I was going to present this message to you. And it was dawning on me, hey, the devil's trying to get me caught up on the cares of this world. So, as I was walking, I said, you know what, Lord, I'm giving this to you because it ain't my problem. One, nobody's going to care in a hundred years. One, two, I got more important things to look at. The return of you, that's what I'm talking about. You can easily get caught up into the elements of the world here. I mean, we just had St. Patrick's Day. I was driving to work. There were nobody on the road. I don't know how many people took off Thursday and Friday, but I'm sitting there like I guess people wanted to have a good drunken moment because that's what you do on St. Patty's Day. Get caught up in the world, get caught up in the events. You got to watch and be diligent and pray. We're going to show that in just a moment here. Okay, let's continue on with Luke here. Uh verse 35. ever will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass to stand before the son of man. Okay, now this is where it gets different. Okay, so we saw how Matthew talked about it how Jesus said to go back to the days of Noah and Luke is telling us listen you got to be counted worthy. And this is so applicable to what Jesus said with the virgin, the parable of the 10 virgins. Now, I didn't put that parable here. I encourage you to go look the scriptures up. The parable of the 10 virgins are the same. They're 10 virgins. They're all identical and they're the church. So, what happens is fif five of them have their oil and they're ready to go with the wedding party. Five of them don't. So the five that don't say to the ones that do give me give us some of your extra oil. And the ones that are wise tell the others, "Hey, we came prepared. You go buy your own." And while the other ones were out buying their own, the the five came into the wedding, the other five who showed up late, Jesus said, "I don't know who you are." And kept the doors locked and they missed the rapture. So, but they're all believers in Christ. I want you to see that and understand. And look, look at how Mark or Luke says it here, counted worthy to escape all these things. It is a blessing when you are righteous because you're taking the next step. You're not getting caught up in the world with the kerosene and the drunkenness. You're saying, "No, I'm going to choose God." And God says, "Okay, I got a blessing for you. You're going to go up in the rapture." That's what this is about. So, you get counted worthy. So you got to be diligent. And notice he also said to pray. So you're praying, you know, and the things that you need to be praying. Pray for yourself. I don't know how many people are praying for you. First, pray for yourself. Pray for your family. Pray. Let God hear your voice. Because then you can say, "God, you know me because you're hearing my voice because I'm talking to you all the time. And by the way, I talk to him all the time. He knows my voice. I know his." That's another thing is as you enter into that relationship with God, you begin to realize, wow, he's real and he's coming and you line yourself up with him. You get counted worthy. Ah, so it's awesome. So you see the difference here now talking about the same event but another viewpoint. Now watch, I'm going to show you the next one. So we just finished Luke. Now, let's go look at Mark's viewpoint. This is so fascinating. Says, "But of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son, but only the father." Now, that's similar to what we already heard. But look, take heed, watch and pray. Now, he added prayer, for you do not know when the time is. It is like a man going to a far country who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to each his work and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore for you do not know when the master of the house is coming. In the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning, lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all, watch. There's even more information here. Oh my goodness, you guys. This is powerful. Okay, so he emphasizes here, watch. He also emphasizes prayer. But look at what he said. He said in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning. Okay, so you have evening, you got midnight. Crowing of the rooster is just before the sunlight breaks the horizon outside. And then you have morning. What happened to noon? [Laughter] Is it possible that we don't know the day nor the hour simply because we're on different time zones, but we know 120 years in advance. We know seven days before. And if you watch Jonathan Khan and how he's been revealing the mysteries of the Jubilees over the last 20 so plus years. So we're already coming into the realization that God has shown us the last 120 years what's happening. And I talked about Mark Twain being the stranger. In fact, I think the clock starts there and I forget what year it is. 18 something. Uh I think 1867 because I think 1967, the 50-year Jubilees, it lands on the same as um uh taking over Jerusalem, the Israelites did in the six- day war of 1967. Anyways, you can look all that up. It's all there. Don't take my word for it. But I'm telling you that you have this clock that started. And so when Jesus talks about the the rumors of wars and the wars and the pestilence and the COVID 19, which is a pestilence, u the famines, how many people are starving in the world, and all the earthquakes. I don't know if you've noticed how much how many earthquakes we've had lately. It's been quite a bit. So this is what he's saying. Watch and pray and be diligent about it. Vigilant is the other word that Paul used in Thessalonians. This is absolutely imperative that you do this because you don't want to become unaware, which means you need to prepare. So, if you're going to prepare for a thief by locking your doors, locking your windows, having things that will trigger your your senses to wake you up in case you hear somebody messing with the door. These are things that you prepare for, which means you need to prepare for the return of the Lord. So, that day is coming. It's prophetic. There is no if. It is a when. Okay? We don't know the day nor the hour. But we certainly do know the season. We know that if Jesus fulfilled the first set of feast of the Israelites by his coming as a man and dying on the cross for our sins, that was all fulfilled with the first fruits fruit uh first feast that happened in the Israelites Passover. That's he was the Passover lamb. So he fulfills all that. So the second half of the feast are all the fall feast. So we do have a good idea it's going to happen in the fall there. You know God has his clock. He knows his clock. Okay. Uh we know so we know a season. We know that we had this 120 years. And if you go back and look at the last 120 years, um even after the stranger in the land did what he did, there was a series of large earthquakes that happened at that time. Uh we're we're talking a whole lot of them. You can go back and look at this. Uh you had um the one uh from Isuza Street Revival that was um h that revival was happening at the same time that large earthquake happened in San Francisco. But there was a series of about three other earthquakes that were in the eights during that time. So I'm telling you the clock started and we knew 120 years in advance. So now it comes down to the last seven week seven days that we're going to know. Don't know when that's coming, but we will know because God will tell every believer that is spending time with him, come inside. Those are the words he's going to tell us. So now question is, are you going to hear it? Because if you are spending time in the secret place with the Lord, you will hear those words, you will come inside and you will be ready and waiting for his return. Oh, so it is time to prepare. The other part that comes out of this in in a subtle way is to comfort one another. I know that this sounds like a doom and gloom type of message and it sounds scary, but you have to realize something. Look at the world. You know, I get it. Go back to Darwin. He's looking at the beach and he's looking around. He he describes it as a peaceful moment. Now, don't let it deceive you because he's thinking, okay, well, in this peaceful moment, it's always peaceful. And that's when he came up with evolution and he measured it on that moment. And we can go outside and look at the green trees, get a little breeze, puff a cloud here and there. It's gorgeous. This earth is gorgeous. It really is. And you can have that moment of peace. It really is nice. But I'm going tell you right now that's going away. You know when we talked about that first scripture talking peace and comfort and then all of a sudden sudden destruction. So right now things look quite peaceful when you step outside and don't look at the news. But if you watch the news, because we need to be watching and be diligent and pray, then we're aware of what's going on. There are other scriptures that support this and in a whole different kind of way. And I I want to go here and give you some additional scriptures because I think you can see it how the whole Bible prepares us for this. This is amazing. I just love the Lord. He's just so good at this. I mean, I love him. I love him. Okay, so Psalm 8:17, I love those who love me and those who seek me diligently will find me. So here he's telling you, you're going to find me. So don't think that, oh, if I go do this, I ain't going to be there. No, no, no, no, no. He's going to be there and he's going to get you ready. Especially when you say, you know, God, I don't want to be left behind. He understands that, respects that, and he will comfort you. Look at these other scriptures. Uh 2 Timothy 2:15, be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Again, be prepared. Get yourself in front of God now before the judgment day comes so that you can say, "Lord, I need your help because I'm a sinner and I need to get right with you so I can move forward with you in what you're doing because this doesn't matter anymore. You matter and my future with you matters." Amen. Let's look at Hebrews. Here we go again. Hebrews 11:6. But without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. The reward is the rapture and not being left in this earth. Now remember the 10 virgins I talked about. 50% went up with the Lord, 50% stayed back. All believers. Now I want you to understand something. how you die. We all want to hope that we can control our death and it be somewhat of a comfort like go to sleep and don't wake up something to that effect where it's painless. Think of it like this. That 50% that didn't go still have to die. Now in that first five months after that day of the Lord and all those events that trigger or get triggered they they happen on that day the next five months you can't die and then there's going to be thunders and this is in Revelation go read it I didn't bring that scripture here but there are going to be thunders that are going to come out and talk to you who's here. So those that are believers again are going to have the opportunity and they're going to realize because they've been hearing about us teaching them about the rapture all this time and they missed the boat because they chose not to be diligently and and show themselves approved and worthy and diligent to God because they missed the boat. They're going to have to die again. They miss the blessing of the rapture that you can grab now if you just go get in his presence. But if you So it's not like you're going to miss out in eternity. I want you to understand that you're just missing out in the blessing of not being here for the torture and the torment. And I'm going to tell you that first five months of who uh is left behind, the 144,000 are sealed. That's the Israelite male Jews that are sealed. They won't be touched. But these locust things are going to be going around stinging every other human being on this earth. And so if you miss this rapture, which is the blessing to get out of that, then you're stuck dealing with that torment and torture and pain. I am trying to hopefully catch you before it gets there. Please, I urge you, not only repent, but get into the presence of God and show yourself worthy to God. Amen. Look at what 2 Peter 3:14 says. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace without spot and blameless. Again, the same message. You're seeing the same theme. It is time that we get into the presence of the Lord in our secret place and say, "Okay, God, I am going to do my best. Yeah, I s I fall every day. Look at what happened in my testimony I shared earlier for this week. Getting caught up in the the things of the world even, you know, and I taught on this uh uh the last message about even the elect possibly being deceived. It's like that should scare the living hell out of you in all reality. Oh, I hope this is why I get into the secret place with the Lord. I'm praying. Lord, don't let me get deceived. I'm hoping that helmet is thick, strong, and it keeps the world out of my head and my heart. So, when the attacks come on, because that's what's happening right now. The deception is on, the attacks are on. The world seems so tempting to, oh, I can relax and be at peace here and enjoy. But it's coming. It's coming. This day of the Lord is coming. It is prophetic. It is prophesied. I think all of the the u prophets talk about it if not most of them do but it's coming and the word of God was written and assembled for us today to know what's coming because we're that generation. And I'm telling you my friends, you got to wake up, get the fog out of your mind. Be diligent and prepare. Meaning get into that secret place with the Lord. Pray. Pray for yourself. Pray for your family. Pray. Let God hear your voice and you hear his voice. Meaning, you get the scriptures and learn. Don't Don't rely on the preachers out here because they're the ones that are teaching you, hey, no one's going to know when anyways. Don't worry about it. That's what a lot of them are teaching. That's not what the Bible says. You can just see what I just taught. We know 120 years in advance and seven days before. We know. Oh, and it looks like around noon. All I'm saying is be ready. Amen. Let's pray. And let's pray for that strength. Let's pray together. Uh I want you to agree with me in prayer. And I pray that you are diligent in your prayer life and that you and God get to know one another. Amen. Oh, heavenly father, we thank you for this word. Oh, thank you for getting us prepared. I pray and ask that you prepare us appropriately. That you give us the the strength and the endurance to get into the secret place with you to find out who you are. That we talk to you and that we hear you and that we apply your word to our spirit and our soul and that we can say, "You are God. 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CAN YOU LOSE SALVATION The purpose of this message is to provide a biblical understanding of salvation and to address the common question: “Can a believer lose their salvation?” Through Scripture and personal testimony, the teaching emphasizes that salvation is a gift from God, grounded in His love and faithfulness, not in human performance. It seeks to strengthen believers’ trust in Christ, highlight the importance of relationship over fear, and reveal that while believers may drift in their walk, their salvation remains secure in Jesus. < Back CAN YOU LOSE SALVATION Minister Lisa Kane July 23, 2023 Objective: The purpose of this message is to provide a biblical understanding of salvation and to address the common question: “Can a believer lose their salvation?” Through Scripture and personal testimony, the teaching emphasizes that salvation is a gift from God, grounded in His love and faithfulness, not in human performance. It seeks to strengthen believers’ trust in Christ, highlight the importance of relationship over fear, and reveal that while believers may drift in their walk, their salvation remains secure in Jesus. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane explores the assurance of salvation through the lens of God’s Word and relational intimacy with Him. Beginning with 2 Timothy 1:7, she contrasts the spirit of fear with the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind, urging believers to reject fear-based teachings about losing salvation. Drawing from John 6:37–39, she highlights Jesus’ promise that He will not cast out those given to Him by the Father. Through examples such as Peter’s immaturity, the rich young ruler, and the repentant thief on the cross, Lisa demonstrates how salvation is rooted in confession, belief, and trust in Christ—not in works, goodness, or continuous outward performance. She shares her own testimony of experiencing spiritual ups and downs, showing that God’s patience and mercy remain constant even when believers waver. The message also explains that while salvation is eternal and secure, neglecting one’s walk with God can lead to bondage, hardship, and discipline, as illustrated in the book of Judges. Yet, the call of Christ is always relational: “Come, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18). Lisa emphasizes that salvation is both deliverance from eternal separation and daily deliverance from life’s trials through trust in Jesus. The teaching concludes with an invitation to embrace the assurance of God’s saving power, reject fear, and live in joyful partnership with Christ, knowing that salvation cannot be lost but can always be lived out more fully through faith and obedience. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Sunday, July 23rd, 2023. Welcome. This message is called, can you lose salvation? I've been seeing this question a lot on social media and I'd like to address it uh with the word of God as well as an understanding of the relationship value. As you know, I started teaching on relationship. Uh the last message was talking about God the father and now and that relationship with the father. So here we're going to talk about salvation in this. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for who you are. We thank you that we can trust in you, that you are reliable, that you are faithful, and that you are true to your word. It gives us such peace and comforting. Father God, thank you for your longsuffering. Thank you for your gentleness. You're full of loving kindness because without it and without your mercy, well, there's nothing here then. But you made it valuable. You made us valuable in you, Father God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And we blessed this word and ask for your blessing on it. May it go out. May the ears that hear it hear and understand and receive and believe. May the eyes that see it see and open up and realize they can have faith and trust in you and believe in you in the glorious name of Jesus. Let their hearts and minds be open to receive, believe, and walk in that trust and faith in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. We are going to start here in 2 Timothy 1:7. For God is not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Initially, I was going to call this message spirit of love. But I because I was dealing with the message of salvation within it, I decided to go ahead and call it can you lose salvation. Now, did you see something here in this scripture? Look at this. He said he didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. So if you hear a preacher tell you something like, "Well, just in case you should live for God because you just never know." That's called the spirit of fear. And Paul clearly tells us that Jesus did not give us a spirit of fear. And that every preacher and teacher out there should not be teaching in the spirit of fear. I understand you're worried. I understand that you're hoping that this might light a fire under someone, but you have to understand sometimes the power of love breaks through the hardness, especially in today's generation. How many people are desensitized right now with fear? Roller coasters, these video games, they've ra been raised in this. They're not going to respond to well just in case factor. And then you still have a lot of people like in my generation or even my parents' generation if they wanted to party, they were going to party until they finally settled down and then they decided, "Okay, I'll live for Jesus now." They heard about him, but they chose to do it later in their life. So, what I want to do is I want to talk about how salvation works and how we're dealing with um a time value factor in here and how Jesus is, who he is, because I talked about the relationship of the father last week and Jesus. When you know Jesus, you know the father because Jesus follows the will of the father. Let's um summarize and let's look at that here real quickly. John 6:37-39 because I want you to see how he's also saying he's not going to lose anyone. All that the father gives me will come to me and the one who comes to me I will by no means cast out. So the question I have for you, we're going to get to the rest of these scriptures here in just a moment. Is what kind of God do you think God is that you can lose your salvation? You really think that he's cruel enough to let you believe 20 years ago, but now that you've kind of drifted away that he's going to reject you? I want you see if we understand who God is, we can understand the miracle of salvation. This is very, very powerful, very enlightening. I hope you are uh awake to this and receive and believe. And if you're struggling with this, pause the video. Go to the Lord. Start with him. By the way, don't start with any preacher, teacher, or anyone out there, okay? Don't go by man. Go by the scripture and get into the relationship with God. And I promise you, he's going to answer this very question for you. And he's answered it for me. And this is what I'm teaching here right now. Let's continue on with the scripture. He's not going to cast out by no means uh cast out for and now verse 38. For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me this is the will of the father who sent me that of all he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up at the last day. And if you continue to read you will find and he's talking about salvation there. So now you know what I want you to see is I I want you to understand that this is a very intimate thing. Salvation is to the individual and there and you have to understand Jesus clearly says I'm the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the father except through me. So it has to be done through Jesus. But is there a rule, a guideline that we need to follow in the scriptures that tell us how to get saved? Because and and I'm going to make a very powerful statement here. I hope I can say it right. You see, you need salvation to get into heaven. You need salvation to live for Christ. But you do not need to live for Christ to get into heaven. We're going to see that in the scriptures here. And I want you to understand that God is dealing with this on an individual level when it comes to salvation. Look at what there there's a very interesting transaction that Peter mentions. And if you go watch Peter in the scriptures from the gospels all the way to first and second Peter written many many many years later. Look at the growth and the maturity that Peter went through. It's very very powerful. But look at him how immature he is right here. And this by the way takes us to where we all are today. Look at this. John 21:21-22 Peter seeing him said to Jesus but Lord what about this man he's referring to John and verse 22 Jesus said to him if I will that he remain till I come what is that to you you follow me so Jesus clearly had to put Peter back on the right path don't look at him don't so when you we've been given the ability to judge people think about is think about this. You You want to judge people, you better judge on fact, but do you really know what the fact is in their heart or in their mind? With the Lord, you do not know that. You're basing it on what you think you see, and you don't even see the whole picture. You see one action. I promise you, I'm going to use a scenario here that we're going to use throughout the teaching of this message. So, let's say somebody got saved 20 years ago, okay? and they were on fire for God for a few weeks and then they got choked out because they never rooted in. They got choked out by the worldly daily living style. So now you know few months go by and the Lord is patient. You know you hadn't talked to the Lord in a few months. You you were on fire but he's patient. He's waiting for you. But something happens. A tragedy happens, car accident, somebody dies, and you go, "Jesus, why?" And you grieve and you call on Jesus, and you kind of come back and you're you're talking with him. You actually open up the Bible. You go searching preachers and and and you do and then that lasts for a while and then it drifts off again. In my own personal experience, I went through this. I call it the yo-yo effect. I mean really I I remember I would be on fire I I became born again when I was six years old. I grew up in the church and uh as a young married woman 21 years old and my life went up and down with the Lord. We would go to revival meetings and then I mean months would go by wouldn't even think of the Lord wouldn't read the scriptures. Does that mean I lost my salvation in that time frame even though God was the furthest thing from my mind? No. simply was he was patient. He waited for me and things would happen and I would realize in fact it came I finally came to the personal re revelation and the realization that my living for Christ was a yo-yo. It went up and down. And I went to the Lord and I said I one I said I was sorry. I said I don't know why I'm like this. I need your help. Because see, there's two things about the flesh. It's in time. So today, I feel great. Tomorrow, will I feel the same? How many days do we wake up in the week where we feel awesome? And how many days do we wake up in the week when we don't feel awesome? How many times do we pick up the Bible when we're hurting? And how many times do we pick up the Bible when we just want to? You see the difference? We're in the flesh and we're driven by emotions. Today, I feel like reading my Bible. You see, that's what the mentality is of a I'm going to call it an immature Christian. Somebody who doesn't have self-control. So, now you get into the gifts of the Holy Spirit where you need some self-control. And you can go read that in uh Galatians, Ephesians. You self-control is very, very powerful. You need to have that and that means when you don't feel like it is the biggest time you need to pick up your Bible and relate with God. Another thing that we deal with here, not just the time in the flesh, but it's the relationship factor of the value of trust. We don't trust God enough to keep us saved after he saved us. Oh, we're going to show that here very very clearly and I want you to understand. So, we're going to get into the the meat of the scripture here. I'm going to read a lot of scriptures here. We'll probably pause in here. This is Mark 10 and we're going to start with verse 17 and we're we're going to go to verse 30. Now, as he was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one that is God." I'm going to pause here because a lot of people get tripped up on the scripture here. Okay? Jesus said and I taught this in the last and you saw in the uh scriptures I did earlier that Jesus says I'm here to do the will of the father. If you know me, you know the father. So Jesus is setting an example of hey I'm obeying my father. Remember the ten commandments honor thy father and mother. He obeyed his father. His father said you go lay down your life for these people and I will give it to you again. You can pick it up again. And Jesus clearly told us that. I taught it in the last message. So he says, "I'm going to go do the will of the father." So here Jesus is saying, "I'm not the one that's good." Remember, he's in the flesh here, but he's saying, "I'm doing the will of the father." But I'm going to promise you that once he is crucified now, he becomes spirit with God. Even though he is the son of God, he's in the flesh and he's identifying himself as flesh, not good. Good is God. But he's saying, "I'm here to do the will of God." Which by the way, are you good or are you not? Because see, a lot of people also measure salvation in how good you are. So Jesus is clearly saying goodness is not going to get you into heaven. He's telling you obey the father. Doesn't matter if Jesus is saying he's not good. Whatever you're doing that you think you're good, you're not. And that's a humbling experience, believe you me, when you finally come to recognize that you're not good. It will help you on the inside realize how much you need God. So, let's continue on here. And as you can see, these scriptures is dealing with salvation, eternal life. Watch this. Okay, so verse 18. So, Jesus said, oh, excuse me, verse 19, you know the commandments. Do not commit adultery. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness. Do not defraud. Honor your father and your mother. And let's pause there again. The t before Jesus came, you had to follow the ten commandments. That was the law. And the nation of Israel presented the law to the world through God. And so you need to obey the ten commandments. So now Jesus is telling him, okay, you know, I haven't been crucified yet. Uh you don't have the salvation. So he's telling him, so Jesus is identifying this transitional period. Okay? He's alive. He's still flesh. He's man. He hasn't been crucified yet. But he's telling this man, you need to follow the Ten Commandments. This is how it was prior to Jesus being crucified. Now, let's continue. And he answered and said to him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth." Okay. Now, this guy's like, "I've done it. I'm good. Woohoo. I'm ready." Jesus says something that's very powerful. Watch this. Then Jesus looking at him loved him. Pause. I'm going to show you a mystery here. See, I was going to call this message spirit of love. Do you see that Jesus loved him? Hey, LGBTQ, whatever community you are now, Jesus loves you. Now, look what Jesus tells you. and said to him, "One thing you lack." Good isn't going to get you into heaven. Following the Ten Commandments anymore isn't going to get you into heaven because that's not salvation. Look at here. Go your way, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven. and come take up the cross and follow me." Look what his response was. But he was sad at this word and went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. Pause. What's more valuable to you? Eternal life or your possessions? I promise you, your possessions are going to die. They're going to go away. The moment you die, somebody else is going to take your possessions. It doesn't matter. This earth is dying. Take a look. Go out there. Go see the world. See the destruction in the world. See it dying every day. Change your value to eternity. It's very very important that you do that because you want to live. Eternal life is a long time compared to the life we live here. You give up this life, you will pick it up again because that's what Jesus says. Look at this verse 23. Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God." And look at what the dis look at verse 24 here. And the disciples were astonished at his words. You and I should be shocked. If God is so merciful, if he is so merciful, then how come it's so hard? Because this man chooses his possessions. It's based on that man, not Jesus. And Jesus is saying it's very hard for him. And even his disciples are astonished. Continue on. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God." Key word there is trust. Now Jesus is getting to the root of the matter here. He's telling you by this man's actions, this rich man who went away sorrowful, this rich man could not trust Jesus with his possessions. He could not take them off, give them up to trust that Jesus would give him eternal life. Now look what Jesus says because now we're dealing with the relationship factor. We're dealing with trust. Watch this. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Now there's a mystery behind this. I had heard this and the first time I heard this I think I was astonished as the disciples. Listen to this. So in a city wall there are different gates. You've got the main gate that is wide. A lot of people can enter the but there are smaller gates where you don't have to walk around the entire city to enter. These small gates are very small. the only way you can enter them. And and if you traveled in your camel, you had to take everything off your camel. You had to take everything off your person. You had to put it down on the ground, push the camel through, get the camel to go through, push your possessions through the gate on the floor. You had to leave them down, get yourself through the gate, pick it all up, and load your camel back up. Isn't that revelation? It's awesome. Jesus is saying in the same manner, if you want to get saved, you got to take off everything that you because what do we put on our shoulders? What we consider valuable? If you put stress on yourself from your job, stress on your children, how they're living, stress or finances, where you put it all on your shoulders and you carry that. And when you carry that, you're saying I am handling it, not God. And Jesus is saying, if you want to get saved, and now we're talking about salvation, trust, this is eternal life, you have to take the world off. Put it down at your feet. Say, "Jesus, I'm sorry. I'm the one who's guilty, and I'm laying all this at your feet." And Jesus says, "Come with me." And then he says, "Pick it up." And he's going to give you that life again. That's what salvation is. Let's continue on now because this gets very interesting at this point. So now here the the the uh disciples are just and they were greatly astonished saying among themselves, "Who then can be saved?" because now they're realizing for the first time I I don't even know if I'm saved because and yeah, did did you go to Jesus? Did you ask him to forgive you? And remember that we're going to have scriptures that's going to show us that we need to do that. But here Jesus hasn't been crucified. He's revealing it to his disciples. Look at the transaction here. Who then can be saved? Verse 27. But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for with God all things are possible." What God is saying here, what Jesus is saying here is that I'm your salvation. I will take care of your salvation. I will save you. And it has nothing to do with what you do other than you come to me and humble yourself and say I'm guilty because you are. And he goes I will have you pick up your life again. I will save you and I will bring you into the eternal kingdom. This is very very powerful. You have to understand that this was a whole new concept to the disciples. a whole new concept because now they're realizing, well, wait a minute. We're here with you, Jesus. But see, they're not in the spirit yet. Let's continue on. Let's continue. It's very powerful. Then Peter began to say to him, see, we have left all and followed you. So now Jesus or Peter is saying, okay, I am taking my example of what we just did. We're following you. We gave it up. He gave up his fishing uh career to follow Jesus. So look at what Jesus says here. This is very, very powerful because now we're also talking about living for Christ here. Salvation is when you acknowledge you're guilty, but now he's saying, "Come walk with me because I'm going to have you pick up your life again, but you're going to do it with me." We're going to do this hand in hand together. Look at what Jesus says. So Jesus answered and says, "Surely I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospels who shall not receive a hundfold now in this time houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions and in this age to come eternal life." Now he's identifying something here. Notice the double negative. Let's let's check that so we can clarify. No one who has left. And then he says who shall not receive. So anyone who has left shall receive. What are they going to receive who choose to walk with Christ? Hundfold now in this time. He's not talking eternal life. Now because see he's having to address the factor of time. You and I are walking on this earth in time. These are the years we're in. We live in this time frame. Jesus is saying in this time, I'm going to give you a hundfold. If you choose to live for me, you leave your father, you leave your mother, you come follow me. But he says, I will give you everything. You know, in my personal testimony, I remember uh being in one of those moments. I was far far away from the Lord and I went to the Lord and actually I was on the stairs and he came to me. Uh I could hear his voice as clear as can be rushing waters. Um and he told me to go to church and I by the way I'll tell you how far my attitude was and and keep in mind I didn't lose my salvation. See everybody has a personal experience with God at some point or another and something triggers you something works in you. This is why it's so intimate and it's with you in my intimate moment with the Lord. There I am walking up or down the stairs. I don't remember. This is a long time ago, but I hear this voice telling me in the back of my head, "Go to church. Go to church." It was a litany. It was building up. It was a c. I mean, we're talking. It was getting louder and louder. I finally turned around. I was mad. I and I I actually stomped my foot on the stairs and I said, "Oh, I do not need to and I stopped. I just realized what I was saying to God. I had a an epiphany, a realization. I had this moment where I just realized who I was talking to and I said, "Yes, Lord, we'll be at church on Sunday." And that particular Sunday, you want to talk about a spiritual warfare battle. My husband and I walked out on that parking lot. We were I thought we were five minutes late. We were 35 minutes late. We were going to a little church in a school and nobody was around and I didn't know what door to go in. I picked a door to go in. My husband and I have been fighting, arguing that whole time. Open the door. And of course, we open the door right on the stage with the pastor preaching. Pastor stops and looks behind him, looks at us. I you you want to see an astonished look if they had that on video. I grabbed my husband's hand. I grabbed my daughter's hand. And I smiled at him, nodded my head, walked past him, walked all the way to the back seat, uh, the back row. It was like only 10 rows, maybe 15 rows, sat down, and of course, after the church service, everybody came up to us, and I thought for sure we were done, my husband and I. And in that parking lot, walking up there, my husband was arguing, we were arguing, and I had looked up to the Lord, and I said, "You know what, Lord? I'm giving him to you because I I don't know what to do with him, and I'm not going to even try." So, as we were coming out of the church service, walking back to the car, I said to my husband, "When are we getting a divorce?" He gave me this weird look like, "What are you talking about?" He goes, "That was great. Did you hear him preach about Peter and this and that?" I mean, and my husband is and you ought to talk about a reality. His spirit was changed. His spirit was changed. All because I said to the Lord after I obeyed him, I give him to you. I promise you guys, you will have that intimate moment of that salvation with the Lord. You just have to go and pause. And if you're watching this video, you probably already had that. But and did you see the other part of that? You know, you're going to have this in this time, but you're also going to have uh with persecution. You're going to have your households, your brothers, and your sisters, and your mothers, and children, and lands with persecutions in the age to come. And in the age to come, eternal life. So, you're going to have your possessions here, but you're going to have them with persecutions. And then in the age to come. So, he's talking about you're living your life here now for, and then you're going to have eternal life here. You're going to be dealing with persecutions. Believe you and me, as much peace and joy as I have, I still deal with those persecutions. But my eternity is set. My eternity is set. Now, let's talk about the basic function of salvation. Remember, I made a powerful statement earlier. And you need salvation to enter heaven. You need salvation to live for Christ. You don't need to live for Christ to get to heaven. You see the difference here? So, let's look at um how salvation works. And I taught on this already. It's very basic, very simple. Luke 23:39-43. Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us." But the other answer and rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?" So, we're looking at two thieves on each side of Jesus. They're having a conversation. The one thief is telling Jesus, "Get up. Save yourself and save us." The other thief says, "Hey, why are you kicking the man that's already down? Hey, you're down, too." Talk about a spirit of evil. You ever If you're wondering why some people don't get saved, look at that thief. You know what? Do you really want that kind of an attitude coming into heaven, into your home? Really? No. And this thief, he told him, "Hey, you need to stop. Let's continue on that conversation. Look, he told him, look at what he says. And we indeed justly for we receive the rewards of our reward of our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong. In other words, he just simply said, I'm guilty. You're guilty because that we're here because we got caught. But Jesus is innocent. And then look what he says to Jesus. They said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom." And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I say to you today you will be with me in paradise." That's all it takes. Did that man Did that thief get off the cross and go get water baptized? No, you do not need to be water baptized to be saved. Did that thief get off the cross and go start speaking in tongues? No, you do not have to speak in tongues. You do not be you do not have to be filled with the Holy Spirit to go to heaven. Did that thief get off the cross and go door to door and save souls? No, you don't have to go save souls to get into heaven. All he said was, "We're guilty." And Jesus remembered me. And that's all it takes to get saved. And he went to heaven. This is why I make the bold statement. Living for Christ isn't going to get you to heaven. Going to church isn't going to get you to heaven. And anyone who teaches that is a false teaching. You need to pray for them. Walk away from them. Give them to the Lord. In fact, you might be there to pray for them. You might even have an opportunity to show them the scripture. Ask this question. What? Why is the thief saved? But your your doctrine is telling me I have to do this. If the thief can save, can't I be saved? You need to put that to them in hopes that they finally realize I've been teaching wrong. And it's okay. You know what? Anyone who we're living in time one day, this is what you believe today. what you believe tomorrow. You finally mature. You get more scriptures and you realize and you correct yourself. It's a growth. I'm going to tell you right now, pastors, preachers, teachers, we're human beings. We're going to make mistakes. This is why. Don't listen to us, but go to the scriptures and find out for yourself. Most importantly, humble yourself before the Lord. Acknowledge your guilt. I'm guilty. This is why I'm going to you, Jesus. Look at uh what Paul said in Romans, Romans 10:9, that if you confess with your mouth, did that thief confess with his mouth? You betcha. He told that other thief in the presence of Jesus, "We're innocent." Or, "He's innocent. We're guilty." He confessed with his mouth. And look at this. He said, "And believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead." He looked at Jesus. He knows Jesus is going to die. He knows Jesus is going to die. And he says, "Remember me when you enter your kingdom." And Jesus said, "I promise you, you will be with me in paradise today." Paul nailed it when he said, "And believe in your heart that God has raised from that, you will be saved." Jesus told that thief, "You will be saved." Oh, my friend, if you could just grab this and then for those that really truly believe that one can lose their salvation, you would make the Bible a lie with these scriptures. Romans 10:13, for whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. um if I called on him when I was 10 but hadn't called on him till I was 30 and I let's say I didn't make it to 30 and I died in that time frame. Does the Bible tell you that? No. The Bible does not tell you that. Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Jesus, you're if you're in a plane, you're coming down. Jesus. He knows your situation. You will be saved. And you didn't have to live for Christ to get saved. Look what else. And by this, by this, it's also reiterated in the Old Testament, too. Look at this. Joel 2:32. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's exactly what Paul just said. Look at what else he says here, because this is so powerful. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance as the Lord has said among the remnant who whom the Lord calls. Look at that. Whom the Lord calls. Remember salvation is from the Lord and he is going to do the saving. Not you and not any action you take. And when he calls you and you confess him and believe, you're delivered. Guess what? You're delivered off the cross. That thief came off the cross alive in paradise. that people you don't realize but salvation is getting into heaven but it also saves you from the circumstances you live in here if you are dealing with cancer you can say Jesus you are Lord over cancer and that will save you deliver you from cancer by this is so powerful this has been preached and taught in the Old Testament and in the New Testament Jesus just he fulfilled it with his blood, his perfect blood, and he he washed away the sins. We're still in the flesh. We're still in time. So, we still deal with the persecutions. We still deal with sin. But you will obey his commandments once you call on him. And I think part of reason why people don't get saved and don't call on God so much. They're afraid of that. They're afraid of a transformation. Look at me. I'm not out there in the world partying. I I don't want anything to do with it. They look at that and they think, "Well, I like the world." And remember, eye of the needle, the camel in the eye of the needle. Take it off and God will give it back to you. It's not to say that I don't enjoy my life. It doesn't rule me, but believe you me, I get to go and enjoy. I'm in the process of watching my brand new home be built. We went there yesterday evening in the dusk just to look at the area, listen to the cicas, and and they were loud. It's like an electrical box going off. But it was it was so nice. I will tell you right now, I enjoy my life. I I laid it down. And I gave it to the Lord and he said, "Okay, pick it back up and now we're going to do this together." And I trusted him. I I I spent my time with him. I give him the glory. I pray. Yes. I put him first because everything else balances itself out. I feel better when I put him first. That is my Lord and Savior. And I'm telling you right here, right now in this teaching, you can't lose your salvation. If you call on the Lord 20 years ago, you can call on him again and you can start to live for him. Now, I will tell you this much. Scripture does teach us, and I'm not putting it in here because the message already long in and of itself. Uh if you're not living for Christ and you do wander and you disobey something out of the Bible, even out of ignorance, hear that. Even out of ignorance, he's making you responsible for this. You will have to suffer from his curses. Go read the book of Judges. How he deals with the nation of Israel is amazing. I'm I'm studying the book of Judges right now and it's just incredible. So Joshua dies, the spirit of the Lord comes on one guy, comes on another, comes on Deborah, comes on Gideon, comes on Samson. So you see all the judges throughout the time. And uh uh but the what happened is they would get into bondage every time they did evil before the Lord. So instead of serving God himself, they would go to the balls and the aster. And when they did that, they would have 20 years. They would go into bondage. They would be bond to the Medidianites. They were bond to the Philistines. They they were enslaved to them. And they called on the Lord because now they're suffering. So, you know, when you call on Christ, you get saved. If you drift away, you get into you're not rooted into the word of God and you drift um and and you're not thinking about him. Like I said, you you can't lose your salvation, but you will go into bondage and you will suffer. An Previous Next Home

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND In Seek and You Will Find, Minister Lisa Kane teaches that seeking the Lord is not optional—it is urgent and transformational. Rooted in Hosea 10:12, this message calls both believers and nonbelievers to break up the fallow ground of their hearts and intentionally pursue God. The objective is to reveal what Scripture promises happens when we seek Him: restoration from captivity, divine understanding, answered prayer, freedom from fear, and supernatural peace. Through biblical examples and practical application, this teaching equips listeners with clear steps to seek God daily and experience His restoring power. < Back SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND Minister Lisa Kane February 19, 2026 Objective: In Seek and You Will Find, Minister Lisa Kane teaches that seeking the Lord is not optional—it is urgent and transformational. Rooted in Hosea 10:12, this message calls both believers and nonbelievers to break up the fallow ground of their hearts and intentionally pursue God. The objective is to reveal what Scripture promises happens when we seek Him: restoration from captivity, divine understanding, answered prayer, freedom from fear, and supernatural peace. Through biblical examples and practical application, this teaching equips listeners with clear steps to seek God daily and experience His restoring power. Synopsis: “For it is time to seek the Lord.” This is not just a suggestion—it is a divine invitation. Drawing from Hosea 10:12, Minister Lisa Kane declares that seeking the Lord brings restoration. When we return to God and obey His voice, as seen in Deuteronomy 30:1–3, He brings us back from captivity and moves with compassion on our behalf. What once held us bound must release us when we truly seek Him. Through Proverbs 2:1–5, we learn that seeking God produces understanding, wisdom, and the knowledge of the Lord—something our flawed human reasoning can never supply. In Luke 11:9–10 and Matthew 7:7–8, Jesus assures us that those who seek will find. Seeking is knocking on His door and accepting His invitation into a deeper relationship made possible by His sacrifice on the cross. But how do we seek Him? Psalm 91:1–3 reveals the answer: dwell in the secret place. Create intentional, quiet time with God. Put Him first. As Matthew 6:33 teaches, when we seek first the Kingdom, everything else aligns. Even in storms, like Peter walking on the water in Matthew 14:25–33, when we reach for Jesus, He immediately reaches back. Seeking Him steadies us on the foundation of His Word and turns trials into testimonies. Minister Lisa also introduces her journal, Between My Prayer and His Answer (released February 16, 2026), as a practical tool for seeking God. By writing prayers, dating requests, and recording answers, believers build a personal testimony of God’s faithfulness. The message concludes with the promise of Philippians 4:6–7: when we seek God through prayer instead of anxiety, He gives peace that surpasses understanding and guards our hearts and minds. Now is the time. Seek Him. Return to Him. Let Him restore you, free you, and rain righteousness upon you. Inspired Teaching: Hosea 10:12 NKJV 12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you. “For it is time to seek the Lord”…now is the time to seek the Lord, whether you’re a believer on nonbeliever. Seeking the Lord will restore you and I believe this is a year of restoration. I’m already seeing things restored to me that were stolen. Let me show you scripture that explains what happens when you seek the Lord. Deuteronomy 30:1-3 NKJV “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you [a]call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. Deuteronomy says that when you return and obey, you will be brought back from captivity. God will have compassion on you. This applies to us today, not just Israel. When you return, (seek) the Lord, and you obey His Word, whatever is holding you captive will have to let go of you. God will have compassion on you and move on your behalf to set you free. Here’s another scripture and what happens when you seek the Lord. Proverbs 2:1-5 NKJV My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, 2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, 4 If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; 5 Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God. Seeking the Lord gives you understanding and we need understanding. We need to understand the fear of the Lord and we will find His knowledge. Our knowledge is flawed but His knowledge is the best. It provides wisdom and patience when facing difficult situations. Here are two more scriptures that shows you more on what happens when you seek the Lord. Luke 11:9-10 NKJV 9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8 NKJV 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. You see, seeking is going up to His door, knocking, and having Jesus invite us into His life. That invitation is the best thing we have, and it is because of what Jesus did on the cross. He paid for our sins and redeemed us. And so, how do we seek the Lord? Psalm 91:1-3 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” 3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the [a]fowler And from the perilous pestilence. Make a quiet place between you and God. That’s seeking Him. That’s putting Him first. That tells God this is important to you and He will meet you there. Read the rest of Psalm 91 and see everything He will do for you. And as a believer, you have that invitation where the door is opened. Once there, you are no longer captive to things of the world. In essence, you are stepping away from the world and placing God first in your life. Matthew 6:33 NKJV 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. You see, when need God to be first in our life and everything else will fall into place. That doesn’t mean we won’t face difficulty. It means that when we do, Jesus lifts us and carries us through it. Matthew 14:25-33 NKJV 25 Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear. 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, [c]“Be of good cheer! [d]It is I; do not be afraid.” 28 And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” 29 So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw [e]that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!” 31 And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” 32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. 33 Then those who were in the boat [f]came and worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God.” You see, Peter reached out to Jesus and Jesus saved him. And the distressing situation immediately stopped when they were back on the boat, the foundation of His Word. And it worked out to be a testimony causing them to worship Him. I released a journal on February 16, 2026 called Between My Prayer and His Answer. It’s available at Amazon. This is another way to seek the Lord. When you have a question or a situation you are facing, ask God anything. Write it down in the journal and date it. Then wait on the Lord and watch Him provide you with answers. Record the answer with a date and you will have your own memory of testimonies. Take the time to seek the Lord. Let Him set you free from captivity and let Him invite you into His world. He will save You from all situations and give you peace that surpasses all understanding. Philippians 4:6-7 NKJV 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Previous Next Home

GODS GIFT TO THE WORLD DO YOU BELIEVE The objective of this message is to highlight Jesus Christ as the greatest gift ever given to humanity by God. The teaching encourages listeners to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas—the birth of the Savior—and challenges them to personally consider their faith: Do you believe? The purpose is to inspire believers to receive and share the gift of salvation with others through faith in Jesus Christ. < Back GODS GIFT TO THE WORLD DO YOU BELIEVE Minister Lisa Kane December 22, 2023 Objective: The objective of this message is to highlight Jesus Christ as the greatest gift ever given to humanity by God. The teaching encourages listeners to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas—the birth of the Savior—and challenges them to personally consider their faith: Do you believe? The purpose is to inspire believers to receive and share the gift of salvation with others through faith in Jesus Christ. Synopsis: In this Christmas message, Lisa focuses on the profound truth that Jesus Christ is God’s ultimate gift to the world. Beginning with 1 Peter 4:10–11, the teaching reminds us that as we have received this gift, we are called to be good stewards of it by sharing God’s grace with others. The birth of Jesus, described humbly in Luke 2, demonstrates how the Son of God left the riches of heaven to enter the world in simplicity, becoming the Savior for all. Lisa emphasizes that the angelic proclamation to the shepherds was not just a story, but a true historical event testifying to Christ’s arrival. Scriptures such as 1 John 5:20, John 1:12–14, and John 3:15–17 confirm that through belief in Jesus, we are given eternal life and the right to become children of God. The message asks a pressing question: Do you believe? Salvation is not based on rituals or works but on faith, as seen with the thief on the cross. Romans 10:9 makes it clear that confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in His resurrection brings salvation. As Christmas is celebrated, Lisa encourages everyone to remember and share this ultimate gift—the name of Jesus. The message closes with a prayer of thanksgiving, urging believers to glorify God for sending His Son and to carry the gift of salvation into the lives of others. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Friday, December 22nd, 2023. Welcome. This message is called God's Gift to the World. Do you believe? Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your presence and we thank you for the greatest gift that we could ever receive, Father God. And that G gift is your son, the name of Jesus. And I thank you, Jesus, for going to the cross and dying for me and for everyone else so that we our sins are redeemed and pardoned. Thank you, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. And amen. Amen. Well, merry Christmas to all. We are This is the last message I'll be teaching before Christmas. I'll do one more before New Year's, but this is called God's Gift to the World. Do you believe? Our opening scripture here is 1 Peter 4:10 and 11. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do it as if as of the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Jesus Christ is the son of God and he is the gift the only gift that we can ever ever look at and and receive and truly believe and I the question I have for you um just before this Christmas do you believe do you believe let's go look at the testimony of what happened this is going to be just a simple easy message just giving God the glory and thanking his son for what he's done. Amen. Luke 2:7. And she bought forth she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the end. Mary and Joseph. So neat to see how the son of God came. So humbled. I mean it is so believable for the fact alone that they acknowledge that they put him in swaddling clothes and in a manger. He wasn't born to richness. He came from richness. He came from glory. He came from honor. He descended from heaven to become a man. And here the scriptures tell us that he was born verses uh 8-16 in that same Luke chapter 2. Let's continue on. And there were in the same country country shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night. Now, I'm not going to go into this entire event that took place, but I want to show you the scriptures so that you know that this is true because the Bible is true. And u as these shepherds are out here, they're just doing their job, but they testify to the son of God being born. Amen. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." Oh, what did God do here? Because God did something for you and I. the greatest ultimate gift that we could ever receive and believe in. Amen. Verse 11, for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was the angel, a multitude of heavenly hosts. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly hosts praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven." The shepherd said one to another, "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us." and they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. You know, a lot of people would like to get semantic about this, but the re the reality of it is let's just put aside all the little details here. The Lord showed himself through angels to the shepherds so that they can go find this baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. And what did he say was for unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord. Why do we need a savior? Well, we all messed up. We've all fallen short of the glory of God. The moment we were born, the the moment we were conceived, we automatically fell because we were born in sin. But God God said to his son Jesus, "Go do this thing for me." Jesus said, "I will do it." And he did. First John 5:20. And we know that the The son of God has come and hath given us an understanding that we may 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. Do you believe? Are you sharing your gift with others? It's the ultimate best gift that you could ever have. You just got to look into your hands and see and say, "Jesus, forgive me. Come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior." John 1:12-14. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth. And the word was made flesh. The word's been there from the beginning. and he came down to his creation in a book and he became alive. And this book is real. These are true events. I do apologize for every teacher and pastor and preacher out there who has called any of this a story because the reality is these are not Sunday school stories. This is not a story. This is true events. Do you believe? Do you believe that Jesus the Christ, the savior, that these shepherds witnessed because of God? Do you believe that he is the son of God for the the walk he did in his life? He walked this earth very simply, healing people, delivering people, saving people. The the thief on the cross never was water baptized. never went door todo, never shared the gospel with anyone, but he knew and he called on Jesus and Jesus accepted him. Do you believe? John 3:15-17 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. Do you believe that you have a way out of all this? You should. His name is Jesus. He saved you and he saved me. Question is, do you believe? And how do I know that? I just have to confess that he's Jesus. Look at this. Romans 10:9. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Do you believe? Do you believe in this gift from heaven that God sent us his son so that we are redeemed and pardoned from our sins? Put aside everything else and just remember that gift as you celebrate the holiday weekend. Remember the ultimate gift, the name of Jesus and share that gift with someone. God bless you. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless this word and uh thank you for the anointing as you move through my heart, my spirit. I pray that people receive your word and call your name and glorify you in the name of Jesus. Amen and amen. God bless you. Merry Christmas. I'll see you in the next message. Bye bye. Previous Next Home

THE MIND The objective of The Mind is to help believers recognize the battles that occur within their own minds—confusion, misunderstanding, fact vs. fiction, trust, and faith—and equip them with scriptural tools to overcome them. By understanding that we have the mind of Christ, created in God’s image, and by exercising the authority given through Jesus, believers can take control of their thoughts, reject deception, and walk in peace, clarity, and victory. < Back THE MIND Minister Lisa Kane 2021-07-18 Objective: The objective of The Mind is to help believers recognize the battles that occur within their own minds—confusion, misunderstanding, fact vs. fiction, trust, and faith—and equip them with scriptural tools to overcome them. By understanding that we have the mind of Christ, created in God’s image, and by exercising the authority given through Jesus, believers can take control of their thoughts, reject deception, and walk in peace, clarity, and victory. Synopsis: In The Mind, Minister Lisa Kane teaches that one of the greatest battlegrounds for a believer is not external, but internal—the mind. While created in the image of God and endowed with the mind of Christ, our thoughts often become vulnerable to confusion, misunderstanding, and deception. Scripture reveals that confusion is never from God, but from the enemy, and believers are called to take authority over it through the name of Jesus. The lesson further explains how misunderstanding stems from the heart, requiring repentance and a return to God’s Word for true understanding. When dealing with fact or fiction, feelings and perceptions must not dictate truth; instead, believers are to lean on the Word of God and exercise self-control through the Spirit. Trust and faith, foundational to a believer’s walk, are emphasized as both a gift and an action that must be nurtured. Unbelief can hinder faith, but by dwelling in God’s presence daily, believers can overcome doubt and strengthen their trust in Him. Ultimately, the mind is renewed and protected through salvation, the Word, and intentional time spent with God. This teaching equips believers to reject lies, overcome confusion, and develop a steadfast, faith-filled mind that reflects the authority and likeness of Christ. Written teaching: One of the enemies we deal with as a believer is our own mind. Sometimes we’re confused, or we don’t understand, or we think we know what’s going on and yet, we can easily miss the battle that’s taking place. Confusion is a battle. Misunderstanding is a battle, and fact or fiction, trust and faith are major battles. We need to understand what kind of mind we have and what we’re capable of. 1 Corinthians 2:16 NKJV 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. Genesis 1:26 NKJV 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; ...” God made us in His image. God created the world. We’re able to create too…differently, but we can create things like God. Look at masons, carpenters, etc. We can build. Look at artists creating things from their minds. We have the same mind of Christ – God. But there’s something else we can do that no other heavenly being can do and that is to procreate. We have children and those children have souls with potential to become believers in Christ. This is what makes us in the likeness of Him. God is perfect and He keeps Himself perfect. There is no corruption in God because there is no sin in God and that’s what separates us from Him, even though we’re in His likeness. But He didn’t leave us defenseless. He gave us His begotten Son and His name to redeem us. With this type of mind, let us explore the scriptures on how to deal with confusion, misunderstanding, fact or fiction, trust, and faith. 1 Corinthians 14:33 NKJV 33 For God is not the author of [a]confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. James 3:16 NKJV 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. From the two above scriptures, you now know that confusion is not from God. Whenever you are confused, stop and say, “In the name of Jesus, devil, get under my feet where you belong”. Ephesians 1:19-23 NKJV 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality[a] and [b]power and [c]might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. 22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. God has established His authority by placing the name of Jesus first, because He’s earned it by dying on the cross and rising from the dead. You put Satan under Jesus’ dominion when you use the name of Jesus! Say it out loud and make sure to say it again if it’s still an issue. This is your right as a believer in Christ! As long as you are putting Jesus first, you have dominion over Satan and confusion. Now, how do you deal with misunderstanding? Mark 7:17-23 NKJV 17 When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. 18 So He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, [a]thus purifying all foods?” 20 And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.” Here's the root of the issue…us within. In our hearts is the issue that causes us to miss the point of understanding in relation to God and His Word. That’s because we’re driven by spiritual entities to keep us away from Christ knowledge, the Word of God. To overcome misunderstanding, you need to deal with your heart and repent because the Bible tells us to. Romans 10:9 NKJV 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Notice, this is an action you must take. Repentance will put you back on track with God’s Word and bring understanding to you. Also note, that when you seek God’s Word vs the world’s point of view, you will have perfect understanding – again, action you need to take and overcome. You may not see the whole picture but you will know God and He will know you. You will move under His understanding in every situation when you seek Him first. Now, how do you deal with fact or fiction? John 8:32 NKJV 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” 1 John 1:6 NKJV 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. Ephesians 1:13 NKJV 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, You will always know the truth with the gospel. Fact or fiction is where your senses are going off the radar about a situation around you. For example, a spouse or girlfriend, boyfriend you don’t trust because you’re senses are telling you somethings up. Sometimes this is true and sometimes it isn’t. How do you deal with a situation like that? First, senses are just that. They’re not facts. You need self-control here to ‘not’ follow your senses or feelings regarding the situation. Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 [a]gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. When you are in a situation like this, get closer to God and ask for self-control. Ask Him for wisdom and knowledge. This puts God first in this situation and allows Him to show you the truth. And believe me, He will. The patience will cause those lying to you to fall or trip up over themselves and then you’ll know the truth. God’s Word is perfect and will not mis-lead you. You can trust His Word to help you get through the situation. But this means YOU need to spend time with His Word. Not your pastor, not your spouse, or your friends, but YOU. God will show you what His Word says about a situation when you are dealing with fact or fiction or fantasy, etc. The last two areas I want to focus on is trust and faith. First, you can trust and have faith in God always. Remember Ephesians 1:13? Ephesians 1:13 NKJV 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, The gospel, the Word of God is truth. Again, YOU need to find out what the Word says to obtain perfect truth. Unbelief is what hinders your faith. Matthew 17:20 NKJV 20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your [a]unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. Mark 9:23-24 NKJV 23 Jesus said to him, “If[a] you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” There’s no shame in asking God to help you with your unbelief. There are things we grew up with that we struggle overcoming. For example, having faith to be healed. This struggle is real but God is more real than the struggle. Look what He says in Psalm 91… Psalm 91 NKJV (Take the time to go and read the whole chapter. Well worth it.) 91 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Notice what all this entire message hinders on? YOU! Seeking His presence in the ‘secret place’ verse 1. Your faith will grow because you will be able to say God is protecting me, healing me, because I spend time in His presence. Church time isn’t enough. Make this daily and watch God move in your life. This dwelling in the secret place overcomes the doubt of ‘unbelief’ in the mind. When your mind knows, you overcome. Mind over matter. Ephesians 6:17 NKJV 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; When you spend time in His Word while wearing your ‘salvation’, you OVERCOME the issues of the mind! Be free and separate from the world by spending time in the Word and becoming an overcomer in the mind! Previous Home Next