Extraordinary Faith

The greatest examples of Extraordinary Faith can be found in the Word Of God.
In the Holy Bible, Hebrews 11Th Chapter, we look at what extraordinary faith produced.

All throughout the Word of God, we are introduced to men and women of Great Faith.
Hebrews begins with telling us what faith is, and the results of faith in action.
We learn that through faith, God honors those who are willing to come to Him by extraordinary hope. The (substance of things hoped for and the evidence of these things not seen).

We look at Abraham, who believed God's Word when He told him to leave his kin and go into a unknown country. He didn't know where exactly he was going, but what he did know was that God told him to do it. Abraham obeyed God and was BLESSED. God Blessed Abraham and his descendants.

We look at Issac, Jacob, Joseph, all the prophets, the men and women of faith and others who are of the Hallmark of Faith. We look at the extreme conditions they faced and went through believing God would help them.

When we look at the extraordinary suffering of mankind today, whether it's sickness, disease, devastation through adverse weather conditions, wars, and or persecutions, we can't help but to look back at the suffering so many people were experiencing when Jesus went about healing people of all their diseases. His ultimate act of Love was His Sacrificial Offering of Himself on the Cross so that we could be free from the curse of sin and death.

This is why it is so important for us to know and realize what we have in Christ Jesus. We are no longer under bondage. We must have unwavering faith, believing that God will do abundantly above all that we can ask or even think.

God is FAITHFUL! Because He is Faithful, we CAN have extraordinary faith in Jesus.
I particularly look at the woman with the issue of blood who touched the helm of His garment. She believed that if she could just get close enough to Jesus and make CONTACT, she would be healed. Even though there were so many all around Jesus, that she could not make her case known to Him. She pressed her way forward enough to reach out and touch the helm of his clothes. Immediately Jesus KNEW that virtue went out of Him. The woman was immediately healed of her condition, that the doctors could not heal her from. Even though the doctors had GIVEN UP on her sickness,and couldn't do anything else for her. She had tried with many others, spending all her money trying to get healed, until she came to the TRUE HEALER.
She didn't have to give Jesus any money,or spend a lot of time with Him, making her case.
This woman came to Jesus with EXTRAORDINARY Faith, Believing that if she just touched His Garment she would be healed.
This is so profound for us today, because at our time of need, "If we could just touch Jesus through our prayer by FAITH, believing that He will give us the petition that we ask Him for. Whatever our condition maybe, if we come with extraordinary faith, meaning faith that does not waver, that we WILL have our petition answered.
EXTRAORDINARY FAITH, to me is Steadfast Unwavering Faith, that does not give up or fade out even during tremendous circumstances that we find that are all around us.

Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Jesus Is Our Light

Christians, don't have to worry about the darkness that surrounds them.

When Jesus comes on the scene, whatever the problem, however boisterous
our storm, however steep our climb, even when we stumble and fall and
find ourselves on the ground looking up, saying LORD Help Me Please!

This Is One Thing You MUST Know; When LIGHT Comes Onto The Scene...
Darkness Has To Go Back!

Jesus Is Our LIGHT!!!

COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE

Hebrews 4 READ
4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

We must be humble have real Godly fear before God. We must examine the motives of our faith as we approach God and in our Christian walk. In the Gospel of Jesus Christ we have greater privileges than under the Law of Moses. Even though the same principals of the gospel was preached.

Everlasting Covenant:

Better Promises and Better Covenant. We Have An Everlasting Covenant, Not Made
With Hands, But Made With Jesus Precious Blood.

Abraham
When We look at Abraham, the father of faith, we see that Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for Righteousness. God called out Abraham and told him to leave his relatives and go to another country, where God Made A Covenant Promises To Him.

Abraham listened to God and thanks be to God he Believed God. God made a Covenant with him and through Abraham’s Seed All The Nations Of The World Would Be Blessed. Through His Obedience, A Called out Nation was Birthed.

God is Holy, and He was calling out a people that he could put forth His Spirit in and love them, they in turn Should Love God and FOLLOW all His Commandments in Obedience to Him.

All the Promises God made Israel, All The Laws and Ordinance put in Place to Help Them Live Righteously And in Obedience To Him, All The Provisions He Gave Them, All The Protection He Provided Them From Their Enemies, All The Love He Gave To Them......
DID THEY OBEY?

A HOLY GOD

The People Of God, Knew That GOD WAS HOLY!!!
When God Talked to Moses Out Of The Burning Bush, And Told Him To Take Off His Shoes For The Ground That He Stood On Was Holy!
Guess What????????
MOSES TOOK OFF HIS SHOES!!!

A CLEAN PEOPLE WAS REQUIRED:

When God Was Getting Ready To Give The Commandments To Moses, He Called Him To The Top Of The Mountain And There Talked With Moses.
Moses Went Up an Ordinary Man, He Came Back Down
The Mountain With The GLOY AND POWER OF GOD UPON HIM.
All The Children of Israel Saw His Glow.
It was so Powerful That Moses Had To Put A Vail Upon His Face.

A ORDINARY MAN BECAME EXTRODINARY BY FAITH

Moses a Ordinary Man, HE BELIEVED GOD
When Moses Gave Them The Law, Because of The Holiness of God's Word, The People Had To Wash Themselves First,
Before They Could Come And Hear
God's Word (The Law)
In Short, Every Thing That God Gave Them, The Law, The Ordinances,
The Cleansings And Sacrifices That They Had To Do So That Their
Sins Could Be Forgiven,
The laws and ordinances They had To Follow In Order
To Govern Their Everyday Lives, Was ALL Written With A Finger of Love
And The Express Word Of God's Mouth (THE WORD OF GOD).

WE HAVE A REST IN GOD:

God Rested From All HIS Work On The Seventh Day Dr. D.L.Gaitors DD, Evangelist

The Old Covenant

The People Of God Were Commanded To Rest From ALL THEIR WORK On The Sabbath Day!
ALL OF THESE THINGS WERE A ALLEGORY To BRING Them Into The
Grace Of God In.... God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.
Grace and Truth Came By Jesus Christ.

JESUS IS LORD OF SABBATH

The People Of God Have A Rest Through Faith In Jesus
We Rest In Him By Faith, In Believing The WORD OF GOD

This Is The Beginning Of Our Rest In Him. When Jesus
Returns For His People We Will Have Our Final Rest, Where
We Will Forever Be With Him.
Jesus Is Coming Back For His Bride - CHURCH!

Under The Law:
Their Sins Had To Be Forgiven By A Blood Sacrifice (Blood of Animals)
The People Were Called To Cleaness and Holiness Through Obedience To God Law

Without Complete Obedience To God's Law, They Had No Fellowship With God. God Would Lift Up His Glory From AMONGEST The People, They Had No Protection From Their Enemies, Neither Did They Have Favor With God.
The People Who Feared God, And Obeyed His Word (LAW) Their Lives Were Spared.

When They Went Before God In Praise, It Had To Be Pure

BUT GUESS WHAT??????? The People Of God
THEY DIDN'T RESPECT HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS
THEY DIDN'T RESPECT HIS HOLINESS
THEY DIDN'T RESPECT HIS WORD FULLY.


GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON

TO BE THE ONLY SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS - THERE COULD BE NO GREATER SACRIFICE THAN JESUS WHO GAVE HIS LIFE, PAID THE PENALTY FOR OUR SINS WHICH WAS DEATH, SO THAT WE COULD LIVE.
BY JESUS CHRIST GRACE AND TRUTH CAME IN.

A BETTER COVENANT:

A BETTER COVENANT WAS MADE - NOT WITH THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND GOATS BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS!

THE BLOOD THAT ONCE AND FOR ALL CLEANSES US FROM OUR SINS.
SO HERE WE HAVE A BETTER COVENANT, A BETTER SACRIFICE, AND
DEATH
HAS NO VICTORY OVER THE PEOPLE OF GOD THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST

Under Grace And Truth -
Our Sins Are Forgiven By A Blood Sacrifice (The Blood Of Jesus)
Under A New And Better Covenant, We Are Called Into Holiness and Righteousness Through Faith In Jesus Christ
Without Faith, We Cannot Please God
Without Faith, We Have No Fellowship With God
God Says Lift Up HOLY Hands,
Come Before HIS COURTS With Singing


SO WHAT MUST WE DO.......PEOPLE OF GOD?

BE YE HOLY - FOR I AM HOLY!


WE MUST: Humble Ourselves and Possess Godly Fear In Reverance To A Holy And Rightous God.
God Is Holy, lest We should come short of the promised rest, through unbelief.

WE MUST BELIEVE GOD. WITHOUT FAITH WE DON'T KNOW GOD!


The privileges we have under the Gospel, are greater than any, under the law of Moses,
-They Had To Believe And Obey God
-We Have To Believe And Obey God

-Unbelief Separated Them From God
-Unbelief Separates Us From God

Unbelief is at the root of all unfruitfulness under the word.

Faith in the hearer is the Life of the word.
Let us then have diligence,
So That We Can Enter Into His Rest

Our Rest is, a rest of Grace, and Comfort, and Holiness, In The Gospel.
And a Rest in Glory, Where The People of God Shall Enjoy The End Of Their Faith.

OUR HEAVENLY REST:
The heavenly rest, which remains to the people of God,
It Is The rest WE Shall Obtain When The Lord Jesus Shall Appear From Heaven.
But Those Who Do Not Believe, Shall Never Enter Into This Spiritual Rest.

God has always declared man's rest to be in HIM, And Through His Son, To Be The Only Way Of Entering Into That Rest.
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The Holy Scriptures are the Word of God.
His Word Convinces Powerfully,
His Word Converts Powerfully, and
His Word Comforts Powerfully.

It makes a soul that has long been proud,.....Humble;
It makes a perverse spirit, .....meek and obedient.
It makes Sinful habits,...... As If They Never Existed.
The Word will show the sinner all that is in his heart.

Let us hold on tight to Our Christian faith!

Let Us Come With Reverence and Godly Fear And Realize That We
Have Been Invited To The Mercy-Seat Where Grace Reigns.

We Have Boldness To Enter Into The Holiest Only By The blood of Jesus;
He Is Our Advocate, He Has Purchased All Our Souls.
Dr.D.L.Gaitors DD.M.Div,Evangelist - The Light Of Thy Countenance Ministry